Friday, June 10, 2005

FRT: Why Won't You Dance With Me? Edition

Image stolen from Lauren at www.feministe.us/blog/It's that time of the week again. I found this very cool Friday Random Ten graphic over at feministe and it looks so much like my accordion that I had to steal it (the graphic, that is). Anyway, here's the list:

  1. "Dance This Mess Around" B-52s (B-52s)
  2. "Alabama Song" Marianne Faithfull (Seven Deadly Sins)
  3. "The Kind" Steve Earle (Jerusalem)
  4. "That Don't Make it Junk" Leonard Cohen (Ten New Songs)
  5. "Sin City" Flying Burrito Brothers (Sacred Hearts & Fallen Angels)
  6. "Evil Town" the Pinetops (Above Ground & Vertical)
  7. "After the Gold Rush" kd lang (Hymns of the 49th Parallel)
  8. "The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" Sandy Denny (Who Knows Where the Time Goes)
  9. "The Happy Song" Otis Redding (Very Best Of)
  10. "Androgynous" Crash Test Dummies (The Ghosts that Haunt Me)

Posted by alphabitch at 6/10/2005 11:19:00 AM

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You reminded me of how much I miss Sandy Denny. All it takes is to see her name; I can hear her voice, and I'll be listening to her inside myself all day ...

And tomorrow by this hour
She will be far away
Far from these islands
And the lonely Fotheringay

6/10/2005 1:12 PM
alphabitch said...

she's coming up a lot today on the randomizer.

6/10/2005 2:55 PM
Magpie said...

i only heard sandy denny once live, in 1974, when she was well past her prime.

i vividly remember her & the rest of fairport tearing through 'tam lin' and 'one more chance.' the memory of her singing still give me chills.

6/10/2005 5:40 PM
alphabitch said...

she was all of what -- 26 in 1974?

6/10/2005 5:49 PM
Magpie said...

alcohol surely took its toll on her.

interestingly, i heard steeleye span play in the same hall as fairport, just two weeks earlier. and even in her diminished state, sandy denny sung rings around maddy prior.

6/11/2005 2:12 PM
alphabitch said...

DPR: Pinetops are (were, alas) a NC band; you can hear samples here. At least one of the Pinetops, Jeffrey Dean Foster, is still performing & recording. I think you can hear/download stuff from his website. Seriously good stuff.

Oh, and if you saw Fairport in 1969 I think you probably saw Richard Thompson. Magpie will correct me if I'm wrong. Genius guitarist. Lots of their non-traditional tunes are his, also. If you dig out those LPs you'll probably see his name on the credits.

6/13/2005 12:54 PM

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