SOTD Regina Spektor – Hotel Song

Regina Spektor – Hotel Song

Come in, come in
Come into my world I’ve got to show
Show show you
Come into my bed
I’ve got to know
Know know you

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my fool
Will never be my fool

Floaters in my eyes
Wake up in a hotel room
Cigarettes and lies
I am a child, it’s too soon

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my fool
Will never be my fool

A little bag of cocaine
A little bag of cocaine
So who’s the girl wearing my dress?
I figured out her number
Inside a paper napkin
But I don’t know her address I wade downstairs
The porter smiles to me a smile
I’ve bought
With a couple of gold coins
A sign that I’ve been caught

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
Dear dear friend, dear dear friend…

A little bag of cocaine
A little bag of cocaine
So who’s the girl wearing my dress
I figured out her number
Inside a paper napkin
But I don’t know her address

Come in, come in
Come into my world I’ve got to show
Show show you
Come into my bed
I’ve got to know
Know know you

I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
You will never be my
You will never be my dear
Will never be my dear, dear friend
Dear dear friend, dear dear friend…

SOTD – Tori Amos “Taxi Ride”

Tori Amos “Taxi Ride”

Lily is dancing on the table
we’ve all been pushed too far
I guess on days like this
you know who your friends are
Just another dead fag to you, that’s all
Just another light missing
On a long taxi ride
Taxi ride

And I’m down to your last cigarette and this “we are one” crap
as you’re invading this thing you call love
she smiles way too much but
I’m glad you’re on my side
Sure I’m glad you’re on my side still

You think you deserve a trust fund
Just because you want one
Sure you talk the talk when you need to
I fear the whole world is starting to believe you
Just another dead fag to you that’s all
Just another light missing on a long taxi line
Taxi line

And I’m down to your last cigarette and this “we are one” crap
As you’re invading this thing you call love
She smiles way too much
But I’m glad you’re on my side
Sure I’m glad you’re on my side still

Lily is dancing on the table
We’ve all been pushed too far today
Even a glamorous bitch can be in need
This is where you know the honey from the killer bees
I’m glad you’re on my side
Sure i’m glad you’re on my side
Sure i’m glad you’re on my side still

Got a long taxi ride
Got a long taxi ride

SOTD – Spinnerette “Ghetto Love”

Another band that DaveWWT turned me on to. This means he’s been right twice this year so far, and that’s probably gonna be about his limit.

Spinnerette “Ghetto Love”

Hey now, there now
It’s a game to be played out amongst
Thieves of the heart and the
Whores of the ego

Hey now, there now
Kiss everyone’s ailments
See them rise up, exalt and illuminate

Humanity is a deer in the headlights
The road is covered in blood
Free yourself with a dagger from above
A crossbow of faith

You sold your heart
For the primal experience
Gave up on love for a
Medal malevolent
You fill yourself with
The fire of innocence
The karmic stain will bring you back through the gates again

Oh how I wonder what will become, of us
I’m just a girl out looking for love

You want in me what you see
Is a testament
You never know when you love
What you’ll manifest

I’m Joan of Arc on a mission
Avenge loves death
I’m gonna win
I’ll never give in

SOTD – Psapp “Hi”

Psapp “Hi”

Hi-lo
Get out the abacus and count this
A funny story with a dark twist
The target’s so big that you can’t miss
Me

You’re compulsive
And every page I turn I want more
I never know the next thing in store
’cause you excite me like a locked door
does

Like a limpet
I want to take your voice and drink it
There doesn’t seem to be a limit
To all the things that I could do

I know how I want it to go
I know how I want it to be
Don’t make me think before I speak
or make me hold my horses

Hold tight
We’re saddled up if you can ride right
If you just think it then you’ll be fine
Fingers crossed that it’s the right time
this time

You’re a fat swamp
We can visit for a fun romp
I really want to do the high jump
Taking a risk with do us all some good

I know how I want it to go
I know how I want it to be
Don’t make me think before I speak
or make me hold my horses

