Each month, since Feb of 2006, I start a playlist in my iTunes of the tunes that catch my ear that month. I started off writing a post to my Mog page with a short review or comments of each track, not only to keep a running diary for myself, but also to hopefully point others toward these tunes. In the last several months I have started to cross post this information on other sites where I keep blogs. (If you are reading this somewhere besides Mog, you can find all the old ones at www.mog.com/iren) I want to apologies for any weird formatting stuff right here and now, I type this in MS word and then post it on these various message places, some of which have…w ell formatting issues….
Anyway for this month here is what caught my ear…
Dr. Woofenstein
by The Damned
www.officialdamned.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Damned
This is from the new Damned record which I am still getting into and enjoyng. This song just caught my ear, it's a little on the slow side tempo wise, but there is just something in the hook that caught in my brain. This video is not the best, but it will give you the idea what the song sounds like.
Fight Fire With Fire Shotgun Blues
by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan www.myspace.com/isobelcampbel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobel_Campbell
Copperhead Road
by Steve Earle www.steveearle.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Earle
The best video I could find is @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc86_Weoye0 (The Embedding disabled by request) but once again this song was rattling around in my head this month.
The Ballad of Thunder Road
by Robert Mitchum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mitchum
Robert Mitchum wasn't a great singer, but this was the theme for the movie that is referenced in the Steve Earle above and is an interesting companion piece to Copperhead Road
Greetings From Shitsville
by The Wildhearts
www.thewildhearts.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wildhearts
Ever wonder what it would sound like if you mixed power pop vocals and heavy metal riffing..... wonder no more the Wildhearts have build a sound and a following on just that idea.
Hey Iren-I wonder if you care to contribute a brief review of a "forgotten book" for my blog project-http://pattinase.blogspot.com It's been going for eight months now. I'm looking for late Jan. early February. If you check the archives you can get an idea of what it's about. Repeats are fine.
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Hey Iren-I wonder if you care to contribute a brief review of a "forgotten book" for my blog project-http://pattinase.blogspot.com
It's been going for eight months now. I'm looking for late Jan. early February. If you check the archives you can get an idea of what it's about. Repeats are fine.
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