Covers Scrapbook: Ida Redig - Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac)

My goodness, stripping Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere from it's incredible original bassline (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsglRLoUdtc) should be a disaster.

But this cover is stunning, so, again, unsurprisingly, I know nothing.

But I will take a random punt that the advertising company for John Lewis will be weeping under their pillows for not commissioning this.

Playlist Corner: Happy International Women's Day!!

So I make playlists.

I like sharing music, and then hearing people go 'this song is great, I can't believe I haven't heard it before!' and then I jump up and punch the air as if I had written the song myself.





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It doesn't make much sense, but it makes me happy, and it makes other people boogie, so that's the important thing.

It started with compilation CD I made for my brother with called "19 Ways To Call Me Al" which included 19 consecutive cover versions of Paul Simon's song, and he loved it. It really is a great song. It worked.

Then the annual Christmas playlists (I can't even start to explain the time and effort...)

But then, as well as a reason to seek and out and discover new music, it was a way to rediscover music. These songs - what were they about, where would they fit, what made them work, how would they make people feel?

Songs I hadn't thought for ages would pop into my mind (oh my god, Janelle Monae! Bobbie Gentry and Fancy! I loved that song, I can't believe I haven't thought about it in so long!), and it was like finding them the first time.

So I make playlists. You could too. And you should listen to mine.


The Run-Down

1. Della Reese - Whatever Lola Wants

Slinky.

2.  No Doubt - Just A Girl

The lyrics are just fantastic, the music swaggers.

3.  India.Arie - Video

The first line is about body hair. The first line. Respect. Supremely chilled and quietly confident.

4.  Superchick - One Girl Revolution

I love how young the singer sounds, it's the 'montage song' from so many teen movies. But the lyrics are definite, and the bass line grooves.

5.  Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me

6.  Alicia Keys - Superwoman

7.  Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl

8.  Bobbie Gentry - Fancy

9.  Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu)

10.  Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Bad Reputation

11.  Helen Shapiro - Shop Around

12.  The Belle Brigade - Be Like Him (How To Be Like Him)

13.  Run The World (Girls) - Beyonce

14.  Nostalga Records - Peggy Lee - The Lady Is A Tramp

15.  Marina and The Diamonds - Oh No!

16.  Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

17.  Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

18.  Cyndi Lauper - Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)

Music Scrapbook: I Like Pie, I Like Cake... and your jelly rolls

Rummaging through the Jazz Anthology Internet Archive-thingy collection of 'possibly illegal, but let's not think about that too much mp3s' (at http://www.jazz-on-line.com)
I came across the dizzyingly good song "I Like Pie, I Like Cake" sung by the Four Clefs.
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/a/mp3a/BLU8884x.mp3

(http://www.vocalgroupharmony.com)

It was after doing a search of all songs containing the word 'Cake'.

I have my reasons.

Anyway, it contains the stupendous lyrics:

I like pie, I like cake,
I like anything you make,
I like your crackers too,
Crumbled up in chicken stew.
When I see your jelly roll,
Then I lose all my self-control.
But of all these things I like you best of all.

There are a few other versions out there which are also excellent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0CVGEZ4zJU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCdLAO6sQDk

These also use a number of other verses I have yet to transcribe the lyrics to (Because the internet doesn't have them!! The internet doesn't have them!!!) and discover even more gluttonous genious in the song.

But there is one other thing.

In the other versions the singers quite clearly sing 'When I see a jelly roll, I lose my self-control', but in the Four Clefs version I would swear they sing 'When I see your jelly roll, I lose my self-control'. Apparently, if you couldn't guess, jelly roll can be an euphemism for something (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_roll)

The thing is - I can't decide which version I prefer -  the vision of someone looking lasciviously at someone's jelly roll.

Or someone looking lasciviously at an actual jelly roll.

(http://www.recipetips.com)

Oh well, either way I'm shakin' my jelly roll to the song.