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punisheddonjuan · 19 hours

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I think @transcube tagged me maybe two weeks ago as part of a "five songs I've been listening to on repeat" exercise and I promised I'd get around to doing it because it looked like fun, but man, I have not been listening to a lot of music lately. My stamina has been just shot to hell, and I'm one of those perverts gets off on hardcore critical listening of entire albums while wearing big ass headphones. Instead I'm presenting you with this: the galaxy of songs that I've memorized and have somewhere in my head which start intruding into my consciousness at random intervals. So here's five songs I've had stuck in my head the last little while.

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John C. Reilly (as Dewey Cox) — "Guilty as Charged" from, Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story (2007)

Walk Hard is my absolute favourite movie to watch with my dad (a professional musician and big time music geek), it's hilarious and there's a reason why they basically stopped making musician biopics for a good ten years after this movie came out, it preempts them all. Part of why it works so well is that the songs are all fucking incredible and stand on their own. This one in particular is just such a perfect pastiche of an early '60s Johnny Cash (in his "Man in Black" persona) tune. And man, who knew that John C. Reilly could sing like that?

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The Mekons — "Insignificance (Conversation with Boche)" from Retreat from Memphis (1994)

I frequently find the following lyric stuck in my head, rolling it around in there:

A word slips out in Dallas in 1963 Spawns an industry: Conspiracy Initials ten feet tall just reinforce and underline Insignificance If they can kill, what would they do to me Stumbling into their attention

Great bassline on this one too.

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J.C. Satàn — "Endless Fall" from Sick of Love (2010)

There was this really cool punk/garage scene that centered around a few bands in the south of France that started around the turn of the last decade and was mostly spent by 2017ish. Catholic Spray was another one of those bands, but these guys were the best in my estimation. Love this guitar riff.

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Unwound — "Demons Sing Love Songs" from Leaves Turn Inside You (2001)

Is it weird to say that of that incredible crop of post-hardcore bands like Fugazi, Slint etc. (I am DEFINITELY not talking about the stuff that called itself "post-hardcore" from the '00s) I might love Unwound the most?

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John Coltrane — "Afro Blue" from Live at Birdland (1964)

"Afro Blue" is probably my all-time favourite jazz tune, I taught myself how to sweep pick arpeggios just so I could play the melody line on guitar. It's a really easy tune to improvise over too, you can either play an F-minor blues over the whole progression or get modal and start with an F Dorian and then move into the A-flat/E-flat tonal centers over some of the changes. Anyway, the "head" is always stuck in my head.

No idea who to tag with this one, just assume that if you're a music kind of person and I follow you that I wouldn't mind hearing from you.

#blog #music #dewey cox #john coltrane #unwound #j.c. satàn #the mekons

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thestonecuttersguild · 5 months

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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Bonus Scene) - "A Christmas Song From De...

#dewey cox #christmas

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guardianreadersofthegalaxy · 28 days

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Thirteen: I can't spend all my time thinking about myself any more. I've got to think about the other people. Yas: Like your companions? Thirteen: No, I mean people that's having injustices done to them. Thirteen: Like women and midgets and such... [from Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox story]

#my post #incorrect quotes #incorrect doctor who quotes #doctor who #thirteenth doctor #jodie whittaker #yasmin khan #mandip gill #source: walk hard #walk hard #walk hard: the dewey cox story #dewey cox #john c reilly

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oreopata · 2 years

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Harold Ramis as L'Chaim in ‘Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story’ (2007)

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#Harold Ramis #Dewey Cox #Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story #Rabbi #Jewish #Jew #jewish actors

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nicholasr · 1 year

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Walk Hard - Beatles scene

best scene in movie history

#youtube #funny #dewey cox #paul rudd #beatles stop fighting here in india #satire #pastiche #lol #best scene in movie history #cinema #john c reilly #jack black #lysergic #almost as good as the monkees

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danimyerstalks · 1 year

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Biopic Satires

I have a major fascination with biopics; both movies are great satires of the traditional biopic formula. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Chock full of great comedy, cameos, and all-around solid performances.

#biopic #movie #film #satire #comedy #parody #dewey cox #weird al yankovic #weird al #weird al movie #weird al biopic

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medusamagic · 1 year

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MCU Moon Knight has the same backstory as Dewey Cox. Do with this information what you will.

#marvel #moon knight #mcu #steven grant #marc spector #jake lockley #dewey cox #walk hard #the wrong kid died

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unicornery · 1 year

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