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
It's getting late have you seen my mates Ma tell me when the boys get here It's seven o'clock and I want to rock Want to get a belly full of beer
My old man's drunker than a barrel full of monkeys And my old lady she don't care My sister looks cute in her braces and boots A handful of grease in her hair
A couple of the sounds that I really like Are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike I'm a juvenile product of the working class Whose best friend floats from the bottom of a glass
Don't give us none of your aggravation We had it with your discipline Saturday night's alright for fighting Get a little action in
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I know...these are really Elton John lyrics...but the idea of NB singing it horrifies me...and I have always hated this song anyway,so it counts.
'It's 7 O'clock and I want to rock.' 'A couple of the sounds I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motorbike.'
I didn't check the liner notes for this song, 'Saturday Night's Alright(For Fighting)'...but I think Dr. Seuss should have been given song writing credit.
How about another couple of great songs from the Kills latest album to help you forget the bad NB poetry...
My obsessive-compulsive musical personality has gotten the better of me...again, and I have decided to post the obligatory list of my favorite 10 records of the year past.
I usually agonize over these things for way too long, so this year I am not going to think too deeply on it, and just pick the 10 albums that I couldn't stop playing in 2008.
The Kills continue to blow me away. They write such amazing songs and put out such incredible records. I have a feeling that they are going to be like our generation's Velvet Underground - a band that never really broke through during their prime, but one that inspires COUNTLESS people to pick up instruments and write songs.
Today my favorite Kills song is 'Rodeo Town' off of the No Wow record. I am including a Jesse Malin cover of it also, just because I think he does a beautiful job with it...enjoy.
I know I run the risk of being that guy that falls in love with a stripper. However I now believe I had it hooked up. I got a lap dance, and she did a lot more than normal. She asked me if I liked it, I told her she was good enough that I'd like to take her home. She asked if I was married and where I lived. I said no and about 10 miles away. She said ok, I'll be out in a few minutes to talk to you. It was late, and I had been there awhile. I got up from my lap dance and walked straight out the door. I didn't even wait a few minutes to see if she would come out. It didn't occur to me that she might have been serious until I was home. Now I'm left wondering if I really screwed up a night that would have left me smiling well into my 90's. Damn, I'm an idiot.
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No, you didn't fall in love with a stripper, you fell in love with a prostitute! But you are correct about being an idiot.
If he leaves you for a younger woman just try to reason with him via the craigslist missed connections section.
Why am I wasting my breath,she is obviously a genius, since she analyzed every bit of the guy's life in the post...but yet somehow not smart enough to send this to him in an email. I am convinced that the vast majority of humanity consits of really,REALLY stupid people
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She is barely older then your youngest child
I’m having a difficult time understanding how you can date a woman half your age who does not have anything in common with you what so ever. I don’t care how sexy or exciting she may seem to you, what do you two really have to discuss or share. Your children are grown, you have nurtured them into adulthood and they have become responsible members of our society. She is just a bit older then your youngest, she is from a questionable background. Although I am not a snob I have to wonder what she really wants from you. Why isn’t she interested in a young man either her own age or a bit older, rather then a man twice her age. In most relationships likes yours the woman is looking for monetary support, or has a need to be with someone of power. I have to also question why you are so insecure with who you are that you need this kind of a relationship. This is not something new for you. You have repeated this same sort of behavior before always to be hurt or left disappointed. You haven’t learned anything from your past You are my friend, someone that I feel I can tell the most intimate and important things in my life, knowing you will not divulge my secrets or criticize me. We are comfortable with each other. I was really hoping this comfort would grow into something much more.
...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
