Monday , November 16, 2009
Heavy Rotation, Special Edition: Seven Songs for Summer
The Look picked us to do that "seven songs for summer" meme that has been going around. Naturally, we are game for anything related to music. And naturally, being the concept-loving ladies we are, we were going to pick one summer song from every decade since the '60s that we're loving so far. But whatever, man, it's summer and things get a little sloppy. You can find the result of our half-assedness on the homepage, top-right hand corner, in the little jukebox thing. Anyway, the original instructions were thus:
"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to."
And we are officially tagging: Bunnyshop, Fashion is Spinach, Cat Party, Royal Quiet Deluxe, Touch Touch Publishing, Threadbared, and dreamecho.
The Rolling Stones, "Tumbling Dice"
I do believe this is the first Stones song to ever make it into the nogoodforme jukebox. Yowza! What took us so long? Anyway, in the fantasy version of my life (in which I've also got the exact same hair and house as Frances McDormand in Laurel Canyon), most summer days are spent driving up and down the Pacific Coast Highway in a hot convertible with "Tumbling Dice" on the stereo, and somehow it's always dusk. And I do realize I just inadvertently described the closing scene from the episode of Entourage where Eric and Sloan go to Napa, but that's all right: I'm totally cool with my deepest dreams mirroring Hollywood make-believe at its most mundane. Besides, I'm pretty sure I thought of it first. Oh, and almost all of Exile on Main Street is such perfect summer music, even those overly white-boy-bluesy songs ("Shake Your Hips," "Casino Boogie") that I'll probably never really get into. (Liz)
Notorious B.I.G., "Party and Bullshit"
Biggie lives! It blows my mind that this goes all the way back to 1993, because it's still one of the best rave-up party jams ever from one of the greatest MCs of all time. Biggie eventually went on to get, uh, bigger in his sound and his notoriety, but this song always makes me want to jam out in the best way. Way back in the day some friends and I made up this little fly-girl dance to go to this song, and I can still do it -- only now at the end I get this weird urge to jump into a Bonzi boat. And on an only-tangentially related note, do you guys remember the "Hypnotize" video with the boat chase, the car chase, explosions and mermaids? I wish they would make videos like that more. That's what summer should be like for all of us. (Kat)
The Geraldine Fibbers, "House is Falling"
I wish Carla Bozulich (singer for the Fibbers) would write many many books: Her songs tell beautifully fucked-up stories, and the imagery's always really sexy in that scary kind of way. This track's off 1995's Lost Somewhere Between the Earth and My Home, and it's got everything you could ever want from summer (like: sunlit thighs, howling dogs, mint juleps and honey, "butter moon" and "earthless sky," and lots of lying around with someone you're really hot for). Go to your nearest record store and buy Lost right now, and while you're at get yourself a copy of Butch too, especially if you're a girl prone to obsessing over stuff like Angela Carter's short stories and Courtney Love's lyrics sheets. Also, I met Carla in a bar once; she was cool. (Liz)
The Dukes of Stratosphear, "Pale & Precious"
It always strikes me as a little bit weird that my favorite Beach Boys song was written by a psych-parody XTC side project in the mid-1980s. My second favorite Beach Boys song is "Be True To Your School," but that song doesn't have much to do with summer at all. So there you go. (Laura)
KAK, "Lemonaide Kid"
I know that a person should never say never, but maybe a person should just shut the hell up. Something I will never do in my life is attend the Burning Man festival. Occasionally, in life, you meet someone who once attended Burning Man. He or she will passionately attempt to convince you that going to Burning Man is the best thing you could ever do for yourself. You will try your best to envision yourself redefining your soul amidst the fest's burning vibrations of positivity, but you know what? You'd hate it. You'd get a sunburn and freak out. So instead, I strongly urge you to just sit in the grass nearest to your current place of residence and listen to "Lemonaide Kid" by KAK. It'll BLOW YOUR MIND!!!!! (Laura)
Nu Shooz, "I Can't Wait
Summer music is an inherently nostalgic genre for me, so pretty much anything I think of as "summer music" comes from the time of double dutch, ice cream trucks and making up dances on the front lawn to Miami Sound Machine. I was going to put something like "Billie Jean" to rep my childhood summers, but instead I picked this song because it's kind of the most perfect one-hit wonder ever in an age where there were so many great ones to choose from. My specific memory of this comes from being at my best friend's house and watching MTV while making our Barbies have orgies in a hot tub. (Kat)
The Rondelles, "Like A Prayer"
So, when it came to the seventh song of this meme, we at nogoodforme were going to try to be all organized and pick an anthem that represented all of us in our totality, beyond all time and space and ego boundaries. But in true nogoodforme style, we kind of let it float for awhile and now I'm trying to post this quickly because my day is turning into crazyville. We were going to pick something off Funhouse by the Stooges, but in all honestly this came up randomly after Nu Shooz on my iTunes player and I kind of dug it. Outside of my current Billy Idol fixation, this song has been rocking my iPod-like device since then. Plus, it's my birthday tomorrow and nothing would make me happier than knowing lots of people are listening to this stellar cover all at once. (Kat)
Tags: dukes of stratosphear, geraldine fibbers, half-assedness, heavy rotation, Kak, memes, notorious b.i.g., Nu shooz, rondelles, summer, the stones
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laura, you put 'lemonaide kid' on a mixtape for me once in like 2002 and i haven't heard it in so long and i'm so happy to hear it again.
and i still think we should consider 'tv eye' for nogoodforme.com's all-time top five anthems. when iggy sings 'see that cat,' we can pretend he's singing 'see that KAT.' dig?
By Liz
on June 26, 2008 5:53 PM
also, girl talk makes really good use of 'i can't wait' on his new record.
By Liz
on June 26, 2008 6:28 PM
You know of me?! I am stunned. STUNNED. Because I totally worship the blog platform you post on! In fact, I was just working up the courage to ask y'all to check out dreamecho. (Lowercase "d", all one word, please?) Well, since I'm baring my heart here, I'd like to say major thanks -- you've gotten me hooked on Bona Drag (see my ode to it), The Group (yay Laura!) and Wizard Prison (the Tarkovsky comparison was spot on). Meanwhile, Motherless Brooklyn and Run, Rabbit, Run are sitting on my bookshelf waiting their turn.... Anyway! Thanks for the tag. :)
By dreamecho on June 26, 2008 10:15 PM
Just as Lou Reed's week beats "your" year, our half-assed beats "your" best effort, WORLD!
By Laura Jane on June 26, 2008 11:46 PM