Fraggers

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I made this a while back. It's got too much Scala and too much Beck.

It doesn't have enough Little Milton.

00:02 Alan Copeland "Mission: Impossible Theme/Norwegian Wood" proto mashup?

03:00 Beck "Hell Yes"

06:03 John Barry Orchestra "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"

08:25 Propellarheads "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"

12:55 Kyuss "Three Of Booceroony"

15:27 Jerry Reed "Amos Moses"

17:46 John Barry "The Human Jungle"

19:57 Little Milton "Grits Ain't Groceries"

22:34 Lee Scratch Perry "Justice to the People"

25:30 The Barry Sisters and Jan Bart with Sam Medoff and the Yiddish Swingtet "Samson and Delilah"

27:59 Osymyso "Lazy Phase"

30:34 Nick Cave "Hiding All Away"

36:54 Flaming Lips "Heavy"

41:12 Scala And Kolacny Brothers "Bittersweet Symphony"

44:32 Beck "Earthquake Weather"

48:19 John Barry "Lion in the Winter"

51:01 Chris Bell "Speed Of Sound"

56:10 Aphex Twin "Flim"

59:03 Mice Parade "Galileo"

61:00 Terence McKenna evolution scar tissue

61:24 The Sandpipers "Come Saturday Morning"

64:19 Elliott Smith "Because" (Beatles cover, American Beauty soundtrack)

66:26 Scala And Kolacny Brothers "Perfect Day"

Image of Angel of the North by Anthony Gormley

Shotgun Approach

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00:02 Gene Harris "Put On Train"

04:03 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Dig Lazarus Dig"

08:13 Ofo the Black Company "Love Is You"

11:04 LCD Soundsystem "North American Scum"

16:21 The Osmonds "Hold Her Tight"

At least they ripped off the right Led Zep song. I hear the chorus as:

Hold her tight
in your magic underwear

19:24 Dread Zeppelin "Immigrant Song"

The chimpmunks background vocals adds precisely the right touch. The Smiths were fond of that effect as well. Another among many qualities Dread Zeppelin shared with them.

22:07 Brian Eno "I Fall Up"

25:30 Glen Campbell "Elusive Butterfly of Love"

This KIXI classic has the shimmering edges of windowpane about it. Tracers and folly, as though Glen has seen through time and tasted the Godhead. And that mention of "heavy breathing"...

27:45 Bluebob "Thank you Judge" Bluebob is David Lynch and John Neff.

33:25 Tom Jones "Not Responsible"

35:27 TacocaT "Bike Party"

I know two members through work. Funny, smartass and fantastic.

36:58 France Gall "Laisse Tomber Les Filles"

Serge Gainsbourg wrote this.

38:56 Gohome Productions "Safesurfing For No One"

41:36 Besnard Lakes "Devastation"

I think there are swears buried in there.

47:01 The Beatles "Blue Jay Way"

49:32 Ulrich Schnauss "Medusa"

54:56 Elvis Costello & Lucinda Williams "Wild Horses"

59:38 Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead "Subterranean Homesick Alien"

62:52 John C. Reilly "(Have You Heard The News) Dewey Cox Died"

It borrows the concept from Nick Cave's "Lay Me Low" - The self aggrandizing self eulogizing. It's supposed to be a joke song. But I think that it succeeds in being a genuinely beautiful little song, and touching.

65:13 Mark Lanegan Band "One Hundred Days"

Image from here.

War Tuba

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00:02 Love "Seven And Seven"

01:58 The Flaming Lips "Fight Test"
From the Wikipedia: The song "Fight Test" is musically very similar to Cat Stevens's 1970 song "Father and Son." Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively noncontentious settlement. The band's frontman, Wayne Coyne, claims that he was unaware of the songs' similarities until producer Dave Fridmann pointed them out.

05:51 Ed Byrnes as Gerald Lloyd Kookson, III. "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)"

07:54 Elvis Costello "The Element Within Her"

10:35 GoHome Productions mashup of ABC ‘The Look Of Love (Part 4) vs. The Doors ’Riders On The Storm’

11:50 The Smiths "Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me"

14:42 Bobby Vee "Sharing You" Wow. The reluctant swinger's lament?

