MICHAEL MOORE, what's on yr walkman?

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The new Bad Religion album!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

every dead kennedys song ever

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

uh, there's a list of the music he listens to in the back of "Dude, Where's My Country". My copy isn't handy or else I'd type it out. It's not very impressive. I remember Alanis, Springsteen, Dixie Chicks...stuff like that.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

he's not down with teh nuge though, right?

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, i don't think so. I'm looking for that fucking book right now. It's in a box somewhere. grrrrr....

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, found it. In the very last box I checked. Figures.
ahem:
I'd like to thank the musicians whose music I listened to while writing this book: Bruce, the Dixie Chicks, Patty Griffin, U2, Madonna, Alanis, Kasey Chambers, Steve Earle, Iris Dement, Nancy Griffith, Warren Zevon, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Audioslave, and the Pretenders. It helps to write to a good beat.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i knew he would be into zevon. who is kasey chambers?

― duke envoy, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

He's up for some KoRn, if memory serves.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

so, unsurprisingly, liberal dad music.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

In 2000, Kasey Chambers emerged as Australia's first successful country-to-rock crossover female singer. It was just the latest chapter in a unique 25-year life journey.
In 1976, hoping to earn a living hunting foxes, Bill and Diane Chambers took their two-year-old son Nash and newborn daughter Kasey into the 100,000 square mile (260,000 square km) sparsely vegetated and generally flat plateau called the Nullarbor Plain. The family would spend seven or eight months of the year on the Nullarbor, resupplying themselves from the world's longest stretch of straight railroad track, 330 miles (530 km), running through the Nullarbor. The rest of the year, the hot months, the family spent at a small South Australian fishing village. Each night out on the Nullarbor, after a day's hunting, the family would camp in a different spot on that vast Australian landmark and, grabbing his guitar, Bill Chambers and his wife Diane passed on their love of country music, by the glow of the campfire, under the stars. This is how Kasey Chambers spent the first nine years of her life.
In 1986, the family returned to "civilization" so that Bill and Diane could pick up interrupted music careers. First, Kasey joined them as lead singer, then brother Nash, and they became known as the Dead Ringer Band . By 1992, the family had become full-time musicians, playing to city audiences as well as heading back out into the countryside, pulling a small trailer behind their Toyota Land Cruiser.
During the '90s, the Dead Ringer Band members, known as performers of quality country music, released seven CDs and collectively earned two ARIA's (Australian Grammys) and seven Gold Guitars at the annual Australian Country Music awards in Tamworth. Kasey was the face of the new generation in Australian country. She appeared at Tamworth dressed as a spice girl, wearing a nose ring, and posed nude for a country music magazine (walking down the streets of a deserted country town with brother Nash).
In 1998, Chamber's world was turned upside down with the separation of her parents, with mother Diane choosing to go and live in distant Norfolk Island, two-and-a-half hours by plane off the Australian coast. Chambers started putting her feelings into songs, and over a few weeks during July and August 1998, Kasey Chambers recorded her solo album The Captain on Norfolk Island. With brother Nash Chambers acting as producer, Kasey and her musicians set up in an old homestead on the island and practically recorded the album live. Father Bill was on hand to play guitar. Country legends Buddy and Julie Miller added voices and guitar to four tracks afterwards in Nashville.

Released in May 1999, the album The Captain initially won Kasey the 1999 ARIA award for Best Country album and at the 2000 awards named her Best Female Artist. With double-platinum sales at home in Australia, Kasey spent the latter part of 2000 following up enthusiastic reviews for her album internationally. She also spent time touring the U.S. with Lucinda Williams and playing gigs in her native land with Emmylou Harris . She was in the studio as well. With her brother Nash at the production board, Kasey Chambers delivered another sonic beauty with 2002's Barricades and Brick Walls .

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Her records get **** and *** on AMG. She just released a new one not yet rated. I hadn't heard of her either.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Moorcock (Hawkwind etc.)

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

where's jackson browne in there, or santana?

― duke gifford, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

and i mean new santana with the stipulation "i've been listening to him for years"

― duke office, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I sooooooo wish he woulda had the same list but with Jandek casually thrown in there.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's Bruce? I'm guessing it's Bruce Springsteen judging by that list of MOR acts, but it'd be cool if it was North American (I think) punk band The Bruces.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe he's into Bruce LaBruce.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

PRML SCRM - XTRMNTR

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

bruce forsyth.

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The soundtrack to 'Big Fat Liar'?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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Dude's from Flint, he HAS to dig the Nuge. Prolly Seger, too.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Chambers last album had some good songs - S: "Barricades & Brickwalls" "Not Pretty Enough"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Moore's music taste is terrible. I guess his enjoyment of hunting animals means no Smtihs?

