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Friday Genius Ten “Showers” Edition

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Happy Friday! It’s dreary and rainy in New York City—-I guess that’s what they mean by “April showers” (learning so much moving to New York!)—-and I figured this would be a perfect song to kick off the Friday Genius Ten for the day. Good time for nostalgia, I guess. Leave yours in comments, or comments about anything you want. Open thread!

Original song: “Crash Into Me” by the Dave Matthews Band

1) “Angel” by Sarah McLachlan
2) “Pride (In The Name of Love)” by U2
3) “Last Kiss” by Pearl Jam
4) “Bouncing Around the Room” by Phish
5) “Shine” by Collective Soul
6) “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone” by Paula Cole
7) “Bitch” by Meredith Brooks
8) “Plush” by the Stone Temple Pilots
9) “Ironic” by Alanis Morissette
10) “Limit To Your Love” by James Blake (A new one! Thanks, Genius Ten!)

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Posted by Amanda Marcotte on 10:54 AM • (18) Comments

When it’s rainy out, I like to go the other way to liven things up!

Shakira - Whenever, Wherever
Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
Hadaway - What is Love
Crazy Town - Butterfly
Black Eyes Peas - Let’s Get It Started
Shaggy - It Wasn’t Me
Ricky Martin - She Bangs
Gwen Stefani - If I Was A Rich Girl

Perfect rainy day cheer!

Comment #1: Marc on 04/01 at 11:53 AM

“Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride” — U2, Pride (In the Name of Love)

U2 writes a loving song, celebrating the moral strength of those fighting for justice, and referring to the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination on April 4th, 1968. In the song, it’s claimed that the assassination occurred “early morning” on April 4th. But…

“Then, at 6:01 p.m., April 4, 1968, a shot rang out as King stood on the motel’s second floor balcony. The bullet entered through his right cheek, smashing his jaw, then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder. Abernathy heard the shot from inside the motel room and ran to the balcony to find King on the floor.
...
After emergency chest surgery, King was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital at 7:05 p.m.” — Wikipedia, Martin Luther King, Jr.

I realize it’s sort of picky to single out a line in a pop song for being historically inaccurate, but come on, let’s get our facts straight, shall we?

From the Wikipedia article on the song: “The song contains the erroneous reference to King’s shooting as “Early morning, April 4”, when it was actually after 6 p.m. Bono acknowledges the error and in live performances he occasionally changes the lyric to “Early evening…”.”

I guess this was before The Google and widespread use of the Intertubes for fact verification, so I should let them slide…

...and then I realize we’re talking about a famous public figure who died while working to make the world a better place in an infamous assassination during the same ill-fated year that started with the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the assassination of MLK, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and ended with the election of Richard Nixon to the Presidency.

Seriously, that error has always bugged me in an otherwise beautiful song…

Comment #2: MikeEss on 04/01 at 12:18 PM

And when Bono counts “Uno, dos, tres, catorce” in “Vertigo” I want to stomp on the speaker.

Comment #3: ganews_ on 04/01 at 12:30 PM

Wait, so do you actually like Crash Into Me, or is this an April Fool’s Day joke? I’ve been pranked so many times today I can no longer tell.

MikeEss is definitely pulling an April Fool’s Day prank, because there’s no way he’d forget that U2 are an Irish band and Ireland is in a different time zone than the U.S.; thus evening in the U.S. would have been early morning news for them. So their bases are covered, right?

Comment #4: Salient on 04/01 at 01:16 PM

I’ve been into a 90’s music nostalgia kick lately… just yesterday I listened to the Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream for the first time in years.

Comment #5: Geocrackr on 04/01 at 01:29 PM

adding: Lately I’ve also been completely fed up with the news and demoralized that Obama and the DC Dems have definitively sided with the Reps in pushing us into 3rd-world nation status. I’m sure there’s no connection…

Comment #6: Geocrackr on 04/01 at 01:34 PM

Dave Matthews is completely fucken unlistenable. How the fucke did that fucken garbage ever get popular, anyway? Is it cause that dude sings in an “edgy” voice?

Comment #7: PhysioProf on 04/01 at 02:01 PM

Amanda: In case no one has told you yet: Winter doesn’t end in NY until it snows on Easter in April. Yes, I clearly remember Easter Sunday 1970. There was a snow storm and the toy store where I worked, closed early because in a three-hour period we had only 1 customer.

