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  Shutdown/shut-in Spring gives us time to linger, at breakfast, over Oatmeal with cinnamon, organic Wegman’s blueberries, bananas, soy milk, and the May 25, 2020 issue of New Yorker. New Yorker magazine is like an old friend that waits for you, picking up the conversation on new/known people, places, and things. This morning we owe credit to the much esteemed and worthy periodical. Thanks to the May 25 issue, we have Phoebe Bridgers on our new music Durham Cool plate.  Lyrically mature, vocally nuanced, and yes, a perfect accompanist to teenage lust/angst.   Did I mention great hair and perfect features?  The best feature is, of course, Phoebe’s brilliant mind. We explore influences, Phoebe’s interpretations of emotively strong songs (Plastic Trees), the Replacements-Ryan Adams Phoebe connection,  and the new great BOYGENIUS collaboration between artists Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus.   ;
  Lyrics Somewhere in Germany, but I can’t place it Man, I hate this part of Texas Close my eyes, fantasize Three clicks and I’m home When I get back I’ll lay around Then I’ll get up and lay back down Romanticize a quiet life There’s no place like my room But you had to go I know, I know, I know Like a wave that crashed and melted on the shore Not even the burnouts are out here anymore And you had to go I know, I know, I know Out in the park, we watch the sunset Talking on a rusty swing set After a while you went quiet and I got mean I’m always pushing you away from me But you come back with gravity And when I call, you come home A bird in your teeth So I gotta go I know, I know, I know When the sirens sound, you’ll hide under the floor But I’m not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado I’m gonna chase it I know, I know, I know I gotta go now I know, I know, I know Driving out into the sun Let the ultraviolet cover me up Went looking for a creation myth Ended up with a pair of cracked lips Windows down, scream along To some America First rap, country song A slaughterhouse, an outlet mall Slot machines, fear of God Windows down, heater on Big bolts of lightning hanging low Over the coast, everyone’s convinced It’s a government drone or an alien spaceship Either way, we’re not alone I’ll find a new place to be from A haunted house with a picket fence To float around and ghost my friends No, I’m not afraid to disappear The billboard said, “The end is near” I turned around, there was nothing there Yeah, I guess the end is here The end is here The end is here The end is here The end is here Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Phoebe Bridgers / Marshall Vore / Christian Lee Hutson / Conor M Oberst I Know the End lyrics © Bedrooms Bedrooms And Spiders, Whatever Mom, Pizza Money Publishing, Corn Fox Publishing

I listened to, I know the End, on a short drive home from a State Park hike the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Unable to go inside after, she strummed the first chord and sang the opening lyric. Is there anyone else contemporaneously writing such damn good songs today? Very subtle rhyming lines aside, no one is more deadpan good than Phoebe Bridgers when she taps the muse right in the marrow.

Paul Langan

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Phoebe Bridgers x Arlo Parks – Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) – Radio 1 Piano Session

Phoebe Bridgers x Arlo Parks perform a stripped-back Radio 1 Piano Sessions version of ‘Fake Plastic Trees’ by Radiohead for Phil Taggart’s Chillest Show

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Arlo Parks and Phoebe Bridgers. Credit: Jenn Five/NME and Frank Ockenfels
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Phoebe Bridgers’ voice sounds like it’s coming from a record player somehow.  
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Lyrics
A green plastic watering can
For a fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
It wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery
On the girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins
And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can’t help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out
And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time, all the time

Songwriters: Philip James Selway / Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood / Edward John O’brien / Thomas Edward Yorke / Colin Charles Greenwood
Fake Plastic Trees lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music Ltd

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Rolling Stones cover with Boygenius (Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus & Phoebe Bridgers)
Boygenius: How Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker Formed Rock’s Best Supergroup
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“Fake Plastic Trees” 1995 (Reelin’ In The Years

This performance in a recording studio in Holland captures the band during the Bends tour. They perform their hit “Fake Plastic Trees” with no audience. This television show which aired from 1993 to 2002 was primarily filmed in a recording studio and featured artists such as Coldplay, James Taylor, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Foo Fighters, Ice T & Jan Akkerman, Jellyfish, Posies, Elliott Smith, Jackson Browne, Black Crowes, Bruce Cockburn, and many others. We’re fortunate to have all of the raw camera angles for the entire series, which contains many songs that never aired. Reelin’ In The Years Productions houses the world’s largest library of music footage, containing over 20,000 hours of material covering nearly every genre from the last 60 years. We have live concerts, TV appearances, interviews, in-studio segments, b-roll, and more. In addition to music, we have thousands of hours of interviews with the most recognizable celebrities, comedians, politicians, athletes, artists, and authors of the 20th Century. We are your one-stop-shop if you need footage for your film, documentary, TV show, commercial, museum exhibit, or presentation. 

 

 

Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees |  (HD 1080p)

 Live at Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile 11.04.2018

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Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy DacusPhoto: Kristy Benjamin

Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner Records All Shook Down (2008 Remaster) · The Replacements All Shook Down (Expanded Edition) ℗ 1990 Sire Records Company Producer: Paul Westerberg Engineer, Mixer, Producer: Scott Litt Writer: Paul Westerberg

 

 

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How does one arrive at Phoebe Bridgers by skipping over imprimaturs and influences like the Replacements and their last album, All Shook Down?  One cannot look at Ryan Adams and not look at Paul Westerberg.   Phoebe Bridgers is a better songwriter, though not as prolific as Ryan Adams.  Ryan Adams was a shadow influence on one of Phoebe’s most Replacements-like songs.

