Comments on: This Time ‘In Living Cover’, It’s Jay Brannan

By: queerlefty

queerlefty — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:19:30 +0000

For some reason, ‘Both Hands’ doesn’t do much for me. At the moment, I think ‘Beautifully’ is my favorite track.

By: Smilie

Smilie — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:32:28 +0000

You were right, I loved ‘Goddamned’ enough that I also bought ‘In Living Cover’ and can’t seem to stop playing it. I’d have to say that ‘The Freshmen’ is my current favourite on that album followed closely by ‘Both Hands’. I love the opening line in that song.

By: queerlefty

queerlefty — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:09:40 +0000

Congrats on that very wise purchase, Smilie. I’m sure you’ll end up loving it. I hope you’ll find time for ‘In Living Cover’ at some point, too.

By: Smilie

Smilie — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:17:04 +0000

I’ve been thinking about buying “Goddamned” for a while and finally bought it today. I’m listening to it now. So far I’m impressed. I’ll have to let it sink in some more before buying anything else.

By: queerlefty

queerlefty — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:48:55 +0000

Oops, let’s see if I can get it right this time…

Thanks for checking back in, anyway ;)

By: cmptrwiz (james)

cmptrwiz (james) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:35:37 +0000

you’ve still have it wrong

its not

Hey, these words are part of my charm, maybe -.

it is

Hey, scars are part of my charm, maybe

lol

By: queerlefty

queerlefty — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:28:26 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, James, and thanks for calling me out on the misquotation. You were right of course. The error has been revised (see correction at the beginning of the piece).

I love Jay, too. To me, he has a certain honest vulnerability to his songs and his voice that really gets to me. Hope he’ll come play in Norway someday.

By: cmptrwiz (james)

cmptrwiz (james) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:56:51 +0000

I loved your review of In Living Cover and largely I agree with it(except I liked the of cover on Blowing In The Wind).
Jay Brannan is probably my favorite artist since Kurt Cobain.
You have, however, misquoted or misheard the lyrics in ‘Drowning’ a little bit. You wrote;
I’m carving words in my arms, baby/These words are part of my charm -.
The lyric was written as;
I’m carving words in my arms, baby/Hey, scars are part of my charm, maybe
That is how they’re printed in the liner notes and surely different in meaning and tone. Your interpretation works too, but just listen to it again…
I saw Jay live at the Roxy Theater (July 21st)in LA and he is a great performer too. The sadness of his voice and style was wonderfully offset by his nervous banter between the songs. His humor is as marvelous as his songs. It felt like I was hanging out with friends. I so look forward to following his career and hearing more original songs and even more covers by Jay.

By: queerlefty

queerlefty — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:33:38 +0000

Thanks, Bryan, I wondered about that too.

The shampoo reference, that’s Joni, isn’t it? If you haven’t got her ‘Blue’ in your mental classics library yet, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Like I said, it’s probably my third most favorite album of all time, behind only “Born To Run” and “Abbey Road”, but slightly ahead of The Jayhawks’ “Tomorrow The Green Grass” and “Pet Sounds” by The Beach Boys.

I get your “That’s very Jay” comment, and that was one of the main points of my review, how he succeeds in making the covers feel like an natural extension of his own originals.

“It’s cool to know you’re listening to the same thing.”

If we ever met, I suspect we would have lots of things to talk about:)

By: poeticgrin

poeticgrin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:21:54 +0000

So I Googled it, and now I know what it’s about. Cue depression!