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."
There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.
Jasmine ,'Power Play'
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.
Steph L. - Aug 19, 2005 7:19:58 am PDT #9762 of 10003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
lisah - Aug 19, 2005 7:25:56 am PDT #9763 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Right Profile -- The Clash (about Montgomery Clift, baby, mentions some of his movies)
lisah - Aug 19, 2005 7:37:59 am PDT #9764 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
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.
joe boucher - Aug 19, 2005 7:49:50 am PDT #9765 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Cool. Where's the 169 Bar?
lisah - Aug 19, 2005 7:52:27 am PDT #9766 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Where's the 169 Bar?
Chinatown...169 E. Broadway
joe boucher - Aug 19, 2005 8:05:32 am PDT #9767 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Lyra Jane - Aug 19, 2005 9:32:09 am PDT #9768 of 10003
Up with the sun
What song would you play at every birthday party you would ever throw for yourself?
"Birthday," the Sugarcubes. Yay early Bjork!
A song that mentions a piece of art (movie, sculpture, poem, whatev.)
The Smithereens song "A Lonely Place" is about the Bogart movie of the same name.
And then of course there's "the old man in/that book by Nabokov" in "Don't Stand So Close to Me."
joe boucher - Aug 19, 2005 9:41:05 am PDT #9769 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
For some reason I think Betsy will like this Richard Thompson song. (It can be heard here, starting around 16:50.)
And then of course there's "the old man in/that book by Nabokov" in "Don't Stand So Close to Me."
Even better is their Pale Fire tribute, "Don't Drive My Powerful Kramler": I was the shadow of the wax Sting slain/Zembla's my home/Kinbote's the name.
Michele T. - Aug 19, 2005 10:10:09 am PDT #9770 of 10003
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
If the song has to actually explictly mention the work of art, rather just do a namecheck, hm. Off the top of my head, there's "Certain Songs" by The Hold Steady, which references a whole bunch of 80s songs, and "504" by the Old 97s talks about an "Elmore Leonard novel" (got the band a nice note from Mr L., too!)... I'll keep looking.
I'm stuck on the Mountain Goats's "Grendel's Mother," which is *about* Beowulf, but doesn't actually mention it.
DavidS - Aug 19, 2005 10:17:17 am PDT #9771 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Lloyd Cole's "Rattlesnakes" mentions reading Simone De Beauvior and Eve Marie Saint in On The Waterfront.