LOVE Witchita Lineman. Pretty and intimate and wistful as hell, all at the same time.
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
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.
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.
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.
dw - Aug 31, 2005 7:37:52 pm PDT #39 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Was that the band with ... Maria McKee as the lead singer, or am I on crack?
Absolutely.
I had the actual 45.
Explaining records (LPs or 45s or even 78s) to kids nowadays is virtually impossible. I was thinking about this with the articles this week about the group who released their new album on DVD only -- no CD. I remember what a big deal it was in 1988 when Cheap Trick released an album on CD and tape only -- no vinyl.
I need to dig out my vinyl next time I'm home. Then, I need to find a record player as well....
dw - Aug 31, 2005 7:41:05 pm PDT #40 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Who was going on about the new New Pornographers album, BTW?
To anyone whose heard it, does "Sing Me Spanish Techno" sound like the Partridge Family to them?