The Sometimes I Feel Like Ignatius Reilly Blues
| The Sometimes I Feel Like Ignatius Reilly Blues | |
| Created by: | RyanTheTruck |
| Tracks: | 15 |
| Length: | 01:05:28 |
| Keywords |
1. BIG 2. WHITE 3. CLOOD |
| Created on | 11/8/08 7:11pm |
| Level | 3 |
| Points | 1719 |
| Total visitors | 27 |
| Unique visitors | 14 |
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Gosh, it must be Saturday night.
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| 1 | Fairport Convention : A Sailor's Life |
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This might be the sickest jam in the history of sick jams. Hyperbole aside, honestly, the broad's voice kinda bugs me and every single one of their songs are like HMS Pinafore or some shit and are always about duty or whatever, but the fiddle on this track does these really piercing trills that the electric guitar is just not capable of. Oh yeah, and three Dylan covers on one album is pushing it. Even if one is in French and has the rad coincidental bottle breaking. The way I sound you wouldn't think I love this band. Always important to question shit.
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Track 1 from Unhalfbricking
Length: 00:11:11 Year: 1969 |
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This might be the sickest jam in the history of sick jams. Hyperbole aside, honestly, the broad's voice kinda bugs me and every single one of their songs are like HMS Pinafore or some shit and are always about duty or whatever, but the fiddle on this track does these really piercing trills that the electric guitar is just not capable of. Oh yeah, and three Dylan covers on one album is pushing it. Even if one is in French and has the rad coincidental bottle breaking. The way I sound you wouldn't think I love this band. Always important to question shit. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | The Nightcrawlers : The Little Black Egg |
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I'm pretty sure this song is about the bastard child of interracial parentage. It might also just be a throwaway 60's garage pop song with a squeaky kick drum. Can't it be both?
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Track 2 from The Little Black Egg
Length: 00:03:26 Year: 2000 |
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I'm pretty sure this song is about the bastard child of interracial parentage. It might also just be a throwaway 60's garage pop song with a squeaky kick drum. Can't it be both? SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Roy Wood & Wizzard : Meet Me at the Jailhouse |
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Another heavy jam for your troubles. RW's pretty tight, but his production is cold and thin and his ego runs away with him occasionally. At least he didn't claim to singlehandedly invent reggae like Donovan (am I repeating myself?). Its always innaresting to hear how these long proggy jams with several parts hold together, although this one sounds pretty laboriously grafted together from a few sessions. If you played Todd Rundgren's "Sounds of the Studio" game from "Something/Anything" (and I know you have), then you'll be able to identify the hiss on the saxophone track, stereo right, at the beginning.
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Track 3 from Wizzard's Brew
Length: 00:13:33 Year: 1973 |
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Another heavy jam for your troubles. RW's pretty tight, but his production is cold and thin and his ego runs away with him occasionally. At least he didn't claim to singlehandedly invent reggae like Donovan (am I repeating myself?). Its always innaresting to hear how these long proggy jams with several parts hold together, although this one sounds pretty laboriously grafted together from a few sessions. If you played Todd Rundgren's "Sounds of the Studio" game from "Something/Anything" (and I know you have), then you'll be able to identify the hiss on the saxophone track, stereo right, at the beginning. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Todd Rundgren : Slut |
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Did somebody say Todd Rundgren? Come on, we've all been there. You know it's just her reputation and that you're not all that cool for it or anything, but everyone gets lonely and horny. I'd be inclined to venture it's one of the reasons this very website exists.
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Track 4 from Something/Anything
Length: 00:04:03 Year: 1972 |
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Did somebody say Todd Rundgren? Come on, we've all been there. You know it's just her reputation and that you're not all that cool for it or anything, but everyone gets lonely and horny. I'd be inclined to venture it's one of the reasons this very website exists. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The Rolling Stones : Stupid Girl |
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The Stones are so gloriously misogynistic. They can be subtle about it, like in "Under My Thumb" (okay, not that subtle, but this one line is) where they talk about "the difference in the clothes she wears" when the girl starts to get lazy and eases into girlfriend attire, or they can just outright do it like on this track.
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Track 5 from Aftermath
Length: 00:04:19 |
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The Stones are so gloriously misogynistic. They can be subtle about it, like in "Under My Thumb" (okay, not that subtle, but this one line is) where they talk about "the difference in the clothes she wears" when the girl starts to get lazy and eases into girlfriend attire, or they can just outright do it like on this track. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Neil Young : Stupid Girl |
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To paraphrase Richard Meltzer, NY makes this song sound as though the Stones had never had a song called "Stupid Girl." I like the line where he says "I say you in Mercedes-Benz practicing self-defense. You're getting pretty good, I guess, I couldn't see your eyes."
