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1. Meat Loaf - Dead Ringer for Love
The ballad for seeing some across the table in a café/restaurant and thinking they're 'fit' but you don't know who they are. Man, how many times have I been in this scenario before? Great song though, it just makes you wanna rock out and have fun!
Originally a #5 hit in November 1981.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy_XrSLG4gg

2. Status Quo - Down Down
My love of Status Quo has grown recently, especially when I got their 'Pictures' album. This song just makes me wanna rock out, this helped me through the split of Marina and I.
Originally a #1 hit in December 1974.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNPJuJSVmNA

3. Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
The song my friend Rug (Matt) had chosen at random for his music video project. He couldn't stand the song, which added hilarity to the scenario. In the end, he made a great masterpiece with the song and I think he's gonna get a good grade with it, congrats Rug!
Originally a #6 hit in July 1977.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHhB9zV_rQ

4. Barenaked Ladies - One Week
Discovered this great tune on a 90's compilation album. I think it's off a film or show but I can't remember what. For some reason, Shrek comes into my head... But still, a good tune!
Originally a #5 hit in February 1999.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPo9ISQpzvM

5. The Rembrandts - I'll Be There for You
The official 'Friends' theme tune. Also found on the 90's compilation album. I've also watched alot of Friends throughout this year, despite it ending 5 years ago. But man, what a tune!
Originally a #3 hit in September 1995.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJRAnlPSKaw&feature=related

6. John Siegler & John Loeffler - Pokémon Theme
We all know this one. Pokémon has been huge for my friends and I this year (yes, I'm a Pokégeek) due to Platinum being released. I also started watching the TV series again, out of interest. Feel free to call me a geek anytime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbhbLrSQKyY

7. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Something from recent times. An awesome power ballad to round the year (and decade) up as a whole. Please, have a listen.
Originally a #62 hit in 1982 but charted at #19 in November 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNB1EUJg1-w

8. Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)
The song I had chosen at random for my music video project. It contained alot of flashing lights and Ronald McDonald, so beware!
Originally a #11 hit in May 1986.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di60NYGu03Y

9. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
The song my friend Sean had chosen at random for his music video project. The lip sync he did for it was both amazing and hilarious. Imagine a cartoon mouth saying 'When I wake up' in a Scottish accent. You'll laugh.
Originally a #11 hit in August 1988.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM0sTNtWDiI

10. The Contours - Do You Love Me
The official theme tune which got Marina and I together back in March this year. This is 'our song'.
Originally a #76 hit in June 1988.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x43vK0k6A2I

11. Dionne Bromfield - Mama Said
One of the more recent songs, Amy Winehouse's God daughter has made a tune which is very retro yet awesome. At only 13, you wouldn't think she could sing such a great song!
Originally a #43 hit in October 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umpV2oWoY34

12. Pixie Lott - Boys And Girls
Sounds very similar to Rihanna's 'Shut Up and Drive', this jazzy/Pop piece is an awesome tune with the beautiful Pixie Lott.
Originally a #1 hit in September 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFp4KcMJsQ

13. Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love
Cheryl's first solo single away from the girls and it's a masterpiece, doing the double with a #1 single and album I think she deserves a round of applause... but wait, what's this? Rumours are that this song sampled Kelis' 'Lil Star'... what do you think?
Originally a #1 hit in October 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMiy_UsrPDs

14. Paramore - Ignorance
Is ignorance your new best friend? This song, being Paramore's highest charting hit in the UK has had a massive effect to a variety of audiences across the map. Great song.
Originally a #14 hit in September 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJipy8ApsxY

15. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
Dick Valentine. Vocalist of this group. Rape face. If you don't believe me, have a look for yourself.
Originally a #2 hit in January 2003.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB0_EKS5H2s <- Rape Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gyJsY0mc&feature=related <- Original Music Video

16. Mika - We Are Golden
Ignoring the video, this song is a great comeback for Popmeister Mika. Why does it, that all of his songs make you smile?
Originally a #4 hit in September 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WknXCcVThI

17. Cuban Boys - Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia
The hamster dance with a pop twist. Throughout the year, I've had a fascination with the millennium and the end of the decade coming closer and closer. Does anyone remember what the internet looked like back in late '99/early 2000?
Originally a #4 hit in December 1999.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9yZhU9ytk <- Original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXJ5oaU940U <- Music Video in the UK (My Country)

18. James "D Train" Williams & Babi Floyd - PokéRAP
Omanyte! Slowpooooke. The best rap, ever. Can you remember all 150 Pokémon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlw1FpOCEfo

19. Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)
Back during the summer of this year, Marina and I went to a disco, and this was the last song of the evening. It was only me and her on the dancefloor, doing a slow dance to this beautiful song.
Originally a #1 hit in June 1983.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywoHBGS_DnQ

20. Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World
My grandfather passed away earlier this year, and Louis' hit 'What A Wonderful World' was playing. Since I don't have that song, this song is just as good to be placed on this album. R.I.P. Grandad.
Originally a #3 hit in November 1994.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy97lOwvECs

...And that is my 2009. Feel free to comment!

