I realised for the first time this morning that my straight-to-voicemail ring tone sounds like the Charlie's Angels theme. Now it's playing over and over again in my head.
Sloanmusic, the band's official Twitter i.d., made the studio version of the song available on the web about eight hours after I tweeted my entry and directly alerted them to it. Listen to the track I intended you to hear here!
Frustrating experience today: the above performance is great, but I had originally wanted to embed a studio version of the song for the Sloan-uninitiated out there. It's hard to love the raucous frenzy of these guys unless you can properly hear their smart lyrics and hooky riffs. My hopes dashed on the YouTube, I attempted to create a simple still shot video with audio track in iMovie, which I've never used before. After a couple hours of effort, frames not synching, song cutting off at 30 seconds in, etc., I finally got my ultra low-budge vid to work properly. Then I tried uploading it to said video hosting site, and the upload failed every which way I tried it. It wouldn't take as a .mov file, nor as an mpeg. My entire morning, down the Tube.
But I don't know what I would stoop to Have you got another jump I could hoop through?
The Beatles have been ubiquitous in popculture for more than forty years; still, I wonder how much, or how little, the recent re-releases/Rock Band phenomenon have altered their frequency in my head. This is the sixth post about them; two songs from months before the marketing frenzy and three songs since. I don't think there's enough data to tabulate it. Hopefully, this'll be the last post in which I'm repetatively musing about this dilemma, and in the future, I'll just let the boys from Liverpool do their magic in my head, unfettered by marketing guilt-by-association.
Given that R.E.M. is one of my all-time favorite bands, it's surprising they've only made it into my head three times since the start of this project; this is the second R.E.M. song to come 'round in a week's time. In fact, it's been ringing in my head for days, ever since Barry and I listened to it on his ipod shuffle while on the road between Durham and D.C. last week. It's such a catchy, fun, inexplicable song amidst Automatic for the People's more down-tempo, reflective tracks. As usual, I'm happy to recommend the Pop Songs review for another perspective.
Artist: R.E.M.
Year: 1992
Rating: Warm
Noteworthy: The Zep'sJohn Paul Jones arranged the string section.
As the result of an intense snuggle session this morning, the song Sometimes When We Touch revisited my thoughts. It was last in my head on February 11, 2009. The melody then melded into Shades of Gray by the Monkees.
As with many Monkees' songs, this one was penned by professional songwriters from the infamous Brill Building, in this case, by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. If you check out their discography of co-written songs, you'll be impressed.
Lovely gender-bendy video for this broodingly sweet song.
The rest of life pales in significance
I'm looking for somebody with whom to dance
Artist: Magnetic Fields
Year: 1995
Rating: Luke Hot
Yet another song etched into my mind from my Camp days. Fascinating that Loggins & Messina are on tour again - no idea whether this marketing angle played into the song arriving on my brain. It's a sweet ditty - give it a listen if you've never heard it before. Great to see the young Kenny Loggins singing so earnestly. It's Winnie the Poohfanfic!
Artist: Loggins & Messina Year: 1970 Rating: Warm
Note: Loggins penned the song, which was recorded first by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and just months later by Loggins & Jim Messina.
Note: Another song from the Bicentennial year.
