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I’ve lived in Los Angeles for over twenty years now and I’ve never even considered buying an air conditioner. I pride myself on toughing out the usual two weeks in late August that get close to triple digits, but I’ve never experienced such a hot summer here.
I’m trying not to let it freak me out in an "Inconvenient Truth" kind of way. Public Service Announcements are telling me not to use appliances during peak hours to avoid what is already happening here in California, rolling blackouts. (Bad situation, great band name, some local band grabbed it…kudos!)
I’ll be in the studio recording this week, thankfully with an air conditioner, but suddenly I realize that I’ve only been boogie-boarding twice this season. Summer is half over people! If you haven’t already… get on it! Lake, river, ocean, creek, get in there.
I remember in my junior high years, unable to drive and bored in the suburbs of Chicago, my friends and I would engage in our favorite summertime heat quencher…pool hoppin’. This activity had to be done under the cover of darkness. First we’d get an older sibling or someone’s "cool", irresponsible uncle to buy us some shitty beer (two cans was pa-len-ty for me). Then, we’d find houses in our neighborhood that had pools, plan our route and get to it.
Now, and this is important, this must be done with your clothes on, including sneakers. We would, at all times have an exit strategy. If we saw those bedroom lights come on, or the screen door suddenly fly open with someone’s dad yelling at us we would get out of the pool, hop the fence, and run for our lives!
The Spin this week are some songs of my summers. I’d love to hear about the songs of yours in the comments section. Stay cooool!
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Frist
Fitz!
Zero?
Fountains of Wayne has some great summer songs, including “Red Dragon Tattoo,” and “It Must Be Summer.”
PeteCO:
Doesn’t The Mark of Zero really belong on the previous thread?
Donita:
No AC for us for exactly the same reason. I’m not looking forward to late August. Hang in there!
Love fountains of wayne! Okay, this is cheesy, but one of my ALL time favorite summer songs is DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince’s “SUMMERTIME”. I absolutely have to listen to that every June, otherwise its just not summer yet.
last summer central air in my house gave out bigtime — until I could afford to get it replaced, I bought a cheapie $70 window unit for my living room — it knocked the edge of the heat off and dehumidified too — I used it for the rest of summer.
Aint China great?
More effervescent summer fun from my end of the blogosphere:
“Feel the Way That I Do” – Shoes (well, there’s references to having sex outdoors–in my part of the world, that’s a summer-only thing)
Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
T-Shirt Weather – The Lucksmiths
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaksJNIkA9s
Summertime
“Like a red rubber ball” seemed to be playing every hour one summer.
“This Diamond Ring”
“Satisfaction”
“Hot Town, Summer in the City”
“Indian Lake”! Remember listening to this song on my little transitor radio. And the Cowsills had a summer replacement show I thoroughly enjoyed.
Just read their wikipedia entry. Boy, they had a high death count!
great summertime band: the dirtbombs. so much fun. just good rock n’ roll. and the singer has some amazing pipes.
“Respectable” —Summer of ‘78 ahh yes ;-)
Just read their wikipedia entry. Boy, they had a high death count!
One died in Katrina. I think another one is touring with Todd Rundgren and the New Cars this summer.
Thanks, Donita, for the Ditty Bops vid last time—I’ve been playing it ever since. These posts are so welcome on a Friday, when the week has worn everyone down.
NYMary, I’ve been wishing I could buy “Walkin’ On Sunshine” from iTunes, but no luck so far.
Thanks for that clip! I think I saw it contemporaneously…
A Boogie Board in every pot.
I had to explain to my teenage daughter about Tina Turner the other night because we were watching Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
(There A’int No Cure for the) Summertime Blues!
hey donita
fabulous spin list!
your pool-hoppin’ story took me back to my childhood—the entire summer spent at the public pool, with the AM radio blaring
“in the summertime” by mungo jerry over the loud speakers. Here are some other great summer tunes:
dancing in the street – martha & the vandellas
sunny afternoon – the kinks
summer wine – nancy sinatra & lee hazelwood
summer lovin’ – the movie GREASE
summer wind – frank sinatra
I’ll need something REALLY good to pull me out of a mad/depressed funk.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Very sorry to be hit and run and OT, but time is tight and even with it tight – I have to vent.
Read this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00619.html
with Bamford RS piece http://www.rollingstone.com/po…..e_next_war from yesterday:
Then go check Laura Rozen’s other, earlier pieces on the Italian connection.
The go read this a Larry Johson’s blog
http://noquarter.typepad.com/m……html#more
It’s not his piece and he’s not saying a yeah or nay, but it would give some insight into why Hastert had such a strong objection to the Jefferson office raid, wouldn’t it? Although Hastert is also getting questioned on the NSA leaks. IL need John Laesch in the worst kind of way.
