It has come to our attention that despite being a member in good standing of this here Music Club (motto: We sweat these picks, baby!)* we have not actually seen any of your, y'know, choices.
So, we are all eagerly awaiting your three picks for the following themes:
-- 3 songs that define you musically
-- 3 songs with a bridge/section that you love
-- 3 songs featuring women bands and/or singers.
-- 3 songs about or bands from a particular city
-- 3 collaborations
And the latest (and in my opinion best) theme thus far: 3 songs you like. This one is not due until early November (I forget the date).
*we don't have an official motto, but I liked that one.
Okay Pat! You asked for it! Prepare for too much information!
ReplyDeleteMusic Club: These are my humble contributions.
1. 3 songs that define me musically:
Aja - Steely Dan
If you know me, you know about my Dan fixation
Everyday I Write the Book - Elvis Costello
love the back up singers
River Deep, Mountain High - Ike and Tina Turner
Wall of sound, agony of love, and Tina would know!!
2. Bridges I Love:
Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Awesome spoken bridge
Don't Change Your Plans - Ben Folds
Awesome instrumental bridge (a la Burt Bacharach)
I Wish You Love - Blossom Dearie
Awesome classic ABABCBA bridge, awesome song stylings by Ms. Dearie)
3. Ladies:
A Case of You - k. d. lang
BLASPHEMY ALERT: I prefer her voice to Joni's
Love and Affection - Joan Armatrading
Gravity - Sara Bareilles
4. City:
Freedom of '76 - Ween
"Boyz II Men still keepin' up the beat, yeah...:
Hence...
MotownPhilly - Boyz II Men
"Doin' a little east coast fling..."
A Long Walk - Jill Scott
"Conversation, verbal elation, stimulation..."
4 Collaborations:
Heal the Pain - George Michael and Paul McCartney
Veronica* - Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello
God Give Me Strength - Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
SEE WHAT I DID THERE???
I hope these are not too mockable!
I like the motto! And, if elected, I will submit my "songs I like" in November!
*props to Marcy for her input on this category!
Wow.
ReplyDeleteI'm speechless.
That is NOT a vote of confidence...
ReplyDeleteIs it the Boyz ii Men that takes your voice away?
ReplyDeleteOkay. Speech back.
ReplyDeleteIt is shameful that EC hadn't made a showing until now. Then he shows up 3 times.
I could have gone at least another 5 meetings without Blossom Dearie, but I suppose it was bound to happen eventually.
Your list was a complete surprise. It is an example, though, of why I enjoy Music Club. Everyone comes up with choices (familiar and foreign, songs I like and songs I hadn't thought about liking, yet) that I just love to hear. I like hearing what everyone thinks about each others choices. I like being exposed to new songs and bands.
We all showed our choices to each other 3 songs at a time over the course of months. I had time to take it all in. I also had beer for assistance.
You just dropped 15 songs all at once in our collective lap. I'm sorry if my speechlessness came off as rude, but I kind of had the wind knocked out of me, and I had no beer to guide me.
If we are voting, I say, "Ay."
I want to hear this list.
What's a Boyz II Men?
OK, I didn't find this until just Marcy told me where to look, so sorry about the delay.
ReplyDeleteInitial reactions:
Love the Joan Armatrading song, and I agree with you about the k d lang version of Case of You.
Nice snake on the collaborations -- Marcy's love of a theme within a theme is coming through there.
I've only got one Ween disc, but I enjoy the hell out of it -- looking forward to hearing this one (I'll register for Lala so I can hear the embed)......never heard of either Edward Sharpe or Blossom Dearie.
All in all, that's a tough thing to put together all that in one shot. Bravo.
Yeah, I'd never heard of Edward Sharpe, either, but that is a great song.
ReplyDeleteWhew! Thanks for the positive feedback, guys! (Sorry it took a while for me to respond - work hit me like a tsunami when I came back in on Wednesday). Jim, you scared me at first, I will admit, but I love your philosophy of music club!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to meet up in person hopefully sometime in December!
Also, we have 12 (although it seems like a lot more) Blossom Dearie CDs at the gallery that occasionally fall into heavy rotation when my boss is in that kind of mood. I like MY ATTORNEY BERNIE, that fact that during the live recording she introduces 2 different songs as the most requested song in her repertoire, and the song with the lyric "Pencils come from Pennsylvania."
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