Neko Case is my girlfriend. [Archive]

Jyqm

05-13-2006, 10:54 AM

David

05-13-2006, 11:47 AM

Well, okay, not really. I totally asked her out, though. She politely declined.

Anyway. The point is: Not only did Ms. Case deliver an absolutely stunning concert in Berlin last night, she also happened ot be wearing a Fleetwood Mac t-shirt. White album font, with the cartoon penguin with top hat and crystal ball in front of a fan design. I spent much of the concert looking at her t-shirt...I don't know who she is, but I hope for your sake she's a Catherine Zeta-Jones type.

Berlin? Germany? Are you going to Bonn? the beethovenhaus? I hope you don't miss that.

HomerMcvie

05-13-2006, 11:56 AM

I don't know who she is, but I hope for your sake she's a Catherine Zeta-Jones type.

Berlin? Germany? Are you going to Bonn? the beethovenhaus? I hope you don't miss that.
How do you feel about redheads, David?:eek: (no offense, you carrot tops out there). She's a country singer, ala torch style singing. Very talented, and extremely nice. I've had the pleasure of working with her three times.:)

Jyqm

05-13-2006, 12:39 PM

I've had the pleasure of working with her three times.:)

OMGsojealous.

!!!

David O., go to www.nekocase.com if you want to listen to a couple of tracks off her most recent album, which is truly spectacular.

SteveMacD

05-13-2006, 02:42 PM

David, I can't believe you're not familiar with Neko Case! She totally rocks, in an alt.country kind of way.

Johnny Stew

05-13-2006, 02:45 PM

I spent much of the concert looking at her t-shirt...Yeah, I'll bet... horndog. :laugh:

Jyqm

05-13-2006, 02:56 PM

Yeah, I'll bet... horndog. :laugh:

Hey, I stay out of all the threads where you boys play your little games of grabass. Allow me my moment to bask in the glory of Neko Case's absolutely gorgeous body!

Plus, her voice is a gift from the heavens, and she knows exactly how to use it. It's been a while since I went to a concert where someone's voice so consistently floored me.

I bought Fox Confessor about three weeks ago, and I've listened to it over 20 times since then. I never listen to anything that much, especially not in that short a time.

Plus, redheads, man. Can't beat redheads.

HomerMcvie

05-13-2006, 03:02 PM

Plus, redheads, man. Can't beat redheads.
Sure you can. You're just not drinking enough whiskey!;)

trackaghost

05-13-2006, 03:22 PM

Well, okay, not really. I totally asked her out, though. She politely declined.

Anyway. The point is: Not only did Ms. Case deliver an absolutely stunning concert in Berlin last night, she also happened ot be wearing a Fleetwood Mac t-shirt. White album font, with the cartoon penguin with top hat and crystal ball in front of a fan design. I spent much of the concert looking at her t-shirt...

Jim, what you mean is that you spent most of the gig looking at her boobs.

I'm going to see Neko in about a week and a half. Should be good.

amber

05-13-2006, 03:48 PM

Sure you can. You're just not drinking enough whiskey!;)

:eek: :laugh: :laugh:

I was going to say something like: "unless you're a brunette!" but this was way better. My best friend is a redhead, and my dad likes redheads. Plus, some redheads are so fug, I thought it best to let this one lie, give them their day and all that.

Johnny Stew

05-13-2006, 05:41 PM

Hey, I stay out of all the threads where you boys play your little games of grabass. Allow me my moment to bask in the glory of Neko Case's absolutely gorgeous body!I have never objectified another man because of his looks or his body.

Wow, I almost got that out with a straight face! :laugh:

Plus, redheads, man. Can't beat redheads.One of my ex-boyfriends is a redhead... so I can understand where you're coming from. There's something endlessly beguiling about redheads -- male or female.

Jyqm

05-13-2006, 06:57 PM

Jim, what you mean is that you spent most of the gig looking at her boobs.

Damn right that's what I meant. Maybe I should have just told her that. Maybe she would have been flattered and taken me up on my drink offer...

I'm going to see Neko in about a week and a half. Should be good.

If it's anything like what I saw last night, it will be breath-taking.

Tell you what, I'll trade you Neko for Bruce. Deal?

DeadliestPoison

05-13-2006, 08:07 PM

Neko Case can bring me out of hiding. Neko Case is ****ing awesome. "Blacklisted" is one of the best albums I've bought in a long time. And that voice. Good God.

That is all. Resuming continuous Ledge vacation now.

xdreamsunwindx

05-13-2006, 08:48 PM

That is all. Resuming continuous Ledge vacation now.

