Where We Can Get Together!

This summer is one of personal discovery. Or at least what looks like it. When it comes to music, I believe I'm a well-rounded guy. But I've already featured this band before, so I think they're becoming a favorite. But who knows?

The most best things in life always come from unexpected places, like Coca-Cola or large telephoto lenses. And this came from Georgia, the home of peaches, xenophobia, and previously, Jimmy Carter, racism. But this band supersedes all those. They had their beginnings in 1978 and have proved a comeback after splitting up in 1994. And just a note, this album marks the first released since the death of their guitarist in 1985.

From their 1989 album Cosmic Things, The B-52s' "Love Shack."
The love shack is a little old place where we can get together!
Love shack, baby! (2x)/ Love shack, that's what where it's at (2x)

There's All Kinds of Music!

Tonight, I was filling out some paperwork for my university that I'm going to attend in August. While chatting with people on Facebook and then looking for paperwork I needed to download, I got very confused. And then I had this playing in the background. I was shaking my leg so furiously to this song because I love to swing, baby!


From a performance that aired Germany's ZDF public television network, here is Ella Fitzgerald with "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)," originally written by Duke Ellington in 1931.

Makes no difference if it's sweet or hot/ Give that rhythm everything you got!

It don't mean a thing/ All you got to do is swing!/ Doo-wap (8x)

That's What I Want!

For the next few weeks, I have to be responsible. I can just hear the sighs now. But tonight, I'm being irresponsible. I have a meeting later this morning and it's 1.50 AM. I shouldn't be awake. This how it was all summer long last year. I'm getting a job now, so I won't be able to do this as often as I wished I could.

I digress. The B-52s is a newcomer for me. As I reach the curiosity period of my lifetime, this how it's going to manifest itself, at least when we talk about music. And now I release my findings of my curiosity to you.

From their only EP, Mesopotamia, here is "Mesopotamia" by The-B52s.

Turn your watch/ Turn your watch back

About a hundred thousand years/ A hundred thousand years

I'll meet you by the third pyramid (2x)

Tell Me About It, Stud

I don't remember the '70s. Probably because I wasn't around then... or the next twenty-odd years. When I studied American History, we took a nice look at the culture and problems that faced the country in that time period. I was more interested in culture than the actual history, but don't knock Jimmy Carter until you try him.

My teacher, a baseball coach, and a high school student at the time, intended to show up a clip from a '70s movie and other than Saturday Night Fever, most of us have actually heard of this movie. And the song. And John Travolta... 34 years later.

From the movie Grease, "You're The One That I Want," with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (of "Physical" fame), written by John Farrar.

I got chills/ They're multiplying/ And I'm lo~sing control/ 

'Cause the power you're supplying/ It's electrifying!