Music Meme
Mar. 11th, 2009 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3A meme, as far as I can see, is to come up with five songs which begin with a specified letter and fit a theme - both supplied by Amelia_Eve, in this case, Travel and the Letter R....
Rain Dogs by Tom Waits, is an instrumental, but is introduced by a marvelous story - which is that when it rains, really rains, all the scents that dogs have laid down on fences and walls and lamp posts get washed away, and that dogs who are out of their normal neighbourhoods can be seen wandering around, trying and failing to find there way home. My best sort of travel happens that way, when I am a raindog too.
The Rattler, by Goodbye Mister Mackenzie: The Rattler of the title must be another raindog. It's a great song about being rootless and free, and slips on to the car stereo when I set out on long journeys - "I can help get your feet out of that clay, but I can't take you all the way."
Route 66, by The Rolling Stones, is making me realise how much these songs are about travelling by car. I suppose that's not too surprising - I like to be in control of my own destiny when I'm travelling, and there's something about driving that fits the bill. Some of my favourite holidays involved a shit-load of driving - from Orlando to Key West, from San Francisco to Las Vegas, from Glasgow to the Dordogne. Is it surprising that I'm thinking of driving to Africa with my son this summer?
Running on Empty, Jackson Browne, well, maybe not too much to do with travelling, but a lot to do with the feeling I get when I haven't travelled far enough, or I've travelled too far.
Rotterdam (or Anywhere) - I've taken at least two holidays I can think of to get away from women. Neither worked. "Cos Rotterdam is anywhere, anywhere but here..."
Anyone else want a go?
Rain Dogs by Tom Waits, is an instrumental, but is introduced by a marvelous story - which is that when it rains, really rains, all the scents that dogs have laid down on fences and walls and lamp posts get washed away, and that dogs who are out of their normal neighbourhoods can be seen wandering around, trying and failing to find there way home. My best sort of travel happens that way, when I am a raindog too.
The Rattler, by Goodbye Mister Mackenzie: The Rattler of the title must be another raindog. It's a great song about being rootless and free, and slips on to the car stereo when I set out on long journeys - "I can help get your feet out of that clay, but I can't take you all the way."
Route 66, by The Rolling Stones, is making me realise how much these songs are about travelling by car. I suppose that's not too surprising - I like to be in control of my own destiny when I'm travelling, and there's something about driving that fits the bill. Some of my favourite holidays involved a shit-load of driving - from Orlando to Key West, from San Francisco to Las Vegas, from Glasgow to the Dordogne. Is it surprising that I'm thinking of driving to Africa with my son this summer?
Running on Empty, Jackson Browne, well, maybe not too much to do with travelling, but a lot to do with the feeling I get when I haven't travelled far enough, or I've travelled too far.
Rotterdam (or Anywhere) - I've taken at least two holidays I can think of to get away from women. Neither worked. "Cos Rotterdam is anywhere, anywhere but here..."
Anyone else want a go?