I’ve got my eye on the prize (look at their eyes)
My beady eyes are alive (they’re alive)
Although I don’t know what comes next
I will not hold my horses

Hello
Get out the abacus and count me
A funny feeling says I won’t leave
The target’s so big that you can’t miss
me

I know how I want it to go (I want it to go)
I know how I want it to be (I want it too)
Don’t make me think before I speak
or make me hold my horses

I’ve got my eye on the prize (look at their eyes)
My beady eyes are alive (they’re alive)
And though I don’t know what comes next
I will not hold my horses

I know what you’re thinking
I know how you see me
Although it hurts
You’re probably right

SOTD – Fever Ray “If I Had a Heart”

@h_wallbanger turned me onto Fever Ray, and I am pretty much grooving on them. This song is my current spooky favorite. Check them out at feverray.com.

Fever Ray “If I Had a Heart”

this will never end
cause i want more
more, give me more, give me more

this will never end
cause i want more
more, give me more, give me more

if i had a heart i could love you
if i had a voice i would sing
after the night when i wake up
i’ll see what tomorrow brings

if i had a voice i would sing

dangling feet from window frame
will i ever ever reach the floor?
more, give me more, give me more

crushed and filled with all i found underneath and inside
just to come around
more, give me more, give me more

if i had a voice i would sing

How 2009 sounded in my world

First thing I have to do is fess up that this list is heavily edited. You see, when I went to look at the last 12 months of music, I saw this:

Which, while accurate, is also very boring. This was definitely the year of Florence + The Machine in my world, however it’s skewed my list because I actually didn’t start listening to her until November, and then listened to her so exclusively that she blew everything else off the chart. So that’s not an actual reflection of what I was listening to this year, and as such I have edited all F+TM songs from my list. Suffice it to say that I think that album is made of magic and wonderment, and you should have a copy of it. But I will focus on other things.

So, discounting the Florence, my number one song of the year was a surprise:

1. Tactical Sekt – Bring Me Violence – I do love this song, I was just surprised it came in quite so high. Not a lot to say about this one, other than that this was a year of violent emotions for me, and this song spoke to that. It also helped me turn my brain off, and made me speed frequently. Favorite line: “I saw the rage rising in the morning sky.”

2. The Rosebuds – Life Like – This is such a spooky, hollow-sounding song. I got this album free from Paste, and I didn’t really respond to all of it. But I do love this song. It’s about taxidermy. Favorite line: “Consider my life, I’m wild but I’m not free.”

3. The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name -  The Ting Tings are another band to whose music I don’t respond evenly. I like some of their stuff, some I am “meh” about, and some – like this song – I adore. This was an awesome driving song this year. Favorite line “They call me quiet, But I’m a riot”

4. Maria Taylor – One for the Shareholder – Maria Taylor is one of those sneaky artists, whose music you listen to sort of in the background, and then you suddenly realize it’s crept into your subconscious and you passionately love quite a bit of it. Not a first-listen artist, but something that grows on you until you can’t do without it. This song is about emotionally vacuous fuckwits. Favorite lines:

“There’s no burden that will agonize you
No worry that will weigh you down.
Not the memories that hypnotize you.
You won’t turn around.
You can’t love me ”

5. The Stills – Still in Love Song - I dunno, I think this is just another song about being involved with people when you know you shouldn’t. I sense a theme.

“We were lovers
we were kissers
we were holders of hands
we were make believers”

6. Damien Rice – Woman Like a Man – Jessica gave me this song on a mix CD, and I immediately fell in love with it. I like some other Damien Rice too, but this song I love. It’s so angry and desperate and hostile. It’s about wanting, and how wanting sucks. Favorite line, very sneakily wrapped into the chorus “I’ll get a cheaper ticket next time – ’cause it really wasn’t worth the ride.”

7. Ladytron – Ghosts – I feel like I spent a lot of this year trying to make myself understood by people who are very different from me. And while that’s a good exercise to undertake, and helps me grow in some way (right?) it’s also frustrating. Sometimes you really just want to be around people who get it, and don’t need so much hand-holding. Careening around unintentionally offending people, or feeling as if you are, is exhausting. This one actually turned out to be rather prophetic.

