tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982424.post3747561433228167458..comments2024-02-06T22:24:32.621-08:00Comments on BLOGSTITUDE: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982424.post-52981467701400926552008-08-14T22:11:00.000-07:002008-08-14T22:11:00.000-07:00Hey Tom! I never know quite how to describe your s...Hey Tom! I never know quite how to describe your stuff, or sometimes even process it, and yeah, I still haven't zeroed in on Magas's <I>Family's Hot Daughter</I> vocals. I'd love to hear those mixes... I've certainly been blown away by his singing on many occasions. Great lyricist too (thinking specifically of Lake of Dracula). Don't know if you've seen it but I had an initial reaction to the Miss High Heel album <A HREF="http://blastitude.blogspot.com/2008/03/miss-high-heel-familys-hot-daughter-cd.html" REL="nofollow">here</A> that may have touched on some of the aspects you bring up. Good to hear from you...Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00429116467888308789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982424.post-49841008742688764092008-08-14T16:22:00.000-07:002008-08-14T16:22:00.000-07:00Hi Larry,Recently, while transferring tapes for th...Hi Larry,<BR/><BR/>Recently, while transferring tapes for the '09 Shave box set on Menlo Park, I found three, utterly forgotten Miss High Heel mixes, each an isolation of James Marlon Magas' voice. I listened, and was again blown away by that peculiar insouciance known all too well by fans of Couch and Lake of Dracula. It may help those unable to summon the will to fully immerse themselves in <I>The Family's Hot Daughter</I> to remember that Weasel, Jim and I conceived of the group as sort of a heretical Sam & Dave (backed by a dyspeptic Weasel T & the MGs), wholly, almost blindly suffused with an animus toward Chicago-style No Wave nostalgia. (In that regard, I believe we succeeded in conveying our mission. ) While my singing is usually described as "singing," or bellowing, or moaning, or crooning, or whatever the fuck it's usually perceived by others to be, I always found Jim's heroic bark to be just as formidable an aesthetic rejection of normative "aggressive" tropes 'n hog-calls, often even more so. Give the man his due.<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/><BR/>Tomommythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01826985202794267670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982424.post-46356463437365355482008-08-14T16:13:00.000-07:002008-08-14T16:13:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.ommythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01826985202794267670noreply@blogger.com