Totally Inappropriate!
Over at Milkbreath and Me (pretend that’s a link, people. I’m not a real blogger, more of an essayist with an internet connection), Rachel has a post about the music she bellydances to that is not, in fact, Middle Eastern. I thought I was the only pelican in the wilderness who bellydanced to The Immigrant Song, but apparently not.
So, in the interest of furthering the Totally Inappropriate! series of bellydance albums, here’s my album:
Gett Off—Prince
Couldn’t Stand the Weather—Stevie Ray Vaughan
Crosstown Traffic—Jimi Hendrix
Tales of Brave Ulysses—Cream
When the Levee Breaks—Led Zeppelin. This one is good for taxim moves because of Bonham’s 1/2 time drumming.
Subdivisions—Rush
Wildflower—The Cult
Money for Nothing—Dire Straits
Crazy Train—Ozzy Osborne
Superstition—Stevie Wonder
But wait, there’s more! There’s the Totally Inappropriate! New Wave album, featuring such stellar classics as Duran Duran’s Hungry Like The Wolf and New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle, not to mention such beloved melodies as Lovecats, by The Cure, and Depeche Mode’s Master and Servant. Who could resist these fabulous songs? Not you. Not me.
If we all work together, we can embrace the Totally Inappropriate! music to bellydance to, and reclaim it and bring it into the light, as Totally Appropriate! Just think of the endless possibilities: Bellydancing to Klezmer music, Country and Western, even Didgeridoo! Who says we can’t?
Some Stuff | Liz September 1, 2007
By rachel, September 2, 2007 @ 9:19 am
Sweeeet. I was trying to come up with a good Rush song to include, but we only have their early albums (and the most recent, which has some plausible candidates)—and I love Xanadu, but I can’t dance to it (which probably just speaks to my own limitations as a dancer, really).
I’ll have to look some of these up. I am a late comer to the world of rock music, having been raised on classical (That’s why, hearing “Love in an Elevator” on the radio, I had no idea who it was by). I want your new wave album, too! And an album that includes Whip It! And Once in a Lifetime. And hamster death metal klezmer!
By Liz, September 2, 2007 @ 10:04 am
What album has ‘Roll the Bones’ on it? That might be a good one, speaking of Rush.
OOh, Whip It would be great, and Talking Heads, how about Little People, as well?
Long live Hamster Death metal of all varieties!
By rachel, September 2, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
I believe “Roll the Bones” is the album, as well as the song. Haven’t heard it, but that’s what YouTube is for. Rush videos are goofy!
Stupid ME trivia: I hated Rush until we moved to Canada. Now I’m all afflicted with Geddylust. Something in the water, no doubt.
By Liz, September 2, 2007 @ 8:24 pm
It doesn’t happen to everyone, but Rushitis does hit some of us, sometimes. There are different symptoms, of course. The Geddylust is one. Then there’s Peartophilia can be hard to get rid of, though. You’re walking down the street one minute, and the next, you think to yourself, “Hey, Neil Peart really is the best stadium drummer in the world.” Before you know it, you will be willing to argue this heatedly, long into the night.
Rushitis goes as mysteriously as it comes, and the patient is left as good as new.
By rachel, September 3, 2007 @ 10:08 am
But… but Neil Peart really IS the best st-...
Oh. RIGHT.
I’m quite partial to When the Levee Breaks as well, although when I took the stupid “What Led Zeppelin song are you?” internet quiz, I came up Tangerine. Tangerine?! I ask you!
By Liz, September 6, 2007 @ 12:53 am
WTF? No one with any soul is Tangerine. They were mistaken. I can see you being Kashmir, or maybe The Ocean. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, for sure. Not Tangerine.
See? Peartophilia is sneaky.
By Liz, September 6, 2007 @ 1:09 am
Damn! I totally just got Tangerine on that quiz as well. Those people have no fricking idea. I’m In the Evening. Maybe The Rover. Screw Tangerine!