Artist	Song
The Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen In Love
I think it was my karaoke version of this song that made one of my friends come up with the idea of starting a band with me - I'd guess not so much that I'm a good singer as I have a certain passionate on-stage attitude or something. I was described as sounding like "a more aggressive Daniel Johnston", which I guess I'll take a s compliment.
Cheap Trick	He's A Whore
Camper Van Beethoven	Take The Skinheads Bowling
Another karaoke-inspired choice - Karaoke Underground came to town and I picked it out of their book of indie/punk-centric songs.
Modern Lovers	Government Center
Talking Heads	Psycho Killer
The Germs	Lexicon Devil
The Real Kids	All Kindsa Girls
The Real Kids	Do The Boob
Someone else's suggestion, and I like the song, but I'm secretly somewhat reluctant to sing one semi-homophobic line. Maybe I'll change it in the guise of "updating" it - i did already decide it might be funny to change "don't wanna hear no disco" to "don't wanna hear no dubstep".
Devo	Uncontrollable Urge
Devo	Mongoloid
The Fall	Psycho Mafia
The Sonics	Strychnine
To be honest this just struck me as a fun track to cover while I was listening to my ipod on shuffle mode.
Flipper	Sex Bomb
I kind of initially threw this in as a joke - our first ever live performance is likely to be a 15 minute set, and if we did the album version it would pretty much be the only song we'd get to play. The thing is though, since it's one riff and six words of lyrics repeated over and over, we could easily arrange an abbreviated version.

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Some friends and I are working on starting a cover band for fun (with me as the singer), and I was asked to make a cd of songs to to start learning. A certain vague "punk, garage rock, and new wave/post punk" theme started emerging just via discussing what songs to cover, so I mostly stuck with that.

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