I have a hard time maintaining gloom when I play "Better Not Look Down" by BB King.
"I'm pretty fast myself!"
Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.
'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.
smonster - Sep 25, 2008 4:11:35 am PDT #9389 of 10003
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
DavidS - Sep 25, 2008 7:27:31 am PDT #9390 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Good time for a quick poll, then.
What songs turn your mood around?
Hayden - Sep 25, 2008 7:32:03 am PDT #9391 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Which way? Or was that deliberately open-ended?
DavidS - Sep 25, 2008 7:33:50 am PDT #9392 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Which way? Or was that deliberately open-ended?
It's a trap to find the people who like to turn their mood from gleeful to melancholy. Then I sneak into their homes, and remove all the Townes Van Zandt and Nick Drake from their iTunes and replace it with one song: "Just Got Lucky" by the Joboxers.
Hayden - Sep 25, 2008 7:37:41 am PDT #9393 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
But sometimes I just have to embrace the sad clown pose! Right now, though, I think I'm too distracted by life to have my mood turned either way by any music.
juliana - Sep 25, 2008 7:39:59 am PDT #9394 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
You replace my Townes Van Zandt, I'ma sneak into your home and replace all of your books with CatFancy anthologies. And I might even get Belinda back from Nicole.
(This here's what's known as Mutual Assured Destruction, kiddoes.)
DavidS - Sep 25, 2008 7:40:03 am PDT #9395 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But sometimes I just have to embrace the sad clown pose! Right now, though, I think I'm too distracted by life to have my mood turned either way by any music.
Play "Pay to Cum" on the way to work and see if you don't shove some lobbyist into a wall on the way to your desk.
juliana - Sep 25, 2008 7:45:14 am PDT #9396 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
In other news, Pitchfork TV has made the documentary on The Gits - "The Gits: Great American Rock and Rock Band", available all week for free. It goes all the way from the rise of the band through the conviction of Mia's killer.
Sue - Sep 25, 2008 7:46:21 am PDT #9397 of 10003
hip deep in pie
The Smiths never fail to cheer me up. (Either you laugh at the melodrama or you find yourself railing "You think you got it bad!")
Little Girl Blue by Nina Simone never fails to depress me.
Hayden - Sep 25, 2008 7:47:13 am PDT #9398 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Play "Pay to Cum" on the way to work and see if you don't shove some lobbyist into a wall on the way to your desk.
Actually, I was listening to some hardcore this morning: Fucked Up, who are the most interesting band that hardcore has produced since Bad Brains.
Hey, you'll like this story. While taking the kids to school this morning, young Sphere asked me to play some loud music. I hit shuffle on the iPod: Mountain Goats. Shuffle again: The Bats (doing a chamber-poppy song). Shuffle again: Go-Betweens. Li'l Sphere: "No, Daddy. LOUD!". Shuffle again: Spirit Caravan, a very Black Sabbath-y band led by Scott "Wino" Weinrich of The Obsessed and St. Vitus. At the opening power chord, Li'l Sphere: "YES! LOUD!" That put me in a good mood.