can i get a goddamn timpani roll

recently i was browsing the web and i came across this article about the greatest songs over ten minutes in length: http://treblezine.com/columns/190.html
interesting....

so, here is my own list of favourite 5 songs over 10 minutes long:

The Velvet Teen - Chimera Obscurant
Sigur Ros - Untitled 7 / Untitled 8
Pink Floyd - Dogs
Converge - Jane Doe
Bright Eyes - Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and To Be Loved)

where do we go now but nowhere

i think the only "new" album i bought this year was the fantastic new tom waits; rather ive been catching up on a lot of stuff i missed out on that was released in the past. the bigggg one is nick cave and the bad seeds. i bought "dig lazarus dig" when it came out in 2008 and there are a couple of superb songs on that album and i became a fan. but for some reason i didnt go and pick up his back catalogue at that time.. i think the reason is simple - lazarus was his 14th? 15th? record - so where do you go next?! especially when youre a student and cant afford to buy something youre never gonna listen to again.

its like if someone said they wanted to get into bob dylan, it is impossible to just give them one record, you need at least 4 or 5 to get an idea of what he has done. imagine if a kid went into a record shop looking for bob dylan and all they had was "down in the groove". you see what i mean?

so with nick cave i didnt know where to dive in. thankfully i have a friend from way back who is a big fan and she told me to start with "murder ballads" and "let love in". but shit, i got them and those records were just so good i went and picked up "the boatman's call" and "no more shall we part" and yikes the more i listened the more i loved it. i couldnt stop there, so now ive got pretty much everything he has released, and a little annoyed i didnt get into this before but very very happy to know it now. my album of his changes with the tide, but this week i have been listening a lot to "no more shall we part",  and this song is particularly good:

of course, im also loving grinderman, nick cave's garage band, but i hear they just broke up a few weeks ago. tis a shame, but hopefully it means we get another bad seeds record next year. man, i hope icon girl pistols are still rocking like this when we are in our 50s (and that we are appropriately bearded):