You're Welcome. Cheers my friend. >> ^lurgee:

>> ^geo321:
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Thanks! She is an awesome artist.

Mucho grassy ass UP!
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>> ^siftbot:

Invocations (kill) cannot be called by therealblankman because therealblankman is not privileged - sorry.


Whaaaaaat?

Insert Anime name here, "Oh god! Officer, It was horrible! It started of as a normal ping pong game and then the next thing I know is the table was on fire and so was little Neko. Cthulhu and Godzilla were fighting in the parking lot! Mt. Fuji erupted and a giant Twinkie was floating in the harbor. Two guys where kissing in the hallway. A girl dress in her school uniform was rooting for Cthulhu to win and that guy over there keep yelling its over 9000"


Officer, "So who won?"

Insert Anime name here. "Oh Neko did the little bitch"

I think a certain Neko Case interview quote is appropriate there;

Case: 'When I think about Jackie Wilson or the Platters and then I think about modern, Top 40 music that’s really horrible, it makes me mad. … It’s not to do with the people who are doing it as much as the people who are producing it. There’s technology like auto tune and pitch shifting so you don’t have to know how to sing. That shit sounds like shit! It’s like that taste in diet soda, I can taste it– and it makes me sick.

When I hear auto tune on somebody’s voice, I don’t take them seriously. Or you hear somebody like Alicia Keys, who I know is pretty good, and you’ll hear a little bit of auto tune and you’re like, “You’re too fucking good for that. Why would you let them do that to you? Don’t you know what that means?” It’s not an effect like people try to say, it’s for people like Shania Twain who can’t sing. Yet there they are, all over the radio, jizzing saccharine all over you. It’s a horrible sound and it’s like, “Shania, spend an extra hour in the studio and you’ll hit the note and it’ll sound fine. Just work on it, it’s not like making a burger!”'

PITCHFORK: She’s pretty busy making videos and shit though.

CASE: It’s rough, I know. She’s so rich she could get somebody else to do the other stuff while she spends that extra hour in the studio. Or Madonna! Just hit the note! Don’t pretend it’s William Orbit being crafty — we know you’re not hitting the note because you have other shit to do. You can do it, I have faith in you. But don’t leave the studio before you hit that fucking note. And you know what? When you do hit it you’re going to feel so much more valid that it’ll come through in all the other shit you’re supposed to be doing later in the day. Seriously!

And if Celine Dion is supposedly the great singer that she says she is why is there auto tune on every fucking word in her songs? Can’t you just hit it, Celine? Do you have another baby book to shoot? You gotta paint your baby to look like a pot of peas? What are you doing that you can’t be singing in the studio? It’s your fucking job!
http://stereogum.com/2489/neko_case_hates_auto_tune_not_babies/

hey, DillingerEscapePlan! I've seen them a halfdozen times. Jeez, probably ten years ago,... I'm getting soo old soo fast...

Anyhow, my musical taste kept going into weirder directions this year;

Sufjan Steven's made a tremendously interesting and personal album (Age of Adz) that took this consistently well done electronic turn, like it was produced by Reznor or something ('I Walked' is a highlight for me, with a weeeirdly cool, staggered melody that I'd never really heard done successfully before...). His vocals grow on you after a while... really the whole album gets a lot better with repeat listens (good night-driving album).

Yeasayer shared a (free) live album... I saw them twice in 2010, so might be biased, but they are just the right amount of experimental with a dash of pop so that people get down at their shows. 'Madder Red', 'Tight Rope', '2080', a lot of good stuff. Bit of an 80's throwback with the synth drums and such, but I like it as a child of the 80's.

Beach House (Teen Dream)... oooh beach house... listened to their album for all of Jan and Feb of 2010... great driving cd... love minimalism with build-ups, which is basically every song by them, and her distinct smoker's voice is just rad. Very different band doing its own thing. If you're into As I Lay Dying and all that business right now this cd might be a stretch... however I used to be way into The Locust, so, you never know! (ok, I still listen to The Locust from time to time...)

Local Natives cd was good. The ladies dug this shit a lot because of the vocal harmonies and whatnot; as a drummer, I thought it was pretty rocking at times, and had some nice minorkey guitar themes and buildups. Also caught them live, and they were excellent. 'Wide Eyes' is a good one.

Lastly, she didn't put out a cd, but I listened to a lot of Neko Case in 2010. 'Star Witness', 'The Pharaohs', 'Blacklisted','Deep Red Bells', 'Things that Scare Me',... all these darker, noir tracks really work for me, and I don't think anybody else is doing anything like this successfully. Plus Neko has the greatest voice possible.

Thanks for sharing your top 10; I'll check 'em out!

>> ^bamdrew:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/lurgee" title="member since March 27th, 2007" class="profilelink">lurgee
Thanks; fixed


Yeah!!!

>> ^geo321:

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Thanks! She is an awesome artist.

KAWAIIII! NEKO NEKO WAIIIIIII!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'cat, kitteh, curry, smell, delicious, japan' to 'cat, kitteh, curry, smell, delicious, japan, neko' - edited by ponceleon

Never knew Neko Case did the female vocals in the New Pornographers.

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I've played a show with her band on the bill back in seattle. I am specialer then u. Her band was better than mine. Good day.

Good day to you sir.

I have to admit I do have a beef with the way some people use the tags.

Use tags that someone might use to search for the video, not silly descriptions that are funny and clever. getting a dupe on a post usually happens when someone else's tags are so poor, the obvious searches don't bring it up.

I don't have the time to go looking right now..., but those who do this know who they are.
"Put the clever comments in the description field, not the tags!"
Oh, here's one (Sorry alien_concept)
http://www.videosift.com/video/How-To-Make-The-Ladies-Love-You-While-On-The-Rag
"chocolate bread pudding, oh my fucking god, my diet is over"

Another thing is some people don't use enough tags or descriptive enough tags...

Like this one (sorry jdbates):
http://www.videosift.com/video/Neko-Case-John-Saw-That-Number
The Tags are "music, concert, live" -- How about a person's name, song name, location, something that identifies the performance.

This one has NO Commas at all...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Snow-Falling
"snow falling uttarakhand uttaranchal bainji kandai dashjula"


I also have to mention, that after a quick look, there are also a lot of people who use the Tags quite well - so Kudos to those people! and Thanks!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'japan, cat, robot, scary' to 'neko smile, japan, cat, robot, scary' - edited by kronosposeidon

Neko's has a new album coming out March 3rd.

Her next tour dates are set-out here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/148737-neko-case-maps-out-cyclone-tour