New Orleans, what's on yr walkman/iPod?

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"Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

this thread is in bad taste.

"rock you like a hurricane"

― ldasajd sfdl;, Monday, 29 August 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Rebirth Brass Band, "You Don't Wanna Go To War" (based on the brass band tune "Hurricane Jorge")

Rebirth Brass Band, "Roll With It"

Lil' Rascals Brass Band, "I'll Fly Away"

Louis Armstrong, "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

this thread is in bad taste.

Sorry. :( I thought these threads were supposed to be!

Please ignore if this is too distasteful.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 August 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

The Tragically Hip - "New Orleans Is Sinking"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Bob Mould "Black Sheets Of Rain"

Pixies "Wave Of Mutilation"

Anything by 50 Foot Wave

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Fretblanket "Into The Ocean"
Jimi Tenor "Total Devistation"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Eddie Rabbitt, "I Love a Rainy Night"

The Doors, "Riders on the Storm"

Hurricane Smith, "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say"

Broooce, It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" (for the football team)

― Joe McCombs, Monday, 29 August 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

The Tragically Hip - "New Orleans Is Sinking"

The Automated Canadian Response (TM). I've got nothing to say now.

I haven't listened to the radio during the last couple of days, but I've been wondering whether any stations had the balls (and lack of sensitivity, particularly when people were forecasting that 90% of the city could be completely destroyed and covered in 9m of water) to play this. Anybody?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

For the non-Canadians reading this, The Tragically Hip are a staple of Canadian rock radio (we're talking Led Zeppelin on the 70's and 80's FM rock dial, more or less) and "New Orleans Is Sinking" has been in constant heavy rotation for nearly 20 years. To NOT hear this song on the radio a billion times per year would be unusual here.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

From what I've heard, they dodged a huge, huge bullet. It wasn't as catastrophic as they feared, thank God. Therefore:

You Got Lucky: Tom Petty

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Jars of Clay, "Flood"

and a big DAMN YOUR EYES to CMJ for slipping at least one Christian rock song into my consciousness back in the back-when.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Versions of "City Of New Orleans" by Arlo Guthrie, Willie Nelson and David Hasselhoff.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks

― Jamey Lewis (Jameys Burning), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

"Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Nina Nastasia, "Stormy Weather"

― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

Milli Vanilli "Blame It On The Rain"

― Bruce S. Urquhart (BanjoMania), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

B*Witched - Blame It On The Weatherman
MSPs - Tsunami
also Here Comes The Flood

― Mippy (Mippy), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

Smoke City- Underwater Love

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I'd completely forgotten the existence of that song until then....

― Mippy (Mippy), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Is there a storm coming or are we just another shower
Is this a storm warning
Has someone just cut the power, is there a storm coming
Or are we just another shower
Is there a storm coming, coming, coming.

I Am Kloot - Storm Warning

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Peter Gabriel / Robert Fripp - "Here Comes The Flood"
Husker Du - "Dead Set On Destruction"
Honolulu Mountain Daffodils - "Hurricane Marilyn"
Bardo Pond - "Do The Flood"
Talk Talk - "After The Flood"
Duran Duran - "Hold Back The Rain"
Spectrum - "Sounds For A Thunderstorm"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

CCR - 'who'll stop the rain'
the beach boys - 'surf's up'
neil young - 'like a hurricane'

― 6335, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

From what I've heard, they dodged a huge, huge bullet. It wasn't as catastrophic as they feared, thank God.

Revise that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Speedstar - New Orleans Funeral No. 1
Electric 6 - Rock 'n' Roll Evacuation

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

god forgive me ...

"nightswimming," REM
"i sing rain," gary numan
"a hard rain's gonna fall," "hurricane," and "shelter from the storm," bob dylan

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

since i'm now going to hell, what the fuck:

"who'll stop the rain" and "have you ever seen the rain?," creedence clearwater revival
"rain," the cult
"who'll stop the rain," heaven 17
"dirty water," the standells

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

http://homepage.mac.com/apulrang/artwork/they_might_be_giants/flood.jpg

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Gregory D - Throwdown

― pappawheelie II, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000024VSO.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LTW.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

John's got a flotation device.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Eurythmics "Here Comes The Rain Again"

― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Pixies "Stormy Weather"

― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

"Dodged a bullet": N.O. is now 80% submerged, last I heard. Superdome is filling up, conditions there deteriorating, and "they can't or shouldn't come back for weeks, maybe months, and won't have anything to come back to," says official of most homeowners. MS coastal cities torn to shit; some Al GA areas too. "My City Was Gone."

