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Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan  

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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.

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DavidS - Mar 04, 2004 12:30:41 pm PST #1333 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm amused by how many sets of the same song performed by different artists I have on my iTunes.

Heh, if you were a serious exotica type record hound in the 90s you became intimately acquainted with the notion of "standards" and why the "R" in A&R Guy stood for "Repetoire." A common game was making 90 minute tapes of the same song by different groups and different arrangements. The Big Three exotica songs - "Caravan" (originally a Duke Ellington hit), "Quiet Village" and "Tabooo" literally have hundreds of covers each.

Esquivel's the key figure for learning this mindset because his arrangements were so off-the-wall loopy you could begin to understand why anybody bothered doing the same songs over and over. It wasn't the song - it was the arrangement.

Michele T. - Mar 04, 2004 12:58:27 pm PST #1334 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Yay! And I can make my bio even shorter if you want, Hec.

(I told one of my co-workers, re the bio-shortening e-mail, "that is probably the only time my name and Rick Moody's will appear in the same sentence.")

I am pleased to note that my essay "'Cells in One Body': Nation and Desire in the Early Work of T.S. Eliot" is scheduled to appear within a month of the new book, thus giving me a shot at being the Buffista with the most improbable bibliography for 2004.

ObMusic: The Decemberists "July, July!" I go back and forth on these guys, but how can you *not* like this song? It's catchy as hell, and it has lyrics like: "This is the story of the road that goes to my house / and what ghosts there do remain / And all the troughs that run the length and breadth of my house / And the chickens, how they rattle chicken chains." I crack up every single time I get to that line.

Michele T. - Mar 04, 2004 1:01:09 pm PST #1335 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Oh, and covers. In grad school, my friend Mike and I talked about doing a mix that was all versions of "Working on a Building." I still think it was a good idea.

joe boucher - Mar 04, 2004 1:05:06 pm PST #1336 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine

Are you working tomorrow, Misha? If not would you like to have lunch? Either near you or somewhere in the Slope. Lemme know. Congrats on the Eliot piece.

Atropa - Mar 04, 2004 1:20:43 pm PST #1337 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

The talk about covers is even funnier in JilliLand, because the DJ at Goth Night last night decided to play an all-covers opening set.

Michele T. - Mar 04, 2004 1:55:55 pm PST #1338 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I am working ALL THE TIME now, Joe! I just on Friday accepted a full-time gig with my freelance client of the last couple of months.

Want to do lunch in Soho?

DavidS - Mar 04, 2004 2:36:17 pm PST #1339 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The talk about covers is even funnier in JilliLand, because the DJ at Goth Night last night decided to play an all-covers opening set.

Tell me more. Examples please.

Atropa - Mar 04, 2004 2:39:45 pm PST #1340 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Tell me more. Examples please.

er ... Mephisto Waltz's cover of White Rabbit. The Shroud covering Alice by Sisters of Mercy. There was an ... odd cover of Tori Amos' Leather by some vaguely shrieky girl, Rasputina's cover of Tourniquet, Placebo's cover of Running Up That Hill (yes, he played it just for me), Siouxsie's version of Passenger, Switchblade Symphony covering Siouxsie's Night Shift ... Lemme check his LJ, see if he posted his set list yet. It was a lot of fun, if a little strange in spots.

erinaceous - Mar 04, 2004 3:27:15 pm PST #1341 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.

Heh. I was just looking in my iTunes for lists of songs with the same titles that AREN'T covers. It ran to a page! It's on the other computer, though.

meara - Mar 04, 2004 8:26:38 pm PST #1342 of 10003

Hi! Just popping in after a long exhausting bunch of travelling to say I came home and had THREE CDs in my mailbox!!! Which rocks. And also means that I will send them out soon, cause I already had one to send on. And if i hold up four, I"ll definitely feel guilty.

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