www.RogerWendell.com
Roger J. Wendell
Defending 3.8 Billion Years of Organic EvolutionSM
Line

Billy Redden in the 1972 movie Deliverence Music
 
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!

 

 

Communist Music Pirate "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

 

"But no matter how bad things may get for me, the music will still be wonderful. My epitaph, should
- Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 - April 10, 2007)
Music Note Spinning "Music is the healing force of the Universe."
- Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 - November 25, 1970)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night" (1931)

 

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."

 

Line

 

Yellow Arrow Pointing Right Click Here for a wonderful composite video of the song Stand by Me
Yellow Arrow Pointing Right Click Here for my lyrics page...

Artists and their music:
(Roger's Recommendations!)
My Top 398 Favorites!

George Harrison
George Harrison 		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 these 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. Adele - Rolling in the Deep
  5. Alpert, Herb and the Tijuana Brass - Tijuana Taxi, Lonely Bull
  6. America - Horse With No Name, Ventura Highway
  7. Anderson, Laurie - O Superman
  8. Andrews, Bill - Happy Wanderer - from his Mount Shasta Photo-Novella
  9. Andrews, Julie - Do-Re-Mi (Sound of Music)
  10. Animals - House of the Rising Sun
  11. Aphex Twin - Hot Buttered Popcorn
  12. Apocalyptica - Enter Sandman, Unforgiven (Cello metal!!)
  13. Armstrong, Louis - What a Wonderful World, Blueberry Hill
  14. Arrested Developmnet - Mr. Wendal
  15. Arrow, Tre - Rise Up
  16. Association, The - Along Comes Mary, Windy, Cherish
  17. Atkins, Chet - I'll See You in My Dreams
  18. AutoMoog - Sutra of Smokey
  19. Autry, Gene - Don't Fence Me In
  20. Bach, Johann Sebastian - 3rd Brandenburg Concerto (Allegro), Toccata and Fuge in D-Minor
  21. Baez, Joan - Joe Hill
  22. Baby Bash - Cyclone
  23. Baha Men - Who Let The Dogz Out
  24. Baka Beyond - Spirit of the Forest & The Man Who Danced Too Slowly
  25. Band of Horses - The Funeral
  26. Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian
  27. Barber, Samuel - Adagio for Strings
  28. Bare Naked Ladies - Brian Wilson, If I had a Million Dollars, Pinch Me, One Week
  29. Bari, Judi and Darryl Cherney - The FBI Stole my Fiddle
  30. Bassic - Incantation Cut #5 off the Complete Chronicles
  31. Bastard Fairies - Whatever, We're all going to hell, Apple Pie
  32. Beach Boys, The - Sloop John B, Barbra Ann, Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Little Duce Coup, Wouldn't it be Nice, God Only Knows
  33. Beastie Boys - Girls
  34. 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!
  35. Beck - Loser, Cold Brains
  36. Beefheart, Captain - Big Eyed Beans from Venus
  37. Bee Gees - How can You Mend a Broken Heart, Lonely Days
  38. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata, 5th Symphony, 6th symphony - 1st movement
  39. Belafonte, Harry - Banana Boat Song (Day-o), Jump in the Line (Shake, Shake, Shake Senora)
  40. Biafra, Jello & Mojo Nixon - Plastic Jesus
  41. Bizet, George - Habanera (Carmen opera [I prefer it without vocals...])
  42. Bjork - Vespertine (Aurora)
  43. Blaaze - Delhi 6
  44. Blackbird Raum - Witches
  45. Black, Jack - It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll (from the movie School of Rock
  46. Black Sabbath - War Pigs, Paranoid, Iron Man, Crazy Train
  47. Blassie, Fred - Pencil Neck Geek
  48. Blind Mellon - No Rain
  49. Blind Pilot - One Read Thread, The Story I Heard
  50. Blondie - One Way or Another, I'm Gonna Be Your Number One, Heart of Glass, Call Me
  51. Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
  52. Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit, Rawhide, Stand by Your Man
  53. Bolger, Ray - If I Only Had a Brain (see my Wizard of Oz movie soundtrack entry, below)
  54. Boney M - Brown Girl In The Ring
  55. Boston - More Than a Feeling
  56. Bowie, David - Space Oddity, Rebel Rebel
  57. Bragg, Billy - The Price of Oil
  58. Brooks, Garth - Friends In Low Places
  59. Brown, Joe - I'll See you in my Dreams (Concert for George)
  60. Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
  61. Bulgarian Folk Music - Izlel je Delyo hajdutin (Cosmos)
