Thursday, July 05, 2007

It's All About Getting In Tune


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"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." - Woody Allen

"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." - Count Basie

"For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life." - Bjork

"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents." - Samuel Butler

"I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem." - Julian Cope

"You can't teach the old maestro a new tune." - Jack Kerouac

"The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune." - Bruce Springsteen

"Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem." - Roger McGuinn


mp3 Getting In Tune

The Who - Who's Next


mp3 Dream Wanderer's Tune

Deerhoof - Milk Man


mp3 Her Melancholy Tune

Superdrag - Last Call For Vitriol


mp3 I Could Never Tune

The Subjects - With the Ease Grace Precision and Cleverness of Human Beings


mp3 Intro And Theme Tune

Six. By Seven - Club Sandwich At The Peveril Hotel


mp3 Pavement Tune

The Frames - Set List


mp3 Sugartune

Sloan - Smeared


mp3 Stay Tuned

Ambulance Ltd - Ambulance LTD

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