1) Heart – Barracuda
2) Cash Money – Damn Damn Damn
3) Br. Danielson – Perennial Wine
4) Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
5) 13th Floor Elevators – I’ve Got Levitation
6) B52’s – Roam
7) Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
8) Mount Sims – We Electric
9) Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr – You Can’t Blame Me
10) Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles
A wah wah for your wah wahs:
Re: #9… when did law firms start putting out albums?
1. Backseat Driver by Propellerheads // 2. Blackberry Blossom by Norman Blake // 3. No Idea by Split Lip Rayfield // 4. Dollar Bill by Screaming Trees // 5. You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice by The Lovin’ Spoonful // 6. Cascades, composed by Scott Joplin // 7. Vicar in a Tutu by The Smiths // 8. Billy Bayou by Roger Miller // 9. Thunderball by Tom Jones (it’s true!) // 10. Breakfast Feud by Charlie Christian.
Well, only two songs older than 75 years, and only one made in the last ten. Look for me as “Seymour” in a community theater production of Ghost World.
I think this group may own a wah-wah pedal, in a cover (Deep Purple) of a cover (Joe South).
wow, this is the first time in the history of forever that i’ve read your top ten and actually known (almost) half the songs! i am struck dumb with amazement. i think this is the closest i may ever come to appearing somewhat musically knowledgable.
the first time i heard california uber alles (on one of my boyfriend’s newly acquired punk compilations), i was totally horrified, and he had no idea why. i said, “uber alles? like the nazis? you know??” he had gone years listening to that song and not knowing the reference! which to me, seems to make the song fairly nonsensical :)
of course, after i got over the initial shock value, it’s now in regular rotation on my iPod. black comedy at its best, i think…
I think you mean “wah pedal” or even “wah wah pedal” since none of the guitars they’re playing have “whammy bars.”
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Oh, wow, the DKs. That takes me back to high school.
foresmac, wah.
Sonic Youth, “The Diamond Sea;” Elvis Costello and the Attraction, “(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea” (Basing Street Studios Version); Doc Watson, “Little Omie Wise” (Live); Elvis Costello & The Attractions, “Uncomplicated;” Patton & Lee, “Oh, Death;” Sonic Youth, “Teenage Riot” (sweeeet); Larry Sparks, “A Little Ways Down the Road;” The Fairfield Four, “Tree of Level;” Issa Boulos, “Irtijal Nahawand, ‘ud;” Elvis Costello, “Party Girl” (Live).