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Carlos the Great
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Go go go! Spring time, getting warm out, time to stop hibernating and start exercising regularly again. Post those songs that motivate you to just keep going when you're out jogging, biking, at the gym, or what have you...
I really love all of these songs, for various reasons that I figure I don't need to explain here (though I'd be happy to do so if there are any selections you're curious about). I hope that you find one or two in the list that you love as much as I do, if not more.
Enjoy!
(I'll have to email you 2--especially since I don't know who sings the version I nabbed from a friend's mix--and 4.)
"Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap
"Summertime" by unknown artist
"Blue in the Face" by Alkaline Trio
"St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: No. 53 Choral - "Befiel due deine Wege" by Bach
"The Body Breaks" by Devendra Banhart
"Love Me Like a River Does" by Melody Gardot
"Gold" by Interference (from the ONCE soundtrack)
"Fantasie Impromptu Opus #66" by Chopin
"Golden Hair" by Syd Barrett
"Ghosts" by Laura Marling
"Hurt" as sung by Johnny Cash
"Romance in G, Op. 26" by Svendsen
"Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love" by Coldplay
"2 Dollar Shoes" by Rosie Thomas
"Heartbeats" by Jose Gonzalez
"War Requiem, Op. 66: XVIII. Let Us Sleep Now...In Paradisum" by Benjamin Britten
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Scrumpestuous D
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11:04 AM
*Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics
How exactly do you go from Alan Jackson to T.I. in a playlist? It's not easy. But it's part of explaining the interesting combination that makes up Southern identity. I won't comment on the state of the South (because this isn't the place to politick), but suffice it to say, there're still the Alan Jackson folks, and the T.I. folks, and then people that are amalgamations of both. This setlist explains Georgia, my home, my ancestry, my youth, my present.
And, yeah, I've left out some obvious Georgia natives -- R.E.M., the B-52s, Widespread Panic, the Black Crowes. That's because they're not part of MY Georgia.
(Editor's Note: I'm super behind this week, so I didn't write out the list, and I got this up late. Sorry Lauren.)
Four years ago in London a freebird by the name of Shannon Mehner introduced me to the concept of a "comma song," which comes from the following ee cummings poem:
hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young
pleasure and pain are merely surfaces (one itself showing,itself hiding one) life's only and true value neither is love makes the little thickness of the coin
comes here a man would have from madame death nevertheless now and without winter spring? she'll spin that spirit her own fingers with and give him nothing (if he should not sing)
how much more than enough for both of us darling. And if i sing you are my voice,
See that comma at the end, how this poem hangs on that beautiful mark of punctuation? Did it make you tingle, shiver, or sigh a little bit? I hope so. If not, try to think of another poem or photograph or song or whatever that leaves you with a lingering ache. A comma song is any song that sort of submerses you in sublimity. Sometimes it's the whole song that does this, but sometimes it's just the comma-sized detail--the way Jeff Buckley breathes audibly before even the first pluck of the strings in "Hallelujah," or the amazing intro to Johnny Cash's "Solitary Man." Make sense? This week I would like for all of us to compile sweet, sweet mixes of all of the "comma songs" in our music libraries.
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Scrumpestuous D
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11:33 AM
OK kiddos, this week we've got another guest blogger picking the theme. This week it's my good friend Lauren. Perhaps you saw her list from last week? Anyway, she gave me this theme a few days ago, and I've been lazy about getting it up, but here it is, in her own words:
"Pick a city, any city. Describe it in songs. The artists can be from that city (or state), they can sing about that city (or state), or the song can simply invoke a feeling or memory that you relate to a city (or state)."
Each Monday, one member will post a setlist theme. Each member will then have the rest of the week to put together their best realization of that theme. There are only 3 rules:
1) The setlist must fit on to an audio CD, so no more than 80 min (That's ~1.3 hours for those of you using iTunes).
2) You can only use music that can be found in your personal collection. However, feel free to grow that collection as much as you'd like.
3) Completed setlists can be posted as soon as you'd like, but try to get them done by Sunday night(ish).
Once you've got it down, add your list as a new post. BS about what you like in the comments. And that's it. Enjoy.
P.S. - Here's the order for theme responsibility: 1) Scrumpestuous D 2) Cabeza 3) Shannon 4) Shark 5) Amanda 6) Carlos the Great
