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Yet Another Friday Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  September 4, 200911:00 pm| 226 Comments

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I sort of hate weekends ending with serious posts, so I am throwing up this new post for light banter. Take that, DougJ! Also, this:

lick

Right now I’m listening to the 9/2/2009 episode of this radio show, which one of you all hosts. A nice eclectic mix. Also have Altered Carbon open, but have not had made much progress, and am chatting with folks.

This is your final open thread for the night. Let the youtube wars begin.

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  1. 1.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 4, 2009 at 11:08 pm

    Happy sigh. I lurve lurve lurve teh black kitties–quite possibly the only thing I love this weekend!

  2. 2.

    JenJen

    September 4, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    Wait… the weekend is over? Boo!

  3. 3.

    SGEW

    September 4, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    I love . . . lamp?

  4. 4.

    Tonal Crow

    September 4, 2009 at 11:14 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: Yeah! I can haz more cats black? They rock! Check this one out: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/07/25/funny-pictures-next-time-send-two/

  5. 5.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 4, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    Re: kittehs. Just an update in case anyone is interested. I’m now debating a “black-ops” kitteh, since I haven’t been able to talk landlord into one. That, or I move, which I need to do eventually, anyway.

    and the tuna steak was excellent. thanks for the suggestions.

  6. 6.

    Delia

    September 4, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    That cat looks like he just swallowed a canary or three.

  7. 7.

    SGEW

    September 4, 2009 at 11:19 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: My kitteh was pretty “black-ops,” seeing as how I just left a window open one night and she came in and then called my place hers.

    I used to have my own apartment. Now I’m a guest in a cat’s home, without ever really having a say in the matter.

    (Not that I’m complaining about mai kitteh, mind you, but it was a bit presumptous on her part)

  8. 8.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 4, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    @Tonal Crow: Ha! I love that site, and that one is very funny.

    @arguingwithsignposts: I would recommend you move out first. It’s a big hassle to try to keep a kitty a secret. So, you used to be a nutter, eh? What was your turning point?

  9. 9.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 4, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    I am throwing up this new post

    So you’re saying it’s a hairball, basically. Here you go, nice fresh post to play with.

  10. 10.

    dopealope

    September 4, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    I enjoyed Altered Carbon, but, in my opinion, the next two novels in the series got a bit tired.

  11. 11.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 4, 2009 at 11:28 pm

    Alvin pigged out on Sunflower Seeds

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    Let the YouTube wars begin.

    I prefer to think of it as a dialogue, John.

    At the part-time gig (health insurance!) tonight they were playing some CD of pasty white boys butchering classic soul songs. Put me in a bad mood, but the absolute worst was their tepid, bloodless version of Edwin Starr’s “25 Miles.” If you’re going to try that, then, as the sport-o’s say, you gots to go big or go home. These guys did neither. Can’t even find their CD on Amazon to mock it. Human Nation? Human something. Not sayin’ white guys can’t do good soul, but these guys were hapless.

    Anyway, tried to tune it out and meditate on classic soul tunes. Now I’m home and trying to cleanse myself. I couldn’t find a good YouTube clip of Edwin Starr, but here’s another great one I was thinking about: Bobby Womack doing “Nobody Wants You When You’re Down and Out.” It’s not a performance clip, but too bad. He brings it with the thunder. Anybody gets in my grill, I’ll come back with “Across 110th Street.”

    Once I lived the life of a millionaire
    Spending my money, honey, oh, I didn’t care
    Takin’ my friends out for a mighty good time
    Drinking that good gin, champagne and wine

    Oh, just as soon as my money got low
    Couldn’t find my friends, and I had no place to go
    But if I ever get my hands on a dollar again
    I believe I’ll hold on until that eagle grin

  13. 13.

    mr. whipple

    September 4, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    I’m listening to Copeland’s 3rd, and will follow that with some Alison Krauss live.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2009 at 11:33 pm

    Oh, yeah. Cool black kitty at the top.

  15. 15.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 4, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Here is a sad tune for yer ur sadness. You have heard it before likely. It is an all purpose piece that can also lift your spirits, if that’s your choice.

  16. 16.

    John Cole

    September 4, 2009 at 11:34 pm

    Ok. I’ll start the youtube wars. Only I can embed, sadly:

  17. 17.

    John Cole

    September 4, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    Apparently I was too late to start. Consider it return fire.

  18. 18.

    Harry

    September 4, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    Convicted felons in an administration?

    Fine.

    Someone wanting to get to the bottom of 9/11 before the commission?

    Out.

    President wants to talk to kids?

    Everybody complains about how much the Pres is on tv.

  19. 19.

    Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist

    September 4, 2009 at 11:38 pm

    I am throwing up this new post for light banter.

    Thank you, John – this blog is excellent as always but starting to get a lot of the kneejerk despair “we’re all fucked” stuff in comments, which was an early sign of the rot that made Digby’s blog unreadable to me a while back. Some light banter is perfect. And as for youtube, this still kills me (and helps me remember that times have been this crazy for a while now):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Ky1_pyn6Q

  20. 20.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 4, 2009 at 11:38 pm

    @Steeplejack: Is this the one?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–2hVs63TOU

    I could only find the intro and not the whole song, which is probably a good thing. I am still listening to this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnwLf88t_Wc

  21. 21.

    Thomas Levenson

    September 4, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    Altered Carbon has some serious chops within. I did like number two in the series, contra dopalope at number 10…but Morgan fell apart for me in his corporate horror/fast and furious novel (whose name I now forget). Couldn’t suspend my disbelief at the the thought of a SAAB holding together enough to win one of the demolition derbies described therein.

  22. 22.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 4, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Here’s some of my previous output from 2003.

    Turning point? Hmmm. Perhaps spending so much time in the hypocritosphere that it turned me off. Someone once said, never go to seminary if you want to be a preacher. Seeing how the sausage is made will turn you off on the whole process. Something like that.

  23. 23.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 4, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    Another salvo — Steely Dan — Dirty Work

    Linda Ronstadt –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPvqFkCtAqw&feature=PlayList&p=A38D3A47553557EF

    Nitty Gritty Dirt Band —Mr. Bojangles

    Big guns coming out later.

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Nice version of the Barber Adagio. I’ve got like fifty versions of that.

  25. 25.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 4, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck: I used to play the cello, and it’s my all-time favorite instrument. This song is gorgeous, haunting, beautiful, and heartwrenching all at the same time. Thank you.

  26. 26.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 4, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    dud round

    Ronstadt — Different Drum

  27. 27.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 4, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:

    welcome

  28. 28.

    srv

    September 4, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    I have been in SoCal, Wisconsin, Chicago, SLC and NorCal in the last three weeks.

    Everywhere I go, it’s like 1984, and not just MJ tributes. Same tracklist everywhere. Is there some 25 year royalty expiration and Musak can only afford to repeat it endlessly?

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    @John Cole:

    Only I can embed, sadly.

    Yes, rub it in.

