Along with parodies, which I’ve always been fond of, I’m also a collector of odd covers and mashups. So I was delighted this morning to see this, courtesy of gridlore
Tag: music Page 6 of 10
Everyone else posted links to Jonathan Coulton’s “First of May”, a song I truly love, so I figured I didn’t need to. But then redaxe posted THIS, and I had to share it.
NSFW, obviously:
Oh, nice! Courtesy of Unqualified Offerings, a pointer towards a collection of Warren Zevon live bootlegs, which have been authorized by the Zevon estate.
UO also points us to an appreciation of Zevon in the Wall Street Journal, from which he got the pointer to the archive.
Hysterical video that I picked up from jeriendhal.
Everyone has a favourite Christmas song. Mine is “Fairytale of New York” by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl.
The BBC news site has a nice article about the song.. Thanks to kitanzi for sending me the link.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Well, the number of people scratching their heads and looking at me funny has slowed to a trickle, so I guess it’s time to reveal the answers, to better help you run off to iTunes and try to figure out what I’m talking about. If you still want a crack at the lyrics before looking at the answers, click here.
When asked to describe my musical tastes, the word I’d most often use is “eclectic”. And as a result, I’ve been meaning to get around to the whole “post lines from X songs and let people guess what they are” meme for a while, but just never got around to it.
So, tonight I have. Here’s a delightful trip through the familiar and the obscure that is known as “My iTunes on Shuffle”. Remember, no fair doing Internet searches! (As a note, I did skip over songs which either have no lyrics (duh) or which had the title of the song in the opening lines of the verse.).
Enjoy!
1. Down by the river, the water’s running low as I wander underneath the trees
2. As I walk through this wicked world, searching for light in the darkness of insanity
3. The fly on the coachwheel told me that he got it and he knew what to do with it
4. They made up their minds and they started packing. They left before the sun came up that day
5. Politicians preaching on TV saying nothing but vote for me.Everybody everywhere, we got a love
6. Gonna take a chance on her, one bullet in the cylinder
7. Whatcha gonna choose the poison or the lines? Lived with crazy pain in all your life
8. You don’t have to take the bar exam to see what you’ve done is Ignoramus 103
9. Kelly is raising her son; his dad left just after the birth
10. So you think you’re a Romeo playing a part in a picture-show?
11. The Tupamaros got a platinum card, all right. I got a heart of gold and it’s time to get hard and I like it
12. He left a card, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush next to a note that said “use these down to your bones”
13. Tears fill up my eyes I’m washed away with sorrow, and somewhere in my mind I know there’s no tomorrow
14. It don’t matter what you do, I don’t care what you say, It don’t matter where you go, honey
15. I was trained in Arizona in a secret desert camp where we did night manoeuvres without a lighted lamp
16. Here I go, going down, down, down; my mind is a blank, my head is spinning around and around
17. What may I ask is never enough; It’s never too sweet and it’s never too rough
18. Peter said to Paul you know all those words we wrote are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go
19. Floating in the summer sunshine, we are flying, we are blue; Falling like a summer raindrop, like a teardrop, like the dew
20. Lost track of what i had to get done, not meeting anyone, stuck in one place while the snowflakes all come down
Saw a pointer to this in kobold‘s journal. This may be the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen.
- Our housewarming party was a great success! Thanks to Alice, thatcrazycajun, hilfy, anaisdjuna, joyeuse13, and abovenyquist for coming over!
- kitanzi and I met up with Alice and thatcrazycajun to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I thought it was a fine film, and the gal playing Luna Lovegood is just spot-perfect. Thumbs up!
- hilfy came over for dinner Friday night. We had good food, good wine, and good conversation. A very enjoyable evening.
