Ten Songs

[pameladean]

I'm having trouble making regular posts even though I write them in my head all the time, but I thought this might be fun.

I don't have an iPod or an MP3 player other than the computer, which is connected to a vast labyrinthine music server containing things of interest to the entire household; so what I am actually going to do is to list is ten songs I have hunted down on YouTube recently because I had an earworm.

Dar Williams, "Iowa"
Placebo, "Every You, Every Me"
Kat Flint, "Go Faster Stripes"
Kat Flint, "Anticlimax" (not on YouTube, had to use Spotify)
Suzanne Vega, "Gypsy"
Adrienne Pierce, "Lost and Found"
Richard Thompson, "Wall of Death"
R.E.M., "Wall of Death"
Rumpke Mountain Boys, "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts"
Meg Hutchinson, "Let's Go"

Some of these are on the music server, but a severe earworm may require playing through seven or eight muddy videos of live performances, where available.

Pamela

Comments

[boxofdelights]

Richard Thompson, "Wall of Death"

Did you listen to the one with Christine Collister?

[pameladean]

Not this time around, but that certainly is a good one.

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I keep hoping that Meg will come closer than Chippewa Falls in mid-September, because I don't want to miss Meg, and I also don't want to go to Chippewa Falls at this level of energy/health. But I may have to "Let's Go" all the way to Chippewa Falls.

[pameladean]

That is a long way to go with a basket of stones! I hope she comes closer too.

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

A couple new ones there to try out!

[pameladean]

Let me know if you do. I really should have put in links, but that is always so tedious, because I am inept.

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[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Youtube is fascinating to me as a kind of sideways/accidental music service.

I've mostly been using it to listen to remixes of things, and to preview albums before I buy them or tracks off of them, though I'm glad that you can use it to de-earworm yourself.

[pameladean]

I started using it when my computer wouldn't talk to the music server, and it still sometimes seems easier to just call up a song that way. It's very distracting, though. The additional videos they always show you in the sidebar usually have something fascinating in them.

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[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Garnet Rogers, "The Outside Track". (More specifically, "Garnet Rogers' cover of Gerry Hallom's musical setting of Henry Lawson's poem "The Outside Track." ") At least if the theme is missing people, this is the song I have to watch out for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cGPclnxZrM

[lcohen]

wow--i know none of these. i'll have to listen to them. otoh, i didn't pick up any earworms from your post ;-) .

[pameladean]

I was actually worried that you would! I didn't realize there would be no overlap at all.

Obviously, I find all those songs very earwormy, but I don't know if you would too.

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[nellorat.livejournal.com]

Love Richard Thompson, very much including "Wall of Death," although sometimes I superstitously decline to play it while driving. Is the R>E>M. a cover?

[pameladean]

Yes, it is. Some years ago Raphael gave me a tribute album in which a lot of musicians do covers of, I presume, their own favorite Richard Thompson songs. A lot of them are very interesting, but the R.E.M. one is the one that stuck with me.

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[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Let me try this without a link, and with some more words.

That's an interesting group of songs. It sort of indirectly earwormed me with Garnet Rogers' "The Outside Track". (More specifically, "Garnet Rogers' cover of Gerry Hallom's musical setting of Henry Lawson's poem "The Outside Track." ") (If the theme is missing people, this is the song I have to watch out for.)

[pameladean]

I finally managed to listen to this. It certainly does fit in with my collection of earworms, and I really like it. I had previously only known Garnet Rogers in his connection with Archie Fisher. He was the one who talked.

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[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Thank you for these. I went and had a listen through and really enjoyed them. Our musical tastes are very parallel.

[pameladean]

Thank you for taking the trouble to track them down, since I didn't even include links. I'm really pleased you liked them. I am about to friend you. I am pretty sure that I tried to do this during a period when the Add Friend button didn't work with the browser I was using, and then I forgot about it.

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[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

A little Google searching to find new music is never amiss. Given that I met seanan_mcguire back in 1997 when I looked up "Tam Lin" in Alta Vista (largely your fault, I'm afraid) I find that searches around music tend to produce good results.

Thank you for friending! :)

[pameladean]

Hee. I was directed to Seanan McGuire's journal by a friend when Seanan was soliciting additional verses for "Wicked Girls" and somebody mentioned my book. I love that song so much.

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[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Seanan has been trying to get me to actually finish the pastiche book that goes with the song since before she wrote the song. One of these years I will finally figure out all of the plot and bash it out.

[pameladean]

Oh my! Here's to figuring out the plot.

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