I finally got around to making “liner” notes for one of my playlists. To keep things concise, because I tend to get verbose from time to time, I did the notes in Twitter so I knew I’d have a limit to how much I could write.
Without further ado, here’s playlist #1.
~ Big Sugar – AAA Aardvark Hotel: Old skool rock/honky tonk. My fav Cnd. band during the 90′s
~ Buck 65 – Wicked And Weird: All road trips should be this carefree and aimless. [But with a better car!]
~ Sleater-Kinney – Entertain: What sarcasm and anger should always sound like. Done for love, not $$ [Not sure what I was getting at; perhaps that there's a difference between making music for the love of it and making it for the money.]
~ Loud Lucy – Ticking: Still reminds me of high school. Should be listened to at max volume.
~ Sloan – She Says What She Means: Love love love Sloan. It’s hard to say the things you need to say. [It was also hard to pick one Sloan song.]
~ Average White Band – Pick Up the Pieces: Everyone needs to just get the funk out!
~ Joel Plaskett Emergency – Nowhere With You: Song about my Friday nights in the ‘Fax. [Not all of them - just the ones that ended at Pizza Corner at 2am.]
~ The Inbreds – You Will Know: Long lost jem of a band. My sis and I fought over this CD for years. [That's the short story. The longer story is that I loved this CD, and I didn't think she ever listened to it, so I "borrowed" it. Apparently, she noticed its absence and "borrowed" my Portishead CD until I gave The Inbreds back.]
~ Blur – There’s No Other Way: In battle of Blur vs. Oasis, I always side with Blur. Song from gr. 9 [As in, this was one of the songs that got me through the first year or two of high school and cemented my love of the Madchester scene when everyone else was listening to grunge.]
~ James – Sit Down: Another high school flashback. Quirky and an oasis from grunge music saturation.
~ Modest Mouse – Jesus Christ Was an Only Child: Simple but charming. Folksy and weird.
~ Mötley Crüe – Dr Feelgood: To be part of my posse, you must headbang to this song at max volume. [Hee. There's a story about how this is the song that Karen and I bonded over on our way to my first staff retreat in Sault Ste. Marie when I worked in Sudbury. It's long, and you'd need to see the flailing that accompanies the telling.]
~ Soul Coughing – Screenwriters Blues: Amanda Bishop, debating bud, where are you? You gave me this! [Amanda was a friend of mine from my high school years as a model UN debater; she went to a different high school, but we always hung out at competitions with a couple of other people. One day we were hanging out at her house, and she played this CD of a band she thought were teh bomb - and she was right, they were. This is the song that always reminds me of her.]
~ Zildo Ildo – Workin’ Class Blues: A secret band who were not-so-secretly awesome. [They were one of those bands you had to know someone who knew someone in the band to have every heard of them - it was through Julie's ex that I knew them. Back in the Napster years, I would get really excited messages from people wanting to know how I'd heard of them.]
~ Wonderstuff – Closer To Fine: WAY better than the original. This is what it should sound like. [It's a song about disillusionment, and should be sung by someone who can pull of the pissed-off sound, which Miles Hunt always could.]
~ Alanis Morissette – So Pure: I dare you not to dance or be happy listening to this song.