Prickly Thron, But Sweetly Worn (Day 132)

Tindersticks - "Piano Song"
Brightblack Morning Light - "Fry Bread"
David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust"
Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - "Vampires In A Blue Dress"
I was digging this song this AM. But I don't know the band too well, except that they're one of those 8-or-so-piece pop collectives led by one musical protege. In this case his name is Richard Edwards - - and he's kinda like what I would imagine would result if Conor Oberst and Sufjan Stevens had a lovechild. Weird. And the band name? Fantastic. Made even better after I just read this moment that it comes from the Gwyneth Paltrow character, Margot, in Wes Anderson's Royal Tennebaums. Time for a gratuitous clip!



Eleventh Dream Day - "The Blindside"
The Kinks - "You Make It All Worthwhile --> Ordinary People --> Everybody's A Star" (live)
The White Stripes - "Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn"
Serge Gainsbourg - "Ballade de Melody Nelson"
More fun with names! This song comes from the Serge Gainsbourg album actually called Histoire de Melody Nelson. So, I don't speak French, or have a masterly knowledge of the career of Gainsbourg, so the identity of Melody has alluded me. A famous French debutante? Poet? Laundress? Take it away, Monsieur Wikipedia:

Melody Nelson is the fictional subject of a concept album, Histoire de Melody Nelson, by French musician Serge Gainsbourg.

Similar in concept to, if not based on, the infamous Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita, the plot of the album concerns the protagonist's brief relationship with a teenage English girl named Melody Nelson, who he meets when his Rolls-Royce collides with her bicycle. They begin a passionate but short love affair, which ends when Melody dies in a plane crash.

She may have also been a topless ventriloquist. See album cover, below.



















The Beastie Boys - "The Biz Vs. The Nuge"
The Walkmen - "Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga"
Son Volt - "Medicine Hat" (live)
The Beatles - "Good Day Sunshine"

And then I got to work.

Today's Stats
Total songs listened to: 12
Total minutes of music (approx.): 41
Song with the most previous plays: "Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn," "Fry Bread" - 6
How I Rate Today's Playlist (1-10): 7
Miscellaneous factoid about my trip to work today: What a difference a day makes: I. Hate. Baseball.