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Track 6 from Zuma
Length: 00:03:13 Year: 1975 |
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To paraphrase Richard Meltzer, NY makes this song sound as though the Stones had never had a song called "Stupid Girl." I like the line where he says "I say you in Mercedes-Benz practicing self-defense. You're getting pretty good, I guess, I couldn't see your eyes." SHOW LESS
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| 7 | The Beach Boys : Girl Don't Tell Me |
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If you can tolerate the vocal stylings of Mike Love (not an easy task, I understand), than early Beach Boys can be just as rewarding as the post-"Pet Sounds" material. This sounds like BJM or Belle & Sebastian but, y'know, not a pile of shit. It's got awesome chord changes and specific, visceral lyrics, the use of the word "gram" in reference to "grandmother," and I love the enunciation of the line "I'm the gu-hy-hy who left you with tears in his ey-e-yies." Hmm. Lotsa eyes on this mix.
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Track 7 from Endless Summer
Length: 00:02:20 Year: 1974 |
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If you can tolerate the vocal stylings of Mike Love (not an easy task, I understand), than early Beach Boys can be just as rewarding as the post-"Pet Sounds" material. This sounds like BJM or Belle & Sebastian but, y'know, not a pile of shit. It's got awesome chord changes and specific, visceral lyrics, the use of the word "gram" in reference to "grandmother," and I love the enunciation of the line "I'm the gu-hy-hy who left you with tears in his ey-e-yies." Hmm. Lotsa eyes on this mix. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Big Star : September Gurls |
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Goddamn, look at the last five songs, DO I HAFTA SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU? In any case, how the F can you not love Big Star? And what a cool stance to take! "The summer boys got it bad?" What a decidedly un-Beach Boys California pop sentiment that's totally on par with the Beach Boys or the Beatles and is perfectly executed pop.
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Track 8 from Radio City
Length: 00:02:49 Year: 1974 |
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Goddamn, look at the last five songs, DO I HAFTA SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU? In any case, how the F can you not love Big Star? And what a cool stance to take! "The summer boys got it bad?" What a decidedly un-Beach Boys California pop sentiment that's totally on par with the Beach Boys or the Beatles and is perfectly executed pop. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Grateful Dead : Sugar Magnolia |
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I can say it now. It's ok. I don't live in Santa Cruz anymore. I can say this and still retain (some/a modicum of/what's left of my) credibility. I LOVE THE DEAD! They're everything I dig about music! They're jammy and jazzy and complicated and folky and poppy and psychedelic and bright and authentic and fun and sad and boring and love their mothers. I already miss ya, Jerry.
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Track 9 from American Beauty
Length: 00:03:19 Year: 1970 |
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I can say it now. It's ok. I don't live in Santa Cruz anymore. I can say this and still retain (some/a modicum of/what's left of my) credibility. I LOVE THE DEAD! They're everything I dig about music! They're jammy and jazzy and complicated and folky and poppy and psychedelic and bright and authentic and fun and sad and boring and love their mothers. I already miss ya, Jerry. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Royal Trux : Steal Your Face |
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Which is, of course, the title of the Dead album bearing the skull and lightning bolt image which took on this very name.
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Track 10 from Singles, Live, Unreleased
Length: 00:02:20 Year: 1997 |
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Which is, of course, the title of the Dead album bearing the skull and lightning bolt image which took on this very name. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Sebadoh : Soulmate |
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I feel the same way. At least with the line about "tremendous oral sex." Good adjective.
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Track 11 from The Freed Man
Length: 00:01:31 Year: 1989 |
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I feel the same way. At least with the line about "tremendous oral sex." Good adjective. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | the dead c : Sky |
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The Dead C are not just some dorm-room-casiotone-pedal-twiddling noise band, these cats got soul. They emerged from New Zealand's Flying Nun records scene (the Clean, JPS Experience, Able Tasmans, Mainly Spaniards, etc.), arguably one of the best cohesive national music scenes ever (hey, it's a small country) and made it to the Siltbreeze label in the 90s and are still tight as ever today. Fucking great album title too. All their shit's getting remastered and rereleased, so's I'm pretty sure they'll wash up on your shore.
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Track 12 from Harsh 70's Reality
Length: 00:04:00 Year: 1992 |
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The Dead C are not just some dorm-room-casiotone-pedal-twiddling noise band, these cats got soul. They emerged from New Zealand's Flying Nun records scene (the Clean, JPS Experience, Able Tasmans, Mainly Spaniards, etc.), arguably one of the best cohesive national music scenes ever (hey, it's a small country) and made it to the Siltbreeze label in the 90s and are still tight as ever today. Fucking great album title too. All their shit's getting remastered and rereleased, so's I'm pretty sure they'll wash up on your shore. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Dead Moon : Janus |
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Now this is pop punk. These guys are the Television Personalities of the 90s. Jangly, minor-key changes, botched solos, dual vocals that are definitely not harmonizing, fukking good pop.
