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Archive for the ‘Default’ Category
My Funny Valentine, Acapella
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
New Video From They Might Be Giants: “Spoiler Alert”
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011Pretty charming, isn’t it?
Dark Meat 246: A Little Much
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Sometimes it’s a fine line between just enough and too much. However, sometimes you can’t even see the line from the too much that you’re at. That’s where you’ll be spending this half hour and more.
* Tally Hall – Fate Of The Stars
* William Shatner with Henry Rollins – I Can’t Get Behind This
* The Forum – The Time Is Now
* Scott Walker – The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
* Kevin Ayers – There is Loving/Among Us/There Is Loving
* Dresden Dolls – Missed Me
* Mountain Goats – No Children
* Garfunkel and Oates – Worst Song Medley
Dark Meat 245: Eat Up!
Monday, August 1st, 2011Today’s show is perfect for people who are fed up with junk culture – instead, get fed up on junk food! Songs about delicious snacks, for your listening and gulping pleasure. Consider a bib when listening.
* Hot Butter – Popcorn
* Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson – Candy
* White Stripes – Little Cream Soda
* Roxy Music – Bitter-Sweet
* Spinal Tap – Cups and Cakes
* Dramarama – Baby Rhino’s Eye
* Gloria Wood – Oh Honey
* Ethyl Meatplow – Ripened Peach
* Dave Frishberg – Sweet Kentucky Ham
* Jethro Tull – Fat Man
Dark Meat 236: Glug Glug
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
H2OMiGod! Show’s all about large bodies of water today . Thirsty? Hope so!
* Petula Clark – My Friend The Sea
* Tom Waits – The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me
* Joe Jackson – Sea Of Secrets
* Donavan – Atlantis
* Frank Sinatra – Watertown
* The Cowsills – Indian Lake
* David Bowie – Looking For Water
* Sparks – Waterproof
* Stan Ridgway/Stewart Copeland – Don’t Box Me In
Dark Meat 234 – Next!
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011You aren’t going to live forever, my friend. Ain’t nobody does. Which begs the question, what happens afterwards? Honestly I have no idea, and neither do the people who wrote these songs, but it’s something to to think about anyway. Or I just threw together as many heaven/hell/afterlife titles as I could find in half an hour.
* Sparks – The Number One Song In Heaven
* Sugarplastic – Where Dead Bullies Go
* Paul Simon – The Afterlife
* The Four Saints – Heaven Help A Man
* Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place On Earth
* Spinal Tap – Hell Hole
* They Might Be Giants – Snowball In Hell
* Pat Boone – Stairway To Heaven
Dark Meat 232 – Story IS Character
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The title is a quote from my screenwriting teacher, Robert McKee, who taught me 3-act structure. If you saw ADAPTATION, he was played by Brian Cox! Anyway, the show is about movies and more narrowly about screenplays, except a couple of songs that are about actors. Because they would insist on the attention. It’s never about the writers! NEVER!
* Dramarama – Scenario
* Paul Simon – Rewrite
* Stan Ridgway – Classic Hollywood Ending
* David Bowie – Cracked Actor
* The Kinks – Celluloid Heroes
* Rupert Holmes – Widescreen
* Soul Coughing – Screenwriter’s Blues
* Limahl – Never Ending Story
Dark Meat 231: Jesus!
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Happy Easter everybody – here comes the Dark Meat Jesus spectacular! (Also, I’m appearing in Jesus Christ Superstar later this month in Simi Valley. Come, and bring peeps for the actors) Not that I NEED an excuse to throw together a show about Jesus. You can’t swing a sponge on a stick without hitting a song about the dude.
* Barry Gray Orchestra – Main Theme, The Secret Service
* Beatles – Lady Madonna
* Monsters of Folk – Dear God
* Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus
* Ben Folds – Jesusland
* Sugarplastic – Jesus Is His Name
* Harry Nilsson – I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City
* Tin Machine – Under The God
* They Might Be Giants – Kiss Me Son Of God
Dark Meat 229: Sexy Ladies In the Eighties
Monday, March 21st, 2011I’m not ashamed to admit that I picked this theme because it was easy. Besides, 80′s music is a style all its own and it deserves a show to itself instead of peppering every other selection of a show. What’s the theme? Women in the eighties. Either songs about women, or by women. Whatever. Who doesn’t dig chicks, am I right?
By the way, note that it’s not Sexy Ladies in THEIR Eighties. Betty White only put out so many records.
* The Tubes – Sushi Girl
* Bow Wow Wow – C30 C60 C90 Go!
* OMD – This is Helena
* Kraftwerk – The Model
* Duran Duran – Girls On Film
* Sinead O’Connor – Mandinka
* Kim Wilde – Kids In America
* Debbie Harry – French Kissin’ In the USA
* Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place On Earth
* Martha and the Muffins – Echo Beach
Dark Meat 226: A Hovering, Unnamed Dread
Monday, February 28th, 2011Spring is just around the corner… but that’s no guarantee that you’ll live to see it! If something terrible happens before then, at least you got to hear this collection of catchy tunes. Not so much catchy I guess. More like INVASIVE.
* Beatles – Blue Jay Way
* The Whistler – Excerpt
* Dangermouse, Sparklehorse and David Lynch – Dark Night Of The Soul
* Combustible Edison – Cry Me A River
* Pink Martini – Que Sera Sera
* The Residents – Hello Skinny
* The Billy Nayer Show – Party
* The Kinks – Rainy Day In June
* Blossom Dearie – Figure Eight
* Gary Jules – Mad World
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