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Surreal Song Lyrics

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I’ve misheard song lyrics all my life, and over time those wrong lyrics have sunk into my system and become frozen in amber, and now I can’t hear the correct lyrics to save my life. Most of the mis-heard lyrics were absorbed when I was a kid or a teenager, for the most part. I … Read more

Song Bird Up on Mulholland

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Two full hours of digging into Shampoo with The Rewatchables‘ Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey, joined by special guest visitor Cameron Crowe…excellent stuff. A Cameron Crowe nugget (or “easter egg”, as he puts it) about the making of Shampoo, starting at 10:38: “Paul Simon was, like, the hottest guy around, at that time, as far … Read more

Greatest Closing-Credits Songs

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In the motion picture realm there are two kinds of closing-credits songs that, placement-wise, deserve to be called great. It happens when the film in question blends with a well-known song and produces a higher synthesis on both ends…the song acquires added depth, meaning and flotation and so does the film. Sound + vision. The … Read more

Misheard “Soul Man” Lyrics

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This is exactly how the words have always sounded to me…and how they sounded to me five minutes ago when I listened to Sam and Dave’s r&b classic. “Comin’ to ya on a death road / Good lovin’ I got a ton-load / and when you get it, you got somethin’ / So don’t worry … Read more

This Old Song

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…is about judgment, bitter gruel, the wrong kind of karma, deflation. That said, I’ve never once read or researched the lyrics. It’s the chops, the punctuation, the garage-band guyness of it. It began playing on the Passat sound system of its own volition when I started the car around noon. I found this meaningful on … Read more

Biden’s Dido Campaign Song

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6.4.24, 7:15 am: I’ve just hit upon a great Biden campaign theme, inspired by Dido’s “Thank You.” No joke, not being satirical…this could really work. His campaign chiefs need to buy the rights and persuade Dido to record a Biden version with re-written lyrics, in the exact same way the JFK campaign got Frank Sinatra … Read more

Enemy of Melody, Destroyer of Song

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Is it Hillary Clinton or Amber Ruffin who’s murdering “I Will Survive“? One of them can’t hit notes to save their life, and is therefore helping to Hannibal Lecter this song (i.e., eating its liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti). It’s probably not Ruffin, a professional comedian-actress, so we know who the guilty … Read more

Misheard Rock Lyrics (cont’d)

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Actual lyric: “If you’ll be my bodyguard / I can be your long lost pal / I can call you Betty / And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al.” HE version: “If you’ll be my bodyguard / I can be your long lost pal / I can call you Teddy / … Read more

Songs That Improve The Movie

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Married journo pally to HE: “We were listening to sounds in the car when up popped a tune from Tom Waits’ score for One From the Heart. I’ve always loved this bluesy/jazzy collaboration with Crystal Gayle, and have long felt that it, along with Curtis Mayfield‘s ‘Superfly,’ may be the finest song composed exclusively for … Read more

Lyrics I’ve Ignored For Decades

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The Police’s Synchronicity popped on 6.17.83 — nearly 38 years ago. I used to listen to the cassette version on headphones, or via my little two-speaker system in my Harper Avenue apartment. I still listen to this album occasionally, and as I was driving to the market the other night I was feeling especially turned … Read more

Wildly Incongruous Theme Songs

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Once in a great while, a film will deliver a closing-credits theme song that is so off-the-mark that it almost destroys the emotional mood of the film that preceded it. I’m talking about a film that has carefully and strenuously tried to make the audience feel a particular, hard-won thing, and then a stupid end-credits … Read more