The library for Joshua’s Shuffle:
COUNTRY
Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire; Folsom Prison Blues; Jackson
Patsy Cline: Walkin’ After Midnight; I Fall to Pieces; Crazy, Sweet Dreams (Of You)
Nanci Griffith: Lone Star State of Mind
Merle Haggard: Mama Tried
Lyle Lovett: God Will; If I Had a Boat; Give Back My Heart
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner’s Daughter
Dolly Parton: Jolene
Hank Williams: Your Cheatin’ Heart
Tammy Wynette: Stand By Your Man
Dwight Yoakam: Honky Tonk Man
ALT-ROCK
Ryan Adams: New York, New York; Firecracker
Jason Anderson: July 4, 2004
Bash and Pop: Never Aim to Please
Bastards of Melody: Around You
Beastie Boys: Sabotage
Beck: Loser
Ben Folds Five: Brick; Kate; Battle of Who Could Care Less
Better Than Ezra: Good
Big Audio Dynamite: C’mon Every Beatbox
Big Country: In a Big Country
Big Star: September Gurls; In the Street; Thirteen
The Blake Babies: Disappear
The Bleeding Hearts: Rehab Girl
Blink-182: What’s My Age Again?
Bowman: Save Me
The Breeders: Cannonball
Buzzcocks: What Do I Get?
Cake: Short Skirt-Long Jacket
Camper Van Beethoven: Life Is Grand
Neko Case: This Tornado Loves You
The Church: Under the Milky Way
The Clash: Clash City Rockers; London’s Burning; Should I Stay or Should I Go?; Rock the Casbah; London Calling; Brand New Cadillac; Lost in the Supermarket; Train in Vain; The Magnificent Seven; Police on My Back; Radio Clash
Elvis Costello: Accidents Will Happen; (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?; Alison; (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes; Watching the Detectives; Everyday I Write the Book; Pump It Up; Radio, Radio
Cracker: Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now); This Is Cracker Soul
The Cramps: Garbageman
Marshall Crenshaw: Whenever You’re on My Mind; Someday, Someway; Cynical Girl
The Cure: Fire in Cairo; Just Like Heaven
The Damned: Neat Neat Neat; New Rose
The Del Fuegos: Sound of Our Town; Nervous and Shakey; Longest Day
Divinyls: Boys in Town
Elastica: Connection
The English Beat: Mirror in the Bathroom
Everclear: Heartspark Dollarsign
The Exploding Hearts: Modern Kicks
The Fags: Truly, Truly; Light ‘Em Up
Fall Out Boy: Of All the Gin Joints in All the World
The Features: Blow It Out
Feist: 1234
The Figgs: The Daylight Strong; Reaction; Jumping Again
Florence + the Machine: Dogs Days Are Over
The Foreign Films: City of Bright Lights
The Format: The First Single
Free Energy: Free Energy
Gang Gang Dance: House Jam
The Go! Team: The Power Is On
Good Old War: Coney Island
The Grates (my son’s favorite band): Science Is Golden; Aw Yeah; Carve Your Name; Inside Outside; Milk Eyes; 19 20 20; Rock Boys; Feels Like Pain; Burn Bridges; Trampoline; Storms and Fevers; Howl; Two Kinds of Right; Seek Me; Sukkafish; Earthquake; Little People; When You’re Scared of Dogs; The Biggest and Longest Adventure Ever; Turn Me On; Sweet Dreams
Green Day: Welcome to Paradise; When I Come Around; Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Drew Grow: Bootstraps
Guided by Voices: The Brides Have Hit Glass
Juliana Hatfield: My Sister; Everybody Loves Me But You
Charlotte Hatherley: Summer
The Hives: Main Offender; Hate to Say I Told You So
The Hold Steady: Your Little Hoodrat Friend; Chips Ahoy!; The Swish; Constructive Summer
Hole: Celebrity Skin; Awful
Hoodoo Gurus: I Want You Back; Bittersweet
Husker Du: Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely
The Insomniacs: Maryanne Lightly
Joe Jackson: One More Time; Is She Really Going Out With Him?
