On Saturday I attended a concert in Ft Lauderdale. It was Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls fame) and I was skeptical, I had only listened to a couple of songs so I wasn't too sure about this but the ticket was free and it was my girlfriend who invited me so I said what the heck! I was surprised to see how good she was in concert and I noticed the following Football inspired tune called "Leeds United":
What do Leeds United Fans think about this? Do you hate it or love it?
Here is a review of Amanda Palmer's latest album taken from Spin Magazine, see it at Local Motion Miami:
This is a Manic and depressed, Amanda Palmer's solo debut is either artful psycho-biography or deeply twisted dramatic monologue. Either way, the album is a dark gem, a high-IQ song cycle that combines guilt, neurotic lust, and low self-esteem into piano-based tunes that come studded with lyrical daggers. On the rapid-fire "Runs in the Family," Palmer recites a catalog of maladies, including an impulse to "open my legs up to anyone who'll have me." On the sultry, over-amped "Leeds United," she intones over a slurred, high-stepping horn section: "Who needs love / When there's Southern Comfort?" On this Method-acted album, that's a rhetorical question.
Read more and see videos at:
http://localmotion-mia.blogspot.com/2009/03/alternative-to-winter-music-conference.html