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Today 16 years ago Mia Zapata, a singer for Seattle punk rock band The Gits, was murdered.



Zapata had spent the night before her death drinking. Around 1:00 a.m., she left the Comet Tavern bar in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. She went down the street to the apartment of a friend. She left around 2:00 a.m., telling her she was going home. This was the last she was seen alive. She may have walked a few blocks West to get a cab, North to a friend's apartment, or decided to walk home.

It is believed she encountered her murderer shortly after 2:15 am. Since the barkeep remembered her wearing her headset as she left, it is believed she was listening to music from her walkman and thus was unaware of the approaching danger.

Her body was found less than two hours later by a streetwalker in what was then a dead-end street in a part of the Central Area that was busy with drug buys and prostitution. The streetwalker, who went by the name of "Charity," told police that Zapata's body had been positioned in the form of a cross, with her ankles crossed and her arms stretched outward, perpendicular to her body. She had been strangled with the drawstrings of her sweat shirt, which bore the name of her band, The Gits.

Zapata was 27 when she died, the fiery lead singer and lyricist for an up-and-coming punk band, The Gits, a local favorite with a cult following in Seattle during a time when the city's "grunge" scene was all the vogue in the rock-music industry. Her slaying was felt by some local musicians as the pop of a balloon, the end of a delusional period of optimism. That the investigation stalled frustrated many in her circle.

After the initial shock of Zapata's murder, both the remaining members of the Gits and the Seattle musical community at large began an intensive investigation into her death. Using funds generated by the Seattle music community (from benefit shows and CDs), as well as their own money, the remaining band members hired private investigator Leigh Hearon to supplement the police department's investigation. For over three years, Hearon and the Seattle Police Department investigated the crime with little or no breaks in the case. In 1996 the investigation first gained national attention in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, it however did not open any new leads. The case was later highlighted on several other TV shows including A&E's American Justice, Cold Case Files, City Confidential, CBS's 48 Hours and FOX's America's Most Wanted.

Seven years passed with few new leads in the case, until a random DNA check conducted by the Seattle PD's Cold Case Unit and the Washington State Crime Lab led to the arrest of Cuban-American fisherman Jesus Mezquia. Mezquia, who briefly lived in Seattle during the time of Zapata's murder, was linked to the crime in 2003 when a DNA profile was extracted from a saliva sample left on Zapata's body; Mezquia had bitten her breast. It had been kept in cold storage until the STR technology was developed for full extraction. An original entry in 2001 failed to generate a positive result, but Mezquia's DNA entered the national databank after he was arrested for burglary in Florida in 2002.

On March 25, 2004, a jury convicted Mezquia of Zapata's murder and sentenced him to 36 years in prison, the maximum allowed in the case under Washington state law.



(this is my favorite Gits' song)



I haven't watched this movie yet... what a shame. I should definitely do it.

Mia Zapata was an incredible singer. She just totally sang her heart out. Her voice brings tears to my eyes and just kinda rips my soul. Her songs are amazingly emotional and powerful. Yeah, I know all these things sound so banal... but I just can't find the words.

The unrecognized and underrated Queen of Punk Rock,

Mia Katherine Zapata...

rest in peace. :)






^{Mia ZapataThe GitsPearl JamNirvanaSoundgarden7 Year BitchEvil StigDancing French Liberals of '48HeartThe Presidents of the United States of AmericaJoan JettEverclear}

Because protest songs are some of the best songs out there, and it's always important to unite people against unjustice, which these tracks aim to do!

10. M.I.A., Paper Planes
Just to prove that protest songs aren't dead and gone! This is one of M.I.A.'s best tracks, although she's kidding herself if she thinks she's underground (she expressed disappointment that the songs was so popular because she liked the 'underground cred').
The song itself is about racial stereotyping, and how Arabic people's are viewed in the West, feared even though after a day in a low paying job like driving a taxi, they're too crushed to care about terrorism, and just want left alone. The gunshots and cash registers obviously reference the money made by certain Americans during the Iraq war.

9. Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind
Usually this ends up near the top of lists like this, but I'm not a great fan of Dylan's performance of the song. Still, it is an essential protest song, asking how far we must go before enough is enough. Rather depressing, to be honest, made worse by the truth of the situation.

