{"id":1989,"date":"2008-02-06T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1989"},"modified":"2008-02-06T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T18:51:47","slug":"up-up-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1989","title":{"rendered":"Up Up Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing like a little upbeat music to make things better. Of course people have different ideas of upbeat. My upbeat tends to be a bit on the angry side..<\/p>\n

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Love You Till The Day I Die – Crowded House
\nPositive Bleeding – Urge Overkill
\nMovie Star – Cracker
\nMy Big Mouth – Posies
\nPossum Kingdom – Toadies
\nPoison Girl – Chris Whitley
\nShadows in the Rain – Sting
\nBlues from a Gun – Jesus & Mary Chain
\nCry – The Men
\nMovin’ Out – Billy Joel
\nSomething So Strong – Crowded House
\nWhat You Get Is What You See – Tina Turner
\nAlive – Pearl Jam
\nDream All Day – Posies
\nDoraldina’s Prophecies – Masters of Reality
\nEverybody Knows – Leonard Cohen
\nSolsbury Hill – Peter Gabriel
\nBetter Be Good to Me – Tina Turner
\nA Good Idea – Sugar
\nDizz Knee Land – dada
\nDefinite Door – Posies
\nDo Re Mi – Nancy Griffith
\nTeen Angst (What the World Needs Now) – Cracker
\nOutshined – Soundgarden
\nWe Are the Normal – Goo Goo Dolls
\nI Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
\nGet Off This – Cracker
\nLonesome Johnny Blues – Cracker
\nOn the Lie – Goo Goo Dolls
\nDon’t Come Around Here No More – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
\nShellshock – New Order
\nHad a Dad – Jane’s Addiction
\nSenses Working Overtime – XTC
\nOver & Over – Madonna
\nNever Let Me Down Again – Depeche Mode<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there’s a very good reason this list is skewed towards male singers–that’s my singing range. Which is the only advantage of being short staffed–I have the office to myself.<\/p>\n

And just because it makes me happy, the lyrics to Lonesome Johnny Blues:<\/p>\n

Well, lucky number seven passed me by
\nLucky number seven called my name and passed on by
\nWell he came back don’t you know
\nwith his brother six in tow
\nAnd that is how number thirteen wound up by my side.<\/p>\n

And that is how I got these Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nHow I got these Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nGot the Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nand there’s nothing I can do
\n‘Cept sing these sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues<\/p>\n

Here we go<\/p>\n

Grim Reaper he pulled up into my drive
\nGrim Reaper pulled his little old Chevrolet right up onto the goddamn drive
\n“Johnny, I haven’t come for you
\nbut I want someone who’s dear to you
\nand the price you pay is to remain alive”<\/p>\n

And I’ll stay here with these Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nStay here with these Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nWith the Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nand there’s nothing I can do
\n‘Cept sing these sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues<\/p>\n

Woah, no more trouble send him down the road, won’t you please.
\nNo more trouble won’t you beat him up, won’t you send him down the road
\nTrouble dumped out the trash
\nRansacked the place for cash
\nand he wound up taking much more than I own<\/p>\n

And he left me with these Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nLeft me with these Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nWith the Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nand there’s nothing I can do
\n‘Cept sing these sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues<\/p>\n

Johnny Blues
\nthe sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nJohnny Blues
\nthe sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Grim Reaper pulled his little old Chevrolet right up onto the goddamn drive”<\/p>\n

Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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