Music Day!

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voleuse is running a fabulous music challenge called the Frankenstein Meme, which I have cannibalised for my own prurient music needs, and since one shouldn't take and not give, here's my take.


Frankenstein Mix






1. A song that wakes you up in the morning. Fiona Apple 'Extraordinary Machine. The oboe, the flipping triangle, Fiona's attitude, the kiss-my-ass-because-I-rock tenor of the song. What can I say, there's just something about it that makes you feel like you can fucking do anything, so bring it.

2. A song you loved in high school. Slick Rick 'Children's Story' It boggles my mind that there are people who don't know about Slick Rick, but he belongs to an era of rap that was, you know, good. Here's a song about crackheads, stealing, and undercover cops in D.C. that you know, is actually about doing the right thing.

3. A song that mentions a dead celebrity. Queen 'Killer Queen. Marie Antoinette, darling. And caviar and drinking and Freddie Mercury.

4. A song you'd be embarrassed to listen to with your grandmother. Matt Nathanson 'Laid' – If my grandmother were alive, she would probably not want to hear me singing about how I only come when I'm on top. Yeah. Just a thought. <--- Yes, this is a cover of the James song.

5. A song that MTV will never play in a million, billion years. James Brown 'Papa's Got a Brand New Bag' – Dude, it's James Brown. MTV sucks anyway. Except for Made. I love Made.

6. A song with a title that ends in y. Kanye West f/ Lupe Fiasco 'Touch the Sky' – Ah, Kanye. Larger than life in every way possible. Perhaps you've seen the video with Nia Long and Pamela Anderson?

7. A song that makes you crave something. Weezer 'Hash Pipe' OR The Beautiful South 'Don’t Marry Her (Fuck Me)'

8. A cover song that you think is better than the original. Jeff Buckley 'The Way Young Lovers Do' (live). Van Morrison is fabulous. No one is denying that, but Jeff singing Van Morrison will make your hair blow back, your toes curl, and you'll probably want to change your knickers too.

9. The original of #8. -- No disrespect to Van, but seriously, that song belongs to Jeff. Although, you know, Van totally rocks out with And it Stoned Me. Have that one instead.

10. A song that reminds you of a fandom OTP. Okay, see now the issue here is that I'm a woman without a main fandom right now, and I've never been a hardcore OTP type person. *shutupKassie* Instead I'll give you a song for a character or two. Eels 'Novocaine for the Soul' (Galen); Notorious B.I.G 'Sky's the Limit' (Ari); Kylie Minogue 'Red Blooded Woman' (Kara)

11. You have been caught mouthing the lyrics to this song. Dr Dre f/ Eminem 'Forgot About Dre' -- Fuck you too, bitch, call the cops, I'ma kill you and them loud ass motherfucking barking dogs. Have neighbours; let them have pets; you'll be singing along gleefully, too.

12. A song that will always make you think of a movie. Badly Drawn Boy 'Something to Talk About' -- From the About a Boy soundtrack, I have nothing but love for this song, because it's just so fucking happy. Plus, About A Boy just had the single life totally sussed.

13. A song that should totally have fic written about it. You know this one was really fucking difficult, because normally if I think a song needs fic, I just write the fic. Considering how much you lot liked the bhangra though, I'm interested to see what you'd do with Postal Workers Canceling Stamps At The University Of Ghana Post Office recorded by James T. Koetting 1975

14. A song you wish they'd play in elevators. Junior Senior 'Move Your Feet'. It would start with the feet tapping, and then the heads nodding. Soon there'd be moshing and hollering, and the lift would plummet and kill everyone. I see why they don't play this. Runner-up: Kaiser Chiefs 'I Predict a Riot'

15. You'll stop listening to this song when they pry your MP3 player out of your cold, dead hands. Jeff Buckley 'Satisfied Mind' A song about the legacy you want to leave behind, I actually want this song played at my funeral, so you know, when they pry it out of my hands it won't have to go far.


Zip here. Mirror here.


*This would not have been possible without the benevolence of literaryll.

