R.E.M. - "Welcome To The Occupation" (live)
See that? Every time I think the iPod is done it returns from the dead. It's like I have the Scott Baio of iPods. Anyhoo, nice kick off to the return of the playlist. I haven't paid a whole lot of attention to R.E.M. in a about 15 years, but there is no doubting their once-great status. And listening to the live version of this song, which is of course the second track on the 1987 album Document, it occurred to me that this was a pretty seminal piece of music in my own cultural development. Document is arguably be the first alternative/indie (whatever you want to call it) album I ever bought. (Except I had it on cassette, naturally.) I was a sophomore in high school and although "The One I Love" was a Billboard hit, these were the crazy days of Huey Lewis & the News, Bon Jovi and Janet Jackson. A young highschooler could easily be ensnared in the clutches of horrible synth pop or toothless rock. Sure, U2, The Cure and other alternative bands were already doing their thing, but it's hard to imagine what my life would be like if I hadn't caught that strange and moody video for "The One I Love" on MTV. I could be blogging about Scott Baio, for instance. Oops.
The New Pornographers - "The Spirit Of Giving"
Bruce Springsteen - "Old Dan Tucker"
The Kinks - "Education" (live)
The Arcade Fire - "My Body Is A Cage"
Devendra Banhart - "Will Is My Friend"
The Flaming Lips - "Turn It On"
Mose Allison - "Idyll"
Elvis Costello & The Imposters - "The Monkey"
Wilco - "ELT"
Pavement - "We Are Underused"
Bishop Allen - "Ghosts Are Good Company"
Iron & Wine - "Free Until They Cut Me Down"
Takka Takka - "Sofia"
Emmylou Harris - "Tragedy"
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - "Beachcombing"
And then I got to work.
Today's Stats
Total songs listened to: 17
Total minutes of music (approx.): 68
Song with the most previous plays: "Old Dan Tucker" - 11
How I Rate Today's Playlist (1-10): 7
Miscellaneous factoid about my trip to work today: Slow train. Long playlist.
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Love REM, but I don't get U2 or The Cure or many of the 80's bands. Is it just me, or am I old and suffering from "Sinatra Syndrome" (you know the greatest, living singer of our time yada yada yada.) I like the music of the 60's 70's and 90's better than almost any group from the 80's. Maybe I was too busy to listen.....I must like some music from that era but it seems to be a lost musical time for me.
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