The Jam: In the City; The Modern World; Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, Strange Town; That’s Entertainment; Town Called Malice; The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow); Beat Surrender
Jason & the Scorchers: White Lies
Jenny and Johnny: Scissor Runner; My Pet Snakes
The Jesus and Mary Chain: Just Like Honey
Jim Carroll Band: People Who Died; Catholic Boy
Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Ben Kweller: Wasted & Ready
The Lemonheads: Into Your Arms; It’s a Shame About Ray
Nick Lowe: So It Goes; Cruel to be Kind
Marah: The Hustle
Rhett Miller: I Need to Know Where I Stand
Modern English: I Melt With You
Modern Lovers: Roadrunner; Dignified and Old
The Mood Swings: Finest Line
Bob Mould: See a Little Light
The Nails: 88 Lines About 44 Women
The Nerves: Hanging on the Telephone
New York Dolls: Personality Crisis
Nirvana: About a Girl; Smells Like Teen Spirit; In Bloom; Come As You Are; On a Plain
Sinead O’Connor: I Want Your (Hands on Me)
Oasis: Roll With It; Wonderwall; Morning Glory
The Offspring: Come Out and Play
Olympic Hopefuls: Holiday
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Young Adult Friction
Graham Parker: Discovering Japan; Local Girls
Pearl Jam: Evenflow; Jeremy
Liz Phair: 6′ 1″; Help Me Mary; Never Said; Johnny Feelgood; Supernova; Cinco de Mayo; Don’t Apologize
Passion Pit: Sleepyhead
Phoenix: Everything Is Everything; Too Young; 1901; Lasso
Pixies: The Holiday Song; Here Comes Your Man; Bone Machine; Gigantic; Where Is My Mind?; Head On
The Police: Next to You; So Lonely; It’s Alright for You; Message in a Bottle; Every Breath You Take
Pop Will Eat Itself: Wise Up! Sucker
Iggy Pop: Kill City; Lust for Life; Search & Destroy
The Psychedelic Furs: Love My Way
R.E.M.: Man on the Moon; It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine); The One I Love; Begin the Begin; These Days; Fall on Me; Superman; Strange Currencies; Radio Free Europe; Electrolite; Losing My Religion; Harborcoat; So. Central Rain; Letter Never Sent; (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville; Supernatural Superserious
The Raconteurs: Steady, As She Goes; Attention
Ramones: Blitzkrieg Bop; Rockaway Beach; I Wanna Be Sedated
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Higher Ground; Knock Me Down; Me & My Friends; Backwoods; Organic Anti-Beat Box Band
The Replacements: Talent Show; Within Your Reach; I Will Dare; Alex Chilton; Can’t Hardly Wait; Left of the Dial
Rilo Kiley: Portions for Foxes; The Frug; Silver Lining
The Romeo Flynns: Just Fade Away
The Saints: Know Your Product; (I’m) Stranded
Savoir Adore: We Talk Like Machines; Loveliest Creature
Sex Pistols: Holidays in the Sun; No Feelings; God Save the Queen
The Shins: New Slang
Simple Minds: Promised You a Miracle; Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Cities in Dust
Sleater-Kinney: You’re No Rock ‘n Roll Fun; One More Hour; Words and Guitar
Smashing Pumpkins: Tonight, Tonight; Zero; 1979
The Smithereens: Behind the Wall of Sleep; Hand of Glory
The Soft Pyramids: Dwightsnake
Soul Asylum: Spinnin’; Easy Street; Runaway Train; Misery; No Man’s Land
The Strokes: You Only Live Once
Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend; Sick of Myself
Talking Heads: Life During Wartime; Psycho Killer; Burning Down the House; Girlfriend Is Better
10,000 Maniacs: Like the Weather
Third Eye Blind: Semi-Charmed Life
Timbuk 3: The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Time Zone: World Destruction
Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
The Corin Tucker Band: Riley
KT Tunstall: Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
The Vapours: Turning Japanese
Suzanne Vega: Left of Center
Velvet Underground: Sweet Jane; Rock & Roll; White Light/White Heat