16:46 The Beach Boys "You Still Believe In Me"

19:04 Ennio Morricone "Magic And Ecstasy". Mocket covered this song on "Pro Forma" and that's who I thought wrote it until one day...

21:55 Legendary K.O "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"

25:29 The Blind Boys of Alabama "Run On For A Long Time"

28:51 The Moog Cookbook "Cat Scratch Fever" Note the direct reference to Wendy Carlos' "What's New Pussycat".

31:51 Neil Young "Let's Impeach The President"

36:43 Jerry Vale "You Don't Know Me"

39:17 DJ Shadow "Midnight in a Perfect Word"

43:55 Pavement "Unfair"

46:25 Desmond Dekker and the Aces "Ah It Mek"

48:39 Air "Moon Trills"

52:33 Tom Waits "Clap Hands"

56:04 Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"

59:46 Steve Earle "Christmas in Washington"

65:41 Sigur Ros "Glósóli"

71:39 The Kinks "Don't Forget To Dance"

76:28 The Platters "Twilight Time"

Image from Douglas Self's webpage about Acoustic Sound Location and Mirrors.

Awkward Mind

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00:02 Clip from a GI Joe Public Service Announcement commercials parody. A young man named Ethan (evidence of hope for tomorrow) once introduced me to these.

00:22 OutKast "Gasoline" with swears.

03:49 Merle Haggard "Okie from Muskogee" Proposed verse that didn't fit the song's meter: "We often ponder sustainable agriculture in Muskogee"

06:29 Moby "Honey"

09:56 Johnny Cash "I Guess Things Happen That Way"

11:38 Byrne and Eno "Help Me Somebody" I concur with this writer. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is "...on par with Never Mind the Bullocks".

15:31 Shonen Knife

18:02 Sly and the Family Stone "Underdog"

21:55 Modest Mouse "Bury Me With It"

25:40 GoHome Productions "Crazy Fool on the Hill" Mashup of Beatles / Queen

28:09 Beatles "Come Together" Outtake

31:40 Chuck Berry "Mabeline"

34:20 Wilco "Heavy Metal Drummer"

37:27 Erma Franklin "Piece of My Heart"

40:02 Gohome Productions "Wrapped Detective" "...A cheeky mash-up of 5 artists. Elvis Costello, The Police, Lionel Ritchie, Peggy Lee and Bob Marley"

44:13 Outkast "Ms. Jackson"

48:25 Liam Lynch "Fake Bowie Song".
"I'm making proteins in my body as I speak"

49:53 Phi-Mu Washboard band Love hurts

51:32 Moby "Natural Blues"

55:42 Modest Mouse "Bukowski Lyrics"

59:53 Julie London "Yummy Yummy Yummy"

62:45 Byrne and Eno

66:05 Beach Boys "Surfer Girl" live

68:17 Tom Waits "Take It With Me" Yvette and I played this recording at our wedding.

Images: chair, ice cream

Innocence Tube

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00:00:02 Blurb

00:00:11 Air "Alpha Beta Gaga" from Talkie Walkie.

00:04:45 Beck "Fume"

00:06:54 Commodores "Machine Gun"

00:08:41 Beastie Boys "Hey Ladies" from Paul’s Boutique

00:12:28 Radiohead "The National Anthem" from Kid A

00:17:57 The Jam "That’s Entertainment"

00:21:00 Scala Choir "I Touch Myself"

00:23:16 Air "Run" from Talkie Walkie.

Talk about Enya for hipsters, listen to the last minute of that one.

00:27:00 Shangri-las/ Phil Spector "He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)"

00:29:20 Low "Dinosaur" from Things We Lost In The Fire.

00:33:23 Gillian Welch "Dear Someone" from Time (The Revelator)

00:36:29 Morphine "Candyland"

00:39:39 The Breeders "Wicked Little Town" from Wig In A Box - Songs From And Inspired By Hedwig And The Angry Inch

00:43:00 Death In Vegas "Girls" from Lost In Translation Soundtrack

00:46:54 Peter Gabriel "Lead A Normal Life" from Peter Gabriel III

00:50:50 Gillian Welch "April the 14th Part 1" from Time (The Revelator).

