Let's have a music thread. What song is in your head right now?

[applegrove]

"Here You Come Again" by Dolly Parton

"La Vie en Rose" by Edith Piaf

"Seasons In the Sun" Terry Jacks

[In_The_Wind]

1. Here are two of my favorites ...

[applegrove]

3. Rumours was the first album I bought. My teacher asked us what was our favourite

album in statistics class in grade 6. Most people said "Rumours". I put my hand up for that too cause I didn't know any albums. I went home and asked my mom if we could buy it. What a great first album it was to have. I cannot think of another album that is so great all the way through.

[nomorenomore08]

4. Speaking of which:

"Won't you lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff..."

[In_The_Wind]

7. Stevie Nicks is my all time listen to for hours singer.

[applegrove]

11. I just went and played "Landslide" myself.

[Hoyt]

2. Sam Cooke, "Chain Gang." n/t

[Callmecrazy]

5. This has been banging around in my head all afternoon...

Todd Rundgren

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Happy Friday everybody!
Next round's on me.

[In_The_Wind]

9. Todd Rundgren was one of my neighbors.

Sorta ... Woodstock New York is home to lots of musical folks.

[Callmecrazy]

13. I think I recall you mentioning that to me before.

So is Vegas. Not near my house, though.

[In_The_Wind]

19. wow ...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. this one

[Call Me Wesley]

15. Nice!

here's something you might like: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/

Hint.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. lol - guess what movie I just put in Netflix queue ?!

good to see you. CMW

[Call Me Wesley]

26. W00t!

Heeya!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

39. w00t !!

hell yeah see you in the funny papers, CMW

[nomorenomore08]

8. The Replacements, long-time favorite of mine. Probably the closest thing they had to a "hit":

[Loryn]

23. This is a favorite of mine as well.

I love Alex Chilton, but can't post from my phone.

(subtle hint)

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

57. You can really hear the influence they had on my favorite band...

The Wildhearts. One of their early songs even makes explicit reference to them (and lots of other bands).

And now they're touring for the 20th anniversary of their first album, but obviously not in mainland Europe...

[OriginalGeek]

10. Well, since I JUST got through posting this in another thread

this snip from a DRI concert is in my head. I was at this concert

[Call Me Wesley]

12. Here's a few:

Just a few ...

[In_The_Wind]

16. I know the last three, enjoy listening to 'em.

[Call Me Wesley]

17. First one's Nina Hagen.

Perhaps a bit radical.

[In_The_Wind]

25. I'm on the phone with Jeff, who said he hasn't heard her in years.

He agrees: "radical, but good. Her name is a blast from the past".

[Call Me Wesley]

28. I don't know who's Jeff.

The OP?

[In_The_Wind]

30. Nope. A new member of my household.

[RiffRandell]

14. An apocalyptic song by The Ramones "Howling At The Moon."

[Callmecrazy]

18. Is she really going out with him?

Joe Jackson

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[Call Me Wesley]

27. Joe Jackson,

one of my favorites since the last century.

[nomorenomore08]

32. I'll see that and raise you...

[nomorenomore08]

31. That could so be a theme song for my neck of the woods.

"WTF does she see in him?" is something I ask myself all the time.

[Still Blue in PDX]

20. Funny you should ask!

I've had this in my head all day.

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[Neoma]

21. Yep...

[olddots]

24. It's friday afternoon so its Little Feat's Dixie Chicken Album

the whole thing is so good it seems like it lasts 4 minutes .

[nolabear]

46. Yes, yes it does! "Oh they say/Time loves a hero...but only time will tell."

and Fat Man in the Bathtub! And of course Dixie Chicken. I always listen to Waiting for Columbus so those might not all be on Dixie Chicken.

[trueblue2007]

29. I JUST LOST A LAWSUIT, I WANTED TO WIN SO BAD. the song in my heart? I HATE RICH PEOPLE!!

[nomorenomore08]

33. I have just the song for you...

[HarveyDarkey]

34. Put A Little Love In Your Heart

[Aristus]

35. Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has been playing in my head since

I saw the video the other day of the guy quitting his job in a rather spectacular fashion.

[LadyHawkAZ]

36. Tom Waits

Not coincidentally, I have the Closing Time album playing right now.

