Easter Sunday

Above, the song I listen to every year on this day, from the great Patti Smith. The video quality of this fan-shot live footage is horrible, but the sound is tolerable, and it's the only embeddable version of this beautiful track I could find online. Here's the album, one of the five I'd pack on a spaceship if I were headed to the offworld colonies: Patti Smith / EASTER. (CD + MP3 via Amazon)

[#1 posted by Anonymous, April 12, 2009 9:34 AM]

the sound is not bad,

...for someone who's used to mp3 thru tiny headphones from Woolworth

[#2 posted by Capissen, April 12, 2009 10:01 AM]

I've been listening to "Easter Parade" by Jump, Little Children. It's a little more upbeat.

But Patty Smith is pretty awesome, too. :-)

[#3 posted by LM, April 12, 2009 10:07 AM]

I dust off the old Leon Russell song Roll Away the Stone every Easter morning. The piano is caffeinated, and the lyrics have everything but the bunny: "Roll away the stone, don't leave me here alone, resurrect me and protect me, don't leave me laying here, what will they do in two thousand years?"
"Roll Away the Stone" -- Leon Russell
Now I'll go back to The Thermals' new album.

[#4 posted by Anonymous, April 12, 2009 10:10 AM]

Thanks for this. I love Patti.

[#5 posted by Anonymous, April 12, 2009 10:25 AM]

Easter at http://www.myspace.com/pattismith

[#6 posted by maoinhibitor, April 12, 2009 10:25 AM]

I love everything about Patti Smith... including the fact that she bowed out at the top of her game instead of burning out like so many others.

I enjoyed reading about her in:
http://books.google.com/books?id=mkG7Y6_J7pUC&dq=please+kill+me&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=nCPiSZzXHJHrlQekkKTgDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#PPA201,M1

[#7 posted by Anonymous, April 12, 2009 10:28 AM]

I listen to Aceyalone - Rapps On Deck every Easter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nhlXtDRBU

[#8 posted by David Carroll, April 12, 2009 11:34 AM]

Bought and paid for Xeni. Thank you!

Possibly the best 99c I've ever spent... Oh! I bought a girl in grade school a 1$ Slurpie and she kissed me... But this is close!

P.S. My Easter song is Lenonard Cohen's Hallelujah. I like to listen to his version and kd lang's back to back, turned up to 11 while watching the sunrise. Great way to start the summer season...

Have a great day all you Mutants (and Mutants -in-training)!

[#9 posted by ill lich, April 12, 2009 12:33 PM]

For some of us Easter is next week (not that I will be celebrating, but I have to remember to call my relatives.)

[#10 posted by David Carroll, April 12, 2009 12:43 PM]

Ill Lich @9:

Still on the Julian calendar I see. Must be a little confusing. The good news is that for 2010 and 11 both Gregorian and Julian Easter dates are the same....

Happy Easter anyway!

[#11 posted by Anonymous, April 12, 2009 12:54 PM]

I'm a volunteer dj at a community access station, and tonight I'll be kicking things off with Nick Cave's "Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverendum (Dread The Passing Of Jesus, For He Will Not Return)", which should set the mood quite nicely.

Other songs will include "Easter Bunny" by Eugenius, Patti Smith's "Gloria (In Excelsis Deo", the Pixies' "Monkey Gone To Heaven" (Which I always dedicate to any Creationists/ID'ers that might be listening in), Glenn Branca's "The Ascension", "Easter Flesh" by the Legendary Shack*Shakers, the Rolling Stones' "Blinded By Rainbows", RL Burnside's "Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down", Roxy Music's "Triptych", "Easter Theatre" by XTC, the Velvet Underground's "Jesus", "Banging In The Nails" by the Tiger Lillies, Sugar's "Beaster" ep, the 13th Flooer Elevator's "Easter Everywhere" album (or maybe Mitch Easter's "Dynamico") and the Beat Farmers doing a medley of "If I Were A Carpenter" and "God Is Here Tonight".

If any of you have other ideas or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks,
Snagg

[#12 posted by ayurveda, April 12, 2009 1:05 PM]

What about Alphaville "Ayurveda believing" ?
Just a hit!!!

[#13 posted by Stefan Jones, April 12, 2009 1:51 PM]

Hmmm. Well. I'm not a particularly religious person. Easter isn't a big holiday in my family.

But I really like The Lord of the Dance. Not the clippity-cloppity Micheal Flatley version. The one that John Langstaff arranged and sung. The track I was just inspired to play is on a Christmas album, but it is more Easter than Xmas music.

[#14 posted by DGallardo, April 12, 2009 2:21 PM]

Easter was the first Patti Smith record I got as a teen. The liner notes made quite an impression on young me...

My favorite album of hers is Horses, which begins, memorably & defiantly, "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine."

[#15 posted by Big Ed Dunkel, April 12, 2009 2:45 PM]

Easter in the Naked City, via Weegee

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1170/1020075526_84e346f411.jpg

[#16 posted by steve, April 12, 2009 3:40 PM]

snagg@11, what's your station? Does it webcast? Podcast? Sounds like a great show!

[#17 posted by Anonymous, April 12, 2009 5:28 PM]

Thanks for this. Love Patti Smith, although, like #14 Dgallardo, I prefer "Horses" to "Easter."

My own Easter ritual involves watching "Monty Python's Life of Brian".

[#18 posted by Anonymous, April 12, 2009 5:50 PM]

Steve:

Sorry, I'm just catching up here.

I'm www.wqna.org - we stream and everything; I've still got an hour to go...

[#19 posted by Daemon, April 12, 2009 7:06 PM]

Happy pagan fertily festival which christianity totally failed to co-opt!

[#20 posted by kate, April 12, 2009 9:07 PM]

The world needs more Patti Smiths.

[#21 posted by Patrick Dodds , April 13, 2009 1:37 AM]

What are the other four albums Xeni?