Sleater-Kinney: One More Hour ("That dress you wore, those pretty shoes")
Hole: Asking for It ("Angel dust and my dress just comes undone")
They aren't really about dresses but they mention them and they're good songs, too.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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.
Glamcookie - Jun 27, 2005 9:35:41 am PDT #9136 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Jon B. - Jun 27, 2005 10:50:01 am PDT #9137 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
- Red house painters - "Summer dress"
- Scientists - "Murderess in a purple dress"
- Smog - "Real Live Dress"
- Smog - "Your Dress"
- Dukes of Stratosphear - "Your Gold Dress"
- Jean Smith - "A Little Black Dress"
- Versus - "Lose That Dress"
- +/- - "Summer Dress 1 (All Her Winter Clothes)"
Fred Pete - Jun 27, 2005 10:58:27 am PDT #9138 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Mitch Ryder -- "Devil with a Blue Dress On"
I'm not sure who recorded it, but there's a c. 1920 song called "Alice Blue Gown."
Nicklas - Jun 27, 2005 11:09:16 am PDT #9139 of 10003
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
I picked out The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' to see what it would give me for a mix. Among other things, 3 Clay Aiken songs.
Bad mix. Only one song/artist should be in a mix.
Alicia K - Jun 27, 2005 11:31:50 am PDT #9140 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
U2 has "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" off the Pop album.
Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2005 11:40:47 am PDT #9141 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Erin McKeown's "Cinematic" has the line "she wore off like a prom dress." And it is a great song, besidews.
joe boucher - Jun 27, 2005 12:52:21 pm PDT #9142 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
"I'm a Boy" by the Who isn't about dresses per se, but since Headcase Bill's sisters and mother put make up on him and he's lucky if he gets trousers to wear I've assumed he's wearing a dress. I think that's his complaint, but maybe they make him run around in (or maybe even out of) his underwear. Anyway, great song and a great song doesn't need much excuse.
A couple cool interviews on the radio today. First, Touré (filling in for Leonard Lopate) and Greg Tate. Although the website says they'll be discussing Tate's upcoming book on Hendrix they didn't. They started with Tate's Voice article "Hiphop Turns 30" and went from there. Tate, especially as a writer, isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I really dig him and can't wait to read the Hendrix book. I also wish he'd expand his "Electric Miles" articles into a book. Anyway, cool interview and it's a blast listening to Touré's reactions to the intro songs he picked for the show. He digs his own taste and God bless him for it!
Terry Gross interviewed Jason Moran today on Fresh Air. I have a couple of his albums, and I went to a simulcast he did from J&R for WBGO, and I wish I liked his music more. Don't get me wrong, I like his music, but I don't love it... and I wish I did. He's a really interesting guy and I love what he's trying to do, but it doesn't grab me like I want it to. The James P. Johnson tune that Terry plays during the interview is great but a lot of the time I'm left a little cold. A subject for further review as Christgau puts it. Always happy to listen to him talk, though.
Gandalfe - Jun 27, 2005 1:20:56 pm PDT #9143 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Oh, and I am looking for songs about dresses for my new blog.
Depeche Mode - New Dress
Depeche Mode - Blue Dress
Jack Off Jill - Devil With the Black Dress On (emphasis mine)
Lou Reed - Make Up (it does discuss dresses, iirc)
Shock Treatment Soundtrack - Little Black Dress (This was the sequel to Rocky Horror. Song performed by Richard O'Brien, Jessica Harper, Patricia Quinn and Barry Humphries.)
Edited because there IS a difference between VU and Lou Reed
DavidS - Jun 27, 2005 1:58:09 pm PDT #9144 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Tate, especially as a writer, isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I really dig him and can't wait to read the Hendrix book.
I love Flyboy In the Buttermilk, and bought half a dozen when it got remaindered and gave them away to friends. His piece on Ornette Coleman's wardrobe choices was also fun. Plus his bafflement at King Sunny Ade's musicians all being serious Hank Williams' fans. (Hank is HUGE in West Africa.)
Hayden - Jun 27, 2005 2:04:17 pm PDT #9145 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
A quick glance through my collection gave me the following dress songs:
- The 6ths - "All Dressed Up In Dreams"
- Richard Buckner - "Gauzy Dress in the Sun"
- Mingus - "Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue"
- The Pentangle - "Wedding Dress"
- The Tonebenders - "Favorite Dress" (I'd probably have to email you this one, 'cause it's been out-of-print since about a week after its release)
And you already have the Versus song.