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.  Enjoy.

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Why?  Because!  That’s why!  I mean… the Replacements are just that good.  So there.  Nuff said.

01.  Bastards of Young 3:38 Tim
02.  Bent Out of Shape 3:46 All Shook Down
03.  Androgynous 3:11 Let It Be
04.  Alex Chilton 3:16 Pleased to Meet Me
05.  Achin’ to Be 3:42 Don’t Tell a Soul
06.  Customer 1:30 Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
07.  Favorite Thing 2:20 Let It Be
08.  I Will Dare 3:17 Let It Be
09.  I. O. U. 2:59 Pleased to Meet Me
10.  If Only You Were Lonely 2:54 Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
11.  The Ledge 4:13 Pleased to Meet Me
12.  Swingin Party 3:54 Tim
13.  Unsatisfied 4:02 Let It Be
14.  When It Began 3:07 All Shook Down
15.  Hootenanny 1:52 Hootenanny
16.  Back to Back 3:22 Don’t Tell a Soul
17.  Dose of Thunder 2:19 Tim
18.  We’re Comin’ Out 2:21 Let It Be

David Bowie, “A New Career in a New Town”
Swell Season, “Falling Slowly”
Fleetwood Mac, “Landslide”
Nirvana, “All Apologies”
Oasis, “Shock of the Lightning”
Sloan, “Backstabbin’”
ELO, “Don’t Bring Me Down”
Black Sabbath, “War Pigs”
Queens of the Stone Age, “Sick, Sick, Sick”
Strokes, “Reptilla”
Rolling Stones, “Street Fighting Man”
Cold War Kids, “Something Is Not Right With Me”

Isaac Hayes, “Walk on By”
Oasis, “Rock’n’Roll Star”
Jimi Hendrix, “Night Bird Flying”
Juanes, “Fotografia”
Stills, “Being Here”
Ra Ra Riot, “Can You Tell”
No Age, “Teen Creeps”
Spinto Band, “Oh Mandy”
Franz Ferdinand, “Take Me Out”
Kings of Leon, “Sex on Fire”
Melpo Mene, “Snakes and Lions”
Barbara Mandrell and George Jones, “I Was Country (When Country Wasn’t Cool)”

1. Jane’s Addiction, “Ain’t No Right”
2. Guided By Voices, “Canteen Plums”
3. Brian Jonestown Massacre, “When Jokers Attack”
4. Aerosmith, “No More, No more”
5. Interpol, “Evil”
6. Animal Collective, “Did You See the Words?”
7. Inmates, “Mr. Unreliable”
8. New York Dolls, “Trash”
9. David Bowie, “Joe the Lion”
10. Romeo Void, “Never Say Never”
11. Ron Sexsmith, “All in Good Time”
12. Ernest Tubb, “Walking the Floor Over You”

1. Sigur Rós, “Gobbledigook”
2. Silversun Pickups, “Lazy Eye”
3. Weezer, “The World Has Turned And Left Me Here”
4. Bay City Rollers, “Saturday Night”
5. Clean, “Billy Two”
6. Animal Collective, “Street Flash”
7. Sly & The Family Stone, “Family Affair"
8. Gordon Lightfoot, “Carefree Highway”
9. Of Montreal, “Baby”
10. Xiu Xiu, “I Do What I Want, When I Want”
11. Radiohead, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi”
12. Pete Yorn, “Maybe I’m Right”

At one amazing Bo Diddley in concert I went to in high school, he broke a string in the middle of a song, didn’t miss a beat, kept playing and singing, got a string out of his bag behind the amp, and had the guitar restrung before the song was over.  If you weren’t watching him, you’d have never known anything unusual was happening.  Anyway, here are 12 of my favorite songs of this amazing musician and songwriter:

1. Bo Diddley
2. Gun Slinger
3. I’m a Man
4. Pills
5. Crackin’ Up
6. Mona
7. You Don’t Love Me (You Don’t Care)
8. Who Do You Love?
9. Diddley Daddy
10. Road Runner
11. Pretty Thing
12. I Can Tell

