11 posts tagged “music”
I could listen to Emmet Swimming all day, and thanks to the Internet Archive you can too.
I'm tagging some of my audio with "OLDIES".
At what "age" do you think a song is considered an "Oldie, but a Goodie"?
Everyone's opinion is welcome.
Do you want to move the selected songs to the trash, or keep them in the ITunes Music Folder? MOVE TO TRASH.
I have to empty out some of my Music Folder because ITunes is overloaded and takes way too long to open. The songs I am deleting are from 10 years worth of CMJ New Music Monthly Sampler CDs that I love but rarely listen to and have on CD anyway and although I need to make some room I want to keep them "on my computer", so I figured I could load them to my Vox library and keep them on hand and at the same time share them with my neighbors.
There will be no artwork. All future posts of this nature will be titled: Tune Trash : CMJ #.
CMJ 19; In no particular order: Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Love Battery, Adam Ant, Sincola, Digable Planets, Sleeper, Water, Caulfields, Air Miami.
Listening to Ballboy is like taking a handful of Ativan. For those of you not in the know, Ativan is an anti-anxiety drug that makes you feel effusively joyous and buoyant - that everything is right with the world and even though you know it’s not - you just don’t care. Ativan is delicious and I wish they’d put it in the water. Effuboulliant – or something.
(On preview: Ha! Look at the Ativan ad I just found after I typed this up!
As far as other Scottish musicians go, I never liked Simple Minds or Sheena Easton, but I was aware they were from Scotland. I thought the Boomtown Rats were from Manchester, England until about 2 seconds ago… Huh, David Byrne is Scottish too. I didn’t know that. I did know about Ac/Dc's Bon Scott and the Young Brothers (being born in Scotland, even though AC/DC formed in Australia) and The Eurythmics, The Alarm and The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Primal Scream though.
But I have to tell you I love Ballboy (Free Music) more than any of them. Primal Scream has moved down into second place, sorry Bobby.
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
Q.: How on earth, or in the heavens, can an astrological forecast, which is based solely on a diagram of the aspects between the planets and stars be determined by 10 songs?
A.: It can't.
Audio: Share what you're listening to right now.
I'm listening to the sound of what is happening to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States of America.
Do you know about the government?
Can you tell me about the Constitution?
Hey, learn about the U.S.A.
In 1787 I'm told
Our founding fathers did agree
To write a list of principles
For keepin' people free.
The U.S.A. was just startin' out.
A whole brand-new country.
And so our people spelled it out
The things that we should be.
And they put those principles down on paper and called it the Constitution, and it's been helping us run our country ever since then. The first part of the Constitution is called the preamble and tells what those founding fathers set out to do.
We the people,
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
In 1787 I'm told
Our founding fathers all sat down
And wrote a list of principles
That's known the world around.
The U.S.A. was just starting out
A whole brand-new country.
And so our people spelled it out
They wanted a land of liberty.
And the Preamble goes like this:
We the people,
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
For the United States of America...
One of my favorite childhood songs is Rock Me Gently by Andy Kim. I just found out that Andy Kim co-authored the Archies' song Sugar Sugar, as well as writing some songs for the Monkees. I loved the Archies AND the Monkees and watched the Monkees TV show all the time. Of course, I had the requisite crush on Davy Jones, but if I had to choose today I'd probably pick Mike Naismith - He's a man, Davy's a boy. But I digress, I still love late 60s/early 70s bubble gum pop. I wish I could find a copy of Gonna' buy me a dog...
You are the one supreme being
Just dressed to kill
and fulfill
just any dream
And you are the one heart's desire
All hips and lips
made to trick
just any fool
[Chorus]
I could have sworn that you were an angel
'Cause you're a sweet, sweet, sweet, divine thing
But I should have known that you were the devil
Dressed like a sweet, sweet, sweet, divine thing...
You lack the one thing that is devotion
not always there, in your hair
in a daze
Just too wrapped up in
your own emotion
your vanity
will always be
your greatest thing....
Chorus
Diiiiiiiiviiiiiiiine thing, diiiiiiiiiviiiiiiiine thing.
