Wow War Tonight–H Jungle with T. (Tetsuya Komuro and Hamada Masatoshi).
youtube.com/watch?v=L4CRCjfc … re=related
I’m pissed, I’m angry.
[quote]Say Goodbye - Hunters And Collectors
Well just the other night I come home
After three months of constant grind and travel
And I went snivelling
I went crawling around to my girlfriend’s house
And she came down hard upon me
And she ground her finger into my breastbone
And she said
She said: "You don’t make me feel… like I’m a woman…anymore
And you don’t make me feel like I’m a woman any more
You don’t make me feel like I’m a woman any more
And I know
I know it’s been a long time
Seems like it’s been go-ing on forever
And my heart
My heart is beating
too big
It’s beating too big for the space that’s meant to hold it
So good-night
Goodnight my little lovely
As we turn
As we turn down the lights
Say good-bye
Goodbye to the naked truth
Your skin is looking weary
And your eyes are closing down on the day
I know, I know it’s been a long time
Seems like it’s been going on forever
But just as black is white
Yeah and just as night is day
The light is going to leave you
And you’re gonna fade away
So goodnight, goodbye my lovely
As we turn, as we turn down the lights
Say goodnight, goodnight to the naked truth
Your skin is looking weary
And your eyes are closing down on the day[/quote]
Bang!
HG
somehow, i don’t really understand how, i never really heard this stones song “we love you.” only appeared on a single, don’t think it ever got much airplay in the states. same goes for b side “dandelion.” both are psychedelic stones at their finest.
youtube.com/watch?v=uZ4oA-4dqWw
story behind we love you interesting, on wiki.
Hey, baby I ain’t ashamed of being turned down
I hope you got the same strand
You come to me with eyes all watery
Do you believe I’m falling?
You’re out of date
It don’t feel too good, it don’t feel too great
To tell you your love has turned up too late
------>points dagger at meself
Yeah, U.K. rock has gone downhill since Graham Parker & the Rumour! And I was like 3 years old when they were kicking around!
The State of The Union speech by US President Bush.
Live coverage on C-Span streaming:
c-span.org/homepage.asp <= Just getting ready to start.
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]The State of The Union speech by US President Bush.
Live coverage on C-Span streaming:
c-span.org/homepage.asp <= Just getting ready to start.[/quote]
I’ve got the audio stream coming in, but no video. Starts at 10am Taipei time.
Interesting note: one member of the cabinet will not watch the speech. they’re separated in the case of an attack.
rocky -
Yeah…I had probs with the C-Span video also. I wound up watching it on CNN.
Pretty good. Lacking in substance on the illegal immigration debacle in the USA, but otherwise pretty good for a final SOU speech.
Nirvana - All of it.
Plus, some Bob…Dylan…that is.
rolling stones, beggars banquet–had this tape when i was a kid and remember listening to it many a time but really forgot what a great album it is. listening to whole thing for first time since then i think, funny how you can remember the tunes and words.
Leatherface - Mush (been wanting to hear it again for years after my car tape played chewed my taped copy)
Randy Newman’s concept album about his homeland, the 'Merican South, Good Old Boys, specifically “Rednecks” (a sense of sarcasm and irony is necessary to appreciate the bite and humor):
[quote]Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well he may be a fool but he’s our fool
If they think they’re better than him they’re wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that’s where I made this song
We talk real funny down here
We drink too much and we laugh too loud
We’re too dumb to make it in no Northern town
And we’re keepin’ the niggers down
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol’ boys from Tennessee
And colleges men from LSU
Went in dumb. Come out dumb too
Hustlin’ ‘round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin’ drunk every weekend at the barbecues
And they’re keepin’ the niggers down
CHORUS
We’re rednecks, rednecks
And we don’t know our ass from a hole in the ground
We’re rednecks, we’re rednecks
And we’re keeping the niggers down
Now your northern nigger’s a Negro
You see he’s got his dignity
Down here we’re too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the nigger free
Yes he’s free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he’s free to be put in a cage on the South-Side of Chicago
And the West-Side
And he’s free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
And he’s free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis
And he’s free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
And he’s free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston
They’re gatherin’ ‘em up from miles around
Keepin’ the niggers down[/quote]
Stuff like that makes me think that he might be one of the best lyricists ever.
What a terrific album! That’s the first thing of Newman’s I ever bought. And after that I snatched up everything else he ever issued, though at the moment I’m behind on a couple of recent soundtracks.
BTW, Newman was born in L.A. and moved to New Orleans as a child. For more on this, listen to another great album of his, Land of Dreams. That album closes with the phenomenal “I Want You to Hurt Like I Do.” [The software is forcing “Want” and “Do” into lower case for some reason.]
[quote]I ran out on my children
And I ran out on my wife
Gonna run out on you too, baby
I done it all my life
Everybody cried the night I left
Well, almost everybody did
My little boy just hung his head
And I put my arm, put my arm around his little shoulder
And this is what I said:
"Sonny, I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
Honest I do, honest I do, honest I do"
If I had one wish
One dream I knew would come true
I’d want to speak to all the people of the world
I’d get up there, I’d get up there on that platform
First I’d sing a song or two you know I would
Then I’ll tell you what I’d do
I’d talk to the people and I’d say
"It’s a rough rough world
It’s a tough tough world
Well, you know
And things don’t always, things don’t always go the way we plan
But there’s one thing, one thing we all have in common
And it’s something everyone can understand
All over the world sing along
"I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
I just want you to hurt like I do
Honest I do, honest I do, honest I do"[/quote]
Been on an Elvis Costello kick lately, particularly the “classic” period late '70s/early '80s albums. A heaping helping of bitterness and misogyny with a side order of angst.
“I can tell you that I like your sensitivity / but you know it’s the way that you walk”
“I said I’m so happy that I could die / she said drop dead and left with another guy”
I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused.
Listening to some Cult this morning. Great stuff from the 80s. My two favorite albums from the Cult are Electric and Sonic Temple. Dreamtime ain’t too bad either. Some good Cult songs:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZnTO9cWy … re=related
youtube.com/watch?v=nNobN73F2JY
youtube.com/watch?v=zpkVt9XT … re=related (song dedicated to Edith Minturn “Edie” Sedgwick)
youtube.com/watch?v=E0coJxNg … re=related
[quote=“Chewycorns”]Listening to some Cult this morning. Great stuff from the 80s. My two favorite albums from the Cult are Electric and Sonic Temple. Dreamtime ain’t too bad either.
[/quote]
I’ve always loved Dreamtime and Love. Electric and Sonic Temple are cool, too.
Lately I’ve been obsessed with Genesis, mostly the post-Peter Gabriel stuff from A Trick of the Tail to Duke (with some Abacab), but also the Peter Gabriel stuff from Nursery Cryme to Selling England by the Pound (and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway when I have time).
The Fall - uh. Mark E. Smith is a punk poet - ah! He should be given honorary Taiwanese citizenship because, just like the Taiwanese, he punctuates every sentence with a resounding - ah!
I can’t figure out whether he’s talking (singing is much too kind of a word) about being “Mussolini’s daughter” or “Mussolini’s dog - uh!” With him, you never know. The Northern white crap that talks back - ah!