Category: 50ish Recent Songs

  • 50ish Recent Tracks

    Haven’t done one of these for a while. 50ish recent tracks, mostly picked by my phone.

    Immigrant Song – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Feat. Karen O
    From the American film version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

    Turning of the Tide – Bob Mould
    Let’s Go Slow (with Rob Shear) – Jules Shear
    Morning Flowers – Wax Witches
    It Tango – Laurie Anderson
    Blues For Yesterday – Louis Armstrong

    Whip It – Philip Steir and Ramin Sakurai Remix Devo

    On Your Own – Blur
    No More Kings – Pavement

    An Ear for Baby – The Thermals

    The Opposite Of Hallelujah – Jens Lekman
    The Sheik of Araby – Edmond Hall Sextet
    Feelings (ft. Maggy Lee) – Treasure
    Stranded – Shawn Colvin
    All I Wanna Do – Jakob Ogawa
    Dead Finks Don’t Talk – Brian Eno
    No Complaints – Beck

    Still Not a Player – Incubus and Big Pun

    Glad To Be Unhappy – The Mamas & The Papas
    Waiting For The Sun – Powderfinger
    Only Matters When – UV-TV
    Slip Away – Clarence Carter
    Rain King – Counting Crows
    Navy Blue (Alt Tk Of Above) – Stan Getz
    In The Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett

    Lesson 3 – Double Dee + Steinski

    Long Vermont Roads – The Magnetic Fields
    Palm Of Your Hand – Cake
    Truckdrivin Neighbors Downstairs – Beck
    What To Say – Bill Nickson
    Celebration – They Might Be Giants
    Wouldn’t It Be Nice To See For Miles – The Who Boys
    Don’t Ever Leave Me – Connie Francis
    Paperbacks – Arlo Parks
    Up The Morning – Babyshambles
    No You Didn’t No You Don’t – The Courteeners
    Get Me By – Boy Scout
    Hawaiian War Chant – Billy Mure
    The Distance – Cake

    So It Goes – Nick Lowe

    A Little More for Little You – The Hives
    It Was a Good Day – Ice Cube
    I Get A Kick – Jungle Brothers
    Stupid Thumbs – Sugar John
    Under Daisies – Monogold
    Lightness – Dead Times
    Daydream – Boy Romeo
    Kiss the Devil – Eagles of Death Metal

    My Philosophy – KRS-One

    The Haunted Mansion: Grim Grinning Ghosts – Disney
    Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes

  • 50ish recent songs

    50ish recent tracks, mostly picked by my phone.

    I listen to some goofy stuff.

    Eraserhead Serenade – RIAA

    Are You a Magician? – SoKo
    Candy-Coated Popcorn, Peanuts and a Prize [Crackerjack commercial]
    The Ties That Bind – Bruce Springsteen

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9LmHISfm-8
    Museum of Idiots – They Might Be Giants

    How Now (ft. Feist) – Snowblink
    Remote Control – Beastie Boys

    Love Me Or Leave Me – Ella Fitzgerald

    World Of Shit – Eels
    Garden – herbal tea
    Hard to Handle – Otis Redding
    Shrooms – Interlude – The Lonely Island

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBpM2d9biDA
    Squalor Victoria – The National

    True Love Ways – Buddy Holly
    Try It Baby – Marvin Gaye
    Got No Heart – The Paper Hearts
    A Fine Romance – Billie Holiday
    Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel
    Country Sad Ballad Man – Blur
    Dream TV – The Sugarcubes
    Who’s Mess, Who’s Tears – Made-Up
    Wild Situation – Dennis Wilson

    Hour – Porches

    Funky Boss – Beastie Boys
    Beside You – Van Morrison
    I’m Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking – Diana Ross and The Supremes
    People Are Like Suns – Crowded House
    Breakers – Local Natives
    Calling Miss Khadija – Freddie Hubbard & Woody Shaw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3sit0CLGc
    The Marvel Superheroes Have Arrived – Marvel
    Okay, here’s a creepy thing I never noticed before: Sub-Mariner is described as “exotically erotic.” Just what kids are looking for. Ew.

