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MP3 Timi Conley - Nerd Sexy
15 MP3 Songs in this album (34:40) !
Related styles: Rock: Funk Rock, Pop: Bubblegum Pop, Mood: Fun
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Get ready for a fantastic journey into time, music, syrup and fantasy. There’s a healthy helping of love and heartache in there too. And a big dose of genius and mad man. Whether you love the songs or not if you listen to them enough you’ll start to crave them.
Timi has fronted many bands in the last 20 years: Aqualove, the Fuzzy Sprouts, Trubblegum, Abbey Road Live, Ziggy Stardust - the Bowie Tribute, Magictones and Kite To The Moon and now he''s ready to share his solo mind.
Asked of the influences that inspire Nerd Sexy, Conley spouts, "Well... the ''5 Bs''- that''s Beatles, Bowie, Beck, Bjork and Beastie Boys, then of course Ween, Outkast, Jonathan Richman, John Lee Hooker, Prince, Human League, Neil Diamond, Eminem, Zepplin, Velvet Underground, B-52s, Flaming Lips.... maybe Esquivel? Sinatra... the list goes on... Guns n Roses, Weezer, Cibo Matto, Iggy Pop, Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, Michael Jackson, Laurie Anderson, M.I.A....you might hear bits of any of those through Nerd Sexy."
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Dressed for the occasion, The many musical faces – and outfits – of Timi Conley
By: Alec Wooden
Halloween’s better than half a year away, but Timi Conley is ready. To be fair, he’s always ready to jump at an opportunity to dress up.
“I’ve always loved dressing up, ever since I was a kid,” laughs the man whose live shows are known for wild costumes as the basis of his stage presence, fittingly wearing a pair of self-proclaimed “nerd glasses” he brought along for the occasion of his conversation with Blur. “I’ve got a deep closet worth of stuff, man.”
He’s also got a deep mind of musical ideas that, when-coupled with an exhaustive work habit, makes it difficult to miss Conley in his various incarnations – solo, with Kite To The Moon, Abbey Road Live or his David Bowie tribute.
“I’m not a put-on,” he says of his many musical faces. “When I get on stage, that’s me. I’m freaking out, but that’s because I’m a freak. With Abbey Road, for example, I’m not really trying to be John Lennon, I just get up there and do my best to represent the music and have a good time with it and play it well.” And regardless of the project, the bottom line is simple.
“Do it loud. Do it big. Make it fun,” he says. “I’m kind of a sucker for stimulation of all kinds, and I just happen to really, really have a sweet spot for sound. I just love sound vibrations. And when it all comes together, I’m just really in heaven. And being able to produce those, it’s amazing. I think that’s maybe one of my gifts, I guess, is that I can really get into it. And at this point, I’ve done it long enough that I’m really comfortable on stage and don’t have any anxieties. So what comes across is just that pure bliss.”
Conley didn’t always intend to “do it big” with music – admittedly, his first love as an art student in Massachusetts was visual arts. It was during his senior year of that degree, much at the urging of his friends, he began to explore a budding music bug in response to a growing disillusionment with the art around him.
“I’m a really outgoing person and I got frustrated with the art scene,” he says now. “Up there, at the time, everyone was just sort of introverted and their stuff was really hyper-personal. I was having a tough time negotiating my way through it. Then I found out that musicians are a lot more my style of people to hang out with.”
The rest is a history that’s played out in front of Athens crowds for almost two decades – and one that, while it’s featured Conley as an integral piece in many groups, hasn’t seen as much solo material as one may anticipate from a constantly stimulated musical mind. That’s set to change with Conley’s solo debut, Nerd Sexy, from locally-run Row Your Boat Records.
“Part of [the motivation] was Daniel (Peiken, of Row Your Boat) saying ‘I want a Timi record,’” says Conley. “And he’s not the only one who’s told me that. So I finally got the picture. I had maybe eight songs sort of finely tuned to what I wanted to hear out of them, because I was sort of [writing] for myself. There was a wall between what I was doing and what I thought would be appropriate for presenting to people and integrating into a band format. A light just went on in my head and said ‘this is viable.’”
The “writing it for himself” aspect is the underlying key to a record that possesses almost as many personalities as its creator.
“Nerd Sexy is the result of a fevered, multi-dimensional, attention-deficit, quizzical, multi-personality mind. And that is me,” he says with no hint of a joke. “It’s a highly textured album that has every mood you can imagine, just about. But it’s real playful and totally unfiltered. I thought later about maybe tweaking a few things so it would be more family friendly (laughs), but I decided to leave it as is so people would really see what I did. For better or worse, that would be the honest thing.”
So with record in hand, Conley must feel some relaxation, right?
“I’m so fucking tired right now,” he says with a laugh. “I mean, I haven’t had a vacation in like two years. But I can’t stop. I just want to do more.”
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