
We gave it a pass last week for some reason. I dunno. Anyway, here endeth a not very good year in music.
Bleh.
Once Around the Block – Badly Drawn Boy
Musette and Drums - Cocteau Twins
Oh Yeah – Daft Punk
Eli’s Coming – Laura Nyro
Winter’s Come and Gone – Gillian Welch
This Ain’t A Surfin’ Movie – Minus the Bear
I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More, Baby - Barry White
Monkey Bars – Jurassic 5
Prison Sex – Tool
I Drive the Hearse – Porcupine Tree
and ….Halo Round the Moon – Steve Earle
As always, I am open to suggestions that don’t involve Creed or anything that Jack White has touched.



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1. “Wipeout/Down By the Riverside”- Bela Fleck & The Flecktones- Wakarusa 6/11/06
2. “Empty Spaces”- Pink Floyd- The Wall
3. “Break On Through”- The Doors- Live On the Isle Of Wight 1970
4. “Live”- Lenny Kravitz- 5
5. “Shelter Of Your Love- Jimmy Cliff- Ultimate Collection
6. “Heroin”- The Velvet Underground- Best Of
7. “But Not For Me”- Bill Coleman- The Art Of Jazz
8. “Three MC’s and One DJ”- Beastie Boys- Hello Nasty
9. “Insensible”- Portishead- Pearl
10. “Mean Ol’ Wind Died Down”- North Mississippi Allstars- The Stone Church 5/18/06
and to run out the clock-
“FK5 To The Breaks Of Dawn”- Fort Knox Five
“ONE [Good Thing About Music]- A Tribute To Bob Marley”- DJ Concept
It’s been a few weeks. How goes the quest for 10K? Anywho …
I Found a Love — Eric Clapton
Woodstock — Crosby, Stills & Nash
I’m Livin’ in Shame — Diana Ross & the Supremes
Oh, My Love — Jackson Browne
Within You Without You — The Beatles
Denver — Willie Nelson
Day Tripper — The Beatles
If You Go Away — Neil Diamond
Down the Line — Jerry Lee Lewis
Not Too Eggy — New Orleans Klezmer All Stars
Bonuses:
Let’s Go Away for a While — The Beach Boys
Why Can’t We Be Friends — War
I Don’t Remember – Peter Gabriel
Mexican Radio – Wall of Voodoo
Rescue Me – Fontella Bass
The Bach Cello Suites (performed on Double Bass) – Edgar Meyer
Arnold Layne – Pink Floyd
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – AC/DC
Portrait of Tracy – Jaco Pastorius
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
Mongoloid – DEVO
She Loves You – The Beatles
I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass – Nick Lowe
Poor Jenny – Everly Brothers
Living Well Is The Best Revenge – R.E.M.
Them Changes – Godfrey Daniel
Fashion – David Bowie
What Light – Wilco
Mr. Milk – You Am I
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
Supercollider – Fountains of Wayne
Beautiful Day – U2
Goodbye – Elton John
Every Little Kiss – Bruce Hornsby And The Range
And number 11 for ’10:
Cold – Tears For Fears
Hope the bonus isn’t an adjective for the coming year and decade…unless it’s a cooling of global warming!
I’m Qualified to Satisfy You — The Dirtbombs
A Calvinist Narrowly Avoids Pleasure — James Yorkstown and Bill Duncan
Readers and Writers — Idlewild
It’s Your Heart Tonight — Secrets*
Everybody Wants — The Moog
The Language of Men — The Asexuals
Misunderstanding — Grapes of Wrath
Telling Like That Lie Again — Eugene Edwards
Basket Case — The Windbreakers
Telephone — Clorox Girls
In Your Mind – Johnny Cash
Hey – David Sanborn
I Woke Up – Nicolette
Dear Old Man Of Mine – Linda Thompson
So I’ll Run – Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child – Van Morrison*
Give It Up – K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Rawhide – Riders In The Sky
Dream A Little Dream Of Me – Tony Bennett & K.D. Lang
Take These Chains From My Heart – John Doe & The Sadies
+ Seasons – Steve Miller Band
* and congrats to van the man on the birth of his son
It Ain’t Easy – David Bowie
Romance – 坂本龍 (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Blue Red and Gray – The Who
Come To Me – Bonnie Raitt
Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
Heart Upon Demand – John Gorka
Over The Rainbow – John Martyn
La Jicotea – Rosendo Ruiz Jr.
Rain And Tears – Demi Roussos
En Focus – De La Soul
Two more for the New Year!