00:55:57 Sebastian Tellier "Fantino" from Lost In Translation Soundtrack

00:59:03 Bill Murray "More Than This" Lost In Translation Soundtrack

01:00:30 Besnard Lakes "Disaster"

Mr. Burns costume available here. Halloween's coming up.

Bad Swipe

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00:02 April March "Chick Habit"

02:02 David Buttolph (music) and Paul Francis Webster Theme to "Maverick"

05:02 Aesop Rock "Fumes" (produced by Blockhead)

09:44 Elvis Presley "In My Father's House"

11:41 Bill Chase "Get It On"

14:37 Jacques Brel "Le Moribond"

Terry Jacks allegedly recorded an as of yet unrealeased version of this song with the Beach Boys before he recorded his own version. He also wrote "Put the Bone In", Dr. Demento fans.

17:41 The Jackson Five "I Want You Back"

(Z-Trip remix) from Motown Remixed

21:55 The Beatles "Flying"

23:37 Tom Waits "First Kiss"

26:00 Johnny Cash "What Is Truth?"

28:33 Bruce Springsteen "Your Own Worst Enemy"

31:44 Jackie Wilson "Light My Fire"

34:13 Malick Adouane Theme from "Shaft"

from La Musique de Paris Derniere: The Best Of

37:27 Mickey Hart "The Hunt"

from Planet Drum.

40:00 Kate Bush "Jig Of Life"

44:01 The Doors "End Of The Night"

46:49 Chris De Malfunkshun "Hey Ya" from La Musique de Paris Derniere: The Best Of

51:21 Mono in VCF "Masha"

I've had the pleasure of meeting Jordan, bassist of Mono in VCF, through work. That's Terry Jacks singing backup. And they cover one of his songs "There's No Blood In Bone" on their new eponymous album from which this cut comes. This song will allegedly perhaps soon be NPR's song of the day.

55:56"Electioneering" from Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead

60:50 Explosions in the Sky "Welcome, Ghosts"

David Danioth hipped me to this band.

66:19 Willie Nelson "Hallelujah"

71:06 Brian Eno "Spider And I" from Before And After Science

74:29 Five Blind Boys Of Alabama "Amazing Grace"

Corpsing

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00:02 Sly and the Family Stone "Loose Booty"

03:41 The Beastie Boys "Electric Worm"

from "The Mix Up".

06:40 Sid Barrett "Octopus"from The Madcap Laughs.

10:04 The Orb "Little Fluffy Clouds"

That's Ricky Lee Jones talking. Didja know?

14:14 Merv Griffin "Have a Nice Trip"

16:24 Patti Drew "Hard to Handle"

The Black Crows were just covering this song. I am so mad at those guys. Fakers. BTW- this song is filthy. For shame, Patti Drew. (No relation to Nancy, I'll bet)

18:46 Mann "Ha! Ha! Said the Clown"

Where has this song been hiding my whole life?

21:15 XTC "Earn Enough For Us"

from Skylarking.

24:00 Annette Funicello "What's A Girl To Do"

26:40 David Bowie and Ricky Gervais "Pugnose Face"(my title)

from "Extras" -second season. Gervais is quite proud of the fact that he now shares songwriting credit on this with Bowie. And he should be.

29:34 John C. Reilly "Starman"

from the Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story soundtrack. Notice that "Boogie"ing is safer for the children than letting them "get high".

32:59 Hard and Phirm "Pi"

35:57 Sia "Breathe Me" remix by Ulrich Schnauss.

This is a version of the song with which they ended the entire"Six Feet Under" series. The best ending of a series ever. Gave me vertigo. Then, ten minutes later, I realized that the series had always been just a fancypants Soap Opera. Wotta Gyp!

40:12 Bruce Springsteen "You'll Be Coming Down Now"

This song is not a pleasant surprise. It's simply pleasant; no surprises. While the song is probably a metaphoric warning for our US of A, his new album Magic sounds like "Born to Run" all over again. It's like floating in Phil Spectors' amniotic fluid. (His hair is a uterus).

