Nick Zinner, of coffee table book fame, recently listed and commented on his ten favorite CDs at Insound. I was pleasantly surprised to find John Frusciante's Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt on Zinner's list. It was Frusciante's first solo album and at different points it is desperate, sparse, haunting, painful, and challenging. Some of it is pretty hard to swallow, borderline unbearable, but there are flashes of the brilliance that resonates throughout all of his later solo work, beginning with To Record Only Water For Ten Days.
Also in the news recently is Nick Zinner's production help for the Horrors. Any friend of Nick Zinner is a friend of mine:
"Those lucky Horrors. First, director Chris Cunningham chose the British punk band as the vehicle through which to make his long-awaited comeback. Now, Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs has shared his production talents with the group (and probably some hair and makeup tips, too.)All this Zinner reading pushed me around the web a little bit and I came across some gems. Check out the video to "Turn Into" (one of my Top Ten Tracks of 2006.5). I don't know what I like more: the video, Zinner's solos, the personal hurricane smoke everyone gets in the middle, or Karen O.'s little half-smile at the end. Dope-tastic!
"Zinner recently stopped by London's KONK studio to twiddle the knobs on two tracks, 'Sister Leonella' and 'She's the New Thing,' for the Horrors' forthcoming debut LP. In an interview that ran October 18 on the band's MySpace page, Nick Zinner said that the Horrors 'were very well behaved' in the studio and were 'reward[ed] ...upon completion of their final takes with a pint of virgin blood.' He also mentioned that he'd like to work with the boys again if his 'schedule allowed it.'" [Pitchfork]
STREAM: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Turn Into"
I think I am going to go with the smile. Even more debatable is which Yeah Yeah Yeahs song has my favorite Nick Zinner guitar work. It has to be either the aforementioned "Turn Into" or "Y Control."
MP3: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Turn Into" (AOL Interface)
MP3: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Y Control" (Peel Session)
Culture Bully has the entire AOL Interface set broken up into mp3s. The Runout Groove has the same for the 2002 Peel Session.
3 comments:
as an editorial note, show your bones was the 11th album on his top ten list, so i think it was included by insound as part of the package if you won the contest. i dont want to believe zinner i that desperate to sell a record
noted. life has dealt me many hardships, one of which is the inability to count past three. there was hope for a while, and then U2's "Vertigo" completely fucked me up. one. two. three. fourteen. say goodnight.
I think it is an excellent book, because it's inspired in a book, that's terrific because knowing that, I can realize it's something different.
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