Alphabet Music Meme

[erikred]

One of a series.

List 10 songs that begin with the letter given to you and explain why you picked them. Comment and I shall give you a letter. aceofkittens gave me a "B." (I deserve an "A.")

1. Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing, Chris Isaak

A classic. Sounds good, feels good, and Isaak's a local boy.

2. Badge of Pride, Pennywise

I found this song while answering a song challenge to find songs with the word "badge" in them. Liked it enough to keep it.

3. Ballad of Bodmin Hill, New Model Army

Discovered NMA while in college in London. Energetic, meaningful, fascinating; I've seen them in concert once, and I have just about everything of theirs pre-1999.

4.Be Here Now, United Future Organization

From their eponymous debut album, a stunning and choice selection of Fusion Jazz.

5.Beer Barrel, Polkacide

C'mon, who doesn't like the old polka standard Roll Out the Barrel? Now imagine it done by punk polka homebhoys, Polkacide. Oh, yeah.

6.Belly of the Whale, Burning Sensations

Also known as the only other song apart from "Pablo Picasso" (off the Repo Man Soundtrack) you've ever heard by Burning Sensations, and by far the more well-known.

7. Black Betty, Spiderbait

Absolutely rock-steady release from this band, one of the many songs featured in the always interesting TriplJ Hottest 100.

8. Black Market Baby, Tom Waits

The Man himself. Really, no explanation needed. It was this or Big in Japan, and that just seemed too obvious.

9.Boys in the Band, The Libertines

The Libertines are the quintessential example of why promising bands should be kept as far away from heroin as possible. Tight sound, good lyrics, fun, handsome, and absolutely doomed.

10. Bury the Hatchet, New Model Army

Found this album (along with an overpriced bootleg concert CD) in my local punk music shop in Kochi, Japan, and knew I had to have it. It's underrated and much more medlodic than other NMA.

Comments

[missludmilla.livejournal.com]

Gimme a letter!

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Hee, am tempted to do an analysis of Wilco tracks and then make sure you get a letter outside their ouevre.... Then again, who's to say I haven't. :-)

Okay, it's D-Day for you!

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

Nicely done! :) You may have gotten a "B," but you earned a gold star! :)

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I begin to detect a pattern. What must I do for the next... "gold star"?

[callahanshappy.livejournal.com]

I'll take a letter.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

For you, the letter "L." It's a popular letter, but not necessarily at the beginning of words.

[callahanshappy.livejournal.com]

Of course, if I really messed up linking to my journal, you'll just have to check your friends list.

[rjray.livejournal.com]

I am feeling oh so lame, as I only know one of these ten. And teh intarwebs are failing me, as LimeWire was unable to produce any New Model Army. I'll have to borrow, and in doing do craftily force you to visit Paul & Ami & myself (since we live so close to each other) in this neck of the woods...

[erikred.livejournal.com]

This is by far the best enticement to travel south I have yet encountered, combining, as it does, appeals to both my desire to visit people I like and my sense of civic duty to proselytize on behalf of bands I dig.

Well played, sir. Well played.

[rjray.livejournal.com]

oh, and I suppose I'll take a letter. Thanks to everything being in my iPod these days, it'll be easier to hunt down titles by leading-letter...

[erikred.livejournal.com]

I dub thee Sir A, but I forbid the use of songs beginning with articles.

[rjray.livejournal.com]

The mere suggestion wounds me...

[rjray.livejournal.com]

Done and done.