I don't listen to aggressive Rock that much. It has its time and its place for me. Often, it just causes me stress. The appropriate circumstance, however, is when the fifteen year old in me wants to make an appearance and blow off some steam. You know, you're with the right friends, the music is loud, and you're getting loose.
For me, Iggy Pop is the master of loose . He isn't really about angst. He's primal. His music has power, humor, sex and abandonment. It's also joyous. Iggy somehow turns frustration into self-empowerment.
He also has the physicality. Just watching him go reduces stress. He'll blow off the steam for you. I've watched many an Iggy show in jaw-dropping astonishment over his commitment to performance, while in complete laughter at his spazzed-out antics.
Who's your sonic stress reducer?
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Iggy!!!
Iggy Pop was the very first live show I went to see when I was 17 years old.
Great selections from the post-70’s canon (”Knockin’ Em Down,” “Cold Metal”), Donita.
Nothing from “Funhouse,” though? :)
hey donita!
awesome! love the IGGY-FEST!
you are so right–iggy can really help one “let go!”
he is the original! accept no substitutes!
can’t wait to see your gigs in february!
nora
Donita!
YEAH!
Metallic K.O., motherf*cker! Floatin’ around on the Reel-O-Mind…
James Williamson is God
;>)
I don’t think I ever realized how gay the lyrics to Lust for Life are. Or bi. Or whatever.
I notice that second time he said, “Oh, yeah, I’ve had it in the ear before”, he’s sticking out his arse, but it’s out of the frame.
Iggy, I never knew!
no fun no stress… I love that song… how can iggy pop still doing this in 2007?!
but my real sonic stress reducer is Ramones when I hear their “it’s alive” album…
I have to say, one of my favorite moments in maminstream advertising is Carribean Crusielines’ use of Lust for Life on their ads.
But they leave out “liquor and drugs”
^_^
My all-time favorite moment was some years back when Volkswagon used Psychic TV’s Roman P.
“Are you free? Are you really really free?”
I can just see the Accounting Department clerk making out the royalty check payable to Genesis P’Orridge.
Saw Iggy warm up for The Pretenders in 1989. One of the best shows I’d ever seen. Beyond the wild days he was notorious for, but still one of the most energetic performances I had ever seen.
I came late to Mr. Pop so my favorite Iggy tune is from the early 90’s, the beautiful duet with Kate Pierson - “Candy”.
Thanks for the great reminder, Donita!
Donita Sparks!!!
I just woke up so Iggy is a bit much for my head. I like The Cure (I know, it’s not really head-bangin’)
Hell, I like just about any music at different times of the day.
From following Donita’s link above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....38;search=
Talk about must-see TV.
Best line: “… that’s peanut butter…”
Donita! JUST what I needed this afternoon. Bless you.
Heh…someone just told me that the cold snap we’ve been having in New Orleans has nothing to do with the weather. It’s merely hell freezing over for the Saints and the Superbowl.
Thanks for the post donita!
Swopa @ 1
Hmm, for some reason Fini missed my first song on the playlist:
Loose. Will be corrected shortly.
Sorry I’m late getting to the comments folks, I’m having technical difficulties today with the cable modem/wifi router combo unit being fussy. I’m lucky I got the post up honestly.
Kudos to Donita for the playlist today, she and I were talking about what we should do with the post today last night and I told her with the week we’ve had at FDL we just need a stress reducer. She delivered well today, don’t ya think?
I listen to a lot of Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and other industrial stuff when I need to reduce stress. What shakes the nerves off you guys when you’ve had a bad day/week/month/life?
Iggy - “I just wanna be your Dog”
Who’d he do that with? Webb Wilder?
I had a friend back in the day who told me that whenever Cream playing “Crossroads” would come on the stereo, no matter what was going on she would go over and turn it up very very loud. I thought it was a joke until I saw her do it at a party and kill a dozen conversations. If your only exposure to classic rock is to the radio, and you love other loud guitar music (e.g., Metallica), you owe it to yourself to listen to either “Crossroads” or “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” (the Hendrix original, not Stevie’s remake–sorry, SRV) on a very good sound system at a very high volume.
