Posted by Amanda Marcotte December 21, 2007 in Uncategorized, Illicit Sex, Friday Random Ten and a Cat Pic
Apple’s war on Christmas
Apple’s war on Christmas
Ten songs at random. Leave yours in comments. Click the links to hear the songs.
- “Danger Heartbreak”—The Marvelettes
- “I’m Mad”—William Mabon
- “Thirteen”—Mary Lou Lord
- “Myriad Harbour”—The New Pornographers
- “Nitroglycerine”—The Gories
- “Hold On, Hold On”—Neko Case
- “Half Invisible”—The Shivers
- “Cyclone”—Invisible Eyes
- “Everything Disappears When You Come Around”—Of Montreal
- “Mockingbirds”—Grant Lee Buffalo
Because it’s almost Christmas and I want to, a new Of Montreal song:
And all stripped down with a cover:
The part after the “ah ahs” on this song always gives me gooseflesh. Now you know something embarrassing about me.
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10. State Extension–EBN
9. Superstar–Granada
8. Don’t Leave Me Now–Pink Floyd
7. Smoke Rings–k. d. lang
6. ‘Leb wohl, du kühnes, herliches kind!’ (Wagner-Die Walküre)–Solti, Cond. James King (Wotan)
5. Der Zwerg (Schubert)–Anne Murray, Graham Johnsons
4. Relax–Frankie Goes to Hollywood
3. Life (Everybody Needs Somebody To Love) (Mission Control Mix)–Haddaway
2. ‘What Harbour Shelters Peace’ (Britten-Peter Grimes)–Anthony Rolfe Johnson
1. Era piu calmo? (Verdi-Otello)–Domingo, Scotto, Levine
1. Let It Go, Let It Flow - Dave Mason
2. Flashlight - Parliament
3. When Your Baby Packs Up And Goes - BB King
4. Thanks, Again - Willie Nelson
5. All Night Long - Asleep At The Wheel
6. Red Hot Chicken - Wet Willie
7. You Don’t Love Me - The Allman Brothers Band
8. Tramp - Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
9. A Love Song (From A Different Point Of View - Jimmy Buffett
10. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out - Bessie Smith
Bonus: Hang Tough - Crescent City Gold
No cat pics again?
Well, I can’t do ten, but I do have a Texas country song in honor of Amanda.
Barf, Dana. I hate that song. Here’s some better ones:
Dallas and Austin dwellees:
I got nothin’ edition.
1. “Leavin’ On Your Mind” - Patsy Cline
2. “New Genius (Brother)” - Gorillaz
3. “Loser Leaves Town” - The Vidalias
4. “I Luv I Jah” - Bad Brains
5. “Oh Boy!” - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
6. “Badges” - The Minutemen
7. “Transmission” - Joy Division
8. “Maybellene” - Chuck Berry
9. “Rastaman” - Bunny Wailer
10. “Sunset At Waikiki” - Speedy West & Jimmy Briant
Bonus: “Inner Universe (Aeria Gloris)” - Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts
1. “Hate It Here” — Wilco
2. “(You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman” — Carole King
3. “I’m a Broken Heart” — The Bird and the Bee
4. “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” — The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, feat. G. Love
5. “Joyful Noise” — The Derek Trucks Band
6. “Datskat” — The Roots
7. “Everywhere Dance” — Bruce Cockburn, feat. Andy Milne and Gregoire Maret
8. “E. S. P.” — Miles Davis
9. “Effigy” — Uncle Tupelo
10. “You’re Still a Young Man (Live and in Living Color version)” — Tower of Power
My Random Ten, the “Last 11 days of 2007″ Edition:
01. Jungleland [09:34] — Bruce Springsteen
02. Comfortably Numb [live][07:26] — Pink Floyd
03. The Waiting [03:59] — Tom Petty
04. In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida [17:10] — Iron Butterfly
05. Perfect World [03:37] — Indigo Girls
06. Mountain Jam [33:40] — Allman Brothers Band
07. Controversy [07:16] — Prince
08. Dazed and Confused [live][26:52] — Led Zeppelin
09. Supper’s Ready [23:00] — Genesis
10. 24 Hours at a Time [live][13:52] — Marshall Tucker Band
@ V. Bacfarc - I love Live and in Living Color! It’s one of my go to albums for any dance party playlist!
1. The Air Near My Fingers - White Stripes
2. Title Track - Phish
3. Little House of Savages - the Walkmen
4. Whisper - Morphine
5. Broken Drum - Beck
6. Seashell - God Is My Co-Pilot
7. The World According to Nouns - the Minutemen
8. Town to Town - G. Love & Special Sauce
9. Big River - Grateful Dead
10. A Yid Ist Geboren Inz Oklahoma - Bad Livers
Bonus: Turquoise Boy - Sonic Youth
I am a Christmas geek, so I must do a Christmas/Holiday Random Ten:
1. “The Christmas Song” - Johnny Mathis
2. “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” - Joseph Spence
3. “The Little Drum Machine Boy” - Beck
4. “Winter Wonderland” - Louis Armstrong w/Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra
5. “Nuttin’ for Christmas” - Homer & Jethro
6. “Blue Christmas” - Bright Eyes
7. “Christmas Time is Here” - Ivy
8. “Fairytale of New York” - Pilate (not a good version, but it’s the one that came up)
9. “Winter Weather” - Peggy Lee w/Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
10. “Mele Kalikimaka” - Reel Big Fish
Happy holidays, whatever you celebrate!
