Remember the standard, written by yours truly: “If you are going to cover a song, rip it apart a bit and make it your own.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMU_pZ9r2go
Music
Hurricanes: In Literature, Film, and Music
I thought it might be fun this weekend, especially for those on the east coast, to talk about books/movies/songs in which hurricanes and similar events play a prominent role. For starters:
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, C S Forester. Features not only a hurricane, but a Marine bandsman who faces execution on charges of willfully playing the wrong note.
The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk. The troubled and inadequate captain of a WWII destroyer-minesweeper panics during a typhoon.
Big Water Rising, Tom Russell and Iris DeMent. A Mississippi River flood.
Lost and Found, The Kinks. Hurricane hits NYC.
More?
David Johansen, Girls (1980)
Girls, girls, girls. It’s all I think about.
UPDATE: Three more songs from the same show:
Cool Metro, Frenchette, and Reach Out (I’ll Be There).
UPDATE II: Turns out this show was from 1980. My initial guess was 1978, since that was the year the album came out. These clips are from the German show Musik Laden. There are a ton of great clips from that show on YouTube.
“My Mistakes,” Eleanor Friedberger
Brooklyn based currently, but with roots in the Chicago area (Oak Park) says the WXRT DJ….
The Saints, (I’m) Stranded (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFvhd–qDDU&feature=related
(Punk rock was a pan-Anglospheric phenomenon that was invented independently in Britain (Sex Pistols), USA (Ramones) and Australia (Saints) at the same time. This almost freakish simultaneous cultural outbreak shows that the world was, somehow, some way, ripe for this new approach. The new generation of rock’n’roll was a spirit wandering the Earth, struggling to be born in audible form.)