[lit-ideas] Re: I need new music

Mike has horrible taste in music.  Every CD he's made for me I use as a 
coaster.  


Erin
Toronto



Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> No Nellie sounds like Julie London or Peggy Lee -- a female crooner, but the
> songs are rap-like and very funny.  It's certainly suitable for children. 
> Erin has sad taste in music, that's all.  Ignore her.  Or try Jim White's 
> "Wrong-Eyed  Jesus"  I love that even more than McKay.
> 
> Mike Geary
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx 
>   To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 12:26 PM
>   Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: I need new music
> 
> 
>   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
> 
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>         Date: 6/25/05 12:18:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time 
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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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