  62. Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
  63. Buffet, Jimmy - Margaritaville
  64. Butthole Surfers - Pepper, The Annoying Song
  65. Byrds - Mr. Space Man, Eight Miles High, Turn Turn Turn
  66. California Guitar Trio - Sleepwalk
  67. Camin, Patricia - What's Up
  68. Canibus (With Biz Markie) - Shove this Jay Oh Bee (Office Space Soundtrack)
  69. Canned Heat - Going up the country, On the Road Again
  70. Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
  71. Carpenters - Close to You, We've only just begun
  72. Cars - Tonight She Comes
  73. 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
  74. Charlie Daniels Band - Uneasy Rider
  75. Cheap Trick - Surrender, I Want You to Want Me
  76. Cherney, Darryl - Free the Dead, Grants Pass, One Ton of Marijuana, Y2K, Cork Boots, Mosquito Party
  77. Chumbawamba - Jacobs Ladder, Tubthumping, You Know Nothing
  78. Church, The - Under the Milky Way
  79. Citizen's Band - Bullshit
  80. Clapton, Eric - Cocaine (J.J. Cale cover)
  81. Clark, Petula - Downtown
  82. Clash, The - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
  83. Cline, Patsy - Crazy
  84. Coe, David Allen - The Ride, Take This Job and Shove It
  85. Cohen, Leonard - The Future, Everybody Knows, Dance Me To The End of Love
  86. Coldplay - Clocks
  87. Collective Soul - Shine
  88. Collins, Judy - Both Sides Now, Amazing Grace
  89. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln
  90. Cooper, Alice - School's Out
  91. Copeland, Aaron - Fanfare for the Common Man
  92. Coulton, Jonathan - Code Monkey
  93. Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
  94. Country Joe and The Fish - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag
  95. Cracker - Low
  96. Cranberries - Zombie, Linger
  97. Crash Test Dummies - Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, God suffled his feet, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
  98. Credence Clearwater Revival - Susie Q, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?, Looking Out My Back Door, Bad Moon Rising
  99. Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young) - Immigration Man, Ohio, Wasted on the Way, Teach Your Children Well, Southern Cross, Our House
  100. Dadawa - Sister Drum
  101. Danger, Harvey - FlagPole Sitta
  102. Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You, Godless, Retarded
  103. Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell
  104. Davie, Dennis - Masturbate and Smash the State
  105. Dean, Jimmy - Big Bad John
  106. Denver, John - Rocky Mountain High [I saw him at Red Rocks in 1973 when I was 17...]
  107. Depavers - Have a Global Warming Day, Green is the Shelter
  108. Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumors
  109. Destiny's Child - Survivor
  110. Devo - Mongoloid, Space Junk, Satisfaction
  111. Dickies, The -Banana Splits
  112. Die Doofen - Jesus (Jesus Was a Walking Man), Mief
  113. Dire Straits - So Far Away, Industrial Disease, Walk of Life, Sultans of Swing
  114. Disney - The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room
  115. Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl
  116. 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...)
  117. 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
  118. Doors, The - The End, Break on Through, LA Woman, The War is Over, Roadhouse Blues, Light My Fire Waiting For The Sun
  119. Donegan, Lonnie & His Skiffle Group - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On the Bedpost Over Night)
  120. DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames
  121. Dr. Didg - Devon, Rave on
  122. Dr. Hook - Cover Of The Rolling
  123. Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
  124. Dylan, Bob - With God on Our Side, Masters of War, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Subterranean Homesick Blues
  125. Eaglebear Singers - John Wayne's Teeth (Smoke Signals movie)
  126. Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
  127. Earth Crises - Nemises
  128. Edsl, Ogen - Dead Puppies
  129. EELS - Souljacker Part 1, I Like Birds
  130. El Chombo - Macarron Chacarron
  131. ELO - Evil Woman, I Can't Get You Out of My Head, Strange Magic
  132. Eminem - Criminal, Cleaning Out My Closet
  133. Ethridge, Mellisa - I'm the Only One