Veruca Salt: Volcano Girls
Violent Femmes: Blister in the Sun; Kiss Off
Weezer: Island in the Sun
Paul Westerberg: C’mon, C’mon, C’mon
Whiskeytown: Yesterday’s News
The White Stripes: Seven Nation Army; Fell in Love With a Girl
Wilco: Casino Queen; Monday; Outtasite (Outta Mind); I’m Always in Love; ELT; Jesus, Etc.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Maps
Pete Yorn: Strange Condition
You Am I: Friends Like You; I’m a Mess
POP
Bryan Adams: Summer of ’69
America: A Horse With No Name
Adam Ant: Desperate But Not Serious
B-52’s: Rock Lobster; Love Shack
Bajofondo: Pa’ Bailar
The Bangles: Manic Monday; Walk Like an Egyptian
Rob Base:It Takes Two
Beyoncé: Single Ladies
Blondie: Heart of Glass; Dreaming; The Tide Is High; One Way or Another
The Box Tops: The Letter
C + C Music Factory: Here We Go Let’s Rock and Roll
Kim Carnes: Bette Davis Eyes
The Cars: Just What I Needed; My Best Friend’s Girl; Moving in Stereo
Cheap Trick: Dream Police; Surrender; I Want You to Want Me
Paula Cole: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
Phil Collins: Easy Lover
Coolio: 1, 2, 3, 4
Jim Croce: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
Taio Cruz: Dynamite
Cupid: Cupid Shuffle
De La Soul: The Magic Number; Eye Know
Deee-Lite: Groove Is in the Heart
Dexys Midnight Runners: Come On Eileen
Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me With Science
Duran Duran: Girls on Film; Hungry Like the Wolf; Rio
The Eagles: Take It Easy; Lyin’ Eyes; Best of My Love; Hotel California; I Can’t Tell You Why; New Kid in Town
The Emotions: Best of My Love
Everything But the Girl: Missing
Fatboy Slim: Right Here, Right Now
Fine Young Cannibals: She Drives Me Crazy
The Fixx: One Thing Leads to Another
Fleetwood Mac: Rhiannon; Landslide; Dreams; Don’t Stop; Go Your Own Way; You Make Loving Fun
A Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (So Far Away)
John Fogerty: Centerfield
The Foundations: Build Me Up Buttercup
General Public: Tenderness
Genesis: In Too Deep; No Reply at All
Go Go’s: Our Lips Are Sealed; We Got the Beat; Vacation; How Much More
Hall & Oates: Sara Smile; She’s Gone; Rich Girl; Kiss on My List; You Make My Dreams; Private Eyes
Sophie B. Hawkins: Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
The Human League: Don’t You Want Me
INXS: New Sensation, Need You Tonight
Chris Isaak: Wicked Game; Blue Spanish Sky
The J. Geils Band: Centerfold
MC Hammer: U Can’t Touch This
The Jackson 5: I Want You Back; ABC; The Love You Save
Janet Jackson: When I Think of You
Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough; Rock With You; Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’; Beat It; Billie Jean; P.Y.T.
Billy Joel: Only the Good Die Young
Elton John: Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting; Crocodile Rock; Don’t Go Breaking My Heart; Tiny Dancer
Jack Johnson: Upside Down
Journey: Don’t Stop Believin’; Who’s Crying Now; Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Katrina and the Waves: Walking on Sunshine
Greg Kihn: The Breakup Song
The Knack: My Sharona
The Knocks: Make It Better
Kris Kross: Jump; Warm It Up
Lady Gaga: Just Dance; The Fame; Summerboy
John Lennon: (Just Like) Starting Over
Huey Lewis & the News: Heart and Soul
Little Eva: The Loco-Motion
LL Cool J: Going Back to Cali; Jingling Baby
Lisa Loeb: I Do
Looking Glass: Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)
Cheryl Lynn: Got to Be Real
Madonna: Holiday; Lucky Star; Borderline; Into the Groove; Like a Prayer; Burning Up
Bruno Mars: Marry You
The Marvelettes: Please, Mr. Postman; Beechwood 4-5789
Paul McCartney: Band on the Run; Silly Love Songs
Don McLean: American Pie
John Mellencamp: Crumblin’ Down
Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now?
