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July 05, 2007
The Rules, They Are Random
Fire up the iPod, hit shuffle and the potential for embarrassment begins...
"Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams - Whew. A classic to start us off this evening. I never get sick of this song - the only Bryan Adams tune one can listen to with minimal shame.
"Days Go By" by Lifehouse - Not one of their better known songs, but I've always liked it.
"Ants Marching" by the Dave Matthews Band - This reminds me of college, in a good way. Fun song.
"Love Me Do" by The Beatles - Simple but catchy.
"Down in Flames" by Mindy Smith - An extremely underrated country singer. Great voice with no twang.
"Trouble" by Ray LaMontagne - This one's popped up on my lists before. Still like the song, though. It's fun to sing along with, and my daughter likes it.
"Lento E Largo" by Henryk Gorecki from "Symphony No. 3" - Simply beautiful.
"Pavane" by John Williams - No, not the movie soundtrack guy. The classical guitarist. This song is best known, perhaps, for being the sample behind Xhibit's "Paparazzi."
"The Longest Time" by Billy Joel - Corny, but I love a capella. When I was on a stateside missions trip, my friends and I used this song (with changed lyrics) to ask a group of ladies out for a creative date.
"Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot - This may just be one of the most depressing songs ever written. I'm not sure why I like it so much, considering it's about a shipwreck and tragedy. But it's a well-written song.
Well, another random rules and another bullet dodged. With the exception of Bryan Adams, there's nothing terribly shameful on this list.
Whew...
Posted by slublog at July 5, 2007 10:51 PM
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Dave Matthews band sucks.
Posted by: Dunkle at July 6, 2007 10:47 AM
The question is, what did the ladies respond?
Billy Joel may slip into corniness through age, but for no other reason.
Mindy Smith is pretty good in particular songs, but I've found her to be uneven overall (at least in the songs she picks or writes) and moreover, when I saw her at Merlefest three years ago, she was kind of an embittered b!&@h with an inferiority complex about Nickel Creek, who immediately followed her onstage.
Posted by: Anwyn at July 6, 2007 09:45 PM
Hey! I didn't know anyone else who listened to Gordon Lightfoot. This just about makes my day. :)
Or something like that.
Posted by: Katie at July 8, 2007 01:41 PM
'"Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot... it's a well-written song.'
....Except for the little detail that it contains some of the worst lyrics ever concocted. Worst in the sense of "clumsy", "trite", "jarringly un-rythmic", "non-rhyming", and "irritatingly un-grammatical". Fortunately Lightfoot's voice is sufficiently reedy that you hardly notice them unless you masochistically try to follow them over the thumping of the guitar.
I know it is hard to write decent lyrics about coal ships sinking, but there is a simple soultion - don't.
Posted by: sherlock at July 10, 2007 09:40 AM