CD Picks

Hall of Fame

  • Bands I've Seen Four Times or More:
    • Arcade Fire
    • Nicole Atkins & The Sea
    • Beck
    • Bloc Party
    • Blur
    • The Brunettes
    • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    • Death Cab for Cutie
    • The Decemberists
    • Doves
    • The Duke Spirit
    • Editors
    • Feist
    • Franz Ferdinand
    • French Kicks
    • Gorillaz
    • Grand National
    • The Grates
    • Immaculate Machine
    • Langhorne Slim
    • Les Sans Culottes
    • Love Is All
    • Kaiser Chiefs
    • Mates of State
    • Kate Nash
    • The New Pornographers
    • Northern State
    • The Parlor Mob
    • Phoenix
    • The Pipettes
    • The Puppini Sisters
    • Radiohead
    • The Rakes
    • Ra Ra Riot
    • The Roots
    • Salt & Samovar
    • Secret Machines
    • The Shins
    • Sons & Daughters
    • Bruce Springsteen
    • Supergrass
    • They Might Be Giants
    • Tilly & The Wall
    • The Tings Tings
    • Vampire Weekend
    • Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    • Yo La Tengo

Guitar Pick Recipients

  • Recipients of the MusicSnobbery.com Guitar Pick
    • Damon Albarn
    • Nicole Atkins
    • Win Butler of Arcade Fire
    • Laura Cantrell
    • Inara George of The Bird & The Bee
    • Dave Hollinghurst of Nicole Atkins & The Sea
    • Ivan Howard of The Rosebuds
    • Dev Hynes of Lightspeed Champion
    • Sam Isaac
    • JayMay
    • Jay Jay Pistolet
    • Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand
    • Langhorne Slim
    • Sondre Lerche
    • Emanuel Lundgren of I'm From Barcelona
    • Moby
    • David Moltz of Salt & Samovar
    • Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn & John
    • Keith Murray of We Are Scientists
    • Kate Nash
    • Carl Newman of The New Pornographers
    • Jack Peñate
    • Juanita Stein of Howling Bells
    • Anna Ternheim
    • Katie White of The Ting Tings
    • Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn & John

The Music

    • Air
    • Arcade Fire
    • Arctic Monkeys
    • Ash
    • Athlete
    • Nicole Atkins & The Sea
    • Avalanches
    • Basement Jaxx
    • Beastie Boys
    • Beck
    • Belle & Sebastian
    • Bentley Rhythm Ace
    • Beta Band
    • Bloc Party
    • Blur
    • BR5-49
    • Broken Social Scene
    • The Brunettes
    • Neko Case
    • The Charlatans
    • Chemical Brothers
    • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    • Cornershop
    • Graham Coxon
    • Daft Punk
    • Danger Mouse
    • Death Cab for Cutie
    • The Decemberists
    • De La Soul
    • The Delgados
    • Dizzee Rascal
    • Doves
    • Editors
    • Elastica
    • Faithless
    • Fatboy Slim
    • Feist
    • Flaming Lips
    • Franz Ferdinand
    • Gorillaz
    • Gotan Project
    • The Go! Team
    • Grand National
    • Groove Armada
    • The Guillemots
    • Hard-Fi
    • PJ Harvey
    • Interpol
    • Chris Isaak
    • Ivy
    • Jesus & Mary Chain
    • Joy Zipper
    • Kaiser Chiefs
    • Kings of Convenience
    • Kraftwerk
    • Leftfield
    • The Libertines/Dirty Pretty Things
    • Luna
    • Luscious Jackson
    • Madness
    • Magnetic Fields
    • Manic Street Preachers
    • Man or Astroman?
    • Massive Attack
    • Mates of State
    • M83
    • M.I.A.
    • Moby
    • Morcheeba
    • Van Morrison
    • Morning After Girls
    • My Bloody Valentine
    • My Morning Jacket
    • New Order/Joy Division
    • The New Pornographers
    • Oasis
    • Of Montreal
    • Oingo Boingo
    • Olds 97
    • Beth Orton
    • Pavement/Stephen Malkmus
    • Phoenix
    • Pixies
    • Portishead
    • Postal Service
    • Primal Scream
    • Prince
    • Prodigy
    • Public Enemy
    • Pulp
    • Radiohead
    • The Rakes
    • The Raveonettes
    • Razorlight
    • R.E.M.
    • Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis
    • The Roots
    • Royksopp
    • Saint Etienne
    • Secret Machines
    • DJ Shadow
    • The Shins
    • Sleater-Kinney
    • Sons & Daughters
    • South
    • Southern Culture of the Skids
    • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
    • Spiritualized
    • Bruce Springsteen
    • The Smiths/Morrissey
    • Stars
    • Starsailor
    • Stereolab
    • St. Germain
    • Stone Roses
    • The Streets
    • The Strokes
    • The Sundays
    • Super Furry Animals
    • Supergrass
    • They Might Be Giants
    • Tosca
    • Travis
    • A Tribe Called Quest
    • Underworld
    • U.N.K.L.E.
    • U2
    • The Verve/Richard Ashcroft
    • We Are Scientists
    • The White Stripes
    • Wilco
    • Lucinda Williams
    • XTC
    • Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    • Zero 7
    • All the classics that a person like me should have in his collection

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November 26, 2007

Chantal Claret, Age 9 on The Oprah Winfrey Show

This is why Little Baby Jesus invented YouTube, so we can post precious video like this. As you know, Chantal Claret is the lead singer of Morningwood. As it turns out, she was the focus of this report done by Dame Oprah Winfrey, that profiled the state of the nine-year old child. "We've seen nine-years olds struggling with violence, abuse, divorce, foster homes, homeless, unraveling Fruit Roll-ups."

This clip works on so many levels. Even if I didn't know Chantal, there's plenty to soak in. One, the music that plays through the whole piece -- so melodramatic. The series of cuts about what she likes, "I've read books on Egypt ... My favorite opera is Die Fledermaus ... I've been to France and Dallas ... I like blood" mixed with that cornball music had my laughing hard. DOOOOOO DOOOOOOO DOOOOOOOO. HA! Oprah comes off as so pretentious in this clip. America, Oprah cares about Chantal.

Now fast forward to today. Here's Chantal as we know her. I'd like to see this on Oprah.

Comments

Just another neurotic rich kid.

MW = Wannabe 70's/80's Throwback ala Nu-Irony Kitschy Poo....*shrugs shoulders*...Blah!

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