If anyone is a God Bless the Child fan, I highly recommend Gladys Knight's recent remake.
Actually, I love that whole CD. Woman's a born torch singer.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Barb - Aug 27, 2008 7:30:32 am PDT #9211 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
sumi - Aug 27, 2008 7:59:00 am PDT #9212 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
What about the Specials "Friday Night and Saturday Morning"?
DavidS - Aug 27, 2008 8:31:57 am PDT #9213 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Today's favorite Onion headline: Hundreds of Musicians Removed From Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Drug Use.
"Now when you hear Pink Floyd, you'll only think of the drug abuse and that's just sad."
smonster - Aug 27, 2008 9:19:09 am PDT #9214 of 10003
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Gives new meaning to "performance-enhancing."
Vonnie K - Aug 27, 2008 10:21:42 am PDT #9215 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Vonnie: sure! All of Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot is overwhelmingly great.
Yay! Thanks. Vivadixie-whachamacallit is the only Sparklehorse album I don't have -- I guess it's time to remedy this.
Megan, I'll send Jens Lekman, Doves and Billy Bragg to the BR, original flavour. As for Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, I only have two or three tracks from the album, but I like'em. They are good-natured, affectionate covers -- nothing ground-breaking, but lovely on the ear.
Barb - Aug 27, 2008 10:32:33 am PDT #9216 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
How is this album? I saw it at the library but I thought it might be too treacly. I like both their voices though.
I have it-- Oddly, my favorite track is The Kids Are Alright. (This from an avowed Who fan, but for whatever reason, it works.)
The other tracks I like are Alone Again Or, Different Drum, and Run to Me (although my absolute favorite remake of that song is Raul Malo's. le sigh)
A steady diet of their voices is overwhelming, but for something lovely and as Vonnie said, easy on the ear, they're nice.
DavidS - Aug 27, 2008 10:38:35 am PDT #9217 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Susanna also participated in the Rainy Day project with various members of the LA Paisley Underground in the 80's.
So imagine Mazzy Star-like versions of things like the Velvets' "I'll Be Your Mirror" and Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine."
Kendra Smith (ex of Dream Syndicate, then with Mazzy Star predecessor, Opal) also sings on "Flying on the Ground Is Wrong" (early Neil Young with Buffalo Springfield) and "Holocaust" (Alex Chilton).
Really gorgeous stuff.
Tom Scola - Aug 27, 2008 2:02:21 pm PDT #9218 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
My Feelies tickets arrived in the mail!
tommyrot - Aug 27, 2008 3:06:39 pm PDT #9219 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
secretly plots to kill Tom Scola and take his place... after all, we're both Toms....
Jon B. - Aug 28, 2008 1:50:58 am PDT #9220 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's performed by Gus & Finn. I don't know anything about them - I'd love to get an audio recording of this....
tommyrot -- I mp3ified this and sent it to buffistarawk.