Every Good Boy Deserves Favour: Thursday Thirteen Thirteen Songs That Are Kind Of Obscure But I Like For Singing or Headbanging in My Car, Just Off the Top of My Head: When�s Your Birthday by Meredith Brooks: Most folks know her �I�m a Bitch� song when it used to get airplay some years ago. Lately I�ve heard that song used during movie trailers. Birthday is a narrative of a woman on a first date trying to glean information from her date: When�s your birthday It goes on to how she will quit her job, have his children, etc. I lived that life for a while. Usually, though, on a first date, I would either belch or tell a really off-color joke, and that would weed out the boys from the men. My first date with Hubster was a Mardi Gras party at my house, and I got toasted and the cops showed up. He called me the next day. I knew he was a winner. Karen By Night by Jill Sobule: Her hit song was �I Kissed a Girl� which is about, well, kissing a girl, but this tune is about a woman who works at a shoe store. She is mystified by her boss Karen, a seemingly dull woman who apparently leads a secret life: Karen by night Don�t we all want to be Karen by night? I do, so long as I look like young Marlon Brando, and not �old fat Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now.� Lonesome Cowboy Jim by Frank Zappa: This song was originally �Lonesome Cowboy Burt�, but Zappa had a way of changing his songs to reflect the current events of the day. �Cowboy Jim� is a narrative about Jim Swaggart and his exploits with Louisiana prostitutes: My name is Swaggart, I am an asshole Hyper Enough by SuperChunk: This is track 7 on the Tromeo and Juliet soundtrack, a little Troma movie based on the Shakespeare play. It�s actually quite good, and it follows the original story rather faithfully. Sometimes, the characters break into iambic pentameter! Nice and loud little tune, good for headbanging in your car: And I know you are never wrong Like a Friend by Pulp: I think I live this song a lot. I�m very maternal and I want everyone to be happy, but many times it�s at the expense of my well-being: Like a car crash I can see but I just can't avoid. Horizon by the Arrogant Worms: This is the only song that I have ever heard to laud the assets of a 1984 Plymouth Horizon. Bombastic, brash, and funny as hell: Still I loved my baby And would not admit defeat While My Guitar Gently Weeps by George Harrison: Okay, okay. Not obscure at all, yet it doesn�t get anywhere near enough airtime, as far as I�m concerned. This is my fave Beatles tune, all woeful with the strains of Eric Clapton�s guitar: I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love I look at the world and I notice it's turning Dead Skunk by Loudon Wainwright III: Okay, the complete other end of the spectrum. How can you not love this song, though? I wish I�d hear more singers in bars do this one: Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got yer dead dog A Love Song (from a different point of view) by Jimmy Buffett: Yes, it has alternative names, mostly some variation of �Why Don�t We Get Drunk (And Screw)�. You all know the lyrics. We played this at our wedding reception. I think even my Mom knew the words: Why don't we get drunk, and screw? I think, in this context, �snuff queen� doesn�t mean �star of a film who gets killed on-camera.� Because no such movie exists. Really. Ask Larry Flynt. We are the Roadcrew by Motorhead: I was the road crew. But I didn�t go anywhere. I worked in an arena, loading and unloading trucks and setting up soundboards and coiling FOH snakes that were covered with vomit and beer and fighting monitor cases that had broken wheels: Another town, left behind Beer by the Bilge Pumps: I should really introduce poolagirl to these Bilge Pumps, who are pirate singing group based out of Dallas/Ft. Worth, and are an utter delight: He ought to be an Admiral, a Sultan, or a King You and Me Song by the Wanndies: just a happy little song that is featured on Baz Luhrmann�s Romeo + Juliet soundtrack. Makes you just want to bounce happily in your seat while stuck in traffic on the Loop 202: Then we watch TV Gay Bar by Electric Six: Well, okay. What makes this song so great is the animation for it from Rather Good.com,, who also brought you those weird Quizno�s commercials a while ago. Now tell me do ya, a do ya have any money? A gay bar is in fact, one of the best places to go. Ever. Journey of the Sorceror by the Eagles: I am probably one of the few people that actually bought this album for this particular track, once I heard it used as the theme for Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy TV series in the middle of the night on PBS oh so many years ago. Full of banjos and fiddles, you can see whales plummeting to their death, planets exploding, and terminally depressed robots lumbering off into the sunset within the notes. If Professor Dumbledore had a tune played at his funeral, this would have been it.
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