Normally I'd be starting some weekly theme today, but I'm drawing a blank.  So, I'm just gonna make some random picks for now, but in the meantime, make some suggestions in this comments thread.  Suggest some unifying trait, or a particular artist or album.

Of course, if you choose the latter, you should at least know me well enough to suggest an artist or album I actually like.  Any "Def Leppard Week" solicitations will be jettisoned with extreme prejudice.

I heard "Behind the Sun" this morning on Fred.  Good song, but it's not my favorite from Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987).  "What is?", you may be asking?

OK, you're not asking.  Just humor me for a minute.

My fave track from that record is... well, you're lookin' at it.

Hear "Organic Anti-Beat Box Band" on YouTube

Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore passed away yesterday from complications related to an all-terrain vehicle accident that occurred last June.  So, I am posting a huge favorite from what is probably my #1 DMB album, 1996's Crash.

I discussed this group in more detail here.  I don't like everything about them, but I do like them in general.  And under the circumstances, this song seems appropriate.



LeRoi Moore
1961-2008

Hear "Lie in Our Graves" on YouTube

Watch a live performance

Wikipedia article

In doing today's post, I went to YouTube specifically to look for AudioSurf videos, hoping to find one that featured a song I liked, and I just happened upon one for "Paint It, Black."  Not a big Stones guy, but I've always liked that track, so here it is.

AudioSurf looks cool.  I should try it.  Maybe then I could post my own YouTube clips and show the world my lack of coordination.  All hail teh Intarwebz.

Watch an AudioSurf video for "Paint It, Black" on YouTube

Read about the song on Wikipedia

When I first heard this song on Fungus (XM 53), I just cracked up.  The "F**K YOU RUDY!" line had me absolutely rolling.

I don't necessarily agree with the sentiments expressed in the tune, but I will admit that I only like ska in small doses.  It keeps coming in "waves" - what, they're saying the "fourth wave" is on its way?  Well geez, maybe if the genre wasn't so one-dimensional and had some real staying power it wouldn't have to come in "waves."  I mean, have you noticed that every time ska becomes "cool", it doesn't stay cool for very long?

Sure, I can listen to an entire Toasters CD, or some old Aquabats or Let's Go Bowling.  But generally not consecutively.  I usually like to follow it up with some Anthrax or something.  Of course, I don't think I can listen to thrash metal for extended time periods either, but that's a debate for another day...

Watch yet another AudioSurf video on YouTube.

Yeah, I know I just posted a song from this same album of cartoon covers.  But I really felt like posting Violent Femmes' terrific version of this whacked-out tune from The Jetsons.

So, if all that gibberish means "I love you", how do you translate "I hate you so piss off"?  Just curious.

Hear "Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah" on YouTube

Watch the original segment from The Jetsons

The English-borne Stranglers have been around for over 30 years and have undergone some pretty major style shifts.  They started out as essentially a punk band, and gradually transformed into more of a synth pop band over time.

"Peaches" comes from their 1977 studio debut Rattus Norvigicus, so it's surely one of their more raw-sounding tracks.  If you listen to the Fred channel on XM, you may view the Stranglers as more of a New Order clone, so hopefully posting this song will dispel that myth (although, to be fair, Fred has played this song as well).

BTW, he's saying "clitares", which is a French swimsuit.  Perv.

Hear "Peaches" on YouTube

Wikipedia blurb

During our aforementioned family hoedown, amongst the morass of blues rock standards, no matter what instrument I was on, I kept trying to bust out "YYZ."

Me on drums:  "OK, YYZ!!  1-2-3-4!" BASH ba BASH BASH BASH ba BASH BASH BASH BASH bubba BASH ba BASH BASH BASH...... (dead, awkward silence)

Me on bass:  "OK, YYZ!! 1-2-3-4!" (plays flat-fifth intro riff, stops, more dead awkward silence)

Fine.  We'll do "Mustang Sally"... again.

Hear "YYZ" on YouTube.

Watch a live performance.

Watch the entry into the popular YouTube "Shreds" motif.