I had a 9pm intramural hoops game last night (the other team didn't show, so we won by forfeit, but it still pushed bedtime back a bit), and I have an 8am meeting today, not to mention the beginning of a nasty head cold that is turning my brain to cotton wool. Sounds like a good day for a shuffle-play post.
Below the fold, a good run of songs from the four-and-five-star playlist last night, to allow you to poke fun at my taste in pop music.
- "Happy Birthday To Me," Cracker
- "Always The Last To Know," Del Amitri
- "Whenever God Shines His Light," Van Morrison
- "Painless Life," Slender Means
- "See the World," Gomez
- "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch," Boris Karloff
- "Spiderwebs," No Doubt
- "Brown-Eyed Woman," Grateful Dead
- "Burning Down The House," Talking Heads
- "Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead," Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
- "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man," Prince
- "Man In Need," Richard & Linda Thompson
- "Hey Hey What Can I Do," Led Zeppelin
- "Alabama Song," The Doors
- "Goin' Up," Great Big Sea
- "Alex Chilton," The Replacements
- "Goodbye to You," Scandal
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"Spiderwebs" has one of my all-time favorite bass lines in a pop song ever. Good choice.
But maybe only bass players notice the bass lines in songs?
What a random, entertaining playlist. I'm glad you saved the best for last. "Goodbye to you. Goodbye to you-oo."
I hope you have every Talking Heads song as a 4 or 5 star, as well as most of Cracker's catalog.
I don't know anything about Slender Means. What can you tell me about them?
I'd probably hit skip on Alabama Song; I do dig me them Doors but that one just never worked for me. Also the Grinch, which is a great song but doesn't quite fit into the rest of the list. Besides, it would earworm me for a week if I listened to the whole thing. I'm in danger of getting stuck with it just thinking about it...
I'm a big fan of No Doubt up to the Tragic Kingdom days, not to mention the Gomez. I dig that album more every time I listen to it.
I hadn't heard of Slender Means but I'm digging this song. I'll have to check that out. Seems to to triangulate somewhere between Interpol and the Decembrists.
Um, I just used "dig" three times in one post.
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"Alex Chilton" is a lost masterpiece! Well done!