Nude As the News - Single
Cat Power
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Nude As the News | Cat Power | 4:23 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down | Cat Power | 2:50 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 2 Songs |
Album Review
One of the most intense moments on Chan Marshall's 1996 breakthrough LP, What Would the Community Think?, "Nude as the News" rides a starkly incoherent, strangely political bend, with Marshall singing matter-of-factly, "Jackson, Jesse, I've got a son in me/and he's related to you." The B-side, "Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down," is an acoustic collage of mental illness, combining elements of Sonic Youth's noise rock schism "Schizophrenia" and the psychedelia of Alexander "Skip" Spence's "Weighted Down (the Prison Song)."
Biography
Born: 21 January 1972 in Atlanta, GA
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s
Cat Power is the alias of Chan Marshall, a Southern-bred singer/songwriter whose father, Charlie, was an itinerant pianist. After dropping out of high school, Marshall found herself in New York; performing under the name Cat Power, she was booked as the opening act for Liz Phair, where she met Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and Two Dollar Guitar's Tim Foljahn, who agreed to become her backing band. Following the release of 1995's Dear Sir and 1996's Myra Lee — both recorded on the same day...
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- £1.58
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Indie Rock
- Released: 09 December 1996
- ℗ 1996 Matador Records
