Day 212

Jesus Lizard - "Pastoral"

Slow burnin'.

Fu Manchu - "Urethane"

This and the next few courtesy of Reservoir Records.

Bl'ast! - "SSSHhh!"


Infest - "Machismo"


Infest - "Where's the Unity?"

Looks like folks finally created youtube vids for them.

Infest - "Sick of Talk"


Manliftingbanner - "Sister"

One of my favorite 90s bands.

Born Against - "Poland"

From the same era.

Jawbreaker - "Sea Foam Green"


Love and Rockets - "So Alive"

Daniel Ash turns 54.

Housemartins - "Caravan of Love"

Norman Cook turns 48. I'll put some Fat Boy Slim songs/remixes up at some point.

Running count: 1092 songs for 2011.

Day 201

Sick Pleasure - "Sick Pleasure"

Snotty punk.

Moody Blues - "Knights in White Satin"

John Lodge turns 66.

Santana - "Black Magic Woman"

Turns 64.

Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna' Take It"

Jay Jay French turns 59.

Sex Pistols - "Problems"

Paul Cook turns 55.

Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun"

Chris Cornell turns 47.

Running count: 1081 songs for 2011.

Day 197

Half Off - "The Truth"

One of my all-time faves. Controversial in its day for sure.

Weirdos - We Got the Neutron Bomb"

Another fave.

Bags - "Survive"

More LA stuff.

Desmond Dekker - "Israelites

Born this day 1941.

The Police - "Next to You"

Stewart Copeland turns 59.

Klark Kent - "Don't Care"

Stewart's new wave side project.

Girls against Boys - "Don't Gotta' Place"


Circle Jerks - "Beverly Hills"

Some LA songs for Carmageddon.

Fear - "I Love Livin' in the City"


Arlo Guthrie - "Coming into Los Angeles"


Running count: 1075 songs for 2011.

Day 195

Black Flag - "No Values"

Posted by Al.

Rush - "Bastille Day"

For today.

Sherwood Schwartz - "Brady Bunch Theme"

R.I.P. from a few days ago. Embedding of Gilligan is disabled so you're spared.

Woody Guthrie - "This Land is Your Land"

Born this day in 1912.

Naked City - "Thrash Jazz Assassin"

Today's rediscovery. Ripping!

Masada - "Tekufah"

Some more traditional John Zorn.

Boredoms - "Super Are"

Another missed band.

Running count: 1065 songs for 2011.

Day 193

Kiss - "Lick It Up"

Eric Carr would have been 61 today.

Uriah Heep - "Shady Lady"

Bassist John Wetton (also in King Crimson, Roxy Music, Asia and others) turns 62 today.

Fleetwood Mac - "The Chain"


Christine McVie turns 68. I know Stevie does the lead vox on this, but it's the only Mac song I like.

Dicks - "Hate the Police"

Let's get back to the punk. Courtesy Al.

X - "Delta 88"


Run-DMC - "It's Tricky"


Running count: 1059 songs for 2011.

Day 192

Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper"

Not believing I haven't gotten to this. All-timer for sure.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"

Singer/Guitarist Jeff Hana turns 62. Can't find the original so we'll go with this version featuring Johnny Cash.

Bauhaus - "Dark Entries"

Peter Murphy turns 54. Or would if goths celebrated birthdays.

Slayer - "Seasons in the Abyss"

Long form Slayer.

Ramones - "Rockaway Beach"

Guess I should go with some summer tunes.

Beach Boys - "Surfin' Safari"


Running Count: 1053 songs for 2011.

Day 191 part 2

Arlo Guthrie - "City of New Orleans"

Turns 63 today.

Dio - "Holy Diver"

Would have been 61 today.

Black Sabbath - "Die Young"

Some more Ronnie.

Black Sabbath - "The Mob Rules"

Probably their most NWOBHMish moment.

Rainbow - "Man on the Silver Mountain"

I will spare Elf and anything earlier.

Moby Grape - "Hey Grandma"

Guitarist Jerry Miller turns 68.

The Greg Kihn Band - "The Breakup Song"

Turns 61 today.

Running Count: 1047 songs for 2011.

Day 191: A mid-July interlude

Pavement - "Range Life"

An easy song to conjure up when driving across a state like Wyoming.

Motorhead - "Hellraiser"

RIP guitarist/Lemmy's bass tech Wurzel.

Dictators - "Next Big Thing"

Another band I've missed so far. Perhaps because they're big Yankee fans?

J Church - "Racked"

After Jawbreaker the best 90s pop-punk band.

Fat Boys - "Stick 'Em"

Mislabeled. Heard this yesterday.

A Tribe Called Quest - "Can I Kick It?"

Subject of an interesting-looking doc.

A Tribe Called Quest - "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo"


A Tribe Called Quest - "Check the Rhime"


Running Count: 1040 songs for 2011.