  134. Enya - Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)
  135. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
  136. Ferrante & Teicher - Midnight Cowboy
  137. Fifth Dimension, The - Up Up and Away, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
  138. Fjell, Judy - It's not just in the Bible, Living in the Now
  139. Flatt, Lester and Earl Scrugs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  140. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way, Gypsy, Rhiannon, Tusk [Their USC Trojan Marching Band collaboration was good, too!]
  141. Flight of the Conchords - Jenny, If You're Into It, The Humans are Dead
  142. Flock of Seagulls, A - I Ran (So Far Away)
  143. Florence and the Machine - Dog Days Are Over (2010 version)
  144. Flying Lizards - Money
  145. Foo Fighters - Big Me
  146. Franklin, Aretha - Respect
  147. Frech, Jessica - People of Walmart
  148. Freudmann, Gideon - Adobe Dog House
  149. From the Depths - Lullaby
  150. Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
  151. Gabriel, Peter - Biko, Games Without Frontiers, The Feeling Begins, Of These, Hope
  152. Garland, Judy - Somewhere Over the Rainbow, We're Off to see the Wizard (all from her part as "Dorothy" in the Wizard of Oz - see my Wizard of Oz movie Soundtrack entry, below)
  153. Gaynor, Glori - I will Survive
  154. Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are
  155. Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself
  156. Glass, Phillip - Thirteenth Dalai Lama (Kundun), Fog of War
  157. Grateful Dead - Ripple, Touch of Grey
  158. Greaseman - Somebody's Been Usin That Thing
  159. Green Day - Misery, American Idiot
  160. Green, Peter - Albatross, Oh Well
  161. Grieg, Edvard - In The Hall of the Mountain King, Morning
  162. Godsmack - Voodoo, Whatever
  163. Government Mule - War Pigs (Their 1999 New Year's Eve Black Sabbath cover), Just Got Paid
  164. Graham, Mark - Have a Nice Day (from his Natural Selections album)
  165. Greenbaum, Norman - Spirit in the Sky
  166. Groce, Larry - Junkfood Junkie
  167. Guess Who, The - American Woman
  168. Guns N Roses - Knocking on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover)
  169. Guthrie, Arlo - Alice's Restaurant Massacree [I saw him play it live!], Coming in to Los Angeles, Motorcycle Song
  170. Guthrie, Woody - This Land Is Your Land
  171. Harjo, Joy - The Down-to-There and Up-to-Here Round Dance (from the Native Joy for Real CD)
  172. Harris, Rolf - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Stariway to Heaven
  173. 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
  174. Havens, Richie - Freedom (Woodstock)
  175. Hendrex, Jimi - All Along The Watch Tower, Purple Haze, Voodoo Child, Hey Joe, [His renditon of the Star Spangled Banner, at Woodstock, was pretty darn good as well!!]
  176. Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter, Henry the 8th
  177. Highwaymen, The - Highwayman
  178. Holly, Buddy - Peggy Sue
  179. Houston, Whitney - I Will Always Love You
  180. Hoyt, Robert - Why Should I Care, Atchafalaya, Quittin' Time, Red River, Stop Go
  181. Huun Huur Tu - Kougurai, Daglarim (My Mountain),
  182. IBM 7094 - Daisy Bell [First computer to every sing a song - 1961], HAL 9000 computer did similarly in the 1968 movie, 2011
  183. Idol, Billy - White Wedding
  184. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life, Louie Louie
  185. Indigenous Australia - Pewingi (#7 Swamp Hawk, off the Wirrigan - Spirit Man CD)
  186. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
  187. Jackson, Alan - Remember When
  188. Jane's Addiciton - Jane Says
  189. Jars of Clay - Flood
  190. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Somebody to Love
  191. Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick, Aqualung
  192. Jett, Joan - I Love Rock and Roll
  193. Joel, Billy - We Didn't Start the Fire
  194. John, Elton - Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny), Candle in the Wind
  195. Jonkey, Chuck - Hiawatha's 5 Nations, Triassic Twilight
  196. Joplin, Janis - Mercedes Benz
  197. Kamakawiwo'ole, Israel "IZ" - Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Hawai'i '78
  198. Kansas - Dust in the Wind
  199. King Crimson - Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
  200. Kingsmen, The - Louie Louie
