i got an email from a dear friend of mine recently, here's part of it:
[my band is] upright bass, lapslide/lead, and hollow-body guitar... We do harmonies and also toss in a Wurlitzer on some stuff. So... in the kind of old american music vein... digging southern soul and folk mostly--trying to be honest. It's funny to say this, but it's just occurred to me... I've been more or less purposefully grappling with the national soul... reading Melville, Emerson... trying my best to swallow and believe and hope along with Howard Dean's revival rhetoric. Music is hopefully part of the naive project.
i want to make a mix for him that reflects these kinds of feelings W/O BEING OLD TIMEY (just the opposite hopefully); i'm looking for dogged optimism, weary hope, struggle, joy, contempt for the pricks, acerbic comment, etc. directly political songs are ok i guess, but i'm looking for whatever stuff has made you feel better about America recently or reflects, in whatever way, the current political order and what you'd like to do to it. the more recent the song the better.
i've already got some mary j, lightning bolt, bubba sparxxx, todd edwards, television, david banner, andrew wk, stevie wonder and some other stuff picked out.
btw YES I REALIZE this is corny as fuck, so try to keep the hate to a minimum.
― typo acapulco (gcannon), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)
whuh what?? i want to make a corny ass feel good mix for my friend! that's sort of vaguely political! but not old timey! so suggest something!!
― typo acapulco (gcannon), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Which song?
Or is there more than one Bounty Killer? Cuz if there is PICK the good one!
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)
AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS yes which SONG.
i feel like van driesen or something 'okay, there are no right answers, just tell me what you've been feeling lately'
― typo acapulco (gcannon), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)
"Dead This Time"
"Down in the Ghetto"
"Black Power"
"Corrupt System"
"Borderline Mobster"
"Sufferer"
Actually these songs may not be corny or feel-good, so um nevermind. . .
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)
Pussy Galore's rendition of 'Exile on Main Street'. "Let it Loose" is one of the highlights.
― KHW, Thursday, 20 November 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)
fifteen years pass...
The thread at least should have been updated 3 months later with obligatory yuks like: Rebel Yell - Billy Idol; Scream - Janet & Michael Jackson; etc.
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Saturday, 20 July 2019 05:01 (six years ago)
(Also - if you had asked me to estimate how long it’s been since that particular moment, I would have guessed 116 years ago.)
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Saturday, 20 July 2019 05:11 (six years ago)