Tagged: friday jukebox
Friday Jukebox: Second Friday in Ordinary Times
In no particular order, here are some songs with the words “ordinary” or “time” in them:
Friday Afternoon Jukebox: Scarface Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vT8OU5WtfkQ I went ahead and solved that Thursday Night Fight y’all we’re having. It’s Giorgio Moroder’s “Push It To The Limit”. I frankly can’t think of another song that more accurately what it is...
Friday Jukebox: Music Is Better Than Politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnw3wHMdJMU That is “Timebomb” by the Old 97’s, a fantastic song that has been included on several soundtracks, including the relatively good one that accompanied the entirely forgettable Clay Pigeons. Without getting too heteronormative,...
Friday Jukebox: It’s Gonna Be A Long Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUO4bMRuT9Y As you might have guessed, I’m a huge poetry fan. I like the subtlety of language in the hands of masters. For example: “Don’t call your mother, don’t call your priest, don’t call...
Friday Jukebox: a Summer’s Worth of Hip-Hop Tracks
I really wanted to submit something to the recently finished Democracy Symposium, only I couldn’t come up with anything anywhere nearly as thoughtful and incisive as the work done by my colleagues here. My...
Friday Early Afternoon Jukebox: Ignored For No Good Reason
When I was a teenager, I remember thoroughly enjoying Radiohead’s “Creep”, a song I remember thinking would be a good effort from a soon forgotten one-hit wonder. I was precocious like that. Then, a...
Friday Afternoon Jukebox: A Cover That Improves The Original
Covers are a tricky thing. They’re often nightmarish visions of the original work, twisting and diluting what had been perfectly fine to begin with in some vague attempt to pay tribute. All you have...
Friday Jukebox
I haven’t yet done one of these, so here’s an inaugural. Love and Rockets formed in 1985 from the ashes of Bauhaus, one of the first post-Beatles “Aw, man, they broke up?” bands in...
Friday Jukebox
Bob. A guitar. 1970-ish. Hanging out in a hotel room.* Nothing else. No one else.** ‘Nuff said. Sometimes less is more. *IIRC. **Well, except for the guy doing the recording.