1. David Bowie, “Blackout”
2. Arcade Fire, “Wake Up”
3. Nazareth, “Hair of the Dog”
4. Rogue Wave, “Chicago X 12”
5. Nick Cave, “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”
6. Weezer, “Pork and Beans”
7. Joy Division, “Something Must Break”
8. Thom Yorke, “Black Swan”
9. Clean, “Odditty”
10. Al Green, “Lay It Down”
11. Almas Almatov, “Terme (Kazakh)"
12. Roy Acuff, “Lonesome Old River Blues”

1. Tegan and Sara, “The Con”
2. Juanes, “No Creo En El Jamás”
3. Jimmy Cliff, “The Harder They Come”
4. Doug Sahm, “Mendocino”
5. White Stripes, “Hotel Yorba”
6. Jesus and Mary Chain, “Between Planets”
7. Richard Thompson, “1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Live)”
8. Meat Puppets, “Up On The Sun”
9. Melvins, “The Talking Horse”
10. Soundgarden, “Superunknown”
11. Chief Osita Stephen Osadebe, “Ka-Anyi Jikota”
12. Luis Ariel Rey, “Paisaje Matinal”

1. Of Montreal, “Suffer for Fashion”
2. John Lee Hooker, “Strip Me Naked”
3. Giraffes, “Wage Earner”
3. Tom Waits, “Shore Leave”
4. Steven Malkmus, “Gardenia”
5. Travis, “Writing to Reach You”
6. Foals, “Olympic Airways”
7. Dogs Die in Hot Cars, “I Love ‘Cause I Have To”
8. XTC, “Melt the Guns”
9. Talking Heads, “New Feeling”
10, Lou Reed, “Ecstasy”
11. Paul Westerberg, “First Glimmer”
12. Raconteurs, “Rich Kid Blues”

1. Rolling Stones, “I am Waiting”
2. Chris Isaak, “I’m Not Waiting”
3. Rentals, “Waiting”
4. Replacements, “Can’t Hardly Wait”
5. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “The Waiting”
6. Kinks, “Tired of Waiting for You”
7. Smiths, “Stretch Out and Wait”
8. Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Waiting in Vain”
9. Macy Gray, “I Can’t Wait to Meetchu”
10. Guided by Voices, “If We Wait”
11. Colin Newman, “I’ve Wait Ages”
12. Rollings Stones, “Waiting on a Friend”

1. Cake, “Meanwhile, Rick James...”
2. fIREHOSE, “Understanding”
3. Flatt & Scruggs, “Salty Dog Blues”
4. Odetta, “Midnight Special”
5. David Bowie, “Rock and Roll with Me”
6. Kings of Leon, “California Waiting”
7. Sloan, “Try to Make It”
8. Nick Lowe, “So It Goes”
9. Style Council, “My Ever Changing Moods”
10. Cheap Trick, “Welcome to the World”
11. Sugar, “Tilted”
12. Bad Brains, “I Against I”

1. Tom Waits, “Hoist That Rag”
2. Xiu Xiu, “I Do What I Want, When I Want”
3. Pavement, “Trigger Cut / Wounded-Kite At :17”
4. Minutemen, “History Lesson Part 2”
5. Flaming Lips, “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song”
6. Oasis, “Mucky Fingers”
7. Sloan, “Something’s Wrong”
8. Office, “Dominos”
9. Lindsey Buckingham, “Trouble”
10. Shins, “Phantom Limb”
11. Interpol, “Evil
12. Giraffes, “Twin Girls”

1. Helio Sequence, “Lately”
2. Freedy Johnston, “Trying to Tell You I Don’t Know”
3. Dr. John, “Right Place, Wrong Time”
4. Stretch, “Why Did You Do It?”
5. Tom Waits, “Temptation (Live)”
6. TV on the Radio, “Staring at the Sun”
7. U2, “Lemon”
8. Frank Black, “Headache”
9. Loretta Lynn, “Van Lear Rose”
10. Xiu Xiu, “I Luv the Valley OH!"
11. Kronos Quartet, “Oasis”
12. M. Ward, “Vincent O’Brien"

