'Just Rewards (2)'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Nothin' like doo-wop for seducin', baby.
That's not doo-wop, darlin'. That's definitive Girl Group. Doo Wop's usually male vocal groups with minimal instrumental backing (almost, but not quite, a capella), where the bass singer is doing a nonsense refrain like: doo shoobie deee wop. Like, uh, "I Only Have Eyes For You" by the Flamingos or "Get A Job" by the Silhouettes.
Also, no "Subway Train" by the New York Dolls?
Still, it's an excellent mix.
I stand informed! And no, no "Subway Train." Largely because I don't have that track.
Also, happy birthday, you. I was thinking of you last night--I put on "Beg, Scream, and Shout" to do the dishes to.
"My My Metrocard" by Le Tigre is also an excellent subway song.
"NYC" by Interpol, in which the subway is a porno.
The Jam's "Down in a Tube Station at Midnight". A song you definitely should not listen to if you're alone and uhhh... down in a tube station at midnight.
Elliott Smith's "The Biggest Lie" which I always play when I'm waiting for the el and feeling melancholy. It starts: "I'm waiting for the train/The subway that only goes one way." Sad dude.
And my goodness, Happy Happy Birthday Hec! May your year be full of juicy Waits insights, no writers' block and lots of family joy!
All this time, and nobody mentioned Petula Clark's (okay, Jimmy Webb wrote it) "Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darling"?
Someone just offered me a bunch of codes each of which are good for downloading 30 songs off of iTunes. I'm thinking I should focus on iTunes "exclusives" since I have access to most other stuff via the radio station. What exclusives should I download?
A quick glance through the exclusive menu and I see The White Collar Boy EP (which is not listed as available on the Belle and Sebastian site so may actually be an exclusive) and... uhm, not much else. A remixed Sonic Youth single...
iTunes has a Mountain Goats EP that is only available in Australia right now called Babylon Springs. Whoa. Perusing the Mountain Goats selection tells me that the song "Cotton" was included on the soundtrack for that showtime series "Weeds." Go them!
That's not much help but there you have it.
Subway songs should also include "Thank You, Lord, For Sending Me the F Train" by Mike Doughty, and "Take the 'A' Train" by Duke Ellington
As well as "Charlie on the MTA" by the Weavers. How cool is it that the Boston subway system has its own folksong?