1) Los Gatos Locos – God Ain’t Listening
2) Songs: Ohia – Captain Badass
3) Howard Tate – Give Me Some Courage
4) Nina Simone – In the Morning
5) Wild Man Fischer – Why I Am Normal
6) Charlotte Gainsbourg – Jamais
7) Shuggie Otis – Strawberry Letter 23
8) Forward, Russia! – Sixteen
9) Theoretical Girls – Europe Man
10) Man Man – Against the Peruvian Monster
And in keeping with my 1980’s goth band obsession:
I can’t believe I’m mentioning Cobain twice in a week, but he totally stole this riff.
The “I Swear I Didn’t Avoid Posting This Yesterday Because of Fear of Friday the 13th” edition:
Artist — “Song”
Jurassic 5 — “I Am Somebody”
Metallica — “The Unforgiven”
Jurassic 5 — “DDT”
Louis Armstrong — “Chinatown, My Chinatown”
Gustav Holst — “VII. Neptune, The Mystic” from The Planets
The Roots — “Web”
John Coltrane — “Cousin Mary”
Franz Ferdinand — “Auf Achse”
PDQ Bach — “Introduction”
Profane — “Porcelain”
A more specific phobia would be paraskavedekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.
Something tells me that Greek isn’t a nomenclature conducive to understanding by anyone outside of the Aegean.