Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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.
I just wish you could hear it in person.
I got home on Sunday night to your fabulous invitation! I was tired and sore and hungry, and it was midnight and I had to be at work in 9 hours, and yet when I pulled it out of the mailbox, I got a big grin and got a little bouncey.
Show 1: Death Cab, Modest Mouse, and someone else.
I would LOVE to see that. I have seen Death Cab, but at the time they were just "the opening act I have to wait through to see Dismemberment Plan, dammit." So I did not give them the respect I now believe they deserve.
Juliana, that mix looks good. my only question would be about this section:
smooth - santana
linus and lucy
I will survive
Push it
Gett Off - Prince
downtown train - waits
It seems to me to be ping-ponging through genres pretty fast, and the transitions might feel jagged. But I'm not sure how I would change that.
feel free to ignore, mock, suggest, or tweak
1) ignore:
2) mock: See 4.
3) suggest: "Let's Get Married" Al Green or "DMSR" by Prince (Dance, music, sex & romance are all apropos, plus it has "All the white people clap your hands on the 4 - now!")
4) tweak: I'd be a little more consistent with the upper-/lower-case protocol.
It's a fine list. If you must obsess over it please promise me you'll have a drink or three while doing so.
My friend Eliot sent me the link to the archive of FMU's The Hound. It took me a while to figure out that it wasn't just the playlists but mp3s for years worth of shows! Once I did, though, I haven't been able to get anything else done. The sorted by title page is my favorite. It makes it easy to find inspired titles -- "Mama Get the Hammer (There's a Fly on Baby's Head)", "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly" -- and inspired names (King Uszniewicz & the Uszniewicztones). I especially recommend the Christmas special featuring "Santa's Doing the Horizontal Twist," "Santa Came Home Drunk" and "Christmas in Jail". Enjoy.
I bought my second pair of Fluevogs today, and came *thisclose* to telling the store clerks about Jon and Hec's discussion about their shoes' importance in living the rock and roll lifestyle.
Today's mp3blogging finds -- Ben Gibbard covering Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know About Us," and a Seattle band called The Lashes, who clearly have listened to a LOT of the Replacements.
Today's mp3blogging finds -- Ben Gibbard covering Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know About Us,"
Is that Kirsty MacColl? I think I have a collection at home that has it sung by Tracy Ullman. If it's the same song, and I'm not on the bad cough medicine.
BTW, Pina Colada Song? Bugs hell out of me. Since when was discovering that both oneself and one's partner were actively seeking new partners through the personals a bonding experience?
"They Don't Know About Us"
Is that the song Tracy Ullman covered?
BTW, Pina Colada Song? Bugs hell out of me. Since when was discovering that both oneself and one's partner were actively seeking new partners through the personals a bonding experience?MST-3K did a nice riff on this.
Also, how could they not know that they both liked pina coladas and making love at midnight?
I love that stupid Pina Colada song. It's like Funyuns -- I have no justification for *why* I like it; I just do.
My biggest mondegreen came when I was eleven and thought that they both liked bean enchiladas, as I had never seen or heard of any such thing as a pina colada and "bean enchilada" had the right number of syllables and the right vowels, and also seemed like a tasty treat someone might like.
It may possibly have struck me as odd that the people in the song were actually spending money to announce their enchilada fondness in the personals, but I was already convinced that grownups were insane anyhow, so this hardly seemed like much of a sticking point.
Oh! In Chicago, I went to the Virgin Megasupercolossalginormous store, and managed to buy only 3 CDs: Jamie Cullum's "Twentysomething," Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" (the remastered 1971 recording, which is just -- GAH), and a Tito Puente CD that's just a random compilation clearly marketed to people who want a fun CD ("Instant Party"), but I wanted it.
The Jamie Cullum CD came bundled with a Virgin sample CD, with songs from current releases, and which I don't have with me, so I can't tell you what's on it.