Comments on: This just makes me want to boot up limewire

By: LisaV

LisaV — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:14:13 +0000

Ruby by Kenny Rogers

By: LisaV

LisaV — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:13:48 +0000

Janis Ian, Between the Lines- another album to drink to.

By: LisaV

LisaV — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:10:02 +0000

Anything by Dory Previn from her Mythical Kings and Iguanas album. Also Carol Bayer Sager, Sometimes Late at Night. Yes my stepfather was morose.

By: jen

jen — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:04:00 +0000

Travelin’ Soldier by the Dixie Chicks is blatently manipulative and schmaltzy and it makes me weep Every. Single. Time. I hear it. I listen to too much country radio — there’s this awful one about a mom who’s little girl is dying and “who’s gonna hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven” and then of course there’s the even more blatantly manipulative “Letters from Home” and gah, I have to go drink bleach now.

By: paige

paige — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 04:18:21 +0000

What about that ‘Seasons in the Sun’ song? I remember hearing it on the radio as a wee totlet in the 70’s–it seemed so tragic and scary, like the ‘found a peanut’ song. You know the part about the peanut being rotten, eating it anyway and then dying from it. Used to make me so sad. A weird kid, yes, I know. I come from sad stock apparently. My grandmother (now 85) tells a funny story about standing over the phonograph in her aunt’s livingroom, playing ‘Danny Boy’ over and over and crying about it. She was about four or five at the time. She says she loved making herself sad (which is just totally unlike her now–I guess we really do change as we age)

So, in planning this fabulous K-tel album, I must ask that we include: Seasons in the sun
Danny Boy
and let’s throw in Found a
Peanut for good measure