[lit-ideas] Re: I need new music
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:39:29 -0400
Listen to The Smiths instead. Lately I've mostly been listening to Le Tigre
and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Erin
Toronto
The Smiths - Still Ill Lyrics
I decree today that life
Is simply taking and not giving
England is mine - it owes me a living
But ask me why, and I'll spit in your eye
Oh, ask me why, and I'll spit in your eye
But we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore
No, we cannot cling to those dreams
Does the body rule the mind
Or does the mind rule the body ?
I dunno...
Under the iron bridge we kissed
And although I ended up with sore lips
It just wasn't like the old days anymore
No, it wasn't like those days
Am I still ill ?
Oh ...
Am I still ill ?
Oh ...
Does the body rule the mind
Or does the mind rule the body ?
I dunno...
Ask me why, and I'll die
Oh, ask me why, and I'll die
And if you must, go to work - tomorrow
Well, if I were you I really wouldn't bother
For there are brighter sides to life
And I should know, because I've seen them
But not very often ...
Under the iron bridge we kissed
And although I ended up with sore lips
It just wasn't like the old days anymore
No, it wasn't like those days
Am I still ill ?
Oh ...
Oh, am I still ill ?
Oh ...
Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> So, Mike, I need some additional personal experience here -- did this indeed
>
> happen to you, when you listened to her? I'm more or less assuming from
> Erin's review that it is not, at least, suitable for children......
>
> Julie Krueger
>
> ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: I need new music
>
> Date: 6/25/05 12:18:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time From:
> _erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx) To:
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> Don't listen to Mike. It's ghastly. Absolutely repulsive. You'll feel
> like
> killing yourself for weeks afterwards. You'll wind up drinking a lot of
> booze
> in an attempt to forget the wholly wretched experience and then likely
> resort
> to antipsychotics, which, needless to say, will react poorly with the booze
>
> you're consuming until one night you'll black out and wake up the next
> morning
> in a tree seeing nothing but colours. For your own sake, don't do it. The
>
> woman's despicable.
>
>
> Erin
> Toronto
>
>
> Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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
>
>
> --
> Erin
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