1. Shuffle-up five songs.
2. List em
3. Describe em
4. ???
5. Profit!
- The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night. Yeah, it's a little silly. But it's very catchy and definitely sets a mood. Been trying to listen to new-er Cure lately, and it just hurts my soul. And not in a dark and black Goth way, either.
- The Who - Substitute (live). I like the song well enough, but after 45 seconds of listening to Pete talk to the crowd about all The Who's hit records, I skipped this. What a dumb intro.
- Portishead - All Mine. What a great album. Great band. For some reason, Portishead reminds me of a certain parking lot in Rochester, NY. Nothing big happened there; but I think it's when I decided I liked Portishead.
- Sonic Youth - Rain On Tin. A decent new-ish SY song - one of my favorite post-Goo songs, actually. Eight minutes, mostly instrumental, which sounds like it could be a bit much. But it's got a nice jammy, organic feel, lots of different sections, and there's some nice Television-ish interlocking guitar bits near the end. Very nice.
- Horse Flies - Rub Alcohol Blues. The Horse Flies are/were(?) a uniquely semi-psychedelic, semi-electric, folk/bluegrass band from upstate NY. My little circle of semi-hippie friends loved this album. I don't know if I'd be into the whole album, these days, but this one song still felt right.
This week I have been married 9 years. Will iTunes serve me up some sweet love?
1. The Power Station – Some Like It Hot
Mmmm. Though the title of this track my titillate the reality is that this is a very turgid and dated-sounding rocker from an otherwise forgotten-about 80s ‘supergroup’. The drum intro belongs in a digital museum. Still it was a big deal at the time IIRC. I’m not feeling the love yet!
2. Fatboy Slim – I See You Baby (Groove Armada)
“I see you baby, shaking that ass!”. Well, it’s pretty sexy and it was used in a car commercial a few years back which involved lots of shapely bottoms being jiggled. iTunes just sexed me up good and proper.
3. Doves – N.Y.
Hardly sexy but another good reason for loving Doves. And I whisked my wife to New York City for a long weekend once and yay! it! rocked! The intro this song is blinding. Listen!!!
4. David Bowie – Moonage Daydream
The lyrics to this song are so 1971! The year I was born! Which is … ummm … lovely!
“Keep your electric eye on me babe,
Put your ray-gun to my head,
Press your space-face close to mine love,
Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeh!”
And I have been playing (badly) this song of late and I just love it. It has it all – quirky lyrics, stonking great Les Paul action and tinkly piano chords. Man, Bowie knew how to rock in the 70s.
5. The Dandy Warhols – Get Off
A song about getting your rocks off. Probably. It’s the Dandy’s and they were all about sex and drugs. This song got me into the Dandy’s and I love the album it’s from (‘Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia’) but they never matched this in my opinion and quickly fell off the music radar. Great song to strum on an acoustic (quickly … I’m sure they record coked off their nuts.) Love the ‘hoo hahs!’ and ‘hot diggety dawgs’ in the background BTW (and Zia is quite the rock chick.) From Portland, OR I think – a city I have found myself in twice in the last 18 months.
Here’s to 9 more years! *chink*
*chink!*
i was out on a date, in college, at a somewhat nice Chinese restaurant. it was early in the evening, and we were the only people there. we touched our water glasses in a little pre-dinner ‘cheers’ and she said, far too loudly, “CHINK!”
luckily, the wait staff ignored us.
“Want to get away?”
1. J.S. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto #3, I. Allegro (Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
None of these six concertos are obscure, but this is probably the one I hear least often. Scored for strings and harpsichord, it’s very stately and doesn’t demand your attention the way some of the others do. Always a pleasure. (Harnoncourt takes this more slowly than the version I linked, but I like the sound quality on that video.)
2. John Williams – The Well of the Souls
Williams mimics Stravinsky. Have I mentioned that my shuffle drive has a whole bunch of soundtracks on it? This is, obviously, the scene where Indy goes down among the writhing mass of snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
3. The Zombies – Maybe After He’s Gone
From the masterpiece Odessey & Oracle. Rich, yet not over-produced. The changing textures, the background vocal harmonies, the interplay of guitar and piano — why on earth do people call the Zombies a garage band?
4. Tom Waits – Lullaby
From 2002’s Blood Money. Sometime, Waits manages to wrest incredible beauty out of that mangled larynx. The lyrics are devastating: “Sun is red, moon is cracked / Daddy’s never coming back.”
5. Neon Genesis Evangelion – Harbinger of Tragedy
Not really sure what this is. I guess it’s from a video game. I won’t cheat by skipping it, but I’m going to give myself a bonus track.
6. Police – Rehumanize Yourself
From Ghost in the Machine, though it has the hyper ska-influenced feel of their first two albums.