Day 302

Misfits - "Ghouls Night Out"

Happy Halloween!

Merzbow - "Quiet Men"

Work listening today. I dare you to listen with headphones.

Effigies - "Haunted Town"


Need to reboot. More later. Running count: 1736 songs for 2011.

Day 301

The Jesus Lizard - "Wheelchair Epidemic"


Mudhoney - "Hate the Police"


Coffin Break - "The Drive"

Pretty much a second-tier grunge band that I had a big crush on way back when.

Running count: 1733 songs for 2011.

Day 300

Misfits - "Demonomania"


Misfits - "Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight"


Zeke - "Evil Dead"

Guess we'll look for some other horror-type music today as well.

The Mummies - "What a Way to Die"


The Sonics - "Psycho a Go Go"

Some of the best screams of the 60s!

Screaming Lord Sutch - "Jack the Ripper"


Social Distortion - "The Creeps"


Misfits - "Halloween"


Misfits - "Halloween II"


Christian Death - "Romeo's Distress"

Some goth rock for the season.

Groovie Ghoulies - "Zombie Crush"


Roky Erickson - "I Walked with a Zombie"


Running count: 1730 songs for 2011. Another post later probably.

Day 299

Flag Sabbath time again.

Black Flag - "American Waste"


Black Sabbath - "Hand of Doom"


Black Flag - "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie"


Black Sabbath - "Fairies Wear Boots"


Black Flag - "Clocked In"


Black Sabbath - "Sweet Leaf"


Black Flag - "My Rules"


Black Sabbath - "After Forever"


Running Count: 1718 songs for 2011.

Day 296

Limp Wrist - "This Ain't No Cross on My Hand"


Negative Approach - "Sick of Talk"


Poison Idea - "In My Headache"


Big Black - "My Disco"

From the Headache EP.

Was going to make this all short, angry songs, but there's some good b-days today.

Yes - "Yours is No Disgrace"

Jon Anderson turns 67.

Judas Priest - "Tyrant"

Glenn Tipton turns 64.

Television - "Guiding Light"

Richard Lloyd turns 60. He shares a writing credit on this song.

Scorpions - "Coast to Coast"

Matthias Jabs turns 56. Believe they copped their own riff from this some years down the road.

Running count: 1710 songs for 2011.

Day 295

"Steam" - "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"

Songwriter Paul Leka passed away the other day. One of the better "jock jams".

Metallica - "Death Magnetic"

Rob Trujillo turned 47 yesterday. This is obviously a pre-release mix.

Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"

Bill Wyman turns 75.

Rolling Stones - "In Another Land"

Written and sung by Wyman. Among their most psychedelic.

Van Halen - "Runnin' with the Devil"

Ted Templeman turns 67.

"Weird Al" Yankovic - "My Bologna"

Turns 52.

Running count: 1702 songs for 2011.

Day 297

Lazy. Let's do the rest of Pscyhocandy.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - "The Living End"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Taste the Floor"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "The Hardest Walk"

Not the album version.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Cut Dead"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "In a Hole"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Taste of Cindy"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Never Understand"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Inside Me"

Time-appropriate live version.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Sowing Seeds"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "My Little Underground"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "You Trip Me Up"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Something's Wrong"


The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Some Candy Talking"

Bonus track originally.

Running count: 1696 songs for 2011.

Day 296

Dead Boys - "I Need Lunch"

Stiv would have been 62.

Dead Boys - "Ain't It Fun"


Germs - "Let's Pretend"


Mountain - "Nantucket Sleighride"

Leslie West turns 66.

Bobby Fuller Four - "I Fought the Law"

Would have been 69.

Circle Jerks - "Live Fast Die Young"


GG Allin - "Life Fast Die Fast"


Running count: 1683 songs for 2011.

Day 295 - C*ck Rock Friday

Let's see if we can get 20 year's worth...

Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song"

1970

Focus - "Hocus Pocus"

1971.

Foghat - "I Just Want to Make Love to You"

1972.

Nazareth - "Razamanaz"

1973.

Mountain - "Thumbsucker"

1974

Aerosmith - "Toys in the Attic"

1975.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Gimme' Back My Bullets"

1976.

Kiss - "Christine Sixteen"

1977

Van Halen - "Jamie's Cryin'"

1978.

Bad Company - "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy"

1979.

Judas Priest - "Breaking the Law"

1980.

Styx - "A.D. 1928 / Rockin' the Paradise"

1981. I believe this was the first cassette I ever bought...when my mother wouldn't let me get Foreigner 4.

38 Special - "Caught Up in You"

1982.

Quiet Riot - "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)"

1983. Inexplicably, this was rerecorded.

Ratt - "Round and Round"

1984.

The Firm - "Radioactive"

1985. Considering the 1970 and 1979 selections, it was inevitable, right?

Boston - "We're Ready"

1986.

