Songs With Stories Attached

[la_belle_laide]

A while back I mentioned some of the songs that played on a loop at work, and how I had thought of names and stories to go with them. At least one of those CDs was so goddamn awful that I actually took it from work so that it would never end up back in the rotation again. But there are ones that I kind of either didn't mind, or dug in a weird way because they were just so fruitloopy or wacked out that I semi-sorta loved them. I mentioned a few of the song titles that had come to me while hearing those songs and at least a few of you said you wanted to hear them. spatterdash wanted to hear Gay Viking Reunion in particular.

I'm happy to say that today I procured one CD, which I will return to work because it's pretty inoffensive as far as repetitive music goes – but let it be said that I have a very low bar for repetition to begin with, so when I say something is "tolerable" it means just that. I'm not loving hearing these songs, I'm just tolerating them because they're not as bad as some others.

I shouldn't make them out to be all horrible, though. For example, Seagulls Never Crap On Him is actually kind of mellow, and when it comes on I can kind of get into it a bit.

It's hard to hear the actual sounds of each song because they're filtered over a PA and there is lots of background noise—various white-noise makers, waterfall sounds, fountains and other such, as well as the hum of the hydroculator, creaking floorboards and occasionally the conversation of my clients. So when I first heard this CD, with the bird calls in the background, I thought it was my elderly client having a wheeze. This particular sound repeats throughout the entire CD, therefore the CD is called "Wheezing Old Man."

Here's one that's kind of nice; I call it At The RenFest. Apparently it's really called "Chanson Melancolic" but I don't find it all that sad, really. And I never heard the rain sounds until I listened to it on my Mac tonight.

Ahh, finally, Ghost Lovers On A Jazz Train. Again, I never heard the shore/water sounds at work. Anyway, this song, to me, was always about two people who were trysting on a train when it went off the rails, and now they haunt it. My co-worker and I discussed this one once. Before hearing what I'd had to say about it, she thought it was about a haunted house. Isn't it funny how we both thought it was about ghosts? But I also think this one can be called "Stood Up At The Hotel Bar." Because this woman is waiting in a swanky/sleazy hotel bar, all dressed up in a sleek cocktail dress with a chunky bracelet and her hair done up in a french twist. She's waiting for her married lover and getting progressively more wasted. But he's dead, so he never shows up and she haunts the bar forever. The guy playing the horn is wearing a hat and suspenders, but oddly, no shirt and he's really buff and oiled up. WHAT? I don't know, that's what I picture, if it's not the train ghosts.

Apparently the song is actually called "Midnight Blue," which is kind of the same thing.

Here is The Mothership Lands On The Beach. Pretty self explanatory.

And finally: Gay Viking Reunion . The ship coming up over the horizon, you know, the sails in the sunrise, gulls wheeling overhead, ocean mist whipping everyone's beards around. The Viking captain is all victorious and battle-worn and such and with the horned hat. Then finally he rows to the shore where his lover is waiting for him, and then they go back to their hut and have Viking sex. I'm not sure why they're gay, they just are. Also they leave their viking hats on.

Still don't have "Cannabis From Rivendell" or "Getting Stoned In My TeePee" yet, sorry. :D

Comments

[spatterdash.livejournal.com]

Wow i really love ghost lovers on a jazz train.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

LMAO do you really? At first I was like, "Okay, that's not so bad," and then soon I was like, "Ho crap, that is a song about tragedy" and then after a while all I could think was, "That sex player isn't wearing a shirt." Don't even know why that comes to mind.

It just completely doesn't fit in with anything on the rest of the CD and it perplexes me.

ETA: And it also makes me think of "Prom Night Dumpster Baby" from Family Guy, ackkkkkk.

[spatterdash.livejournal.com]

I really do! Also i love that you corrected this but left the typo "sex player"...

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, I did not even notice that! FANTASTIC. I wish I could tell you I typed that on my 'droid, but in fact I did not. My brain did that.