  201. Kinks - Destroyer, Lola, Wish I Could Fly (Like Superman), Waterloo Sunset
  202. KMFDM - Megalomaniac (Excessive Force Mix)
  203. Knopfler, Mark - Boom, Like That [a song about McDonald's!]
  204. Kraftwerk - Geiger Counter, Radio Activity, The Voice of Energy, Radio Stars, Uranium, Ohm Sweet Ohm
  205. Lahr, Bert - Merry Old Land of Oz (Lion in the Wizard of Oz)
  206. Lauper, Cyndi - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
  1. Laziest Men on Mars - Invasion of the Gabber Robots (All Your Base Are Belong to Us)
  2. Leary, Timothy - Fifty Million Years (Beyond Life With Timothy Leary)
  3. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven, Immigrant Song, Whole lotta love, Kashmir
  4. 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
  5. Lennon, John - Imagine, Give Peace a Chance, Happy Xmas (War is Over), Instant Karma, Jealous Guy, Woman, John Sinclair
  6. Lightfoot, Gordon - Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
  7. Liszt, Franz - Hungarian Rhapsody
  8. 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
  9. Los Lobos - La Bamba
  10. Lynn, Vera - We'll Meet Again
  11. Lyons, Dana - Our State is a Dumpsite, I am an Animal, Drop of Water, TV God, Turn of the Wrench, Cows With Guns
  12. Lynch, Liam - My United States of Whatever
  13. Madonna - Material Girl, Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Evita)
  14. Madson, DJ - Is This the Real Thing? (from "The God Who Wasn't There" soundtrack)
  15. Mamas And The Papas - California Dreaming, Monday Monday
  16. Mandel, Johnny - Suicide is Painless (M*A*S*H theme - lyrics by Mike Altman)
  17. Manson, Marilyn - Rock is Dead (From the Matrix)
  18. Marley, Bob - Buffalo Soldier, Redemption Song, Jamming
  19. Mason, Marie - End of the World
  20. 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
  21. Mclean, Don - American Pie
  22. McKennitt, Loreena - Mummer's Dance, Night Ride Across the Caucasus
  23. Meat Puppets - Backwater
  24. Men At Work - I Come From A Land Down Under
  25. Mendelssohn - Overture the Hebrides, Wedding March, Scherzo in E minor
  26. Merchant, Natalie - Wonder
  27. Mercouri, Melina Amalia - Never on Sunday ("Pote tin Kyriaki")
  28. Metallica - Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, Through the Never, Nothing Else Matters, Master of Puppets, Fade to Black
  29. Millett, Peg - I am a Patriot, What's Left of the West, He Looked a Whole Lot Like Jesus
  30. Miller, Bill - Geronimo's Cadillac
  31. Mitchell, Joni - Big Yellow Taxi, Both Sides Now
  32. Modern Entertainment - Thorazine Shuffle
  33. Moldy Peaches - Anybody Else but You
  34. Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon, Legend of a Mind, Isn't Life Strange
  35. Monkees, The - I'm a Believer, Last Train to Clarksville
  36. Monty Python - Galaxy Song, Lumberjack Song
  37. Morphine - Early to Bed
  38. Morricone, Ennio - Ecstasy of Gold (Italian: L'Estasi dell'Oro), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly theme, Per Qualche Dollaro In Piu, Farewell to Cheyenne, Once Upon a Time in the West, For A Few Dollars More theme, Man With A Harmonica/Death Rattle, A Fistful Of Dollars theme
  39. Morrissette, Alanis - All I Really Want
  40. Mozart - Cannon In D, Fur Elise, Overture to Marriage of Figaro
  41. Murphy, Charlie - Burning Times
  42. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away HA-HAAA!
  43. Nash, Graham - Military Madness (Songs for Beginners)
  44. Neill, Casey - Riffraff, Dancing on the Ruins (of Multinational Corporations)
  45. Nelson, Willie - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other)
  46. Nena - 99 Luftballons
  47. New Daft Punk - One More Time
  48. Newman, Paul - Plastic Jesus (in the movie Cool Hand Luke)
  49. Newman, Randy - Short People
  50. New Seekers - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
  51. Nicks, Stevie - Landslide
  52. Nilsson, Harry - Coconut ("Put de lime in de coconut, and drink 'em both up"), Everybody's Talkin' (Midnight Cowboy)
  53. Nine Inch Nails - Somewhat Damaged
  54. Nirvana - Heart shaped box, School (From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah), Smells Like Teen Spirit
  55. Nitzsche, Jack - Jenny Shot (Starman soundtrack)
  56. Numan, Gary - Cars, Short People
  57. Nye, Bill (the Science Guy) - Water Cycle Jump
  58. OMC (Otara Millionaires Club) - How Bizarre
