Have a listen
I’ve mentioned I’m playing keys in a band, yes? Well here’s the kind of music we play.
http://www.imeem.com/helenkosings
Ten Most Favorite Movie Songs
I thought, “This will be easy….” and that was 3 hours ago. I’ma have to divide this into several categories and call these:
10 (OR SO) FAVORITE MOVIE SONGS…TODAY
First I was thinking in this direction:
MOVIE SONGS
- Institutionalized – Suicidal Tendencies – “Repo Man”….Talk about capturing the zeitgeist of the moment!
- Ain’t Nobody – Chaka Khan – “Breakin’”….This was a sort of a forgettable breakdancing movie – tho’ the dancing was mostly terrific and Ice T is in it, the acting and the story weren’t fab. What folks DON’T remember is that this monster tour de force of Chaka’s came from the rather excellent soundtrack. Almost this whole song is in the movie and it accompanies a rather tedious “teaching Kelly to dance” sequence.
- Try A Little Tenderness - Otis Redding – “Pretty in Pink”….watch the video and feel the love.
- Fight the Power – Public Enemy – “Do the Right Thing”….Another zeitgeist moment.
- The Banana Boat Song – Harry Belafonte – “Beetlejuice”
- His Eye Is On the Sparrow – Tanya Blount & Lauryn Hill – “Sister Act 2″…They totally blew the top of this song; a just-before-the-Fugees-hit Lauryn Hill has a big part in the movie.
- You got a friend in me – Randy Newman – “Toy Story”
- I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow – Dan Tyminski -”O Brother Where Are Thou”
- Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzy - “A Knight’s Tale”…I started to laugh when I watched the film – I just couldn’t believe they put it in there…it was perfect. Slide to 1:39 for the clip
- Bright Side of Life – Eric Idle – “The Life of Brian”
- Tequila – The Champs – “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”…His last request before the bikers kill him…
- As Time Goes By – Dooley Wilson – “Casablanca”
- Why – Annie Lennox – “Boys on the Side”…This song is a masterpiece – the whole soundtrack is pretty good and so was the movie…but it could have been great. It had such potential. :::sigh:::
- Oh Yeah – Yello - ”The Secret of My Success” & “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
- Canned Heat – Jamiroquai – “Napoleon Dynamite”
- Lose Yourself – Eminem – “8 Mile”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXK0Hjfkrgw
Slide to 1:40 miss the set-up and just hear the song.
Then I started thinking about:
MOVIE THEME SONGS
- The Entertainer – “the Sting”
- Rock ‘n’ Roll High School – the Ramones – “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School”
- Rock Around the Clock – Bill Haley & the Comets – “Blackboard Jungle”
- Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf – “Easy Rider”
- Do You Know Where You’re Going To? -Diana Ross -”Mahogany”
- Ode to Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry – “Ode to Billie Joe”
- Evergreen -Barbra Streisand – “A Star Is Born”
- Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney, Goldfinger- Shirley Bassey, Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon – James Bond 007 movies
- Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr. – “Ghostbusters”
- Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes – “An Officer & A Gentleman”
But then I said, “Wait a minute. What about…?”
MOVIE MUSICALS
- THE SOUND OF MUSIC -”Edelweiss”, Do Re Mi”, “So Long, Farewell”
- THE WIZARD OF OZ -”Over the Rainbow”, “If I Only Had A Brain”
- SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN – “Singin’ In the Rain”, “Good Morning”
- THE WIZ- “Ease On Down the Road”, “Don’t Give Me No Bad News”
- SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
- ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW – “Sweet Transvestite”,”Time Warp”
- ALADDIN – “I Can Show You The World”, “One Jump Ahead” (and THE LITTLE MERMAID & THE LION KING)
- THE MUPPET MOVIE – “Rainbow Connection” (and THE MUPPETS TREASURE ISLAND & A MUPPETS’ CHRISTMAS CAROL)
- TOMMY – “Pinball Wizard”
- JAILHOUSE ROCK & BLUE HAWAII & KING CREOLE
- HAIR – “Three Five Zero Zero”, “Easy to Be Hard”, “Frank Mills”
- MOULIN ROUGE
Which led me to:
INSTRUMENTAL ORCHESTRAL SCORES
- Star Wars
- The Good the Bad & the Ugly
- Life as a House – Mark Isham is a bloomin’ genius.
