it's well and kosher to say you don't understand

[cabell]

Okay, so my latest favorite song is "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure" by Magnetic Fields (it's on 69 Love Songs, disc 3--much love to ubilIronically, I discovered this song like the day after I had to read Saussure for my rhetoric and technology class. But anyway, I am now consumed with a burning curiosity: how DID Ferdinand de Saussure die? He

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[moiety_tx]

I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding out! I'm pretty sure, though, that it had nothing to do with Holland-Dozier-Holland, since IIRC they were Motown producers in the 60s.

[cabell]

Well, at least now I don't feel so bad about giving up after a cursory Wikipedia search. :p

[jademg]

ok. this is not really related to you post. but i know you have extensive music knowledge, and I love the Buffy mixes you made me...do you know of any good songs that have "rose" or "roses" or something of that nature in the title?

[cabell]

I searched my collection and came up with these:

"In Like the Rose" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
"Furious Rose" - Lisa Loeb
"Hustle Rose" - Metric
"Blood & Roses" - The Smithereens
"Desert Rose" - Sting
"Blood Roses" - Tori Amos
"Where the Wild Roses Grow" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

more songs of roses

[jademg]

patsy cline - a poor man's roses (or a rich man's gold)
concrete blonde - roses grow
elvis costello and the attractions - a good year for the roses
the muffs - laying on a bed of roses
blue rodeo - rose-coloured glasses
susan aglukark - arctic rose
lori yates - throw stone roses

also the stone roses (band)

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Re: more songs of roses

[jademg]

Thanks guys! That gives me a good place to start, since I have noooo idea. Although, I am behind the times and have no way to procure a copy of any of these songs....but, I will figure something out!

[kicking_k]

I shall look in my Saussure book when I get home, if I didn't give it away (possibly I did). I THINK it might have been tuberculosis.