Bobby Conn King For A Day Rar Download
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Thrill Jockey showman continues to display both an impressive wit and a ceaseless dedication to his musical craft.
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Around the time of his 1998 album Rise Up! Bobby Conn discussed his musical goals with the print zine Puncture. Paul McCartney's 'Live and Let Die' inspired him, especially how each section was it's own thing-- first it's a piano ballad, then there's a little reggae section in the bridge. He hoped that one day his own catalog might serve as a complete history of Western pop in miniature, with every possible subgenre covered in at least part of one track.
You have to take everything a trickster like Conn says to an interviewer with a grain of salt, of course, but three full-lengths, a live album, and some EPs later, he's certainly covered a tremendous amount of ground. Conn's albums tend to orbit around a single theme lyrically-- wealth and success on Golden Age, the politics of fear in The Homeland-- but musically they usually jump from glam rock sleaze to show music pomp to pseudo-confessional singer/songwriter tenderness to classic rock boogie to soulful r&b croon, often within a single song.
If Conn's bombastic turns and stylistic ping-ponging sounded daring and unusual in the late 1990s, when prog was lying dormant and Jim Steinman's name was still spoken through clenched teeth, it now seems perfectly normal. In this post-Fiery Furnaces age we expect our quirky and ambitious indie pop artists to play around with genre. So Conn's newest, King for a Day, is as restless as you'd expect, which makes it easier to enjoy as an album. Setting aside the element of surprise, we're left with a dozen widely varying songs about celebrity, ego, and the distorting effects of show business.
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While he approaches his subject with a typically smug edge befitting his over-the-top 'showman' persona, Conn also cuts that quality with impressive wit and a ceaseless dedication to musical craft. This is a very big sounding record, sharply arranged for Conn's band the Glass Gypsies and assorted guests. The eight-minute opener 'Vanitas' begins with a clear acoustic guitar pattern and vaguely Middle Eastern violin from Monica Boubou, but after some chanting the electric guitars kick in and all of a sudden everything is all rock'n'roll animal. The crunch continues as a phalanx of layered voices conjure images of King Arthur on Ice-levels of excess-- did I mention that the lyrics are in Latin? The first English we hear form Conn is the words 'I feel old-fashioned when we fuck in the dark' on 'When the Money's Gone', which follows the glorious opener without a pause. So we know he's still got a dirty mind and, with the song's bouncy melody and bumping little guitar riff, that he's still writing some catchy songs.
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Having spent his entire career thinking in concept album terms, Conn is by now a master of structure and pacing, as he weaves conventional songs that run the gamut with instrumentals (the marching and proggy 'A Glimpse of Paradise') and spoken-word goofs ('Punch the Sky', which seems to riff on Scientology). The falsetto-voiced 'Twenty One' alludes to Philly-soul's proto-disco, while 'Love Let Me Down' is jaunty, swinging baroque pop-- my wife walked in on the chorus and thought it might be Belle & Sebastian.
King for a Day ranks with Rise Up! as Conn's best. Still, as good as the record sounds and as capably as he immerses himself in assorted flavors pop, there remains an odd sense of distance to Conn on record. Between his persona, his themes, the piles of instruments, and the thick arrangements, Conn's music is deliberately structured without a discernible center. There's nothing easy to grab onto. Which, viewed another way, is a strength. There seems little chance that Conn's music will ossify; his perpetual reinvention and undeniable talent suggest that he'll continue to make compelling records as long as the format still interests him. But for all their charms, his records are made for either quick infatuation or distant admiration; King for a Day is classic Conn, because it's hard to fall in love with.
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Biography
Born
13 June 1967 (age 52)
Born In
New York, New York, United States
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Bobby Conn is a musician from Chicago, known for his pop-rock. He often collaborates with other Midwestern artists like musicians Colby Starck and Jim O'Rourke, and film-maker Usama Alshaibi. Conn has released five studio albums to date: Bobby Conn (1997), Rise Up! (1998), The Golden Age (2001), The Homeland (2004) and King For A Day (2007), along with a live album Live Classics (2005) and an E.P. called Llovessonngs (1999). He currently lives in Humboldt Park, Chicago with his wife (violinist Monica BouBou) and two children. He has also once turned his hand to producing, helming a 2003 session for UK punk band The Cribs, which would make up part of their debut release, after he first encountered them as a local support band on a UK tour sometime in 2002.
