Morgan Stone Grether

Music is a huge part of my life.  It always plays at my home and offices, always, no exceptions. 

This page has some of the “heavy rotation” songs that I think to write down here every few weeks or so. 

So what’s your role here? You can simply enjoy or call me a fool.  It’s up to you.

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01 Rihanna, “We Found Love”
02 Peter Murphy, “Seesaw Sway”
03 Goty, “Somebody That I Used to Know”
04 Human League, “Open Your Heart”
05 Shins, “Nothing at All”
06 Velvet Underground, “Coney Island Steeplechase”
07 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, “Tigers”
08 Bon Iver, “Calgary”
09 Fleet Foxes, “White Winter Hymnal”
10 Florence and the Machine, “Shake It Out”
11 Scissor Sisters, “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’”
12 Black Keys, “Lonely Boy”

01. Kate Nash, “Foundations”
02. Nine Inch Nails, “Closer”
03. Ben Folds with Regina Spektor, “You Don’t Know Me”
04. TapWater, “Gary”
05. A-Ha, “Take On Me”
06. Bravery, “Swollen Summer”
07. Partridge Family, “I Think I Love You”
08. Hank Williams, “Honky Tonkin’”
09. Modest Mouse, “Convenient Parking”
10. Police, “Spirits in the Material World”
11. Frank Black, “(I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain”
12. Elbow, “Forget Myself”

1. Regina Spektor, “Us”
2. Robert Palmer, “I Dream of Wires”
3. Plain White T’s, “Hey There Delilah”
4. Husker Du, “Books About UFOs”
5. Flight of the Conchords, “The Humans Are Dead”
6. Bob Mould, “Wishing Well”
7. Johnny Cash, “Thirteen”
8. White Stripes, “Aluminum”
9. Jimi Hendrix, “Night Bird Flying”
10. Violent Femmes, “Add It Up”
11. Bruno Mars, “Marry You”
12. Jimmie Rodgers, “Blue Yodel #2”

01. Foster the People, “Pumped Up Kicks”
02. Broken Bells, “Meyrin Fields”
03. Queens of the Stone Age, “If Only”
04. Dignan, “They’re Outnumbered”
05. We Are Augustines, “Headlong into the Abyss”
06. Portugal. The Man “Got It All”
07. White Stripes, “We’re Going To Be Friends”
08. Black Keys, “Set You Free”
09. Arctic Monkeys, “Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I Moved The Chair”
10. Cheap Trick, “If It Takes a Lifetime”
11. Nico, “These Days”
12. Bobby Short, “East Side of Heaven”

1. Killers: “All These Things I’ve Done”
2. Foo Fighters: “Rope”
3. SSM: “Deja Vu”
4. Weezer: “Troublemaker”
5. TV On the Radio: “Second Song”
6. Black Keys: “I Got Mine”
7. Bon Iver: “Flume”
8. Explosions in the Sky: “Last Known Surroundings”
9. Des Ark: “My Saddle is Waitin’ (C’mon Jump on It)”
10. Abigail Washburn: “City of Refuge”
11. Vampire Weekend: “A-Punk”
12. Who, “A Quick One, While He’s Away”

01. Rihanna, “California King Bed”
02. Josh Ritter, “Lillian, Egypt”
03. Peter Gabriel, “Come Talk to Me”
04. Grant Lee Buffalo, “Fuzzy”
05. Brenton Wood, “Gimme Little Sign”
07. Mark Kozelek, “Carry Me Ohio”
08. National, “Apartment Story”
09. Strokes, “I Can’t Win”
10. Hank Williams, “You Win Again”
11. Richard Hawley, “Time Has Made a Change”
12. Shakira, “Addicted to You”

A very silly list this time around, but I am a very silly person these days.

