while listening to Out Of Sight (Spiritualized?/DJ LADY MISS SHANIQY'S PHAT MIXX I)
These are the opening 10 songs to my mix DJ Lady Miss ShaniQi's Phat Mixxx. this is the celebration - now five years, amazing - of my endeared cat. she died post 9/11 and right after halloween, so it's rather eerie that i've chosen this mix. friends and fam say it's one of my best.
this excerpt is from the booklet i made:
Dedication: Obviously to my child Shaniquah Blackheart. I couldn't have loved her more.
Pet Shop Boys
Home And Dry
Album: Release
-picked this one up obviously because i love the PSB. this album is such a departure from their last one nightlife. instantly fell in love with this song. that's johnny marr on the guitar. he breathes fresh humanity into chris's synth beats and neil's often quirky lyrics. side note: the video features rats running around subway tracks for about 4 minutes total(?!) saw them FINALLY in NYC in May '02. they did being boring.
There's a plane at JFK to fly you back from far away all those dark and frantic transatlantic miles
The Rupert Hine Collection (I-IV)
I. Stevie Nicks
Rooms On Fire
Album: Enchanted (Disc 2)
-my introduction to stevie nicks was in 1988 with the album the other side of the mirror, the track?s origin. since i have rather eclectic taste, i was surprised to see rupert's influence on some of my favorite artists. this song was always an indelible reminder of the big 80s stevie, which i hold close, as i do kiss's smashes, thrashes and hits from the same year. >pause< you had to be there.
Well maybe I'm just thinking that the rooms are all on fire every time that you walk in the room
II. Rush
Bravado
Album: Different Stages (Disc 1)
The Rupert Hine Collection is chronological. this live song is from philadelphia in 1994, i'm one of the 12,000 cheering. i saw back-to-back shows at the spectrum on this tour with my brother. this show made it onto their live disk-the only song from this tour as it was 3 tours on 3 disks. so i found it odd that of all songs, in all cities, why did they choose this one? a question someday hopefully answered.... it is also one of my fav tracks from this period of rush.
We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost
III. Milla
The Alien Song (For Those Who Listen)
Album: The Divine Comedy
-so are you surprised too? funny that milla would find rupert to produce her first album. i like the DCD (similar to Dead Can Dance) you can hear in his song structure around her lyrics, most notably on this track, while there's more tori (amos)/eric rosse (her producer on her first albums)-sounding tracks dominating the album. I love milla jovovich >sigh<
Paper, for which you're killing a brother's life
IV. Suzanne Vega
Soap and Water
Album: Songs In Red And Gray
-i was happy to know SV put out a new album. (I) remember the time at the singer/songwriter festival when she got pissed at me for asking her shoe size? where rupert brought synth to the earlier songs, he brings matured layers to this album; more subtle. that line "you are my little kite/carried away in the wayward breeze"...this album came when shaniqy died and i cried and cried over those lines. not fitting to the song's story, but a reminder of what was and is important and innocent and beautiful.
-an interesting journey mr. hine. thank you.
You are my little kite carried away in the wayward breeze
Spiritualized®
Out Of Sight
Album: Let It Come Down
-oh jason pierce....i was in atlanta again, and this record store there still had a series of Spiritualized® posters from ladies and gentlemen... up from when i first noticed them 3 years ago. remarkable in their size and longevity. spiritulized is my zeppelin, my floyd, my beatles, my nirvana. the orchestration on this album rules. the healthiest (and that's a stretch) of the three ultra-control freaks of our time-trent reznor, billy corgan, and jay's alias "j spaceman".
Where I stand is only three miles from space
Björk
I've Seen It All
Album: Selmasongs
-i promise that it gets lighter; the rest of the album's sound that is. (my girlfriend) laughed at my "journey" when describing how one should feel about this album's mix while listening. i struggled over song order on this mix and laughed when the "orchestrated" pieces fell back-to-back. a truly moving song.
(at this point, get some cookies or equivalent and juice and listen to the rest of the mix)
All walls are great, if the roof doesn't fall!
Phish
Bouncing Around the Room
Album: Lawn Boy
-in 1994(?) i drove greg and this girl julie to her hometown of chagrin falls, OH for a phish show at kent state. my introduction to phish was an experience. they roll the discarded pumpkins from halloween down this hill in CF, smashing them, and sliding down the entrails. i officially killed my '84 mustang on this trip spending 8 hours in a Sheetz truck stop.
she whispered words and I awoke
These Are A Few of My Favorite Foods (I-III)
a collection of snack food in song
I. Cibo Matto
Beef Jerky
Album: Viva! La Woman
-the reason i saw cibo matto in summer '01 was for their opening act Peaches and Gonzales (another story for later...). CM are the greatest rocking asian girls i ever met. a horse's ass is better than yours is the broken english lyric.
A horse's ass is better than yours
II. Morphine
French Fries With Pepper
Album: Like Swimming
-i was introduced to morphine by my friend carrie who lived in the basement apartment. she had this album memorized and we'd reference this song often. mark sandman died in 1999. the 6666 and 7777 are year segments. about 9999 i hope i'm sittin' on the back porch drinking red wine. god bless mark.
by 9-9-99 I hope I'm sittin' on the back porch drinkin' red wine
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