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April 15th, 2007

Random 10 – The Lover Speaks

So I hit "Shuffle Songs" on my iPod…  And today’s winning lottery numbers are…

  1. Uriah Is Dead – Alfred Newman, David and Bathsheba
  2. Carefully Taught – Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific
  3. On & On – Gil, The Album +4
  4. Sail Along Silv’ry Moon – Billy Vaughn, Instrumental Gold
  5. All Along The Watchtower – The Jimi Hendrex Experience
  6. Last Night, I Didn’t Get To Sleep – The 5th Dimension
  7. Sugar Baby Love – The Rubettes
  8. Belong (Sasha’s Involver Remix) – Spooky
  9. Luke’s Nocturnal Visitor – John Williams, The Empire Strikes Back
  10. Symphony #9, 4th Movement, Andante tranquillo – Ralph Vaughan-Williams

So who else do you know who can hit "shuffle songs" and get Jimi Hendrix playing a Bob Dylan tune right after Billy Vaughn playing something you probably heard the last time you rode an elevator, followed somewhere down the list by a track from Empire Strikes Back?  A Broadway show tune, a techno club mix, a couple of film soundtrack cues and a really really cute long haired rocker child.  And to finish, an ethereal movement from Vaughan-Williams’ most other-worldly symphony, composed when he was in his middle eighties.  Eh?  Eh?  Gay Geek!  Gay Geek!  Gay Geek!

And proud of it.  You should see my video collection. 

And while I’m on the subject of music…  I came across this post in The Stranger Blog…and it was one of those random web surfing moments that really make up for all the time you otherwise waste hopping from this link to that, because it clued me in to a really really good album I would never have otherwise heard off, were it not for the web…

I don’t think a day went by during my sophmore year of highschool (1987) that me and my friend, another big drama-queen, didn’t obsess over the self-titled album by The Lover Speaks.

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This desperately romantic new wave gem was the brainchild of David Freeman, a casual songwriter and erotic poet of the time.

Go read the whole thing.  But beware, this album has been out of print for ages now, and it’s fetching prices of upwards of 150 bucks on the second hand CD market, depending on condition.  You will not find it on iTunes.  But if you follow the links you’ll be led to a place where you can listen to a few cuts from the album.  I’ve been grooving on Every Lover’s Sign for the past several days now.  Aghhh!  It’s such a damn shame we don’t have more from this group then this one, infuriatingly hard to find album.  So I have another reason to be pissed off at the music industry.  Given the technology available, there is no earthly reason anymore to let an album become unavailable for sale to people who want to buy it.  It’s not like they have to keep physically printing them anymore on hot vinyl, or even hot polycarbonate (that’s what they make CDs out of…I’m a geek…I know these things…).  If they don’t want people stealing music, then I have a suggestion.  Fucking sell it to us then!  K?

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