Category: Music

When attending a performance of an attractive young jazz singer performing scorching love songs, be sure to spend at least fifty percent of the performance gazing admiringly at your beautiful wife.

But Nissan has placed The Cardigans’ “LoveFool” under its new Altima commercials, with the chorus repeating:

Love me love me
say that you love me
fool me fool me
go on and fool me

Hardly something to fill consumers with confidence about a product.

Bobby McFerrin stops in to tell us he’s going on vacation:

For years he’s been telling people, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Now Bobby McFerrin has decided it’s time to take his own advice.

“I’ve got one week left, and then I’m done for a year,” a weary McFerrin told The Associated Press during a weekend visit to UCLA, where he was accepting an award from the Henry Mancini Institute for his contributions to music.

“I haven’t had a sabbatical, I haven’t taken a year off from touring in 15 years at least,” said McFerrin, whose bright and bouncy ditty, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” seemed to put his name on everybody’s lips in 1988 when it won Grammys for song of the year and record of the year.

Some of us might be forgiven in thinking that McFerrin’s been on vacation for about 17 years, give or take.

The Police, “Wrapped Around Your Finger”:

Aristophanes is not your name
I know what you’re up to just the same

Because classical scholars who know who Aristophanes was also know Mephistopheles.

Hey, did you hear that Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour were seen going into King’s Rood Studios outside of London on Monday?

Me either, but since this is the Internet, it might be true. If true is a synonym for “made up on the spot.”

Pink Floyd to reunite for London concert July 2:

Four members of seminal British rock band Pink Floyd will play together for the first time in 24 years at London’s Live 8 charity concert for Africa on July 2, publicists for the event said today.

Guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Richard Wright will be on stage with bassist Roger Waters for their first public performance since they played at London’s Earls Court in 1981.

I would welcome a new studio album from Pink Floyd as long as it’s a Pink Floyd album and not a bad Roger Waters album.

Woohoo! My first Saw Doctors CD arrived in the mail today.

I know, after listening for six years, you would think I would have one by now; however, every time I looked for them in the local music shops, they weren’t in stock. I am always so very slow to Amazon one.

Feel free to use that new verb in your sentences from now on: To Amazon (v tr). I Amazon it, you Amazon it, he she or it Amazons it, we Amazon it. Remember, to keep the short o sound, when you add a suffix, it’s Amazonned, Amazonning, Amazonner.

Scene from my cassette rack:

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Axl Rose had nightmares like this.

Jeez, Louise, ten years later, and I can still name all five original Spice Girls by their spice names and their real names.

Even though I only just today listened all the way through to my first Spice Girls song.

Is it a blessing or a curse?

This morning, Weber and Dolan (teh best morning radio show evar!!!1!) asked listeners what albums they could sing from memory. I didn’t call in because I would have filled the segment myself.

Not that you care, but here’s a partial enumeration of albums I could sing end-to-end were they playing (although for many, I am taken aback when they’re played on CD and there’s no pause between the song at the end of side 1 and the beginning of side 2).

So, anyway:

• 52nd Street by Billy Joel
• Glass Houses by Billy Joel
• An Innocent Man by Billy Joel
• Piano Man by Billy Joel
• Greatest Hits Volume 1 by Billy Joel
• Greatest Hits Volume 2 by Billy Joel
• Scoundrel Days by a-ha
• Hunting High and Low by a-ha
• Stay on These Roads by a-ha
• East of the Sun, West of the Moon by a-ha
• Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
• Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
• Animals by Pink Floyd
• The Wall by Pink Floyd
• A Momentary Lapse of Reason by Pink Floyd
• Flesh and Blood by Poison
• Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich by Warrant
• David Gilmour by David Gilmour
• About Face by David Gilmour
• Sports by Huey Lewis and the News
• A Pocket Full of Kryptonite by The Spin Doctors
• I’m Your Man by Leonard Cohen
• These Eyes by The Guess Who
• The Return of Bruno by Bruce Willis
• No Time to Kill by Clint Black
• Repeat Offender by Richard Marx
• No Fences by Garth Brooks
• Greatest Hits Volume 1 by The Eagles
• The Scattering by Cutting Crew
• David Gilmour by David Gilmour
• Weird Al Yankovic by Weird Al Yankovic
• Dare to Be Stupid by Weird Al Yankovic

What can I say? I listened to these things over and over in my high school and college years. Note that none of these albums dates past 1994. Telling.

Now, you play. What albums could you sing every song on if that album is playing?