Saturday Shuffle
Oct 15th, 2005 at 2:34 pm by Susie
1. The End of the Rainbow, Richard Thompson
2. Under My Thumb, Rolling Stones
3. Angel in the Dark, Laura Nyro
4. Return of the Grievous Angel, Lucinda Williams - David Crosby
5. Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference, Todd Rundgren
6. Rain, Patty Griffin
7. On the Radio, Donna Summers
8. People Got to Be Free, Young Rascals
9. Catch Us If You Can, Dave Clark Five
10. New York in the Fall, Martha Wainwright
11. Thing Called Love, John Hiatt
12. Badge, Cream
13. Close Your Eyes, Jump Little Children
14. Who Knows Where the Time Goes, Fairport Convention
15. The Rain Might Wash Your Love Away, Shelby Lynne
16. When I get Home, The Beatles
17. Song for the Dumped, Ben Folds Five
18. Keep On Loving You, The Donnas
19. He Still Loves Me, Beyonce
20. Come Dancing, The Kinks
Damn you have great taste. “The End of the Rainbow” is sometimes my favorite song ever, despite its slit-your-wrists depressivei power. And I don’t see a single song on that list I wouldn’t want to hear 10 times, really. Let’s road trip sometime!
i must mention to your readers-
the lucinda williams/david crosby duet
comes from “return of the grievous angel-a tribute to gram parsons”.
one of the very best tribute records
i’ve ever heard. it makes the world feel different.
Come Dancing! Anything by Richard Thompson! Return of the Grevious Angel! Suzie, you have some powerful good taste here. I’ve loved Return of the Grevious Angel since it came out in 1974 - GP is a genius.
Peter, have you seen “Grand Theft Parsons,” the movie about how his friend stole his body? (I remember the original story in Rolling Stone - that’s how old I am.) I loved it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338075/
When I used to play out, I’d cover Emmy Lou’s “Boulder to Birmingham,” which is about Gram.
Pretty good movie, “Grand Theft Parsons.” One thing I notice is the time-capsule quality of a story from not so long ago; I don’t mean the fashions or the cars, but the simple fact that Johnny Knoxville’s character could walk into a major airport with no ID and a cock-and-bull story to get Gram Parsons’ body handed over to him. A more innocent time.
Ah, Todd Rundgren: his Hermit of Mink Hollow is a dang good album. Some real social-commentary tunes, very powerful.
“Save no regret for the dead,
But for the living,
Give them love, give them bread…”
But also on the same record, the absurd “Onomatopoeia.” Now that’s range!