1. “The Victor” — Dick Dale
2. “Alligator Wine” — Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
3. “All or Nothing Machine” — Guignol
4. “10th Lament” — Thalia Zedek
5. “Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not” from “Ich hatte viel Bekummernis”, JS Bach (Ton Koopman: Amsterdam Baroque Ensemble)
6. “Brazil” — Django Reinhardt
7. “Yellow Coat” — Screamin’ Jay Hawkins [Damn — twice!]
8. “Elijah” — Graceland McCullough Tigers
9. “Oceania” — Björk
10. “Loose” (live) — The Birthday Party
“Among The Pines” - Eleventh Dream Day
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” - Cowboy Junkies
“Melt” - Bozzio, Levin, Stevens
“Sweet Cycle” - Tito & Tarantula
“Sona Ponda” - Le Testament Du Makossa V.3 (album - artist unavailable)
“Inte Sörja Vi… (We Won’t Greive)” - Garmarna
“El Dorado” - 50 Foot wave
“Snow Come Down” - Lori Carson
“Lily One” - Matt Pond
“Tame The Savage” - Celebration
“Wave” - Alejandro Escovedo
“The Whispering Campaign” - The Golden Arm Trio
Happy Hollandaise Everyone!
Not Queer, I Just Live in Western Massachusetts Edition
1. Joyful Sign — Girlyman
2. Become You — Indigo Girls
3. Momentary Thief — Chris Pureka
4. Empty Spaces — Mary Gauthier
5. Origami — Ani DiFranco
6. Young James Dean — Girlyman
7. Gillian (Live) — The Waifs
8. Everything’s on Fire — The Kennedys
9. As Cool As i Am (Live) — Dar Williams
10. Deliver me — Catie Curtis
My Ipod knows exactly what I want to hear this morning edition
1. The Joke You’ve Become- Sunriser
2. I Hear the Bells- Mike Doughty
3. Tangled Up In Blue- Indigo Girls live version
4. ‘87- Bouncing Souls
5. Cello Song- Nick Drake
6. Never Going Back to New Jersey- Less Than Jake
7. Gonna Be a Blackout Tonight- Dropkick Murphys
8. Inside Out- Traveling Wilburys
9. Go or Go Ahead- Rufus Wainwright
10. That Loving Feeling- The Righteous Brothers
Bonus Happy Solstice track: Everybody Knows- Leonard Cohen
1. Don’t Run — Solar Anus
2. I Wanna Be Well — The Ramones
3. In The Lost Queen’s Eye — Comus
4. I Would Go — Smoosh
5. In Cauda Semper — Jacula
6. Inherent Emptiness — Joyless
7. Cockroach en Fleur — Baroness
8. Negative Approach — Napalm Death
9. Sang — Finntroll
10. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space — Spiritualized
Dr. Hermoine, I could be friends with your iPod with a selection like that.
All stuff I’ve downloaded in the last 3 months:
Davie Allan & the Arrows - Biker’s Lament
The Fall - Victoria
Cracker - Darling We’re Out of Time
Dead Moon - Dead in the Saddle
Mark Eitzel - Ain’t No Sunshine
Roky Erickson - Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)
Jorge Ben - Ponta da Lanca African (Umbabaraumba)
Dengue Fever - One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula
The Budos Band - Origin of Man
The Big Sleep - Murder
Bonus track:
The Clee-Shays - Get Smart
I’d just like to say I work for a company that has no xmas tree up….we have a huge Homer Simpson in a santa hat inflatable and a festivus pole!!!
Lovein’ it!!
Noël j’ai mal au coeur - Alain Marcoux
Merry Christmas You Suckers - Paddy Roberts
CERNOHORSKÝ: Toccata in C - Ferdinand Klinda
boy - Kissing Wendy
CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in g, ‘Christmas’, Op. 6/8 (vi) - I Musici
The Ghost Of Christmas Past - Esther Nelson & Bruce Haack
Gospel Truth - Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
D’AQUIN: Noël - Wayne Marshall
The Ghost With the Most - Bruce Haack
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers - Collins H. Driggs [Buddy Cole at the Novachord]
have yourself a merry little christmas - Kissing Wendy
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers - The Crystals
I’d just like to say I work for a company that has no xmas tree up….we have a huge Homer Simpson in a santa hat inflatable and a festivus pole!!!
That sounds like a great place.
