Songs of the week edition.
Shuffle em. First two songs up are your Songs Of The Week. Put on your fortune teller hat and tell us what the pairing of these songs portends for your next seven days.
Hector - Satisfied
photo by Carla Hernandez
One of my own. Well, the chords are mine, anyway; the words are Don's. Despite the title, it's a song about dissatisfaction, or, per the Replacements' song Don mixed in at the front, being un-satisfied.
You are never satisfied
Fists too small
And eyes too wide
This is perfect. So far - nothing about the first two hours of this week so far have been satisfactory. I have no doubt things can keep sucking for another seven days.
Emerson String Quartet - Beethoven String Quartet #16 in F, Op 135
As if to poke me in the eye, my iPod gives me something I am utterly unfamiliar with and which has no words. What else can this mean except that I am to be continuously baffled by incomprehensible circumstances? Unsatisfactory!
What you got?
I’m liking the Hector song.
Interesting concept here. First up:
XTC – Season Cycle
Looking like the seasons are changing, which is true. All the leaves are changed at this point and on the verge of falling off already. Sadly, darkness is creeping in, with sunrise not until after 7:30 and setting by six. But…it is going to be a jaunty happy week judging by this song.
What next though….
Dashboard Confessional – Rapid Hope Loss
Oh no! I guess the season change is grimmer than we thought. This song does not bode well at all. Today was a busy as hell mess so I am guessing I can look forward to more of the same. Drat.
Hm. Well first up we have Gandalf Murphy’s cover of “Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat”. This song always strikes me as a pretty intensely bitter accusation of vanity and irrelevance. The cover is pretty straight (and rocks hard). So I guess the message here is that I should not hold my head up too high walking around this week. Keep an eye out behind me. Shun uppers in favor of tranquilizers.
Balancing that out is “Beautiful Queen”, the Mossy Liquor version. A much more comfortable and optimistic song. Not sure how to get these two together in a coherent message, they’re about diametrically opposite. Reckon my world this week will be somewhere in between hell and heaven.
The Beatles – Slow Down
The Police – The Other Way Of Stopping
Based on titles alone, looks like things may be slowing to a halt.