'Objects In Space'
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.
Specifically, I was thinking that you'd be scandalized by my shocking revelation that I don't like Fugazi.
Nah. First, because, while I wanted them for that category, I usually think they're in the overrated-but-historically-important category myself. (I only own three of their albums). Plus, there was a cover story in the local City Paper last fall about how Fugazi are boring and rock should be about women and booze, or something.
The letters to the editor after it ran were the funniest part.
Yeah, I read both the story and the follow-up, which read a lot like that evisceration of Chuck Palahniuk & the follow-up on Salon.
But I tend to agree with the assessment -- Fugazi are long on ideas and short on listenable. I even sold off my ancient (but surprisingly unscuffed, which says something right there) copy of Repeater last year.
Alex Chilton, “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” – Bach’s Bottom
Hayden, the drummer from the band I used to manage was also an organist. A few of us stopped by to hear him practice for an upcoming recital. He was using the big pipe organ at Princeton & invited us to check it out. It had a buncha keyboards, pedals & two or three banks of stops. He demonstrated how the stops were essentially an early synthesizer, manipulating overtones to change timbres. He played a little Bach. "I love the Bach stops!" Without missing a beat I said I love the Boxtops, too, & started singing "The Letter". Which would be an excellent 1967 and/or #1 song now that I think about it.
Without missing a beat I said I love the Boxtops, too, & started singing "The Letter".
Very cool! You're a very clever guy, Joe, if no one's told you that today.
Because I am SMRT.
Heh. In Czech, "smrt" means "dead."
"The Letter" is a great song. Not reading the other liner notes until I finish my mix. Which is getting close. Yesterday I was able to look at the three or four apparently unrelated groups of songs I have and discern a potential theme that would mesh them all into a coherent mix. Order out of chaos! I think.
One theme to rule them all...
I wanted to use Lyra Jane's birth year song for my cover song. I have a cassette somewhere of a Billy Bragg show where he covered that. I went absolutely nuts the first time I heard the original. It's still my favourite Buzzcocks songs. If the cassette didn't sound like ass already, I might have tried to digitize it somehow.
Yeah, that's some great Buzzcocks, but I can't say it's my favorite, because there are so many great contenders for that role (and they're all on Singles Going Steady, too).
Heh. In Czech, "smrt" means "dead."
HAH! Which I learned when I made my (fabulous seekrit santa gift) velcro shirt say "SMRT", and one of my friends who speaks Czech was a little perturbed...
I'm feeling musically out of synch, goodness. Well, I suspect not too many of my songs will be on other people's albums, unless they're in the guilty pleasures slots. Because my tastes, while broad, mostly run to pop, hip hop, and dykes with guitars...
I'm fond of "Promises" by The Buzzcocks.
Whee!
Indestructible Object[1], a 5-song EP from They Might Be Giants, will be arriving in March[2]. A new album will follow shortly thereafter[3].
[1] Name subject to change, as John Flansburgh often makes up project names.
[2] Date subject to change, as John Flansburgh often has no sense of scheduling.
[3] This phrase is sufficiently vague to not require a footnote.