Sunday , June 13, 2010
Heavy Rotation, Special Edition: Songs About Ghosts By Kristin Hersh, Madonna, Queens of the Stone Age, R. Dean Taylor, Friedberger, Donovan
Kristin Hersh, "Your Ghost"
OF COURSE I'm going to put this song on a special ghost-themed Heavy Rotation...this is like the best fucking ghost-themed song of all time, if only for its spectral beauty and haunted vocal. Sometimes I feel like I am the one doing obvious shit on nogoodforme 'cause I like to cover bases and have a pretty classical temperament anyway, but in this case it is entirely worth it 'cause the song is so gorgeous. I always get goosebumps when she performs it live (this is one of my favorite YouTube performances) but the official recording has that Michael Stipe vocal that is so spooky-good. (Kat)
Madonna, "Supernatural"
Yammering on about a Madonna b-side or rarity in the same way that a fanboy would slobber all over obscure Radiohead remixes or import-only Boris releases seems odd, but "Supernatural" is super-beloved among the Madonna faithful for being completely and charmingly bananas. The b-side to the "Cherish" single and found also on the Red Hot + Dance AIDS benefit compilation, it's basically about a song about girl-meets-boy -- only the boy is a ghost who visits her at night and gets it on with her and is pretty much the best dude booty™ ever. I actually wore out the "Cherish" cassingle that I bought this on ages ago, that's how much I listened to it back in the day. I must have listened to it so much that I internalized its bizarre symbolic and romantic logic -- it's prepared me well for an adulthood full of emotional unavailability, both in myself and others! (Kat)
Queens of the Stone Age, "A Song for the Dead"
Oh holy hell - this song's so not about ghosts, which I feel bad about, since I'm the one who thought up this goddamned ghost theme in the first place. But it's about dead people or dead things, and that's close enough, right? Also it's the best Scary Makeout Song ever, and what better time to have a Scary Makeout Session than Hallowe'ek? "Song for the Dead" always makes me think of All Hallows Eve, probably because the Queens played at the Greek Theater on my first L.A. Halloween, and my friend Lisa went and it rained and rained and rained and I felt bad for her. That night my then-roommate lent me a sari and made me into a Bollywood star, and I went out to bars with some girls and met this dude who was dressed up as Jesus. And then a few days later he called and left a message that said, "I met you on Halloween when I was dressed up as Jesus, and now I'm here to answer your prayers." I didn't call back! (Liz)
R. Dean Taylor, "There's a Ghost in My House"
Tags: animals, Atlantis, chipmunks, Donovan, dudes dressed like Jesus, Friedberger, ghosts, Hallowe'en, Kristin Hersh, Madonna, making out, mixtapes, porcupines, Queens of the Stone Age, synchronized foot stomping, The Fall, The Puppy/Goldfish Ramones, the sexiest scary song ever
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wow, i really undersold the hotness of 'a song for the dead' here. that was dumb of me...and yet not.
btw, prior to this entry being posted, i was totally going to comment a knock-knock joke that ended with the punchline 'orange you surprised we didn't post that kristin hersh song?' - but there it is! i love it.
i also love the (new?) 'winter women' cover.
By Liz
on October 28, 2009 3:07 PM
Really? I'm, like, SO not into the new Winter Women cover. We should write a blog post called "LIZ AND LJ ON: The new Winter Women cover" and you'll be like "I love it!" and I'll be all "No love, no love" and it will be both brilliant and entertaining
By Laura
on October 28, 2009 3:29 PM
Songs about Ghosts, commenter bluegrass edition:
Country Gentlemen, "Bringing Mary Home"
This song doesn't seem all that creepy at first, with the nice mid-tempo bluegrass sound and the sweet sweet harmonies of the Gentlemen and an apparently nice ghost.
But the more I hear it and think about it the more it gets to me.
Del McCourty/Shenandoah Cut-Ups/others, "Eli Renfro"
Extremely concise first verse that lays everything out:
"Eli Renfro killed his wife
with a long sharp bowie knife.
He packed her up and he put her in the ground.
Death by hanging was to be his fate,
So old Eli, filled with hate,
Put a curse upon the entire town."
Then it gets all paranoid and awesome from there.
By Masonic Youth on October 28, 2009 6:24 PM
This isn't about the post, just Halloween, but I saw it and thought of you, Laura Jane.
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