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Like everyone else, I love music! However, you won't find a lot of that popular "Top 40," let's-march-in-lock-step stuff on my pages (although some of it I like!) - my thirst is for those wild, radical, poetic or political tunes - doesn't matter what genre as long as it isn't that white-bread-let's-all-think-alike music that's been numbing our society for far too long now - Welcome!

"Everything for everyone, and nothing for ourselves.
 Everything for everyone, and nothing for ourselves.
  Everything for everyone, and nothing for ourselves."
- Rage Against the Machine, Zapata's Blood
Communist Music Pirate

 

Music Note Spinning "But no matter how bad things may get for me, the music will still be wonderful. My epitaph, should
  I ever need one, God forbid: 'The only proof he ever needed of the existence of God was music.'"
                              - Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 - April 10, 2007)

 

Overpriced Music

Dollar Sign Okay, as much as I love music it's clear that it's almost always grossly overpriced. Back in the late 60s, when I was a young kid wanting to buy albums (but couldn't afford it) pricing was ridiculously high. Of course outdoor concerts started to become popular but with the exception of Woodstock (the crowds were so huge they opened the gates up to anyone) those prices, too, were outrageous. In the early 1980s overpriced CDs hit the marked and were followed by expensive DVDs a decade later. Then, in the early 2000s music "file sharing" became so popular it nearly crippled the music industry. Wow, what a surprise! Overpaid and underworked musicians, industry executives and concert promoters finally got a little payback! Well, don't think this is just the whining of an old man who can't afford Blu-Ray, read on! - RJW

Econ 101:
Study Shows That If Record Labels Lowered Prices On Music, They Would Sell A Lot More
by Mike Masnick of techdirt.com (January 29, 2010)
from the profit-maximization dept

"Having talked with a bunch of music execs recently, as well as a few different companies that do analytics in the music space, one thing became clear: unlike most other industries, record label execs tend not to be particularly data or analytics-driven. Let's just say they didn't get into the recording industry because they were good at math. There are a few exceptions, obviously, but getting many industry execs to think logically and examine data isn't particularly easy. This isn't that surprising, given how many examples of actions by big record label execs that make little to no sense when thought about analytically."

"Yet another study has come out suggesting that the industry has pricing all wrong, pointing out that the increase in sales from dropping the price of music would increase profits. And yet what has the industry been trying to do? That's right: trying to raise the price. The study suggested that the "optimal" price for music might be closer to $0.60 per track. That still seems way too high to me when you look at how people flocked to services like Allofmp3.com, but in general I think the basic concept makes sense. You can maximize revenue by dropping prices, but it doesn't seem like many record industry execs have realized that."

 

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Note: What I've listed here are versions of songs that I love by artists I've heard rendering them. For example, I believe What's Left of the West was written by Greg Keeler but I've heard Peg Millet sing it, many times (in person!), and am hooked on that version!

My favorite song, for the moment (it seems to change every couple years), is Robert Hoyt's Red River off his "Mind's Eye" CD. It's a poignant, even passionate, accounting of the loss of the real world (not this make-believe environ we've been creating for ourselves this past few thousand years). It's songs like Red River that really move me - not the goofy "fashionable" stuff that each generation shells out big bucks for. Anyway, what's YOUR favorite song??

