It's not only 70s, it's 1974. A notoriously bad year for songs.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
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.
Tom Scola - Sep 01, 2009 5:04:28 am PDT #1531 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Fred Pete - Sep 01, 2009 5:41:34 am PDT #1532 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
I see "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" is #2. I've always thought Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods got a bad rap. Their follow-up single, "Who Do You Think You Are," is a wonderful piece of pop. But "Billy" was the big hit, and it's the one everyone remembers.
And anyone who'd vote "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" as worst song of any year has no romance in their soul.
Theodosia - Sep 01, 2009 6:41:02 am PDT #1533 of 6436
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Oooh, "Girl,You'll Be A Woman Soon" should qualify as drowned in testosterone.
Hayden - Sep 01, 2009 8:00:41 am PDT #1534 of 6436
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Don't Think Twice, Take This Right... Now: [link]
Fred Pete - Sep 01, 2009 8:11:47 am PDT #1535 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
It gets even weirder if you think of the Four Seasons' (as the Wonder Who) version of "Don't Think Twice." Which defines the combination of sublime and outrageous if any recording can.
billytea - Sep 02, 2009 3:11:31 am PDT #1536 of 6436
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Goodness. Elvis Costello is interviewing Bill Clinton on my TV. that was unexpected.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 02, 2009 3:24:20 am PDT #1537 of 6436
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
EC's chat show has been quite good. The Clinton episode was unexpected but very well done.
tommyrot - Sep 03, 2009 5:40:07 am PDT #1538 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think this is the first time I've linked to a PZ Myers post here in music:
I got a letter from John F — you know, John Flansburgh, of They Might Be Giants — and he says, "We've got this new album coming out that you might like, want me to send you a copy?", and so I nonchalantly type back, "Sure, here's my address," which was really hard to do when you understand that I was dancing jigglety-pigglety in my chair, pumping my fists in the air, and shouting "WOO-HOO!" at the same time. It would have been impossible except for my blogging superpowers. (Oh, yeah…I'm a TMBG fanboi.)
I got the album Here Comes Science the other day, and it is fabulous. It's kids' music, so it's catchy and a teeny-tiny bit didactic, but don't let that put you off — I've loaded it onto my iPod and am enjoying it all the time. It's also contains a CD and a DVD: each song also has an animated cartoon to go with it. They're great and enthusiastic songs — my favorites so far are "I am a paleontologist" and "Science is real".
You should buy it. It'll be available next week, or you can always stop by my house and I'll put the DVD up on the big screen and we can all rock out in my living room — I'll push all the furniture to the side so we can all dance. Or if you're cheap and don't like me, you can subscribe to the TMBG podcast on iTunes: they're going to release a song a week.
Then he quotes some controversial lyrics... interesting....
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2009 6:04:02 am PDT #1539 of 6436
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That sounds AWESOME.
sumi - Sep 03, 2009 6:18:11 am PDT #1540 of 6436
Art Crawl!!!
It does!!