Originally published in Epigram.



With each year that passes, it becomes harder and harder to distinguish between Bob Dylan's rasp and that of say, Tom Waits or Louis Armstrong. And so it seems only natural that he lend this to an album full of Christmas classics such as 'Winter Wonderland' and 'Little Drummer Boy'. In fact, knowing Dylan and his chameleon-like personality, it would have been a downright waste not to record this album at this point, as he'll probably be singing with the buttery smooth stylings of Jeff Buckley come next year.

Unlike other periods in Dylan's history, such as the moment he went electric on 'Bringing It All Back Home' or his born-again Christian years with 'Saved' and 'Shot of Love', this is not an album which needs context in order to be appreciated. This album would sit more happily on the Christmas music shelf at Sainsbury's than amongst the majority of Dylan's discography. That's not to say it belongs in a place where the most artistic creation on show is the latest chronicle of Katie Price's biography, just that this is most certainly a Christmas album, and does not necessarily bring anything new to the immense palette Dylan has presented us with over the years.

With the American tradition rooted so heavily in religion, it's no surprise that so many folk musicians have taken on some of the season's classic songs. Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst, an atheist who references Christianity a lot in his music, released 'A Christmas Album' back in 2002. "I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure. And not that I’m an expert on all these religions, but all the other major religions just fall a little flat in their narrowmindedness. I feel like there’s something much more basic than what all these people are worried about. And dogma and all that stuff, to me it’s anti- whatever I would consider god-like. Which is, I think, a connectedness and an all-encompassing sort of love for things." Oberst's beliefs are evident on the album which - whilst remaining reasonably true to the originals - exists for those who wish to participate in the Christmas traditions our modern culture insists are necessary, without having to listen to any Wham! songs. "You'll be doing alright with your Christmas of white, but I'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas."

And then there's Sufjan Stevens, a deeply religious anti-consumerist, who admits, "Sometimes, I don't even celebrate Christmas." Stevens began experimenting with Christmas songs in 2001 and has released eight EPs to date. "It's a sacred form and yet it's also incredibly annoying and profane because it's the soundtrack in shopping malls across the country." Amongst 'O Holy Night', and 'Jingle Bells', Stevens has original songs like 'Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It!)' ("Did I make you cry, like every other day?") and 'That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!', which put a refreshing spin on a subject which is so often assumed to be synonymous with goodwill and compassion, "Our Father yells, throwing the gifts in the wood stove, wood stove."

Whilst Dylan's intentions might not be as true as Oberst or Stevens' - the subject of this album being a tenuous link to its main purpose of raising money for Feeding America - if you buy into the shopping mall/Hollywood soundtrack version of this "celebration of mankind" we like to call Christmas, this album will easily receive some heavy rotation come Christmas day.

Two hours of the St. Louis Blues in very rough chronological order.

Swing Plus #85
11/17/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
http://www.kbrpradio.com

1- St. Louis Blues – W.C. Handy’s Memphis Blues Band 1922
2- St. Louis Blues – Marion Harris 1920
3- St. Louis Blues – Fats Waller (organ)
4- St. Louis Blues – Louis Armstrong Hot 5s & 7s
5- American Symphonic Suite Based on St. Louis Blues – Concordia Orchestra
6- St. Louis Blues – Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang
7- St. Louis Blues – Boswell Sisters
8- St. Louis Blues – Washboard Rhythm Kings
9- St. Louis Blues – Ray Noble
10- New St. Louis Blues – Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
11- St. Louis Blues – Cab Calloway
12- St. Louis Blues – Billie Holiday w/Benny Carter
13- St. Louis Blues – Mills Brothers
14- St. Louis Blues – Roy Eldridge
15- Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues – Earl Hines
16- St. Louis Blues – Harry James live 4/1946
17- St. Louis Blues – Charles Brown
18- St. Louis Blues – Dizzy Gillespie
19- St. Louis Blues – Babs Gonzales
20- St. Louis Blues – Svend Asmussen 1946
21- St. Louis Blues pt 1 & 2 – Billy Eckstine & The Metronome Allstars
22- St. Louis Blues – Slim Gaillard
23- St. Louis Blues – Lonnie Johnson
24- St. Louis Blues Mambo – Perez Prado
25- St. Louis Blues – Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra live 1968
26- St. Louis Blues – Sun Ra solo
27- St. Louis Blues – Sweet Hollywaiians

