Glory ,'Potential'
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.
I think I first heard the potato song on NPR about 7 years ago. It led to the discovery that I have the so-useful talent of singing the lyric "potato" to any tune - Love Me Tender, Star Spangled Banner, etc.
This and double-jointed thumbs are about all I have to offer, so don't tell me if you can do it too.
What the heck is going on on the cover of Goat's Head Soup?
Slate article about Christgau: [link]
With Pauline Kael, Christgau is arguably one of the two most important American mass-culture critics of the second half of the 20th century
Ha! I'd forgotten this line, and it is frelling hilarious:
Christgau's kicker to his review of Prince's breakthrough album Dirty Mind may be the funniest line ever written by a rock critic: "Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home."
Not so fluffy bunny: [link]
"Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home."
Mick wasn't scared. He had Prince open for the Stones. Still a great line.
Hey, Hec, this song came from one of your mixes. What's it called?
Hey, Hec, this song came from one of your mixes. What's it called?
Hmph. It won't download for me.
Can you email it to me? Or just describe it? I could probably tell you from a description.
Can you email it to me? Or just describe it?
Hum it?
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