Ahem.
I have a new friend. And she sent me a Spotify playlist. I wanted to respond in kind. I'd known of Spotify's existence, but had never used it before. But I had a lot of fun putting that playlist together. And I was surprised to find that most of what I looked for was there. (Given that my taste in music is a smidgen on the outré side of things, you know.) So when I finished that playlist, I went poking around to see what else I could find. And there was some seriously cool shit . . . some rare shit. Like (as provided to me by R.) a live version of Roy Harper doing "Rock 'n' Roll Man" from the Stonehenge 1984: A Midsummer Night Rock Show, which I've never seen before. (But which you can get through Amazon.uk, I've just discovered.) Hey, wait a minute. That's not the name of that song. It's "One Man Rock 'n' Roll Band." Fuckin' typos everywhere!
Ahem.
So I was poking around to see what else I could find post R. playlist, and I went looking for "Little Neutrino," by Klatuu. Yep, there it was. So I thought I'd start another playlist just for the hell of it. I entitled it, "I Am Someone You'll Never Know" because (1) it's a line from "Little Neutrino" and (2) given the high intensity and volume verbal flagellations I've received from several of the women in my past, this may have some applicability to moi. (Though I have to admit that I don't see that at all--I think of myself as a pretty upfront guy. Could be speck in neighbor log in yours thing, though, right?) And that kind of became the rudder for this little musical ship. So I followed "Little Neutrino" with "Streets of Fire," "Everybody's Talkin'," "There is a Mountain," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," "Peace in Mississippi," "Broken Stones," "Search and Destroy," "Isolation," "I Am a Rock," "Atlantis," "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," "Squarehead," "Careful With That Axe, Eugene," "Fuck World Trade," "Busload of Faith," "The End," "(Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay," "I Feel You," "Buried in the Murder," "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais," and "Good-bye Mr. Ed." (By, in case you needed to know, Klatuu--as previously mentioned--, Bruce Springsteen, Harry Nilsson, Donovan, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Weller, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, John Lennon, Paul Simon--sans you-know-who, Donovan, The Suicide Machines--who bring some balls to this R.E.M. song (love you, R.E.M. . . . just sayin'), Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Leftover Crack, Lou Reed, Lullaby of Beatle Land--'cause the Beatles's version wasn't available, but I dig the accordion--, Otis Redding, Depeche Mode, The Lonely Wild, The Clash, and Tin Machine.)
"I have my books and my poetry to protect me."
Hells yeah.
Speaking of Tin Machine . . . I was checking out what Spotify had, looking for stuffs I didn't have. And there were some items, lemme tell ya. And I hit a play button by accident, and some strangeness started playing. It was Tin Hat, which was intermingled with Tin Machine. Because of the Tin, you know. And it was some groovy kind of shit. So I started checking out Tin Hat. And lord and begore ya, they (or one of them, and then joined by some others, maybe all of the others) did the soundtrack for Nebraska, which is one of the most awesomest movies I've seen in some time. Small world, ennit?
And that's how I became a Tin Hat fan.
You come, too.
ADDENDUM: Went back to listen to some of that Nebraska Tin Hat . . . and Tin Hat man Mark "Tin" Orton also did the music for Sweet Land, one of the bestest movies ever. World keep gettin' smaller, chile.
ADDENDUM to the ADDENDUM: Also found out that The Tin Hat Trio did a song on the soundtrack for Everything is Illuminated (2005) called "Fear of the South." Everything is Illuminated is a superb film, definitely a ***** in me umble . . . and yet I just saw that it lost over $3 million (Budget $7,000,000, Box Office $3,601,974). Is that some shit or what? I really can't imagine anyone not liking (or even loving) that movie if they sat down to watch it. What the fuck, people? Avengers: Age of Ultron grossed $451,039,000 as of 19 June 2015--and is still going strong--and let's face it, that was not a good movie. (And you know I love comic books, comic book movies, AND the first Avengers, so this is not sour grapes.) You can't throw down a measly three million on Everything is Illuminated? Sheesh.
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