The Infamous 'A Girl Kicked My Ass and Made Me Cry' Playlist
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 07/18/2006 - 12:10
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- 1) Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop ( Low Kick and Hard Bop )
- 2) Beth Orton - Couldn't Cause Me Harm ( Central Reservation )
- 3) Björk - Hyper-Ballad ( Post )
- 4) Joni Mitchell - Down to You ( Court and Spark )
- 5) Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys ( Pretenders )
- 6) The Fiery Furnaces - Two Fat Feet ( Gallowsbird's Bark )
- 7) PJ Harvey - Good Fortune ( Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea )
- 8) Sam Phillips - Signposts ( Martinis & Bikinis )
- 9) Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Twist the Knife ( Furnace Room Lullaby )
- 10) Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane ( The Trinity Session )
- 11) Over the Rhine - What I'll Remember Most ( Ohio )
- 12) Mary Lou Lord - Some Jingle Jangle Morning ( Got No Shadow )
- 13) Dar Williams - The Ocean ( Mortal City )
- 14) My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath ( Isn't Anything )
- 15) Patty Griffin - Every Little Bit ( Living With Ghosts )
- 16) The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket ( Thunder, Lightning, Strike )
- 17) Faders - No Sleep Tonight ( Plug in & Play )
- 18) Gillian Welch - My Morphine ( Hell Among the Yearlings )
- 19) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Miles Away ( Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP )
- 20) Shelby Lynne - Black Lite Blue ( I Am Shelby Lynne )
Author Comments:
All female vocalists. All great songs.
Scaruffi already claims to hate it.
Ha!
Excellent stuff. Just out of curiosity, is that your favorite PJ Harvey song?
Thanks!
I'm not really sure. It might well be my favorite single by the gal/outfit, but several tunes could run a good race for best song. I'd have to think about it...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Hehe. Your Scaruffi comment made me think of some Churck Norris-style jokes about Scaruffi:
Scaruffi doesn't listen to music; music listens to Scaruffi.
Violent earthquakes rent Pangea when Scaruffi admitted a mistake. He later revealed he'd been kidding.
Scaruffi invented thought.
There are no enlightened people. Only people who have met Scaruffi.
I've always been a poor joke-teller.
Jimi Hendrix died at the age of 27 because Scaruffi only gave Axis: Bold of Love a 6/10.
Scaruffi could write all his reviews in multiple languages, but he doesn't want to. Why don't you fucking learn Italian?
If any album at any time is bad, it's because Scaruffi felt like writing a negative review.
The only reason Scaruffi doesn't have his own TV reviewing show like Ebert and Roeper is that looking directly at Scaruffi may blind you.
Global warming is happening because a few years ago, Scaruffi rated CO2 emissions a 3/10.
...yeah, I got nothing.
For some reason this comment got me to start exploring the movie section of his site. Generally good stuff, but then I noticed his 1960s "best of the decade" list, which ranks The Great Race above Persona and 8 1/2, not to mention the other great 60s movies that aren't on the top 14 at all (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove, everything by Sergio Leone, etc.). I guess every eccentric critic has moments when his taste goes beyond unconventional and becomes just plain wrong.
P.S. For those of you who haven't seen The Great Race, picture a Looney Tunes cartoon, take out everything that's funny about it while keeping the cartoony slapstick, film it in live action, stretch it out to two and a half hours, and throw in some feminists who are as annoying as hell.
He'll re-do his history of cinema soon. I can't wait to read his English-language justifications for his most bizarre choices and omissions.
Scaruffi doesn't redo his analysis of cinema history, cinema history redoes itself.
Awesome jokes, both of ya!
Perfect for a Monday morning... :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
This is so excellent. At least the stuff I've heard is great. (I have to thank dgeiser13 and jim for slapping me to The Go! Team and Neko Case et.al. respectively.) I just want to say...
Belly - Full Moon, Empty Heart ( Star )
Toni Childs - I've Got To Go Now ( House of Hope )
Sinéad Lohan - Diving to be Deeper ( No Mermaid )
Joan Osborne - Right Hand Man ( Relish )
Have you created this mix in the corporeal world or is it imaginary?
Good stuff, even if I haven't heard the Lohan tune...
This is an actual mix I made for a birthday where all I really knew about the woman's taste is that she dug Jenny Lewis/Rilo Kiley and Cat Power. Stick two seconds between the tunes, and the disc tops out just over 79 1/2 minutes, which does barely fit a CD.
I had to chop several tunes because of the pesky time limit; at one point Dolly Parton's Jolene, Ella Fitzgerald's Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, and the Pixies' Gigantic were also included, along with a few others...
Thank you!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
How could you ever chop off a Dolly tune?! And I would throw something by Tanya Tucker in--"What's Your Mama's Name," perhaps?
Johnny Waco (who likes the mix very much...)
The disc was full, so I decided to err on the side of stylistic unity over other issues. Tossing a country and jazz tune in the middle of the mix made a little less sense than chopping out some tune I was sure the birthday gal would probably like.
I hated to cut 'em, though...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
You may find this interesting. But probably not.
Thanks for the link! As a Homer geek, I didn't find anything new there except for Mr. Dalby's particular combination of older assertions, most of which are entertaining speculation.
Either epic might have been written (or at least partially composed, orally or in print) by a woman, but I don't really see much proof hinting at either gender. I think Dalby's "evidence" is rather simplistic and, at times, too quick to assing gender qualities, especially to an era with different roles than our own.
Besides, as the article notes, Butler beat him to the idea that The Odyssey specifically was written by a woman (back in 1897!), so I am a little surprised Salon is presenting this as a controversial theory. Then again, my opinion of Salon is quite low, so perhaps I should not be shocked. It was probably a slow news week in the arts... :)
There was one slightly misleading part of the article, though.
""The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" tell us a great deal about how gender, sexuality and property relations worked in early classical Greece, and it isn't pretty. "
Well, strictly true, but only to a point. Most scholarship now believes that the epics portray the social conditions of the period of their composition more than the do of the time period of the actual action of the epics. In fact, much evidence hints that women had more equality in that part of the world at the time around the Trojan War than they did in the classical era around the 400s BCE, and possibly more freedom than hardly any other point of time excepting our current day.
The epics were probably finally edited into wholes around 750 (Dalby's later date may be correct, but his reasoning for it is flimsy beyond belief), so the poor position of women very probably reflects their status at that point of time more than they do the earlier days of the actual war (c. 1200 BCE).
The political system portrayed almost certainly reflects this same situation. The loose confederation of kings that Agamemnon heads up belongs to the realities of eight century but most probably not those of the thirteenth.
I'm babbling. Forgive me.
Again, thanks!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Have you heard Robin Holcomb? Great stuff.
I've heard a few songs, and I like them.
I notice she is on my Rhapsody service, so I'll have to listen to some more. Thanks for the suggestion!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs