The Streets - "Trust Me". Everyone thought Mike Skinner had spent the past three years lazy, stoned, reading books of Descartes quotes while sipping white beers. But - no. Yes, he answers texts as soon as he gets them. Yes, he's posting new songs via Twitter. Yes, he has a swimming pool. But every night The Streets spends three hours with the Complete Oxford Dictionary, going through the volumes line by line, magnifying-glass hoisted, learning every single word and figuring out the different ways they rhyme. [Twitter]
Baxter Dury - "Cocaine Man". The Streets and Baxter Dury could pull some Prince and the Pauper stuff, sloughing off their leather and denim jackets, switching places. In my fantasy-land, they both wear the same size of shoes, both like to paint with watercolours. But Baxter's the only one who ever killed a man. Also: "CUP OF COFFEEEEEEEE...." [buy]
Posted by Sean at April 20, 2009 1:15 PMwhoa, the streets got good again. this is exciting.
Posted by: kittens at April 21, 2009 8:41 PMThis Baxter Dury song is so hooky moody swaggering transcendent. Thanks for sharing some import material.
Posted by: Adam at April 22, 2009 10:01 PMhave the streets got an album on the way?
Posted by: THaF at April 23, 2009 7:27 AMskinner says we can expect the last streets album in a year or two.
this dury guy's vocal affectations are like nails on a chalkboard to me, but i keep coming back to have another listen. funny how that works.
Posted by: kittens at April 29, 2009 5:01 PM