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List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening.

Like Dylan in the Movies - Belle and Sebastian
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Absent Friends - The Divine Comedy (apparently I'm on a...fiddling kick?)
Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2) - The Whitlams
Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wild Is the Wind - Cat Power
Pretty in Pink - The National (ahaahahaha, the very concept of this makes me laugh)

Bonus: The Mansion on the Hill - The National (Jesus, I really am on a fiddling kick. Or maybe that's a violin.)
Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions (blame Guitar Hero)

I'm not tagging anyone because I'm no fun. Do it if you like.

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The Devil went down to Georgia?

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YOU WANNA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Oh my goodness

tee hee

What's next?

I don't understand why it's so funny!

Mostly the personal associations it has for me. It was one of those omnipresent summer songs the year I graduated from high school (along with John Stewart's "Gold") and it was a real class marker in the part of Ohio I lived in. The hillbillies I worked with just loved it, and yes, they were hillbillies. The world hadn't gone quite so fundie crazy back then, but it tapped into something that spoke to them (and the general group of Ohio people I felt completely alienated from the entire time I was growing up there).

Also, I remember seeing Charlie Daniels perform it on some tv show, and he had to change the words from "son of a bitch" to "son of a gun." It's possible that there was a censored version played on the radio, too, but I don't remember.

It just always struck me as an incredibly strange song to become as popular as it did, but maybe it was just an end-of-the-seventies thing.

Why does it fascinate you so?

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