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Five for Friday, 4 8 15 16 23 42 edition

25th-Apr-2008 08:22 pm

MAC HELD HOSTAGE -- DAY FOUR!

While most of my files were saved before my laptop was shipped off to the downtown clinic of emergency hard drive transplant surgery, the hefty stockpile of music that was on it was understandably backed up be my workplace Computing Services department. The precious, precious iPod will ensure that I don't actually lose all those songs, but the situation does suggest a topic.

The movie quote that marks our lj-cut this week is just for you,

silent_spring.

As always, please play along...

Five Lost Songs

1. Swamp Thing, "Trail of Bones." There were many discoveries to be made when I alit in the college radio station in the city of wonderful water. One of the bands that found its way to fairly regular inclusion in my many, many playlists was this clever outfit from downstate in Madison. I'm fairly sure that this song appeared only on a 45 and it is not anywhere in my personal collection (not that I currently have the required vinyl spinner to listen to it if it were nestled somewhere in my meager record crates). "You can't sell your winter coat when springtime comes around" is a perfect lyric for a Wisconsin band.

2. The Feelies, "Sooner or Later." I cracked open the CD case on Time for a Witness a few weeks ago only to discover exposed black plastic staring back at me. Where the actual CD is remains a mystery. Of course it is out of print.

3. Billy Bragg, "The Saturday Boy." Thankfully I found this one eventually. When I was in high school one of the local radio stations had a halfhearted stab at programming "alternative music" in the ghetto of Sunday night. I knew Billy Bragg was their featured artist for the night and I was confident this song was him when they played it (I wasn't yet familiar enough with the Bard of Barking that his melodic accent was immediately recognizable), but the DJ never backsold his music leaving me unsure about the title of the song. I never stumbled upon it at 90FM either, only finding it years later, immediately recognizing it as the gentle tale of schoolboy romance that caught my ear a decade before.

4. Three Dog Night, "Shambala." Remember that time Hurley found the old van on the island and he fixed it and drove it around the lush island greenery while "Shambala" played on the 8-track? That was awesome.
It is a pretty fantastic song and it's a great one to drive to. Well done, Lost.

5. The Clash, "Lost in the Supermarket." "I can no longer shop happily."

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Comments

25th-Apr-2008 01:57 pm (UTC)

whiskeyson

1. Vandals...Peace thru Vandalism...NEVER NEVER NEVER leave yr original pressing pieces of vinyl in the car over night thinking you'll get them out first thing in the morning...cause you won't...DAMN IT!

2. Van Morrison...Astral Weeks...the above also applies to yr sister using yr suitcase turntable to supply the soundtrack for her tanning session...she won't understand you screaming "SIGNED COPY!" over and over...

3. Johhny Cash...Live from Folsom Prison...I have purchsed this album on vinyl many many times only to have it disappear many many tuimes...on an odd side note, ALL of my family members have this album on vinyl...(THEIVES!)

4. Velvet Crush...Teenage Symphonies To God...My friends and I spent 3 LONG tense increasingly sober hours lost in (of all places) Madison Wisconsin following another friends wedding reception...this was our soundtrack...

5. The Ewok Song...I had a small AM radio I used to hide under my pillow so I could listen to it after I was supposed to be sleeping... I loved catching stations from Chicago on those cold Minnesota winter nights, it seemed so distant and weird...I heard this late one night and it stuck...I didn't see Jedi until I was well into my twenties...it made me very happy to be able to put it all together...

25th-Apr-2008 02:31 pm (UTC)

caker_66

I know the Ewok song phonetically. I could sing it to you sometime. It's actually a cover of the Muppets, "Can you picture that."

I am also a complete loser for admitting that.

25th-Apr-2008 02:33 pm (UTC)

coffeefortwo

Getting

caker_66 to admit that Ewoks even exist is a pretty big deal.

25th-Apr-2008 02:50 pm (UTC)

caker_66

IT SHOULDA BEEN WOOKIES!!!