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1 Them - It's All Over Now Baby Blue
as used in "Basquiat"
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2 Underworld - Born Slippy
as used in "Trainspotting"
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3 Gioacchino Rossini - The Thieving Magpie
as used in "Clockwork Orange"
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4 Love and Rockets - This Heaven
as used in "The Doom Generation"
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5 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
as used in "Fritz The Cat"
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6 Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (78)
as used in "Smoke"
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7 M.I.A. - Paper Planes
as used in "Slumdog Millionaire"
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8 Dick Dale - Misirlou
as used in "Pulp Fiction"
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9 Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
as used in "Garden State"
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10 Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
as used in "Reservoir Dogs"
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11 T. Rex - Cosmic Dancer
as used in "Billie Elliott"
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12 Joy Division - Atmosphere
as used in "Control"
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13 Mulatu Astatke - Yekermo Sew
as used in "Broken Flowers"
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14 Laura Nyro - It's Gonna Take a Miracle
as used in "A Home At The End Of The World"
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15 Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
as used in "Trainspotting"
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16 Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
as used in "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas"
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17 Wendy Rene - After Laughter (Comes Tears)
as used in "Gegen Die Wand"
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18 Dinah Washington - What A Difference A Day Makes
as used in "Lola Rennt"
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19 Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
as used in "Jackie Brown"
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20 Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
as used in "Garden State"
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21 The Stranglers - Golden Brown
as used in "Snatch"
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22 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Is This Love
as used in "In The Name Of The Father"
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23 The Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
as used in "O Brother Where Art Thou"
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24 The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
as used in "The Doors"
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25 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
as used in "Scream"
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26 The Doors - The End
as used in "Apocalypse Now"
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27 Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
as used in "Malcolm X"
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28 DeVotchKa - How It Ends
as used in "Little Miss Sunshine"
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29 Esquivel - Mucha Muchacha
as used in "The Big Lebowski"
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30 Van Morrison - Gloria
as used in "The Outsiders"
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31 Tom Waits - Little Drop of Poison
as used in "Shrek 2"
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32 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Burnin' And Lootin'
as used in "La Haine"
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33 Eddie Vedder - The Wolf
as used in "Into The Wild"
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34 Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
as used in "Bowling For Columbine"
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35 Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
as used in "Kill Bill"
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36 Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
as used in "Boogie Nights"
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37 Folk Implosion - Nothing Gonna Stop
as used in "Kids"
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38 Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.3
as used in "Shine"
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39 Nine Inch Nails - Closer
as used in "Se7en"
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40 Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle
as used in "The Graduate"
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41 Derek and the Dominos - Layla
as used in "GoodFellas"
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42 Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
as used in "Airplane"
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43 Death in Vegas - Girls
as used in "Lost In Translation"
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44 Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man
as used in "Pulp Fiction"
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45 Ludwig van Beethoven - Für Elise
as used in "Elephant"
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46 Public Enemy - Fight The Power
as used in "Do The Right Thing"
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47 The Pogues - Summer In Siam
as used in "Basquiat"
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48 Smith - Baby It's You
as used in "Death Proof"
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49 Daniel Lanois - The Maker
as used in "Sling Blade"
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50 Harry Nilsson - Coconut
as used in "Reservoir Dogs"
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51 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
as used in "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas"
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52 David Bowie - Cat People
as used in "Inglorious Basterds"
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53 The Pogues - The Old Main Drag
as used in "My Own Private Idaho"
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54 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
as used in "Natural Born Killers"
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55 Blind Willie Johnson - Let Your Light Shine On Me
as used in "The Ladykillers"
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56 Sigur Rós - Samskeyti
as used in "Mysterious Skin"
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57 Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
as used in "Fight Club"
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58 Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk
as used in "La Bamba"
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59 Gary Jules - Mad World
as used in "Donnie Darko"
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76 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
as used in "Amadeus"
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61 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
as used in "Der Himmel Über Berlin"
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62 Marilyn Manson - I Put A Spell On You
as used in "Lost Highway"
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63 Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
as used in "Philadelphia"
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64 Carl Orff - O Fortuna
as used in "The Doors"
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65 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
as used in "Forrest Gump"
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66 George Gershwin - An American In Paris
as used in "As Good As It Gets"
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67 Seu Jorge - Rebel Rebel
as used in "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou"
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68 Elliott Smith - Between The Bars
as used in "Good Will Hunting"
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69 The Kinks - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion
as used in "In The Name Of The Father"
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70 Patsy Cline - Crazy
as used in "C.R.A.Z.Y."
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71 Smog - Cold Blooded Old Times
as used in "High Fidelity"
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72 Charles Trenet - La mer
as used in "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly"
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73 Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls
as used in "The Crow"
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74 Meat Beat Manifesto - Paradise Now
as used in "The Doom Generation"
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75 U2 - Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
as used in "The Pillow Book"
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76 Richard Berry - Loui Loui
as used in "Coffee And Cigarettes"
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77 Giacomo Puccini - Madame Butterfly