“Now I see you
from the corner
clock strikes
and I know you will be drinking alone

There’s a ghost in me
who wants to say “I’m sorry”
Doesn’t mean I’m sorry.“

8. Anya Marina – Move You – this is another one from a Paste CD. I do like several songs of hers but this one has this wonderful “Where do you where do you where do you where do you where do you get off?” line in it, and that’s basically the subtitling in my brain when I am talking to a lot of people. I love it so.

9. The Shins – Black Wave - You know those hollow, lonely songs that are bigger on the inside than they are on the outside? This is my favorite of those. (Well, except for My Morning Jacket’s Wordless Chorus.) Seriously – they had me at “black breeze.”

In the meadow where the black breeze blows,
Where underneath the waves, you were most alone,
Can you hear a subtle, aching tone?
Through the water, through the Earth, chill the bones.

10. Lucky Soul – Lips Are Unhappy – Shake, shake shimmy, this is just pure perky fluffy love song.

Pretending that everything’s cool,
When I’m twenty seven shades of blue,
And my lips are unhappy without you.

So those were the top 10 songs in my world last year. In some ways they don’t seem to reflect what I was really listening to, because there was a lot of angry industrial stompy music going on most of the time. However, I obviously didn’t listen to any of those songs often enough to get them in the top 10 list – the above are the songs I kept coming back to. I included my top 35 songs in the list below, so if you want some stompy angry industrial, it will be there.

It’s always strange to look back at these lists and think about listening to these songs at different times of the year. What I was doing, how I was feeling, how these songs reflected or enhanced that. It’s been a hell of a year. I really hope that less stuff happens this year. I need a break from emotional overload. Guess we will find out next year at this time how that turned out, huh?

SOTD – Time Killer, Project Pitchfork (And One Remix)

I like this remix much more than I like the original of this song.

Time Killer, Project Pitchfork

go away leave me alone
I feel your presence in my mind
the time seems to stop I set you free
you calm my mind you calm my mind
make my dreams come true – baby
every time it seems to me
that fiction and reality melt together for eternity
liquid words dropping down the stairs
filling the emptiness with sense
you and me on the floor floating on our sensibility

you need a timekiller and you don’t understand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand
I am your timekiller I let your mind expand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand

tick tock tick tock madness comes tonight
what’s reality compared to me?
I rest on the bed and I’m sure I slowly get mad
I’m in a state of mind which makes me blind
for the fact that I’m a man
I’m here to stay forever but not today

you need a timekiller and you don’t understand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand
I am your timekiller I let your mind expand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand

in my heart is no place for you
and in my mind is no space for you
the exit already melted away
and now there’s nothing left to say

you need a timekiller and you don’t understand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand
I am your timekiller I let your mind expand
I am like quicksand lick it from my hand

Wednesday Playlist – Supernatural Edition

superbadgirl – It’s Wednesday Playlist time! Today’s list is songs about the supernatural and I submit the Eagle’s “Witchy Woman”

violentecstasy - @superbadgirl The Cure’s Lullaby, Concrete Blonde’s Bloodletting #WednesdayPlaylist

butterflyfish_ – @superbadgirl Yay, Eagles! :-) All I’m coming up with right now is The Cars’ “Magic.” But I like that, so I’ll go w/ it.

narcise - Ghostwriter by RJD2 #wednesdayplaylist

H_Wallbanger – @superbadgirl Haunted by the Pogues, preferring the version off the Sid & Nancy soundtrack but any of the several versions are good.

drew_w – @superbadgirl Rage doing the Ghost of Tom Joad.

