Leonard Cohen - Waiting for the Miracle
I first came across this wonderful song when listening to the soundtrack to Natural Born Killers. I went through a period in college when I was infatuated with every soundtrack to any movie Quentin Tarantino had anything to do with, and I fell in love with this song almost immediately. It has this haunting, ethereal quality to it that I really like. I dig everything about it, but most of all Leonard Cohen's voice. That's what a man should sound like, folks. He sounds like he smokes like 75 packs of cigarettes a day, and then gargles napalm. He's like the forgotten love-child of Isaac Hayes and Darth vader.
Showing posts with label Obscure song of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obscure song of the day. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Obscure song of the day #1
The question is, what day? This time, it's Monday. I certainly won't be able to come up with one of these every day. I'm simply not that industrious. These will be coming whenever they come. Hopefully once a week at least, but no promises. Without any further ado:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Set the Ray to Jerry
Since this is the inaugural edition of OSOTD, I'll throw out one of my all-time favorites from the band that got me through high-school, The Smashing Pumpkins. This was the last of the B-sides on the single album for 1979, another of my all-time favorite songs ever. It was only available, as far as I am aware, by purchasing the The Aeroplane Flies High boxed set for like a million dollars. That boxed set included the five singles off of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on separate discs, and featured B-sides that weren't on the normal retail single albums you could buy separately. It was kind of a gyp for the price, which I remember being something like fifty bucks. Most of the songs were niche, fan-only kinds of things--like a weird, depressingly somber James Iha-sung cover of "A Night Like This" by the Cure--but a few were real gems. Set the Ray to Jerry was one of these.
The Smashing Pumpkins - Set the Ray to Jerry
Since this is the inaugural edition of OSOTD, I'll throw out one of my all-time favorites from the band that got me through high-school, The Smashing Pumpkins. This was the last of the B-sides on the single album for 1979, another of my all-time favorite songs ever. It was only available, as far as I am aware, by purchasing the The Aeroplane Flies High boxed set for like a million dollars. That boxed set included the five singles off of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on separate discs, and featured B-sides that weren't on the normal retail single albums you could buy separately. It was kind of a gyp for the price, which I remember being something like fifty bucks. Most of the songs were niche, fan-only kinds of things--like a weird, depressingly somber James Iha-sung cover of "A Night Like This" by the Cure--but a few were real gems. Set the Ray to Jerry was one of these.
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