    Although, actually, I prefer the minions not being able to embed. Sometimes the links are awful enough. (Not any of mine, of course.) I can’t think how awful it would be to get hit in the face with the actual video without being able to give semi-informed consent first.

  30. 30.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 4, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Go big or go home? I think Van Morrison can speak to that:

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    September 4, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    Got a new desktop audio unit today. Been putting it through its paces. Currently listening to Branford Marsalis doing “A Love Supreme.” Next up, I’m thinking maybe some Debussy piano music.

    Or maybe this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO3ZMdcL8Pc

  32. 32.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 4, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: Yes. I saw that in an earlier thread which is what led me to comment. You and Cole, eh?

    @General Winfield Stuck: Ok, the Steely Dan song just cracks me up. Mr. Bojangles is mildly depressing, but you’re gonna have to come stronger than that!

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack

    September 4, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    @Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist:

    I think there should be an anthology of all the Downfall knockoffs. I find them endlessly hilarious–which is embarrassing, because I have actually seen Downfall, and it is a tremendous film in its own right.

  34. 34.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 4, 2009 at 11:50 pm

    Here is a real oldie. It is the first song I fell in love with and with music in general. I was like 12 and was the first 45 lp I ever owned. May not be something for the genx crowd, but you old timers might remember it.

    Gale Garnett — We’ll Sing in the Sunshine

    Now I’m going to watch a Firefly episode. Always a pick me up. I like Kaylee, a good person.

  35. 35.

    Tonal Crow

    September 4, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Got a new desktop audio unit today….

    If you’d also like a very, very good laptop audio unit (headphone output only, ‘course), look at http://echoaudio.com/Products/CardBus/IndigoIO/specs.php .

  36. 36.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 4, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    I have several on my computer. Do you have the Choirestral Version done in the early 60’s? It is fabulous, but couldn’t find it on you tube.

  37. 37.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 4, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Here is an oldie updated by Pearl Jam, that might just make you cry. Last Kiss

  38. 38.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 4, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck: I know that song! Am I a bad person for saying the song makes me laugh?

  39. 39.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 4, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    @General Winfield Stuck: Sigh. I should have included which song, Last Kiss by Pearl Jam. It is teh funny to me.

  40. 40.

    Max

    September 4, 2009 at 11:58 pm

    I, for one, hope that the President starts off his school-kids speech with….

    My name is Barack Hussien Obama and I’m here to recruit you!

  41. 41.

    Delia

    September 5, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Emmylou Harris & Johnny Cash

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCy8pHsVnI

  42. 42.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 12:02 am

    Can I just say these open threads are my favorite?

    The rest of the time I am just venting to keep my damned sanity. These are kind of fun.

    I’m going to ask the blogmistress if there is anyway to give embedding privileges to longtime users.

  43. 43.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 12:02 am

    Bah, I just can’t do depressing songs tonight. How about a little Warcraft movie set to Avenue Q’s classic The Internet is for Porn :-)

  44. 44.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 12:03 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Well Drat. You are hard to make miserable. I’ll just have to dig deeper for teh darkness.

    It made me sad, when I was 16.

  45. 45.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 12:03 am

    And, my all-time favorite depressing/erotic song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZBQGCI2hm0

    I could listen to this song over and over and over again–and I do. Yes, I have linked it before. So sue me.

  46. 46.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 12:06 am

    Reelin’ In The Years Live – Steely Dan
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsrI_mIT6PQ

    Virginia Plain – Roxy Music
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJq2RwnlyU

    Sweet Jane Live – Lou Reed – the only version that matters
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdWPeHFAMk

  47. 47.

    SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta

    September 5, 2009 at 12:08 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim: Haha!

  48. 48.

    srv

    September 5, 2009 at 12:09 am

    My Steely Dan hand(s) is better:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_qCnIBadE

  49. 49.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 12:11 am

    One more for the road.

    Annie Lennox Why?

  50. 50.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 12:11 am

    @asiangrrlMN: My favorite emo song is Natalie Merchant, San Andreas Fault, and I can not seem to find a good recording of it. The whole album, Tiger Lily, is excellent.

  51. 51.

    Tattoosydney

    September 5, 2009 at 12:11 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I like this for battered spirits.

  52. 52.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 12:12 am

    @John Cole: Of course you can say it! It’s your damn blog, Cole! You can say whatever the fuck you want!

    And, just to show that I’m not ALL about depressing music, here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0

    My favorite 80s band, Duran Duran.

    P.S. I am retiring my old stripper song, Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOPWWG2z1c) because I discovered that the bitch, she weren’t really crazy. So, I need a new stripper song. Suggestions?

  53. 53.

    stibbert

    September 5, 2009 at 12:13 am

    @Thomas Levenson: IMO the 3rd Takeshi Kovacs book, ‘Woken Furies’, is the best of them, where Quell’s politics finally start to play a major role. Of course, it’ll make little sense if you’ve not read the first 2. I didn’t try ‘Market Forces’, but did like ‘Thirteen’ – i think either one might also count as a 500-years beforehand prequel to the Kovacs series. Must add, though, that these books will likely peg the needle on your violence scale, definitely reaching into ‘American Psycho’-type territory (but thankfully w/o that book’s ‘contrasting banality’).

  54. 54.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:13 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    My eyes! They burn!

    Thank you so much for putting a visual to what had been only an auditory nightmare before. Yes, that’s it. [Shudder]

    And I have followed your saga this week of getting your depression on with “Mr. Brightside.” But that’s like a walk in the park to me now after Human Nature.

  55. 55.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 12:14 am

    @Tonal Crow:

    That looks like a cool little toy.

    This is my new toy. I bought a demo from a combination B&M/online store, so (thank FSM) I didn’t pay anything like MSRP.

    http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/system1/digital-analog-converter/dac1-usb

  56. 56.

    Max

    September 5, 2009 at 12:15 am

    Amazon has some good albums on sale for $5.00

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=dm_gw_50for5?ie=UTF8&docId=1000371251&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_r=0D6VDYTFJQRAZA22KMXF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=489936591&pf_rd_i=507846

    Cheap Trick
    Willie Nelson
    Coltraine
    Steely Dan

  57. 57.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 12:16 am

    @asiangrrlMN: I never knew that the Concrete Blonde version was a cover. His voice is amazing. If I’m going to listen to things like that, then here is Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt”.

  58. 58.

    Max

    September 5, 2009 at 12:17 am

    @asiangrrlMN: By favorite stripper song, right out of Striptease is by Annie Lennox…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CjBgIe9WkE

  59. 59.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:18 am

    Also. Beer should not have blackberries in it.

    The grocery store was out of my usual, Sam Adams Black Lager (WTF?!), but I could score two bottles if I got a six-pack “sampler”–two bottles each of three flavors. The other two flavors were Irish Red, which I have had before and is okay, and . . . Blackberry Witbier. I was a little skeptical, but I needed the Black Lager, even just two bottles.