1. Preachers, “Who Do You Love”
2. Pete Yorn, “Don’t Wanna Cry”
3. Ron Pope, “Please Come Home to Me”
4. Plain White T’s, “Rhythm of Love”
5. Nina Simone, “Feeling Good”
6. Rihanna, “S&M”
7. Lady Gaga, “Poker Face”
8. of Montreal, “I Feel Ya’ Strutter”
9. Old 97s, “Designs on You”
10. Weakerthans, “The Reasons”
11. Smithereens, “Something New”
12. Enrique Iglesias, “Euphoria”

1. Captain Beefheart, “I’m Gonna Booglarize You”
2. White Stripes,“Hotel Operator”
3. Camper Von Beethoven, “My Path Belated”
4. Cheap Trick, “She’s Tight”
5. White Zombie, “Starface”
6. Tool, “Sober”
7. Public Enemy, “Mind Terrorist”
8. Joy Division, “Shadow Play”
9. Mudhoney, “Let It Slide”
10. Greg Kihn, “Breakup Song”
11. Everly Brothers, “All I Have to Do is Dream”
12. Cult, “Wild Flower”

1. Death, “Politicians in my Eyes”
2. Johnny Cash, “Hurt”
3. Robyn Hitchcock, “Goodnight, Oslo”
4. Robi Draco Rosa, “Mas y Mas”
5. Flight of the Conchords, “We’re Both in Love with a Sexy Lady”
6. Sonic Youth, “Purr”
7. Juanes, “Gotas De Agua Dulce”
8. Daft Punk, “Technologic”
9. Metallica, “Fade to Black”
10. Slayer, “Dead Skin Mask”
11. Melvins, “Honey Bucket”
12. Black Flag, “Nervous Breakdown”

1. Pete Yorn, “Favorite Song”
2. Of Montreal, “Coquet Coquette”
3. Beatles, “She Said She Said”
4. National, “Afraid of Everyone”
5. Black Keys, “Everlasting Light”
6. Deerhunter, “Revival”
7. Soundgarden, “My Wave”
8. Stone Temple Pilots, “Big Bang Baby”
9. Donovan, “Jennifer Jupiter”
10. Flaming Lips, “The W.A.N.D.”
11. Melvins, “Dog Island”
12. Danzig, “Thirteen”

1. Juanes, “Yerbatero”
2. Buddy Holly, “Words of Love”
3. Blitzen Trapper, “Laughing Lover”
4. ‪Beth Orton‬, “‪Conceived‬”
5. Presidents of the United States of America, “Lump”
6. Soundgarden, “Let Me Drown”
7. Supergrass, “Richard III”
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, “Awake”
9. Polyphonic Spree, “Light & Day”
10. Depeche Mode, “Wrong”
11. Sin City Disciples, “Butane Beauty”
12. Nervous Turkey, “I Put a Spell On You”

1. Outkast, “Hey Ya!”
2. Blitzen Trapper, “Laughing Lover”
3. AC/DC, “Sin City”
4. Ramones, “Judy is a Punk”
5. REM, “Life And How To Live It”
6. Black Keys, “Everlasting Light”
7. Roots, “Right On”
8. David Bowie, “Always Crashing in the Same Car”
9. Metric, “Help I’m Alive”
10. Teenage Fanclub, “Sometimes I Don’t Need To Believe In Anything”
11. Black Sabbath, “Children of the Grave”
12. Cheap Trick, “Southern Girls”

1. Laura Veirs, “July Flame”
2. National, “Afraid of Everyone”
3. Cure, “Fascination Street”
4. Melissa Auf der Maur, “Out of Our Minds”
5. Beck, “Bad Blood”
6. Broken Bells, “Your Head is on Fire”
7. Spoon, “The Mystery Zone”
8. Rainbow, “The Man on the Silver Mountain”
9. Rolling Stones, “Good Time Women”
10. Clarence Gatemouth Brown, “You Got Money”
11. Karen Elson, “The Truth is in the Dirt”
12. Sun Ra, “The Cosmos”

In honor of the passing of great guitarist Alex Chilton, I have made this list of some of my favorite songs from his 70s’ band, Big Star:

1. Kissa Me
2. Thank You Friends
3. In the Street
4. Feel
5. Don’t Lie to Me
6. O My Soul
7. You Get What You Deserve
8. Stroke It Noel
9. Jesus Christ
10. You Can’t Have Me
11. Back of a Car
12. September Gurls

