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Meant to get to this a couple days ago but life has been intruding. Did I miss anything around here? This is a cover of the big Van Halen hit, but torqued in a different direction. What have you all been listening to this week? Also too, R.I.P. Dick Clark and Levon Helm.

Aztec Camera, “Jump” (1985)

P.S. Oh, DougJ is doing songs about rain. I’m going to check to see if anyone has mentioned the Neil Sedaka song, “Laughter in the Rain.”

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  3. 3.

    Neil

    Rain Songs?
    Apples in Stereo – Rainfall – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12pd7AymNog
    Elliott Smith – Clementine – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfecAVzoPPk (there has to be rain; mentions the street is wet (you can tell by the sound of the cars) – from my favorite album of all time)

    Rain songs seemed to be very popular in the 60s though. Must have been something about impending doom that brought some people down. My favorite; walking in the rain. WALL OF SOUND for the win. Second favorite, oddly enough is Johnny Rivers Summer Rain, if only for memory association.

  4. 4.

    JenJen

    Well, THAT SUCKED. Pens eliminated, Flyers advance. Caps have a shot at taking out the Bruins here as Sunday Bloody Sunday continues in the NHL, so I’m still in!!

    Hey, speaking of music, awesome profile of Akron’s own Black Keys on CBS Sunday Morning today. Catch it online if you missed it.

  5. 5.

    Yutsano

    @JenJen: Aww shit. Work Dawg is gonna be a bitch to deal with tomorrow. I may give him a day or two of mourning. Damn yinzers. :)

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    Damn you, JPK! I was all ready to go Friday night, and then you didn’t show up. And then Yutsano said my musical taste was “eclectic” in that sort of eye-rolling kind of way. Wah.

    I dug up one of my old mix CDs when I was in the car Friday. Fun to listen to, because I didn’t remember what songs came next, but I knew that someone with exquisite “eclectic” taste had done it.

    Milton Nascimento, “Dancing.”

    ETA: And, yeah, now we’re all spent from the “rain song” thread. Good day, sir!

  13. 13.

    Soonergrunt

    Just taking a short break from this training to note that MCITP Windows 7/Windows 2008 Administrator sucks ass.
    I’m pretty sure that this instructor, who seems to only be capable of speaking in monotone about about 50% normal speed, could contract to the CIA as an interrogation leader. I have class with this guy all week. I’m on day two, and I’m ready to confess to the Kennedy assassination and the location of Jimmy Hoffa if only they’ll make it stop.

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    PPOG Penguin

    I was thinking fondly about this just the other day after Cole was banging on about Van Halen, but I thought it hadn’t been reissued on any of the CDs. Now you’ve prompted me, I found there’s a new best-of which not only has ‘Jump’ but a bunch of other songs and covers that aren’t on any of the albums. So thanks!

  24. 24.

    Tlazolteotl

    OMG, I always loved this cover! Covers that sound pretty much like the original are a waste of plastic/bandwith.

  25. 25.

    John E

    A rain song to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and take notice: Out of the Rain, by Etta James. This song was written by the most underrated rock artist of all time, Tony Joe White, who has a small but militant following.

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    jrg

    “I was watching television one night and it was the five o’clock news and there was a fellow standing on top of the Arco Towers in Los Angeles and he was about to check out early, he was going to do the 33 stories drop — and there was a whole crowd of people in the parking lot downstairs yelling “Don’t jump, don’t jump” and I thought to myself, “Jump.” So, I wrote it down and ultimately it made in onto the record …”

    –David Lee Roth

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    Tom

    Thank you – Aztec Camera doesn’t get enough play. Saw Roddy Frame with a bad cold (him, not me) at the Ritz/Studio 54 a zillion years ago. This is good and so much of his other stuff is tremendous.

  32. 32.

    MaxL

    John Lee Hooker owns rain songs with “Tupelo Blues”. He did this video 30 years after the first release.

    Do his fingers even leave the first fret?

    Also, too. I have played that Aztec Camera version of Jump every time we felt like laughing at ’80s music since, well, the 80s.

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