I’m looking for songs that list the days of the week.
The lyrics don’t have to mention all of the days of the week (although that’s preferable), but they do have to list several days in succession. Lyrics that mention a few particular days as part of a narrative are not sufficient. I’ll also accept songs that list the months of the year.
I’ll start with “Friday On My Mind,” by The Easybeats.
I’m fascinated by Alanis Morissette – and my fascination grows as the years pass and I continue to stumble across her latest televised performances. The people in the audience are either paid extras or people who are beginning to think of the ’90s as the best years of their lives, but who, beside me – ironically – is tuning into a live performance by Alanis Morissette these days? Just the other night I saw her on Palladia, a high-def, all-concert performance channel that’s part of the MTV/VH1 family.
I don’t know the vintage of this performance that I caught, but it must have been from the last couple of years. She had a different hairdo than I’ve been used to seeing, something almost like the shag worn by Carol Brady. It was kind of cute. She’s kind of cute in the way some woman in everyday life, maybe working down the hallway, is kind of cute. Some of you are bound to find fault with her prominent jawline or the lengths she goes to in strategically covering what seems to be a decent but probably flawed body, but have you ever taken a good look at yourself in the mirror?
What’s your personal Rock ‘n Roll Hell, be it an actual moment in your musical life or a vision thereof?
Here’s a safe place to take your best shot, courtesy of sammymaudlin‘s favorite former Dodger. Fire away!
The past month of May will go down as one of Rock Town Hall’s most fierce Comment of the Month battles. After days of deliberation among dozens of choice comments, such as this one, which was called to The Main Stage; this “Chess”-worthy snippy one; and this snazzy one, which makes use of high-brow references in the service of slamming an RTH pariah, the judges finally determined to award all who commented on this Battle Royale thread, in which Townspeople were asked to describe rock’s cross-promotional prime-time tv efforts they would like to have seen. The results of this query were better than I could have imagined. You can’t imagine the amount of sniffs we’ve gotten from Hollywood producers looking to buy the rights to your excellent flights of fancy. Don’t worry, I’ll be sure to cut you in on any deals we might land. Thanks and congratulations to each and every one of our winners!
I’m so mad at my eMusic. I don’t know, eMusic just, uh, calls me up the other day. eMusic wants to charge me the same amount of money for about 1/2 of the downloads beginning in July! Can you believe that? I said, “Hey! I work for a living!” So I give eMusic the money. Yesterday, they call me up and say the only extra shit we’re going to offer is like Outkast and Alicia Keys. I said, “Hey! What is this?!” So I worked out a deal with them. I’m having eMusic, uh, work on my transmission. And, uh, move my barbells up to the attic. So that’s pretty good, huh? [laughs]
I didn’t have any idea what kind of music Goblin Cock played until I started putting this post together. Their name put me off so much that I wasn’t even willing to give them a try.
And, for the record, I would be even more turned away by a band named Lappin’ Snatch.
Blatant use of naughty-bit terms makes me wary. It took me years to give The Butthole Surfers a fair shake.
The use of umlauts is always a red flag. (Yeah, I know Hüsker Dü is cool but name another…) Do we have Blue Öyster Cult to thank for umlauts? Am I using the term “umlauts” correctly? Does the term itself have ümlaüts? Seems like it should.
Anything Germanic poses a threat. Anything biblical and/or related to hell and/or the devil and/or death.
Use of the work “metal.”
Anything intentionally misspelled. “Kreator” as a case in point is a double threat name being both biblical and misspelled. Do we have Led Zeppelin to thank for this practice? (I don’t count The Beatles as it is a play on words.)
Anything with a “z” in it gives me pause. If there hadn’t been The Zombies and that very band, which I love, came out today, I’d be wary. I’m just speaking from the heart here.
Most of the above are related to my distaste for metal. So here are some others.
I’m cautious of any band named “_____ and the _______s” unless they are from the late ’50s or early ’60s.
I am wary of any artist that simply uses his/her name if they haven’t played in a band that I’ve heard of before. Same goes for duos that go by “______ & ______.”
Use of the word “revue” or any band name that uses a number has an instant hole from which to climb.
These aren’t rules here. I’m just sayin’, any of the above make me wince and cautious.
What says you?
