Dedicated to Delusion

Here's a nickel for your time and a dollar for your dime ...

(The idea here, generally, is an alphabetical list of songs from my iTunes collection. Feel free to compare and contrast with your own list from the same alphabetical range and to let me know, in comments, what's missing. The list below, for example, does not include "Dedicated to the One I Love," by The Mamas and the Papas. You might point out this omission, prompting someone else to chime in arguing for the superiority of The Shirelles' original. That sort of thing.)

"Dedicated Follower of Fashion," The Kinks
"Deep," Adam Again*
"Deep Blue Sea," Dan Rossen
"Deep Dark Truthful Mirror," Elvis Costello
"Deep End," The 77s
"Deep End," Vigilantes of Love
"Deeper Shade of Soul," Urban Dance Squad
"Delirious," Prince
"Deliver Me," Sonia Dada
"Deliver Me (Slight Return)," Sonia Dada
"Delusion," Huffamoose

* From a 2000 tribute to the late, great Gene Eugene. (I'm in that tent, somewhere.) That's Mike Roe singing Gene's part, which kind of works out, since I couldn't find a video link for his band (The 77s).

Comments

[cjmr's husband]

Welll, what's missing on my iTunes is absolutely every song ever written with a title in between those two words.

So here's a shout out to After the Fire for "Der Kommissar".

[patter]

[in best Homer imitation] Mmmmmmm....VOL....

[curmudgeon]

Alrighty -

Dedicated to Delta Lady

Well, as you mentioned, there are (in my Itunes, anyway)
"Dedicated To The One I Love" - The Mamas and The Papas
AND
"Dedicated To The One I Love" - The Shirelles

But past that there are also:
"Dedicated To You" - John Coltrane
"Dedication" - The Beastie Boys
"'Deed I Do" - Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie
"Deep Blue" - George Harrison
"Deep Blue Heart" - John Mellencamp
"Deep Channel" - Afro Celt Sound System
"Deep Down In My Heart" - Richard X. Heyman
"Deep In A Dream" - Frank Sinatra
"Deep Red Bells" - Neko Case
"Deeper Well" - Emmylou Harris
"Defying Gravity" - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
"Deja Vu" - Crosby Stills Nash & Young
"Delia" - Dave Alvin
"Delicate" - Damien Rice
"Delilah" - Marshall Crenshaw
"Delilah" - Tom Jones
"Delta (Little Boy Blues)" - Badly Drawn Boy
"Delta Lady" - Joe Cocker
"Delta Lady" - Leon Russell

[cjmr]

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Several 'dea' songs and a few 'des' songs, but no 'ded' through 'del'.

*sigh*

[cjmr]

Oh wait! Does "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (the Police) count?

[curmudgeon]

Oh, and I forgot to mention I also have "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion"...

[wanderingoutlaw]

"Delia" - Bob Dylan
"Delia's Gone" - Roger McGuinn
"Deliver Us" - Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet

[Geds]

"Deep Cut," Local H.

Although I somehow doubt that the H is the sort of outfit that most of my fellow Slacktivites would listen to. And I wouldn't suggest "Deep Cut" as a starting point, anyway.

[Kevin]

Hmm, almost nothing in that range:

Deep -- Perl Jam
Delicate Few -- O.A.R (which is one of those bands that sounds about one million times better live than in a studio)

[hapax]

I got nothin.'

Obviously, I need a new iPod.

[Geds]

Kevin: As a collector of Pearl Jam bootlegs (apparently I have nothing with "Deep" loaded on to my Zen Vision:W at the moment, though. Odd), I'd say the same thing about them as you did about OAR. I can't even listen to their studio stuff any more...

[coriolis]

"Dedicated to Delusion"
I came here hoping for Fred's take on the Bush speach. At first I was disappointed, but now I wonder if this is your response.

[cminus]

"Deep," Danzig
"Deep," Pearl Jam
"Deep Blue Day," Brian Eno
"Deep Inside My Heart," Randy Meissner
"Deep Inside Of You," Third Eye Blind
"Defeat You," Smash Mouth
"Degradation," Violent Femmes
"Deja Vu," Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
"Deja Vu (All Over Again)," John Fogerty
"Del Rio's Song," Blue Oyster Cult
"Delia," Bob Dylan
"Delia's Gone," Johnny Cash
"Deliver Me," INXS

Wow, that's a fairly weak lineup, including no few "what the heck am I doing with this song?" choices and several atypical and/or sub-par efforts from acts I'd normally feel no compunction about recommending.