8. Aus Rotten, Tuesday, May 18, 1993
The date is the day upon which the vocalist of the band found out about atrocities carried out in Bosnia, the song draws parallels to the Nazi Holocaust, and asks why we let such a thing continue. A follow-up, Two Years And One Song Later explores the subject more blatantly, referencing the actual events of a war that much of the West choose to ignore. Perhaps Crust punk was not the best medium for gaining attention, but at least the band were doing something.

7. Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA
Although it has often been co-opted by patriots, Springsteen's song is anything but patriotic, criticising the government for the Vietnam war and its subsequent treatment of the soldiers unfairly drafted to fight in it. One wonders what the sun-burnt mullet-wearing rednecks would think if they actually listened to the lyrics?

6. Kanye West, Diamonds From Sierra Leone
Shocked? I was too when i first heard the track. Yet, Kanye rather openly lays into the whole 'bling' culture surrounding Hip Hop and the fact of blood diamonds. The sampling of Shirley Bassey's classic track Diamonds Are Forever makes the song more instantly recognisable while at the same time forcing the listener to realise the damage done by the trade. As far as I remember, the remix version is slightly more politicised.

5. 7 Year Bitch, M.I.A.
Mentioned in a previous post, this song is also a protest against the sloth and ignorance of the system in regards to rape cases. Given that so few rape cases result in a conviction and that so few women are given support following the crime (male preconception 'they were asking for it dressed like that'), this is an important if ignored song.

4. Public Enemy, 911 Is A Joke
Based around the slower response times when a 911 call comes from a poor or racial minority area, Chuck D's accusatory lyrics are sadly true. It was hard to pick a Public Enemy song, as so many are protest songs, but I felt that, because this one has a direct factual basis rather than attacking injustice in general that it should be up here.

3. The Cranberries, Zombie
A rather personal one, I choose this because to me it covers the Troubles in Ireland so much better than anything U2 have ever done. It describes exactly the attitudes of the sorts of people that perpetuate the war on both sides, 'zombie'. having spoken to these people and seeing the conflict go on needlessly, this is very personal for me.

2. Nena, 99 Red Balloons
Ultimate anti-nuclear war song? Perhaps. A catchy New Wave track was the perfect vehicle for Nena and co. to express anger at the nuclear stockpiles both superpowers were sitting on (with the UK developing Trident), mocking the stupidity of the governments with the premise that anything unexpected might spark off a destructive war, even some red balloons set off over the Berlin wall. Just as important today!!!

1. John Lennon, Give Peace a Chance
Number one because it says all that needs to be said! There's nothing complex, the niceties do not need gone into, the lyrics do not need to chart everything bad that man has ever done. Rather, we should just shut up and give peace a chance for once, and see how we do without relying on '-isms'.

Love songs are really a dying breed. Most popular songs I hear now seem to be about the chase or one night stands. That said, many older love songs have the performer displaying a stalker-like tenacity, even after the object of their affections has left. With that in mind, I've tried to pick songs I thought descriptive of love... without being creepy. As before, these are in no real order, just some of my favourites.

1. Iron & Wine, Upwards over the mountain
As was pointed out in the wonderful anti-novel A Year in the Life of themanwhofellasleep, there should be fewer songs about swinging lovers and more about sticking mothers. This song is tender, unaffected and totally deserving of being remembered as a great love song.

2. Patti Smith, Because the Night
Ok, so I it's basically about a one night stand, but it's passionate, and loving, not just some dance track about sleeping with someone and the feeling like another shag the morning after. Maybe not Patti's best, but the reason I will forgive Springsteen anything, for co-writing it.

3. Team Dresch, Don't Try Suicide
A quieter moment on their Captain, My Captain, it stands out amongst the soaring feedback and is one of my favourite tracks by the band. Essentially, the love element is to do with the girlfriend of the protagonist holding her when she's upset, and the power of having someone close to you. I'm not sure on the actual context, but given the rest of the band's output, I'm assuming it's based on a personal experience. Also brilliant: Uncle Phranc, a song about love for an adopted uncle/aunt figure.

4. 7 Year Bitch, M.I.A.
Ok, this one is sort of scary, but not in a stalker way. In fact, basically the opposite. M.I.A. is an angry, reactionary song written about the rape and murder of Mia Zapata of the Gits, a close friend of the band members. The song urges vigilante justice against the criminal responsible, which I would rather view as an angry expression of thwarted love for their friend than an actual call to arms. Then again, these guys did write Dead Men Don't Rape too.

