Song lists

Once upon a time, this was song lists for making CDs and such; now there's the internet.

• WQDR Rock songlist: back before WQDR went country, they used to play stuff that nobody else played...
• Xmas-spirited songs not actually about xmas

for 2024-01-20

• Kiss Me, Son of God (TMBG)
• Ship of Fools (World Party)
• Excitable Boy
• The Idol (Procol Harum)
• Into the Frying Pan (King Crimson)
• Time After Time (ELO)
• Out of My Hands (Michael Penn)
• Long Dark Night (Fabulous Knobs)
• Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles)
• What I Can Do for You (Sheryl Crow)
• May Be a Price to Pay (Alan Parsons)
• Prophecies (Philip Glass)
• Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
• Rock Me on the Water
• Then the Morning Comes (Smashmouth)
• One Thing Leads to Another (Fixx)
• Brave New World (Michael Penn)
• Utopia (Goldfrapp)
• Incense Peppermints
• Epitaph (King Crimson)
• Redemption Day (Sheryl Crow)
• Land of Confusion (Genesis song, covered by Katzenjammer)
• Last Days on Earth (TFF)

To Add:

• Ignoreland (REM)
• In the Flesh / Run Like Hell / Waiting for the Worms / Stop (Pink Floyd)
• Is It Like Today (World Party)
• Mad World
• For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)

not used

• I Will Not Go Quietly (Don Henley) -- official copy n/a on YT, looks intentional
• Captain America (Kinks) paints US as unironically good - definitely not the right context here
• Crime of the Century (Supertramp) -- too long for the message
• Save a Prayer (Duran Duran) - lyrics don't quite work
• Palace of Versailles (Al Stewart) - not quite the right historical parallel
• Swords and Knives (TFF) - not quite right either, though the mood is...

Favorite Solos

guitar	synth	bowed instrument
Both Belong (intro) XTC Versus Adam Ant Ordinary Dream She Still Loves Him (maybe) Feel the Benefit Starship Troopers Bluebird Is Dead Comfortably Numb Free As a Bird Face the Fire Badge Echoes Do It Again	Spirits in the Night Trembling	Now You're Gone XTC Versus Adam Ant Livin' Thing (intro) Kuiama New World Rising

Songs You May Think You Remember from the Sixties and Seventies

• "Blame it on the Girls" (Mika)
• "Grace Kelley" (Mika)
• "Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Music" (The Rutles)
• Jellyfish:
  • "That Is Why"
  • "Now She Knows She's Wrong"
  • "My New Mistake"
  • "Sabrina, Paste, and Plato"
• "Rainy Day Sun" (Spinal Tap)
• "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending" (Tears for Fears)
• "Call Me Mellow" (Tears for Fears)
• "Another First Kiss" (TMBG)
• "Wind Me Up" (Fastball)
• "Karma" (Jessica Andrews)
• "Sleeping Satellite" (Tasmin Archer)
• "Free as a Bird" (The Beatles)
• "Real Love" (The Beatles)
• "Ordinary Dream" (ELO)
• "Lonesome Lullaby" (ELO)
• "G.O.D. (good old days)" (Fastball)
• "Peacekeeper" (Fleetwood Mac)
• "The Very Best Years" (The Grays)
• "Walk Away" (Traveling Wilburys)
• "Believe" (Lenny Kravitz)
• "Devil with the Green Eyes" (Matthew Sweet)
• "Beautiful Night" (Paul McCartney)
• "The Division Bell" (Pink Floyd)
• "Now She's Left You" (The Rutles)
• "Between Us" (The Rutles)
• "Walking on the Sun" (Smashmouth)
• "Then the Morning Comes" (Smashmouth)
• "The Mole from the Ministry" (The Dukes of Stratosphear)

best of McCartney

• "Every Night" McCartney I
• "Another Day"
• Ram
  • "Too Many People"
  • "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey"
  • "Heart of the Country"
  • "Monkberry Moon Delight"
• "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
• Wild Life
  • "Bip Bop"
  • "Tomorrow"
• Red Rose Speedway
  • "Big Barn Bed"
  • "Single Pigeon"
• "I Lie Around"
• "Live and Let Die"
• Band on the Run
  • "Band on the Run"
  • "Jet"
  • "Bluebird"
  • "Mrs. Vandebilt"
  • "Mamunia"
  • "No Words"
  • "1985"
• "Sally G."
• Venus and Mars
  • "Venus and Mars"
  • "Rock Show"
  • "Love in Song"
  • "You Gave Me the Answer"
  • "Magneto and Titanium Man"
  • "Listen to What the Man Said"
• "Lunch Box / Odd Sox"
• ...Speed of Sound
  • "Let 'em In"
  • "She's My Baby"
  • "Silly Love Songs"
• "Mull of Kintyre"
• "Maybe I'm Amazed" (live)
• London Town
  • "London Town"
  • "Café on the Left Bank"
  • "With a Little Luck"
  • "Famous Groupies"
  • "Deliver Your Children"
  • "Don't Let It Bring You Down"
• Back to the Egg
  • "Getting Closer"
  • "We're Open Tonight"
  • "Again and Again and Again"
  • "Old Siam, Sir"
  • "Arrow Through Me"
• McCartney II
  • "Coming Up"
  • "Nobody Knows"
  • "Dark Room"
• Tug of War
  • "Tug of War"
  • "Take It Away"
  • "Ballroom Dancing"
  • "The Pound Is Sinking"
  • "Wanderlust"
• Pipes of Peace
  • "Pipes of Peace"
  • "Say Say Say"
  • "The Other Me"
  • "Keep Under Cover"
  • "Average Person"
• "No More Lonely Nights"
• Press to Play
  • "Pretty Little Head"
  • "It's Not True"
• Flaming Pie
  • "World Tonight"
  • "Beautiful Night"
• Driving Rain
  • "Your Way"

Note: I haven't yet listened to Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard or Memory Almost Full enough to tell what songs are good; on first listen to a few tracks, they sound promisingly listenable but without any really outstanding melodies. Definitely better than the Flowers in the Dirt / Off the Ground era, though.

ideas for Sinaas

• American Pie
• Pachelbel's canon
• Hyperactive (Dolby)
• Cannibals (Knopfler)
• The Netherlands (Fogelberg)
• Ag Pleez Deddy
• The Penguin On Top of the TV
• The Famous Polka
• something polka from Weird Al
• Valley Girl
• Free As a Bird
• Onomatopoeia
• Morning Sky (Fogelberg)
• ?More Than Ever (Fogelberg)
• The Night Watch (King Crimson) "Dutch respectibility"
• hit songs with religious themes
  • Put Your Hand in the Hand
  • My Sweet Lord
  • One Toke Over the Line
  • Operator (Manhattan Transfer)
  • A Soapbox Opera (Supertramp)
  • Even in the Quietest Moments
  • The Devil's Been Busy (Wilburys)
  • The Devil's Radio (Harrison)
  • Morning Has Broken
  • Tears in Heaven
  • My Father's Eyes
  • God (Tori Amos)
  • God (Lennon)
  • Imagine (Lennon)
  • Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
• It's Not Easy Being Green
• Deeper Understanding
• The Logical Song (cf the obstacle song, "I Can See Clearly Now")

Also need to send some Woozle music

First attempt at CD from available songs:

• serious disc
  • The Netherlands
  • Love Comes to Everyone
  • Year of the Cat
• silly disc
  • Ag Pleez Deddy
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Rubber Duckie
  • Silent E
  • L-Y