24 songs that make me wanna

1. A favorite political track.
PUBLIC ENEMY - "Fight the power"

2. One of those tracks that will make you dance on the dancefloor no matter what.
BASEMENT JAXX - "Red Alert"

If the opening slapbass doesn't make you want to shake your ass then you don't have one.

3. The song you’d use to tell someone you love them.
COMMON - The Light

"There are times when you'll need someone, I will be by your side. There is a light that shines special for you and me.

Tika-da, tika-da, tikatikatik-da, I'll tell you the rest when I see you..."

Found myself singing the refrain during clean-up (ie goodbye) at Burning Man one year. But that's interpreting it as more of a friend who will stand by you no matter what may come.

4. A song you know would sell lots of VWs (or ipods, or whatever) if they paid for it. (One that hasn’t already been used).
THE GO! TEAM - "Ladyflash"

Fact: Apple tried to buy the rights and Go! Team refused. Too bad for both sides.

5. A song that forced you to sit down and analyze its lyrics.
MODEST MOUSE - 'Ocean breathes salty'

"when the ocean met the sky.

You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye.
When the earth folded on itself.
And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell
are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath."
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?

The ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul.
The more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind.
Well I don't mind. I don't mind. How the hell could I mind?


Well that is that and this is this.
Will you tell me what you saw and I'll tell you what you missed,

when the ocean met the sky.
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?

6. A song you like that a 2 year old would like too.
THE MUPPETS - "Manamana"

If you're reading this, you probably own one of my mix CDs with this song on it. In fact, go listen to it now and spaz out a little.

7. A song that makes you drive too fast.
MODEST MOUSE - "Float on"

Been documented here how I drove through the desert listening to this a 1000 times. Still would.

8. A song that makes you feel like kicking someone’s ass.
THE VON BONDIES - "C'mon, C'mon"

Or maybe it just makes Jack White feel like kicking someone's ass.

9. A song that both you and your grandparents (would probably) like.
Spanish side: NINO BRAVO - "Libre".

Spain's Elvis died tragically in a car wreck (is there a non-tragic way to die in a car wreck?) at age 23. Since then, one of his CDs has been a top Christmas seller every year. Mind you, he died in 1968.

'Merican side: FRANK SINATRA - "My way"

Played it on my way out the door of JSheen.

11. The song you’d send to someone you hated.
BOBBY MCFERRIN - "Don't worry; be happy"

Lull him to false complacency while I was slowly building up a grand plot to destroy his life.

More of a song for an ex-girlfriend or a song for a friend who dated your ex-girlfriend:
THE STONE ROSES - "I am the resurrection"

Turn turn, I wish you’d learn
There’s a time and place for everything I’ve got to get it through
Cut loose, you’re no use
I couldn’t stand another second in your company

Don’t waste your words I don’t need anything from you
I don’t care where you’ve been or what you plan to do

Stone me, why can’t you see
You’re a no-one nowhere washed up baby who’d look better dead."
Yep, that about sums it up.

12. A sad instrumental song that would be in the soundtrack to a movie about your life.
I don't think it exists, but a STRING QUARTET TRIBUTE of the Bauhaus version of "Bela Lugosi's Dead"

13. The peppy song that would start the opening credits in the soundtrack to a movie about your life.
The Polyphonic Spree - "Hanging around the day"

Ah, fuck. Who am I kidding? THE VERVE - "Bittersweet symphony" or MODEST MOUSE - "Float on"

14. An a cappella song.

THE SOUP DRAGONS - "I'm free"

15. A good song from a genre of music that no one could guess that you liked.
GARTH BROOKS - "Friends in low places"

I was in a southern Fraternity. Blow me.

Oh, and THE BACKSTREET BOYS - "I want it that way."
It's a great song. I won't debate this with you.

16. A song you think should have been playing when you were born.
THE VERVE - "Velvet Morning"

"And I was born a little damaged man
And look what they made.
He said, don't you find
that it's lonely, the corridor
you walked in alone.
and life is a game, you tried,
life is a game, you're tired."

Yes, I know I'm not well.

17. A favorite artist duo collaboration.
THE KLF & TAMMY WYNETTE - "Justified Ancients of Muu-Muu"

A mash-up from before there were mash-ups.

18. A favorite song that you completely disagree with (politically, morally, commonsenically, religiously etc.)
Any misogynistic, homophobic song by any rap star. Especially early 90s ones.

19. The song that you love despite the fact your IQ level drops several points every time you listen to it.
ANDREW W.K. - "Party hard"

Genius. Wonder which would look funnier to a neighbor walking by at night and looking at me in the living room spazzing out: "party hard", "manamana" or "hold me now" (by the Polyphonic Spree).

20. Your smooth song, for relaxing.
BOB MARLEY & LAURYN HILL "Turn your lights down low”

Good song for relaxing someone else, if you know what I mean.

21. A song that you like but would play loud to annoy the neighbors.
95 SOUTH - "Whoomp! There it is!"

I once saw a soccer match between Brazil and Mexico in Miami. The Brazilians didn't know the words but sang "Woooo! Na na na!"

22. A favorite song that’s about a sport or sports.
Feel like I'm revealing all of my favorite dorky, cred-stealing songs but

RICKY MARTIN - "La Copa de Vida"

23. A favorite track from an outfit considered a “super-group.”
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - "The bleeding heart show"

Doesn't qualify in the classic "Soupergrouper" sense, but does in indie world.

24. The song that makes you want to drink more beer.

1. Do you drink when you are happy?

2. Do you drink when you are sad or depressed?

3. Do you drink to celebrate?

4. Do you drink to forget defeats?

5. Do you drink when you're stressed?

6. Do you drink when you're relaxed?

My whole iTunes library.

New ones that I added to the Meme:
Song that makes me want to do coke:
Anything by Oasis, let's choose one though...
OASIS - "Supersonic"
OASIS - "Cigarettes and Alchohol"
OASIS - "The Hindu Times"

Song I'd put on a mixtape for a friend who was really down on life:
Tie! JAMES - "Sit down" & BETH ORTON, cover of - "Ooh Child"

Song I'd listen to on my iPod while coming home from an amazing date:
THE LA'S - "There she goes", THE DELAYS - "Hey girl"

Song that reminds me of today, 10 years ago:
MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES - "The impression that I get"

Sitting around at the Miami Ad School in the computer lab, waiting for your art director to figure out Quark.