…this will probably do nicely.
(Actually, it’s more of a reason to hate Virgin Records…but what the hell.)
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I guess we should’ve seen this coming when he requested that women stop throwing their panties onstage, that Tom Jones was going respectable…but who would’ve thought the end result was that he’d end up as a Knight of the British Empire?
As my wife said, “Well, they’re just giving those things out to anyone now, aren’t they?” Oh, come on now, dear, he DID sing “Sexbomb”; surely that must be worth something…!
Before there was Maroon 5, there was Kara’s Flowers, which consisted of four of the five members that would eventually make up Maroon 5. They only released one full length CD, Fourth World, and “Myself” is a great example of the group’s potential at the time. With frontman Adam Levine’s distinct vocals anchoring the quiet/loud track, “Myself” could easily be mistaken as a Maroon 5 track.
I’m not a big fan of “Maroon 5” as a name for a rock band, but it’s far better than “Kara’s Flowers.”
Listen to a song clip here.
Known mostly for their theatrical indie pop, The Decemberists recorded this surprisingly catchy track for their most recent album, Picaresque. Against a driving acoustic guitar, frontman Colin Meloy moves through lyrics that criticize American foreign policy, the media and the pseudo-pundits in Hollywood. Politics have never been this fun!
Listen to a clip here, although its brevity doesn’t do the track justice.
Okay, so seven or eight years ago I’m standing in the J. Crew store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, doing a little Christmas shopping, when I hear a fantastic cover version of “Deck the Halls” over the in-store sound system. I’m a sucker for a great Christmas cover, so naturally I walk up to the front counter to ask the cashier about the song.
“Is this Book of Love?” I ask, thinking it a rhetorical question. What other band has a female lead singer with such a beautifully bored delivery?
The guy behind the counter shrugs. “I have no idea. We use a music service. They just send us the CDs, and we play ‘em.” He looks behind me, at the long line of busy holiday shoppers. He doesn’t offer to go around back and check the CD’s case to confirm the artist for me. I can’t really blame him for that. Much.
So I leave the store, the syncopated fa la la’s echoing in my head, certain that it had to be Book of Love, and that a little searching on the Muze system will help me track it down.
Fast-forward seven or eight years…and I still don’t have the song. Muze had no record of it. iTunes doesn’t either. Neither do any of the dozens of Christmas music compilations I’ve checked. They have versions by SheDaisy, and Whitney Houston, and any number of other artists…none of whom sounds remotely like Book of Love.
My greatest Christmas wish is that someone out there can help me find this song. The song might be by Book of Love…or it might not. The vocal is a dead ringer for BOL’s Susan Ottaviano, but maybe it’s just someone doing a great impression of her. The lyrics are standard “Deck the Halls”, but the arrangement tweaks the melody a bit–particularly on the fa la las. Instead of “fa la la la LAAA, la la la LAAA”, it’s more like “FA la la la, la LALA la la.” Got it?
So, how about it? Have you heard it? Can you find it? Will you help make a young(ish) girl’s long-held Christmas dream come true?
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