    Suffice it to say that the Blackberry Witbier is as sketchy as it sounds. I had one of the two bottles, and I can feel the other one pulsing balefully in the refrigerator. Will have to see if there is a hazmat disposal unit in the neighborhood.

  60. 60.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 12:18 am

    Also, too:

    BTW- you guys remember that last night in a thread there was some moron named cat vasectomy who I thought was a spoof? It turns out he was real, and he sent me all sorts of fun emails:

    Hey John, loved the fact when I pointed out your pet fetish, I was kicked off the site in five minutes. You fucking loser. Curious minds want to know, do you make any money off Sullivan or Greenwald or Yglesias or all the other bloggers who actually do some research into what they’re writing, unlike you? While we’re sympatico on the politics, you’re a parasite, talking about your recipes and your fucking pets. Nobody fucking cares about a parasite in Pittsburgh living off his parents’ trust fund. Fuck you!

    BTW, when was the last time you had a real job? I’m working on an article about worthless liberal bloggers like you. I’ve got a lot of interest (Nation, Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc.) on this one. Want to talk? Cocksucker!

    I told him he was unbanned and I was dying to read his piece in the Nation about me and my parent’s basement, and he sent me several additional emails in blue text.

    I hope he came down alright.

  61. 61.

    Tattoosydney

    September 5, 2009 at 12:18 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    That song is a highschool one for me, along with this this, which was apparently the theme song for our final year – certainly it was played a LOT – what that says about us I dare not speculate…

  62. 62.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 12:19 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    “So, I need a new stripper song. Suggestions?”

    I think you can probably dance to this. Hell, I can dance to this, and I can’t dance for shit.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8C9IohYrHg&feature=related

  63. 63.

    lhf

    September 5, 2009 at 12:20 am

    thanks for plugging my show! hope every one enjoys the music…

  64. 64.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 12:20 am

    You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere / This Wheel’s On Fire Live – Byrds
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGqKC3xooo

    Talk of the Town Live – The Pretenders
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na_Ql888hnU

    Hang On To Yourself Live – David Bowie
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I71sQkFIe_c

  65. 65.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 5, 2009 at 12:20 am

    @John Cole:

    I personally prefer Verdi Cries as a sad song from Natalie. But her whole oeuvre is sort of on that side of things. I agree Tiger Lilly is excellent. More pertinent for today is Owensboro (lyrics only).

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:22 am

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Awesome. Van Morrison is one white guy who can do soul. Gotta see if I can find “Jackie Wilson Said (I’m in Heaven When You Smile).”

  67. 67.

    Tattoosydney

    September 5, 2009 at 12:23 am

    @Steeplejack:

    We Australians are, sadly, to blame for the abomination that is Human Nature. I won’t link to a any songs because I don’t want to damage eardrums. My nation apologises.

  68. 68.

    Tonal Crow

    September 5, 2009 at 12:23 am

    @burnspbesq: Now that looks to be quite a unit. What output device are you using?

  69. 69.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 12:24 am

    @John Cole:

    I hope he came down alright.

    I wouldn’t bet on it. Looks like the brown acid hasn’t gotten any better in the 40 years since Woodstock.

  70. 70.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 12:24 am

    @John Cole: That guy fucking sucked. I hope you cut off his balls.

    I have poured myself some Maker’s Mark, and I am wending my way through all your suggestions–I’m on Sweet Jane right now, which I fucking love.

    Cheers to all of you for helping a grrl out!

  71. 71.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 12:25 am

    @John Cole:

    I used to get drunk and high and try to call my favorite movie and rock stars. At least with the internet, you can chase your own personal rabbits for free, and not get a phone bill later for eleventy hundred dollars. Progress, I reckon.

  72. 72.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:25 am

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    I remember Gale Garnett. I always associate that song in my mind with this song, which came out approximately the same time (in my mind).

  73. 73.

    Max

    September 5, 2009 at 12:25 am

    @Tattoosydney: Ahhh… but you redeemed yourselves with Midnight Oil.

  74. 74.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 5, 2009 at 12:26 am

    @John Cole:

    hahahahahahahahaha! That is too funny. I thought we were well past the kid in the basement years. I guess everything old is new again, eh?

  75. 75.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:27 am

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    I don’t think so. I’ll have to look through my CDs, but it’s not ringing a bell.

  76. 76.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 12:27 am

    New York City – John Lennon
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XCz3kfKVI

    Talkin’ New York – Bob Dylan
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YesjJCxDwmo

    God Save the Queen – The Sex Pistols
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCD2cIWgehY

    God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDfH_J4MAUQ

  77. 77.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 12:27 am

    @Tonal Crow:

    I just run a cable from one of the USB ports on my MacBook Pro to the Benchmark. I have Grado RS-2s and Ultimate Ears Triple-Fis. All the music (2,800 albums worth, and still growing – I’m ripping a lot of my old vinyl) is on a 4 TB disc array that is attached to the AirPort. And it also feeds the stereo in the family room via Sonos.

    Yes, I am Gadget Boy – why do you ask?

  78. 78.

    lhf

    September 5, 2009 at 12:28 am

    @Steeplejack:

    do you remember that dexies midnight runners did a cover of that on ‘the young ones’?

  79. 79.

    AhabTRuler

    September 5, 2009 at 12:28 am

    OK, awesomest 80’s song ever.

    Except for maybe this.

    Or maybe I have that reversed?

  80. 80.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:29 am

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    Pearl Jam did “The Last Kiss”? No way! [Dean Venture voice]

    That song was my younger brother’s favorite song for about a year. My friends and I used to mock him when he played it in the jukebox at the bowling alley, but now I laugh when I think about it. And, of course, I can remember all the lyrics perfectly. Damn it.

  81. 81.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 12:30 am

    @Steeplejack:

    I do remember that song and liked it a lot better than Nancy’s These Boots Were Made For Walking

    Leon Russel — Me and Baby Jane/

    Not sure if this link will work.

  82. 82.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 12:30 am

    Hmm, stripper songs… Spin Spin Sugar? overdone
    Barcelona’s “I have the password to your shell account” wearing a catholic schoolgirl uniform? too niche

    Ah! Garbage, “Androgyny”.

    mmmm, smoking. not sure it’s the best beat, but Shirley Manson as Ziggy Stardust? Woo.

  83. 83.

    AhabTRuler

    September 5, 2009 at 12:31 am

    But if you are talking about great music, you have to include some ENO.

  84. 84.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:31 am

    @John Cole:

    I’m going to ask the blogmistress if there is any way to give embedding privileges to longtime users.

    Be vewy, vewy careful. [cough] Laura W [cough]

  85. 85.

    Tonal Crow

    September 5, 2009 at 12:32 am

    @burnspbesq: I’m interested in opinions on headphones. I am using a set of AKG K240 Studios, which are crisp and flat, except that they seem to fall off some below ~60Hz. Also, their sensitivity is lousy, so my card can’t really drive them to full volume.

  86. 86.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 12:33 am

    @Steeplejack:

    I got it off of Realtime networks for a dollar. But lost it when my computer died.

