The only one I remember is the one by Morrissey. Which was... very Morrissey-like. [link]
Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.
'Shells'
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.
Vonnie K - Oct 28, 2008 4:59:25 am PDT #9627 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Shir - Oct 28, 2008 5:01:14 am PDT #9628 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I think I remember a Billy Bragg version, but I'm not sure if IIRC.
Vonnie K - Oct 28, 2008 5:05:04 am PDT #9629 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
It does look like Billy Bragg has recorded the song at some point: [link]
Barb - Oct 28, 2008 5:29:30 am PDT #9630 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
Other question for hivemind-- need recs for early/mid-60s California music that's not Beach Boys/Jan & Dean. I'm looking more for the exotica/bossa nova style, ala "Misirlou" as performed by Martin Denny.
Suggestions?
Fred Pete - Oct 28, 2008 5:34:30 am PDT #9631 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
From the oldies scene, some places that haven't been mentioned:
"North to Alaska" -- Johnny Horton
"Galveston" -- Glen Campbell
"Houston" -- Dean Martin
"Song of India" -- Tommy Dorsey & Orchestra
"Manhattan, Kansas" -- Glen Campbell again
"Ferry Across the Mersey" -- Gerry & the Pacemakers (I assume rivers are acceptable)
"Wild Montana Skies" -- John Denver and Emmylou Harris
"Midnight in Moscow" -- Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
"Banks of the Ohio" -- Olivia Newton-John (and I'm sure others -- hers is just the version I'm familiar with) (and it's about the river, not the state, so I'll claim this one)
"Paducah" from The Gang's All Here
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" -- Dionne Warwick
"Sausalito Summernight" -- Diesel
"Shanghai" -- Bing Crosby OR Doris Day
I'm also surprised there's only one mention of New Orleans, which could almost be a category of its own.
"Battle of New Orleans" -- Johnny Horton again
"Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" -- (numerous artists)
"New Orleans" -- Gary (U.S.) Bonds
"Walking to New Orleans" -- Fats Domino
"New Orleans Ladies" -- LeRoux
sumi - Oct 28, 2008 6:15:23 am PDT #9632 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
25th Anniversary edition of Murmur is being released on November 25th.
megan walker - Oct 28, 2008 6:58:42 am PDT #9633 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think the best version of "Tennessee Stud" is the one by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from the Will the Circle Be Unbroken album.
I'm off to a long-range planning meeting and can't quite go through everyone's great suggestions yet, but I just have to say I'm shocked (shocked!) that anyone would suggest I replace Johnny Cash.
juliana - Oct 28, 2008 7:53:22 am PDT #9634 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
A whole bunch of placename music:
"Headfirst Slide in to Cooperstown On a Bad Bet" - Fall Out Boy
"Walking In Memphis" - Mark Cohn
"California" - Lucero
"San Francisco" - Lucero
"Alabama Song" - Allison Moorer
"The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" - Arrogant Worms
"No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn" - Beastie Boys
"Sweet Louisiana Sound" - Billy Pilgrim
"Hollywood Nights" - Bob Seger
"Get Out of Denver" - Bob Seger
"Angel From Montgomery" - Bonnie Raitt
"Hollywood Nocturne" - Brian Setzer Orchestra
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" - The Charlie Daniels Band
"L.A. Song" - Christian Kane (he sang it in the evil hand ep of Angel)
"Being From Jersey Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry" - Cobra Starship
"Short Native Grasses (Prairies of Alberta) - Corb Lund Band
"The Prettiest Waitress in Memphis" - Cory Branan
"Please Come to Boston" - David Allan Coe
"St. Lawrence River" - David Usher
"The State Of Massachusetts" - Dropkick Murphys
"Guns Of Brixton" - Dropkick Murphys or The Clash
"What Made Milwaukee Famous (Made A Loser Out Of Me) - Flogging Molly
"Louie to Frisco" - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
"Midnight Train to Georgia" - Gladys Night & The Pips
"California Girls" - Gretchen Wilson
"Mississippi Mud" - Hank Williams III
"Atlantic City" - Hank William III
"Sequestered in Memphis" - The Hold Steady
"Mesa, Arizona" - Jeffrey Foucault
"Streets of Laredo" - Johnny Cash (had to throw that one in)
"Oklahoma State of Mind" - Kane
"Narcolepsy In A Chinatown Opium Den" - The Kehoe Nation
"Sweet Home Alabama" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Golgotha Tenement Blues" - Machines Of Loving Grace
"Manhattan" - Midtown
"Stockholm Syndrome" - Muse
"Graceland" - Paul Simon
"Under African Skies" - Paul Simon
"English Summer Rain" - Placebo
"Rockaway Beach" - The Ramones
"Ruby Soho" - Rancid
"Return To Oz" - Scissor Sisters
"Busted In Baylor Country" - Shooter Jennings
"South Nashville Blues" - Steve Earle
"Galway Girl" - Steve Earle
"London Bridges" - This Is Ivy League
"Ain't No God In Mexico" - Waylon Jennings
"California Love" - 2Pac
Hayden - Oct 28, 2008 8:00:47 am PDT #9635 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Just a reminder: I'll be reading with Kim "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea" Cooper and Scott "If You're Feeling Sinister" Plagenhoef at the Hammer Museum in LA tomorrow evening at 7 pm. It's free! The reading will include a video or two of Richard & Linda Thompson making music plus some audio comparisons of RT's music and a snippet of an interview. If you're in LA, please come! If you're not in LA, I think there's some cheap last-minute tickets available.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 28, 2008 8:01:42 am PDT #9636 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Did anyone else hear about this: [link]