Regina Spektor

[Smartly Pretty 0]

I find a like her more and more as I listen. At first I just heard Fidelity and it was kind of like a guilty pleasure, but then my brother bought the cd and we listened to it, and I think I like the whole cd. Also, that song she did with The Strokes was totally awesome.

[Guest Eagle Man]

Begin to Hope is weak. Go for 11.11 and Songs. The new stuff is too produced. I prefer her minimalist stuff.

[Mik 0]

This thread breaks my ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-heaaaart.

[Guest Eagle Man]

[snuffbox 0]

She's no Fall Out Boy.

[Mik 0]

A) I realize that was a lame joke...that was the point

 

B) I like Regina Spektor.

[snuffbox 0]

Well that's no fun.

[Guest Eagle Man]

I like Regina Spektor quite a bit, disappointed as I may be with her most recent offering, which has too many drum machines, guitars, sequencers, and other ancillary toys for my liking. This is probably what a lot of people are most familiar with, unfortunately, rather than the stark and imaginative anti-folk piano self-accompaniment on her other albums. She does get too cute and eccentric for her own good, though: "Reading Time With Pickle" is about going grocery shopping and reading labels on jars or something. When there is accompaniment from other people on 11.11, it's usually an acoustic bass, which gives it a neat jazzy feel. Songs is generally more of the same, Soviet Kitsch is a tad bit more fleshed out, but never overkill like Begin to Hope. If she had to have a breakout single that was more than just her weird voice and piano, I wish it could've been "Us" from SK, which has a neat string arrangement (heavy on the cello!) backing it up. (Best song on the album, however, is "Chemo Limo," about a mom with cancer and quirky kids.) In closing, the new album is not representative of her body of work at all. And speaking of body, she's not too bad-looking, if you're into eccentric Russian Jews.

 

Did this feel like a vivalaultra post to anyone else? All I was missing was an ellipsis or two (or nine), and even more breathlessness and hype.

[snuffbox 0]

Anyone here seen Regina Spektor live? Should I be looking forward to her show at Bonnaroo?

[vivalaultra 0]

Did this feel like a vivalaultra post to anyone else? All I was missing was an ellipsis or two (or nine), and even more breathlessness and hype.

 

 

Yeah, buddy...you wish...you could pull it off...and make it look...as effortless...as I...do. I like Regina Spektor when's she not being too overly-weird, which comes across as gimmicky a bit. I like her new album more than her last three. I find the new affectations fit her quirkiness. Also, they help to draw attention away from the moments when she's too quirky, which helps. She's kinda like a Russian Norah Jones with more innate weirdness.

[Mik 0]

I might as well add something productive to this thread. I really enjoy "Summer in the City". Just a nice little song.

 

I get a Nelly Furtado vibe when I listen to this. Not in the music itself, but in the pop star who doesn't fit the mold and does her own brand of music. I just hope that in three years she isn't pumping out club bangers with Timbaland like Nelly ended up doing.

[Youth N Asia 0]

She has a very nice sound, although I am hearing Fedelity far too much right now.

[Guest Vitamin X]

My store just got in a bajillion copies of Begin To Hope. Since we market to the area, and Portland is as indie/hipster as you can possibly get, that shows around what kind of crowd she falls into. I'm not too fond of that album in particular, as I agree with Czech on liking her minimalist weird shit better, however, I do dig Soviet Kitsch. Especially the album cover. VX's type of women (fair skin, dark hair, light eyes) + commie gear = hawt.