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:33 am

    @John Cole:

    Amen to that. Natalie Merchant is my earth goddess.

  88. 88.

    Jason Bylinowski

    September 5, 2009 at 12:33 am

    Evening, all.

    @Tattoosydney: ‘I like this for battered spirits.’

    Thanks for the link to that, I used to sing sections of masses like that in high school back in my chorus days. Man what fun that was. Anyway it got me looking at some of the other stuff we used to sing, Josquin Desprez, Hildegaard, etc, but then I just figured why mess around with those guys when I could just post something from Faure’s Requiem?

    Best example of a happy-sad song that I could think of.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82L8AaqA-Dc

    (sorry if it doesn’t link, I’m working on it)

  89. 89.

    AhabTRuler

    September 5, 2009 at 12:33 am

    “ENO” was a link (curse the way this blog renders all caps links), but to make up for it, I’ll spin you another great one from Brian

  90. 90.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 5, 2009 at 12:34 am

    @John Cole 12:18 am

    You’ll be sure to let us all know when cat vasectomy’s articles show up in all those nice progressive magazines, okay? In case we somehow miss them on the newsstands.

  91. 91.

    Max

    September 5, 2009 at 12:34 am

    @asiangrrlMN: One more stripperific song. From high school for me (I’m dating myself).

    This song is very nasty, in a slow jam kind of way…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l98ihWXWoRs&feature=PlayList&p=46B23BDA5B58930E&index=6

  92. 92.

    AhabTRuler

    September 5, 2009 at 12:35 am

    Be vewy, vewy careful.Oh, I can think of dozens of ways that things could get out of hand without even involving L-dub.

  93. 93.

    srv

    September 5, 2009 at 12:36 am

    @burnspbesq: Oh stop with the audiophile porn! I have a friend who wants to sell his to me, and it would mean the end of my speakers.

    How are you ripping the vinyl?

  94. 94.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:36 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    So I need a new stripper song. Suggestions?

    Since you like Duran Duran, look no farther.

  95. 95.

    Jason Bylinowski

    September 5, 2009 at 12:37 am

    Oh, and then little youtube foray (pun not intended, sorry) led me over to Arvo Part, who’s album Lamentate in 2005 made me believe in modern composition again. He’s kind of this giant composer figure, gets no little attention right now but one day our grandkids will known of him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxKqg0Fwsro

    This is a live recording and a little rough but you can still tell that it’s pretty badass. Anyway, off I go to make some of my own music, thanks for the inspiration, guys.

  96. 96.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 12:38 am

    I’m The Man Live – Joe Jackson
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el66jnuItYc

    Peanuts Live – The Police
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cy1FqY3dKk

    It’s The End Of The World As We Know It Live – REM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyFiClAzq8

    Make Me Smile Live – Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpJ0cyXbMbI

  97. 97.

    Brian

    September 5, 2009 at 12:40 am

    The kitty up top is Jinx! She sez ‘mew’ to you all. Also…she would appreciate a freeze dried cod snack.

    I am out on the town enjoying some kick ass atmospheric metal.

  98. 98.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 12:41 am

    If you are of a certain age, this will take you back.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZqnl-Z4uZg&feature=related

    The backup singer is Richie’s daughter. God, we are old.

  99. 99.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 12:41 am

    @Tattoosydney:

    Terrific tune. Sounds a little like Gregorian Chants that I love. Used to live near a Benedictine Monastery and a couple of times a month they gave something like concerts with the G Chants, I;m not catholic or religious but would go and listen to this gorgeous mesmerizing music.

  100. 100.

    AhabTRuler

    September 5, 2009 at 12:42 am

    @AhabTRuler: Oh, horrendous blockquote fail! Can we get a blog that works with comments before we aspire to embedding an ass-ton of videos? Please?

  101. 101.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:42 am

    @JK:

    Great clips.

    God, Hugh Hefner is such a tool. Even back in the day when he was on top.

  102. 102.

    selskie

    September 5, 2009 at 12:43 am

    New Order- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3duUzBbBmmc

    Let’s Active- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOUX88P0qhw

  103. 103.

    Jason Bylinowski

    September 5, 2009 at 12:43 am

    wow…. i sound, like, totally retired (if’n you get my meanin’) in that last post. just when i was showing you how cultured i am, too. figures.

  104. 104.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 12:46 am

    @srv:

    How are you ripping the vinyl?

    Cable goes from the phono preamp to the line input on the MacBook, and I use Audacity (a fantastic piece of open-source software) to sample at 96/24. I get WAV files out of Audacity and use a program called Max to transcode them to AIFF for iTunes.

    I had to buy all new vinyl gear, because my old turntable got trashed in a move in the early 1990s.

  105. 105.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 12:46 am

    Needles in the Camel’s Eye – Brian Eno
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZWP5pmsRDE

    The Needle and the Damage Done – Neil Young
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uBjpyOLjsc

    The Wait Live – The Pretenders
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbyVaAuMNZk

    The Weight – The Band
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdjRSImtV6k

  106. 106.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 12:47 am

    @Jason Bylinowski:

    Oh man, Thank you for that piece. I have narrow tastes for Classical music, but that hit the bullseye. As have been several tonight.

  107. 107.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 12:48 am

    @burnspbesq: You know what I am still rocking for my stereo- I have a new yamaha for the surround sound and tv, but for my music, I am still using an Adcom setup I bought in 1991. Still is awesome.

  108. 108.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 12:49 am

    @Steeplejack:

    I wish all of Playboy in the Dark was available on dvd. In addition to the Byrds and the Grateful Dead, the program also had on comedians like Mort Sahl and David Steinberg

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:50 am

    @Tattoosydney:

    Think nothing of it. You have also given us Australian rules football, which I watch with disturbing frequency. I think it reminds me of the weird, chaotic games we neighborhood kids used to play way back in the day.

    And it’s educational. To think that once I thought Footscray was a veterinary disease.

  110. 110.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 12:50 am

    @Jason Bylinowski:

    There is actually some really good opera being written today, amazingly enough. I listened to Ades’ “The Tempest” for the first time today, and I was completely blown away. He must hate sopranos, though, because the parts he writes for them are just motherfuckers to sing. HIgh, higher, highest. Rinse and repeat.

  111. 111.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 5, 2009 at 12:52 am

    @selskie:

    re: Let’s Active – I thought I was the only one who remembered them. Every Word Means No

  112. 112.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 5, 2009 at 12:53 am

    @Brian 12:40 am

    Jinx is an incredibly awesome kitteh! And has a really fat tongue.

    She has similar markings to, but is otherwise completely different from, my beloved Hamish of blessed memory. He was solid black with that little white bibby thing but was a different shape altogether, and his part-Siamese ancestry gave him a triangular face and slightly crossed eyes. (Also a little kink in his tail and an endearingly annoying voice.) His tongue was equally pink, but much much thinner than Jinx’s.

    What a great cat he was, to be sure.

