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Old 03.31.2011, 10:23 AM   #141
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I like psychic hearts quite a bit. But Trees Outside the Academy is totally killer.

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Old 03.31.2011, 04:51 PM   #142
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With benediction in her eyes
Our dearest gods are not surprised
You better hold your lover down
And tie him to the ground

Whisper I love you one thousand times into his ear
Kiss his eyes and don't you cry girl he won't disappear

I know better than to let you go

With benediction in her mind
She will never get you back in time
You better hold your lover down
And tie her to the ground

Simple pleasure strike like lightning scratches spell her name
Thunder demons swipe her halo then they run away

I know better than to let her go

With benediction in her eyes
Our dearest gods are not surprised
You better hold your lover down
And tie her to the ground

Simple pleasure strike like lightning scratches cross her name
Whisper I love you my darling life is just a flame

I know better than to let her go
I know better than to let you go

// Can you correct? I'm not sure about few lines.
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Old 04.01.2011, 08:36 AM   #143
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The lyrics is really beautiful.
I think it's correct, but I'll let some "pro"/nerd-poster here take that one, lol
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Old 04.01.2011, 08:53 AM   #144
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Old 04.04.2011, 03:11 PM   #145
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Old 04.04.2011, 05:27 PM   #146
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Those lyrics are really strong. I hope the rest of the album flows in that direction.

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Old 04.07.2011, 12:39 AM   #147
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Thurston Moore first saw Beck way back in the early 90s when Beck was mowing lawns with an amplified hand-push ill-blade mower at a backyard BBQ on Toul Avenue in Westwood L.A., a coconut’s throw from the 405 freeway. Beck only sang a couple of songs, both about TV destruction and toxic inhalants, before he lifted a German Shepherd over his head and threw it into the crowd. I was from NYC and had never seen a real live canine fly before but I caught the beast and he licked my forehead and whispered into my ear, “Beck’s a good dude, wait until he grows into the #1 sweater anti-surf rider of Malibu and let him read your mind.”

Cut to the late summer of 2010 and sitting with Beck on his back porch where I’m slowly eating a pack of basted tobacco Darks n’ Blues with honey-raw crèmes and Beck looks up from the pools of silver-jello burbling around his open-toed snoopz and exclaims, “yes. Thurston. i. will. Produce. Yr. record.” So I fly out with a paper lunchbag of tunes all written over a 2 year period of time moving between a movie screen displaying the tone-poem cinema of Robert Bresson and a cathode ray emitting the sex-diary investigations of Catherine Breillat.

On day one I played the first song sitting in front of a Beck-wired microphone, its design informed by the cut of Joseph Beuys’ cerebellum. The jam is called “Benediction”, where the camera records the adult girl reading a love letter written on the back blank pages of her hymnal where he knew only she could find it.

On day two I played the second song, “Illuminine”, in a field alive with sheep, bells tinkling to the sky from their necks, surrounding me as I sang into a specially-prepared dirt-mic, where the resonance becomes richer the more prone the performer’s body is to the earth. Lyrics of salvation through lonesome meditation of nature and its reflection of animal magnetism. Surrendering to spirit desire.

On day three I played the third song, “Circulation”, while sitting in the middle seat in the front of a 1978 AMC Pacer with Sparks’ Russell Mael driving, Ron Mael with his window closed (it was 103 degrees out) constantly fiddling with the side-view mirror. Beck was in the back holding a shotgun mic and recording the basic track, already pre-recorded, as it played through the Pacer’s sick system, while I sang live the lyrics, trying to focus on the lust-rust blood scent of a city girl on a holy other coast.
On day four I played the fourth song “Blood Never Lies”, while hitchhiking to Venice Beach on the PCH. I set out 30 minutes early to get a “head” start before Beck came whizzing by in a rented British six-cylinder Triumph TR6, one hand on the wheel, the other whipping a whip-mic over his head and every time it came close to my mouth I would sing the lyrics that came to me as my thumb beckoned psychedelic housewives to consider taking me into town.

On day five I flew back to NYC, took a cab to an underground bar on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side called Jericho’s where I was due to DJ. I faked putting on a record, after playing “Hey Jude” (Beatles) and “China Grove” (Doobies), and plugged my acoustic into a double ganged set of vintage Pignose amps and reminisced about those early streets where the pizza is particularly punk and saints lead you to playgrounds of eros and thought-magicks. The bartender, an old fast-folk flyabout from Beck’s NYC in-search-of-the-secret-of-Pussy-Galore days, recorded the jam, titled “Orchard Street”, on his 1984 Sony Walkman WM-D6C Pro and Fed Ex’d the tape to Beck’s L.A. hideout.

