all five horizons

I received Cat Power’s album Jukebox for my birthday and listened to it this morning on the way to work. I love it already. The album is nearly all covers with my favourites (so far) being Silver Stallion and Chan Marshall’s (aka Cat Power) own song Metal Heart. I also really liked her version of Blue which is not surprising given that I love Joni Mitchell too. I am really looking forward to getting to know this album better. Here is Silver Stallion:

The full album listing is as follows (thanks to Wikipedia):

1. “New York” (John Kander, Fred Ebb - Popularized by Liza Minnelli in 1977 and Frank Sinatra in 1980
2. “Ramblin’ (Wo)man” (Hank Williams) - Originally released by Williams in 1953 and 1976
3. “Metal Heart” (Chan Marshall) - Previous version appears on Cat Power’s 1998 album Moon Pix
4. “Silver Stallion” (Lee Clayton) - First appears on Clayton’s 1978 album Border Affair; later popularized by The Highwaymen in 1990
5. “Aretha, Sing One for Me” (J Harris, Eugene Williams) - Originally released by George Jackson in 1972[1]
6. “Lost Someone” (James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Lloyd Stallworth) - Originally released by James Brown & the Famous Flames in 1961
7. “Lord, Help the Poor and Needy” (Jessie Mae Hemphill) - Recorded by Jessie Mae Hemphill in either 1979 or the early 1980s, released on her 2004 album, Get Right Blues
8. “I Believe in You” (Bob Dylan) - Originally released on Dylan’s 1979 album Slow Train Coming
9. “Song to Bobby” (Chan Marshall, Matt Sweeney) - The sole original recording on the album
10. “Don’t Explain” (Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday) - Originally released by Billie Holiday
11. “A Woman Left Lonely” (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn) - Originally released by Ella Brown and popularised by Janis Joplin on her (posthumous) 1971 album, Pearl
12. “Blue” (Joni Mitchell) - Originally released by Mitchell on her 1971 album Blue
13. “Breathless” (Nick Cave) - Originally released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their 2004 album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus

If Your Life Were a Movie…What Would the Soundtrack Be?? Thanks to Spiral Skies, this is mine.

First, here’s how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool…because you’re not!
7. Stick the soundtrack on your mp3 player and listen away during the day.

I am quite worried about how this will reveal just how much of a dork I am. I do have some very cool music in my ipod but for Pearl Jam’s ying there is Britney Spears’s yang. Without much further ado:

Opening Credits: Faith - George Michael

Waking Up: All Apologies - Nirvana (live)

First Day at School: Naive - The Kooks

Falling in Love: Are We Waiting - Green Day (live)

Fight Song: The Show Must Go On - Queen

Breaking Up: Little Green - Joni Mitchell

Prom/Dance/Ball: Good Life - Kanye West

Life’s OK: Come On Over - Institute

Mental Breakdown: God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday (I would so need Billie Holiday if I were to have a mental breakdown!)

Flashback: Hard to Concentrate - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Getting Back Together: Rape Me - Nirvana (unfortunate!)

Birth of Child: Funeral Song - Rasmus (what a shame this didn’t come up for the last song)

Wedding: Macy’s Day Parade - Green Day

Final Battle: Ta-Gana/Saturday Night from 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack

Funeral Song: Cry me a River - Justin Timberlake (I shit you not!)

End Credits: Anything but Ordinary - Avril Lavigne (how apt)

So, not as embarrassing as it could be. Did I dodged the Fame bullet, at least. What about your soundtrack?