Ooh, thanks for that link, Jon! I now know that my year of birth had some REALLY bad music. On the other hand, would it be terribly wrong to include the Cantina Band Theme from Star Wars on my mix? :)
I'm 17. Looking at linoleum makes me want to have sex.
Xander ,'First Date'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
meara - Jan 25, 2004 1:43:58 pm PST #244 of 10003
Steph L. - Jan 25, 2004 2:01:45 pm PST #245 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
would it be terribly wrong to include the Cantina Band Theme from Star Wars on my mix?
So very Proustian for me. All the music from the movie, actually. I remember when they re-released it, when the theme started and the text started scrolling up the screen, I actually got teary.
I was embarassed, until my friends told me they had the same reaction.
Anne W. - Jan 25, 2004 2:22:47 pm PST #246 of 10003
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
7 hours? Are you sharing the Ring Cycle with us?
I have no idea why I typed "7 hours." Feh.
Alas, I have no Ring Cycle to share, but I would be more than happy to share a boatload of Puccini, Verdi, and Mozart.
Angus G - Jan 25, 2004 3:04:07 pm PST #247 of 10003
Roguish Laird
The Ring Cycle lasts a lot longer than 7 hours, actually...
Hayden, I can't see those liner notes on your blog...I'm intrigued to find out what song we have in common!
DavidS - Jan 25, 2004 3:26:12 pm PST #248 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm intrigued to find out what song we have in common!
It's alphabetical, dear Angus.
Jon, did you know this?
Jolly Roger Recording in Hoboken, New Jersey recently completed the recording and mixing of the soundtrack for the MTV full length movie of the poplar animated series "DARIA."
The soundtrack was written and performed by JANET WYGAL of the band SPLENDORA who originally recorded the theme song of the long running MTV weekly DARIA animated series.
That's from 2001. In case you wondered what Janet was up to. I'm writing about The Individuals for the book.
Jon B. - Jan 25, 2004 3:43:55 pm PST #249 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I knew that Janet did the theme song, but I never watched Daria and didn't know there was a full-length film.
Splendora (originally known as Popsicle) had a great demo cassette in 1993 that I played to death on the radio. I got them a show at the Middle East around that time. She was as nice as she was beautiful (and as The Most Beautiful Woman in Indie-Rock, that says a lot) As I write this, I found a second demo that Janet sent me a year later, complete with a hand-written note and the closing "Hope you're swell -- Janet." I remember that the 12-year-old in me was giggling for a week.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2004 4:08:39 pm PST #250 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
She also contributed a vocal to the most recent Two Dollar Guitar record.
Trouser Press dismissed The Individuals album as "unmemorable." Poppycock, I say! Glenn Morrow went on to Rage to Live, Jon Klages played with Russ Tolman (ex True West) and Richard Lloyd, Janet formed The Wygals, then Splendora. Sheesh, I know people that still prize their last beat up copy of Fields as if it were precious and irreplaceable (which it is).
Jon B. - Jan 25, 2004 4:31:29 pm PST #251 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Klages also had a solo album that featured an as-yet-unrecorded Yo La Tengo as his backing band.
Wasn't Trouser Press really Anglophelic (is that the word)? No surprise they wouldn't did The Individuals.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2004 4:40:51 pm PST #252 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wasn't Trouser Press really Anglophelic (is that the word)? No surprise they wouldn't did The Individuals.
They started off being very Anglophile back when there was a lot of reason for that stance (mid 70s). But they covered tons of stateside new wave and were especially on top of the Hoboken bands.
The Individuals sound very much like a mix of first album Feelies with first two albums by The dBs (Gene Holder produced the record), with bits of Pylon and some later bands like The Silos. But they had three songwriters, four singers and interesting arrangements on all the songs giving them that classic tension/release thang we like from the art pop. Jangly, skittery guitar, superthump bass, danceable rhythms and lots of deadpan surreal lyrics.
Fred Pete - Jan 25, 2004 5:43:50 pm PST #253 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
On the other hand, would it be terribly wrong to include the Cantina Band Theme from Star Wars on my mix? :)
Although I'm not participating, I'll point out that it isn't the worst song you could come up with. The year of SW was also the year of "You Light Up My Life." Which is too sappy even for me.