  59. Oasis - Whatever, Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova
  60. Ochs, Phil - I Ain't Marching Anymore
  61. Offenbach, Jacques - Can-Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld)
  62. Offspring, The - The Kids Aren't Alright
  63. Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Piltdown Man
  64. Orb, The - Slug Dub (Orbus Terrarum is a great album in general...)
  65. O-Zone - Dragostea din tei (Numa Numa)
  66. 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])
  67. Passages - Tildon, Apples in Winter/The New Potatoes/The Blackberry Blossom (from their 1979 April Fools' Waltz CD)
  68. Paycheck, Johnny - Take This Job And Shove It
  69. Pearl Jam - Masters of War (Bob Dylan cover), Daughter
  70. Peeples, Grant - If They Build It...
  71. Petty, Tom - Free Fallin', Refugee, I Won't Back Down
  72. Phillips, Utah - Talking NPR Blues
  73. Phish - Harry Hood
  74. Piatnitsky Chorus (Valentin Leavshov, Conductor) - Beautiful Sea, Holy Lake Baikal
  75. P!nk - So What
  76. Pinkard & Bowden - Three Mile Island
  77. 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
  78. Police - Don't Stand so Close, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
  79. Polisar, Barry Louis - All I Want is You
  80. Potente, Franka - Believe (Run Lola Run soundtrack)
  81. 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]
  82. Prima, Louis - I Wanna Be Like You (Disney's "Jungle Book")
  83. Psyche - Goodbye Horses (Q Lazzarus/Silence of the Lambs)
  84. Public Enemy - Zapata's Blood [Chuck D raps with RATM's Zachary DeLaroca during the song's beginning...]
  85. Queen - Killer Queen, Fat Bottom Girls, Bohemian Rhapsody, We are the Champions, We will Rock You
  86. Radiohead - Creep, Street Spirit (fade out)
  87. 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
  88. Rammstein - Du Hast, Amerika, Bück Dich, Engel (Evangelion)
  89. Reed, Lou - Take A Walk On The Wild Side
  90. REM - Losing My Religion, It's the End of the World as We Know it, What's the Frequency, Kennith?
  91. Rimsky Korsakov, Nikolai Andreyevich - Flight Of The Bumble Bee
  92. Rivers, Bob - What If God Smoked Cannibas?, Windows 95 Sucks, Can't Afford to Drive My Car, I am Santa Claus (Twisted Christmas)
  93. Roach, Steve - Towards the Dream, Songline (from his 1988 Dreamtime Return CD)
  94. Rock, Kid & Hank Williams Jr - A Country Boy can Survive
  95. Rocky Horror Picture Show, The - Time Warp
  96. Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter, Paint it Black, Start Me Up, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Sympathy for the Devil, Brown Sugar, Wild Horses
  97. Romantics, The - What I Like About You
  98. Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio - The Barber of Seville Overture, William Tell Overture
  99. Rovics, David - Guantanamo Bay, Halliburton Boardroom Massacre, Operation Iraqi Freedom [Free downloads!]
  100. Rusby, Kate - Our Town, Botany Bay
  101. Russel, Leon - Back To The Island
  102. Rutles, The - Let's be Natural
  103. Salt - Bluster
  104. Sandler, Adam - Chan ukah Song
  105. Santana, Carlos - Migra
  106. Santaolalla, Gustavo - The Wings (Brokeback Mountain theme)
  107. Seger, Bob - Get Out Of Denver
  108. Seeger, Pete - Little Boxes, Guantanamera, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
  109. Sensational Alex Harvey Band (S.A.H.B.) - Faith Healer
  110. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK, God Save the Queen
  111. Shankar, Ravi - Bangla Dhun
  112. Shubert, Franz - Ave Maria
  113. Sibelius, Jean - Finlandia
  114. Simon and Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa, The Zoo, Cecilia, Sound of Silence
  115. Simone, Nina - Strange Fruit
  116. Simons, Billy - Judgement Day
  117. Sinatra, Frank - Strangers In The Night
  118. Sinatra, Nancy - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
  119. Singing Nun (Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers) - Dominique
  120. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Disarm, 1979
  121. Smash Mouth - Walkin' on the Sun, I'm a Believer
  122. Smith, Arthur and Don Reno - Feudin' Banjos [written in 1955 but renamed "Dueling Banjos" for the 1972 movie Deliverance]
  123. Sony & Cher - Ive Got you Babe
  124. Soviet Army Chorus (Boris Alexandrov, Conductor)- Kalinka, Poliushko-Pole
