"Dressed In Black" by Depeche Mode

With Leftenant Fox at Leather Pride 2018

I can't believe we have never posted this song before.  That is crazy!!!  This was such an epic song for us.  I almost always wear black, it is the only (non) color I identify with.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPNUHDNn-k
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uzEZHuMDDY
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztj_bit-mA8
YouTube (remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88hUClSrEXU
YouTube (dominatrix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBl-OKGBNJI

"Hey Little Girl" by Bloodwitch

Stopped by the Utah Pride Center today and got a Rock Camp SLC sticker

#UtahPrideCenter
#RockCampSLC

I've been watching "I Am Not Okay With This" on Netflix and this is a song from a made up band for the show.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pFd1KdieE

"Avalanche" by New Order

I've played this album many times in the last few days.  An epic album for me!!  I've posted every song on the album to my blogs now.

1.  Regret - 25-Mar-2017
2.  World - 27-Nov-2011
3.  Ruined in a day - 4-Oct-2013
4. Spooky - 31-Oct-2018
5.  Everyone everywhere - 13-May-2019
6.  Young offender - 2-Feb-2020
7.  Liar - 30-Apr-2018
8.  Chemical - 13-Aug-2017
9.  Times change - 6-May-2019
10. Special - 9-Jun-2018
11. Avalanche - Today

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRw-_jOhFA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3ssfsBXfI
YouTube (remaster): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gynbtKFMwVE

"Most Girls" by Hailee Steinfeld

I was able to get the Magenta stripe for the Lesbian Pride Fag painted today

Since I changed my plan for the trunk I sprayed some more black today

I'm just so excited about the Plymouth.  It was really nice today and I was able to spray the Magenta stripe for the Lesbian Pride flag.  I also changed my mind last night about what I'm doing with the trunk lid: I'm going to put the original (6 stripe) Pride flag on the trunk.  So I didn't need to worry about getting black on the red that I painted before, so I sprayed some more of the black which covered up a little more rust.

I found a CD in the garage that Wendy Jean had burned for me back when I first came out.  I had forgotten this song, but now I remember I love it!  And I can relate!  I absolutely dress to make me feel good.  It is so VERY nice to look in the mirror and be happy with who you are.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBB_QOZNEdc
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcvD6I9elPw

"Waiting Around to Die" by The Be Good Tanyas

I've got the vanity plate on and a few stickers.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0SmXVrLlZ4
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDb8jKc9voU
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhWpKZiYSsQ

"The End" - Sibylle Baier

This old car just brings me so much joy

I tried to start the Plymouth a few days ago and it wouldn't even turn over.  I tried charging the battery but it still wouldn't go.  Turned out the starter cable is loose in the connector.

#Plymouth

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9936xsQL4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-r1b2H9FKs

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Status Coup interviewing Michael Moore:

YouTube (Coup): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzOfTK1lM-s

"Young Offender" by New Order

This will likely offend some...

I just love this license plate!!  I'm so excited to get this car all painted up.  Dammed cold weather, I can't do shit :(

I've been listening to New Order's "Republic" album again.  I just play it over and over!!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtA5MpA6pqo
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80AkC-3X-bM
YouTube (32 bit - 96KHz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Alc4gO2veM

"Salt" by B. Miles

From the National Geographic issue on "Women"

I was flipping through the National Geographic special issue on "Women" in the Law Office and came across the article on this transgender-woman astrophysicist.  I loved what she said: she likes to avoid using "transition" for her public outing in 2014. "I like to say I stopped pretending to be a boy".  You said it sister!  I've said many times I just stopped trying to pretend I was a boy.

#Transgender
#TransIsBeautiful

YouTube (unofficial): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POIX95wKD5w
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7FrnDweeCY
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA2xe8MgCuw
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otgxci5OROY

The current state of paint with the new vanity plate

"The Daughters" by Little Big Town

I love Little Big Town!  This is another amazing track.  This was the song on the Grammy 2020 CD (See yesterday's post) that really jumped  out at me.  SueZQ said the same thing, how much she like the "I'm just looking for a god for the daughters".