  1. 4 Non Blondes - What's Up
  2. Abba - S.O.S., Waterloo
  3. Acoustic Alchemy - Ride on (Celtic Panpipes)
  4. Alpert, Herb and the Tijuana Brass - Tijuana Taxi, Lonely Bull
  5. America - Horse With No Name, Ventura Highway
  6. Anderson, Laurie - O Superman
  7. Andrews, Bill - Happy Wanderer - from his Mount Shasta Photo-Novella
  8. Andrews, Julie - Do-Re-Mi (Sound of Music)
  9. Animals - House of the Rising Sun
  10. Aphex Twin - Hot Buttered Popcorn
  11. Apocalyptica - Enter Sandman, Unforgiven (Cello metal!!)
  12. Armstrong, Louis - What a Wonderful World, Blueberry Hill
  13. Arrested Developmnet - Mr. Wendal
  14. Association, The - Along Comes Mary, Windy, Cherish
  15. Atkins, Chet - I'll See You in My Dreams
  16. Autry, Gene - Don't Fence Me In
  17. Bach, Johann Sebastian - 3rd Brandenburg Concerto (Allegro), Toccata and Fuge in D-Minor
  18. Baez, Joan - Joe Hill
  19. Baby Bash - Cyclone
  20. Baha Men - Who Let The Dogz Out
  21. Baka Beyond - Spirit of the Forest & The Man Who Danced Too Slowly
  22. Band of Horses - The Funeral
  23. Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
  24. Barber, Samuel - Adagio for Strings
  25. Bare Naked Ladies - Brian Wilson, If I had a Million Dollars, Pinch Me, One Week
  26. Bari, Judi and Darryl Cherney - The FBI Stole my Fiddle
  27. Bassic - Incantation Cut #5 off the Complete Chronicles
  28. Bastard Fairies - Whatever, We're all going to hell, Apple Pie
  29. Beach Boys, The - Sloop John B, Barbra Ann, Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Little Duce Coup
  30. Beastie Boys - Girls
  31. Beatles - Revolution, Strawberry Fields Forever, Why Don't We Do it in the Road, Across the Universe, Tomorrow Never Knows, Help!, We All Live in a Yellow Submarine, and two dozen others!
  32. Beck - Loser, Cold Brains
  33. Bee Gees - How can You Mend a Broken Heart, Lonely Days
  34. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata, 5th Symphony, 6th symphony - 1st movement
  35. Belafonte, Harry - Banana Boat Song (Day-o), Jump in the Line (Shake, Shake, Shake Senora)
  36. Biafra, Jello & Mojo Nixon - Plastic Jesus
  37. Bjork - Vespertine (Aurora)
  38. Blaaze - Delhi 6
  39. Black, Jack - It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll (from the movie School of Rock
  40. Black Sabbath - War Pigs, Paranoid, Iron Man, Crazy Train
  41. Blassie, Fred - Pencil Neck Geek
  42. Blind Mellon - No Rain
  43. Blind Pilot - One Read Thread, The Story I Heard
  44. Blondie - I'm Gonna Be Your Number One
  45. Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
  46. Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit, Rawhide, Stand by Your Man
  47. Bolger, Ray - If I Only Had a Brain (Wizard of Oz)
  48. Boney M - Brown Girl In The Ring
  49. Boston - More Than a Feeling
  50. Bowie, David - Space Oddity, Rebel Rebel
  51. Bragg, Billy - The Price of Oil
  52. Brooks, Garth - Friends In Low Places
  53. Brown, Joe - I'll See you in my Dreams (Concert for George)
  54. Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
  55. Bulgarian Folk Music - Izlel je Delyo hajdutin (Cosmos)
  56. Butthole Surfers - Pepper, The Annoying Song
  57. Buffet, Jimmy - Margaritaville
  58. Byrds - Mr. Space Man, Eight Miles High, Turn Turn Turn
  59. California Guitar Trio - Sleepwalk
  60. Camin, Patricia - What's Up
  61. Canibus (With Biz Markie) - Shove this Jay Oh Bee (Office Space Soundtrack)
  62. Canned Heat - Going up the country, On the Road Again
  63. Carpenters - Close to You, We've only just begun
  64. Cars - Tonight She Comes
  65. Cash Johnny - The Mercy Seat, I've Been Everywhere, Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk the Line, A Boy Named Sue, Jackson, Ghost Riders in the Sky
  66. Charlie Daniels Band - Uneasy Rider
  67. Cheap Trick - Surrender, I Want You to Want Me
  68. Cherney, Darryl - Free the Dead, Grants Pass, One Ton of Marijuana, Y2K, Cork Boots, Mosquito Party
  69. Chumbawamba - Jacobs Ladder, Tubthumping, You Know Nothing
  70. Church, The - Under the Milky Way
  71. Clapton, Eric - Cocaine (J.J. Cale cover)
  72. Clark, Petula - Downtown
  73. Clash, The - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
  74. Cline, Patsy - Crazy
  75. Coe, David Allen - The Ride, Take This Job and Shove It
