Saturday, April 30, 2011

Day 120 (part 2?)

Fugazi - "Turnover"

Courtesy Pitchfork.

Stereolab - "Ping Pong"

Courtesy Al. For May Day.

Circle Jerks - "I Wanna' Destroy You"

Courtesy Trasie. Later song.

Off! - "I Don't Belong"

Keith's current band.

Jerry's Kids - "I Don't Belong"

Classic Side 1 Cut 1...Is this My World.

Dead Kennedys - "Life Sentence"


Life Sentence - "Punks for Profit"

From Chicago. Underrated band.

Naked Raygun - "I Don't Know"

Staying in Chi-town.

Lemonheads - "Glad I Don't Know"

Logical connection, right?

Runaways - "I Love Playing with Fire"


Running count: 745 songs for 2011.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Day 119 (aka Day 120 Part 1)

Billy Joel - "Allentown"

When you live in PA, all of the cities are going to come up in conversation at some point.

Iron City Houserockers - "Don't Let them Push You Around"

Heard them on Drew Carey's Sirius radio show. I guess they were basically the J. Geils Band of Pittsburgh.

Teengenerate - "Get Me Back"

Courtesy Al.

Guitar Wolf - "Jet Generation"

Usually goes good with the above.

Budgie - "Breadfan"

Going with the original over the more famous cover.

Run DMC - "King of Rock"

Something I heard today.

Nomads - "Thoughts of a Madman"

Fairly obscure 60s garage.

Rat Pack - "Tell Me Now"

And obscure 80s thrashy hardcore. From the Mystic Records Nardcore comp.

Sick of It All - "Rat Pack"

Sure, why not?

3rd Bass - "Pop Goes the Weasel"

To finish up.

Running count: 735 songs for 2011.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Day 118

Garden Variety - "Rode (for Justin)"

More goodness courtesy Reservoir Records Facebook page.

Assfactor 4 - "Goodies Powers

Same source.

Ice T - "Colors"

Needed some hip hop.

Ice Cube - "Today Was a Good Day"


Modern Jazz Quartet - "Django"


Badfinger - "Day After Day"


Attila - "Wonder Woman"

Billy Joel's organ and drums prog metal band. Often derided as being the worst album in history.

Agnostic Front - "Victim in Pain"

Some classic NYHC.

Bad Brains - "Right Brigade"

More HC.

Minor Threat - "Screaming at a Wall"

You know you're not likely to get mellow songs when I'm racing to get to 10 songs before bedtime.

Running count: 725 songs for 2011.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Day 117

Showcase Showdown - "Fuck You Norway"

For Jeremy. Inside joke.

Merel - "My Sweet Dull God"

Courtesy Jeff.

Clikitat Ikatowi - "Trials and Tribulations of Diana"

Heh...their myspace page says "punk". It's from San Diego, etc.

Heroin - "Leave"

Another San Diego screamo band. Originators if you will.

Velvet Underground - "Heroin"


Jerry's Kidz - "Insanity"

The New Mexico band.

The Shins - "Phantom Limb"

Staying in the Land of Enchantment.

Jawbreaker - "With or Without U2"

Popped into my mind.

Jawbox - "Airwaves Dream"

Flip of the split 7" that the above originally came out on. Ripping Jam cover.

Negativland - "U2"

The Jawbreaker song was a sort of a tribute to this.

Running count: 715 songs for 2011.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Day 116

X-Ray Spex - "Oh Bondage Up Yours"

Sadly an R.I.P. for Poly Styrene.

X-Ray Spex - "Obsessed With You"

Another punk ripper, courtesy of Al.

X-Ray Spex - "The Day the World Turned Dayglo"

I always loved the structure of this song for some reason.

X-Ray Spex - "Germ Free Adolescents"

Title track from the seminal LP.

Siouxsie and the Banshees
- "Hong Kong Garden"

Let's stay with female-fronted British punk.

Vice Squad - "Stand Strong Stand Proud"

Bit later on.

Au Pairs - "It's Obvious"


Penetration - "Don't Dictate"


The Doll - "Desire Me"


Supertouch - "Searching for the Light"

Had been looking for this, thanks again Al.

