Santana III
David Crosby
The temperature supposedly reached 97 today, which is a pretty rare occurrence here in the pacific northwest. On top of the heat, it rained yesterday, making it nice and humid. Ugh. I feel like I'm breathing and wading through hot, sticky, damp, fetid water vapor. I'm usually a hot weather person, but not this kind of hot weather.
Of course, it's too miserable to sleep, even with the fan on in the bedroom. It's almost midnight as I write this and the temperature is still in the 80's, so I'm still up (despite starting a new job at 6 tomorrow morning). So just to make the atmosphere complete, I'm posting a couple "uncomfortably hot and sweaty summer night" songs.
The first is "Taboo" from Santana's III album. The cover of the album let's you know what it sounds like. It's a great track, great and sweaty. I picked this album up at a yard sale in the dog days when I was in high school and I guess this song sums up the feel of humid northwest summers for me.
The second track is David Crosby's "Almost Cut My Hair", off of CSN&Y's Deja Vu, and if you think the first song is hot and sweaty, this track is like taking a bath in a hot KFC bucket of steamy lard. A family size bucket. For real, in the pantheon of disgusting, sweaty songs, this one is the most likely to start a grease fire. You can almost hear the oil drip off David's straining neck veins.
So turn off the lights (they emit heat), sit back on the couch in your underwear, try not to move too much (except to pick the crumbs out of your mustache/beard/chest hair/navel), and have a listen. Oh yeah, the heat is supposed to last through the week...
Taboo
Almost Cut My Hair
Of course, it's too miserable to sleep, even with the fan on in the bedroom. It's almost midnight as I write this and the temperature is still in the 80's, so I'm still up (despite starting a new job at 6 tomorrow morning). So just to make the atmosphere complete, I'm posting a couple "uncomfortably hot and sweaty summer night" songs.
The first is "Taboo" from Santana's III album. The cover of the album let's you know what it sounds like. It's a great track, great and sweaty. I picked this album up at a yard sale in the dog days when I was in high school and I guess this song sums up the feel of humid northwest summers for me.
The second track is David Crosby's "Almost Cut My Hair", off of CSN&Y's Deja Vu, and if you think the first song is hot and sweaty, this track is like taking a bath in a hot KFC bucket of steamy lard. A family size bucket. For real, in the pantheon of disgusting, sweaty songs, this one is the most likely to start a grease fire. You can almost hear the oil drip off David's straining neck veins.
So turn off the lights (they emit heat), sit back on the couch in your underwear, try not to move too much (except to pick the crumbs out of your mustache/beard/chest hair/navel), and have a listen. Oh yeah, the heat is supposed to last through the week...
Taboo
Almost Cut My Hair
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