Night Flyer by Allison Russell Outside Child Album This song just blows me away. One of the best country music songs of the last 10 years. Lyrics excerpt: I’m the wounded bird, I’m the screaming hawk I’m the one who can’t be counted out I’m the dove thrown into battle I can roll and shake
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Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Rulins
Song writer Woody Guthrie’s new years resolutions as written in his journal for the year 1942. #19 is my particular favorite. Transcript NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S WORK MORE AND BETTER WORK BY A SCHEDULE WASH TEETH IF ANY SHAVE TAKE BATH EAT GOOD – FRUIT – VEGETABLES – MILK DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY WRITE A
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2014-06-06 Jamaica Playlist
Feeling Good / Nina Simone / 2:53 / Soundtrack One Love / Bob Marley / 2:48 / Reggae Soolaimon / Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show (Live) / Neil Diamond / 9:34 / Pop Love Is The Seventh Wave / Sting / 3:32 / Alternative I Choose You / Sara Bareilles / 3:39 / Pop I
Read on »My Five Favorite Christmas Songs
Il Est Né le Divin Enfant Steeleye Span – ‘Gaudete‘ Walking in the Air Carry Me Home – Hey, Rosetta I Saw Three Ships
Read on »erg workout playlist for 10 minute/3 minute intervals
This one is still in progress; I’m trying to arrange so lower intensity songs land in the intervals, but it’s difficult to get it exactly. Brave – Sara Bareilles – 3:43 Roar – Katy Perry – 3:45 I Love It – Icona Pop – 2:39 Feel This Moment – Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera – 3:52
Read on »The REAL Harlem Shake Compilation
A compilation of people doing the original (real) Harlem Shake video. And an article on The Atlantic about how the meme of the “Harlem Shake” went viral – not through word of mouth, but through a company promoting a song – How Memes Are Orchestrated by the Man And an article on Al B, the
Read on »Jennifer Hudson – ‘I Can’t Let Go’ on Smash
I know it’s fashionable to hate on Smash recently, but you gotta at least admit that Jennifer Hudson KILLS this song. I’ve been playing this on repeat all week. Favorite line – “And when heartache comes a’calling, / I won’t even try to run / Cause it’s all that makes me know that I’m alive.”
Read on »10 Anthems for a Feminist Revolution
According to spinner magazine, these are the tops: (linked to mp3 download or album on Amazon.com) 10. Salt-n-Pepa, ‘None Of Your Business’ (from the album Very Necessary) 9. Carole King, ‘
Read on »Somebody That I Used to Know – Walk off the Earth
This is really cool – aside from being an awesome song, watching 5 people play the same guitar all at once is pretty unbelievable.
Read on »Steph’s Top 40 Tunes from the 80s
I put this playlist together several years back when I had a big 80s party, but after that I managed to lose it, except that I had a copy on CD, thankfully. So here are my favorite 80s tunes, mostly in order from “pretty cheesy” to “really good.” Love’s Been A Little Bit Hard On
Read on »Want to Do Bad Things Mix
Bad Things (The Theme to “True Blood”) / Jace Everett / 2:43 Sundown / Elwood / 3:57 The Forgotten People / Thievery Corporation / 3:11 Ain’t No Grave / Crooked Still / 3:22 Death Trip / Bad Livers / 4:27 Waves / Holly Miranda / 5:05 The Way / The Pierces / 4:46 Valerie /
Read on »Space Girl Mix-a-Mix
Space Girl / The Imagined Village / 3:57 Pumped Up Kicks / Foster the People / 3:58 Skinny Genes / Eliza Doolittle / 3:05 King of Anything / Sara Bareilles / 3:29 Chinese Translation / M. Ward / 4:01 Annabelle Lee / Sarah Jarosz / 3:10 Two Weeks / Grizzly Bear / 4:03 Walcott /
Read on »Glee Live Tour 2011
Shocking – we attended a concert 2 years in a row. Stephanie took me to see Glee for my birthday this year
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Glee Live Tour 2011
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Glee Live Tour 2011
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Glee Live Tour 2011. Stephanie got me tickets for my birthday.