Running Count: 705 songs for 2011.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Day 115

Likely be a lot of shorter songs as I try to catch up and challenge myself to see how many days in a row I do 10 songs a day.

Beastie Boys ft. Santigold - "Don't Play no Game that I Can't Win"

Apologies if this is taken down, but this will likely be the soundtrack of the summer.

C.R. - "Long Short Cut"

Later 90's hc from Staten Island. Posting this now because it will likely be hard to search for again.

Deadline - "Apathy"

Obscurish DC-core ca. 1982.

Artificial Peace - "Artificial Peace"

More from DC. This has been reissued fairly recently.

Nausea - "Fallout (Of Our Being)"

Believe this is a re-recording of what was originally on The Way It Is.

Void - "Dehumanized"

Back to DC.

Lincoln - "Waterboy"

More obscure 1990's.

Channel 3 - "Mannequin"

Over to the West Coast.

UK Subs - "Warhead"

Over to the UK.

Gauze - "Distort Japan"

And Japan.

Running count: 695 songs for 2011.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Day 114 - Seaweed and NYC Wrapup

Little bit hazy on what was played but we'll go with these:
Seaweed - "Start With"


Seaweed - "Crush Us All"

"Kid Candy" is unembedable.

Unsane - "Street Sweeper"

Band that played with Seaweed in 1993 or 1994 when I last saw them.

Antiseen - "Spare Change"

From the same show.

Two Man Advantage - "Two for Tripping"

Fun show, as always, from my pals last night.

Running count 685 songs for 2011.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Day 110

Jerry Lee Lewis - "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"

From Great Balls of Fire! filmed in Tennessee.

T Rex - "Jeepster"

Used in Death Proof, filmed in Texas.

The Exploited - "Sex and Violence"

From SLC Punk, set in Utah.

Nashville Pussy - "Wrong Side of a Gun"

From SuperTroopers, set in Vermont.

Bachman Turner Overdrive - "Takin' Care of Business"

Used in The Replacements, shot in Virginia.

Mudhoney - "Overblown"

From Singles, filmed in Washington.

Hazel Dickens - "Fire in the Hole"

From Matewan, filmed in West Virginia.

Oingo Boingo - "Dead Man's Party"

From Back to School, filmed in Wisconsin.

John Williams - "Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Finishing up with this...filmed in Wyoming.

Running count: 680 songs for 2011.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Day 108

Joe Jackson - "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"

From There's Something About Mary, filmed (partially) in Rhode Island.

America - "Sister Golden Hair"

From Radio, filmed in South Carolina. Sorry for being so MoR.

Bernard Herrmann - "North by Northwest Theme"

Climax took place in South Dakota. I'd have to resort to theme music at some point, right?

Sorry for only 3 songs tonight. I still haven't had dinner.

Running count: 671 songs for 2011.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Day 107

Burt Bacharach - "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"

From Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, filmed in New Mexico.

Harry Nilsson - "Jump into the Fire"

From Goodfellas, filmed in New York. Some of the greatest film-making ever.

Bobby Vinton - "Blue Velvet"

From Blue Velvet, filmed in North Carolina.

Merle Haggard - "Big City"

From Fargo, portions filmed in North Dakota.

The Clash - "Know Your Rights"

From American Splendor, set in Ohio.

The Marketts - "Out of Limits"

From The Outsiders, filmed in Oklahoma.

The Pogues - "The Old Main Drag"

From My Own Private Idaho, set in Oregon.

Run-DMC - "It's Like That"

From Dogma, filmed in Pennsylvania.

Running count: 668 songs for 2011.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Day 106

Human Beinz - "Nobody but Me"

Going back to songs from movies filmed in all 50 states, here's a song from The Departed, filmed in Massachusetts.

Kiss - "Detroit Rock City"

From the movie of the same name, filmed in guess where?

Band of Gypsys - "Machine Gun"

From A Serious Man, filmed in Minnesota.

Soggy Bottom Boys - "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow"

From O Brother Where Art Thou? filmed in Mississippi.

The Fall - "Hip Priest"

Used in The Silence of the Lambs, filmed in Missouri.

