Björk: Cocoon
Björk’s most explicitly erotic song on Vespertine (video: Eiko Ishioka). The lyrics on this album were inspired by the poems of e.e.cummings. Excellent song review here. Björk Cocoon Who would have known : that a boy like him would have entered me lightly restoring my blisses Who would have known : that a boy like […]
Björk: Unravel
This quiet week there’s hardly anyone spending time online visiting this blog, so I’m just going to post some stuff connected to my choice of album of the decade (drumroll:) Björk’s Vespertine. While you are away My heart comes undone Slowly unravels In a ball of yarn The devil collects it With a grin Our […]
J is for join in
Anytime is a time for singing, so come on, folks, join in! Benny Goodman 1946: All the Cats Join In From “Make Mine Music”, composed by Alec Wilder, Ray Gilbert and Eddie Sauter Hop in the old jallop And head for the malted shop And all the cats join in Down goes my last two […]
D is for devil
“I’m caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.” When you’re faced with two dangerous alternatives, you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. An earlier version of the idea of being caught between evil and the sea is found in Homer’s Odyssey, where Odysseus is caught between Scylla (a six-headed monster) […]
Animal Collective: My Girls
The members of this band, originally from Baltimore, love horror films and head trips, and they’ve got some music that gives me a headache. But then there’s this soaring, let’s-build-a-simple-home-for-our-children song. The lyrics don’t really make much sense, after all, “status” isn’t a material thing. Or am I being picky? Um, and “slats” rhyme with […]
And when I die
Laura Nyro‘s original version is deep, but I’m posting the video of Peter, Paul and Mary singing in Sydney, instead, where the soaring camera and the sailboats out on the harbor match the uplifting harmonies. Sometimes I feel those we have lost are close by, up around our heads somewhere. Chorus: And when I die […]
Say, do you remember dancin’ in September?
Earth Wind and Fire’s “September” freshly interpreted by the absolutely wonderful YouTube/ real-life duo Pomplamoose (with the help of grandma and puppet). It cracks me up (bringt mich zum Lachen): You’ll see them eating in practically every video they make, perhaps to remind you that musicians do, indeed, need to eat, just like the rest […]