as used in "Natural Born Killers"
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78 Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
as used in "The Basketball Diaries"
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79 The McCoys - Hang On Sloopy
as used in "The People vs Larry Flynt"
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80 Boy George - The Crying Game
as used in "The Crying Game"
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81 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - If 6 Was 9
as used in "Point Break"
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82 Girls Against Boys - Kill the Sexplayer
as used in "Clerks"
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83 The Young Rascals - Groovin'
as used in "Platoon"
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84 Portishead - Roads
as used in "Tank Girl"
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85 Ben E. King - Stand By Me
as used in "Stand By Me"
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86 Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
as used in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"
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87 Annie Lennox - Don't Let It Bring You Down
as used is "American Beauty"
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88 Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra: Einleitung
as used in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
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89 Frank Zappa - Dirty Love
as used in "The Ice Storm"
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90 The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
as used in "500 Days Of Summer"
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91 Ali Farka Touré - Ai Du
as used in "L'Auberge Espagnole"
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92 George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag
as used in "Reservoir Dogs"
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93 Charlie Parker - April In Paris
as used in "Basquiat"
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94 Nena - 99 Luftballons
as used in "Boogie Nights"
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95 Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange
as used in "The Lost Boys"
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96 Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
as used in "Apocalypse Now"
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97 Tommy James and The Shondells - Crimson And Clover
as used in "Coffee And Cigarettes"
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98 Bono & Gavin Friday - In the Name of the Father
as used in "In The Name Of The Father"
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99 Brian Eno - By This River
as used in "Y Tu Mama Tambien"
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100 Louis Armstrong - La Vie En Rose
as used in "Wall-E"
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101 Sonic Youth - Superstar
as used in "Juno"
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102 Ludwig van Beethoven - 9th Symphony
as used in "Clockwork Orange"
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103 Nortec Collective - Babel
as used in "Babel"
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104 Johnny Cash - Tennessee Stud
as used in "Jackie Brown"
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105 Elton John - Tiny Dancer
as used in "Almost Famous"
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106 Big Mama Thornton - Sing Out For Jesus
as used in "Vanishing Point"
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107 ZZ Top - Tush
as used in "Dazed and Confused"
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108 Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister
as used in "The Lost Boys"
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109 Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together
as used in "Boys Don't Cry"
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110 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - American Girl
as used in "Silence Of The Lambs"
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111 Pat Travers - Snortin' Whiskey
as used in "Sideways"
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112 Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
as used in "Oceans Eleven"
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113 Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon
as used in "Pulp Fiction"
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114 Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People
as used in "Milk"
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115 Massive Attack - Daydreaming
as used in "Nowhere"
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116 Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
as used in "Full Metal Jacket"
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117 The Troggs - Love Is All Around
as used in "Get Real"
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118 Chavela Vargas - Paloma negra
as used in "Frida"
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119 The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
as used in "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly"
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120 Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?
as used in "Jackie Brown"
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121 The Church - Under The Milky Way
as used in "Donnie Darko"
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122 Roy Orbison - In Dreams
as used in "Blue Velvet"
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123 The Coasters - Down In Mexico
as used in "Death Proof"
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124 Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
as used in "Midnight Cowboy"
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125 Diamanda Galas - I Put A Spell On You
as used in "Natural Born Killers"
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126 Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine
as used in "Terminator II"
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127 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
as used in "Velvet Goldmine"
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128 Ludwig van Beethoven - Ode to Joy
as used in "Raising Arizona"
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129 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds
as used in "I Am Legend"
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130 Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
as used in "Groundhog Day"
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131 Zapp & Roger - More Bounce to the Ounce
as used in "La Haine"
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132 Yma Sumac - Ataypura
as used in "The Big Lebowski"
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133 Ray LaMontagne - You Are The Best Thing
as used in "I Love You, man"
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134 P.I.L. - This is Not A Love Song
as used in "Waltz With Bashir"
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135 The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
as used in "Full Metal Jacket"
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136 Celia Cruz - La Vida Es Un Carnaval
as used in "Amores Perros"
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137 Georg Friedrich Händel - Atalanta, HWV 35, Act I: Care selve, ombre beate
as used in "Funny Games"
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138 Nirvana - Something In The Way
as used in "Jarhead"
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139 ZZ Top - Mexican Blackbird
as used in "From Dusk 'Till Dawn"
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140 Alphaville - Forever Young
as used in "Lilya 4-Ever"
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141 Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me
as used in "Shallow Grave"
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142 Soft Cell - Tainted Love
as used in "Bruno"
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143 Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
as used in "Blow"
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144 Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
as used in "Bachelor Party"
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145 Bryan Ferry - More Than This
as used in "Lost In Translation"
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146 Edith Piaf - Milord
as used in "The Bucket List"
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147 David Bowie - Let's Dance
as used in "Charlie Wilson's War"
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148 Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
as used in "U-Turn"
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149 Selena - God's Child (Baila Conmigo)
as used in "Blue In The Face"
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150 Gipsy Kings - Hotel California
as used in "The Big Lebowski"
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Here are 52 tracks (49 currently streamable, mostly 'full track', from 22 artists), from the top of last week's Swing group track chart. They're the tracks, from Swing's 166 connected artists, where four or more of the group's 614 members have listened, during last week.

