Daily Archives: February 16, 2007

“High Society” …SOUNDS LIKE… “I’m Not in Love”

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Thank goodness for Carrie and Monica as I was THIS CLOSE to getting really fucking crazy just now trying to figure this out.

Listening to “High Society” by The Bees (U.S.) and the chorus starts with “Ooooo, high society….” “Oooooo, notoriety…” and it …SOUNDS JUST LIKE… “Oooooo, you’ll wait a long time for me….” from the song “I’m Not in Love” which was apparently a hit in the ’70s for some group called 10 CC (?) and covered in the 90s by Will Power (?).

Don’t know which one it is that I know, but that song was playing clear as a bell in my head, yet a) I couldn’t figure out what song it was and b) I was singing the words wrong (I was singing “oooo, been a long time for me“). But then I called Carrie and she said “I don’t know what it is but here’s more of it” and started singing “I’m not in love, so don’t forget it…” then we conferenced in Monica and two seconds later, she was playing it for us! Woot!

My friends kick ass. I’m just sayin’.

EP: She’s Spanish, I’m American.

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You may remember me telling you how awesome Josh Rouse is in concert… His albums tend to be very, very mellow and somewhat same-sounding throughout. But in concert, he’s got a lot more than that going on. When I last saw him, he did one song with a girl who traveled over from Spain to perform with him (he’s living there these days, I believe). Now they’ve gotten together and put out a four-song EP.

It’s much more like his live show than his solo albums. It’s not super hyper, but it’s got some bounce to it. It’s quite melodic and definitely has a little Spanish feel. Thumbs up. (Plus hello it’s only four songs. It’s not a hefty investment to try out!)

I have no patience and I keep changing my mind.

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So I HATE having multiple “artist” entries for the same people on my iPod. For example, I don’t want to scroll down and see “Ryan Adams” followed by “Ryan Adams & the Cardinals”, especially considering there is also “Whiskeytown” which really itself could be called “Ryan Adams”. I find it terribly annoying.

So I lie to iTunes and say “Nope, that isn’t Ryan Adams & the Cardinals” that’s JUST “Ryan Adams.” But then a few days later, I change my mind, go back, and relabel it all (adding the Cardinals back in).

However, if it’s the same artist, but totally different band name, then I can live with that. I can live with “Bob Mould” “Husker Du” and “Sugar” all having their own artist entries…but I did have to create a “Bob Husker Sugar Mould” playlist in order to be able to shuffle between them.

Originally I did that with Ryan also (“Ryan Ryan Ryan”) but then he was pissing me off so I went back and relabeled (out) the Cardinals again. I’m so fickle.

Then there’s “DJ Dangermouse” “Dangermouse & Jemini” and “Gnarls Barkley”. Ugh. I left them all as artists and then made a “Danger Danger Danger” playlist. But the playlists can really start to pile up…

Back, back, back in the days of the very first iPod ever, at the time, it did not realize that “The” is not how you want things filed alphabetically. So any band that started with “The” found itself in the Ts. So I switched all the names to things like “Beatles (The)” and “Cars (The”). And then they made a new, smarter iPod that knew to ignore the “The”s. So then I would import some new album or song and wind up with “Shins (The)” followed by “The Shins”. So again I had to go in and relabel things.

I don’t want a “Justin Timberlake” entry next to a “Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland” entry. So anytime they put the “featuring” crap in the artist line, I delete it and put it after the song title instead “Sexyback (feat. Timbaland)”.

Then there’s the “random people who input song & artist names and submit them to iTunes and then when I import albums with different IDs I don’t know which is which”. Paste 20 had a song by “Bobby Bare”. Then Paste 25 had a song by “Bobby Bare Jr’s Young Criminal Starvation League.” Or so iTunes IDed them. Does it not seem likely that these are the same artist and one or the other name would be correct and not both? Yet, so far, I am too lazy to actually get out my Pastes and find the truth…

Oh the traumas of managing your music….