I've DJ'd something like 50-60 weddings since 2013 or so and her cover of "Sea of Love" might be the most requested song for either a first dance or procession.
I have so many memories connected to this record. Two of note:
Me listening to it with my grandmother (who hates all music made after 1950) in the next room, and yelling out "is someone sick in there?!" when "Asleep From Day" was on.
Listening to this on the bus of my freshman year and this older bro-ey guy earnestly asking me about what I was listening to. I put the earphones on his head and put on "Music: Response" and his eyes totally lit up like "Whoa." I'd like to believe this changed something in him, but he probably then just went back to his Limp Bizkit CD shortly after.
urgh, didn't work. Whatever, it's the Upright Citizens Brigade episode where the John Denver Fanclub puts the word "nutsac" in place of every noun in his songs believing that's how they were originally written.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SwCW1FNXls
I've put this song on mixes for years and it sometimes gets a side-eye from people in the room and i'm like "YO how you gonna like early Wilco and not think this is a great song?!"
As much as I'm still amused by the Soy Bomb moment as it was, I really love Tom B's assessment of it from his Time Out of Mind piece...
"What strikes me is Dylan himself. Before Portnoy’s interruption, that had been a great Dylan performance — Dylan and his band all fully locked in, guitars quietly growling and purring, Dylan’s voice a rasping and decayed husk of the nasal twang that had helped make him famous a few decades earlier. And after Portnoy, it remained a great performance. Dylan didn’t react to the interruption at all. He didn’t stop singing or playing, and as security pulled Portnoy away, Dylan merely glanced at him, bored. This was nothing to Dylan. Dylan had already seen everything."
not to defend Sam Smith who will likely say something jerkface-ish if ever confronted with this, but I will also point out that Lana Del Rey's "Get Free" suffers from the same "Creep" problem, more so even in that she cops the melody as well.
urgh, only the second half of my comment posted.
Does anyone recall a video that the band posted on Dead Air Space a few months early that had little edit pieces of stuff from what turned out to be In Rainbows?
If I recall correctly, it had little edit snips of "Down is the New Up," "Faust Arp," "Bangers and Mash," Jigsaw Falling Into Place," and and I think "Nude."
I run an indie dance party in Brooklyn. It's called Young Adult Friction.
As for weddings, I tailor it to whatever the bride and groom likes, but most of my clients are people who want parties like YAF.
I DJ'd a wedding once that closed out with "All My Friends." The bride and groom's friends raised the two of them up on their shoulders and they crowd surfed across the dance floor. It's the pinnacle of my career.
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