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Suzanne Vega : Ironbound - Fancy Poultry [ purchase ] During Metals week, I was hard at work shopping for a new file host, and making improvements to my blog. So I never got the chance to post this one. The Ironbound section of Newark NJ is a Portugese enclave. The area takes its name from ...
Indie Music
Sleater-Kinney: I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone [ Purchase ] It was just a few weeks ago that we did a Name-Droppers theme. I had a few ideas that week, but only ended up finding time to post once. So now is my chance to make amends. In particular, I wanted to include (what some would consider) ...
Indie Music
Sleater-Kinney
Joey Ramone
Sonic Youth
Health and Happiness Show: Tossed Like a Stone [ purchase ] Looking over the past year's themes, the Similes week stuck out for the paucity of posts: just two short missives. It was the middle of August, I was on vacation, and I'm guessing other SMM'ers were, too. So here's what I ...
Indie Music
DJ Drama
Tori Amos: Thank You [ purchase ] I've never been a Led Zeppelin fan... so when I discovered this cover of their song, with Tori's ethereal vocal and exquisite piano, it gave me a fresh appreciation... A dear friend used the lyrics as a poetry reading in her wedding ceremony 11 years ago - ...
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Tori Amos
Led Zeppelin
Ray Davies
Jesse Winchester: Thanks To You [ purchase ] Emmylou Harris: Thanks To You [ purchase ] Chris Smither: Thanks To You [ purchase ] I encountered this song as a 1997 cover in the hands of ragged folk-blues guitarist Chris Smither, who plays the song out as a rapid-fire wail of almost ...
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Emmylou Harris
Jesse McCartney
Jackson Browne : The Load-Out [ purchase ] Jackson Browne’s album Running On Empty is a collection of songs about the life of a touring band. Songs were recorded on stage, of course, but also in hotel rooms and even on the tour bus. To conclude the album, Browne wrote The Load-Out as a ...
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Jackson Browne
Natalie Merchant: Kind and Generous [ Purchase ] When I first heard this song on the radio I thought it was catchy, but corny. I did like it though. I had always thought it was probably ultimately a song to thank a parent for bringing her up in a loving home. Then I saw Natalie perform at ...
Indie Music
Natalie
Lilith
Erin McKeown : Thanks For the Boogie Ride [ purchase ] My first response to this week’s theme was to realize that I had used three of my best choices for a post on my own blog, Oliver di Place . My next thought was that there are many songs of the “thank you for your love” variety. At that ...
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Erin McKeown
Mary Chapin Carpenter: Thanksgiving Song [ purchase ] I know we don't usually submit new songs, but I hope everyone can forgive the exception - in April 2007, Mary Chapin Carpenter experienced a serious health scare, and I have no doubt this song , from last year's Come Darkness, Come Light ...
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World Party: Thank You World [ purchase ] I was a senior in college in 1990, and my (and the country's) environmental consciousness was at a pre-global warming high point. I was heavily involved in a student environmental group, and was well on my way to becoming a vegetarian. When Goodbye ...
Indie Music
The Rolling Stones
Norman Blake : Uncle [ purchase ] Uncle tells the tale of a man who briefly but profoundly touched the life of the narrator. I don’t know the back story on this one, but this song feels autobiographical to me. In hard times, his uncle came to live with the family. He did amazing things that ...
Indie Music
Maurice Chevalier: Thank Heaven For Little Girls [ purchase ] Of all the things I'm thankful for, my daughters top the list; in a rare display of personal sentiment, that's them pictured above, with their best friend Arwen on a cold Cape Cod beach this summer. This Maurice Chevalier ...
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Eliza Gilkyson: Prayer 2000 [ purchase ] Today's offering is a tip of the proverbial hat to Vesta_66, who chimed in last week with how much she (guessing on the gender) appreciates the "wisdom, maturity and respect" of the SMM contributors and commenters (as well as specifically likes the ...
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Johnny Dowd : Thanksgiving Day [ purchase ] "You don’t have to be a rock star to have fun, You don’t have to be a soldier to carry a gun, You don’t have to be a postman to mail a letter, Be content with your life - it may not get any better..." Says it all ...
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The Police : Don‘t Stand So Close To Me [ purchase ] Like Susan, I was taken aback when I saw our theme for this week. How did we get here so soon after Domestic Violence week? But, I didn’t have to deal with it right away. I had work to do for my own blog, that occupied most of the start ...
Indie Music
The Police
Sting
Cry Cry Cry: I Know What Kind of Love This Is [ purchase ] I had originally been saving this song until the end of the week. But the diversity of posts so far - and the way in which each of us has come to the table using this week's theme to wrestle so well with a difficult issue - makes me ...
Indie Music
Larrikin Love
Pee Shy: Little Dudes [ Purchase ] The strength of this blog is in the unique and varied perspectives it brings together through music. When we find out the theme each week, it is our own responsibility to interpret it the way we see fit, and different song choices show different sides to ...
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The Dudes
Jim Croce : Five Short Minutes [ purchase ] Steve Goodman : Death Of A Salesman [ purchase ] Here are two more musical examples that show what can happen to a guy who involves himself with under aged girls. And again, as in my previous post, neither of these condone, but rather they show ...
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Steve Albini
Jim O'Rourke
Big Star: Thirteen [ purchase ] I have to admit that like Susan , I too was a bit surprised by this week's theme. It took me a while to figure out what direction to go in for my post, but I found the answer in this innocent love song... "Thirteen" is a sweet song of adolescent love from ...
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Big Boi
Jim O'Rourke
Collin Raye: I Think About You [ purchase ] I've been having a backchannel exchange with Boyhowdy since mid-day, and his as-always eloquent and informed responses gave me the courage to go public with my privately-expressed feelings – below is a copy-and-paste of my side of the dialogue: ...
