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"My 3 Songs" for Thursday and Friday

Posted at 4:38 PM on June 13, 2008 by Steve Seel

Yes, as often happens, I've gotten behind on my M3S blog-posting during the Membership Drive here on the Big C. So here's both yesterday and today.

For Thursday: Christopher Bauleke writes, "Kinda bummed out right now. Got laid of today, rejected, and finals and kicking my butt. These songs always make me feel better." Dude, it's the least we can do to play your songs.

1) Brandi Carlile, "Halelujah"
2) Johnny Cash, "Hurt"
3) The Beatles, "Octopus's Garden"

Interesting set, Christopher. Two downtempo covers, and then a pick-me-up or pure joy and silliness. Hope your world gets better soon.

For today: Miranda Evans asks the simple question, "Who doesn't love Freddie Mercury?" and offers up two Freddie songs and one from a guy who gets compared to Mr. Mercury quite a lot.

1) Mika, "Grace Kelly"
2) Queen, "Killer Queen"
3) David Bowie w/ Queen, "Under Pressure"

Speaking of "Under Pressure" -- what a timeless and brilliant song. I remember thinking when it first came out, "This song is terrible;" It just seemed to me at the time like the most haphazard, ramshacke bit of sloppily-composed stuff, between it's strange, "pasted-together" sounding sections and bizarre, unserious-sounding "scatting" on Freddie's part. As the years have passed though, my feelings have done a complete 180; that tossed-off nature is part of what makes it so amazing. This is a song that seems to have been written and recorded in a moment of sheer inspirational heat, before either Bowie or Queen had any chance to sculpt any of its compositional elements into something more conventional. Thank God. One of the greatest rock "duets" (if you can call it that) of all time.

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