  76. Cohen, Leonard - The Future, Everybody Knows, Dance Me To The End of Love
  77. Coldplay - Clocks
  78. Collective Soul - Shine
  79. Collins, Judy - Both Sides Now, Amazing Grace
  80. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln
  81. Cooper, Alice - School's Out
  82. Copeland, Aaron - Fanfare for the Common Man
  83. Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
  84. Country Joe and The Fish - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag
  85. Cracker - Low
  86. Cranberries - Zombie, Linger
  87. Crash Test Dummies - Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, God suffled his feet, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
  88. Credence Clearwater Revival - Susie Q
  89. Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young) - Immigration Man, Ohio, Wasted on the Way, Teach Your Children Well, Southern Cross
  90. Dadawa - Sister Drum
  91. Danger, Harvey - FlagPole Sitta
  92. Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You, Godless, Retarded
  93. Davie, Dennis - Masturbate and Smash the State
  94. Dean, Jimmy - Big Bad John
  95. Denver, John - Rocky Mountain High (I saw him at Red Rocks in 1973 when I was 17...)
  96. Depavers - Have a Global Warming Day, Green is the Shelter
  97. Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumors
  98. Destiny's Child - Survivor
  99. Devo - Mongoloid, Space Junk, Satisfaction
  100. Die Doofen - Jesus (Jesus Was a Walking Man), Mief
  101. Dire Straits - So Far Away, Industrial Disease, Walk of Life, Sultans of Swing
  102. Disney - The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room
  103. Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl
  104. Dolinger, Danny - Dollar and a Quarter, Hillbilly Hippy, Comin' Home Early, Blow Me Away, Ghost of a Chance, Rudy, End of the World, Crooked House, Kiss My Ass I'm Goin' to Austin, There's Something Rotting in My Room (the first seven are from his Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day CD...)
  105. Donovan - Universal Soldier, Colours, The Hurdy Gurdy Man (the version with George Harrison's verse is best!), Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow, Cosmic Wheels, Season of the Witch, Yellow is the colour, Intergalactic Laxative
  106. Doors, The - The End, Break on Through, LA Woman, The War is Over, Roadhouse Blues, Light My Fire
  107. Donegan, Lonnie & His Skiffle Group - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On the Bedpost Over Night)
  108. DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames
  109. Dr. Didg - Devon, Rave on
  110. Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
  111. Dylan, Bob - With God on Our Side, Masters of War, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Subterranean Homesick Blues
  112. Eaglebear Singers - John Wayne's Teeth (Smoke Signals movie)
  113. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
  114. Earth Crises - Nemises
  115. Edsl, Ogen - Dead Puppies
  116. EELS - Souljacker Part 1, I Like Birds
  117. El Chombo - Macarron Chacarron
  118. ELO - Evil Woman, I Can't Get You Out of My Head, Strange Magic
  119. Eminem - Criminal, Cleaning Out My Closet
  120. Ethridge, Mellisa - I'm the Only One
  121. Enya - Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
  122. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
  123. Ferrante & Teicher - Midnight Cowboy
  124. Fifth Dimension, The - Up Up and Away, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
  125. Fjell, Judy - It's not just in the Bible, Living in the Now
  126. Flatt, Lester and Earl Scrugs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  127. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way, Gypsy, Rhiannon, Tusk (Their USC Trojan Marching Band collaboration was good, too!)
  128. Flight of the Conchords - Jenny, If You're Into It, The Humans are Dead
  129. Flying Lizards - Money
  130. Foo Fighters - Big Me
  131. Franklin, Aretha - Respect
  132. Freudmann, Gideon - Adobe Dog House
  133. Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
  134. Gabriel, Peter - Biko, Games Without Frontiers, The Feeling Begins, Of These, Hope
  135. Garland, Judy - Somewhere Over the Rainbow, We're Off to see the Wizard) (all from part as "Dorothy" in the Wizard of Oz)
