January 13, 2014

146 All Is Quiet

  1. "Meet Me On The Equinox" Somehow this Death Cab For Cutie song appeared on The Twilight Saga: New Moon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  2. "Dance Hall Days" back in the 1980s a humorless New Wave band like Wang Chung could name their LP Points On The Curve and be taken seriously.
  3. "Shake" The Head And The Heart
  4. "I Can't Wait" [single remix] Nu Shooz
  5. "I Just Can't Wait" J. Geils Band
  6. "In the Morning" The Coral
  7. "The Love Cats" The Cure
  8. "Can't Buy Me Love" Paul McCartney; this free-spirited, casual countryfied acoustic performance is from a live TV recording at the Ed Sullivan Theater December 10, 1992.
  9. "Head Full Of Doubt/Road Full Of Promise" The Avett Brothers
  10. "Smoke" Ben Folds Five; Live on KCRW radio July 17, 1997.
  11. "Honesty" A Billy Joel ballad I never listened to much because it wasn't on his Greatest Hits album. For the record, it appeared on his 1978 album 52nd Street, and the single went to #24 on the Hot 100.
  12. "Abracadabra" Steve Miller Band
  13. "And Your Bird Can Sing" Wilco; from their all-request, all-cover songs show at the Solid Sound festival June 21, 2013... 
  14. ...but their first performance wasn't quite "solid", so Jeff suggested they do it again. It's barely two minutes, after all!
  15. "Half A Boy & Half A Man" Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit 1989
  16. "Rock And Roll Girls" John Fogerty
  17. "Toys In The Attic" Aerosmith
  18. "Geek Stink Breath" Green Day
  19. "Round And Round" Ratt
  20. "Sweetness Follows" R.E.M.
  21. "River Flows In You" Yiruma; what the hell is this, exactly? In a work meeting this month, we left the speakerphone on for over half an hour waiting for our colleagues overseas to dial in; a 30-second excerpt from "River Flows In You" was the "hold" music. How did I figure this out. It must have been a boring meeting, because I wondered "do you suppose SoundHound will know what this hold music is?" Yes, yes it will.