I've tagged all the tracks swing connected top tracks 18 oct 09 (globaly here, in my library here).

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Please let me know hoe you like the list and radios, in general.

Amy Winehouse: Back To Black Rehab Some Unholy War
Artie Shaw: Back Bay Shuffle
Benny Goodman: Body and Soul Bugle Call Rag Goodbye King Porter Stomp Let's Dance Moonglow Sing, Sing, Sing Stompin' at the Savoy

Billie Holiday: All of Me I'll be Seeing You
Cab Calloway: Minnie The Moocher
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
Dean Martin: Ain't That A Kick In The Head Memories Are Made Of This
Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Elvis Presley: Blue Suede Shoes Don't Be Cruel Jailhouse Rock Little Sister Suspicious Minds

Etta James: At Last
Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me Fly Me To The Moon I've Got You Under My Skin New York, New York The Lady Is A Tramp

Glenn Miller: In the Mood Moonlight Serenade
Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire
Lionel Hampton: Flying Home
Louis Armstrong: What A Wonderful World
Miles Davis: All Blues Blue In Green Freddie Freeloader Love For Sale So What

Norah Jones: Don't Know Why
Peggy Lee: Fever
Ray Charles: Hit The Road Jack I Got A Woman
The Beatles: Help! Let It Be Ticket to Ride
The Brian Setzer Orchestra: The Dirty Boogie
Thelonious Monk: Evonce Humph Suburban Eyes Thelonious

Nick Cave's Jukebox again
Another CD set of songs which have inspired Nick Cave over the years is going on the market. This is the third this year and the fifth overall. The first two were Original Seeds way back in 1998 and the follow up Original Seeds, Volume 2 in 2004. I would rate the first Original Seeds very highly just because there was nothing like it before but now that is very different.


Original Seeds - Track listing:
1. Tim Rose - Long Time Man
2. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Cat Man
3. Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
4. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
5. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Hammer Song
6. Tom Jones - Weeping Annaleah
7. The Loved Ones - Sad Dark Eyes
8. Scott Walker - The Big Hurt
9. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
10. Lefty Frizzell - The Long Black Veil
11. Johnny Cash - The Folk Singer
12. Odetta - Another Man Done Gone
13. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
14. Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
15. Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime...moi non plus
16. Isaac Hayes - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
I would still rate this one the best out of them all. I would give it four out of five stars too. Most tracks make sense if you're a fan of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds which is the sub-title of the CD, Songs that inspired the Bad Seeds. All but three songs can be found on their albums in covers and/or based on but rewritten in someway. Cat Man was an early The Birthday Party cover. The Big Hurt was on the MOJO soundtrack with the help of the great British band Gallon Drunk and Jane & Serge classic Cave sung an English version called I Love You....Nor Do I with Anita Lane. The liner notes from this CD is great and I recommend this album. But I should warn you about the last song it's almost 19 minutes long and is sometimes a bit too much. It really should be Glen Campbell's By The Time I Get To Phoenix which is the original too but for some mad reason this one got put on the CD. Which I think is the reason why I wouldn't rate it five stars, missing one whole star for this nightmare of a song, sorry Issac but I wish you got to Phoenix a bit quicker. Cave says about it: "He does a long explanation about what women are actually like; it's very funny. How men have just got to go out." This quote is from a great book called "Songwriters Speak" I found at my local library, more about that later but here's the website: http://www.debbiekruger.com/songwritersspeak/about.html


Original Seeds, Volume 2 - Track listing:
1. Harry Belafonte - Did You Hear About Jerry?
2.Tom Waits - Way Down In The Hole
3. Fred Neil - A Little Bit of Rain
4. Gang of Four - Love Like Anthrax
5. Bob Dylan - Sara
6. Tim Rose - Hey Joe
7. The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
8. Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto
9. Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring
10. The Stooges - Loose
11. Leadbelly - Black Betty
12. Hoyt Axton - Double Dare
13. Lou Reed - Perfect Day
14. Alice Cooper - Street Fight
This one is not in any way as good as the the first one. I would rate it two and half out of five. Why? Well, I'm giving it half a star each for the songs which are on Bad Seeds albums the rest are, really could be's. Only Hey Joe, In The Ghetto, Plain Gold Ring, Black Betty and the last half star goes to writing up liner notes to convince you the rest are just as important. Loose was a live favorite of The Birthday Party. Some were going to be on the cover album Kicking Against the Pricks but never recorded. Played live once or twice in the years of playing shows. Mick Harvey has played the others himself solo or on his albums. Another warning for the last song again this time it's only 55 seconds long so why is it here? Well, I don't really know which is what I mean by the liner notes hoping you buy in too what is written but one word for that song: pointless.