  113. 113.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:53 am

    @lhf:

    Eek! I didn’t see them do that. Now all I can think of is “Come on, Eileen.” And I don’t mean that in a good way. Only this song can purge it from my mind. Hint: “Your technique, it leaves me weak.”

  114. 114.

    bago

    September 5, 2009 at 12:54 am

    Ptui on this YouTube nonsense. I just heard the star trek theme on the theramin, and Richard cheese is about to lounge against the machine.

  115. 115.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 12:55 am

    @John Cole:

    Good stuff. Built to last.

  116. 116.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 12:57 am

    @burnspbesq: I have gotten this far for songs, and I love the version of this song that features Carlos Santana–it’s on my stripper list!

    Natalie Merchant a hit as well. Fake-hubby, love the Allegri: Miserere. BethanyAnne, I listened to that version of Hurt and the NIN version back to back. Gorgeously brutal.

    Steeplejack, I KNEW what song you were gonna recommend for my stripper song. LOVE that song, so on the list it goes! Max, I am adding the Annie Lennox song to my stripper rotation as well.

    And, here is a great ’80s song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqj31VPNoE&feature=related

    And, his brother (Anthony Stewart Head) is teh hawtness.

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:59 am

    @AhabTRuler:

    Worthy songs, but this was the greatest song of the ’80s.

    And the chaser.

  118. 118.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 1:00 am

    @Brian: Jinx is fucking cute, man. Love that tongue!

    +1 1/2

  119. 119.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 1:00 am

    @burnspbesq: I grew up listening to opera because it was all my mother played, and about 15 years ago she started sending them to me. The best is how there are so many quality performances on dvd that are high-quality. My personal favorites are Carmen, Rigoletto, and die Zauberflote. I just love Pipino.

    My friends all mock me, but on a solid stereo system, it just sounds so good and the range of the singers is so amazing. Maybe you had to grow up with it.

  120. 120.

    Jason Bylinowski

    September 5, 2009 at 1:02 am

    @General Winfield Stuck: narrow tastes….

    Yeah, me too. Ridiculously narrow. For me it’s always the really primitive early renaissance stuff (see above) or totally post-modern weirdness (Adams, Glass, Reich), with the occasional mainstream composer thrown in (Faure, Dvorak, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich).

    Classical music is great though, you know, but you know what gets me? 99 percent of the time, no drums. Seriously, what’s that about? There’s something uniquely western European about that concept, and it’s certainly okay not to have percussion be the center of a song, but drums really are lacking in a lot of what we call the work of the Great Masters. This probably sounds like the sort of argument Marky Ramone would make, but if you examine the entire history of the world’s music, you’ll see that I’m right, dammit!

  121. 121.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 1:04 am

    @BethanyAnne:

    Link no work. You fix.

  122. 122.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 1:04 am

    And these videos have led me to an old favorite. If you like Natalie Merchant, you might like Julia Fordham – both have amazing voices. Here’s a link to a live version of “Porcelain”. Dunno if I can put a 2nd link in a post, but here’s my favorite song of hers: “Falling Forward”.

  123. 123.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 1:05 am

    @Steeplejack: Try this.

  124. 124.

    srv

    September 5, 2009 at 1:05 am

    @burnspbesq: OK. So I spend at least $3K for a phono, tone-arm and cartridge to covert it all to 24-bit and then $2K for a BM DAC/amp and headphone to listen to it so all the money in my CD, amp & speakers is sunk.

    I wonder if I can rent a hi-end phono rig…

  125. 125.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 1:06 am

    Dammit
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cizBRwETDwc

  126. 126.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 1:08 am

    The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway live – Peter Gabriel
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1wAsQ3A7U

    Venus – Television
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQ1n7SOKcU

    Peaches En Regalia live – Frank Zappa
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obIo19DI_kk

  127. 127.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 1:08 am

    @Tattoosydney: I love me some Looooola. Where the fuck is my lighter so I can wave it in the air?????

  128. 128.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 1:08 am

    Falling Forward
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxZIfKP6QnE

    Porcelain (live)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVUA_A8O3fQ

  129. 129.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Just for you asiangrr

    Tim Buckley — Once I was

  130. 130.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 1:09 am

    Prolly confused my [href] tag with the embedded quote marks… or I forgot one somewhere. 125 is the Androgyny link.

  131. 131.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 1:10 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Link no work. You fix.

    .

    Snicker. I don’t know why, but that’s fucking funny right now.

  132. 132.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 5, 2009 at 1:11 am

    @John Cole:

    I lurve opera more than anything these days (and I played jazz for a living for years)

    Here’s one of the more amazing performances anyone will ever see, even non-opera fans might like it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh2Vh8jwyQA

  133. 133.

    Tattoosydney

    September 5, 2009 at 1:11 am

    @Steeplejack:

    “Think nothing of it. You have also given us Australian rules football, which I watch with disturbing frequency. I think it reminds me of the weird, chaotic games we neighborhood kids used to play way back in the day.”

    And it has cute boys in shorts hitting each other!

    “To think that once I thought Footscray was a veterinary disease.”

    You will find many people in other parts of Australia who will tell you it IS a veterinary disease.

  134. 134.

    lhf

    September 5, 2009 at 1:13 am

    thanks for plugging my show! hope every one enjoys the music…@Steeplejack:

    it actually kinda rocks…point one abolish poverty….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruvdW0gzzKo

  135. 135.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 1:13 am

    @burnspbesq:

    Dude hit a nerve there. “Kind Woman” is one of my favorite Buffalo Springfield songs. Was listening to it and then “Pretty Girl Why” on my cell phone music player just yesterday.

    God, we are old.

    As I overheard a Zen bus driver tell a woman a few months ago: “You ain’t old till you’re cold.” Words to live by.

  136. 136.

    Max

    September 5, 2009 at 1:17 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim: I don’t particularly like opera, but I like this one. From Hannibal, oddly enough.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3yzrL3cgSw

  137. 137.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 1:17 am

    Wow. I just hit the wall, peeps (and I’m kinda drunk). I thank all you lovely folks for all your song suggestions. I am going to listen to the rest of the songs later. For now, I am going to listen to The Killers’ Mr. Brightside one more time before going to bed.

    Night all!

  138. 138.

    DaBomb

    September 5, 2009 at 1:18 am

    I think I will have to send in some pics of my cat Rocket. He’s a pretty big Maine Coon. He’s scared of bubble wrap or any piece of plastic. He’s also scared of the vacuum cleaner.

  139. 139.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 1:19 am

    @JK:

    I’m with you, if they could somehow digitally replace Hefner with some avatar or something.

  140. 140.

    DaBomb

    September 5, 2009 at 1:19 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Good night!!

  141. 141.

    PanAmerican

    September 5, 2009 at 1:21 am

    JK:

    Full credit to Hynde for soldiering on but that Pretenders before and after is just overdose inducing depressing. Scott and Farndon had some sort of magic going on.

