What are you listening to right now?

[barracuda]

Though he looks rather downtrodden and disappointed at the end of his solo, Jean-Luc Ponty here unleashes one of the more heart-stirring passages of rock violin you'll ever hear. I was fortunate enough to see this very band play in the summer of 1972 (they played in my high school field-house, if you can imagine), and as much as I love Frank as a composer, conductor and writer of satirical lyics, I always have considered his live work as benefitting greatly from the contributions of an excellent soloist like Ponty, mostly because Frank's dissonant solo guitar style makes my head spin sometimes, and Ponty is so much more melodic.

Frank Zappa featuring Jean Luc Ponty - Greggary Peccary Suite

Frank Zappa - Black Napkins

Al Di Meola - Race With The Devil on a Spanish Hwy

[Jeff]

Austrian Music Project - Sofa

Ich Bin Der Chrome Dinette!

[barracuda]

Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht - Alabama Song

The Doors - Alabama Song

Marilyn Manson - Alabama Song

Paul Dessau - 3 Intermezzi

[compared2what?]

Songs recorded for the beginnings of movies as they appeared in the movies:

Everybody's Talking -- Harry Nilsson

Shaft -- Isaac Hayes

Stayin' Alive -- The Bee Gees

One -- Aimee Mann

Help Me Make It Through the Night -- Kris Kristofferson

The Sound of Silence -- Simon and Garfunkel*

*On edit -- Forgot about it. What could I have been thinking?

[barracuda]

Moms Mabley - Go Tell It On The Mountain

Rudy Ray Moore - The Signified Monkey

[compared2what?]

Songs not recorded for the beginnings of movies as they appeared in the (beginnings of) movies:

Born To Be Wild -- Steppenwolf

Lust for Life -- Iggy Pop

The Last Race -- Jack Nitzche

To be continued...

[barracuda]

The Coasters - Down in Mexico

[kissing blarney]

Shouldn't there also be a category for movies that wouldn't exist had it not been for the song?

The Beatles--HELP (and all their other movies)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4020075723

Prince--Purple Rain (though my favorite song is "When Doves Cry)

http://video.aol.com/video/tv-princepurple-rain/1799330

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... +doves+cry

PS...would someone be kind enough to PM a computer dummy like me the way to post "prettified" (I think that's the term) links? Thanks in advance. (I hope it's simple)

ETA...thank you all for the help.

[compared2what?]

PS...would someone be kind enough to PM a computer dummy like me the way to post "prettified" (I think that's the term) links? Thanks in advance. (I hope it's simple)

I just did. But the directions in the FAQ are probably easier to follow.

I encourage others to create all the categories they feel they need in order to best express what they are listening to right now in whatever form, however nuanced or unrestrained or as with barracuda's "Death Proof" scene post, LAZY it might be, that pleases them.

I just like setting tasks for myself.

[annie aronburg]

Frank Zappa featuring Jean Luc Ponty - Greggary Peccary Suite

"Oh look, Jean-Luc's taking a solo, maybe I'll have a cigarette break....."

Zappa/Skrowaczewski- TCB 4 CLZ

[kissing blarney]

Frank Zappa featuring Jean Luc Ponty - Greggary Peccary Suite

"Oh look, Jean-Luc's taking a solo, maybe I'll have a cigarette break....."

Zappa/Skrowaczewski- TCB 4 CLZ

I don't think those guys made this line-up...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnz7LJMECOg

...but there's evidence of their presence near the middle of this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYULQT2O ... re=related

(I promise to work on the link-thing....tomorrow)

[barracuda]

LAZY

Okay, and I know I guess I was just supposed to let that one slide right on by 'cause of the small font being kind of under the radar and maybe with my poor eyesight, I wouldn't see it, huh? Actually, your "subtle" flèche has operated subliminally upon me for the last hour, causing me to question my own self-worth without understanding why. Then I leaned closer to the screen and there it was the source of my dismay, and I thought we were friends...

And here I had put so much thought into my Brecht post, even to the point of including one of his other collaborators as a tasty palate cleanser after the sketchy version of my beloved Alabama Song which was camped upon like a national park by Manson. Well. I'd been waiting three days to post that lap dance scene set to The Coasters, ever since putting up Along Came Jones (which was just a little thank you note to compared2what for her work on that fucking "dubble" thread, but I was still to close to it, my nerves were too raw to even joke with Vanessa Ferlito's somewhat raunchy spotlight, too close still, too close), and when I saw your Jack Nitzche, I knew it was now or never. And now...

An admitted contrivance: a pair of top forty songs, the titles of which contain parenthetic qualifiers alternately situated one at the end of said title and one at the beginning, both featuring the word "love", but not within the confines of the parentheses.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKikEqHKwxA[/url]The Contours - Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance?)[/url]

Shirley Bassey - (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story


Double bonus point-a-roonies if you know who these people are, and their relevance to this post.
And no, the blond is not compared2what?, at least I don't think so.

!!SPECIAL BONUS TRACK WITH UNSTATED POST COMMENTARY!!

Glenn Miller - Perfidia

[annie aronburg]

There's a skeleton in the closet of Tipper Gore, wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Al Gore: The woman who started a campaign in 1985 to put parental-advisory stickers on albums, the woman who has come to personify rock censorship, once pounded drums in a rock band. Though it's rarely mentioned in any of her official bios, Mary Elizabeth ''Tipper'' Aitcheson, a high school sophomore at St. Agnes in suburban Washington, D.C., was a member of the Wildcats in 1964. ''I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo,'' Gore, 44, said in a never-published interview from 1989. ''I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, Let There Be Drums, and I'd play along with it.'' With a year or so of playing along under her belt, Gore helped form the Wildcats-''named after my mother's car, which was a black Buick Wildcat.'' Their repertoire: Chad and Jeremy hits (''A Summer Song''), early Beatles (''All My Lovin','' ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''), and Bob Dylan (''Blowin' in the Wind,'' ''Don't Think Twice''). ''It was basically three guitars and drums and a girl who really sang well,'' Gore said. ''We practiced at my house 'cause I had the drums, and whenever we had to move them, we had to borrow one girl's convertible and it would have to not be raining.'' After their first gig at a school fair, the Wildcats were hired to play at a local Democratic rally. Its organizers wanted political stuff, says Gore, ''so we did this song called 'Barry's Boys,' about Barry Goldwater. It was pretty funny.'' She recited: ''We're the bright young men/Who want to go back to 1910/We're the kids with a cause/Just like grandma's was.'' After a few other dates-and graduation-the group disbanded. Gore, who married the potential vice president from Tennessee in 1970, went on to earn a master's in psychology and work as a photographer. Has she ever wondered what might have happened if the Wildcats had stuck with it? ''I don't know,'' Gore said. ''I mean, was there ever an all-girl group from the '60s that made it?'' None that would require a warning label, anyway.

Frank Zappa - PMRC Senate Hearing (09-19-1985), Pt. 2

[lightningBugout]

Not to mention the BDSM penchant that Dee Snider insinuated she had:

Dee Snider @ PMRC

[compared2what?]

Stay

Please Stay

I'm Sorry



My Mistake

All Apologies

Baby Come Back