Category: 50ish Recent Songs

  • 50ish Recent Tracks

    I used to do this thing on Facebook where I’d post the last 50 or so songs I’d played, along with some notes about a few of them. This is pretty much that, except I’m going to throw some Youtube links in along the way.

    Charlotte Street – Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

    Hold My Hand – The Rutles

    I have students who say The Beatles are their favorite band, which seems weird since the band broke up 40 years before the students were born. That would middle school me saying my favorite musician was Cole Porter. I have to remember to play The Rutles for them.

    Reptiles and Samurai – Oingo Boingo

    Mah-Ná, Mah-Ná – Leroy Holmes – probably the best song to ever come from Swedish softcore that was used by the Muppets and Benny Hill.

    Ain’t No Good – Cake
    Train in Vain – Annie Lennox
    High Fidelity – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
    A-Tisket A-Tasket – Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb And His Orchestra
    Don’t Let’s Start – This Radiant Boy
    Car Horns and Kentucky – Tom Waits
    There She Goes Again – The Velvet Underground
    Jump, Jive, An’ Wail – Louis Prima
    Baby’s on Fire – Brian Eno

    Straight To Hell – Chum

    I Feel Fine – The Beatles
    Sun Gazer – Hideout
    Do You Remember the Riots? – Jens Lekman
    Freedom for My People – U2
    Hawaii 64 – ccc – ill chemist

    Cool it Now (New Edition) – Len

    Everyone needs a new edition of a song by New Edition.

    Golden – My Morning Jacket
    Zero Hour – The Plimsouls
    The Long Grift – They Might Be Giants
    Suzanne – Leonard Cohen
    Bedsitter – Soft Cell
    Cat’s Blues – Palace Music
    Fight – The Kleptones
    Staircase to the Soul – Weston Smith
    Two Lives – Young Fresh Fellows
    Persona – Instupendo
    Shark Food – Starsailor
    Lonely – Bebel Gilberto

    My Funny Valentine – Ella Fitzgerald

    Every time I hear this I think “Somebody wrote more lyrics to that Elvis Costello song.” I am dumb.

    clairaudients (kill or be killed) – Bright Eyes
    No One Else Around – Orchid Mantis
    True Romance – Vacation Forever
    Blue Fire – Air Waves
    Monkey Man – The Maytals

    Nice To See You (feat. Floor Cry) – Vansire

    A Warning – Thievery Corporation
    I’m Not The One – Bye Beneco
    Diferente – Gotan Project
    Blackbird Chain – Beck
    Riding On The Subway – Jesse Malin

    Jefferson Starship – – Aug, 5, 1975 – Rock Show Commercial – I don’t care for commercials on the radio, but I love the occasional 40+ year old concert commercial.

    the promise – The Cure
    Beaten To The Punch – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
    I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Cowboy Junkies

    You Wouldn’t Like Me – The Beths

    Blind Love – Tom Waits
    Upfield – Billy Bragg

    Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing – The Magnetic Fields

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