{"id":12900,"date":"2010-03-14T21:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T01:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/14\/12900.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:07","slug":"kings-full-of-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/14\/kings-full-of-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings full of Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, I have decided, unless I change my mind, to go with the easiest idea for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/05\/12774.html\">Richard III mix<\/a>: songs about kings and queens. What the heck. I have a lot of such songs, and it looks to be a good mix, so why make trouble for myself?\n<p>Here&#8217;s an initial list, with some notes and possibilities, and then I&#8217;m throwing the floor open for comments and GR help. My restrictions on this were (a) no instrumentals, (2) no jazz numbers this time, and (iii) um, I had to kinda like the stuff. I am tempted to break the no-instrumentals rule to end the Mix with Queen&#8217;s recording of &#8220; God Save The Queen &#8221;, but then, they are my rules and I can break them if I want to, right? Your advice is, as always, gratefully appreciated, both on more tunes to add and what to leave off (as well as what must stay).\n<p><ul><li>&#8220;I&#8217;m King&#8221;, B.B. King: I&#8217;m stuck between this slow sexy blues and &#8220;Riding With The King&#8221;, a duet with Eric Clapton.<\/li><li>&#8220;The King Of Bedside Manor&#8221;, Barenaked Ladies: A fun song, with some relevance to the Boar<\/li><li> &#8220;Kings Of The Highway&#8221;, Chris Isaak: a ballad, which could either provide a nice variation with a mostly uptempo mix or be a stone cold drag.<\/li><li>&#8220;Rock&#8217;N&#8217;Roll is King&#8221;, Electric Light Orchestra: Rama-lama-lama-lama!<\/li><li>&#8220;King Of Confidence&#8221; or &#8220;King Horse&#8221;, Elvis Costello: or, I suppose, &#8220;Brilliant Mistake&#8221;, which begins <I>he thought he was the King of America<\/i>; another ballad, though <\/li><li>&#8220;The King &amp; Queen Of America&#8221;, Eurythmics: I had forgotten this song entirely until I did a search in my library for the words, but it&#8217;s a good song.<\/li><li>&#8220;Duke Of Earl&#8221;, Gene Chandler: This is the only song left on my list with <I>duke<\/i> rather than <I>king<\/i> or <I>queen<\/i>, but it does seem to belong.<\/li><li>&#8220;Wanderlust King&#8221;, Gogol Bordello: Gotta have some of that gypsy shit.<\/li><li>&#8220;The King Is Gone&#8221;,  Heads: This is from that odd and inconsistent album that the rest of Talking Heads did without David Byrne; it&#8217;s a good song, in its way, and has a bit of that punk sound to it.<\/li><li>&#8220;New Crawlin&#8217; King Snake&#8221;, Howlin&#8217; Wolf: This is not about a king, actually, but a king snake. Well, it isn&#8217;t actually about a king snake, either&#8230;<\/li><li>&#8220;Babydoll, The Beauty Queen&#8221;, Jabbering Trout: One thing about a Mix Tape is the right combination of familiarity and novelty. I like to have a couple of obscure things like this one.<\/li><li>&#8220;King of the World&#8221;, Joe Jackson: a live cover of the Steely Dan song.<\/li><li> &#8220;King Of Spain&#8221;, Moxy Fr\u00fcvous: Gotta have this.<\/li><li>&#8220;King of the Dogs&#8221;, Iggy Pop: this sounds nothing like Iggy Pop to me, but I like it<\/li><li> &#8220;La Femme duDoight&#8221;,  Queen Ida: The chorus goes <I>Queen Ida\/Is her name<\/i><\/li><li>&#8220;King Of Comedy&#8221;, R.E.M.: Off my least favorite album, one of those grungy songs, seems to suit the mood of our show<\/li><li>&#8220;King Of Bohemia&#8221;, Richard Thompson: Another somewhat obscure track, and, alas, another down-tempo one<\/li><li>&#8220;King Of The Hill&#8221;, Roger McGuinn: The former Byrd, the side is pretty much indistinguishable from Tom Petty, which isn&#8217;t a bad thing<\/li><li>&#8220;Sun King&#8221;, The Beatles: Hard to leave the Beatles of a list if there&#8217;s an excuse for including them<\/li><li>&#8220;The Rascal King&#8221;, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Love, love, love this one, which is of course about Mayor Curley<\/li><li>&#8220;King Dork&#8221;, The Mr. T Experience: The chance to include this track is what made up my mind about using the K&amp;Q theme.<\/li><li>&#8220;King Of The Hill&#8221;, The Nields: another obscurity, alas, but one that begins <I>Gimme my bomb back, yeah<\/i><\/li><li>&#8220;King of Pain&#8221;, the Police: this Mix? Needs Moar Eighteez.<\/li><li>&#8220;King For A Day&#8221;,  XTC: one of their cheerful Colin Moulding numbers<\/li><\/ul>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger asks advice just as nicely as if he were planning on following it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19042,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12900\/revisions\/19042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}