Mojo Presents Bad Seeds, Nick Cave: Roots & Collaborations - Tracks listing
1. The Saints - This Perfect Day
2. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
3. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
4. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
5. Tim Rose - Long Time Man
6. Scott Walker - The Big Hurt
7. Current 93 - All the Pretty Little Horses
8. Einstürzende Neubauten - Blume
9. Martin L. Gore - Loverman
10. Lydia Lunch - Done Dun
11. Beasts of Bourbon - Cocksucker Blues
12. The Golden Gate Quartet - Wade In The Water
13. Peggy Seeger - Henry Lee
14. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
15. Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
This CD was given away for free with Mojo Magazine but I have seen it for sale on ebay. It was with this years March issue with Mr. Cave on the cover. I would rate it three out five stars which is good for a give-away album. A few double ups but the version of Long Time Man is different longer re-recorded in 2003 just before Tim Rose passed away. The one on Original Seeds was record in 1967. Cave sings on Current 93 and Lydia Lunch tracks. Loverman is the only cover and the reason for this one is both are on Mute Records. The rest is pretty clear if your a fan but if you buy the magazine that comes with the CD or should that be the other way around, there is a two page write up about all the tracks.


The Roots of Nick Cave - Tracks listing
1. Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
2. Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle & Roll
3. Little Richard - Keep A Knockin'
4. Gene Vincent & His Big Blue Caps - Cat Man
5. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
6. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
7. Leadbelly - Bottle Up and Go
8. Ella Jenkins - Wade In The Water
9. The Alabama Singers - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
10. Odetta - Another Man Done Gone
11. Leadbelly - Black Betty
12. Harry Belafonte - Mourning Song
13. Little Willie John - Fever
14. Charlie Gracie - 99 Ways
15. Hank Williams - Lost Highway
16. Roy Rogers - The Streets Of Laredo
17. Hobart Smith And Texas Gladden - Down In The Willow Garden
18. Ernest Phipps - Shine On Me
19. Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-me-o
20. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
21. Dick Justice - Henry Lee
22. Blind Willie Johnson - John the Revelator
I think I got this one before the Mojo magazine's one but both came out around the same time at the beginning of the year. I'll rate it three and a half out of five stars just under the first one. I like it better maybe because I love all the really, really old songs on it. A lot of older songs or just a lot more than the three previous ones. More double up's again but a few ones that should have been so obvious before. The Streets Of Laredo was a song Conway Savage sung on tour around the time of the Doco "The Road To God Knows Where" which makes up a few of the songs here which were played kind-off like a tour mix tape. Harry's track makes more sense this time, it's from when Nick Cave - Mick Harvey - Blixa Bargeld did the soundtrack to To Have And To Hold and re-recorded mourning song (performed by raun raun theatre). John the Revelator is from The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 1 and Shine on Me is from The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2. If you want more info there is good liner notes written by Dave Henderson who's from Mojo magazine too.


Nick Cave's Jukebox - Track listing
1. Gene Vincent & His Big Blue Caps - Cat Man
2. Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody (Live)
3. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You
4. Tex Ritter - Rye Whiskey
5. Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe
6. Leadbelly - Black Betty
7. John Lee Hooker - I’m Gonna Kill That Woman
8. Johnny Cash - Wanted Man
9. Johnny Cash - Man In Black (Live)
10. Tommy McClennan Bottle It Up and Go
11. Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes
12. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
13. Neil Young - Helpless (live)
14. Little Willie John - Fever
15. Leroy Carr - How Long, How Long Blues
16. The Pogues - The Body of an American
17. The Everly Brothers - Down In The Willow Garden
18. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
19. The Louvin Brothers Knoxville Girl
20. Dick Justice - Henry Lee
21. Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
22. Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife
23. Memphis Slim - Grinder Man Blues
This is going to be the fifth one of these kind of CD's and is out next week (October 12th or around about then). I don't think I should rate it because I don't have it yet. Once again more doubles and so many more than the others before this one. There are 23 tracks more than all the other CD's and all of these are total classics I could listen to them again and again. The songs which aren't on the other ones really should have been included before and also add up to the number of tracks on the first three. I don't know if it would be silly for me to buy another one but I guess if you haven't got any of the other four this new one looks like it could be the best one so far. Last thing to say about it would be is if you know anything about Nick Cave and the song Hey Joe it's off course the Tim Rose version he loves not the Jimi Hendrix one but in saying that Jimi's one is the more famous, and putting it on here is not doubling up the other song again so that's OK, I guess. I do think there are a lot of tracks which could or should be on these kind-off CDs but are not, I shall make a list here on last.fm at the end of this journal.

