Mary Jane's Last Dance

I'll play!

1.] Select 20 of your favorite songs.
2.] Lyric search and pull out at least two lines of lyric.
3.] Put down the lyrics and let your friends list guess.
4.] Lyrics CAN NOT contain the name of the song in it, or the chorus part the name is a part of.
5.] Cross out the lyric and put the song title beside it when you've had a correct guess.
6] No Googling or searching for the lyrics! D:{

( Big bucks, big bucks, no whammies, no whammies... and stop. )

I hear that Pandora might be pushing up daisies soon.

Fuck you, RIAA. Nearly all of my CD purchases were a result of Pandora. I found a lot of music I like that I wouldn't have found otherwise.

Hope you die in a fire,
sexandpolitics

I have had some really weird songs stuck in my head today, including:

"Be My Guest" from Beauty and the Beast
"She Blinded Me With Science" - Thomas Dolby
"Kicks" - Sahara Hotnights
"Epic" - Faith No More

I haven't listened to "Epic" in ages, either.

Radiohead concert was awesome. Rough start though -- the Ford Amphitheatre reneged on its camera policy and I had to go check it at guest services and the stairs security guards were kinda being douchey.

The opening band? WORST THING EVER. EVER. I wanted to throw things at them. During one song...he sounded like TOWELIE, I shit you not. Cut to three whole minutes of me laughing my ass off and saying Towelie things like "Wanna get high?" in between fits of chortling.

Radiohead more than made up for it though. Awesome light show, and plus they played Just, Exit Music, and The Bends. The whole crowd was entranced and all concerts worth their weight in gold can't go without smelling weed in the air!



Well, my friends, tomorrow morning I'm heading off to Virginia.

When I get back, I'm going to be old and married okay? WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

WOO I'M GOING TO SEE RADIOHEAD TOMORROW! :D

Fifty songs I've been listening to recently (last list was made in February). Most of 'em I've been listening to at work, haha. That's probably you see so many angry songs on here :P

( It's a whole laundry list. )

Why do I keep listening to the same five Van Halen songs? And yes, they are all ones with David Lee Roth as lead. Because there are two types of people, after all -- those that prefer David Lee Roth and those who prefer Sammy Hagar. I'm in the former camp, I love Roth's cartoonish rock-star persona.

Funny idea, though it probably never be implemented: At the end of my wedding reception, when Chris and I leave in our car for the hotel, I think it would be AWESOME if "Panama" started playing. That is all.

Jump back, what's that sound?
Here she comes, full blast and top down.
Hot shoe, burnin' down the avenue.
Model citizen, zero discipline
Don't you know she's coming home with me?
You'll lose her in the turn.
I'll get her! Panama!

Oh look at me, I'm starting another playlist that I will probably never finish. Le sigh.

All I know is that it will start out with Matthew Good Band's "Giant", have Pink Floyd's "Great Gig In The Sky" somewhere in there, Dropkick Murphys' "Fields of Athenry" too, Guns n' Roses' version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and that's all I know as of now.



Hell, I've still have an old playlist that I haven't completed because none of the songs flow together just right (in my opinion). Perfectionism sucks sometimes.

Another random thought:

I think Britney Spears is in the wrong music genre. If she could learn how to play guitar marginally and learn to write lyrics, she could very well be the next angsty superstar. She looks like she could write a song about bein' all pissed off n' shit, that is, if she knows, um, words. Words that are longer than four letters long, but saying "fuck" a lot may suffice.

Why did listening to Tool make me think that? I'm trying to finish up a playlist on the music industry I've been working on for MONTHS and I get this thought. Maybe because I'm listening to Aenema.

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time, any fucking day
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.



I'm actually quite amused. Imagine that!

I think you can learn a lot about a person's hidden personality by which Beck album is their favorite.

(Mine's Midnite Vultures.)

How come there is hardly any good music being made nowadays? The only relatively new artist that I can think of that is making good, solid music is the White Stripes.

