Time to catch some Z's.

Click here to hear a live performance of "Zomby Woof" on YouTube, accompanied by snapshots of women with tattoos.

You guessed it, no 'Y' song yet.  Gee, this is becoming a weekly theme-type deal.  I could choose one of a billion songs that start with "You", "Your" or "You're", but I'm gonna do something a bit different...

Love and Rockets were what remained of Bauhaus after vocalist Peter Murphy left that group.  They're best known for their 1989 hit "So Alive" - you remember, that tune with the droning, canned snare drum sound and the video with all the legs in it?  Yeah, that's the one.  Meh.

If that's all you know of Love and Rockets, then you really should check out their 1986 release Express.  It's at times groovy, often haunting, sometimes brisk, but always awesome.  One of it's examples of briskness is "Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man."

Click here to watch the video for "Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man" on YouTube.

Guess what?  No 'U' song.  Wait, I haven't picked a Devo tune either? Where the hell is my head? 

I'm a geeky guy in his late 30's.  Of course I love Devo.  It's like a law.  I'll admit I didn't get into them until around the time "Whip It" came out, but it was only a matter of a few nanoseconds before I had snatched up their entire catalog, thus cementing my status as a terminal nerd.  The opening track from their 1978 debut Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! just flies by at a brisk three minutes and nine seconds, and it's called "Uncontrollable Urge."

Click here to watch a fan-made video for "Uncontrollable Urge" on YouTube.  Marvel at my magic man-boobs!

Well, it so happens I don't have a 'V' song either.

OK, I am in no way an expert on the subject, but if you ask me (and you haven't) to recommend music for, um, having relations, well, there are lots of options.  Maybe Barry White is your thing.  Perhaps you're keen on sap-drenched pop ballads.  Could be you're into (here comes that abhorrent phrase again) "smooth jazz."  I've seen a few people mention Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" as being good boff-backing, which I find unfathomable, because that band is one big sheet-stenched pile of suck.

If it really came down to it, I'd initially suggest some classical piano, maybe some of the slower Chopin etudes or Rachmaninoff preludes.  But if you really need something more contemporary, try "Violet", the final cut from Seal's 1991 self-titled album.  The mood is right, the length is right, the voice is right.  I can't quite explain it, it just really strikes me as a song that works well for those more, ahem, intimate moments.

Click here to watch a fan-made video for "Violet" on YouTube.  Actually, there's not a whole hell of a lot to watch.  Just play it, turn up the speakers, and then go do... whatever.

I was looking through my list of songs sorted by title and realized I hadn't picked a 'Q' song yet.  I am rectifying that today with "The Queen and the Soldier", from Suzanne Vega's 1985 self-titled debut.

This is just a lovely and moving song, and it's fun to play on the guitar as well.  Of course, I can't sing it anywhere near as well.  Yeah, I know, duh.

Click here to watch a live performance of "The Queen and  the Soldier" on YouTube, although I highly recommend the album version, especially now that Amazon is letting you download DRM-free mp3's.

Back in the mid-80's, before MTV became the cultural wasteland it is today, it had a show called "MTV Basement Tapes."  The premise was simple - unsigned bands submitted their own videos and the viewers voted for their favorites, and if I remember correctly, the winners received record contracts.

One such submission was a totally wacky but irresistibly bouncy little number called "Dog Police", by a group of the same name.  I don't remember how far it got or if it won anything, but I'd bet the farm that I enjoyed it considerably more than whatever did win.

Click here to watch the aforementioned video for "Dog Police."  And to think I didn't expect to see this clip on YouTube.  God bless the Intarweb.  From the comments thread comes this bit of poignance from a user named "gmrios":

"Brings back memories, when chics had real boobs and MTV used to play music."

Rock on, brother.

In many ways, "Something To Believe In", from 1986's Animal Boy, is not your prototypical Ramones song.  It has keyboards in it.  Rhythm guitar is minimal.  It's over four minutes in length.  It has something resembling a guitar solo.  There's no hey ho let's go, no gabba gabba hey, and at no point does anyone say that anyone or anything is all revved up and ready to go.

But I think it's one of Joey Ramone's best vocal performances.  I really like the way the drums sound.  And when it comes to raw energy and heart, it's as Ramonesy as anything. 

Click here to watch the star-studded video for "Something To Believe In" on YouTube.

"Pink Cigarette" is one of many terrific cuts from Mr. Bungle's final album, 1999's California.

I want this song played at my funeral.

Click here to watch an OUTSTANDING fan-made video for "Pink Cigarette" on YouTube.

This is part of a week-long series on Mike Patton's best known bands, Mr. Bungle and Faith No More.