Just another list: Dance tracks

I always found it easy to dance to a up-tempo rock song than to a so called "dance track".
Here is the list of our favourite dance-rock songs:

1. Jockey full of Bourbon - Tom Waits
2. Mama don't - JJ Cale
3. Blinded by the light - Bruce Springsteen (Live in Dublin/Pete Seeger ses'sions)
4. Wild Night - Van Morrison
5. Sleep around the clock - Belle and Sebastian
6. Yellow moon - Neville Brothers
7. Carry on - JJ Cale
8. Peg - Steely Dan (a bold one:)
9. Postcards from Paraguay - Mark Knopfler
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We will have to try this out to get the order right, and one slot is vacant. Recommendations are welcome!

Rock Journalism

Some stop discovering new music with age. I got a boost recently discovering Will Oldham aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy. I have been listening to his album I See a Darkness for the last 3 months and no other artist has stunned me like this in the last, say, five years! I was wondering how to describe his music and I came across this pitchfork review (of Billy's 2008 album):

Musically, these meticulously crafted songs give the impression of front-porch spontaneity, their purposefulness made to sound like serendipity.

I don’t know what that means, but I think that perfectly conveys what I think of his music:)

Allen Worship

Tim Burton's Ed Wood reminded me of Woody Allen.
Johnny Depp portrays the enthusiastic Edward Wood Jr. (apparently voted the worst director in the history of cinema) who is madly in love with film making and does it with amazing speed - he made a movie in 5 days! However his movies were horrible while Allen's movies are at the other end of the spectrum. But the passion and the speed may be the same.

Here is a quote from AV Club Woody Allen interview:

Vicky Cristina Barcelona has not yet come out, and I'm already finished shooting and editing a film with Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, and Patricia Clarkson, and I'm now working on another film.

Roger Ebert writes in his review of Allen's latest:

A few days before seeing "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," I viewed his "Hannah and Her Sisters" again. More than 20 years apart, both with dialogue at perfect pitch. Allen has directed more than 40 movies in about as many years and written all of them himself. Why isn't he more honored? Do we take him for granted?