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Tuesday , December 14, 2010
Heavy Rotation: The Dandy Warhols, Emitt Rhodes, Adam & The Ants, U2, Luscious Jackson, T. Rex
The Dandy Warhols, "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth"
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Heavy Rotation is a concept by which I measure my pain the passage of time. On the morning of last week's Heavy Rotation, I woke up in the morning, and the first thought I thought was "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth by the Dandy Warhols is a song that exists," and I'm not exaggerating. I didn't think, "Oh! It's the morning. Today I have to do blah-blah-blah and blah-blah-blah and write blah-blah-blah a text message and do a bunch of other bullshit and- oh yeah! Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth by the Dandy Warhols is a song that exists!" My brain transitioned directly from "sleeping" into "Dandy Warhols thinking." The next exciting that happened was that I downloaded it, and then I listened to it a billion times over the course of the next three days, which feels like a very long time ago now. You can't sustain periods of excessive "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth"-listening for too long, because, well, it's lame. But it's also fantastic, and really does wonders for a person who is working out on an elliptical machine. Perfect iPod shuffle fodder. It definitely captures the annoyingness of the reality of your friends turning into heroin addicts. I agree with Courtney Taylor-Taylor- it's definitely stupider than it is sad. "If you think that I don't understand depression and emotional pain/ You're insane" as well as "Never thought you'd get addicted/ Just be cooler in an obvious way" are two of the cheeky-awesomest lyrics I've ever heard. Best single of the 1990s, perhaps? Not counting "Parklife" and "Connection"?
PS: The other two Dandy Warhols songs that are good are "Minnesoter", because it says "jerked off" in it, and "Get Off", thanks to "Hot diggity Dog/ I love God all the same." These are the number one and two songs of all time that taught my high school self everything I knew about what sex is in no way like in real life. (Laura Jane)
Emitt Rhodes, "She's Such A Beauty"
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PAUL McCARTNEY
That's what the inside of my brain looks like this week.
Why? Because I'm going to see Paul McCartney in three days. Let's celebrate by listening to "She's Such A Beauty" by Emitt Rhodes, the greatest song Paul never wrote. (LJ)
Adam and the Ants, "Dog Eat Dog"
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I feel like I need to say only two things about Adam and the Ants and this song. 1) Kings of the Wild Frontier, from which this track is from, is a fucking amazing record, one of those New Wave records that's so much more than New Wave. I highly recommend that those inclined check out the entire record, it's soooooo good. And 2) JUST LOOK AT THE MAN AND HIS CHEEKBONES:
There's a reason why I like dudes with eyeliner so much, and that reason is Adam Ant. (Kat)
U2, "Love Comes Tumbling"
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The most pretentious, annoying dude I ever met in my life once told me when I was 14 that U2's best songs were their b-sides. I hate to admit it, but I'm inclined to agree. B-sides are by nature more humble music, and via the b-side, you're able to forget in a song like this that it's U2, usually being all iconic and stuff. Here, you simply think, "Gosh, what a lovely, atmospheric rock song this is! What beautiful guitar work! What a self-effacing, mellow, unassuming vocal!" That's not really what I think, actually--I usually like to listen to this at night these days, looking out the window towards the Brooklyn Bridge twinkling in the distance, warm summer breeze floating like a ghost through the apartment, trying to contemplate my next step in life because I have no idea what's going to happen to me in September. It's that rare U2 song that gives you room to drift and dream. And it's just lovely, no? (Kat)
Luscious Jackson, "Ladyfingers"
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This song is the song of my best self. It's my psychic phenylethylamine. That's all. (Liz)
T. Rex, "Planet Queen"
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The second best thing I did this week was mark my 7th anniversary of living in L.A. by getting my first-ever pedicure and then eating plum crepes at Paul McCartney's Favorite Los Angeles restaurant. According to About.com, this is our "Wool/Copper" anniversary, a celebration of Ideas and Symbols. Also according to About.com, I'm supposed to buy Los Angeles a desk set. But instead I'm just going to give L.A. an mp3 of "Planet Queen," because L.A. is "Queen of the Planet," and because I totally feel that "She used my head like a revolver" lyric (in a good way!). "Planet Queen" makes me feel everything in a good way, really. It's my psychic gamma-aminobutyric acid. (Liz)
Tags: elliptical machines, Emitt Rhodes, Los Angeles, love, neurotransmitters, Paul McCartney, pedicures, planets, plum crepes, revolvers, the Dandy Warhols
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4 Comments!!
isn't it so wild that i unintentionally picked two albums with 'electric' in the title? yup.
By Liz
on August 5, 2010 1:01 PM
Kat-
i know who that "pretentious, annoying dude" is and i see him almost every day now... i need a vacation!
By rob on August 5, 2010 3:21 PM
LJ: I love that lame-ass Dandy Warhols song.
By Ames on August 5, 2010 5:39 PM
god help you, rob!!!!! omg, i have to know why you're seeing him almost every day again now!
xo k.
By Kat
on August 5, 2010 9:10 PM