Rock & Roll Farm

Wednesday! Feb 19 2003 // 10:09 am //

this is the city life…

compilations i can’t create myself, but wish someone would:

• songs of redemption - not solely in the spiritual sense. all kinds of redemption
• great organ tone - 50+ years of the electric organ in rock and roll, r&b, etc.
• live covers - this one may already be out there somewhere. impromptu (or unexpected, or improvised, or just interpreted well) covers. think= flaming lips doing that smog song. or, don’t hate me: ida doing don’t fear the reaper. i’m not kidding, i really liked it. i may have been the only one who did, though. please don’t hate me.
• pronouns shmonouns - songs performed by a singer who doesn’t change the pronouns to fit their gender. and then some when they do. i don’t know why, but i think about this a lot.
• songs to wait by - songs that talk about waiting. waiting that’s going on, or waiting that happened already.
• songs that sound like another song, but isn’t a ripoff (original songs included for reference) - where it all began for me: pavement’s silence kit sounds so much like buddy holly’s every day, that it drives me nuts.