said the gramophonea music weblogSTG has MOVED (update bookmarksRSS)- April 28, 2005 SAID THE GRAMOPHONE has MOVED. Please update your bookmarks - and your RSS feeds! We now live at: saidthegramophone.com. See you there....http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/stg_has_moved_update.php fickly updates- April 8, 2005 SAID THE GRAMOPHONE has MOVED. Please update your bookmarks. We now live at: saidthegramophone.com. See you there....http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/fickly_updates.php Damon Krukowski Writes Said The Gramophone, Jordan Makes Triumphant Return With Introduction- April 7, 2005 Sorry for my absence. I hope that Dan and Sean took good care of you while I was away. I hope you didn't feel abandoned. I'm still your dad. You're still my kids. I'll still pay for college. You'll still drink and philander, though it shames me. Anyway, what I wanted to do was organize a guest week before Sean came back and things got serious. That proved harder than hoping, and in the end I received only one submission. It is, however, a very good submission. The author of today's blog is half.http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/damon_krukowski_writ.php Clichs Are There For A Reason- April 6, 2005 Neil Young - "Bandit" from Greendale. it's the only song I've heard in it's entirety, but it knocked me downaround. Apparently the rest of the album is more guitarry, well...fine. The following are all good things: It's so tired. This song is the end of the rope, and it's like wishing you luck as it pries loose your fingers. There is so much unsaid, it's as if the chorus is missing words: "someday you'll find everything you're looking for because I didn't, and people...http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/cliches_are_there_fo.php dumplingering- April 5, 2005 this is the fourth in a continuing series, exploring the music i discovered when travelling in europe last fall You take a ferry from Finland to Estonia. We took it twice, because we forgot things in Finland. This sort of forgetfulness is not recommended. Tallinn, capital of Estonia, lies on the tense border between picturesque medieval town and sprawling, coughing post-communist city. The Old Town is beautifully preserved, lovely for walking, but when we ventured out into the greyness of urban.http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/dumplingering.php bark- April 4, 2005 this is the third in a continuing series, exploring the music i discovered when travelling in europe last fall We flew from Dublin, via London, to Tampere, Finland. "Manse" is Tampere's nickname - it's the country's Manchester. Tampere is concrete and grey, but like all of Finland (at least the little bit I saw), the space gives everything a feeling of freedom, of life. Later we went to Helsinki, where boats sat like contented hens in the bay. Parks line the boulevards, with strange and...http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/bark.php hangover- April 2, 2005 Indeed, yesterday's April 1 post about Gramophone-Going-Pay was entirely a poisson, a gag, and I'm relieved that not many of our readers believed it. (Contrast this with the people who seemed unsure about the sincerity of Fluxblog's awful april fools songs.) StG will never have ads or subscription fees, and we've never made a dime from InSound or Amazon. I just don't think it's cool. It's quite possible, however, that while you were reeling with consternation or amusement, you missed Dan's...http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/hangover.php We All Knew it Would Happen- April 1, 2005 Due to server bandwidth, uploaddownload expansion, and CVI (computer visitation increase), Said the Gramophone will be a members-only site from now on. Please choose from any of the convenient plans below: "StG-mini" Plan (29.99yr.) - full access to all the standard songs, and a synopsis of every review. "Full Gramo" Plan (59.99yr.) - full access to all songs, including the 'adults only' songs which will be a weekly fixture, and full reviews from every contributing author,...http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/we_all_knew_it_would.php on a fender with Julien Alexander- April 1, 2005 Sunset-Valley - "Mr. Extreme Jeans" My body is starting to react to the amount of time I've been spending at the computer. Wrist pain, then eye pain, and now, wait for it, a blister on my thumb from pressing the spacebarsomuch. So, in case I die before the end of this paragraph: WHAT A CHORUS! I've noticed recently that people will quickly relate a song's being really catchy to it's potential to sell something. "That song will probably be in a commercial" etc. I'd look down..http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/archives/on_a_fender_with_jul.php |