It didn’t even sound like it was playing at the right speed.

That takes..um..talent.

No, really – they are way worse than I remembered. And I remembered them as godawful.

Black Flowers - Matt Darey presents Urban Astronauts featuring Kristy Thirsk
Above The Clouds – Delerium and Shelley Harland
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla
Behind the Wheel/Route 66 (Mega Mix) – Depeche Mode
Something’s Always Wrong – Toad the Wet Sprocket
Whisper - Slovo featuring Kirsty Hawkshaw
Unknown Pleasure – Svenson & Gielen featuring Jan Johnston
I Write Sins, Not Tragedies – Panic! at The Disco
I Feel Wonderful – Cosmic Gate featuring Jan Johnston
Step One Two – Kaskade
Couldn’t Sleep – Milosh

~ Harry R. Sohl

Black Flowers Video – Kristy Thirsk has the most amazing voice!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvsEu-RRwvs

Sorry…can’t bear to click the Creed vid before bed. Nightmares, you know. Maybe tomorrow.

Song Song Song – Final Fantasy
Good Day Sunshine – Beatles
You Can’t Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want) – Joe Jackson
Hamburg Song – Keane
Walk Idiot Walk – The Hives
All This Is That – Beach Boys
There She Goes Again – Marshall Crenshaw
Reconsider Me – Warren Zevon
Goodbye – Elton John
MGB-BT – Richard Thompson

#11: Tunnel of Love – Dire Straits

Like a hideous pile-up on the side of the road, you just can’t look away, but when you finally get a close look, it makes you wanna hurl. Man that is just fucking ghastly. thanks a lot, man.

1. Sleater-Kinney – What if I was Right? (You’re No Rock n Roll Fun b-side)
2. The Dukes of Stratosphear – Pale and Precious (Psonic Psunspot)
3. Big Star – When My Baby’s Beside Me (live) (Keep An Eye On The Sky [Disc 4])
4. XTC – Wrapped in Grey (Nonsuch)
5. Patsy Cline – Heartaches (Ultimate Collection)
6. Squeeze – Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) (Singles 45s and Under)
7. The Velvet Underground – Jesus (The Velvet Underground)
8. The Go-Go’s – Forget That Day (Talk Show)
9. Derek and the Dominos – Roll it Over (Live at the Fillmore Disc 2)
10. Mekons – Abernant 1984-85 (Fear and Whiskey)

and finally, the perfect antidote to Creed…

11. Big Star – Big Black Car (Third/Sister Lovers)
“Nothing can hurt me
Nothing can touch me
Why should I care
Drivin’s a gas
It ain’t gonna lasssssssssst…”

Stapp Infection under your skin again?

How can you spring Stapp on a fella who spent the evening yelling the verses of Sally MacLennane and The Sickbed of Cuchulain and A Pair of Brown Eyes back at Shane McGowan? Have you no shame, sir?

I need new music in the worst way. Can’t remember the last time I bought a CD.

1. Does Anybody Out There Even Care - Lenny Kravitz
2. Book Lung - New Ruins
3. Okey Dokey - Incredible Bongo Band
4. A Good Flying Bird - Guided By Voices
5. Living Loving Maid - Dread Zeppelin
6. Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
7. Lock Down - Cypress Hill
8. The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) – They Might Be Giants
9. Been Smoking Too Long - Nick Drake
10. Mambo Italiano ’98 - Flabby & Carla Boni
11. It Came Out Of The Sky - Creedence Clearwater Revival

I had to download Okey Dokey after watching the most awesome trailer spoof ever. Now, I can’t watch the real trailer without laughing.

Side Uno
St Vincent – Just The Same But Brand New
Eddie Kendricks – Go on with Your Bad Self
Robyn Hitchcock – Demons & Fiends
Jealous Girlfriends – Roboxulla
Pavement – Elevate Me Later

Side Duo
Jimi – Hey Joe
Beck – Novocane
Pink Floyd – Interstellar Overdrive
Yo La Tengo – What Can I Say
Kinks – Look For Me Baby

On The Edge
Michelle Shocked – Down on Thomas St

First off, I’ve y’all haven’t yet picked up the new reissue of Pylon’s Chomp, get thee to a record store and do so. Imagine a blissful world where Pylon, not REM or B-52′s, become the It Band from Athens GA.

Now, back to the countdown:

10.Billy Bragg, “Sexuality (Manchester Remix)”
9. Suicide, “Wild In Blue”
8. Front Line Assembly, “Deception”
7. Kraftwerk, “Home Computer”

Long distance dedication (to Snuggles the dog): Project Pitchfork, “Renascence”

6. Rubber Rodeo, “Anywhere With You”
5. State of Alert, “Stepping Stone Party”
4. Expose, “Stop, Look, Listen, and Think [House Mix]”
3. Bronski Beat, “Why?”
2. Front 242, “Take One (Re-built)”
1. Front 242, “Work 242″

Keep reaching for the ground, and keep your feet in the stars!

