Lately I’ve listened over and over again to:
“Tribute” by Tenacious D - Clever, hilarious, and it rocks. Starts hilarious and ends like an exquisitely silly Dio song.
“Trip Like I Do” by The Crystal Method - Totally sick funky breakbeat track, wacked out. When I listen to it I have a distinct image of the people that were dancing at the second stage of a rave I went to moving in slow motion. Weird, trippy, and it gets crazier and faster as the song goes on. It rocks.
LC
Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouba” soundtrack. It’s playing right now, and has been every night since I saw the show a few weeks ago. I love it.
Forgot something about “Trip Like I Do” - There’s a great story behind the girl’s voice sample. Apparently one of the members of the group met this girl at a show and ended up giving her his number. She was massively messed up and called him, leaving this psychotic message on his machine. The rest is drug-soaked breakbeat history.
LC
I thought “Trip like I Do” was by Filter?
“When You’re Evil” by Cabaret Voltaire. Hilarious song. Sounds like something Gilbert and Sullivan would have done if they wrote a song about Mr. Burns.
“Heart-Shaped Box” by Nirvana. I’ve got a large number of poignant memories about a friend of mine locked in that song. It’ll always be the song I associate with her. By the same band, “In Bloom”, for some odd reason or another. In fact, I’m currently on a Nirvana binge.
Disc 2 of The Who Thirty Years of Maximum R & B
Doctor My Eyes Jackson Browne
Love Is Brian McKnight & Vanessa Williams
Somebody’s Baby Jackson Browne
Boulevard Jackson Browne
Do I sense a pattern here?
Where The Streets Have No Name U2
Wait White Lion
Kiss Me Deadly Lita Ford
Paradise City Guns N’ Roses
Sweet Child O’ Mine Guns N’ Roses
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” - Blue Oyster Cult
which has recently been replaced by:
“96 Tears” - ? & the Mysterions
The Zepher Song - Red Hot Chli Peppers
Yesterday - Beatles
The Innocent - Mest, featuring Good Charlotte and Goldfinger
Medicine - Guster
Keep FIshing - Weezer
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
To find a job
is like a haystack needle
'cause where he lives
they don’t hire colored people
Just apply this idea to all of us nowadays, Stevie.
This satelite station at work keeps playing the original “Days Go Bye.” (as in the current Dirty Vegas remix) Im dieing to know who did it!
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon
T&C by Thrice.
In my head everything was perfect,
every note resounds in harmony,
but all I seem to offer up are dischords,
and every note I sing sounds out of key
I get to go see them this Halloween! Thrice’s two albums (Identity Crisis & Illusion of Safety) are really all I’ve been listening to since I found that out.
I also found time for:
Devil in Jersey City by Coheed and Cambria.
I’d never heard anything by them, but since they’re touring with Thrice I had to check 'em out. The (male) singer has an unbelievably high voice.
also
“They Won’t Hear You Screaming” by The STIVS (a local Oregonian band.) Very catchy. ;j
Tanaqui
*Walkin’ on the Sun, * by Smashmouth
*Miracles, * by Jefferson Starship
*Falling for the First Time, * by Barenaked Ladies
*Smooth, * by Santana
*Let It Rain, * by Eric Clapton
*Solace, * by Fuel
I get on kicks sometimes where I’ll listen to one song for days on end. It’s bizarre. But then again, it does seem to help me cope with whatever issue I happen to be dealing with at the time, and each of the songs I’ve listed do have issues associated with them. Some are good issues, some not-so-good, but the music always helps.
When it All Comes Down, origianlly by Miaow, but I’ve only heard the Unrest cover.
I’m learning to play it. It was a bitch to track down the lyrics on line, only to find that Mark Robinson deliberately fudges a lot of them. But I only sing it because I like the last part, so the rest is kind of trivial.
“When You’re Evil” is great. I was obsessed with that song when I first heard it. I need to find it again. I lost a good chunk of my music a while back.
Currently I’m obsessed with “Purple People” by Tori Amos. It is just a weird, great song. It took me a few listens to fully make out the lyrics because of the way she’s singing and there are just some great things in there. “Thunder wishes it could be the snow.” and “An angel’s face is tricky to wear constantly.” are my favorite lyrical snippits.
I’ve also have an undying obsession with “Closer” and “Reptile” by NIN. There is just something wonderfully catchy yet not annoying about those songs.
Finally I just got over my obsession with “Androgeny” by Garbage. I think I was stuck on that song because of playing to much Unknown Armies.
It is. Filter feat. Crystal Method, who, incidentally, did their own “solo” version. It doesn’t sound right to me without Filter.
I’m currently obsessing about several song, just like I am every week:)
" The Taste of Ink" by The Used
" Always" by Saliva
" Your Ghost" by Kristen Hersh and Micheal Stipe
" Walk The Walk" by Poe
" The Way You Walk" by Papas Fritas (hmmm, a theme week?)
" Black Cat Bone" by Lakia (I checked out my old Launch cds recently…)
and
" Fine Again" by Seether
I keep losing my S’s all over the place…
Knife in the Water - Watch Your Back
Pete Yorn - Closet
Leftover Salmon’s cover of Walk This Way
Cowboy Mouth - How Do You Tell Someone (at least that’s how my copy is tagged)
“One Down” by Ben Folds. It’s a B-side from “Rockin’ The Suburbs”, and it’s on his new live cd. It is, as the Beatles “Only a Northern Song”, about writing songs to fulfill a contractual obligation. He owed 4.6 songs. A sample: (mods, sorry if it’s too long)
people tell me “Ben, just make up
junk and turn it in”,
but I never could quite bring myself
to write a bunch of shit
don’t like wasting time on music
that won’t make me proud,
but now I’ve found a reason
to sit right down and shit some out
one down and three-point-six tomorrow
and I’m out of here
“Jesus, etc.” - Wilco
“Desperadoes Under the Eaves” - Warren Zevon
“My Shit’s Fucked Up” - Warren Zevon
“Rhapsody in Blue” - Gershwin
“Walt Whitman’s Niece” - Billy Bragg
“California Stars” - Wilco
“Tear Stained Eye” - Son Volt
“In Spite of Ourselves” - John Prine and Iris Dement
And actually, the entire album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco