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Aug 21, 2016 07:03AM

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New album out end of Sept"
Pixies - Um Chagga Lagga
a French truck-driving song"
Heard it NPR today.

Mickey and Mallory FTW!!
Leonard Cohen - The Future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaxv...

Beautiful! Thank you.
Sean Rowe - "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
https://youtu.be/CrGOs1a1lOk
He's no Richard Thompson but better than most songs I'll hear today.
John Carpenter - Escape from New York OST
I consider Carpenter to be an even greater film score composer than movie director.
I consider Carpenter to be an even greater film score composer than movie director.

I consider Carpenter to be an even greater film score composer than movie director."
I agree.
John Carpenter's Lost Themes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=392by...

Holly. I was listening to this song today and suddenly recalled there's a mystery to it. I remember the song from childhood but had totally forgotten about the mystery. Do you remember it?

I consider Carpenter to be an even greater film score composer than movie director."
That's high praise considering "The Thing" (1982) is one of the best horror movies ever made.

Holly. I was listening to this song today and suddenly recalled there's a mystery to it. I remember the song from childhood but had totally forgott..."
What did Billie Joe and Bobbi Lee throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?


It's always a good day for some Motown!

(listening to while fantasising about Duckie sliding in and dancing to it for me)
Young Heretics - I Know I'm A Wolf

Holly. I was listening to this song today and suddenly recalled there's a mystery to it. I remember the song from childhood but had to...
What did Billie Joe and Bobbi Lee throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?
I don't remember a Bobbi Lee and I don't recall the narrator being named, but anyway, that's part of the mystery: What did Billie Joe and the narrator throw off the bridge? And what prompted Billie Joe to commit suicide? Were Billie Joe and the narrator lovers? And what was thrown off the bridge?
It's been a unanswered mystery since the song was written in 1967. It's a Southern Gothic story. The narrator's family is coming into the house for supper and the mother says be sure to wipe your feet and oh, by the way, "Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge," and at the dinner table, the narrator's father says, "Well, Billie Joe never had a lick o' sense; pass the biscuits, please." The mother then responds that earlier that morning Brother Taylor, the local preacher, claimed he had seen Billie Joe and the narrator "throwin' somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
One scenario is that Billie Joe proposed marriage to her, she decline, Billie Joe through the ring off the bridge, and then later jumped himself and committed suicide.
Another scenario has the narrator pregnant and the thing thrown off the bridge is an aborted fetus.
Imagine sitting around your dinner table with your mom, dad, and brother, and this conversation taking place under either of these scenarios.


Yes it was a doll and the story was about gay lovers. Worst movie ever made. They took so many liberties it was no longer recognizable. Know who directed it? Jethro from Beverley Hillbillies.
Oh, and there have been many parodies, etc. like "Ode to Billy Joel."
It was the 3rd of June another sooty smoggy Brooklyn day
I was upstairs chopping cocaine, my brother was smoking a J
I hollered down to my mama, can you tell me what's for dinner please?
She said we might go to the Peking Palace, get some take-out Chinese
And then she said I heard some news this morning when I was in Bay Ridge
They say that Billy Joel jumped off the Verrazano-Narrows
bridge...

HA! I don't remember much about the movie. But, you know, Robby Benson ... that pretty much sums it up.

The contrast of dark Nick and ridiculously warm and sunny summer Greece always has a mesmerizing effect on me.

The contrast of dark Nick and ridiculously warm and sunny summer Greece always has a mesmerizing effect on me."
Soooo jealous!

Suddenly smitten with this guy. Awesome talent. Sounds a little like Van Morrison with some Black Keys thrown in and a touch of Damien Rice, and maybe a touch of Billy Corgan (but not too much).

Said to be an homage to Waters and Gilmour. Does remind me a little of "Fearless" and "Us and Them." But that makes it even better IMHO.
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