    Oldest Story In The World – The Plimsouls
    For Baby (For Bobby) – Peter, Paul & Mary
    Jet Boy, Jet Girl – The Damned
    Hey Ya – Outkast
    Turn Away – Beck

    Metropolis – The Pogues

    In Dreamed Lives – Tender Tones
    April Come She Will – Simon and Garfunkel
    I’m Looking Through You – Ted Leo
    Apartment – L I P S
    I’m Telling You – CAPTAIN SCOTT
    You Bowed Down – Elvis Costello
    Champagne & The Starlite – Theya Hermann
    Disappear – Beyoncé
    Slow and Low – Beastie Boys

    Bowling With Bedrock Barney – The Dickies

    Captions – Dog Traders
    Less – Ben Harper
    Beggar’s Bliss – Luna
    I Hate Myself For Loving You – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
    Honey Power – My Bloody Valentine
    Taneo Dance Fever – Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
    Digging For Clams – Almonds, Cohen

  • 50ish Recent Tracks, Coronavirus Edition

    50ish recent tracks, mostly picked by my phone. Some of these played while I was riding in the wind and couldn’t actually hear them, but I assume they were embedded in my brain subconsciously.

    Let’s Fall In Love – Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson

    Marijuana – Cibo Matto
    Don’t Call Me Billy (Demo) – Elliott Smith

    Spanish Bombs – The Clash

    Instrumental – Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson
    Wish – Wyatt Smith
    Chango – Ozomatli
    Save It Pretty Mama – Louis Armstrong
    Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder
    Lowell, MA – Death Cab For Cutie

    More – Ednaswap

    Do It Again – Hysterics
    Stand! – Sly & The Family Stone
    Severe Tire Damage Theme – They Might Be Giants
    Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream
    S-E-X-X-Y – They Might Be Giants
    Tug of Love – Dennis Wilson
    I Desire – Devo
    Murder Of Crows – Jamie T
    Anything – TOPS
    Could You Drive Me Home – Preparation 500
    I’ll See You in My Dreams – Django Reinhardt
    Life Is Still Sweet – White Hassle

    Blowin’ In The Wind – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – a great song to hear as you’re fighting a 10mph headwind on your bike.

    Hyacinth Blues – The Constantines
    Temptation Waits – Garbage
    polaroid smmr – Detective Deckard
    Little Boxes (dirty version) – Kris Gruen
    Mind Fuck – The Soft
    Centerfold – The J. Geils Band
    I’m In Great Shape – Brian Wilson
    Runnin’ With the Devil (Van Halen cover) – The Vatican Cellars
    Pump-Rama – Killer Pussy
    He’s a Mighty Good Leader – Beck
    Regrets – Ben Folds Five
    I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) – Stevie Wonder
    Go West – Liz Phair
    My Guitar – Nader & the Trees
    Jalousie – Esquivel
    A Horse with No Name (America) – Larrikin Love
    Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) – Nouvelle Vague

    Sun – GRMLN

    Tonight You Belong to Me – Trashcan Sinatras
    Happiness – Callum Pitt

    Sunday – Sia
    I can’t tell if the low resolution is on purpose.

    Le temps – Mha
    Evil – Howlin’ Wolf
    Modesty Plays [Extended Version] – Sparks
    Witch Doctor – David Seville
    Sky So Blue – Hot Flash Heat Wave
    Seven Seas – Echo and the Bunnymen
    Ballad – HAMJAM
    Love Me Two Times – The Doors

  • End of the year stuff

    There are about nine hours left in my 2019.

    It’s ending on a good note. Katherine is as awesome as ever. I still have the best damn job I could imagine, and a group of co-workers I actually like to hang out with. And I’m about 25 pounds lighter than I was last year. All good.