Is that a Hootie and the Blowfish cover they’re playing?

Come In Alone – My Bloody Valentine
Contract – Gang Of Four
Lost In Bessemer – Yo La Tengo
Time The Avenger – The Pretenders
Copperhead Road – Steve Earle
Only You – Portishead
Black Tambourine – Beck
Master-Dik – Sonic Youth
Life And Limb – Fugazi
Pancho And Lefty – Townes Van Zandt

Eleven:
The Way Of The World – Flipper

Why? Why do I do that to myself? Excuse me while I get the bleach for my ears and my eyes (god, I hate that smarmy pompous-ass grin of his). Fuck Creed.

Landslide – Fleetwood Mac
Numb – U2
41 Seconds Left – The Air Up There Soundtrack
He Drives It – Amy Correia
Bless The Beasts & The Children – The Carpenters

The Death of Mercutio & Tybalt – Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack
Long White Cadillac – Dave Alvin
Walks Like A Lady – Steve Miller
Waltz Of My Heart – Gosford Park Soundtrack
Your Good Thing Is About To End – Boz Scaggs

+ Time Of Inconvenience – Nanci Griffith

ipod’s loving the soundtracks, again.

Cashing In – The Voices Of East Harlem
Mocota Beat – Trio Mocata
Word Up – Willis**folk cameo cover!
DeadLock – Can
A-O (No Bungalow) – Data
Promise Of A Fisherman – Sergio Mendes
It Makes a Difference (Club) – Danny Krivit & Kyle Smith present Kim English
Daddy Sang Bass (Live) – Johnny Cash
Let It Bump – Missy Elliott
Nou Akuenon Hwlin Me Sin Koussio – Antoine Dougbé

Love Crazy – Atlantic Starr
Let Me Outta Here – Dizzy Gillespie

I not currently wearing my hearing aides (and I am NOT that old dammit), but after the 5th flat note in that vocal I turned it off. I was about 20 seconds into it…

Every Planet We Reach Is Dead – Gorillaz
Ultra Stimulation – Finlay Quaye
Is It My Name? – Todd Rundgren
Shaday – Ofra Haza
Car On A Hill - Joni Mitchell
Tramp – Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
The City Sleeps – MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Real Thing – Big Mountain
Ruby My Dear – Thelonius Monk
Rain – Terence Trent D’Arby

Right ear clean: Unravel – Bjork
Left ear clean: Pop Song 89 – REM
And I didn’t even have to listen to need that

Thirteen from the Halloween playlist:

Horrible Things – Stiiv
I Won’t Bite That Bat! – John Lennon as channeled by Linda J. Polley
promo: Monsters Crash the Pajama Party
Herschell Gordon Lewis: I Kill Time! – Mr. Fig
SCHUBERT: Erlkönig – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore
Bingo Master’s Breakout – The Fall
Running With The Devil Bunnies – RIAA
I Want to Bite Your Hand – Dracula
The Little Blue Man – Betty Johnson
What a Way to Die – The Pleasure Seekers

Dear Jeepers – Bob Guy
The Witch’s Vacation – Bruce Haack & Norman Bridwel
Wicked Annabella – The Kinks

Thirteen from the Halloween playlist:

Horrible Things – Stiiv
I Won’t Bite That Bat! – John Lennon as channeled by Linda J. Polley
promo: Monsters Crash the Pajama Party
Herschell Gordon Lewis: I Kill Time! – Mr. Fig
SCHUBERT: Erlkönig – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore
Bingo Master’s Breakout – The Fall
Running With The Devil Bunnies – RIAA
I Want to Bite Your Hand – Dracula
The Little Blue Man – Betty Johnson
What a Way to Die – The Pleasure Seekers

Dear Jeepers – Bob Guy
The Witch’s Vacation – Bruce Haack & Norman Bridwel
Wicked Annabella – The Kinks

Crap, I’m never going to get some Halloween music sorted out in time. Randomly selected from a 76,000-song iTunes database:

1. Cinq Quatre – Ted Curson Quartet
2. Trio for Theremin and Electric Keyboard – The Elephant Orchestra
3. There She Goes – Paul Revere and the Raiders
4. New Low Down Dog – Champion Jack Dupree
5. Fair and Ruddy – Meira Asher
6. One In A Million You – Larry Graham
7. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Movie Sounds Unlimited
8. Alphabet Street – Prince
9. Some Good Advice – Bill Fay
10. On the Morning of March 1, 2005 – Ayuo
BONUS: I Heard it Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye

Unknown Caller – U2
Magic Bus – The Who
Precious Declaration – Collective Soul
The Caves Of Altamira – Steely Dan
You Got The Silver – Susan Tedeschi
Daybreaker – Beth Orton
Lethal Killers – Abandoned Pools
Certain Songs – The Hold Steady
Snooks (Progress Report) – Elbow
Fool’s Paradise – The Blasters

And: Under The Blacklight – Rilo Kiley