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stoutfellow) wrote2006-07-15 02:05 pm
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Playlist 16
It wasn't easy to just get ten here; the initial cut left me with thirteen.
- Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show, Neil Diamond. A rollicking good time, just about Neil's best. Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies and everyone goes...
- Papa Was A Rolling Stone, the Temptations. A classic character study - or as much of one as can be compressed into a seven-minute song.
- Livin' Thing, the Electric Light Orchestra. This was my first introduction to ELO's idiosyncratic style, and it's still my favorite of theirs.
- Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel. This is the one time in their partnership that Art Garfunkel got to take the lead, and it's just beautiful. (I also have an... interesting cover by Aretha Franklin.)
- Dancing in the Dark, Bruce Springsteen. The Boss has written more powerful songs than this one, but nothing, I think, that's more fun.
- Nightingale, Carole King. I don't think she really has that good a voice, but she shines in this one. (It actually has some odd resonances with "Stand By Your Man".)
- Lady-O, the Turtles. Soft, cool, and romantic, this is one of my favorite Turtles songs.
- Flora's Secret, Enya. I love the... call it lushness... that Enya brings to this song; again, one of my favorites of theirs.
- Downtown, Petula Clark.
- Dancing in the Street, Martha and the Vandellas. I also have a cover by the Mamas and the Papas, but that one is arch and sly, and I don't think it works. This one needs to be sung exuberantly and sincerely.
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I have an exact remembrance of this song. I'm looking at my feet and the hole in the floorboard of my neighbor's car driving to high school in the winter of freshman year. This song was playing, we could see our breath, the dead lawns were covered in ice...and my feet were *cold.*
* Papa Was A Rolling Stone, the Temptations. A classic character study - or as much of one as can be compressed into a seven-minute song.
Everyone must sing along with this one! I don't know *anybody* who doesn't like it.
* Livin' Thing, the Electric Light Orchestra. This was my first introduction to ELO's idiosyncratic style, and it's still my favorite of theirs.
Agreed, although Evil Woman is my favorite.
* Dancing in the Dark, Bruce Springsteen. The Boss has written more powerful songs than this one, but nothing, I think, that's more fun.
* Nightingale, Carole King. I don't think she really has that good a voice, but she shines in this one. (It actually has some odd resonances with "Stand By Your Man".)
* Lady-O, the Turtles. Soft, cool, and romantic, this is one of my favorite Turtles songs.
* Flora's Secret, Enya. I love the... call it lushness... that Enya brings to this song; again, one of my favorites of theirs.
Aha! Three more songs I've never heard of...are you testing to see if I'm *really* an American? (g)
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Three, or four? ;-) I would have thought "Dancing in the Dark" was one of Springsteen's better-known songs. The other three... well, generally speaking, I guess most people say "Carole King" and mean Tapestry; "Nightingale" isn't on that album. I found it on a "Greatest Hits" collection. The Turtles did a lot of good stuff that's been largely forgotten; "Happy Together" is the only one of theirs, I think, that even gets airtime on oldies stations. (Of course, we're getting to the point where the Bangles are "oldies"...) Are you at all familiar with Enya? They're a New Age-y group with strong Celtic influence, and at their best they're simply haunting.
Actually, I suspect that you could turn the tables on me without much difficulty; tastes, and collections, differ (and wouldn't it be dull otherwise?).
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Heh. I really meant it when I said I can't count. I rate as a Primitive: one, two, three, many... (g)
"the Bangles are "oldies"
I know! It is somewhat discombobulating hearing The Clash, fergoshsakes, as Muzak in the grocery store.
I don't believe I've ever heard Enya. I'll have to try a listen. I have weird music patterns; I'll go for a quite a while without listening to any music on the radio, then will have a burst of musical fare.
"Actually, I suspect that you could turn the tables on me without much difficulty; tastes, and collections, differ (and wouldn't it be dull otherwise?)."
Exceedingly! I still believe that somewhere, sometime, I'm going to get SunLizz Sis to listen to some of those songs... :)
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[Although I suspect Courtney Cox bopping around in tight jeans is a good part of the fun of the Springsteen video for you. ;)]
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In the early 1980s, when video was new [& busy killing the radio star], lots of them were very fun and creative. Of course, Sturgeon's law & all that, but I still miss the days when the music tv showed actual music. ;(
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