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slipjig3I got tagged for this eons ago by multiple parties, and it doesn't seem too pain-inducing, so... *shrug*
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs.Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to. (Am I alone in thinking the tagging thing is silly?)
All righty, then:
1) "Hestia," Katell Keineg
I popped in a mix that I hadn't listened to in a while, and remembered how smitten I was by this song for such a long time.
Blackbird has black eyes
Trickster with the queen of hearts
Tucked into his black bowler hat
You are witnessing a start
Dead pigeon on the street
Dead weight descending from my knees
Dead leaf on the branch about to fall
I won't accept, at this stage
Anything that isn't all I want
And I want you
But I don't want your monkey....
And that voice. God, that voice....
2) "Johnny Cash," Sons and Daughters
Unadulterated adrenaline. This is the one that gets me alarmingly close to driving off the road every time it comes on; I've been known to car-mosh had enough to make the disc skip. Also, home of the greatest one-note piano solo ever.
3) "Clap Hands," Peter Mulvey
My vote for the best cover of a Tom Waits song in history, and that's saying something. Angular, dissonant, stripped down to skeletal remains, and oh, so good. What he does on "Shine, shine, a Roosevelt dime," where the vocals crack into the upper octave as if dragged by inhuman hands and then drop squarely onto exactly the right wrong note, still makes the hair on my arms stand on end every time.
4) "Hoodoo Voodoo," Billy Bragg and Wilco
Music by the artists listed, lyrics by Woody Guthrie, infectious bounce by God knows who. Earworm of the decade.
5) "Better Than Sleeping Alone," Amelia
Bitter, disillusioned one-night-stands never sounded so good. *purr*
6) "Ox," Slainte M'hath
First, take a traditional reel, of the dark and sinuous type. Now hand it to the bass player, preferably one who understands the exact point where folk and rock not only intersect, but intertwine. Turn the rest of the band into the rhythm section. Add the fear of God. Stir well. Yeah.
7) "Let It Blow," Richard Thompson
At the Chapel of Partial Remembrance
The ushers went into a seizure
Mr. Bacchus, they said, Should we stand on our heads
Would sackcloth and ashes displease you?
And they honeymooned down in Ibiza
Where the sun and the nightlife were hot
As she lay on the sand, he said, isn’t it grand?
I bring all of my wives to this spot.
Yep. He's still God.
#8, by the way: "I Turned My Camera On" by Spoon. See current music.
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs.
All righty, then:
1) "Hestia," Katell Keineg
I popped in a mix that I hadn't listened to in a while, and remembered how smitten I was by this song for such a long time.
Blackbird has black eyes
Trickster with the queen of hearts
Tucked into his black bowler hat
You are witnessing a start
Dead pigeon on the street
Dead weight descending from my knees
Dead leaf on the branch about to fall
I won't accept, at this stage
Anything that isn't all I want
And I want you
But I don't want your monkey....
And that voice. God, that voice....
2) "Johnny Cash," Sons and Daughters
Unadulterated adrenaline. This is the one that gets me alarmingly close to driving off the road every time it comes on; I've been known to car-mosh had enough to make the disc skip. Also, home of the greatest one-note piano solo ever.
3) "Clap Hands," Peter Mulvey
My vote for the best cover of a Tom Waits song in history, and that's saying something. Angular, dissonant, stripped down to skeletal remains, and oh, so good. What he does on "Shine, shine, a Roosevelt dime," where the vocals crack into the upper octave as if dragged by inhuman hands and then drop squarely onto exactly the right wrong note, still makes the hair on my arms stand on end every time.
4) "Hoodoo Voodoo," Billy Bragg and Wilco
Music by the artists listed, lyrics by Woody Guthrie, infectious bounce by God knows who. Earworm of the decade.
5) "Better Than Sleeping Alone," Amelia
Bitter, disillusioned one-night-stands never sounded so good. *purr*
6) "Ox," Slainte M'hath
First, take a traditional reel, of the dark and sinuous type. Now hand it to the bass player, preferably one who understands the exact point where folk and rock not only intersect, but intertwine. Turn the rest of the band into the rhythm section. Add the fear of God. Stir well. Yeah.
7) "Let It Blow," Richard Thompson
At the Chapel of Partial Remembrance
The ushers went into a seizure
Mr. Bacchus, they said, Should we stand on our heads
Would sackcloth and ashes displease you?
And they honeymooned down in Ibiza
Where the sun and the nightlife were hot
As she lay on the sand, he said, isn’t it grand?
I bring all of my wives to this spot.
Yep. He's still God.
#8, by the way: "I Turned My Camera On" by Spoon. See current music.
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