songs i've been obsessed with recently

1. Roy Orbison - Crying
2. Iggy Pop - The Passenger
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
4. Beck - Peaches and Cream (it's the keep your lamplight trimmed and burning... part that gets me. totally transcendent)
5. Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman
6. Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams
7. Fun Boy Three - Our Lips are Sealed

that last one is indeed the same as the gogos song "our lips are sealed." i don't know if it really counts as a cover because the frontman for fun boy three (formerly of the specials) was jane wiedlan's boyfriend at the time and they wrote the song together. i think this version is a bajillion times better than the gogos version and i like the gogos.

and i still hate giorgio moroder, but he is offset by phil oakey here. has anyone ever actually seen "electric dreams," the movie this song is from? i haven't, but apparently it's about a computer who steals some guys girlfriend, and i think the computer's voice is bud cort.

there's no new music on here which i guess is kind of sad. however, furthering my attention to old music, i bought an album by the new radicals for $3 and was horribly disappointed cause i really really like "you get what you give" but the album is pretty sucky. and that song is tracked second which is a shame cause it would have worked well last. instead, the highlight of the album is super close to the beginning which is just not a good idea.