5. Björk, Hyperballad
The protagonist of this song is a (presumably) depressed woman who each morning throws smal objects from the top of the mountain where she lives with her lover, imagining they are her, so that she can be happy when she is with him. All very metaphorical, of course, but it is a beautiful story in itself, and a perfect description of love and what people will do for it, or what it does to them.

6. Ani DiFranco, Untouchable Face
Ok, I know I said I hated the stalker vibe in most songs, but this can almost be seen as a parody or rejection of that role. Rather than pining for an ex-lover, DiFranco's song contains admission that their new beau is perfect with them, and that they are forever. Against this are her frustrations, 'I prefer the worst of you, too bad you had to have a better half', 'fuck you'.

7. Cat Stevens, Father And Son
Forget the version with Ronan Keating, this song is a wonderfully touching duet (or perhaps duel). Proof that really great love songs are not just for girls, it skirts away from the Oedipal man-hugging of most father-son relationships to have a death-bed sentimentality that stop short of being saccharine.

8. Moldy Peaches, Anybody Else but You
Ok, maybe it's a little twee, but I adore it anyway, and it's the perfect upbeat play on love and friendship. It's a song for people in love that actually like each other as well, and I think that gives it a spot on this list. Another less cheery love song by Moldy Peaches, Nothing Came Out is about unrequited love, but worth a listen for the bad hair metal ballad solo it manages to incorporate, and the fact it's teenage love packaged exactly.

9. Regina Spektor, Samson
The reclaimation of love from the epic and needless passion of the archetypal stories, this song sees Samson and Delilah living happily together after she cuts his hair, accepting a place as a normal human and being in love rather than becoming a Biblical character or a hero. This is the ultimate triumph of true love, of longevity over passion.

10. Cat Power, Aretha, Sing One for Me
I prefer Power's cover version of this song, a great tune about the power of music to move our hearts. A lover begs Aretha Franklin to sing a song that'll put her partner in a concillatory mood after they storm off to a one of her concerts following an argument. This song is as much about love of music to me as it is about love itself.

Bonus!

11. Crass, Our Wedding
A pastiche of the typical radio love song, Crass released this on a limited edition disc. Part of their Penis Envy album it is really an attack on the female role in relationships, seen on the album as limiting, humiliating and sub-servient. The song itself is awful, but hilarious in context.

Bonus Bonus!

12. Cat Power, Sea of Love
Because I want someone to sing it to me :(

7 Janvier 2009 à 3:20

Answer questions on itunes (in my iPod)

5047 songs

Sort By Artist:
First Song: "Come On, Come Out" - A Fine Frenzy
Last Song: "Get Lit" - 7 Year Bitch

Sort By Song Title:
First Song: "A Beautiful Book" - Butterfly Boucher
Last Song: '9 Crimes' - Damien Rice

Sort By Album Title:
First Song: "Middle of The Night" - Sherwood (Album: A Different Light)
Last Song: "Me, My Yoke, And I" - Damien Rice (Album: 9)

Sort By Song Time:
First Song: "Etiquette I.D" - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Last Song: "MX" - Deftones

Top 10 Most Played Songs
01 "Broken (Feat. Gavin Clark)" - UNKLE
02 "Suite From the X-Files" - Mark Snow
03 "Home Again" - Mark Snow
04 "Tapes" - Alanis Morissette
05 "Straitjacket" - Alanis Morissette
06 "Gabriel" - Electrelane
07 "Giggling Again For No Reason" - Alanis Morissette
08 "Say So" - Uh Huh Her
09 "I'm on Fire" - Catherine Feeny
10 "Touch Back Down" - Catherine Feeny

First 5 Songs That Come Up On Shuffle
01 "Are You Still Waiting for the Messiah" - Kelli Rudick
02 "Forgive Them Father" - Lauryn Hill
03 "Out of Egypt" - Sufjan Stevens
04 "Lost At Sea" - Eisley
05 "Them Bones" - Alice in Chains

Search...
"sex" - How many songs come up?: 48
"love" - How many songs come up?: 200
"you" - How many songs come up?: 617
"death" - How many songs come up?: 24
"hate" - How many songs come up?: 17

