Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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, rats. Now I'm really going:
"Western Movies" by the Olympics (numerous TV Westerns of the '50s)
"Searchin'" by the Coasters (numerous fictional detectives)
"Don't Stand So Close to Me" by the Police (Nabokov's Lolita)
"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" by Allan Sherman (Ulysses)
"Rocket 2 U" by the Jets (All My Children)
"Roll Over Beethoven" by Chuck Berry, later covered by ELO (name-checks Beethoven and Tchaikovsky)
Oh, rats. Now I'm really going:
Hee. Sorry!
"Rocket 2 U" by the Jets (All My Children)
Really? The soap opera?
2HB by Roxy Music is about Bogie
"Key Largo" and "Casablanca" by Bertie Higgins also center around him. "Key Largo" includes the line "Here's lookin' at you, kid."
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Chuck Berry:
Marlo [sic] Venus was a beautiful lass
Had the world in the palm of her hand
Lost both her arms in a wrasslin' match
To meet a brown eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.
Really? The soap opera?
Yes. I don't remember the exact words, but the idea is that the TV's broken, so she can't watch her soap.
There's also an obscure tribute to General Hospital called "General Hospi-tale" by the Afternoon Delights, which had a very brief moment of popularity in the early '80s.
A song that mentions a piece of art (movie, sculpture, poem, whatev.)
There's always the Jonathan Richman hits "Pablo Picasso" and "Vincent Van Gogh".
There's also an obscure tribute to General Hospital called "General Hospi-tale" by the Afternoon Delights, which had a very brief moment of popularity in the early '80s.
:sheepish: I think I bought this 45. Hey, I was in high school and watched GH, what can I say.
What song would you play at every birthday party you would ever throw for yourself?
One of two Prince songs (but I can't decide which) -- "Baby, I'm a Star" or "Sexy Motherfucker."
Right Profile -- The Clash (about Montgomery Clift, baby, mentions some of his movies)
It looks like my band is playing in NYC! On Sept. 30 at the 169 Bar.
Aside from playing DC a couple of times this will be our first out-o-town show! I'm very excited.