Spitball Army

Approximate playing time: 79 minutes.

1. Mouse on Mars  “Mykologics”  (1999)
2. Dawn Landes  “Young Girl”  (2009)
3. Free  “All Right Now”  (1970)
4. Mick Jagger  “Put Me in the Trash”  (1993)
5. Mazzy Star  “Rhymes of an Hour”  (1996)
6. Scott McKenzie  “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)”  (1967)
7. The Clash  “Broadway (Guns of Brixton coda)”  (1980)
8. The Church  “Texas Moon”  (1988)
9. Bob Dylan  “Corrina, Corrina”  (1963)
10. The Fleetwoods  “He’s the Great Imposter”  (1959)
11. Bob Dylan  “Visions of Johanna”  (live/1966)
12. Chico Marx  “Everyone Says I Love You”  (1932)
13. Josh Rouse  “Lemon Tree”  (2010)
14. Beck  “Qué Onda Guero”  (2005)
15. Opotopo  “Belema”  (1976)
16. Elvis Costello  “Tear Off Your Own Head (It’s a Doll Revolution)”  (2002)
17. Elton John  “Sails”  (1969)
18. R.E.M.  “You’re in the Air”  (1998)
19. Donovan  “Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)”  (1965)
20. Neko Case  “Poor Ellen Smith”  (2001)
21. Van Morrison  “Alan Watts Blues”  (1987)

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Fred FM playlist (13 June 2010)

Some notes on the songs:

• I could listen to that Mouse on Mars track repeatedly ad infinitum over and over, and a whole lot of times in a row.  It’s hard to believe that it comes completely out of a computer, and the groove it creates is really infectious.
• The first 45 RPM single I ever owned was Scott McKenzie’s “San Francisco.”  Mom brought it home one day from the store.  I don’t know what the occasion was, but I do remember being given it.  At the same time, she gave my sisters a copy of the Monkees’ Headquarters LP, which eventually ended up in my collection (see: upcoming playlist).
• Dawn Landes (wife of Josh Ritter) didn’t show up this past Friday night at Josh’s show at Workplay.  Bad, bad Dawn Landes.  We missed you.  (And thank you for suggesting I listen to Golden Age of Radio many years ago.  You were right on, as you knew.)
• re. “Rhymes of an Hour” and that particular version of “Visions of Johanna:” I just realized that the Top 10 Songs notion is next to impossible.  This revelation occurred when I began to type that those two songs were in my Top 10 Songs list.  That’s about as easy as naming my Top 3 Simon & Garfunkel songs.  Ahem.
• Dig the electric piano part that Elton John is playing on “Sails,” from his first album Empty Sky.  It kinda rocks, but is definitely taking a back seat to the electric guitars.
• “Everyone says I love you:
  The great big mosquito when-a he sting you,
  The fly when he get stuck on the flypaper, too,
  Says ‘I love you!'”

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“Everyone Says I Love You” (1932), by Groucho Marx