What Pandoo was listening while Gooey was "working"

Oh Darling - Supertramp
I'm gonna catch you lady ah huh

Ryan Adams

How do you keep Love alive?

PANDURITO said:

Björk

Charlene

waiting anticipatingly for the middle break,
and sound of cork being pulled out of bottle

Charles Mingus

Fables of Faubus

IstenSzek said:

That song is so funky, fucked-up and creepy-crawley. Love it!

GangstaFam said:

I always imagine Bjork pulling a little wooden cart on
strange looking wheels up a mountain behind her by a
thick rope she's flung over her shoulder.

In the cart, charlene sits, mixing soda's with ice in
thick iced glasses.

At every bend in the road, Bjork stops to listen to her
little transistor radio and scan the frequencies for a
message from anyone that could offer directions.

She and Charlene have a drink and then move further.

I know what the song was about originally, but that was
only until after I made this image in my mind. I like
this image better. Charlene's doing fine again. She may
be dead but she's still there, mixing drinks

Allen Ginsberg feat Paul McCartney

The Ballad of the Skeletons

Laurie Anderson

One White Whale

Radiohead

How to disappear Completely



one of the most powerful and moving
songs i've ever heard. it shocks me
every time i listen to it.

Placebo

Special K

IstenSzek said:

Care to ellaborate a bit more, please?

Nights on Broadway - Bee Gees
Blaming it all...

PANDURITO said:

Uhm, where to begin? It's a poem Ginsberg wrote
and later on he asked McCartney if he knew of a
young guitarplayer who might want to contribute
some playing to it.

McCartney offered to do it himself and spent a
lot of work on it. They rehearsed it together
and even performed it in England once.

After McCartney was finished with is, Philip
Glass contributed some more sounds and piano
to it.

I believe that Gus van Sant directed a video
for it later on which was even played a lot
by an alternative show on MTV (back in those
very early days when MTV was still cool).

But I'm not completely sure if van Sant did
the video for "Ballad of the Skeletons" or
another song/poem. I'd have to check since I
read that somehwere in Ginsberg's collected
interviews "Spontaneous Mind".

It appears on an album of Ginsberg readings and
songs that I got from a friend a long time ago.

I'll upload it to yousendit and post the link in
my profile



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IstenSzek said:

That's awesome. I love your descriptions.

I always liked to pretend the song was about PJ Harvey. They were hanging out a lot at that time and are still friends to this day. The description of Charlene in her dress that's "red and oh so slippery" seems a perfect fit for PJ's "Down By The Water" look at that time. Plus, Clarlene sounds an awful lot like Polly Jean, doesn't it? In reverse, I always though that PJ's "Yuri G" was about Bjork.

But now I'm curious, what IS the real meaning of "Charlene"?

IstenSzek said:

Thank you. I was about to ask you

Streetwalker - MJ

GangstaFam said:

Well, the real meaning of Charlene is not known. It was released
in 1995 and inspired by Kadamba Simmons.

It wasn't until later that the song got a darker meaning when Kadamba
was murdered in 1998 by an ex-boyfriend. She also used to date Bjork
friend and producer Nelle Hooper, which is how Björk got to know her.



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PANDURITO said:

why does that make me think of Cloudbuster?

IstenSzek said:

I've never heard any of that.

I'm gonna have to do some digging now.

GangstaFam said:

so not to bed yet?

Beck

Dior Runwayshow music

Barry Adamson feat Nick Cave

The Sweetest Embrace

Sisters of Mercy

Dominion/Mother Russia

Joni Mitchell

The dry cleaner from Des Moines

Coldplay

X & Y

Herbie Hancock

Chameleon

Prince

Come (beautiful experience version)

IstenSzek said:

Christopher said:

off topic

IstenSzek said:

you promised you wouldnt say!