This song, along with its brethren on the City of God soundtrack, represent the most exotic music in my library.
I’ve never been into “world music,” though I certainly appreciate it in its Americanized form thanks to Paul Simon, David Byrne and others. The only foreign language artist I listen to is Shakira, and that was more a happy accident than anything.
No, my music collection is pretty much an Anglo affair.
By some measures, this is the first proper James Taylor post on this blog.
I’ve posted three tracks featuring Taylor over the past five years, but each earns as asterisk.
The one Taylor original, ‘Mexico,’ was posted without comment during one of my vacations. ‘Our Town‘ is a Randy Newman Pixar tune that Taylor performed (beautifully) for the movie Cars.
I don’t know if Sting qualifies as a guilty pleasure, but I find myself a little embarrassed to post one of his songs.
I think a lot of people dislike Sting because of his music, while I generally like his music but dislike him for his personality.
His solo career from the mid-80s to early 90s was rock solid, not to mention his best work with The Police. After that it was pretty much all downhill. He certainly didn’t do himself any favors with that lute album.
I’m not sure how much I can really say about a two and a half minute instrumental track from an album of Belle and Sebastian b-sides.
This song has that familiar surf rock sound, which I like. It conjures up a modern western vibe, memorably tapped into by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction.
The nicest thing about Random Weekends is that they often reveal hidden gems within my music collection — songs I didn’t even know I had.
Take today’s SOTD, a deep cut on Ben Folds’ Best Imitation of Myself retrospective collection — which makes it a deep cut on an album of deep cuts.
Meet Me In Montauk 