January 2009
6 posts
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60. Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
Movin’ With Nancy (Reprise / 1967)
This one shouldn’t be unfamiliar: Slowdive has covered it, Lydia Lunch has covered it, Primal Scream has covered it. All are great and worth obtaining, but Nancy Sinatra and Lee “The Moustache” Hazlewood’s original reigns supreme. We know that Nancy had a string of (mostly) really great singles...
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70. Unsung - Helmet
Meantime (Interscope / 1992)
Whenever (see: often) I find myself drinking at a bar and there happens to be a jukebox, I have basically 2 go-to picks. “Been Caught Stealing” by Jane’s Addiction is one. This is the other. If you didn’t already know “Unsung”, chances are you likely will recognize it (thanks to guys like me, at bars like yours), as this song is easily their most...
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80. Early In The Morning - The Gap Band
Gap Band IV (Total Experience / 1982)
One of my biggest character flaws is that I have the hardest time in the world waking up in the morning. If only I was more like Lonnie Simmons. As announced by the caw of some sort of urban-disco rooster, Simmons is up literally at the crack of dawn. “So I gotta get up early in the morning to find me another lover”...
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90. Cry Baby Flowers - Hisuto Higuchi
Butterfly Horse Street (Family Vineyard / 2007)
Everybody knows that the Japanese are better than white people at almost everything. One obvious example would be gardening. Case and point: “Cry Baby Flowers” happens to sound a lot like how the cover of Butterfly Horse Street looks: A bit dense and maybe even confusing at first, but each element becoming more...
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100. Deathwish - Christian Death
Deathwish (L’Invitation Au Suicide / 1984)
The fact that Roger Alan Painter (aka Rozz Williams) took his stage name from a gravestone inscription he came across while hanging out in a cemetery pretty much sums up the appeal of this song for me. Dude is mental and he knows it, but instead of immediately killing himself (that won’t happen ’till the late 90s)...
100 Songs From Infinity
MISSION STATEMENT So, 2008 is sputtering gracefully toward its timely end. Flawless. In the event of this, blackest of years, I wanted to make some sort of cumulative list of the songs which have become inextricably weaved into these last 365 days of mine. In addition to that, although I do often romanticize the prospect of attempting to assemble some sort of “Best Of” list that is exclusive to...