Bludgeoned in your bed - to rhyme with smash every tooth in your head.
I knew I'd muffed that, but trusted I'd be corrected in no time. I think tooth-smashing is the more violent imagery actually.
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
'Lineage'
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 - Oct 18, 2004 10:03:41 am PDT #5386 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erinaceous - Oct 18, 2004 10:06:43 am PDT #5387 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
OMG Marc Almond did a Jacques Brel tribute album?
WANT.
Gandalfe - Oct 18, 2004 10:08:03 am PDT #5388 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Although she withdrew that after his (brilliant) hi-nrg version of Jackie. I'm very sad about this - I was a colossal Marc fan in the early '90s, and without him I'd never have discovers Walker, Azhnavour, Brel et al.
I love his version of Jackie. Marc Almond is in no small way responsible for my marriage - my now wife came by my place on our first "date" and found that I had a copy of "The Stars We Are", and decided I was worth her time, I guess.
Azhnavour? I am unfamiliar. However, have you heard Jack Lukeman's "Wax" album? That young man has a voice that was MADE for Brel. Too bad most of the stuff he's written himself is shite.
Gandalfe - Oct 18, 2004 10:13:36 am PDT #5389 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
OMG Marc Almond did a Jacques Brel tribute album?
Well, really, two of them, kind of. Tenement Symphony has a few Brel tunes, most notably Jacky. Jacques is (I believe) Brel in it's entirety.
WANT.
Rio - Oct 18, 2004 10:42:53 am PDT #5390 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
track down Simon Reynolds' book Blissed Out
Just ordered it; thanks!
Lyra Jane - Oct 18, 2004 12:06:20 pm PDT #5391 of 10003
Up with the sun
An intro to a top-5-love-songs list, shamelessly stolen from the University of Chicago Student newspaper and reposted because it amuses me:
Some procedural notes before we open the floor: The abstract requirements for love song status are as follows: The song must be addressed to an unnamed subject, addressed only by the second-person singular pronoun or by honorifics like “baby,” “sweet cheeks,” “sugar,” or “lady.” The subject must not have agency. Further, the thematic content song must fall into one of the following broad categories, allowing for poetic inversions and whatnot:
1. I Done You Wrong, Please Forgive Me
2. You Done Me Wrong, Watch Me Forgive You
3. I Enjoy Freaking With You, Let Us Begin/Continue Freaking Together
4. Everything (Including Freaking) Is Going Great
Criteria specific to this list: No live versions, no ironic covers, no songs containing the word “fuck” and no Brill Building shit, by which I mean the song must in some way express sentiments native to the singer, or the singer must have socioeconomic fraternité with the songwriter, if they are not the same person. Anyway, the list, in 5-4-3-2-1 order.
Betsy HP - Oct 18, 2004 12:07:25 pm PDT #5392 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Is that what "Le Freak" was about. t enlightened
DavidS - Oct 18, 2004 12:09:55 pm PDT #5393 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is that what "Le Freak" was about.
The origin of that particular song is that Niles Rodgers and Bernard Edwards couldn't get into Studio 54 one night. So they started a chant of "Awwwww, Fuck Off!" And got the whole crowd going. So they made it into a song, after a retitling.
See also: "Super Freak" and "No Freakin' on the Dance Floor" and a berjillion other 80s funk hits.
Betsy HP - Oct 18, 2004 1:07:41 pm PDT #5394 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
"Le fuck, c'est Chuck?" Hard to make that'n rhyme.
DavidS - Oct 18, 2004 1:40:50 pm PDT #5395 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"Le fuck, c'est Chuck?" Hard to make that'n rhyme.
You just did!