Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
- Lester Bangs
Not even back a month from Coachella, and already I am itching for another musical themed road trip. Been plotting with a friend for the last couple of days about a pilgrimage down to Nashville in June to see Elvis Costello and Eddie Vedder on consecutive nights at the Ryman Auditorium. There is so much musical goodness in that sentence I can barely contain myself...but I digress. So while gleefully scouring the web for details about these shows I saw that Liam Finn(son of Crowded House founder Neil Finn) was opening up for Eddie Vedder on this current tour. It had been a while since I had listened the Liam records that I have, so I dusted off his latest 'Ill Be Lightning' and played it for the rest of the night.
I had forgotten how great it was. So young, so talented. And on this song especially, he reminds me so much of Elliot Smith. Just a beautiful track...enjoy.
WEEL. I'M BEEN ALONG FOR 5 YEARS, BECAUSE I'M BEEN STRIGHT MY LIFE. I DO HAVE TWO WOUNDERFULL KIDS. WICH I HAVE 50% OF TIME.DIVORCE AND I'M READY FOR NEXT STEP. SO, IF YOU INTERESTED TO KNOW A LATINO WITH STABLE JOBS (FULL-PART TIME) I DO SPARE MY TIME TO HAVE A BOUNCH A GOOD TIME. MOST OF I'M PRETTY FUNNY A TAKE THE LIFE REAL. I DO WATCH SPORT (SOCCER-CREW OR COURSE) FANATIC OF MOVIES: ACCION,SCARY,ROMANTIC, EVEN CARTOON. DRINK SOCIALLY. AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THE FOOD.(MEXICAN). PRETTY MUCH SOCIAL ONCE TOO KNOW YOU.
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I can't tell you how freaked out it makes me to know that somewhere in this city two little kids are depending on the author of THIS post to guide them through their early lives....talk about losing the genetic lottery.
Eddie Vedder executive produced this soundtrack to the Iraq war documentary 'Body Of War'...although the album and its 30 songs serve equally well as a soundtrack for the last 8, long years.
This album needs to be put in some sort of time capsule and set aside for us when it is time to explain to our grandkids HOW this current administration could have POSSIBLY been elected...twice!
Kings Of Leon never thoroughly ROCK whatever venue I saw them in last year. I caught them at two of the big summer fests(Lolla and Coachella) and two club gigs, and they were four for four...just amazing each time out...especially in the smaller venues of course.
Just sitting here listening to their debut disc, and basking in the rock, wishing they were playing in my living room...Itunes will have to do for now. Here is a song they played at Lolla with guest vocals by Eddie Vedder...and the second tune is my favorite off that first record.
This is one of my favorite Eddie Vedder songs of all time. It is actually on former Minutemen and Stooges bassist Mike Watt's solo record 'Ball Hog Or Tug Boat.'
...or my email is anyway! Hey, it's me Blair...the Certain Songs staff of one. I just do this for the love of the music and am in no way trying to rip anybody off, so if you are an artist or a record label and you are not happy that I am promoting your music, or you want me to take a song down, just shoot me an email and I will most definitely oblige.
And please support the artists I post here in whatever way you can if you do download a song...go to a show, buy some merch, buy an album...these songs are the soundtrack to my life and I just love to share them. But I can only do that if the insanely talented artist responsible for said songs are able to eat.
I also love hearing new stuff...so any submissions can also be sent to my email, I will try my bestest to listen to everything and get back to you all...peace,love,rock n' roll.
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I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the east coast. Roughly twenty years old. Got coaxed out by a certain perfect ratio. Of warm beer to the summer smoke. And the meat loaf to the billy joel. Certain songs they get so scratched into our souls.
She goes low on the seats when she gets high in her car. She looks shallow but shes neck deep in the steamy dreams of the guys along the harbor bars. She's pulling out her shirttails and jacking up her socks. Stern and stoned and confident, coming up towards the jukebox. Born into the only songs that everybody finally sings along. B-1 is for the good girls. It's only the good die young. C-9 is for the making eyes. It's paradise by the dashboard light. D4 is for the lovers. B12 is for the speeders. And the hard drugs are for the bartenders and the kitchen workers and the bartender's friends. And they're playing it again. Ellen Foley gives us hope. Certain songs they get scratched into our souls.
I guess you're old enough to know. Kids out on the west coast are taking off their clothes. Screwing in the surf and going out to shows. They get high and ride around in gtos. I guess you're old enough to know. CERTAIN SONGS THEY GET SCRATCHED INTO OUR SOULS. - The Hold Steady