1. Sloan, “Everything You’ve Done Wrong”
2. Roky Erickson, “I Have Always Been Here Before”
3. Iggy and the Stooges, “Gimme Danger”
4. Blondie, “Call Me”
5. Isaac Hayes, “One Woman”
6. Doves, “There Goes the Fear”
7. Bo Diddley, “Gun Slinger”
8. Jeff Buckley, “Last Goodbye”
9. Nico, “These Days”
10. Marion, “Wait”
11. Ice Cube, “Today Was a Good Day”
12. J. Geils Band, “Ain’t Nothin’ But a House Party”

1. Radiohead, “Airbag”
2. Fu Machu, “Regal Begal”
3. Tool, “Schism”
4. Corrosion of Conformity, “Clean My Wounds”
5. Chavez, “Unreal is Here”
6. Hüsker Dü, “Makes No Sense At All”
7. Jane’s Addiction, “Trip Away”
8. Loudermilk, “California”
9. Melvins, “Peal Bomb”
10. TV on the Radio, “Staring at the Sun”
11. Teenage Fanclub, “It’s All in My Mind”
12. Violent Femmes, “Gone Daddy Gone”

1. Chet Baker, “My Funny Valentine”
2. Nina Simone, “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to”
3. Magnetic Fields, “Busby Berkeley Dreams”
4. Replacements, “If Only You Were Lonely”
5. Captain and Tennille, “Love Will Keep Us Together”
6. Derek and the Dominos, “Anyday”
7. Sonic Youth, “Kool Thing”
8. Big Star, “Kizza Me”
9. R.E.M., “Losing My Religion”
10. Regina Spektor, “Us”
11. Cure, “Lovecats”
12. Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, “Good Morning”

1. Who, “A Quick One, While He’s Away”
2. Of Montreal, “Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live)”
3. Kanye West, “Get Em Hi”
4. Cold War Kids, “We Used to Vacation”
5. Midlake, “Roscoe”
6. Libertines, “Vertigo”
7. Hot Hot Heat, “Touch You Touch You”
8. Mike Watt, “E-Ticket Ride”
9. Depeche Mode, “Wrong”
10. Eels, “Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living)”
11. Radiohead, “Lurgee”
12. Rockpile, “Teacher Teacher”

1.  National,  “Secret Meeting”
2.  AC/DC, “Highway to Hell”
3.  White Stripes, “Icky Thump”
4.  Sloan, “Try to Make It”
5.  Violent Femmes, “Add It Up”
6.  Richard Thompson, “I Can’t Wake Up to Save My Life”
7.  Teenage Fanclub, “Star Sign”
8.  Elefant, “Now That I Miss Her”
9.  Decemberists, “O Valencia!”
10.  David Bowie, “Joe the Lion”
11.  Constantines, “On to You”
12.  Beirut, “A Sunday Smile”

1. James Brown, “Get Up, Get Into It And Get Involved”
2. Roots, “Here I Come”
3. Love & Rockets, “It Could Be Sunshine”
4. Flaming Lips, “Convinced of the Hex”
5. Beatles, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
6. Weezer, “Automatic”
7. Foo Fighters, “Everlong”
8. Wu-Tang Clan, “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’”
9. Village Green, “When The Creepers Creep In”
10. Sublime, “Wrong Way”
11. Tito Puente, “Havana After Dark”
12. Lee Morgan, “The Sidewinder”

1. Flaming Lips, “The W.A.N.D.”
2. Say Hi, “Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh”
3. Janelle Monáe, “Many Moons”
4. Get Up Kids, “Holiday”
5. Stars of Track and Field, “Movies of Antarctica”
6. Black Sabbath, “Supernaut”
7. Stone Temple Pilots, “Interstate Love Song”
8. Blitzen Trapper, “Silver Moon”
9. Led Zeppelin, “Immigrant Song”
10. Elmore James, “Dust My Blues”
11. Modern Jazz Quartet, “Legendary Profiles”
12. Robert Johnson, “They’re Red Hot”

1. Jay Reatard, “It Ain’t Gonna Save Me”
2. Brendan Benson, “A Whole Lot Better”
3. Flight of the Conchords, “Carol Brown”
4. Pete Yorn, “Ice Age”
5. MGMT, “Destrokk”
6. Pearl Jam, “The Fixer”
7. Melvins, “The Kicking Machine”
8. Hank Williams, “Cold, Cold Heart”
9. John Hiatt, “Icy Blue Heart”
10. Lou Reed, “Ride Sally Ride”
11. White Stripes, “Blue Orchid”
12. Bob Mould, “Again and Again”

