This totally made my night! Go Marianne! Go Hec!
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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.
Scrappy - Aug 11, 2004 6:18:19 pm PDT #4542 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
evil jimi - Aug 11, 2004 9:36:04 pm PDT #4543 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Great news, Hec.
This is tricky, because IIRC at the time they first released that album they were called the Flowers.
You recall correctly, billytea. After the song/album came out, Iva Davies decided "Flowers" wasn't a great idea for a band name, so changed it to "Icehouse".
Angus G - Aug 12, 2004 3:49:05 am PDT #4544 of 10003
Roguish Laird
I can't believe no-one has mentioned the most spectacular redundancy of all time, Lionel Ritchie's "All Night Long (All Night)"!
erinaceous - Aug 12, 2004 4:14:34 am PDT #4545 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Does anyone have the tracklisting to the Moonlit Bonus Mix? I want to send these off today but the idea of 22 untitled songs fills me with angst.
Angus, "One of Our Submarines" just KILLS me. Love it unconditionally.
tommyrot - Aug 12, 2004 4:23:26 am PDT #4546 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Does anyone have the tracklisting to the Moonlit Bonus Mix?
Yes.
It was odd... when I stuck the CD into iTunes it just came up with 22 unnamed tracks. But when I stuck it into my linux box the cd program used some other CDDB server and came up with all the track titles, artists, etc.
Anyway, when I get a spare sec. I'll email 'em to you.
eta: There were 19 tracks on the Bonus CD... right?
eta²: Oh, I found the list on an email to myself. Insent to your profile address....
eta³: Or should I post the list here? Anyone else want to see it?
erinaceous - Aug 12, 2004 4:38:19 am PDT #4547 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Got it! Thank you!
I think I was using "22" as a generic mix cd number. :-)
Joe, this means these will go out to you today or tomorrow. Watch for 'em!
Angus G - Aug 12, 2004 6:54:30 am PDT #4548 of 10003
Roguish Laird
Erincaeous, glad you like "One of Our Submarines"; how glorious were the early 80s when this kind of thing was actually in the charts!
tommyrot - Aug 12, 2004 6:59:34 am PDT #4549 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've always liked "One of Our Submarines" but I never knew it charted. (Was that in Britian, the US, or both?) I thought "She Blinded Me with Science" was the only hit from that album.
Angus G - Aug 12, 2004 7:04:30 am PDT #4550 of 10003
Roguish Laird
No, you're probably right, tommyrot, I have no idea whether "Submarines" itself charted, just reflecting on the general fact that the charts (esp. the British charts which are the only ones I pay attention to) were full of weird esoteric electropop around that time. (But I believe "Wind Power" did also chart in the UK.)
Frankenbuddha - Aug 12, 2004 7:07:30 am PDT #4551 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think "Hyperactive" also charted in the US. Nowhere near as high as "Science", but I remember hearing it a lot for a spell there.
eta, always adored "Submarines". And "Wind Power" for that matter.