Random 10 for Oct. 1, 2008
Happy October, gang!
1. The Bangles, “September Gurls”
2. Cake, “I Will Survive”
Well, I know there are some non-Cake fans who comb this here blog, but “let them eat it,” I say. The music video above is a slightly censored version of the group’s Gloria Gaynor disco cover, but I still think the Sacramento, California-based outfit’s endearing slacker vibe comes through, even without the gratuitous F-bomb. And I still contend that Fashion Nugget, the 1996 album that contains “I Will Survive,” is one of the Nineties’ overlooked classics.
3. Led Zeppelin, “No Quarter”
4. Eric Burdon, “Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down”
5. Son House, “John the Revelator”
Here’s a rare Sixties-era television clip of one of the most revered and mysterious icons of the blues. A native of Clarksdale, Mississippi – the birthplace of the blues and the birthplace of your humble guest blogger (coincidence? I think not) – Son House was a key influence on Robert Johnson, who, in turn, was a key influence on … well, everybody else who ever picked up a guitar or sold his soul to the devil (is that redundant?).
6. James Brown, “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Part 1″
7. Glen Campbell, “Wichita Lineman”
Written by Oklahoma’s own Jimmy Webb and inspired by a rural Oklahoma lineman whom the songwriter had observed, this 1968 pop standard received exceedingly creepy connotations in the 2003 documentary Tarnation, when filmmaker Jonathan Caouette used it to score his remembrances of how his mentally ill mother endured a gang rape and repeated shock therapy. If you’ve ever seen that movie (and granted, I don’t make it sound like a load of fun), you will never think of ”Wichita Lineman” the same way again.
8. Los Lobos, “Kiko and the Lavender Moon”
9. The Who, “The Real Me”
10. Rufus Wainwright, “April Fools”
– Chase
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Comments
I’m sure it is just a coincidence that a thinly veiled version of STD “breaks out” on this site about the same time Chase starts posting.
They need to let Maria sleep in a few mornings past opening bell. Those bags under her eyes cost $25 to check at the Delta counter.
Erin deserves her own CBS medical procedural.
Well, Cake Sucks, yes and no. It might be a thinly veiled version of “STD,” but the Erin/Maria edition was all mine. Chase just willed it to me.
first off, dane cook has ruined the word “october” for the rest of eternity.
secondly, my father became a rural oklahoma lineman around that same time that song was written…..hmmm….