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.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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 - 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.
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
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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
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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?
Amy - Aug 31, 2005 7:57:08 pm PDT #41 of 10003
Because books.
Our turntable is packed away. It just got to be too much to have all the albums out, and the CDs, blah blah. And Stephen was always standing over me when I used it anyway, because he kept saying there was nowhere to get a new needle anymore.
But now I totally have to get a Lone Justice CD, if I can. Damn it.
dw - Aug 31, 2005 8:01:25 pm PDT #42 of 10003
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But now I totally have to get a Lone Justice CD, if I can. Damn it.
Many, many sub-$5 copies of Shelter at Half.com. [link]
dw - Aug 31, 2005 8:02:52 pm PDT #43 of 10003
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And Stephen was always standing over me when I used it anyway, because he kept saying there was nowhere to get a new needle anymore.
And on this, there's a phonograph needle store in the Roosevelt District. I walk by it about once a week.
Amy - Aug 31, 2005 8:05:23 pm PDT #44 of 10003
Because books.
Thank you, sir!
And a whole store. Wow. Diehards...die hard, I guess.
erinaceous - Aug 31, 2005 9:07:07 pm PDT #45 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Mischa -- I love "Disconnect the Dots" by Of Montreal but their other stuff has been a little too gimmicky for me.