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02:00 James Brown "People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul"
This song doesn't really need to end.
It could go on for a half hour.
And I'd be fine with that.

05:42 ZZ Top "Just Got Paid"

09:16 Tricky "Christiansands"

12:23 David Torn "Spell Breaks with the Weather"
from "What Means, Solid Traveler?"

16:47 Ned Beatty Excerpt from Network
To far too many people, Ned Beatty is best known for playing that character raped by toothless hicks in 'Deliverance'. Beatty was nominated for an oscar for best supporting actor for this sermon in the film 'Network'. Paddy Chayefsky gave him the content, but Ned provided the form.
Entering with a snarl, he descends to a song to seduce the righteous.
And invites us, by the end, to weep in exhultant delight.

20:44 Au "RR vs D" Lynn Shelton gave a presentation at work a while back. This song played under the montage she showed of stills shot during the making of her current film, "Humpday". I wasn't the only one struck by the song. Her film "My Effortless Brilliance" is available On Demand through Comcast. Look for it.

24:28 Cars "Since You're Gone"
made it to #42 of the pop charts in 1982. A questionable inclusion.

27:42 Fugazi "Arpeggiator"

32:04 The Rivieras "California Sun"
The Ramones didn't write this song after all.
The Rivieras are not recording to a click track, or doing second takes.

34:27 Isao Tomita's rendition of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5/Allegro marcato.
Tomita was hot on a moog, but he was no Ed Kalehoff,

39:33 Black Lodge Singers "Disneyland"

43:09 Bruce Springsteen "Girls In Their Summer Clothes"

47:29 Patience & Prudence "Tonight You Belong to Me"

49:02 REM "Perfect Circle" From when REM would write nice songs.

52:14 Robyn Hitchcock "Trams of Old London"
from "I Often Dream of Trains", a perfect album that will still hold up in another twenty four years. It was released in 1984 -just like that Van Halen album.

55:39 Wilco "Radio Cure"
There's no excuse for the lyrics in the chorus, but the production is really nice.

60:40 A little thing I put together from stuff I stole.
Built with stuff like Elvis' "Run On" and Shatner's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

61:41 The Pogues "The Old Main Drag"
Handjobs and Tuinal.

64:37 David Bowie "America"
The opening song from "The Concert for New York City", October 2001.
Cover of the Simon and Garfunkel tune.
A sensitive, astute move with beautifully humble staging.

68:28 The Divine Comedy "Lost Property"
It is a terrible thing to love what can be taken.
This song sounds just a little like Radiohead in very good ways.
Maybe because Nigel Godrich produced it.

72:58 The Beach Boys interlude from "'Til I Die"

75:00 Low "Sunflower"