  142. 142.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 1:22 am

    In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR13ECD71xU

    Footprints live – Miles Davis
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkUULYE-LAA&feature=related

    All Blues live – Miles Davis
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEvqGVV3qsA

  143. 143.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 1:22 am

    @Bill E Pilgrim: King of the High C’s, I was frequently told as a child.

    La Dona e mobile.

  144. 144.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 1:27 am

    Gnite, Grrl! For the rest of us: Joe Strummer Bhindi Bhagee

  145. 145.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Okay, nobody got up in my grill, but, fuck it, here’s “Across 110th Street” anyway.

    You don’t know what you’ll do until you’re put under pressure
    Across 110th Street is a hell of a tester

  146. 146.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 1:32 am

    @PanAmerican:

    I miss Pete Farndon and James Honeyman Scott along with Joe Strummer, Joey Ramone, John Lennon, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, Zappa, Hendrix, Allman, Moon, Entwhistle et al All these guys were robbed of many productive years and their fans were cheated out as well. Thankfully, the remarkable music they all made lives on.

    I love Chrissie Hynde. She’s one of the most beautiful women in rock music and has one of the greatest singing voices of all-time.

  147. 147.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    September 5, 2009 at 1:33 am

    @John Cole: Yeah it’s too bad in a way that idea stuck, it was from one opera (La Fille du Regiment) in which he hit this seemingly effortless string of high Cs- and it was astounding, but it’s so not what I love his stuff for.

    There’s a great, simply great documentary about Pavarotti and his life and the history of Italian tenors– rats, looks like it’s been taken down off youtube but I suppose fair enough, here’s the link to buy it:

    http://www.amazon.com/Pavarotti-Levine-Recital-Italian-Tenor/dp/B0002W19Q0

    I always thought, when I knew nothing about opera, that he was so popular that he must be sort of lightwieght once you knew what you were listening to, but nope. The opposite in fact. Incredible. It’s all about musicality, as musicians tend to say. Which means, somewhat paradoxically, getting the to the stuff that the music is just a vehicle for expressing. He didn’t read music, for one thing. Which means the ears take over, which is closer to what you do in jazz.

  148. 148.

    BR

    September 5, 2009 at 1:35 am

    Folks –

    Obama’s speech to schools on Tuesday needs to go viral. (Digg, reddit, facebook, etc. can help with that.) Keep an eye out to popularize it on Tuesday. Naturally, kids are going to want to know what the president said if they were kept from watching.

  149. 149.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 1:37 am

    @lhf:

    That doesn’t kinda rock–it does rock. Fuck, now I can almost forgive them for “Come on, Eileen.” Kudos to you.

    And what the hell was it with all those English groups dressing like 1930s street urchins?!

  150. 150.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 1:45 am

    @John Cole:

    Check out the DVD version of “La Fille du Regiment.” Natalie Dessay is a fabulous singer AND a great comic actress. And there is a recent recording of “I Capuletti e I Montacchi” with Anna Netrebko as Juliet and Alina Garanca as Romeo (the role is written for a mezzo). Un-fuckin-real.

  151. 151.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 1:50 am

    @srv:

    There are services that will rip your vinyl for you, but shipping the stuff is expensive.

    You would be amazed at how good entry-level vinyl gear is these days. Get a Rega P1 or a Pro-Ject Debut III for $400, including cartridge, and an entry-level preamp from Music Hall or Cambridge Audio for less than $200 and you’ll be happy as a clam.

  152. 152.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 1:53 am

    @JK:

    I love Chrissie Hynde. She’s one of the most beautiful women in rock music and has one of the greatest singing voices of all-time.

    Isn’t she though. Both inside and out. Down to earth and all about the music.

  153. 153.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 1:57 am

    Srv,

    I have it on very good authority that there will be a practically brand-new Rega P1 going on eBay next week.

  154. 154.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 2:06 am

    @JK:

    “The Weight.”

    I think I have harangued you before about my mix CD of different versions of Oliver Nelson’s “Stolen Moments,” my all-time favorite jazz song. (Latin version by the Caribbean Jazz Project here.) I think “The Weight” could be my next “all one song” CD.

    A few months ago I was listening to a Band tribute album, and I was struck by Lee Ann Womack’s version of “The Weight.” It’s not the greatest version I’ve ever heard, but it’s good, and it opened me up to something. I was not a big fan of the song when it first came out (and was featured in the soundtrack of Easy Rider), but now it seems almost mystical and religious. I started looking up different versions of it and found one by a woman soul singer (whose name I can’t remember now, damn it) that is hair-raising.

    I picked up my bag, I went lookin’ for a place to hide
    Then I saw ol’ Carmen and the Devil walkin’ side by side
    I said, “Hey, Carmen, come on, let’s go downtown”
    She said, “I gotta go, but my friend can stick around”

    Brr!

    Anyway, I was amazed at the variety of artists who have done it, in all sorts of styles, and I think it could be a nice “collage” project.

    Will have to hunt down the soul singer whose version really hit me. It wasn’t Mavis Staples, although she does a great version. (As does Aretha Franklin. With Duane Allman on guitar!)

  155. 155.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 2:11 am

    Damn, that is one good-looking black cat. I think I would like to get to know her better. [Falls face forward in hummus, Wheatsworths and rum and tonic]

  156. 156.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 2:12 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Thanks for that link. I didn’t know there was a Band tribute album.

    I don’t doubt you that there have been good cover versions of Stolen Moments. For me, the original studio version by Oliver Nelson is otherworldly. I just want to hear the original version of that song.

    The downside of YouTube is the fact that clips can disappear at any time. There used to be a great cover version of the Beatles song Tommorrow Never Knows by Sonic Youth but it’s been removed.

  157. 157.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 2:25 am

    There have been many worthy candidates put forward on this thread, but IMO this is the best record of the 1980s.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q1eGAnmL14&feature=channel

  158. 158.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 2:32 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I have done further research on your behalf. If you are open to an old-school stripper song, I heartily recommend Grant Green’s “Sookie, Sookie.” Listen to this and tell me you can’t hear the dollars Hamiltons flying to your thong.

    (I’m getting a disturbing visual, but I mean that in the best possible way.)

    Freudian anecdote: After the collapse of one memorable relationship, I had this recurring dream for months in which the ex was strip-dancing to this song. She was not a stripper (not even close!). It was one of those structurally unsound relationships in which someone is crazy–not saying who–but the sex is so good. The recurring dream almost made me go into stalker mode. But I didn’t, because my strength was as of ten because my heart was pure.

    God, I’m spilling my guts tonight. Damn you, Human Nation, and your pasty white pseudo-soul music.

  159. 159.

    JGabriel

    September 5, 2009 at 2:37 am

    Steeplejack:

    I think “The Weight” could be my next “all one song” CD.

    I keep thinking I should do one of those for New Order’s

    Temptation

    . Just off-hand, I know of at least 7 different versions/mixes: original 7″, original 12″, BBC live in studio (with a very intense guitar & bass bridge), Substance rerecording, Live in Concert, Secret Machines Mix, plus that kind of inessential Moby remake – and I’m sure there are more.

