Posted by bzedan on Mar 31, 2024
[ID: An digital illustration evocative of the singing flowers in Disney's Alice In Wonderland, with airbrush shaded backgrounds but coloured line cell-shading for the main figure. The flower is a California Poppy with the face of Garfield. In pink tilted letters in the upper left corner is "March" over a turquoise hand-drawn looking font with "2024." End ID.]
Finally got an over-three-hour playlist, bits of spring means ups and downs and sad wet cat feelings along with the manic joy of the days getting longer. I've mentioned this before but every time I hear All Saints' "Love Lasts Forever" part of me thinks it is the theme song to *Highlander*. Bless my brain where there's some pop girl version of *Highlander*. Can you imagine?!
Related media to some of the songs:
- The very awesome Cola Boyy died this month at 34, which is not enough years but I'm glad we were given what we did. His disco pop is a joy and his cover of 'To Be Rich Should Be a Crime' is the version that lives in my head. Here's a mini-doc over on Vimeo that came out with that single.
- I stumbled across Tele Novella this month and they hit a lot of sound boxes for me. "Eggs in one Basket" has an appropriately weird video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTB-uwAd0v8)
- I'd heard "Pump Up the Volume," of which Colorbox was part (primary part, for this song) before because I'm a person living in the world the years I have, but somehow hadn't encountered "The Moon Is Blue"?! One of those bands for whom things went right then fell apart. Wolfgang Tillmans did an exhibition collecting their work in a "playback room" exhibition.
- I remain fond of younger folks reinterpreting the imagery and sound from my high school years and Lauran Hibberd hits that. See 2nd prettiest girl as an example.
Anyway here's a link to March's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below.
- 'Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You' - Wilson Pickett
- 'King's Crossing' - Elliott Smith
- 'Hearts and Flowers' - Jennifer Lopez
- 'Cloudy Day' - Tones And I
- '99 Luftballons' - Stereoact
- 'Waters of March' - Art Garfunkel
- 'Pop Goes The World' - Men Without Hats
- 'Mother Nature' - MGMT
- 'The Moon Is Blue' - Colourbox
- 'Ask The Community' - Timber Timbre
- 'Good Times' - Eric Burdon & the Animals
- 'So Much (For) Stardust' - Fall Out Boy
- 'Masquerade - Re-Recorded' - Berlin
- 'Era Primavera' - Chicano Batman
- 'wavering grass' - demon gummies
- 'All Night Long (All Night)' - Lionel Richie
- 'Love Lasts Forever' - All Saints
- 'Rhythm Of The Night' - DeBarge
- 'Only You Can' - Fox
- 'Can't Get Enough' - Jennifer Lopez
- 'That Time' - Regina Spektor
- 'Daniel' - Bat For Lashes
- 'Calling All Kids' - Arthur Russell
- 'Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)' - Connie Converse
- 'Psychic Vampire' - Tristen
- 'And When I Die' - Peter, Paul and Mary
- 'Dancing with Tears in My Eyes' - Ultravox
- 'Alien Boy' - Oliver Tree
- 'Baby Blue Sedan' - Modest Mouse
- 'Bulletproof' - La Roux
- 'Help I'm Alive' - Metric
- 'Eggs in one Basket' - Tele Novella
- 'Perfect (Exceeder)' - David Guetta
- 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Remastered 2012' - The Smashing Pumpkins
- 'Right Time of Night' - Urban Heat
- 'Paper Crown' - Tele Novella
- 'Balloon Man' - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
- 'The Rubberband Man' - The Spinners
- 'It Won't Be Long' - Tele Novella
- 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' - Donovan
- 'Aladdin' - Future Islands
- 'Beautiful People' - The Books
- 'Don't Touch My Bikini' - The Halo Benders
- 'Toy Boy' - MIKA
- 'Keep It Rolling' - Bloc Party
- 'Don't You Evah' - Spoon
- 'Paper Thin Walls' - Modest Mouse
- 'Peach Sky' - Bat For Lashes
- 'Heathens' - AURORA
- 'Dancing Barefoot' - Patti Smith
- 'To Be Rich Should Be a Crime' - Cola Boyy
- 'Bugs' - O'Death
- 'pretty good for a bad day' - Lauran Hibberd
- 'Synthetica' - Metric
- 'Hermit the Frog' - MARINA
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