{"id":1051,"date":"2015-05-29T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2015-05-26T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T13:26:23","slug":"song-of-the-week-all-our-friends-were-stars-by-dave-graney-and-the-lurid-yellow-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;All Our Friends Were Stars&#8221; by Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;All Our Friends Were Stars&#8221; by Dave Graney and the Lurid Yellow Mist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3UyT_2n0sk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A while back now my buddy Colin gave me a couple of albums by Australian Dave Graney.\u00a0 Since then I&#8217;ve developed an entirely untrue theory, which might better be called a ludicrous fantasy, that Dave Graney has only ever heard three songs, and that those songs are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_3QgEjcgI8w\" target=\"_blank\">Nightclub Jitters<\/a>&#8221; by The Replacements<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5F718vM1hHE\" target=\"_blank\">Nightclubbing<\/a>&#8221; by Iggy Pop<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DAXXzBWA3IQ\" target=\"_blank\">Walking Spanish<\/a>&#8221; by Tom Waits.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if those three songs were the center and circumference of your musical knowledge, and wanted to write your own songs and perform them. If you were really good, you&#8217;d write something like &#8220;All Our Friends Were Stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is all a bunch of nonsense. 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