Margot@10
Yeah that organ in “Red Rubber Ball” is totally summer to me too
my favorite dreadfully-hot summer musical memory is working as the sound man on an outdoor production of Bizet’s Carmen in an old football stadium (complete with galloping horses) — sweat, cheesy production, glorious music !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFOmnAfyF5o
All for you
elbee@12
thanks for the tip, I’ll check them out!
weeder@15
I’m so glad that you dig The Ditty Bops, they’re so good
Love that Breeders track “Saints” —
“Summer is ready / When you are” and the crunchy guitars. Wicked awesome.
And of course NYMary’s pimping of FoW is justified. “It Must Be Summer” is one of my favourites.
I’ve been wishing I could buy “Walkin’ On Sunshine” from iTunes, but no luck so far.
Hmm, I see that. Strange. Do you think they pulled it after last summer?
“Afternoon Delight” is seared into my memory as a summer carnival song, though I have no idea why.
you’re welcome, donita…i think you’ll dig ‘em…and thanks for yer list…
okay, only minimally related via MUSIC: i have sunk into another layer of disbelief upon reading that W is meeting with american idol contestants today. wtf.
http://www.latimes.com/news/na…..ome-nation
my favorite dreadfully-hot summer musical memory is working as the sound man on an outdoor production of Bizet’s Carmen in an old football stadium (complete with galloping horses) — sweat, cheesy production, glorious music !
Mine is helping “tune the cannons” for a performance of the 1812 Overture.
Hot Fun in the Summertime — Sly and the Family Stone
Stoned Soul Picnic — Laura Nyro
Grazing in the Grass — Hugh Masakela
What’s Going On (entire album) — Marvin Gaye
Neighborhoods (album again) — Olu Dara
ditto on the Hot Town and Dancing in the Street, in fact, just about the entire Holland-Dozier-Holland catalog. As I recall, Heat Wave helped me learn to accept what I couldn’t change.
elbee@29
wow, American Idol and the Pres, that is bizarre and yet so par for the course.
I dont recall Tchaikovsky specifying “pitched howitzers” for that opus … maybe you are thinking of Pachelbels Cannon ?
Dancin’ in the Streets (Martha and the Vandellas)
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Sugar Magnolia and many others here:
http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/
ummm…The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)…first song on first album:
” See that girl, barefootin’ along,
Whistlin’ and singin’, she’s a carryin’ on.
There’s laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet,
She’s a neon-light diamond and she can live on the street.
Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.
Well everybody’s dancin’ in a ring around the sun
Nobody’s finished, we ain’t even begun.
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
Try on your wings and find out where it’s at.
Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.
Take a vacation, fall out for a while,
Summer’s comin’ in, and it’s goin’ outa style
Well, lie down smokin’, honey; have yourself a ball,
Cause your mother’s down in Memphis, won’t be back ’till the fall.
Hey hey, hey, come right away
Come and join the party every day.”
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Agree w/’Summertime’ above.
‘Promised Land’ (Chuck Berry) played in the upside down tunnel travel in MIB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McXDBTKVpMU
Boom
prostratedragon@31
ooo, Stoned Soul Picnic, I love that one and Grazing In The Grass too!
I dont recall Tchaikovsky specifying “pitched howitzers” for that opus … maybe you are thinking of Pachelbels Cannon ?
Nope. Last movement. It was news to me that cannons had to be tuned, but we shot them off ten or twelve times each.
How about “The Heat Is On”! Who wrote that shitttty song? Glen Frey? Pool hoppin with your cloths on……come on Donita…..take it off. I promise I won’t look.
Stay cool
Sid
“Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn’t it a pity
Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city”
And as much as the Lily Allen hype is now getting on my tits, ‘LDN’ is such a summer song.
the low ri-der, rides a little higher now
anybody else tired of Gnarles Barclay’s “Crazy”?
(not a bad song, just overplayed)
Joni Mitchell: The Hissing of Summer Lawns
punaise, by accident I deleted your comment about l’été et la vie est facile. sorry. really …
Currently can’t get enough of Super Furry Animal’s “Psyclone!” (iTunes link) Is that a bari sax during the intro?
need a drink? me too.
Zep’s “Dancing Days.” Preferably the live version from “How The West Was Won.”
Or the Who’s “Going Mobile.”
Hot and damned humid here in Maine today. Had the Cooper’s roof open and windows down while driving around Portland with Led Zeppelin blasting this morning. Felt like a teenager again! Well, a teenager with trifocals and slightly arthritic shoulders…
*ilson – by accident I deleted your comment about l’t et la vie est facile. sorry. really …
no problem – (summertime, and the moderating isn’t easy?)
here it was:
“summertime, and the livin’ is easy” (Porgy and Bess)
Even if they don’t explicitly reference summer, some songs for me manage to catch an inexplicable vibe that puts a feeling of hazy August air into my brain.