Saukare – Ali Farka Toure
Them Belly Full – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Exiles – Son Volt
Pictures Of Success – Rilo Kiley
Flesh Canoe – Animal Collective
One Of These Days – Drive-By Truckers
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Broken Down Cowboy – John Fogerty
The Long Race – Bruce Hornsby & The Range
I Ain’t Jivin’, I’m Jammin’ – Leon Huff
Mike’s Song – Phish
AND: Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads
1. I Shot The Sheriff – Bob Marley & The Wailers
2. Money – Pink Floyd
3. Katie’s Been Gone – Bob Dylan & The Band
4. If You Don’t Start Drinkin’ (I’m Gonna Leave) – George Thorogood & The Destroyers
5. Little Guy – Jill Sobule
6. Julie’s In The Drug Squad – The Clash
7. True Love Leaves No Traces – Dead Famous People
8. Private World – New York Dolls
9. Unreal Reality – The Kinks
10. Drugs – Talking Heads
**Bonus** Little Triggers – Elvis Costello
Is it Bob Marley Week at TBogg?
1. Pimper’s Paradise – Bob Marley
2. This Time It’s Real – Tower of Power
3. I Saw The Light – Todd Rundgren
4. God’s Own Drunk – Jimmy Buffett
5. So Excited – Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble
6. Break My MInd – Flying Burrito Brothers
7. Feats Don’t Fail Me Now – Little Feat
8. Trenchtown Rock – Bob Marley & The Wailers
9. Jack Straw – Grateful Dead
10. Brown Sugar – ZZ Top
Bonus: If That’s What You’re Thinking – The Texas Tornados
1.) Sun King – The Beatles
2.) Handbags & Gladrags – Rod Stewart
3.) Growin’ Up – David Bowie
4.) Jump Sturdy – Dr. John
5.) Red House – Jimi Hendrix
6.) Heart & Soul – The Monkees
7.) You & I – Queen
8.) Cymbaline – Pink Floyd
9.) Make It Rain – Tom Waits
10.) Straight Up – The Boomtown Rats
Bonus: Andante from Scriabin Five Preludes (Evgeny Kissin)
1. Tennessee Whiskey – George Jones
2. Fly On The Wall – XTC
3. Loudmouth – The Ramones
4. Pretend – Shelby Lynne
5. Allegro vivace, from Piano Sonata no. 2 for Violin and Piano (Beethoven) – Dieter Goldman & …
6. Scherzo, from Symphony no. 1 (Ives) – Chicago Symphony / Gould
7. Too Much Alcohol – Rory Gallagher
8. In The Sweet By And By – Johnny Cash
9. The Entertainer (Joplin) – Joshua Rifkin, piano
10. Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren (JS Bach) – Hilliard Ensemble
11. Okie From Muskogee – Merle Haggard
The Bach/Merle coupling is particularly sweet.
Oh What a Life – Gwen Guthrie
Canary In A Coalmine – The Police
Voices Of Old People – Simon & Garfunkel
Monday Morning – Fleetwood Mac
Give It Up (For Love) – Soulfranciscins
The Sweetest Taboo – Sade
Long Train Runnin’ – The Doobie Brothers
Daniel – Elton John
London – The Smiths
If It’s Not Addin’ Up…. – Sly & the Family Stone
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite – R.E.M.
Come In Bonzo – Big Cherry
1. Cigany Himnusz – Komatcha Klezmer
2. The Last Words of Copernicus – Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
3. Plain Old Ring – Nina Simone
4. Turn it Out – The Sunburst Band
5. Tell Her You Saw Me – Pat Metheny
6. Everlasting Sound – Skatalites
7. Since I Made a Stand – dDub
8. Balls Hard (feat. Jim Jones) – Cash Crop
9. Microgravidade – Chamberlain Duarte Fidelis
10. Cheek to Cheek – Speena
Bonus: Unprov – Unfortune Teller
oops. turns out someone hacked van morrison’s website, put up a fake birth announcement. never mind.
late to the party, i have to say this is one of the best group of random lists i can remember. or at least, i can’t remember so many of my all time favorite songs showing up on other people’s lists. seriously great shit. the pressure’s on now…
1. Patsy Cline – “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (Ultimate Collection)
2. Sally Timms – “Reason to Believe (Live)” (It Says Here)
3. Mandy Barnett – “I’ve Got a Right to Cry” (I’ve Got a Right to Cry)
4. The Beatles – “Eleanor Rigby” (Revolver)
5. Funkadelic – “One Nation Under a Groove” (One Nation Under a Groove)
6. Quasi – “Ghost Dreaming” (R&B Transmogrification)
7. Sleater-Kinney – “Dance Song ’97″ (Dig Me Out)
8. Lefty Frizzell – “How Long Will It Take (To Stop Loving You)” (The Best Of Lefty Frizzell)
9. New Order – “Dreams Never End” (Movement)
10. Led Zeppelin – “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp” (Led Zeppelin III)
Well that turned out pretty weird. Let’s do one more…
11. The Who – “Dr. Jimmy” (Quadrophenia)
Happy New Year!
I don’t have a list, but I would like to note for the record that “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” from Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Christmas album (yes, there are so many things wrong with this sentence and it’s not even completed yet) has a nice gratuitous slap at Scott Stapp and Creed.