1. Clifton Chenier, “I’m The Zydeco Man”
2. Howlin’ Wolf, “Spoonful"
3. Big Star, “Thank You Friends”
4. Grant Lee Buffalo, “Fuzzy”
5. Barracudas, “We’re Living In Violent Times”
6. Danny Hutton, “Wouldn’t It Be Good”
7. Wilco, “California Stars”
8. Merle Haggard, “White Line Fever”
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, “Love Burns”
10. Strokes, “Reptilia”
11. Bob Dylan, “Tell me”
12. Lyle Lovett, “Nobody Knows Me”

1. Tenacious D --> “Inward Singing”
2. Chris Bell --> “I am the Cosmos”
3. Raconteurs --> “Steady as She Goes”
4. Jason Lowenstein --> “Casserole”
5. Chavez --> Repeat the Ending
6. Grand Champeen --> “Cottonmouth”
7. Pearl Jam --> “Breakerfall”
8. OBK --> “Lucifer”
9. Vapors --> “Turning Japanese”
10. Beat --> “Save It for Later”
11. Urge Overkill --> “Sister Havana”
12. Decemberists --> “O Valencia!”

1. Weezer --> “Getchoo”
2. Led Zeppelin --> “The Song Remains the Same”
3. World Party --> “Put The Message In The Box”
4. Brian Jonestowns Massacre --> “Vacuum Boots”
5. Guided By Voices --> “Quality Of Armor"
6. Kooks --> “See the World”
7. Menomena --> “Wet and Rusting”
8. The Good, the Bad & the Queen --> “History Song”
9. Klaxons --> “Golden Skans”
10. Shudder to Think --> “Red House”
11. Arcade Fire --> “No Cars Go”
12. Sufjan Stevens --> “Chicago”

1. Chet Baker --> “The Thrill Is Gone”
2. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan --> “Mazaa Aa Gaya”
3. Interpol --> “Mammoth”
4. Radiohead --> “Jigsaw Falling Into Place”
5. Bob Mould --> “See A Little Light”
6. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club --> “Six Barrel Shotgun “
7. Jane’s Addiction --> “True Nature”
8. Television --> “Venus”
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers --> “Don’t Do Me Like That”
10. Pete Yorn --> “Maybe I’m Right”
11. Tom Waits --> “Start Over Again (Live)”
12. Bach --> “Concerto for Harpsichord, Strings and Basso continuo in F minor, BWV 1056”

1. Coheed and Cambria --> “The Running Free”
2. Beirut --> “Nantes”
3. Radiohead --> “2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)”
4. Ryan Adams --> “Firecracker”
5. Apple Hill Chamber Players --> “Capriccio”
6. Warren Zevon --> “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me”
7. Iron & Wine --> “Lovesong of the Buzzard”
8. Charlie Daniels Band --> “Trudy”
9. Giraffes --> “Wage Earner”
10. Led Zeppelin --> “In My Time of Dying”
11. Who --> “Baba O’Riley”
12. New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein --> “Mozart Sym No.39 in E-flat, K.543: I. Adagio - Allegro”

1. Fiery Furnaces --> “Ex Guru”
2. Los Hermanos Rios --> “Mediu Xhiga”
3. David Bowie --> “The Prettiest Star”
4. Ryan Adams --> “Gimme a Sign”
5. Pogues --> “Down All the Days”
6. Joan Jet --> “I Hate Myself for Loving You”
7. Ozzy --> “Denial”
8. Supagroup --> “Fire for Hire”
9. Strokes --> “Is This It?”
10. U2 --> “Wild Honey”
11. Sloan --> “People of the Sky”
12. Guided by Voices --> “My Kind of Soldier”

