You know what happens to me all the damn time? I realize I need to listen to a specific song right now<\/em>, and then I realize that I haven’t actually ripped that CD yet. (I’ve got a lot of CDs, and I’ve only ripped around a thousand of them.) I could, theoretically, go find the CD and actually, you know, play it… but that seems so last century.<\/p>\n One of the advantages of the amount of time I’ve spent locked in my office lately is that whenever one of these urges hit me, I could actually rip the disc in the background on one of the other machines while I was working.<\/p>\n So, here are some of the things I had moments of jonesing for over the last few weeks, which I’ve now been motivated to finally get around to digitizing.<\/p>\n Arlo Guthrie – Motorcycle (Significance Of The Pickle) Song<\/strong> – I can tell you exactly what triggered this one: my daughter telling me that she didn’t want a pickle. Sometimes that’s all it takes. You can picture the conversation:<\/p>\n “Do you want a pickle with the sandwich?” Everyone should know this one. (This is in my collection because of a fellow named Gregory Burton Clark.)<\/p>\n Rob Szabo – My Young Friend<\/strong> – I had a moment of Waterloo music scene nostalgia the other day, so I pulled out Rob’s latest CD and spun it. During my 20s I spent a lot of time listening to Rob perform in one band or another, and I’ve kept up with his releases even from thousands of kilometres away in the intervening years. I quite like this one.<\/p>\n Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers – Sin City<\/strong> – I don’t think I should need to explain this, but if I do let’s say it was because a couple of my online friends spent some time in Vegas recently, and got me thinking about it through the obvious logic chain.<\/p>\n Weezer – Say It Ain’t So<\/strong> – This one’s a bit weird. 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\n“I don’t want a pickle.”
\n“…I just want to ride on my motor-sickle.”
\n“What?”
\n“It’s from this song.”
\n“What song.”
\n“A song about a guy on a motorcycle who doesn’t want a pickle.”
\n“You’re silly, Dad.”<\/p>\n