{"id":600,"date":"2010-03-10T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:38:43","slug":"songs-in-high-rotation-just-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Songs in High Rotation Just Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Little Bird” by Eels (from their new CD, End Times<\/a><\/em>) is one of the better break-up songs I’ve encountered lately.<\/p>\n

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I have tickets to see the one and only Ray Davies here in Chicago on Saturday night. Here’s one of the back-catalog songs he’s resuscitated for the current tour:<\/p>\n

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And here’s Delroy Wilson’s 1968 cover of the obscure Motown song, “Put Yourself in My Place” (apologies for the abrupt cut off at the end):<\/p>\n

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Ah, the sadness of pop songs. As Nick Hornby sums it up so admirably in High Fidelity<\/a><\/em>, “Which came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?” Hell if I know, but Mr. Bartender can I please have change for this fiver so I can plug another handful of quarters into the jukebox?<\/p>\n