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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In which the host of this show owns up to his incredible laziness and lack of motivation. Why? No particular reason.

*10CC – Lazy Ways
* Rupert Holmes – Soap Opera
* They Might Be Giants – A Self Called Nowhere
* Sparks – Dick Around
* Shawn Farley – Squandered All My Time
* Kevin Ayers – Circular Letter
* The Cowsills – Meet Me At The Wishing Well
* Beatles – I’m A Loser

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This week’s title comes from a Jonathan Coulton song that I’m NOT playing on the show, not the one I am. Go figure.

Today we celebrate the robots in our lives – the good work that they do, they way they capture our imagination, their sexy sexy automated ways. Thanks robots! Here’s to you.

* Kraftwerk – Die Roboter (The Robots)
* Tin Machine – Tin Machine
* Laurie Anderson – The Puppet Motel
* Dresden Dolls – Coin Operated Boy
* Jonathan Coulton – Better
* Scott Walker – Time Operator
* Roxy Music – Ladytron
* The Billy Nayer Show – The Girl With The Vagina Made Of Glass
* Stan Ridgway – Pile Driver

PS: A helpful link to the movie I was mentioning.

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I’ve done bad love shows on Dark Meat before, but this is the sappiest one ever. Lost love never sounded so… produced. Down a couple of glasses of red and enjoy!

* Neil Diamond – Love On The Rocks
* Leonard Cohen – Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
* Frank Sinatra – Lady Day
* Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
* Cheryl Crow – Solitaire
* Harry Nilsson – Without You
* Earth, Wind and Fire – After The Love Has Gone
* Don McLean – Castles In The Air
* Velvet Underground – Who Loves The Sun

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Now and then my younger friends ask me, what’s it like to be old and broken down, with no future or potential? Rather than answer them directly (because at that point they couldn’t hear me, with my head buried in my chest and all the sobbing) I think I’ll direct them to listen to this episode, which features songs about men my age and the things they go through.

* Rupert Holmes – Terminal
* They Might Me Giants – Older (Live)
* Leonard Cohen – I Can’t Forget
* Tom Waits – The One That Got Away
* Steely Dan – What A Shame About Me
* William Shatner – It Hasn’t Happened Yet
* Louden Wainright Jr. – Surviving Twin
* David Bowie – Never Get Old

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Incredibly it’s been two years or so since this show ran, and there is still war! What’s up with that? Knock it off you guys! Anyway, you can imagine that if any genre has produced plenty of material for THIS show, it’d be war songs.

* Boingo – War Again
* Tom Lehrer – So Long Mom
* U.S Military Academy Band – When Johnny Comes Marching Home
* Bjork – Army Of Me
* Elvis Costello – Oliver’s Army
* Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – Wooden Ships
* Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again
* John Williams – Battlestar Galactica
* Eric Burden and the Animals – Sky Pilot

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