I heard a good review of a blues movie -- well, a movie of a blues concert called something like "Lightning in a Bottle" this morning. Has anyone here seen it?
(Also, they reviewed the John Lennon Acoustic album which sounds like fun.)
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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.
sumi - Nov 05, 2004 8:51:27 am PST #5787 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Alicia K - Nov 05, 2004 9:05:24 am PST #5788 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Don't you cry no more, tommyrot.
Rick - Nov 05, 2004 10:53:31 am PST #5789 of 10003
Everybody's Crying Mercy - by Mose Allison. It's on Kojak Variety, EC's 2nd album of covers.
Bonnie Raitt also has a nice version on one of her early, pre-success albumns. It's a damn fine song.
Hayden - Nov 05, 2004 11:53:00 am PST #5790 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
More Gang of Four needed, I think.
You probably didn't notice the ten minutes when I had "This heaven gives me migraine" as my tagline the other day before I switched to the Fiery Furnaces. I only realized on Monday that this song is specifically (rather than generally) about Bush.
"We Got Back The Plague" - Fiery Furnaces
That easy-going man of blood
Mucking out in the McLennan county mud
If you're hoping he won't, well of course then he must
Driving his truck through the McLennan county dust
I read in my book on Sunday afternoon
So it's easy to think the end's coming soon
But though sometimes the signs from heaven are vague
Early November we got back the plague
While beautiful Laura's sweeping the porch
He's teleconferencing up his operation torch
And I don't care if he bombs Babylon to hell
Except for he's building Babylon here as well
Waking up in Cedar Rapids asking for allies
Praising his leeches and looking for likewise
Down in St. Charles local talent he hawks
Smirking and sowing the winds as he talks
In Northern Virginia on their excursions
L.U.V. in with all their diversions
Horns for hounds and spurs for horses
Release the committed 72-hour task forces
Bentonville and Dallas with gasoline douse
Then back to Crawford going over to the firehouse
Behind the curtains not turning much of a trick
Sicking ourselves to make ourselves sick
That easy-going man of blood
Mucking out in the McLennan county mud
If you're hoping he won't, well of course then he must
Digging us down under the McLennan county dust.
Other great protest songs:
- "Christmastime in Washington" - Steve Earle
- "I Ain't Got No Home," "Deportees," and "Pretty Boy Floyd" (amongst many, many others) - Woody Guthrie
- Just about anything by the Minutemen, but especially "Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing," "Working Men Are Pissed," and "This Ain't No Picnic"
- "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down" - Ramones
- most Gang of Four, but "Not Great Men" kicks major ass
- much of the Mekons, but maybe "Shanty" and "Heaven and Back" are speaking to me above others right now
- "Reuters" - Wire
Gandalfe - Nov 05, 2004 11:55:34 am PST #5791 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
John Denver's Ballad of Spiro Agnew should have been up there.
Shanshu - Nov 05, 2004 12:27:21 pm PST #5792 of 10003
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
lyrically, Talib Kweli.
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did five mill' - I ain't been rhymin like Common since (Jay-Z)
Johnny Cash - Singin in Vietnam Talkin Blues
Anything by Brecht & Weill, but especially Ballad of the Soldier's Wife and What Keeps Mankind Alive
Gandalfe - Nov 05, 2004 12:40:57 pm PST #5793 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Anything by Brecht
With the exception of Dirty Song:
If a woman's hips are ample
Then I want her in the hay
Skirt and stockings all a-rumple
(Cheerfully) - for that's my way
If the woman bites in pleasure
Then I wipe it clean with hay
My mouth and her lap together
(Thoroughly) - for that's my way
If the woman goes on loving
When I feel too tired to play
I smile and go off waving
(Amiably) - for that's my way
Shanshu - Nov 05, 2004 12:43:16 pm PST #5794 of 10003
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
lyrically, Talib Kweli.
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did five mill' - I ain't been rhymin like Common since (Jay-Z)
Ha! OK - ALMOST anything.
DavidS - Nov 05, 2004 12:48:24 pm PST #5795 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Guess what?
I get to spend the weekend picking the songs they'll playing on NPR for our interview.
I'll be America's DJ!!!! Bwahahahahahaha!
Hayden - Nov 05, 2004 1:03:41 pm PST #5796 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
That's the kind of evil laughter I can support.