Off the top of my head, “Venus”, by Air, does that in spades. Especially with the buzzy insect noises towards the end of the song.
OT but needs to get out:
via CNN.com
Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it’s coupled with a cut in future inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday.
Don’t it just figger? (Ted Kennedy is speaking out against this move.)
Even if they don’t explicitly reference summer, some songs for me manage to catch an inexplicable vibe that puts a feeling of hazy August air into my brain.
XTC’s “Grass.”
another memorable musical summer evening was sitting outside with frozen daiquiris listening to Sam Barbers “Summer – Knoxville, 1915″ and Berlioz “Les nuits d’été” …
Sly!
“Hot Fun!” indeed. Great sounds.
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“Pipeline” instr. by Surfari’s (?)
Dan and Jean “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena”
http://www.jananddean.com/ (click to see shirt)
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ummm. Beach Boys. (”Wouldn’t It Be Nice” – just cuz ‘Roger and Me.’)
http://www.cdquest.com/bands/beach_boys.htm
But, really, anything outta this quote:
“he result was massive popular success for the group during the first half of the 1960s, starting with their first chart entry, “Surfin’ ” in 1962. “Surfin’ ” was released on a local record label. Subsequently, the group signed to the major label Capitol Records, where they stayed for the rest of the ’60s. But their early recordings have continued to turn up on one discount label after another ever since. To date, the most complete and best-quality version of the material is to be found on the 1991 DCC album Lost and Found! (1961-62).
The Beach Boys’ first Capitol single, “Surfin’ Safari,” was released in June 1962 and became their first Top 40 hit. It was followed in October by a debut album of the same name. Similarly, in March 1963, Capitol released the single “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” which became the group’s first Top Ten hit, and the Surfin’.”
word to the wise
cooking FDL lurking= burnt food
oh well nobody would have like these home baked chocolate cookies anyway (yeah right!)
Mary 11:26 am — crap. Not exactly Turkish Delight, n’est-ce pas?
How does Plame fit into this mess? I still believe that she was outed for more reasons than getting at Wilson, and the Turkish mess certainly looks like a reason.
But maybe I’m giving Cheney and his evil posse more cred than they deserve.
beau@44
I really like that track. Oi Frango sounds really good too.
Thanks for the turn on, never heard it before!
make that cooking fdl lurking
ok how do make a plus sign stay where it belongs. geez -what a way to kill a joke
better than working fdl lurking! and I burnt cookies last weekend doing the same thing.
G. Love and Special Sauce: “Willow Tree“
Us3: “Lazy Day”
Cuba LA: “El Manisero” (the peanut vendor)
Mungo Jerry. “In The Summer Time”
Now that’s SUMMER.
“When the weather is fine
we go fishing or go swimming in the sea
We’re always happy,
live’s for living, yeah, that’s our philosophy
Sing along with us , dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
da-da-da-da-da…”
Lo — for some weird reason you cant post a plus sign here — dunno why — a coupla days ago several of us tried a variety of nerdish workarounds — none worked except to simply say ‘plus’ …
Seriously OT:
Looks like a fight is going to break out over Bolton. Both Chafee and Hagel (via Steve Clemons) are officially undecided on Bolton’s nomination. If the mustachioed one doesn’t make it out of committee (again), I’d like to think that’s the end of the line for him.
Or will Bush recess appoint Mr. Destroy the UN again? I’m sure there’s some kind of signing statement thingy Bush can use to do whatever he wants when it comes to Presidential appointments.
The Sunday talk shows should be vewy, vewy intwesting this weekend.
Spin I’m in: DAMN IT’S HOT all-funk edition
Sharon Jones – Damn! It’s Hot (Desco)… c’est funk.
Ella Fitzgerald – Too Darn Hot. articulation.
Ohio Players – Fire. Really wrecks my nerve.
Body Heat – James Brown.
The Heat is on – Isley Brothers. (also, their version of “Summer Breeze” rivals even the Main Ingredient version… but this isn’t about breezes. this is about stifling heat!)
Fuego – Mongo Santamaria
Hot, Funky and Sweaty – The Soul Lifters. (New Orleans? Here!).
Aftershower Funk – Joe Bataan.
(Brooklyn FDLers check out Bataan & Sonora Poncena tomorrow in Prospect Park)
Pool Hopping bonus beat:
Drowning in the Sea of Love – Joe Simon
How do you say “blitzkrieg” in Israeli?
-GSD
Summertime by War.
“Yes it’s summer, summertime is here. Yes it’s summer, my time of year.”
-GSD
lo @ 12:08 pm – Percent signs don’t work, either. Apparently, FDL has been designated a math free zone.
