“New Pony”
Bob Dylan (Covered by the Dead Weather)
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I had a pony; her name was Lucifer.
I had a pony; her name was Lucifer.
A E
She broke her leg and needed shooting;
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I swear it hurt me more than it could’ve hurted her.
Sometimes I wonder what’s going on with Miss X.
Sometimes I wonder what’s going on with Miss X.
She got such as sweet disposition;
I never know what the poor girl’s gonna do to me next.
I got a new pony; she knows how to fox trot, lope, and pace.
I got a new pony; she knows how to fox trot, lope, and pace.
She got great big hind legs;
Long big shiny hair hanging in her face.
SOLO
Everybody says you’re using voodoo; I’ve seen your feet walk by themselves.
Everybody says you’re using voodoo; I’ve seen your feet walk by themselves.
Oh baby, but that god that you’ve been praying to
Gonna give you back what you wishing on someone else.
Come over here, pony; I wanna climb up one time on you.
Come over here, pony; I wanna climb up one time on you.
You oh so nasty and you’re so bad,
But I swear I love you, yes, I do.
Hey all! Well, it’s been such a big week for me and for news in my world, and I guess people cope in different ways. Much like comfort food, there are certain songs and albums that act as “comfort music”, and take me back to a time or place. My acoustic cover song selection for today is a song by “The Calling” that almost everyone knows (and usually likes). I discovered it and the album (Camino Palmero) in high school, and it was one of the first I listened to when I first got my license. That time of life and love and discovery and loss all seem to give me answers for things that happen modern day. This is a song about believing in something and maybe knowing when to let go, and when to hold on.
Im just troubled by a lot of stuff in the news- new war in Georgia from Russia (without love, apparently)… Bernie Macs death, a kid in my town at my middle school who died in a fight, and the brutal destruction of Jim, Chris, and our friend Alberto in Monopoly this evening (in which I won!) We did our home run derby radio show the other day, and that resulted in a major win for yours truly as well… What do you know! I’m trading in some accumulated good karma, and I will buy myself a lottery ticket tomorrow (and if I win, I’ll be posting from my own mac laptop, instead of Jim’s like today!)
I really love this song and I hope my quick take on it is enjoyable, and reminds you that you only have to answer to one person every night- Your heart. So you better live each day right so you don’t have any ‘splainin to do! (Luuuucy!)
Well, it only comes but once every three weeks for each of us… that’s right, Original Wednesday! This week, I bring you my second of two songs from my summer demo sessions. For anyone who didn’t read my previous OW! post, I spent a weekend this past summer recording demos of all my songs I hadn’t recorded previously. This release, Weekend Demos, included a couple songs that I had written within weeks or even days of the recording session. It also included a lot of older songs, including one from five years in the past — when I was a senior in high school.
This song, “Another One,” was written somewhere in between the two extremes, during college. I wrote it about how balancing relationships can be not only difficult, but also confusing. I sing the lead a bit low and I always worry that it’s hard to hear over the guitar, but I was really happy with how it builds up to the middle.
I hope you enjoy this, and I’m looking forward to my next Original Wednesday. I’ll either be recording one of my own originals or something off the new MoU release, Homestead’s Revenge. If you haven’t heard it yet, listen to the album at http://jimfusco.com/albums.html !
After both technical difficulties and more than my share of human error for the night, my “Chris Moore Monday” post is here! Not only am I posting a video tonight for the best acoustic cover song music video blog known to man — and humble, too! — but this is actually the first of a double header that will conclude tomorrow night. Since Jim is away for one more “Jim Fusco Tuesday,” I didn’t want to see anyone go without new material for even a day more. So make sure to check back tomorrow for an all-new cover song and music video.
Tonight’s song is one that would have made me blush in 1997, and to be honest, it still does. Back in late ’97 and early 1998, Marcy Playground’s “Sex and Candy” was everywhere, particularly if you listened to a modern rock radio station. (CT locals may remember the alternative station Rock 104’s hey day in the nineties.) At the time, this song broke the record for most consecutive weeks at number one on the modern rock charts — 15 weeks, to be specific. Meanwhile, this song catapulted Marcy Playground to one hit wonder status, peaking at a solid number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
To this day, I’m not exactly sure why this song was such a big hit at the time. Structurally, it’s a very simple song, and the vocals are very straightforward. I think the song’s success can be attributed to its provocative lyrics and John Wozniak’s distinct vocals. Fortunately for me, “Woz” as he refers to himself has a vocal range that is well within my own, at least on this song!
There are two reasons I’ve chosen this particular song for tonight’s session. The first is that it reminds me of a time when I was first becoming interested in music, listening to the radio and just beginning to buy CDs at the overpriced Sam Goody’s store in the mall.
The second reason will be explained in tomorrow night’s session…
You know, another sign that this song was successful is that “Weird” Al included the chorus of “Sex and Candy” in his “Polka Power!” polka medley. If only I, too, could one day have a song parodied by the man, then I would truly know I had earned success. But, until then, I’ll just have to enjoy the new “Weird” Al video for his new song, “CNR.” It’s a style parody of the White Stripes and the video was produced by JibJab, so it’s all the more hilarious. While I thought the “Skipper Dan” video a couple weeks ago was enjoyable, this one is truly great — it made me laugh out loud a couple times and want to watch it again.
Okay, so that’s it for me for now. I’ll see you back here, same Laptop Sessions time, same Laptop Sessions channel for an all-new “Chris Moore for Jim Fusco Tuesday” cover song music video.
