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| Stephen King? | | Date Created: Apr 24, 2005, 09:50 AM |
 I've enjoyed horror novelist Stephen King's column, The Pop of King, at the back of Entertainment Weekly for quite awhile now. Like Michael Medved, it turns out King has the time and inclination to explore a number of pop culture areas including movies, all kinds of books, and the entertainment industry. But music criticism and making CD's? That's treading into Dr. Reptile's territory.
Unfortunately since few have heard of Dr. Reptile and nearly everyone's heard of Stephen King or knows his books and the movies made of them -- kind of like Michael Crichton, I guess -- King can get away with this sort of thing. Seems his son and daughter-in-law taught him how to download music and burn CD's, and he's gone nuts with it, just giving away CD's just like Dr. Reptile!
So instead of including a CD with the special issue of Entertainment Weekly, which would have been nice, he has included the playlist of a CD he made with comments on the songs. It's even a theme CD of sorts. It's called "Steve King's 'Fate Songs' CD".
Dr. Reptile, of course, had to reproduce it. He had half of the fourteen songs on his hard drive and could easily download six of the rest. One had to be ordered as a used CD. There are some good choices in this list but the James McMurtry song is typical leftist tripe (and Dr. Reptile likes McMurtry). Musically they're all over the place and the theme doesn't exactly jump out at you. Dr. Reptile could definitely help with sequencing if not song selection. Maybe he should send King a Dr. Reptile's Greatest Hits Theme CD like TROUBLE.
Here's the list:
Dance With Me -- Michael McDermott
California Stars -- Billy Bragg & Wilco
To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) -- Ryan Adams
City of the Damned -- Gothic Archies
Castanets -- Alejandro Escovedo
Our Love -- Rhett Miller
Tell Mama -- Savoy Brown
Diamonds and Rust -- Judas Priest
Blue on Black -- Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Manifesto No. 1 -- Shooter Jennings
What I Got -- Sublime
Don't Leave Me This Way -- Thelma Houston
We Can't Make It Here -- James McMurtry
Yeah (Pretentious Mix) -- LCD Soundsystem |
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