Guns and Roses - "Welcome to the Jungle"

1987.

Bon Jovi - "Bad Medicine"

1988. I was so enthralled with punk/hardcore by the time this came out that I had absolutely no idea there was a video for this with Sam Kinison.

Warrant - "Down Boys"

1989. About as bad as it gets?

Running count: 1676 songs for 2011.

Day 292

It's Wednesday, how about all artists beginning with "W".

Warzone - "Don't Forget the Struggle, Don't Forget the Streets"


Wasted Youth - "Teenage Narc"

Still can't find their best ("Young and Bored").

Wire - "12XU"


White Flag - "Shattered Badge"


Wurm - "I'm Dead"


Wrecking Crew - "Guts and Glory"


Wu Tang Clan - "Protect Your Neck"


Wipers - "Youth of America"


The Woodentops - "Well Well Well"


White Stripes - "Blue Orchid"


Wicked Lady - "Ship of Ghosts"

Yup, all 15 minutes. Total sauce rock collector nerd stuff.

Running count: 1656 songs for 2011.

Day 291

Void - "Think"

Courtesy Vinny.

Siege - "Walls"

Sadly singer Kevin Mahoney passed away last week.

Siege - "Conform"


Chuck Berry - "Maybellene"

Turns 85.

Harry Nilsson - "Everybody's Talkin'"

Watched (most of) Midnight Cowboy for the first time.

Van Halen - "Everybody Wants Some"

Very raucous-sounding version.

That's six at least.

Running Count: 1645 songs for 2011.

Day 289

Bob Mould turns 51 so lets do a song from each Husker Du record.

Husker Du - "All Tensed Up"

Land Speed Record (not this version, but only a few weeks later.

Husker Du - "From the Gut"

Everything Falls Apart.

Husker Du - "Real World"

Metal Circus. Definitely one of the five best hardcore songs of all time.

Husker Du - "Chartered Trips"

Zen Arcade (record one)

Husker Du - "Reoccurring Dreams"

Zen Arcade (record two).

Husker Du - "I Apologize"

New Day Rising.

Husker Du - "Hate Paper Doll"

Flip Your Wig.

Husker Du - "All This I've Done for You"

Candy Apple Grey.

Husker Du - "These Important Years"

Warehouse: Songs and Stories (record 1).

Husker Du - "It's Not Peculiar"

Warehouse: Songs and Stories (record 2).

Running count: 1639 songs for 2011.

Day 288

Barry McGuire - "Eve of Destruction"

Turns 76.

Angry Samoans - "Steak Knife"


Dead Kennedys - "Kill the Poor"


Journey - "Anyway You Want It"

Came up last night in Rock Band at a party.

Dinosaur Jr. - "Feel the Pain"

A bad job singing on this by me.

Sonic Youth - "Bull in the Heather"


Veruca Salt - "Seether"

90s alterno-rock.

The Hold Steady - "Stuck Between Stations"

Another missed until now.

Side By Side - "You're Only Young Once"

Crunch NYHC.

Side By Side - "Look Back"


Side by Side - "Living a Lie"


Side by Side - "Friends"


Side by Side - "Backfire"


Side by Side - "My Life to Live"


Alone in a Crowd - "When Tigers Fight"

Same singer as SBS.

Wide Awake - "Last Straw"

More Youth Crew HC.

Unit Pride - "Wide Awake"

West coast version.

Brotherhood - "The Deal"

From Seattle.

Sick of It All - "The Deal"

Sorry I could only find a live version.

Venom - "Schizo"

Inexplicably linked amongst all the youth crew stuff. From their first album.

Venom - "Black Metal"

Second album.

Venom - "At War With Satan"


Third album.

Venom - "Possessed"

Fourth album. Mad the PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen" which will liekly be a good them soon.

Running count: 1629 songs for 2011.

Day 287

Misfits - "Die, Die My Darling"

Can't go wrong with Misfits on a Friday night in October before I head to a party.

Misfits - "Skulls"


Misfits - "I Turned Into a Martian"


Misfits - "Teenagers from Mars"


Misfits - "Hollywood Babylon"


Misfits - "Hybrid Moments"


Misfits - "Ghouls Night Out"


Polvo - "Beggars Bowl"

Heard this today and thought it was Nu Metal for a second due to the tight guitar licks.

Running count: 1605 songs for 2011.

Day 286

Joe Walsh - "Rocky Mountain Way"

The song that should be the state song of Colorado.

Joe Walsh - "Life's Been Good"
Hopefully this life version has the great rhyming couplet with "trunk" and "drunk".

John Denver - "Rocky Mountain High"

An alternative state song.

Laughing Hyenas - "Love's My Only Crime"

Some nice gutteral screaming from John Brannon.

Negative Approach - "Can't Tell No One"

More from him.

Running count: 1597 songs for 2011.

