If you don't get the song "Trash" by the New York Dolls, then you just don't get me.

I've been thinking about creating this thread for a while... a lil' repository for all of the songs that I hold so fiercely dear that they've almost become a part of my identity. Songs that seem somehow resonant in my DNA. Songs that feel deliriously right in a way that defies exact articulation. I don't mean to say that these are all objectively great songs-- or even songs I'd recommend to everyone. Y'all have yr own taste in music and I love you for it. All I'm saying is, if you hear these songs and can't understand why I love them, well, then you have a little more getting to know me to do.

It should go without stating that you're encouraged to add yr own, by the way. If not, I'm content to bump this thread every once in a while all by my lonesome.

Oh, and, of course:

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~Rae

Yea, doesn't come across all that well on youtube, but the original studio version really does have kind of a Mick Jagger / Bowie mix, with those Buffalo Springfield guitars coming on toward the end going back to the 60s. Cool song. Kinda like Rebel Rebel.

One of my "get me" songs is hanging around in my signature, but I'm not really all that hard to get :)

I saw the NYD live at GERTIES in Dallas in '73...............not that great.
GERTIES and MOTHER BLUES were the famous Dallas clubs at that time.
BTW, David Johansen made a good cab driver in "Scrooged".

I think the Dolls are a bit overrated mostly musically, but "Trash" is excellent.

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Originally Posted by Stone

I think the Dolls are a bit overrated mostly musically, but "Trash" is excellent.

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Yeah, I feel the same way! I don't know about overrated, but none of their other songs are as transcendent to my ears. That stuttering rhythm! Those high oohs! "Ah, how you call ya loverboy?"

I think I'm going to post a song in here every day this week, and then sporadically after that. Here's today's:

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~Rae

Another great tune. It probably wouldn't be first my AoL pick (I think that would probably be "Wrong") but those first couple of albums really do very little wrong (no pun intended) in my book.

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Oh yeah! Plenty of Archers songs to consider... I almost posted "Might" above instead, but "Harnessed in Slums" is just so shockingly perfect to my ears. The woozy, dissonant guitar tone around 1:35, the chiming guitars with the strange overtone, the anthemic quality...

Today. the most perfect slice of fuzzed-out crunchy indie pop that I think I've ever heard:

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Canadians!

~Rae

I couldn't find a YouTube video for today's, so a download link will have to do:


The Wipers - Messenger.mp3

~Rae

It took me waay too long to mention a local band in here!:

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I seriously just stood up and pumped my fist at 1:44.

~Rae

I saw the Dolls during a Don Kirschner Rock Concert Taping, can't say I liked them back then, but Trash was a cool song and looking back it could be looked at as an early Punk Song...

The Jason Anderson song "Citizen's Arrest" (the version from his 2005 album The Wreath) certainly belongs in this thread. Unfortunately, I don't have a link to it at the moment.

~Rae

A good day to revive this thread.

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~Rae

Actually, how about a Sugar twofer?

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~Rae

Now, that's a good idea.

Impromptu "Rae" playlist...

Creatures of the Night ~ Bat Bites
I Don't Like It ~ Huntingtons
Je Sais Que Tu Sais ~ Iggy Pop
Ballad of Jack and Haley ~ Ike Reilly
I'm Watching You ~ Jay Reatard
The Terror of Tinytown ~ Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School of Medicine
Fortune Teller ~ Kepi Ghoulie
Tiki Please Me! ~ Los Tiki Phantoms
Don't Lie To Me ~ Kepi Ghoulie
Spooky Tiki ~ Messer Chups
Trash ~ The New York Dolls
Christina Ricci ~ The Adorkables
Don't Want To Go ~ Teenage Bottlerocket
My Baby Don't Love Me Blues ~ The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Lose My Cool ~ The Hex Dispensers
Real Real Good Time ~ The Parasites
Atomic Brain ~ The Riverdales
Will You Still Love Me? ~ The Scutches
Midwest Midsummer ~ Used Kids
Always Out ~ The Urban Voodoo Machine
Libertwango ~ Los Coronas
Without You ~ Milk Kan
Tu ~ Davila 666
Balaclava ~ Arctic Monkeys


I doubt that's what you had in mind but it's where this thread took me on this day...tomorrow, mebbe notsomuch...:D

That playlist looks familiar.

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That playlist looks familiar.

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Lol, it's prolly a bunch of stuff I cribbed off yer Megamix...:p

NP: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IFKbbxeDOa...tion-front.jpg

I had to replace my iPod since then and lost track of some of that stuff...a few of those are serving as a reminder to go get 'em again. Thanks.

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Impromptu "Rae" playlist...

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Awesome! You know how many songs I've ever heard on that playlist? (HINT: All of them have been previously mentioned in this thread.)

~Rae

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Awesome! You know how many songs I've ever heard on that playlist? (HINT: All of them have been previously mentioned in this thread.)

~Rae

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Yeah, I figured as much. I just used "Trash" and sorta worked outward...

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This recording is about 28 years after the song was fresh, but I still love it nonetheless. The ultimate Minneapolis punk rock anthem. I first heard this song when I saw their performance in the concert film M80, which documented a great festival at the University of Minnesota in 1980 and also included incredible footage of bands like Devo, James Chance & the Contortions, and NNB in their prime. I've probably listened to it 10,000 times since then and I'm still not sick of it.

~Rae

It's been a while since I posted in here:

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~Rae

can't seem to embed this, but I've been looking for a reason to post it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWZL...eature=related