Quickly now- let's have another brief blast from the most recent mix, which includes the song below.
Turns out this was in Kill Bill:
do not recall.
I of course did not pinch my version from some Quentin Tarantino-sanctioned mix.
I do the sanctioning around here, thanks.
Instead, I found this song by what you might call the "lost-wax casting method". That is the "method" whereby one seeks records, sees records, and gets divinely inspired to snap some particular one up. In this case, inspiration struck because of this fairly intriguing record cover.
Will it be Canticles for Catholics? (Santa = Saint)
Cha-Cha, or (Two-to-) Tango?
Spanish Goth for Goya fans? (check the "Castlevania" style font)
Erotic fiction en Espagnol?
More apt pictures, here:
I think this song may have launched Ruth and I into a long little game: in which songs does the singer name herself/himself?
(An example: in "What My Woman Can't Do Can't Be Done" by Jerry Lee Lewis, he says, "If ever there's been a baby/ Jerry Lee has found him one")
No hip-hop obviously -that wouldn't be a challenging game- unless maybe you had to rap the line yourself, and actually do a decent job of it.
And since you are listening to the above song already, you probably can see the related event in that song. In probably the only lyrical derivation from the Animals' track (originally written for Nina Simone- who knew?),
a line is (for no clear reason) added: "Oh, Esmeralda". I imagine that is who he does not wish to be misunderstood by?
Anyhow, since he says "Esmeralda", and the band's name is "Santa Esmeralda", you know, it got me thinking.
Any other examples of singers naming themselves in lyrics; or saying their own band name in the lyrics? I won't say the ones we've already thought of- that way you can play the game too.
In the comments of course.
(you can still download the mix- a summery, disco-filled and disco-infused little scorcher, here- of course, it includes this song. Of Course!)
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From Facebook Friends, here are some songs in which the band/singer names themselves:
"But this is Phil talking": Human League (Phillip Oakey).
( and also, news from same friend- Nina was not pleased that the Animals got mad credit/fame from 'her' song:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/books/19book.html?_r=1 )
also from same: "Martin maybe one day you’ll find true love..." from ABC (Martin Fry).
And I thought up one recently too:
"Jonathan, Jonathan, / I wanna know something, / Well have you ever been to Bermuda?" / "Yeah, my band once played down there."
This is Jonathan Richman, and the first 3 lines are him speaking AS his friends, asking HIM a question, to which the last line is HIS response. So it takes the 'meta' nature of this game, and doubles it. Oh, that's right- we've hyper-meta'ed the internet!
We can refer to this as 'Meta-Beta'!
I also heard one on a chubby checker and Dee Dee Sharp song: "Hello, Goodbye". As the songs starts, he asks, "What time is it DeeDee"; she replies, "It's getting late, dear". And he whines, "But I don't waaaaanna go!" She then sternly shoots back: "It's time to go, Chubby."
HAHAHA!
the Cubby-DeeDee quotes are also meta-beta!
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