When i see you again song 70s sing tracy haung
But it’s gonna come out for record store day-a single ten-inch thing: two songs-which will be songs that will appear on this album we’ve been flirting with putting out for the last bunch of years. Jesse Malin: The D Generation record is the first release in I can’t tell you how long: many, many moons. The Rumpus: Is it possible you have a solo album and a D Generation record coming out in the same year? Malin is a lifer, like Iggy Pop, or David Johansen, and he knows what he wants, and with New York Before the War, he has mined the traditions of the lifers for a great album, which is how the lifers get to keep doing it for life. Reflection doesn’t, and shouldn’t, get in the way of a good show. That said, there’s more sorrow here, and introspection, and middle age, between the lines, than you would expect from going back, for example, to listen to a D Generation album. Malin is incredibly entertaining, and worldly, auto-didactic, and he looks ten years younger than he is, despite the implications of hard living. This interview, which took place in Café Mogodor, in Malin’s East Village, just a couple days after the gas main explosion on Second Avenue, came in a rush of language-one liners, historical outrage, scandalous storytelling (some of it with the recording device off). (And that’s what kindled my interest: adulthood.) New York Before the War, that is, is an album of songs by an adult, by a guy who was once a noteworthy brat. The lyrics are considerably more reflective, more tender no matter what he says, the melodies are more melodic, and the ballads play a starring role, rather than being a mere respite among rock and roll numbers. It completes a transition: Malin, confident veteran, elegiac singer-songwriter.
Malin’s new solo album, New York Before the War (One Little Indian) , reflects an artist entirely distinct from the loudmouth with the dyed mop of the 1990s. If he has never entirely been a household name, he’s been around long enough, making reliable and tuneful solo albums, to know everyone indie or alt or whatever the current term is, as well as a few titans besides (he recorded a duet with Springsteen once). Mark’s Place and Tompkins Square Park, which spawned a great many other punks and garage-rock specialists in the three decades since Malin took the E train in from Jackson Heights. His influences are obvious he isn’t shy about them-the Dolls, the Stones, the Replacements, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen-and his milieu is unmistakable, too: an expanse of blocks that includes St. He started playing music as a teenager in Queens, in the beloved and infamous D Generation, migrated to lower Manhattan, and, but for relentless touring, he has never really left.
Jesse Malin is a lifer in a business that rarely features lifers anymore.