GRUNGE

Must Have Albums

13 Engines-Perpetual Motion Machine
54-40-Smilin' Buddha Cabaret
7 Year Bitch-Viva Zapata!
Alice in Chains-Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains-Dirt
Alice in Chains-Facelift
Babes in Toyland-Fontanelle
Babes in Toyland-Spanking Machine
Babes in Toyland-To Mother
Bif Naked-I Bificus
Brad-Shame
Buffalo Tom-Birdbrain
Buffalo Tom-Buffalo Tom
Bush-Sixteen Stone
Bush-The Science of Things
Candlebox-Candlebox
Candlebox-Lucy
Caroline's Spine-Monsoon
Caustic Resin-Fly Me To The Moon
Caustic Resin-The Medicine Is All Gone
Cosmic Psychos-Blokes You Can Trust
Dinosaur Jr.-Green Mind
Dinosaur Jr.-Where You Been
Dinosaur Jr.-Without a Sound
Green River-Rehab Doll
Gruntruck-Inside Yours
Gruntruck-Push
Hey-Fire
Hole-Live Through This
Hole-Pretty on the Inside
Illusion-Illusion
Killdozer-Little Baby Buntin'
Killdozer-Twelve Point Buck
King Snake Roost-Things That Play Themselves
L7-Bricks Are Heavy
L7-Hungry for Stink
L7-L7
L7-Slap Happy
L7-Smell the Magic
Mad Season-Above
Mind Funk-Dropped
Moist-Silver
Mother Love Bone-Apple
Mudhoney-Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
Mudhoney-Mudhoney
Mudhoney-Piece of Cake
Mudhoney-The Lucky Ones
My Sister's Machine-Diva
My Sister's Machine-Wallflower
Nirvana-Bleach
Nirvana-In Utero
Nirvana-Nevermind
Nudeswirl-Nudeswirl
Nymphs-Nymphs
Paw-Death to Traitors
Paw-Dragline
Pearl Jam-Ten
Pearl Jam-Vitalogy
Pearl Jam-Vs.
Pond-Pond
Powderfinger-Parables for Wooden Ears
Radish-Restraining Bolt
Rein Sanction-Mariposa
Rusty-Fluke
Screaming Trees-Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees-Dust
Screaming Trees-Even If and Especially When
Screaming Trees-Sweet Oblivion
Screaming Trees-Uncle Anesthesia
Seaweed-Weak
Silverchair-Freak Show
Silverchair-Frogstomp
Skin Yard-1000 Smiling Knuckles
Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger
Soundgarden-Louder Than Live: At the Whiskey
Soundgarden-Louder Than Love
Soundgarden-Superunknown
Soundgarden-Ultramega OK
Stone Temple Pilots-Core
Stone Temple Pilots-Purple
Stone Temple Pilots-Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop
Sweet 75-Sweet 75
Tad-8-Way Santa
Tad-God's Balls
Tad-Infrared Riding Hood
Tad-Inhaler
Tad-Live Alien Broadcasts
Tales of Terror-Tales of Terror
Temple of the Dog-Temple Of The Dog
The Afghan Whigs-Congregation
The Afghan Whigs-Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs-Up in It
The Doughboys-Crush
The Fluid-Glue
The Fluid-Roadmouth
The Nixons-Foma
U-Men-Step On A Bug
Various Artists-Soundtracks-Film Soundtracks 1990-94-The Crow
Vertigo-Vertigo
Zakk Wylde-Book of Shadows


7 Year Bitch - Alice in Chains - Blood Circus - Green River - Gruntruck - Hammerbox - Love Battery - Mad Season - Malfunkshun - Melvins - Mono Men - Mother Love Bone - Mudhoney - My Sister's Machine - Nirvana - Pearl Jam - Screaming Trees - Skin Yard - Soundgarden - Tad - Temple of the Dog - Truly - The U-Men -