Endless radio Summer days – Joe Walsh
revisiting this old (90’s) album for warm evenings
Nightmares on Wax- Smokers Delight
Van Morrison – Common One
David Bromberg – various bootleg stuff
Albert King – I’ll Play The Blues For You
Pat Metheny Group – Travels
JJ Cale – Really
Bud Fletcher Politics and Politicians – Americas Foremost Authentic Cajun Entertainer my favorite cuts
1. LBJ in Pick Up Truck, Drunk in Washington D.C.
2. Opening, Hippie Expo 68, LSD, Voting Machine, Names in History Book.
GSD — dont you mean to ask about blitzkrieg on Lebanese ?
% too ?
thanx for the tip *ilson. If you get a chance i left a comment at the last thread i’d like you to see. its way deep in EPU territory #340 or something like that. Didn’t want to mess with the light convo here me thinks everyone needed these feel good posts today.
Mungo Jerry. “In The Summer Time”
Now that’s SUMMER.
‘Have a drink, have a drive’, though… not recommended. (And used in an anti-drink-driving ad in the UK.)
On a Cole Porter tip, ‘Too Darn Hot’, especially as done by Ella Fitzgerald.
doesn’t have that summertime groove, but:
Nirvana – All Apologies
“Under The Boardwalk” by the Drifters. Another goodie. Me and my buddies we’re singing that tune in our teens. Sleeping under the Santa Monica pier, surfing in the day. And at night… girls, girls, girls.
Pool hoppin’ reminds me of a John Cheever story called “The Swimmer” and now I want a g and t.
I think “Summer In The City” describes summer in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. pretty well. It really is positively awful outside that time of year, particularly if you’re not used to it.
%, indeed.
Fond memeories of Ike and Tina Turner doing Proud Mary on tv when I was growing up. I just loved it when Tina would just let loose and really roll it.
She’s amazing, and at the time I knew it was all her and not Ike.
Lo, checkout what I also said at this link and also on comment #98 later on … http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..ent-210106
riiiight…NO own Neville Bros. “Fiyou on the Bayou” is the CD. Song (whole thing is GREAT) is medley thing:
“Iko Iko/Brother John” good stuff.
Where’s my gumbo?
…of course any number Creedence Clearwater (maybe ‘Out My Backdoor’?
– Allman’s ‘Live at Fillmore East’, ‘Eat a Peach’.
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Derek (Clapton) Dominoes “Layla”
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Elton John – 11/17/70 – “Burn Down the Mission”
and Tumbleweed Connection – “Where To Now, St. Peter?”
Even if they don’t explicitly reference summer, some songs for me manage to catch an inexplicable vibe that puts a feeling of hazy August air into my brain.
For me (born in 1966), the song that will always be associated with summer in my head is Chuck Mangione’s “Feels So Good,” played incessantly on the radio the summer of 1977.
As always, many good suggestions here. May I second Mongo Santamaria! oh oh oh and Willie and Lobo.
Something appears to have changed. Maybe part of the fix that got rid of the format characters? Let’s try it in a sentence: 100%.
ON topic “plus” very current:
“The Israelites” by Desmond Dekker and The Aces.
Not a great song but I remember it playing incessantly on the radio in ‘69, I think it was.
‘nother of fav summer songs: “Idi Amin is My Yardman” by the Uranium Savages.
Blank Kludge, How was Grissman? Any special guests?
Sur-re-e-eh!
Sur-reh!
And not just Low Rider, but again just about the whole War catalog. The complete City, Country, City. Beetles in the Bog. Gypsy Man. What a band! Saingin’ like you seldom hear.
Song of the Wind — Carlos Santana
I Want You (complete) —Marvin Gaye
OT/EPU’d
Dial-up, AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
On the plus side, my suitcases with $21,000 of surgical equipment for the children’s hospital made it through 3 airports and 2 customs checks. I may now officially breathe.
Inspiring/funny movie: Blues Brothers. They keep getting destroyed, they get up and dust themselves off and keep going. They are on a mission.
Am 11 hours ahead of pacific time, so good day to you, but I’m going to sleep soon.
Eureka -
Wish I knew. Haven’t been able to find a review, online. Whatever that said would be MY opinion. If ya know what I mean.
:(
At risk of hijacking this thread, footage from Condoleezza Rice’s piano gig in Malaysia is just in on YouTube. There are almost no words for it. Those shoes alone…
For me it was summertime when I was heading to a Bruce concert. One of my greatest feats, there was a mail order lottery for 5 of his shows in Philly one year. I turned 4 tickets for one of those shows into 3 shows for myself.
Nothing like jamming to Rosalita with 20,000 other fanatics in the heat of the summer.
Summer of ‘78??? Had my own pool by then. But in the summers of ‘49 thru ‘52, when my family lived in Toluca Lake (where Universal Studio is located). A very few blocks away lived Bill Holden, the wonderful actor, and he had a great pool with access from the street. We wemt pool hoppin’ so often that we got to know him. Now that was a GREAT man!
