Just a shout-out from work here: the restaurant next to my office is hosting some sort of party (I think it's a wedding). They've got a piano-playing lite-jazz kind of guy doing the music for the thing. He just finished doing a smooooth jazzzz version of "Wind Beneath My Wings." Kill me now.
PS: Back during the first Gulf War they played that song on tv every time they had some sort of thing on the troops. I think that more than anything explains why so many alterna-hippies are so anti-war. We seem to have forgotten the necessity of having good music to accompany the bombs and guns. I mean, World War II had Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters. What did we have in 1991? Bette Midler in her soppy, Post-The-Rose Phase. Ugh.
Okay, enough fooling around. Back to work.
Posted by Andrea Harris at March 1, 2003 06:03 PMIsn't that spelled "smoooooooove jazzzzz?" ;-) Yuck. Screw "Wind Beneath My Wings;" the first thing Armed Forces Radio broadcast when the air war started was The Clash's "Rock the Casbah." Methinks that's something to listen for sometime fairly soon.
Posted by: David Jaroslav at March 1, 2003 at 07:42 PMNo, they need some "Music to Rumble To".
I suggest "Rebel Rouser". Duane Eddy rocks.
Posted by: Ken Summers at March 2, 2003 at 10:33 AMMy vote's for "Rock the Casbah," although the lyrics may need retuning, since the Clash version has the Muslim king ordering his pilots to drop their bombs between the minarets.
Posted by: Kevin McGehee at March 2, 2003 at 01:44 PM