Willow ,'Showtime'
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 was listening to Joe Jackson's Sunday Papers today and realizing he was singing about News of the World, which means JJ sounded the warning about Murdoch's BS thirty three years ago. Basically from shortly after NewsCorp's founding.
I found this interview with him about the song, and he mentions that his snarky song is not so damned funny these days. [link]
I'm most sorry that I'll miss Scrawl.
They're my main reason to want to go there.
Edit: well, I won't go. But these were nice 24 hours of dreaming that maybe I'll be able to.
OK, so, I'm putting together a playlist for my project. We're having a big launch day thing, giving away swag, projecting videos and stuff on walls, being shiny, and I feel there needs to be an audio component.
The project is called Spark, and it's basically Innocentive - crowd-sourced open innovation. Someone posts a tough problem and offers an award, and whoever solves it gets the award.
Everyone goes for "Light My Fire" first - do you guys have more interesting suggestions?
Everyone goes for "Light My Fire" first - do you guys have more interesting suggestions?
Are we looking for incendiary things, or more generally sparks of innovation/genius?
Fire
Baby's on Fire - Eno
Secret Fires - Gun Club
Fire of Unknown Origin - Blue Oyster Cult
Senses on Fire - Mercury Rev
Oooh, How about "Senses Working Overtime" by XTC?
Or, "Making Plans for Nigel" - XTC?
I like this one...
"Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" - Gorillaz
Brainiac's Daughter - Dukes of Stratosphere
Collideascope - Dukesof Stratosphere
Have a Heart Betty, I'm Not Fireproof - Soft Boys
You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire - Lee Harvey Oswald Band
Serpentine Fire - Earth Wind and Fire
Let me go find some more brain/science ones...
Race for the Prize - Flaming Lips (specifically about scientific competition!)
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Sandra's Having Her Brain Out - Soft Boys
Creature With the Atom Brain - Roky Erikson
I Am a Scientist - Guided By Voices
Final Solution - Pere Ubu
Think For Yourself - the Beatles
A Free Thinker - Laura Nyro
Everything You Can Think - Tom Waits
Think - Aretha Franklin
Sparks - The Who
Shine a Light - Rolling Stones
Brilliant Mind - Furniture
The Young Idea - Squire
Ancient Chinese Secret Blues - Clem Snide
Do It! - The Pink Fairies
You Give Me Problems - The Vipers
Hardest Geometry Problem In the World - Mark Mothersbaugh (instrumental from Rushmore)
Figure Eight - Schoolhouse Rock
Fire - Sister Sledge
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
The Rhythm of the Heat - Peter Gabriel
Heat Wave (multiple)
The Heat Is On - Glenn Frey
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
Hot Blooded - Foreigner