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oh wow I didn't even realize Jarvis Cocker (and Chilly Gonzales and Feist) covered David Berman's greatest late song. it should become a standard.
songs build little rooms in time
it oddly seems to leave out the brilliant last verse which has the most inviting line in indie rock since Berman's own "Introduction II": "You're the old friend I just took in."
David Berman apparently created a Tidal playlist last year and the last track on it was "I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies" by JPEGMAFIA
there's this wonderful Bettye LaVette song on Berman's playlist and I went to see who wrote it thinking it was from like the Drive-By Truckers album or something and nope it's Taupin/John 1970 lol
(my parents didn't play Elton John records and he remains a very large hole in my otherwise fairly extensive 70s music knowledge)
"what I would gladly do, I think, is give it all up for a few words that mean something and that don't have language that looks like what you're used to seeing in the realms of poetry. It looks like language you might just see in your lawnmower directions" https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/7519-silver-jews/
I love the very brief bit here where @dronecoma quotes Big Star's "Jesus Christ" and I also love that he can't decide which register to sing it in