  136. Gaynor, Glori - I will Survive
  137. Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are
  138. Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself
  139. Glass, Phillip - Thirteenth Dalai Lama (Kundun), Fog of War
  140. Grateful Dead - Ripple, Touch of Grey
  141. Greaseman - Somebody's Been Usin That Thing
  142. Green Day - Misery, American Idiot
  143. Grieg, Edvard - In The Hall of the Mountain King, Morning
  144. Godsmack - Voodoo, Whatever
  145. Government Mule - War Pigs (Their 1999 New Year's Eve Black Sabbath cover), Just Got Paid
  146. Graham, Mark - Have a Nice Day (from his Natural Selections album)
  147. Groce, Larry - Junkfood Junkie
  148. Guess Who, The - American Woman
  149. Guns N Roses - Knocking on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)
  150. Guthrie, Arlo - Alice's Restaurant Massacree (I saw him play it live!), Coming in to Los Angeles, Motorcycle Song
  151. Guthrie, Woody - This Land Is Your Land
  152. Harjo, Joy - The Down-to-There and Up-to-Here Round Dance (from the Native Joy for Real CD)
  153. Harris, Rolf - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Stariway to Heaven
  154. Harrison, George - My Sweet Lord, Inner Light, Here Comes the Sun, All Things Must Pass, I Got My Mind Set On You, What is Life, Any Road, Gopala Krishna
  155. Havens, Richie - Freedom (Woodstock)
  156. Hendrex, Jimi - All Along The Watch Tower, Purple Haze (His renditon of the Star Spangled Banner, at Woodstock, was pretty darn good as well!!)
  157. Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter, Henry the 8th
  158. Highwaymen, The - Highwayman
  159. Holly, Buddy - Peggy Sue
  160. Houston, Whitney - I Will Always Love You
  161. Hoyt, Robert - Why Should I Care, Atchafalaya, Quittin' Time, Red River, Stop Go
  162. Huun Huur Tu - Kougurai, Daglarim (My Mountain),
  163. Idol, Billy - White Wedding
  164. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life, Louie Louie
  165. Indigenous Australia - Pewingi (#7 Swamp Hawk, off the Wirrigan - Spirit Man CD)
  166. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
  167. Jackson, Alan - Remember When
  168. Jane's Addiciton - Jane Says
  169. Jars of Clay - Flood
  170. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to Love
  171. Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick, Aqualung
  172. Jett, Joan - I Love Rock and Roll
  173. Joel, Billy - We Didn't Start the Fire
  174. John, Elton - Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny), Candle in the Wind
  175. Jonkey, Chuck - Hiawatha's 5 Nations, Triassic Twilight
  176. Joplin, Janis - Mercedes Benz
  177. Kansas - Dust in the Wind
  178. King Crimson - Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
  179. Kingsmen, The - Louie Louie
  180. Kinks - Destroyer, Lola, Wish I Could Fly (Like Superman)
  181. KMFDM - Megalomaniac (Excessive Force Mix)
  182. Knopfler, Mark - Boom, Like That (a song about McDonald's!)
  183. Kraftwerk - Geiger Counter, Radio Activity, The Voice of Energy, Radio Stars, Uranium, Ohm Sweet Ohm
  184. Lahr, Bert - Merry Old Land of Oz (Lion in the Wizard of Oz)
  185. Lauper, Cyndi - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
  186. Laziest Men on Mars - Invasion of the Gabber Robots (All Your Base Are Belong to Us)
  1. Leary, Timothy - Fifty Million Years (Beyone Life With Timothy Leary)
  2. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven, Immigrant Song, Whole lotta love, Kashmir
  3. Lehrer, Tom - The Vatican Rag, The Element Song, Pollution, Who's Next, New Math, It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier, Be Prepared
  4. Lennon, John - Imagine, Give Peace a Chance, Happy Xmas (War is Over), Instant Karma, Jealous Guy, Woman, John Sinclair
  5. Lightfoot, Gordon - Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
  6. Liszt, Franz - Hungarian Rhapsody
  7. Lone-Wolf Circles and Friends (Oikos - Songs for the Living Earth) - The Seeds, War to Save the Wilderness, Greenfire!, Olaibo, Dragonflight, Jamming with Kokopelli, Amajoni, Chief Seattle's Speech, Milagros O Nada
  8. Los Lobos - La Bamba
  9. Lyons, Dana - Our State is a Dumpsite, I am an Animal, Drop of Water, TV God, Turn of the Wrench, Cows With Guns, Our State is a Dumpsite