Some things on heavy rotation here at MSG HQ…

1. Pearl Jam, “The Fixer”
2. Giraffes, “Prime Motivator”
3. MGMT, “Boogie Down”
4. Depeche Mode, “Wrong”
5. Cure, “Freakshow”
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Dani California”
7. Shakira, “Loba”
8. Cheap Trick, “Welcome to the World”
9. Queen, “Don’t Stop Me Now (Live)”
10. Rolling Stones, “Hang Fire”
11. Florence & the Machine, “I’m Not Calling You a Liar”
12. Green Day, “Know Your Enemy”

1. Elliott Smith, “Independence Day”
2. Bob Dylan, “When I Paint My Masterpiece”
3. Rhett Miller, “Caroline”
4. Pete Yorn, “Shotgun”
5. Wilco, “Wilco (The Song)”
6. Of Montreal, “First Time High (Of Chicago Acoustic Version)”
7. Church, “Deadman’s Hand”
8. X, “Adult Books”
9. Rolling Stones, “Blinded by Love”
10. Nick Cave, “Abattoir Blues”
11. Fall, “Why Are People Grudgeful?”
12. Nico, “No One is There”

1. Eels, “Last Stop: This Town”
2. PJ Harvey, “Sheela-Na-Gig”
3. Flaming Lips, “Are You A Hypnotist??”
4. Foo Fighters, “Aurora”
5. Badly Drawn Boy, “The Shining”
6. Rentals, “I’m Waiting”
7. Okkervil River, “Unless It’s Kicks”
8. Pixies, “Velouria”
9. Stars, “Take Me to the Riot”
10. Sea Wolf, “You’re a Wolf”
11. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, “The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth”
12. Wilco, “What Light”

1. Pavement, “Stereo”
2. Weezer, “Burndt Jamb”
3. Beck, “Strange Apparition”
4. Animal Collective, “Peacebone”
5. My Bloody Valentine, “Only Shallow”
6. Magnetic Fields, “I Don’t Believe You “
7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah , “Let The Cool Goddess”
8. Catherine Wheel, “Crank”
9. Guided By Voices, “To Remake the Young Flyer”
10. David Bowie, “Hang Onto Yourself”
11. Sonic Youth, “Unmade Bed”
12. Futureheads, “Skip To The End”

1. Robyn Hitchcock, “I’m Falling”
2. Guided By Voices, “Quality of Armor”
3. Decemberists, “The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid”
4. Bob Dylan, “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down”
5. Fats Navarro, “Our Delight”
6. Albert Ammons, “Twos and Fews”
7. Miles Davis, “Spanish Key”
8. Lyle Lovett, “I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You”
9. Freedy Johnston, “Waste Your Time”
10. Mission Of Burma, “Academy Fight Song”
11. Weezer, “Greatest Man That Ever Lived”
12. Magnetic Fields, “A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off”

[No, none of this has anything to do with April fools.]

1. Beck, “Earthquake Weather”
2. Broken Social Scene, “Stars and Sons”
3. Drive Like Jehu, “Caress”
4. Meat Puppets, “Up on the Sun”
5. Constantines, “On To You”
6. Wire, “Two People in a Room”
7. Teenage Fanclub, “The Concept”
8. Sonic Youth, “Scooter & Jinx”
9. Rakes, “Strasbourg”
10. Of Montreal, “An Eluardian Instance”
11. Aerosmith, “Round and Round”
12. Animal Collective, “My Girls”

1. Giraffes, “Prime Motivator”
2. Neil Young & Pearl Jam, “Song X”
3. Oasis, “Falling Down”
4. Magnetic Fields, “I Think I Need a New Heart”
5. Mudhoney, “Generation Genocide”
6. Chavez, “Repeat the Ending”
7. Mountain Goats, “Palmcorder Yajna”
8. Perfect Circle, “Magdalena”
9. Pete Yorn, “Ice Age”
10. Hall & Oates, “Rich Girl”
11. Spoon, “The Beast and Dragon, Adored”
12. Fu Manchu, “Regal Begal”