[UA] UA Soundtracks (was Deja vu all over again)

[Steven Howard]

In <20010417043912.20529.qmail at web1003.mail.yahoo.com>, on 04/16/01 
   at 09:39 PM, Royal Minister of Stuff <yokeltania at yahoo.com> said:

>I'm sure this has gone around once or twice already,
>but remember that I'm a relative newbie to this list. 
>Has anyone considered what songs they'd put on a CD
>for UA?  I'm partial to the direct approach and
>consider lyrics to be important.  I'd put on both
>versions of the Police's Synchronicity and, oh yes,
>definitely Golden Earring.  I wouldn't have added it
>before, but after this list has convinced me that
>"Twighlight Zone" was written for UA.

Mine would have lots of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and Elvis Costello. 
Specifically, I'd definitely want to include the Christy Moore cover
of EC's "Deportees Club" which always puts me in mind of a late-night
encounter between a dipsomancer and a pornomancer, with lines like
"there's a fading beauty talking in riddles / Rome burns down and
everybody fiddles", "It's a bitter charm but the lady's had enough /
Her pillow talk's nothing more than talking shop", and especially
"There's a thousand years of history drowned in a whiskey glass."

-- 
Steven Howard                    
mrblore at earthlink.net


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