Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
I LOVE the Muppet Rhapsody! I laughed and I cried.
Now I have a question regarding Lady GaGa's Poker Face. The chorus (can't read my, cant'r read my, blah-blah-blah blah blah Poker face) sounds like another song to me. Possibly one that might have played in a club on Queer as Folk. Or possibly when I frequented gay bars in the 90's. My google can only tell me that other people think the same thing. Anyone here know?
I hadn't thought of it, Sophia, but maybe Crystal Waters's "She's Homeless"? It has a la-la-la-la chorus that isn't too unlike "puh-puh-puh-poker face."
Best. Video. Eveh.
So I'm reading a short interview with Michael Brown of The Left Banke.
(Did you know he wrote "Walk Away Renee," "Pretty Ballerina," and "She May Call You Up Tonight" about the same unrequited love? That she later went on to become an opera singer? Did you know he had a huge crush on Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las and wrote a song about her with the group Montage titled "I Shall Call Her Mary"?)
From the interview:
EDEN: Was there really a lot & a one way sign that you would pass by every day?
BROWN: The sign was on Falmouth street in Brooklyn, & the lot was on the corner of Falmouth & Hampton Ave. We used to play in there when we were little children & have praying Mantises drop on our hands, they were the most beautiful creatures you could imagine.
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So I looked up Falmouth & Hampton in Brooklyn and it's in Manhattan Beach. And when you pull back on the map you see it's next to Brighton Beach (Neil Simon, Woody Allen). And then the next neighborhood over is Coney Island and there's Mermaid Avenue (Woody Guthrie, Wilco, Billy Bragg).
I'm love seeing pop culture through Google Maps.
Interesting recent interview with Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins.
Amazon has 500 mp3 albums for $5.
After playing some metal xmas songs for my next door neighbors they urged me to check out Steel Panther's "Community Property."
Which I dedicate to Jilli and Cass and anybody else with a hair metal past.
(Not exactly work safe as the power ballad lyric goes: "Well my heart belongs to you/ Yeah my heart belongs to you / but my cock's community property...")
This has been around for a couple of years, but I hadn't seen it. Day-umm, Prince can play guitar: [link]
I'm linking to Bill Janovitz's post because his commentary nails it.
Yeah, he's always been a fantastic player but you get the feeling he's been plugging in every day for the last fifteen years when we weren't looking.
He's putting together some pretty legendary performances later in his career.
You have Stevie Winwood -- arguably the most soulful Englishman next to Jagger, Rod Stewart (and who else?)
Paul Rogers.
Nice to hear Jeff Lynne singing without buckets of echo on his voice too. Not that he's got a lot of range, but his voice is much warmer than you'd expect from the ELO records.
Loves me some Paul Rogers.