Jim! Good to hear from you, man!
Writers saying album X is a "return to form" is one of my big music crit pet peeves. You're right -- they always say that. And then the next album comes out and they say it again!
Well, lady, I must say-- You're my kinda stupid.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Jon B. - Jul 07, 2010 6:56:55 am PDT #3204 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
DavidS - Jul 07, 2010 7:16:59 am PDT #3205 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and I need to beg for a tracklisting so I can make a CD of it before it tape decks disappear forever...
Hey Jim! So good to see you again. Glad the kids are enjoying such quality bubblegum.
Why don't you email me at my profile address. I think I've got the original master tape here and I can give you the tracklisting.
And if I can get a mailing address I think I can send some CDs your way as well.
Liese S. - Jul 07, 2010 9:12:56 am PDT #3206 of 6436
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Jim! Nice to see you!
I was thinking about David at the (Christian music) festival because on day one I heard three (and it would have been four if my cheering had stood up) different Tom Waits covers.
Sue - Jul 07, 2010 9:16:34 am PDT #3207 of 6436
hip deep in pie
Jim!
What Tom Waits made it in the Christian music festival?
It's not as curious as my coworker who said they sang Cohen's Hallelujah at a church service. I was like, "I don't think that Hallelujah means what you think it means."
Shir - Jul 07, 2010 9:38:10 am PDT #3208 of 6436
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Speaking of Christian music: watching David Eugene Edwards plays merely 70-80 cms from me was probably the most terrifying experience I ever had from a band on stage. It dissolved "walking alone in a dark "come and rape me, boys!" industrial area for 20 minutes" into perspective.
But is was good. So good (not the fear - the band (Woven Hand)). Best bass-drums section I've seen in a long time.
DavidS - Jul 07, 2010 10:03:16 am PDT #3209 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What Tom Waits made it in the Christian music festival?
Tom's written several gospel songs, actually. Notably "Jesus Gonna Be Here." "Way Down in the Hole" also lends itself to a gospel reading.
Glamcookie - Jul 07, 2010 10:07:33 am PDT #3210 of 6436
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Catching up in Music... Hec, you've put Glad Girls and the glorious image of Diana Rigg in my head. I thank you for that. And on topic, I forgot how much I fucking love the Raveonettes song Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed) until I heard it on my way in to work this morning. While I think it's lyrically great, I kind of wish it was about something not so serious so I could enjoy it more cheerfully.
DavidS - Jul 07, 2010 10:17:30 am PDT #3211 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec, you've put Glad Girls and the glorious image of Diana Rigg in my head. I thank you for that.
Yay 90s! Yay Dame Rigg! (I'll be writing a HiLo piece about her this month).
And on topic, I forgot how much I fucking love the Raveonettes song Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed) until I heard it on my way in to work this morning. While I think it's lyrically great, I kind of wish it was about something not so serious so I could enjoy it more cheerfully.
Well, at least its there for a righteous fist pump when you need a good fuck-you-misogyny song.
Recently I heard "Smoke on the Water" and was once again boggled that such a mighty riff was attached to such a lame lyric. I mean, "Smoke on the water / fire in the sky..." sounds all apocalyptic, but really the whole song is about how they were mildly inconvenienced because the studio burned down.
smonster - Jul 07, 2010 10:26:35 am PDT #3212 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
"Smoke on the Water"
The first version I ever heard of that was part of a Weird Al polka medley, so that's how I always hear it in my head.
eta and now you can, too! [link]
Jon B. - Jul 07, 2010 11:03:23 am PDT #3213 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
GBV are reuniting for a show in Vegas, along with a shitload of other Matador bands: [link]
I've never been to Vegas...