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Track 13 from Trash and Burn
Length: 00:03:11 Year: 2001 |
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Now this is pop punk. These guys are the Television Personalities of the 90s. Jangly, minor-key changes, botched solos, dual vocals that are definitely not harmonizing, fukking good pop. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Bob Dylan : The Boxer |
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All Greil Marcus, the (self-proclaimed?) king of all Dylanphiles had to do to prove he was a stuffed-shirt academic fart who just didn't get it was write the opening line of his review of this album: "What is this shit?" Dylan's best, most honest material is when he's trying to kill his career, and this is the first big example of it. It's full of terrbile live renditions of "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Quinn the Eskimo," and features his versions of classic pop and old-timey folk ballads. It's a huge anti-intellectual, no voice-of-a-generation illusions. After four years of people wanting him to return to folk, he gave the people just that. This is REAL folk music. This song is class. He is so sarcastic and obviously hates this song and Paul Simon. What a way to usher in the 70s and really point out some of the bullshit that followed.
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Track 14 from Self Portrait
Length: 00:02:48 Year: 1970 |
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All Greil Marcus, the (self-proclaimed?) king of all Dylanphiles had to do to prove he was a stuffed-shirt academic fart who just didn't get it was write the opening line of his review of this album: "What is this shit?" Dylan's best, most honest material is when he's trying to kill his career, and this is the first big example of it. It's full of terrbile live renditions of "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Quinn the Eskimo," and features his versions of classic pop and old-timey folk ballads. It's a huge anti-intellectual, no voice-of-a-generation illusions. After four years of people wanting him to return to folk, he gave the people just that. This is REAL folk music. This song is class. He is so sarcastic and obviously hates this song and Paul Simon. What a way to usher in the 70s and really point out some of the bullshit that followed. SHOW LESS
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| 15 | M.I.A : Paper Planes |
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Didn't see that one coming, did you? Speaking of pop, it makes me really happy when a great pop song comes along that is does extremely pop-ular and does really well and is, wait for it, wait for it, TOTALLY FUCKING GOOD! I loved "Hey-Ya's" moment, and "Yoshimi's" moment and "Crazy's" moment and I love this moment and I love this song. It's all too rare an occurrence these days. This is easily one of the best songs ever.
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Track 15 from Kala
Length: 00:03:25 |
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Didn't see that one coming, did you? Speaking of pop, it makes me really happy when a great pop song comes along that is does extremely pop-ular and does really well and is, wait for it, wait for it, TOTALLY FUCKING GOOD! I loved "Hey-Ya's" moment, and "Yoshimi's" moment and "Crazy's" moment and I love this moment and I love this song. It's all too rare an occurrence these days. This is easily one of the best songs ever. SHOW LESS
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Mixtape Contest XXIV - Winning Team Badge
As an aside, I really do feel like Ignatius sometimes, especially when my uber-liberal and elitist ex-girlfriend in Boston calls or writes me. Here I am in New Orleans, getting over-educated (and fat) at Tulane, and she writes to me in her I-want-to-show-everyone-just-how-smart-I-am kind of way. It's uncanny, really.
11/13/08 5:51pm
Mixtape Contest XXIV - Winning Team Badge
As the resident New Orleans guy, I feel required to comment on anything related to Ignatius J. Reilly.
Oh, and this mix is pretty hella cool, too.
Oh, and this mix is pretty hella cool, too.
11/13/08 5:48pm
Mixtape Contest XXV: 1st Place
Right on. And here I was wondering if you'd ever return to the fold.
11/10/08 2:14pm
The Level 10 Badge
You know, I always thought it was 'December boys got it bad'. I suppose that's the great thing about music, everyone can interpret a song their own way. I like this mix. Favourite Rundgran tack, and I'm still not bored with the closer..
11/9/08 11:31am
The MLK Badge
Excellent... And I totally second the sentiment about Paper Planes EVEN if I'm tired of listening to it.
11/9/08 3:55am
Team Robot Member
Fairport sang about dead friends meeting up on a ledge, people who couldn't be hung and Cajun women as well, but I take your point. Saturdays in are crap, but thanks for entertaining me for part of mine! Meanwhile, never knew Donovan invented reggae, i always thought it was Paul Simon!
11/8/08 8:25pm