UnclePilot – @superbadgirl (Ghost) Riders In The Sky by Johnny Cash #wednesdayplaylist

gatewaygroupie – @superbadgirl Helen Reddy’s “Angie Baby” http://tr.im/HN16.

p_tea - @superbadgirl The Siege and Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein’s Castle at Weisseria by BOC #wednesdayplaylist  Although Flaming Telepaths, also by BOC has to come in a close second for awesome in the category today. #wednesdayplaylist

The_Cyr – @superbadgirl RAtM’s version of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” and Robert Johnson’s “Me and the Devil Blues”, The Flaming Lips “The Waterbugs Attack the Policeman” or whatever they call it.

sub_english – @superbadgirl Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper.”

jeniburns - @superbadgirl I’ll have more, but “Low Red Moon” by Belly comes to mind right off hand. Love that song. Oh, and “The Witches Song” by Juliana Hatfield.

jamesblackwood – @superbadgirl All of Aphrodite Child’s album 666, but in particular I’m feeling The Beast, The Lamb, and The Four Horsemen #wedplaylist

avandonsel – @superbadgirl Silver Springs, Fleetwood Mac

hipntrendy – @superbadgirl Transylvanian Concubine by Rasputina ;-) for #wednesdayplaylist

_bunny_ – @superbadgirl Kristin Hersh – Your Ghost #wednesdayplaylist

Lorizs_tweets – @superbadgirl Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo #wednesdayplaylist

arachnophiliac – Cuz @thatcesareguy prodded me to listen to this album last week: “Voodoo Lady” by Live, Also, “Welcome, Ghosts” Explosions in the Sky. #wednesdayplaylist

ZSB3 – Ghost Town by Shiny Toy Guns #wednesdayplaylist

stevodarkly - @superbadgirl Oh oh oh! “Voodoo” by Godsmack. #wednesdayplaylist

Joule – @superbadgirl I put a spell on you, the screamin jay hawkins version, of course #wednesdayplaylist

Wednesday Playlist – Songs to Stay Home To

The truly heinous weather of the last few days has got me in serious nesting mode. I know I can’t stay home all winter, but this week has not seen me inspired to leave the house at all. It just seems very cosy to stay here at home with chihuahuas and blankets and bad TV and books and peanut butter sandwiches. But if you’re going to stay home, you have to set the mood – thus we have a need for a Songs to Stay Home To* playlist. I know I say this almost every time, but I think this one might be my favorite so far.

I’ve added the songs that I had in my library – some of the others aren’t things I own, so sorry about that if yours didn’t make the list. As always, I’ve banned all Yacht Rock.

Thanks for playing along, hope you enjoy!

kopper – @superbadgirl The Spaceshits “Winter Dance Party” LP

gatewaygroupie – @superbadgirl If I was at home, I’d be listening to Sufjan Stevens and feeling bad about not believing in god. #wednesdayplaylist

narcise – @superbadgirl I’m going with Count Basie on that one, for sure.

stevodarkly – @superbadgirl Wed. playlist: I’m gonna have to go with Loreena McKennitt. 2nd place: The Charlie Brown Christmas CD, but not over and over.

hipntrendy – @superbadgirl Russ loves Ministry’s ‘Psalm 69′ , me – I listen to the Swimf@n soundtrack over and over. do those work? #wednesdayplaylist

The_Cyr – @superbadgirl Theivery Corporation makes for a restful night home.

_bunny_ – @superbadgirl The Sundays. Still love that first album. #wednesdayplaylist

cbellers – @superbadgirl Zero 7 is perfect stay at home sexy time music

p_tea – @superbadgirl I’m still a sucker for Pink Floyd when it’s dark and the weather is frigid. #wednesdayplaylist

hipntrendy – @superbadgirl okay, I found an album (all one artist) that I listen and love all the songs. New Order – Best Of New Order

narcise – Since it’s my b-day, i’ll choose more #wednesdayplaylist entries: Mazzy Star, Brasil 66, Martin Denny, Portishead, Cat Stevens, yachtrawk.

cassiland – @superbadgirl Thelonious Monk.. great music for house cleaning, cooking, or curling up and crafting and reading all day. #wednesdayplaylist

H_Wallbanger – @superbadgirl For an artist I like to listen to in winter, I’ll say Sigur Ros. Their first two albums are perfect for watching the snow.

trmink – @superbadgirl With out a doubt, Jolie Holland. Add a WoodWick candle, premium Scotch, and a thick book.

jamesblackwood - Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, or Neko Case #wednesdayplaylist

gatewaygroupie - @superbadgirl If request lines are still open, Laine WWT twitter puts in a vote for Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here. #wednesdayplaylist

*please do not confuse this with a Songs to Slit Your Wrists To playlist, or Songs to Get Sexed Up To playlist. I know they’re similar, but there are subtle differences.