25th-Apr-2008 02:36 pm (UTC) - #4 I've got the Shirt

mmmm_beer

Vic and i were digging through some old crates of stuff and I stumbled upon a t-shirt with the album cover on it, I'll be damned if I know where the companion CD is.

27th-Apr-2008 05:28 am (UTC)

point_cowtown

Velvet Crush? NICE! Interviewed one of those guys...Borchardt was his last name...from Neenah I believe. What a great album.

25th-Apr-2008 02:24 pm (UTC)

Lurker

Ha!! I think the lost song Ralphie should have been searching for was "Pickin' Cotton Blues." That would have given Steve Buscemi the blues.

1. X, "I'm Lost." Driving to work this morning, I was listening to Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp and felt it wasn't rootsy enough. So I put on See How We Are and tipped that MPH needle way forward. X were kind of lost at this point, but it was sure better than Ain't Love Grand.

2. Hank Williams, "Lost Highway." This piece of American Late Night Driving Music belongs to everyone with a past they'd like to forget... the outlaws, the sinners, the broken, the Mekons...

3. Beck, "Lost Caust." "I'm tired of fighting..."

4. Screaming Trees, "Nearly Lost You." Sometimes unfairly lumped with the grunge explosion (they released a bunch of records on SST before the 90's, played psychedelic music, and weren't called Soundgarden), Mark Lanegan and his 700 pound backing band were far from the stereotypes of the Seattle scene. Well, this song is about heroin, so maybe this was the exception.

5. "Wire, 'Practice Makes Perfect.'" In the early days of P2P downloading (the glory days of Napster circa '00), I would go on quests of musical avarice. Monetarily safe, the days of reading-about-looking-at-the-cover-then-purchasing were replaced with a reading-about-then-downloading system. However, the system was not perfect. So when I downloaded the first four tracks off Wire's Chairs Missing, I was delighted to hear 5-6 minute songs of feedback, whiskey-soaked vocals, odd time signatures, and haunting string arrangements. "Wire" became my favorite band with these four songs. However, when I bought Chairs Missing, the songs sounded nothing like what I downloaded. Stupidly, these songs have since been deleted and now I have absolutely no way of finding out who even did these mystery songs. The one good thing that came out of it, though, is that in searching for the mystery band, I've come across several other bands that I have enjoyed. True muse.

-- Phil

25th-Apr-2008 03:54 pm (UTC)

coffeefortwo

Mark Lanegan and his 700 pound backing band

You got that right. We had a Screaming Trees poster up in my first college apartment. I'm not sure why since we routinely referred to them as the ugliest band in college radio.

25th-Apr-2008 02:33 pm (UTC) - not hard to find out of print

danielmath

feelies

you know that a day after you buy it tho, you'll find the cd in another case.

25th-Apr-2008 03:10 pm (UTC)

Lurker

Not sure if I can come up with any songs that I've lost, so I'll take the other angle:

1. Stanley Brothers, "I'm Lost and I'll Never Find My Way". One of many title variations, a bluegrass number I know via The Lonesome Rogues. "Lonesome, lonesome, pining away/Now you say it's best we part/Even though it breaks my heart/I'm lost and I'll never find my way"

2. Simon & Garfunkel, "America". "'Kathy I'm lost', I said, though I knew she was sleeping/I'm empty and aching and I don't know why/Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike/They've all come to look for America"

3. The Who, "Sally Simpson". "The crowd went crazy/As Tommy hit the stage!/Little Sally got lost as the police bossed/The crowd back in a rage!" Oooh!

