Girl, We Couldn’t Get Much HIGHER
Posted on | October 8, 2005 at 11:39 am | 4 Comments
I can’t swear this is the last time I’ll talk about the New Pornographers for awhile, but I had to mention their appearance last night on Last Call with Carson Daly. They did two songs from the new album, Use It and Twin Cinema. However, they changed one of the lyrics in Use It – I guess so that NBC doesn’t get an FCC fine. When Carl Newman sang “Two sips from the cup of human kindness and I’m shitfaced, just laid to waste” (great line), the word replaced was substituted for the profane word, which doesn’t have quite the same impact. Although the friend-of-many-English-majors within me chuckles at the fact that the replacement word was “replaced”.
BTW, it was the Neko-and-Kathryn version of the band performing on the show, though Neko was not in her Stevie Nicks garb. They sounded good, but the background vocals needed to be turned up a bit. Which was kind of the opposite of when I saw them live and Carl seemed to be getting drowned out.
(In case you didn’t know, the title of this entry is referring to this.)
Latre.
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4 Responses to “Girl, We Couldn’t Get Much HIGHER”
October 8th, 2005 @ 5:17 pm
Hey, did you change your design? There’s now like a window for your text… Anyway: the Doors thing (in the link) reminds me of other great switcheroos in TV/music history – like Elvis Costello & the Attractions shifting songs midstream…
October 8th, 2005 @ 5:22 pm
I think there was a Rolling Stones incident too…
No, I haven’t changed the design, other than moving the “Archives” down lower in the sidebar. Could’ve messed something else up while doing that though. Could you explain what you mean by a “window for your text”? Looks the same to me…
October 8th, 2005 @ 11:49 pm
I thought the graphic at the top used to bleed right out to the edges of the page – but it has a frame on it. Sounds like I’m misremembering.
October 9th, 2005 @ 12:26 am
The graphics are intended to cause acid flashbacks in impressional people… good to hear it’s working.