You're too kind, Corwood.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
erikaj - Dec 02, 2005 3:17:50 pm PST #1397 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
DavidS - Dec 02, 2005 3:23:55 pm PST #1398 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh. The very cool Stephinsources website which traces Stephin Merritt's musical influences, finally gets down to Bubblegum, and our book even gets a nice mention.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2005 3:28:54 pm PST #1399 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From the same site:
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Chickfactor: Are you a participant in the goth scene of New York?
Merritt: So much so that I wrote the book on it.
I can imagine Merritt delivering that line with a sly smirk, but indeed, Merritt is a goth at heart. In a Chickfactor interview with Claudia Gonson, when asked if Merritt and she were new wavers together back when they were teens, Gonson responded, "Yeah, we were goths." Browse through Merritt's songbook and you'll find lots of over-the-top, depressing lyrics with plentiful references to suicide, vampires, and death. And, he has an entire band, the Gothic Archies, devoted to mixing gloom and doom with bubblegum pop. Their official site states: What makes this band different from The Magnetic Fields is that any glimmer of hope is absolutely extinguished.
IAmNotReallyASpring - Dec 02, 2005 3:33:15 pm PST #1400 of 10003
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Good luck, Hec and Corwood.
tina f. - Dec 02, 2005 5:58:30 pm PST #1401 of 10003
The Sadies once showered in my apartment!
Heh. The friend I went with used to DJ a show they played on at our college radio station (KJHK at the University of Kansas, the show was called Route 66) and they had crashed and showered at his apartment.
Dallas Good is the only member that's still the same.
If his brother was still in the band then, then there is one more that is still the same because they are both still members.
I am so tired of this 2005 mix that I am thinking about chucking the whole thing and starting over w/ a batch of new songs. It's just a mix, tina, CHILL.
But right now I'm listening to Michele's Mountain Goats mix AIFG.
tina f. - Dec 02, 2005 6:17:17 pm PST #1402 of 10003
I just did a quick buffistarawk check:
erin - I have no idea who that song is by either (but I guess we know it's not the squirrel nut zippers).
joe - aaahhhh! I love that moose bit. I've had bits and pieces of Woody's stand up on tape that I haven't listened to in years. I need to pick up that CD.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2005 7:22:46 pm PST #1403 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just sent "Nine Lives to Rigel Five" and "Regenisraen" by Game Theory to Buffistarawk.
Both well worth checking out. I've got Tinkers to Evers to Chance loaded on my iMac now, so if there's anything else from that OOP collection you're interested in, give me a holler.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2005 7:35:45 pm PST #1404 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
...and I just posted to Bufistarawk again.
1. "Ivory Tower" by The Long Ryders, jangle with a dark mood and a bit of that Petty/Dylan whine in the vocals. Very Byrdsy.
2. "And She Rides" by The Long Ryders, when they still had a bit of Velvets drone, and garage rock bash.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2005 7:39:17 pm PST #1405 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This one will show up in a couple minutes...
3. "Looking For Lewis and Clark" - The Long Ryders. Roots rock punk for American history majors. Probably their most famous song.
4. "Christmas in New Zealand" - The Long Ryders. Because there are people here who needs songs about Christmas in New Zealand.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2005 8:11:27 pm PST #1406 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Just sent some mashups to buffistarawk.
"No Fun/Push It" - Stooges /Salt N Peppa. This is everything I love about a mashup. So hard and sexy. Highly recommended. This will make you chair dance.
"Peter Gunn (live) / Where's Your Head At" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer / Basement Jaxx. I should've included the segue into Peaches "Fuck the Pain Away" Mislabeled in the email. Oops.
"Milkshake It Up" - Cars and Kelis.