Read on »Paula Cole: Mississippi
This song falls under the heading of really awesome music I’ve rediscovered in my music library recently. Of course I was listening to Paula Cole something like 10 years ago (1996 – so 15 years ago.) At a particular time in my life when I was completely in love with a woman who was in
Read on »Kickstarter Project: Double Masterpiece: A Nerdy & Dirty Comedy Hip Hop Album
My cousin Sean (AKA ‘Bearclaw’) is in a comedy hip-hop group called Le Roy (see their website) – and they’re trying to make an album. So they’ve set up a kickstarter page to raise money – pre-order a CD and potentially get a bunch of stuff like t-shirts and stickers along with it. Or go
Read on »Rainbow Noise: IMMA HOMO
I cannot wait for these guys to put out this song as an mp3, because I want to drive around town with my truck windows down blasting this on the stereo. “RainbowNoise is an entertainment company that specializes in marketing lesbian and gay talent to commercial and mainstream audiences without compromising the artists’ individual style
Read on »Glee – Do You Want to Touch
Holy Toledo. Or Lima. Whatever.
Read on »Justin Beiber has a forehead
Finally. If that kid is going to be all over my TV and internet, I want him to brush his hair back out of his damn face — as much as I want teenagers in the street to pull up their idiot pants and wear a belt. I’m old and cranky; do as I say,
Read on »We need a little christmas
Mame (1966 Original Broadway Cast) Mame: Haul out the holly; Put up the tree before my spirit falls again. Fill up the stocking, I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now. For we need a little Christmas Right this very minute, Candles in the window, Carols at the spinet. Yes, we need
Read on »links for 2010-04-17
The Rachel Maddow Show – What's the matter with everybody? Tea baggers want smaller government – except when challenged on the entitlements THEY receive. Then they change their minds – they only want government to help them – but they don't want to pay for it. Or for all those other people who they think
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Hark, a vagrant: Tesla vs. Edison & Marconi Poor Tesla. Always getting kicked when he's down. (tags: comics science tesla edison marconi) Emo: Where the Girls Aren't by Jessica Hopper Awesome discussion of sexism in Emo music, and how women's experiences are devalued and women's voices ignored in music genres. (tags: music feminism culture criticism
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How Lady Gaga Became the World's Biggest Pop Star — New York Magazine 8 pages of article on Lady GaGa. You'll probably read the whole thing. (tags: GaGa music celebrity) When Women Write About Their Sex Lives – Culture – The Atlantic The always delicious Sady Doyle reviews Patti Smith's memoir and tangentially some other
Read on »Power of the Pentatonic Scale
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
Read on »Life Shuffle
Having been tagged by Cordelia, I cheerfully submit my answers to this meme. The Instructions: 1. Put your music player on shuffle. 2. Press forward for each question. 3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense. NO CHEATING! (I’m going to break the rules right away,
Read on »I Kissed a Squirrel
Of course this is completely untrue: everyone knows that the squirrels are my sworn enemies. And I’d get them, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids.
Read on »My reality show concept: Celebrity Karaoke Roulette
Shakespeare’s Sister question of the day the other day was: “You’ve been given unlimited resources and creative control to create your own contest reality show (a la Project Runway) or game show: What’s your concept?” I’ve had this one rolling around in my head: Celebrity Karaoke Roulette. Take five famous musicians, throw them up on
Read on »2008/02 Winter Mix
1 If You Want Me / Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova / Once (Original Soundtrack) 2 Falling Slowly / Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova / Once (Original Soundtrack) 3 Gay Messiah / Rufus Wainwright / True Colors (Soundtrack to the Logo Documentary) 4 City of Immigrants (feat. Forro In the Dark) / Steve Earle /
Read on »Music Rediscovered
We finally we able to upgrade the firmware on our Terabyte server last weekend, and it’s finally behaving in a stable fashion with iTunes (fingers crossed). It was apparently having trouble with long file names (!) and iTunes loves to create long file names, so it kept hiccuping. Since I’ve been home this week, I’ve
Read on »EW’s Best Love Songs Ever: The Top 25!
