screaming memes
This one from charlottecooper - 5 songs I'm diggin' this week:
"It's My Life" by Wendy O Williams from lovelikeyeast mix CD. Not the mean Animals tune, which I also love, but a cheesy 80s sludge rock affirmation that's almost as good. Like the next track I'm choosing, this one has been knocking around in my head for 20 years or more, and I'm thrilled to have it at long last. I remember the video distinctly - WOW (probably in her signature gaffa taped nipples look) is driving a pink convertible Cadillac across some big sand dunes, scowling and singing this song, which is clunky in a 2nd Runaways album kind of way. The playing is somewhat perfunctory, the lyrics are really dumb, with a bad guitar solo, but somehow it's just right.
"Ain't No Love In The Heart of the City", by Bobby 'Blue' Bland, another mix CD gem, this time from the_big_bop. I first heard this song in 1978, when the laughable Whitesnake covered it. I heard the original somewhere in between, probably on Charlie Gillett's radio show, but didn't know who it was by. Now I do! I remember it being more bluesy, so it might even have been another version I heard, but this one is supergreat, soulful and a bit early 70s Bobby Womack-y or Hi Records-ish.
"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" by Skeeter Davis. This a great early 60s country thing, amazing overwrought lyrics:
Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine
And I’ll never drown my sorrow in the warm glow of your wine.
You can’t buy my love with money, for I never was that kind,
Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine.
The Dolly Parton version is probably better, but Skeeter is ok too.
The Seeds - "Wild Blood". This was the last record I bought, a few weeks back. It's the b-side to their last single, "Fallin Off The Edge Of My Mind", and is a carelessly disguised rip-off of The Troggs punk anthem "I Can't Control Myself", with a crazy northern soul dance beat. I haven't really got my head around it yet, but I like it.
What else? I have been enjoying the mind-bending dissonances of Tony Conrad's "Four Violins (1965)", although sometimes I just put on to annoy Clive, the mean man upstairs with the deafening telly. Four Violins is just that - 4 tracks of loooong slow continuous violin notes that are, like, almost but not quite the same pitch, for 30 minutes! It's really incredible. I almost cried when I first listened to it , lying on the floor with the speakers on either side of my head. It amazed me too, because it's similar in some ways to some of my own music, although I reached that place via a different route.
how about you? woolly, jasonelvis, totnesmartin, pamsavage, k_mars
"It's My Life" by Wendy O Williams from lovelikeyeast mix CD. Not the mean Animals tune, which I also love, but a cheesy 80s sludge rock affirmation that's almost as good. Like the next track I'm choosing, this one has been knocking around in my head for 20 years or more, and I'm thrilled to have it at long last. I remember the video distinctly - WOW (probably in her signature gaffa taped nipples look) is driving a pink convertible Cadillac across some big sand dunes, scowling and singing this song, which is clunky in a 2nd Runaways album kind of way. The playing is somewhat perfunctory, the lyrics are really dumb, with a bad guitar solo, but somehow it's just right.
"Ain't No Love In The Heart of the City", by Bobby 'Blue' Bland, another mix CD gem, this time from the_big_bop. I first heard this song in 1978, when the laughable Whitesnake covered it. I heard the original somewhere in between, probably on Charlie Gillett's radio show, but didn't know who it was by. Now I do! I remember it being more bluesy, so it might even have been another version I heard, but this one is supergreat, soulful and a bit early 70s Bobby Womack-y or Hi Records-ish.
"Silver Threads and Golden Needles" by Skeeter Davis. This a great early 60s country thing, amazing overwrought lyrics:
Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine
And I’ll never drown my sorrow in the warm glow of your wine.
You can’t buy my love with money, for I never was that kind,
Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine.
The Dolly Parton version is probably better, but Skeeter is ok too.
The Seeds - "Wild Blood". This was the last record I bought, a few weeks back. It's the b-side to their last single, "Fallin Off The Edge Of My Mind", and is a carelessly disguised rip-off of The Troggs punk anthem "I Can't Control Myself", with a crazy northern soul dance beat. I haven't really got my head around it yet, but I like it.
What else? I have been enjoying the mind-bending dissonances of Tony Conrad's "Four Violins (1965)", although sometimes I just put on to annoy Clive, the mean man upstairs with the deafening telly. Four Violins is just that - 4 tracks of loooong slow continuous violin notes that are, like, almost but not quite the same pitch, for 30 minutes! It's really incredible. I almost cried when I first listened to it , lying on the floor with the speakers on either side of my head. It amazed me too, because it's similar in some ways to some of my own music, although I reached that place via a different route.
how about you? woolly, jasonelvis, totnesmartin, pamsavage, k_mars