I still only know "Coin-Operated Boy," from the CD you sent me, P-C, but I love that song.

Ooh, what else do you like from the CD? I must know. What do you not like? (Your answers to the latter will help make you more DEAD to me, the better for you to serve as my zombie pal.)

Definitive Oh Hell YES Likes:
"Lucky Day"
"Kick My Ass"
"Burning Down the House"
the flamenco Spider-Man theme
"Ugly Girl" (Jesus, I love this song!)
"Center of Attention" (of course)

And I always love Sweet Honey in the Rock, but I can't listen to "Wanting Memories," which of course you didn't know, because it makes me nervous-breakdown non-functional with weeping.

And those are the only titles I can recall right now, since your liner notes are at work. I like other songs, but can't think of their titles. Plus, I'm still listening to CD 1 to the exclusion of all else, including Avenue Q. So I have no comments on disc 2 yet.

Found 'em. Thanks all!

"poured with cement".

Even worse, the line is "Paved with cement."

"Lucky Day"

Phew! That was practically guaranteed.

"Kick My Ass"

Awesome. Another Garbage cover-I-didn't-know-was-a-cover is "Butterfly Collector."

"Burning Down the House"

It should be noted, for those who aren't us, that this is a cover by the Cardigans and Tom Jones.

the flamenco Spider-Man theme

Hee hee! You'd think it wouldn't work at all, but it's amazing how well it does.

"Ugly Girl" (Jesus, I love this song!)

Heh. It's so hilarious.

"Center of Attention" (of course)

Are you a Guster fan? I didn't know.

And I always love Sweet Honey in the Rock, but I can't listen to "Wanting Memories," which of course you didn't know, because it makes me nervous-breakdown non-functional with weeping.

D'oh!

Plus, I'm still listening to CD 1 to the exclusion of all else, including Avenue Q.

Dude. I'm so honored.

So I have no comments on disc 2 yet.

Ooh, you'll have to tell me when you listen. There's some good shit on that one.

"Center of Attention" (of course)

Are you a Guster fan? I didn't know.

I had never heard of Guster before your CD -- I just find the song very amusing, given its subject matter.

And I always love Sweet Honey in the Rock, but I can't listen to "Wanting Memories," which of course you didn't know, because it makes me nervous-breakdown non-functional with weeping.

D'oh!

I told you, you didn't know. No big. It pushes all my buttons, but it's cool. I'm in therapy.

Nitpick: "Arts at St. Ann's," not "St. Anne's."

Thanks Michelle.

Oooh, I'll get you, John. And your little theremin too!

I've been listening to a ton of late 60s/early 70s Miles over the last few days, thanks to a friend who sent me burns of The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions, Live Evil, Get Up With It, and The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions (trust me, this guy is in my will now). This stuff is so good, it's scary. I mean, I had On the Corner, Jack Johnson, In a Silent Way, Filles de Kilimanjaro, and Bitches Brew already (so it's not like this is completely new to me), but the sheer scope of some of these songs and the whiplash between the different versions of the songs on the boxes is just revelatory. Take, for instance, the vast difference between the textures in "He Loved Him Madly" off of Get Up With It (one of Bob Quine's favorite tracks, by the by), with its Silent Way-style ambient softness, and the crunchy proto-Sonic Youth splat of "Willie Nelson (#3)" on the Jack Johnson box with Sonny Sharrock in the left ear and John McLaughlin in the right, both distorted to the Mariannas Trench, the fact that one guy could mastermind these tracks and these bands at nearly the same time is pretty amazing.

Lucky beggar. Brew is the only Miles of that era I have, and it's stunning

Today I am listening to Tim Buckley's 2 crazy avant-jazz folk masterpieces, Starsailor and Lorca, and also trying to figure out whether I love, My bloody Valentine-wise, the pure sounscapes of Loveless or the fracturing pop songs of Isn't Anything best