h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A place to keep track of songs that are enjoyable, odd or otherwise interesting.

Like 'Shoplifters', by Ivor Cutler: http://youtu.be/q4eZ6aZzU5Y

Or 'Picture In A Frame', by Tom Waits: http://youtu.be/3pwxD8quPCg

(This one, I have discovered, is a remarkably enjoyable song to sing. It feels nice in the throat.)

Ian Dury. There ain't half been some!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvRsLWlDXw

Oh! Segovia.

Lucky bleeder!

One of my favourite songs by Lord Upminster. Ah, but there were so many of those Most of which are on New Boots and Panties.

I love him

Any poet who rhymes "Groucho, Marco, Chico" with "Bantu Stephen Biko" is ok.

Also anyone who can find so many words to rhyme with Sandy, Janet and Nina

And work the lyric "in the naughty naked nude" into a song

I do like a bit of Buddy Guy now and then: "My Time After A While". http://youtu.be/k8Ldbty-a8E

I don't know what's going on with that drummer's facial expressions (or inside his mind for that matter), but it's fascinating.

Earworm of the day is Mr Bowie, Life on Mars.

http://youtu.be/v--IqqusnNQ

I get earwormed with this every time I meet one particular person.

Keith Richards - Cocaine Blues http://youtu.be/SutO9tW9k9g

Today's earworm...

http://youtu.be/8fukMTjvdoo

Bandiera Rossa - An old Italian communist anthem, as performed by a Yugoslavian '80s punk band...

This definitely isn't one of my usual earworms, and I don't know why it's an earworm now. I suppose I must have heard it somewhere today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9BQiU9ug8

Plastic Jesus has been stuck in my head all evening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IknyYLGLVsM

I think tomorrow I'll have to wrest control of the radio at work.

It's usually tuned into a station everyone seems to enjoy, but not me - it's the blandest kind of commercial station which plays the same songs at the same time every day of the year. I find it quite depressing actually. But "hell is other people" and all that, and you've got to compromise a bit.

Every now and then I need to shake things up a bit, though.

I'm not sure what I'll go for tomorrow. Maybe Rory Gallagher or Van. Ohhhhh, maybe Thin Lizzy. Or something less rock maybe:
http://youtu.be/qP2fAt4bWik

Anything that puts a spring in the step, I think.

Radio 3

Hmm. Not always rousing enough for what I'm after....sometimes it is, but it would be a gamble!