Liars and the SOTD – Tracy Chapman “Tell it Like it is”

This album, along with Poe’s “Haunted” and more recently F+TM’s “Lungs” is on my list of all-time favorite albums. The ones where every song you listen to you think “OK, I am totally going to replay this song when it’s over.” and then the next song comes on and it’s so amazing that you have to listen to that one instead of re-listening to the first one.

Most of these albums come from places of brokenness and disenchantment with the world, which is why I identify with them. But to me they’re also cries for understanding and calls to do better with yourself, be a better sort of person. They’re from people who are heartbroken and disillusioned, and they point out how the world and people surrounding them have failed them—yet they also hold a sort of yearning for a world that’s not like this, where the people are good to each other, and good to them.

I feel like lately I have been dealing with way too many liars. Whether they’re lying inadvertently because they don’t understand themselves or lying blatantly because they’re assholes with shit to cover up, I am not always sure. Why they do it isn’t important, the net effect is that I don’t really trust anyone lately to tell the truth about anything. And I hate that. I hate that because my natural state is to believe people when they tell me things. I rarely lie. I will either tell you the truth or change the subject, and I assume most other people are the same. And I can’t assume that as much as I do. I don’t really know how to be super selective about it either. With me it’s either “honesty filter 100% on” or “you dirty motherfuckers, stop talking to me with your lying bullshit mouths.” And these are people who not only lie about what they’re doing, they lie about who they are. And that’s the most disappointing kind to discover, the kind where someone you thought was one kind of person – someone who took the time and trouble to paint that picture of themselves for you – is really not that kind of person at all. It makes me feel stupid and naive, it disappoints me, it makes me feel all alone in the world with a bunch of people wearing carnival masks.

I know that there’s no solution to this. People are how they are, and a lot of people need to lie to themselves and each other,  just in order to survive and maintain their internal images of themselves. I get it.  I am glad in some ways I am not one of them, but I am also lonely for other people who tell the truth, even when it’s harsh and ugly. I would rather hear about and deal with what’s really happening around me than have to sift through a huge pile of someone else’s horseshit to find the kernel of reality in there.

People give me grief for my negativity, but honest negativity will always be preferable to me than rosy-cheeked bullshit optimism and self-delusion. And I refuse to apologize for that, because no matter how it pains me, mine is the more authentic reality and I will not give it up.

Tracy Chapman “Tell it Like it is”

Say it say it say it
Tell it like it is
Say it say it say it
Tell it like it is

What breaks your heart
What keeps you awake at night
What makes you want to break down and cry

But say you’ll never turn your back
Say you’ll never harden to the world
Say you’ll never try to still the rhythms in your breast
Say you’ll never look at the evil among us and try to forget
Say you’ll tell it like it is

Say it say it say it so everyone can hear
Say it say it say it tell it like it is

What breaks your heart
What keeps you awake at night
How your anger and grief
Make you want to cry out
Oh and tell it like it is

But say you’ll never close your eyes
Or pretend that it’s a rosy world
Say you’ll never try to paint
What is rotten with a sugarcoat
Say you’ll talk about the horrors you’ve seen and the torment you know
And tell it like it is

Say it say it say it
So no one can forget
Say it say it say it
Tell it like it is

What breaks your heart
What keeps you awake at night
What makes you want to break the ties that silence and bind
And tell it like it is

Say you’ll never cover your ears and close your mouth
And live in a silent world
Say you’ll only run as far or as fast as you need to be secure
Say that then you’ll tell the truth
When a lie could cross your lips
And tell it like it is

Say it say it say it – Say it say it say it
Say it say it say it – Say it say it say it
Say it say it say it – Say it say it say it
Say it say it say it – Say it say it say it

Here’s the song, but ignore the video which seems to be just a bunch of weird birds.

