Dark Meat

The free market solves all problems! For example, this week it gave me a theme around which to group my little song music show. If you like it, I’ll do another show next week with exactly the same songs, and keep on playing them until my numbers go down. Then I’ll do something else.

* 10CC – Art For Art’s Sake
* Spinal Tap – Cash On Delivery
* The Transitones – Movin’ On Up
* The Tubes – I Want It All Now
* White Stripes – Little Cream Soda
* Steely Dan – Things I Miss The Most
* Joe Jackson – It’s All Too Much
* Halfnelson – Batteries Not Included
* Kinks – Low Budget
* Randy Newman – The World Isn’t Fair

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I’m taking it easy on myself this week. As I said in October 2006:

Screw the cute copy. I got a cold, the show is about sickness. If you need me, I’m on the couch.

* Procol Harum – Simple Sister
* Peggy Lee – Fever
* Susan Vega – 99.9 F
* Bob Peck – The Unsung Heroes
* Residents – Medicine Man
* Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood – Some Velvet Morning
* The Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
* Be Bop Deluxe – Sleep That Burns
* The Colorblind James Experience – Dr. Negative

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Get back! Jump down! Hnuh! Dark Meat loves the night life, and has got to boogie.

* Barry Grey Orchestra – The Supercar Twist
* Bonzo Dog Band – Trouser Press
* Suki Tawdry – Mr. Flowers Visits Dreamland
* Jonathan Coulton – Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance
* T. Rex – Cosmic Dancer
* The Bird and the Bee – Polite Dance Song
* Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz
* The Tubes – Slipped My Disco
* Roxy Music – Do the Strand

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Often the road in a song is a metaphor – it’s the way you get from where you are to where you’re going. Most of the songs in tonight’s show are about the little section of road that you never leave.  A metaphorical cul-de-sac, a figurative roundabout.

* Dilator – Street
* Janelle Monae – Neon Valley Street
* Scott Walker – The Girls From The Street
* 10cc – Une Nuite a Paris
* Roxy Music – Street Life
* Pete Townshend – Street In The City
* Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere

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Beauty actually IS, by some definitions, skin deep. So why knock yourself out digging? Instead, dig THESE knockouts!

* Sparks – I Wish I Looked A Litte Better
* Rupert Holmes – Phantom Of The Opera
* The Forum – I Like What I See
* OMD – Genetic Engineering
* Siouxsie and the Banshees – Ornaments Of Gold
* Laurie Johnson Orchestra – Baubles, Bangles and Beads
* Hole – Doll Parts
* Dave Frishberg – Marilyn Monroe
* Duran Duran – Girls On Film
* David Bowie – The Prettiest Star
* Kinks – Dedicated Follower of Fashion

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It’s mid July and our theme department has taken the week off. Enjoy songs that only have their inclusion on the show in common!

* Spectacular is the Sound For It! – Sabre Dance
* Kinks – Too Much On My Mind
* Bitter:Sweet – Drink You Sober
* DangerMouse, Sparklehorse w/Julian Casablancas – Little Girl
* The Forum – Look The Other Way
* 10cc – Iceberg
* Siouxie and the Banshees – Melt!
* Laurie Anderson – The Beginning of Memory
* The Billy Nayer Show – Hey Boy
* The Bird And The Bee – My Love

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Sarcastic and bitter songs about the American experience! Did I wait until after Independence Day because I just forgot, or to blunt the criticism?

Yeah, I just forgot.

* The Tubes – Proud To Be An American
* Richard Cheese – American Idiot
* David Bowie – This Is Not America
* Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
* Withdrawal – Oil and Water
* Debbie Harry – French Kissin’ In the USA
* Arcadia – Election Day
* Laurie Anderson – Only An Expert

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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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