    The world decided to give me a gift today: perfect bike weather. Sunny and warm, but not hot. And a second gift: almost no traffic. I had my highest ever average speed for a longer ride. Another good note.

    I don’t care for the whole New Year’s resolutions thing. It’s a high pressure recipe for discouragement. Instead, I’m going to try and keep doing what I try doing all year: adjust and improve as I go. I don’t expect to get it all right, and that’s fine. Whether you’re making a resolution tomorrow or not, I hope you give yourself permission to fail and learn.

    2020 is here. I hope it’s great for you.

    Now: 50 recent songs, mostly picked by my phone, including the best song of the ride.

    New Year’s Eve – The Walkmen
    I guess my phone wanted to get into the spirit of things
    Commissioning a Symphony in C – Cake
    This would normally be a contender for Best Song of the Ride, but alas! It played before I left.

    Feral Cat Tribe – Tenement
    My Three Sons – Elvis Costello And The Imposters

    Tu m’as encore crevé un cheval – Arlt
    This was in the last 50 songs as well. Why? Because Apple uses a crappy music randomizer. Thousands of songs on my phone, and this one comes up again right away.

    Part III – Crumb
    I Wish You Would – The Yardbirds
    Vaporize – Broken Bells
    Who Cares? (take 4) – Cannonball Adderley With Bill Evans
    Longer Boats – Cat Stevens
    Coney Island Baby – Tom Waits
    Schn in rosa und rot (Pretty in Pink – Psychedelic Furs) – Le anin
    Dio – Tenacious D
    Easy Read – Trashcan Sinatras
    Baby Plays Around – Elvis Costello
    Jump Boys – The Undertones
    Cross-Eyed Tammy – The Dickies

    Bicycle Race – Queen
    When a bicycle song plays on your bike ride, you have to point it out. Also: In this song Freddie Mercury sings “…and I don’t like Star Wars.” If he didn’t like the original, imagine how much he would have hated The Rise of Skywalker.

    Fool – Cat Power
    Crazy People – Luna
    Until Death – Scout Niblett
    A New Wave – Sleater-Kinney
    Take It Easy, Greasy – Snooky Pryor
    Porno Music – Freaks and Geeks
    Straight Edge – Minor Threat
    Most Precarious – Blues Traveler
    She Wolf – Shakira
    Get In On It – Antoine Diligent
    Think It Over – Buddy Holly

    My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama – Frank Zappa
    Best song of the ride!

    Hot – The Regrettes
    Haunted – Broken Down Golf Cart
    Tu Mirada y Mi Voz – Susana Baca
    Motherless Children – Eric Clapton
    Big House – Young Fresh Fellows
    Sky Phenomenon – Jens Lekman
    I Feel Speed – Love And Rockets
    Muddy Waters – LP
    White Babies – Liz Phair
    I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues – Elton John
    I’m a Wicked One – The Hives
    Neighborhood #1 Tunnels – Arcade Fire
    Dereclict – Beck
    Key Largo – Arbes
    Loosy Lucy – The Steeples
    Everyone Can See – yungatita
    The Girl I Knew Somewhere – The Monkees
    Daylight Til Dawn – All Night Radio
    Stars on Your Nose – Indoorsy

    I’m Gonna Love The Hell Outta You (Demo) – Silver Jews
    If this had been the studio version it totally would have won best song of the ride.

    Tal Uno – Barrie

    And here’s today’s ride.

  • 50 Recent Songs

    Skate It Out – Eddie Bo
    Boulders – Sonagur
    T’ain’t No Sin – William S. Burroughs
    The Way Young Lovers Do – Van Morrison
    He Woke Me Up Again – Sufjan Stevens
    Ana Ng – They Might Be Giants
    Feral Cat Tribe – Tenement

    Nothing Compares To You – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
    This is the version most people are familiar with.