- The Pianist
- Amadeus – How can you go wrong with Mozart?
- Harry Potter
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - Not only was Strauss a genius, so was Stanley Kubrick. I still get chills every time I hear the main theme.
- Pink Panther – Henry Mancini – I cannot think of any piece of music that evokes as immediate a mood as this does.
- Life Is Beautiful – Not as well known, but truly lovely.
- Schindler’s List
- Shakespeare In Love
SOME HONORABLE MENTIONS (or stuff that doesn’t fit into the above categories)
- BLUE VELVET – Angelo Badlamenti at his weird best. Throw in Bobby Vinton and the most surreal placement of Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams”, it’s simply unnerving.
- The Nightmare Before Christmas – Both Danny Elfman’s and Tim Burton’s masterwork IMO.
- 10 Things I Hate About You – Pure fun.
- Dr. Zhivago – “Somewhere My Love” definitely evokes a mood, but the costumes and the musical arrangments appear very dated to me now.
- Purple Rain & Batman – Prince is beyond a genius; he’s from another galaxy.
- The Decline Of Western Civilization – American punk from way before Nirvana.
- Chariots of Fire & Axel F both win for overexposure.
Just about heartbroken
http://www.ruthiefoster.com/
The amazing, fantabulous, wonderful Ruthie Foster was at the Merrimack Theater last night and I MISSED IT. I didn’t find out about it until it was too late. PLUS she’s gonna be in downtown Chattanooga TONIGHT doing a free show and I cannot go.
bad word bad word bad word bad word
Life is unfair like that. BAD WORD!
A fairly strange thing happened…..
Last Friday, the UPS man came by with packages. That in and of itself is not so strange; he often comes by to deliver things and my dog Natasha loves to bark her head off at him and/or the brown UPS truck (she hates them for some reason). So these two big boxes came and I was thinking to myself, “Wow. Your brain is degenerating even faster than you know!” because I couldn’t remember buying that much of anything, like, ever. I do order things and then immediately forget about it but they are small things like a skein of yarn, a book, a cd, etc., and the last thing I remembered ordering was a magazine.
Once I got these large boxes inside, I glanced at the sender’s address: Interweave Press. Well, that whom I had ordered the magazine from! Did I win something? I was a little excited, and so were the kids. Louisa was saying loudly, ‘I thought we didn’t have any money right now!” and I agreed that it was true; cashflow right now is down to a trickle…..
I opened the boxes and found a packing slip: it was almost $500.00 worth of knitting books that was supposed to be sent to a yarn store in Georgia. Ian was all for my looking through the books – there were some in there that I really wanted to see, but I was a good bunny and didn’t. And the magazine that I ordered from them also arrived but in the post.
On Monday, I called Interweave Press and described what had happened. They said they’d arrange to have the “evil brown truck” come back and pick them up in a couple of days, which did happen.
My little devil that sits on my shoulder keeps asking, “What if you hadn’t called them? What if you had kept the books? it wasn’t your mistake,” and so forth. I know what would happen – I wouldn’t be able to sleep and my dishonesty would haunt me for the rest of my life; it’d be like stealing. But I do wonder just a bit; the person I spoke to at IP didn’t even say, “Thank you for your honesty,” or “Sorry for the inconvenience,” or even”Thank you for calling us.” I mean, I did just find almost $500 worth of books and I think I should’ve been thanked….just a little.
It sure was weird to receive those books though. On a practical level, it was a silly shipping mistake, but on a deeper level I wonder why the universe sent that shipment to me?
I must say, tonight I think it was the first time I’ve ever had to cancel choir rehearsal on account of SNOW. Like John Prine says, “It’s a big ole goofy world.”
<cross posted to my LJ (and you can hear the song there too)>
Secret Pal 13
