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Wed, 15 Jun 2005
Light and fluffy salt - 16:27
On BoingBoing Sunday June 5th there was a link to some
Nina Gordon music and to her
website. I had a listen, clicked around and thought this sounds good. Nina was
one of the lead singers and song writers of
Veruca Salt. I quite like a lot of
Veruca Salt music, though found it was a bit inconstant, some brilliant
tracks, some I didn't like much at all (Nina is no longer a part of the group,
they are however releasing another album soon, who knows how it will
sound). Anyway Nina Gordon released an album in 2000 called "Tonight and the
rest of my life", there were samples on her website of all the tracks on the
album, that along with the sample suggested by BoingBoing interested me enough
to get a copy of the album.
Looking around on Amazon I saw the album for sale on the Amazon used retail thing for USD $3.77, so that with a shipping cost of USD $5.49 meant I could get a copy of the album for about AUD $12, rightio then.
So the album arrived around lunch today and I have had it playing in my office since then. Initially (remember it often takes me weeks or a few months to really grow into an album) I like it, more consistent lyrics and sound than Veruca Salt I think, a bit fluffy (lyrically) in places, and definitely soft female vocal rock (Jane often accuses me of being an excessive fan of this style of music (Leonardo's Bride (Abby Dobson), Rebecca's Empire (Rebecca Barnard), Sleeper (Louise Werner), etc). Anyway I like it, lets see how it grows on me.
