Comments on: CONTEST – Dean Wareham's Black Postcards: A Memoir

By: shoegazer

shoegazer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:30:12 +0000

My favorite song of Dean’s is the same one it’s always been… what ever song he is going to write tomorrow.

By: Modin

Modin — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:28:54 +0000

I like Dean and Britta’s version of “Bonnie and Clyde”, I’m a sucker for that song

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:56:25 +0000

G500 – Flowers

Pumping through my headphones on the bus ride from Glasgow to Edinburgh, during a perfectly pitiful grey rainfall on one of my first days ever in the UK.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:06:36 +0000

Black Champagne. While Wareham claims, “If I had to do it all again, I wouldn’t!” in Black Postcards, he responds to his own despondency in Black Champagne: “The battle brings me life!”

By: Henrik

Henrik — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:42:45 +0000

The obvious choice is a G500-song, but I don’t think that’s fair to where DW is now in his life… but I do have to stay in the past though, with Luna – and probably disqualify myself by having to choose two songs:

23 minutes In Brussels – for the song as a whole, the guitars, the drive…

Bobby Peru – mostly for the words

“I don’t mind you keeping secrets from me.
But please don’t keep them from yourself.”

-h :o)

By: Soundtrack2

Soundtrack2 — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:11:22 +0000

Tough one. But I’d have to say “Sideshow by the Seashore” or “Tiger Lily Girl,” both by Luna.

I was at Lee’s Palace in 2001 when Luna completely brought the house down

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:10:31 +0000

I know you said one, but come on…Math Wiz, Black Postcards, Me and My Babies, When Will You Come Home, Another Day. This is just a start.

I already have the book. Give it to someone who doesn’t. Thanks.

By: juepucta

juepucta — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:32:03 +0000

“Chinatown” (Luna). The whole notion of being up all night chasing ass, coming late to work the next day, etc. I kinda lived like that for a while. Probably not as cool as the song might make it sound but…

Still to this day puts a bittersweet smile on my face.

-G.

By: JTodd

JTodd — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:57:22 +0000

Axl – Schmaxl. Dean got the real essence of Sweet Child of Mine!
When that one pops up on the shuffle, time to sit, stare and wonder.

By: jay

jay — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:52:50 +0000

so many songs from one of my favorite dudes of all time. i’ve been listening to him since the early 90s, and i have no idea how i have not read the book at this point. maybe don’t want to destroy the mystique a little bit.

anyway, from galaxie 500 the song ‘summertime’ has the line ‘the heat is just delicious’ which to this guy living in phoenix is so perfect right now early in the summer.

but then, ‘the slow song’ from the days of our nights is just *that song*. slow. in german. dead simple. dead gorgeous. i’ve always wondered about the lyrics, and i read something once about there being something about an old couple and a dance (the tennessee waltz, the only lyric i can understand), but ultimately the melody, the performance, just speak. and the lyrics being in german, well, mystique, right?