1000 SONGS - DAY 259 SONG # 290

DAY 259: Introducing John Wozniak

John Wozniak is the guy behind Marcy Playground, a group named after Marcy Open School that Wozniak attended. According to Wozniak, the time when he did not join his comrades on Marcy Playground during breaks for fear of being ill-treated has been crucial to forming his outlook at the world. Maybe this is a good part of the stuff rock'n'roll is taken from? The two stable members of the trio, Wozniak and bassist Dylan Keefe both stem from Minneapolis. Nevertheless, Marcy Playground is a New Yorker, a typical 90ies alternative rock band, more successful in the USA than in Europe, although there is one song that "everybody knows". This is also the first song of the band I came to know, since it was contained on a sampler by the Austrian radio station FM4. It is, like the others featured here, a fine example of Wozniak's skills as a song-writer. This one song is called "Sex and Candy". At the end of this here blog-entry you will find a live version and the studio recording of it (it is a great song, indeed!). The video from Vevo will give you a taste of the strangeness of MP's official videos.  I start with "[Cocaine,] Gin and Money" (a song you could call a bit radio-headish) and continue with "It's Saturday". The latter, a song about falling ill at the start of the week-end, should have become a hymn of late teenagership or early twendom (maybe I made one of these words up, but I don't give a damn). As the official video is rather strange, I have chosen an upload with a still for that one. This one goes out to Marie-Therese who fell ill on Christmas Eve 2012 -  this sad incident has brought the song to my mind yesterday.

Sad eyes
I can tell you're thinkin', honey

I see it in the back of your mind
Yeah, it's a cold night
I got cocaine, gin and money
Let's take it to the back of my ride, yeah

Yes and  you wanna call me daddy?
Girl, you can call me anything you like
You're so fine

You're gonna push me baby
Right to the edge of right and wrong, alright
You're gonna push me baby
Right to the edge and go beyond, alright

I'm a bad guy
I can tell you're thinkin', honey
I can see it in the back of your mind, yeah
It's a cold night
I've got cocaine, gin and money
Let's take it to the end of the line, yeah

You're gonna push me baby
Right to the edge of right and wrong, alright
You're gonna ride it baby
Right to the edge and go beyond, that's right

Love give me
Sin with me
Blood pumping
Lust in your eyes