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
I have always dug the way Cornershop melded almost perfectly the sounds of British pop with more traditional sounding Indian music. Don't believe me? Here is an awesome cover of a Beatles song sung by band leader Tjinder Singh in his native tounge:
Thank the GODS it is Friday...been a long week of nothing much at all here, if I may paraphrase the Replacements. Music is indeed my savior.
I took a nice, LOOOOONG relaxing walk yesterday after work with the shuffle mode as my guide, all the while making mental notes of the great songs that popped up that I hadn't heard in awhile. Here are the greatest hits from that walk...a quick mix to start your weekend off...enjoy!
I have a brand new never out of the box Wii Fit that I am willing to trade. Looking for a newer verizon cell phone preferably the Env2. Handguns. Automotive equipment. R/C toys helicopters. Any of these would be acceptable. If interested let me know what you have to trade.
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Handguns? Really? HANDGUNS? He wants to trade his Wii Fit for a pistol..or an R/C helicopter of course. God bless America!
"Review" really isn't the right world for this, since I only made it about half way through. Horrendous.
I've been conflicted about this movie since it's theatrical release...I hate musicals, but I love the Beatles. My compromise was to wait til it came out on cable. And I am glad I didn't waste a Netflix rental on it. I can't even say anymore....it was mind numbingly bad to me...entrenching me even more rigidly in my 'all musicals suck' state of mind!
I don't even want to hear a Beatles song for the next 72 hours...but I will post a couple of my favorite Beatles covers.
I don't know you're name. All I know is that you must be an angel.
I wandered into your medic-tent and you saved me. I don't know what kind of maniac gives lsd to unkowing people but I would never have made it through without your kind and calming words. You kept me grounded and I am eternally grateful.
Thank you so much. You rock at your job so keep doing it!
~K
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This guy really is an angel. I saw this happen the summer after I graduated high school...this kid got slipped acid unknowingly and i SWEAR he has never been the same since...he is that guy who walks around ALL the time with a helmet on and muttering things in German under his breath...its a bad scene.
...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
