Seven 9s and 10s

Give The Mule What He Wants - Queens of the Stone Age
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Track:
Give The Mule What He Wants

Artist:
Queens of the Stone Age

Album:
Queens of the Stone Age

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Queens of the Stone Age - Give The Mule What He Wants

3:10 for March 10th

How long
Do I wait?
Be the mule that you gota be. 

The intro bass riff is all like “I’m a happy funky bluesy fuzzy bass riff!” and then the rest of the band kicks in and you’re like “Oh shit, where am I and who the hell are these people?”

Few bands are so good at making sinister music sound inviting.

No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
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Track:
No One Knows

Artist:
Queens of the Stone Age

Album:
Songs For The Deaf

651 plays

Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

I’m not a terrible drummer, but I’d say it would take about seven Steves to make one Dave Grohl.

With that said, this is my favorite song to play along to behind the kit; I think I’m about 75% of the way there. When considering my skill level and 50+ year old Japanese drum kit I should probably be satisfied with that, but I’m not. I want 100%. I’ll get there.

Barcelona - The Rentals
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Track:
Barcelona

Artist:
The Rentals

Album:
Seven More Minutes

30 plays

The Rentals - Barcelona

Good morning Michele. Here is Matt Sharp’s love letter to Barcelona.

Ironically it was originally a song named California that was a love letter to your favorite state but then Matt quit weezer and fell in love with Barcelona and wrote an album over there and instead of writing a new song for the city he just rewrote the lyrics for this one.

(lyrics)

Jesus - Brand New
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Track:
Jesus

Artist:
Brand New

Album:
The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me

120 plays

Brand New - Jesus

5:18 for May 18th

Michele turned me onto this album last year. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. When I first heard them I had incorrectly cast this band as a group of screamo whiny kids, but they’re much more than that on every level.

Do you believe you’re missing out?
That everything good is happening somewhere else
But with nobody in your bed
The night’s hard to get through

Saturday Savior - Failure
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Track:
Saturday Savior

Artist:
Failure

Album:
Fantastic Planet

21 plays

Failure - Saturday Savior

4:28 for April 28th.

My 4:19 Playlist

Piggybacking off of Lisa’s great idea and Michele’s playlist of that idea, here is my playlist of songs that are four minutes and nineteen seconds in length. I put some care into the sequence so you might want to make yourself a playlist of these mp3s in this order. Or not. Whatever.

  1. Splashdown - Games You Play
  2. Phantom Planet - Wishing Well
  3. Nada Surf - Where Is My Mind?
  4. Big Audio Dynamite II - Rush
  5. Blur - Girls and Boys
  6. Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
  7. The Cardigans - For What It’s Worht
  8. Ben Folds Five - Missing The War
  9. Guns N’ Roses - Since I Don’t Have You
  10. Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
  11. Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
  12. Manchester Orchestra - I Can Feel A Hot One
  13. SNMNMNM - Don’t Be Dumb
  14. Weezer - Longtime Sunshine

You can download via this link for the next 24 hours. Enjoy!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5733869/419-steelopus.zip

The Hockey Song - Stompin' Tom Conners
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Track:
The Hockey Song

Artist:
Stompin' Tom Conners

Album:
Stompin' Tom and the Hockey Song

682 plays

Stompin’ Tom Connors - The Hockey Song

Oh the good ol’ hockey game
Is the best game you can name
And the best game you can name
Is the good ol’ hockey game.

Tis the season.

Long Slow Goodbye - steelopus
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Track:
Long Slow Goodbye

Artist:
steelopus

Album:
40 in 40

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Queens of the Stone Age - Long Slow Goodbye (steelopus cover)

The thing about this song is that Josh Homme can make women’s nautghty bits all tingly and warm just by busting out a little falsetto and winking whereas when I try the same thing they’re all like “Go Go Gadget Chastity Belt!”

Anyway. I took a little liberty with the lyrics to the 2nd verse.

(18 down. 22 to go.)