( continues...) Slayed?, another possible LitG entry.

22. A song that relates to science:
"Why Does the Sun Shine?" -- They Might Be Giants
I was worried that Erinaceous would snag this cover of an old science education song, but she didn’t, so here it is.

23. A song you sing (or would sing) to your pet and/or child:
"Fred" -- Tom Paxton
I used to sing this to my dog all the time.

24. A song that haunts you:
"He Didn't" -- Bob Mould / the 6ths
What can I say? This one haunts me.

25. A song that you would sing to yourself if you were ever in a dire situation and needed it to keep going:
"There's a Fire" -- Longwave
Despite having grown up listening to Bill Cosby talk about keeping his music with him in scary situations (nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nahhh…), I never picked up the habit. I tend to get quiet and focused instead, like when my students used to try to set the lab on fire, and I’d have to put it out before it reached the bottles of acetone and methanol. Good times. This one time, while I was working with some students in another lab, one of my students came in, stood next to me, and very politely waited for me to finish what I was explaining before calmly saying, “Mr. Machina? There’s a fire next door.”

26. A song by a band with an awful name:
"Stormy Down" -- The Strawbs
They started out as the as the Strawberry Hill Boys, which wasn’t much better, then shortened it as they moved from English folk towards prog rock. The DJs on WNEW-FM used to pronounce it “the Strobbs.” This is from Bursting at the Seams, another potential LitG piece, and another member of the class of ‘73.

27. A song that even when you know it's time to LEAVE the BAR someone can put on the jukebox to make you stay:
"Goody Two Shoes" -- Adam Ant
I’m deliberately picking a song that might actually be on a jukebox, at least one of the jukeboxes around these parts. Could’ve also used this for the first love (and several of the later ones, too).

This song is from McCarty’s Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston, a great tribute album to Johnston that Corwood was kind enough to send me.

And that I wrote about in LiTG. Speaking of which, I did consider including that Nicky Hopkins record and The Move in the book. Not Slade, but that was a lack of imagination on my part.

Also, I love "The Lottery Song" and that cover of it, and predict that all Buffistas will be whistling it by next week.

Excellent, DXM!

I am going to be away with no interbunny for the weekend, so the rest of my mix will go up early next week, if Gmail will behave.

it’s weird that nowadays they’re probably best known for "Merry Xmas, Everybody."

D'ya think? Come on Feel the Noise!

D'ya think? Come on Feel the Noise!

Yeah, but I'll bet a lot of folks think Quiet Riot wrote it. :)

RIP Buck Owens.

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Bye, Buck. Who's gonna mow your lawn? Who's gonna twang the Tele?

Another splendid exemplar of the Village Voice school of music criticism:

Karen's crypto-candid lyrics, inevitable but not therefore unmoving day-after assessments, pile on the contradictions:

Allow me to be crypto-candid for a moment when I say that I, like many Americans, sometimes find myself.

OMGoth! I just got back from the Sisters of Mercy show. Yes, all the reviews are true: the sound is crap, and the fog machines have been cranked into overdrive, so you can barely see the band. I don't care. I have finally seen SoM live.

Plus, thanks to a couple of happy coincidences, I was standing on the side of the stage when they started playing "Dominion/Mother Russia". No, I didn't get to meet them, but I was 10 feet away from them. Squeee!

Allow me to be crypto-candid for a moment when I say that I, like many Americans, sometimes find myself.

This cracks my shit up. Also, David, as someone who feels completely intimidated by VV crypto-candid patois, I appreciate your mockery.

Crypto-candid, it turns out, works in lots of sentences. Try it yourself!