Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Not music-related, but when I was a kid, my neighborhood celebrated a birthday every day from August 4 through 9. All boys, all withiin 3-4 years of each other. Out of an entire elementary school (K-6) of maybe 200-250 students.
So that kind of odds-beating is far from unknown.
I love that our brains try desperately to see patterns in random behaviour. So interesting.
Sean, regarding your earlier question, one song that is now irrevocably linked in my mind with Supernatural is Kansas' "Carry on my Wayward Son" which I can no longer listen to (actually, I was never inclined to listen to it before, but now it has favored status on itunes, which really tells you something) without fist-pumping and imagining myself in the Impala with Dean the Winchesters. Talk about a song fitting another medium.
Last night on my walk home, my iPod threw at me 2 South San Gabriel Songs and 2 Vic Chesnutt songs within 5 songs.
For a while, Liz Phair was coming up an awful lot on shuffle.
Then, this morning, as if it knew I was onto it, it threw up all kinds of songs that it never usually plays.
Speaking of Kansas, I was watching the video for Radiohead's "Street Spirit" the other day and noticed how similar it was in places to "Dust in the Wind."
In that same genre, a song which has been forever changed for me because of a media association (for the better) is Styx's "Come Sail Away" - thanks to Freaks and Geeks.
Styx's "Come Sail Away"
How come there are no more humans-going-off-with-aliens pop songs? Why were there so many in the '70s? Besides "Come Sail Away" there was Neil Young's "After the Goldrush" and Klaatu's "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft."
And BOC's "Stairway to the Stars". At least, I think that's what it's about.
Also, not to be forgetting Billy Thorpe's Children of the Sun.
Ah. Yeah, I knew there were more!
Maybe more songs about friendly aliens can be part of the highly-anticipated '70s prog-rock revival. (Anticipated by me, anyway.)
Maybe more songs about friendly aliens can be part of the highly-anticipated '70s prog-rock revival. (Anticipated by me, anyway.)
I don't have Wolfmother's album, so I don't know that they have a "friendly aliens" song, but I would not be at all surprised if they did. The revival has already begun, so epic friendly alien songs can't be far behind.
Heh. Wolfmother is on 70-revival, and there's another one I just read about. Eighties clothing and seventies music. What is the world coming to?