First time in a long time:

I’ve Got a Feeling — The Beatles (Anthology version)
Oh No — The Commodores
Saved By The Bell — The BeeGees
That Means a Lot — The Beatles (Anthology version)
They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me — Hank Williams

Okie from Muskogee — Merle Haggard
Amor — Ben E. King
Salty Dog Blues — Benny Martin & Josh Graves
Living Together, Growing Together — The 5th Dimension
You Should Hear How She Talks About You — Melissa Manchester

Bonus Track:
This Wheel’s On Fire — The Band

1. Queen Bitch – David Bowie
2. Mary – Langhorne Slim
3. Let’s See Action – The Who
4. Roll Um Easy – Little Feat
5. Le Voyage Du Pauvre Negre – Edith Piaf
6. How Blue Can You Get – B.B. King
7. Miss Sun – Boz Scaggs
8. Alphabet St. – Prince
9. Too Sober To Sleep – Justin Rutledge & The Junction Forty
10. Long Way Down – Luce

**Bonus** Burning Fire – Otis Spann

Blues Stay Away From Me – The Notting Hillbillies
Black Mountain Rag – Return To Cold Mountain
The Running Gun – Riders In The Sky
T.V. Crazy – Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Fragile – Nanci Griffith

Horse & Rider – Steve Miller Band
I’ve Got Your Love – Boz Scaggs
41 Seconds Left/The Winning Basket – The Air Up There Soundtrack
Play It As It Lays – Patti Scialfa
Flying Away – Mary J. Blige

+ Something – The Beatles

Disconcerto – Alex Cima
Got to Have Loving – Don Ray
Druck – Richard Wahnfried
Braun-Y-Aur Stomp – Led Zeppelin
Speak To Me / Breathe – Pink Floyd
Younger Than Me – Gwen Guthrie
The Chief – Tony Scott
Burn This Disco Out – Michael Jackson
Vendor’s Box – Gina X Performance
Magic (Asadoya Yunta) – Erykah Badu

Wholy Holy – Marvin Gaye
In the Basement – Etta James

What Will Tomorrow Bring – Femi Kuti
Sol Negro – Virginia Rodrigues
Quartier Nord – MC Solaar
Hondo – Thomas Mapfumo & Blacks Unlimited
Downside Up (Live) – Peter Gabriel
House We Used To Live In – The Smithereens
Encontro e Despedidas – Milton Nascimiento
Sleepless – Peter Wolf
Mysteries Of Love – Julee Cruise
I Wanna Hold You – Joan Armatrading

Bonus track:
Night Nurse – Sly & Robbie Featuring Simply Red

“He is going to loan it to me to load onto my iPod.” Uh, tbogg, wouldn’t that technically be illegal? I mean, not that I give a shit, mind you, but if the RIAA hit men come n’ get you and lock you away forever, then where would I get my daily snark? Anywho, as you were, gentlemen…

1. Mekons – Orpheus (I Have Been to Heaven and Back)
2. Led Zeppelin – Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
3. The Who – Welcome (Tommy)
4. Led Zeppelin – Black Country Woman (Physical Graffiti)
5. Pixies – Motorway to Roswell (Trompe le Monde)
6. Liz Phair – Glory (Exile in Guyville)
7. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Evening Bell (Ice Cream for Crow)
8. Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 94 in G, II-Andante
9. The Beatles – Dear Prudence (The Beatles)
10. XTC – The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (Nonsuch)

and…
Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks – Kinda Fonda Wanda (Everybody’s Rockin’)

Garden Party – Rick Nelson
You Didn’t Have To – The Pretenders
Into The Birds Of St. Marks – Jackson Browne (Solo Acoustic)
Baby – Lloyd Cole
I Want To Tell You – The Beatles
On The Wings Of A Nightingale (Demo) – Paul McCartney
Behind The Fool – Del Amitri
This Is The Last Time – Keane
Dr. Yang – Ben Folds
Surfin’ Safari – Beach Boys

11:
My Rights Vs. Yours – New Pornographers

Speak My Language – Laurie Anderson
Here With You – Drop City
Trembling – Daniel Lanois
Wish Fulfillment – Sonic Youth
Pigs in Zen – Janes Addiction
The Song Remains the Same – Led Zeppelin
I Robot – The Alan Parsons Project
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert – Pink Floyd
Psalom – The Kronos Quartet
Lodi – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Bonus
Snare Hanger – Battles

Bowing to your fondness for covers, here are a couple I listen to frequently. Don’t know if they quality as offbeat (but if their versions resonate with you, then they’ll be offbeat enough).

Sweet Jane – Cowboy Junkies
Cold, Cold Heart – Norah Jones

I gather that jazz is not particularly your thing, but there’s a jazz guitarist named Joe Pass who’s done some really nice covers – he has a quite a few solo CDs out including a series called Virtuoso – that might seduce your ear. Don’t forget to check out his joint CD with Roy Clark (yeah, that Roy Clark but listen before you laugh).

