Primal Scream's Higher Than The Sun. I associate it with a certain lysergic era in my life.

"I've glimpsed, I have tasted, fantastical places..."

anything by spacemen 3.

I'm all electric skin and erect nipples

stoned does that to you?! I learn a new thing everyday in Metachat. On a good day, more.

I dunno. This one, maybe.

"Pinball Wizard" by The Who used to do that for me. The loud strumming at the beginning always gave me chills when I was younger.

Ahh, dub and base is about letting go.

Music for me is like that. Stuff that I like. When I go to concerts ]I go a lot[ because I love the loudness and the base moving my rib cage in and out and dancing.

I go to Pow-Wow's and the drumming and dancing has the same effect, because it mimics the heartbeat.

There's a great reggae dj in Toronto, DJ Chocolate.
Here's her myspace site. Spins great stuff.

Love Lee Scratch Perry, King Tubby...reggae.
Lee's CD "Time Boom X De Devil Dead" is so stoned. Songs like 'Jungle', 'Night Train' are wicked.

jonmc - pinball wizard did that to me when I was young too! It was jump on the bed and play airguitar!

I mean it was all jump on the bed.

alicesshoe - thanks for pointing me to DJ chocolate. I'd love to hear her live someday.

oh and I like that sveskemus. All tingly.

i dunno, but i do want to be stoned.
Been having enough of a nipple problem, though, thanks.

another one that has the same effect on me - "sleep" by the third eye foundation.

as far as i'm concerned, drum & bass beats combined with some of the most blissed-out, distorted and delay-drenched guitar playing this side of my bloody valentine is pure genius, the musical equivalent of peanut butter and chocolate.

dabitch, she has a radio show on Ciut was it or Ckln, I'm sure it's available online. She's great. Always notes "It's 4:20, so....just remindiing you". Funny.

Songs I'm liking lately:

Radiohead — Pyramid Song. Whoa. Magical.
Kate Bush — Lord of the Reedy River & Somewhere Inbetween, from latest 'Aerial'. wow. Love that CD, just gorgeous. Lush....hmmmmm.
Arcade Fire — Intervention, from the forthcoming CD, Neon Bible. Organ, more gospel than the original version. Wicked. Loud, first song in the morning, lately.
Coco Rosie — Left Hand Shoe. At first I thought it too weird. Then I couldn't get enough of them. Wonderful stuff. Add, 'Haiti Love Song', from CD 'La Maison de Mon Reve'. And especially 'By Your Side', so...., so...sweeeet. All same CD.
Anything by 'The Great Lake Swimmers. Anything. You'd thinkk you were up north surrounded by sweet smelling pines and clear lakes....


Uh, I love music.

One that caught me off guard was Megadeth's Back in the Day - not a band I've ever been a fan of particularly.

It's an interesting combination of things to me. I find the opening very electric, very highly charged, and it achieves - to an eerie degree - the sense of transport that I think was intended (I was at the front of the stage at Old Bridge, and this puts me back there). Also it's got a disarming sincerity to it, in a genre where a lot of lyrics are fantastical, or heavily filtered through some persona or imagined viewpoint. In the second half - when it switches to the sextuplet feel - it's like listening to a confession. The "ohhhh"s don't come across as a calculated, stock device, but sound like someone captured, unguarded, wailing a lament. The first time I heard that, yeah, it actually made my hair stand on end a little. Lyrically, it's absolutely naive and simple - but to me, in this case, that's no more embarrassing than the appearance of a naive, simple minuet & trio in late Beethoven. Naivety and simplicity, when framed in the right way, can become an almost unbearably bittersweet reminiscence of something irrevocably past.

So there's that. Bet a dime it means less than nothing to anyone else.

If someone tells me about the yousendit, I'd u/l some of those songs I mentioned, if you wish.


What is the email around here, for instance¿

Email it to yourself and copy the link from there for posting here. Thanks.

I also like sendspace--I think it makes uploading multiple files easier.

Many of the Radio Mecha djs (urbanwhaleshark and loquacious come to mind, but there are others, myself included) are also big fans of a lot of the kind of music you mention. Keep an eye out for 'em, if you're so inclined.

They Might Be Giants' "Till My Head Falls Off" almost precisely mimics the heart rate and breathing rhythm I associate with orgasm, so I can relate, but stoned? The closest I can think is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album, in its entirety, but I think due to more of a Pavlovian response being tied to the experience than anything within the music itself.

(And yeah, of course I don't have either on this machine to upload. Sorry.)

i've always liked megadeth, the only thing i ever got from any of their live shows was bruised and bloody.

but they had the chops to deliver those spine-tingle moments, that's for sure.

Thanks dano & box.

this is great, i'm loving all of your songs - who knew I'd fancy megadeath? Keep em coming!

Uh, I love music.
posted by alicesshoe

I'm curious, is your username a reference to Nurse With Wound's "Alice's Self Sufficient Sexual Shoe"? (Am I misremembering that title? Or that it was NWW?)

No, I came up with that for a business name. I called it alice's shoe shop. The email became alicesshoe.

At the time I was writing a radio promo with a friend and our contact had this yappy little dog, who didn't stop barking during our meetings ]their house[, every time, whose name was alice.

So I joked with my friend that we should put that alice in chains in the yard.

An advertising rag had an issue of advertising agencies coming up and you could list yours for free. So we said, let's come up with a name and logo and list it. We had 2 days. So I did.

At a friend's wedding, during their vows, I took a photo of their feet, from the knee down. The couple, the priest...a lot of people liked that shot. People would start to discuss their shoes. Their fetishes...

So, that's how the nick came up.

Because the story is a tad long, when folks asked about the name, I just deadpanned, I used to be alice, then I'd LOL. ]I'm male, understand[

The short version was a tad too serious for folks. Or they just didn't have a sense of humour. Maybe they wanted someone to tell them a story¿ Who knows.


Now I'll have to listen to the song you're referring to. I have heard the name of that band, but their music doesn't come to mind.