Entertainment Weekly’s List: “Just Like Heaven” – The Cure (1987) “As” – Stevie Wonder (1976) “Purple Rain” – Prince (1984) “Your Song” – Elton John (1970) “Time After Time” – Cyndi Lauper (1984) “If Not for You” – Bob Dylan (1970) “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell (1967) “Crazy in Love” –
Read on »Fake Band / Album Cover Meme
via (original link, no longer active -http://www.xtra-rant.com/2008/01/06/2331/) Xtrarant… Generate a fake band and its first album: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band. (Reference Ellipsoid) 2. (original link, no longer active -http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3) Quotations Random (one which is funnier) The last four words of the very last quote
Read on »Currently listening to…
Proof of Youth by The Go Team. Discovered through a video posted on Coudal’s Fresh Signals.
Read on »Melissa Etheridge’s New CD
I bought her new CD “The Awakening” last week on a whim – I actually purchased the physical CD because we still haven’t had a spare two or three hours to sit down and sort out what the hell is wrong with the terrabyte server after I killed it vacuuming. So our music situation is
Read on »KT Tunstall’s awesome cover of “I Want You Back”
(via Shakespeare’s Sister)
Read on »That’s pretty lesbionic.
The video for the song “Girl I Told Ya” by Valeria.
Read on »Route 66 Space Mix
I think I have something close to a final version of my music mix for the CD swap we’re doing for our Route 66 trip. I want to listen to it through a couple of times. It’s a bit on the cheesy and obvious side, but that’s okay. I’d do better if I had all
Read on »24,000 some songs gone
I took my 200 GB external drive with all of my music on it to CompUSA this weekend to have it put in a new enclosure, because the old one was going bad. I had this happen before to a Maxtor drive – the enclosure doesn’t spin the drive fast enough, apparently, so the disk
Read on »Steph Sold Her House Mix
Douglas made me this mix, in celebration of selling my house. The Creeps – Camile Jones Vs. Fedde Le Grande She’s My Man – Scissor Sisters Miracle – Cascada By The Way – Jenna Drey Glamourous – Fergie feat. Ludacris She’s Madonna – Robbie Williams Love Today – Mika Take It – Tom Novay and
Read on »Kingdom In The Sky
Kingdom In The Sky by DaVinci’s Notebook From the album: The Life and Times of Mike Fanning Link will expire in 7 days All my life I have been searching for that fabled promised land, With my sisters and my brothers, we shall walk there hand-in-hand. Through the trials and tribulations, and the devil’s cruel
Read on »Oh, What A Beautiful Morning!
Oh, What A Beautiful Morning! Oklahoma! Soundtrack Music by Richard Rodgers, lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow, There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow, The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, An’ it looks like its climbin’ clear up to the sky. Chorus: Oh what
Read on »International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Aye, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties! Don’t be a land lubber, learn t’ talk like a pirate yerself! Here’s a list o’ stuff pirates say, Or try t’ English t’ Pirate Translator! Arrr! Being a Pirate by Hogeye Naavy from the album: Poor Old Horse
Read on »The Best of All Possible Worlds – Cate’s CD Club Mix
The CD mix I’m working on for my friend Cate’s CD Exchange Club. I still need to finish the liner notes, print them all out and slice up the paper to fit the cases, burn the CDs, and put everything together. And I’m considering substituting in a different song from Hogeye Naavy for one song
Read on »The Lusty Month of May
Soundtrack to the Musical Camelot
Read on »What I’m Listening To
01 La goualante du pauvre Jean.mp3 Édith Piaf Éternelle Link expires after 7 days
Read on »Really, How Hard Is Pimping?
I think need to watch the movie Hustle and Flow, because there must be something about this pimping business that I’m missing. ‘Cause now that it won an Oscar, I keep hearing the song “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” and I’m wondering what’s so difficult about it. See, because my understanding of the
Read on »Natalie Portman Rapping on SNL
Wow. That’s truly funny, and much better than the Lazy Sunday video. I want an mp3 of this. And the lyrics. Darn it. The video has already been yanked from Youtube.com, so my embedded file no longer works. Well, it’ll be on iTunes; go look at it.
Read on »What I’m Listening To
Unwritten, Natasha Bedingfield, Ice Princess Soundtrack
Read on »Chocolate City
Chocolate City is Parliament song from 1975. Suddenly, Ray Nagin makes sense. And my African-American friends are looking at me like I’m retarded, because everyone knows what he was talking about. I am so white.