[Earth_First]

37. Phish -Wolfman's Brother

[XRubicon]

38. Gucci Time Old schooly D

[cemaphonic]

40. Cab Calloway - St James Infirmary

I love this song in its many variations, but nobody ever sang it like Cab - his high voice and odd phrasing give it an otherworldy eerie character that really fit the lyrics.

[applegrove]

42. Nice.

[opiate69]

41. Chevelle - "Face to the Floor"

Just heard it in the car on the way to my wife`s work..
http://m.

[kwassa]

43. Allen Stone "Sleep"

I never heard of this guy before hearing him on the radio the other day.

I said, who is this great black soul singer?

this guy can sing

[Ahpook]

44. Jeff Beck

With a tapping foot

[olddots]

52. it may be possable that they are too good

beck has always killed me but this band is on his level .

[nomorenomore08]

53. Tal Wilkenfeld could be his granddaughter, practically, but she's frickin' amazing.

By far one of the best rock/fusion bassists I've heard.

[eShirl]

45. Queen, " '39" (from the album "A Night at the Opera")

The best part of *this video* is when the camera pulls back for the chorus and we see Freddie for the first time.

In the year of '39 assembled here the Volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
Sweetest sight ever seen

And the night followed day
And the storytellers day
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away?
Don't you hear me calling you?
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew

In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue
The Volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh

For the earth is old and gray, little darling we'll away
But my love this cannot be
For so many years have gone, though I'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes, from your eyes cry to me

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away?
Don't you hear me calling you?
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away?
Don't you hear me calling you?
All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand
For my life still ahead, pity me

[cemaphonic]

50. I just discovered that song a couple of years ago.

(Gen Xer who has liked 60s-70s rock since I was a teenager, but never delved into Queen other than the classic rock radio staples until recently)

Gotta like a band that can write a sci-fi song about relativistic time dilation, and make it both catchy and emotional. It also made me reevaluate "Fat Bottomed Girls." With an Astronomy doctorate, Brian May can actually speak with some authority about what makes the rockin' world go round.

[abq e streeter]

47. Felix Cavaliere's beautiful Summer In El Barrio

[steve2470]

48. Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

49. Since you bring up Edith Piaf

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here's a song I like by another French singer in the "realist" Piaf style who preceded her by a few years: the lady known only as Frehel.

Ou Sont Tous Mes Amants? (Where Have All My Lovers Gone?).


Where have all my lovers gone
All those who used to love me so
When I used to be beautiful
Good-bye to the unfaithful
Where they are I don’t know
Gone to other rendez-vous
But yet my heart hasn’t grown old
Where have all my lovers gone


In the sadness and the returning night
I remain alone, isolated, without comforting
Without constraints, but without love
My heart is heavy as debris
I who had known happiness
Evenings of celebration and admirers
I’m a slave to my memories
And it brings me pain

(refrain)

The night ends and when morning comes
The dew cries along with my sorrows
All those I love
Who loved me
In the paleness of day
Are erased
I see fog pass over my eyes
All the puppets I see, it is they
Still struggling, with a supreme effort
I think I still hear them

(refrain)

And when I spent a year in France in the mid 60s, this singer was very popular. Enrico Macias was a "Pieds Noir", a French-speaking Algerian of European, Jewish origin. Here he sings a happy song about how beautiful the girls from Algeria are. Many of his gorgeous songs however are laments about his homesickness of having been forced to leave his native North Africa when DeGaulle gave Algeria to the Moslem Arabic-speaking people and 1.5 million people of European origin who had called Algeria home for generations were repatriated to Europe.


The girls of my country

Ah how pretty the girls of my country are !
Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai
Yes how pretty the girls of my country are !
Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai

In their eyes , the sun of summer evenings shines
In them , the sea plays with the sky & make them dream
As soon as they are 16 years old , the least trouble ,
The least happiness make their hearts beat .

Ah how pretty the girls of my country are !
Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai
Yes how pretty the girls of my country are !
Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai

When a boy woos them , he already knows
That he won't get anything of their love the first time
He has to get engaged , he has to deserve
The hand he already holds in his hand .

Because they are the girls , the girls of my country
Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai
They are the honnour of the family , the girls of my country
Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai

The one who knows how to be loved will be happy
They have nothing to refuse to their lovers
Yes , but for that , they must face Dad
They must face Mom with a ring around your finger .

