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. 

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

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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”

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”