Border Sounds
This is going to be my quickest blog posting ever, as the previous one took almost 3 hours. I'm super tired from staying up to watch the first half of the France match last night, which made it seem like the second half would be fine. It was not. Whoever put the hex on that team meant some serious business, and I'm not talking Italian football scandal business.
This playlist is for one of my students. On the first day of class, he said he likes to play the guitar. He even says he really loves country music! (Unfortunately, my Hank Williams collection, shallow though it is, is not with me here in Thailand.) It's the style of the guitar he enjoys about country - easygoing, good for pre-sleep music, he said. So I tried to track down my acoustic goods that might be similarly applicable.
1. "Good To See You" Neil Young
2. "Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key" Wilco & Billy Bragg
3. "Red River Valley" Woody Guthrie
4. "Seven Swans" Sufjan Stevens
5. "Hell Hound On My Trail" Robert Johnson
6. "Trouble" Ray LaMontagne
7. "Cruel War" Peter, Paul, and Mary
8. "Pink Moon" Nick Drake
9. "Winning A Battle, Losing The War" Kings of Convenience
10. "Heartbeats" Jose Gonzalez
11. "All My Trials" Joan Baez
12. "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" Jeff Buckley
13. "Brushfire Fairy Tales" Jack Johnson
14. "Sodom, South Georgia" Iron & Wine
15. "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. 1" The Flaming Lips
16. "Rose Parade" Elliott Smith
17. "Now That I Know" Devendra Banhart
18. "The Greatest" Cat Power
19. "My Back Pages" Dylan
There were actually no political considerations that went into this playlist. Hopefully he likes it. I hope all is well with y'all.
(Gratuitous Buddha tourism shot.)
posted by Soe Lin Aung at 7:15 AM
4 Comments:
The Promised Comment, with days to spare:
It seems that you are trying to somehow hipster-ize your music loving students while making sure that there is at least something of a background in music written before 1990. Or possibly you are the greatest teacher of all time. I will have to see a lesson plan before I come down on either side. Maybe next time try 'keep on rockin in the free world.' might resonate.
m.
ps- This comment likely lacks depth. I will try to build up to something better.
Here goes attempt two to make good on my promise.
Quite the playlist there. I see two possibilities for its existence. You are either attempting some sort of cultural colonization by exporting both hipsterness and reverence for Dylan or you are the official greatest teacher of all time. I will have to see a lesson plan before I decide which one is the case. Add keep on rocking in the free world to v2. Catchy beat, no political implications at all.
m.
ps- This post is likely intellectually shallow. Give me time and I will problematize any discourse beyond recognition.
(internet:1, me:1, you:0)
the idea of "lover you should've come over" being played in headset of a thai student blows my mind in the thomas friedman, "the world is flat" way.
Jack Johnson??? You've been away from pitchfork for too long.
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