WHERE IS MY MIND? OK, I'll get started, cuz somebody's got to. Right now, I can't get enough of The Pixies' "Where is My Mind?"
The band is very direct, ragged—kind of a punk/alternative outfit. I like that. There's a terrific guitar figure. A great dynamic of soft and loud.
Then there's that haunting "oooo" that Kim Deal is warbling throughout, and especially at the end. Just as sound, it just doesn't get any better than this. Kills me every time.
Lyrically—well, who knows. Our hero is swimming in the Carribean. But, somehow, he is inspired to ask, Where is My Mind? He's in trouble. Maybe.
I can relate.
Transport me, oh Pixies! —Roy
So go ahead.
23 comments:
The Beach Boys? "Don't Worry Baby"?
Why?
Roy? Who's Roy?
It's no secret: Chunk Wheeler = Roy Bauer, IVC philosophy professor
I think the Pixies were a GREAT band
I too love the Pixies, Chunk. My favorite by them is "Gouge Away."
You and I share many favorites. If I wasn't married I'd say we should be dating.
Favorite song has to be "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix. Of course I may have a fixation on that song after listening to it all night long while experiencing a mega dose of fine quality acid while staying at a friend's home in Kamakura, Japan in 1970.
Listen, RockDad, if you mean Voodoo Child--Slight Return (the less bluesy version), then I'm totally with you! I'll add it to my list. To this day, that song sends me!
I actually mesmerfocused on the slow, sexy version, but the "slight return" wails also. I have yet to experience such a sexual nirvana from any other song; somehow the L and that song combined in an erotic crossbreeding of unusual and once-in-a-lifetime intensity. No woman at the party was safe. Then at dawn we went to the big bronze Buddha near the beach at Kamakura, where for a pittance you can go inside the hollow structure. When a busload of American tourists showed up, I was inside shouting out at the puzzled jetsetters, "Buddha sez GO HOME!!!"
To this day I can still be quite annoying.
my favorite would be Children of Zion by Rev. Gary Davis.
Of the bluesmen coming from the twenties and thirties, my fave, as a guitar player, is Skip James. I assume you've heard his earlier recording of "I'm so Glad"?
Skip James' "I'm So Glad", what a great song. I fondly remember playing that song with my Cream-style trio at the Marina Palace in Seal Beach back in the early 70s. They had that stupid revolving stage and the groups were required to be playing their first song as the stage was rotated into the audience's view. But the previous group was also playing as the stage rotated, so the din was deafening.
By the way, I still have the 1955 Gibson Les Paul Special I played at that gig, although it is in pieces right now for some repairs.
If you get a chance, go see Dread Zeppelin at the Coach House sometime. They are outrageous! and their lead singer imitates Elvis while singing Led Zep songs. Funny.
Little Bird, Little Acorns, Little Room, or Little Cream Soda by The White Stripes...or if that's too much, try Top Yourself by The Raconteurs
Really? Are the Raconteurs worth listening to? It always seemed like a bad idea to me.
I was wary at first (especially as the term "supergroup" was getting tossed around a lot, and for some reason that's kind of a turn-off for me), but they really put together a solid album. They're different, though, so maybe it's an acquired taste...? In any case, it never hurts to try something new, no matter how potentially sucktastic it may seem to be.
"Ain't Nobody's Business"--Mississippi John Hurt
"Worried Man Blues"--Carter Family version
"Hejira"--Joni Mitchell
"Big White Cloud"--John Cale
My favorite song ain't nobody's business.
Mr. Natural ain't no liberal pinhead.
Now isn't that argumentative?
Oh sheesh, I forgot a song. Well, how about "In the Garden of Eden", Iron - Butterflied into heightened -consciousness speak (or otherwise known as)
"inagaddadavida babee, donchaknowdat
I'm lovingyouhoo-oo"
"Anarchy in the U.K." by the Sex Pistols and "TV Eye" by Iggy and the Stooges both appeal to my troglodyte side.
By the way, Iggy and the Stooges recently performed at a fashion show somewhere, I saw it on TV. Cool stuff. I ran out and bought my first Stooges album after seeing Iggy Pop perform at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go back in 1970.
Amazing onceinalifetime mindblower event for me, turned me upside down and knocked all the change outta my pockets. And no, you won't find any peanut butter on my nipples, although I thought about it.
Hey rockdad, we are watching you and your peanut butter, we know where you live. Troglodyke?
Jimi Hendrix
(Let Me Light Your) Fire
enough said
Hendrix said, "Let me STAND NEXT TO your fire", not "light your" fire.
Put down the hookah and listen to the song again.
OK, boys. We can ALL agree that Hendrix is a God.
To this day, there is no song that transports me reliably more than Voodoo Child--Slight Return. --Chunk W
"music when the lights go out"- the libertines
"you are too beautiful"- johnny hartman
anndddd
"up to the mountain"- patty griffin, kelly clarkson did an amazing cover at an American Idol Concert/Charity Event but it's nowhere to be found except on youtube ):
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