Slugbug and I both have eclectic tastes, but hers are a little different than mine. We both love Amy Winehouse and I'm sure there's others that overlap as well.
1. The Hives: Tick Tick Boom. The Hives are a Swedish garage band that brings back the energy of early punk. They tried to do more serious music, perhaps to avoid the label of "shallow", and abandoned that idea. Good move.
2. Serj Tankian The unthinking majority. I found his music online because he has a poltical bent. He has his own style that is Zappa-ish.
3. Foo Fighters. Pretender. A nice electric sound; I’m not a big heavy metal fan, but I like their sound.
4. Lily Allen. Everything’s just wonderful. Her sweet, sexy voice in that cockney accent singing sassy working class songs is an incongruent mix, but I love it.
5. Amy Winehouse. Rehab. Early last year I tried to buy tickets to hear her play at a movie theater near my house; she was sold out. I couldn’t wait for the album to be imported. I was singing rehab before Amy knew she was headed there.
6. Janine Jansen. The Bach Album. She plays a mean Bach partita on violin. I enjoy listening to her while I’m reading or paying bills. The intensity gives me energy. Bach played this way is an aural, black beauty.
7. Akon (with Snoop Dog). I wanna Love you (Remix). Akon sings with that intriguing African accent with good beats and Snoop Dog’s deep vocals are a nice complement. When the foreign language rap begins in the middle of the song I’m swept away to some cantina in a Latin country.
8. John Mayer: Continuum. I played this cut off of my CD for my class while I was waiting for the lecture time to formally begin. There were mostly women in my class and they love him. I like this particular song because it represents the younger generation’s outlook, which is very different from that of my generation. We believed we could change the world; they are waiting for the world to change.
9. Pink: I have seen the rain. She does this one with her dad, a Vietnam Vet. I saw Pink live this past year, and when she sang the anti-Bush song First Avenue rocked, as it did for all of her other songs.
10. Patti Smith: Redondo Beach. I went to a Patti Smith concert this year. She played a small venue downtown in Minneapolis and performed most of the songs from Twelve, an album of covers. She played a few of her old songs, including Redondo Beach. The new covers, except for gimme shelter, just didn’t work for me. I assume she thought that the album would be 12 replications of My Generation, a cover that she did in her own unique style that works. At the concert, she said she needed the money and wanted to resurrect her career.
Thank you for including that photo of Patti Smith with Mapplethorpe!!
Good music choices - a couple of them I will have to look up.
Did enjoy the new Foo Fighters and Velvet Revolver this year, for rock,
and the new Underworld and the new Radiohead. Like the Hives, & their
cover of Paint it Black.
Changing the world vs waiting for the world to change - that's strange.
Just now at the Hawaiian Bar I heard this young guy with silver shoes going
around saying "Here's to a black man in the Oval Office."
Posted by: Word From Pakistan | January 01, 2008 at 02:53 AM
The last Snoop Dogg was really good.
Posted by: Word From Pakistan | January 01, 2008 at 02:54 AM
Rock on, Kayak!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: zapata | January 01, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Go slugbug, go kayakbiker - thanks - great music - you made my day.
Posted by: sistersilverwolf | January 01, 2008 at 11:06 AM
GREETINGS
It's been a long time since I have sent a greeting, but it's funny, I
think of them all the time. I write them in my head as I am walking
about Paris and Lisbon or my own city streets. I silently wished
everyone a happy new year as I walked through Chinatown in the first
hours of the New Year. I was searching for a bowl of duck congee.
This is simple rice porridge with a bit of duck and garnish on top.
Unfortunately everyone was out of congee and I had to eat cold sesame
noodles instead.
All this brings to mind that we are entering the Chinese Year of the
Rat, officially beginning February 7. It signals a time for hard work
and renewal. We are counseled to reclaim and magnify our sense of
humor. We will need these attributes as we move through 2008. An
election year is always a time of change, of vigilance and self
examination. We have to be as sturdy and resilient as a rodent.
Those that have rat problems can always get a cat. Or consider that
in the Indian city of Deshnoke rats are revered. Those hanging about
the ancient temple Karni Mata are destined to be holy men. Eating
rice that has been nibbled by such a rat is considered a blessing.
Well, I didn't get my rice porridge, blessed or not. But I will try
again. Meanwhile for cold nights there is an excellent new
translation of War and Peace by Pevear and Volokhonsky. (Knopf). It's
hardly cold tonight so I may choose something lighter like Peter Pan
in Kensington Gardens. After I finish.
This time I didn't make a greeting in my head. I wrote it down and
send it off with all good wishes.
patti smith
Posted by: Greetings from Patti Smith | January 08, 2008 at 10:20 AM
I found this blog on a google search and boy am I glad I did. I thought I heard someone mention it in a free chat room.
Awesome read!
Posted by: Free Chat | July 21, 2008 at 01:32 AM