    Wollow – Strüds Munroe
    Life Goes On – Damned
    Baby I’m A Star – Prince And The Revolution
    Pouring Rain – Fishbone
    Turn Every Stone – Lalo Schifrin
    Save it For Later – Harvey Danger
    Gone Again – Otis Redding
    Same Thing Twice – John Wesley Harding
    Just About Glad – Elvis Costello
    Born Under a Bad Sign – Cream

    Hawaiian Shirt Day is not a song, but it did play.

    Celebration – They Might Be Giants
    Spanish Eyes – U2
    Tortaruga – The Meligrove Band
    Here I Am (Come And Take Me) – Al Green
    Cosmic Love – Florence And The Machine

    Don’t Go All Wicked On Me – Neiltomo
    This is from a record called Mashed In Plastic. It’s a mashup record with a David Lynch theme. Some of it is pretty darn good.

    Ton o’ Love – Devo
    With a Little Help From My Friends (Remix) – The Beatles
    Secret Agent Man – Agent Orange
    Mr. Pitiful – Otis Redding
    I’m Available – Margie Rayburn
    Sad Airplane – Tyler Burkhart
    The Jean Genie – David Bowie

    Wooden Nickels – Eels

    Angels Heap – Finn Brothers
    Only You – Slut

    Tu m’as encore crevé un cheval – Arlt
    I don’t know what this song is about (the title translates to “you punctured me,” which doesn’t sound positive), but it sure was a fun bit to listen to while riding by the river.

    Friday I’m in Love – The Cure
    In The Way – Max Kuehn
    Don’t Make Me A Target – Spoon
    No Complaints – Beck
    Rattlesnakes – Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
    Brand New Cadillac – The Clash
    100% (feat. Yumi Zouma) – Boycrush
    The Song Is You – Stan Getz
    Cartrouble [Single] – Adam and The Ants
    No One But Yourself – Bo Pepper

    Entry Of The Gladiators – The Rolling Stones
    You might know this better as “generic clown music,” and this version certainly leans into that, but it was originally a military march.

    Singapore – Tom Waits
    Where Have All The Good Times Gone – The Kinks

    Love Will Freak Us (Joy Division vs Missy Elliot ) – Sheena Bizarre

    Love Without Anger – Aquabats
    Junkie Song – The Be Good Tanyas
    You Are the Light – Jens Lekman

  • 50ish songs, Best Music of the Ride

    50ish recent songs, mostly picked by my phone.

    Just Like Heaven – The Cure

    Prologue – Schlong
    This will always make me think of Renee, who introduced it to me.

    Changes – No Vacation
    Falling – Howard
    Big Rock Candy Mountain – The Beat Farmers
    Nowhere Man – Low
    The Haunted Mansion: Grim Grinning Ghosts – Disney
    It’s Alright, Follow – Tarek Musa
    Good Day (Extended Edit) – The Kinks
    Paper Planes – I’m From Barcelona
    Paper Thin Walls – Modest Mouse

    Word To The Mic – dj BC and The Beastles
    These folks have multiple full albums of Beatles/Beastie Boys mashups. Some of them (like this one) work pretty well.

    She’s Leaving Home – The Beatles
    Over the Rainbow (live) – Rufus Wainwright
    Tumbledown – The Jesus and Mary Chain
    Empty puppet – Mary Bell
    Hold Your Head Up – Argent

    The House Where Nobody Lives – Tom Waits
    Specifically, this live version from a 20 year old VH-1 special. I like it a lot more than the album version, but it’s really hard to find a decent recording of it.

    Sympathy for the Soul of the Beast – Celebrity Murder Party
    Happy Together – Mel Torme
    Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra
    Red Right Hand – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    Worse Things Happen At Sea – Toy Dolls
    Critic Intro – They Might Be Giants
    Pop All The Stars – Emmett Kai
    King Kong – Tom Waits
    Blow Me Down – Harry Nilsson
    Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26) – The Beatles

    Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads
    The second-best song of today’s ride.

    Prince Charming – Adam Ant

    She’s Got A New Spell – Billy Bragg
    The best song of today’s ride.