His drunken sing-a-long with David McComb

I just got this great book about David McComb & The Triffids which is so great. I'm not finished it yet but I think it would be five stars out of five it is that great. It's better than any bio book ever written. It written by all sorts of people. I would recommend it to everyone. One of the most funny story's is written by Nick Cave talking about getting drunk at an Aussie picnic in London with David and having a sing-a-long with each other, I'm going to write out the list of songs they sung but get the full story and so much more buy the book here: http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/newreleases/1104 And that is a drawing of David by Martyn P. Casey anyway here's the list of songs David & Nick sung, more of these songs have been covered heavily but I've tried to find the originals. Can you imagine two drunk Aussies singing them???
1. The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
2. Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away
3. Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
4. Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - This Guy's in Love with You
5. John Denver - Leaving On A Jet Plane
6. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
7. Peter, Paul & Mary - Lemon Tree
8. Mississippi Sheiks - Sitting on Top of the World
9. The Seekers - Georgy Girl (From Film 'Georgy Girl')
10. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
11. Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
12. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
13. Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
14. Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
15. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
16. Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
17. Elvis Presley - Kentucky Rain
18. Leonard Cohen - Bird on a Wire
19. Malvina Reynolds - Morningtown Ride
20. Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
21. The Beatles - Yesterday
22. Ella Fitzgerald - Anything Goes
23. Frank Sinatra - What'll I Do?
24. The 5th Dimension - (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All
25. Carpenters - Close To Me
26. Bob Dylan - Belle Isle
27. Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Nobody at the time put these two guys in a recording studio to record all this and as far as I know the only song they did together or should I say David sung on backing vocal's for Nick's Lay Me Low in 1994 which I have to say is kind-off perfect and very odd because a few years later McComb passed away but what is even more odd is the very last song he recorded was Still Alive And Well on Where Joy Kills Sorrow album. If you would like that album check it out here: http://www.wminc.com.au/catalogue1.shtml#006 It's a classic Aussie album.

Extras
OK here is a couple of things that I haven't fitted into my journals before about Cave, first is the book called "Songwriters Speaks" by Debbie Kruger. To sum up the book quickly it's got just over 600 pages and is full of interviews with Aussie songwriters. Most are, if not all, are mainstream singers and Cave is the only one I'm into but I've had a look at the others before returning, did I say it a library book? A few things I want to note down here for myself really but who ever reads these might like to know too is:
In the intro pages Kruger says "I particularly enjoyed his (Cave's) anecdotes about encounters with Rolf Harris and Barry Humphries." which are funny but are nowhere in the interview so my guess is these were edited out because there not about songwriting. The interview starts on page 430 and goes to 445 so it's longer that most magazines or online. It was done at his office in Hove, England in 2004 around the time of Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus.
The songs talked about are:
Loom of the Land saying the line "The elms and the poplars were turning their backs" which is from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and he wished he edited it out because "I don't like the idea of someone reading Lolita and going, "Oh, How often has he done that?" "
Into My Arms is talked about. In Triple J's Hottest 100 of all-time recently saying it was written after he visited a church which wouldn't be anything different from him really but the whole story is a bit more to it. He was in some drug rehab clinic and the only place you were allowed to go was a church and three days in on a Sunday he'd come back feeling very ill and "sat down and wrote that very quickly, and I didn't have anything there to play it on... rehabilitation didn't work [Laughs], at least I got a good song out of it." which makes a bit more sense really.
(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? he said he wrote in a taxicab on the way to INXS singer Michael Hutchence's house which is a bit odd and kind-off changes the track for me but then again Cave played Into My Arms at Micheal's funeral and famously insisted the TV cameras to be turned off while he sung it.
Nobody's Baby Now was written for Johnny Cash's American Recordings but he thought "Fuck it, I'm not handing that over. I really love that song and I'm going to do it." then later on in the interview says "I'm particularly proud of the first verse... takes so long to get to the point." going on to say "It reminds me of Tupelo Honey the Van Morrison song."
There are off course other songs he talks about but see if you can find the book at your library too.