Screaming Trees - "Dollar Bill"

From The River Wild, filmed in Montana.

Donovan - "Jennifer Juniper"

From Election, set in Nebraska.

Elvis Presley - "Viva Las Vegas"

Used in scores of movies that were filmed in Nevada.

Frank Sinatra - "Fly Me to the Moon"

Used in Once Around, filmed in New Hampshire (this was the hardest state yet to find something.

The Shins - "New Slang"

From Garden State. I shouldn't have to mention what state this is for.

Running count: 660 songs for 2011.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Day 104

In honor of the number of the day, I'm going to play some songs I first heard on WBCN (104.1 on the FM dial).

Billy Bragg - "Levi Stubbs Tears"


Gang Green - "Voices Carry"

Winner of the 1986 Rumble. I think that may be the more likely theme, though I'll throw in an early U2 song since 'BCN was an early champion.

Volcano Suns - "White Elephant"

Runner-up to Gang Green.

Ball and Pivot - "Down"

Didn't go too far in the '84 Rumble, but this is great coulda' been synth rock.

La Peste - "Better Off Dead"

The classic punk band won it all way back in '78!

U2 - "Out of Control"

From the first EP. Tell me that bass wouldn't be out of place on say a Stiff Little Fingers song.

Running Count: 650 songs for 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Day 103

L7 - "Shitlist"

From Natural Born Killers, portions filmed in Indiana (now somebody tell me what I'm confusing Breaking Away with--I swear there was a Jackson Browne song in it).

Mark Knopfler
- "Darling Pretty"

From Twister, filmed in Iowa.

Tom Jones - "It's Not Unusual"

Mars Attacks! from Kansas.

TSOL - "Nothin' for You"

Kentucky surprisingly brings us this near-punker, courtesy of Return of the Living Dead.

Bruce Springsteen - "Dead Man Walkin'"

Filmed in Louisiana.

Ben E King - "Stand by Me"

Filmed in Maine.

Gene Chandler - "Duke of Earl"

From Hairspray, filmed in Maryland.

Running count: 644 songs for 2011.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Day 102

Beastie Boys - "Tadlock's Glasses"

Another new one. Apologies if the link is busted.

Eric Weissberg - "Dueling Banjos"

Georgia gives us this somewhat obvious choice from Deliverance.

The Sandals - "Theme from The Endless Summer"

Kinda' second-rate (IMO) Surf reppin' Hawaii.

Kool Moe Dee - "Wild Wild West"

Some scenes filmed in Idaho (hope I don't need this for New Mexico).

Blues Brothers - "Everybody Needs Somebody"

Illinois.

Running count: 637 songs for 2011.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Day 101

DYS - "More than Fashion"

Enjoyable set yesterday.

SS Decontrol - "Glue"


Delaney & Bonnie & Friends - "You Gotta' Believe"

Back to the soundtrack from movies from 50 states theme. Off the Vanishing Point soundtrack. Filmed in Colorado.

Elvin Bishop - "Fooled Around and Fell in Love"

The Family Stone, filmed in Connecticut.

Pixies - "Where is My Mind":

From Fight Club, took place in Wilmington, DE.

Dr. Dre - "Forgot About Dre"

Used in Larry Clark's Bully, which took place in Florida.

Running Count: 632 songs for 2011.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Day 99

DOA - "The Prisoner"

From the Let Them Eat Jellybeans comp.

Bad Religion - "No Control"

Eerily similar to the last song?

The Who - "5:15"


The Who - "Bell Boy"

I watched Quadrophenia today. Interesting to find the latter song directed at Sting in the movie.

Going to try another theme and find a movie filmed or took place in every state and feature a song from it's soundtrack.

Buddy Holly - "Every Day"

From Big Fish, filmed in Alabama.

Eddie Vedder - "Society"

From Into the Wild. Alaska.

Devotchka - "We're Gonna Make It"

Little Miss Sunshine. Arizona.

Booker T & The MG's - "Soul Dressing"

Used in Sling Blade. Arkansas.

Black Flag - "Revenge"

Decline of Western Civilization. California.

Running count: 626 songs for 2011.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Day 98

Yesterday was some sort of International Beer Day but I didn't realize that until after I settled on a theme.