The Friday Five – Bands We’d Like to See Again

So tonight is the last show ever for our friends’ band, Stella Mora. All good things come to an end—usually too soon—and we’re very sorry to see them go. But this sad state of affairs led to this listing of other bands we’d love to see once more in concert, if only they were still touring.

I would absolutely love to see Oingo Boingo one more time, that was one of the most energetic shows I’ve ever been to in my life. October Project I would love to see again, just so that I could properly appreciate what I was experiencing, they’re one of those bands I got much more into once I had seen them live, then never had the chance again. Anyway, here are the rest of the results from this week’s Friday Five, thanks for playing along! (see what I did there?):

• superbadgirl (that’s me!) Mine are Oingo Boingo, Dead Can Dance, October Project, Nirvana and Cocteau Twins. #fridayfive
• tungmobi - @superbadgirl Pale Saints, Lush, Cocteau Twins, Catherine Wheel,Genesis (with Peter Gabriel)
• gw10101 – @superbadgirl, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Jesus Jones, Soul Coughing, Depeche Mode (wilder years), The Cure (disintegration era)
• The_Cyr – @Superbadgirl Skynrd (original band), Led Zep, Kansas, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Guns n Roses (original band)
• narcise – led zepplin, django reinhardt, janice w/big brother & holding company, pixies (just missed reunion), jesus and mary chain #fridayfive
• H_Wallbanger – @superbadgirl The Clash, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Thin Lizzy, Massive Attack
• stevodarkly – @superbadgirl #fridayfive The Police, the Beatles, Dead Can Dance, Led Zepplin and … I do miss local guys Todd on LSD.
• UnclePilot – @superbadgirl #fridayfive The Seatbelts, Led Zepplin, The Miles Davis Quintet, Crowded House, Soul Coughing
• El_Dickman – @superbadgirl Ummm… Queen, Led Zepplin, Collaborateur, Bel Canto, Beatles #fridayfive
• cbellers – @superbadgirl Morphine, Pale Divine, Dance Hall Crashers, Chemical Brothers, Lords of Acid
• trmink – @superbadgirl New Pornographers, The Kinks, Harvey Danger, Sleator-Kinney and a second on Thin Lizzy
• _bunny_ - @superbadgirl Gang of Four, AC/DC with Bon Scott singing, Queen, James Brown, The White Stripes #fridayfive
• sub_english – Dead Can Dance, Joy Division, The Clancy Brothers, Billie Holiday, Cocteau Twins. #fridayfive

SOTD – Dr. John “I don’t want to know”

Dr. John “I don’t want to know”

And I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

Sometimes it gets so hard to listen
Hard for me to use my eyes
And all around the cold is glistening
Making sure it keeps me down to size.

And I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know one thing about evil
Only want to know about love.

I’m waiting for the planets to tumble
Waiting for the towns to fall
I’m waiting for the cities to crumble
Waiting till I see you crawl.

It’s getting kinda hard to listen
Hard for us to use our eyes
All around the gold is glistening
Making sure it keeps us hypnotized.

I don’t want to know about evil
I only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

I don’t want to know anything about evil
Only want to know about love
I don’t want to know about evil
Only want to know about love.

SOTD – Deb Talan “Forgiven”

Deb Talan “Forgiven”

You worry on
hurting anybody anymore
You worry on
small comfort
One of us seems not to tremble
You make a rift inside me
every day
Then you choose to stay
I walk the edge and
push it wider

You are forgiven
I open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
and I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

I hear a soft noise like a sigh,
A singing
like a lullaby
It is my heart
It is this wind
that blows through,
Where you held me closer,
Where we whisper
This is
this is true

You are forgiven
I open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
And I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

And it’s time
to go
I cannot stay
You cannot know
My love
So dear
Will it be faith
or fear?