Metro Station: Shake It
George Michael: Faith; Father Figure; Fastlove
Eddie Money: Two Tickets to Paradise; Think I’m in Love
Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl; Jackie Wilson Said; Moondance
The Motels: Only the Lonely
Nelly: Ride Wit Me
OK Go: Here It Goes Again
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: If You Leave
The Outfield: Your Love
Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky
Katy Perry: California Gurls; Teenage Dream
Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls
Prince: Raspberry Beret; Let’s Go Crazy; Take Me With U; When Doves Cry; U Got the Look; 1999; Little Red Corvette
Quad City DJs: C’mon & Ride It (The Train)
Suzi Quatro: Stumblin’ In
Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street
Republica: Ready to Go
Robyn: Crash and Burn Girl
Romantics: What I Like About You
Santogold: Lights Out
Boz Scaggs: Lowdown; Lido Shuffle
Simon and Garfunkel: Mrs. Robinson; The Boxer; The Sound of Silence; Bridge Over Troubled Water
Carly Simon: You’re So Vain
Smash Mouth: All Star
Will Smith: Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It; Switch
Soft Cell: Tainted Love
Rick Springfield: Jessie’s Girl; Don’t Talk to Strangers
Squeeze: Tempted
Gwen Stefani: The Sweet Escape
The Stray Cats: Rock This Town; Stray Cat Strut
Sweet: Little Willy
Taylor Swift: You Belong With Me
James Taylor: How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
Tegan and Sara: Alligator
3rd Bass: Brooklyn-Queens
Justin Timberlake: SexyBack
The Ting Tings: Great DJ; That’s Not My Name
TLC: No Scrubs; Unpretty
Tony! Toni! Tone!: Feels Good
Toto: Africa
Tommy Tutone: 867-5309 (Jenny)
Wild Cherry: Play That Funky Music (White Boy)
Kim Wilde: Kids in America
Yaz: Don’t Go
Young MC: Bust a Move
R & B
Archie Bell & the Drells: Tighten Up
Bob & Earl: Harlem Shuffle
James Brown: I Got You (I Feel Good); Get Up Offa That Thing; Please, Please, Please
Maxine Brown: Oh No Not My Baby
The Capitols: Cool Jerk
Ray Charles: Georgia on My Mind; I Got a Woman; Greenbacks
Chic: Good Times
The Contours: First I Look at the Purse; Do You Love Me
Sam Cooke: You Send Me; Only Sixteen; Wonderful World
Digital Underground: The Humpty Dance
Dr. Dre: Let Me Ride
Duffy: Mercy
Earth, Wind & Fire: September; Shining Star; Let’s Groove
The 5 Stairsteps: O-o-h Child
Aretha Franklin: Respect; Baby I Love You; (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman; Chain of Fools; Think
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove
Marvin Gaye: Stubborn Kind of Fellow; Can I Get a Witness; How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You); Ain’t That Peculiar; It Takes Two; Ain’t No Mountain High Enough;
Your Precious Love; I Heard It Through the Grapevine; What’s Going On
Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.
Al Green: Love and Happiness; Let’s Stay Together
Lauryn Hill: Doo Wop (That Thing)
Rick James: Super Freak
Jay-Z: Empire State of Mind
Grace Jones: Pull Up to the Bumper
KC and the Sunshine Band: Get Down Tonight; That’s the Way (I Like It)
Ernie K-Doe: A Certain Girl
Kool & the Gang: Jungle Boogie
Labelle: Lady Marmalade
Martha & the Vandellas: Dancing in the Street; Nowhere to Run
Curtis Mayfield: Move On Up
Stick McGhee: Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Monie Love: It’s a Shame (My Sister)
Notorious B.I.G.: Mo Money, Mo Problems
The O’Jays: Love Train
Parliament: Flashlight
Freda Payne: Band of Gold
Wilson Pickett: In the Midnight Hour
Otis Redding: Mr. Pitiful; Try a Little Tenderness; Dock of the Bay
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: I Second That Emotion; The Tracks of My Tears; Ooo Baby Baby; Shop Around
Run-D.M.C.: Can You Rock It Like This; It’s Tricky
Salt-N-Pepa: Whatta Man
Sam & Dave: Hold On, I’m Comin’; Soul Man
Sheila E.: The Glamorous Life
Sister Sledge: We Are Family
Sly and the Family Stone: Dance to the Music; Everyday People; I Want to Take You Higher
The S.O.S. Band: Take Your Time (Do It Right)
The Spinners: I’ll Be Around; It’s a Shame
Barrett Strong: Money (That’s What I Want)
The Supremes: Where Did Our Love Go?; You Keep Me Hangin On; Stop! in the Name of Love; Baby Love; Come See About Me; You Can’t Hurry Love
The Sugarhill Gang: Apache
Carla Thomas: B-A-B-Y
Tower of Power: What Is Hip
US3: Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Amy Winehouse: Rehab
Stevie Wonder: Superstition; Higher Ground; Sir Duke; Uptight (Everything’s Alright); Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
