Bo Bartlett-Young Life (American contemporary)
Say the money just ain't what it used to be
Man how we used to tear apart this town
Put a dollar into the machine and you'll remember how
-M, Ward, 'Post-War'
An acrid book could be written on the subject of the tunes that should never again be played. They come up every fifteen minutes. People like em. They get to stay. Sadly, they get to stay. MGMT is the latest, but the list is as old as the jukebox itself: Johnny Cash, the Pixies and Black Sabbath...But why dwell on those.
At the risk of feigning impossible authority these are--if not the ten best, then ten tracks that make it what it is:
1. George McCrae-I Get Lifted
2. Clinic-The Return of Evil Bill
3. The Sonics-Have Love Will Travel
4. Nerves/ Blondie-Hangin' on the Phone (yes, both versions!)
5. Bo Diddley-Hey Bo Diddley
7. Love and Rockets-Kundalini Express
8. The Strokes-Someday
10. Roy Orbison-Workin' for the Man
2 comments:
thank you for the very kind words.
the gooski's jukebox sounds like a revelation. is it 7" vinyl only?
the original upstairs jukebox at Tmom's was all 7"s ... i think i have the list somewhere in my bursting at the seams archives.
thanks for inspiring me to keep the rotating 300 going here!
I failed to mention, at least here, that no, it's a cd jukebox. But so many of the discs are compilations made from personal collections. It's pretty fucking amazing.
Kinda like yours, RP!
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