Musak day!

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First of all, I have an icon from zeplum which fills my black heart with so much glee that I just don't even have the proper words. I mean really -- Look, it's Ari! <3

Secondly, it occurs to me that I've been asking for a quite a bit of music recently, but I haven't given any back in EIGHT WHOLE DAYS (if you took advantage of the Personal Song Offer) or NINETEEN DAYS (if you prefer the musical posting). So. I had to rectify that. From me to you

Al Green 'Here I Am (Come and Take Me)' – Yes, this song was covered later in its life by UB40, like most good R&B, but before that it was all Al. Why? Because Al Green is one of those wicked soul artists that just make you feel good about life, and who you just can't help but love, like Barry White. And Tom Jones (Tom fucking Jones!) And Jell-o. Everyone loves Jell-o, unless the consistency reminds you of, err, seminal fluids, then perhaps not so much so.

Barry White 'Never Never Gonna Give You Up' – Now how could I mention Barry White and then not put him in here? Barry White is like, like -- it's fucking Barry White! There are some singers you just have to give respect to for being that cool and down-to-eath and sharing their God-given-talent. Rest in Peace, Barry.

Johnny Cash 'Folsom Prison Blues' -- I know lots of people loved Walk the Line. Me? Not so much so. I mean I loved it, because it was "the story" of Johnny Cash, but you know, yeah, no. This is Johnny fucking Cash we're talking about, and something about the movie just seemed to miss the mark. Reese Witherspoon was great though. I'm rambling, but Johnny Cash pretty much speaks for himself. I mean, dude, anyone who writes the lyric I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die? Hardcore.

Elbow 'Presuming Ed (Rest Easy)' -- I love Elbow. I talk about them all the fucking time, so I figured any music post where I put men with big, bold, knicker-dropping, grooving-in-the-middle-aisle-of-the-supermarket voices must include Guy Garvey. Because, really, Guy's voice is just that moving. Ergo, Elbow.

Fiona Apple 'Oh Well' -- I am notoriously finicky about my female singers; I know this. I just get so tired of the whinging and the emoting; it makes my brain hurt. I like my women like I like my coffee, goddamnit. Or I would if I could drink coffee without freaking out everyone in a two-mile radius. Anyway, women like Starbuck and Angie Stone and KT Tunstall and Aretha and Miss Fiona, that's what I like, because sometimes you fall in love with someone who doesn't love you back, and all you can do is say, oh well.

Nirvana 'In Bloom' -- I know you're all like, okay, Al, Barry, Johnny, Fiona – Kurt fucking Cobain? What the fuck? Yeah, it occurs to me that some of you weren't even alive when he was big. That's just -– that makes my head hurt. Anyroad, I have 'In Bloom' here because a) everybody has at least two grunge-era songs that they still like. Don't front. B) Even if you didn't like Nirvana the first sixty times, you might like them the sixty-first. C) This song isn't about grunge or flannel, or whatever you thought was happening in Seattle in 1991, it's about those people in your life who just don't fucking get it. Everybody knows them.

And to confuse you even more about what I actually listen on a regular basis, the last song of the day is a party song from the late 90's, which already means at least ¼ of you've never heard of it. Still, if you were a club kid partying on the East Coast or in Europe at any point you should've heard DJ Kool's Let Me Clear My Throat at least once. Or twice. Or fifty times.



Hackthis Heatseeker Chart: Mawglee 'Culture No 50'. British lo-fi electronica in the vein of Zero 7, Morcheeba, and Portishead. This is chill-out all-day-every-day type music. Hangovers, Sunday afternoons in the garden, and three am making out all the way.


*Thanks to literaryll, violetsmiles and greenapricot for their contributions to this post.

Comments

[vylit.livejournal.com]

Al, Barry, Johnny, Fionna, Kurt, and Elbow all in one post? This makes my day. Grabbing Mawglee, because I've never heard of them.

*mwah*

[whatdanidigs.livejournal.com]

Cash! I love him.

[plumtastic.livejournal.com]

What if you still like more than one grunge song? *g* (Though yeah, In Bloom is totally in that top list.)


And I still owe you a George Clinton story. I have not forgotten!

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you!

[sorcha-feanor.livejournal.com]

thanks for sharing!! snagged all of them except fiona...as I have all her cd's already

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

sometimes you fall in love with someone who doesn't love you back, and all you can do is say, oh well.

Hee! *loves you*

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

There are people who don't like Nirvana? Surely you lie!

I wish I still had my Kurt icon in rotation, but Eddie will have to suffice.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Y'know, you're the reason I'm now hooked on Elbow. After listening to the mp3's you posted, I ran out and got Asleep in the Back and fell head over heels. Guy's voice makes my heart hurt in just the right way that I never want it to stop.

[resmin.livejournal.com]

I think you could do a friends list culling based on 'Let Me Clear My Throat.' Everyone who not only knows the song, but has rocked out in a club on this side. You strange folk on the other.

In random news, Ben and Matt are going to do a movie together. Matt plays Gordon Clooney. I shit you not.

[copernica3.livejournal.com]

Ahahaaaahah. OMG, I used to have the worst *totally irrational* hate-on for 'Let Me Clear My Throat'. Used to stand there and scream when it came on, and then stomp about melodramaticly. And I don't remember why! I should download it just to see if I still hate it, or at least can remember what my problem was in the first place.
Thank you for the post! I took a few.

[antheia.livejournal.com]

People who weren't alive when Cobain...I have to lay down now. In my nursing home cot, apparently.

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

DJ Kool's Let Me Clear My Throat

Ha! That was totally one of our "scream and run out on to the floor" songs when I was in college. I'm so old. *cries* And Al Green is my favorite favorite that ever favorited. Seriously.

But what I really wanted to say is that I have to have sex with your icon right now. Could you turn away for just a minute? That be grrrrrrrrrreat, thanks. ;)

[veryshortlist.livejournal.com]

Al Green is pretty much awesome.

There's this book, A Changed Man (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060196742/sr=1-1/qid=1139436954/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3282081-3540720?%5Fencoding=UTF8), in which a Neo-Nazi says that he couldn't hate black people because it would mean hating Al Green.

That book's pretty awesome too.

[daraq.livejournal.com]

How is it possible that I didn't already have Here I Am (Come and Take Me)!? I've added it to my AG folder. Thank you for sharing.

[prairiedaun.livejournal.com]

Here I Am (Come and Take Me) is that one song for me, that song that no matter where I am or what I'm doing, I start to dance to it. It's kind of a shuffly-swaying dance with some bopping up and down thrown in.

[copracat]

Mmmm music, thank you :)

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for sharing!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Nirvana. And I was *counts* 33 when Kurt died. Ugh.

It's Barry White who I couldn't stand when he was popular, but recently I've started to appreciate him.

And Johnny, well. Of course!

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Understand that I will never be able to watch Grosse Point Blank ever again thanks to you pointing out the identity of Ari.

Still, it's good to know that Ari knows where to find a hitman when he needs one.