1. Radiohead --> “Bodysnatchers”
2. Andrew Bird --> “Plasticities”
3. PJ Harvey --> “Silence”
4. Pixies --> “Alec Eiffel”
5. Soft Boys --> “I Wanna Destroy You”
6. Whiskeytown --> “16 Days”
7. Oasis --> “Morning Glory”
8. Blur --> “Girls & Boys”
9. Trace Adkins --> “I Got My Game On”
10. Foo Fighters --> “The Pretender”
11. Blakes --> “Don’ Bother Me”
12. Supagroup --> “Lonely at the Bottom”

1. Josh Ritter --> “Lillian, Egypt”
2. Jypsi --> “That’s Alright with Me”
3. Dave Mason --> “We Just Disagree”
4. Johnny Cash --> “The Man Comes Around”
5. Cheap Trick --> “Welcome to the World”
6. Oasis --> “I Can See a Lair”
7. Muse --> “Time Is Running Out”
8. Radiohead --> “Morning Bell”
9. Pixies --> “Velouria”
10. M. Ward --> “To Go Home"
11. Whiskeytown --> “Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight"
12. Smiths --> “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before"

1. Mountain Goats --> “Palmcorder Yajna”
2. Love as Laughter --> “Temptation Island”
3. Fugazi --> “Bulldog Front”
4. Sigur Ros --> “Svefn G Englar”
5. Raul Malo --> “No Me Preguntas Tanto”
6. Sparks --> “Eaten by the Monster of Love”
7. Six Organs of Admittance --> “Black Wall"
8. Fiery Furnances --> “Two Fat Feet”
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club --> “Love Burns”
10. Brian Jonestown Massacre --> “Open Heart Surgery”
11. Strokes --> “The Way It Is”
12. Josh Ritter --> “Rumors"

A few of these are dedicated to sad, silly old Larry Craig...
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs --> “Maps”
2. George Jones --> “The Race Is On”
3. Ben Kweller --> “Hospital Bed”
4. Jayhawks --> “Blue”
5. Marshall Tucker Band --> “Heard It In A Love Song”
6. Judas Priest --> “Breaking the Law”
7. Tubes --> “Talk To Ya Later”
8. White Stipes --> “Bone Broke”
9. Strokes --> “Meet Me in the Bathroom”
10. Brakes --> “All Nite Disco Party”
11. Joy Division --> “Shadow Play”
12. Interpol --> “Public Pervert”

1. Frank Black --> “Men in Black”
2. Semisonic --> “Across the Great Divide"
3. Arcade Fire --> “I’m Sleeping in a Submarine”
4. John Hiatt --> “Slow Turning”
5. George Jones --> “Drive Me to Drink”
6. Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band --> “Carrie Brown”
7. Constantines --> “On To You"
8. Manic Street Preachers --> “You Love Us”
9. Wire --> “Feeling Called Love”
10. R.E.M.  --> “Near Wild Heaven”
11. Flaming Lips --> “The W.A.N.D.”
12. Roky Erickson --> “Two-Headed Dog”

1. Spoon --> “The Underdog”
2. White Stripes --> “Conquest”
3. Tragically Hip --> “Ahead By a Century (Live)"
4. Blur --> “Bad Day"
5. Bad Brains --> “I Against I (Omega Sessions)”
6. Decemberists --> “O Valencia!”
7. Guided By Voices --> “Surgical Focus”
8. Buddy Holly --> “Not Fade Away”
9. Ethan Rose --> “Ceiling Song 1”
10. Eagles Of Death Metal --> “I Want You So Hard (Boys Bad News)”
11. Desert Sessions --> “Dead In Love”
12. Motörhead --> “Ace of Spades”

Switching this list from weekly to “occasional” because I’m just too darn busy…

Interpol --> “The Heinrich Maneuver”
Alice In Chains --> “Would?”
Inspiral Carpets --> “Uniform”
Dexter Gordon --> “Fried Bananas”
Antony & The Johnsons & Lou Reed --> “Fistful of Love”
Little Richard --> “I Don’t Know What You’ve Got, But It’s Got Me (Parts 1 & 2)”
Rolling Stones --> “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
Roxy Music --> “Virginia Plain”
Smiths --> “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”
Fall Out Boy --> “This Ain’t a Scene”
J.S. Bach --> “Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BMV 225)”
Koko Taylor --> “Wang Dang Doodle”

