Jesus Jones – Eclecticism

Gallimaufry 6

December 12, 2019January 28, 2005 by Michael Hanscom

Just a quick run-through tonight — I’ve got dinner and movies waiting for me — I’ll come back and babble more about these later on (maybe). Same deal as always, ten songs at random…

Ezio Pinza, ‘Some Enchanted Evening (from South Pacific)‘, off of Broadway: The Great Original Cast Recordings
Run-DMC feat. Chris Davis, ‘Ahhh‘, off of Crown Royal
Tori Amos, ‘Rattlesnakes‘, off of Strange Little Girls
Lou Gramm, ‘Lost in the Shadows (The Lost Boys)’, off of The Lost Boys Soundtrack
Jesus Jones, ‘Man on the Moon’, off of Already
Side Effect, ‘Always There (Inner City Club Mix), off of Do It Again, Vol. 2
Chicago Movie Cast, ‘All I Care About‘, off of the Chicago Motion Picture Soundtrack
Rasputina, ‘Girls’ School‘, off of Frustration Plantation
Queen, ‘A Winter’s Tale‘, off of Made in Heaven
The Cure, ‘Close to Me‘, off of Staring at the Sea: The Singles 1979-1985

And the bonus track…

“Angels” by Amos, Tori from the album A Tori Amos Collection – Tales of a Librarian (2003, 4:26).

The spectre of Spinal Tap

December 5, 2019August 13, 2003 by Michael Hanscom

We opened and closed the show, starting after a film sequence featuring a businessman searching sand dunes for a half-buried laptop, and a gravelly-voiced man saying in a so-baritone-it-must-be-important, film-trailer way, “There was a search for an internet business…”

The rest of the sequence was always lost to me as I was concentrating on standing upright and not wetting myself with laughter: Gravel Man was our signal that the revolving circular stage we were on was about to turn us briskly to face the audience and, we suspected, hurl our much ridiculed, old before his time guitarist into the front row like a ball off a dodgy roulette wheel. The spectre of Spinal Tap never leaves a rock band.

— Jesus Jones frontman Mike Edwards describing playing corporate gigs, in the Guardian Unlimited

(via kottke)

Songs, A-Z

December 5, 2019May 26, 2003 by Michael Hanscom

Well, I didn’t read the rules of this game after I saw D’s list, so this list might seem a little odd. Rather than just list songs that start with a letter, I chose songs that I have in my .mp3 library, and where both the song title and the artist started with the respective letter of the alphabet. Uff!

The only times I couldn’t get a match for both were for X and Z, so I listed two songs, one for the song title that matched the letter, and one for the artist.

A: Ain’t Goin’ to Goa by A3
B: Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus
C: Codeine, Glue and You by Chemlab
D: Destillat (VNV Nation Mix) by Das Ich
E: Emanuelle by Ex-Voto
F: Fired Up! (Club 69 Future Mix) by Funky Green Dogs
G: Games Without Frontiers (Massive D/B Mix) by Peter Gabriel
H: Hernando’s Hideaway (from The Pajama Game) by Carol Haney
I: The Indigo Swing by Indigo Swing
J: Jane Says by Jane’s Addiction
K: Kylie Said to Jason by The KLF
L: Lucy’s F*ck*ng Sky by Lords of Acid
M: Moonbeam by Men Without Hats
N: Ninety-Nine Red Balloons by Nena
O: Only A Lad by Oingo Boingo
P: Point Blank by Pigface
Q: Quad City Funk by Quad City DJs
R: Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield Mix) by Renegade Soundwave
S: Stay by Shakespeare’s Sister
T: Twist in my Sobriety by Tanita Tikaram
U: Until the End of the World by U2
V: Vengababes from Outer Space by The Vengaboys
W: Wimoweh by The Weavers
X: Dear God by XTC (or) Xhemikals by DJ H. Geek
Y: Your Horoscope for Today by “Wierd Al” Yankovic
Z: Living Dead Girl (Subliminal Seduction Mix) by Rob Zombie (or) Zeros and Ones by Jesus Jones