Welcome to the Boomtown
One of the chapters used this as their song for my very first BBG convention when I was a freshman in high school (modifying the lyrics to, I think, "Welcome to the Region"). No one else from my chapter came, so I was sitting alone on a bench crying and feeling left out. Hildy grabbed me and made me sing with them, even though I'd never heard the song before. It's stuck in my head warmly for 23 years now.
Shouts out to the El Al girls!
Artist: David & David
Year: 1986
Rating: Warm
Alive
This one's in my head 'cause it was referred to in a Beth Lisick/Tara Jepsen sketch I saw last week in which our ladies of irony played douchey beer-drinking dudes who sang Pearl Jam's Jeremy and then bled unknowingly into Alive as if it were the same song. It was a pitch-perfect example of my historical like/meh relationship with Pearl Jam, which Sloan encapsulates in a line about Consolidated: "It's not the band I hate, it's their fans," though admittedly, we are probably talking about two very divergent fanbases, indeed.Artist: Pearl Jam
Year: 1991
Rating: Lukewarm
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
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
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
