See also his classic Split Enz song "I Got You."
Or Message To My Girl. Or anything else on Conflicting Emotions. But my favorite Split Enz song has to be Six Months In A Leaky Boat, which is the only song I know of to mention Aotearoa.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
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.
Gandalfe - Sep 09, 2005 8:32:22 pm PDT #307 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
dw - Sep 09, 2005 9:17:07 pm PDT #308 of 10003
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Not to be glib about the catastrophe, but Katrina is really helping Randy Newman's album sales. He has two in the Amazon Top 100 at this moment. Best Of is #68 as of this writing.
Gandalfe - Sep 09, 2005 9:19:07 pm PDT #309 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Wait. Why?
dw - Sep 09, 2005 9:34:36 pm PDT #310 of 10003
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"Louisiana 1927" is getting a lot of airplay. It was on the first hour of Morning Edition on Friday, then Newman opened the telethon with it tonight.
Gandalfe - Sep 10, 2005 4:56:54 am PDT #311 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Ah. See, I rarely watch TV, and NEVER listen to the radio. Except when the asshole who sits next to me listens to his crap-rock station loudly, drowning out my reasonably volumed Cure.
DavidS - Sep 10, 2005 8:20:03 am PDT #312 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They just played "Cherub Rock" by The Smashing Pumpkins on The Alternative. Considering that the only Smashing Pumpkins I own is their K-Tel cover of "Jackie Blue" I do have a fair number of their songs that I like to hear when they roll up. I like them in both their Big Rock Guitar mode, and their Ominous Pop Mode. Also, it sounded really good next to The Pixies "Dig for Fire/Alison."
tina f. - Sep 10, 2005 10:03:15 am PDT #313 of 10003
They just played "Cherub Rock" by The Smashing Pumpkins on The Alternative
I hate the Smashing Pumpkins with a big Billy-Corgan's-ego size hate but I not so much I can't admit to loving Gish and Siamese Dream - they are both really fantastic albums. (But they're it!)
Now playing: I never use my iPod's "genre" function but to clean my house today and start packing for Winfield I made a smart playlist of just bluegrass and country.
So far:
Sweet Dreams - Emmylou Harris
I Want to Sing that Rock-n-Roll - Gillian Welch
Wrecking Ball - Old Crow Medicine Show
One of these Trains - New Grass Revival
You're Looking at Country - Loretta Lynn
Watch Me Fall - Uncle Tupelo (this shouldn't be in there tech. but for some reason all my UT is listed as "country")
One Hundred Years from Now - Wilco (my iPod loves Jeff Tweedy)
Have a Feast Here Tonight - Doc Watson and Bill Monroe
Barely Human - Robbie Fulks
Right Back Where I Started - Mike Ireland and Holler
Used to Call Me Baby - Split Lip Rayfield
Whiskey River - Willie Nelson
Sister Cry - The Jayhawks (also listed as country...so it's an imperfect method for getting genre mixes - but still)
Has anyone in this thread mentioned that iPods rock lately?
ETA: Huh. Did something on the board change as far as line breaks? I don't why I am getting a line in between those song titles. I didn't do anything different....
Mr. Broom - Sep 10, 2005 11:55:30 am PDT #314 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
Used to Call Me Baby - Split Lip RayfieldI love you.
dw - Sep 10, 2005 11:57:44 am PDT #315 of 10003
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They just played "Cherub Rock" by The Smashing Pumpkins on The Alternative. Considering that the only Smashing Pumpkins I own is their K-Tel cover of "Jackie Blue" I do have a fair number of their songs that I like to hear when they roll up. I like them in both their Big Rock Guitar mode, and their Ominous Pop Mode.
I've never really known what to do with them. They're always lumped in with Nirvana and Soundgarden in "grunge," but they're as close to those to bands musically as well, Candlebox was. (Candlebox was very, very much loathed in Seattle.) They were very hit-and-miss musically, at least to me. Corgan's ego was always getting in the way. D'Arcy was cute, but there was that drug habit of hers.
Watch Me Fall - Uncle Tupelo (this shouldn't be in there tech. but for some reason all my UT is listed as "country")
Why not? They're "alt. country" after all. Their first album is the name of a magazine and a musical "movement."
Current listen: Year of Meteors by Laura Veirs. I'm undecided about it. Her songwriting is almost too grad school. But they're interesting songs.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2005 12:06:49 pm PDT #316 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Just saw Laura open for Sufjan Stevens. I like the songs and the arrangements, but the band was a bit rough around the edges -- like they hadn't played together for very long. Then I looked at the CD and realized that the same people on the CD are in her touring band. Still, recording a CD is very different from touring. I'll definitely check her out again if she comes back in a year or two.
Also, they reviewed her CD just this morning on NPR.