March 2010
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the lilys - tennis system (and its stars)
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Watch#549: big star - thirteen (1972)
if heaven is a place, it’s got a gymnasium where the lights are turned down really low and decorations are on the wall, and alex chilton is there swaying with a girl he really likes to thirteen. he died today at 59.
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Watch#548: rod stewart and the faces - bad ‘n’ ruin (1971)
if this day doesn’t end with the acquiring of the toilet-lid-with-trailing-toilet-paper-shaped electric guitar that ronnie wood plays in this top of the pops clip, then the whole thing will have been a complete and total failure. i might as well not have gotten out of bed.
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Watch#543: stan getz and astrud gilberto - the girl from ipanema (1964)
it’s worth limping through a long new york winter, not to mention the treacherous chill of a sad manhattan autumn, to get to afternoons like this one. footsteps have pep, sweaters are yellow, the sunny side of the street smells like sunflowers, and astrud gilberto is playing on the radio.
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Watch#541: the roots ft. erykah badu - you got me (woodstock, 1999)
if i ever sit down to write a book about the soulful duets that perpetually blow my top, chapter one will be about ray charles and betty carter (i’ve been trying to listen to baby it’s cold outside as much as possible before it becomes seasonally inappropriate), chapter two will be on otis redding and carla thomas (with...
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soulquarian pun of the century, so far
me: holy cow, that erykah badu clip on theawl.com? so beautiful
leoncrawl: yeah i'm watching that right now!
me: we are soulquarian mates!
leoncrawl: haha
me: that was the most amazing pun
leon: i'm sorry, i didn't get it : (
me: the soulquarians were a loosely-knit hiphop collective involving the roots and erykah badu and like common before he started sucking it up in gap commercials
leon: wow, that is a good pun!
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Watch#539: loretta lynn (with don helms) - your cheatin’ heart (1966)
bob dylan said that when he found out hank williams had been killed, the silence of outer space never seemed so loud. and when loretta lynn plays hank williams’ saddest song with his own pedal steel guitar player, even the dark matter in the colliding galaxies of the famous bullet cluster sheds tears and sniffles. those...