"3 Feet High and Rising"
Aaah. Should have had that one.
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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.
dw - Aug 31, 2005 2:26:18 pm PDT #29 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
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.
Kate P. - Aug 31, 2005 7:09:34 pm PDT #37 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
"Louisiana 1927"
Such a great song, and so achingly resonant now. These lines have been running through my head the past few days:
"The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away all right."
Amy - Aug 31, 2005 7:25:47 pm PDT #38 of 10003
Because books.
"After the Flood" - Lone Justice
Was that the band with ... Maria McKee as the lead singer, or am I on crack? I loved her voice. I'm remembering a song called ... "Shelter", I think, that I adored. I had the actual 45.
Sniffle. Ah, vinyl.