I *heart* London (and Albuquerque, too)
London Underground Tube Blog (how I keep up with tube delays, whilst stuck here in Pittsburgh), remarks that iTunes is selling a collection called "I *heart* London."
This would be excellent news, if it didn't cost about 60 bucks. Though to be fair, there are 75 songs on it.
There are lots of songs about London, though. Lots more than there are about New Mexico, a collection I put together for my iPod a few weeks ago.* Very fine collection, too. All over the board, musically.
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*Bestest, scariest, most gawdawful song about New Mexico?** Neil Young's "Albuquerque," which is dreadful both in composition ("Oh they say/that Santa Fe/is less than 90/miles away") and delivery (just HOW stoned can one sound? THIS stoned; scroll down for the sample.) Ah, 1973. I think that was a good year...can't really remember, though....oh, right. I was in Albuquerque.
**I'd say, even worse than the gawdawful state song, which, even as a child, I despised, and it's not like I was exhibiting Lots of Taste as a child. But you know. It was written by the blind daughter of Sheriff Pat Garrett, the Guy Who Shot Billy the Kid, and you know, state legislators can't let THAT sort of cachet go by. "Land of the deeds historic," my butt.***
***Let me add here, o fair New Mexicans, that I intend here to diss not the deeds historic -- no, no, they're historic, all right; Billy the Kid's pretty historic, the Pueblo Revolt's even more historic, and there was even a Civil War battle -- no, no, I intend ONLY to diss the inverted syntax of the deeds historic. For I find affected the syntax inverted.
This would be excellent news, if it didn't cost about 60 bucks. Though to be fair, there are 75 songs on it.
There are lots of songs about London, though. Lots more than there are about New Mexico, a collection I put together for my iPod a few weeks ago.* Very fine collection, too. All over the board, musically.
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*Bestest, scariest, most gawdawful song about New Mexico?** Neil Young's "Albuquerque," which is dreadful both in composition ("Oh they say/that Santa Fe/is less than 90/miles away") and delivery (just HOW stoned can one sound? THIS stoned; scroll down for the sample.) Ah, 1973. I think that was a good year...can't really remember, though....oh, right. I was in Albuquerque.
**I'd say, even worse than the gawdawful state song, which, even as a child, I despised, and it's not like I was exhibiting Lots of Taste as a child. But you know. It was written by the blind daughter of Sheriff Pat Garrett, the Guy Who Shot Billy the Kid, and you know, state legislators can't let THAT sort of cachet go by. "Land of the deeds historic," my butt.***
***Let me add here, o fair New Mexicans, that I intend here to diss not the deeds historic -- no, no, they're historic, all right; Billy the Kid's pretty historic, the Pueblo Revolt's even more historic, and there was even a Civil War battle -- no, no, I intend ONLY to diss the inverted syntax of the deeds historic. For I find affected the syntax inverted.
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