- We went to see Ben Wakeman play on Saturday. I’ve been a big fan of Ben’s for years, and have even covered a few of his songs in filk circles. He gave his usual great show, and I got chat with him briefly to let him know he has a fan in the UK (bardling: he says hi and thanks!). One funny moment came when he forgot the first line to one of the songs on his new album. After two false starts, he said “Does anyone know the words to this song?” I carefully called out the first line for him, and he said “Thank you!” and launched into it. Later, by request, he did “White Male Folk Singer” and forgot the words to that too. *grin*
- The check engine light (also known on some models of car as the “set aside $400” light) came on while we were driving back from the concert, and I noticed it was idling funny. We got home OK, but i made plans to put it in the shop on Monday.
- Our 3rd wedding anniversary was Sunday! We celebrated by going out for lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings Cafe, and then went shopping for stuff for the cats. What glamorous lives we lead! Sunday night, we watched the premiere of “Masters of Science Fiction”, an anthology series that ABC has already canceled. Which is a pity, because the debut episode was brilliant. I recommend picking up the 3 remaining episodes if you have a chance, and keep a look out for an eventual DVD release.
- The auto place called me back this morning, after I dropped the car off yesterday afternoon. The actual thing I took it in for was pretty minor, but there’s about $2600 worth of maintenance that need to be done. Fluid changes, full tune up with new spark plugs and cables, radiator hose, and, most expensively, new struts. We discussed the need and urgency of the various items, and I ended up authorizing them for about $1200 of the repairs. The remaining part will have to be budgeted out over the next few months.
- Shortly after the car people called, I got a half-hour warning call from the delivery service that was bringing us our anniversary present to each other. We got a king-sized bed from The Original Mattress Factory. This is something we’d wanted for quite some time, because while there was nothing structurally wrong with our queen-sized bed, it had become to small. When I started sleeping with the CPAP, I started sleeping on my back, and suddenly was taking up a lot more bed than I used to. The queen bed will now be the guest room bed, and has already been moved into place. Who wants to come visit?
- Speaking of visiting, I am going to be in San Francisco on Labor Day weekend! The reason for my trip is to visit cadhla, so I have no idea what sort of availability I may have otherwise, but, hey, y’know, I’m gonna be there all weekend, including Monday. (My return flight leaves at 10:30pm Monday and will land me back in Atlanta at 6am, just in time to go to work on Tuesday morning.) I now proceed to do the bouncy I-get-to-see-Seanan chair dance, which I’m told is very cute in a demented sort of way.
- kitanzi just e-mailed me to let me know she’d won a pair of tickets to see Peter Paul and Mary at Chastain Park Amphitheatre on Friday! Wheee!
- My friend Dina, who I have not seen in far too long, is coming down the last weekend of September with her two children, and we’re going to go to the zoo and the aquarium and the pool and who knows what else?
And that’s most of the news that’s fit to print. On the whole, it’s mostly positive, and what isn’t positive isn’t really more than annoying. So I declare it, on the whole, good.
I’ve been a member of BMG Music Club for some time, and while I rarely order anything from them on purpose, I get a lot of interesting music from them by accident, and as a result, over the years I’ve accumulated a number of free music points. I decided to cash some of those in last week, and the box came today.
Below is a sample of why my mp3 shuffle tends to give people whiplash:
Sam’s Town – The Killers
The Crane Wife – The Decemberists
30 #1 Hits – Elvis Presley
White Lilies Island – Natalie Imbruglia
Painted From Memory – Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach
The Best Of Sessions At West 54th – Various Artists
Lilith Fair – A Celebration Of Women In Music – Various Artists
Redemption’s Son – Joseph Arthur
Perfectly Frank (Remastered) – Tony Bennett(Part two of the order comes next week, and includes Frank Sinatra, Richard Thompson, Soul Asylum, and Geroge Gershwin.)
And I still have 24 “free” cds to order. So, what should I go looking for? Bear in mind that I’m limited to what http://www.bmgmusic.com/ actually carries, so really outfield stuff is usually not an option.
Open thread: Recommend me some music.