Xander ,'Empty Places'
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.
Personally, I think it's more wrong that you've just admitted to playing airguitar to "Freebird". . .
Well, I'm not a hypocrite. I can own up to my 70s rock past without shame. My first concert was Black Sabbath with Van Halen opening. I even saw Kansas live (pretty damn dull). Punk might've been happening, but you couldn't tell from suburban Florida.
... only for a moment but the moment's gawwwn....
All we are is dust in the wind.
Dude.
Damn, where did I leave my lighter.
Um, wasn't there a cheesy 80s cover of Freebird and some other song? That's why I know it.
Um, wasn't there a cheesy 80s cover of Freebird and some other song?
And Baby I Love Your Way. But I can't remember who did it.
True story: I made it through 1996 without ever having heard the Macarena song.
I've still never heard "Toxic." A lot of times I'll hear pop songs months after everyone else is sick of them, and it's always disconcerting because they NEVER sound the way they do in my head. (Like the "Milkshake" song, which I finally heard last night? It should be slower, and Kelis has a deeper voice in my head.)
And I'm not sure if I could identify "Freebird" without hearing the "I'm as freeee as a biiiird" part, or "Money" without hearing the cash registers. I'm a bit classic rock-deficient.
So there's a virign megastore in Manhattan, that I could not help but enter. And lord help me, but they had a ten dollar sale. So I walked out with:
Tori Amos: Under the Pink Belle & Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress Joe Firstman: The War of Women Tom McRae (Self-Titled)
The last one was a 23$ import I got for six bucks, which really was the deal of the purchase. And I was amused that the Joe Firstman album had a parental advisory sticker on it...I didn't even notice until I got back on the bus. He sounds a lot like the lead singer of the Counting Crows, Adam Something.
He sounds a lot like the lead singer of the Counting Crows, Adam Something.
Adam Duritz. Also famous for dating both Jennifer Anniston and Courtney Cox during the first season of Friends and admitting on national television that he wore hair extensions. The first item? Very rock star. The second? NSM.
On the four billionth and seventy-third listen, I realized that Sufjan Stevens is a Christian artist. Yes - the biblical references are really REALLY blatant - but I just thought it was a - I dunno - lyrical device. It's interesting. I had a good friend I used to work with who listened to/pushed a lot of indie-Christian rock and I felt like I could never get past the lyrics (I'm not religious in any sense). I wonder if I had known when I bought this album if it would have made a difference to me. Makes me think I'm kind of an asshole - but the bands he used to push on me did really suck a lot.
Also - my CD burner broke. I've had it for three weeks. And it was my fault and now I need a new one. Boo. Unrelated to that, my plan for tomorrow is to get my computer hooked up to my stereo receiver. I've been doing a lot of reading on mac!musicnerd sites and it doesn't look that hard. This probably means it will be impossible for me.