  125. Sparks - Talent is an Asset, Kimono My House, Equator, This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us
  126. Spiderbait - Black Betty, Old Man Sam ('P'tang Yang Kipper Bang Uh!')
  127. Springfield, Dusty - Wishin' and Hopin'
  128. Springsteen, Bruce - Dead Man Walking, Pink Cadillac
  129. Squatweiler - Crossing Guard
  130. Stafford, Jim - Wildwood Weed, Spiders & Snakes
  131. Stankus, Tom "T-Bone" - Existential Blues
  132. Starr, Ringo - It Don't Come Easy, Photograph
  133. Statler Brothers - Flowers on the Wall
  134. Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
  135. Stevens, Cat (Yusuf Islam) - Peace Train, Where Do the Children Play, Morning Has Broken
  136. Stewart, Al - The Year of the Cat
  137. Strauss, Johann - An der schönen blauen Donau (Blue Danube)
  138. Strauss, Richard - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Opening to 2001)
  139. Stewart, Rod - Mandolin Wind
  140. STYX - I'm Sailing Away
  141. Supertramp - Give a Little Bit, The Logical Song, Breakfast in America, Bloody Well Right
  142. Swales - One More Mistake
  143. Sweet, The - Fox on the Run, Ballroom Blitz
  144. Talking Heads - And She Was, Burning Down the House, Life During Wartime, Psycho Killer, Road to Nowhere, Once in a Lifetime
  145. Takako Minekawa Micro - Fantastic Cat
  146. ¡TCHKUNG! - Smash Things Up, New Earth, New Earth Rising (Incite Album)
  147. Tchaikovsky - Arabian Dance and Russian Dance (Trepak) (Nutcracker Suite), 1812 Overature, March
  148. Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
  149. Ten Thousand Maniacs - Like The Weather
  150. Ten Years After - I'm going home (Woodstock version), I'd Love to Change the World
  151. Theodorakis, Mikis - Kritikos Horos (Theme From "Zorba The Greek")
  152. Thomsen, Sara - Is it for Freedom? (Songs from Sing Out!)
  153. Thoroughgood, George - Who do You Love, One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer, I Drink Alone
  154. Three Dog Night - Mamma Told me Not to Come, One is the Loneliest Number
  155. Tosh, Peter - Stand up, Get up
  156. Toto - Africa
  157. Touré, Ali Farka - Goye Kur
  158. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards in Winter
  159. Trio - Da Da Da
  160. Travelling Willburys - Last Night, End of the Line
  161. Tunstall, KT - Black Horse & The Cherry Trees
  162. Tyminski, Dan & Ron Block - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (O' Brother, Where art Thou?)
  163. U2 - Vertigo, New Year's Day, In the Name of the Father
  164. UB40 - Rat in mi kitchen
  165. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, The - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Smells Like Teen Spirit
  166. Ungar, Jay - Ashokan Farewell (from Ken Burn's "Civil War" series)
  167. US Military - Taps
  168. Vangelis - Heaven & Hell Part I (Cosmos theme)
  169. Vanilla Fudge - Season of the Witch
  170. Verne, Larry - Mr. Custer
  171. Village People - YMCA
  172. Vivaldi, Antonio - Four Seasons Spring
  173. Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
  174. Wainwright III, Louden - Dead Skunk
  175. Walsh, Joe - Living a Life of Illusion
  176. 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
  177. Waters, Roger - Radio Waves, Who Needs Information, Me or Him, Sunset Strip
  178. Weavers - Wimoweh
  179. 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
  180. Wilde, Peter - Carnival (Carnival CD)
  181. Williams, Dar - The Christians and the Pagans
  182. Williams Jr, Hank - A Country Boy can Survive
  183. Willis, Wesley Shabazz - Rock N Roll McDonalds
  184. Wilson, Tim - But I Could be Wrong
  185. Wizard of Oz (Movie Soundtrack) - Winkie Chant (Witch's guards singing, "O-Ee-Yah! Eoh-Ah!"), Ding Dong! the Witch is Dead (see my Ray Bolger and Judy Garland entries, above)
  186. XTC - Dear God, Making Plans for Nigel
  187. Yankovic, "Weird Al" - Smells Like Nirvana, Eat It, Christmas At Ground Zero, Iraq Thumping, Bob, Canadian Idiot, Don't Download This Song
  188. Young, Neil (Buffalo Springfield) - Helpless, Rockin' in the Free World, Old Man
  189. Zen Cowboys - Counter Culture, Zen Kinda Thang, Providence Man, Mad World, Tasty, Cultured Smoothy (Electric Mistress)
  190. Zevon, Warren - Werewolves Of London
  191. Zombies, The - She's Not There
  192. 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)

