"Plasticine" - Placebo
"How Soon is Now" - The Smiths
... and oddly "I'm Not Okay" by My Chemical Romance, because I canNOT get it out of my head. I've tried. I may have to break down and buy it off of iTunes.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
Atropa - Sep 14, 2005 10:33:12 am PDT #447 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
DavidS - Sep 14, 2005 10:37:00 am PDT #448 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What album or albums stick out for a specific time period for you?
Darkness On the Edge of Town - senior year of high school.
Layla - first heartbreak, also senior year of high school.
Gap Band's Greatest Hits - dancing at college.
Murmur - first summer out of college.
Zen Arcade - living in Boston.
Crowded House Greatest Hits - painting Emmett's room just before he was born.
Jonathan Richman's Rockin' & Romance - when my relationship with my first SF girlfriend ended.
There are also specific mix tapes I listened to incessantly when my marriage ended. Lots of Townes Van Zandt and Richard Thompson and Lucinda Williams and Alison Krause and Mary Black and Iris Dement.
Fred Pete - Sep 14, 2005 10:46:17 am PDT #449 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
A song and a moment? "All Over the World" by ELO, going off to college.
Perfect pop song? I know I'm gonna get grief for this, but "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck.
Hayden - Sep 14, 2005 10:51:36 am PDT #450 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I listened to the Pixies' Doolittle obsessively during my junior year of high school.
JohnSweden - Sep 14, 2005 10:52:36 am PDT #451 of 10003
I can't even.
Does Sultans of Swing count as pop? I bliss out whenever I hear that guitar.
Time and Place -- Diary of Horace Wimp, Supertramp. It went to something like #3 in the UK when I was visiting there in 79. Other songs from that visit that are stamped on my brain are I Don't Like Mondays, Boomtown Rats, Money, the Flying Lizards and Bang Bang, B.A. Robertson.
dw - Sep 14, 2005 10:56:22 am PDT #452 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
High School:
Document
The Trinity Sessions
Pleased To Meet Me
College: You know, really not much. My entire music collection was stolen my junior year, and I had to rebuild it from scratch. I went from 80 CDs and a pile to tapes to just 2 CDs -- Pearl Jam's "Ten" and TMBG's "Lincoln." And it was those 2 CDs I built my current collection. My stereo would never be silent anymore! (I haven't listened to the PJ CD in a looong time.)
Anyway, it was bit of a tabula rosa for me with music, and it was from what I bought then that my current tastes are built. So, there's nothing from back then that reminds me of college.
Except the Dead, but I didn't have any Dead CDs, tapes, or bootlegs. But in Boulder, the Dead is the soundtrack of everything. Even the goths were crypto-Deadheads.
Post-college days:
Foo Fighters
Automatic For The People
England (and Susan):
OK Computer
High Noon (Mark Heard)
Dot-com days:
March 16-20, 1992 (the soundtrack of my year of dotcom hell)
Dummy
And every other event has songs attached to them. That's a different list.
dw - Sep 14, 2005 10:59:13 am PDT #453 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Another Perfect Pop Song: "Dixie Chicken," Little Feat.
Don't even argue. You know you sing along when you hear it.
Hayden - Sep 14, 2005 11:04:15 am PDT #454 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I think "September Gurls" may be the most perfect pop I can think of. Well, that and "Good Vibrations."
Tom Scola - Sep 14, 2005 11:07:54 am PDT #455 of 10003
hwæt
I think "September Gurls" may be the most perfect pop I can think of.
I was thinking the same thing. I like the Bangles version a tad better than Big Star, though.
I prefer "Don't Worry Baby" to "Good Vibrations".
Kate P. - Sep 14, 2005 11:09:55 am PDT #456 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Fountains of Wayne, Welcome Interstate Managers. I had just moved to the Pioneer Valley (Western Mass.), and this was the soundtrack of late summer. I particularly associate it with the crazy period of two or three weeks when my housemate and I were staying with my mother in a tiny apartment she was housesitting for the summer, between having to move out of our apartment and being able to move into our new place. I guess that sounds kind of dull, but it's very evocative of a kind of heady, freewheeling time for me. The weather was unrelentingly hot and muggy; we spent most of our time eating takeout from the excellent barbeque place a short walk into town and watching movies; we didn't know when we'd be able to move into our own place. It was like a vacation in the middle of our real lives.