Here’s my Take

I’ve been wishing that I wasn’t such a parasite …

“Take a Look Around,” Phil Keaggy
“Take It With Me,” Tom Waits
“Take Me (Back) to You,” Cracker
“Take Me Back,” Van Morrison
“Take Me Back to Love Canal,” Chagall Guevara
“Take Me Down to the Infirmary,” Cracker
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” The Hold Steady
“Take Me to Aruanda,” Astrud Gilberto
“Take Me to Mars,” Milla
“Take Me to the River,” Annie Lennox
“Take Me to the River,” Talking Heads
“Take Me With U,” Prince and the Revolution
“Take My Heart Away,” Johnny Clegg & Savuka
“Take No Prisoners,” Vigilantes of Love
“Take the Skinheads Bowling,” Camper Van Beethoven
“Take You There,” G. Love & Special Sauce

David Lowery likes this word for song titles.

For those unfamiliar with the world of “Christian rock,” let me briefly introduce Phil Keaggy: Very skilled guitar player; does uncanny McCartney impression; wrote some very good songs; wrote some awful songs; may or may not himself realize which are which.

That link for “Take It With Me” isn’t to Tom Waits, but to a rendition by a woman named Solveig Slettahjell from the Norwegian TV show “Beat for Beat,” which seems to be some kind of battle of the bands show. Apparently Norway’s idea of reality TV involves lovely piano versions of Tom Waits songs, while we have “Fear Factor” and “Flavor of Love.” Makes sense, I guess, when you consider that this is their idea of a prison.