    .

  160. 160.

    JGabriel

    September 5, 2009 at 2:38 am

    Arrgh, I hit blockquote instead of italic for the song title, Temptation.

    When do we get editing back?

    .

  161. 161.

    SarahLoving

    September 5, 2009 at 2:40 am

    This song slays me and is so apt for this batshit summer:

    Nick Lowe (w/Elvis Costello)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFlPxMTP24

  162. 162.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 2:41 am

    Arrrgh! Central Arkansas is leading U of Hawai’i 14 – 9 at halftime! They’re a Div 1-AA team!

  163. 163.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 2:44 am

    @JK:

    You owe it to yourself to at least check out Ahmad Jamal’s version of “Stolen Moments.” He creates a small orchestra on the piano.

  164. 164.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Can’t sleep:

  165. 165.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 2:45 am

    @burnspbesq:

    Excellent song, sir. Thanks for introducing me to it.

  166. 166.

    lhf

    September 5, 2009 at 2:50 am

    zappa said ‘whipping post’ was the song people requested he play though he had never done a cover. he finally did in 1988- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TItmXT8DkM

  167. 167.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 2:52 am

    @Steeplejack: Search for it by name at AllMusic. That will give you a list of names of performers who’ve put it on disk.

  168. 168.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 2:52 am

    @JGabriel:

    Go for it. It’s amazing how songs can be (re)interpreted in so many different ways. An example from the last night or two:

    – “Mad World.”

    – “Mad World.”

  169. 169.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 2:55 am

    I can’t find a link, but one of my favorite songs, and I mean all time, is from one of the most under-appreciated albums of the last 20 years. The album is Delbert McClinton- Nothing Personal, and the song is Read Me My Rights.

    Delbert is a genius.

  170. 170.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 2:56 am

    @lhf:

    Hell, there was a time back in the ’70s when people would start waving their lighters and yelling “‘Whipping Post’!” at any concert. Which led to a memorable cover by the Bay City Rollers, if I remember correctly.

  171. 171.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 2:57 am

    I seem to have caught a second wind. Now I’m going to be up until dawn.

  172. 172.

    John Cole

    September 5, 2009 at 2:58 am

    Also, there is a shit ton of Hammond Organ in it.

    Anything with a Hammond has me at hello.

    “Do you still love me
    Or am I just wastin’ my time
    Just losin’ my mind
    Before you break my heart tonight
    Baby, baby, read me my rights “

  173. 173.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 3:00 am

    Check out the illegal crackback block. Then check out who throws it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0w2mMJOmaw

  174. 174.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 3:04 am

    @John Cole:

    Thank you, sir. I love the Allmans. Any time, anyhow.

  175. 175.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 3:05 am

    If arguingwithsignposts is still around, Michele Catalano is still around, but she’s just reviewing CDs now. She mentioned she voted for Obama, though, which was quite a switch.

    http://www.thisisnotpitchfork.com

  176. 176.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 3:06 am

    @Steeplejack: And then there was (ducks) Freebird.

  177. 177.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 3:09 am

    @Linkmeister:

    The Red Dot “listening station” system at Barnes & Noble is also an underutilized source of the same information. You can enter a “track” title and see all versions of the song still in print. And even listen to 30-second snippets of some of them. Eye-opening!

    Thanks for the tip. I will try AllMusic.

  178. 178.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 3:12 am

    @John Cole:

    Cole!

    One problem I am noticing with the embed thing is that as I reply to other messages and refresh this page, the embedded “Whipping Post” gets interrupted and screwed up. Whereas when I open a link from someone in another tab (in Opera) it continues to play uninterrupted while I’m doinking around in the Balloon Juice page. Just sayin’.

  179. 179.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 3:13 am

    @Steeplejack: @John Cole:

    Long live the Allman Brothers Band. Live at the Fillmore East is timeless.

    @lhf:

    Zappa also recorded a very good version of Stairway to Heaven. I don’t recall what album it appears on.

    What’s the best alternative website to YouTube for finding videos?

  180. 180.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 3:13 am

    @John Cole:

    Delbert is a genius.

    Amen to that.

  181. 181.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 3:16 am

    Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen show
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_3LS_B4q0

  182. 182.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 3:19 am

    Bob Dylan on The Steve Allen show
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEas6FVBE6c&feature=related

  183. 183.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 3:23 am

    @Linkmeister:

    Oh, you bastard, you. Now I’m going to have to dig out Neil Young’s “Southern Man” to counteract that. Or maybe go directly to the anti-antidote: “That Smell.”

    Don’t make me go to the well for 38 Special. Because I will.

  184. 184.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 3:26 am

    @Steeplejack: Hey, at least it wasn’t a blind link to a YouTube version of the song! ;)

  185. 185.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 3:27 am

    And have I mentioned what a gorgeous black kitty that is at the top of the page? Hey, baby, what’s your sign? Leo? Somehow I knew that. I bet your tongue feels like sandpaper. Aarrggle!

  186. 186.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 3:28 am

    Twas k.d. lang who led me back to Julia Fordham earlier.

    Constant Craving
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaHZNTd-YVY

    and one of the originals that inspired her:
    Black Coffee
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFN_Iu_PD-g

  187. 187.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 3:32 am

    Favorite uncomfortable interviews with rock musicians

    John Lydon and Keith Levene with Tom Snyder
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BZ2UoBZzEI

    Sly Stone with Dick Cavett
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM_Pf7JhKWo

    Does anyone know of any other good interviews with rock musicians, comfortable or uncomfortable or memorable performances on a tv show?

  188. 188.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 3:35 am

    Green Grass and High Tides – The Outlaws
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk

  189. 189.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 3:35 am

    Eva Cassidy — “Time after Time”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMznNlfLXP4

  190. 190.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 3:36 am

    @JK: I wonder if that infamous Fresh Air interview Gene Simmons of Kiss did is in the NPR archives.

  191. 191.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 3:38 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Don’t make me go to the well for 38 Special. Because I will.

    You had to say it, didn’t you?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMxqPRdR36I

  192. 192.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 3:41 am

    @JK: And, answering myself, here’s the Gene Simmons interview. Not at NPR, but.

  193. 193.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 3:42 am

    @Linkmeister:

    I’d forgotten about that interview. I heard portions of it some years ago. Simmons was a major league asshole in that interview.

    I’ll cut John Lydon slack for his interview with Tom Snyder and Sly Stone for his interview with Dick Cavett because I enjoy their music, but I can’t stand Kiss’ music so Simmons is just an obnoxious dick as far as I’m concerned.

  194. 194.

    Linkmeister

    September 5, 2009 at 3:47 am

    If you ever wondered whether Terry Gross was unflappable, her performance during that interview should have proven it beyond a reasonable doubt.