OT I wasn’t quite sure which thread to put this in:
A few minutes ago in the Leahy hearings the discussion was on Airline Watchlists. One expert witness, I believe, said this was not data mining. That’s just silly. Mining the list of names of air travelers and comparing them against a watchlist is precisely what data mining is (although a fairly simple example of it). You have a database, a criterion you use to analyze it, and a result you derive from it.
Then our good friend and wise statesman Arlen Specter speaks. He asks a leading question implying that while some people may be incorrectly held because they happen to have the same name as one on the watchlist, that no one has ever been hurt by such waits and that they can challenge their being on the list anyway. The expert to whom he is addressing this monologue pipes up and says there is no process for challenge. Specter gets huffy and repeats the question including the non-existent challenge process. The witness gives a non-descript answer but it is Patrick Leahy who gives the definitive response, citing a commercial airline pilot on international runs who was held over 70 times to the point that authorities recognized him on sight, called him by his first name, but held him anyway (because those were the rules). As a result, he often missed flights which he was supposed to pilot and had to shell out a lot for hotel rooms because of all the delays. Eventually, he gave up international flights at a considerable cut in pay.
IIRC, 60 Minutes did a segment on this last year. 10 or 12 guys with a fairly common name were being stopped often at airports for extra screening. All but one were white. The person on the watchlist wasn’t. But even with regard to the one African-American in the group, he was in his twenties or early thirties while the person on the watchlist was supposed to be nearly 70.
And, of course, all this presupposes that would be terrorists have never heard of forged or stolen IDs and passports and would never think to use either.
But back to Arlen. Now that he is in the minority you would think that Arlen would be less inclined to carry water for this Administration. Not so. Being a waterboy is not what Arlen does, it’s who he is.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 10
I thought so Christy. Lust For Life baby!
If anyone needs a laugh or two, I’ve lot links to some “unfortunate holiday cards” here.
If you have any good jokes or funny sites to share, please pass them along. I feel like I’m turning into Zombie Renee again and would like to reverse the process before I start roving the streets of Columbus, looking for yummy brains to eat.
Donita Sparks @
13
Continuing to have issues here but will fix this in between wifi freakouts and return shortly here.
B-52’s
Rock Lobster
[and other stuff.]
—-
Tull
Locomotive Breath
[Aqualung]
Anything from these folks:
http://www.stonecoyotes.com/
——
Gonzo asserted division among the FOunding Fathers wrt Habeas in the text. Only cuz it was a ‘truth self-evident’ from what I get:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HY...../ch84.html
These bastards are educatin’ me more n’ I ever could have ‘imagined’!
TRex @ 5
Iggy’s always had that wonderful question mark hovering around him. Another plus.
I’ve been listening to tons of Moby lately. A lot of it is fairly melancholy, which tends to be my preference. Here are my favorites:
In My Heart
In This World
Feeling So Real
Go
God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
Hymn
Lift Me Up
My Weakness
Natural Blues
Porcelain
Slipping Away
Sunday
We Are All Made of Stars
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad
I also listen to Over the Rhine a lot. The first CD of the two CD set Ohio is absolutely awesome (I’ve rated nearly all of the songs on that CD four or five stars). She’s got a mournful quality too, but isn’t quite as lively as Moby.
And you owe to yourself to listen to Volunteers, this isn’t the best version but still
We’re Volunteers of America
estiv @
16
Hi guys love a good headbanging romp too but my chin hit the floor as I was reading Raw Story so I have to share -
POX News is implying that Barack Obama went to a Muslim terrorist training school which is how they are characterising a Madrassa in Indonesia that Obama was sent to as a 6 year old. And to pretend this attack is credible, they are claiming that the info was leaked by the Clinton Camp. They have Video!!