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"[Moore and his future wife Kathleen] talked about their mutual love of Bruce Springsteen. They loved Springsteen so much that sometimes they would go to his concerts even though neither of them had a ticket. â€œWe just wanted to stand outside and hear whatever we could through the walls,â€? she says. â€œJust go soak up the karma.â€?

[The New Yorker, 2/16-2/23/04

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, didn't he direct a video for System of a Down?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

He did one for Rage Against The Machine, I know that.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Bowling For Columbine end with Joey Ramone's "What a Wonderful World"?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Not sure if I read it here, (actually I'm pretty sure it was somewhere else) anyway, he's doing a video for the rerelease of Rockin in the Freeworld which ends the new movie.

― danh (danh), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Public Enemy '911 Is A Joke'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread has gone on way too many posts without mentioning his favorite home town heroes:

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD!

Rick Neilsen from Cheap Trick also shows up in Bowling for Colombine.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

He also recruited the Meat Puppets to play for 'Corp-Aid' in an episode of TV Nation. Whether he is actually a fan of their music or not I don't know.

― pop-kid (pop-kid), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember there being one song I really liked in F911 ??

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone likes springsteen, though. my friend has some kind of "springsteen reader" with a foreword by martin scorsese. (does scorsese just sit around all day writing forwards, between movie projects that is? i swear he's written like 1,500 forewords.)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel like scorses is going to expend his prestige value if he starts writing forewords for books about hair gel and stuff.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Rick Neilsen was in The Big One.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel like scorses is going to expend his prestige value if he starts writing forewords for books about hair gel and stuff.

...and parodying himself in Albert Brooks' lesser films.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Moore and REM have a sort of mutual admiration society going. He directed a video for "All the Way to Reno" and uses their songs in both COLUMBINE (an instrumental snippet from "How the West Was Won") and F 9/11 ("Shiny Happy People"); Stipe occasionally plugs his books in stage banter.

On another note, Moore's interview with Manson was the highlight of Columbine. I remember my friend's father, a Yale professor, completely floored by Manson's eloquence (he expected a mush-mouthed Ozzy figure).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Shiny Happy People

god the use of that song in his film was stupid to begin with, and really really overstayed its welcome. i wouldn't mind the lack of subtlety if he had some really good point to make, but it was just pointless ridicule.

manson's comments in "columbine" seemed really "prepared" and self-serving and smug to me.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Minutemen

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

least fave band: Bush

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like the majority of the songs he used in Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, although it would have been slightly cooler if he'd obtained the version of "Rockin In The Free World" that Neil Young did with Pearl Jam.

I've been a lot more into 'The White Album' in the past 2 years, and oddly, I'm pretty sure this is due to the usage of "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" in Bowling. And I'm still shocked that he was able to get the rights to the original version of this song.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

his use of songs often reminds me of the use of songs on those npr shows, where all you need is some vague corrspondence between the subject under discussion and one line (preferably the hook) in a song. just a pet peeve of mine.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Which version of Rockin in the Freeworld does he use? Acoustic or electric?

― danh (danh), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

electric

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

And I'm still shocked that he was able to get the rights to the original version of this song.

I'm not sure who owns the rights to this now, but if Ono or McCartney had any say in it, I'm sure they would have gladly given permission considering Lennon's murder.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Jackson owns the rights to the Beatles catalog, right?

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the Beatles catalog is split between Sony and Jacko.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be hysterical if he was into Bruce LaBruce...

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)

it sounded like a live version of the electric rockin in the free world, if i'm not mistaken.

and michael jackson co-owns the beatles' publishing, along with sony, but he doesn't own the masters. which means he can't authorize usage of the original recordings.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread has gone on way too many posts without mentioning his favorite home town heroes:

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD!

Moore was interviewed for the Grand Funk Railroad episode of Behind The Music

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

bowling for columbines title music was Take the Skinheads Bowling by Camper Van Beethoven

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

right! see, perfect example: it's a song with "bowling" in the title. it has nothing to do with anything in the film, otherwise.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Youngbloods, "Get Together"

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that song

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

In 2000, Kasey Chambers emerged as Australia's first successful country-to-rock crossover female singer. It was just the latest chapter in a unique 25-year life journey.

" . . . the entirety of which has taken place in an alternate universe where nobody ever heard of Olivia Newton-John."

Re: The Beatles' catalog, Jacko and Sony only have song publishing rights. Rights to the recordings have to come from the band and Capitol Records.

― phil dennison, Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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