Dark Meat

A few months back I did a show of all songs with women’s names in the titles. What the hell, I thought, why not the same with men? I’ll tell you why not – there are a lot less songs with men’s names. Still, there are enough, and that’s the important thing. Enjoy a couple of gallons of testosterone set to music!

* David McWilliams – Days of Pearly Spencer
* They Might Be Giants – Mr Me
* Stan Ridgway – Jack Talked (Like A Man On Fire)
* The Residents – Harry The Head
* KC Bowman – Harry Truman
* Roxy Music – Casanova
* Scott Walker – The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
* Jonathan Coulton – Mr Fancy Pants
* David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust (Demo)
* Monochrome Set – He’s Frank
* ELO – The Diary Of Horace Wimp

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The themes to some things. I guess I’m making up for the themeless show from a couple of weeks ago.

* Rupert Holmes – Theme From Accomplice
* Philip Glass – Koyaaniqatsi
* Harry Nilsson – Everybody’s Talkin’
* The Blanks – Superman
* Devo – Secret Agent Man
* Duran Duran – View To A Kill
* Madonna – Die Another Day
* David Bowie – Cat People (Live)
* Lawrence Welk Orchestra – Baby Elephant Walk
* Tony Christie – Avenues and Alleyways

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I have lived near beaches all my life but spend precious little time at them – who needs to when there are so many songs about the deep wide briny?

* Petula Clark – My Friend The Sea
* Beach Boys – Sloop John B
* David Bowie – Red Sails
* Colorblind James Experience – I’m a Sailor
* Renaldo & The Loaf (w/The Residents – The Sailor Song
* Papas Fritas – Live By The Water
* Sugarplastic – Underwater
* Samuel Wright – Under The Sea

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Sometimes, it has to just be about the music. These songs have nothing in common except a certain exotic strangeness to their sound. Dig in, exotic strangeness fans!

* Roxy Music – Manifesto
* Nick Drake – Parasite
* Love – The Red Telephone
* Bonzo Dog Band – We Are Normal
* Ethyl Meatplow – Ripened Peach
* Headwig – Wicked Little Town
* Duncan Browne – The Wild Places

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It seems like a dry theme to build a show around, but numbers have their fingers in everything, including deep emotions. Count on Dark Meat to find the X-Factor in math itself!

* Violent Femmes – Add It Up
* Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter – Aftermath
* Joanna Newsom – Three Little Babes
* Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missle F1-11
* Paul Hardcastle – Nineteen
* Sugarplastic – Transworld Modal Operator
* Blanks – Six Million Dollar Man
* White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
* Lene Lovich – One In A Million

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I have a bad head cold this week, and the nice thing about that is it has given me perspective. You know what you miss when you have a head cold? Senses! This show is a tribute to those things.

* XTC – Senses Working Overtime
* Residents – Smelly Tongues
* Petra Haden – I Can See For Miles
* Sparks – Perfume
* Babes In Toyland – Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
* Ethyl Meatplow – Ripened Peach
* The Tubes – Don’t Touch Me There

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They say the mark of a good performer is making it all look easy; listen to these cover versions which pull off the greater trick of making it look impossible. Special thanks to Rhino Records, which inspired this show with it’s Golden Throats series, and April Winchell, whose website is a treasure trove of such audio nightmares.

* Lord Sitar – I Can See For Miles
* Ed McMahon – Thank Heaven for Little Girls
* Alan Partridge – ABBA Medly
* Alan Copeland – Mission Impossible/Norweigian Wood
* Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line (German)
* The Beatle Barkers – Love Me Do
* Eilart Pilarm – It’s Now Or Never
* Ani Di Franco and Jackie Chan – Unforgettable
* Lunachicks – More Than A Feeling

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Experience deja vu all over again with the reminiscences of Dark Meat! As you’ll recall, the podcast this time features:
* The Cowsills – A Time For Remembrance
* David Bowie – Bring Me The Disco King
* Mountain Goats – Fall of the Star High School Running Back
* Papas Fritas – Captain of the City
* Johnny Cash – I Hung My Head
* The Nails – 88 Lines about 44 Women
* Butthole Surfers – Pepper

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Lately I have been thinking about the music of my youth. Everybody has their own version of the years just after punk broke everything – for some people it’s hair bands, or Huey Louis, or speed metal. This is the stuff I was into. It’s a little weird. (Special thanks to my brother Ed K. for research on the Humans and Roy Loney)

* Roy Loney and The Phantom Movers – Neat Petit
* The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays
* Siouxie and the Banshees – Christine
* Residents – Would We Be Alive?
* Humans – I Live In The City
* David Bowie – China Girl
* Joe Jackson – Got The Time
* Kim Wilde – Kids In America
* Devo – Jocko Homo
* Talking Heads – No Compassion

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