'The Message'
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.
Norman Whitfield, who was also namechecked in that song, also passed away recently.
I always wanted to write an article about Norman, but settled for my piece on the late Temptations record, 1990, in Lost in the Grooves. What a great songwriter and producer.
"Smiling Faces" is so sinister.
*Please* tell me someone will be taking video!
Ayup, most likely. And I hope in a digital format for easy YouTube action.
We saw Tegan and Sara last night (and are seeing them again tonight). It was a good show, but they are doing way too much pandering to the crowd. Having the crowd start songs, sing along, etc. That drives me crazy. They also had Matt Sharp (Weezer) come out and he has always bugged the shit out of me. He has always seemed like a self-important ass. Sara was treating him like a God, which was also a bit annoying. I mean, we all loved Weezer but save your adoration for Rivers Cuomo, man.
In shallow news, I liked Sara's new haircut, which DW deemed "Flock of Seagulls." She looked adorable in it. Also happy that Tegan was more in the lead seat during this show - she is my fave both in songwriting and baby-dyke adorability.
In shallow news, I liked Sara's new haircut, which DW deemed "Flock of Seagulls." She looked adorable in it.
That's important news.
I'm posting the Bleak Beautiful Folky Harrowing Halloween songs now to Bufrawk2 (two). Under the title In the October Country.
Oops, I posted two things as In the October Country 7, but they're actually two separate sets of songs.
Here's the list of what I've posted:
Lady Eleanor - Lindisfarne
Graveyard - Forest
The Werewolf - Barry Dransfield
Lay This Body Down - June Tabor
Night - Greg Brown (from the Blake poem)
Jabberwocky - Donovan (from Lewis Carroll)
Raven Girl - Mimi & Richard Farina
Our Mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt
Winter Love - Robyn Hitchcock
Black Eyed Dog - Nick Drake
Hunting Song - Pentangle
The Song of Wandering Aengus - Donovan
The Owl's Escape - Mary Timony
Down in the Willow Garden - Kristin Hersh
Sweet William's Ghost - Alasdair Robert
Mr. Fox - Mr. Fox (the band took the name from their orig. song)
The Scarecrow - June Tabor
Queen of the Moonlight World - Andy Roberts
Queen Mab - Donovan
Beyond the Fields We Know - Mary Hopkins (more Fairyland than Halloween, but it's got Christopher Lee's intro so I threw it in.
I mean, we all loved Weezer but save your adoration for Rivers Cuomo, man.
Randomly, I just friended an old high-school era friend on Facebook and evidently he's working for Weezer now. He seems to be on tour with them anyway.
Has anyone got an MP3 of the Natalie Merchant version of "Because the Night?"
I do. Live performance, at least. Not sure if there's another version.
Yeah, that's the only one-- the unplugged performance. Seemed like iTunes had every other version, including one by Springsteen, that I didn't even know existed, and one by some techno chick named Cascada that scared me.
You want it e-mailed?
Also, I believe the Springsteen is the original version.