#greil marcus

[davidhudson]

Happy 81st, Greil Marcus.

[professeur-stump]

Man Ah Warrior

2444. Man Ah Warrior, Tapper Zukie (Tapper Zukie, Man Ah Warrior, 1973) (Count Shelly, 1973) (Mer Records, 1977)

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[areadersquotelibrary]

"He might have heard what people have always heard in strange music: the call of another life."

- The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, by Greil Marcus

[transpondster]

In case you maybe weren't expecting Joyce Carol Oates to be posting about the passing of Pere Ubu's David Thomas...

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

With anyone else but Mary Weiss as a lead singer, the doom in Shangri-Las songs might have turned into a joke, but it never happened: every time, whether in “Remember,” “Give Us Your Blessings,” “Out in the Streets,” “I Can Never Go Home Anymore,” or “Past, Present, and Future,” the singer was a different person, starting from the beginning, telling her story as far as it would go, which was never very far. Their songs, like Winehouse’s, were all locked doors, doors that locked you out or that you locked yourself from the inside.

Greil Marcus

[aulel-process]

He had to learn, in John Barth’s line, that the key to the treasure is the treasure—that to be free is not to get what you want... but to begin to know what you want and to feel strong enough to go after it... For a moment, to say yes is to say everything. - Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music by Greil Marcus

[the-random-sentence-library]

"'My Father's House' was decked out in formal folk regalia, pious and biblical as a headstone: 'Where our sins lie unatoned.'"

Quote randomly selected from page 338 of Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus's nonfiction book The Rose & The Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad.

Additional notes: Subject is a song by Bruce Springsteen.

Quote was selected at random from a book chosen at random from my local library.

[musicmags]