{"id":3598,"date":"2009-04-16T10:55:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/16\/six-questions-an-attempt-at-a\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T10:55:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T10:55:43","slug":"six-questions-an-attempt-at-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/16\/six-questions-an-attempt-at-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Questions (an attempt at a musical &#8220;meme&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I wanted to hear the seasonally-appropriate Hold Steady song &#8220;How a Resurrection Really Feels&#8221; (&#8220;She crashed into the Easter Mass, with her hair done up in broken glass, She was limping left on broken heels and she said &#8216;Father, can I tell your congregation how a resurrection really feels?'&#8221;), so I punched it up on iTunes by sorting the music library alphabetically by song title. Which meant that, after the song finished, I got to hear every song in my collection that starts with the word &#8220;How.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me that this might be the basis for one of those Internet &#8220;meme&#8221; things. &#8220;How&#8221; is, of course, one of the six elements every news story is supposed to have, along with &#8220;Who,&#8221; &#8220;What,&#8221; &#8220;Where,&#8221; &#8220;When,&#8221; and &#8220;Why.&#8221; So, in the usual manner of such things, here are six songs from my library, one starting with each of those question words:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Who&#8217;s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?<\/strong> by U2. Maybe the best tune from <cite>Acthung Baby<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><strong>(What&#8217;s So Funny &#8216;Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?<\/strong> by Elvis Costello. If you think using the parenthetical is cheating, then I&#8217;ll go with &#8220;What Else Would You Have Me Be?&#8221; by Lucero.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where Is My Mind?<\/strong> by the Pixies. The least popular of the six words, but a worthy track.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When Will You Come Back Home?<\/strong> by Ryan Adams.  One of those fragile ballads off <cite>Cold Roses<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why Should You Come When I Call?<\/strong> by Counting Crows. One of about two good songs off <cite>Hard Candy<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?<\/strong> by Bruce Springsteen. Amazingly, I have three versions of this, all live from the Seeger Sessions tour.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was harder than I thought it would be, at least in the strong version where all the titles need to be questions. There are a lot of great songs starting with one of those words, but most of them are statements or descriptions (&#8220;Where the Streets Have No Name,&#8221; &#8220;When I Get to the Border,&#8221; &#8220;When I Paint My Masterpiece,&#8221; the aforementioned Hold Steady track).<\/p>\n<p>I guess I ought to &#8220;tag&#8221; people to do this, but I suck at that part. So, well, if you&#8217;ve got enough songs at hand to do this, I encourage you to play along, either in the comments, or by posting a list to your own blog\/ journal\/ whatever. Or don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I wanted to hear the seasonally-appropriate Hold Steady song &#8220;How a Resurrection Really Feels&#8221; (&#8220;She crashed into the Easter Mass, with her hair done up in broken glass, She was limping left on broken heels and she said &#8216;Father, can I tell your congregation how a resurrection really feels?&#8217;&#8221;), so I punched&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/16\/six-questions-an-attempt-at-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six Questions (an attempt at a musical &#8220;meme&#8221;)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}