Reflex Reaction: Audio Valentines

I want your reaction, here. Leave a comment and for any/all of the songs, write your reaction to the song – keep it brief! (5-15 words, extra points if you hit exactly 10) After a few days, I’m going to publish the most evocative/impressive/amusing comments here. Be sure to leave your name.

UPDATE! The best reactions follow:
italian folk // café jazz
Quartetto Cetra – Un Bacio A Mezzanotte

  • cue Dean Martin, complete with cane and straw boater, making eyes at Sophia Loren.~db
  • Red velour, low light, and a martini with your sweetheart.~Skoodog
  • A leggy Italian brunette spinning her parasol on the boardwalk~Brett

    • nu-jazz // hip hop
    Dancing Djedi – Body Surfin’ (feat. Mos Def, Tash, & Q-Tip)

  • poor work on the Ernest Ranglin original, with the lyrics from Body Rock just pasted upon it. Too bad : the pulse of the Ranglin is mad!!!~Garrincha
  • good funk, bounce, reggae flavor, too disjoint to truly savor~Dookie
  • I see an Afro Marcel Marceau doing the jerky moonwalk in a robot suit.~db

    • female folk // americana
    Clare Burson – Love Me in the Morning

  • tender, floating, soft and caressing~kEma
  • Reminds me of a bluegrass/celtic festival. Nostalgic and homesick.~Elise
  • Passionate with a dash of armpit hair. Lilith Fair artist for 2006.~nomisong

    • Posted by Paul Irish on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 under reflex reaction.

    28 Responses to “Reflex Reaction: Audio Valentines”

    1. Nottke said on February 7th at 3:24 pm :

      QC: Cute and endearing. Compells me to tickle-attack my seven-year-olds.
      DD: Refashioning Ernest Ranglin with fresh hip hoppers is mad gangsta.
      CB: Juxtaposing acoustic sensibility with cinematic arrangement. Quite talented. Cute, too.

    2. Peter said on February 7th at 3:44 pm :

      Dancing Djedi – Mos Def chilling on the beach in Jamaica with his Uncle Ernest.

    3. Skoodog said on February 7th at 3:45 pm :

      clare: Arm in arm, on a porch swing, watching the rain.

      quartetto: How they did Valentine’s in the 1950s downtown Las Vegas. (or – Red velour, low light, and a martini with your sweetheart.)

      the rap one: This kid in high school used to do this dance called “the flow.” I imagine him doing that dance to this.

    4. Anonymous said on February 7th at 4:55 pm :

      QC: great! use this in my dance class: lots of fun

    5. orbital sentry said on February 7th at 5:31 pm :

      QC- Mid-week reassurance that the lulls are over, enter happiness.

    6. aaronwez said on February 7th at 6:20 pm :

      Un Bacio A Mezzanotte ~ Sunny and Smiles. Mid-day, on the town with my sweetie :)

      Body Surfin’ ~ Posturing for the posse when she’s not in the room.

      Love Me in the Morning ~ My new lover hears the midnight call of the heart.

    7. db said on February 7th at 10:41 pm :

      I see video clips:

      QC: cue Dean Martin, complete with cane and straw boater, making eyes at Sophia Loren.

      DD: I see an Afro Marcel Marceau doing the jerky moonwalk in a robot suit.

      CB: slow-mo falling rose petals (รก la American Beauty), but set in a banjo-pluckin little house on the prairie

    8. anthony said on February 8th at 5:31 am :

      QC: Sneaking exuberant giggles while skipping after first kiss with new crush.

    9. kEma said on February 8th at 5:48 am :

      QC: fragrant, touching, elegant
      DD: playful, dancable and amusing
      CB: tender, floating, soft and caressing

    10. Garrincha said on February 8th at 7:37 am :

      DD : poor work on the Ernest Ranglin original, with the lyrics from Body Rock just pasted upon it. Too bad : the pulse of the Ranglin is mad !!!

      QC : fresh ! Perfect soundtrack for a romance in southern italy

      CB : nostalgia – very pure & very addictive

    11. Elise said on February 8th at 9:05 am :

      CB- Reminds me of a bluegrass/celtic festival. Nostalgic and homesick.

    12. Kerry said on February 8th at 10:14 am :

      DD: Smooth reggae vibe and ill rhymes better served without electric piano.

    13. Brett said on February 8th at 1:21 pm :

      CB — Can she be my personal alarm clock? Smooth and lovely.

      DD — Fair to middlin’ — Summer songs always get points by default.

      QC — A leggy Italian brunette spinning her parasol on the boardwalk

    14. Runman said on February 8th at 4:04 pm :

      Liked the QC track, thanks Paul, and Nottke for the link .
      Some more tracks of hers here..
      http://www.clareburson.com/music.html

    15. Anonymous said on February 9th at 1:25 pm :

      QC – Cool – immediately brightened my spirits! I like it!

      DD – I try to be open to new stuff, but still don’t get the Rap thing…

      CB – Is OK…nicely done..

    16. nomisong said on February 9th at 7:48 pm :

      Un Bacio…: Perfect background music for montage sequence of lost Sex in the City episode.

      Body Surfin’: Messy as hell comared to the OG. Q-Tip needs to comeback better than this. So does Mos.

      Love Me…: Passionate with a dash of armpit hair. Lilith Fair artist for 2006.

    17. Dookie said on February 10th at 7:12 pm :

      DD:
      good funk, bounce, reggae flavor, too disjoint to truly savor

      (but glad to hear it anyway, thanks)

    18. Christian said on February 12th at 3:07 pm :

      QC – sounds like something i would here as background music in a book store, great music

      DD – what hiphop should sound like, good production, great MC in mosdef

      CB – nice voice, reminds me of Lhasa De Sela, just english

    19. Anonymous said on February 13th at 12:18 pm :

      QC-sweet, fun, good mood music
      DD-good background music, not “listening” music
      CB-sounds like Aimee Mann

    20. Alex Hutton said on February 14th at 7:29 am :

      QC- Nice, but a little too overproduced for me. Much closer to authentic than the other two tracks.

      DD-I’m sorry, but even Jazz guitar can’t erase my disgust for lyrics all about how some guy’s machismo is going to make the ladies drop their pants. Sometimes I wish Hip-Hop would take a hint from B.A.D. and try to write a song about something different.

      CB-Lady, if you’re so durn worried about this person loving you in the morning, then maybe you shouldn’t have slept with them. It’s not like you didn’t have a choice. As far as quality of music, Little Sparrow by Dolly Parton trumps it pretty hard. This one’s way too overproduced, like the Waif version of Justin Timberlake.

    21. Paul Irish said on February 14th at 7:50 am :

      B.A.D.? Biological Aerosol Detection?

    22. Runman said on February 15th at 7:22 am :

      B.A.D.? Baroque Artists Diatribe?

    23. Alex Hutton said on February 17th at 5:31 am :

      Big Audio Dynamite, Sillies.

    24. courvidae said on February 27th at 11:09 pm :

      I find the responses to “Bacio a Mezzanotte” really entertaining, mainly because the song actually translates to Don’t trust a kiss at midnight! Oh, how two years of Italian come in handy.

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