The Darlene Love is up at B'rawk courtesy of my friend Brian (message "re: belated happy birthday").
They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.
River ,'Ariel'
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.
joe boucher - Jan 04, 2009 8:20:08 am PST #417 of 6436
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
DavidS - Jan 04, 2009 8:30:23 am PST #418 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sweet! I have to admire our relentlessness and single-minded pursuit.
Thanks, Joe!
DavidS - Jan 04, 2009 8:42:02 am PST #419 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm listening to it right now AIFG.
Sorry about your turntable, Joe.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 04, 2009 9:20:34 am PST #420 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Yay Joe Boucher! Good to see you!
The song has been stuck in my head, too, so I am glad to have it.
Barb - Jan 04, 2009 9:46:03 am PST #421 of 6436
“Not dead yet!”
OMG, thanks Joe!
I just girl grouped around the house with it cranked high explaining to Abby the importance of girl groups and Phil Spector and their continuing influence on pop music. She just looked at me and said "Another life lesson, right?"
(And of course, because I'm just this obsessed, I'm now trying to figure out the song's original copyright.)
ETA 1963 for anyone who's, you know, insane. Like me.
Trudy Booth - Jan 04, 2009 9:50:12 am PST #422 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Joe Boucher? I vaguely rememeber the existance of a guy by that name...
Steph L. - Jan 04, 2009 12:59:27 pm PST #423 of 6436
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
The Darlene Love is up at B'rawk courtesy of my friend Brian (message "re: belated happy birthday").
Thanks, Joe!!!
I plan to drive The Boy nuts by playing it on repeat all evening.
Although I don't want him to think I'm hinting, because -- no.
tommyrot - Jan 04, 2009 3:31:41 pm PST #424 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.
x-posted from Natter:
Is this what happens when you do too much Ecstasy? You start to believe stuff like this?:
Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue'
A university professor who is an expert in sound and a part-time DJ believes Stonehenge was created as a dance arena for listening to "trance-style" music.
The monument has baffled archaeologists who have argued for decades over the stone circle's 5,000-year history but academic Rupert Till believes he has solved the riddle by suggesting it may have been used for ancient raves.
Mr Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University, West Yorks., believes the standing stones had the ideal acoustics to amplify a "repetitive trance rhythm".
The original Stonehenge probably had a "very pleasant, almost concert-like acoustic" that our ancestors slowly perfected over many generations
Okaaaay.....
Of course, other experts have stated:
In ancient times...
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people... the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock... Of Stonehenge
Fred Pete - Jan 05, 2009 5:48:44 am PST #425 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
For sap --
"Angel Eyes" by Jeff Healy
"The First Time" by Surface
"All the Man That I Need" by Whitney Houston
"Honey Come Back" by Glen Campbell
Just about anything by Bobby Vinton
Just about anything by Connie Francis
And I'd add, "Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins, though whether that's from the song or memories I associate with it is another question.
JZ - Jan 05, 2009 7:20:58 am PST #426 of 6436
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Sappy songs:
"Two Little Feet" by Greg Brown
"Ice Cream" by Sarah McLaughlin
"Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me" by Gladys Knight and the Pips
"Arrow" by Cheryl Wheeler (not a happy sappy song, but a post-heartbreak song--so wretchedly, sorrowfully great)
and for non-romantic-love sap, I love Judy Garland's version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" -- lovely and aching and so deeply felt.