David Duchovny

Apologies for the poor video quality, but if you squint hard, you'll see a bevy of celebrities paying homage to the eponymous star.

Artist: Bree Sharp
Year: 1999
Rating: Luke Hot

Debaser

Got me a movie, I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know...

Artist: Pixies
Year: 1989
Rating: Hot!

I Know You

I just don't like this song. I don't like Andrew's voice on this track; he's more suited to the punk-inspired rather than balladesque. The lyrics and phrasing are not as tight as if Chris, Patrick, or Jay might pen them. With 30 songs on this otherwise brilliant record, you'd think they could've edited. Plenty of love for Andrew-as-drummer, though.

Artist: Sloan
Year: 2006
Rating: Cold

No Time

This song of rejecting love and moving on is in my mind simultaneously with another song of a different era and genre conveying pretty much the opposite sentiment.

Artist: The Guess Who
Year: 1970
Rating: Warm

I Don't Want to Get Over You

This song about pining for lost love is in my mind simultaneously with another song of a different era and genre conveying pretty much the opposite sentiment.

Artist: Magnetic Fields
Year: 1999
Rating: Hot!

Note: Magnetic Fields are now tied with Sloan for the most prolific band in my head, at seven entries each. It's also noteworthy that five out of the seven Magnetic Fields songs I've blogged about have been from a single album.

Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)

Must've been in my head 'cause I insisted that Amber give me sleepy embraces before she left for work this morning. Did not know this was a Gary Glitter cover til writing this entry. It's pretty true, 'cept faster and harder. Expect no less from Joan Jett.



Artist (cover): Joan Jett
Artist (original): Gary Glitter
Year: 1980/1973
Rating: Luke Hot

Love, Love, Love

Yummy.

Artist: Mountain Goats
Year: 2005
Rating: Luke Hot

My Guy

Ah, the rich and lovely voice of Mary Wells doing a pop gem written by the prolific and terrific Smokey Robinson.

And for your further viewing/listening pleasure, I submit to you this version of the song performed by none other than Ms. Carrie Fisher, guest-starring on, you guessed it, Laverne & Shirley back in 1982. The show at this point shoulda been called "Laverne Sans Shirley" since Cindy Williams had long since defected from the show. In an absurd but decently funny turn, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and her new friend Kathy (Fisher) are trying out for none other than Hugh Hefner to be his new Bunnies.



Yep, this is the second song association with a L&S episode in the last month. I do want to pull back the curtain a bit here at The Songs in My Head and admit something to you, though. When I said that I'd bet some more Laverne & Shirley references would come to mind eventually, My Guy had already come and gone. Yes, that, my friends, is the artifice of writing about fleeting thoughts, particularly when the writing lags significantly behind the neuronic firings of the mind. I pulled one over on you, and I'm admitting my folly now. Any crestfallings are and will be totally my fault.

xo Sooze

Artist: Mary Wells
Year: 1964
Rating: Warmer than warm; not quite approaching hot.

Arms of Love

Had a meeting with colleagues last night to discuss a presentation on polyamory that we're planning for a psychology conference. Love was on my mind, so on my ride home on BART, I searched my ipod for songs with "love" in the title and listened to this one first. It was still with me on waking.

Artist: Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Year: 1991
Rating: Hot!

Mothers Talk

An odd pick from my unconscious this morning. Not my favorite T4F song. I think it came to my head after Amber mentioned the weather. Kind of mundane.

My features form with a change in the weather...we can, we can work it out.

Artist: Tears for Fears
Year: 1985
Rating: Warm