Everybody got to sing

[cyrano]

Siren deleted the playlists for both of these so I'm no longer exactly sure about the track names.

Drivetime
Done for my personal sanity, explicitly music to make me happier while I drive.

What's so funny 'bout -- Elvis Costello
A Thousand Miles -- Vanessa Carlton
Doom
Nemesis (Cayenne Siseman) --Shriekback
Friday I'm in Love -- The Cure
Accidentally Kelly Street -- Frente
New Song -- Howard Jones
American Music -- Violent Femmes
New York City -- TMBG
Livin' in the Fridge -- 'Weird' Al Yankovic
This is the Day -- The The
Six Underground -- Sneaker Pimps
Short Skirt, Long Jacket -- Cake
Beach Party Vietnam -- Dead Milkmen
She's Crafty -- Beastie Boys
Mexican Radio -- Wall of Voodoo
You Need Love Like I Do -- Tom Jones
Opportunities -- Pet Shop Boys
Sexy MF -- Prince

Swing, Daddy!

Tank! -- The Seatbelts
Hey Pachuco -- Royal Crown Revue
Hell -- Squirrel Nut Zippers
Hey Mister Pin Stripe Suit -- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Something from 'Imposters'
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -- Brian Setzer Orchestra
Something, maybe 'Imposters' also
Mambo Swing -- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Stray Cat Strut -- Brian Setzer Orchestra
Definitely something from 'Imposters'
Dog Pound Hop -- Jon Kricfalusi
Powerhouse -- Lee Press-On
Pennies from Heaven -- Louis Prima
Take Five -- Chick Corea? Herbie Hancock?
Never Can Tell -- Chuck Berry (Pulp Fiction)
Stop Drop and Roll -- Squirrel Nut Zippers
Sing Sing Sing (Swing Kids)

Comments

Oooh!

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

So what's a girl have to do to get a copy of that Swing mix?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Ask me especially sweetly? (:

Re:

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Pretty please with cherries on top?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Sure thing.

ooh, ooh

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

I'll even make hopeful anime eyes at you next time I see you, could I pretty please have a copy of the Swing mix, too?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

How could I tell you no? (:

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

A swing disc without Basie?! Tsk. Tsk.

BTW, Take Five is Paul Desmond (performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet). And although it swings, it is not Swing, it's Cool (or West Coast, depending on your bias).

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Take Five is often Dave Brubeck Quartet, however I believe in this instance it's actually Corea and Hancock with assorted guests. I am not, however, positive on this.
West Coast is not like West Coast Swing?

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

No matter who performed it, Paul Desmond (a totally cool saxophonist) actually wrote the thing.

West Coast Swing is not a term I run across often, give me a group in the genre and then I can pontificate on it. Unfortunately, like most jazz vocabulary, swing has more than one meaning. Swing (capitalized) is a popular/jazz music genre of the 1930s characterized by use of the big band ensemble. Swing (non-capitalized) is a rhythmic figure found in most jazz music. Swing (also non-capitalized) is a feeling found in exceptional jazz performance and compositions regardless of whether they are/have either of the other two types, and as the New Grove's says, "...has resisted concise definition or description." You know it swings, I know it swings, but having either of us try and describe why this is so will get you in a heap of trouble

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

What's in a name?
(Stuff about Paul Desmond, which I agree with.)
Well yes. But Lee Press-On didn't write 'Powerhouse' either (It's a classic Warner Brothers cartoon composition by Carl Stalling), and Frank Sinatra didn't write anything on the mix discs I have him on. (: They did, however, perform those various tracks.
And not all of the tracks on 'De Profundis' are in Latin, and none of the tracks on '100% Prairie Squid' are actually about oceanic cephalopods. Names are chosen for mix discs, often with no logical thought, for their evocative qualities and for the way they sound.
I'm not an expert on West Coast Swing, but I've heard people like Clapton and Knopfler performing it. What sort of music is 'West Coast' without the swing? Is it a jazz form?

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Then you use the third form of the word swing and possibly the second (swing rhythm is like garlic, put it almost anywhere and it works great).

West Coast, or Cool, jazz is what Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis (in his most famous incarnation) , Stan Getz, Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan and many others played. It swings, in both the second and third meaning, but it's laid back. I'm going to stop there, because words do a really crappy job of describing this. I'll bring something up.

And I'll check into West Coast Swing.