Moved from where I wrongly posted in Natter:
I just had an insane idea for a Buffista mix theme: MORE COWBELL!
All the songs would have cowbell in them.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
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.
Sue - Aug 11, 2005 11:51:38 am PDT #9677 of 10003
hip deep in pie
joe boucher - Aug 11, 2005 11:58:07 am PDT #9678 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
MORE COWBELL!
How about songs about putting on pants, preferably one leg at a time?
msbelle - Aug 11, 2005 12:00:51 pm PDT #9679 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
loving sue SO MUCH. My work AIM says "I gotta have more cowbell" everytime someone logs on. AWESOME.
Hayden - Aug 11, 2005 12:44:52 pm PDT #9680 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I don't own anything and I would love to hear more.
Cool, I'll put some on a mix for you.
All the songs would have cowbell in them.
OK, I'm in.
joe boucher - Aug 11, 2005 1:33:22 pm PDT #9681 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
I call dibs on "Un Poco Loco".
Can we finish the unusual love songs one first? Or am I standing here with the paddles while Corwood is saying, "Call it." </ER>
Steph L. - Aug 11, 2005 1:40:30 pm PDT #9682 of 10003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Can we finish the unusual love songs one first? Or am I standing here with the paddles while Corwood is saying, "Call it."
Oh, hell. It got stalled with me, because I'm a lazy git.
Okay, I'm going to post my song right now to Buffistarawk. I mean it. Go check in a few minutes.
joe boucher - Aug 11, 2005 1:53:40 pm PDT #9683 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Go check in a few minutes.
She does not lie. Although I was really hoping it would be a paean to Pete Rose. Or maybe Ken Anderson. There was a quarterback. Nice mustache, too.
Steph L. - Aug 11, 2005 1:59:49 pm PDT #9684 of 10003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Although I was really hoping it would be a paean to Pete Rose. Or maybe Ken Anderson. There was a quarterback. Nice mustache, too.
Ah, all the paeans around town are about Marvin Lewis these days. (Quite possibly deservedly so. We'll see this season.)
joe boucher - Aug 11, 2005 2:01:34 pm PDT #9685 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
And combining two recent thread themes, Robert Christgau's review of 69 Love Songs (note the first line):
69 Love Songs [Merge, 1999]
Accusing Stephin Merritt of insincerity would be like accusing Cecil Taylor of playing too many notes--not only does it go without saying, it's what he's selling. I say if he'd lived all 69 songs himself he'd be dead already, and the only reality I'm sure they attest to is that he's very much alive. I dislike cynicism so much that I'm reluctant ever to link it to creative exuberance. But this cavalcade of witty ditties--one-dimensional by design, intellectual when it feels like it, addicted to cheap rhymes, cheaper tunes, and token arrangements, sung by nonentities whose vocal disabilities keep their fondness for pop theoretical--upends my preconceptions the way high art's sposed to. The worst I can say is that its gender-fucking feels more wholehearted than its genre-fucking. Yet even the "jazz" and "punk" cuts are good for a few laughs--total losers are rare indeed. My favorite song from three teeming individually-purchasable-but-what-fun-would-that-be CDs: "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure," who has the savoir faire to rhyme with "closure," "kosher," and "Dozier" before Merritt murders him. A+
Michele T. - Aug 11, 2005 7:30:27 pm PDT #9686 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
OH MY GOD, THE KNITTERS ROCKED SO HARD.
Yes, I am still sick. But I believe that hearing John Doe and Exene rampage through "The New World" -- with a hell of a solo by Dave Alvin that threw in a couple bars of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (plus a couple of lines of the Beatles's "Revolution" sung by John for good measure) -- cured me of ailments I didn't even know I had. My God, that was a blisteringly good show. Tina, thank you for the extra nudge to go see it.