Zoe ,'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.
Oh yeah - almost everything on the box is essential listening. Great great stuff. I'm just a little over familiar with it.
I might be too, actually. I looked at the tracklist, and I already have about a quarter of the songs, and know a good chunk of the rest. I love "Just Like Honey," but I think I have the song on three CDs now. Ditto "Radio Free Europe."
I'll probably put it on my Xmas list anyhow.
Mixy news:
msbelle, I'm burning a disc for Angus now, and will take it and the four CDs I have to the post office tomorrow.
I had to make the following changes to the original track list to get it to fit, or because I don't have the original MP3 anymore. (New computer and all.):
1. I swapped "Today the Weather Plays Tricks On Me," from the Monsoon Wedding soundtrack, for "Mon Amur, Mon Ami."
2. Elvis Costello's cover of "Good Year for the Roses," instead of "Take Me to the River."
3. Yo La Tengo's "Autumn Sweater" for RHCP's "Higher Ground."
4. I took off "Black Velvet," because I love it but everyone knows the song anyway, and I was getting a migrane trying to figure out what else I had to swap out to get the CD down to length.
5. "The Weakest Shade of Blue," by the Pernice Bros., in place of "Green Shirt," because I don't need two Costello songs on the mix.
Ooh. "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" was my first Postal Service song. I love it too. And ooh, "July, July!" And I didn't know "Higher Ground" was a cover.
And of course, I have no clue about this "Black Velvet" business.
You need to listen to Stevie Wonder, P-C. A lot. A lot a lot.
Ah, Dismemberment Plan! And that is actually a mix cd formula that I've never seen before. How rare and exciting.
Happy belated engagement wishes to Rio & Bob.
We're not engaged!!!!!! OK?!!!!!! Do you see a ring on this finger, bitch????
RIP John Peel. I've been listening to his show since I was 11. It's no exaggeration to say that british rock music would be unrecognisable without him.
Holy Crap!
Was just about to post that. So very very sad.
More to say about Peel. Since the late 60s, he'd been playing the latest, weirdest, wildest music every week. He was the first to play everything from Pink Floyd to Dizzee Rascal on national radio. Every music fan I know thought of him as their favourite uncle. For me his voice and new music is inseperable - the number of songs I automatically associate with the little snatch of him talking caught on a tape I made of his show when I was 14 is uncountable. From when I was 11 to this last week, every time I listened to his show I heard something brilliant. It'd be easier for me to list the bands I love that I didn't first hear on Peel. I hate phrases like end of an era, but UK music radio will never be the same again.