I'm in a punkish mood, not helped by various and assorted rants here and there in the blogosphere, (all deserved and supported by me, 100%). So while it's Friday and I do believe Fridays are for gearing up for a sex-a-licious weekend, I am also feeling a bit sharp around the edges and that combination calls for only one type of music!
Luckily I ran into The Loved Ones' new album recently and let me tell you Build and Burn, their sophmore album, is awesomely good. It's solid, it's well mastered, sounds very professional and not muddy as so much good recorded punk music does. Released in early 2008, it's full of songs that show off the band's growth lyrically from Keep Your Heart, a broader vocal style and just some really catchy tracks. Always earnestly focused on love and loss, The Loved Ones put a really sweet love song on this album which I give you today to give ya a little tingle for your hot date tonight ;)
And what punkish mood would be complete without some girly tunes? I've not listened to Sleater Kinney in a while, and combing their catalogue for a love song took quite a while! Not surprised are you? Yes, they're a dreary group generally. "I wanna be your Joey Ramone" is just so.... so.... well, if you know me, it's so me, ha! Like The Loved Ones, this track is off their sophmore album. And the other track, "The Size of Our Love" I'm afraid only MeatPocket will truly understand completely. I love you baby! xoxoxo
So, get off your asses this weekend, snuggle up to your lover or your one night stand, or even to your one hand (and your favorite movie/magazine) and make something of it. Channel that rage at the economy, at those major corporations who rip us off on a regular basis, at your hated political figure of choice, at the lack of political choices in general! -- take all that rage and have some outrageously loud sex with it, people! Wake the fucking neighbors! They've done it to you at least once.
She comes down to Georgia to dance across my kitchen floor, Leavin’ black marks on linoleum, a country song on the radio. I am just a rodeo calf with tender feet and sewn on horns and Love is a kindness that I’ve never known before, I’ve never known before.
She say’s “I’m bound to Carolina to join the kids in ‘Truth or Dare’.” And she laughs and says its just a game when I tell her that I’m scared. I am just a dog waitin’ at the kitchen door, Love is a kindness that I’ve never known before, I’ve never known before.
Make it last, make it stay Can you hold on long enough to make this pay.
She said,” My daddy was a grifter and I was in my momma’s way, So I drifted for a while, because I could not stand to stay.” And she said, “Love is a kindness that I’ve never understood.” I said, “I‘ll give it to you willingly, its something you deserve, Its something you deserve.”
And I’ll make it last, I’ll make it stay. If you can hold on long enough I can make this pay.
‘Cause I am just a calf with tender feet and sewn on horns, Love is a prize waitin’ on her at the rodeo.
Nope, that's not the song I've got for you tonight, psych!!!
Sometimes I sit in my living room and work, listening to music and yes, even with X amount of gigabites of music on my fuckpod I still find myself with nothing to listen to. Just like when I sit down to watch TV with 300 channels including HDTV there's not a darn thing on that I want to watch - ah the postmodern malaise.
So, on days like this I turn on one of the music channels so graciously offered me by my local cable company (no, not for a song, you shush over there in the peanut gallery). I started out today on "metal (uncensored)" but when they began a 20 minute block of Metallica I bailed and hit the "alternative (uncensored)" in time to catch some great tunes.
I looked up from my work to check out the title of a few songs--some to note what to look further into, some to chuckle to myself about what crap is out there for the unassuming masses. A love song caught my ear, it had a familiar sound, I placed it immediately but I'd never heard it before. Somehow the latest Smashing Pumpkins (well, 2007) had passed me by. "That's The Way (My Love Is)" is a great tune lyrically, a bit mysterious, sweetly sung though in that gentle, wistful way Billy Corgan does so well. And it just so happens to sum up how I'm feeling tonight, lucky you!
