"Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

[Flicka]

I'll be the first to admit I have terrible taste in music. lol I even like that NIN song you quoted!! My husband is constantly asking why and how he ever married me (jokingly, of course...haha).

Heck, I adore Broken; Wish and Last especially. And even Suck ever since Trent leaned down over me and sang the entire second verse staring me in the eyes when I saw them live once. And Physical is... Yum. I even think that he's managed some great lyrics throughout his career, but that line and the one in The Only Time about "the Devil wants to f*** me in the back of his car" makes me crack up.

And I have some things I like that many things would deem terrible taste too. For example, I still enjoy the Transvision Vamp Album I got at 16, not to mention all my old Indochine records. But that is still Good Music, just like a party band like Eagles of Death Metal can be Good Music (Very Good even) so I'm not ashamed.

 

[vitanola]

Bad lyrics?

Those NINnies ain't got nuthin' on the Happiness Boys! Try "As a Porcupine Pines for its Pork (That's How I'll Pine for You)", "Why Aren't Yez Eating More Oranges", or "There's a New Star in Heaven Tonight (Rudolph Valentino)" on your machine.

 

[lolly_loisides]

As far as political music goes, if I'd had kids they'd have heard "Which Side Are You On?" as their cradle melody.

Ha! That was my fathers song of choice, he also loved "You won't get me I'm part of the union"

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ha! That was my fathers song of choice, he also loved "You won't get me I'm part of the union"

To say nothing of the romantic ballad "One Big Union For Two."

I'm on a campaign to make you mine

I'll picket you until you sign

In one big union for two

No courts' injunction can make me stop

Until your love is all closed shop

In one big union for two

Seven days a week I want the right

To call you mine both day and night

The hours may be long

But fifty million union members can't be wrong

When we have joined up perhaps there'll be

A new recruit or two or three

For that's what team work can do

In one big union for two

We won't have sit-downs inside our gate

We'll never need to arbitrate

In one big union for two

We'll have no lock-outs to make us frown

No scabbing when I'm out of town

In one big union for two

Will you pay your dues,

They're very light

A kiss each day

And a kiss each night

Our life will be a song

For..

Fifty million union members can't be wrong!

When we have signed up and made the grade

We'll have a new member -- Union made

Who looks like me and like you

In one big union for two!

 

[lolly_loisides]

^^^^
"We'll never need to arbitrate" very clever, I like it. I'd love to hear a copy of it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

PM me your email address -- I'll send some audio. It's from the 1937 Broadway show "Pins and Needles," put on by the New York local of the ILGWU.

Here's another hit tune from the show -- "Doin' The Reactionary!"

Don't go left, but be polite
Move to the right
Doing the reactionary!

Close your eyes to where you're bound
And you'll be found
Doing the reactionary!

All the best dictators do it
Millionaires keep steppin' to it
The Four Hundred love to sing it
Ford and Morgan swing it!

Hands up high and shake your head
You'll soon see red
Doing the reactionary!

 

[Touchofevil]

Heck, I adore Broken; Wish and Last especially. And even Suck ever since Trent leaned down over me and sang the entire second verse staring me in the eyes when I saw them live once. And Physical is... Yum. I even think that he's managed some great lyrics throughout his career, but that line and the one in The Only Time about "the Devil wants to f*** me in the back of his car" makes me crack up.

And I have some things I like that many things would deem terrible taste too. For example, I still enjoy the Transvision Vamp Album I got at 16, not to mention all my old Indochine records. But that is still Good Music, just like a party band like Eagles of Death Metal can be Good Music (Very Good even) so I'm not ashamed.

I was listening to The Eagles of Death Metal last night on my Boomcase. They are a very underrated band as are Queens of the Stone Age, Masters of Reality, and Kyuss.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

My dad used to bounce me on his knee and hum this.
[video=youtube;9iteRKvRKFA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA[/video]

He also used to sing "Everything is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens and "Jesus Loves the Little Children" (which is also the intro to "Everything is Beautiful") to me when I was really little.

