Culian Jope – An all-Julian-Cope-covers band. I’ll need a drummer, guitarist, bass player, and a real keyboarder. My simplistic tinklings would never do for playing out, and hopefully I’ll be busy as lead singer, naked in a tortoise shell.
Ok, we’ll do at least one Eurythmics cover too. And a Rolf Harris.
First Joan Rivers, and now Weird Al? Has the Seattle Symphony always been this cool, and I’ve just been unaware, or is this a sign of economic hardship, that they are booking more ‘pop’ acts out of desperation?
I can’t tell if United States of Electronica’s Vamos A La Playa is ‘set’ in Seattle, or if it’s just wishful-familiarity. They sing about
Alki
Golden Gardens
Madison Park
and
Lighthouse Beach
Is there another city that has all four of those features?
There are many songs that I sing along to, yet never really listen to the lyrics all that closely, and so eventually discover I had a completely incorrect interpretation of the song. My understanding of the lyrics led me to think of this song as being about a closeted gay guy and his crush on his best friend.
I’d like to blame some of my confusion on originally hearing these songs on old school cassette tapes and my cheap-o boom box. I’d like to. But, “it’s palm sunday over and over”…well, I have little excuse =p
“ApologetiX”, the Christian Weird Al?
Bone Digger (parody of “Gold Digger”)
Save Your Voice (Quiet Down, Boy) (parody of Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)) ?!?
YHWH (parody of YMCA)
I am at a loss for words.
Rhapsody has Julian Cope tracks! And not just a handful of singles on weird tribute albums or something, but rather all his real albums. Squee!
And I finally figured out what was the one Poco track I used to love to listen to. Go figure, it’s a song about love =p
Much like a friend posted on his facebook, my high school era song-memory turns out to be pretty strong, making me think I’ve been missing out on karaoke possibilities, not looking for Phil Colins/Genesis songs. And of course, it’s off-weekend at Claire’s karaoke, so I’m thinking I might give Ozzie’s a first try. The only thing holding me back is the thought of how long a walk home it would be, at a later hour than seems safe for the route required, which means a taxi. Other people take taxi’s all the time, I suppose I could too.
After months of silence from most of the projects I backed, suddenly several of them are shipping out rewards, in time for Christmas. I got my cool Pogo bunny USB stick and T-shirt just the other day, the T-shirt, CD and poster from Haley Harris and Ben Nippes, and woke this morning to a shipping notice from the pack light peeps.
We could soon break 50% on the percentage of projects actually seen through to completion =)
Due to some shenanigans oh so typical in the music biz, it looks like Pogo is stuck in some sort of immigration mess, and the rest of the tour has been canceled. Sucks, but could be worse. I really wish he’d finish the remix project already though.
I think the album title caught my eye in a is-this-an-album-of-elvis-costello-covers-i-see sort of way, and on Rhapsody, all the music is ‘free’, so download I did, without bothering to look beyond the track titles enough to see they weren’t Elvis songs. Turns out to be a fairly decent rock album, very peppy and energetic, without a single song skipped so far, and every one a toe-tapper even on first listen.
Recommended – Costello Music
