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.
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.
From the top of my head: almost anything out of The Afghan Whigs' Black Love will put on my face a big, shining smile (the variation of "rrrrr" sounds Greg Dulli can make me do is amazing).
Ruth Dolores Weiss for the other way around.
Katamine, for entirely changing my heart beats.
(And, umm, for some reason? OMWF's Something to Sing About usually cheers me up within seconds).
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.
::checks off "Hostile," "Fist Shaking" and "Townes Fan!" on Juliana's survey::
At the opening power chord, Li'l Sphere: "YES! LOUD!" That put me in a good mood.
Right on, Le Sphere!
Emmett and Matilda will get headbanging in the back seat when I play the mashup of the Stooges "No Fun" and Salt n' Peppa's "Push It."
::checks off "Hostile," "Fist Shaking" and "Townes Fan!" on Juliana's survey::
Only hostile when my Townes is threatened. And my Steve Earle. And my Waylon. And....
the mashup of the Stooges "No Fun" and Salt n' Peppa's "Push It."
!!!! I need this! Is it on Brawk?
For cheer me up music, anything early-mid sixties of the toga-partyish variety. "Twist and Shout", "All My Loving" the aforementioned "Try a Little Tenderness", pretty much anything of that ilk.
Dusty makes me embrace my inner diva.
Raul Malo's ballads are for the melancholy.
Pat Metheny's First Circle album for rainy days.
Vince Guaraldi and Dave Brubeck completely evoke autumn and winter for me-- not so much a mood, but a feeling.
Amy Winehouse's "Love is a Losing Game" breaks my heart.
!!!! I need this! Is it on Brawk?
I think I put it up there. It's insanely awesome. A total fuckfest between Iggy and Salt n' Peppa. Their rap perfectly timed over the Stooges riffs is
the
raunchiest, rockinest thing ever.
Salt: Push it!
Iggy: Yeahhh!
Peppa: Push it real good
Iggy: Yeahhh!
::massive guitar crunch into feedback::
Man, my post done got et. Dang.
At a wedding recently, I heard a mashup of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Maps" and Daftpunk's "Around the World." It was phenomenally fun.
Other mood-changing songs: Rufus Wainwright's "Poses" can calm me even when I'm at my most frantic, DJ Kool's "Let Me Clear My Throat" requires about 5' diameter clearance for me to dance properly, and Dan Bern's "Tiger Woods" never fails to crack my shit up.
::hits ctrl + a, ctrl + c::
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!")
EXACTLY.
Other cheering songs in JilliLand: "Plasticine" by Placebo, "Dead" and "Vampires Never Hurt You" by MCR, "Guilty Pleasure" by Cobra Starship, "Why Can't I Be You?" by The Cure, and "Starfish and Coffee" by Prince.