POST GRUNGE BANDS

10 Years - 12 Stones - 3 Doors Down - 32 Leaves - 8stops7 - Alien Ant Farm - Allele - Alter Bridge - Army of Anyone - Art of Dying - Audioslave - Audrey Horne - Axium - Bad Ronald - Baskervilles - Better Than Ezra - Birdbrain - Black Stone Cherry - Blue October - Bonehead - Breaking Benjamin - Burning Brides - Bush - Campfire Girls - Candlebox - Chevelle - Clarknova - Cold - Collective Soul - Cowboy Mouth - Creed - Crossfade - Daddysmilk - Dark New Day - Dash Rip Rock - Daughtry - Days of the New - Deep Blue Something - Default - Edge of Earth - Egypt Central - Everclear - Fiction Plane - Filter - Finger Eleven - Fireflight - Foo Fighters - Framing Hanley - Fuel - Godsmack - Goo Goo Dolls - Green Apple Quick Step - Green Lizard - Grinspoon - Gyroscope - Harvey Danger - Height of Roman Fashion - Hinder - Hoobastank - Hurt - I Knew Them - I Mother Earth - InMe - Jacob's Mouse - Joe 90 - July For Kings - Lifehouse - Lit - Live - Lynam - Machina - Marcy Playground - Matchbox Twenty - Mighty Joe Plum - Moist - Motograter - Nickelback - No Doubt - Oleander - OneSideZero - Operator - Our Lady Peace - Pop Evil - Pork - Pound - Pray for the Soul of Betty - Puddle of Mudd - Ra - Red - Remy Zero - Rev Theory - Revis - Rose Blossom Punch - Royal Bliss - Saving Abel - Second Coming - Seether - Sematic - Semisonic - Seven Mary Three - Sevendust - Shinedown - Sick Puppies - Silverchair - Silvertide - Simon Says - Skitsoy - Slaves To Gravity - Smile Empty Soul - Sons of Elvis - SouthFM - Sprinkler - Staind - Stephen Speaks - Stiltskin - Submersed - Sugar Ray - Switchfoot - Tantric - Taproot - Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders - The Almost - The Calling - The Flys - The Ga Ga's - The Nixons - The Presidents of the United States of America - The Sunpilots - The Verve Pipe - The Vines - Theory of a Deadman - Third Eye Blind - Thornley - Three Days Grace - Tonic - Tracy Bonham - Transmatic - Trapt - tvfordogs - Udora - Vayden - Vertical Horizon - Virginwool - Vonray - Winterville

Unique Artists: 240
Total Tracks: 269
Total Plays: 270

Artists
#1 Goldfrapp
#1 Massive Attack
#1 Air
#1 7 Year Bitch
#1 Portishead
#1 L7
#7 Die Radierer
#7 UNKLE
#7 DJ Shadow
#7 Hooverphonic
#7 Lunascape
#7 Papa Roach
#7 Tool
#7 Télépopmusik
#7 Bonobo
#7 Siouxsie and the Banshees
#7 Tricky
#7 The Glove
#7 Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
#7 Bauhaus
#7 Lamb
#7 Linkin Park
#7 Sneaker Pimps
#7 Angizia

Albums

#1 Bricks Are Heavy
#2 Moon Safari
#2 Third
#2 Out of Season
#2 Hybrid Theory
#2 Das Schachspiel des Trommelbuben Zacharias
#2 Blue Sunshine
#2 Sick 'Em
#2 Endtroducing.....
#2 What Sound
#2 Becoming X
#2 Maxinquaye

Tracks

#1 One Step Closer
etc

trip-hop electronic female vocalists alternative chillout rock electronica downtempo post-punk grunge ambient new wave riot grrrl hip-hop indie alternative rock gothic punk ndw

AEP: 2.9
eclectic score: 87/100
super-eclectic score: 739/1000

Entry for April 07, 2008
Good morning world! What a beautiful day today would be if it wen't for all the negativity around me. It's all good though, i'm starting to learn how not to let others affect me. Honestly i'm not sure how well it's working, but hey you gotta give me at least a little credit for trying. RIGHT?

Anywho; Works starting to get alot better. I've been trying to get to know the people i work with better, Which is hard for me because i don't like talking to people that i don't really know. I'm one of those girls who just don't really think about what they say, and it gets me in trouble sometimes. And trouble's what i'm trying to avoid....hmm doesn't really make sense does it? i'm not sure maybe it does. lol

So i've been thinking about school alot lately. I feel like an idiot fo not finishing school. AND NOW i didn't go sign up for the GED test this last saturday, and it's going to take me longer to finish that. God i feek like such a damn looser! I also want to start taking some kind of class...massage therapy, recording, fuck man ANYTHING! Anything but nothing. I just feel so determined to finish something now. Everything i've ever picked up i lost intrest in, and i move onto something else, but then i do the same thing all over again. haha isn't reality fun you guys??
7 Year Bitch