Day 285

Crucifix - "Another Mouth to Feed"

From Al.

Nihilistics - "Black Sheep"

R.I.P. (maybe) for bass player (and Long Island guy) Mike.

Nihilstics - "After Death"


Sam & Dave - "Soul Man"

Sam turns 76.

Sorry, a bit over-sidetracked tonight. Running count: 1592 songs for 2011.

Day 282

Girlschool - "Emergency"

The 999 reference to Herman Cain.

Rancid - "Maxwell Murder"

This song too.

(Impatient) Youth - "Yankee Go Home"

From a few nights ago.

Bored Youth - "No Chance"

Ripping midwest 'core ca. 1981.

Crucifix - "Peace or Annihilation"

Their most Agnostic Front-ish moment.

Iron Cross - "Crucified"


Agnostic Front - "Crucified"

If this is from the set I think it's from, I chipped a tooth at some point during this show.

Slapshot - "Chip on My Shoulder"

Not bad for a recent live shot. No original version available.

Cock Sparrer - "Chip on My Shoulder"


PJ Harvey - "Water"

Polly Jean Harvey turns 41.

The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"

John Lennon would have been 71.

The Who - "Silas Stingy"

John Entwistle would have been 67.

Jackson Browne - "Running on Empty"

Turns 64. This song holds up surprisingly well.

Running count: 1588 songs for 2011.

Day 281

Coupla' quick things...

The Fix - "In This Town"

Great Detroit HC.

The Freeze - "Trouble If You Hide"


Negative FX - "Mind Control"


Government Issue - "Time to Escape"


Angry Samoans - "Are You a Square"

Believe this is an out-take not on one of the original three albums.

Rorschach - "Lighting Strikes Twice"

Another missed-until-now band.

Baptists - "Good Parenting"

Recent band that reminds me a lot of Rorschach.

That's seven songs. I'm outta' here.

Running count: 1575 songs for 2011.

Day 280

Slayer - "Piece by Piece"

Reign in Blood came out 25 years ago today.

Slayer - "Necrophobic"


Slayer - "Altar of Sacrifice"


Slayer - "Jesus Saves"


Slayer - "Criminally Insane"


Slayer - "Reborn"


Slayer - "Epidemic"


Slayer - "Postmortem"


Swiz - "Dave's Song"


Kingface - "Read My Back"


Underdog - "Without Fear"


New Bomb Turks - "Quarter to Four"

One of their more melodic tunes.

Running count: 1568 songs for 2011.

Day 279

Jesus Lizard - "Elegy"


Jesus Lizard - "Too Bad About the Fire"


Fat Boy Slim - "Rockafeller Skank"

Heard something else by him today and dug it. Where's the retro for this?

Agnostic Front - "Blind Justice"


The 4 Skins - "One Law for Them"

Some nice Oi!

Agnostic Front - "Power"


Trumans Water - "Aroma of Gina Arnold"

Epic.

Trumans Water - "Mindstab Forklift"


Polvo - "Enemy Insects"


June of 44 - "Sharks and Sailors"

Forgot how great this band is. Should hopefully be the next random reunion.

Fatboy Slim - "Right Here Right Now"


Samhain - "Intium/Samhain"

We have all month for Glenn's other band.

Running count: 1556 songs for 2011.

Day 277

Husker Du - "Statues"

One of those days.

Husker Du - "Deadly Skies"


Iggy Pop - "The Passenger"

Currently shilling for Captain Morgan.

Iggy Pop - "Lust for Life"

Formerly shilled for Carnival Cruises.

Supertouch - "Engine"

Playing here Saturday. Probably a no, but....

Supertramp - "Goodbye Stranger"

Super, yep. Was looking for a different song but no good Youtube version of it.

Supersuckers - "Must've Been High"

I guess their alt.country period.

The Kinks - "(I Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"

Forgot how disco/new romantic this was.

Urge Overkill - "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"

In honor of Pulp Fiction coming out on Blu Ray.

Devoid of Faith - "Ton Erreur"

Sorta' cover of the AF song.

Gray Matter - "Give Me a Clue"


Neos - "Destruct"

There's two more songs here but we'll count this for one.

Devil Dogs - "6th Ave Local"


Running count: 1542 songs for 2011.

Day 276

Youth Brigade - "Did You Wanna' Die"


Bold - "Wise Up"


Poison Idea - "Pure Hate"


Born Against - "Nine Years Later"

Good for a Monday, right?

Chubby Checker - "The Twist"

Turns 70.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Crossfire"

Would have been 57.

Motley Crue - "Live Wire"

Tommy Lee turns 49.

Yesterday's birthdays:
Heartbreakers - "Love Comes in Spurts"

Richard Hell; 62.

Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"

Mike Rutherford; 61.

The Police - "So Lonely"

Sting; 60.

Running count: 1529 songs for 2011.