4. The Byrds, "Lost My Drivin' Wheel". Admittedly I know this one via the next band. "Well I just came up on the midnight special how about that/My car broke down in Texas she stopped dead in her tracks/Just called to tell you that I need you/Just called to tell you how I feel/I feel like some old engine lost my drivin wheel"

5. The Jayhawks, "Waiting For The Sun". "It was not lost on me/It was not lost on me/Walkin' on down the road/Looking for a friend to handout/Somebody to ease my soul"

-lp

25th-Apr-2008 03:42 pm (UTC)

mmmm_beer

1. Otis Redding "Sittin on the dock of the bay" When I was 6 I had this on a 45 and quite literally wore the grooves out on it. Always a huge fan of that song but never actually owning it again, until recently while going through my Dad's stuff I found it. I still can't believe he had it all these years. Haven't tried to play it yet to see if it'll play.

2. When "Bowling for Columbine" was released my brother in law saw it before I did. He described this song about skinheads that he knew he had heard before but couldn't place. I knew the minute he said "Got big lanes" that it was Camper Van Beethoven "Take the skinheads bowling" and had that song stuck in my head for weeks. Too bad I couldn't find the CD anywhere so I could listen to it. Huge props to Steve Seel at 89.3 the current for playing it this morning just as I was creating my list.

3. "Mr. Pink" - Level 42 (OK look down your noses at me now but hear me out) Mark King can bend and pop the bass strings as bad ass as anyone and this track was a bonus on a live double cassette, not available on CD. Lost the cassette and the CD is out of print.

You know that sinking feeling when you wake up in the morning and you walk out to the car only to find the door is wide open? These last two fall under the category 'rarities that were stolen from my car';

4. The Tragically Hip - released an EP prior to the album Day for Night that had a live version of "New Orleans" that was outstanding. Guido said he had it too but it was so scratched up from his car CD player that he couldn't rip a clean copy. Still have the jewel.

5. The plague that make your booty groove...It's the infectious grooves. There were these hilarious interludes between songs about the lizard creature Alladin Sarsipious Salimnagic Jackson the third that just sitting here thinking about them "Haven't you heard my hit single, whipped cream? Whipped Cream rub it all over your body"

25th-Apr-2008 03:47 pm (UTC) - My better half's 2 cents

mmmm_beer

Well ok one cent

Mark Curry - "Sorry about the weather" as I stare out into the mist and fog that I'm currently under. Vic would call and request this song while I was on the air. As a joke I would answer the phone and say "Is this Rachel?" (That's my version anyway, and since I'm doing the typing that's the version you get)

27th-Apr-2008 05:26 am (UTC) - Re: My better half's 2 cents

point_cowtown

I have that one if you want it. 90FM free bin. :(

25th-Apr-2008 03:52 pm (UTC)

coffeefortwo

You know that sinking feeling when you wake up in the morning and you walk out to the car only to find the door is wide open?

Oh man, I do know that feeling. I had that happen to me a couple times while living on East Wash in Madison and once when I was parked for my overnight shift at WMAD (which was very weird considering how isolated the station was). I remember losing a few especially strong mix tapes from that MAD theft.

25th-Apr-2008 03:50 pm (UTC)

maggie226

1. Green Day- choose any from Dookie. I swear I have bought that 3 times. First on cassette, then on CD, then on CD again. I found it briefly, but now it's lost again. And yes, I can find the CASES. Grrr.

2. The Freshies (?), "I'm in Love With the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk." It was on a comp at WPRK, I think it was called Punk Lost and Found (ironic, ain't it?) and now it's lost. Haven't seen it in ages.

3. The Gain, "Go Today." off the Ready, Steady, Smash album. It was vinyl. It's gone. I think Eamon took it.

4. Screeching Weasel, "My Brain Hurts." I had the old CD version, the one that said "Hi Mom" on the spine instead of artist and album name. It disappeared. A listener actually mailed me a copy of it when I was talking about losing it on air.

***I have this fear that many of my missing CDs are actually discs that I played last on my show and forgot to take out of the CD player at the end.***

5. NOFX, "Anarchy Camp." Again, a missing CD. Only this time a missing CD and case. Our best guess is that it was loaned to Dave S...whose house was robbed and guess what the robber took? A bunch of CDs- and the ones he left behind were in such disarray that Dave had a hard time knowing what was taken. Oh yeah, and the robber took a duffel bag (to hold the CDs) and KIRK's bike. Yeah, he had been storing his bike in Dave's shed cause they went bike riding together all the time. And Kirk's bike was not only super-expensive, but it was buried behind my bike and Dave's bike.

