In honor of this week’s (hopefully big, hopefully permanent) gay rights victory, I kicked around a few songs to use for the Friday Genius Ten, but honestly, there’s only one that’s right—-the Gossip’s song about the struggle for gay rights. I’m obsessed with this song, in part because people say there’s no real protest music anymore, and frankly, this is one of the best examples of how it’s morphed and become something entirely new. It’s the revolution you can dance to! Leave your mixes or comments about anything you like in comments. Open thread.
Original song: “Standing in the Way of Control” by The Gossip
1) “Ready for the Floor”—-Hot Chip
2) “Oh My God”—-Mark Ronson (featuring Lily Allen)
3) “The Prayer”—-Bloc Party
4) “Our Velocity”—-Maximo Park
5) “Great DJ”—-The Ting Tings
6) “Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above”—-Cansei Der Ser Sexy
7) “Quicksand”—-La Roux
8) “Parklife”—-Blur
9) “Bohemian Like You”—-The Dandy Warhols
10) “Heads Will Roll”—-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Videos below the fold.
The video for this song is a tribute to a famous scene in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” No, I’m not kidding.
And what the hell, you know you want to watch the original video of Jessica Rabbit.
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), and I don’t get the vapors if I hear a shit or fuck so they don’t really stand out. At least those lyrics sites are pretty comprehensive, I haven’t not been able to find a song yet to look up and do a cursory scan for the big ones. Itunes is a pretty comprehensive database otherwise, it would just be nice to be able to keep track of which songs have been pre-screened.
I’d be hard-pressed to make a revolution mix, but I guess it would begin and end with Battleflag by Lo Fidelity All Stars, and probably be liberally sprinkled with The Clash.
Finally treated myself to a Paste subscription… I’m thinking about getting a DJ gig over at the community radio station for the fall and it will be good to have more new music available to me. I’ve noticed something though—there’s no spot in an id3 tag to indicate if a song has explicit lyrics or not. I mean, every other word in Battleflag is motherfucker and that won’t really do on the actual FCC-monitored airwaves. I could get a radio edit of the song pretty easily, but how am I going to know on album cuts if someone is dropping the f-bomb? I suppose I could update the “comments” field with either safe/explicit just to keep track of stuff and look up the lyrics just to double-check. Still, what a pain.