Ever love an album so much, you’d call it perfect—if it wasn’t for that one skippable track? This week, Christina and Christine reveal the single songs they’d remove from a couple of their favorite records to create their ultimate no-skip albums.
Christina kicked things off with a song she LOVES to skip: “L’Inconnue” by Beach House from their 2018 album “7.”
While the song itself isn’t a winner for Christina, she loves the many hits from the rest of this album, including “Lemon Glow,” “Drunk in LA,” “Dark Spring,” …really all of them! It’s almost a, dare we say, perfect album.
She also loved learning more about the meaning behind the French title. “L’Inconnue” means “the stranger” or “the unknown” and it’s possible that it comes from the story of a young French woman who was pulled out of the Seine River. No signs of harm were visible so they suspected suicide. But she was so beautiful they took a death mask of her face and many copies were made and hung on the walls of artists and Bohemians in Paris. As such, they named her “L’Inconnue de la Seine.” The more you know!
Christine decided to yank “Andy Warhol” from David Bowie’s Hunky Dory (1971) to create her own no-skip album.
Bowie wrote this song for English actress, singer, and former Bowie lover Dana Gillespie. Though he recorded it first for Hunky Dory, you can see her singing it in all its intended glory. And for Christine, she’d rather take a trip to the loo than listen all the way through. But really, it’s one of her all time favorite albums! She even told Christina years before they started playing the game. 🖤
Many thanks to Rusty Watson for the very cool Andy Warhol statue picture!
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