Is Eleanor Rigby picking up rice off the ground because she’s a poor lady and wants to cook and eat the rice?
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Brad Paisley — “Mud On the Tires”
yes.
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Bright Eyes —“Poison Oak”
How often in the past this song was such a catalyst for so much emotion.
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McGill is legit one of my favorite songs. Consider this record!
Ranking Dire Straits “Romeo and Juliet” live performances: A Definitive List
No. 5 Dire Straits — Romeo & Juliet (Live at Wembley ‘88).
The true power of Mark Knopfler’s dead pan emphatic stage presence (and the TRUE power of extended Sax solos) is that nearly 3 minutes passes before the camera pulls in tight to reveal that Eric Clapton is on stage, playing rhythm guitar.
No. 4 Dire Straits — Romeo & Juliet (Live in Basil)
1992. Head bands. Dad jeans. Another big sax solo. Huge daytime crowd, hands waving above their heads. The song relents when the verse, “all I do is miss you”, as the organ takes over. Then it all stops and Chris White steps forward and brings it home.
No. 3 DIre Straits — Romeo & Juliet (Fridays Live)
An abridged version. This is a live studio performance for television, in 1980. Mark Knopfler was already into his 30’s before he gained any broad success. So, there’s like hope for me, too.
No. 2 Mark Knopfler Discusses The National Guitar (2009)
How the National Guitar found its way into song.
No. 1 Mark Knopfler: A Night In London
A very moving orchestral intro. A drummer who is rocking. Mark changes fucking guitars late in the song for a solo. The most emotional I’ve seen him. Imagine spending 30+ years with a song. Tons of artists do it, and it has to be hard to keep it fresh, stay connected. How MK and his band do it, I don’t know. For me, my first contact with this song came through Empire Records (a film that moved me deeply to, like, be the kind of character that would be in the movie), and when Mark feather dusts the ballerinas foot, I was hooked.
I mean, this is a very sad song, and, if you’re like me and you listen to it too much, one of two things can happen; (and this of course depends on who you really are as a person, too) you can become immune to this story, about two kids who came up on different streets, but fell in love just the same. You’ll let the lyrics move away like the remnants of a shore-break wave, it just goes back out the way it came in and you don’t even try to stop it—hold it near you. Or, you can let your eyes well up, let the heaviness of the “It was just the time was wrong” wash over you until you’re sure you’re in love, and really, anyway what you gonna do about it?
And so these are the Top 5 live performances of Romeo & Juliet. Enjoy, Won’t You?
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Florida Georgia Line | Tip It Back
Oh my god YES: “If you’ve had a long day or a long week, grab a long neck if you’re with me, come on now, hollar ‘hell yeah’, tonight we’re here to party!”
afternoon pick me up
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Sigur Rós— “Samskeyti”
Currently, forever.
Is it the sign of a true professional that John Mayer here is at all using a TelePrompTer (look close), because what IF he forgets a lyric and makes a fool if himself in front of an entire Staples Center full of people?
Am I wrong to want highly paid professionals to function at the very highest of levels? Is it too much to ask that if I can remember all of his lyrics without fail that he recall them without aid, too?
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Lucero — “Nights Like These”
and i’ve only got this one wish
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You’re going to have dreams about her, and it’s going to freak you out. They’re going to be vivid but thankfully ephemeral (although that doesn’t mean they won’t be reoccurring). Why? Have you not allowed yourself to feel what your soul wanted you to feel? Have pushed down your sadness, your sense of loss, and that tiny flame of rage? Because she’s inside of your head at night, and you can’t control it. People will tell you this is indicative of something, and of course you don’t want to hear that, but it brings in the doubt. Do you miss her? Do you need her back in your life? In the daylight hours when you can wander out to your stoop and sit in the sun, where your head is the clearest, you know her time in your life has past. At night, at night though, your doubts run wild throughout your head. Close your eyes and take a breath. Brother, you are doing fine. Aside from physically removing her entirely from your life, emotionally you cast her out from the haunts of you soul, too. But still, maybe she lingers in your subconscious, but then again, so does everybody you meet. The people you know, knew, loved and hated all help shape you into the person you are. So let her have a few minutes a night, from time to time. Like most ghosts, she’ll disappear once you ignore her for long enough.
John Waite — “Missing You”
Because feelings are real, and whatever and amen. You know?
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Jason Mraz — “You and I Both” Live at the Highline Ballroom
Oh boy, this song. [video]
The Postal Service — “Reycled Air”
WILL JENNY LEWIS BE ON THIS TOUR?!
