Lover’s spit by Broken social scene
Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton in
Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants (while being one of their most popular songs but i do think it is near perfection)
Spiraling Shape - They Might Be Giants (Its got the best xylophone solo)
Can’t Always Get What you want - The Stones
Can’t help Falling in love with you - UB40 version
Black Gold and Grave Diggers Union - Soul Asylum
Cannonball - the Breeders
Everything about you - Ugly Kid Joe
Little Pigs - Green Jelly
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
What’s Up - 4 Non-Blondes (actually the song i have sang most, despite my maleness)
Boys n’ the Hood - Dynamite Hack version
Phantom of the Opera - Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies version ( I want to see the entire show written performed Punk
Beethoven’s 9th, 4th movement starting at 3:17 in. Its when the music dies down and its a slow build up of strings then explodes triumphantly is the single most exciting point of music ever written.
I don’t usually link to songs you can’t D/L (easily,) but this video redeems that. It’s essentially The Thing redone with GI Joes:
You can listen on their myspace.
Southern anthem by Iron & wine
Stranglehold by Ted Nugent
cause i got high by the indomitable “Afroman”
Sailor’s Warning by Blood Meridian (just an incredible band of artists)
Here’s where I feel like the world’s most overly-serious downer of all: I hate this song because of the one line about child support. I know that it’s an irrational level of hatred since I was the kid who got walked out on and whose dad never sent a dime, but that lyric moved a lighthearted, smoke-filled bit of fun so far across the line that I can’t listen to it. It’s not funny to joke about abandoning your kids. Make fun, tell me not to be such a wet blanket, etc, and I won’t blame you (a large part of me agrees with you), but I still can’t listen to that song.
I less than three Jonathan Coulter. You also mentioned the excellent parody by Dynamite Hack. Good taste in music, Mr. Lister, Sir.
Since we’re on a silly kick, my recommendation today is: Popular by Nada Surf. It’s like the sometimes food of music: delicious and best when indulged only once in a while.
I think I’m Paranoid by Garbage
When was that from???
That is…oh boyy…cant see screen…tears…asthma attack due laughter…oh boy…That was awesome…
AFI’s tribute to George Lucas.
Hallellujah written by Leonard Cohen, but performed by Jeff Buckley.
Doveman’s cover of the entire Footloose soundtrack, which re-renders the tunes as super-somber versions, mostly piano-driven. He did it for a friend, to pay tribute to the guy’s late sister, who died in the 80s. More details at the website, which has streaming audio of the whole disc:
That was hilarious! And set to one of the greatest themes of my life.
I get where you’re coming from, but, I always chose to see the song a little differently. I saw it not necessarily as a smoke-filled bit of fun, but as a smoke filled list of short-comings. Like, I could have been a decent person, but I chose to get high instead. Instead of making me mad, it makes me sad.