wow, she wrote all of those songs?

i was just looking up cathy dennis in the hope of triggering a memory of the song of hers i had taped off the radio and really liked. maybe 'just another dream'?

and going searching, as i do, i found this list of songs she's written for other pop stars like toxic!

i can't find the original song i wanted. it's still somewhere on it's tape, and i haven't really heard any new pop for a while...

so how about some old pop for a friday?

cyndi lauper covering the big O roy orbison



and a massive hit that got me in the end :)



and that's me done for tonight

happy 2011

~listener

meredith 02: washed out and kyü

although i can't find anything that sounds like the set did live at meredith, this band remain a favourite from last weekend.



and these girls from nsw, alyx and freya, making music that put me in mind of amiina, and bjork, but also arvo part and more minimalist/tribal choral music. very interesting. feminine. powerful and organic.

here's their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/kyusounds

and here's a youtube of their song 'pixiphony' to a mash up of their rather eccentric publicity shots



and now i'm going to bed!

~ listener

belated friday

sadly a power short in the room of the unknown listener knocked out my internet last night, so no Friday Pop update, but I thought I'd pop in and post two of the most endearing tracks I've put on my new car listener.

first, something from that amazing triple CD by magnetic fields - 69 love songs



and my favourite from andrew wk's genre-destroying album of solo piano improvisations, 55 cadillac



love

~ listener

friday, rain, two

better late than never, as it was used in a nokia ovi maps ad almost a year ago now, but this is still better late, than never

:)



reminds me too that friday night was my favourite night to be a bachelorette... i always did my laundry

and for that, here's ms mitchell, but not the one you think :)



happy friday

~ listener