Side A
Artist	Song
Monty Python	Storage Jars
The Everly Brothers	Bird Dog
The Beatles	I've Just Seen a Face
Superdrag	Way Down Here Without You
Pink Floyd	Wots . . . Uh the Deal
The Turtles	You Showed Me
Children and Staff of Palo Alto Preschool	Rose-Rose
The Modern Lovers	Road Runner #2
The Kinks	Dancing in the Street
The Troggs	With a Girl Like You
The Ventures	Bumble Bee Twist
The Kingsmen	Money
Elvis Presley	Money Honey
Stray Cats	Mystery Train
The White Stripes	St. James Infirmary Blues
Cab Calloway featuring The Kipper Kids	Some of These Days
"Weird Al" Yankovic	This is the Life
Fishbone	Ugly
Jo Dolan	You're Such a Good Lookin' Woman
Five Iron Frenzy	Sweet Talkin' Woman
They Might Be Giants	Dr. Worm
Caterina Valente	Das and're Gesicht
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Everything But The Girl	Horses in the Room
The Clash	Lost in the Supermarket
The Slackers	When I Find a Place Where I Belong
Dr. Lonnie Smith	Devils Haircut
Beastie Boys	Song for the Man
Beck	Jack-Ass
Len	Hot Rod Monster Jam
Automator featuring Sinister 6000, a.k.a. Kool Keith	I Want Da Mic
Pet Shop Boys	If Looks Could Kill
Basement Jaxx	All U Crazies
Kraftwerk	Expo2000 (Underground Resistance Mix)
Daft Punk	Around The World (Masters At Work Remix)
Melvin Moore	Ich Rocke
Pam Johnson, Wayne Parker and Eric Miller	My Name is Stegosaurus

Comment:

This tape is mix number 42 in my series of tapes made for my own personal use (car, living room, walkman, and now the shower!)(120 minutes, title is from "Lost in the Supermarket"). For the fun of it, the tape starts with a Python sketch that's a mock ACTION NEWS program about storage jars. "Rose-Rose" is performed by a bunch of kids and a lady with a piano, the song is sung to the tune of "What shall we do with a drunken sailor" (or whatever it's called). It's great 'cause it's a such a severe, minor-key tune yet it's sung by children and it's about waking up. The Modern Lovers were a band that when it started out featured Jerry Harrison (later of Talking Heads) and David Robinson (later of The San Antonio Spurs, er, The Cars). This is the best track from an LP of their early recordings, most of which are mildly amusing but not really good. "Bumble Bee Twist" is The Ventures' twistin'-surf-rock rendition of "The Flight of the Bumble Bee". Ha! I paired "Money" with "Money Honey"! How clever! "Mystery Train", which is a song Elvis did in the fifties, is from a Stray Cats CD of live recordings that I found on the budget rack at Wal*Mart of all places. The Cab Calloway song is from the soundtrack to "Forbidden Zone" which was a movie by Richard Elfman, brother to Danny Elfman, leader of The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo who perform most of the music on the soundtrack. The Kipper Kids were this pair of funny lookin' guys whose act is that they make funny faces and stupid sounds. So for the movie, this song has a bunch of "oo ee aa, thppt" pasted onto it. "This is the Life" is a bit of a reprise of that "corruptive power of money" theme that was going on back there. "Ugly" is from Fishbone's first release, a six-song 12" EP. Five Iron Frenzy is (was?) a Christian ska-punk band and here they are performing an ELO song. "Dr. Worm" is from TMBG's DVD "Direct From Brooklyn". Dr. Lonnie Smith, the jazz organist, did a CD of Beck tunes. This is a jazz instrumental based mostly around the riff in "Devils Haircut", which is funny because that riff is the part Beck didn't write, it's from the song "I Can Only Give You Everything" which was recorded by several artists such as The Troggs, Them, and MC5. Len's album "You Can't Stop The Bum Rush" which gave us their only hit, "Steal My Sunshine", is actually a fun record that's worth owning. I have it on a picture disc LP. The Jaxx track is a B-side from the "Rendez-Vu" single. The Daft Punk remix is from their "D.A.F.T." DVD. "Ich Rocke" means "I Rock". And finally, "My Name is Stegosaurus" is a particularly special song for me because it's from an LP called "Our Dinosaur Friends" which is one my kindergarten teacher played repeatedly; "Stegosaurus" was one of our favorites. I found the LP a while ago and I was thrilled. Roar!

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