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March 23, 2008 by ignatiof.
Tell me that this song doesn’t go through your head at some point on Easter Sunday (lyrics reprinted without permission):
I’ve been drowned out by the rain
Still I’m wishing I could stay
But I’m sorry, my old friend
I’ve got to leave you once again
And despite what I might say
Measure pleasure by the pain
Measure pleasure by the twisting
Of the metal in the vein
And it might be very hard
Can’t be more than what we are
Can’t be more till it’s over
Here comes the resurrection
Everybody’s got to die from something
Nothing ever left to leave you when you go
I saw you strip my babies
Animal, the way you cut them might be
Animal, the way I cut you from below
So you goad me into spite
It’s the cruelty that you like
It’s the waiting for the one thing
That you never could define
Fill the longing just because
Emasculates the ones you love
Have to wait till it’s over
We are the less than mighty
Never was a way I thought it could be
Never quite enough to leave you when you go
I saw you strip my babies
Animal, the way you cut them might be
Animal, the way I cut you from below
I’ve been drowned out by the rain
Still I’m wishing I could stay
But I’m sorry, my old friend
I’ve got to leave you once again
And despite what I might say
Measure pleasure by the pain
Measure pleasure by the twisting
Of the metal in the vein
And it might be very hard
Can’t be more than what we are
Can’t be more till it’s over
Here comes the resurrection
Everybody’s got to die from something
Nothing ever left to leave you when you go
I saw you strip my babies
Animal, the way you cut them might be
Animal, the way I cut you from below
And if anger is the ending
Of the things that we’ve become
For the mother and the father
And the sister and the son
Through the shallow without wanting
Realisation to mistake
In the ugliness, the open
All the things we can’t replace
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
I will control
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March 19, 2008 by ignatiof.
Here are, in the order in which they came to my mind, my all time favourite tunes. You’ll recognize some as Earlie Award winners. Some probably should have been winners, looking back, but it would be wrong to change awards after they have been handed out. What is this, the Grammy’s?
Velocity Girl - The Only Ones
Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket
Weezer - Hash Pipe
INXS - Heaven Sent
Tegan & Sara - Like O, Like H
No Doubt - Sunday Morning
Rilo Kiley - Love And War (11/11/46)
Sarah Harmer - Lodestar
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster
Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl
Delerium - Daylight
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January 10, 2008 by ignatiof.
This is one of my personal favourite misheard lyrics. And by personal favourite, of course, I mean it’s just one that happened to pop into my head earlier today. In the song ‘Black on Black II’ by Heart, there’s a lyric that goes like this:
‘Ice and fire counteract’
which my perverted brain keeps hearing as:
‘Ice and fire get erect’
Not sure how that would work exactly, but hey, I didn’t write the thing.
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December 31, 2007 by ignatiof.
Here are the runners-up from all Earlie Award contests going back to 1988:
2007: Joss Stone - Tell Me ‘Bout It
2006: The Charlatans - Blackened Blue Eyes
2005: Interpol - Evil
2004: JoJo - Leave (Get Out)
2003: Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
2002: Sarah Harmer - Weakened State
2001: Delerium - Daylight
2000: Sinead O’Connor - Jealous
1999: Alanis Morrisette - Joining You
1998: All Saints - Under The Bridge
1997: The Offspring - All I Want
1996: Radiohead - Street Spirit
1995: Portishead - Sour Times
1994: Sheryl Crow - Leaving Las Vegas
1993: Duran Duran - Come Undone
1992: Mariah Carey - Make It Happen
1991: Mariah Carey - Someday
1990: Madonna - Vogue
1989: Milli Vanilli - Baby Don’t Forget My Number
1988: John Cougar Mellencamp - Cherry Bomb
Clearly before 1995 I was smoking something illegal. Or perhaps that was when I started.
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December 31, 2007 by ignatiof.
Here they are, looking way back…
2007: Rilo Kiley - The Moneymaker
2006: Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
2005: Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes
2004: Joss Stone - Super Duper Love
2003: Evanescence - Going Under
2002: The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
2001: Weezer - Hash Pipe
2000: Chantal Kreviazuk - Far Away
1999: Len - Feelin’ Alright
1998: Bran Van 3000 - Everywhere
1997: No Doubt - Sunday Morning
1996: Cowboy Junkies - A Common Disaster
1995: The Cranberries - Zombie
1994: Ace of Base - The Sign
1993: Patty Smyth - No Mistakes
1992: INXS - Heaven Sent
1991: Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
1990: Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World
1989: Madonna - Like A Prayer
1988: Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
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December 31, 2007 by ignatiof.
It’s that time again! Time to announce the 2007 Earlie Award winner!
There’s only one category, so let’s get to it. Here are the three top songs for the year:
3. Tegan & Sara - The Con (title song from their 5th and best album)
2. Joss Stone - Tell Me ‘Bout It
1. Rilo Kiley - The Moneymaker (Song of the year, and about porn. What more could you ask for?)
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December 10, 2007 by ignatiof.
Here are the top artists on my last.fm page that I listen to from whom I haven’t started listening to any new music. If that didn’t confuse you enough, go finish your eight glasses of gravy today. I’m concerned about your gravy level.
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December 10, 2007 by ignatiof.
A while back I posted about listening to a bunch of classic albums. Here are the ones I have done and the ones I have left.
Complete:
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Beck - Odelay
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Kiss - Alive
The Police - Synchronicity
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Janis Joplin - Pearl
The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Blondie - Parallel Lines
The Clash - Combat Rock (was originally London Calling)
To go:
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Carole King - Tapestry
The Stones - Sticky Fingers
Prince - Purple Rain
The Beatles - Revolver
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Elvis Costello - This Year’s Model
Radiohead - The Bends
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
The Pretenders - Pretenders
Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Otis Redding - The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
CCR - Cosmo’s Factory
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
Roxy Music - Avalon
Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
Peter Gabriel - So
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Doors - LA Woman
The Strokes - Is This It
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Cheap Trick - In Color
Eurythmics - Touch
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Little Richard - Here’s Little Richard
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November 8, 2007 by ignatiof.
This album is like a bottle of highly concentrated syrup. They both:
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August 2, 2007 by ignatiof.
I generally hear one of 5 things when the missus listens to music from my collection. Here they are with associated comments from me:
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