Mar 21 2007
hey, i have an idea
I’m kind of too busy for the blog this week, because I have all this stuff I have to get done (and also I am an idiot who said “Oh sure, I’ll take pictures at your poorly-lit event!” so I have to do that on Thursday and I am so not looking forward to it), but I don’t want you to think I don’t love you, because of course I do. And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain. Indeed.
Anyway, since I’m busy and all, I thought that it would just be awesome if you went ahead and talked amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic: the Red Hot Chili Peppers are neither red hot nor are they chili peppers if you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what song would you pick?
Discuss.
Is this a case of one song and no others for the rest of your life, or one song on an endless loop until you kill yourself?
Hmmm… either?
Rhapsody in Blue, because it’s long (so it won’t repeat as often) and it’s nice and wordless (so I could probably carry on my life around the incessant music). And it’s a nice song, so even if it’s not on 24/7 I guess I wouldn’t mind hearing it every time I turned on the radio.
Oh, you know what this reminds me of? There is a woman at work who has appx 10 songs on her laptop and plays them on continuous loop ALL DAY LONG from her tiny laptop speakers. I swear, if Carrie Underwood asks Jesus to take the wheel ONE MORE TIME, I might help her meet her maker a little sooner than anticipated.
I think you know the answer to this question …
Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbrokennnnnn
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa it will not release me from it’s awesomely infectious death grip! Neko Case is getting JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think you know the answer to this question …
Lloyd, I’m Ready to be Heartbrokennnnnn
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa it will not release me from its awesomely infectious death grip! Neko Case is getting JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah … its … it is … it’s.
what. ev. er.
Don’t Worry Kyoko by the Plastic Ono Band.
hey, i’m impressed that you love us jam and worry we’d go out and burn down buildings if we didn’t have an interesting topic to keep us all occupied.
well, this topic is specially scary to me. Now i’m stuck in my imaginary one-song eternity wanting only the fresh air of criminal activity on the streets.
how bout my one song is Dirty Boulevard, Lou Reed. yeah. let’s get Pedro out of that street hell and help him fly away.
My iTunes says that I should pick “Childlike Grace” by Michelle Shocked. Love it, listen to it, but it’s so sad.
I would probably pick Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull because it’s 45 minutes long and since it’s all about going insane, that might remind me not to go insane from listening to the same song over and over.
I think I could listen to Dirty Boulevard judih, but I’d probably be kicking people’s asses left and right all day long if that’s all I had.
Songs get lost in the background of my life and I’m pretty well able to tune them out, but if it is to be a song I don’t want to tune out, I’m going for Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley. Sometimes when I hear this song I think it is the best song that has ever been written and that Buckley performs it the best way it can ever be performed.
tom traubert’s blues. tom waits.
that is a very tough question, as i do not want to make the other songs on my tom top favorites jealous, but that would be the one.
or maybe una vita da mediano. now that’s a some stuff you just can’t kick. no pun intended.
Speaking only for myself, I miss you like desserts miss the rain. Pecan pie in particular, especially if the rain was really hungry and liked pecan pie.
I am a sap with music I totally love, which is either exasperating or kind of fun, depending on how you approach it. I think I’d probably have to go with Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding by Elton John, and pass that pecan pie.
srah — Rhapsody in Blue is a good one. I like to listen to that when I’m writing and don’t want to get distracted by lyrics.
emily — Oh.My.God. I used to work with this woman who, at Christmastime, would play this internet radio station whose title had to be “THE WORST CHRISTMAS SONGS OF ALL TIME SUNG BY TOTALLY TONE-DEAF HACKS” They played the same 15 songs on a loop all day long, and she would continually turn the volume up and everyone else in the office wanted to die. (Also she tried to stretch it all the way into January, but we convinced the boss to have a talk with her about this.) Hurrah for holiday cheer. Obviously your comment reminded me of this.