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPfHdJyd_IE
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ytL688SFc
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGbV69G56D0

"I Don't Remember Me (Before You)" by Brothers Osborne

I bought the 2020 Grammy CD in Target a couple nights ago and I've been listening to it in the car.  There weren't many songs on it that really grabbed me.  This is one that did, so I replayed it a few times.

The lines "and I've heard stories about the boy I used to be" ... "but I don't remember me" kinda rang a bell.  I was like "Wow!  The boy I used to be".  I mean I was never really a boy, I know absolutely I was always a girl, but I looked like a boy.

I just passed the 5 year anniversary of starting HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) at the beginning of February 2015.  I had developed breasts by March and was "outed" because of them, so I went full time living as a woman at the end of March 2015.  The judge signed my order, so I legally became Rachel and female on May 5th, 2015.

So 5 years of being Rachel and living as a woman, long enough that it is weird to think back to when I... looked like a boy/man?... was trying to be something I was not?... was just plain wrong?

And I can't emphasize this enough: I had no idea it was even possible to be as happy as I've been since!

#Transgender
#TransIsBeautiful

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qiACOYSDhk

"Laisse Tomber Les Filles" by France Gall

SueZQ pointed out the "Don't Believe Everything You Think" sticker

I hate that even a day or so after I Shazam a song I can't remember what video I was watching that I heard it in.  So yeah, I thought this was a cool song, no clue what movie or show I saw it in.

Something even more surprising when I looked it up on YouTube: it's from 1964!?!?!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWRCJhsz5t4
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qjlfy0uLIw
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVA670WKAQc
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGsswLwnzc

"P: Machinery" by Propaganda

A delightful surprise in the coffee shop today

My friend Jenny had left a nice surprise for me in the coffee shop today!  And I had one friend text me nice Vday greeting.

I'm always amazed when I come across an epic song like this one and realize I've never posted it to my blog before.  I don't think I've ever seen this video before, ah the Eighties, so fun!!

#Eighties

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660ZCEhvbnw
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CotYFulHH_w
YouTube (extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kadkQDc1Ts
YouTube: (remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3wbDp_1yb4

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Speaking of the 80's this video on "Gated Reverb" and reverb in general is fascinating:

YouTube (Vox): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxz6jShW-3E

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Samantha Bee exposing the horrible Prager U:

YouTube(Full Frontal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu98-01Tv_w

"After Every Party" by Vengeance Tampon

I was able to spray a little more paint on the Plymouth today

It was a little warmer today so I sprayed a little more of the "Regal Red" paint on it.  I was happy that the paint appears to stick okay to the tape I used to cover up the little holes (on the tops of the fenders and doors) that originally held the chrome trim on.

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Vengeance Tampon subscribed to my YouTube Channel today and they have some cool videos so I subscribed back.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebT2x6eC52k

I posted a different song back farther in my blog to help fill it in:

https://rachels-vital-music.blogspot.com/2017/08/20th-century-boy-by-vengeance-tampon.html

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Trump and Barr Corrupt the Justice Department as John Kelly Speaks Out: A Closer Look

YouTube (Late Night): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qaf-zgubZ8

"Blood" by Cult of Helix

Happy to see there are flyers supporting LGBTQ people in Crone's Hollow

Bought myself a little heart in Crone's Hollow today

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZ0snVICqA
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKEAQVO-A30

"When the Party's Over" by Janis Ian

One of the boxes of my old "Best of All" cassettes

Another song from the cassette I've been making a track listing for (see my posts from Thursday and yesterday)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-8FYRMzDwI
YouTube (live 1976): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u51EY2mw5Og

"There Goes My Baby" by The Drifters

I apparently forgot to remove the no-record tab from that cassette

Yet again I'm astounded that I've never posted this song, or any Drifters song, before now.  This was also on that cassette that I've been listening to.  See my post for Thursday.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehFWRG5gHyI
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3HXy9mGPpI
YouTube (Rhino): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU21gzEtmuw

