This song "Head On" has taken on a whole new meaning for me all the sudden, and I'd love to upload the original by the Jesus and Mary Chain but all I have with me is an iTunes version with is all protected and shit, so here's the version by The Pixies which isn't a bad second choice at all. Including lyrics because, well, yeah.
As soon as I get my head around you
I come around catching sparks off you
I get an electric shock from you
This secondhand living just won't do
And the way I feel tonight
I could die and I wouldn't mind
And there's something going on inside
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky
And I can't stand up
I can't cool down
I can't get my head off the ground
As soon as I get my head around you
I come around catching sparks off you
And all I ever got from you
Was all I ever took from you
Yeah, the world could die in pain
And I wouldn't feel no shame
And there's nothing holding me to blame
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky
And I'm taking myself to a dirty part of town
Where all my troubles can't be found
I said yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
And I'm taking myself to a dirty part of town
Where all my troubles can't be found
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky
As soon as I get my head around you
I come around catching sparks off you
I get an electric shock from you
This secondhand living just won't do
And the way I feel tonight
I could die and I wouldn't mind
And there's something going on inside
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky
And I can't stand up
I can't cool down
I can't get my head off the ground
As soon as I get my head around you
I come around catching sparks off you
And all I ever got from you
Was all I ever took from you
Yeah, the world could die in pain
And I wouldn't feel no shame
And there's nothing holding me to blame
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky
And I'm taking myself to a dirty part of town
Where all my troubles can't be found
I said yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
And I'm taking myself to a dirty part of town
Where all my troubles can't be found
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky
I posted these two songs, one from Lush and one from My Bloody Valentine to go with this post on my real blog about walking around Tokyo. Feel free to check it out if you want, if not just enjoy the songs.
One of the cool things about Vox in particular and blogging in general is the folks you run into that you might not have otherwise. Skip.town is one of those people. She found a post I made about some song and commented and I started reading her feed as well. It's really good stuff. Today she posted a pretty great song by The Songbirds but referenced this song by Crimpshrine. It's called "Summertime" and like everything else I post here it's so entirely filled with memories and emotions for me I can barely describe it.
I don't recall if I heard Crimpshrine first on a comp or on their first Lookout! 7" but they instantly became the epitome of East Bay Punk Rock to me. Even more so than Operation Ivy who I could also listen to non stop if required to do so. The wikipedia article on them is incredibly light for a band who I kinda think there would never have been a Green Day without. This was also my first introduction to Aaron Cometbus (and his delicious handwriting) which inspired a hell of a lot of my own graphic design projects later on, most notably of which is probably The Bad Brains Omega Sessions. Funny how small a world this all shapes out to be, isn't it?
I don't recall if I heard Crimpshrine first on a comp or on their first Lookout! 7" but they instantly became the epitome of East Bay Punk Rock to me. Even more so than Operation Ivy who I could also listen to non stop if required to do so. The wikipedia article on them is incredibly light for a band who I kinda think there would never have been a Green Day without. This was also my first introduction to Aaron Cometbus (and his delicious handwriting) which inspired a hell of a lot of my own graphic design projects later on, most notably of which is probably The Bad Brains Omega Sessions. Funny how small a world this all shapes out to be, isn't it?
So far I've been posting lots of things that came out many years ago, which is fine because there's some damn good stuff that came out many years ago. That is not to say there's not damn good things being released right now as well. A friend of mine, who knows the insane reaches of my eclectic musical tastes was pretty shocked to find out that I liked the White Stripes album. I don't know if that says something about him or about me, but the fact is I've liked every White Stripes album, but the just released Icky Thump is simply amazing.
Of course I don't write off certain parallels with song themes and things going on in my life which make many of the tracks (on this as well as the earlier Racontours album) more poignant to me but whatever, that's how some of my favorite songs became just that. So, to set the record straight, and also to risk much psychoanalysis from close friends, I'm posting a track from the new White Stripes record. This one "A Martyr For My Love For You" has been on my iPod since the moment I got it several weeks ago and I keep finding myself playing it 3-4 times in a row. Lyrical attachments aside, this song flat out rocks. You'll notice the kinda-quite-breaking-into-totally-rocking-it hooks that I seem to be so fond of. So yeah, there you have it. Enjoy.
Of course I don't write off certain parallels with song themes and things going on in my life which make many of the tracks (on this as well as the earlier Racontours album) more poignant to me but whatever, that's how some of my favorite songs became just that. So, to set the record straight, and also to risk much psychoanalysis from close friends, I'm posting a track from the new White Stripes record. This one "A Martyr For My Love For You" has been on my iPod since the moment I got it several weeks ago and I keep finding myself playing it 3-4 times in a row. Lyrical attachments aside, this song flat out rocks. You'll notice the kinda-quite-breaking-into-totally-rocking-it hooks that I seem to be so fond of. So yeah, there you have it. Enjoy.
