Morgan Tagged Me!
Konst tagged Morgan and Morgan tagged me. Thus, you have before you a list of seven or so songs that I am digging at this point in time. Not necessarily my favorites of all time, but I’m sort of in a nostalgic mood and these are making me quite calm and happy. So the deal was to list your seven songs (I did more though). And because Morgan is a beautiful genius, I am going to urge that you list the 7 or so songs you are diggin right now in the comments, just as she did on her blog. That is, if you want to.
Oh, and I chose to include a pic of Kate Moss and her ginormous bodyguard from Glastonbury for some odd reason.
Policy of Truth: The Depeche Mode. Damn, I fell in love with this song waaaaay back in the day. It’s just perfect.
Strong Man: Luscious Jackson. I couldn’t find the album version. This works, though. I dunno why I like this song. It’s cute and sisterly.
The Perfect Girl: I ♥ The Cure. I like when he sings “I wanna turn you all upside down”. 
Behind The Wheel Depeche Mode again. This one’s sexy and it makes me want to smoke cigarettes and glare at cute boys in San Francisco as if I don’t care about them because I’m too cool for that stuff. I dig atmospheric music. I’m obsessed with this song.
Graffiti: The Digable Planets. They were all I listened to in high school. I had the cassette tapes… I was into Beatniks and North Beach and when they did their jazzy beatniky stuff I thought I had struck gold.
Cursed Female: Porno For Pyros. I love Perry Farrell. I also love this song. Cursed to be born is right. 
Talisman: Air. I actually love this song. I like floaty, instrumental music that makes the world seem special. I like 97% of Air’s songs, but I’ve been listening to this one the most.
Days Have Turned Away From Me: John Frusciante. I actually love this song, too. It’s beautiful. When I listen to this song I have to listen to it like 5 times. And then I cry, and then I pray and ask God to make it happen that John and I get married.
Cursed Female is a fucking great song. Period.
Behind The Wheel is one of my fave Dep Mode songs. It makes you wanna smoke ciggies! How cute!
Love your entire list, Anners.
Am I crazy? Did you post this somewhere else?
Yes, Wanda. You are crazy but not because you think I posted this somewhere else. I did, but I’m deleting it. It seemed better to post here because it wasn’t like a personal tag… I’m weird.
Yay! Morgan digs Cursed Female! Behind the Wheel is gorgeous. Thank you for sending it me.
Well, I’m gonna post my list here too! FTW!
1. Mr.T Experience- Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba
2. Sleater-Kinney – I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
3. Pogues – Body Of An American
4. the queers – i met her at the rat
5. Weezer – Beverly Hills
6. Betty Davis – Anti Love Song
7. The Lunachicks – Jan Brady
Ali-ers doing a double song post FTW!! I still like Bev Hills…
That’s where I wanna be…
im sooooo into MIND OVER TIME from interpol i adore that song!
Pulp – The Fear
“when you’re no longer searching for beauty or love / Just some kind of life with the edges taken off”
Bruce Springsteen – Downbound Train
New Model Army – Ten Commandments
“I will bow to the earth, bow to the sea,
bow to the love between you and me,
bow to the sun, bow to the land,
but never to a god made in the image of man”
Jethro Tull – We Used to Know
Die Toten Hosen – Bayern
The Clash – London Calling
3 Daft Monkeys – Faces
Here’s my list!
Stones – Sonic Youth
Hit it and Quit it – Funkadelic
Roland – Interpol
In one ear and Out the other – Fujiya and Miyagi
Hey Sailor – The Detroit Cobras
Big Pimpin’ – Jay Z
Misty Morning – Bob Marley
Qualified – Dr John
Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones
Yay! Lists!
Hi Malanthers! Roland! I love the way that song starts. No Oasis? Hee. Sonic Youth FTW!
Ac: The Clash… do they have a song called The Seeker? I like that song. I think it was on the Soundtrack to The Limey.
The only “The Seeker” song I know was by The Who. No idea if it was on that soundtrack, though.
Oh, right. Dumb Anners. It was The Who.
Aren’t those lyrics backwards sorta? Wasn’t man (supposedly) created in God’s image?
And why is it so easy to bow to the sea rather than the entity that purportedly created it? If one can marvel over the mysterious beauty of the sea and other things, why can’t one can marvel over the mystery of a God?
I mean I know you’re an atheist and all and I respect that. Sometimes I think I could be an atheist but it just feels like I am lying to myself when I think that there is no God.
I’m going to bed. Nighters.
Mark Lanegan – Love You Little Girl
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
The Stone Roses – Sally Cinnamon
David Bowie – Suffragette City
Johnny Cash – I Won’t Back Down
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y-control
Beck – The Golden Age
I love Beck! Johnny Cash is cool beans. The Smiths ♥ !!!
Yes, according to the bible man was created in god’s image. To me it’s pretty clear while reading the old testament that it’s actually the other way around.
The sentiment expressed in the song I quoted is – at least as I read it – that while the author feels a deep spiritual connection to both the natural world and his fellow human beings he has no time at all for the rules and dogma touted by (specifically) Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
This point of view is compatible with atheism, but doesn’t imply it. There’s no denial of the possibility of anything supernatural – only of the specific god claims touted by these three religions.
If you read the full lyrics
( which are available here: http://newmodelarmy.org/Lyrics/TenCommandments.htm )
you’ll see that what he (Justin Sullivan) is primarily raging against is those Religions/Churches imposing laws and rules on others by claiming to speak for some god of their own invention. Hence all the stonings, witch burnings, the general suppression of women and scaring people into submission with threats of eternal torment.
In any case I don’t think you have to agree with the point of view put forward in a song in order to like it. Although I’m an atheist there are some hymns I find very powerful and moving. A sentiment being expressed in a heartfelt and eloquent manner has a value in itself, quite apart from its objective truthfulness.
For a somewhat different look at religion also from a New Model Army song there’s this:
http://newmodelarmy.org/Lyrics/Dragitdown.htm
This one seems to say that a loss of religion (and sense of history) has been caused by or at least leaves us vulnerable to pure and soulless greed. I don’t really agree with that, but I still like the song.
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They proved on television last night that God was just a lie
He never made the world at all
It was just some sweet old fashioned rite
So melt down all the ornaments, move out all the graves
And let us build the disco that we need for our young braves
Pull it down, drag it down
Till the hopes and dreams of all the ages past
are shattered on the ground
We think we are so clever killing heroes, killing magic,
Until everything that’s sacred is brought down to our level
for Mammon is a jealous master, – leaves no room for any other
All the questions left unanswered, all the answers gone forever
So bow to the woman in the finest fur
Bow to the man with the ace street cool
Bow to the woman with all the power
Bow to the man with all the money
In whose sight are we equal now?
Now that we’ve killed God
Gotcha.
For sure one doesn’t have to agree with the POV of a song to like it.
From our convos in the past I know that you are atheistic and I just figured you were quoting the lyrics to make some comment about that. A silly idea, really. My bad.
And please don’t think I’m directing your shiz to the spam file! I’m innocent. It happens when you post more than one link.