Brenton Wood: The Oogum Boogum Song
ROCK
AC/DC: Back in Black; You Shook Me All Night Long; Highway to Hell
Aerosmith: Dream On; Walk This Way; Sweet Emotion
Asia: Heat of the Moment
The Black Crowes: Jealous Again
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Blue Öyster Cult: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
Boston: More Than a Feeling
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust; Suffragette City; Rebel Rebel; Modern Love
Jackson Browne: The Pretender; Running on Empty
Kate Bush: Hounds of Love; Running Up That Hill
Eric Clapton: Lay Down Sally
Alice Cooper: School’s Out
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Proud Mary; Bad Moon Rising; Lodi; Down on the Corner; Fortunate Son; Who’ll Stop the Rain; Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
The Cult: Wild Flower; Love Removal Machine
Def Leppard: Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop); Photograph
Dire Straits: Down to the Waterline; Romeo and Juliet; Twisting by the Pool; Walk of Life
The Doors: Break On Through; Love Her Madly
Bob Dylan: Tangled Up in Blue; Like a Rolling Stone
Steve Earle: Copperhead Road; Guitar Town
The Faces: Stay With Me
Foghat: Slow Ride
Peter Gabriel: Games Without Frontiers; Shock the Monkey; In Your Eyes
Goo Goo Dolls: Slide; Broadway
The Guess Who: American Woman
Guns N’ Roses: Welcome to the Jungle; It’s So Easy; Paradise City
Heart: Barracuda
Don Henley: The Boys of Summer
John Hiatt: Have a Little Faith in Me; Slow Turning
Billy Idol: Rebel Yell
Jane’s Addiction: Jane Says
Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock N’ Roll
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Fire; Crosstown Traffic
Judas Priest: Breaking the Law; Electric Eye; You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
The Killers: Mr. Brightside
The Kinks: Father Christmas; Destroyer; You Really Got Me; Till the End of the Day
Kiss: Rock and Roll All Nite
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way
Led Zeppelin: The Ocean; All My Love; Whole Lotta Love; Immigrant Song; Black Dog; Rock and Roll; Stairway to Heaven; Misty Mountain Hop
John Lennon: Imagine
Living Colour: Cult of Personality
Nils Lofgren: Keith Don’t Go
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Gimme Three Steps
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Get Up, Stand Up; Stir It Up; I Shot the Sheriff; Waiting in Vain; Jamming
Metallica: Enter Sandman
Ministry: Stigmata
Motley Crue: Looks That Kill; Live Wire; Too Fast for Love
Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes
Night Ranger: Don’t Tell Me You Love Me
Ozzy Osbourne: Over the Mountain; Flying High Again
Tom Petty: Refugee; Even the Losers; Don’t Do Me Like That; The Waiting; You Got Lucky; Change of Heart; Breakdown; American Girl; I Need to Know
The Pretenders: Middle of the Road; Brass in Pocket; Precious; Stop Your Sobbing; Message of Love; Talk of the Town
The Rolling Stones: Paint It, Black; (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction; Sympathy for the Devil; Ruby Tuesday; Hot Stuff; Dance (Pt. 1); Miss You; Emotional Rescue; Jumpin’ Jack Flash; Angie; If You Can’t Rock Me; It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll; Gimme Shelter; Live With Me; Beast of Burden; Shattered; Bitch; Wild Horses; Brown Sugar; Start Me Up; Hang Fire; Waiting on a Friend
David Lee Roth: Yankee Rose
Roxy Music: Love Is the Drug
Todd Rundgren: Bang the Drum All Day
Rush: Tom Sawyer; The Spirit of Radio; Freewill; Subdivisions; The Analog Kid
Santana: Oye Como Va
The Scorpions: Rock You Like a Hurricane
Bob Seger: Rock and Roll Never Forgets; Night Moves
Patti Smith: Because the Night
Bruce Springsteen: Born in the U.S.A.; Thunder Road; Born to Run; Lonesome Day; Sherry Darling; Out in the Street; Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Billy Squier: The Stroke; My Kinda Lover; Lonely Is the Night; Everybody Wants You
Steely Dan: Deacon Blues; Reelin’ in the Years; Hey Nineteen; Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
The Steve Miller Band: Swingtown; Jungle Love; Take the Money and Run
Rod Stewart: Maggie May
T. Rex: Bang a Gong (Get It On); 20th Century Boy
Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back in Town
311: Down
The Unband: Geez Louise
Urge Overkill: Sister Havana
U2: I Will Follow; Vertigo; Beautiful Day; With or Without You; The Unforgettable Fire; Pride; Sunday Bloody Sunday; New Year’s Day; Two Hearts Beat As One; Electrical Storm
