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3000287, my picks
Posted by johnbook, Sun Jan-14-18 02:03 PM
Chris Hemsworth
I was going to suggest one of my favorite songs from high school, Papsmear's "Die Killing", Blessed Death's "Incoming Wounded" or Carnivore's "Inner Conflict" but...
Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Two Tribes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6-2b_3Dmxw
REASON: He's in 12 STRONG, a film about being a soldier in combat. THis too was one of my favorite songs in high school and is the first record I bought when I moved to Washington State from Honolulu when I discovered a great record store called Licorice Donut, the "black record store". I'm a huge Zang Tuum Tumb head so this is partly in honor of all the ZTT/Trevor Horn maniacs out there.



Carrie Brownstein
The Wipers' "D-7"
https://youtu.be/MRa5BWOOGZM?t=1m28s
REASON: I suggested this before for her the last time. Nirvana made this song famous but it was because Kurt Cobain was a huge Wipers fan. The Wipers were an indie rock band from Portland in the early 80's in the era of Poison Idea and Smegma and this is in honor of Carrie, since she would know the importance of this song, being from Portland. This is the chorus:
"Straight as an arrow
Defect, defect
Not straight, not so straight
Reject, reject
Towards anti-social
So dull, so dull"

In other words, the song is about not wanting to be a non-conformist and as someone who has been a fan of hers with Sleater-Kinney, I hope she will hear this as a means to honor her love and passion of Rose City (and yours too). It also honors "Old Portland", as Portland has changed drastically in the last eight years so it's meant to be a salute to old school PDX.






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