Read on »Institutionalized
from the album Suicidal Tendencies
Read on »Four Things Meme
Four Jobs I’ve Had Public Library Page Assembly Worker of Industrial Gas Shut-off Valves Chicken Restaurant Cooking Staff Website Designer Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over Auntie Mame The Wizard of Oz Southpark: Bigger, Longer, Uncut Much Ado About Nothing Four Places I’ve Lived Ankeny, Iowa Canton, Ohio Muncie, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana Four
Read on »What I’m listening to: Rolf Is a Nazi
Rolf Is a Nazi: A SongFight Tribute to The Sound of Music Glitter and Twang does a cover tribute of the Sound of Music soundtrack. mp3s available at the link.
Read on »Melissa Etheridge and other cool stuff
My friend Amy gave me Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled by Melissa Etheridge a few weeks ago. I’ve been listening to it, but didn’t get around to paying attention to some of the new tunes on it until this week. There’s a very beautiful song called “This Is Not Goodbye” about going into surgery
Read on »Hucklebuck
One of my cats is named Huckleberry, but I frequently shorten his name or call him some variation on that, like Huck, or Hucklebuck. I had no idea that hucklebuck is a word that other people use, though. Today I happened to be reading about the Flickr photo of Shaving Cream that was mysteriously changing
Read on »I’ve seen things, I’ve seen them with my eyes…
Mike needs to stop sending me to sites that have songs that I can’t get out of my head once they’re there, like this site. Thanks to Audio Hijack, I now have the song as an mp3.
Read on »Free Bird!!
Source: Wall Street Journal: “Rock’s Oldest Joke: Yelling ‘Freebird!’ In a Crowded Theater” A history of the phenomenon of people shouting “Freebird!” at concerts. The best part is the last paragraph, where Lynyrd Skynyrd band member Johnny Van Sant admits he’s done it himself at a Cher concert.
Read on »Memesville
I haven’t been able to post lately, because I have been sicker than a dog. I’m still sick, but I’m at work anyway, because I have to get some stuff done. Anyway, courtesy of Lisa at Another Pink World, here’s a meme for you. 1. Total amount of music files on your computer? 0 files
Read on »My Top 10 Favorite Love Songs
I realize I’m going to get torn to shreds by my fellow Indyscribers for the utter cheesy sappiness of this post, but I don’t care.
Read on »How to Sing the Blues
A Primer For Beginners
Read on »WTTS 92.3 is playing through their entire catalog
Starting at 6 this morning, WTTS radio station began playing through their entire catalog of songs alphabetically. Currently they’ve finished all songs beginning with “All.” I fully realize that I will get made fun of for posting this, since three writers on our IndyScribe team are in a alt/punk band, but somebody needed to put
Read on »Songs of Peace and Freedom 3 (Vol. 4 of Hippie Series)
A mix I made to add to the protest songs CDs that I made a few years ago; pulling in a few standards that I had missed. Appropriate since there are a whole wave of new protest songs being made to protest the current administration. 1 Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You into Heaven Anymore
Read on »I’m Sorry My President Is an Idiot. I Didn’t Vote For Him
Deja Vu (All Over Again) – John Fogerty – Deja Vu All Over Again Reclaim – Copper Wimmin – American Tyranny Interlude / Give Blood (DJ Spooky Remix) – Saul Williams / DJ Spooky Mix – Adbusters – Live Without Dead Time American Idiot – Green Day – American Idiot Make Love Fuck War (Dirty
Read on »80’s Party Playlist
Songs from an epic 80’s party I threw. (See the pictures from my party here) The original playlist has 1457 songs in it, and was 4.1 days long. I edited that list down to what you see below. I tried to pick a broad cross-section of music genres and I tried to cover as many
Read on »Weekend Update 2004-09-27
Stephanie and I did a ton of work at my house this weekend to get the place ready for the party I’m throwing this coming Saturday. Mainly we did a lot of cleaning and organizing. The party will be a retro 80’s party… and in gathering up stuff to wear, we’ve seen tons of appropriate
Read on »American Idiot Lyrics
Green Day
Read on »Good Morning! Song to sing early in the morning
I made a couple different versions of this CD, and added some songs to it later. Originally I made this for my friends Mia and Ria, because they were talking about how Mia is a morning person and Ria isn’t. Mia likes to get up and putter around the house singing in the morning. So
Read on »80’s Music From Doug
98 compilation CDs. 662 Artists. 1352 Songs, 3.7 Days worth of music. 7.28 GB of disk space. Of course, there are duplicate songs, so the numbers on the final count will change, and I have quite a few 80’s CDs in my own collection. I still have to add the collections together and eliminate duplicates.