Ah how pretty the girls of my country are !
Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai
Yes how pretty the girls of my country are !
Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai Lai

Another monster hit in France in the year I spent there as a young man in 1965 was this one by the pop singer known as Nicolletta, Il est mort le soleil. Ray Charles was visiting France at the time this tune came out and he was so impressed with it that he bought the rights to do a cover in English, The Sun Has Died. Tom Jones also did a cover of it.

The Sun Died

It died
The sun died
When you left me
Summer died
Love and the sun
They are the same

It died
The sun died
But I alone am dressed in mourning
And daylight doesn’t penetrate where I live

Yesterday, we would sleep on the warm sand
Yesterday for me the weather was mild
It was mild even in winter
That was yesterday

It died,
The sun died
A shadow is on my life
Rain in my heart
And my soul is dressed in gray

Yesterday, the color that I loved the most
Was the color of your eyes
It was the color of the sea
That was yesterday

It died
The sun died
When you left me
Summer died
Love and the sun
They are the same
They are the same

[Apophis]

51. The Cars - Drive

[nomorenomore08]

54. Good one! And the Deftones cover isn't bad either.

[Heidi]

55. Three.

"Aeroplane Over the Sea," by Neutral Milk Hotel

"The Once and Future Carpenter," by The Avett Brothers

"My Wife Thinks You're Dead," by Junior Brown

[sigmasix]

56. okay

Clem Snide- "dairy queen"
The Police- "Spirits in the material world"
Negativland- "car bomb"

[av8rdave]

58. Glycerine, by Bush

Played it on a jukebox last night and haven't gotten it out of my mind since.

http://m.

[lame54]

59. This ode to Charton Heston

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022568165

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0433b30576/cold-dead-hand-with-jim-carrey?playlist=featured_videos

Video no longer on youtube
But go to the link and watch Jim Carrey's hilariuos ode to Charlton Heston

Cold Dead Hand

Some folks ride like the wind
With the whispering pines to guide them
And the burning light inside them
Keeps them warm in the snow

Others fear the sounds they hear
Make bandito's out of mole-hills
Fill their hearts with porcupine quills
They’re dead and buried long before they go

Charlton Heston movies are no longer in demand
His immortal soul my lay forever in the sand
The angels wouldn’t take him up to heaven like he planned
‘Cause they couldn’t pry that gun from his cold dead hand

It takes a cold dead hand to decide to pull the trigger
It takes a cold dead heart and as near as I can figure
With your cold dead aim you’re trying to prove your dick is bigger
But we know your chariot may not be swinging low

Cold dead hand - cold dead hand
Cold dead hand - cold dead hand
You’re a big big man with an little bitty gland
So you need something bigger just to fill
Your cold dead hand

Imagine if the lord were here
And he knew what you’ve been thinkin’
Would his sacred heart be sinkin’
Into the canyon of dismay

And on the ones who sell the guns
He’d sick the vultures and coyotes
Only the devil’s true devotees
Could profiteer from pain and fear

Charlton Heston movies are no longer in demand
His immortal soul my lay forever in the sand
The angels wouldn’t take him up to heaven like he planned
‘Cause they couldn’t pry that gun from his cold dead hand

It takes a cold dead hand to decide to pull the trigger
It takes a cold dead heart and as near as I can figure
With your cold dead aim you’re trying to prove your junk is bigger
But we know your chariot may not be swinging low

Cold dead hand - cold dead hand
Cold dead hand - cold dead hand
Cold dead hand - cold dead hand
You’re a big big man with an little bitty gland
So you need something bigger with a hair-pin trigger
You don’t want to get caught with your trousers down
When the psycho killer comes around
So you make your home like a thunderdome
And you’re always packin’ everywhere you roam
But the psycho’s win no matter what you do
‘Cause they’re gonna buy way more guns than you

And while you’re stumbling out of bed
They put five rounds in the back of your head
Or you get depressed ‘cause the money runs out
Then you put your own shotgun in your mouth
And your kids walk in and they find you there
Like a headless stump in your underwear
And they move the gun and it kills them too
And your wife just doesn’t know what to do
But she takes a hand grenade from her shoe
And she pulls the pin...

And it’s all on you
And your cold dead hand

[Lady Freedom Returns]

60. This one is in my head now and it is all Earth First's fault!