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Torture · The Replacements All Shook Down ℗ 1990 Sire Records Company Producer: Paul Westerberg Engineer, Mixer, Producer: Scott Litt Writer: Paul Westerberg

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I Know the End” by Phoebe Bridgers, out now on Dead Oceans.  

Video Credits: Director: Alissa Torvinen Executive Producer/Producer: Dilly Gent Production company: Son&Heir Producer: Barret Hacia Production Manager: Sean Blau Director of Photography: Casey Stolberg Steadicam: Chris Loh  Gaffer: Quinn Brudos-Sommers Key Grip: Hiram Borges 1st AD: Peter Etherington Production Designer: Britt Keller HMU: Jenna Nelson Costumer: Dagmarette Yen 2nd AD: Sherry Shi Editor: Niles Howard Color: Bryan Smaller / Company 3 VFX: Ryan Game  1st AC: Connor Lambert 2nd AC: Will Hecht Set Lighting Tech: Andrew Kendall Live Lighting Design: Nick “Spike” Inglis Best Boy Electric: Ben Perez Best Boy Grip: Michael Rosner-Hyman Grip Ashley: Petrie Production Designer: Britt Keller Art Assistant: Chelsea Alexander  Studio Teacher: Chelsea Northrop Truck PA: Akeem Glenn PA: Matt Keibler PA: Mark Kaercher PA: Drake Escrofani PA: Alex Rodriguez Band: Phoebe Bridgers Band: Marshall Vore Band: Harry Whitford Band: Odessa Jorgensen Band: Nick White Band: Jackson Bridgers Band: Christian Lee Hutson Woman: Lily Hayes Apple Kid: Clementine Huston BG: Adam Sputh BG: Zoe Donahoe BG: Emily Bannon  BG: Devin Fance BG: John Hein BG: Jeremy Mao BG: Garcia Segura BG: Grace Garner BG: Lulu Clark BG: Ruby Henley Filmed at LA Memorial Coliseum

Phoebe Bridgers – I Know the End (Official Video)

 

 Lyrics: Somewhere in Germany but I can’t place it Man I hate this part of Texas Close my eyes, fantasize Three clicks and I’m home When I get back I’ll lay around Then I’ll get up and lay back down Romanticize a quiet life There’s no place like my room But you had to go I know, I know, I know Like a wave that crashed and melted on the shore Not even the burnouts are out here anymore And you had to go I know, I know, I know Out in the park we watch the sunset Talking on a rusty swing set After a while you went quiet  And I got mean I’m always pushing you away from me But you come back with gravity And when I call you come home A bird in your teeth So I gotta go I know, I know, I know When the sirens sound you’ll hide under the floor But I’m not gonna go down in my hometown in a tornado I’m gonna chase it I know, I know, I know I gotta go now I know, I know, I know Driving out into the sun Let the ultraviolet cover me up Went looking for a creation myth Ended up with a pair of cracked lips Windows down scream along To some America First rap country song A slaughterhouse, an outlet mall Slot machines, fear of God Windows down, heater on Big bolt of lighting hanging low Over the coast everyone’s convinced It’s a government drone or an alien spaceship Either way we’re not alone I’ll find a new place to be from  A haunted house with a picket fence To float around and ghost my friends I’m not afraid to disappear The billboard said The End Is Near I turned around there was nothing there Yeah, I guess the end is here The end is here Follow Phoebe Bridgers:

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The New York Times Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus Formed an Indie-Rock Supergroup
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boygenius – Cowboy Take Me Away (Live on KEXP)

 

http://KEXP.ORG presents Boygenius (Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus) performing “Cowboy Take Me Away” live at Avast! Recording Co.. Recorded November 24, 2018. Host: Cheryl Waters Audio Engineers: Tom Hall, Julian Martlew & Kevin Suggs Audio Mixer: Julian Martlew Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Scott Holopainen & Kendall Rock Editor: Jim Beckmann

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Lyrics

I said I wanna touch the earth
I wanna break it in my hands
I wanna grow something wild and unruly
I wanna sleep on the hard ground
In the comfort of your arms
On a pillow of bluebonnets
In a blanket made of stars
Oh, it sounds good to me
I said cowboy take me away
Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue
Set me free, oh, I pray
Closer to heaven above and closer to you
Closer to you
I wanna walk and not run
I wanna skip and not fall
I wanna look at the horizon and not see a building standing tall
I wanna be the only one for miles and miles
Except for maybe you and your simple smile
Oh, it sounds good to me
Yes, it sounds so good to me
Cowboy take me away
Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue
Set me free, oh, I pray
Closer to heaven above and closer to you
Closer to you
I said I wanna touch the earth
I wanna break it in my hands
I wanna grow something wild and unruly
Oh, it sounds so good to me
Cowboy take me away
Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue
Set me free, oh, I pray
Closer to heaven above and closer to you
Closer to you
Closer to you
Cowboy take me away
Closer to you
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Martha Maguire / Marcus Hummon
Cowboy Take Me Away lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.