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
If I haven't mentioned it already, ApSci's 'Best Crisis Ever' is one of the funnest records of the year. There is so much happening musically on this album, I hear something new almost every time I spin it.
Today I am digging their version of one of my favorite vintage R.E.M. songs, 'Swan Swan H.' I am going to post both versions...give em a listen...talk about making a song your own!
The ever evolving, ever changing, ever enjoyable musical collective that is The Minus 5 are back with a brand new record, 'Killingsworth.'At the center of the project, as always, is Seattles' Scott McCaughey. The lineup seems to shape and shift with each release. This time around REM's Peter Buck is back in the fray, as are most of the Decemberists.
I really hate writing reviews, but the album plays out like a beautiful tip of the cap to bands like The Byrds and Big Star. In other words really, really great stuff. Here is one of the standout tracks, featuring Colin Meloy on vocals.
Spring - how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
We are being blessed with glorious weather here in the Midwest...so took full advantage by taking my beloved Boston terrier Miko for a long, music enhanced walk. I just put the shuffle on and let the randomness have it's way with me.
I love hearing long forgotten gems, weird covers, and deep cuts off of newer albums that you probably should have listened to more but haven't. So here is one of each of those: Something new, something old, and something borrowed.
Please bear with me as i try to explain my story...i'm doing this for my daughter she has no idea i'm trying to find her birth father and what is even worse the birth father doesn't even know she exsists. When i was 18 i was living/working at a nursing home in centerburg, Ohio. i would party hard and wild back then. Not at all proud of it but have to be honest about it. at age 19 i became pregnant and soon after finding out i just left and went back home to Indiana. i gave birth to a baby girl. on Dec. 16, 1981. meaning i conceived in march. i truly believe i know who the man is that is her father but it's been 27 yrs and i my memory isn't all that great anymore. i know we were at my friend Debbies house when it happened, he was in the reserves at the time. i think his name was greg. My name is Melinda but friends call me Lynn. we used to go to a bar in cernterburg called freddy farquars and there was also a little bar and restraunt place where debbies mom used to work we'd also visit. please if any of this sounds familiar and you would like to see if you may have fathered a daughter 27 yrs ago please contact me. you are missing out on a wonderful daughter and 2 great grandsons.
please as you read this do not judge me i know my past is terrible i'm just trying to make up for it for my daughters sake. so please if you remember any of this contact me. i'm not wanting to get back with you or want anything from you i just want you to know a piece of you. her name is Rachel Leanne Seitter Jordan. she's 27, born on Dec. 16, 1981, she has 2 sons, Jerry Wayne Jordan III. and Hayden Michale Jordan. she's been married 6 yrs to a wonderful man who's going through chemo for cancer so Rachel needs all the emotional support she can get. from her natural father too if i can find him.
any help in finding this man would be greatly appreciated. i remember there was a man by the name of rusty rogers in the group too. but hes not involved with Rachel just trying to give as much info as possible.
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HELLO?? It's 2009. There is no need to go into the ultra personal, often humbling details of your youthful indiscretions in order to find your daughter's birth father on Craigslist...have you not heard or seen the modern miracle that IS the Maury show?
...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.
csmusicblog@gmail.com
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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