  10. Lynch, Liam - My United States of Whatever
  11. Madonna - Material Girl
  12. Madson, DJ - Is This the Real Thing? (from "The God Who Wasn't There" soundtrack)
  13. Mamas And The Papas - California Dreaming, Monday Monday
  14. Mandel, Johnny - Suicide is Painless (M*A*S*H theme - lyrics by Mike Altman)
  15. Manson, Marilyn - Rock is Dead (From the Matrix)
  16. Marley, Bob - Buffalo Soldier, Redemption Song, Jamming
  17. McCartney, Paul (and Wings) - Wildlife, Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey Too Many People, Oh Woman Oh Why, Nineteen Hundred & Eighty Five, Smile Away, 3 Legs, Dear Boy
  18. Mclean, Don - American Pie
  19. McKennitt, Loreena - Mummer's Dance, Night Ride Across the Caucasus
  20. Meat Puppets - Backwater
  21. Men At Work - I Come From A Land Down Under
  22. Mendelssohn - Overture the Hebrides, Wedding March, Scherzo in E minor
  23. Merchant, Natalie - Wonder
  24. Metallica - Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, Through the Never, Nothing Else Matters, Master of Puppets, Fade to Black
  25. Millett, Peg - I am a Patriot, What's Left of the West, He Looked a Whole Lot Like Jesus
  26. Mitchell, Joni - Big Yellow Taxi, Both Sides Now
  27. Modern Entertainment - Thorazine Shuffle
  28. Moldy Peaches - Anybody Else but You
  29. Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon, Legend of a Mind, Isn't Life Strange
  30. Monkees, The - I'm a Believer, Last Train to Clarksville
  31. Monty Python - Galaxy Song, Lumberjack Song
  32. Morphine - Early to Bed
  33. Morricone, Ennio - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  34. Morrissette, Alanis - All I Really Want
  35. Mozart - Cannon In D, Fur Elise, Overture to Marriage of Figaro
  36. Murphy, Charlie - Burning Times
  37. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away HA-HAAA!
  38. Nash, Graham - Military Madness (Songs for Beginners)
  39. Neill, Casey - Riffraff, Dancing on the Ruins (of Multinational Corporations)
  40. Nelson, Willie - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other)
  41. Nena - 99 Luftballons
  42. New Daft Punk - One More Time
  43. Newman, Paul - Plastic Jesus
  44. Newman, Randy - Short People
  45. New Seekers - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
  46. Nicks, Stevie - Landslide
  47. Nilsson, Harry - Coconut ("Put de lime in de coconut, and drink 'em both up"), Everybody's Talkin' (Midnight Cowboy)
  48. Nine Inch Nails - Somewhat Damaged
  49. Nirvana - Heart shaped box, School (From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah), Smells Like Teen Spirit
  50. Nitzsche, Jack - Jenny Shot (Starman soundtrack)
  51. Numan, Gary - Cars, Short People
  52. Oasis - Whatever, Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova
  53. Ochs, Phil - I Ain't Marching Anymore
  54. Offspring, The - The Kids Aren't Alright
  55. Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Piltdown Man
  56. Orb, The - Slug Dub (Orbus Terrarum is a great album in general...)
  57. O-Zone - Dragostea din tei (Numa Numa)
  58. Pachelbel, Johann - Pachelbel's Canon (Cannon in D major) (also known as Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo [Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo])
  59. Paycheck, Johnny - Take This Job And Shove It
  60. Pearl Jam - Masters of War (Bob Dylan cover), Daughter
  61. Petty, Tom - Free Fallin', Refugee, I Won't Back Down
  62. Phillips, Utah - Talking NPR Blues
  63. Phish - Harry Hood
  64. Piatnitsky Chorus (Valentin Leavshov, Conductor) - Beautiful Sea, Holy Lake Baikal
  65. P!nk - So What
  66. Pinkard & Bowden - Three Mile Island
  67. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Comfortably Numb, Welcome to the Machine, Have a Cigar, Wish You Were Here, Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict
  68. Police - Don't Stand so Close, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
  69. Polisar, Barry Louis - All I Want is You
  70. Potente, Franka - Believe (Run Lola Run soundtrack)
  71. Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang, Kid, Brass in Pocket, (Rush Limbaugh used the Pretenders My City Was Gone for "bump" music and ruined it for all of us - but, a 1990s copyright case required Limbaugh to negotiate with Chrissy Hynde - he agreed to pay her $500,000 per year which she donates to PETA)
