Side A:
1. Give it Away - RHCP (The lightbulb costumes more than make up for the not-so-great quality of the audio. "Re-a-lize I don't want to be a miser. Confide wisely you'll be the wiser. Young blood is the lovin upriser. How come everybody wanna keep it like the Kaiser?")
2. Working in a Coal Mine - Devo ("Five o'clock in the morning, I'm up before the sun. When my work day is over, I'm too tired for having fun.")
3. Wrong - School of Fish (I loved this album when it came out. Most only know it from Three Strange Days, but there were some other gems on it, like this one. "You say its all about control and nothing should control you. If no one ever gets too close, then you'll have nothing to live up to.")
4. No One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo (Well, well, here's footage of a concert I attended. Boingo played Irvine Meadows every Halloween for years and Denyette and I went to many of those shows. Good memories of silly dancing and parking lot antics. Oh Danny Elfman how I miss your live shows and backflips. "Let's have a party, there's a full moon in the sky. It's the hour of the wolf and I don't wanna die.")
5. Let's Go To Bed - The Cure (No one lived through the late '80s/early '90s without The Cure. "Stay alive, but stay the same.")
6. Shout - Otis Day & The Knights (Great movie, great song. "I still remember, when you used to be 9 years old. Shoobie doo wah doo wah wah.")
7. The Boy With a Thorn in His Side - The Smiths ("And when you want to live? How'd you start? Where'd you go? Who'd you need to know?" This is off my favorite album by The Smiths. So many memories of high school tied up in this album. Special thanks to Steve Trachsel for introducing me to The Smiths summer of 1987 in Palm Springs.)
8. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion (This is the band I've seen live most often. Love them always. And Mike Ness is pretty much solely responsible for my attraction to men with full sleeves. Because everyone knows Ring of Fire, I give you my favorite Social D song. "Sick boy, sick girl looking nice, dressed up on a Saturday night...gonna leave this world behind, I'm Southern California bound.")
9. Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band (I'm not sure I should share this, because if you haven't figured it out on your own, you most likely don't deserve to know...oh fine, only do the clap after names of places [El Paso; Texas]. You're welcome.)
10. Trip Through Your Wires - U2 (Bono+harmonica=Greatness...although I've always been more an Edge girl myself. "Thunder, thunder on the mountain. There's a rain cloud in the desert sky.")
11. Magic Bus - The Who (Michelle and I so thought we were the coolest for being into classic rock in High School. This is one we loved singing and showed up on a number of mix tapes of both of ours. It's really the most fun Who song to sing loudly. "I don't want to cause no fuss. But can I buy your magic bus?" I still have this in heavy rotation, on my iPod now - makes the 14th Street bus ride a little more fun.)
12. Earthquake - This is a song by some band that must never have hit it big - the guy sounds like Fred from The B-52s. This is killing me not remembering who this is dammit.
13. Pretty Little Ditty - RHCP (They could do no wrong on this album imho.)
Side B:
1. Magic Johnson - RHCP (Mi amore, Magic Johnson. They rarely sing the lyrics live, instead giving the time to Flea to slappa da bass and Chad to pound the skins. "Lakers are the team that I watch on the telly, cause they got more moves than a bowl full of jelly. The Buck stops here, pops then cheers, a roar through the Forum that deafens my ears.")
2. 30,000 Lbs. of Bananas - Harry Chapin (My love for this man and his music is well documented. This is, arguably, the best driving song ever. "And he missed the thankful passing bus at 90 miles an hour...and he sideswiped 19 neat parked cars, clipped off 13 telephone poles, hit 2 houses, bruised 8 trees and Blue-Crossed 7 people. It was then he lost his head, not to mention an arm or two before he stopped." Funniest song about a death I must say.)
3. Jeremy - Pearl Jam (And now for something completely different..."Try to erase this from the blackboard.")
4. Miss Freelove '69 - Hoodoo Gurus ("You can't take me anywhere. I'll strip down to my underwear if you give me half a chance." Fun, frothy, Australian. What more could a girl ask for?)
5. Jack & Diane - John Cougar Mellancamp (Iconic. "Hold on to 16 as long as you can. Changes come around real soon make us women and men.")
6. Mellowship Slinky in B Major - RHCP (I've loved RHCP since Fight Like a Brave. Little songs like this are why. "I'm on the porch cuz I lost my house key. Pick up my book I read Bukowski. Can I get another kiss from you? Kiss me right here on my tattoo.")
7. Intro/Three Strange Days - School of Fish ("I think I lost myself when I lost my motivation." )
8. Tom Sawyer - Rush (Three of the most talented musicians together. Phenomenal live even if they can't play their own song on Rock Band...)
9. Strobe Light - B-52s ("Where's my telephone?")
10. Young Americans - David Bowie (I'm going to go out on a limb and guess I had no clue what this song was really about at the soft age of 17. "Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?")
11. Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band (Proof that old men should not wear leather and/or berets. "Goodbye to all my friends at home. Goodbye to people I trusted. I got to go out and make my way. I might get rich you know, I might get busted.")
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