Musical Booster Chairs
It occurred to me to make a mix CD of my favorite first songs on CDs. It also occurred to me that this could be quite a dangerous blast to the system, severe sensory overload, like feeding the brain many potent hits of acid all at once. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.
1. Modest Mouse albums always begin with bang: "Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine", "Dramamine", "Never Ending Math Equation", "3rd Planet".
2. "Overcome" from Tricky’s Maxinquaye. Before I bought it I borrowed this CD from someone who’d let many scratches get to it, causing the first ten seconds of the song to repeat and repeat and repeat. That was fine with me.
3. "Kissing the Lipless" from The Shins' Chutes Too Narrow. The first time the vocals flare up is great. I could listen to that moment on repeat and repeat and repeat. In fact I did in the car on the way home from work yesterday.
4. "Bug" from the 50 Foot Wave 6-songer. Except for the Tricky song, I see that what I really like in a first track is a good hollering. I’m always driven to re-start this album when it finishes.
5. While I’m at it, "Mercury" from the last Throwing Muses CD rocks, as well as "Call Me" from their first and first self-titled CD, particularly the earlier version on In the Doghouse. From Kristin Hersh’s solo albums I tend to lean toward the middle songs as favorites, but she’s still my hero.
6. "Luv Machine" from Blonde Redhead’s In An Expression of the Inexpressible. Send that to a new lover. Pink geometry and orgasmic exhalations. After I saw this band for the first time, I shook Kazu’s hand and told her she was phenomenal. In case she didn't know already.
7. "South on Western" from La Makita Soma’s Brighton Park. It’s the best song for waking up to a crisp, slightly cool sunny day and doing fully whatever pleases you. Way to go, boys.
Damn, I’m at work and have only 6 CDs here. I must use brain power. Coffee me. Memory-enhancement-herb me.
8. "Oscillations" from that fantastic Silver Apples album, which calls me to Jessamine who covered this song (which was the first time I heard it)…
9. "Say What You Can" from Jessamine's Long Arm of Coincidence, which I haven’t heard in a very long time because I have it only on a sketchy cassette. I shall have it. The world will be mine. Hopefully I’m naming the song I’m thinking of, with the great hot moan-wailing female vocals.
And one more for Santa’s elves and all the dead porn stars…
10. Colder’s "Crazy Love" from Again. Another to play on repeat. This song woke me from a long sleep. Sunshine in your eyes.
Is that a full mix CD? Depends, I guess, on the year and its precipitation levels. I know there are many majors I’ve left out, and there is defecit in the lack of diversity and comprehensive timespan, which I say to beat up on myself for my own pleasure and not as a disclaimer in attempt to prove my social worth.
New Year’s Fortune #1: Resolve to love the shit that happens for a reason. It will metamorphose into some other kind of shit to love and hate, which is crux.
1. Modest Mouse albums always begin with bang: "Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine", "Dramamine", "Never Ending Math Equation", "3rd Planet".
2. "Overcome" from Tricky’s Maxinquaye. Before I bought it I borrowed this CD from someone who’d let many scratches get to it, causing the first ten seconds of the song to repeat and repeat and repeat. That was fine with me.
3. "Kissing the Lipless" from The Shins' Chutes Too Narrow. The first time the vocals flare up is great. I could listen to that moment on repeat and repeat and repeat. In fact I did in the car on the way home from work yesterday.
4. "Bug" from the 50 Foot Wave 6-songer. Except for the Tricky song, I see that what I really like in a first track is a good hollering. I’m always driven to re-start this album when it finishes.
5. While I’m at it, "Mercury" from the last Throwing Muses CD rocks, as well as "Call Me" from their first and first self-titled CD, particularly the earlier version on In the Doghouse. From Kristin Hersh’s solo albums I tend to lean toward the middle songs as favorites, but she’s still my hero.
6. "Luv Machine" from Blonde Redhead’s In An Expression of the Inexpressible. Send that to a new lover. Pink geometry and orgasmic exhalations. After I saw this band for the first time, I shook Kazu’s hand and told her she was phenomenal. In case she didn't know already.
7. "South on Western" from La Makita Soma’s Brighton Park. It’s the best song for waking up to a crisp, slightly cool sunny day and doing fully whatever pleases you. Way to go, boys.
Damn, I’m at work and have only 6 CDs here. I must use brain power. Coffee me. Memory-enhancement-herb me.
8. "Oscillations" from that fantastic Silver Apples album, which calls me to Jessamine who covered this song (which was the first time I heard it)…
9. "Say What You Can" from Jessamine's Long Arm of Coincidence, which I haven’t heard in a very long time because I have it only on a sketchy cassette. I shall have it. The world will be mine. Hopefully I’m naming the song I’m thinking of, with the great hot moan-wailing female vocals.
And one more for Santa’s elves and all the dead porn stars…
10. Colder’s "Crazy Love" from Again. Another to play on repeat. This song woke me from a long sleep. Sunshine in your eyes.
Is that a full mix CD? Depends, I guess, on the year and its precipitation levels. I know there are many majors I’ve left out, and there is defecit in the lack of diversity and comprehensive timespan, which I say to beat up on myself for my own pleasure and not as a disclaimer in attempt to prove my social worth.
New Year’s Fortune #1: Resolve to love the shit that happens for a reason. It will metamorphose into some other kind of shit to love and hate, which is crux.
2 Comments:
What's a CD? Is that like an 8-track? You need to spend 2005 saving up for an iPod!
That's what I said to the family at Christmas dinner. Soon I will fast forward into the hip modern day.
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