Willow ,'First Date'
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 particularly am fond of "Give da Jew Girl Toys" (yes, there are a couple Hanukah-themed mashups in the set).
Be sure to grab the uncensored version! You should also grab last year's collection. He's got it set up as a torrent that didn't take very long to download. [link]
Grabbing now. I'm going to have all kinds of new music today!
Corwood? Could you e-me your address? Thanks.
Congrats to the wife.
Heh. I love this exchange between Daniel Handler and Stephin Merritt.
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Handler: What other songs do you get in your head?
Merritt: There are two things that I always, for decades, have gotten stuck in my head while walking down the street. One of them is a beautiful song by the Red Krayola, "Plekhanov:" "Neither anticipation / nor fulfillment / is realistic / in dialectic / Who's learned the language of the Internationale? / Our conversation / for seventeen years / has volunteered / Plekhanov / a priori / Who's learned the language of the Internationale? / Who was ever disowned by his Granma?"
Handler: What's the other song?
Merritt: The jingle for Bumble Bee tuna: "Yum, yum Bumble Bee / Bumble Bee tuna / I love Bumble Bee / Bumble Bee tuna..."
Handler: I always get "Dude Looks Like A Lady" stuck in my head.
Merritt: I love that song.
Handler: I always get "Dude Looks Like A Lady" stuck in my head.
Merritt: I love that song.
That's awesome. I was watching the six-hour documentary on VH1 last night about Heavy Metal and the saddest part was watching That Dude from Warrant talk about how his record label said they wouldn't release their album without a "Dude Looks Like A Lady" type track. (Which, hello? Pretty damn hard.) So he wrote "Cherry Pie." Looking fat, miserable, balding and bloated he said, totally seriously, "There are about a thousand times I wish I had the balls to shoot myself in the head for writing "Cherry Pie." I can't go anywhere, ever without being the Cherry Pie Guy."
I felt kind of bad for him.
Request for everyone: What are your favorite songs that incorporate hand claps?
A few obvious ones: Jack and Diane, Rock the Casbah
A bit less obvious: Close to Me, Alex Chilton
Any others?
The Decemberists have been using handclaps when they play "O Valencia" live.
Brian Eno - "King's Lead Hat"
Bruce Springsteen's Spirit in the Night, which I am oddly fond of.
"Soulfinger"... I want to say by the Bar-Kays, but that's not right.
"We Got the Beat" by the Go-Go's.