I've coupled it with another awesome tune from the ever-reliable (oh god, that's redundantly redundant!) Otis Redding, the ultimate source for love songs. It's a track I particularly like and not one that I think he's very very famous for, so enjoy! I love you MeatPocket, don't you ever underestimate that, baby. xoxox That's The Way (My Love Is) mp3 The Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist buy it That's How Strong My Love Is mp3 Otis Redding The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads buy it
Bjork's Debut er, debuts...still one of my favorite albums and I bought it when it first hit the shelves of my local record shop
ditto with Violent Femmes, Add It Up (1981-1993)
ditto with Queen Latifa, Black Reign, ( I didn't buy this one, but Meatpocket had this one in her arsenal, at the time I felt she was trying too hard, lol)
a Tart and Meatpocket spend 4 hours in a bookstore discussing whether or not we should spend our futures together, at which point the shopclerk poked his head in and said, "oh just kiss her already and get it over with!"
So yeah, that's the origins of a 15-year-and-counting collaboration, folks. To say I wooed her with music is an understatement. I downright tested her with tunes, like in that scene in Diner where Levinson has his character Steve subject Elise, his fiance, to a football quiz before the marriage. I trained my little Meatpocket to recognize my music, to trace the transition from punk to post-punk to grunge. I quizzed her on the difference between The Violent Femmes, The Ramones, and The Smiths. The poor little Madonna fan didn't have a chance, really.
But I had to know if she could tolerate and come to love it/me, ya see. Would she be welcome in my world? I'm not ashamed to name my insecurities, I worried about it! There were real barriers between us, like the barriers between men and women in Levinson's Diner.
And well, music was my litmus test. She came from a world where life looked pretty easy: a happy family, loads of opportunities, well-traveled, well-educated, well-bred. In a word, she has very upper-class tastes and she came by them honestly. Luckily my sweetie had a bit of a working-class fetish.
We drove for hours in the countryside at night, just listening to music -- my music. Cassette after cassette was popped into the car player. I threw all the raw, basic, hard-edged and meaningful stuff I had at the time, asking with false bravado if she was sure she didn't mind the volume being up so high. Within a few days a mixtape appeared on my doorstep, love songs: Bonnie Raitt, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Aretha Franklin, Queen Latifa, Billy Holiday, Simon and Garfunkle, etc. Over the years, I learned to soften the edges on my soul with her love and her music, to let people in quicker, and deeper. She learned to not try so hard with mine, and just shake her booty to whatever beat she liked, deep down. Over the years we've learned to merge. We're still learning, it's a process.
If you want advice on how to make it to 15 years and keep going strong, how to be even better than when you first met, do two things:
Don't insist on being alike or having something in common, that's just bullshit.
Marry a woman who wants to be called Meatpocket and has the sex drive of a "working girl" with the breeding of a princess ;)
Happy Anniversary, Darling! Let's have 150 more, ok? xoxooxoxox!
Here's basically what I wooed my girl with back in '93, forgive me for the Mellencamp, it was 15 years ago, ok!? But they're all exactly not the kind of music a girl like Meatpocket was listening to at the time, I assure you.
So, welcome to the first ever Tart mixtape :) I'll give em to ya one by one and then zipped just in case you would like a single download :).... and uh yeah, if you do wish to listen to the whole thing, the order matters.
Add It Up, Violent Femmes, Add It Up (1981-1993)buy it Pink Houses, John Mellencamp, Uh Huhbuy it Lola, The Kinks, Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One buy it Whole Lotta Love, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IIbuy it Crazy On You, Heart, Dream Boat Anniebuy it Anarchy In The U.K, Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols buy it Wargasm, Bricks Are Heavy buy it Sex Type Thing, Stone Temple Pilots, Core buy it Bad Reputation, Joan Jett, Bad Reputation, buy it It's Different For Girls, Joe Jackson, I'm The Manbuy it I Love You, Steve Miller Band, Anthology buy it Blue Sky, Allman Brothers, Allman Brothers - A Decade of hits 1969-1979buy it There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead, buy it The Milkman of Human Kindness, Billy Bragg, Back To Basics, buy it anniversary.zip
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