Dark Meat

Here’s the deal – any podcast can entertain you with a bunch of good songs. I’m going for a real challenge – to try to keep you listening to the very worst songs in my collection.

(note: except for The Shaggs! For some reason, I completely forgot the worst group of all time. Maybe I’ll give them their own show.)

* Richard Harris – MacArthur Park
* Barry Gray Orchestra – I’ve Got Something To Shout About
* Joe Pesci – Got To Get You Into My Life
* Telly Savalas – Something
* Lucky Penny – Babes and Bombs
* Honor Blackman and Patrick MacNee – Kinky Boots
* April Stevens – I Want A Lip
* Jack Jones – Wives and Lovers
* The Normal – Warm Leatherette
* Black-Eyed Peas – My Humps

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Continuing my chronicle of injuries through song selection, enjoy these tunes keyed to my recent pinched sciatic nerve! More fun than you’d think! Which is, come to think of it, a pretty wide margin of fun.

* Lawrence Welk Orchestra – Baby Elephant Walk
* Laurie Anderson – Walking and Falling
* Fats Domino – I’m Walkin’
* ELO – Don’t Walk Away
* Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter – You Might Walk Away
* Stan Ridgway – Walkin’ Home Alone
* Katrina And The Wave – Walking On Sunshine
* Velvet Underground – Run Run Run
* Beatles – Run For Your Life

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Everyone comes to a point where they have to do what’s right. Fortunately I’m nowhere near that point yet but I’m willing to play songs about it! This week’s Dark Meat rerun offers moral guidance – we’re more danceable than your conscience anyway.

* Be Bop Deluxe – Fair Exchange
* The New Main Street Singers – Good Book Song
* Dramarama – What Are We Gonna Do?
* Rupert Holmes – Brass Knuckles
* David McComb and Adam Peters – Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-On
* REM – First We Take Manhattan
* Boingo – Insanity

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Have new TV – can’t form words – must watch – enjoy listen.

* David Bowie – TVC15
* The Davenports – Hi-Tech Low Life
* The Tubes – Prime Time
* Television – Marquee Moon
* Barry Gray – Captain Scarlett Closing Theme
* Joe Jackson – T.V. Age
* Rupert Holmes – Hi Honey I’m Home
* Tin Machine – Video Crime

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This week’s show isn’t as romantic as you’d think, considering every song has a woman’s name as a title and was written by a man. Still, derive what romance you can won’t you?

* 801 – Miss Shapiro
* Sparks – Nicotina
* They Might Be Giants – Ana Ng
* Petra Haden – Mary Anne With the Shaky Hands
* Sugarplastic – Rosy Malarkey
* Geoffrey Oryema – Suzanne
* Kevin Ayers – The Lady Rachel
* Residents – Margaret Freeman
* Dave Frishberg – Marilyn Monroe
* David Bowie – Lady Grinning Soul

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