Well, my "my son was born" album is Nirvana's Nevermind. I used to hold him and dance to that album every day. I think it accounts for his great taste in music today! Also, the cover was shot here in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl aquatic center. Funny how a "record" can do that to you!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

My dad used to bounce me on his knee and hum this.
[video=youtube;9iteRKvRKFA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA[/video]

He also used to sing "Everything is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens and "Jesus Loves the Little Children" (which is also the intro to "Everything is Beautiful") to me when I was really little.

[video=youtube;xUIu03s3oNY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIu03s3oNY[/video]

 

[MissMittens]

Heck, I adore Broken; Wish and Last especially. And even Suck ever since Trent leaned down over me and sang the entire second verse staring me in the eyes when I saw them live once. And Physical is... Yum. I even think that he's managed some great lyrics throughout his career, but that line and the one in The Only Time about "the Devil wants to f*** me in the back of his car" makes me crack up.

And I have some things I like that many things would deem terrible taste too. For example, I still enjoy the Transvision Vamp Album I got at 16, not to mention all my old Indochine records. But that is still Good Music, just like a party band like Eagles of Death Metal can be Good Music (Very Good even) so I'm not ashamed.

Ah......I can leave NIN after Pretty Hate Machine.....but I have fond memories of TVV....I've got Prime Mover going through my head now from the same time period as TVV but I forget the name of that band, lol. Youtube time!

 

[MissMittens]

Solved! Zodiac Mindwarp

[video=youtube;mtnCcWOS7y8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtnCcWOS7y8[/video]

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Umm... not quite, but figured somebody would bring that up. Also a memorable song from my childhood, though lol

 

[jamespowers]

My dad used to bounce me on his knee and hum this.
[video=youtube;9iteRKvRKFA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA[/video]

He also used to sing "Everything is Beautiful" by Ray Stevens and "Jesus Loves the Little Children" (which is also the intro to "Everything is Beautiful") to me when I was really little.

Now that is man's music.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie. Maybe the hipsters should oughta have been raised on that.

Now that is man's music.

 

[jamespowers]

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie. Maybe the hipsters should oughta have been raised on that.

Then they wouldn't wear girl pants.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Transvision Vamp are great! Pretty much anything and everything I listened to in the 80s, good or "bad", still warms my heart and I still love it. I still love New Kids On The Block, too. Music is more personal to me than aesthetic (if that makes sense). I consider most popular music made now to be bad because I have no emotional connection to it -- not because it's actually musically bad.

With that said, I *can* make emotional connections to music. I began listening to 20s-40s music in 2001. And I decided I liked Lady Gaga so now her music reminds me of trips to the Jersey Shore. Music must be connected to an emotional/personal event in my life for it to be good to me

 

[Flicka]

Transvision Vamp are great! Pretty much anything and everything I listened to in the 80s, good or "bad", still warms my heart and I still love it. I still love New Kids On The Block, too. Music is more personal to me than aesthetic (if that makes sense). I consider most popular music made now to be bad because I have no emotional connection to it -- not because it's actually musically bad.

With that said, I *can* make emotional connections to music. I began listening to 20s-40s music in 2001. And I decided I liked Lady Gaga so now her music reminds me of trips to the Jersey Shore. Music must be connected to an emotional/personal event in my life for it to be good to me

I'm that way with smells. I have extremely strong emotional associations with smells and so I like the ones connected with positive feelings rather than because they objectively smell 'good' or not.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Same here. One of my favorite odors is the smell of kerosene, for all the associations of childhood security that it evokes.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Smell is the sense most closely related to memory -- hence why smells evoke emotional responses in us more than things we see, hear, or feel. Our sense of smell is also instant and does not have to go through the same brain filters as our other senses. /psychologist.

Smells absolutely take me back to certain times, people, and places -- instantly. Music (sounds) can take me back, but it's more complex, I think.

 

[Feraud]

Same here. One of my favorite odors is the smell of kerosene, for all the associations of childhood security that it evokes.

I feel the same way about the smell of hot asphalt in the summer.

Music can also have that effect but not as strongly as certain smells.