1. Theme from The Bob Hope Show
2. Harry Chapin: Sunday Morning Sunshine
3. John Cale: Buffalo Ballet
4. Linda Ronstadt: It’s So Easy
5. Richie Valens: La Bamba
6. The Byrds: Mr. Spaceman
7. Otis Redding: Rock Me Baby
8. Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence
9. Richard Harris: Paper Chase
10. Spandau Ballet: True
1. An interesting opener. Thanks for the memories...
2. The opening track from Sniper & Other Love Songs. I love all of Chapin's albums.
3. Cale's prettiest song. I personally don't think he put out anything better than his first five or so albums, especially the three he did for Island Records.
4. Rocking Buddy Holly cover. I have this off the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack.
5. Always a pleaser. Interesting, considering we just passed the anniversary of the Day the Music Died.
6. One of my favorite Byrds tunes. God, I love the Byrds.
7. Otis is always great, too. I love soul music. If you don't love soul music, you don't have one.
8. When I was in high school, my art teacher used to play the radio. It was around the time Violator came out, Depeche Mode was on all the time. The students used to complain and ask her to turn the channel. Even then I found it ironic that a bunch of art students hated Depeche Mode, one of the big art student bands.
9. I know it's supposed to be cheesy, but I unabashedly, unreservedly, and unashamedly love Richard Harris's album A Tramp Shining.
10. Not a bad way to close. I've been making my 1980s playlists, and I'm through 1984, so hearing any 80s music is awesome for me. As an aside, my mom hates this song.
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Saturday Playlist
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2 comments:
i once gave a speech in college on the poetic merit of "Enjoy the Silence" complete with a breakdown of the literary devices used in the song. The lyrics seem pretty basic but if you read them on a deeper level there's a cool contradiction in there as well as a couple of other aspects worth noting. I also talked about "Purple Rain" in the same speech which is another great example. Excellent list!
Great list!
I've always loved the Byrds, but have grown to love them even more the last couple of years-- they play them a lot on Little Steven's Underground Garage. Mr. Spaceman is a particular favorite-- it has one of the great opening lines ever:
"Woke up this morning/Felt pretty weird/My toothpaste was smeared/Had flies in my beard."
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