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Friday, April 11, 2008
MONEY (THAT'S WHAT I WANT)
Paul Revere and the Raiders
1964
Available on : Mojo Workout!
Sundazed : 2000
[Buy It]
I NEED SOME MONEY
John Lee Hooker
1960
Available on : Hooker
Shout Factory : 2006
[Buy It]
MONEY NEVER RUNS OUT
Cannon's Jug Stompers
1929
Available on : The Best Of Cannon's Jug Stompers
Yazoo : 2001
[Buy It]
DIRTY MONEY
Clipse
Hell Hath No Fury
Re-Up Gang : 2006
[Buy It]
MY BABY'S JUST LIKE MONEY
Lefty Frizzell
1951
Available on : Life's Like Poetry
Bear Family : 1994
[Buy It]
SHE TOOK ALL THE MONEY
Frank Black
Bluefinger
Cooking Vinyl : 2007
[Buy It]
LOVE OR MONEY
Prince
7" Single
Paisley Park : 1986
MUSIC FOR MONEY
Nick Lowe
Jesus of Cool
Demon : 1978
[Buy It]
This week has been all about money.
It's tax season, but it's more than that. I have a friend who came into some money. I have a friend who was seized by terror at the thought that she doesn't have enough money. I have a friend who lost money in a bad deal. I have a friend who found some money on the sidewalk. I spent most of a morning and part of an afternoon sitting in a gray chair in a bank lobby, conducting various transactions on behalf of myself and my money. These are just incidents, and they don't coalesce into a philosophy. Money thwarts philosophy, or rather it requires the simultaneous operation of many philosophies. Money is life. Money is death. Money is freedom. Money is a prison. Money is the root of all evil. Money can't buy you love. Money changes hands. Money changes everything.
This week, being all about money, is also about jokes about money. People have been telling them to me all the time. "Joke" might not be the right word. Grimly comic statements about money, let's say. "If I had a nickel for every time I've spent a nickel," one friend said, "I'd break even." Another friend tried to make a withdrawal from an ATM, only to find out that her card had been frozen. "Come out of there, you cowards," she said, pounding on the screen. I told them both one of my favorite jokes about money, which is a Johnny Carson joke. Abraham Lincoln goes to a nightclub. He hands the doorman a five-dollar bill. "You trying to bribe me?" the doorman says, offended.
"Bribe?" Lincoln says. "No, of course not. That's my ID."
There are profound things to say about money, but most of them have already been said in the songs above. Paul Revere and the Raiders say some of them in the mock-bitter spoken introduction to Berry Gordy's "Money." John Lee Hooker, who was performing a version of "I Need Some Money" before Gordy reinvented the song, says some of them in his reclaimed version. Cannon's Jug Stompers imagine a world where money flows like water. Clipse investigates the link between financial and sexual control. As does Lefty Frizzell. As does Black Francis. As does Prince. And Nick Lowe's just singing for his supper.
As thinking is free, please list any and all thoughts about money after listening to these free songs on this wonderful blog where writers write for free.Labels: ben, soul
posted by Ben
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