Now playing: Moby's cover of "That's When I Reach for My Revolver."
IIRC, the Conleys earned a vacation to the Bahamas thanks to the royalties from that cover. Go Moby!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Jon B. - Aug 30, 2004 7:21:30 am PDT #4759 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
billytea - Aug 30, 2004 6:04:37 pm PDT #4760 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.
Wondering if anyone can help with a musical question. I have a couple of friends who are getting married shortly, and they want Moon River as part of the wedding music. They're convinced they heard a version by Andy Williams that (this is the tricky bit) didn't include a female chorus in the middle. That's the version they want.
Does this ring any bells for anyone, and if so, do you happen to know where they might find this track?
DavidS - Aug 30, 2004 6:13:30 pm PDT #4761 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have a couple of friends who are getting married shortly, and they want Moon River as part of the wedding music. They're convinced they heard a version by Andy Williams that (this is the tricky bit) didn't include a female chorus in the middle. That's the version they want.
paging Fred Pete...
Hmmm. You know you can get the version of Audrey singing it. It was only just released on CD in the 90s, but it's available, and who wouldn't want that version?
Side note: REM used to do this in concert. Michael Stipe would sing it a capella.
billytea - Aug 30, 2004 6:38:43 pm PDT #4762 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.
Hmmm. You know you can get the version of Audrey singing it. It was only just released on CD in the 90s, but it's available, and who wouldn't want that version?
Unfortunately, the answer appears to be the bride. Though I may download it anyway and present it as an option. (I've been authorised to collect up to ten different versions thereof.)
...Done.
Jim - Aug 31, 2004 3:04:25 am PDT #4763 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
There's also a gorgeous spanish version on the soundtrack od Mala Educacion. Although it will evoke images of prepubescent boys frolicking suggestively in slomo to anyone who's seen the film, and that may not be 100% what you want for a wedding.
Fred Pete - Aug 31, 2004 3:59:26 am PDT #4764 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
paging Fred Pete...
Sadly, don't know of any such version by Andy Williams. They might be thinking of Jerry Butler's version, but Butler is far more soulful than Williams.
It shouldn't be difficult to find -- it's on a number of compilations of Butler's music.
billytea - Aug 31, 2004 4:31:22 am PDT #4765 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.
Sadly, don't know of any such version by Andy Williams. They might be thinking of Jerry Butler's version, but Butler is far more soulful than Williams.
Jerry Butler, hm? I'll suggest it to them.
Hayden - Aug 31, 2004 7:07:33 am PDT #4766 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hey, congrats, Victor! I just read your announcement. Please pass along my further congrats to Thessaly.
tommyrot - Aug 31, 2004 10:13:23 am PDT #4767 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.
Yay! I have finally managed to find a copy of The Name of This Band is Talking Heads in a record store. Also, I just discovered that a bunch of albums by The Passage were re-released on CD a few years back. So today I received their first album pindrop from Amazon.
Either one of these would be enough to make my day....
eta: Oooh, some of the bonus songs in TToTBiTH are really cool! So far, I really like "The Big Country", "The Girls Want to Be With the Girls", and "Electricity (Drugs)."
Hayden - Aug 31, 2004 12:30:43 pm PDT #4768 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I just saw a story that Mo Tucker is joining the Raveonettes.