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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:07 pm
by barracuda
compared2what? wrote:Funny thing that "The Girl Tried To Kill Me" is by any standard other than conventional a truer love song than "Days."
Funny that you would mention that, because, strange as it may seem, I have a girl I love for whom, she and I, "The Girl Tried To Kill Me" may just be "our song".
Still. I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish.
The pure genius of "Cleaning out My Closet" will outlive the family conflicts which created it, and this is the hallmark and legacy of true art. Here is an early portrait of Mathers, by Caravaggio, Boy Bitten by a Lizard:

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And further, here's some immortal Animals music: dedicated through the www to compared2what?

The Animals - It's My Life
With a meaningless rumination by George Maharis on the nature of rock music.

The Animals - When I Was Young

The Animals - Boom Boom

And the one and only...
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom

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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:04 am
by compared2what?
Wot -- Captain Sensible

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:25 am
by Jeff

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:50 am
by MacCruiskeen
Carmel link fixed:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=GpQ9VbOjqSU

Childish exuberance in an open-top vehicle in the deindustrialised North of England in the depths of winter under Thatcher, and directed by Lindsay Anderson to boot!

I would have married this woman if only she'd asked me nicely.

ON EDIT: Oh dear oh dear... Je suis tombée amoureuse.

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:35 pm
by streeb

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:27 am
by compared2what?
I Ain't Got You -- The Yardbirds

I'm Not Talking -- The Yardbirds

Train Kept a Rollin' -- The Yardbirds

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:25 am
by IanEye

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:47 am
by compared2what?
Strawberry Letter 23 -- Shuggie Otis

AKA -- The rock snob's version. But I heart America's foremost second-generation Grigger R&B multi-instrumentalist.

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:10 pm
by SonOfKitty
Found myself thinking of these Peter Gabriel songs.

Waiting for the Big One

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4pT_BYb8FLY&feature=related

Here Comes the Flood

http://youtube.com/watch?v=axex3BwTTyM&feature=related

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:08 pm
by barracuda
And the award for the most deadpan delivery of the most intensely raucous song is...
Mills Brothers – Hold that Tiger

Victor Young Orchestra – Hold that Tiger

Mills Brothers - Glow Worm

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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:18 pm
by barracuda

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:57 pm
by thurnundtaxis

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:07 am
by compared2what?
Parting Gift -- Fiona Apple

I Want You -- Fiona Apple and Elvis Costello

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:37 pm
by dada

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:26 am
by annie aronburg