In a tangentially related topic, the more I hear the soul song "Money", the weirder it is that the first place I heard the opening bars was in a car commercial. Whoever pitched it didn't know that song at all because "mean, mean green" and women "selling their precious bodies" oughtn't to sell...Sportscars?
Probably the same person who sold Royal Carribean on "Lust For Life."
Next up, a commerical with a high-testosterone high-heterosexual muscle car to the tune of the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love."
Great-grandmother in the row in front of us looks up at me and says, "Muppets?" I nod. She's overjoyed, being that she doesn't know 99% of the stuff the play at Safeco.
The correct question actually is, "Swedish Porn film?" because that's where it came from originally.
It was some rap-dance song from 1995 I'd never heard before in my life by some one-named artist. I can excuse myself if it's some rap-dance song from 2002, but 1995 I should know.
You should have had Jesse there. She can sing along to every R&B hit of the last 30 years.
Probably the same person who sold Royal Carribean on "Lust For Life."
"Here comes Johnny Yin again / with his liquor and drugs / and his shuffleboard..."
Speaking of Cake, this was forwarded to me:
Greetings CAKE Listener,
Over the years we at CAKE have received in the mail some very interesting recordings of our songs, performed by musicians from myriad corners of the globe, walks of life, and aesthetic orientations. Because some of these renditions were unrelentingly strange and/or excellent, we have decided to put together a CD collection of our favorites. We currently still have room in this collection for a few more songs, so if you or someone you know does an interesting CAKE cover, by all means send us a copy of it ASAP. If it is strange and/or excellent enough it may end up on the album. Send all nonreturnable CD recordings to: Esther Creative Group, 59 West 19th Street, Suite 4B, New York, NY 10011.
So they are releasing their own tribute CD. huh.
I know a lot of them, but my favorites are called old-school now. Me and Derek Strange.
Except for the Western soundtracks. Don't think I'll ever get that.
Ramones - "Indian Giver"
Please tell me this isn't a cover of the 1910 Fruitgum Co. song. Because I can't wrap my mind around that concept.
Please tell me this isn't a cover of the 1910 Fruitgum Co. song. Because I can't wrap my mind around that concept.
C'mon, Fred! The Ramones are huge bubblegum fans. Though I always thought "Quick Joey Small" was the perfect Ramones bubblegum cover.
The Talking Heads used to cover "1, 2, 3 Red Light."
You didn't read the bubblegum book, Fred? You've just outed yourself.
Oh, in relatively huge genre-busting news, "Deadwood" is on my watch list now. I thought you'd wanna know that.
It's a goddamn burst of brilliance. I voted for Ian McShane as Swearingen over McNulty on that Salon TV poll. What can I say? McNulty's a great character, but his greatness is contingent on his ease of being passed over in favor of the Best Supporting Cast On TV. McShane as Swearingen is a force of nature, impossible to ignore, as compelling a fictional character as MacBeth with as amazing a synthesis of actor and character as Welles playing Hank Quinlan.
More iPoddy goodness:
- Kathy McCarty - "Rocket Ship"
- Our Unfinished Project - "Lovebirds" (n.b. this is actually a song from an unfinished album I started last year)
- Yo La Tengo - "You Tore Me Down"
- Yo La Tengo - "Here Comes My Baby" (one of my wife's all-time favorite songs, next to The Sonics' "Psycho")
- Shangri-Las - "Sophisticated Boom-Boom"
- Roky Erickson - "You Don't Love Me Yet"
- Big Mama Thorton - "Hound Dog"
- King Crimson - "The Court of the Crimson King"
- The Cramps - "TV Set"
- Spoon - "I Turn My Camera On"
- The Observers - "Dubbing with the Observer"
Yo La Tengo - "Here Comes My Baby" (one of my wife's all-time favorite songs, next to The Sonics' "Psycho")
There was an article on the Sonics in one of the Seattle papers about a month ago. Or maybe not; I can't find them anywhere in the papers' online archives. But it talked about what happened to the band. All of them ended up walking away from music, IIRC.
