This will be the only post today, though I’ll be checking in from time to time.
Can you figure out which two of these songs are my wife’s?
Three of these tracks are very, very special to me. #1 is my favorite "using" song from my final years "out there" in the mid-1990s. #7 came out just as I came home to Christ, and it was the theme song for my first year as a new Christian. #8 was written about the Spanish Civil War, but it’s as fine a Brit Pop anthem about personal transformation as I know. I blast it in the car often.
1. "Don’t Follow", Alice in Chains
2. "This is the Sea", The Waterboys
3. "Secret Lovers", Atlantic Starr
4. "The Letter", Macy Gray
5. "Don’t Tear Me Up", Nelson Norwood
6. "Nightswimming", REM
7. "Martyrs and Thieves", Jennifer Knapp
8. "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next", Manic Street Preachers
9. "If You Let Me Stay", Terrence Trent D’Arby
10. "Road Rage", Catatonia
i love nightswimming. i have to be in a very particular mood to want to listen to it, but when i do, it’s perfect.
Is it too much to expect anything by Serge Gainsbourg in your I-Pod?
1. “Don’t Bother”, Alice in Chains
“Don’t Follow”
Uh, yes.
Guess that’s one of the ones that’s hers. Heh…
David T., you’re absolutely right. A very embarrassing typo — yes, I was loaded most of the time when I listened to that song in my younger days, but I wasn’t THAT high. I wonder what I was thinking when I mistyped?
No, it’s not my wife’s, which would have been more excusable.
Thanks for the correction. (For folks reading this late, I originally mistyped “Don’t Follow”, the wonderful AIC song, as “Don’t Bother.” Yikes.)
Wow! I would have never guessed you like Alice in Chains. I guess you do have good taste in rock music.
Tip my hat off for you Hugo!
cheers,
David
David, when the whole “Seattle grunge” movement started, they were the one band I liked. Remember the movie “Singles”? It came out summer 1992, and they do a little cameo in the film and their music is all over the soundtrack. The movie was passable, but the music — wow. Hooked ever since.
I was very sad when Layne Staley passed. There but for the grace of God and all that…
Ok, Hugo, how about Piaf? Brel? I mean, you must like some French music?
I do have a couple of Piaf tracks; alas, they did not appear on this week’s FRT.
I wonder what I was thinking when I mistyped?
Stonesour? Just a guess.
I thought you’d have some Piaf, Hugo. You strike me as the sort who’d appreciate a good chanteuse. I can’t visit her grave at the Pere Lachaise; I always cry when I do. Same thing if I visit Oscar Wilde’s grave there.
Oh, by the way folks, Vive la belle France, libre, dans l’honneur et dans l’independence. Que le bon dieu la sauve!!
Sam’s recommendations in French music.
Zebda, Tomber la Chemise–the bouncy music and despairing words capture an afternoon in the ghetto very well. (Euro-pop)
Boris Vian, Le Déserteur–an awesome anti-war song. (jazz)
Thanks, Sam. The only French music other than Piaf I have is, of all things, “Dominique” by the Singing Nun. Like many kids born in the Sixties,I listened to that record a lot as a child.
Whoops, I am reminded via email that the Singing Nun, Soeur Sourire, was actually Belgian, not French. Still a great record, and it’s been re-released on Itunes in its entirety. And she and Piaf are all I have en francais.