What are you listening to right now?

by **dada** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:42 pm

FZ - Amnerika

by **MacCruiskeen** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:53 pm

by **Hammer of Los** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:54 pm

...

White Snake?

Like the rolling Thunder
I feel the Power of Love
It's a Gift from Heaven
And the Lord Above!

We Walk toward Desire
Hand in Hand through Fields of Fire
With only Love to Light the Way
On the Road to Judgement Day.

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by **Allegro** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:01 pm

by **Allegro** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:01 pm

by **Allegro** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:02 pm

by **Allegro** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:02 pm

by **compared2what?** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:18 am

@ Allegro --

Seriously, every time I hear "Pumped Up Kicks" -- which is to say, "at least once every time I've left my home for any reason to go anywhere or do anything for a little less than two years now, sometimes oftener" -- I ask myself, "Where is the RI thread on this and other songs written from the point of view of real and/or imaginary spree shooters? Where?"

I've never tried to come up with a list of the other songs, however. Because I don't actually ask myself that in those terms as often as I hear the song. Which, frankly, can't be too often so far. Therefore:

I swear, if there was one person at their label who didn't know that was a hit by 00:11, I'd be shocked.**

And I don't have a high opinion of record-label judgment calls, typically.

Anyway. The song that instantly springs to mind before the thought "spree-killer POV pop songs" has finished forming is, of course:

There must be a few others. Right? But...Well. I can't think of any right now. And I'm not yet ready to resort to cheating (internet), So I guess that's it.
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*** On a tangentially related note, at some point round about the first 20 seconds, "Pumped Up Kicks" also always reminds me of some '80s song that was also a hit and isn't:

But I never get any further than that, for reasons that are probably self-explanatory. Spoiler:("(Then-I-call), ring-(ring)-ring-(ring)-ring-(ring)-ring-(ring)-luh-luh-love-plus-one, reng and-a reng and-a reng and-a reng and-a when-ah-call-luh-uhve, bom-bom-bom-bom, bom-bom-bom-bom, la-la-la-la-la-laaa" etc.)

I'm kind of counting on AhabsOtherLeg to get me past this hurdle, tbh. Although, what the hell, you never know who's reading.

Help me, streeb!

by **MacCruiskeen** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:48 am

David Byrne wrote:When I started writing this (I got help later), I imagined Alice Cooper doing a Randy Newman-type ballad. Both the Joker and Hannibal Lecter were much more fascinating than the good guys. Everybody sort of roots for the bad guys in movies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_Killer