Brownie McGhee - Born & Livin' with the Blues

Damn. This makes me feel good.

Clannad & Bono - In A Lifetime

Wolfsheim - The Sparrow and the Nightingale

Sarah SIlverman - Give the Jew Girl Toys

Just in time for the season...

Joe Jackson - Real Men

Every boy should be forced to listen to and understand this song. Maybe write a paper about it.

Ewan McGregor - Gimme Danger

The little movie nobody's seen, Velvet Goldmine, is basically a roman a clef of David Bowie. Ewan McGregor plays the Iggy Pop analogue, and here performs a classic Stooges song.

Velvet Underground - Heroin (Live)

David Bowie, Ian Hunter, & Mick Ronson - All the Young Dudes (Live)

My first artist repeat (not counting the Warren Zevon), but, hey, it's Bowie, that can be allowed.

Schaffer the Darklord - The Rappist

Does anybody actually read this thing? Anyone look at these? Seriously, man, gimme some help here.

Lesbian Bed Death - Goth Girls Are Easy

Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart

Because one Warren Zevon song is never enough. This is from his final album, written and recorded as he was dying of mesothelioma. If you don't tear up, just a little, watching this, you either have no heart or no sense of your own mortality.

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London

I've always enjoyed this song. Now, that talentless fucker Kid Rock has sampled it into some piece of shit paean to smoking weed and getting laid. Like we don't fucking have enough of those around. I have nothing against either of those, obviously, but, fuck, who gives a shit? Cover some new territory.

Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit (live)

Nick Cave - Mercy Seat (live)

Violent Femmes - Add It Up (live)

Billy Bragg - Waiting For the Great Leap Forward

Three different versions of the same song, all by the same man. Seriously, listen to them all, check out how he updates it.

Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up

Boney M - Daddy Cool

E Nomine - Vater Unser

A gothy/industrial version of the Lord's Prayer, in German and Latin. How could you go wrong?

Dropkick Murphys - Walk Away

Genitorturers - Devil in a Bottle (live)

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Howard Jones - Let the People Have Their Say

MESH - Crash

Cobra Starship - Snakes on a Plane

The song is OK, but if you notice, about 2/3 of the way thru, Samuel L Jackson (who is cooler than any 3 guys you know put together) is sitting there reading. What is he reading? 100 Bullets: Strychnine Lives

Electric Six - Radio Ga Ga

I don't know why Queen fans were so pissed off about this song...

Bob Marley - War

The words for this song were taken, almost entirely, from a speech Haile Selassie gave to the United Nations.

The Pogues & The Dubliners - Irish Rover

A few years ago, I found out that I'm 1/4 Irish. Don't ask how I didn't know that before. Anyway, ever since I learned that, I've been tempted to drink mass quantities, sing like Shane MacGowan, and get a Sinn Fein tattoo. Thank God I've only done 2 of them.

Voltaire - USS Make Shit Up

Subway to Sally - Ohne Liebe

Another example of Medieval Rock, this one a little more typical of the genre.

Leiahdorus - The Wake

Meryn Cadell - The Sweater

I probably listened to this album about 1000 times when it came out. Bought 3 copies of it, I listened to the tape so much.

Letzte Instanz - Wir Sind Allien

I recently became entranced with this new sound out of Germany, frequently called Medieval Rock. Letzte Instanz is one of the practitioners of it, although they go fairly far afield sometimes. Schandmaul is probably more representative of the sound.

The Teddybears feat Iggy Pop - Punkrocker

Freezepop - Less Talk More Rokk

We loves us some Freezepop.

Michael Penn - No Myth

Marie and I were just discussing this evening, you don't hear this song often enough.

B.B. King & Tracy Chapman - The Thrill is Gone

I've always enjoyed Tracy Chapman. I figured out a while ago that she sings in a very traditional blues manner, but (and this is important) she sings it like a man. It really works well for her. And, of course, BB is, well, BB.

Vitamin Z - Burning Flame

H.I.M. - Wicked Game

Zeromancer - Dr Online

Meat Loaf - I Would Do Anything For Love

A lot of people complained about this song, the chorus specifically. They said it doesn't make sense: "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that." What is that, people would ask. Well, it's whatever was said right before that line - it's fairly obvious.

Shona Laing - (Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy

I actually prefer Soviet Snow as a song, but the video for it BITES. Besides, I like the reference, given how few Kennedys there are left.

Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas

Jacques Brel was, quite simply, one of the greatest song writers of all time, in any language. While the most famous English translation of this song is called "If You Go Away," a far better one can be found here. However, the absolute desperation and desolation on Jacques' face in this video should give you enough meaning.

The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

This song reminds me of summertime, and youth, and fireworks.

Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines (live)

Marc Almond - Jacky

This song is, in large part, responsible for my marriage.

Clash - I'm So Bored With the USA/Train In Vain (Live)

Rainmakers - Small Circles

One of the best descriptions of young love I've ever heard, from a VASTLY underrated band.

Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

Could We Start Again Please - from Jesus Christ Superstar

Compare and contrast: The first one is from the 1973 movie, the 2nd is from the 2000 stage production. Which one's better?

Oingo Boingo - Little Girls

I have nothing to say about this video that it doesn't say itself.

Jack Lukeman - Ode to Ed Wood

Cake - I will Survive

One of the coolest covers EVAH.

Osaka Popstar - Wicked World

This is the official video for the song. I mention that because it kind of just looks like a homemade anime music video, but, really, it's not.

The Jam - Going Underground

The braying sheep on my TV screen
Make this boy shout, make this boy scream!

Elvis Costello & Fiona Apple - I Want You (live)

Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Live)

While looking up Rollins Band vids for that last one, I came across this. I adore Placebo, of course, and saw them live recently here in Salt Lake. They ended the show with this Kate Bush cover (probably the first of her songs I heard, or at least, recognized), just the heartbeat sound going for about 5 minutes after everything else went silent. Fantastic.

Rollins Band - Tearing (Live)

I don't think it can be mentioned too often - Rollins is the man.

David Bowie & Cher - Medley

Proof positive that even the great David Bowie isn't infallible.

And, by the way - WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ON CHER'S HEAD?

Dire Straights (feat Eric Clapton) - Sultans of Swing (live)