Tuneage, Part the Second
This playlist actually had a theme (as opposed to the first one). This one was all about going back to school, and education in general. It was a bitch to narrow it down to just 20 songs, and then group them in some sort of order. Roughly speaking, it goes:
- Introductions
- the Alphabet
- Numbers (and then Economics)
- Biology
- History/Politics
- Language Studies
- Geography
- Home Economics
- Autoshop
- Class Dismissed!
~ Weezer – My Name Is Jonas: Can’t hear this one without remembering epic Guitar Hero weekend. [To me, for some reason, it sounds like a sea chanty.]
~ Blackalicious – Alphabet Aerobics: Frickin’ awesome. By the end, I want to collapse.
~ Look People – Five: Weirdest. Band. Ever. Not their weirdest song, though (that would be “Guido”) [Actually, "Guido" isn't their weirdest song, but that was all I had room to write. Their weirdest song is somewhere between "I'm a Lousy Lover, I'm a Lousy Lay" and "Sunday Driver on a Saturday Night." Sadly, I have neither of those songs in my collection.]
~ FemBots – Count Down Our Days: Was surprised to find they weren’t a techno group.
~ Carol Channing – Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: No one does it like Carol! [I love this version - tres campy!]
~ The Dandy Warhols – All the Money or the Simple Life Honey: Love them in small doses – like this. [I think I only like three or four of their songs, but I like them a lot.]
~ King Cobb Steelie – Luckily I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency: Big Bird called. [It's in my top ten most played songs, so you know it's good.]
~ Modest Mouse – Worms Vs. Birds: A struggle even more epic than cats vs. dogs.
~ Hot Hot Heat – Eyes Ears Mouth (Demo): 50,000 sounds played in tight formation at the right time. [The percussion on this song sounds complicated, but neat.]
~ Buck 65 – Kennedy Killed the Hat: More Buck 65? Why, yes – I think I will! [For whatever reason, I keep thinking there's a Dr. Seuss reference in here, but there isn't.]
~ Starkicker – Neil Armstrong: Hometown boys from early ’90′s. This was their 2nd biggest song. [I'm somehow distantly related to the drummer. Another useless fact: they were originally called blue.bottle.fly.]
~ Death from Above 1979 – Black History Month: The only song where crossing guards get to represent. [It's amazing how much sound two guys can make. Also, really doesn't have anything to do with Black History Month, in case you were wondering.]
~ Dimitri from Paris – sacre francais: Saw the video in a fever dream, and didn’t believe it at first. [It was kind of trippy and weird, so I thought I imagined it. Then I saw it again, and said, "oh."]
~ Elliott Brood – Oh, Alberta: Alternate title: “All The Provinces, w/special guest, South Dakota”
~ Ocean Colour Scene – Hundred Mile City: This song makes me feel old and British. [Was this ever used in a Guy Ritchie movie? Because that's what it makes me think of.]
~ Ron Sexsmith – Gold In Them Hills: ‘Nother hometown boy. Not the Mr. Paltrow version. [For the love of little green apples (heh), couldn't remember Chris Martin's name. There is a version of them dueting on this song.]
~ Zuul’s Evil Disco – Pancakes: ‘Nother obscure band. I blame Steve for this one, and so should you. [For visuals of the band, go here.]
~ Buck 65 – Country Cooking: Don’t listen if you’re hungry. Nothing is left out, even gnocchi.
~ Ministry – Jesus Built My Hot Rod: Ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long. Hee! [Admit it, it's just fun to say!]
~ Van Halen – Hot for Teacher: What playlist about education would be complete without this song? [Sadly, I never had a hot teacher. Not even a hot student teacher.]