Murphy's Law - "Beer Song"

The chorus likely makes this one of the more offensive songs I'll ever play.

Fear - "More Beer"

One of the first hardcore songs I ever heard.

Gang Green - "Alcohol"


ZZ Top - "Beer Drinkers and Hellraisers"

They singing about Lone Star or Shiner Bock?

"Cro-Mags" - Unreleased Track no. 1

Would be much better with different vocals...maybe someone with the initials JJ?

Cro-Mags - "We Gotta' Know"

Much more like it.

Big Boys - "Red/Green"

Wanted to play some TX punk after ZZ Top.

Running Count: 617 songs for 2011.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Day 97

Found this list/blog and I thought I'd run through it. Top 10 Diss Songs of the 80s.

Salt-n-Peppa - "The Showstoppa"

Directed at Doug E Fresh/Slick Rick. Kind of gives me some respect for how much their sound matured.

Roxanne Shanté
- "Roxanne's Revenge"


Directed at UTFO and sorry about the bleeps. She made the news again in 2008 when this came to light. Interesting read anyways.

MC Shan - "Kill That Noise"

Directed at KRS1/BDP. The Bridge Wars.

Kool Moe Dee - "Death Blow"

This actually "Mama Said Knock You Out"-era. The blog references a blocked song ("Let's Go").

Roxanne Shanté - "Have a Nice Day"

BDP dis.

May return to this theme in the next few days.

Deep Wound
- "I Saw It"

Courtesy Al.

Urinals - "I'm a Bug"

Art-damaged LA punk.

Dow Jones and the Industrials - "Can't Stand the Midwest"

From Bloodstains Across...

Running count: 610 songs for 2011.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Day 96

Beastie Boys - "Make Some Noise"

New Beastie Boys song...harkening back to Check Your Head?

And let's do a roundup of bands I saw at UConn in honor of their championship:

Velocity Girl - "Sorry Again"


Jawbox - "Savory"


Superchunk - "Slack..."

Title listed inaccurately to allow for Facebook cross-posting.

Sick of It All - "No Labels"


Raw Deal - "Outgroup"

Going to guess this is from WNYU or WFMU.

Laughing Hyenas - "Everything I Want"


Screeching Weasel - "My Brain Hurts"


Running Count: 603 songs for 2011.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Day 95

Avail - "Southbound 95"


Nirvana - "Oh the Guilt"

Kurt Cobain died 17 years ago.

Manowar - "Hail to England"

Sadly, an R.I.P. for drummer Scott Columbus.

Soft Boys - "I Wanna Destroy You"

Courtesy Al. All-time great near-post punk song.

Robyn Hitchock - "Devil's Radio"

From Storefront Hitchcock.

Billy Bragg - "Waiting for the Great Leap Forward"

Staying mellow.

The Teardrop Explodes - "When I Dream"

Filling out some kind of bizarre quirky British triumvirate.

Running count: 595 songs for 2011.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Day 92 & 93

Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"

A cliche, but...

Spirit - "Taurus"

Alleged that Page ripped off the riff to "Stairway..." from this.

Canned Heat - "On the Road Again"

An alternate take.

Never actually got this published yesterday so now it's Sunday. Saw a few movies so here's some tunes from 'em.

Only Ones - "Another Girl Another Planet"

In the opening credits of Paul.

Marivin Gaye - "Got to Give It Up"

Later on in Paul.

B-52's - "Planet Claire"

Forget the scene, but this was there.

Eric B and Rakim - "Don't Sweat the Technique"

From The Lincoln Lawyer. In a driving around LA scene.

Martin Denny - "Exotica"

Watching DVR'd NASCAR race from Martinsville, VA now so it's music to do with the name "Martin".

The Beatles - "All My Loving"

Produced by Sir George Martin.

Jeff Beck - "Freeway Jam"

The album Blow by Blow also was produced by SGM.

Depeche Mode - "Just Can't Get Enough"

Sorry about the crummy live version. Original is disabled. Singer Martin Gore.

Marty Robbins - "El Paso"

Born Martin. Now this is what I call Western music.

Running count: 588 songs for 2012.