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Joe Biden telling someone "You're a lying, dog faced, pony soldier":

YouTube (Daily Show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeeFRr3F1KU

"Murderer" by Adult Karate

I'm watching a British video series called "The Stranger" and this was used in it.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pwqF5lsOxM

"Sittin' in the Balcony" by Eddie Cochran

My"Best of All #86" cassette tape

At random, I pulled the above cassette (my "Best of All #86") out of a box.  I decided I should log the songs on it as I listened to it.  I've tried to remember what the other song I loved by Eddie Cochran was, but it never came to mind until I put this cassette on.

This song reminded me of when my friend Stacey and I went to see "American Graffiti" at the old Century Theaters on 33rd South in Salt Lake City.  Or as people called them back in those days "The Twin Boobs" LOL   I think it was around 1975 or '76.  Anyway, Stacey and I never saw much of the movie.  It's was the best smooching fest ever!  Just the fact I remember it some 44 years later, it was epic!

YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIWU4CHbR04
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3txNhsv63Eo
YouTube (Dick Clark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ1BmskTE6A

"Little Old Lady From Pasadena" by Jan & Dean

I'm going to do the same thing I did in yesterday's post.   Again Shazam was able to identify the song "[Here They Come] From All Over the World" by Jan & Dean from that tape I talked about in Monday's post.  Again I debated whether to make it today's song, but I can't say I even like it that much.

But then it was funny, right after that I pulled into Jitter Bug Coffee Hop in my red Mazda and Bruce said I reminded him of the song "Little Old Lady From Pasadena".

[Here They Come] From All Over the World:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRThlKmOnqE
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_94mEfdE-qo
YouTube (Live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJ7ET-J3Lo

Little Old Lady From Pasadena:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7f9hsFrKUY
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYxPgFUjDpA

"Heart" by Wayne Newton

Electrical & Musical Industries

So Shazam was able to identify the song "Coming On Too Strong" by Wayne Newton from that tape I talked about in yesterday's post..  I debated whether to make it today's song, it is catchy, but I don't know if I can say it is one of my favorites.  One of the videos for "Coming On Too Strong" said it was Beach Boys style and I was like "Wow! it totally sounds like a Beach Boys song!", just with Wayne Newton singing.  That is kinda weird!

Coming on too Strong:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0STwiUE_WGY
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suV2WjWUT08
YouTube (45 RPM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZBxANCRofI

And something else jumped out at me, the "Electrical & Musical Industries" on the label of the (I'm guessing) British 45.  That had to become EMI, that's trippy.

Heart:

Anyway, I decided to post one of my favorite Wayne Newton Songs for today titled just "Heart":

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6G540sSKmg
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNS2GKQ9GKw

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This is video just popped up and OMG it is so spot on:

New Rule: Fee F**king | Real Time with Bill Maher

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP13QTOI9z4

"Spanish Perfume" by Jimmy Rice

Just going through this old reel-to-reel tape, trying to figure out what all the songs are on it.  After figuring out this song (which was difficult).  I couldn't find the lyrics with a Google Search.  The tape runs at the wrong speed, whichever tape deck it was recorded on was running at the wrong speed.  I've had to record them onto my computer, slow them down 16% and then they were good enough for Shazam to identify them.

I'm guessing the tape was recorded in 1965, except for one, all of the songs I've checked are from '65.  That means this tape was recorded 55 years ago.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU0_4rRoTMA

"You're The One" by Johnny Rivers

Trying to make a track listing of this old reel-to-reel tape

It's been hard to make a track listing of this tape because it is not stereo, it has 2 mono tracks (at least on side 1).  There is an entire episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." in one track.  Funny it an episode I actually remember about protesters at a college and Solo and Illia get tied to chairs and have to answer some automated learning device to keep from getting blown up or something like that.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVlwjetPzJs
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcYJXp2dJZU
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfVwJW2Cyk