25th-Apr-2008 04:03 pm (UTC)

coffeefortwo

***I have this fear that many of my missing CDs are actually discs that I played last on my show and forgot to take out of the CD player at the end.***

That's a sound fear. There were always so many stray CDs floating around the studio, many of them clearly not station property. It would be nice if DJs in following programs--you know the people who can reasonably figure out whose property was inadvertently left in the player--would actually put them in mailboxes instead just throwing them onto the handiest horizontal surface.

25th-Apr-2008 07:42 pm (UTC)

starving_cynic

bjork- "vertebrae by vertebrae"
about losing oneself, only to find who you are through the realization that one is a humble, beautiful, magical animal. given my listening schedule these last few days, this first choice should not be shocking. "she came here to lose face/got down on her knees/the beast is back/on four legs/set her clock to the moon/raises her spine/vertebrae by vertebrae."

best friends forever- "eisenhower is the father"
"would it be totally horrible if we got a few hours off track/and had to sleep in the grass at the rest stop where i once read/eisenhower was the father of the interstate system/and so this song is just a way to say 'thank you' to him." sometimes i try to get myself as lost as possible. well not so much anymore, what with the rising price of gas.

tori amos- "like a virgin"
this is literally a lost song. the tapes exists out there somewhere, but i fear they are locked away deep in a vault. let see what ms. amos has to say about the matter-- "i have done have a cover of 'like a virgin.' i was, um, we were, something was going on in the studio when we were recording Choirgirl and johnny makes these red little drinks... and so the band was there and we're not usually overly lush, but there is this, too many storms, too many problems, and some how, these little red drinks were going around, and i end up doing this cover of "like a virgin," which is just, um, vulgar... i threatened divorce if these tapes came out."

i'm done now. i know, my lack of five songs really makes me a super slacker, but i'm tired.

25th-Apr-2008 07:45 pm (UTC)

coffeefortwo

If you don't have a copy of that "Like a Virgin" cover then it is completely unobtainable.

25th-Apr-2008 08:09 pm (UTC)

starving_cynic

i would stab my first grade teacher in the eye to get a hold of those tapes. though i hardly want to see ms. amos divorce her lovely, talented hobbit husband.

25th-Apr-2008 08:53 pm (UTC)

firthofforth

Ummm...i'm not actually claiming responsibility for

coffeefortwo's #2. But i'm sure it will turn up eventually...

Edited at 2008-04-25 08:54 pm (UTC)

25th-Apr-2008 11:37 pm (UTC)

whiskeyson

LOL too funny...

25th-Apr-2008 09:57 pm (UTC) - (hard.)

jupiterjuniper

1. siouxsie - you're lost little girl. doors/morrison fan that i am, this siouxsie cover takes the cake...more mystery, more melody. love it.

2. aimee mann - lost in space. i think i acquired this album right around the time the magnolia soundtrack came out. funny/ironic as it is, i can't find either of them.

3. the cure - lost. i wish robert smith & co would've lost this recording (recently released self-titled piece of crap) instead of releasing it.

4. the mary onettes - lost. this song is terrific (i recommend it to you highly if you haven't heard it/them). a little bit echo and the bunnymen, a little fuzzy 90's britpop, a little acoustic-indie.

5. the church - lost. i had to do a search online to find a fifth song. i figure the church isn't even settling, so i'll include it here.

25th-Apr-2008 09:59 pm (UTC) - fitting the theme...

jupiterjuniper

doing research for my job the other day had me researching SOS. i learned:

"Many songs have been made of the distress signal SOS, such as "Message in a Bottle" by The Police, "SOS" by ABBA, "SOS" by Rihanna, and "Stranger" by Gamma."

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