Give me some good beer, conversation, friends, and music and there is little that will bother me. I try to treat others as I wish to be treated and when I don't, I like to think I learn from my mistakes. I believe most people are trustworthy until proven otherwise. I'm a conversational snob. I have little tolerance for stupidity or rudeness. Common courtesy is one of the best traits one can have. I believe there is conversation that is inappropriate for the dinner table. I love running into people I used to know, but am always happier if I look cute when it happens. I think there would be much less ruckus in the world if brunch were a daily offering.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Traffic Tape Dos

It is cold, wintery, and wet outside and after a couple hectic days I'm feeling run-down so I've decided to get warm and sentimental and go through a couple more tapes. This is the logical follow-up to Tunes for Traffic and includes some of the same songs (less work!). Here, for your pleasure is another from circa 1997.

Side A:
1. Pato & Roger Come Again - Pato Banton & Rankin Roger (Told you it would appear... "Some quick to take and slow to give. Them kind of people we don't walk with. Love is to give and life is to live, so think positive, don't think negative.")
2. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye (I'll take this time to plug one of my favorite restaurants in DC - Marvin on 14th North of U Street NW.)
3. How Your Love Makes Me Feel - Diamond Rio (Learn something while listening to a great song. My friends Peter, Corey and I used to do a crazy, non-ASL version of the chorus. "It's like just before dark, jump in the car, buy an ice cream and see how far we can drive before it melts kind of easy. There's a cow in the road and you swerve to the left. Fate skips a beat and it scares you to death and you laugh until you cry. That's how your love makes me feel inside.")
4. I Wanna Learn a Love Song - Harry Chapin ("And I could hear both of our heartbeats, but there was no place to hide." There is nothing I associate my father with more than Harry Chapin. Most people, if they know of him at all, know Harry for Cat's in the Cradle. He was so much more than just that song and I've spent many hours exposing people to this great storyteller. Yet another thing I have to thank my father for - filling my childhood memories with this man's music.)
5. Drowning Man - U2 (Probably my favorite U2 song. I live for the day they actually play this live. "You run and not grow weary. Take my hand...")
6. You & Me & The Bottle Makes 3 - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (Obviously needed something uplifting and frothy after Drowning Man!)
7. Running on Faith - Eric Clapton (Hearing this again makes me want to put in some Derek and the Dominoes.)
8. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac (I admit to picking this one because someone yelled "Freebird." "I'll begin not to love you. Turn around, see me running. I'll say I loved you years ago. Tell myself you never loved me, no." This song will always be mine and Jake's unfortunately.)
9. All For You - Sister Hazel (Yes, I danced and sang again.)
10. Criminal - Fiona Apple (She's so amazingly, wonderfully crazy in this performance. "Oh, help me but don't tell me to deny it. I got to cleanse myself of all these lies, 'til I'm good enough for him.")
11. Lover Lay Down - Dave Matthews Band
12. Sexuality - k.d. lang
13. Confetti - Lemonheads ("He kinda shoulda sorta woulda loved her if he could've. He'd rather be alone than pretend." Amen brother.)

Side B:
1. Love Shack - B-52s (Saw them live 2 years ago with, among others, Cyndi Lauper. All sounded great. "Knock a little louder baby!")
2. Take a Chance on Me - ABBA (You're welcome.)
3. Understanding - BoDeans (Hello somewhat random song choice. Couldn't find a clip of this song, but enjoy my favorite song of theirs. I love the BoDeans, great band often overlooked.)
4. Linger - The Cranberries (Her voice stands up all these years later. Beautiful, haunting. "But you always really knew, I just want to be with you.")
5. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Les Brown (Love this version of a favorite standard. Ella's as well. "Off with my overcoat. Off with my glove. I need no overcoat I'm burning with love." Guess "no glove, no love" wasn't a popular saying back in Irving Berlin's days...)
6. When I Come To You - Jonny Lang
7. World is New - Save Ferris (Monique and a young Conan for you. Jake worked at the Anaheim Convention Center with a couple of the Save Ferris guys. "When I am down and I am blue, all I have to do is close my eyes and think of you...and the world is new.")
8. You're the One That I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John (Don't hate me - it was the year of the 25th anniversary, so in honor of that here is a video of them performing live in 1997.)
9. Love You To - The Beatles ("A lifetime is so short, a new one can't be bought. But what you've got means such a lot to me." I was so deep in my youth.)
10. Giving Him Something He Can Feel - En Vogue ("Living in a world of ghetto life, everyone is so uptight." Funky Divas indeed.)
11. Rockin' Stroll - Lemonheads (Best song about being pushed in a stroller..."All I've been shown is everything I wanna see.")
12. Strobe Light - B-52s ("Then I'm gonna kiss your pineapple.")
13. Best of What's Around - Dave Matthews Band
14. Back For a Taste of Your Love - Jonny Lang (Enjoy a different song by Mr. Lang since the ones I love most weren't his commercial successes.)
15. Here, There & Everywhere - The Beatles
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