I voted for the ladies. Now, it wasn't an easy choice, because the other two songs evoke Pavlovian responses for me (oh, the opening hook on "Sweet Child") but I had to represent for the women. And besides, I never truly appreciated "Teen Spirit" until I heard it covered by Tori and could actually understand the lyrics.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
smonster - Aug 04, 2011 10:43:04 am PDT #4674 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
DavidS - Aug 04, 2011 2:38:13 pm PDT #4675 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(Smells Like) Teen Spirit always makes me think of deodorant.
With good reason.
Right, that ad campaign was partly the inspiration for the song. It was something Kathleen Hanna had spray paint graffittied on the wall, and Kurdt used it.
Jon B. - Aug 04, 2011 4:03:07 pm PDT #4676 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Kathleen Hanna tells the story: [link]
DavidS - Aug 04, 2011 5:45:59 pm PDT #4677 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kathleen Hanna tells the story: [link]
That is a great story. Sharpie, not spray paint.
I do know that Cobain did not know that "Teen Spirit" was deodorant when he wrote the song. So its meaning was a bit more enigmatic for him.
DavidS - Aug 06, 2011 7:49:39 pm PDT #4678 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Interesting interview with Gillian Welch.
I'm always interested in long fallow periods in an artist's career, and she talks a lot about the eight year gap between albums.
Dylan wrote about that a lot in Chronicles too, and that was some of my favorite stuff. But it's also something I've thought about in relation to the writer Fritz Leiber and the poet Rilke and Joseph Heller. What must it be like to achieve great things and then have it desert you or thwart you for half a decade or more? And then to find that groove again?
tommyrot - Aug 09, 2011 4:42:59 pm PDT #4679 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.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 09, 2011 4:45:13 pm PDT #4680 of 6436
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I do have to confess, since I brought it up, that I was so out of the music scene in the 1990's that I did not realize "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was the same sone as the "Here we are now, entertain us." song until I had the Moulin Rouge soundtrack!
ETA: The electric cellos were pretty awesome
sumi - Aug 10, 2011 12:28:38 pm PDT #4681 of 6436
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Aug 12, 2011 5:54:48 am PDT #4682 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
An appreciation of Tori Amos' album From the Choirgirl Hotel.
smonster - Aug 12, 2011 6:26:39 am PDT #4683 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I love that album. "Rasberry Swirl" is still one of my favorite songs to dance to.