I am going to no shows; having missed Dar Williams at the Birchmere I must observe a period of sulking for a month.
I'm sure she'll be touring Greece this fall. Or was that Nana Mouskouri?
Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
DavidS - Aug 18, 2004 1:48:09 pm PDT #4622 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Volans - Aug 18, 2004 2:24:15 pm PDT #4623 of 10003
move out and draw fire
Yeah, I get them confused too.
DavidS - Aug 18, 2004 3:54:30 pm PDT #4624 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yeah, I get them confused too.
It's the glasses.
billytea - Aug 18, 2004 4:18:00 pm PDT #4625 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm sure she'll be touring Greece this fall. Or was that Nana Mouskouri?
My mother at one stage, with the glasses she wore and her hairstyle, was a dead ringer for Nana Mouskouri. Which, all things considered, is better than one's father looking like Demis Roussos.
Michele T. - Aug 18, 2004 4:20:57 pm PDT #4626 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Yes, Tracy Ullman covered "They Don't Know..." but Kirsty MacColl wrote it, and her version of it opens her great compilation Galore.
erinaceous - Aug 18, 2004 6:31:23 pm PDT #4627 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Heh. And here I was thinking for months that a country music version of "They Don't Know" would be brilliant!
Fred Pete - Aug 19, 2004 4:05:40 am PDT #4628 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
And here I was thinking for months that a country music version of "They Don't Know" would be brilliant!
I don't know -- Ullman made that song so much her own.
One of the most charming pop songs of 1984 -- which may have been the best year ever for pop music in the U.S.
Jim - Aug 19, 2004 4:21:05 am PDT #4629 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Although the new (acapella) Bjork album is as gorgeous as anything she's done, combining Aphex Twin, Tim Buckley, Kate Bush and Scott Walker to brilliant effect, there's this moment on the last track where someone starts mewing like a little kitten that just makes me giggle and notice the preposterousness of the preceding hour - beatboxing! throat singing! Snyder! - and almost ruins the suspension of disbelief.
Michele T. - Aug 19, 2004 5:34:01 am PDT #4630 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I don't know -- Ullman made that song so much her own.
Hardly. If you hear Kirsty's version (recorded first) it's pretty clear Ullman is once again doing an imitation. And a pale one, at that.
Fred Pete - Aug 19, 2004 6:18:31 am PDT #4631 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Ah, Michele. I haven't heard the original.