Burl Ives was also a neighbor who, when he moved into a different home only a block from his old one, he and some friends pushed his upright piano down the street to his new home. Loved that guy’s style, too.
Santana – indeed.
Abraxas. ‘Singing Winds, Crying Breezes”(?)
Bummer, thought you were in the in crowd last night. Used to usher the Warfield and many nights with him.
egregious!
if any of you missed it, IIRC, egregious is in Russia on a humanitarian mission to perform heart surgery on l’il kids.
“Sunny Afternoon” The Kinks
I wonder what Janis Joplin would be singing if she were here?
Well if you count associative memories of songs that conjure up the scent of your teen years dancing on hot summer nights I’ll have to go with “Satisfaction” – Rolling Stones.
Never mind if I liked the song then or appreciate hearing it now. That was just THE summer song way back when. :)
Cry Cry Baby
way to go egregious!
Hilde sez:
It was impossible not to bounce up and down to that song. Loved it!
Blank Kludge…
CCR, “Out My Back Door”. Got to see these guys a couple of times! Wonderful stuff! Trouble is: Now I see a “Bad Moon Rising”.
egregious is on a mission from gad. I bow to you egregious.)
Lesley Gore, That’s the Way Boys Are
Bobby Parker, Barefootin
Maxime LeForestier: “San Francisco”
c’est une maison bleue
addossee a la colline
on y va et on y vient….
(someday i’ll figure out those accents)
The Great Decider said he was a “uniter not a divider”. He may be healing the Shia-Sunni rift as we read and write.
(Snip)
And many of the countries’ citizens seem to have put aside Shiite-Sunni animosities to concentrate on the common enemy: Israel.
“Oh, Sunni! Oh, Shiite! Let’s fight the Jews,” a crowd chanted outside Cairo’s Istiqama Mosque on Friday. “The Jews and the Americans are killing our brothers in Lebanon!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..b_response
Heckuva job.
-GSD
Santana did a killer cover of The Zombies “She’s Not There”
how could I forget?
Sublime: Summertime
“Summertime and the livin’s easy
Bradley’s on the microphone with Ras-MG
All the people in the dance will agree that
we’re well qualified to
represent
the LBC”
Donita, the Supersuckers’ “Gato Negro,” is my theme song of the week.
Pools. Went to the pool at my apt. two weekends ago but a kid had just puked in it 15 minutes before. It was closed for two hours, and then it was closing time anyway.
This past weekend I tried to go, but it thundered once seven minutes after I got in… and so they closed it until closing time.
Damn it! Maybe this weekend will work out.
What do others think of the bad ImpeachPAC ad going to be run in CT? I think it might end up hurting Lamont:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..151644/102
jaycee@89
I love William Holden! What awesome memories
thanks for all of your comments people. I’m off to make some music, I’ll check in later
I will always remember the original Derek and the Dominoes Layla as the ultimate so-hot-you-can-feel-yourself-sweat summer song — particularly at night when it was too hot to sleep.
The unplugged Layla reminds me of hot and steamy summer in another way with Mr. Kirby on the coast of Maine.
addosse a la colline?
Dr. Bong 12:46 pm- Indeed, that version kicks some butt.
Quicksilver,
That Condi performance was appalling. I know that was Condi on the piano. I can only assume that was Nero on the fiddle.
-GSD
Dan Whitworth, yes that’s where the accent should be (the first “e”, accent grave)
…yup Bad Moon Rising indeed
Lawyers, Guns and Money PLUS Werewolves of London
(the late Great Warren Zevon)
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basically the whole soundtrack to “Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?”
First side of Elton’s “Madman Across the Water’ on autorepeat. For hours. Nobody complained (freshman orientation weekend, Salem State College, Aug ‘74)
Around Thanksgiving same year: Elton at the Garden w/many same folks from that weekend. WHAT A SHOW! Goodby Yellow Brick Tour…opened solo; single spotlight on him/keyboard. “Funeral/Friend>>Love Lies”
Not bad.
previous thread; 238 punaise says: “I was feeling a lot more optimistic about the Giants six days ago, before their recent losing streak. Can’t they just give Armando Benitez his walking papers? The guy is like that Bowie song from Cat People: putting out fires with gasoline”
punaise, as a long suffering Giants fan i completely agree. Everything seemed great last week and then, BOOM!, the bottom starts dropping out. And to make matters worse Armando had that lame finger-pointing excuse for the last blown save. I’m paraphrasing, but something like “hey i got two ground-balls, i did my job”, or some such. Yeah, that’ll go over great in the locker-room. sigh.
And then there was the Beatles concert at Candle Stick Park, summer 1966. Talk about summer time electricity in the air. It took us almost two hours to get from the parking lot to the Bayshore after the music.
