My friend Paul used to do a version of "Shiny Happy People" as it would have sound sung by the late great Ethel Merman.
Really, it saved the song for me.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
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.
Michele T. - Sep 19, 2005 4:26:12 am PDT #546 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Jim - Sep 19, 2005 4:28:40 am PDT #547 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Misguided Angel, on the first Cowboy Junkies album, is pretty chilling, too.
erikaj - Sep 19, 2005 4:51:26 am PDT #548 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Of course, there's "Luka," is that pop? It got airplay like pop, for a while.And I thought Tom Petty's "Last Dance With Mary Jane was pretty weird too, but that was the video of dancing in the morgue...
Fred Pete - Sep 19, 2005 5:02:17 am PDT #549 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Disturbing pop, early '60s version -- Joanie Sommers, "Johnny Get Angry"
I want a brave man
I want a cave man
Johnny, show me that you care, really care, for me.
I'll also add Marcie Blaine, "Bobby's Girl." The only thing she wants in life is to have a particular guy as a boyfriend?
Jon B. - Sep 19, 2005 8:52:52 am PDT #550 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Steph! Love the tagline. Those MSR collections are great!
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2005 11:40:24 am PDT #551 of 10003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
We listen to BBC 6 over the internet at work, and right now they're doing a Most Overrated Album Ever contest.
Chatty!co-worker and I are amusing ourselves by slagging on albums.
My suggestion was Beck's "Sea Change."
(To be fair, I'm just basing my slag on the fact that *I* don't get why it was so very very lauded.)
Mr. Broom - Sep 19, 2005 11:49:20 am PDT #552 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
I can't say enough about it just because it hurts so good, which tends to make me effusive.
dw - Sep 19, 2005 11:53:57 am PDT #553 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
My suggestion was Beck's "Sea Change."
(To be fair, I'm just basing my slag on the fact that *I* don't get why it was so very very lauded.)
Because he's Depressed and Introspective on that album.
It's not his best album, but "The Golden Age" is a beaut.
My suggestion would be "Kid A," but it may not be overrated enough (even with the Grammy nomination).
DavidS - Sep 19, 2005 11:59:08 am PDT #554 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The most obvious overrated album, I think, has got to be Sgt. Pepper. I'm a Beatle fan, but I'd rank that album as only above Magical Mystery Tour in their catalogue. Most of the songs are utter trifles in the "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" range. There are more great songs on the "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields" single than all of Sgt. Pepper. ("A Day In The Life" being the only great one, I think.)
Of recent vintage, I don't really know where I'm at odds with the consensus. I like most of the much lauded records of the last 10 years or so. I should check Pitchfork.
Lately, I've been revisiting the Cashout Go Away effect wherein a band you dislike makes a bundle on one record and then effectively quits because they're rich. Live and Bush seem to have done this.
dw - Sep 19, 2005 12:14:04 pm PDT #555 of 10003
Silence means security silence means approval
Good Lord -- Picaresque got a five-star review in the Guardian.
That utterly surprises me. I wouldn't think they'd get it.