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2....._0119.html
What? No Repo Man Theme Song?
Only had the fortune to see Iggy once, on a latter day tour. He was amazing though; commitment to performance is EXACTLY the phrase.
I like Bad Religion or even Green Day as a sonic stress reducer, maybe Sonic Youth or even a little Blue Oyster Cult if I’m in a retro mood…
Ramones or the Replacements also work…
X… Violent Femmes… Rollins…
We’re All Outlaws in the Eyes of America
Better version than Volunteers, “Up Against the Wall”
Sean Robertson @ 22
That’s funny because I was going to have a meloncholy Spin playlist this week beginning with Porcelain before switching strategies.
Arf arf…
Funtime!
Lively up yourself, Uncle Belvedere
And from, perhaps, one of the worst-lit concert DVDs of all time…
Loose
Thanks, Donita…Off to cause some mayhem, now.
;>)
Ok, playlist is fully fixed now, I even found the missing iTunes links for a couple of other songs. Sorry I missed Loose before!
I love Moby, and Porcelain is one of my favorites too.
sunrise at woodstock anyone
Won’t You Try
rumi, I left a message for you at the bottom of the warrentless wiretapping thread.
Hawking this, sorry:
Check and see which way your congressman is leaning on the escalation issue. If he/she said “oppose” consider taking a moment to write him/her a note of thanks. Even if a resolution is only symbolic, it’s a step in the right direction anyway. If they are sitting on the fence, also drop ‘em a line to give them a little push in the right direction.
No “I Wanna Be Your Dog”? What’s your problem?
Exile on Ericsson St. @ 35
I dont think thats a tune for destressing with. That tune makes me kinda uptight when I hear it whereas all of thse make me rock out and decompress. I’d have left it off this list too.
Jacqrat @ 9
For me, The Cure is really great when your either in the throes of early love or when your heart is breaking over a failed romance. Sorta that ecstasy v. agony thing, and often both at the same time.
I’m probably not the first to note this, but don’t have time to review other comments.
The Kiwi’s have made a movie about Jane Hamsher and her rabid sheep.
MSM, watch out!
If any pilots in the audience need a job, Republic Airways in Indianapolis is on a hiring spree.
Jesus Loves the Stooges
darkblack @ 30
Here’s an NPR interview with Iggy link as well:
http://www.google.com/search?c.....#038;q=NPR Iggy Pop interview&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
TRex @
5
haha … yeah, trex, kinda gives you a new perspective on those cruise ship commercials that blast ‘lust for life’ … i know they made me scratch my head … i certainly don’t remember mom and dad letting me use the stooges as the family vacation theme music. that came later in life …
I coulda been there, but I was a HS Sophmore, it was a school night, and The Stooges didn’t end up taking the stage until around 2:00 Am
(in Detroit, that’s LATE)
My freinds had horrific stories about the opening act, White Witch involving a spinning neon Ankh
darkblack @ 4
When my Mom was alive and the Carnival Cruise lines commercial with Lust For Life would come on she would start dancing her funny little dance she did to tunes she liked. Mom was a punk rock grandma for sure.
Dover Bitch @
26
“Let’s do some crimes!”
bourbonjockey @ 42
haha … yeah, trex, kinda gives you a new perspective on those cruise ship commercials that blast ‘lust for life’ …
heh
My thoughts as well.
The references to “liquor and drugs” are conspicuously absent.
My favorite moment in advertising soundtracks though was when Volkswagon used Psychic TV’s “Roman P.”
I expect the beancounters started asking questions after cutting the first royalty check to Genesis P’Orridge.
“You say he’s a self-mutilating trans-sexual, and the song is about a pedophilic film director and his murdered wife?’
some laid back Iggy:
“Death Car” (from the sound track of “Arizona Dreaming…..”
Hmm, I thought I’d hear some more Sonic Stress Reducers out there.