I don’t always know why, but these songs remind me of summer:
Name – Goo Goo Dolls
Wild Horses – The Sundays
Badfish – Sublime
Set Adrift on Memory Bliss – PM Dawn
Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears
Wash Your Face in My Sink – Dream Warriors
hi everyone and just to top it off there’s this about Condi:
>>>>>
With the Australians out of the picture, top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice took the stage by storm with a piano recital of a Brahms sonata, titled a Prayer for Peace.
Rice, wearing a red dress and pearls, was in a sombre mood after her crisis trip to the Middle East and decided to stick to the concert-grade piano skills she mastered at college.
>>>>>>>>>>
what a sick joke.
hapkidokid
*grrrr*, indeed. I was at the game last Saturday where they beat the Padres to capture first place, ever so briefly. What a contrast.
Rice, wearing a red dress…
So the devil does wear a red ress.
That Sunday, That Summer by Nat King Cole brings back memories. Also Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer
Listening to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan brings me peace. I was searching for him on YT and found this:
Peter Gabriel & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan singing Signal to Noise
“…and in this place, can you reassure me
with a touch, a smile – while the cradle’s burning
all the while the world is turning to noise
oh the more that it’s surrounding us
the more that it destroys
turn up the signal
wipe out the noise”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..rch=nusrat
angie:
Sick Joke indeed. Saw footage this AM…jaw meet drop.
(like … howzabout a ‘lil diplomacy ? Huh? Just for today?
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Cripes! Wonder if she got a phone call suggesting she play a little piano, ‘just to pass the time.’
Argh.
As my Dad would quote an old radio comedy:
” ‘T’ain’t funny, McGee.”
And then there was the Beatles concert at Candle Stick Park, summer 1966. Talk about summer time electricity in the air.
OK Kiddo, how long did it take you to thaw out? (Fortunately the group I was with was going east: after the first ridge, it was much warmer. But we were travelling also in the back of a pickup truck.)
Dru
Listening to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan brings me peace.
yes, yes, yes. also collaborations with Michael Brooks. may he (Nusrat) rest in peace.
and Peter Gabriel, of course (except recent albums, which have been mediocre)
Dru – good one
ummm…was that the LAST Beatles’ show? Or was that the Cow Palace? Didja see the bus? Kesey, Cassidy, and all them Pranksters?
“Brother Louie” by Stories from 1973. Great memories from Beach Haven at the Jersey Shore. MMM, M&M Clam Bar!
Angie…
I really don’t like to be rude to the Secretary of State, but Condi sounds if she was dressed to the ‘nines’. Was she perhaps playing her usual hooker role to George’s pimp? Essentially, I think that’s what she does on the world stage. A wannabe “Pretty Woman” bon vivant. But then, Julia Roberts’ pretty woman had character; Rice does not.
ok
I’m late to the party, as ususal.
Often I get to the party just in time to clean up.
arg!
Someone named “Singing in the Rain” with Gene Kelly, the umbrella, and the puddles.
From the same film, the “Good Morning” dance with Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor is my fave.
This comment is from someone who goes to bed with the dawn and gets up at the crack of noon.
Can’t seem to fall asleep in the dark. I must be part Transylvanian.
I think they are the reincarnation of “Swiftboat Veterans for Truth”
Folks, click on the link to the Kos story. Self described “liberal bloggers” whom no one seems to have heard of. So how did the manage to raise the money for the ads???
Remember the interesting issues relating to the source of the funds for the supposedly grass roots, spontaious, unaffiliated to any campaign, SVfT?
I smell a rat. A Rovian rat
punaise and Eureka Springs,AR; glad to know you are fans too! (I already knew y’all were super cool)
P J Evans…1:01pm
Cold? Was it ever! But, I had my primary ’squeeze’ with me, so we didn’t stay that way for long. And windy too. Do you recall Ringo’s symbols kept blowing over? We sat right above the dug-out.
Entire Album/CD Augustus Pablo- Original Rockers
Song King Curtis- Memphis Soul Stew
P J Evans…122
oops, should be cymbals.
lhp- Could the timing be any more obvious with that ad. Just about a week out, enough time to create a distraction, and stay fresh in some voter’s mind.
Dirty Back Road! my favorite B’s song!
Praying for peace is what the victims are doing and it is all they can do, she has a JOB to MAKE peace happen. It is sooooo disingenuous, just like everything else about this administration.
Thanks Dru, for the link at 120– haunting and beautiful.
I was made to love her – Stevie Wonder
Blank Kludge…1:04pm
“Ummm…was that the LAST Beatles’ show?”
Yes it was.