Comments

[antheia.livejournal.com]

*downloads the zip, loves on you like whoa*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I try :)

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

And It Stoned Me is one of my favorite Van songs, period. *heart*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

:D

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

Snagged zip. Also, I didn't forget about the Foo Fighters the other day, it's just I can't FIND those tracks and it's bothering me. I asked a buddy to send me copies, but he sucks and hasn't yet. If/when I get them, I'll pass them on.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

No worries, sweetie!

[laurificus.livejournal.com]

*downloads* I love your music taste, really I do.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks. Enjoy!

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

is that a cover of the James song? no way.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yes, way.

[copernica3.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. Grabbed a few. BTW, this is the biggest music post I've ever seen. Some excellent stuff on it, too.

http://qe2.livejournal.com/191101.html

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

qe2 has fabulous music taste :)

[sundaytomonday.livejournal.com]

I adore your music posts! thank you very much :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_regina/]

I adore the Postal Workers Cancelling Stamps. We actually had it on our first World Music test this semester, and when the professor turned it off, everyone protested. I think my favorite bit is the guy who can't whistle, so he clinks the scissors. :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's like the best anecdote ever.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_regina/]

Haha. Being a music major is occasionally good for something other than being able to recite the tones of the major scale in words that sound vaguely dirty.

[veryshortlist.livejournal.com]

I love your music posts because they're always full of songs that I've never heard of that are mostly awesome.

Yarr, matey.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you.

[tehlils.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say thanks and I snagged the zip file. :D

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome!

[qe2.livejournal.com]

Snagged all, ye gods and little fishes, because how not? (Except for Postal Workers, which I already have and adore [and which, you're quite right, desperately needs fiction], and Weezer, because I've never quite been able to warm up to them. Yee-bloody-hah. And thanks for the compliment above - mille grazie :-).

gratuitous comment to add the missing punctuation mark

[qe2.livejournal.com]

)

That is all.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I don't tend to be a Weezer person myself, but every now and then they produce something that makes me crack up. As for the compliment it was only your due, nothing less ;)

[helvirago]

a-LAS! Bandwidth exceeded for the zip. Will be trying them one by one. You clearly have the primo taste.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Try the mirror file.

[helvirago]

Man, you're quick on the draw. Got it. Thank you! Good stuff!

[overnighter.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the awesome music. You have such fun, eclectic taste. I love the "Postal Workers" track -- how cool.

I'm off to boogie around the house. :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I'm so pleased you're enjoying it!

[literaryll.livejournal.com]

*claps hands happily* I'm greedily grabbing all of these that I don't already have and if I get the energy to post I'm going to steal this.

So there was no emailing you or getting you music today and my day did not feel complete. What am I going to do when you run out of music? LOL

I gave in and rented some Alias and Alison/bad Francie isn't dead! And she is suddenly smokin' hot to me.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

So there was no emailing you or getting you music today and my day did not feel complete. What am I going to do when you run out of music? LOL

Run out of music? *gasp* Say it isn't so! I may run out of space before I run out of music ;) And yes, bad!Francie and Julian -- whooooo.

[madmadharri.livejournal.com]

thank you soooo much for all the music. i keep looking to you for new folks to start listening to. wow, fiona apple. i'm totally impressed with this new album.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I am always happy to be of service :)

[moimoietmoi.livejournal.com]

Wow! Jeff Buckley singing 'The Way Young Lovers Do'! Wow!
*fangirls like crazy*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Isn't it lovely :)

[trixalicious.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for sharing these songs! This has been one of the most fun meme's ever!

[roguewords.livejournal.com]

Totally downloading all of this. Mirror. Cause yeah, I want it all!

And I have the Better Than Ezra version of Laid. Can't wait to hear the difference.

[calikali.livejournal.com]

Downloading Kylie and Kanye. Thank you!

[bloodybrilliant.livejournal.com]

Ooh music! I snagged the zip of this. It's still dl'ing. (I've no idea why it's taking so long.) Can't wait to listen since I have not heard some of these. And James cover?!?! :D I just found my James - Laid CASSETTE two days ago! I should put that on. :)

Oh, I also took the Hip Hop one you posted yesterday. I love all those songs and realised I mostly didn't have them on my computer. For shame!

Thanks so very much!

[ruidoso.livejournal.com]

have d/led a few bits and bobs here and there. thanks so much.