You dirty whore, you.

Neko is pretty ****ing great. Even though listening to her usually renders me full of emo saddiez. She's rad.

HomerMcvie

05-14-2006, 12:58 AM

Plus, some redheads are so fug, I thought it best to let this one lie, give them their day and all that.
I agree. I've never liked redheads. All those freckles.....egads, all those freckles! And that pale skin reminds me of a corpse! No necrophilia for me, thanks.:shocked:
I find a nice tan(NOT overdone though) a huge turn on!!! Boiingggg!!!!:laugh:

Jyqm

05-14-2006, 02:51 PM

If you like redheads, then you are missing out on Jenny Lewis. She is a babe! (And a pretty fabulous singer too)

I've tried, but Jenny Lewis just doesn't do it for me. I've listened to some of her Rilo Kiley stuff, and I've listened to some her solo album, but she doesn't click for me. Which isn't to say she's not a great artist; I'm just not into her.

carrie721

05-14-2006, 02:56 PM

Hey, I stay out of all the threads where you boys play your little games of grabass. Allow me my moment to bask in the glory of Neko Case's absolutely gorgeous body!

Plus, her voice is a gift from the heavens, and she knows exactly how to use it. It's been a while since I went to a concert where someone's voice so consistently floored me.

I bought Fox Confessor about three weeks ago, and I've listened to it over 20 times since then. I never listen to anything that much, especially not in that short a time.

Plus, redheads, man. Can't beat redheads.

can i bask with you?

i just bought fox confessor yesterday and it's amazing.

amber

05-14-2006, 03:21 PM

and I've listened to it over 20 times since then. I never listen to anything that much, especially not in that short a time.

I was wondering how people like you have heard so much music. I never listen to anything I like less than 20 times, and it's more like 1000 times, really. :laugh:
I'm not genetically predisposed to musoism. Or I'm very loyal. Or I'm just a simple girl. Or I'm someone who only likes a few things a lot. Yeah, that's it. I don't just like things willy nilly. Although I could use a willy right now, nilly would be a super bonus.

Jyqm

05-14-2006, 03:31 PM

I was wondering how people like you have heard so much music. I never listen to anything I like less than 20 times, and it's more like 1000 times, really. :laugh:
I'm not genetically predisposed to musoism. Or I'm very loyal. Or I'm just a simple girl. Or I'm someone who only likes a few things a lot. Yeah, that's it. I don't just like things willy nilly. Although I could use a willy right now, nilly would be a super bonus.

Sure, everybody's got different ways of listening to music. I'll listen to something a bunch of times when I first get it, mostly internalize it, and then I just don't need to listen to it that often after that. If I listen to something too much, I'll burn myself out on it. There are albums that I absolutely love that I haven't listened to in months; eventually, I'll get around to them again, listen once or twice, and that'll be it for a while. I've had iTunes since September, and Fox Confessor is far and away the album I've listened to the most in that time. There are a handful (it's a big handful, but still a handful) of songs I've listened to maybe 10-15 times, but most stuff is between 1 and 9. And then there's still a good 2600 songs that I haven't listened to at all since I've had iTunes.

God bless you, iTunes, for allowing me to thoroughly quantify and analyze my music listening habits.

amber

05-14-2006, 03:40 PM

Huh. Do you like it all? I feel like if I don't like something enough to listen to it lots, I won't get it. Not like I get CD's much anyway, but you see what I mean.
It seems like you remember a lot, but now I'm thinking that percentage wise, maybe you don't. Either way, your way seems expensive. :p I mean, you buy it just to listen to it a few times, then maybe a few more times. :confused:
ooh, that reminds me! Trackie sent me a mixed CD....I better listen even if I won't like any songs. :laugh: *maybe I will, that would be a nice suprise. I hope she remembered I hate grunge and anything that resembles it*
:wavey:

Sugar

05-14-2006, 05:35 PM

Neko Case actually reads/performs on a DVD I have for my daughter. The DVD is 5 or 6 Scholastic books adapted to video, and Neko sings in this semi-50's style/folksy style for a story called "I Want a Dog." It's very cute...one of those ones you end up singing to yourself when you don't even realize it. It has made me want to pick up one of her CDs.

Not to threadjack, but I highly recomend these Scholastic DVDs to anyone with kids. I've got another one with Cyndi Lauper doing "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" (Burl Ives does it on the one with Neko Case on it). They use great stories, and they have a very nostalgic quality for me...reminding me of those film strips I watched in elementary school on the 70s!

Jyqm

05-14-2006, 06:25 PM

Huh. Do you like it all? I feel like if I don't like something enough to listen to it lots, I won't get it. Not like I get CD's much anyway, but you see what I mean.

