IcedOver wrote:I like the "looseness" of having a near-weekly musical guest more than I like the performances themselves.
I like it, too, more than at the beginning, nevertheless I've come to appreciate the performances themselves a lot as well. Last time I posted here was after Ep.7's floor sweeping scene when we had sounds of something like a band practising. Since then there has been the big star (and the only artist I had been aware of so far), Nine Inch Nails, and the first band that comes for the second time, Au Revoir Simone, plus a moment of Hudson Mohawke but that was hardly an independent performance in the episode.
i have to say I enjoyed both a lot. But let me stick to the formula I started in the opening post. Just a quick reminder of how I rated so far:
BOB1 wrote:end of Part 2 - James/ Shelly - the band is called: Chromatics * * * * 1/2
end of Part 3 - The Cactus Blossoms * * *
end of Part 4 - Au revoir Simone * * *
end of Part 5 - no smoking - Trouble * * * * * !
end of Part 6 - Sharon van Etten * *
end of Part 7 - floor sweeping - name of band...??? * * * 1/2
So:
not-the-end of Part 8 - Nine Inch Nails * * * * 1/4
Of course the fact that I'm a huge fan of
some of NIN's music does matter. I can feel the thrill of an announcement saying "... proudly presents The Nine Inch Nails!" and I'm there and I'm just WOW!! The song itself, however, was slightly disappointing. I appreciate the performance, the passion (OK, Trent's lip-syncing was not particularly successful but that's the kind of detail I don't care much about) but the songwriting might be better resulting in a more memorable song. Still, what I do like a lot about this scene has been well put in a post above:
IcedOver wrote:The NIN performance (...) how it bisects the Mr. Cooper shooting and fades into him sitting up all bloody and fucked up. His leathered, older rock star-ish look works with the NIN feel.
Yes, this scene felt perfectly placed, that's one thing I can say, and that's the extra fraction at the end of the stars
end of Part 9 - Hudson Mohawke/ the rash/ Au revoir Simone #2 * * * * 1/2
This is definitely one of my favourites and not sure if not my favourite scene from the whole Pt 9. It starts iconically, the shoe-in-the-puddle, then the lone guy struggles with his synthesizer and that's just a mood-setter (don't like the tune itself at all but it does set the mood for me in a very good way). Then these two... who are they anyway?! They're god awful!! And this arm pit rash grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I just couldn't stand it. Physically found it impossible to endure like many people cringe when they hear the chalk on the blackboard. That was much worse, though!
Perhaps this is partly why the song struck me as really beautiful. I already said before that I don't really know why I liked the first one, too. It's not my kind of music at all. I should have been like this:
Hercousin wrote:Sharon Van Etten and Au Revoir Simone, though...might be the only feelings of intense dislike I've ever experienced watching anything Lynch. Generic, twee Brooklyn hipsters and an ersatz Patti Smith. Feel free to school me but that's everything about music I hate.
... but I just wasn't. And here I liked it even more.