track down Simon Reynolds' book Blissed Out
Just ordered it; thanks!
Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.
Buffy ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Rio - Oct 18, 2004 10:42:53 am PDT #5390 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
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!
Frankenbuddha - Oct 18, 2004 1:57:44 pm PDT #5396 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Le Fuck, c'est duck", perhaps?
DavidS - Oct 18, 2004 2:15:11 pm PDT #5397 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Actually I think it'd have been something more like..."Fuck off! Lucky Toff!"
Or "Fuck Off, Veal Orloff!"
Okay, maybe not. It only there was a Duck Orloff.
Jesse - Oct 18, 2004 2:18:48 pm PDT #5398 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Anti-pop snobbery!
Angus G - Oct 18, 2004 6:00:58 pm PDT #5399 of 10003
Roguish Laird
Ha, yes, and also, "socioeconomic fraternité"? Bloody students.
Anyway, update on mix CDs: so far I've only received DX's and Teppy's, and I'll be sending these on to moonlit this afternoon.