Music meme
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This is a twist on the Letter Meme. Instead of coming up with ten items for a certain letter, you come up with five song titles for a certain letter and explain why you picked them. If interested then leave a comment. I'll give you a letter. You post this blurb in your journal along with your list.
I gots me an M.
"Mission Temple Fireworks Stand" by Paul Thorn. I don't remember where I discovered Paul Thorn, but whenever I get down, I put one of his cds in and start to bop around, and suddenly I feel better, even when the song's a downer. Funky Southern redneck rock'n blues. This song just cracks me the hell up. "But I pay the rent on New Year's Eve and the fourth of July, here at the Holy Ghost Big Bang Theory Pentecostal Fire and Brimstone Mission Temple Fireworks Stand..."
ETA: http://www.paulthorn.com/music/samples.html
"Mary Jane" by Alanis Morissette. The anti-self-pity song, a valentine to everyone who's had a really shitty day/week/year/life. Probably the only song on 'Jagged Little Pill' that puts Alanis in the background of the story, and worth note just for that.
ETA: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002MY3/104-0187416-7731946?v=glance&n=5174
"Mary's Place" by Bruce Springsteen. I loved this song the first time I heard it, off THE RISING, and then fell in love for entirely different reasons every time I heard him play it live. About mourning, and dying, and living, and rising up and above and breaking the surface even when you want to stay in the depths. About how dancing and crying can often be the same thing, and both will heal you if you only let them.
ETA: http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/MarysPlace.html
"Mystery" by the Indigo Girls. Trying to figure out a relationship, and finally accepting that it just Is. Soft and gentle and sweet, and it has always but always been the one song I would vid X Files to, were I the type to do that sort of thing.
ETA: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000029EV/104-0187416-7731946?v=glance&n=5174
"Meeting Across the River" by Brce Springsteen. More than just a lead-in to "Jungleland," this is the piece I hope for every concert. Delicate piano and a theme of loss and stupidity and dead ends closing in, and yet the music maintains a sense of hope and optimism that's all the more poignant for being doomed. And jesus, yeah, Clarence on sax. How could I not mention that?
ETA: http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/MeetingAcrossTheRiver.html
There are more, but those're the five that were foremost in my mind.
debg:This is a twist on the Letter Meme. Instead of coming up with ten items for a certain letter, you come up with five song titles for a certain letter and explain why you picked them. If interested then leave a comment. I'll give you a letter. You post this blurb in your journal along with your list.
I gots me an M.
"Mission Temple Fireworks Stand" by Paul Thorn. I don't remember where I discovered Paul Thorn, but whenever I get down, I put one of his cds in and start to bop around, and suddenly I feel better, even when the song's a downer. Funky Southern redneck rock'n blues. This song just cracks me the hell up. "But I pay the rent on New Year's Eve and the fourth of July, here at the Holy Ghost Big Bang Theory Pentecostal Fire and Brimstone Mission Temple Fireworks Stand..."
ETA: http://www.paulthorn.com/music/samples.html
"Mary Jane" by Alanis Morissette. The anti-self-pity song, a valentine to everyone who's had a really shitty day/week/year/life. Probably the only song on 'Jagged Little Pill' that puts Alanis in the background of the story, and worth note just for that.
ETA: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000002MY3/104-0187416-7731946?v=glance&n=5174
"Mary's Place" by Bruce Springsteen. I loved this song the first time I heard it, off THE RISING, and then fell in love for entirely different reasons every time I heard him play it live. About mourning, and dying, and living, and rising up and above and breaking the surface even when you want to stay in the depths. About how dancing and crying can often be the same thing, and both will heal you if you only let them.
ETA: http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/MarysPlace.html
"Mystery" by the Indigo Girls. Trying to figure out a relationship, and finally accepting that it just Is. Soft and gentle and sweet, and it has always but always been the one song I would vid X Files to, were I the type to do that sort of thing.
ETA: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000029EV/104-0187416-7731946?v=glance&n=5174
"Meeting Across the River" by Brce Springsteen. More than just a lead-in to "Jungleland," this is the piece I hope for every concert. Delicate piano and a theme of loss and stupidity and dead ends closing in, and yet the music maintains a sense of hope and optimism that's all the more poignant for being doomed. And jesus, yeah, Clarence on sax. How could I not mention that?
ETA: http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/MeetingAcrossTheRiver.html
There are more, but those're the five that were foremost in my mind.
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Date: 2006-07-28 07:03 pm (UTC)Mary's Place always seems to me to be the followup, the logical middle-aged progression, to Thunder Road. This is him on Mary's back porch, all those years later.
God, I fucking love Bruce.
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Date: 2006-07-29 12:32 am (UTC)B.
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Date: 2006-07-31 03:15 am (UTC)Michele and I did, many moons ago. :) I really need to find a way to transfer those tapes to DVD...