A few years back, I went to see Aimee on the 4th July, at Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
Fabulously, she opened with this, a beautiful ballad featuring some excellent grammar in the chorus, and the lyric “and when they light up our town I just think what a waste of gunpowder and sky”.
Any other date specific songs/lyrics?
JustB says
This is the first Aimee Mann song I ever heard, and I’ve been enormously fond of her ever since. I heard it on a Q compilation in 1993, when I was 15. It also contained the following – a number of monstrously great tunes on here. And a few dodgy ones.
1 – U2 Numb 4:00
2 –Stereo MC’s Pressure 3:52
3 –Squeeze (2) Cold Shoulder 5:50
4 –Gin Blossoms Allison Road 3:21
5 –Aimee Mann 4th Of July 3:23
6 –Sting Love Is Stronger Than Justice 5:09
7 –Wonder Stuff, The Storm Drain 4:07
8 –Oleta Adams Hold Me A While 5:13
9 –World Party Sooner Or Later 4:37
10 –Grant Lee Buffalo Jupiter And Teardrop 6:00
11 –Bee Gees Haunted House 5:46
12 –Paul Rodgers Muddy Water Blues 4:50
13 –Coldcut Pearls Before Swine 5:02
14 –Robert Plant Down To The Sea 4:01
15 –Don McLean American Pie
SteveT says
Jupiter and Teardrop is tremendous.
Also love Squeeze but I do not recognise that song title at all.
JustB says
I’m not a massive Squeeze aficionado, so I only know that song because of this compilation. It’s a goody. Funny lyrics.
retropath2 says
Remember it well, as it was the first copy of Q I bought, bringing my Folk Roots years to an end, swiftly buying the Aimee Mann album on the strength, still a favourite
dai says
The Boss:
Independence Day (Van too)
4th of July, Asbury Park
retropath2 says
I think you’ll find the Van song is about the 3rd of July.
ivylander says
A collaboration between Neil Young and Burt Bacharach. Love this.
Iainiain says
The mighty Dave Alvin:-
davebigpicture says
Was that 2000 Bobness? We saw her there that year. The support was Mr Mann (Michael Penn) and they had a comedian too. High on my bucket list is to go to one of her Christmas shows in New York.
bobness says
Probably, certainly Mr Penn was there too. It feels like 5 or 6 years Ago, so 2000 is about right…!
deramdaze says
4/7/69 –
The release date of the last no. 1 single (their 8th) Rolling Stones had.
Still, if people think the Mick Taylor/Ronnie Wood stuff was better…..
Moose the Mooche says
Ahem.
Angie was number 1 in the USA, which I’m sure Mick’n’Keef regard as more important.
ruff-diamond says
As was Brown Sugar in 1971…
ruff-diamond says
Which I’ve just realised was not their last no. 1 – it was indeed Angie
deramdaze says
Ahem.
Nah.
4/7/69.
To deny it is to deny that Arsenal will finish 3rd.
You could, but it would be fruitless.
Moose the Mooche says
Ask the Rolling Stones what their last number one single was.
Fair enough, none of them will have a clue. Except Mick. And he will say Angie.
Moose the Mooche says
I assume you have personal access to them, like most people.
ruff-diamond says
It’s easier once you realise deram doesn’t recognise any music made after December 31st 1969…
deramdaze says
I don’t, you’re right, and the last Stones no. 1 was released in 1969.
The 4th July, 1969.
Of course, if the aim of the game is to sell the logo and the logo and the logo and the T-shirt and the baseball cap and the logo and to not have number one singles,…..oh, THAT Rolling Stones……how was I to know?!
adman says
Great tune.
Love Aimee.
Happy Good Riddance To The Colonials Day.
Sniffity says
But…but…July 4th, 1943…poor li’l Piglet on that barbed wire fence getting shot by the tower guards…it was tragic, I tells ya.
johnw says
There are predictably quite a few songs about few of them actually quote the date. It’s the same with christmas songs, we’re expected to know when the date is. Another along those lines is Summer The First Time, we know what day it’s set but the date isn’t mentioned. Ironically, the only date specific track I can think of is Hangover 1.1.83 by The (fabulous) Waitresses. It’s the B-side to Christmas Wrapping but the date doesn’t go further than the title because it’s an instrumental.
johnw says
OOps! the first sentence should read “There are predictably quite a few songs about Independence Day few of them actually quote the date.
retropath2 says
Gillian the sublime mentions the memorable date of 14/4 (or 4/14 in her numbers)
retropath2 says
10th of May?
Sniffity says
Bee Gees – First Of May
retropath2 says
And, of course, for Tiggs especially
Beany says
How about an excellent song for today?
Declan says
Anz self-respecting non-civilian should know the date mentioned in the first line of this Temptations nugget
paulspud says
April 5th – TalkTalk