Read on »Country Songs about Pickup Trucks
I made this mix to play in my pickup, because people kept joking about me becoming a country music fan after I bought one. 1 Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson – Redneck Woman – Single 2 What Was I Thinkin’ – Dierks Bentley – Dierks Bentley 3 Big Ol’ Truck – Toby Keith – Toby
Read on »Set The Prairie on Fire
Another CD I made for Stephanie, because I love her. These are songs that make me think of her.
Read on »Songs for a New Day
One of the first CD mixes I made to give my sweetheart, Stephanie, filled with songs that made me think of her.
Read on »What Do I Know Dumpster Diving playlist
One of my favorite blog sites, What Do I Know, has a great iTunes Playlist of guilty pleasure songs from younger days, entitled the Dumpster Diving Playlist. It’s now available in the iTunes store as an iMix. What a great list!! Oh my god… I’m totally buying these. I’ve Never Been to Me (Remixed Single
Read on »Depressing Songs
I don’t know how you feel about these songs, but these always bring me down, so I refuse to play them. 01 Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve 02 If – Bread 03 Wildfire – Michael Murphy 04 Desperado – Johnny Cash 05 Time In a Bottle – Jim Croce 06 I’ll Have to Say
Read on »Teen Death Songs
In the fifties, there was a whole trend of sappy songs about young love misunderstood and cut short by the tragedy of death. I tried to track down many of the titles, but they were pretty hard to come by. This is the CD of sorrowful tunes I was able to put together. If you
Read on »paper moon
I saw the 1973 movie “Paper Moon” on TCM on Monday. I’d never seen it before; it was a great movie. Tatum O’Neal was a terrific kid actor. The soundtrack was great, too — Depression era jazz. I searched around but found there was never officially a soundtrack released for it, although someone put together
Read on »God damned Hansons
I have “mmmBop” stuck in my head. Where the hell did I put the skate punk music? Grrrr.
Read on »Stuck in my head
little wisps of song lyrics that drift through my brain and stay there… hold up, slow up, stop, control Don’t pull the thang out unless you plan to bang; Don’t even bang unless you plan to hit something oh I want the way, the way you talk about her, to be the way, the way,
Read on »Dixie Chicks Rawk
Natalie Maines is really fucking funny. Smart hawt chix. There’s nothing better.
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You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me
That’s not really for sale on Amazon, is it? a Sexual Sound Effects CD? Because, well… Okay.
Read on »Wow, those are some mp3s
Check out this bizarre collection of mp3s. There’s some great wacky songs and spoken word items there, and hilarious comedy bits.
Read on »mp3 downloads funding terrorism
Now we have congressional hearings suggesting that if you download mp3s from the internet, you’re funding Terrorism. Yeah, Right. Crap, I thought I was only riding with Hitler and channeling Satan. I guess now I’m also funding the terrorists. Looks like the folks at Modern Humorist were ahead of their time.
Read on »Michael Jackson’s Original court documents
Speaking of things that piss me off and make me angry… the original court documents alleging sexual abuse of a child on the part of Michael Jackson. Just for the record, Michael, stay far the hell away from me. I’m not inclined to be nice to you.
Read on »Rhyme Zone
In case you ever have to make up a little song, here’s an important link to have… the Rhyme Zone. Just type in a word, and find the rhymes to it. For example, the word vagina, contrary to popular belief, has plenty of rhymes, such as bone china, erwina, and dinah. “Someone’s in the kitchen
Read on »T.a.t.u.
Cute Russian lesbian teenage musical duo tops the U.K. singles chart. Yum. I’ll have to look up T.a.t.u., and their single “All The Things She Said.” I hope it’s in English. What the hell. If it’s not I’ll listen anyway.
