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Post by Chromeozone on Oct 25, 2005 23:30:20 GMT -5
This is the new album from Nellie McKay, out in late December. I like the old working title "Duck Quacks" better, but oh well. Looks like another post-holiday season gift to myself this year (I bought "Get Away from Me" as an after-holiday present to myself last year).
From the official website:
Here's hoping it's as good as her debut, which was my favorite 2004 album.
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Post by [upsilon]™ on Oct 26, 2005 15:19:12 GMT -5
Can't wait. Love Nellie McKay. "Sari" was the shiznit.
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Post by Chromeozone on Nov 16, 2005 17:21:04 GMT -5
Album release date has been pushed back a week later to January 3.
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Post by [upsilon]™ on Nov 17, 2005 19:53:42 GMT -5
Any word on the single title?
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Post by Damage on Nov 20, 2005 23:43:24 GMT -5
Release Date: January 6th Tracklist: 1. Cupcake 2. Pink Chandeller 3. Big One 4. GES 5. Beecharmer 6. Columbia's Bleeding 7. Tipperary 8. Real Life 9. We Had It Right 10. I Will Be There 11. I Am Nothing 12. Long and Lazy River 13. Down Low 14. There You Are in Me 15. GLADD 16. Happy Flower I Love Me some nellie mckay :)
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Post by banet2001 on Nov 21, 2005 10:36:17 GMT -5
I cannot wait for the new Nellie McKay CD.
Here is an article from Billboard from last week.
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Post by Chromeozone on Nov 21, 2005 22:27:32 GMT -5
Looking forward to anything leaking before the release date... I'm super anxious to hear all of her new material.
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Post by banet2001 on Dec 1, 2005 18:54:07 GMT -5
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Post by Chromeozone on Dec 2, 2005 1:07:48 GMT -5
Ah, I like it. It's simple and would have fit in easily on the first album, but it has the Nellie McKay touch. Looking forward to more.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Dec 2, 2005 15:50:11 GMT -5
Love it! I want the cd now :(
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Post by [upsilon]™ on Dec 4, 2005 20:07:28 GMT -5
I love it!
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Dec 7, 2005 11:21:14 GMT -5
McKay gets vocal about her label's plan At a local performance, the singer decries Columbia's insistence on releasing a shorter version of her new album than she planned.
By Richard Cromelin, Times Staff Writer
Sony Music USA recently resolved a messy, high-profile dispute with singer Fiona Apple, but now the record corporation is facing a showdown with another acclaimed and temperamental artist.
The conflict between Sony's Columbia Records label and singer-songwriter Nellie McKay over the content of her upcoming second album flared up in public this week when McKay launched into an extended, tearful outburst during her performance Tuesday at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.
The 20-year-old singer, known for her sophisticated pop-cabaret songs, social activism and emotional demeanor, told the audience that she wants her upcoming album, "Pretty Little Head," to contain 23 songs and run 65 minutes, but that the label plans to release a 16-song, 48-minute version.
She encouraged her fans to write to Columbia in protest, and spelled out the e-mail address of Columbia Records Group Chairman Will Botwin.
After berating an audience member who told her to stop talking and sing, McKay appeared to break down in tears.
"It's not fair, it's not fair to anyone what they're doing," she said.
"The corporations are raping the world. I know that everyone is gonna grow up and, you know, get cynical and everything. I can't, I still care too much. This is driving me insane."
The situation recalls the recent struggle between Sony's Epic label and Apple, in which the singer-songwriter briefly quit music altogether because she thought that the company was imposing restrictions on the recording of her album "Extraordinary Machine."
Before relations were repaired, the incident had become a cause célèbre, inspiring a "Free Fiona" movement among the singer's fans.
During an interview before the Troubadour show, McKay said she is inclined to make a similar move.
"I just really feel that if the 65-minute album doesn't happen, it's the end of my relations with Sony, because if this is the music business, I don't want to be in the music business," said the singer, whose 2004 debut album, "Get Away From Me," sold 104,000 copies and made a strong showing in year-end "best-of" lists.
"I feel the 48-minute version is not representative," she said. "I don't consider that my album.
"I think if they put that out they should say it's 'Pretty Little Head' by the Sony Corporation. If they put out the 65 minutes it's by Nellie McKay....
"I really feel that the album breathes better at the 65-minute version."
"Pretty Little Head" is scheduled to be released Jan. 3.
A Columbia spokesman said Thursday that Botwin was unavailable due to illness and that no one else at the company could comment on the issue.
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Post by banet2001 on Dec 7, 2005 19:29:41 GMT -5
Nellie has been complaining for a while about Sony's handling of her new CD. Nellie is really an artist and Sony is a big record label who are in the business of selling records and making profits, not making great art. There quite often is a conflict when an artist butts heads with a corporation who are trying to profit off a CD.
Here is a brief description from somebody who saw Nellie live last month in LA:
I hope everything works out well for her, but I am not confident it will.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Dec 7, 2005 22:00:23 GMT -5
I heard that she won and it will be the 23 song version now-from what she said at a new concert. I hope so...even though I see a dropping in the near future
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Dec 8, 2005 1:12:19 GMT -5
Album leaked-I wish it was released like, now.
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Post by Chromeozone on Dec 8, 2005 15:47:49 GMT -5
Album leaked-I wish it was released like, now. Where? Wherewherewherewherewherewhere? I'm just a little anxious. Hehe.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Dec 9, 2005 3:03:29 GMT -5
Its supposedly on simplemp3s.com, but that site never works for me so I cant really get to it. I just want the album now! I hope we eventually get the 23 song one as well.
