2016.10.04
- You Really Got Me (The Kinks) These guys were really ahead of their time. (Looking to whip up a version for JP Honk)
- Ghost Town (Hot 8 Brass Band) Another song we're thinking about for JP HONK, especially for halloween.
- I Wish (Stevie Wonder) Been on a Stevie Wonder kick lately - to me he kind of felt like a harbinger of a new generation of motown.
- I'm My Own Grandpa (Willie Nelson) This is such a fun song. So glad I found a non-Ray Stevens version.
- Cookie Thumper! (Die Antwoord) I'm kind of amazed by the whole Afrikaans / Xhosa elements to this. Also I like the lyric "I rhyme tight! Tight! Tight! Tight! / Spark mosh-pit shit cause I rhyme so hype / Put me in front of someone I don't like I go punch! Kick! Bite! Fight!" Actually the sense of menace in this thing is amazing.
- Drunken Sailor (The Irish Rovers) Another fun novelty song.
- Major Tom (Shiny Toy Guns) I took me a while to realize this is only a sequel to "Space Oddity" - I think a Tufts a cappella group might have smushed them together. Anyway, nice cover.
- One Hundred Years From Today (Frank Sinatra) I liked this song. Also, I like that Sinatra is more a humanist than you might have guessed, and this song reflects that.
- Soy Yo (Bomba Estéreo) I guess its made the rounds but this a fun song.
- toxic but it keeps getting faster (britney Spears Ft. Fast) What a genre! Someone said "this is what anxiety sounds like"
- Tearin' It Up (Gramatik) Funky.
- Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (Lee Dorsey) Also funky.
- Fast As You Can (Fiona Apple) Fast as you can is not as fast as Toxic but it keeps getting faster.
- Chelsea Hotel #2 (Leonard Cohen) Love the lyrics.
- Epic (Faith No More) Is there a more 90s video than this? Fun fact: VVN Music found [Faith No More lead singer] Patton to possess the highest vocal range of any known singer in popular music, with a range of six octaves.
- F**k You Mistletoe (Kyle Dunnigan) This tale of cowboys who stumble into gayness is one of the funniest songs I have. I think it really nails the genre.
- Gyruss (Game Theme) (8-Bit Arcade) This is, hands down, the best music on the Atari 2600.
- Do You Feel It? (Chaos Chaos) From a sad scene in "Rick and Morty"
- Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (Sticks McGhee & His Buddies) A favorite of Tom Parmenter, the man who came back from being dead. Wine, wine, wine - Elderberry - or Cherry - Black Berry - Half + Half ------- Half what and Half what else??