This week’s Fives come from Lono:
“Lazy style: Grab your mp3 player and put it on full random. Tell us the first 5 – 8 songs. Riff on them, and what they/ the artist is doing on your iPod/ in your life. I found it easy and fun, so my five quickly stretched to about 8.”
So, let’s go. (If you have no mp3 player handy, go with the radio and last five songs.)
1. Wilco/Ashes of American Flags/Yankee Foxtrot Hotel. There is a soundscape throughout this entire album that plays like a black and white travel movie in my head. Tweedy has tremendous pathos in his voice and in his lyrics and yet, behind the cloudy anxiety of the Wilco sound, there is a glimmer of hope in every song.
2. Nils Lofgren/Little on Up/Live Acoustic. I stumbled on this album accidentally and find it to be a great driving album. Nils is one of Springsteen’s guitar players, as well as one of Jackson Browns and one of Neil Young’s. He has been around the business for years and yet his solo work, which is solid and complex, gets little play anywhere. This song is a nice ditty about fatherhood and his relationship to his child and builds in energy as he realizes what the child has given him in life, a liitle bit at a time.
3.Robbie Fulks/I Never Did Like Planes/ Live at Double Door 1/16/04. Robbie has a great country voice and a great way with workds. He is not what you would call traditional country and hardly close the rot that comes out of Nashville and Los Angeles – but he does a great job in recreating the late 60s early 70s country and western sound while singing about modern events.
4. Johnny Cash/Get Rhythm/His 30 Greatest Hits. Johnny. Not a lot has to be said. He is great and an innovator of so much of the modern music scene. This song, covered by a ton of folks has a very early Rock and Roll beat to it. It is considered a country tune now, but it is closer to rockabilly or even early rock and roll.
5. rickie Lee Jones/Beat Angel/ Duchess of Cool. This is from a huge greatest compedium from Rickie Lee. One of my boner girls – that is, girls singers who make me hot and horny. Rickie has such a sexy, jazzy voice. She, Niko Case, Allison Krause and Emmy Lou Harris are my musical-hotness muses.
6. Elvis Presley/O Come All Ye Faithful/ If Every Day Was Like Christmas I don’t have to defend this. It is the holiday season. No, I won’t explain how it got on my M3 player.
Out of 19,758 songs:
!) Dolly Parton – Travelin’ Thru
The theme song for the film TransAmerica & very inspirational, even if you don’t want to reassign your sex.
@) Keane – Leaving So Soon
Sure every one of their songs sounds similar but at least the songs are pretty! Plus, how many lead singers do you know of that went to rehab for imbibing too much Port!? ..That’s the rumor anyway.
#) Janet Jackson – When We Oooo
This is one of Janet’s many explicit songs about being sexually pleasured. I think she might be addicted.
$) Rilo Kiley – So Long
I had no idea this song was on my iPod & now that I’ve listened to it for the first time, I quite like it.
%) Dishwalla – Truth Serum
From the soundtrack to The Avengers movie which I own for the Grace Jones, Sinead O’Connor & Annie Lennox tracks. It’s not a bad song but doesn’t really leave an impression, much like the rest of their music.
1. The National – Cherry Tree
I heart the National, and find all their albums to be pretty darn good.
2. The Shins – Phantom Limb
One of the best acts out there….love them too
3. Jaci Velzsquez – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Um, free download from iTunes – it’s XMass people!
4. John Denver – Leaving on a Jet Plane
I love John and his sweet melodies. I cried when he died, you did too if you ever saw him on the muppets!
5. Billy Idol – Eyes Without a Face
I love Billy, he’s a classic.
All from my iPhone – 862 songs
1)The Memory Remains by Metallica this version is the live version with the symphony it is very creative and ingenious use of the classical music blended with hard rock
2)stupify by disturbed Angry music is powerful to get your soul pounding
3)Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash The man in black is one of the greatest. His soulful renditions of music make me humbled.
4)Eclipse by Pink Floyd Who doesn’t have and love dark side of the moon?
5)What is Fight Club by the Dust Brothers love the dust bros. and the movie deal with it.
What is an MP3 player? Does it have three separate channels, which would mean, what, three separate speakers so that it’s kind of close to surround sound, just like in a movie theatre with Dolby stereo? Wow! That’s cool. And music phones? Now that’s amazing! I want a phone that’s also a music player! I want a phone that’s also a typewriter! That way we can type messsages instead of talking, which would be great because you wouldn’t have to deal with oral communication, which is such a bitch these days because it’s such a slow technology and wet in a biological sense! In fact, I want sex on the phone! Talk about progress! No mess! I guess I better dump my 8-track player and get with the times, baby.
Note to Greger: Yes! The Dust Brothers are the best! “Fight Club” soundtrack is awesome too, as is the movie. One of my favs! Are you going to upgrade to all this modern tech too? But, geez, it’s clear that I’m waaay behind the MP3/music phone/typewriter phone/sex phone trend. Got a lot of catching up to do, boy-howdy, do I!
i have a new email address, and just remembered about the Friday Fives! roy, please take note. I SAID TAKE NOTE.
1. Q and not U / Nine Things Everyone Knows : they were a groundbreaking post-hardcore band from DC. pretty much invented the genre now known as “dance-punk”.
2. Led Zeppelin / Houses of the Holy : my second-favorite “classic rock” band to The Doors. pretty self-explanatory.
3. Castor / 1000 Miles From Nowhere: Castor was an *excellent* indie rock band from Illinois. if youre at all familiar with the Midwestern indie rock sound of the mid to late 90s, this is an excellent example.
4. Life’s Blood / Left out on the Ice to Die: Life’s Blood was a fucking *awesome* New York Hardcore band from the 80’s. One of my faves in jr. high when collecting this shit was my reason for living.
5. Dillinger Four / Parishiltonisametaphor: D4 is a great punk rock band from MN. clever, witty lyrics.