Word: songful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Flavor Flav, rapper, Public Enemy: I just re-recorded a song by Chicago called Does Anybody (Know What Time It Is). That's the song Hillary should use, because it's a throwdown, a challenge. It says, "If y'all feel that Rudy Giuliani doesn't really know what time it is, then maybe...
...City punk band the Ramones: Beat on the Brat by the Ramones. Giuliani's a brat. He gets the job done, but he is a brat, and he takes himself a bit too seriously. New York's about having a good time. We're a fun city, and this song is all in good New York...
...Wall, the Doobie Brothers and, as we pull up to the Ralphs parking lot, Bill Withers. He blasts Who Is He (What Is He to You)? and turns around to face me and recite the lyrics. For the first time he looks like a movie star. Then the song ends, he pops on the hat and glasses, and his face relaxes back into what is, to be honest, just average good-looking. Sorry, dawg...
...their 10th album, garage rockers Yo La Tengo--married singer-songwriters Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan, plus bassist James McNew--turn down the amps, shut the garage door and head up to the living quarters. Fifteen remarkable tracks later, we've learned that the adult love song--gentle, small, intimate--is very much alive. Kaplan and Hubley sing about love imperfect, illuminating the tiny lies that keep couples apart and the humor and empathy that draw them back together...
...technology that I have in my home studio now, I could start playing a piece of music that would still be playing five years from now. People in the future will be able to drive down the road and, through voice commands, take the drums from a Led Zeppelin song and put Billie Holiday's vocals on top of them and then play the whole thing backward and twice as fast but at the original pitch...