4.18.2011

Song 62: Swimsuit Issue, Sonic Youth

I'm just here for dictation 
i don't wanna be a sensation 
bein' on Sixty Minutes 
wasn't worth your fifteen minutes

For two thirds of Sonic Youth's Swimsuit Issue, bassist Kim Gordon launches a verbal attack against sexual assault. Then she hits a wall, and in a voice that's somehow bitter, weary and smirking at the same time, lists the names of Sports Illustrated swimsuit models. 

Row-shaan-da 
Joo-dith 
Pau-lee-naa

Song 63: Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner, Warren Zevon

If this isn't true, it should be. Warren Zevon met a guy in a bar in Spain who previously worked as a mercenary in Africa and the two of them wrote Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner together.


4.17.2011

Song 64: Education (Another Brick in the Wall), Pink Floyd

Still a favourite of art class kids when I went to high school in the 90's - Pink Floyd's Education is the second part their three-part song Another Brick in the Wall from their rock-opera album The Wall.

The song was banned in South Africa in the 1980's after it became a sort of anthem for a nationwide school boycott protesting apartheid.

Song 65: Levi Stubbs' Tears, Billy Bragg

Off his fantastic album Talking with the Taxman about Poetry, Billy Bragg's Levi Stubbs' Tears is kinda pretty heart-breaking eh?