About a Boy and a (Temporarily) Secret Chord

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

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About Jason Fry

Jason Fry is a writer, Mets blogger and Star Wars dork in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has enough digital music that you’re guaranteed to find things that you’d approve of as well as things that would make you cackle and point. Write to him at jason.fry@gmail.com, and see more at jasonfry.net.

Comments

  1. Keith says:

    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.

  2. Eden Mabee says:

    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 Tull performing, or Petula Clark and then correct me on the lyrics for Kumi Koda (JPop) or Andrew W.K.. He’s infatuated with Pink, but knows who the O’Jays and the Doors are. In between Froggy Went a Courting and Ten Bears in the Bed, you might hear The Runner by Mannfred Mann or Don’t Fear The Reaper by BOC. And then “It’s a Marshmallow World”…

    Kids and music! Isn’t it the most wonderful thing in the world to experience with them?

  3. dhex says:

    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.

  4. HillRat says:

    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.

  5. Matt Crowder says:

    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 will introduce my daughter to the music that I like so that she can learn a little about my taste in music (and hopefully break her free of the Justin Bieber kick she is on now) but until then I can still pick the radio stations while we drive and what I have on in the background at home.

    On a side note, I’m a huge “Star Wars dork” too. Good to see there are more of us out there. If you haven’t seen it yet I recommend “Fanboys” I think it is a must see for all Star Wars fans like us.

    Matt

  6. Pedro says:

    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.

  7. iannnnn says:

    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.”

  8. Justin says:

    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!

  9. Rob says:

    This is just plain awesome. I’ve read it about three times now.

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