Number of Beatles songs posted by Glenn Case:  9
Number of Beatles songs posted by Rachael Layne:  7
Number of Beatles songs posted by Andy:  2
Number of Beatles songs posted by Heuristics Inc.:  3  (UPDATE:  thanks Bill)
Number of Beatles songs posted by Rabid Garfunkel during his ultra-brief foray into song blogging:  1
Number of Beatles songs posted by Tuuur during his first day as a song blogger:  1
Number of Beatles songs posted by myself before today:  0

Man, I need to get with the program.  I've never been a big Fab Four devotee, but I am what I'd call Beatles-friendly.  So, here is a classic from the 1968 self-titled "White" album.

This was one of the very first songs I tried to learn when I first got an acoustic guitar.  It's really not that difficult.  Of course, I'll never be knighted as a result of playing it, but eh, whaddya gonna do?

Click here to hear "Blackbird" on YouTube.

In yesterday's post, I briefly mentioned finding the Boston-based band Two Ton Shoe on MP3.com years ago.  Well, here is the song that I found - the LATFAPerrific "Medicine."

Apparently the band has been without a regular drummer for years now.  They've had a revolving cast of fill-in stickmen during that time, including Red Hot Chili Peppers skin-basher Chad Smith, who is very high on the group.

And now you can be too!  Click here to watch a video for "Medicine" on YouTube.

Years ago, before MP3.com became just another sterile music download service, it was a great way to discover independent artists and hear their stuff freely and legally.  If you were a member, they'd periodically send you a CD-ROM entitled something like "103 Great Songs You've Never Heard."

Generally, out of those 103, there were about four or five worth keeping.  The rest of them were junk.  But nonetheless, I still discovered bands like Boy Kicks Girl, Two Ton Shoe and Pyjama Charm.  And one of those discs contained a song called "Strangelove Addiction" by the L.A.-based "trip-hop" group Supreme Beings of Leisure.

They're much more well-known now, but I love getting all hoity-toity and going on about how I knew them when they were nothing.  Bask in my elitist snobbery!

Click here to watch the video for "Strangelove Addiction" on YouTube.

Dennis DeYoung, formerly of Styx, turns 61 today, so I am posting his most prototypical example of - what else? - unadulterated 80's cheese!  I was insane for this song (from 1983's Kilroy Was Here) when it first came out.  I just could not hear it enough.  Of course, I was 14 then, so I was a wee bit more impressionable.

Yes, it's cheesy.  Yes, it's bombastic.  But even though the song hasn't really aged all that well, I still hold some fondness for it.  Which shouldn't surprise any of the two or three people that read this blog.

Click here to watch the video for "Mr. Roboto" on YouTube.

Like most bands, the DKs were good for the occasional cover.  They made some big waves with send-ups of "Viva Las Vegas" and the theme from "Rawhide", and their 1986 album Bedtime for Democracy features this spirited version of the David Allen Coe standard "Take This Job and Shove It."

Click here to hear "Take This Job and Shove It" on YouTube.

This is part of a week-long series on the music of the Dead Kennedys.

When Frankenchrist was originally released in 1985, it included a poster of H.R. Giger's "Work 219: Landscape XX", a painting that is rather, uh, phallic in nature.  As such, it created quite the sheetstorm.  You can read more about it in the DKs Wikipedia article.

That was a shame, because with all the legal hoopla surrounding the album, the fact that said album is patently amazing went virtually unnoticed.  I think Frankenchrist is the quintessential DKs album musically - here is where the band really began to expand and grow with regards to composition and arrangement.  This isn't simple two-chord power punk, there's a real intricacy here.

The whole record is very strong, but nonetheless, one of my faves from it is "This Could Be Anywhere."

Click here to hear "This Could Be Anywhere" on YouTube.

This is part of a week-long series on the music of the Dead Kennedys.

There are many positively searing tracks from the 1982 DKs album Plastic Surgery Disasters, but I really like...

Wait, stop, hold it.  "Positively searing" is freaking lame.  What was I thinking?  Let's try again.

There are many jaw-droppingly blistering tracks from the 1982 DKs album Plastic Surgery Disasters, but...

Good Lord, I must have gotten up with a severe case of marketroid.  Take two...

There are many blazingly fist-pounding tracks from the 1982 DKs album Plastic Surgery Disasters, but...

Ah, hell with it.

"Terminal Preppie."  Quick.  Loud.  Makes fun of dimwitted frat boys and their equally personality-challenged trophies with legs and hair.  Go hear it.

Click here to watch an appropriate fan-made video for "Terminal Preppie."  One YouTube commenter hit it right on the head:  "Well, that was a few hundred people that all look exactly the same."

This is part of a week-long series on the music of the Dead Kennedys.

This track from the 1981 EP In God We Trust Inc. was essentially a remake of "California Uber Alles" that lampooned U.S. President Ronald Reagan instead of California Governor Jerry Brown, with a lounge-jazz intro added.

I like this version much more than the original, in part because of said lounge intro, which showed a musicality and a technical prowess the band would demonstrate more often later in their career.  These guys weren't exactly virtuosos by any means, but just look at the ninth chords guitarist East Bay Ray is playing during that intro.  How many punk rock axe-wielders at the time even knew what a ninth chord was?

Click here to watch a studio performance of "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" on YouTube.  This was taken from the actual In God We Trust Inc. recording sessions, so it sounds very similar to what's on the album.

This is part of a week-long series on the music of the Dead Kennedys.