I think I already have all of those Flower Power Collection songs, purchased song by song, album by album, as they went on sale back in the day. It’s amazing that you can buy them today for only $150, and without the hisses and pops of a diamond stylus tip running in a dusty vinyl groove!

Dig on the “Soft Sounds for Gentle People” series of hippie reissues if your so excited about the time/life series.

1.) We All Had A Real Good Time – Edgar Winter
2.) Slow Down – Alejandro Escovedo
3.) Same Shirt, Different Day – Tin Hat Trio
4.) Es Vitt Zikh Mir Zen – Klezmatics
5.) I Am Not Willing – Moby Grape
6.) Stab – The Gourds
7.) Think – Jerry Garcia
8.) Pale White Girls – Bob Geldof
9.) After You’ve Gone – Django Reinhardt
10.) You Better Go Now – Billie Holiday

Bonus: Kurt’s Rejoinder – Brian Eno

The first 20 minute Rock Block:
Shins – Caring is creepy
Idyll Swords – Morning in miniature
Tortoise – Magnet pulls through
Neko Case – Lions Jaw
Lori McKenna – Mr. Sunshine

The second 20 minute Rock Block:
The Eagles – I can’t tell you why
The Flaming Lips – The W.A.N.D.
The Soft Boys – Where are the prawns?
Buckethead – Unrestrained growth
Rolling Stones – Indian Girl

Persuasion – Throbbing Gristle
Angel Eyes – Willie Nelson
Night Of Joy – The Breeders
Comin’ Apart At Every Nail – Neil Young
Park Song – The Dodos
No Pointing Arrows – Heartless Bastards
Here’s Your Future – The Thermals
Out For The Sun – Vivian Girls
Altar Of Sacrifice – Slayer
Trouble No More – The Allman Brothers Band

Eleven:
Hard On Things – Giant Sand

Kraftwerk – Computer World
The Beatles – Sea of Monsters
Animal Collective – No More Runnin’
The Beatles – Doctor Robert
Depeche Mode – Somebody
Rhythim is Rhythim – Nude Photo
Vangelis – One Alone
Richie Havens – Back to My Roots
Radiohead – (Nice Dream)
Eddie and the Eggs – That Was Yesterday

bonus

A Mountain of One – Green
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine in Pepperland

Here goes

Tenth Ave Freeze Out – Bruce
March into the Sea – Modest Mouse
About a Girl – Nirvana
I Ain’t Got You – The Yardbirds
Sexy & 17 – the Stray Cats
Frosty (live) – Albert Collins and Stevie Ray Vaughn
What the World is Waiting For – The Stone Roses
The South is gonna do it Again – The Charlie Daniels’ Band
Pauper’s Grave – the Skels
Fell In-love with a Girl – The White Stripes

Bonus – I Saw Her Standing There – MxPx

Why Is My Sister Such A Dumbass? – Stark Effect
I get around – The Surfsiders
Oh, Red! – Howlin’ Wolf
An American Family – Kristian Hoffman
Hawaii-5-O – Sammy Davis, Jr.
There’s a New Sound – Tony Burrello
Maybe the Last Time – James Brown
Planet Killer – Stiiv
I Want to Hold Your Hand – The Beatles
The Finale – Sparks
HAUER: Zwoleftonspiel – Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien/Gottfried Rabl
Watusi Zombie – Jan Davis
HAYDN: Roy’s Wife of Alldicaloch – Haydn Trio Eisenstadt

Flower Power Collection? Ha! We here at the “Too Old to Listen to Music” corporate offices laugh in your general direction! We were there when those “classics” were first performed. We listened to them every day on our new-fangled transistor radios. The ones with just AM, ‘cuz FM hadn’t even been invented yet! And we danced to them! Barefoot! And we LIKED it!

Anyhoo, here we go again:

Pretending – Eric Clapton
Ain’t No Telling – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Two Fine People – Cat Stevens, (yes, that used to be his name)
New Year’s Day – U2
Rollin’ and Tumblin’ – Eric Clapton
Polly Gone Home – Allison Krauss and Robert Plant
Dizzy Miss Lizzy – The Beatles
Riviera Paradise – Stevie Ray Vaughn
Good Times – Sam Cooke
Diamonds – Los Lonely Boys

And the bonus kicker:

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds – The Beatles

Ha! Flower Power indeed!

Since you’re going flower power, here’s ten from my Psychedelic folder (1,900 songs exactly as of this morning):

1. Brane Baster – Blues Creation
2. The Affiliated – The Dukes of the Stratosphear
3. Machines – Lothar and the Hand People
4. Hotel Incidental Music – Usha Khanna
5. Dur Aa – Boris Kovac & Ladaaba Orchestra
6. Sugar Suzy – Ginger Ale
7. Bless You – Hush Arbor
8. Like a Dream – St. Mikael
9. Faerie Dance – Plants and Animals
10. Hello Sunshine – Wooden Wand, Hush Arbors and Satya Sai
BONUS: Hush – The Royal Blue

I swear, this stuff gets a little older each time I listen to it.