Melanie sees fit to tag me with a blog meme, and I'm powerless to resist, seeing as how her baby is, like, five days overdue and I don't want to stress her out any further:
List ten songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're no good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the ten songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
Whew. I'm glad that disclaimer about not having to be good was in there. Taking a cursory look at the "most played" list on iTunes and my "Memo" songs on Sirius, I came up with:
1. Kathleen Edwards - "In State" -- If I was single, and she was single, and there was any way I could approach her without looking like a complete and utter dork, I'm fairly confident she'd spit whiskey in my face anyway. It'd be worth it, for this is one of the best songs I've heard in recent memory.
2. Coldplay- "Talk" -- Oh, go soak your head. I've heard most of X&Y, and this is by far my favorite song on it.
3. Thomas Dolby - "One of Our Submarines" -- Beats me. It's been in my rotation quite a lot lately, for some reason.
4. Fountains of Wayne - "Sink to the Bottom" -- "Stacy's Mom" is great, but this and "Radiation Vibe" are still my favorite FoW songs.
5. Rammstein - "Du Hast" -- My German is just good enough to assure me this is some sort of weird love song and not, for example, a rallying cry to retake Alsace from the French.
6. Drive-By Truckers - "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" -- No list is complete without a little DBT. I wish these guys were coming back to Houston soon.
7. Bad Religion - "The Empire Strikes First" -- Bad Religion is kind of like Social Distortion, in that I don't know if it's necessary to own more than two or three of their albums. This song seems particularly appropriate these days, however.
8. Keane - "Somewhere Only We Know" -- This one's on its way out, but it's a great one to sing at top volume in the car, because the guy's voice is only slightly better than mine. Poor bastard.
9. Dresden Dolls - "Coin-Operated Boy" -- I know, I'm like a year behind everybody else.
10. Robbie Fulks - "Fuck This Town" -- Or eight years, as the case may be. Up there with Hank III's "Trashville" as one of the best songs about Music City, USA.
I hate passing these things along, but I don't want to break the chain and - I dunno - die of candirú infestation or something. So 'Mudge, Elisson, Vespa, Chuck, and Ginger, come on down.
i second bol's assertion.
and thanks for playing, pete. there's my anxiety level allayed a teensy bit.
"Carl Perkins' Cadillac?" Interesting choice. There are probably 3 or 4 tracks I like off 'Dirty South' more than that one. But it's solid, and to each their own.
Ok, hold your laughter until the end:
1. Anything by The Drop Kick Murphys
2. O...Damien Rice (the whole CD)
3. Anything by Flogging Molly
4. Song to the Moon...Renee Fleming
5. The Water is Wide...Renee Fleming with Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin
6. Me too on Rammstein, Du Hast
7. The Cello's Song...David Arkenstone and Kostia
8. New York State of Mind...Billy Joel
9. The Ames Brothers Greatest Hits
I've been meme-tagged by Pete: List ten songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they......
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Memed again. List ten songs that you are currently digging ... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether......
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If I could ever figure out stupid trackbacks, you'd have seen mine in a trackback. But since I can't, I'll just tell you that my list is up...
http://www.thechroniccurmudgeon.com/archives/2005/07/tag_im_it.htm
Thanks for the tip on Robbie Fulks, by the way. I'm gonna have to download some more of his stuff.
And for the record, Social D is beautiful... sheer poetry.
And here I thought I was the only one who had ever heard of Robbie Fulks.
Oh, yes, and candirú infestation. Thanks, Monarch!
Posted by Elisson at August 1, 2005 09:19 AM
My no-nos hurt!
Heh. My choices are up at my site.
My response is up - couldn't get the trackback to take hold.
X&Y is a pretty good album. Fuck the haters.