2/2/2024 0 Comments Jolene 33 rpm![]() Join her in NYC on Monday, September 24 for another monthly installment of her book-based variety show, Necromancers of the Public Domain. R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” Reworked from Minor to Major ScaleĪyun Halliday is an author, illustrator, theater maker and Chief Primatologist of the East Village Inky zine. Hear Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Shifted from Minor to Major Key, and Radiohead’s “Creep” Moved from Major to Minor Please don’t take him even though you canįeel Strangely Nostalgic as You Hear Classic Songs Reworked to Sound as If They’re Playing in an Empty Shopping Mall: David Bowie, Toto, Ah-ha & More With ivory skin and eyes of emerald greenįrom crying when he calls your name, Joleneīut you don’t know what he means to me, Jolene Please don’t take him just because you can I’m begging of you please don’t take my man Or, as one waggish Youtube commenter succinctly put it, “Jolene better stay the hell away from Roy Orbison‘s man!” Or perhaps Jolene is one hot female-identified tomato, and as far as the singer’s man’s concerned, his pastor and his granny can go to hell! Jolene’s the only one for him. Perhaps the singer’s man craves the comfort of a more socially acceptable domestic situation. Or maybe the singer and his man live in a place where same sex unions are frowned on. Jolene’s prodigious feminine assets could also prove worrisome to a gay man whose bisexual lover’s eye is prone to wander. Parton told NPR that women are “always threatened by other women, period.” The pain is the same, but the situation in much less straightforward, thanks to blurrier gender lines. In the slow ass version, it’s plaintive and sad. In the original version, the irresistible chorus wherein the soon-to-be-spurned party invokes Jolene’s name again and again is plaintive and fierce. Wouldn’t it be wild if she grew up to be a bank teller? Yes, the kid had red hair and green eyes. The song appeared all over the internet when a YouTube user discovered that turning the record down to 33.3 rpm turned the song into an even more painful, emotional plea. Parton was so taken with the child, and her unusual name, that she resolved to write a song about her. Dolly Parton Jolene One of the most popular examples of slowing a song down to reveal something new is Dolly Parton’s country classic, Jolene. Jolene was a pretty little girl who attended an early Parton concert. I don’t believe we’ve got that kind of money.’ So it’s really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one.įor the record, the teller’s name wasn’t Jolene. It was kinda like a running joke between us - when I was saying, ‘Hell, you’re spending a lot of time at the bank. In an interview with NPR, Parton recalled a red-haired bank teller who developed a big crush on her husband when she was a young bride:Īnd he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention. The song is somewhat autobiographical, though the situation was nowhere near as dire as listeners might assume. Instead, she appeals to Jolene’s sense of mercy: David Gerard on Almost nobody cares what’s in the Top 10 any more.Apparently she also knows better than to raise the subject with him.Frith Barbat on The Hummingbirds: loveBUZZ (1989).Patrick Friedel on Capsule: Metro Pulse (2022).Jim Huber on Andrew Hickey: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs.Andrew Hickey on FreeDB is gone - but the CD data lives on.secretlondon on FreeDB is gone - but the CD data lives on.David Gerard on FreeDB is gone - but the CD data lives on.Joy on The SF Disco Preservation Society: taped San Francisco club mixes from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.Nicole on Stu Spasm’s Wikipedia article now has an old photo of him.Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite A Jovial Fellow.Alan vega andrew hickey apple audio woo b-side bandcamp beatles bitcoin bittorrent blockchain Boy Harsher cabaret voltaire deerful denuvo diy DRM elizabeth sandifer facebook imogen heap Internet Archive itunes joy division kim dotcom klf new order nirvana party fears riaa Severed Heads sony soundcloud spotify The Fall the pirate bay the quietus the rolling stones tidal tism universal vortex what the who makes the nazis wikipedia youtube zines Categories
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