Bad Moon
by John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival

I see a bad moon rising
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin’
I see bad times today

(Chorus)
Don’t go ’round tonight
It’s bound to take your life
There’s a bad moon on the rise
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Going Overboard
The Fixx
From the album The Ultimate Collection

So it’s flotsam and jetsam
You leave the ship
Sinking slowly
When you do the plank
It’s bridge talk for deathtrap
So Aquanautic
But I’m anchored electric
Release the jib
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The Day I Tried To Live
Soundgarden
From the album Superunknown

I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said seize the day, pull the trigger
Drop the blade, and watch the rolling heads

The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggar’s change
And gave it to the rich
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I’ve been thinking about acoustics today…

Planet of Sound
Pixies
From the album Trompe Le Monde

One fine day in my odd past
I picked me up a transmission
I turned the fission ignition
went looking for the broadcaster
and when I first touched some ground
they simply told me leave
was kind of hard to believe
’cause there was no one around
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I’m ripping another one of my CDs using Grip, the Linux open-source ripping tool. Ocne again I’m blown away by the exhaustive list of music genres I get to choose from. While variety is a good thing, I find it annoying that there are dozens of varieties of club music represented: house, trance, club, club-house, darkwave, electronic, Euro-dance, Euro-techno, Euro-techno clubhouse trance. I mean, WTF is all this stuff?

Don’t get me wrong. I tune in to Afterhours on WKNC and love the music. I think its some of the best on the radio. But I still wouldn’t know club if it, uh, hit me upside the head.

Somebody help me out here.

I’m in the airport about to head to London.

The Kinks
Apeman

I think I’m sophisticated
‘Cos I’m living my life like a good homosapien
But all around me everybody’s multiplying
Till they’re walking round like flies man
So I’m no better than the animals sitting in their cages
in the zoo man
‘Cos compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees
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Deuces are Wild
Aerosmith
From the album Big Ones

Ohhaho… yeah e yeah now
Ohhaho… lah bi dea lah laahhhh

I love to look into your big brown eyes
They talk to me and seem to hypnotize
They say the things nobody dares to say
And I’m not about to let you fly away

My lover with no jet lag
We’re staying up all night in my sleeping bag
You got a heart beatin’ rhythm from the subterranean
I really love you little girl
I don’t need to explain
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I’ve been listening to the online radio station Party Radio USA. It’s got some great old-school dance music. Check it out, yo.

Rapper’s Delight
Sugarhill Gang

I said a hip hop,
Hippie to the hippie,
The hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop, a rock it
To the bang bang boogie, say, up jump the boogie,
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When music is at its best, you’ll hear a song and it just charges you up again. This one did it for me this morning. Rock on.

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Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
The Dandy Warhols

I never thought you’d be a junkie because heroin is so passe.
But today, If you think that I don’t know about depression and emotional pain,
You’re insane.
And you’re a fool who hasn’t paid attention to a word that I say.
In a way,
I can’t help but feel responsible, I always knew that you were insane.
With your pain.

But I never thought you’d be a junkie because heroin is so passe.
Heroin is so passe.
Heroin is so passe.

So passe. Nowaday,
You never thought you’d get addicted, Just be cooler in an obvious way.
I could say,
Shouldn’t you have got a couple piercings and decided maybe that you were gay.
In a way,
I can’t help but feel responsible, I always knew that you were insane,
With your pain.

But I never thought you’d be a junkie because heroin is so passé.
Heroin is so passe.
Heroin is so passe. Ahh, ahh, ahh. Heroin is so passe.
Heroin is so passé. Heroin is so passe. Ahh, ahh, hey, hey.