If you follow this blog for things other than random music, you know that I do a lot of candidate and officeholder interviews around election time. In honor of all that talking, here’s ten songs about talking:
1. Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love – Van Halen
2. Girls Talk – Dave Edmunds
3. I Talk To The Wind – King Crimson
4. If Music Could Talk – Steve Wynn
5. May I Have A Talk With You? – Stevie Ray Vaughan
6. National Talk Like A Pirate Day – Lambchop
7. Talk To Me – Southside Johnny and The Asbury Park Jukes
8. Talkin’ Bout A Revolution – Tracy Chapman
9. Talking Myself Down – The Go-Gos
10. Talking Old Soldiers – Bettye Lavette
What’s talking to you on your iPod this week?
I should note here that today is the 20th anniversary of the tragic death of Stevie Ray Vaughan. I considered doing an SRV Random Ten, but decided instead to honor the occasion in tomorrow’s video break. But I wanted to mention that here so no one thought I’d missed it.
Entire Song List Report: Started with “Lodi”, by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Finished with “Love Rollercoaster”, by The Ohio Players, song #3113, for a total of 137 tunes this week.
Ripping vinyl report: More old school this week, as I re-committed my four Trinity University Jazz Band albums (one for each year, naturally) to digital. They had been done early on after acquiring the USB turntable, but before the right input volume level had been determined, and before the turntable manufacturer had released a version of their software that automatically separated tunes into tracks. Now I just need to haul the albums over to a Kinkos to scan them in for cover art – the scanner we now have at home can’t handle anything as wide as that.
Ronstadt seems to like songs with that word. “Everybody’s Talkin'” is the Nilsson song written by Fred Neil, performed here by two widely different artists/groups.
Ain’t Talkin’ – Bob Dylan
Don’t Start Me Talkin’ – The Doobie Brothers
Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) – Linda Ronstadt
Everybody’s Talkin’ (New) – Jimmy Buffett
Everybody’s Talkin’ [Bonus Track] – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Gardenia Talk – Laura Nyro
Girls Talk – Linda Ronstadt
Happy Talk – Juanita Hall
I Don’t Wanna Talk About It Now – Emmylou Harris
I Talk To The Trees – Tony Bavaar
Let’s Not Talk About Love – Danny Kaye
People Gonna Talk – Linda Ronstadt
Something To Talk About – Bonnie Raitt
Talk – Coldplay
Talk To Me – Stevie Nicks
Talk To Me Of Mendocino – Linda Ronstadt
Talking in the Dark – Linda Ronstadt
Talking Out Of Turn – The Moody Blues
Talking World War III Blues – Bob Dylan
Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love – Van Halen
Someting to Talk About – Bonnie Raitt
(because both warrant a seconding)
Talking to the Moon – Don Henley
I’m Not Talkin’ About Religion – The Altar Boys
Elvis Talking – Blues Saraceno
If Money Talks – Jason & the Scorchers
Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues – Todd Snider
Talking in Your Sleep – The Romantics
Don’t Talk to Strangers – Rick Springfield
Don’t Talk to Strangers – Dio
Let ‘Em Talk – Rough Cutt
Talk Dirty to Me – Poison
Talk Dirty to Me – Children of Bodom’s thrash-metal cover of the Poison song
Big Talk – Warrant
Body Talk – Ratt
Talk to Me – Peppermint Creeps