Sunday, May 22, 2011

No blogging on a Sunday.

See you Monday!

CSOTD Bonus Edition: Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles?

Sorry, everyone, I just couldn't leave 1973 without playing this song too!

Keep on Trucking!

Saturday, May 21, 2011: Carly Simon - You're So Vain

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee

God, the 1970's totally rocked!

Have a groovy weekend, keep on truckin, y'all

Friday, May 20, 2011: The Contours - Do You Love Me?

Where have all the good dances gone?

The Twist? The Mashed Potato? The Watusi? The Shimmy? The Hitch-Hike? The Locomotion? The Stroll? The Chicken? The Alley Oop?

How can you love me now that I can dance, if now YOU don't know how to dance?

It's Friday, people, just get up and dance!

Thursday, May 19, 2011: Ivan & Alyosha - Fathers Be Kind

Here's a Seattle group that is offering their 5-song EP free.

Heard about it here on Crawdaddy, and here's the band's proper website for the actual download. Which I encourage you to do.

Because, listening to this track, I would actually pay good money for this music, it's gorgeous.

Any band that can channel George Harrison so effectively deserves to be successful.

I wish them the best

Wednesday, May 18, 2011: Saint Etienne - Spring (Air France Remix)

Following yesterday's German dominated post, let's stay in Europe for one more day.

Just imagine yourself listing to this while driving through the French countryside in an old Citron 2CV with the ragtop down, shards of sunlight piercing through the trees, a full picnic basket packed and sitting on the backseat and nothing but the whole wide world ahead

Imagine.

I do love Spring.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011: TWOfer Tuesday - The "Deutschland, Deutschland über Eighties" Edition

I took two years of German in High School. I got D's both years.

Growing up in Los Angeles, you would think I would do the sensible thing and take Spanish, since that was the foreign language I was actually surrounded with, and most applicable to my life.

Actually, I desperately wanted to take French but budget cuts meant the French classes were cut before I had a chance to enroll.

I guess that's the thing, I've always had European leanings. With my politics, my worldview, my taste in art and music, I've always felt like I belonged somewhere else. I've never felt like I fit in here in America. Europe always beckoned.

Now, looking back, I can sort of see where some of that influence comes from - 80's music.

God, the Krauts were kool in the 80's.

Sure, Rock Me Amadeus borders on novelty record, but never crosses that line. And it's a border crossing better than Der Kommisar (let's not even talk about After The Fire's shambolic English language cover version *shudders*)

But, even if that song doesn't mustard your Bratwurst, you have to admit that 80's music videos rarely got cooler, or hotter, than Nena in 99 Luft Balons. Walking through that desolate, smoke-filled demilitarized zone in jeans tighter than Checkpoint Charlie's security, Nena was a vision of Euro-hotness that no American chick could match.

Deutschland über Alles, indeed. At least in the 80's