I like almost everything I buy, yeah. I don't usually buy a CD without listening to several tracks first, unless it's by an artist I already know I really like. I listen to a lot of stuff that I don't like, in which case I don't by the album.

It seems like you remember a lot, but now I'm thinking that percentage wise, maybe you don't. Either way, your way seems expensive. :p I mean, you buy it just to listen to it a few times, then maybe a few more times. :confused:

It seems like I remember a lot about what?

Yes, my way is somewhat expensive, but I'm not going to start stealing music from artists I like and want to support.

I don't "just" listen to something a few times, or rather I don't see it that way. If I listen to an album ten times and internalize it and then listen to it only once every few months, that's perfect for me. If I listened to the same album multiple times every day for a month, I'd get burnt out on it and go completely nuts from hearing it that much. I own a bunch of Led Zeppelin albums, but I never listened to any of them more than once or twice for nearly four years, because I had gotten so f***ing sick of hearing Zeppelin on the ****ty ClearChannel classic rock station I used to listen to at my job at that time. Only within the past few months did I finally start listening to them again.

But people experience music in different ways. You like listening to the same songs over and over again, I like listening to a lot of different stuff, and listening to the same songs only occasionally. I just have restless tastes. The last few albums I listened to were Miles Davis's On the Corner, Neko's new album, a mix of 60s Motown songs, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, an album of Congolese music, and Led Zeppelin's fourth album. Go figure.

ragandbone

05-15-2006, 03:26 AM

Wow, am so impressed - I didn't think you were really going to ask her!
Right on!

Like I said, though, "it's the devil she loves..." ;)

p.s. a friend of mine, Erik Davis, wrote a book on Zep IV for the 33 &1/3 series. I think you might enjoy his use of language.

cliffdweller

05-15-2006, 09:31 AM

"Blacklisted" is one of the best albums I've bought in a long time.

It's her best to date. I am really enjoying Fox Confessor though, it might be creeping up as my favorite.

I've seen Neko Case 3 times and she's always been fabulous. Jyqm, that is so cool that she was wearing a White Album tee-shirt! The last time I saw her she wore an old, antique Masonic robe the entire show :shocked: :laugh:. She didn't have any make-up on and looked rather homely. I've seen her other times when she looked really good.

One time I saw her with Calexico. Talk about your show of shows!

hayley

05-15-2006, 09:38 AM

Jyqm

05-15-2006, 11:50 AM

It's her best to date. I am really enjoying Fox Confessor though, it might be creeping up as my favorite.

I've seen Neko Case 3 times and she's always been fabulous. Jyqm, that is so cool that she was wearing a White Album tee-shirt! The last time I saw her she wore an old, antique Masonic robe the entire show :shocked: :laugh:. She didn't have any make-up on and looked rather homely. I've seen her other times when she looked really good.

She always looks different. Not even just in photos, but even in person, she'll turn a certain way and suddenly look like a different person. She wasn't wearing much or any make-up on Friday and occasionally looked rather... less than hawt. But when she was singing or laughing, or when she stood in the light a certain way, she looked hElLa FiNe.

One time I saw her with Calexico. Talk about your show of shows!

Oh me, oh my. Did they play with her? I mean, did they play as her band?

I just might go to Hamburg on Thursday and see her again...

hayley

05-15-2006, 01:06 PM

Oh me, oh my. Did they play with her? I mean, did they play as her band?

I just might go to Hamburg on Thursday and see her again...

http://download.yousendit.com/8318B6327E59722C

Above is a link to a live version of "Stinging Velvet" with Calexico playing as her band. They did separate sets and she would sing with them a couple of songs on that tour.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/c/case_neko-06/

She also did a great interview with Pitchfork (blah) that made me laugh my butt off-

And if Celine Dion is supposedly the great singer that she says she is why is there auto tune on every ****ing 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 ****ing job!

Jyqm

05-15-2006, 01:30 PM

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/c/case_neko-06/

She also did a great interview with Pitchfork (blah) that made me laugh my butt off-

Thanks, this interview is great, especially all the stuff about horrible singers. However:

"A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show."

You're right, Neko, this is why you should be my girlfriend!!!

trackaghost

05-15-2006, 03:51 PM

I'm taking credit for all the emo saddiez kids listening to Neko. It's my right.

Neko is my favorite artist. Period. I just had to miss her stop through Chicago w/ Martha Wainwright and I was depressed much longer than I should've been.

My favorite album of hers is actually The Tigers Have Spoken, the live record. I thought it was an instant classic from the second my first spin of the album was over.

