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
Looking for "Jeb", I met your sister Jess from Waffle House, and we hung out one day and I got wasted and we, well...you know what happened...and I know I left abrubptly when the cab came...so...find me back..i know you wanted to see more...lol....
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So...you wanna know what Ohio is like? See above. A guy named Jeb romancing women at the local Waffle House...I wish I could say that this is was out of the ordinary.
Mark Kozelek proved that Modest Mouse songs more than hold up when given the stripped down treatment. His Sun Kil Moon album of Modest Mouse covers, 'Tiny Cities" is an album I adore. Sun Kil Moon - 'Never Ending Math Equation' MP3
Here is the latest attempt at unplugging MM. Australina folkie Lenka's take on the classic 'Gravity Rides Everything'
This guy is ALL class! And he sets a Craigslist record...the most bad nautical metaphors ever packed into one missed connection. Hard to believe this guy is still single.
****** Why weren't you at the Boat Club???? - m4w - 38
Why weren't you there last night K.T.? I better see you there tonight.
Wear something low cut, I want to see some nipple poking out.
I'll be your bow, if you be my stern.
I want to set a nautical record, the more "knots" we can make, the better.
Don't throw me overboard.
You may want to bring some Dramamine for all the rocking, and a life jacket is always suggested.
Will i be lucky enough tonight to sink my anchor?
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So many obvious musical choices on this one..I couldn't limit myself to one...or even two for that matter:
Gut-wrenching pain has never sounded so good. I almost feel guilty liking Mark Kozelek's music so much...I mean I can't even fathom some of the pain he has endured to write songs like he does. But I digress...and I am happy to share a couple of new tracks from the forthcoming Sun Kil Moon album 'April'...ah that voice...it's just like hearing from a great friend who you've lost touch with...once you hit PLAY it's like he never left.
Mark Kozelek is the other voice that never fails to crush my soul! In both the Red House Painters and his current project, Sun Kil Moon, he has been responsible for MULTIPLE moments of unforeseen emotional response...all due to a song.
I submit 'Carry Me Ohio' off of the Sun Kil Moon record 'Ghosts Of The Great Highway' as my sole exhibit...gets to me every time...maybe because I am an Ohio ex-pat, but still...a gorgeous tune!
The title of this post is an absolute untruth. But in my music obsessed mind, i tend to think in song lyrics...and this is what hit me tonight.
I love it when it rains in Los Angeles. I have been here for almost 2 and 1/2 months and this is the second time I have seen rain. It's like a postcard from home. It's a great metaphor for this town actually...no matter how hard LA tries to be bulletproof...there are still some things that are just out of its control. SO many people in this town are all style, no substance. So when it rains...I love to watch all of the beautiful people go running and screaming, as if this was another Pearl Harbor going down...if a little bit of water falling from the sky ruin's your evening...I don't want to know you...not at all.
So I do indeed love Los Angeles...but I think I will choose to stay grounded in my Midwestern roots...where substance definitely has the upper hand over style.
...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