Read on »Chanukah Song (Version Two)
Winona Ryder drinks Manachevett’s wine Then spins a dreidel with Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein
Read on »Chanukah Song (Version One)
Tell your friend Veronica It’s time to celebrate Chanukah
Read on »Songs That Cheer Me Up
01 – I Believe I Can Fly (Radio Edit) – R. Kelly – Club Mix ’98 (Disc 2) – 4:39 02 – Wonder – Natalie Merchant – Tigerlily – 4:27 03 – O-O-H Child – The 5 Stairsteps – Chicken Soup For The Soul -Triumph Of The Spirit – 3:16 04 – Everything is Beautful
Read on »Ani DiFranco
You know, I own one Ani DiFranco album, and I’ve never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through. This is one of those things I’ve never admitted to anyone, because everyone seems to think she’s the shit, despite that fact that you never actually hear anyone out just humming one
Read on »Leather Tuscadero
Strange things that come up in conversations at work: Leather Tuscadero from Happy Days (Suzi Quatro). Until I saw the pictures, I really didn’t remember her, and now I’m wondering why I didn’t, because I have a vague memory of Mom hating that character and saying she wasn’t very feminine. You’d think I would have
Read on »Parodies of Indigo Girls Songs
Okay, you have to be an Indigo Girls fan for this one: Parodies of Indigo Girls Songs. There’s a parody of “Don’t Give That Girl a Gun” entitled “Go Give That Girl Some Gum.” Now that’s funny. Also a christmas version of “Burn All the Letters” that’s called “Return All The Sweaters.” It may not
Read on »Indigo Girls
New favorite lyric: “You are so baroque; all of those words, just to tell me no.” — from”Yield”, Become You, the Indigo Girls
Read on »Cecelia, you’re breaking my heart
Simon and Garfunkel
Read on »Rhino Records Comedy
Noting for future reference: Rhino Records Collections
Read on »Senor Don Gato
Written By: Unknown
Read on »Mr. Lady Records
Go here and buy some stuff. They produce numerous cool bands, including LeTigre.
Read on »Ennui
01 – Origin of Love – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack 02 – Sugar Daddy – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack 03 – In the Jailhouse Now – The Soggy Bottom Boys – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
Read on »Happy Birthday, Riley (vol. 3)
01 – Big Rock Candy Mountain – Harry McClintock 02 – Potato – Cheryl Wheeler 03 – Sugar Sugar – The Archies 04 – Candy Man – Sammy Davis Jr. & The Mike Curb Congregation 05 – Chewy Chewy – Ohio Express 06 – Yummy Yummy Yummy – Ohio Express 07 – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep
Read on »Songs about Dangerous Women
I made this CD of songs about dangerous women after a lunch-time conversation with friends about the difference between “devil woman” and “evil woman,” and how there are two different version of “devil woman” and how we were all getting the songs mixed up with “Black Magic Woman.” Then we started a list of all
Read on »Escape Movie Soundtrack
I wanted a mix of songs that were loud and hard and that sounded like they’d be in the soundtrack of an action movie.
Read on »Cheesy Hits of the Seventies
This is a creation of my friend Doug, who has thrown a 70s party every year for eleven years that is always a huge hit. Doug put this 9 disc set together several years ago, and it’s a staple of my music library. (Note: not all of these are cheesy songs; we put many iconic
Read on »Merry Xmas Everyone (5 Disc Set)
My friend Doug and I put this music set together because we both wanted a compilation of Christmas standards, but we wanted the most well-known versions of most of the songs, as well as some interesting or unusal versions. We also tried to get a diverse roster of songs, so that you don’t have to
Read on »Last Harvest
01 – Rainy Day Parade – Jill Sobule – Pink Pearl – 03:04 02 – Heroes – Jill Sobule – Pink Pearl – 02:57 03 – Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart Someday – Jill Sobule – Pink Pearl – 03:12 04 – This Is Love – PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From
Read on »Ohio Lesbian Festival Recap
Just got back from the Ohio Lesbian Festival, outside of Columbus, Ohio. The festival was Saturday, and we (Chi, Chelly, Leighe and I) drove up. There were a number of performers and booths & shopping. It was interesting, like a mini-version of National.