Rudimentary Peni anyone?
Reposting Christy’s one and only humble request here to keep it fresh.
Precis:
fahrender @ 45
That’s what I’m talking about. Let’s get Sushi… and not pay!
My sonic stress reducer: anything by Zappa.
For me, it’s the Clash. Of course, Iggy made them possible so we’re kind of in the same zone here.
fahrender @ 45
Let’s go get sushi and not pay!
Donita Sparks @ 48
Wow, Peni … there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. “Cacophony” was something else.
OK… Sonic Stress Reducers, how about Cows — “Cunning Stunts” or “Sexy Pee Story?”
Ehh, I’m a Delbert McClinton guy myself.
Not too old to rock and roll.
Donita
great link to the other iggy vid. the set is genius. lol
Thanks, I’ve been feeling seriously old up in here! “Trouble Every Day” was the original rap song.
Badwater @ 51
raven @ 57
estiv @
16
That’s what I do when I turn it on.
I’m usually a very, very quiet neighbor but goin’ down to the crossroads has got to be loud.
Mack @ 46
HA! that’s hilarious. i’d forgotten about that one …
I lived in Inglewood that summer, looking right down Century Blvd into Watts. Scared my mom to death sneakin down to the beach where they had national guard troops at the Manhattan Beach Pier. The only video I could find of the song is from Argentina! Trouble
That’s a great song written about the ‘65 Watts Riots’. If I know that, I must be old too. Since I was able to see Zappa live several times, I guess I don’t mind!
Dover Bitch @ 54
I love “Hitting The Wall”
I’ve got this hypothesis:
Music equalizes the internal pressure in your head.
For instance, if your brain rages, you’re going to like intense music, LOUD, to achieve neutral pressure.
If your brain floats along smoothly, you’re going to like something a little more soothing to equalize.
Now this varies from person to person, and within a person from situation to situation.
I listen to Jane’s Addiction to rage, and Pink Floyd to relax. Thanks for askin’, Donita.
Rock on.
Here’s some pop culture?
First Twin Jenna Shops a Book
You can soon add the title of author to first daughter Jenna Bush’s rsum.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/p.....a_book.htm
Currently?
Humble Pie - The Definitive Collection
one of my favorite stress reducers … me first and the gimme gimmes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
Transcendently weird late ’70’s context and great Iggy performances here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=D0ISRw59F4w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AtXYOc8CdcY
OH, stress REDUCERS, damn. . .Gillian Welch every time
Annabelle
bourbonjockey @ 42
This exchange somehow reminds me of a Rolling Stones article about the Lieberman concession party where “Start Me Up” was blasting in the background; excerpt:
OT - rumi, it seems my post may not be at the end of the wiretapping thread. If you’d like to discuss what we were talking about off line email me at christinenotes at gmail dot com.
But, please put in the information of sender and subject as I delete everything that I don’t recognized in either field without opening it up.
tantrik @ 67
I remember waiting with my sisters to see that on TV back in the day.
OBLIVIANS. Rock and Roll from ground zero. Memephis, Tenn.
for “our” T-Rex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5KIILTZRr8
(Jeepster)
And just ’cause I like it - Cranberries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-s53IEAf4w
later, y’all.
For Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane, yeah! The Cowboy Junkies version is really good too.
OT - CNN says Chimpy will be delivering a short SOTU, not the traditional long speech. hmmmmm… wonder why?
when you got nothin you got nothin to. . .say
twolf1 @ 76
OT: Spidership on SF Bay
Anything by the New York Dolls, Heartbreakers, Dead Boys, early Cramps (Human Fly, especially). Guess it’s pretty clear how I misspent my youth. I watched those Dinah Shore performances too.
What rabid lambs do (link from AMERCAblog).
Dead Boys, more yeah. Sonic Reducer. Hall of famer that one!