43:51 Joah Valley "In My Life"

If Greg Lake of Emerson Lake and Palmer was the Don Pardo of Rock and Roll, Joah Valley is the Mr. Ed. He must like peanut butter. And carrots.

46:34 The Kingston Trio "Norwegian Wood"

I grew up with this version and thought this was written by the Kingston Trio. I thought those upstarts, the Beatles, ripped off "the KT". And as a child, I thought that Norwegian wood was what the furniture extant in the apartment was made of. Therefore, the final verse- "so I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood" -meant to me that the protaganist (Lennon), after his host went to work, burned up the woman's furniture in the fireplace. Honestly. Bright child.

But now as an adult, it is obvious that Norwegian wood is code for "Puff the Magic Dragon" and that while she went off to work an honest job 'in the morning', John 'rock star' Lennon smoked up the poor woman's stash of the devil weed.

Whatta dick.

48:48 Air "Empty House"

51:19 Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard "Overture"

This and and the forthcoming "Indian Summer" are from the soundtrack to "Kurt Cobain: About a Son".

53:46 Antony "If It Be Your Will"

cover of the Leonard Cohen song from the documentary "I'm Your Man". A cross between Boy George and Van Morrison. It may be best seen while heard.

59:30 Pete Townsend "And I Moved"

from Empty Glass
At the time it was released, was seen as evidence that Townsend was coming out. He maintained that the song was written for Tina Turner. But can you really imagine Tina singing this song well? It doesn't seem well suited to her. Then again, neither was the Mad Max franchise, but that didn't stop her...

62:49 Willie Nelson "Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other"

66:18 Ben Gibbard "Indian Summer"

69:06 Billy Ward and His Dominoes "Stardust"

Goodfellas soundtrack.

72:08 John C. Reilly "Royal Jelly"

from the Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story soundtrack. "You're a Liar!"

Enya For Hipsters

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This has been kicking around in some form or another for a while. The phrase came from a smarmy way of describing (to myself) Ulrich Schnauss' music. Now this mix seems more like an okay soundtrack for rehab.

Venn Diagram from a T shirt Design at deisel sweeties.com.
Enya image from the internet.

00:02 Jon Brion "Phone Call" From the "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Soundtrack. Optigan.

00:56 The Polyphonic Spree "It's the Sun".

06:29 Ulrich Schnauss "On My Own".

11:45 Elliott Smith "Don't Go Down" from From a Basement On The Hill.

16:06 Sam Winch "Banter for the Common People" from The Lullabadeer -Themesong to the excellent Comedians of Comedy TV series.

20:06 Sebedoh "Pink Moon" from 1992's Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock.

22:05 Robyn Hitchcock "I saw Nick Drake" from A Star for Bram.

25:58 Tom Waits "Sea of Love".

29:37 Aphex Twin Remix of both David Bowie's and Phillip Glass' "Heroes". A Bonus CD single included in the 1997 Japanes edition of Heroes Symphony by Philip Glass.

34:31 Mohave 3 "Bluebird of Happiness" remixed by Ulrich Schnauss. I chopped out an offending portion right out of the middle of this song.

39:10 Gary Louris "Wanna Get High"

42:58 Joseph Arthur "Honey and the Moon"

47:22 Louis Armstrong "We Have All The Time In The World".

50:34 Jon Brion Theme from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

52:40 Scala Choir and Kolacny Brothers "Fake Plastic Trees" Radiohead cover.

57:17 Antony "Mysteries of Love" Jay hipped me to this cat. Thanks.

62:41 Twink "Rosemarys Baby" theme.

65:44 Slow Poke "Sixth Sense".

71:24 Danny Gatton "Sleepwalk".

ALSO:
Three things for sharing:
1. I found this great interview with Steve Fisk on a podcasted radio show called "Some Assembly Required".

2. My favorite podcast is now The Sound of Young America
As is stated on its homepage, " The Sound of Young America is a public radio show about things that are awesome." And that's pretty much true. Interviews with Steve Albin, i. Podcast Feed.
The Archive is vast seeming, filled with interviews with a surprising number of my favorite people.

3. The funniest damn thing in a while: The Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast. Podcast Feed. Check out the This American Life satire (two episodes!). Spot on.