The best song is "Del Rio's Song," assuming you like the idea of a heavy metal concept album about how World War I was the result of an Aztec revenge curse, and even then it's not the best song on the album. The Fogerty, Dylan and INXS cuts are also worth considering, and are more accessible to boot.

[Joshua]

I was gonna give a shout out to Neko's "Deep Red Bells", but I see I've been beaten to that.

I will point out, however, that it appears twice on my iPod. Once off Blacklisted and one live version from the CD of her concert at Austin City Limits a couple of years back.

I also have YouTube on my side, so there.

The only other songs I have in this range are Goldfrapp's "Deer Stop", which is only so-so, and a couple of soundtrack pieces: "deeper than words" from Samurai Champloo and "Defense" and "Defend the Base" from some or other of the Command & Conquer games.

[Cary Bleasdale]

Hey, I'm a LTROP (Long time reader, occasional poster.)
First time I've ever commmented on one of these posts though.

Deh! Vieni alla finestra-Mozart's "Don Giovanni"

Del Salle-Django Reinhardt

Completely unevocative of my usual listening, but interesting nonetheless.

[wintermute]

The Deep Space Nine theme, as performed by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Defiled - New Bomb Turks
The Delinquent Song - Voodoo Glow Skulls (2 versions)
Delta Lady - Joe Cocker
Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp (Chemical Brothers Remix) - Mercury Rev
The Deeper the Love - Whitesnake

[Mark]

The Deepest Blues Are Black - Foo Fighters
Default This - 65daysofstatic

[Kevin]

Geds

I've never heard them live, except for a piece on the Springsteen concert from 2004. Any recommendations for live disks from them?

[Geds]

Kevin:

Wow. Most people don't give me openings like that...

Just to get this out of the way, Pearl Jam released every single show they did in on tour 2000 and 2003 on CD and sold them as limited editions in cardboard sleeves. If you want to find them on Amazon or whatever, you're probably fine entering "pearl jam [city name]"

Anyway, Live on Two Legs is a fairly standard live CD which is readily available. It's got some pretty good versions of There are also a half-dozen shows from 2003 that they released to the general population. The two New York shows are good (I prefer 7/8/03, but you can get them both packaged together) and the Mansfield, MA show is cool, mostly because there's an acoustic set on it.

My favorite bootleg is Pittsburgh, PA from 2000 and my second favorite is St. Louis from 2000. But I just discovered those are selling on Amazon for $60 and $35 respectively (I found them at used CD stores and didn't pay anywhere close to that), so you might not want to go there. San Sebastian is a great show, too. It was probably my favorite before I found Pittsburgh and St. Louis and it has one of the better Eddie Vedder rambles.

[Geds]

Oops, forgot to mention that the 2003 shows I mentioned and Live on Two Legs are usually available at Best Buy/Circuit City/Fry's/Wal-Mart/whatever...

[spinetingler]

>So here's a shout out to After the Fire for "Der Kommissar".

whose lead singer is now a Episcopal music worship leader in Charleston, SC.

[spinetingler]

Any day that has a shout-out to the 77's is off to a good start.

[Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little]

"Delete," Stromkern, Light It Up

Got introduced to this band when my husband took me to a Front Line Assembly concert. I don't much care for FLA but I was willing to try them live just to make sure. Still didn't much care for them. But Stromkern were the second opening act and they grabbed my by the nape from the first note and I couldn't stop stomping until the last.

I think my taste for Industrial-esque music depends on whether there's a discernable melody. FLA don't seem to do melody. Stromkern do melody and harmony. And piano. Along with the noisy stompin' stuff. I think there's probably a kitchen sink in there.

My only complaint with the album would be that the fabricated anti-Iraq-war Bush speech at the beginning of "Reminders" gets old after listening to the album repeatedly. My WMP playlist instead grabs a tasty remix, sans speech, from the EP.

[Reverend Ref]

Hmmm .... I don't own an iPod, nor would I even know how to operate one (I've been told I'm borderline Luddite, but that's another story).

However, looking through that list, how about "Deep" by The Moody Blues?

[hilker]

"Dedicated VIP," Treva Whateva
"Deep Space 9," Galaxy 2 Galaxy
"Def by a Thousand Kutz," Danny Breaks
"Delta Phase," Global Communication

[Chris Koeberle]

67 tracks for this one, but not much to say about them.

"Deep Down Trauma Hounds", Skinny Puppy (Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate is a great album)
"Deep Forest", Deep Forest
"Deep in the Sweet Water (Joseph Bishara remix)", Rasputina
"Deep Silent Complete", Nightwish
"Deeper and Deeper", Fucoza
"Defense of the Wicked", God's Little Monkeys
"Deity", Ministry (In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up is also a great album)

[Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little]

>> So here's a shout out to After the Fire for "Der Kommissar".

