I've got a little time on my hands lately, so I'm noodling around with more songs. Here is my faithful rendition of "Wild Sage" by the Mountain Goats, from their album Get Lonely.
Last blogged on November 23, 2011.
Artist: Sooze
Written by: John Darnielle
Year: 2014, (2006, original)
Rating: Hot!
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Downtown Train - Original Cover!
Tom Waits's "Downtown Train" has been in my head for a few days, so I decided to figure it out on guitar. Then I sang it at karaoke last night, and it wasn't too shabby. I'm using something closer to the key Rod Stewart sang it in, 'cause Tom's range is a mite bit too low, as you can imagine. Hope you enjoy it!
Artist: Sooze
Written by: Tom Waits
Notable covers: Rod Stewart (1989); Everything But the Girl (1992)
Year: 2014; original 1985
Rating: Hot!
Artist: Sooze
Written by: Tom Waits
Notable covers: Rod Stewart (1989); Everything But the Girl (1992)
Year: 2014; original 1985
Rating: Hot!
Summer Breeze, Redux
Hard to believe this song was last in my head in 2009 but, then, I haven't been attending to the blog very well. Hoping to remedy that.
Artist: Seals & Crofts
Year: 1972
Rating: Hot!
Last in my head: February 13, 2009.
Every Day Is Like Sunday
And a strange dust lands on your hands
And on your face...
Artist: Morrissey
Year: 1988
Rating: Hot!
The Fear
This is the sound of someone losing the plot/
making out that they're okay when they're not.
I had a particularly disturbing dream last night: I was dying, and tortured by the realization that my consciousness would not cease upon death. I would be damned for eternity with my own burdened thoughts.
There couldn't be a more apt song in my head upon waking.
Artist: Pulp
Year: 1998
Rating: Hot!
If I Needed Someone
Slept in fits and starts for a second night in a row. This song emerged in one of my waking moments in the wee hours of the night. It's a remarkably literal manifestation of something brewing in me. The operative word is "if."
Artist: Beatles
Year: 1965
Rating: Hot!
Note: By the way, this video amalgam of the 2009 remastered track with several live Beatles performances is totally worth watching! Hats off to YouTuber Geno Renazzle.
Tom Sawyer
This song was hot in 1982 when I was in a fifth-sixth grade combination class at Daves Avenue School in Los Gatos, California. One of the sixth graders convinced Mrs. Ringsted to play it in class during the time we were reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The class also took a field trip to the Town & Country shopping center on Winchester and Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose to see a revival screening of the 1973 film Tom Sawyer, starring little Johnny Whitaker and everybody's favorite Surprise! Hollywood! Lesbian! Jodie Foster.
Post Script: The janky, underpopulated Town and Country Village is long-since defunct, and currently the site of upscale "Satan Row" as we call it in the San Jo vernacular. Where have all the old strip malls gone? Sigh.
And this is the string of memory I recall whenever I hear that opening Middle Earth-Meets Outerspace synth line and firm Neil Peart drum intro.
Artist: Rush
Year: 1981
Rating: Hot!
Count It Higher
Fantastic song to wake up to! One of the very best from the Sesame Street oeuvre, in my head for no particular reason at all. Patterned after the ubiquitous 60's hit Twist and Shout, writer/singer Christopher Cerf completely commits to the rock 'n' roll vocal on this educational ditty. This is the kind of song that makes a kid feel fucking cool watching Sesame Street!
Artist: Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats (Christopher Cerf, Jeff Moss, and Jerry Nelson)
Year: 1973
Rating: Hot!
More Than This
It's no small feat when such a simple song lyric captures not only the grief and disappointment, but the absolute beauty and transcendence, of the sentiment that this is all there is. It's one of the most elegant, evocative pop songs, ever. Today, it's bringing tears to my eyes.
Thanks, Mr. Ferry.
Artist: Roxy Music
Year: 1982
Rating: Hot!
Black Water
Been remiss at updating lately. Life is just too dense with the obligatory right now, including my ever-elusive battle to get to work on time every day. The other thing is that most of the songs I've been waking up with lately have been strictly due to recent exposure (hearing it on a playlist or at the grocery store, etc.) and I've, by and large, refrained from blogging about those particular songs, because, while recent exposure is clearly my number one source for earworms, that phenomenon is just less interesting to me than when a song seems spontaneously to generate from some unconscious depth or memory trigger or other more poetic means. Anyhow, the Doobs entered the neural paths a couple days ago, and I have a moment to share 'em now. These guys just hold so much nostalgic warmth for me. I love 'em. And they happen to be from my home town.
And I ain't got no worries
'Cause I ain't in no hurry at all
I'll throw a question out to you, the reader: where do your earworms come from?
Artist: The Doobie Brothers
Year: 1974
Rating: Hot!
Crazy Love, Vol. II
I don't want no part of this crazy love,
I don't want no part of your love.
Artist: Paul Simon
Year: 1986
Rating: Hot!
This Is It ("One Day at A Time" Theme)
One of the best TV themes, hands down. Love the show. Has anyone re-watched recently? Does it hold up?
Artist: Polly Cutter (written by Jeff Barry)
Year: 1975
Rating: Hot!
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
A song that really should be in everyone's head, all the time. I unabashedly, unironically, love it.
Enjoy the weekend!
Artist: Elton John and Kiki Dee
Year: 1976
Rating: Hawt!
Another great song from 1976!
Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
Been whistling this song all day. I was itching to hear some Spencer Krug, so I played the video for friends a few days ago. It's been stuck since. A lovely, brilliant earworm if there ever was one.
Artist: Wolf Parade
Year: 2005
Rating: Hot!
Dear Prudence
I always loved the White Album, all 30 songs lending themselves seamlessly to the whole, but "Dear Prudence" has only recently popped out at me as a stand-alone masterpiece. The gathering momentum of the orchestration, the loving encouragement to coax us out of our shell and into the world of experience. What a life-affirming mantra. Holy shit, it's so beautiful.
Artist: The Beatles
Year: 1968
Rating: Hot!
You and Me and the Moon
Joyous and sad. Certain Magnetic Fields songs will always remind me of Amber. She's moving into her new place this week. There are boxes of books stacked up in the hallway with labels like "Deutsche Literatur" and "Feminist Theory" written in Sharpie. Despite the complex circumstances of our break up,
The sound of your voice [still] sends shivers up my spine.
Artist: Magnetic Fields
Year: 1995
Rating: Hot!
Cornflake Girl
Dreamt about singing Tori Amos songs around a campfire last night. Woke with "Cornflake Girl." Above is her performance of the song on Letterman from 1994, which I viewed with friends in Santa Cruz on its original air date. It was the moment I realized how brilliant she is. I was a bit behind the curve; "Crucify" really annoyed me. But, fuck, can she rock a piano bench.
Artist: Tori Amos
Year: 1994
Rating: Hot!
Note: Tori's album Under the Pink, which featured "Cornflake Girl," was released exactly 18 years ago. Weird!
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