BTW, random aside - Jon B. was right about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' new album DIG! LAZARUS, DIG! - it's really good. Definitely the first one that's gotten my undivided attention on first listen since LET LOVE IN.
You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 21, 2008 4:15:29 pm PDT #7937 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2008 4:17:06 pm PDT #7938 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm surprised no one has suggested "Flower," by Liz Phair.
Automatic Flowers - Our Lady Peace
Sunflowers - Everclear
Coming Up Roses - Curve
Hustle Rose - Metric
So Like a Rose - Garbage
Kill the Roses - Something Happens
Tulips - Bloc Party
Molly's Lily - Rose Polenzani
Cherry Blossom Girl - Air
Jon B. - Apr 21, 2008 4:17:17 pm PDT #7939 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jon B. was right
As if there were any doubt???
Frankenbuddha - Apr 21, 2008 4:20:23 pm PDT #7940 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
As if there were any doubt???
Don't be so cocky, Mister DJ, Thereminist, Actuary....
Wait, I can't argue with that combination. Carry on.
megan walker - Apr 21, 2008 4:23:24 pm PDT #7941 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I just sent The Hush Sound's "Magnolia" to BR2. Hope you like it!
Thanks Kate! I noticed that in the bandom discussion.
Off to check out the rest...
ETA: Thanks Tom!
Hayden - Apr 21, 2008 4:27:08 pm PDT #7942 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Multiple xposts!
Tell me if you want any of these & I'll upload them. I tried to skip ones that I thought you might have already said or that weren't that great of songs.
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - "Fatal Flower Garden"
The Bats - "Flowers & Trees"
Boris - "Flower Sun Rain"
Camper Van Beethoven - "Flowers"
Captain Beefheart - "Flower Pot"
The Carter Family - "Wildwood Flower"
The Carter Family - "You Are My Flower"
The Clean - "Flowers"
Consonant - "Buckets of Flowers, Porno Mags"
Deerhoof - "Flower"
Drive-By Truckers - "Plastic Flowers on the Highway"
Earthless - "Flower Travelin' Man"
Espers - "Flowery Noontide"
Fairport Convention - "The Flowers of the Forest"
The Fugs - "Ah Sunflower Weary of Time"
Galaxie 500 - "Flowers"
Jandek - "Flowers on My Shirt"
Jonathan Richman - "My Love Is A Flower (Just Beginning To Bloom)"
Liz Phair - "Flower"
Low - "Sunflower"
M83 - "Run Into Flowers"
Macha - "Light The Chinese Flower"
Magnetic Fields - "The Flowers She Sent And The Flowers She Said She Sent"
Oneida - "To Seed And Flower"
REM - "Flowers of Guatamala"
Six Organs Of Admittance - "School of the Flower"
Stereolab - "Flower Called Nowhere"
Tom Verlaine - "A Film of Flowers"
Tom Waits - "Flower's Grave"
Wilco - "Forget The Flowers"
Spirit Caravan - "Black Flower"
Laurie Anderson - "White Lily"
Luna - "Tiger Lily"
Vashti Bunyan - "Lily Pond"
Shearwater - "Mountain Laurel"
Spatula - "Peony"
Paul Westerberg - "Black-Eyed Susan"
Neu! - "Lila Engel (Lilac Angel)"
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - "Blue Bonnet Rag"
Devendra Banhart - "Korean Dogwood"
Richard Buckner - "Dogwood"
The Glands - "Mayflower"
Shir - Apr 22, 2008 2:45:57 am PDT #7943 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
From the top of my winamp playlist:
Ray Lamontagne - You Can Bring Me Flowers
Radiohead - Last Flowers
The Afghan Whigs - You My Flower
The Gutter Twins - All Misery/Flowers
esse - Apr 22, 2008 5:11:04 am PDT #7944 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh, I liked DIG LAZARUS DIG but I actually preferred the soundtrack Nick Cave did with Warren Ellis for The Assassination of Jesse James. It's roughly elegant with a little bit of despair.
Fred Pete - Apr 22, 2008 5:21:24 am PDT #7945 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Most of my list goes back before the rock era. Though the song that was #1 the week before I was born fits -- "Roses Are Red," Bobby Vinton. And later in the '60s, the Lily in "Lily the Pink," Scaffold, is actually a woman and not a flower, but it's a neat song. Or there's girl group '60s -- "Sally Go 'Round the Roses," Jaynetts, a controversial song in its day.
But from the jazz era --
"One Dozen Roses," Connee Boswell or the Boswell Sisters.
"Red Roses for a Blue Lady," Vaughn Monroe (and not Wayne Newton).
"Room Full of Roses," Dick Haymes. There was also a country version in the '70s, maybe by Bobby Bare.
"Yellow Rose of Texas," Mitch Miller.
"It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane," Guy Lombardo.
"Blue Orchids," Glenn Miller.
"Tiptoe Through the Tulips," Nick Lucas (And yes, Tiny Tim later recorded it.).
"Roses in September," Ozzie Nelson. (Yes, the Ozzie Nelson. With vocals by Harriet Hilliard, who later married Nelson.)
"Honeysuckle Rose," many versions.
"Sweet Violets," Dinah Shore.
"Orange Blossom Special," many versions.
If you want to get truly maudlin in the way that only the '70s could do, try "Daisy a Day," Jud Strunk. There's also George Jones, "A Good Year for the Roses."
DavidS - Apr 22, 2008 5:26:17 am PDT #7946 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's roughly elegant with a little bit of despair.
That sounds like ad copy for an after shave.