Tell me what I should hear (and win a free iTune)
I just got two “free” songs from iTunes.
“Free” because getting them means I first spent $150 on two tickets to see David Byrne in October at the Greek Theatre. (With, one fantasizes, Brian Eno in tow.)
So now I leave it to you: What song should I download (for “free”) from iTunes, and why?
I will indeed download the best suggestion and rationale, comment on the song — and reward the nominator with the other “free” iTunes song download (which actually will be free to him or her).
Offer expires this Friday, August 22nd at 6 p.m. Winning nomination must be a song I don’t already have.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I love “Bring Me To Life” by Evanescence. It is a very powerful song. If you have not heard it you should.
Niv
August 20th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
If you’re a David Byrne fan, I recommend “Lazy”: it’s a fun song and, since I know he’s anything BUT lazy, it makes me feel good to believe that my self-flagellation might be as wrong-headed as his.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Lee,
How are are we to know if you already have the song we are suggesting?
Paul
August 20th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
You are to post — and then find out.
(I have neither of the songs already suggested.)
Fair notice: Dig past the catalog of “The Who,” because I have almost all of that.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:40 am
I am going to try a different angle, instead of suggesting a song to get I am going to suggest a song to stay away from.
Recently I was listening to the radio on the way to work and heard the familiar start of Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London on an adult mix station. I thought that someone had remade the song. I was mistaken. It was the same music as Werewolves but completely different lyrics, and they were not good. To top it off a part of Sweet Home Alabama was also added in. I later found out the person who did it was Kid Rock. This song sucks! Maybe it’s because I have Warren Zevon on my iPod and have heard Werewolves recently that I can not hear the music and accept foreign lyrics It does not seem right to take the music from one song and impose lyrics that do not go with the music.
I understand that some songs will be remade with the new performer adding some of his/her own flair to the song, like Van Halen remaking Roy Obrison’s Pretty Woman. Van Halen reworked the song into their style so while it was the same song it was changed enough that it sounded fresh.
To use the same music with nary a change seems, to me, a lazy way of writing a song.
Paul
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 am
“I Need Some Fine Wine and You need to be Nicer” by the Cardigans
“Enough Rope” by Chris Knight (depressive but great)
“The Sound of German Hip Hop” by Clem Snide
“Cath…” by Death Cab for Cutie
“Not Ready to Make Nice” by Dixie Chicks
“Don’t Know Why” by Fleet Foxes
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:31 am
As for why (forgot that} they are all great songs. Dixie Chicks might offer the easiest explanation, which is because it’s an anti-Bush song and I heard somewhere you don’t like the guy.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 am
In Honor of David Byrne This Mortal Coil’s cover of Talking Heads Drugs
August 26th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Okay, I missed the deadline, but in case you win ANOTHER couple of songs, how about the theme from BLADERUNNER by Vangelis? I love themes from movies I love. You might also check the one from Robert Altman’s version of THE LONG GOODBYE, if they have it.