That's as far as I've gotten. They're pretty obvious.
Ah, you missed two of the ones I referenced up thread: "After the Flood" - Lone Justice; "3 Feet High and Rising" - Johnny Cash (also sampled by De La Soul).
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
DavidS - Aug 31, 2005 2:19:26 pm PDT #27 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
dw - Aug 31, 2005 2:24:08 pm PDT #28 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Webb's best song, classic production and performance.
Maybe his best song, but I've always been partial to "Galveston." That song, to me, is what I think AM rock/pop radio sounds like. Only on an AM station could that bass line sound so ghostly.
And it's a war protest song that was #1 on the country charts at the high-water mark of the protest movement.
dw - Aug 31, 2005 2:26:18 pm PDT #29 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
"3 Feet High and Rising"
Aaah. Should have had that one.
NoiseDesign - Aug 31, 2005 2:29:09 pm PDT #30 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
The sound of a distant AM station coming in late at night and right on the edge of reception is just amazing. It is ghostly. I remember it so clearly. I even remember listening to station like this on the old tube radio my father listened to. I believe they still have that radio in San Diego, I need to get it from them.
It's amazing how far AM broadcasts will travel when the conditions are just right.
Scrappy - Aug 31, 2005 2:51:16 pm PDT #31 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
LOVE Witchita Lineman. Pretty and intimate and wistful as hell, all at the same time.
Sue - Aug 31, 2005 3:13:16 pm PDT #32 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Wichita Lineman is totally one of those songs that sounds best on AM radio. It also reminds me of a Joan Didion essay where she was having a nervous breakdown (as she often is in her early essays) and that song was deepening her sense of dread.
My TV list:
Twin Peaks
X-Files 1-5
Buffy 2-3 (maybe 4)
Angel 2-3
Sports Night
Twitch City
Michele T. - Aug 31, 2005 4:43:45 pm PDT #33 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I have both REM and Cassandra Wilson covers of "Wichita Lineman." Put me down in the "love" category.
Joe, that's one of my favorite episodes. I have it saved on my TiVo from a rerun last year since it's not on the DVDs that have come out yet. "It was just juvie!"
Jon B. - Aug 31, 2005 5:23:54 pm PDT #34 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I've got Homer singing "Wichita Lineman" as my answering machine message.
bon bon - Aug 31, 2005 5:28:16 pm PDT #35 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The Wichita Lineman question was related to a Newsradio music bit. But I am charmed that so many people gave their opinion.
ETA:
Matthew: OK, I bet you that the next song that
WRMH plays is a...really good song. Joe. I bet it sucks! Double or nothing. Radio: "I am a lineman for the county..." Matthew: Oh, yeah. [Sways and begins to sing] And I drive the main rooad... [continues dancing] [Joe gives him a look] [Matthew deflates] Matthew: All right. You win. It sucks.Switch to Dave's office.
Dave is wistful. Dave: I love that song.
Gandalfe - Aug 31, 2005 7:03:01 pm PDT #36 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I am working on a project. I need to get a list of songs about, or at least mentioning, New Orleans. (My friend has actually been working on compiling these for a while, but this week's events have brought it into focus.) Anything actually recorded in NOLA would be especially good, as I am going to be writing a tribute thing based on those.