  72. Prima, Louis - I Wanna Be Like You (Disney's "Jungle Book")
  73. Psyche - Goodbye Horses (Q Lazzarus/Silence of the Lambs)
  74. Public Enemy - Zapata's Blood (Chuck D raps with RATM's Zachary DeLaroca during the song's beginning...)
  75. Queen - Killer Queen, Fat Bottom Girls, Bohemian Rhapsody, We are the Champions, We will Rock You
  76. Radiohead - Creep, Street Spirit (fade out)
  77. Rage Against the Machine - Bullet in the Head, Vietnow, Know Your Enemy, Bombtrack, Bulls on Parade, Calm Like a Bomb, Zapata's Blood, Wake up, Fuck the Police
  78. Rammstein - Du Hast, Amerika, Bück Dich, Engel (Evangelion)
  79. Reed, Lou - Take A Walk On The Wild Side
  80. REM - Losing My Religion, It's the End of the World as We Know it, What's the Frequency, Kennith?
  81. Rimsky Korsakov, Nikolai Andreyevich - Flight Of The Bumble Bee
  82. Rivers, Bob - What If God Smoked Cannibas?, Windows 95 Sucks, Can't Afford to Drive My Car, I am Santa Claus (Twisted Christmas)
  83. Rock, Kid & Hank Williams Jr - A Country Boy can Survive
  84. Rocky Horror Picture Show, The - Time Warp
  85. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter, Paint it, Black, Start Me Up, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Sympathy for the Devil, Brown Sugar, Wild Horses
  86. Romantics, The - What I Like About You
  87. Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio - The Barber of Seville Overture, William Tell Overture
  88. Rovics, David - Guantanamo Bay, Halliburton Boardroom Massacre, Operation Iraqi Freedom (Free downloads!)
  89. Rusby, Kate - Our Town, Botany Bay
  90. Russel, Leon - Back To The Island
  91. Rutles, The - Let's be Natural
  92. Salt - Bluster
  93. Sandler, Adam - Chan ukah Song
  94. Santana, Carlos - Migra
  95. Santaolalla, Gustavo - The Wings (Brokeback Mountain theme)
  96. Seger, Bob - Get Out Of Denver
  97. Seeger, Pete - Little Boxes, Guantanamera, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
  98. Sensational Alex Harvey Band (S.A.H.B.) - Faith Healer
  99. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen
  100. Shankar, Ravi - Bangla Dhun
  101. Shubert, Franz - Ave Maria
  102. Sibelius, Jean - Finlandia
  103. Simon and Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa, The Zoo, Cecilia, Sound of Silence
  104. Simone, Nina - Strange Fruit
  105. Simons, Billy - Judgement Day
  106. Sinatra, Frank - Strangers In The Night
  107. Singing Nun (Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers) - Dominique
  108. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Disarm, 1979
  109. Smash Mouth - Walkin' on the Sun, I'm a Believer
  110. Smith, Arthur and Don Reno - Feudin' Banjos (written in 1955 but renamed "Dueling Banjos" for the 1972 movie Deliverance)
  111. Sony & Cher - Ive Got you Babe
  112. Soviet Army Chorus (Boris Alexandrov, Conductor)- Kalinka, Poliushko-Pole
  113. Sparks - Talent is an Asset, Kimono My House, Equator
  114. Spiderbait - Black Betty, Old Man Sam ('P'tang Yang Kipper Bang Uh!')
  115. Springfield, Dusty - Wishin' and Hopin'
  116. Springsteen, Bruce - Dead Man Walking, Pink Cadillac
  117. Squatweiler - Crossing Guard
  118. Stafford, Jim - Wildwood Weed, Spiders & Snakes
  119. Stankus, Tom "T-Bone" - Existential Blues
  120. Starr, Ringo - It Don't Come Easy, Photograph
  121. Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
  122. Stevens, Cat (Yusuf Islam) - Peace Train, Where Do the Children Play, Morning Has Broken
  123. Stewart, Al - The Year of the Cat
  124. Strauss, Johann - An der schönen blauen Donau (Blue Danube)
  125. Strauss, Richard - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Opening to 2001)
  126. Stewart, Rod - Mandolin Wind
  127. STYX - I'm Sailing Away
  128. Supertramp - Give a Little Bit, The Logical Song, Breakfast in America, Bloody Well Right
  129. Swales - One More Mistake
  130. Sweet, The - Fox on the Run, Ballroom Blitz
  131. Talking Heads - And She Was, Burning Down the House, Life During Wartime, Psycho Killer, Road to Nowhere, Once in a Lifetime
  132. Takako Minekawa Micro - Fantastic Cat
  133. ¡TCHKUNG! - Smash Things Up, New Earth, New Earth Rising (Incite Album)