I can't listen to any of the shit that is coming out nowadays that is billed as "rock" music. That shit makes me want to rock as hard as a far-left liberal watching a far-right conservative program. It makes me angry. It makes me angry that this garbage is being classified as rock music. I take Tom Petty's position on the state of music today, in a comment that he said a few years ago to VH1:

"This is an emergency crisis that we're in. The entertainment media is affecting everything on the planet in a very negative way. I'm only interested in rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is a music that represents truth. Your TV channel has taken the word "rock" and knocked the "roll" off the end. You made rock this umbrella term for everything. That's wrong. Shakira isn't rock. These country artists with fur coats aren't rock - or country. I offered a video to VH1 of my band playing in the studio and they don't want to air it because it had musicians playing in it. They want some babe walking on the beach or whatever. I got turned onto this music by watching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones actually on TV playing their guitars. It completely took me over. When you can't see musicians playing any more, I'm not interested any more."

I feel like a stodgy old fart whenever my younger sister plays her music. It's noise to me. The sad thing is, her godawful music taste isn't as bad as others; at least she likes AC/DC. But it's near criminal that music is in the state that it's in. There's some guy from The Darkness who dresses in a meatsuit trying way too hard to invoke David Lee Roth and failing -- badly. He has neither the talent or the cartoonish personality that Roth did. There's these scrawny fags in girl pants and guyliner screaming about their ex-girlfriends or whatever on top of shitty instrumentation that sounds like kindergarteners pretending to be a metal band. "Look Mommy, I can play a power chord over and over and over and over again!" Talentless pop artists are made famous by some overcritical fag in a tight black shirt who would better belong on Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, and a drug-addict washed-up one-hit-wonder Eighties pop star. Artists are more known for the trouble they get into rather than the quality of music that they make.

I would have loved to be a music journalist in the prime of music - the Sixties, the Seventies, hell, even portions of the 80's and early 90's. But there is nothing for me to rave about nowadays. There is nary anything that deserves praise outside of older artists like Petty and Dylan continuing to putting out records (however, it is rumored that Petty's 2006 album "Highway Companion" is his last), Radiohead, and the White Stripes. I believe the dying music industry is propagating this garbage, and it probably won't go away until it reforms itself or it dies completely. Not a single artist can reform the sad state of music on their own.

I see recommendations for wedding reception songs, and for most of them, I think either "ugh" or "cliche"

It makes me glad that we're compiling a nice happy playlist full of good, uncliche music.

...or as those like myself who hold a great amount of disdain for it, the "Industry."

I predict the Industry as we know it will die in five to ten years. They are reluctant to change. They will dig their heels in until they make a grave-sized hole. Then, once that hole is six feet deep and six feet wide, they'll say, "Why stop there? Our expensive Salvatore Ferragamo alligator shoes can dig this baby to China."

Artists have written songs about the evils of the music industry for years and years. "Hotel California" by the Eagles and "Have a Cigar" by Pink Floyd are two of the most recognized songs weaving stories about the godless Industry. Until recently the artists have been helpless to do much other than suck it up and be the big labels' bitch.

...

I was going somewhere with this, but I got distracted by Tom Petty music videos (speaking of another musician who has written songs about the Industry). Holy crap, that "Runnin' Down a Dream" video is fucking badass. And young Tom Petty was doable as hell. If I had been a teenager in the Eighties, there would have been tons of posters on my walls and, like typical teenagers with hormones all a-crazy, naughty thoughts as well. Oh mannnnnnnnnn.

""It's just not fair to the kids who buy records. It all comes down to greed - MCA doesn't need a new Tower. And if we don't take a stand, one of these days records are going to be $20." -Tom Petty, 1981

Holy shit, he called it. 26 years ago, he called it. <3

I have come to the conclusion that Clapton's "Layla" is the most perfect love song ever written. That song still gives me chills down my spine every time I hear it.