Biography
Conn's real name is Jeffrey Stafford. He was born in New York on June 13, 1967, but spent much of his young life in the Chicago suburb of St. Charles, Illinois. Jeff's original band in high school was a hardcore punk trio called 'The Broken Kockamamies' (The BK's, or BKS) noted for using 8 foot strobe lights on a darkened stage as their only prop. The strobes were affectionately called 'the pillars of fear.'
Conn was first noticed playing guitar in the Chicago prog rock trio Conducent in 1989; by 1994 the group called it quits and Conn went solo. His first lineup consisted of ex-Conducent member DJ Le Deuce on turntables, as well as his future wife Monica Bou Bou on electric violin.
Bobby Conn and the press
Bobby Conn is known for his elaborate (and untrue) press releases, and for lying in press interviews. Over the years he has claimed to be the Antichrist, to have cut off his ring finger, to have served time in a federal facility in Maryland, and to have invented 'The Continuous Cash Flow System' in order to bring down America by creating a huge national debt.
A typical Bobby Conn press release reads like this:
“ 'He developed the 'Continuous Ca$h Flow System' while incarcerated in a federal facility in Maryland, serving out a sentence for mail fraud. In his solitude he was struck by two things: firstly, that his illegal difficulties were due to his focus on earning rather than spending as much money as possible, and more importantly, that he was likely to be the Anti-Christ. Bobby now knew that time was short, the coming Armageddon would destroy humanity at century's end, so he had to reach people quickly. A natural performer and gifted musician in the popular tradition, he structured his 'Continuous Ca$h Flow System'Bobby knows that creating a financial vacuum inside oneself is the best way to fill a spiritual void, and he demonstrates this regularly by distributing thousands of dollars in the form of $20 bills to every audience member. But with his gift comes a desire. A desire to spend. And spend. And spend yet more, creating a glorious Debt that promises, if not salvation, a thrilling high-paced life-style. And when the collective Debt of our generation grows large enough, the entire Pig System of Oppression will be snuffed out like a candle in a hurricane.'
In more recent years Conn has been more candid in interviews, and has admitted that all of these early fabrications for the press were merely a charade. When asked in an interview why he lied to the press so much Conn answered 'I always thought it was part of the creative process. Creativity is lying. My own story doesn’t seem very interesting to me…You don’t want to be who you are onstage everyday. What’s the point in that? ' Conn also said in another interview that the source of his onstage persona was 'egomaniacal delusions that I've had since I was a kid - I tried to hyperbolize them to see how far it would go. To me when I came up with the whole idea of trying to promote myself as a potential Antichrist I figured that no-one is going to take this seriously or even acknowledge it because it's about the dumbest thing you could say.'
Protest
While Conn would usually be considered more avant garde than a protest singer, he said of his art that 'All the records that I've done are a critique of what's going on in contemporary America' , and he is an outspoken critic of the Bush administration. However, Conn has admitted that while he actively protests what he sees as the evils of American society, he is not always at ease with such a label for himself. 'I’ve always done lots of social commentary that I believe in pretty strongly but I am very uncomfortable with the role of the artist as a meaningful social critic…my whole generation a confused group of people with an ambivalent way of dealing with protest.' . Discussing his most recent album 'King For a Day', Conn said 'it's political, but just in a contemporary culture kind of way Two of the songs are about Tom Cruise, and I don't know if there's a more political statement than Tom Cruise. He kind of symbolizes a lot of what's going on in this country right now and how people are responding to it.'
Bobb Conn on being a 'protest singer':
“ It’s great when Curtis Mayfield does it, but when Mick Jagger writes about being a street-fighting man, it just kind of makes you sick. Or the Beatles singing about revolution. They’re entertainers—it’s a pose, it’s bullshit. I’m more of a vaudevillian than I am a political commentator. I don’t think people should turn to music for their serious information. People should read the newspaper.
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