Caryn — Hey Lloyd! Such a good song. I love that Camera Obscura with all of the charmingness and whatnot. I know, I know, “charmingness” isn’t a word. Whatevs.
Levi — Interesting. For listening on continuous loop or for whenever you turn on the radio (or whatever) and that’s the only song? Or both?
judih — Well, you know, I’m always looking out for my fellow internet-folk.
farlane — I knew someone was going to pick that Jethro Tull song. I was waiting for it.
Anniefay — I actually considered this as my choice (I LOVE this song), but then I changed my mind because it makes me kind of mopey. And sometimes, when I listen to it while I’m alone, it makes me cry. But I didn’t just admit that.
wifey — Oh, Ligabue. I have that song on my iPod and whenever I have it set on shuffle and that song pops up, it sort of makes my day. Calcio!
Linus — For some reason now I have the music video for “November Rain” floating through my head. Because of the rain. And the cake. And the really long guitar solo. Er, um, yeah. How do you pronounce the word “pecan”?
Was it the white stripes that aussie dude sent this way with all the foot stomping going on. (Why can’t I ever remember the names of songs? damn it) That song makes me smile when I hear it, even if I don’t want to smile. There should be more songs like that.
sorry… I don’t know why I thought it necessary to add a 2nd song, I just did. It doesn’t count anyway, because I can’t remember the name. What is the name of that song? You know the one.
i don’t know whether it’s best to choose a song you hate or to choose one you know you’ll always love. if you love a song then listening to it too much ruins it. i could choose any song that comes on mainstream radio, or i could choose “dog door” by tom waits and hope for the best.
or i could be smart and choose beethoven’s “moonlight sonata”. because you can pay as much attention to classical music as you want.
Well, when someone’s left a cake out in the rain, you know something’s going on. What with how long it took to bake it, and that.
Pi-CON, and sometimes pi-CAN. I think I started with the first and everyone else these parts says the second, so my choice slips. I have heard people say PEE-can, but that’s not the usual thing.
Anniefay — Yep, all Jason’s fault. Hotel Yorba. I think that the fact that you’re mentioning The White Stripes means that you’re the coolest mom ever.
Alicia — It’s true about classical music. I think though that if I REALLY love a song, even if I do occasionally get sick of it, I still like it in a deep, lasting way. Because songs are like people.
Linus — Okay then. I think I say something like p’cahn. It’s almost one syllable. PEE-can is just wrong. In so many ways.
dude, if i had to listen to only one song, my head would probably implode! that said, the first one that came to mind was another rhapsody, the BOHEMIAN one, because it is long and varied and fun to sing along to. plus the head-banging!
and this reminds me of the How I Met Your Mother episode flashbacks to Marshall’s car, which had a cassette single stuck in the player, 500 Miles by the Proclaimers. the guys would be like, GOD I HATE THIS SONG, then a few cycles later happily singing along again. very funny.
I want some p’cahn pie. Mmmm.
meanwhile, i’ve switched my song to Morning Dew, Robert Plant…(quietly bending the rules of this p’ccan fest).
P’ccans always appealed to me. I appreciate the basic philosophy: An’ it hurt none, nut what you will.
my itunes thinks that sexbomb by tom jones is the song that i should listen to for the rest of my life.
my brain, however, suggests the 1812 overture. because it’s longish and expresses a full range of emotion and moves me sometimes and makes me laugh at other times.
either way, though, what a sad, one dimensional life it would be with only one song.
Julie — Hah, yeah, that Proclaimers song is solid gold that way. It’s also now in my head.
srah, judih, Linus — Mmm. P’ccans.
Kelsi — Ooooh! Tom Jones! Ahem. Anyway, yeah, life would be sad with only one song, which is perhaps why I still haven’t picked one, not that I’m admitting that in any way.
Easy. “Stack-O-Lee” by Tennessee Ernie Ford w/ Joe “Fingers” Carr and the Carr-Hops. Anything else?
Yay! Tennessee Ernie Ford!