Van Halen: (Oh) Pretty Woman; Little Guitars; Mean Street; Unchained; So This Is Love?; Runnin’ With the Devil; Eruption; You Really Got Me; Dance the Night Away; Jump
War: Low Rider
The Who: I Can’t Explain; The Kids Are Alright; I Can See for Miles; My Generation; Love, Reign O’er Me; Who Are You; Join Together; Baba O’Riley; Won’t Get Fooled Again
The Yardbirds: The Train Kept A-Rollin’
Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart
Neil Young: Heart of Gold; My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London; Excitable Boy
ZZ Top: La Grange
ROCK N ROLL
Beach Boys: Surfer Girl; Little Deuce Coupe; I Get Around; California Girls; Help Me, Rhonda
The Beatles: No Reply; A Hard Day’s Night; Can’t Buy Me Love; Help!; Ticket to Ride; Yesterday; She Loves You; I Want to Hold Your Hand; I Saw Her Standing There; Twist and Shout; Nowhere Man; Run for Your Life; It Won’t Be Long; Money (That’s What I Want); Hey Jude
Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode; Maybellene; Memphis
Gary ‘US’ Bonds: New Orleans
The Coasters: Charlie Brown
Eddie Cochran: Twenty Flight Rock; Summertime Blues; C’mon Everybody
Bo Diddley: Bo Diddley
Frankie Ford: Sea Cruise
Buddy Holly: That’ll Be the Day; Everyday; Maybe Baby; Rave On
Ben E. King: Stand by Me
The Kingsmen: Louie, Louie
Jerry Lee Lewis: High School Confidential; Good Rockin’ Tonight; Great Balls of Fire
Little Richard: Long Tall Sally; Rip It Up; Good Golly, Miss Molly; The Girl Can’t Help It
The Monkees: Last Train to Clarksville; I’m a Believer; Daydream Believer
Roy Orbison: Only the Lonely
Elvis Presley: Heartbreak Hotel; Don’t Be Cruel; Love Me Tender; Jailhouse Rock
The Ronettes: Be My Baby
The Troggs: Wild Thing
Big Joe Turner: Shake, Rattle and Roll
This is just plain awesome. I’ve read it about three times now.
The Fags! So woefully underrated. Blows my mind how this band wasn’t enormous.
List is incomplete without Superchunk, Sloan, and Archers of Loaf, but otherwise, great list!
Great article thanks for sharing. This gave me a chill, “he’ll discover the spooky power of the right song at the right time to transform everything—and the impossibility of recapturing that moment again.”
I’m glad my parents are basically of the pre-rock ‘n’ roll generation. Not too old to appreciate the Beatles, but definitely from a time when more people were classical music-literate. They also liked jazz and the link to the “Great American Songbook” that that represents. That way, I had the benefit of their far-reaching tastes (which took years to sink in) as well as the classic/punk/Eighties stuff I gravitated to on my own.
I too am very much into music and know what you mean about teaching your kids to love music. My first ipod was given to me by my parents on my second deployment to Iraq. The gifting of the ipod wasn’t what stuck with me, it was that my dad had loaded it with every single Beatles record that had been made along with a selection of his favorites. Now I am 2 ipods and 2 iphones down the road and many of those same songs are still loaded up for me to listen to. Someday down the road I… Read more »
Ahh, I’m right there with you. My daughter will be 7 next month and is already starting to develop her own musical taste & sensibility that’s been not-so subtly shaped by my hand. I can’t wait until she starts finding things I missed or don’t know about and starts turning me on to her music.
my two year old’s two favorite songs are one of those they might be giants kids songs about the alphabet and slayer’s “reign in blood”. i am a little sad i’m going to have to drop some of the more obviously obscene extreme metal from the rotation for a few years, as he really love coffinworm’s “strip nude for your killer” as well.
discordance axis can stay forever, at least.
This post made me smile so many ways. My mother (bless her) bought our son, Marcus, his very first (512MB) MP3 player for his third birthday. Before that, he’d already figured out how to pick his favorite MP3s from out collection on our Media PC in both Winamp and Media Portal. It’s amazing what has become a favorite and what fell by the wayside in the past 2.5 years. Marcus prefers concert footage videos in Youtube to the artistic creations that his father and I favored from our MTV generation youth. But he’ll happily listen to an hour of Jethro… Read more »
I’ve always been an album man myself. I envy that my offspring will get to hear OK computer for the first time one day.