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I'm currently loving Only This Moment by Royksopp. But I'm also loving Crystalline Green by Goldfrapp. So I have two favourites of the moment. Because I'm greedy.
I heard a muzak version at an Indian restaurant two weekends ago. The following Tuesday, a subway musician was doing a rendition on steel drum. Catch myself whistling it walking down the street. Overheard one of the guys from Sales singing it on his way out the john.
I'd better learn to love this song. Seems I'll be hearing it everywhere for rest of eternity.
"Marooned," by Wire. It came on this morning while I was riding to work, and the sort of dread-filled sound of it seemed to mesh with the overcast sky, and then the lyrics came in about the polar bear climbing up onto the iceberg where the guy is stranded... if gave me a chill, in a good way. I played it over six or seven times in a row after that.
I'd YSI the song but I'm at work. :P I did find this: RealAudio
and here are the lyrics, since lyric sites are evil, pop-up-infested atrocities:
An unwilling sailor adrift from Artic waters
As the water gets warmer, my iceburg gets smaller
As he pours more petrol on, he feels no fear
As the flames get nearer, its thought gets clearer
A blue-white polar bear arrives at the end
Diverting his attention, his feelings froze over
I'm only a runaway AWOL at the logical start
Not present in the present, overboard with limited future
And I'm standing alone still getting a thrill
While the ship is afloat, he's losing his boat
Say it isn't So by Hall & Oates. It was never one of my favorite songs by them, but the other day I was digging through 80s music and started listening to them and this song really appealed to me suddenly. I think the song might already be number one on my Last FM chart now. I keep listening to it over and over. *shrugs*
I recently "rediscovered" Kidney Bingos by Wire and can't stop playing it. And lo and behold, it's top of my chart for last week. Second is The Kinks Destroyer which is the sound of Ray ripping off his own riffs which rather appeals to me for some reason.
I've been listening to perennial favorites like Springsteen, The Who, Little Richard and The Band, plus a lotta 50's/early 60's stuff and 70's anthem-rock. In tough times, you go for what you know.
A nice Beach Boys pastiche in which Mr. Stoltz wonders whatever happened to Jesus. I reviewed the album last week and have had the song pleasantly stuck in my head since then.
...and ZZ Top's Balinese. That songs been floating around rock radio for about 3 decades and it's still my favorite 'post-adolescent male utopian fantasy song.'
The Haunting (Somewhere in Time) - video link. Musically, I adore this kind of thing; I love female voices in rock, and a duet is all the more fun, and this just about gives me chills. And the story is good, as is the quality of the video. And having Simone Simons slinking around in red leather doesn't hurt matters, either.
At this exact second, it is Murder Me Rachael by The National. Dum Maro Dum by Asha Bhosle (Kronos Quartet version) is a perennial favorite in the last few weeks, as is You Are What You Love by Jenny Lewis.
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