[lit-ideas] Re: I need new music

Try Nellie McKay's "Get Away From Me"  I love it.  But don't tell Erin that 
you've listened to her and especially don't tell her you like it.  She gets 
rabid about Nellie McKay.  Pity.

Mike Geary


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  Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 10:52 AM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] I need new music


  Not Sarah McLachlan(sp?)-ish, probably not bluesy; something sedgy but not 
head-banger.  I've worn out my Annie Lennox "Bare" CD, Tori Amos (God I love 
those women), Cake, Johnny Lang, U2, and some others I'm probably forgetting at 
the moment.  I've done in Randy Newman's Songbook Vol 1, particularly "God's 
Song" (permit me to quote the lyrics, as that along with his entirely unique 
piano artistry and voice are grounds enough, is why that track is nearly worn 
down.)

  "God's Song
  (That's Why I Love Mankind)

  Cain slew Abel and Seth knew not why
  For if the children of Israel were supposed 
    to multiply
  Then why must any of the children die?
  So he asked the Lord
  And the Lord said:

  Man means nothing he means less to me
  Than the lowliest cactus flower
  Or the humblest yucca tree
  He chases round this desert
  'Cause he thinks that's where I'll be
  That's why I love mankind

  I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee
  From the squalor, and the filth, and the misery
  How we laugh up her in heaven at the prayers
    you offer Me
  That's why I love mankind

  The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
  The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on sattelite TV
  They picked their four greatest priests
  And they began to speak
  They said, "Lord a plague is on the world
  Lord no man is free
  The temples that we built to you
  Have tumbled into the sea
  Lord if you won't take care of us
  Won't you please please let us be"
  And the Lord said
  And the Lord said:

  I burn down your cities
  How blind you must be
  I take from you your children and you say how
    blessed are we
  You all must be crazy to put your faith in Me

  That's why I love mankind
  You really need Me
  That's why I love mankind"


  Turn THAT up at full volume and read the best pieces of Sexton and Zymborska 
(sp?) and see what happens to you.

  Anyway.  I'm open to suggestions for new music.  Anyone?

  Julie Krueger
  trying not to live a life of quiet desperation

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