 

Yellow Arrow Pointing Right Click Here for KGNU - the world's most important radio station!

 

Definitions:

 

Line

 

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.

YouTube Logo Click Here for my YouTube video of these two guys in action!
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!

 

Line

 

Concerts

I don't get to many concerts anymore (mostly because they're
way too expensive...) but will try to post photos as I get
'em. This one was "Furthur" playing at Red Rock Amphitheatre
near my house west of Denver. I didn't actually get to see
the concert but road my bike all through the area...

Further playing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado by Roger J. Wendell - 09-26-2010
Parking congestion 		Further playing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado by Roger J. Wendell - 09-26-2010
Motorcycle guest 		Further playing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado by Roger J. Wendell - 09-26-2010
More parking 		Further playing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado by Roger J. Wendell - 09-26-2010
Pedestrian bridge 		Further playing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado by Roger J. Wendell - 09-26-2010
Scalpers

YouTube Logo Click Here for my YouTube video of the Furthur crowd!

 

Line

 

Roger J. Wendell at the statue of John Lennon, in Liverpool, England - 10-10-2006
Me and John Lennon at Liverpool! 		Big Caz, of Bone Thugs n Harmony, with Roger J. Wendell at the Grizzly Creek rest stop in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado - 09-13-2010
Me and Big Caz (of Bone Thugs 'n
Harmony fame) at the Grizzly Creek
rest stop in Glenwood Canyon, CO!
 Ray Gaskins
Met and spoke with Ray Gaskins (of Roy Ayers' Ubiquity Jazz group) on a flight out of Moscow, Russia, where he had just played for one night on the evening of September 5th, 2011. He tried to comfort me by saying he enjoyed Steely Dan when I confessed I knew almost nothing about Jazz. Unfortunately I didn't know much about Steely Dan, either...

 

Speaker Free downloads and Stuff you can hear on-line:

 

Line

 

Guitar Tablature and Chords:

Tom Morello - Rage Against the Machine
Tom Morello - RATM

 

Line

 

More Links:

  1. AMG - All Music Guide
  2. Autographs
  3. Bagism A John Lennon site
  4. BearShare Free music downloads
  5. BitTorrent Free access to the Internet's Richest Media!
  6. Books
  7. Bumper Stickers
  8. Concert for George
  9. Guitar Tablature
  10. GreenTopia Songwriting Project
  11. Humor
  12. Kompoz - Online Music Collaboration
  13. Morse code music by Phil Tulga - it's great fun!!
  14. Movies
  15. OLGA On-Line Guitar Archive
  16. Quotes
  17. Quote of the Quarter
  18. Quote Quiz archive page
  19. Tidbits and Miscellanea
  20. Trivia and teasers
  21. Utility Project
  22. Videos by me!
  23. Writing by me...
  24. YouTube - Countless music videos...
 Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine

 

Line

 

Back Back to Roger J. Wendell's Home Page...

Web Counter Logo

 

Abbey | About | Blog | Contacting Me | Copyright | Disclaimer | Donate | Guest Book | Home | Site Index | Solutions | Terms, Conditions and Fair Use
Copyright © 1955 -