Siria’s June Playlist
Siria’s 2:05 pm June Playlist
Gray and gloomy is my least favorite backdrop unless it’s leading into dark thundery-lightning striking-full on rainstorms…and I’m safe at home. I can only take about two days max of that, I’m glad I got to escape it at least a couple of times this month.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think Courtney Love had finally wrangled some deal with one of the remaining big-name studios and we are all on the set of an early 90’s Kurt Cobain biopic where they’ve somehow managed to re-create Seattle weather in Southern California. If someone finds the secret switch controlling this please completely disactivate or rig it so both the on/off only have one effect…sunshine during the day.
With that said, I blame the weather for this playlist.
Deftones – “Knife Party” (White Pony)
Johnny Marr and the Healers – “Another Day” (Boomslang)
If I had to pick between Marr and Morrissey, I’d pick Marr everytime. Yeah, yeah…let the stoning begin.
The Dandy Warhols – “Smoke It” (Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars)
The Poor Excuses – “I’ll Do It”
Technically, I’m cheating by putting this on my list as I didn’t really listen to them at 2:05 pm…After listening to that Dandy Warhols’ song it made me think of LA based band The Poor Excuses. That made me go listen to them and that in turn made me wonder how they’re doing. Poor Excuses, how are you doing?
Sufjan Stevens – “Casimir Pulaski Day” (Come on Feel The) Illinoise
The Weeks – “Buttons” (Comeback Cadillac)
This Mississippi-based band’s members are all under 20 years old. Wonder if they’re tired of all of the Kings of Leon comparisons? Curious to see what they’ll sound like when they finally find their own true sound. I’m rooting for them.
Mint – “The Winter of 1985″ (Magnetism)
Meatloaf - “Rock n’ Roll Dreams Come True” (Box of Gold)
I’m not sure how Meatloaf snuck into my playlist?… but yes “Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams” do still come true, even if it’s just temporarily.
ELO/The Move – “Do Ya”
I think I squealed when I heard the cowbell kick in I love Jeff Lynne’s vocals. More cowbell please!
Ace Frehley’s cover on Trouble Walkin’ is cool too though– in that big drums, big guitar kinda way and his version’s video has all of the perfect 80’s cheesiness (Do ya Do ya want the Ace?!), but sadly no cowbell. See for yourself:
Nuclear Assault – “Defiled Innocence” (Third World Genocide)
I don’t like all Thrash Metal, but I do like Nuclear Assault.
The Magic Magicians – “Bored Ticket Taker”
Finally a band from the area of gloomy weather and green green grass (Seattle). Confession: I hate band names that use the word Magic and they do it twice (all in one bandname!), but I do like this song.
David Bowie – “87 and Cry” (Never Let me Down)
I had not heard this song in forever, love this song.
Urge Overkill – “God Flinstone” (Americruiser/Jesus Urge Superstar)
Most people are most familiar with Urge Overkill for their cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” from it’s placement on Pulp Fiction
Rilo Kiley – “Portions for Foxes” (More Adventurous)
This is one of those songs I can pull out time after time and I don’t get sick of. It’s probably that demanding “C’mere!” that gets me 
.
Chris Isaak – “Solitary Man” (San Francisco Days)
Hmmm…apparently when the weather is gloomy I like to listen to Neil Diamond Covers? This is my favorite Neil Diamond song actually.
Behind the Music or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Documentaries
(to get the most of this week’s Gimme Gimme Schlock Treatment Experience don’t forget to listen to the Deltron 3030 music player above as you read)
Usually my first site to hit in the morning is Met’s Blog . I have a sick obsession with my Mets. After that it’s Pitchfork. A few days ago as I wiped the sleep out of my eyes I found out the Mets were planning on signing Gary Sheffield and The Arcade Fire were offering up their documentary “Mirror Noir” for free for seven days via Pitchfork.TV. I had mixed feelings about Sheff dawg but I had zero reservations about seeing “Mirror Noir” for free. Free documentaries “in this economy”? Kudos to you Win Butler and Company. Win is definitely just trying to make up for the time he stole some kid’s basketball. The Arcade Fire has churned out two amazing albums so they can steal whatever they want. If the documentary is even half as good as Neon Bible or Funeral it will rank in the top five of my favorite musical documentaries. …and there’s the cue for another list:
Del’s Top Ten Musical Documentaries
10.) Eddie and the Cruisers – Not really a documentary but it deserves credit for constructing the general template used for VH1’s “Behind the Music“. It also doesn’t hurt that “On the Dark side” happens to be the best song by a fake band in the history of film.
9.)Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten – A kick ass documentary that if nothing else introduced me to the song “Keys to Your Heart” by Joe Strummer’s pre-Clash Band, The 101’ers. Strummer doesn’t come off to well in this film. I’m sure if you told him so he’d simply tell you to “piss off!” and then he’d rip through some power chords.(more…)