Gap Band --> “You Dropped A Bomb On Me”
Mooney Suzuki --> “99%”
Beck --> “Girl"
Roky Erickson --> “If You Have Ghosts”
R.E.M.  --> “Welcome To The Occupation”
Smashing Pumpkins --> “Here’s To The Atom Bomb”
Semisonic --> “Falling”
Jeff Buckley --> “Everybody Here Wants You”
Robyn Hitchcock --> “Belltown Ramble”
Soup Dragons --> “One Way Street”
Get Up Kids --> “I’m a Loner, Dottie, a Rebel...”
fIREHOSE --> “Mas C***nes”

Miles Davis --> “Pharaoh’s Dance”
Brian Jonestown Massacre --> “A New Low In Getting High”
Pixies --> “Alec Eiffel”
fIREHOSE --> “Understanding"
TV On The Radio --> “Hours”
Velvet Underground --> She’s My Best Friend”
Cheap Trick --> “So Good To See You"
Church --> “Monday Morning”
Decemberists --> “Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect”
Matthew Sweet --> “We’re the Same”
Ours --> “Meet Me in the Tower”
Libertines --> “Vertigo”

Sloan --> “Everything You’ve Done Wrong”
Fu Manchu --> “Regal Begal”
Sugar --> “The Act We Act”
Weezer --> “Why Bother”
Office --> “Dominos”
88 --> “Sunday Afternoon”
Stone Temple Pilots --> “Unglued”
King Crimson --> “Larks’ Tongues In Aspic : Part IV”
Kronos Quartet --> “Mishima Quartet, No.3, Blood Oath”
A Perfect Circle --> “The Hollow”
Talking Heads --> “Crosseyed And Painless”
Ryan Adams --> “Everybody Knows”

Rufus Wainwright --> “Cigarettes And Milk Chocolate”
Replacements --> “Shooting Dirt Pool”
Led Zeppelin --> “In The Light”
Ethel --> “Hardwood”
Händel --> “Sonata for Violin and String Orchestra, in B flat Major ‘Andante’”
Snow Patrol --> “Spitting Games”
Sloan --> “I Was Wrong”
Through the Sparks --> “L. Roi”
Thrills --> “Big Sur"
Grant-Lee Phillips --> “Chain Lightning”
Wilco --> “You are my Face”
88 --> “Hide Another Mistake”

Grand Champeen --> “Cottonmouth”
Guided By Voices --> “Back to the Lake”
Peter Gabriel --> “Of These, Hope (Reprise)”
Beth Orton --> “Someone’s Daughter [Single Version]”
Minutemen --> “Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"
Suicidal Tendencies --> “Institutionalized”
Camilo Sesto --> “Con El Viento A Tu Vavor”
Sloan --> “I Was Wrong”
Drive Like Jehu --> “Caress”
Julian Cope --> “World Shut Your Mouth”
Smithereens --> “Blood and Roses"
Mountain Goats --> “This Year”

M. Ward --> “Fool Says”
Devo --> “Gates of Steel”
Secret Machines --> “Nowhere Again”
Paul Westerberg --> “Crackle & Drag (Original Take)”
Guacharacos de Colombia --> “Cumbia De Los Kiss”
XTC --> “Melt the Guns”
Queens Of The Stone Age --> “Go With The Flow”
Pixies --> “Tony’s Theme”
Morrissey --> “Dagenham Dave”
Little Walter --> “My Babe”
Turn-Ons --> “New Jesus”
Talking Heads --> “A Clean Break (Let’s Work) [Live]”

Queens of the Stone Age --> “Sick, Sick, Sick”
Wilco --> “What Light”
Robyn Hitchcock --> “I Feel Beautiful”
Roky Erickson --> “I Have Always Been Here Before”
Elliott Smith --> “Needle in the Hay”
Super Furry Animals --> “Do or Die”
Wire --> “From The Nursery”
Paw --> “Couldn’t Know”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club --> “Love Burns”
Pogues --> “Down All the Days”
Tenacious D --> “Tribute”
Jeff Buckley --> “Vancouver”

