Autographs from Atlantic City

Well now everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe ...

"Atlantic City," The Band
"Atlantic City," Bruce Springsteen
"Atomic Dog," George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
"Attagirl," Bettie Serveert
"Attractions," Charlie Sexton
"Auctioneer (Another Engine)," R.E.M.
"Audrey," Mike Roe
"Australia," The Shins
"Autograph," Green
"Autographs for the Sick," Daniel Amos

That Mike Roe track is from Demonstrations of Love, the benefit album Dwight Ozard put together for Prism magazine. Three years ago today, Dwight lost his battle with multiple myeloma and died at the too-young age of 43.

"Don't waste this thing," he said. "It's too good."

Comments

[lutton]

Did you know that Rob and Eric from The Hooters play on the Band's cover of "Atlantic City?"

[cjmr]

All I have is:

"At the Zoo" -- Simon and Garfunkel

and I'm not sure that's really in range.

[cjmr's husband]

"Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars" - "Weird Al" Yankovic

The cool thing about that title? There's only one planet anywhere near Mars, and we have hamsters here!

In other planetary news:
actual real genuine telescopic pictures of planets around another star!

Just a speck, of course, but it's still ZOMFG! time.

[victoria]

"Atomic Power" -- Uncle Tupelo
"Atrevido" -- Orishas
"Auf Achse" -- Franz Ferdinand
"Augusta, Angelica, E Consolação" -- Tom Zé
"Aunque Me Duela La Vida" -- Sidestepper
"Ausencia" -- Orishas

Orishas does a fusion of Cuban rhythms and melodies with hip hop, performed in Spanish, French, and bit of English by Cubans now living in Europe. Good stuff.

[MikhailBorg]

"Atnosphere", Vernian Process
"Atomic", Blondie
"Atomic Dog," George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
"Aura", .hack//SIGN soundtrack

Bow-wow-wow yippie-yo yippie-yay!

[J Neo Marvin]

Atlantis - Donovan
Attica State - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Attraction Action Reaction - The Aislers Set
Auditorium - Guided By Voices
Auntie's Municipal Court - The Monkees
Australia - The Kinks
Authority - The Mekons
Autoclave - The Mountain Goats

[Cerberus]

Attack by System of A Down
Attitude (Red Square Reprise) by Hybrid
Atwa by by System of A Down
Auf Wiedersehen by Anthrax
Auld Lang Syne by Barenaked Ladies
The Authority Song by Jimmy Eat World

[Em]

Atlas - Covenant
Atmosphere - Army of Halfwits
Atmosphere - Codeine
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Atom Smasher - Mentallow & the Fixer
Atomic - Blondie (x2)
Atomic - Sleeper
Atomic Garden - Bad Religion (x2)
Attack El Robot! Attack! - Colexico
Attack Ships on Fire - Revolting Cocks (x2)
Attack! - Poster Children
Auctioneer (Another Engine) - R.E.M.
An Audience With You - John Wesley Harding (x2)
Audrey's Dance - Angelo Badalamenti
Auf Achse - Franz Ferdinand*
Aufbruch Nach Rumanien - Faust
August Rain - Trance to the Sun (x2)
Augusta - Jay Farrar
The Auld Triangle - The Pogues
Ausgang Zum Himmel - Front Line Assembly
Aussois - Aphex Twin
Autocade - Prolapse

* I'm including non-English titles which fall in the range, regardless of translation
*not including "Auto" standalones which don't otherwise fall in the range based on the second word of the title

[wanderingoutlaw]

Atom Tan - The Clash
Attack of the Pulpit Masters - Swirling Eddies
Auld Lang Syne - Roger McGuinn
Australia - The Kinks

[Steve]

Thanks Fred for including a song from that CD. The second to last time I saw Dwight, we went to see Rick Elias play a solo gig in Wayne. We then grabbed dinner and the six of us (Dwight and Sheri, Rick and his manager, and me and my friend) went back to the Ozard's. Dwight gave me an extra copy of Demonstrations of Love for some reason...which I decided I'd give to this one friend...XPN type...thought she'd enjoy it.

So I set it on a shelf and forgot about it until I was invited to this friend's birthday party two months ago. I gave her the CD...along with Left Behind: The movie on VHS because she's also into fine film. Anyway, I still haven't heard what she thinks of the album...because her husband stole it and has been listening to it non-stop. He told me "this is a great album, how come I never heard of it?"

Thanks also for pointing people to Dwight's site. Sheri's maintaining it so we can reference it in moments like this. I think I'm going to quote Dwight today on my own site.