> whose lead singer is now a Episcopal music worship leader in Charleston, SC.

Seem ironic that After the Fire, being a Christian music group, never really got much attention except as a one-hit wonder with a Falco cover that isn't remotely religious. Decent English adaptation they did of the original German, though.

(flashbackradio.com has both versions in their repertoire. Sign up today and do the online request thing!)

[Kevin]

Geds

Cool, thanks for the titles. Pearl Jam was big when I wa s apoor college student, so seeing them live was out of my reach at the time. Fortunately, I was in Chicago, so I got to see people like the Pumpkins and the Jesus Lizzard play in front of 200 in little clubs all over the city ...

[Geds]

You don't have to tell me about the Chicago music scene. I'm still catching every Local H show I can in the city and the suburbs. I've seem them at least five times since '03. You can have the Pumpkins, I'll take the H...

[rev]

To start, I'll echo Cary as a LTROP... but I just couldn't let Geds' Local H comment pass. I definitely like those guys, plus they are a Chicago band and, in the immortal words of David Puddy, "gotta support the team!" Only saw them live once, opening for the now infamous Creed show wherein Stapp absolutely destroyed the Unintentional Comedy Scale. Couldn't believe people sued over that show - how could you not be entertained by that?! It was well worth the price of admission.
Anyway, Local H is likable even if only for giving me a vehicle for introducing my kids to the word "copasetic" (on their only real radio hit that I'm aware of, "Bound for the Floor"). And even though I suppose it is sophomoric humor, "California Songs" still makes me laugh. But really, come on, who *isn't* sick of California Songs? Plus most of their stuff just rocks which makes for good work out music. And haven't you always wondered, somewhere in the back of your mind, just whatever did happen to P.J. Soles? I know I have.

PS Eff New York, too!

[Linkmeister]

The Gershwin's "Delishious;" that's it.

[Kevin]

Geds

Local H was slightly after my time. I don't remembering hearing about them until right before I left for Memphis, around 96-97. Never got to see them live. And the Pumpkins were a great live band: strip away Corrigan's studio work and they had a great, powerful, raw sound before they hit it big.

[Todd Larason]

Just some highlights this week -- the range includes both "deep" and "defecate" and I'm not sure how much psychoanalysis material I want to supply.

"Dedicated to the Right Wingers", Ed O.G. & Da Bulldogs -- from a late-80s anti-censorship CD "Say What U Want"; doubt I've listened to it in the last 10 years, but the title sounds promising
"Deep Sea Diving Suit", Magnetic Fields -- from "Holiday", their/his least interesting album. "69 Love Songs" is well worth a listen though.
"Defenders of Marriage", Roy Zimmerman -- excellent; at his best, the closest to a currently-working Tom Lehrer I know of
"Degradation", Violent Femmes -- only a completist needs this, but I'm going to keep listing VF material until I see evidence that the massive hole has been filled partially filled in.
"Delilah", Dresden Dolls -- not their best song, but from a fabulous album
"Deliver", Johnette Napolitano -- from her solo "Sound of a Woman" album

[Chris]

Several "Deep..." songs, some are repeats of those already listed.
"Deed is Done" Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds
"Deep" Pearl Jam
"Deep Around Me" Huckleberry
"Deep Enough To Dream" Chris Rice
"Deep Folk Song" Deep Forest
"Deep Red Balls" Neko Case
"Deep See Diver" Grizzly Bear
"Deeper Into Movies" Yo La Tengo
"Deeper Than Love" Antony and the Johnsons
"Deepest Blues Are Black, The" Foo Fighters
"Deeply Buried" The Microphones
"Dejame Vivir" Julie Rufino
"Dela Dela" Sacred Spirit
"Delirium" Owusu and Hannibal
"Deliver Me" Sarah Brightman
"Delta" Beulah
"Deluca" Flake Music

[Jeff]

Both slightly off-topic but fun songs:

"Dance Me a Number" -- The Steepwater Band
"The Denial Song" -- Chris Knox

Pandora station (hopefully).

[borealys]

Deep in It - St Germain
Deeper - Econoline Crush
Deliver Me - Starling
Deliver Yr Desire - C'mon
Delusional - Starling

Okay, the last one is pushing the guidelines a smidge, but it's just too charmingly angsty not to include.

If I could recommend just one artist from this list? St Germain.