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hummingwolf) wrote2008-02-19 07:56 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2008-02-19 07:56 pm
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¡Música!
I've been missing my old record collection lately. Been missing it rather a lot. There are far too many old songs in those LPs and EPs and 12-inchers and 7-inchers and even (can such things be?) 10-inchers that I just never, ever got in any kind of digital format; and since I don't have my records here, much less any way to play them even if I did have them, it's been far too long since I heard those songs. Today there were two songs in particular that kept trying to take over my brain and, since I was too tired to do anything actually useful, I decided to look for them online.
Well. Those of you who have ever suggested that I watch anything on YouTube will know that I never, ever watch YouTube. I Do Not Do YouTube. No matter how wonderful that video may be, the site is too dial-up unfriendly for me to bother, okay?
As a measure of how desperate I was to hear one of these tracks, I went to YouTube. If any of you can locate for me any version of this song in mp3 format, I would appreciate it (the version I knew was on the Common Bond album from 1971); in the meantime, if you have no aversion to YouTube, you may go watch a live performance of Ides of March, "L.A. Goodbye".
For the second song, it wasn't even necessary to brave the horrors of YouTube! Weirdly enough, a blog post out there features a SendSpace link that still works, making for a very happy hummingwolf. RetroMusicSnob has the Passion Puppets, "Like Dust". True fact: a British music magazine in the mid-'80s once said that the three best guitar groups in the UK at the time were U2, the Smiths, and the Passion Puppets--and the Passion Puppets were the best of the lot. Or maybe I made up that last part.
Now, if anyone can explain why out of all the songs I've ever known, it was these two that decided to gang up on me today, please tell me. I'm curious.
Well. Those of you who have ever suggested that I watch anything on YouTube will know that I never, ever watch YouTube. I Do Not Do YouTube. No matter how wonderful that video may be, the site is too dial-up unfriendly for me to bother, okay?
As a measure of how desperate I was to hear one of these tracks, I went to YouTube. If any of you can locate for me any version of this song in mp3 format, I would appreciate it (the version I knew was on the Common Bond album from 1971); in the meantime, if you have no aversion to YouTube, you may go watch a live performance of Ides of March, "L.A. Goodbye".
For the second song, it wasn't even necessary to brave the horrors of YouTube! Weirdly enough, a blog post out there features a SendSpace link that still works, making for a very happy hummingwolf. RetroMusicSnob has the Passion Puppets, "Like Dust". True fact: a British music magazine in the mid-'80s once said that the three best guitar groups in the UK at the time were U2, the Smiths, and the Passion Puppets--and the Passion Puppets were the best of the lot. Or maybe I made up that last part.
Now, if anyone can explain why out of all the songs I've ever known, it was these two that decided to gang up on me today, please tell me. I'm curious.