    Gypsy – hana vu
    1 2 3 4 – Feist
    Maiwaige – The Princess Bride
    This Time Tomorrow – The Kinks
    Gypsy Town – Wet Illustrated
    Don’t Stop Now – Crowded House
    Birth of the Cool – Miles Davis
    Infatuation – The Rapture
    Fatal Attraction (And It’s So Strange) – The Ultraviolets
    Wrong About Bobby – Eels
    Money – Pink Floyd
    One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) – Billie Holiday
    Paul’s Pal – Sonny Rollins Quartet
    Fade – Goth Dad
    LNT – Stevan
    My Funny Valentine – The Miles Davis Quintet
    Highness – Envy And Other Sins
    Telegram Sam – Bauhaus
    Song For Dan Treacy – MGMT
    Schoolhouse Rocky – Bob Dorough & Others

    Young Fresh Fellows Theme – Young Fresh Fellows
    This wasn’t on the ride. If it had been it probably would have won best song of the ride.

    Also: Really good ride today. 30 miles and a better-than-normal average pace. All it needed to be perfect was for me to remember my water bottle.

  • 50ish Recent Songs, and the Best Song of Today’s Ride

    50ish recent songs, mostly picked by my phone. About half of them were from today’s ride, where I decided to get a pinch flat AND whack my hand into a utility box.

    Oh, and I didn’t tighten the bolts on my new cleats enough, so one came loose. NEAT.

    Big Time – Peter Gabriel
    The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room) – Flight of the Conchords
    I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye

    The Girl Is Mine – Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine – You haven’t heard this song until you’ve heard a lounge version with Stephen Hawking.

    Cartrouble, Pts. 1 & 2 [Original Album Version] – Adam and The Ants
    No Rain – Blind Melon

    Julie’s Been Working For The Drug Squad – The Clash

    Hot Hot Hot!!! – The Cure
    One Way Or Another – Blondie
    Everybody’s a Star (Starmaker) (mono mix) – The Kinks
    The District Sleeps Alone Tonight – The Postal Service
    Yew – BUHU
    Hard To Handle – The Black Crowes
    Bedlam – Elvis Costello And The Imposters
    Train In Vain – The Clash
    Birthday – The Beatles
    Pretty In Pink – The Psychedelic Furs
    Chicago (acoustic version) – Sufjan Stevens
    Three Car Jam – Minutemen

    Love Will Tear Us Apart – The Hot 8 Brass Band – presented in its original form as a New Orleans jazz band song.

    The Loved One – INXS
    Miracle Cure – The Who
    13 A Sky Blue Rhapsody – ccc – ill chemist
    Boys Don’t Cry – Grant Lee Phillips
    All You Ever Think About Is Sex [12″ Club Version] – Sparks
    It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) – R.E.M.
    Breakfast – Evolution Control Committee
    A Sight For Sore Eyes – Tom Waits

    American Tune – Paul Simon – Winner, Best Song of the Ride. I think Katherine knows this song.

    New Moon on Monday – Duran Duran
    Scarecrow – Beck
    Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey – My Brightest Diamond
    Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi cover) (BL Rewind 2) – The Boat People
    Nusrath Fateh Ali Khan – Piya Re Piya Re (Remix)
    When I’m Sixty-Four – The Beatles
    Alina’s Place – Fredrik

    The Old Saloon – The Lonely Island – The most important song of a generation.

    Falling – Howard
    Where Do I Begin – The Chemical Brothers
    Little Miss S. – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
    The Mighty Hercules – Johnny Nash
    Lucky #9 (video version) – The Moldy Peaches
    Poses – Kiki Pau
    Graceland – Paul Simon
    Abracadabra – Steve Miller Band
    Hammering In My Head – Garbage
    Same Changes – Sam Phillips
    Tomorrow Wendy – Andy Prieboy
    Transatlanticism – Death Cab For Cutie
    The Tracks Of My Tears – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K1vJ0r0ax0
    Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man) – Plugz – I used to play the hell out of this soundtrack.