Comment #8: PurpleGirl on 04/01 at 02:03 PM

I knew the score as soon as I saw Sarah McLachlan on the list. Alanis clinched it.

Comment #9: PWI on 04/01 at 02:11 PM

Earworm playlist:

1. “Lovefool”, the Cardigans
2. “Lady”, the Commodores
3. “Walk of Life”, Dire Straits
4. “Lady”, Little River Band
5. “For The Love Of Money”, The O’Jays
6. “Centerfold”, J. Geils Band
7. “Chelsea Dagger”, the Fratellis
8. “Celebration”, Kool and the Gang
9. “Another Brick In The Wall part 2”, Pink Floyd
10. “Poker Face”, Lady Gaga
11. “Philadelphia Freedom”, Elton John

And, for a scorched earth palate cleanser:

“Pussy”, Lords of Acid

Comment #10: BrianX on 04/01 at 03:32 PM

What, Amanda, no Candlebox? Not even Bush or Silverchair? I demand a bug report to the Genius developers!

Comment #11: neff on 04/01 at 04:07 PM

@PWI, you had to get past Dave Matthews before you realized what was up?!

Comment #12: Rob Funk on 04/01 at 04:20 PM

HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! pwned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was all like, “I can’t believe Amanda listens to that Matthews swill. Sheesh. I’m never reading this fucken blogge again.”

Comment #13: PhysioProf on 04/01 at 04:41 PM

Totally not kidding and in no particular order:

*Garbage “Special”
*The Cardigans “My Favorite Game”
*New Order “Fine Time”
*Soundgarden “The Day I Tried to Live”
*Sarah McLachlan “Into the Fire”
*Cocteau Twins “Heaven or Las Vegas”
*Medicine “Time Baby III”
*Lords of Acid “Rough Sex”
*Stone Roses “I wanna be adored”
*Material Issue “The Very First Lie”

Comment #14: MadRaven on 04/01 at 04:47 PM

hey now madraven… i will totally cop to having a soft spot in my heart for both soundgarden and the cocteau twins.

Comment #15: jamie d on 04/01 at 05:09 PM

You know, I wasn’t even thinking of Amanda’s list in terms of “bad”... I just figured “oh, 90s pop nostalgia”...

Comment #16: BrianX on 04/01 at 06:27 PM

apopka party rentals

Comment #17: apopkaparty on 04/01 at 07:45 PM

lol.

i haven’t been here since Wensday evening - because my Social Security Determination Hearing was on Thursday. 31st of March.

and i got it - FINALLY - the original “file date” was April07, so i’m actually an entire YEAR ahead of the game!
but it was horribly tramatic - one of my two main “claims” is my PTSD - which has been BADLY excacerbated by the hip stuff [and the anethesiologist who attempted to put a central line in my fucking neck as i lay there - held down by 4 damned nurses - screaming “i DO NOT CONSENT TO THIS! i DO NOT WANT THIS! STOP!!!” before one of the surgeries i had to have to get rid of the MRSA i got from on of the prior surgeries on my hip…] and OF COURSE the judge HAD to know *why* i had PTSD…
and then spent 30 minutes talking me in circles, because i’m on oxycodone and fentanyl - my “time sense” is GONE - i know when my hip started, because it was just over 2 weeks after i turned 30. i know that i had gotten my AA at the end of Autumn Quarter in 06. from March07 until NOW, i don’t really know what happened when.

so what did i do? i came home and listened to pretty much all the songs YOU list [minus Dave Matthews - not a fan] plus a TON of Bush, more Sarah, Tori Amos, , more Pearl Jam and Paula Cole and U2 [i HATED the movie “City of Angels” - but the SOUNDTRACK!!!!!!!!!!!]

it’s pretty much what i did all weekend - wallow in nostalgia, ending with some karaoke, where i sang some Meredith Brooks, some Cardigans, Some Tori, some No Doubt [“Spiderwebs” is my all-time favorite song for an answering machine :D] and a single Evenecense just because.

[the entire point of this comment is so that the people who cared/were tracking what’s going on with me - thanks MikeEss for worrying about me! - know that *finally* i got a bit of a break. now it’s just waiting til everything processes and i actually GET the SSI/SSDI. whew! and knock on wood!]

Comment #18: denelian on 04/05 at 01:26 AM

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