Saturday, October 5, 2013

Season Of The Witch

Halloween is fast approaching and after that, the holiday season.

 

Like many people my age, I have an iTunes library. Perhaps unlike others, I meticulously delete the "genre" column entry and insert instead the year that the song appeared or was released.

This song for example is from 1966. The background organ sounds very much like the organ playing of Ray Manzarek around that time. Coincidence?

47 comments:

The Dude said...

Can you find session credits for that cut? So far I have only been able to find out who the bass player and drummer are.

chickelit said...

I'm not suggesting that Manzarek played on that album -- only that musicians copied and riffed off of each other and still do. Chroning things helps me hear this.

Chip S. said...

Ah, Hallowe'en: the season for love songs of mayhem.

the heart is the best place to bury the hatchet

rhhardin said...

Listening to various Gresham College UK lectures, I find that the women are hard to listen to for long.

You long for a male voice, some woman remarked about women's meetings.

You don't find that in study materials.

The Dude said...

Found the credits.

Moreover, I found that the song "The Trip" was recorded by Donovan in '66. A year later Sonny and Cher released "The Beat Goes On", which sounds, in places like damn near a note for note plagiarism of Donovan's song.

Chip S. said...

Yes, "The Beat Goes On" was plagiarized, but from
this
.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Genre management is a frustrating business at itunes. Pollo solution, while radical... i wish i had thought of it.

Trooper York said...

I would like to be the first to nominate this song as the official campaign anthem of Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Hey trooper, how is it hanging?

Trooper York said...

One lower than the other Lem. Thanks for asking.

I lost 22lbs so far.

I wouldn't recommend the diet though.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

He he, glad to hear frm you.

virgil xenophon said...

Brings back memories--1966 was the year I graduated from college and entered pilot training..

AllenS said...

Hey, Troop!!!

Trooper York said...

Hey Allen. How's it going?

Everybody misses you at my joint. I hope I sent you the right invite. If not let me know and I will send another.

William said...

The iPod gives each of us our own personal posterity. When I transfer a song from a cd to my iPod that song has made the Hall of Fame.....I don't think I have any music later than1980. The whole point of pop music is to irritate the middle aged and enfuriate the elderly. Current musicians are very good at this. I don't listen to new music, but there are gaps to everyone's Steely Dan collection and lots of Gershwin songs never became standards.

William said...

Trooper: Good luck. Finis to fettuccine but there's still music and crisp fall weather and lots of other stuff to keep the game interesting. I know whereof I speak. A little bit of subtraction can add immensely to life's pleasures.

Chip Ahoy said...

Hello Trooper, good to see you typing.

chickelit said...

Chip Ahoy said...
Hello Trooper, good to see you typing.

Before long he'll be doing it in stereo too.

Chip Ahoy said...

Many people believe witches' seasonings include strange things like eye of newt, which is ridiculous because Newt only has two eyes so that's like two batches and thats it. Forever. It comes from the movies and from literature, like that fucking dummkopf Shakespeare, yeah, the guy had a way with words, admitted, but he has done a lot of damage with sloppy research and just flat out propaganda. The whole Richard III thing is all bunk. And the witches with their impossible ingredients:

In the poisoned entrails throw
toad, that under cold stone
days and nights has thirty-one
Sweltered venom sleeping got
Boil thou first in the charmed pot!
Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Fillet of fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake
Eye of newt, and toe of frog
Woolof bat, and tongue of dog.
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf; Witche's mummy' maw and gulf
Of a the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd in the dark'
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make a gruel thick and slab.
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron
Fo the ingredients of our caldron
Cool it with a baboon's blood
then the charm is firm and good

Balderdash. What awful nonsense. Witches are herbalists, and fine ones too.
Here, please accept this list of some of their favorite authentic herbs to clear up this matter so sorely fouled by the likes of Shakespeare, as follows:

Chip Ahoy said...

blackberry
motherwort
pokeweed
cloves
lungwort
nettle
coltsfoot
St John's wort
wolfsbane
crocus
oak
mushrooms
Agrimony
mugwort
wormwood
Echinacea
toadflax
marsh mallow
nightshade
witch-hazel
poppy
feverfew
foxglove
monkshood

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

What don't you like about categorizing by genre? I've got music that dates from 900 AD (as far as year of composition goes) until now, and of course, you can can always switch to an alphabetical display by artist, title and album. Doesn't your genre taste have to be rather limited though to forego the category completely?

OT: I have an Apple TV question if anyone here feels they're qualified and interested in answering it.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Koji Uejara.. 6 pitches two strike outs.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

Love that dirty water...

ndspinelli said...

Ritmo, My bride is pretty smart. We've had one for a couple months. Fire away.

ndspinelli said...

We love it, by the way. Since we got it @ Best Buy for $99.

ndspinelli said...

We have hardly watched regular TV since. We would do ads for it.

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Lem the artificially intelligent said...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he would "think about changing" the Washington Redskins' name if he owned the football team as he waded into the controversy involving a word many consider offensive to Native Americans.

Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press, said team names such as the Redskins offend "a sizable group of people." He said that while fans get attached to the names, nostalgia may not be a good enough reason to keep them in place.


3 more years of this.

Icepick said...

Yeah, it's good we're getting his considered opinion on this matter, isn't it, Lem?

Personally I'm hoping they change the name of the team to "Whities" or maybe "Crackers". I promise to not bitch and moan about it. Just a 21st Century version of the White Man's Burden.

chickelit said...

Just wait until animals get equal rights as humans. It's coming -- slowly. That's gonna really shake up the sports team names.

But before that happens, I think professional football may be forced to change its rules and temper its contact. The anti-football crowd is gaining momentum in this country. You don't see them much, but they're there. When I was in HS, the old boxing coach still worked there. He had been quite successful, but lived to see his sport eliminated.

ndspinelli said...

Those homo activists have been protesting the Fudge Packer games.

chickelit said...

@Nick: Funnel clouds spotted in Packwaukee, WI tonight. I'd never heard of that portmanteau town name -- the very essence of Wisconsin.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

3 more years of this.

Maddening.


deborah said...

I love Halloween time...brrrr.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Speaking of Halloween- Catch The Harlem Shake.

Shake it baby.

ndspinelli said...

chick, Packwaukee is a shit town w/ a kinda shitty lake. I followed a shitbird who claimed to be totally disabled from Sun Prairie to Packwaukee. He was towing his boat and I got good shots of him putting in his fishing boat. I tried to find a marina to rent me a boat there was none. So, I cooled my heels for about 4 hours in this horseshit town[west of Montello..another shit town]. I shot the guy pulling his boat out. That was 15 or so years ago, never been back.

I'm not dissing your home state. There are shit towns in every state.

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deborah said...

30 seconds I'll never get back :(

sakredkow said...

It's the season for love sweet love.

chickelit said...

Halloween is fast approaching and after that, the holiday season.

Yep. We stand still and the calendar passes through us. Who are you to assert otherwise?

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Sorry Deborah. I don't like the original. The airplane shake is much better.
Frontier is in trouble a over the thing.

deborah said...

I don't care for either...kinda sloppy. And the Frontier link seems like a gag, too...I guess it's not. Sigh.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

The sloppiness is part of the magic. No synchronized dancers.
I deleted the original. Too gay.
NTTAWWT.

Amartel said...

Love this song.
Was in the last scene of "To Die For" (the movie with Nicole Kidman). Spooky!

chickelit said...

@Amartel: It was also used in an episode of "House" -- one where he was dealing with his boss.

Unknown said...

Sounds just like The Doors. Organ and guitar licks. Hmmm