    Today’s ride. I actually had a short second ride, but it was slow and silly.

  • 50ish Recent Songs

    50ish recent songs, mostly chosen by my phone. BONUS: a link to a full length feature film! Not a good film, but still: film!

    Distant Sky – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
    Gerson’s Whistle – Yeasayer

    I Should Have Known Better – She & Him

    Remember that time you wanted a folky cover of a Beatles song done by Zoe Deschanel? Well, here it is!

    America – Simon and Garfunkel
    …Something Like That – Airline Food
    The Coast – Paul Simon
    Sa Trincha – Smell of Paradise
    Feed me to the Lions – Adam and The Ants

    I’m Not There – Sonic Youth

    Because when you think “Sonic Youth” you immediately think “Bob Dylan covers.”

    Concerto in A – Sicilienne – Telemann
    Harm – The Munitors
    Catch The Rainbow – Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

    It’s Too Quiet – John Frost
    This is actually a New Detective sketch from KROQ. I used to love these, but now the silly fun is muted by the casual racism of “Socky, the little foreign office boy.”

    Reckless – Liam Finn
    Hot Car – Being Dead
    The Greys – Frightened Rabbit

    Israel – Miles Davis

    Y’like JAZZ?

    Baby Hallelujah – Konradsen
    The Balance – Royal Tongues
    Naima (alternate take) – John Coltrane
    The Loved Ones – Elvis Costello and the Attractions

    Van Morrison – U.T.A. Texas Hall – Dec 13, 1973 – Radio Commercial
    I have a bunch of these old commercials. I love hearing stuff like “Come see Van Morrison. Tickets are five bucks at the door.”

    Class System (featuring Pharrell Wiliams & Julee Cruise) – Handsome Boy Modeling School
    Catch 22 – Send Dudes
    Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
    Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
    Know Your Rights – The Clash

    Our Lips Are Sealed – The Go-Go’s

    My first time watching this video is the official starting point of my Jane Wiedlin crush.

    Tired Eyes – Neil Young
    Best Friend – The Beat
    Sugar Daddy – Frank Black
    Everybody Knows (Ft. Mating Ritual) – RAEKO
    Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 – The Flaming Lips
    Can’t Let Go – Lucinda Williams
    Fill the Void – Oingo Boingo
    Traits De Caractere – Paris Combo

    These Burgers (live ’01) – The Moldy Peaches

    Great song, or greatest song?

    Late For The Sky – Jackson Browne
    Changes – David Bowie
    True Love Will Find You In The End – Beck
    The Last Ten Homes – Mice Parade
    My Funny Valentine – Ben Webster
    Movie Theme – John Wesley Harding
    Little Green Bag – George Baker Selection
    We Live So Fast – Heaven 17
    Steven Stills – Poco – Tarrant C. C. C. – Jul 15, 1975 – Rock Show Commercial

    Triple Terror Show ad 2 – Commercial

    This is an ad for three grindhouse films: Blood of Ghastly Horror, Naked Evil, and The Gorilla Gang. Youtube actually has the full movie of Blood of Ghastly Horror. If that’s too much time to invest in a crappy film, at least watch the trailer for Gorilla Gang. It’s magical.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6x-LCuqiNM
    The full ding-dong movie!
    “Evilcolor” appears to be the same as “Black and White.”
    I think this really happened.

    The Distance – Cake
    Fleetwood Mac – Kansas – Memorial Aud. – May 19, 1975 – Rock Show Commercial
    Try – Delta 5
    Walkinonit – J Dilla
    Sweet And Lovely – Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane
    Sunday – The Cranberries

  • 50ish Recent Songs

    Mostly picked by the Music app, with some assistance from Dan.