You are forgiven
open all my doors
You are forgiven
What a heart is for
I am no martyr
You give me reason
I try harder
And I wait
for a warmer season
Meanwhile,
You are
forgiven

You are
Forgiven

SOTD – James Taylor “Shower the People”

A classic. It’s really been a James Taylor kind of day today.

James Taylor “Shower the People”

Shower The People – James Tayl…

You can play the game and you can act out the part
Though you know it wasn’t written for you
But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart
Ashamed of playing the fool
One thing can lead to another; it doesn’t take any sacrifice
Oh, father and mother, sister and brother
If it feels nice, don’t think twice

Just shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna work out fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

You can run but you cannot hide
This is widely known
And what you plan to do with your foolish pride
When you’re all by yourself alone
Once you tell somebody the way that you feel
You can feel it beginning to ease
I think it’s true what they say about the squeaky wheel
Always getting the grease.

Better to shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be just fine if you only will
Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel
Things are gonna be much better if you only will

Shower the people you love with love
Show them the way that you feel

You’ll feel better right away
Don’t take much to do
Sell you pride
They say in every life
They say the rain must fall
Just like pouring rain
Make it rain
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine.
Oh yes
Make it rain
Love, love, love is sunshine
Yeah, all right
Everybody, everybody
Shower the people you love with love

Wednesday Playlist – Later than Late “Animal Songs” Edition

Really, better late than never? The Wednesday Playlist from a few weeks ago. This one was animal songs – songs about people acting or feeling like animals. Inspired somewhat by my watching the movie “Where the Wild Things Are” and a lot by the Florence + The Machine song “Howl”

If you could only see the beast you’ve made of me
I held it in but now it seems you’ve set it running free
Screaming in the dark, I howl when we’re apart
Drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart

Also put one of my favorite songs of all time, Poe’s “Wild” on there, and it’s interesting to me how similar the lyrics are to Howl’s.

You wrote the rules to try and contain me
You broke ‘em
Now you have untamed me
and I’m wild
I go wild

Still very caught up in the idea that sometimes we interact with each other in ways that make us feel insane and illogical, and more like we’re reacting on animal instinct than human reason. Sometimes it’s easier to attribute the way you’re feeling to hormones or instinct or some other force outside your control – because honestly your brain can’t be that addled all on its own, can it? No, no, no, of course not. It’s nature. Or something.

Sorry if there’s anyone I left off here. I can’t search for #wednesdayplaylist this far out, so unless it was an @reply to me I can’t find it. I may try to do better and be more timely next week. Then again I may not. I am an enigma, after all.

• avandonsel - Ooh, the new Flaming Lips “I Can Be a Frog.” http://bit.ly/9Kses
• jeniburns - I suppose “Hungry Like The Wolf” is already taken. Does “Godzilla” (Blue Oyster Cult) count as an animal song?
• butterflyfish_ I added Oingo Boingo, No Spill Blood :-)
• hipntrendy - from my boss ‘bat out of hell’ by meatloaf
• hipntrendy - ’In the still of the night’ by white snake
• evad23 - ”She’s A Frog” by The Flaming Lips #wednesdayplaylist
• laurabean - carry me home by the murmurs
• hipntrendy - my friend EWWT submits ‘Bad Touch’ by The Bloodhound Gang
• _bunny_ - Scorpions – Rock You Like a Hurricane.  The lyrics are especially funny when spoken out loud in your best German accent.
• gatewaygroupie - Duran Duran, Hungry Like The Wolf. The Cure, Lovecats. #wednesdayplaylist
• Lorizs_tweets - Animal Instinct ~ The Cranberries or Public Animal #9 ~Alice Cooper #wednesdayplaylist
• cbellers - ”Cat Fight”, Dance Hall Crashers
• El_Dickman - 1/3 of all songs made by the Japanese. Or maybe “I want to F**k you like an animal” or whatever it’s called by NIN.
• sub_english - The Cure’s “Lullaby.” Also? “Catepillar Girl.” #wednesdayplaylist