How can I share my joy at listening to a wide variety of music? I guess by passing some of it along. You won’t find a theme otherwise.
01 - 45 Single - Suburban Reptiles - 1978 (1:48)
02 - Private Eye - Buddy Wilkins - 1960 (2:23)
03 - TH Queen (live) - Destroy All Monsters - 1995 (3:06)
04 - Echo Beach - Martha & the Muffins - 1979 (3:33)
05 - Floating Dream - Peanut Butter Conspiracy - 1967 (2:09)
06 - The Fool on the Hill (Major/Minor Swap) - The Beatles - The Evolution Control Committee - 1994 (2:58)
07 - LA Sleaze - CPC Gangbangs - 2008 (1:48)
08 - It Hurts to Be Sixteen - Andrea Carroll - 1963 (2:05)
09 - Ghost Rider - Suicide - 1976 (2:30)
10 - Back of My Hand - The Jags - 1979 (3:20)
11 - Do You Dream in Color? - Living Links - 1990 (3:34)
12 - Behind Those Eyes - The Diodes - 1977 (2:31)
13 - Nursery Rock - Judy & Joyce - 1958 (1:58)
14 - Television Addict - The Victims - 1979 (2:57)
15 - Disco Biscuit - Lung Leg - 1997 (2:17)
16 - She Got a Nose Job - The Dellwoods - 1962 (2:16)
17 - Fragile Beings - X-Teens - 1980 (2:13)
18 - Pop Star - Swoons - 1994 (2:13)
19 - Bloody Ice Cream - Bikini Kill - 1996 (1:21)
20 - What the World Needs Now Is Love - The Staple Singers - 1968 (2:44)
21 - Age of Corruption - Alan Klein - 1965 (3:31)
22 - Shot by Both Sides - Magazine - 1978 (4:03)
23 - Danger Signs - Penetration - 1979 (2:27)
24 - Magic Colors - Lesley Gore - 1967 (2:29)
25 - Don't Wake Me Up - Midnite Snaxxx - 2015 (1:32)
26 - Three Stars - Tommy Dee with Carol Kay and the Teen-Aires - 1959 (3:11)
27 - Love from Abbey Road - The Beatles - Sacred Cowboy - 2011 (7:34)
28 - Get Off the Radio - The Sharks - 1980 (2:57)
Track 5 is a pleasant diversion, but the way-out imagery is less impressive than in Track 11.
Track 6 is a virtuoso display of techno wizardry. But it wouldn’t have been a hit for the Beatles this way!
Track 8 crystallizes a true observation. Of course, you can hurt at other ages too -- don’t tell Andrea. And that chinking wood block might have inspired same in the Man from U.N.C.L.E.! Ya think? I figured not.
Don’t you agree that Track 13 is a buncha fun? Deedly-quack-quack, indeed!
I don’t know what a Disco Biscuit, even after listening to the song (Track 15)!
We’re all “Fragile Beings” (Track 17), but the X-Teens make it sound so fun!
Track 21 speaks for itself, but I wish I’d thought of it first! “I’m travelin’ so fast, I’m passing’ the wind!”
Track 24 -- wow -- what a pop-music depiction of the utter existential emptiness of lost love! (and co-written by Neil Sedaka, too!)
Track 26 is a curiosity, with disgustingly juvenile lyrics. It was a quicky rushed out to cash in on the deaths of Richie Valens, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper. The vocals are so maudlin! See what you think.
On the other extreme, Track 27 is just an astounding assemblage of Beatle beats!
And Track 28 signs us off. Hey, you!
See you on Thursday.
