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September 26, 2005

now here i go again


Do you know who I am? I'm ZAPCAT! This is my deck, you hear me? Mine!
So the New Pornographers' concert at the Commodore Ballroom was awesome as expected. Immaculate Machine opened and really got the crowd going, their appetite whetted. Their songs are quite melodic, but most importantly, they have a lot of energy, those three. Destroyer was up next, and they too did a good job of keeping the crowd into it. I think Dan Bejar is the most normal looking guy in music: so normal that it's arresting. His voice is a unique one, which I enjoy, and his songs are nice and off-centre enough to match.

Finally, The Pornos came on. Not much to say except: (a) they rocked really hard; (b) Neko Case is a goddess with a voice to match; (c) the only song I was disappointed that they didn't play was "July Jones", but I'm splitting hairs here. They were pretty flawless; and (d) the best moment of the show was when Carl Newman was changing guitars. To fill time, the drummer started fooling around being funny. One of the things he did to entertain was start singing the Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams" to himself. Soon enough, Neko joined in and then so did the rest of the band, and finally, it became a full-blown cover version, and it was spectaculer. The audience was right into it, singing along (including me), and Neko took over Stevie Nicks duties. A.C. came back in time to join them for the second half of the song, which they finished singing in its entirety. Fantastic. Go see them.

So indieworkshop.com, the site I write for, has a cool feature this week: "The Top 100 Albums That Changed Our Lives". Basically, it's a list of some albums that changed the way various members of the IW staff listen to music, or influenced their tastes. Or an album that was simply important to them at some point in their lives, with short comments by one or more of the writers on each. Check it out, it's a really fun piece. 20 are revealed each day till the end of the week. I'm on a couple today.

Toodeloo.
Posted by: Rob / 22:46
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