DEAD BOYS LYRICS
“Sonic Reducer”
I don’t need anyone
Don’t need no mom and dad
Don’t need no pretty face
Don’t need no human race
I got some news for you
Don’t even need you too
I got my devil machine
Got my electronic dream
Sonic reducer
Ain’t no loser
I’m a sonic reducer
Ain’t no loser
People out on the streets
They don’t know who I am
I watch them from my room
They all just pass me by
But I’m not just anyone
Said I’m not just anyone
I got my devil machine
Got my electronic dream
Sonic reducer
Ain’t no loser
I’m a sonic reducer
Ain’t no loser
I’ll be a pharaoh soon
Rule from some golden tomb
Things will be different then
The sun will rise from here
Then I’ll be ten feet tall
And you’ll be nothing at all
mandrake @ 74
GREAT version of “Sweet Jane”
I got a hundred bucks that say Lou’s never performed it the same way twice.
Nice pick. Thanks.
twolf1 @ 76
Longer speeches = more chances for slurring or other displays of buffoonery.
uhh…how can we forget:
T-Rex
Bang A Gong
Or Power Station for that matter.
Is it that vid or I think ‘Some Like It Hot’ is the sexiest vid I’ve ever seen.
2nd place is Fat Joe and ‘Lil Wayne’ the ‘Rain’ song.
punaise @ 78
That thing looks cool!
We can if we try!
Blank Kludge @ 85
twolf1 @ 76
Will there be a condensed version?
Blank Kludge @ 85
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUR1ypIfNIs
forgot about that one….
that’s Elton John on the piano.
Speaking of Iggy. He’s a motherf**ker for sure. Named my dog after him. Iggy Pup. Probally should of named him after G.G. Allin(who took his name from iGGy, b/c he s**ts all over the house!! hehe.
Oklahoma kiddo @
88
tin-foil prevents further comment. Let’s say I’d prefer he not utter two words consecutively. ‘M______ L__’.
My Lai
Blank Kludge @ 91
Whispers learns that the 25-year-old blond twin of Barbara Bush is shopping a book proposal to major publishers in New York City. We’re told that the project is vague and that she’s initially gauging publishers’ interest. The White House wouldn’t comment, but…
others suggested that the former grade school teacher is interested in writing a children’s book…
…rumor has it that Jenna is writing a book about her father.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 88
Here’s chimpy practicing his intro…
twolf1 @ 76
Shrinking time between meds. Zero tolerance, karma baby. If only zanax came in pretzel shapes.
You know that some MIT students determined tin foil enhances transmission of government reserved radio frequencies, right? Try the copper mesh inside a baseball cap, it works better.
Let’s say I’d prefer he not utter two words consecutively. ‘M______ L__’.
“My Lord - what a fucked-up year this has been.
Thank you, and God Bless America”.
jayt @ 89
YES. IT IS! Cool.
After the Beatles were done, I was very Elton. The whole catalog thru GYBR. Lucked into a face-val ducat for Boston Gahden late Nov. ‘74. Opened w/single spotlight and “Funeral for a friend.’ Band comes on was song moves along.
Lots of everyhing. THE BAND. 22-min of Saturday Nights Allright For Fightim’ …the rafters were shakin…literally. Whole crowd bouncing/jumpiing up/down is unison. Tested earthquake resistance of the ol’ barn.
What A RUSH1
Thanks for the vid.
Man, I wish the Chimp would give a speech every day! The more he and McCain talk the more they destroy themselves. Keep on diggin’ fellas!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 88
Cliff Notes version…as in lemmings off the cliff
For me it’s k.d. lang. Just something about that woman’s voice that sooth’s my soul. She’s greta live also.
Blank Kludge says
January 19th, 2007 at 1:33 pm*
THE BAND.
First concert I ever saw. My sister (for heaven’s sake) took me(I wasn’t old enough to drive).
Bob Dylan and The Band.
Don’t know that that one was ever topped.
Blank Kludge @ 98