“I Got Cat Class & I Got Cat Style” edition:
1. Nothing’s Gonna Stand In Our Way - Spectre General (From the soundtrack to the first Transformers movie, in case you were wondering.)
2. Sometimes Wanna Die - Joydrop
3. Knocking At Your Back Door - Deep Purple
4. Papercut - Linkin Park
5. Fourteen Years - Guns ‘N’ Roses (I owned Use Your Illusion II for this many years plus two, and it wasn’t until I watched this that I realized “Hey, that’s IZZY singing the verses instead of just Axl using a different voice, like it was Axl using a different voice on ‘Mr. Brownstone’! That WAS Axl on ‘Mr. Brownstone’, right? Right? Please?)
6. Just Like A Pill - Pink (Somehow they managed to put several dozen rabbits in the same room with Pink and ensure that no funny business went on between any two of them long enough to film the scene. That’s how you know this video has an EXCELLENT director.)
7. Everybody Wants You - Billy Squier
8. Pistol Grip Pump - Rage Against The Machine (Shoulda been a single off Renegades. OK, a lot of words would get bleeped, but that never hurt Jay-Z much.)
9. December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - The Four Seasons
10. Reach Out - Cheap Trick (I heard this for the first time when I watched Heavy Metal and thought “I must have that!” Much of the footage this song is set to is just stuff short from the inside of a fighter jet’s cockpit. That’s boring if you aren’t really there, so my recommendation is to just minimize the window and listen, but if you want to miss the opportunity to look at something more interesting while hearing this then I surely won’t stand in your way.)
Fear not! Here. Not exactly a pic, but it is a cat and I think it’ll hold your interest.
All from the 1982-1986 minimal-hit wonder subgenre in my portable player:
1. Talking in Your Sleep (The Romantics)
2. Be Near Me (ABC)
3. Walking on Sunshine (Katrina & The Waves)
4. Major Tom/Coming Home (Peter Schilling)
5. Neutron Dance (Pointer Sisters… alright, they probably don’t belong here, but we’re talking hits in the 80s)
6. Lay Your Hands on Me (Thompson Twins)
7. Something About You (Level 42)
8. Much Too Late for Goodbyes (Julian Lennon)
9. I Melt With You (Modern English)
10. Let it Whip (Dazz Band)
Amanda: the computer at work has problems with YouTube videos, and they have silence breaks in them, but from what I could tell the first one was pretty good, and the second one (is that the Dixie Chicks?) seems OK, but it was really broken up.
I’ll listen when I get home. But if you can put up a couple of country songs, you can’t be all bad.
Rob, I think that was my cat!
Seriously?
My own cat has been known to make noises when she sees birds outside, although it’s more of a stuttering and low-pitched sort of meow than the chirping in that video, which I had never heard before I saw that.
1. Calliope - Tom Waits
2. By Your Side - Beachwood Sparks
3. Equally Damaged - Blonde Redhead
4. Brian the Vampire - Xiu Xiu
5. The Burial Song (Outro) - Busta Rhymes
6. Delta Momma Blues - Townes Van Zandt
7. Big Long Now - Nirvana
8. Wander I Go - Patti Smith
9. American Flag - Cat Power
10. Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods - Beck
And the bonus: Kick Out the Jams - MC5
I love the billboard in the background, kicking at the tree!
Rob, I had one like yours too. “Mrr - rr-rp,” he went.
“Rob, I had one like yours too. “Mrr - rr-rp,” he went.”
I think it’s in the Cat ROM…
(sorry, I’m a computer guy so I see everything as a machine - even animals and people).
Every cat I’ve had, been around, known, will do the same thing…
That picture is too, too funny.
My own cat has been known to make noises when she sees birds outside, although it’s more of a stuttering and low-pitched sort of meow than the chirping in that video, which I had never heard before I saw that.
IIRC, the theory is that cats make that “chattering” noise to try and sound like a bird so they can lure birds closer. If you watch your cat watching birds, you can also sometimes see them chattering their teeth for the same purpose.
Our cats are not allowed to go outside (apartment on a busy street) but they wouldn’t even if we lived someplace quieter because Keaton would absolutely decimate the bird population. His favorite game is to jump really high and pull a ball out of the air. Seriously, he gets a good 3-4 feet in the air when he’s on a roll.
Oasis- Don’t Look Back in Anger - Live Manchester “Citeh” Stadium
Our younger daughter’s cat (yes, she’s supposedly a family cat, but she’s so thoroughly attached to our daughter that she’s really our daughter’s cat) makes all sorts of weird squeaks and chirps and other noises; when she purrs, it sounds like she’s doing it underwater — which might explain why if you’re petting her, your hand gets wet.
when she purrs, it sounds like she’s doing it underwater — which might explain why if you’re petting her, your hand gets wet.
She’s probably drooling — I had a (female) cat who used to do that. She would lay on my chest and purr and drool while I petted her.
Then she’d feel the drool on her chin and shake her head to get it off, splattering me with kitty saliva, which kinda ruined the whole adorableness of it all.