What are you listening to right now?

by **compared2what?** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:33 pm

The Joker -- Fatboy Slim, ft. Bootsy Collins*

*(Or: Norman Cook riding the coattails of Bootsy Collins, Steve Miller, and Ahmet Ertegun. Depending on how you look at it.)

by **compared2what?** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:31 pm

Everything's Tuesday -- Chairmen of the Board

Jerk and Twine -- Jackie Ross

Twist and Limbo -- The Impressions

Can't Satisfy -- The Impressions

Sad, Sad Girl and Boy -- The Impressions

Just Another Dance -- The Impressions

Woman's Got Soul -- The Impressions, ft. George Hamilton

by **compared2what?** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:38 pm

Paul Cezanne -- The Special Guests

James K. Polk -- They Might Be Giants

Anna Ng -- They Might Be Giants

Doctor's Orders -- Carol Douglas

by **mentalgongfu2** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:48 pm

compared2what, thanks for the Cubism! I had heard a different version of the track by 5 Chinese Brothers, which is (apparently) a later incarnation of The Special Guests. I knew the voice was familiar.

by **annie aronburg** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:43 am

Around The Way Girl

by **compared2what?** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:09 am

mentalgongfu2 wrote:compared2what, thanks for the Cubism! I had heard a different version of the track by 5 Chinese Brothers, which is (apparently) a later incarnation of The Special Guests. I knew the voice was familiar.

You're very welcome. If you'd asked me this morning, I would have said it was a 5 Chinese Brothers song, too. The only thing I remembered really distinctly was that the video included the Astor Place cube, which I never knew how much I needed until....

...three or four years ago. It was very disorienting not having it there. I felt unsafe whenever I thought of it, and still can't understand why the entire city didn't tip over and slide into the Hudson. Maybe they temporarily filled all the pipes in the Cooper Union building's plumbing system with concrete or something comparably ballast-y.

Happily...

...it wasn't away for very long.

And...um....there has been ceaseless gaiety and rejoicing throughout the land ever since.

The end.