    Checkout Blues – Eels

    Creeque Alley – The Mamas & The Papas

    Life’s What you Make it – Talk Talk

    For Your Love  – The Yardbirds

    Dream Forever – Bumblebees

    absolute lithops effect – The Mountain Goats

    Hope Street – Stiff Little Fingers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRTcH04qRjQ

    Strangers – A.O. Gerber

    Mother Nature’s Son (Take 15) – The Beatles

    Love Like Laughter – Beth Orton

    Canoe – John Lurie

    12 Elliot In Your Cup – The Blanks

    Back in the Saddle – Aerosmith

    California – Liz Phair

    Time Out For Fun – Devo– there are definitely other Devo records that are more revolutionary and/or iconic, but “Oh, no! It’s Devo” was the first record of theirs I owned, so it’s the one that brings out the most nostalgia.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP-fu–VpS4

    SUNLIGHT – BESOS

    Time Heals Nothing – Danko Jones

    King Midas In Reverse – The Hollies

    Love of My Life – Louis Prima

    Riot – Childish Gambino

    St. Louis Blues – Louis Prima

    Dancing In The Street – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

    Israel – Miles Davis

    Crepuscolo Sul Mare – Piero Umiliani

    Daydream Believer – The Monkees

    I Got Life (James Rado & Company) – Original Broadway Cast

    Never Give You Up – The Black Keys

    The Negotiation Limerick File – Beastie Boys

    Godless Heathens – Skin Mag

    Get Bummed Out – SPORTS

    Don’t Pull Away (Feat. Milosh) – J.Viewz

    The Perfect Drug – Nine Inch Nails – I’m not a huge NIN fan, but this is an awesome bike song. Check out the “deep” visuals in the video.

    In The Hanging Gardens – Pinkshinyultrablast

    BLEACHÉ – yuko yokio

    Everything Borrowed – Jerry Paper

    Company Calls – Death Cab For Cutie

    Unknown Legend – Neil Young – very different from NIN, but also an awesome bike song. And if you’re thinking that the song is about someone riding a Harley Davidson and that that’s a very different kind of bike, I have some news for you.
    There’s a real video for this song, but no high quality versions are on Youtube, probably because Neil Young only wants his music played in 6000 bit hyper dense magic quality.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkL_IevacnU

    Popeye Theme – Face to Face – the most important song of this or any other time.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf2mKl6SUk

    Fool, Fool, Fool – The Clovers

    SOKA – Sister Bliss

    Giving It All – 20/20

    Sailor and widow – Keren Ann

    The Man In Me – The Clash

    The Power Of The Heart – Peter Gabriel

    Evil Angel – Rufus Wainwright

    Can’t Stop The World – Ginger Sling

    Donuts (Outro) – J Dilla

    L.S.D. Partie – Roland Vincent

    Grand Illusions – Joan Osborne

    Fade To Grey – Anteros – this is not a cover of Visage. This song is generic alternapop. No need to seek it out.

  • A Manager’s Bleats – Beatles Anagrams

    Someone on twitter did an awesome silly thing where they re-titled James Bond movies with their anagrams. I thought it was a great idea, so I stole it to re-do Beatles albums. Here’s the first batch. I’m skipping the early Capitol hacked-up albums.

    Peep Lame Easels (Please Please Me)

    Peep Lame Easels (Please Please Me) album cover
    Featuring 300% more George.

    White Slab Teeth (With The Beatles)

    White Slab Teeth (With The Beatles) album cover
    Now with 50% less Ringo

    Aghast, Randy Hid (A Hard Day’s Night)

    Aghast, Randy Hid (A Hard Day's Night) album cover
    Now with 2400% more back-of-George’s-head.

    A Stereo Elf Slab (Beatles For Sale)

    A Stereo Elf Slab (Beatles For Sale) album cover
    Now with 100% more Ringo (nose only)

    The problem with Beatles anagrams is that their album titles are usually pretty short. Some of these would be under ten letters if I didn’t include “Beatles” in the name.

    The White Album is probably going to be super lame.

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