Favorites from Up and Down the Calendar

 Yup, it's another exciting installment of 45s & Favorites, campers!

And it's a whole bunch o' fun!

01 - Mission Impossible Theme / Norwegian Wood - Alan Copeland - 1968  (2:56)

02 - Saturday Night, Stay at Home - Suburban Reptiles - 1978  (2:26)

03 - Night Fever - The Prams - 1979  (3:09)

04 - Ü (Angry Side) - Kleenex - 1979  (2:32)

05 - Destination Unknown - Helen Wheels - 1978  (2:56)

06 - Dangerous Type - Letters to Cleo - 1990  (3:40)

07 - Brainless - The Deadbeats - 1978  (2:32)

08 - Love Kite - ccc / Ill chemist - 2007  (2:33)

09 - Disco Veteran - Bog Ugly and the Wufters - 1978  (3:15)

10 - The Crusher - The Novas - 1964  (1:59)

11 - Blood & Lipstick - Pink Military - 1979  (3:50)

12 - Hold My Hand - The Pussywillows - 1993  (2:06)

13 - Death to Disco - Jimi Lalumia and the Psychotic Frogs - 1977  (4:37)

14 - AMC Pacer - 64 Funnycars - 1990  (2:24)

15 - Dying in Brooklyn - Tim Ray and the Druts - 1979  (2:17)

16 - You're Much Madder than Me - The Human Switchboard - 1979  (3:05)

17 - Lucky Guy - The Muffs - 1993  (2:47)

18 - Anti-Disco - The Stillettos - 1976  (3:00)

19 - Human Garbage Disposal - The Gizmos - 1977  (2:13)

20 - Teenage Crutch - The Shirts - 1978  (3:20)

21 - Boogers on You - The Mutants - 1979  (2:28)

22 - TV People (live) - Frank Soda and the Imps - 1979  (3:04)

23 - Obsessed with You - X-Ray Spex - 1978  (2:28)

24 - Showdown - Electric Light Orchestra - 1973  (4:08)

25 - Wasted (live) - The Runaways - 1978  (3:42)

26 - Sneaky Sue - Patty Lace and the Petticoats - 1963  (2:41)

27 - Rock & Roll Weirdos - Leila and the Snakes - 1978  (2:22)

Track 1 might be considered the first mash-up! The only way it might be more funner is if somebody nowadays reworked it using the original Lalo Schifrin and Beatles tracks. Still, it's audacious and contagious.

Track 12 is a cover of a song by the fabulous Rutles, the Pre-Fab Four.

I like Track 26 mostly because when they sing "Sneaky Sue," it sounds like "Stinky Sue to me!

Now you can like 'em all!

MA-180 - 45s & Favorites, Disc 22

See you Monday!

  

Totally Self-Conscious

Yep, all of these songs are about modern media, including themselves!

Whether it's spy TV, the Bee Gees, American Bandstand, Elvis, or what-have-you, these songs are what happens when pop music looks into a funhouse mirror.

01 - Rock Show - Excel - 1980  (3:30)

02 - I Slept in an Arcade - Black Randy & the Metrosquad - 1979  (2:28)

03 - Caught on Tape - Zom Zom - 1985  (1:49)

04 - I'm in the Charts - The Radio Rhythm Boys - 1980  (2:36)

05 - Townshend Nose - Mikes House - 1987  (2:29)

06 - Kill the Bee Gees - The Accidents - 1979  (2:52)

07 - James Bond - Ralph and the Ponytails - 1980  (2:22)

08 - Television Screen Heroes - MI5 - 1980  (4:06)

09 - Late Show - The Dark - 1981  (3:46)

10 - Disneyland (live) - Come On - 1980  (1:53)

11 - Parasites - The Tyros - 1980  (3:15)

12 - Adventures in Modern Recording - The Buggles - 1981  (3:39)

13 - Sorry About That, Chief - Spiny Norman's Mind Games - 1981  (2:16)

14 - The TV Made Me Do It (Blame It on the Quasar) - Lip Service - 1982  (3:59)

15 - TerrorVision - The Fibonaccis - 1986  (3:42)

16 - American Bandstand - The Seat Belts - 1981  (2:06)

17 - (Let's Get Let's Get) Tammy Wynette - The Maggots - 1980  (1:33)

18 - New Heroes - Noise Annoys - 1981  (1:28)

19 - November 22, 1963 - Destroy All Monsters - 1989  (4:18)

20 - Dead Rock n' Rollers - Detention - 1983  (1:37)

21 - I'm in Love with the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk - The Freshies - 1980  (2:49)

22 - Beautiful Pictures - Fatal Microbes - 1979  (1:49)

23 - I Wanna Kill James Tailor - Ivan and the Executioners - 1979  (2:49)

24 - (I Work for) K.A.O.S. - The Spliffs - 1987  (2:57)

25 - Disco Pop Stars - Altered Images - 1982  (2:35)

26 - Jackie Onassis - Human Sexual Response - 1980  (3:45)

27 - Modern Time's Pop - Mad Tea-Party - 1980  (2:10)

28 - Elvis Impersonator Blues - Beasts of Bourbon - 1988  (2:54)

Now, I ain't advocatin' violence against a Tailor, nor a Wynette! But I do hope you have a hoot, as I do when listening.

MA-155 - Recursive Rock

See you Thursday!