Read on »Simplify
01 – Six Pacs – The Getaway People – Turnpike Diaries 02 – Sundown – Elwood – The Parlance of Our Time 03 – Tonight & The Rest Of My Life – Nina Gordon – Tonight & The Rest Of My Life 04 – Summerfling – K. D. Lang – Invincible Summer 05 – Extraordinary
Read on »Songs That Turn Me On
This started out to be a CD of songs about sex, but I realized some of the songs that I find arousing aren’t necessarily about sex at all… Like number 7 through 11, which are all songs that have a sort of hypnotic gypsy sound that I find erotic. 01 – I’m On Fire –
Read on »Songs I Sing When I’m in Love (Love Series vol. 2)
These are really songs that I liked when I was a kid more than anything; if I were really to try to create a CD of songs I sing when I’m in love, it would fill 9 CDs or so. So this is a collection of songs I wanted copies of for fun. 01 –
Read on »Songs To Stalk Someone By (love series vol. 3)
This CD wasn’t originally part of the “Love” series; originally it was supposed to be “kissing”, “love”, and “sex”. But somehow the kissing CD never got off the ground. This CD came about after a dinner-time discussion of Sting’s “Behind the Music” episode on VH-1. He mentioned that couples came up to him and told
Read on »Happy Birthday, Riley (vol. 2)
01 – The Ballad of Davy Crockett – Davy Crockett 02 – H R Pufnstuf – Theme Song 03 – The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams – Theme Song 04 – Land of the Lost – Theme Song 05 – Hong Kong Phooey (Number 1 Super Guy) – Theme Song 06 – Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah –
Read on »Happy Birthday, Riley (vol. 1)
01 – Octopus Garden – Beatles 02 – Yellow Submarine – Beatles 03 – Puff the Magic Dragon – Peter, Paul and Mary 04 – Unicorn – The Irish Rovers 05 – Teddy Bear – Elvis Presley 06 – Snoopy and the Red Baron – Royal Guardsmen 07 – The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Robert
Read on »A Midsummer Night’s Bootleg CD
01 – Tribute to King Tubby – Beats International – The Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook Collection 02 – Renegade Master – Wild Child – The Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook Collection 03 – I See You Baby – Groove Armada – Vertigo 04 – Beng Beng Beng – Femi Kuti – Shoki Shoki 05 – Darkside – Crazy
Read on »Gay National Anthems 1990-2000 (vol. 3)
By Steph Mineart, Doug Feller for the The Millenium March on Washington
Read on »Gay National Anthems 1979-1990 (vol. 2)
by Steph Mineart and Doug Feller for The Millenium March on Washington
Read on »Gay National Anthems 1939-1979 (vol. 1)
By Steph Mineart, Doug Feller for the The Millenium March on Washington 01 – Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland – Wizard of Oz Soundtrack 02 – Cry – Johnnie Ray 03 – Secret Love – Doris Day 04 – The Man That Got Away – Judy Garland with Ray Heindorf & Orchestra 05 –
Read on »Songs of Peace and Freedom 1 (Vol. 1 of Hippie Series)
01 – We Shall Not Be Moved – SNCC Freedom Singers 02 – We Shall Overcome – SNCC Freedom Singers 03 – Get Together – Youngbloods 04 – Blowin’ in the Wind – Peter, Paul and Mary 05 – I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing – The New Seekers 06 – Reach Out
Read on »Songs of Peace and Freedom 2 (Vol. 2 of Hippie Series)
01 – Eve Of Destruction – Barry McGuire 02 – Ball Of Confusion – The Temptations 03 – What About Me – Quicksilver Messenger Service 04 – Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) – Melanie 05 – Aquarius – 5th Dimension 06 – In the Year 2525 (Exordius and Terminus) – Zager and Evans 07
Read on »Good Morning Starshine (Vol. 3 of Hippie Series)
01 – Joy (Beethoven) – Apollo 100 02 – Do You Believe in Magic – Lovin’ Spoonful 03 – Good Morning, Starshine – Oliver 04 – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) – Edison Lighthouse 05 – Love is All Around – The Troggs 06 – Groovy Kind Of Love – The Mindbenders 07 –
Read on »It Ain’t Me
Bob Dylan, Another Side of Bob Dylan 1964
Read on »Bad Moon Rising
