lionel and baba played some JB on the nine to noon show today, and it made me think of this tower of power song that i love so much. so here ya go! i dare you not to groove.

tommy and i had an argument (read: we teased each other and laughed a lot) over which version of this song was better. i won the argument because i made him laugh so hard that he stopped arguing. ;-) so, by that token, the live version wins.

because, why the hell not?

i need an elvis costello tattoo.

this band was a favourite of my ex, and one of the few things that i’ve still retained from the time when we were together, to be honest. they’re a really great band, and a lot of fun - although i’m not a superhuge fan anymore after their more recent line-up changes, because it will never be the same without brock skywalker. however, brock makes some awesome music on his own!

here’s some classic tractor featuring some of my favorite brock vocals.

i have a serious soft spot for everclear, so everclear covering thin lizzy is pretty darned awesome.

tommy is always playing something really pretty on his guitar, and i wasn’t sure what it was. i finally asked him, and it turns out that it’s the guitar solo from ten years gone. somehow i’d never paid attention to it before, even though i know the rest of the song and am used to hearing him play it. it’s just a really, really pretty song, so good on led zeppelin for that. :P

my favourite band, and the first band i ever got a tattoo for, too. not sure why they’ve been so scarce in these posts until now!

somehow, until this week, it had escaped my attention that the rolling stones had recorded two versions of honky tonk woman - which is one of my favourite stones songs to begin with. so, now that i’ve finally listened to let it bleed all the way through, i have found country honk, and it has made me very happy.

when the first verve: remixed CD came out, it changed the face of jazz remixes and made them a lot more accessible and mainstream. it wasn’t long before you’d hear the remixes of these classic verve songs in malls and on the radio; a lot of the verve: remixed 3 songs were even on the in-store music when i worked at esprit at the bfm (big fucking mall, a.k.a. west edmonton mall). this one is still the stand-out from me, from the whole series, and the metronome sounds mixed in make me a little bit giggly.

my first (and really, only) exposure to this tune was on a mix cassette belonging to my mama, which i borrowed and listened to TO DEATH on my walkman. it’s super catchy, but i guess that’s what one should expect from the hollies…