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Post by Damage on Dec 11, 2005 19:28:34 GMT -5
wow that sucks, i had no idea - I hope some new, smaller labels come out and some good artists migrate there
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Post by Chromeozone on Dec 18, 2005 0:17:28 GMT -5
OK, upon listening to the album several times through, I have a feeling that many of the cut tracks were the edgier ones... hence the no parental advisory for this one. Overall, it lacks the bite of Get Away from Me... only the tracks "Real Life" and "Columbia is Bleeding" hit the same punch as Sari or It's a Pose from GAFM. Also, there's no rap on this one (as compared to 3 tracks from GAFM... Sari, Inner Peace, and The Work Song).
The "Beecharmer" duet with Cyndi Lauper is fun and catchy, and the duet with k.d. lang is good as well. "I Am Nothing" is short but kind of Middle Eastern-tinted and nice. Something is just missing though- the funny satire of GAFM is falling short here (the mocking is still there though, in tracks like "Cupcake" and "Tipperary"). I'd be extremely interested in hearing the 7 cut tracks--- I have a feeling they are more upbeat and rocky and would add the punch needed here.
Nonetheless, I'd still give it 4 stars out of 5 and it'll probably be my favorite album of 2006. It's a very, very good album, I just had extremely high expectations as a result of her debut album.
(Oh, also, those who complained of the first album being too varied in style for their tastes will probably be much more satisfied here... we don't have the swinging around from pop to jazz to rap to balladry here... much more evenly pop throughout)
Edit: Hmmmmm. "Pretty Little Head" isn't listed on Amazon anymore (also pulled from the Sony Music Store website), but is still slated for a January 3 release on her website... I wonder if they're gonna go ahead with the 23-song release after all.
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Post by banet2001 on Dec 19, 2005 18:50:08 GMT -5
That sounds like a great album I cannot wait until it gets released. Second albums are always difficult. The first album typically takes years to develop. One had his or her entire career before getting signed to a record label to develop the first album, so typically it has a greater library of material. For a second album, the artist typically will have a few months to put together a library of material that is as good or better than the library that the artist took years to develop. That is a difficult task. I have high expectations for Nellie, but I think it would be difficult to put out a better album than her debut. I wonder if they're gonna go ahead with the 23-song release after all. It appears that they will go through with it. Here is a recent article from Pitchfork.
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Post by euripides on Dec 23, 2005 17:26:26 GMT -5
To those who have heard the advance copy of the album, does anyone have the lyrics?
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Post by Damage on Dec 31, 2005 11:59:50 GMT -5
Also, there's no rap on this one (as compared to 3 tracks from GAFM... Sari, Inner Peace, and The Work Song). Yes there is - there is rap on this one. I haven't even heard it all, and I've already heard 2 tracks with rap on them. Anyway, I'm in love with "Pink Chandelier" - it's like Nina Simone & Tori Amos.
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Post by Damage on Jan 1, 2006 13:48:04 GMT -5
By the way...if she's on Columbia, why is she in the Independent section?
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Post by Pink Champagne Ricochet on Jan 1, 2006 18:29:49 GMT -5
By the way...if she's on Columbia, why is she in the Independent section? this section is also called "indie rock", and that's become a genre of music as much as it is a description of their signing...IMO Nellie is so damn hard to categorize that that's the genre she would fit in as well as any. Did anyone else hear that she left Columbia? I read it on the Velvet Rope message board. It may not be true, but if it is I wonder if the album ever gets released.
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Post by Chromeozone on Jan 2, 2006 15:16:06 GMT -5
Also, there's no rap on this one (as compared to 3 tracks from GAFM... Sari, Inner Peace, and The Work Song). Yes there is - there is rap on this one. I haven't even heard it all, and I've already heard 2 tracks with rap on them. Anyway, I'm in love with "Pink Chandelier" - it's like Nina Simone & Tori Amos. Uh... No, there isn't. I dunno what you're considering rap but there definitely isn't any. I don't consider most stuff that's simply spoken word stuff rap.
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Post by Damage on Jan 3, 2006 2:34:08 GMT -5
Yes there is - there is rap on this one. I haven't even heard it all, and I've already heard 2 tracks with rap on them. Anyway, I'm in love with "Pink Chandelier" - it's like Nina Simone & Tori Amos. Uh... No, there isn't. I dunno what you're considering rap but there definitely isn't any. I don't consider most stuff that's simply spoken word stuff rap. Sure there is. What on this CD do you consider spoken word as opposed to rap. What specifically is different? There's nothing wrong with her (attempting to) rapping, is there?
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Post by sleepy time on Jan 4, 2006 1:02:11 GMT -5
She was dropped from her label because they wanted to release a 48 minute, 16 track album, and she wanted to release a 23 track, 65 minute album.
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Post by Pet Shop Boy on Jan 4, 2006 9:59:08 GMT -5
So is this album officially not happening then? :(
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Post by banet2001 on Jan 4, 2006 14:03:40 GMT -5
She was dropped from her label because they wanted to release a 48 minute, 16 track album, and she wanted to release a 23 track, 65 minute album. Nellie was not dropped from Sony. She left Sony voluntarily in late 2005. Hopefully "Pretty Little Head" should be available to download within the next month or so with a commercial CD release hopefully in February - March time frame. If anybody is interested in listening to some new Nellie McKay songs, she has six songs to download from iTunes that are part of the "Rumor Has It" soundtrack.
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Post by Damage on Jan 4, 2006 15:58:24 GMT -5
Whoa! I didn't know about her leaving!
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