Written by: J. Fogerty, Performed by: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Read on »Mad World
Tears for Fears, Gary Jule
Read on »Fight The Power
01 – Fight the Power – The Isley Brothers – It’s Your Thing (boxed set) 02 – Go – Indigo Girls – Come On Now Social 03 – Reclaim – Copper Wimmin – American Tyranny 04 – Power to the Meek – Eurythmics – Peace 05 – Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count –
Read on »Fire In My Heart For You
01 – Fire in My Heart – Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla 02 – Under the Sun – Big Kenny – Live A Little 03 – Teenage FBI – Guided By Voices – Do The Collapse 04 – Round the Bend – Beta Band – Beta Band 05 – Murder or a Heart Attack –
Read on »Theme Songs For The Viagra Commercials
Author Unknown While Pfizer has had a lot of great press reagarding the launch of Viagra, the new male impotency medication, its marketing department has been working vigorously to develop its advertising campaign to augment its sales once all of the PR has died down. While going through potential commercials, they realized that such an
Read on »Dance Mix 2
01 – Killing Time 99 – Tina Cousins – Killing Time 02 – All About The Money – Meja – Seven Sisters 03 – Colour the World – Sash! – Colour the World 04 – That Don’t Impress Me Much – Shania Twain – Come On Over 05 – You Should Be – Blockster –
Read on »Dance Mix 1
01 – History Repeating – Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey – Decksandrumsandrockandroll 02 – Strong Enough – Cher – Believe 03 – Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here – Deborah Cox – One Wish 04 – Heartbreak Hotel – Whitney Houston – My Love is Your Love 05 – If You Had My Love – Jennifer Lopez
Read on »Mystic Mix
01 – Rollin’ & Tumblin’ – R. L. Burnside – Rollin’ Tumblin’ [CD-SINGLE] 02 – Cabbage Roll – Liquid Soul – Make Some Noise 03 – Loco Pro – A.N.I.M.A.L. – Poder Latino 04 – Ain’t Gonna Do You No Good – Dubtribe Sound System – Bryant Street 05 – Better Days – Citizen King
Read on »Shadowboxer
Fiona Apple, from the album Tidal
Read on »And She Was
Talking Heads
Read on »The Good Me
01 – Thank U – Alanis Morrisette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie 02 – Ray of Light – Madonna – Ray of Light 03 – Luminous Times – U2 – Best of 1980-1990 04 – Happy Heart – Petula Clark – The Greatest Hits of Petula Clark 05 – Does She Walk on Water –
Read on »The Bad Me
01 Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash – The Man In Black: His Greatest Hits 02 Like a Friend – Pulp – This is Hardcore 03 Let’s Kill Saturday Night – Robbie Fulks – Let’s Kill Saturday Night 04 La Di Da – The Murmurs – Blender 05 Amnesia – Chumbawamba – Tubthumper 06 Inside
Read on »Set the Prairie On Fire
Shawn Colvin, from the album Fat City
Read on »The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron
Read on »Goodbye Earl
Dixie Chicks, From the CD: Fly
Read on »Tangled Up in Blue
Bob Dylan from Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits
Read on »Jesus Was Way Cool
King Missile
Read on »Because The Night
Bruce Springsteen/Patti Smith
Read on »There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
Pete Seeger, If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle
Read on »Plastic Jesus
by Ernie Marrs
Read on »H.R. Pufnstuf Theme Songs Lyrics
Sid & Marty Krofft’s Pufnstuff
Read on »American Pie
Don Maclean
Read on »Brimful Of Asha
Cornershop
Read on »That Summer
Pat Alger, Sandy Mahl, Garth Brooks
CD: The Chase
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
The Proclaimers
Read on »One Tin Soldier
Coven
Read on »The 21th Annual National Women’s Music Festival
Published In Outlines Magazine, June 17, 1995 The festival was professional and well-organized, which must be a difficult task, considering the variety of attractions going on. But Women in the Arts, Inc., the organization that produces the festival, has a staff of 100+ women and a logical, well-thought-out structure that local not-for-profit organizations should take
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