{"id":13737,"date":"2011-06-14T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2011\/06\/14\/13737.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:59:58","slug":"music-monday-on-tuesday-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2011\/06\/14\/music-monday-on-tuesday-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday on Tuesday, again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I did this a while ago with twenty-five songs, but here are ten. Lyrics are not chosen specifically to confuse and mislead the Gentle Reader, although I did take care to avoid using the title of the song in the lyric, which in some cases limited my choices. It’s only somewhat a quiz—you are welcome to shout out the titles and songwriters and performers (the last mentioned is, I think, particularly difficult for this set), but mostly it’s just something to post. The songs are, as usual, randomly selected from the playlist I was listening to most recently.\n

  1. I talked to my baby\/I talked to my baby\/I get a real good feeling talking to you on the phone<\/li>
  2. Never saw the sun shining so bright\/Never saw things going so right<\/li>
  3. Oh, see the fire is sweeping our very streets today\/Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull lost its way<\/li>
  4. Once upon a time, a long long time ago, wherever you’d lead me, I would surely follow<\/li>
  5. Come to my house, be one of the comfortable people\/Come to this house, we’re drinking all night, never sleeping<\/li>
  6. Sometimes I wish I could fly like a bird up in the sky\/Oh, sometimes I wish I could fly, fly, fly like a bird up in the sky\/Sometimes I wish I could fly like a bird up in the sky\/Closer to my home<\/li>
  7. Now they say that justice and love are the next things to blindness\/Well you’re getting plenty of both of them now<\/li>
  8. It’s not the pale moon that excites me\/That thrills and delights me<\/li>
  9. Many an Aborigine’s mistaken for a tree\/You near him on the motorway, the tree begins to breathe<\/li>
  10. But oh, my\/That boy\/Won’t be happy\/Till he’s seen you cry<\/li><\/ol>\n

    So, what’s interesting about this list to me is that it once again points up how my love for complex lyrics full of metaphor, tricky rhyme schemes and rhythmic whatnottage coexists with my love for simple songs with simple words. Also: I really hardly ever listen to any songs written by anyone born after 1960.\n

    Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
    -Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In Which Your Humble Blogger took out the instrumentals, and didn’t happen to select any with words in a foreign language. Also: the song that was mostly scat singing, with the title repeated a few times and some random chat with the band.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737","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=13737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19368,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions\/19368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}