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Occasional Random Pop Songs Post

By drorzel on September 26, 2007.

I had a 9pm intramural hoops game last night (the other team didn't show, so we won by forfeit, but it still pushed bedtime back a bit), and I have an 8am meeting today, not to mention the beginning of a nasty head cold that is turning my brain to cotton wool. Sounds like a good day for a shuffle-play post.

Below the fold, a good run of songs from the four-and-five-star playlist last night, to allow you to poke fun at my taste in pop music.

  1. "Happy Birthday To Me," Cracker
  2. "Always The Last To Know," Del Amitri
  3. "Whenever God Shines His Light," Van Morrison
  4. "Painless Life," Slender Means
  5. "See the World," Gomez
  6. "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch," Boris Karloff
  7. "Spiderwebs," No Doubt
  8. "Brown-Eyed Woman," Grateful Dead
  9. "Burning Down The House," Talking Heads
  10. "Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead," Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
  11. "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man," Prince
  12. "Man In Need," Richard & Linda Thompson
  13. "Hey Hey What Can I Do," Led Zeppelin
  14. "Alabama Song," The Doors
  15. "Goin' Up," Great Big Sea
  16. "Alex Chilton," The Replacements
  17. "Goodbye to You," Scandal
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"Spiderwebs" has one of my all-time favorite bass lines in a pop song ever. Good choice.

But maybe only bass players notice the bass lines in songs?

What a random, entertaining playlist. I'm glad you saved the best for last. "Goodbye to you. Goodbye to you-oo."

I hope you have every Talking Heads song as a 4 or 5 star, as well as most of Cracker's catalog.

I don't know anything about Slender Means. What can you tell me about them?

By Harry Abernathy (not verified) on 26 Sep 2007 #permalink

I'd probably hit skip on Alabama Song; I do dig me them Doors but that one just never worked for me. Also the Grinch, which is a great song but doesn't quite fit into the rest of the list. Besides, it would earworm me for a week if I listened to the whole thing. I'm in danger of getting stuck with it just thinking about it...

I'm a big fan of No Doubt up to the Tragic Kingdom days, not to mention the Gomez. I dig that album more every time I listen to it.

I hadn't heard of Slender Means but I'm digging this song. I'll have to check that out. Seems to to triangulate somewhere between Interpol and the Decembrists.

Um, I just used "dig" three times in one post.

[Hangs head in shame and goes to stand in the corner.]