What are you listening to right now?

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You're right. I'm not a Richard Prince fan. I was happy to find something I didn't think was boring. I'm going to delete it.

ON EDIT: Plus here are five songs meeting these criteria:

Singles that charted in the Top 40 that include the word "sidewalk" in the lyric but not the title.

Concrete and Clay -- Unit 4 + 2

Summer in the City -- The Lovin' Spoonful

Downtown -- Petula Clark

Walk Away, Renee -- The Left Banke

Hello, I Love You -- The Doors

Feel free to add. The ground rules are: You may check lyrics online after you think of them, but you may not use a search engine to locate them in the first place.

Because the mental exercise is good for you, that's why.

[compared2what?]

She May Call You Up -- The Left Banke

You Still Believe in Me -- The Beach Boys

'Til I Die -- Brian Wilson

I Can See For Miles -- Petra Haden and the Sell-Outs

Never My Love -- The Association

So Much in Love -- The Tymes

Caroline No -- a capella, & so... Brian Wilson, I guess?

[Jeff]

Jarvis Cocker - Heavy Weather

Blossom Dearie - The Good Life

The Langley Schools Music Project - God Only Knows

(Langley Schools Music Project documentary)

[lightningBugout]

Current 93 - Since Yesterday

[compared2what?]

Tell the Truth -- Immortal Technique, w/Mos Def, Jadakiss and Eminem

"All they talk about is terrorism on television
They tell you to listen, but they don't really tell you they mission
They funded Al-Qaeda, and now they blame the Muslim religion
Even though Bin Laden was a CIA tactician
They gave him billions of dollars, and they funded his purpose
Fahrenheit 9/11, that's just scratchin' the surface."

Why doesn't this get posted here once a week? And is that a sample from "Kashmir"? Or just something that sounds like "Kashmir"?

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Unter Null - Hypocrite and Contradict

[Jeff]

Beth Ditto - I will always love you ("at the 2nd Annual Dolly Parton Night, a fundraiser for the Siren Nation Women's Music and Arts Festival in Portland, Oregon. The festival is Nov. 1-4, 2007.")

[Foote Hertz]

Thee Three Stooges - Alphabet Song
Glenn Branca - Solo - 1978
John Fahey - Dance of the Invisible Inhabitants of Bladensburg

[barracuda]

Sex Pistols - Seventeen live in Stockholm

Sex Pistols - New York live in Stockholm

Sex Pistols - Seventeen live in San Francisco



"If you can put up with 'at, you can put up wi' anything."

More Pistols at Winterland

[barracuda]

Rachel Loshak - China Doll

Amy Correia - Hold On

Antje Duvekot - Opium

[annie aronburg]

The Tower

The sword of thruth is just another weapon
Let me live for one more second
I see a woman she’s holding flowers
A bouquet of roses that are blood red
From a burning building, a man leaps to his death
I stand above these mansions of the death
Red tombs and above us looms
The Tower

I see red
I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a red unblinking eye

Radiowaves curve and cross
I stand below them – Lost !
Above me is a black obelisk
And the dangers that i risk
Here gather the ghosts of the mind
That tear my heart and here i find
All that traps that have been set
Everything i would forget, beneath
The Tower

I see red
I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a red unblinking eye

Violence is close at hand
You are damned if you do
And if you don’t – Dammed !
A red eye, A tyrant full of hate
Glares from the sky, It’s captive state
If it should blink ordeviate
A thousand words would obliterate
I do not move, nor do i speak
Beneath that hard and pitiless peak
Of concrete , steel and antennae wheels
The Tower

I see red
I see a tower against the sky
Beneath a red unblinking eye

[Jeff]

From Maggots, by Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics

Maggots: The Record was recorded in 1987 and is set 25 years in the future where environmental abuse and the burning of fossil fuels have created a greenhouse effect leads to an end of the world scenario. The album features various scenes of The White Family over the course of three days. The family is devoured while watching a TV game show. Valerie, the girlfriend of hot-shot television reporter Bruce is devoured by three massive maggots while lying in her boyfriend's bed. The final scene of the record shows the entire human population is headed for imminent annihilation.

Day of the Humans Is Gone

You're goin' down fast, you're way outta time
And for you the sun won't shine
You missed the boat while you beat your meat
I'm going to break your mind
Out of the gutter and into the streets
The day of the humans is gone
We'll laugh and sing while we chew on your bones
And for you we sing this song:
Rejoice rejoice
Raise your voices high
Rejoice rejoice
Everyone will die
Dissipate your flaccid light
Snuff your candle out
Feeding on your energy
That's what we're all about
We've lived in your cells for millions of years
We thank you for the ride
But parasites turn into rulers
And now we're coming outside
We change our form, we mutate at will
We're the best that can be found
We know how to survive, we lie and kill
We've got our program down


You're a Zombie

Get a TV brain and a pixel head
You walk and talk but you are dead
You just came down from the trees
Now I got you on your knees
You don't know what's going on
I can turn you off or turn you on
Drive your car around the square
You're moving fast but you go nowhere
I'm inside your DNA
You can't make me go away

You're a zombie honey
We done consumed your brain
Can you tell the difference
Or do you feel the same?
Now you're a fascist robot
Just like you were before
We can press your buttons
And have a robot war

All you do is fuck and eat
That's what we do too
Tough for you 'cause you're our meat
But we don't make the rules
Not only will we drink your blood
We're gonna suck your head
There isn't much to think about
'Cause soon you will be dead

Brain Dead


We are brain dead
We march without no head
Product of the brainless
Product of the dumb
Radiation roaches got you on the run
Soldiers for the DNA, dissidents are put away
Dragged off in the dead of night, disappear without a sight
For global peace is what we pray, as long as things are done our way
Disagree or acting rude, we will chop you up for food
Our agenda is your end, until then we'll be your friend
Act not thinking is our tool, stand up for the golden rule
Stab your friends in the back, rule the world load the pack
Human flesh is what we crave, nothing wasted in the grave

[lightningBugout]

Leo Kottke - Vaseline Machine Gun

[barracuda]

From Maggots, by Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics

Thanks for that, man. I used to love Wendy and Plasmatics, and was saddened by her death. When I saw her around '80 (at the Stone, I think it was) on Broadway in the City, she did the whole cut-a-plugged-in-guitar-in-half-with-a-chainsaw routine, nipple tape and mohawk, and it was, and still may be, the loudest, most intensely raw ear-splitting, eyeball jarring sonic blast of amplified sound I had ever heard. It literally rocked my brother and I back a few steps along with the rest of the crowd. It took several minutes to cut all the way through, with the threat of electrocution hovering about the stage environs all the while. I watched some random chairs fall over, seemingly in silence. The palpable sound wave set us back on our heels as if with a psychic force - it was loud. And I had once stuck my head in the P.A. during a Ted Nugent solo. But Wendy's sound levels put Nugent to shame. It was like riding one of those old-school wooden roller coasters, a really big one, you know, where your teeth rattle and the bones in your head just ache from the vibration and the impacts penetrate your peritoneum. Gotta say, she really beat the band, she was politicized, she was bad-ass, she was dangerous, and as you point out, she was fucking prescient.



Plasmatics - Goin' Wild

[lightningBugout]

Mindless Boogie - Hot Chocolate

Bostich - Yello

The Mexican - Babe Ruth

One Tin Soldier - Coven