[Amaryllis]

Attention - The Raconteurs
Auctori vite psalmis - Anonymous 4
Aufer a nobis iniquitates - SAVAE
Auld House - Jean Redpath
Auld Lang Syne - Jean Redpath

[patter]

Dwight Ozard

DAMN but I miss him! I know, I know -- so does everybody else.

I hope he's on the back 9 with his new set of woods this morning, and just hit a long sweet drive down the fairway, standing and admiring his handiwork with that goofy grin plastered all over his face.

[spinetingler]

The Zeitgeist cover of Bruce's "Atlantic City" is pretty choice, too.

[Jack Bishop]

Most of these are from the soundtrack of the brilliant documentary "Atomic Cafe":

"Atom and Evil", by the Golden Gate Quartet
"Atom Bomb Baby", by the Five Stars
"Atom-Siberia", by P-Model
"Atomic Cocktail", by the Slim Gaillard Quartette
"Atomic Love", by Little Caesar and the Red Callender Sextette
"Atomic Power", by the Buchanan Brothers
"Atomic Sermon", by Billy Hughes and the Rhythm Buckaroos
"Atomik Lust", by the Super Furry Animals
"Атомный век", by Iosef Kobzon
"The Attic", by Van Dyke Parks
"Auld Lang Syne", performed by Jimi Hendrix
"Authar manca", by Anima Sound System
"Auto-da-Fe (What a Day), performed by the original 1956 Broadway cast of "Candide".

[LeRoc]

Nice to see a Dutch band in there.

I only have:
"Atrás da Porta" - Elis Regina

[Tonio]

If band names count, I'm ashamed to admit I once saw a live show with Autograph, a pop-metal band that had one hit in 1984.

[Rev Dave]

Oh, wow. I'm sorry to say I'd totally forgotten about that album. I hope I can still find it...hey! there it is, occupying the bottom-most, partially-obscured slot on the tower.
I know I've said this before, but the one and only time I met Dwight was in Philly in '97 at (ahem) the YS Nat'l Youth convention. Fortunately for my soul (and heart and mind), Dwight was there handing out copies of Prism and this "Demonstrations of Love" CD. I still remember asking him what made Prism the "alternative evangelical voice." (It was the mag's tag line.) The conversation we had turned me into a subscriber and, eventually, helped solidify my burgeoning understanding of following Jesus as working for justice, esp. for and with the least, last and lost.
And being a subscriber meant encountering the writing of one Fred Clark...

So for me Dwight was a friend (mostly) via his writing; but I say that still counts. It might be unoriginal to say I miss his take on the world, but that doesn't make it not true.
He died the same day our first child was born, so forgive me for celebrating (and allowing our son to eat too much ice cream) while remembering Dwight.

[SchrodingersDuck]

"Atlantis to Interzone" - The Klaxons
"Atmosphere" - Joy Division
"Atom" - British Sea Power
"The Atrocity" - Biffy Clyro
"Auf Achse" - Franz Ferdinand

[rm]

"Atlantic City" -- The Band
the forgettable "Attics of My Life" -- the Grateful Dead at their worst
"Au Clair de la Lune" -- a reconstruction of music sort-of-recorded by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860. Read the story and get the mp3 here. Before Edison invented his recording machine, de Martinville invented the "phonoautogram," which graphed the sounds on paper instead of recording them on a wax cylinder that could be played back. His goal was to understand sound, not to do anything so vulgar and useless as record and play sounds. He was a scientist, not an entertainer. But, now, scientists doing digital stuff took his paper record and turned it back into sound. Related: you can get an mp3 of the earliest (I think) recorded music, from 1888, of a song called "The Lost Chord." Wikipedia story here (with several recordings) and original Edison cylinder recording, digitized, here. Now, that's roots music.

[interleaper]

Backfilling to the start of this round of the game:

At Last, Forever - Jethro Tull
Atomic Flash Deluxe - Nina Hagen
À Travers La Vitre - La Bottine Souriante
At Their Father's Knee - Andy Giddings/Ian Anderson
Attitude - The Misfits
Auf den Meeren - Rosenstolz
Aurora - Björk
Auteuil - Kasamatsu Kouji (Gankutsuou Soundtrack)

I've been making up my alphabetization rules as I go. I ignore spaces (because my music player does, so it's easier that way), and "A", "An", and "The" (which means a little extra searching and weeding for me, but it lets me take in more titles and avoids huge uninteresting clumps in the "A" and "T" ranges). I'm not sure how to treat non-English titles, though, so I don't know if "À Travers La Vitre" belongs here.