Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
"'The goal is to take over the entire commercial porn industry and transfer all the money to protection of the environment,' Ellingsen explained."
I think the word "explained" really should be in quotes here.
A banner was raised on stage informing the audience that the couple was having sex to save the rainforest.
This makes Lennon and Yoko's "Bed-in for Peace" look sensible.
Well, it's all about wood isn't it?
Well, it's all about wood isn't it?
That would explain the Green Peace and Viagra sponsorships.
D'oh! I really wanted to include "Complaint Box" in the list but I couldn't think of any musical references, but now it dawns on me (which is to say smacks me upside the head)... Shaft! "I thought we'd all enjoy that." D'oh! -- there's also, "'I have doobie in my funk,' which I assume is some sort of reference to the Parliament Funkadelic song, 'Chocolate City.'" My mind is mush.
Ah, complaint box. I think I have that whole exchange as an mp3 somewhere.
I heard about that Fucking for the Rainforest couple on another board the other day, but had forgotten all about them. It's funny all over again!
In case people were complaining about the lack of fun songs about necrophilia, Of Montreal has delivered with "Chrissy Kiss the Corpse".
In other news, I just heard a Mamas and the Papas cover of "Twist and Shout." It was...wrong.
I just heard a Mamas and the Papas cover of "Twist and Shout." It was...wrong.
Yeah. But there are even more wrong covers out there. Paul Young's soulful crooner version of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" comes to mind. Also Grand Funk Railroad doing "Gimme Shelter."
Wrongest possible combination imaginable? (though never done) I'm thinking that Most Wrong would be Abba covering "Strange Fruit."
I've got a hate on for Rod Stewart doing Downtown Train.
My favorite necrophilia song is Robyn Hitchcock's "My Wife and My Dead Wife."
"And I can't decide which one I love the most
The flesh and blood or the pale, smiling ghost"
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I've got a hate on for Rod Stewart doing Downtown Train.
The only positive is that Tom Waits got a bunch of money for it. At least I assume....
Wrongest possible combination imaginable? (though never done)
How about Slayer doing "Sugar Sugar"? Or NSYNC scatting their way through "A Love Supreme"?
After catching up this morning, all I have been able to think about is my top five summer albums. So, here goes:
Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
It's a short album and not my favorite Young, but it screams summer to me. Especially "Southern Man" and "Cripple Creek Ferry." It also makes me think of drinking lots of beer at the lake - but so do all the albums on this list.
Jayhawks, Hollywood Town Hall
I can think of some Jayhawk bootlegs I might throw in rather than this - but this is still a great summer album beginning to end. Kinda sad, though. It's more a driving back from the lake with no A/C and the windows open rather than a at-the-lake album.
Grateful Dead Europe 72
I can't even listen to this album (2 disc set really) if it isn't at least 85 degrees out and I don't have a camping trip planned. It *is* summer. "He's Gone," "Jack Straw," "China Cat ->Rider," and "Sugar Magnolia" especially.
Built to Spill There's Nothing Wrong with Love
Aaah. Just like in that list upthread. "Big Dipper" into "Car" makes me just about weep with the summer-ness of it all.
Just one more? Eeek!
Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Because it is just so fun. You can't help but stir out of your hot-and-humid stupor when the frogs start chirping in "After Hours".
Honorable mention: Calexico, Hot Rail (I'm so glad I got this as my first album of theirs and that hayden put them on that mix and that I listened to people raving about them here - essential summertime music), any Gillian Welch or Split Lip and Exile on Main Street oh! and Steel Pulse for the essential-but-not-Marley summer reggae.
Also I have been on a giant Jesus and Mary Chain kick lately, especially Darklands. Not really summer-y but still loving it.
Finally, joe - the newsradio summer listening recs? Your brain scares me in a "how do you fit it all in there" kinda way.