It’s Your Thing – Isley Brothers
Great summer songs:
“Pets”, Porno for Pyros
“Genius of Love”, Tom Tom Club
“When Doves Cry”, Prince
“Hold On (I’m Coming)”, Sam and Dave
I DO – The Marvellows
Millinary Man
A commentor at kos claims they are legit. I checked their website and they look like they could be legit (or else they have gone to a lot of trouble to fake it–can someone with tech skills look behind the site and see if it maybe “just happened” ?–cause they claim to have been around raising money for candidates for a while)
If they are for real, we need to exxplain to them why they need to get this piece of crapp of the air and off the internet–PRONTO
First I look at the purse – The Contours
Pool Hoppin’!
The Swingin’ Neckbreakers lead off their album The Swingin’ Neckbreakers Kick Your Ass with a garage-rawk power-trio gem by just that name. Sorry I can’t find an mp3, but here’s a YouTube snippet of one of their shows to give you a taste.
Also, I’d submit Talking Heads’ “Speaking in Tongues” as the best summer album ever… though Cal Tjader’s “Soul Sauce” is up there too…
lhp
I went to their site, and it does seem like they are legit. The guy who posted the video at YouTube runs Democrats.com, so if he is connected, he is a liberal blogger.
This can’t help Ned, and it’s a shame that they use Ned’s image in the ad.
Stop – Howard Tate
Upthread at 11:26, Mary provided this link to a very important post on Larry Johnson’s blog that is well worth reading in its entirety: http://noquarter.typepad.com/m……html#more
Tom-Tom Club…cool music for hot evenings. Reminds me of when disco met new tango:
Cherchez la Femme, etc. —Dr. Buzzard and the Original Savannah Band
I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango) —Grace Jones
Who’s makin’ love – Johnnie Taylor
Out of sight – James Brown
Love those Ditty Bops. Enjoying The Cat Empire and Les Sans Coulottes this summer along with a lot of Brazilian Samba. Girl from Ipanema. Jobim’s Wave. Oh and Ursula 1000.
B-A-B-Y – Carla Thomas
I’m In Love – Wilson Pickett
ooooh baby Eureka springs, get down!
mary jane ? favorite Cat Empire or Les Sans Coulottes?
ES have you youtubed I’m in Love? I’m partial to land of 1000 dances. groovin in ‘68 germany.
thanks, will try it. damn dial up.)
ES, I have to say my son burned me some CDs sans titles….I could sing them to you, some in faux french!
TRex:
“Genius of Love”, Tom Tom Club
is that the one that goes:
didit…di di dih didit ?
great song.
“Man with a Gun”, Tom Tom Club, or was it Gerry Harrison solo? from Something Wild soundtrack
I have some fresh limeade.
I’ll be right over.
indian lake and the breeders? i thought i was the only person bizarre enough to enjoy post-pixies deal and the cowsills!
with the other 9 acts to top it off? donita, i think i love you (sorry, that’s the partridges, which of course, were a blatant tv rip off of the cowsills.)
tho i would have taken something from “some girls” for the stones, and i prefer the breeders’ cover of “happiness is a warm gun.”
and of course, when i think b-52’s, i immediatley break out into “dance this mess around.”
they do all 16 dances!
do the coo ca choo! do the aqua velva! do do the dirty dog! they do the escalator!
From Ubiquity records Still Cookin’
Spirit level feat. Lorraine Chambers – Good Feeling
skippy with the b-52’s !
do the shu ga lu, do the shy tuna, do the camel walk
sign says stay away fool
homeshack shimmy
hey mary jane, now don’t that make you feel alot better?
i’m just askin…
ahhhh hippy hippy forward hippy hippyhippyhippy shake!
From Home Cookin’
Greyboy featuring Karl Denson – Unwind Your Mind
wonder if Donita owns a disco ball? just askin’ *g*
getting me that Cd
which one?
That Home Cookin’, Still cookin’, cook on!
there is a more cookin’ too
great songs through out, but would send ya a comp fro the three if you like. gmail me at eurekaspringer
Right On!Thanks!
love sharing tunes. you are in for some fun!
anything bowie!
sent you an email but forgot to include a subject…
its ok, just started gmail thx
Very late to the party myself, but I had things to deal with this afternoon.
The Spin I’m In this week myself is the sterling new CD from ex Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds bassist Barry Adamson. It’s entitled Stranger on the Sofa and it is PHENOMENAL! Very cinematic and jazzy but with a modern edge. He also does a cover of “Long Way Back Again” that is haunting and very compelling.
I’m also grooving to the Secret Treaties CD from Blue Oyster Cult. I’ve had “Dominance and Submission” stuck in my head lately as I watch the crisis in the Muddled East unfold.
Also, I wish I had the link for it from HuffPo but someone did a song there last week I’ve been humming ever since called “We Gotta Stop This Shit”. Great parody on Chimpy and his gaffe at the G8 summit.