Another book Cave makes it in to is "The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature" which is an epic encyclopedia size book. Which has some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries. Very few contemporary songwriters make it into it only Kev Carmody's From Little Things Big Things Grow, Archie Roach's Took The Children Away, Yothu Yindi's Treaty and Cave's Opium Tea which I have to say is an odd one to pick but I've said that before in this journal. Check it out here: http://www.macquariepenanthology.com.au/aboutaustliteratureanthology.html

OK, to finish off here are few songs that might or might not have inspired Nick:
1. The Velvet Underground - Jesus
2. James Carter & The Prisoners - Po' Lazarus or The Fairfield Four - Po Lazarus
3. Muddy Waters - Honey Bee or listen to Honey Bee (Live)
4. J.B. Lenoir - I Feel So Good or listen to I Feel So Good (Take 21)
5. John Ashe - There's No Night Out In The Jail
6. The Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho
7. Bob Dylan - Stack A Lee or Woody Guthrie - Stack-O-lee or Alan Lomax - Stackerlee or Frank Hutchison - Stackalee
8. Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song
9. Roy Orbison - Running Scared
10. Wilmoth Houdini - Happy Land Of Canaan
11. The Walker Brothers - Orpheus
12. Jacques Offenbach - Orpheus In The Underworld
13. Miles Davis - Nature Boy or listen to John Coltrane - Nature Boy
14. Sir John Betjeman - Late-Flowering Lust or could it be the whole album Late Flowering Love
15. Johnny Thunders - Chinese Rocks
16. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
17. Sister Myrtle Fields - Jesus At The Well or Mahalia Jackson - Jesus Met the Woman at the Well or Reverend Gary Davis - Jesus Met the Woman at the Well or Bob Dylan - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
Bob Dylan - Girl From the North Country or listen to Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl From The North Country
18. John Lee Hooker - Grinder Man or listen to Peter Chatman - Grinder Man Blues or Milton Sparks - Grinder Man Blues
19. The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties or Nico - All Tomorrows Parties
20. Cilla Black - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart or Gene Pitney – Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
21. Alan Lomax - It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
22. Bob Dylan - Love Henry or Ralph Stanley - Henry Lee
23. Karen Dalton - Something on Your Mind
24. Leonard Cohen - Why Don't You Try
25. The Box Tops - Weeping Analeah
26. Burl Ives - The Long Black Veil
27. Johnny Cash - Muddy Waters
28. Odetta - All the Pretty Little Horses
29. The Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes
30. Bob Dylan - Death Is Not the End
31. Robert Johnson - Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
32. James Iron-Head Baker - Black Betty
33. Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee Blues
34. Odetta - Take This Hammer
35. John Lee Hooker - It Serves Me Right To Suffer
36. Frank Sinatra - Nature Boy
37. Leadbelly - My Friend Blind Lemon
38. Woody Guthrie - Rye Whiskey
39. Toni Fisher - The Big Hurt
40. Bob Dylan - Froggie Went A Courtin'
41. Frank Sinatra - From Here To Eternity
42. Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
43. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
44. Elvis Presley - Cindy, Cindy
45. Blind Willie Johnson - Let Your Light Shine On Me
46. Michel Polnareff - Goodbye Marylou
47. Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire
48. Bob Dylan - New Morning
49. Bobby Bare - 500 Miles Away From Home
50. The Seekers - The Carnival Is Over
I've written way to much but if you have some tracks to add to this very long track listing feel free to if you want to in the comment box below. I would have to have missed something so go for it. I like seeing comments you know. Thanks for reading and until next time.

Two hours featuring compositions of & performances by Hoagy Carmichael. Next week - dance crazes.

Swing Plus #78
9/29/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- The Old Music Master – Hoagy Carmichael
2- Riverboat Shuffle – Bix Beiderbecke
3- Interview – Tony Thomas
4- Georgia On My Mind – Frank Trumbauer
5- Come Easy, Go Easy, Love – Carolina Dandies & Sunny Clapp
6- Harvey – Irving Mills
7- Sittin’ & Whittlin’ – Hoagy Carmichael
8- Interview – Tony Thomas
9- Washboard Blues – Red Nichols
10- Small Fry – Adrian Rollini
11- Interview – Tony Thomas
12- Star Dust – Jimmie Lunceford
13- Interview – Tony Thomas
14- Lazy Bones – Louis Armstrong
15- Rockin’ Chair – Scott Hamilton & Ruby Braff
16- Lazy River – Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
17- Skylark – Harry James
18- Moon Country – Dave McKenna
19- Ballad In Blue – Mora’s Modern Rhythmists
20- Heart & Soul – Mel Torme
21- Interview – Tony Thomas
22- The Nearness of You – Arnett Cobb & Milt Buckner
23- How Little We Know – Nat King Cole
24- Interview – Tony Thomas
25- Ole Buttermilk Sky – Hoagy Carmichael
26- When Love Goes Wrong – Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
27- I Get Along Without You Very Well – Chet Baker
28- My Resistance Is Low – David Newton & Brian Lemon
29- Interview – Tony Thomas
30- Baltimore Oriole – Hoagy Carmichael
31- In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening – Dean Martin
32- Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief – Betty Hutton
33- Two Sleepy People – Fats Waller