365: IT TAKES TWO (COLLABORATIONS)

Well, in the words of the aforementioned Barry Manilow (see post 69), looks like we made it. 365 posts in 365 days, for what it’s worth. Cancer has not been cured, but we have finished something we started. For this post, we thought it might be nice to collaborate, and so we have. Thanks again to anyone who paid us the slightest attention. BUT WAIT !!! usefulmusic IS ALIVE !!! We’re just having a bit of a morph. Beginning next week we’ll be back, but different than ever before! Stay tuned!
So, goodbye it is then, for now. See you next week.
usefulmusic would also like to thank each other.
365: IT TAKES TWO (COLLABORATIONS)

1. The Only Ones featuring Pauline Murray – Fools
2. Madness featuring Ian Dury – Drip Fed Fred
3. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue – Where the Wild Roses Grow
4. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
5. Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man – Mysteries
6. Time Zone featuring John Lydon and Afrika Bambaataa – World Destruction
7. Cornershop featuring Bubbley Kaur – Topknot
8. Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston – It Takes Two
30:04

9. Minuteflag — Fetch The Water
10. The Fucking Am — Doing Research For An Autobiography
11. Anthrax featuring Chuck D from Public Enemy — Bring The Noise
12. Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens — Streets Of Bakersfield
13. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder  — Ebony And Ivory
14. Queen & David Bowie — Under Pressure
15. A Tribe Called Quest featuring Leaders of the New School — Scenario
28:49

Total: 58:53

So Paul ended his half-hour with a poignant tribute to dual collaboration, and I ended mine with the greatest posse cut of all time. It takes a village to big-up oneself, you know. But wait, you might say, your total running time falls short of the 59-61 minute mark that you promised way back in who-knows-when! Well, as Marie Antoinette may or may not have said: “Always leave them wanting more.” Therefore (but conversely), we will be back next week, but with only a weekly post each (unless there is an internet clamor for us do more or to give up entirely). But wait, you might say, what will these subsequent posts be about?!? Well, interrobanger, you’ll just have to wait and see…

164: My Body Of Work

Yes, I realize it’s La Fête Nationale once again, but I had a witty rejoinder to the “Back” playlist:  I was going to compile songs with “Front” in them, but it turns out there’s not quite as many, and there were only so many Front 242 and Front Line Assembly songs that I could use. So instead I made a list of other body parts that might be bothering ol’ grandad, but hopefully they won’t be any time soon.

1. Head On — The Jesus And Mary Chain
2. Brainwashed — The Kinks
3. Violet Eyes — Meat Puppets
4. Dope Nose — Weezer
5. Big Mouth — Whodini
6. Teeth — Royal Trux
7. Bigmouth Strikes Again — The Smiths
8. Protect Ya Neck — Wu-Tang Clan
9. A Shot In The Arm — Wilco
10. Finger — Prince Buster
11. Fingertips (20) — They Might Be Giants
12. Belly Of The Beast — Anthrax
13. From The Gut — Hüsker Dü
14. Shake Ya Ass — Mystikal
15. Hip Drop — The Explosions
16. Bad Leg — The Fucking Am
17. On Your Knees — fIREHOSE
18. Tippi-Toes — The Meters

60:30

84: The Letter F (Artists)

My vinyl, F, period.

1. Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White — The Fabulous Thunderbirds
2. Too Bad — Faces
3. New Frontier — Donald Fagen
4. Nica’s Dream — Art Farmer
5. All Night Drinker — Fat Mattress
6. Choose Any Memory — fIREHOSE
7. Hot Burrito #2 — The Flying Burrito Brothers
8. Her Story — The Flying Lizards
9. Hocus Pocus — Focus
10. Dawn (Go Away) — The Four Seasons
11. (It’s The Way) Nature Planned It — Four Tops
12. Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business) — Aretha Franklin
13. Swamp Cooler — Friends Of Dean Martinez
14. The Gauntlet — The Fucking Am
15. Cholly (Funk Getting Ready To Roll!) — Funkadelic

59:10

66: 6 6’s And A 20-Something

Being heavily influenced by numerology is a great way to start any sentence. All nonsense aside (sorry Pythagoras), I just thought it would be funny for list 66 to be started by 6 songs that are (approximately) 6 minutes long, which left me needing a song that was 20-something minutes long. Also, that adds up to a “lucky” 7 songs, which is weird if you consider that Bob Dylan has been a follower of 2 different religions, Sonic Youth has had 4 different drummers, and Joy Division is 1 of the best bands ever named after part of a concentration camp. See, numerology is real!

1. Misunderstood — Wilco
2. B + T — Battles
3. Atrocity Exhibition — Joy Division
4. Elastico Gomez — The Fucking Am
5. Jokerman — Bob Dylan
6. Slow Revolution — Sonic Youth
7. Autobahn — Kraftwerk

59:57