― don, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Donovan - "Atlantis"

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

"It's raining men"

― ryansf (ryansf), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

"Float On" (either version)

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Louisiana 1927, Randy Newman.

What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and it rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has done
To this poor crackers land."

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Obviously my dodged a bullet comment was premature.

Sadly, the song is When the Levee Breaks

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

-- don (dmxz...), August 30th, 2005 5:58 PM.

GA = Georgia? Alabama I can understand, and parts of the Florida Panhandle, but there's no coastal Georgia on the Gulf. and the parts of GA that face that direction are pretty far from anything to do with all of this... (i ask this as a GA Native now living in Florida) Did something in SW GA like Albany get hit with floods?

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

The Sisters of Mercy, Floodland, obviously.

― Telephonething etc, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Some mention on CNN crawl of K-related hits on Georgia coastline, and also tornadoes, but got lost in flood of data, and I haven't had time to google

― don, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

There was a tornado near Bainbridge and the western part of the state got rained on, but not much else in Georgia.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Maid of Orleans" (VERY loose connection, but it's been stuck in my head since before landfall)

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of society's derangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Bob Dylan - "High Water (For Charley Patton)"

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Cash - "Five Feet High and Rising"

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

"Stormy", as covered by The Meters.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

'lost in the flood' - broooooce

― bandied bottleneck, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

There were several tornadoes in Georgia. I recall CNN footage of some of the pretty German buildings in Helen in shambles :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

More Bob Dylan! - "Buckets of Rain"

― davidc (davidc), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe no one's mentioned:

"Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)" - Dylan

"After the Flood" - Lone Justice

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 1 September 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

"who'd stop the rain" dressy bessy
"the drowners" suede
"so much water" m.ward

― [email protected], Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

"It couldn't happen here" - Pet Shop Boys, kinda relevent

― ryansf (ryansf), Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

mobb deep - the start of your ending
mobb deep - hell on earth
mobb deep - trife life
mobb deep - more trife life
mobb deep - survival of the fittest
mobb deep - party over

― rvssignon, Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

>I haven't listened to the radio during the last couple of days, but
>I've been wondering whether any stations had the balls (and lack of
>sensitivity, particularly when people were forecasting that 90% of
>the city could be completely destroyed and covered in 9m of water) to
>play [New Orleans is Sinking]. Anybody?

From what I can see, 10 commercial U.S. stations spun it this past
week a total of 15 times. Only 4 of these stations spun it the
previous week.

Canadian stations spinning it tended strongly to have already had it
in rotation, though they too showed an increase.

― 973rd Convolution (973rdConvolution), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

Fats Domino "When My Dreamboat Comes Home"

― 973rd Convolution (973rdConvolution), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/01/katrina.fats.domino/vert.domino.tp.jpg

― 973rd Convolution (973rdConvolution), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

Canadian stations spinning it tended strongly to have already had it
in rotation, though they too showed an increase.

I know one of the rock stations here in the T-dot has taken the song out of rotation. And I have not heard the song since the disaster began. I'm surprised, if what you say is true, that the song's been getting played more often.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Since I'm here...

"Help" - The Beatles
"Dam That River" - Alice In Chains

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

get me off - basement jaxx

― gem (trisk), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

and six months in a leaky boat by split enz

― gem (trisk), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

Dead Kennedys- Kill The Poor

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 2 September 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Agreed, Thermo. I got lazy there and will be more specific. Note that the weekly cutoffs I'm looking at are not ideal for the discussion: they run Thursday to Wednesday.

I'm seeing for Canada:
81 spins from 37 stations through 8/24 became 101 spins from 36 stations through 8/31. Two of the 36 did not spin it the previous period, so three stations on my list appear to have pulled it very preemptively.

Surely any increase in plays would be from early in the period, before it was known to be a full-blown tragedy. Next week's numbers should show the expected nosedive.

This would be a lot more instructive with dailies (and a more comprehensive station list) but I gets what I gets.

― 973rd Convolution (973rdConvolution), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

"Dry Kids" by Embrace.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Louis Jordan - "Saturday Night Fish Fry" (takes place in N'awlins according to the opening line)

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

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