'80s and '90s musical discourse.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

blues

There are songs that make me cry every single time I hear them. "Unchained Melody" is one of them - my sister's friend committed suicide in high school and he sang it with a thin, aching falsetto in a talent show a month before that. "Night of the Living Baseheads" by PE is another, only because it's so perfect and blistering.

"Elvis Presley Blues" by Gillian Welch was added to the list today.
I can't stop listening to it and I can't stop crying.

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I wrote two books: Don't Dream It's Over: The '80s Music Party Game and Things That Make You Go Hmmm: The '90s Music Party Game (out in October).