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The idea of this post is to try to create a musical path or mix of certain elements (cover, sample, or auditory minutiae that can connect the tracks) of a song and see how far you can go with it. This is a test of your music geekiness, so rack your brains and see if you can add to the post.
For example I'm starting with Aimee Man's cover of Harry Nilssons One which will be followed by The Beta Bands Won which uses a crucial sample from that song to construct their song. Now maybe you would post the 3 Dog Night version of the song or something seemingly related.
I am basically interested to see how far this can take people - like when you search for something on the internet and end up somewhere completely different then what you started with. Feel free to explain your choice or just post in the comments below.
i have to admit the first time i heard aimee mann i totally hated her. don't worry, i now am in love with her work. i have since revisited the magnolia soundtrack, a suggestion from a friend, and it is brilliant.
No time like the present for a rediscovery, reconsideration and reestablishment of Nilsson's brilliance as a composer, singer and interpreter. I get chills sometimes when I hear his voice. Chills.
then again, there the cowsill's "the rain, the park, and other things" which sounds fairly similar and they were also pretty huge in the sixties.
Nice. You get it. Great choice. I see your Rabbit hole and raise you One.
Argh! Mogs wonky and wont upload. But I will post Iron Horse's cover of "One" from the album "Fade To Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribut to Metallica"
So in the mean time, sing the song with a bit of a twang in your voice and you kind of get it....
There's a bluegrass tribute to Metallica? I thought Apocalyptica had differently-instrumented Metallica covered!
I'm afraid I'm too much of a mooncalf to follow up with anything but the counting...
Sorry Contra, I think I broke the chain of your impeccable "six degrees" of Harry Nilsson. It's shame really because I love his song writing.
Hey, it's okay, the rules aren't that specific. I actually thought of this one too, and think it works nicely. The point is to take it to some other place through some twisted path of thought. I see it as a the final post being a non-sequiter. Like you could see the final being something like, i don't know, Sunshine Superman, and then everything in between some how led us to that. I'm still trying to figure out some rules - kinda like the 6 degrees game, but I just like what each song leads people to think. Thanks for your post!
I'm going back to the Nilson/Aimee Mann cover. Beautiful song, have always loved Mann's version, and was never familiar with the original.
Here's Bill Frisell's version of Neil Young's "One of these Days", I think there's a relationship in more than just the "One" in the title, i could analyze it but i'd rather not.
Plus it's a cover, like Mann's.
And now to provide a couple of forks
Ok Contra, let's see where I can go, the next track has a relationship (at least in my mind) with one of the forks I posted above, I won't tell which one and why, maybe people can suss that out on their own.
And this one follows through obvious association
And to take the Dr. Who thing longer, here's The Timelords (aka The KLF ) with their songs about the intrepid time traveler:
And to flash back to the original title going around, here's a song called "One" by the Bee Gees. And I don't care what you say about them, the Brothers Gibb could write some seriously great songs. This is one of my favorites:
Well played Dzendvokh, plenty of forks indeed. For the Doctor Who fork via Groons post I offer this:
Followed by this:
Which leads me to Gillian Welch's track of the same name but it is actually a different song:
and that leads me back to the Emmylou harris cover of Gillian Welch's Orphan Girl:
Which leads me back to the original by Ms. Welch herself:
Damn, now this is really getting fun!
I'll see your Orphan Girl and raise you a Whiskey Girl, this is what happens to Orphan Girl who loses her faith.
Uncle Tupelo illustrates the latter path perfectly:
A long way from happiness
In a three-hour-away town
Whiskey bottle over Jesus
Not forever, just for now
Not forever, just for now
I take that whiskey, and I throw it down the well:
Jump, I say! Jump yer Blues!
I know who threw it in the well, The Gin Soaked Boy!
Mog seems to have eaten this one, so here it goes again,
the other fork:
From the KLF tip o' the fork I give you The Shamen w/ Terence McKenna Re:Evolution
and a live version just for kicks:
As for your other fork, you've brought me southbound with your drunkenness:
I'm takin you right back to Nilsson with this fork, but I don't have the final piece...you know what it is?
All I can come think of right now is "The Flying Saucer Song" on Nilssons Pussycats - The album was produced by Lennon and sticks with that sort of outer space theme. Which I'll have to post later (if I actually have it).
I think I've thought of some rules for this game that may make it a little more concise, but no less fun. I'll post about it and see if we can make something out of this. This has been fun, thanks for indulging me and helping me follow my whims!
pussycats is what I was thinkin
High five! Nice way to bring it home! I'm thinking for the game you should find a way to bring "The Wormhole back to the surface, and this works nicely. Now to figure out how to bring the country fork back...