  195. 195.

    bago

    September 5, 2009 at 3:49 am

    Whoever was overpaying for their sound setup, know that technic 1200’s are pretty much top of the line turntables, a good diamond needle cart is like 200 bucks, and why would you run from analog through a 24 bit dac before hitting your amp? Unless your speakers are hdmi there is no need to go digital for a vinyl setup.

  196. 196.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 3:51 am

    Love on a Real Train – Tangerine Dream
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KuNH3C36QE

    Lugano – Art Ensemble of Chicago
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucDDPJ0cahY

  197. 197.

    PanAmerican

    September 5, 2009 at 3:52 am

    JK:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQiIMuOKIzY

    The Alpha and Omega. A pure Punk Rock moment. Nothing like the maudlin hagiography of the biopic or American Pie.

  198. 198.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 3:53 am

    @Linkmeister:

    I think Gene Simmons and Bill O’Reilly were probably the toughest interviews Terry Gross ever had to endure.

  199. 199.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 4:00 am

    @PanAmerican:

    Thanks for that link

    Rock Island Line – Lonnie Donnegan
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1sie9FHM9s

    Guardian Angel – John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vElVEgIvElk

  200. 200.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 4:06 am

    My Generation – Patti Smith
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5lcZFWEwg

    Birds of Fire – Mahavishnu Orchestra
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv_bkS5VVaA

  201. 201.

    MelodyMaker

    September 5, 2009 at 4:07 am

    FUCK!!!!

    does that count?

  202. 202.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 4:07 am

    @BethanyAnne:

    I love “Constant Craving.”

    And is Julia Fordham the one who did “Everything Reminds Me of My Cat”? Or maybe dog. I seem to remember an album cover that is white on white on white.

    And, because I seem unable to post anything without a YouTube clip tonight, this is my last one, I think hope. Emerson, Lake & Palmer, “From the Beginning.” Dunno why. Just seems appropriate.

  203. 203.

    MelodyMaker

    September 5, 2009 at 4:09 am

    Aimee Mann “Freeway”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQF5CXV9cos

  204. 204.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 4:11 am

    @burnspbesq:

    Touché. I’m spent. Who was it who did, “Give me three steps to the door”?

  205. 205.

    MelodyMaker

    September 5, 2009 at 4:12 am

    Stevie Wonder – Superstition live on Sesame Street
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

  206. 206.

    MelodyMaker

    September 5, 2009 at 4:15 am

    apparently Frank Black Francis No Comment
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5145NXPHHV0

  207. 207.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 4:15 am

    @PanAmerican:

    Was that Nicolas Cage in the background of that video? Christ, I need to go to bed.

  208. 208.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 4:16 am

    On The Air – Peter Gabriel with Robert Fripp, Tony Levin
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4ca51tGWus

    Freeway Jam – Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT4sbRq1RA

  209. 209.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 4:17 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Awesome guitar work, BTW.

  210. 210.

    MelodyMaker

    September 5, 2009 at 4:19 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoL_gDylVkM

    Fearless

  211. 211.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 4:21 am

    @MelodyMaker:

    Okay, you brought up Sesame Street. I must throw down.

  212. 212.

    JK

    September 5, 2009 at 4:22 am

    Cool, Peter Gabriel being interviewed by a computer
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C24fMX03_80
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HrJyvXPpYE&feature=related

  213. 213.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 4:36 am

    @bago:

    Unless your speakers are hdmi there is no need to go digital for a vinyl setup.

    Or unless you want to stream the contents of your music server wirelessly all through the house, and don’t have room for over 2,000 CDs and over 1,000 albums.

    Also, re the Technics 1200: sometimes old is better, but sometimes old is just old.

  214. 214.

    burnspbesq

    September 5, 2009 at 4:42 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Who was it who did, “Give me three steps to the door”?

    Lynyrd Skynyrd.

  215. 215.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 5:06 am

    Okay, I’m really done. From here I think I can fall and hit at least part of the bed.

    What could be better than go-go dancers combined with a Cat Stevens song? I like Cat Stevens. I like go-go dancers. QED.

    Steep out.

  216. 216.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 7:19 am

    @Steeplejack: I don’t remember her doing a song like that. The Porcelain album is a white background with her wearing a red bathrobe. And her “Collection” album cover photo is her in white in front of a white wall.

  217. 217.

    Brian

    September 5, 2009 at 8:00 am

    “Altered Carbon” was quite good, the next two in the sequel grew a bit long in the tooth. However, I found “Thirteen” by the same author to be his best, so I rec that..

  218. 218.

    arguingwithsignposts

    September 5, 2009 at 8:07 am

    @Linkmeister:

    thanks for the update. probably better to just do cd’s – this politics stuff is depressing.

  219. 219.

    Keith G

    September 5, 2009 at 8:28 am

    Bastards all! Suberb thread that I had to miss since bed time was early. Now I am off to work after only getting thru 1/2. Sigh.

    In Houston, the weather is cooler, barely 90, but chances for rain. Looks like a rather nice wk end. As always, mine begins Sunday night.

  220. 220.

    vacuumslayer

    September 5, 2009 at 8:31 am

    Wow. What remarkable eyes!

  221. 221.

    asiangrrlMN

    September 5, 2009 at 8:37 am

    Good lord, people! How the hell am I ever gonna listen to all these songs? I forgot how a BJ YouTube throwdown can get!

    Max, Tonight will be my wind down song for my stripper set. Hooooot. BethanyAnne, I need a cigarette after listening to Androgyny. That is definitely on my stripper rotation. Steeplejack, Sookie Sookie is old-school sexy. Yup, I can certainly grind to that one. (Black thong, by the way. I’m just saying if you’re going to visualize, you should do it right).

    Thank you all again for expanding my horizons when it comes to music. It’s one of my favorite things about this place, right behind kittehs and goggies.

  222. 222.

    Cassidy

    September 5, 2009 at 9:03 am

    I’ve read everything by Morgan except Thirteen and the fantasy one. As said, way back before, I think woken Furies was the best of the Kovac’s novels. Altered Carbon is the most fun to read, but Woken Furies pulls everything together pretty tightly. The violence is a little on the ultra-violent side, but it fits into the whole concept of the world they live in. It isn’t gore, just for the sake of gore.

  223. 223.

    BethanyAnne

    September 5, 2009 at 9:03 am

    {grin}

  224. 224.

    General Winfield Stuck

    September 5, 2009 at 9:29 am

    You Libtards leave Michelle alone!

    Rep. Bachmann: Dems Want To Sabotage Me Because I Might Become President

  225. 225.

    matoko_chan

    September 5, 2009 at 11:49 am

    I think you read Thirteen/Blackman first.
    We are living it.
    Dig Manzi proposing Distributed Jesusland at the Scene.

    Broken Angels is my favorite, but AC is the first Takeshi Kovacs novel…the movie rights have been bought….so read it before the bigscreen.

  226. 226.

    Steeplejack

    September 5, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    @BethanyAnne:

    It’s Jane Siberry. “Everything Reminds Me of My Dog.”

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