Teenage Fanclub --> “It’s All In My Mind”
Wire --> “Two People in a Room”
PJ Harvey --> “Down by the Water”
Raul Malo --> “Ocho Versos”
Tenacious D --> “Rock Your Socks”
Third Eye Blind --> “Narcolepsy”
Rev. J. M. Gates --> “Must Be Born Again”
American Music Club --> “If I Had a Hammer”
Wilco --> “Theologians”
Mike Watt --> “Tuff Gnarl”
Modest Mouse --> “Dashboard”
Sloan --> “Try to Make It”

Sloan --> “Who Taught You to Live Like That?”
Cake --> “Short Skirt / Long Jacket”
Metallica --> “Battery”
Black Sabbath --> “Into the Void”
Brian Jonestown Massacre --> “Good Morning Girl”
Pete Yorn --> “Pass Me By”
Hound Dog Taylor & the House Rockers --> “Let’s Get Funky”
Robyn Hitchcock --> “I Often Dream of Trains”
Kate Bush --> “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)”
Ryan Adams --> “Shallow”
Muse --> “Thoughts of a Dying Atheist”
Stereophonics --> “Local Boy in the Photograph”

Radiohead --> “Myxomatosis (Judge, Jury & Executioner)”
Iggy Pop --> “Some Weird Sin”
Interpol --> “Public Pervert”
Jeff Buckley --> “Everybody Here Wants You”
Supergroup --> “Born in Exile”
AC/DC --> “Gimme a Bullet”
Motorhead --> “Ace of Spades”
Guided By Voices --> “Stabbing a Star”
David Bowie --> “Up the Hill Backwards”
The The --> “Kindgom of Rain”
Electric Six --> “Nuclear War”
Beth Orton --> “Conceived”

Soft Boys --> “I Wanna Destroy You”
Television --> “Venus”
Bright Eyes --> “Four Winds”
M. Ward --> “Vincent O’Brien”
Decembrists --> “Leslie Anne Levine”
Matthew Sweet --> “Where You Get Love”
Freedy Johnston --> “Trying to Tell You I Don’t Know”
Robert Pollard --> “Circle Saw Boys Club”
Radiohead --> “Planet Telex”
Frank Black --> “Old Black Dawning”
Guided By Voices --> “Fair Touching”
Husker Du --> “I Apologize”

I saw Robyn Hitchcock last week with Peter Buck on guitar.  They played a small place, the Doug Fir Lounge.  What a great show; to have two heroes together on stage like that was very special and so Robyn’s “I Wanna Destroy You” goes to the top of this week’s list.

Midlake --> “Roscoe”
Noisettes --> “Don’t Give Up”
Decembrists --> “July, July!”
Iggy Pop --> “Eggs on Plate”
Grant Lee Phillips --> “Soft Asylum (No Way Out)”
Johnny Cash --> “Wreck of the Old 97 [live]”
Old 97s --> “The Villain”
Luna --> “Time To Quit”
Jimmy Castor Bunch --> “The Bertha Butt Boogie (Pt. 1)”
Guided by Voices --> “Things I Will Keep”
Al Green --> “Georgia Boy”
Pete Yorn --> “Alive (live)

Fratellis --> “Flathead”
White Stripes --> “Blue Orchid”
Todd Rundgren --> “Couldn’t I Just Tell You”
Supremes --> “I Hear a Symphony”
Buddy Guy --> “Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues”
Charlie Christian --> “Flying Home”
Brian Jonestown Massacre --> “When Jokers Attack”
Wilco --> “I Must Be High”
Richard Thompson --> “Dad’s Gonna Kill Me”
Menomena --> “Wet and Rusting”
Thermals --> “God And Country (Live)”
Junior Senior --> “Move Your Feet (Radio Edit)”