so many people think they don’t like jazz. jazzfunk is really just laidback funk music. the 70s did it best – vocal or instrumental.
bossa rio – with your love now
chico hamilton – magic fingers
gene harris – losalamitoslatinfunklovesong
george benson – breezin’
harvey mason – til you take my love
incognito – parisienne girl
rotary connection – i am the black gold of the sun
roy ayers – sensitize
sergio mendes – the real thing
shakatak – night birds
s.o.u.l – soul
tania maria – come with me
do you remember the frenzy for diamante horseshoe necklaces during season 2? i got mine from fenwick – which saved me about £170 as i was fully prepared to go pay £200 for the liberty version, i was that desperate. i don’t even wanna know how much the real thing cost…it wasn’t an option at the time but later i did fork out for the adina circle necklace as worn by jennifer aniston and eva longoria.
this is one of my favourite series. sorry, seasons.
i even like the twentysomething women episode – let’s get one thing straight though. natasha was most definitely sleeping with someone at ralph lauren. no 26 year old is as far up the career ladder as she was portrayed to be. but, there was a little irony in skinny, self-obsessed carrie calling her the ‘idiot stick figure with no soul’.
the soundtrack for season one is here
diana krall – devil may care
diana ross – love hangover
fatboy slim – praise you
fatboy slim – rockafeller skank
four piece suit – bombasteroid
frank sinatra – it was a very good year
jesse cook – tempest
montefiori cocktail -gne gne
ozomatli – como ves
right said fred – i’m too sexy
tchaikovsky – dance of the sugar plum fairy
voo doo phunk – point of view
i’m not sure i’ve looked forward to a movie this much since the rumour that ‘dirty dancing 2’ would be made a few years after the original. that took about 15 years to materialise (and i still haven’t bothered to watch it) but with movies still commercially viable i have a feeling this one will run to schedule.
when the show first aired in 1998, i was living in an absolute hellhole. i’d just graduated and was sharing with a friend in london. we had a bed in the living room, in order to have something to sit on and so watching older, successful women with real apartments was slightly removed from our reality.
what i couldn’t relate to then but i can understand now is the feeling of being in your 30s and single. i now have many single friends, mostly older, who are slightly panicked at the thought that they might not find ‘the one’ i can understand that feeling from looking for a new job and in the end, maybe they’re quite similar as the longer you hold out the better the end result.
the distinct personalities of the girls are perhaps a little too exaggerated here as the series aims to establish the characters. its a fun series as the girls are mostly single and having fun but the warmth and complexity of their friendship doesn’t always shine through as in later episodes.
the music in the first series was mostly jazz, new and standard. with a few disco numbers thrown in for certain scenes. ‘under paris skies’ is currently being used in a ford s-max advert.
you can check out the soundtrack for season two here.
amber – flying above the clouds
aretha franklin – respect
big bad voodoo daddy – you and me and the bottle makes 3 tonight
edith piaf – no regrets
etta james – something’s got a hold on me
evelyn champagne king – shame
joe ‘fingers’ carr – under paris skies
kc and the sunshine band – that’s the way i like it
morphine – honey white
patrick hernandez – born to be alive
sheryl crow – a change would do you good
squirrel nut zippers – meant to be
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
dirty martini 