Sheena Beaston today posted their list of Songs To Bang To, submitted by other bloggers. I didn’t send anything in because I couldn’t think of one single song for the occasion, though some other folks came up with some pretty good selections, especially Radiohead’s oddly sexy Airbag. (Much as I like the Blow’s Hey Boy, though, I can’t imagine wanting to make out with someone who thought of that as good boot-knocking music.)
That said, all this does remind me of something I used to call the Yoko Ono Test.
Four years ago, I went out with a guy for a few weeks. Once, when we started making out, he asked me to change the music; I had put on the second album of Approximately Infinite Universe and he apparently wasn’t okay with that. It turned out that I wasn’t okay with him, either, since he had a drug problem and lots of weird neuroses and he cheated on me by having condomless sex with a sailor he found on Manhunt who lived three states away. And he wore jean shorts.
When we broke up, I decided that I never again wanted to date someone who couldn’t make out to Yoko Ono. If I thought somebody was relationship material–which honestly wasn’t very often at that time–I’d put on Yoko and see if they could handle it. My current boyfriend passed the Yoko test with flying colors almost four years ago, and I’m pretty sure that’s when I knew I wanted things to get serious with him.
I see Annie’s Anthonio is now available in all its frosty Italo glory on the Youtube:
[via Idolator]
Filed under: music, Norwegians | Tags: annie, lady gaga, margaret berger, music, sam phillips
I don’t generally have a problem with tacky blowjob jokes, but the Kid Cudi Poke Her Face song, Lady GaGa sample and all, is basically the dumbest piece of crap I’ve heard in my life. It would be kind of funny if Cudi, or his listeners, were a seventh-grader, but otherwise it’s just unforgivably bad. Particularly since he samples the acoustic version of the song for no reason whatsoever.
It’s on Kanye West’s blog, which I only know because Camp GaGa put up a Myspace bulletin about it.
In other, better news, Sam Phillips has a free new single available on her website; it’s called A Piece Of My Bright Side and it’s just lovely. Even better, though: she’s selling a limited run of handmade books, also called A Piece of My Bright Side. On the downside, though, they’re thirty-five bucks each, which is kind of a lot.
Oh, and bad news on the Margaret Berger front: her album got scrapped and she won’t have a single out until at least the fall. But at least we’ll finally have new Annie to tide us over; Anthonio was the song of the day over on Popjustice recently and the 40-second sample sounds exciting. Not necessarily worth-the-wait exciting, but whatever.