On day six, I woke up in the back of a Volkswagen I kept on the rooftop of my old apartment on Lafayette St., knowing that I had to catch a flight back to the west coast before Beck started putting up new posters in his studio, as that was something I really wanted to have a hand in decision-wise. I dressed in a ratty old blue sailor outfit I had stashed in the front end boot and walked through the first light snow wondering, wondering, wondering if it were just a dream that I was kidnapped and set free only to wander in search of my heart-thief. I sat down on a park bench and wrote the song “In Silver Rain with a Paper Key”. I recorded it with my cigarette-mic, which by its distinct proximity to my mouth and the inflection caused by the lip-grip on the mic’s “filter” I was able to capture the essence of strangers falling in love. I stuck the smoked mic behind my ear and hailed a cab to JFK.

On day seven I walked into Beck’s studio and he had already covered the place with posters of radical women poets. It was perfect and I took my blindfold out of my guitar case and tied it around my eyes and sat down and wrote a song about the onyx eyes of “Mina Loy”, the amazing modernist, surrealist, futurist writer who wrote the most beautiful love songs and made art from light fixtures. In honor, Beck showed me his new broken-lightbulb-mic twisted into a high-impedance socket on his studio ceiling which I could barely only reach by balancing on an unpainted rocking chair Beck had inherited from his grandfather Al. “Why didn’t he paint it?” I asked Beck. He pointed to a small pen line on the chairs back which read: I’ll Get To It.

On day eight I recorded the eighth song “Space” while swimming in Beck’s patio pool in full NASA Astronaut flight gear. Beck had stocked the pool with Bubble Eye, Fantail, Comet, Pearlscale, Shubunkin, Pompom and Veiltail Goldfish. Each fish was equipped with quadruple-fin and dorsal-fin mics, very miniscule, and I could only sing the lines when one would enter into my helmet and swim into my throat. Beck stacked high on the diving board his array of vintage synths all held together by Spiderwire fishing line. He’d climb the stack as if he was a newborn Keith Emerson and play beautiful swooshes with his fingers and scurries with his toes, in as adept a style as I’ve ever witnessed.

On day nine I recorded the ninth song “January” as a birthday greeting to a new day, and to a girl on roller skates in a prison stripe bathing suit.

Beck and I discussed many players we thought would compliment the record in all its improvisatory experimentation and focus on song-slip. We decided that Samara Lubelski (violin) and Mary Lattimore (harp) had to play and we invited them to join us. We fed them cantaloupes, raw milks, doughnuts, Zuma sushi and Lily’s fish tacos. And we threw shadows into the sun.

The tunings:

D – D – A – F# – A – D (12-string):

In silver rain with a paper key
Mina Loy
Blood never lies
Circulation

Eflat – Bflat – D – F – Bflat – C:

Benediction
Illuminine

C – G – D – G – C – D:

January
Space
Orchard Street
—Thurston Moore
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Old 04.07.2011, 04:10 AM   #148
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I'm curious if there will be a video of Thurston & Beck, like Charlotte's Gainsbourg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NARh2xZeegM
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Old 04.13.2011, 11:11 AM   #150
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The bartender, an old fast-folk flyabout from Beck’s NYC in-search-of-the-secret-of-Pussy-Galore days, recorded the jam, titled “Orchard Street”, on his 1984 Sony Walkman WM-D6C Pro and Fed Ex’d the tape to Beck’s L.A. hideout.e

As an old taper, I really appreciate the specificity of "WM-D6C", I always wanted one but settled for a D3 - the D6 was kind of big...great quality though. I stil have my D3 but there is a short somewhere, it won't work.
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So he is appreciated.

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Old 04.14.2011, 12:00 AM   #153
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i am afraid to even download this album
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Old 04.14.2011, 02:30 AM   #154
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i had heard the lyrics of BENEDICTION as "life is but a fling" but I like "flame" also. Also salads, i will have a salad tomorrow maybe at a museum.
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Do you have to?
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Old 04.14.2011, 11:02 AM   #157
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Are there any bonus tracks on the Japanese CD version?
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are these the legit tunings? The Eflat one is abit odd i guess to me...

The tunings:

D – D – A – F# – A – D (12-string):

In silver rain with a paper key
Mina Loy
Blood never lies
Circulation

Eflat – Bflat – D – F – Bflat – C:

Benediction
Illuminine

C – G – D – G – C – D:

January
Space
Orchard Street


i guess they are D tuning he has been using for the last few years and the C tuning has been around for awhile now.
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unfortanatelly, i feel the same. sad.
Same.
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Oh? Japanese version?
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