  134. Tchaikovsky - Arabian Dance (Nutcracker Suite), 1812 Overature, March
  135. Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
  136. Ten Thousand Maniacs - Like The Weather
  137. Ten Years After - I'm going home (Woodstock version), I'd Love to Change the World
  138. Theodorakis, Mikis - Zorba
  139. Thomsen, Sara - Is it for Freedom? (Songs from Sing Out!)
  140. Thoroughgood, George - Who do You Love, One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer, I Drink Alone
  141. Three Dog Night - Mamma Told me Not to Come, One is the Loneliest Number
  142. Tosh, Peter - Stand up, Get up
  143. Toto - Africa
  144. Touré, Ali Farka - Goye Kur
  145. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards in Winter
  146. Trio - Da Da Da
  147. Travelling Willburys - Last Night, End of the Line
  148. Tunstall, KT - Black Horse & The Cherry Trees
  149. Tyminski, Dan & Ron Block - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (O' Brother, Where art Thou?)
  150. U2 - Vertigo, New Year's Day, In the Name of the Father
  151. UB40 - Rat in mi kitchen
  152. US Military - Taps
  153. Vangelis - Heaven & Hell Part I (Cosmos theme)
  154. Vanilla Fudge - Season of the Witch
  155. Verne, Larry - Mr. Custer
  156. Village People - YMCA
  157. Vivaldi, Antonio - Four Seasons Spring
  158. Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
  159. Wainwright III, Louden - Dead Skunk
  160. Walsh, Joe - Living a Life of Illusion
  161. Warwick, Dionne - Walk on By, I Say a Little Prayer for You, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, I'll Never Fall in Love Again
  162. Waters, Roger - Radio Waves, Who Needs Information, Me or Him, Sunset Strip
  163. Weavers - Wimoweh
  164. Who, The - Magic Bus (Live at Leeds, full version is best!), Who are you, Baba O'Reiley, My Generation, Pinball Wizard, Tommy Can You Hear Me
  165. Wilde, Peter - Carnival (Carnival CD)
  166. Williams, Dar - The Christians and the Pagans
  167. Williams Jr, Hank - A Country Boy can Survive
  168. Willis, Wesley Shabazz - Rock N Roll McDonalds
  169. Wilson, Tim - But I Could be Wrong
  170. Wizard of Oz (Movie Soundtrack) - Winkie Chant (Witch's guards singing, "O-Ee-Yah! Eoh-Ah!"), Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Ding Dong! the Witch is Dead
  171. XTC - Dear God, Making Plans for Nigel
  172. Yankovic, "Weird Al" - Smells Like Nirvana, Eat It, Christmas At Ground Zero, Iraq Thumping, Bob, Canadian Idiot, Don't Download This Song
  173. Young, Neil (Buffalo Springfield) - Helpless, Rockin' in the Free World, Old Man
  174. Zen Cowboys - Counter Culture, Zen Kinda Thang, Providence Man, Mad World, Tasty, Cultured Smoothy (Electric Mistress)
  175. Zombies, The - She's Not There
  176. ZZ Top - La Grange, Gimme All Your Lovin'
Okay, it doesn't get any more wierd than this, does it? I mean, here's a huge list of somebody's (my!) favorite music posted for who knows what reason!? Well, if it helps, I often refer to this list when I'm looking to put together music for a road trip or one of my radio shows. It's a great memory jog and is also pretty handy when I'm "tuning" around YouTube and other sites for music listening or videos. And, I've actually found the music lists of others kind of interesting at times as well. So, I hope you found some value on this page of mine. But, if you didn't, that's okay - I'll still be checking it out on those occasions when I need to jog my memory about a favorite tune or artist!

- Roger J. Wendell
(page created July 2003 - Golden, Colorado)

 

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Street Music!

Denver 16th Street Mall Street Percusion by Roger J. Wendell - 07-17-2010

When it's good (and I'm in the mood), nothing can be more enjoyable than street musicians plying their trade on pleasant summer evening along the mall, in a park, or at a street corner.

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Denver's 16th Street Mall Piano Project - 07-17-2010 Denver's 16th Street Mall Piano Project - 07-17-2010 In July, 2010 we discovered a lot of pianos along Denver's outdoor 16th Street Mall!

 

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Roger J. Wendell at the statue of John Lennon, in Liverpool, England - 10-10-2006
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