Here come a riddle, here come a clue
If you were really smart, you'd know what to do when I say
Why am I going out of my head, whenever you're around?
The answer is obvious, love has come to town

Who don't love the Talking Heads? Well, I sure do! Love that first album and the opening track, "Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town". Doesn't really have anything to do with Tuesday and the better-late-than-never July 5 installment of the continuing saga of "How many different ways can I list the same 5 ceedees", but I did spin some Heads last week so that song has been kind of stuck in my head.

Also was putting a little comp together for myself along the same lines as the Twilight comp I made a long time ago, with some of that southern gothic new americana melancholy sound that always seems to rub me the right way. Stuff like the Tindersticks covering that great Pavement song, "Here" ...

I was dressed for success
but success it never comes
and I'm the only one who laughs
at your jokes when they are so bad
and your jokes are always bad
but they're not as bad as this

And it always makes me sad, but it always gets stuck in my head for days. And some Black Heart Procession dirge-rock about a light so dim, and a lighthouse in a storm, and a thousand dead souls. And PJ Harvey singing over cello backing, "plants and rags, ease myself into a bodybag". And some new stuff from the National, which I wholeheartedly concur with Jimbo is one of the best of the year. And some Joy Division singing about "Hell's darker chambers". And the very cool closer from the latest Electrelane album, a 10 minute post-rock workout with vocal backing by the Chicago Choir. Kind of like a multi-part operetta. Lots more, like the opening "Shane, she wrote this", one of my favorites from Verlaine and Lloyd and the boys ...

She gives me all the love
Why do I not hear my name?
She gives me all the love
Maybe I don't understand.

And a cool bit of Psych Furs tangled up with Simple Minds take on U2 called "Arms Around Me" from the new Departure debut that I like a lot but that's not been getting very good reviews except from me...

So put your arms around me
Let's go out tonight
If this is not temptation
You going to kill my pride

And some other odds and ends that keep me in a perpetual state of nervousness and depression

I know, I know, one's gotta have real big cojones and/or a strong ego to start a Tunesday thread at the end of the day, after the holiday, risking the humilation of no response, especially [uno] considering the lack of traffic and interest here lately, and especially [dos] since I'm not going to talk about either Pink Floyd or Porcupine Tree. Oops, does that count? And didn't someone just have a Saturday Tunes thread that quickly drizzled out? Oh well, here I am dragging out my hippo balls for display ... or is that my ego?

And for those without all the puzzle pieces, this is the [almost] weekly Tuesday tell us all about what you listened to in the last week thread. Or just say hi.