An aside. I paid way less than this link suggests because I bought it through my favorite retail outlet in the whole world.
With the decent size hard drive on the new computer, I'll clock in just below a terabyte of storage space. I love being an amateur geek. So, I've been futzing around with my music, reorganizing, adding, etc. In the process, I ended up at the Lollapalooza website (ok, so maybe that step was a tangent). I discovered that Ween is playing this year. This made me think of the first Lollapalooza I attended in 1993. It was also the last Lollapalooza I'll ever attend. What a nightmare. But that's a story for a different day.
So, it wasn't that Ween played the 1993 Lollapalooza show. I don't think they did. There were only about 30 acts on a mere two stages all in one day then (there are about 150 acts on nine stages over three days now). I was only able to spy parts of Fishbone, Alice in Chains, Arrested Development, Primus, and Rage Against the Machine. Anyway, it was that the radio station I listened to had started playing a Ween song around that time, and I connected the two. I never did buy the album (I was young and broke and bought music sparingly for a few years there), but I did record it from the radio station onto a cassette. Ah, technology.
Having made this connection today, I promptly bought the song on iTunes and by happenstance found the video on YouTube. And so it is with much fanfare and extraneous story-telling that I present to you, Push Th' Little Daisies by Ween.
Here's an interesting thing I discovered today. One of the things that I always liked about this song is the seemingly random insertion of a James Brown-style "aaaooowww!" as voiced by Prince. In fact, I'm fairly certain that this "aaaooowww!" is from the song Alphabet Street, but that's just a guess. Anyway, when I listened to the version I bought, it was missing. In its place a straightforward curse of the sh*t variety sung in the same tone as the rest of the song. But when I watched the video, Prince emerged howling. I presume this was their way of making the song censor-friendly. Learn something new every day.
And so to end this random, music-themed entry, here is a sample of my iTunes playlist that I listened to today. The appearance of Ween so soon after its addition to my library is due to the fact that I refreshed my party shuffle afterwards.
This grouping started out as The World Women's Music Playlist. Sometimes I think Apple made this technology smart.
Babooshka
Kate Bush
Aganjú
Bebel Gilberto
Save Me
k.d. lang
Galbi
Ofra Haza
Beat Surrender
The Jam
The Nightfly
Donald Fagen
The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Missy Elliott
Sometimes It Snows in April
Prince & the Revolution
This Love
Maroon 5
Some Other Time
Ross Traut / Steve Rodby
Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don’t Think They Heard It All the Way Out In Bushnell
Sufjan Stevens
Monkey Gone to Heaven
Pixies
Not Alone
Soulstice
Magic Mind
Earth Wind & Fire
Where You Are
Marc Broussard
Push Th' Little Daisies
Ween
Living Water
Ryan Farish
Steal My Sunshine
Len
Where Do The Children Play?
Take 6
Questions
Jack Johnson
Out of Reach
Cities of Foam
Future Love Paradise
Seal
Slip & Sliding
Matt Bianco
I Put Myself Together
Charles Brown
I'm so looking forward to the day when I get my entire collection digitized (oh that won't take too long), and then the eclectic nature of my taste will be even more apparent by these lists. By the way, the title of this entry is a Nik Kershaw song from long ago.
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