HAYLEY!!! I haven't seen you round these parts in ages. I mentioned you in the positive thread though. I love The Tigers Have Spoken the most too btw.
What you listening to at the mo? Anything to recommend?

cliffdweller

05-15-2006, 03:51 PM

Oh me, oh my. Did they play with her? I mean, did they play as her band?

They toured together (or at the same time, not sure) but met up at Antone's and she sang on a couple of songs with them backing her. We came to see Calexico not even knowing that she was their "special guest" so we were more than pleasantly surprised. She dueted with one of the guys in the band and it was awesome. You could tell she was really nervous and in some ways uncharacteristically bashful! I think she felt self-conscious when they asked her to come up and sing a few songs. It was really cute, she had her hair up in a pontytail and had on a t-shirt and jeans. She was NOT expecting to get up in front of an audience that night, but she did a great impromptu job!

hayley

05-15-2006, 04:10 PM

HAYLEY!!! I haven't seen you round these parts in ages. I mentioned you in the positive thread though. I love The Tigers Have Spoken the most too btw.
What you listening to at the mo? Anything to recommend?
Aww, thanks, dude. There's nothing much going on here for me to join in, since I'm not a member of Team Lux or Team Lux Can Suck It and I don't particularly like kitty pictures.

I'm obsessed with the Gnarls Barkley album, which just came out here last week. Also, the new Built To Spill- You In Reverse, and the new Calexico- Garden Ruin. The one that continues to knock my socks off is the Film School album, which has been out for quite awhile.

ETA- I just got an advance of T Bone Burnett's new album, The True False Identity, and it is amazing, too. Look out for it.

Jyqm

05-15-2006, 04:19 PM

I'm obsessed with the Gnarls Barkley album, which just came out here last week.

I cannot find this anywhere yet, and a bunch of other albums that I want are too expensive. I may need to place an Amazon.com order in the next few days; it'll still be cheaper even with shipping and customs.

trackaghost

05-15-2006, 04:20 PM

Jyqm

05-15-2006, 04:27 PM

Where do you live Jim? Cos http://www.play.com/ have it and they deliver to Europe. I use it all the time.

I'll check them out, thanks! I'm in Jena, Deutschland.

hayley

05-15-2006, 04:34 PM

I haven't got the new Calexico and I haven't heard of Film School, so I'll definitely check those out, thanks!
When is the new T Bone Burnett album out then?
I still listen to the Sam Phillips album you recommended all the time!
T Bone is out in the States tomorrow, not sure when in the UK. The Calexico surprised me- I've never been able to get into them, until the Iron & Wine EP, which is ironic, because I HATE IRON & WINE WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING. And now I really like the new record.

I'm so glad you're into that Sam Phillips record. I definitely recommend checking out Fan Dance if you like A Boot and a Shoe (that's the one you got, right?).

The other band I'm in love with is Delays, from your side of the pond. I love that first record, Faded Seaside Glamour, and am PISSED that their new album, You See Colours, doesn't seem to have a US release date. I am much too broke to order it from the UK.

Jyqm

05-15-2006, 04:40 PM

Cool, Play.com deliver there and it doesn't charge delivery fees. I don't know if you'll find it cheaper but it is the cheapest site I know for the UK and I've never had a problem with it.

Gahhh, but they don't have Ghostface Killah's new album! I'll just order from Amazon.com, there's some books I need as well.

Merf

05-15-2006, 04:59 PM

I'm obsessed with the Gnarls Barkley album, which just came out here last week. Also, the new Built To Spill- You In Reverse, and the new Calexico- Garden Ruin. The one that continues to knock my socks off is the Film School album, which has been out for quite awhile.

GNARLS BARKLEY!

That is on the top top top of the list of next CD to purchase. I love that single and every song they have on myspace & iTunes are amazing as well. I'm glad that the album is good overall. Sometimes that can be disappointing. I, too, hate Iron & Wine by himself but with Calexico? That EP is good times. "burn that broken bed" is one of the sexiest songs I've ever heard. Ever.

PS, hayley i love you :xoxo:

hayley

05-15-2006, 05:04 PM

GNARLS BARKLEY!

That is on the top top top of the list of next CD to purchase. I love that single and every song they have on myspace & iTunes are amazing as well. I'm glad that the album is good overall. Sometimes that can be disappointing. I, too, hate Iron & Wine by himself but with Calexico? That EP is good times. "burn that broken bed" is one of the sexiest songs I've ever heard. Ever.

PS, hayley i love you :xoxo:
The whole album rules, dude.

:xoxo: