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response 18 of 87:
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Jan 31 01:20 UTC 1999 |
Renee Fleming sang "Nuvoletta" at her recital at Hill auditorium on 14 Jan...
(in re #8)
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beeswing
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response 19 of 87:
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Jan 31 03:58 UTC 1999 |
Nope, krj, I was a slobbering RT fan for awhile but it's kinda waned for
me. Mirror Blue didn't change my life or anything but I like it okay. I
have to be in the mood to listen to it.
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mcnally
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response 20 of 87:
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Jan 31 04:31 UTC 1999 |
I suspect we should take it to the music cf's Richard Thompson item
(there's got to be one somewhere there..) but I couldn't stand the
musical arrangements on "Mirror Blue" (liked the lyrics, hated the
tunes) but liked "You? Me? Us?"
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tpryan
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response 21 of 87:
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Jan 31 18:24 UTC 1999 |
The list is plenty big for me, including a lot of what I have
read. I just like a lot of music, and can be quite impacted by some.
Instead, here are a few songs I went out of my way to make sure others
also heard:
Touch a Name on the Wall - Joel Mabus (memories of Vietnam
and the Memorial Wall)
Cool Green Hills of Earth, words by Robert Heinlien, musical
arrangment by Michael McGonical(?), vocal by Mark
Bernstein with chorus
A Boy and His Frog - Tom Smith (tribute to Jim Henson)
When Tenskwatawa Sings - Michael Longcor (reverse angle on
the Battle of TippiCanoe(?sp?)
Hope Eyrie - Leslie Fish, but this Lunar Anthem is best when
sung by many.
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orinoco
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response 22 of 87:
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Jan 31 18:26 UTC 1999 |
Wow, this is a toughie.
I'm gonna try to keep myself down to one Beatles song here...it's a close tie
between "Something" and "In My Life", but I think "In My Life" wins.
"Angel from Montgomery" - my favorite is Bonnie Raitt's version, though I like
Susan Tedeschi's too, but I'm not sure who wrote it.
"In the Light" by Led Zepplin.
"Is it Okay if I Call You Mine?" from the movie Fame.
"No Woman No Cry" by Bob Marley.
"Something So Right" by Paul Simon.
"Oh Amelia" by Joni Mitchell. ("tip of the iceberg," md would say)
"Calling from the Western Slopes" by Rickie Lee Jones. ("tip of the iceberg")
"Tones of Home" by Blind Melon.
Cassandra Wilson's version of "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young, although I hate
Neil Young's version of this song with a passion.
Actually, I feel the same way about a lot of covers - Tori Amos' version of
Led Zepplin's "Down By the Seaside" and Joe Cocker's version of the Beatles'
"With A Little Help from my Friends" come to mind.
Hmm...that's enough for now....
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katie
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response 23 of 87:
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Jan 31 23:25 UTC 1999 |
John Prine wrote "Angel From Montgomery," I believe.
tpryan: Joel Mabus is playing Green Wood Coffee House on Feb 12.
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gypsi
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response 24 of 87:
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Feb 1 01:47 UTC 1999 |
Thought of three more tonight:
"Time Warp" - RHPS cast
"Politics of Dancing" - Re-Flex
"Der Kommissar" - After the Fire
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cloud
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response 25 of 87:
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Feb 1 02:23 UTC 1999 |
Yikes, this is tough, and what I really like to listen to shifts around a lot,
but I'll see if I can put down fav. tracks of best loved albums.
In No Particular Order
"Brother 52" --Fish
"Money" --Pink Floyd
"Kate" --Ben Fold's Five
"Knots" --Gentle Giant
"Signify" --Porcupine Tree
"Lovely Rita" --The Beatles (I just like this song)
And that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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beeswing
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response 26 of 87:
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Feb 1 02:28 UTC 1999 |
i like the re-flex song too, i'd forgotten about them...
"Hypnotized"-- Fleetwood Mac
"Pure Morning"-- Placebo
"South Dakota" -- Liz Phair
"Batmobile"-- Liz Phair
"Institutionalized"-- Suicidal Tendencies (the story of my youth, Mike
IS me)
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happyboy
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response 27 of 87:
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Feb 1 03:08 UTC 1999 |
"Lady Blue" Leon Russell
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lumen
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response 28 of 87:
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Feb 1 03:39 UTC 1999 |
I have much too many to count, but here goes:
From U2's _War_:
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year's Day
The Drowning Man
Martin Page's "In The House of Stone and Light"
Eric Clapton's "My Father's Eyes"
Enya's "Carribean Blue," "Cursum Perficio," to name a few
I am a big fan of Depeche Mode instrumentals:
Big Muff
Any Second Now
Excerpts from My Secret Garden
Nothing to Fear
Sibling
Painkiller
and their lesser known songs:
Ice Machine
Shout
Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead
Naked Eyes's last best-of compilation has so many songs I really like,
but "Promises, Promises" and "Fortune And Fame" are some biggies
Mark Morrison's "Return Of The Mack"
Seal's "Crazy" and "Bring It On"
I'll go on forever, so I'll quit..
but I will add I love the classical guitar piece "Romance"
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jep
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response 29 of 87:
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Feb 1 17:34 UTC 1999 |
A few of my favorite songs:
Garth Brooks "Friends in Low Places"
Beatles "Paperback Writer"
Patsy Cline "Crazy"
Nazareth "Miss Misery"
Marvin Gaye "Heard it Through the Grapevine"
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mooncat
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response 30 of 87:
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Feb 1 19:33 UTC 1999 |
Gah, I like too many songs... so I'll list a few-
On My Own- from Les Miz.
Little Earthquakes- Tori Amos
Bitch and What Would Happen- by Meredith Brooks
Mother Mother- Tracy Bonham (Something like that, I can't quite remember
her last name)
Hold On- Sarah McLachlan
Terrible Lie- NIN (actually, most of "Pretty Hate Machine" is a fave)
American Pie- Don McLean (already said by others, there's just something
about that song, I've always loved it.)
Butterfly Kisses- I don't know who sings it, but it's about a dad and
his daughter, and I just think it's absolutely beautiful.
Any Man Of Mine, You're Still The One, and No One Needs to Know Right
Now-Shania Twain
That song from the Fame Album with Coco singing to the piano music...
I can't think of the name off hand- but I really love singing
that song.
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beeswing
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response 31 of 87:
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Feb 1 21:11 UTC 1999 |
"Head Like a Hole"... NIN (ultimate song for when bees is pissed off)
"Killer Queen" and "We Are the Champions"... Queen (Flash! Aaaaa!)
"Crucify"... Tori Amos
"Been Caught Stealing"... Jane's Addiction
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gypsi
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response 32 of 87:
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Feb 1 21:25 UTC 1999 |
Oops...have to list Queen...how could I forget? =)
"One Vision", "It's a Kind of Magic", "The Miracle"...okay, the
entire freakin' Classic Queen album. <g>
"Big Love" (both versions) - Fleetwood Mac
"Supernova" - Liz Phair
"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" - Revolting Cocks (one of the best covers
EVER)
"Just Like Heaven" and "Love Cats" - the Cure
Anything by the Smiths
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lumen
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response 33 of 87:
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Feb 1 22:47 UTC 1999 |
No offense, but when I read the lyrics to "Any Man of Mine," I thought
it should be re-titled "Any *Slave* of Mine." Catchy tune, but what the
lyrics ask for is just unreasonable. Maybe she's being facetious or
sarcastic?
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richard
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response 34 of 87:
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Feb 1 23:35 UTC 1999 |
Another couple of good ones...
**Somebody Bring Me Some Water*** (Melissa Ethridge)-- "Somebody bring me
some water...cant you see Im burning aliiive" I always get a kick out of
that song.
**Puff theMagic Dragon**** (Peter, Paul and Mary)..my favorite song when I
was about six.
***Yellow Submarine*** (the Beatles)-- my *other* favorite song when I was
about six.
*** It's the End of the World as we know it and I feel fine*** (REM)
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hhsrat
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response 35 of 87:
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Feb 2 02:39 UTC 1999 |
And a few more
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
End of the world ... feel fine - REM
Baby, I need your lovin - ??
National Anthem - Jimi Hendrix version ONLY
Hotel California - ??
Kodachrome - Simon (& Garfunkel?)
Pinball Wizard - ??
Only the Good Die Young - ??
Stars and stripes forever - John Phillip Sousa
Surfin USA - The Beach Boys
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eieio
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response 36 of 87:
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Feb 2 02:42 UTC 1999 |
(Oh, dear. Oh dear oh dear. You weren't able to identify The Who? I guess high
school really has changed.)
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md
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response 37 of 87:
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Feb 2 02:57 UTC 1999 |
Nor the Eagles.
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beeswing
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response 38 of 87:
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Feb 2 03:48 UTC 1999 |
Ahhh yeah.
"Can't Explain", "Eminence Front"... The Who
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"... Queen
"Nature of a Sista"... Queen Latifah (about girl power and she can kick
all them Spice Girls' asses in one fell swoop)
"End"... the Cure (i also like their older stuff)
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janc
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response 39 of 87:
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Feb 2 05:16 UTC 1999 |
Hard question. The number one item on my list is obvious:
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
My parents had an album when I was young and impressionable,
and it wormed its way deep into my brain, especially after
seeing it performed live while still young and impressionable
(and three-and-a-half-times since, the half time being a modern
dance ensemble that just did side two of the record). Parts of
it were playing in my head all through my first summer away from
home. Since I didn't have any way to listen to the original
all that summer, it started mutating into something different,
and my mental version has never fully reconverged with Orff's.
It's joyous, dramatic, gaudy and theatrical. It's an
affirmation of life and a touchstone for my mind.
Other than that, there are just a lot of songs I kinda like.
"Waltzing with Bears" appears on a number of folk albums. I think I
first met it on a Bok, Muir, Trickett album. It's one of the few songs
I bothered to learn the words to. I sing it to Arlo almost every day.
I'm working on learning the words to the companion song that the
Berrymans do, about my dear Aunt Emily, who sings in her sleep.
"Just Follow That Road" by Anne Hills is a love song written the form of
travelling directions.
I should mention something from Michelle Shocked's "Arkansas Traveler"
album, Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt's "Closing the Distance", but I
don't know how to choose just one song off either one of them. These
two albums and Lauri Anderson account for a significant fraction of all
the music fragments that live in my head.
I have an album by the Balineski Quartet that is indispensible to me.
It's a string quartet doing non-electronic arrangements of a lot of
music originally composed as electronic music. It's mechanical and
energizing, and the perfect grading music. When I have to do a
mind-numbing and depressing job that nevertheless requires me to stay
mentally alert (grading papers qualifies, believe me), the Balinesky
Quartet goes in the CD player with the REPEAT button down. I've heard
it a couple thousand times through now, and I still love it.
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sjones
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response 40 of 87:
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Feb 2 05:52 UTC 1999 |
what, no welsh bands?!
'tsunami' & 'if you tolerate this, your children will be next'
by the manic street preachers
and
'goldfish and paracetamol' by catatonia
never heard of them? you're missing out over there...
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cyklone
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response 41 of 87:
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Feb 2 13:32 UTC 1999 |
"End of the Party"
-The English Beat
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anderyn
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response 42 of 87:
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Feb 2 14:04 UTC 1999 |
Well, Mr. Simon Jones, she says, she'd *happily* take some Welsh bands,
but it's a bit hard what with the nasty wet ocean in the way. Any
recommendations, seriously, for someone who'd like the Welsh language
and a folk/rock sensibility? And any way to send some, like on a
cassette of samples?
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