OT sorta, just saw on the local news that Metallica are breaking their long time boycott of the 21st century and are going to put 4 albums worth of tunes into the iTunes music store. About time idiots. Get a clue.
Gotta Cook Now!….dinner…its been fun…bye!
caio mary jane ygm
Director should have been shot (or arrested for the speed he was on/ carrying!)
OK Kiddo:
We were in the cheap seats: upper deck behind 3rd base. Not quite a tall tree in Daly City with binoculars, but getting out there. (As I recall, they were the 7-dollar-ticket seats.)
Yeah, that was the last concert they did in the US. I don’t remember the cymbals falling over, but they were making remarks about the temperature also.
Research note: EPU’d I know, but would rather put it with the rest of the music.
Just heard an appreciation of the composer Dika Newlin on NPR. I’d never heard of her before, but I promise I’ll never forget her now. You can listen to the piece here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/s…..Id=5590263
Btw, the “Meow” piece she sings at one point (high-lariously), isn’t that by Rossini? I’d always thought so, but one of the commentators said Schubert.
Rossini from his “Sins of my Old Age” (Péchés de Vieillesse)
I really don’t feel Tina Turner is the best choice for a progressive blog.
She’s just a tad self-centered fer me.
Margot at 10 (OK, I’ve been working today). Totally, I think 1967 summer, same o’ same o’, I was in Minneapolis at grandparents’ house, and wha-d-ya know, Israeli invasion. I will never forget that. Those songs were all over the radio I was listening to. Windy, too.
You’re kidding me, right? There’s two ways to argue this, allow me to present them both:
1) It’s a music column and Tina Turner doing Proud Mary is a wonderful summertime song that fits the theme of today’s column. Try not to take this too seriously, and if you have to approve every performer for PCness, sell your electronics right now, turn in your movie rental cards, dispose of the CDs, delete the mp3s and become a luddite monk. Every performer there ever was and ever will be has had moments of unPC behavior so please take your rigid self on down the road.
2)Tina Turner is the owner of one of the most inspiring comeback careers of all time because she had the courage to leave Ike Turner and start her own career after decades of abuse. This happened at a time in the late 70s/early 80s when women leaving abusive relationships such as hers were considered rare events. Since this time she has stood in the forefront of women in the music business, busting down doors no other woman could bust down and has made life better for many women, including Donita Sparks, the author of this article. No Proud Mary = No Janis Joplin = No Mama Cass = No Carole King = No Joan Jett = No Donita Sparks.
AND PLUS TOTALLY, her legs, at 60 plus. Really.
“Well known blogger TRex” @ 141
Nice call on Pets. That CD’s getting played tonight.
Might I also add Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction. That live video just transports me and it screams summer time. Mountain Song and just about anything off of Ritual de lo Habitual remind me of summer. Good stuff.
as i just said to a dkos commentor when he remarked about cab calloway “how can people watch that stuff and act as though it’s great? it’s vaudeville!”…
dude…you just dissed tina turner. good luck getting into any sort of musician’s heaven.
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Pool Hoppin. I grew up one block from a Milwaukee County Park. It had an olympic sized outdoor pool, water slides and a diving pool. At night, late at night, it’d stand there fully lit, empty and still. Summer nights we’d stay up late partying, then head to the park for a swim. Climb over a low fence, up the high dive ladder and head first into a completely still, giant, empty pool. Crash into the summer water. Watch for the cops.
I remember cops racing into the park to bust us, spotlights and speakers blaring, “Halt”. And us, tearing out of the pool back over the fence, running through back yards over tomato plants, jumping fences avoiding dogs, in the dark, with panting fat donut eating cops chasing us.
I’ve been searching for years for a song from c.1990 I used to hear on indi-esque Whfs in DC. Its prophetic refrain was “DC’s turning into Moscow, Moscow’s turning into DC.”
This song deserves a revival. Anybody recall?
nice list. love tina turner! she does a mean version of “whole lotta love” that is sizzling from the lp “acid queen” which is basically a bunch of covers where she rubs the noses of all the original artists in her super hotness. pretty sure it’s on itunes…
as an old tape-maker i love the imixes. really cool way to learn about music and other people… here’s a soul/disco one i did a while back that could go with a funky summer night…
I Want A Little Girl – Ray Charles
Hollywood Bed – The Blasters
Jesus Just Left Chicago – ZZ Top
Honky Tonk Heroes – Waylon Jennings
Cash On the Barrelhead – Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
Road Scholar – Lee Roy Parnell
Every Time I Roll the Dice – Delbert McClinton
Act Naturally – Carl Perkins
Together Again – Buck Owens
Ballad of Davy Crockett – The Kentucky Headhunters
saints! BREEDERS! I love Breeders… and now, everytime I listen I remember that night in Kentucky…you Donita and Kim…and me…and the moon…and…
love,
Bruno