We know that it just can’t be
But it’s happenin’ without a doubt
I get most of my ideas for the records I feature on 2 or 3 lines from listening to Sirius/XM radio – especially the “Underground Garage” channel.
I live a rather peripatetic lifestyle, and most of my Sirius/XM listening is done while I’m on the move. I hear a 2 or 3 lines-worthy record (or two or three) almost every time I’m in my car or on my bike. But I have a tendency to forget them before I get to my destination.
It's just not practical to pull out a notebook and pen and make note of those records while I’m driving or pedaling, so I do the next best thing: I grab my phone and take a screenshot that captures whatever record I am listening to at any given time.
Then when I get home, I type the title and performer of each of those records into a list on my computer, and delete the photos so they don’t overwhelm my phone’s storage capacity.
Easy-peasy!
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When I checked today, I discovered that it has been almost two months since I last sat down and went through all those screenshots. Here are the records that had accumulated on the phone during that time:
Ace – “How Long”
Albert King – “Hunter”
Animals – “I Ain’t Got You”
Apples in Stereo – “Submarine Dream”
Balloon Farm – “A Question of Temperature”
Beatles – “Getting Better”
Big Star – “Don’t Lie to Me”
Billy Preston – “That’s the Way God Planned It”
Birds – “You’re On My Mind”
Blind Faith – “Can’t Find My Way Home”
Blink-182 – “What’s My Age Again”
Blues Image – “Ride Captain Ride”
Blues Project – “No Time Like the Right Time”
Bob Kuban and the In-Men – “The Cheater”
Bobby Womack – “Across 110th Street”
Bon Jovi – “Wanted Dead or Alive”
Boz Scaggs – “Lido Shuffle”
Brian Eno – “King’s Lead Hat”
Brute Force – “King of Fuh”
Bubble Puppy – “Hot Smoke and Sassafras”
Bush – “Machinehead”
Butthole Surfers – “Who Was in My Room Last Night?”
Cake – “Rock ’n’ Roll Lifestyle”
Cheap Trick – “California Man”
Crazy Elephant – “Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’”
Crispian St. Peters – “The Pied Piper”
Dave Clark Five – “Reelin’ and Rockin’”
Dead Boys – “Sonic Reducer”
Decemberists – “Down By the Water”
Depeche Mode – “Everything Counts”
Donnie Iris – “Ah! Leah!”
Donovan – “Atlantis”
Donovan – “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”
Doors – “Crystal Ship”
E-Types – “Put the Clock Back on the Wall”
Edwin Starr – “I’m Still a Struggling Man”
Electric Flag – “See to Your Neighbor”
Elvis Presley – “Shake, Rattle & Roll”
Fire – “Father’s Name Was Dad”
Fleetwood Mac – “The Green Manilishi”
Foghat – “Slow Ride”
Garbage – “Bad Boyfriend”
Genesis – “Misunderstanding”
Giorgio Moroder – “Looks Looks”
Great White – “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”
Green Day – “I Was a Teenage Teenager”
Gun Club – “Sex Beat”
Ian Hunter – “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”
Jan & Dean – “Dead Man’s Curve”
Jerry Lee Lewis – “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone”
Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Fire”
Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Stone Free”
Jimmy Buffett – “A Pirate Looks at Forty”
Joe Tex – “Show Me”
John Brown – “Papercuts”
John Carter – “Is It True?”
John Lennon – “Gimme Some Truth”
Keane – “Somewhere Only We Know”
Kim Wilde – “Kids in America”
La De Das – “How Is the Air Up There?”
Leather Catsuit – “Piece of the Pie”
Liverpool Five – “Too Far Out”
Love – “The Daily Planet”
Lucinda Williams –“It’s a Long Way to the Top”
Makers – “Are You on the Inside or the Outside of Your Pants?”
Metallica – “Enter Sandman”
Mops – “I’m Just a Mops”
Mott the Hoople – “All the Young Dudes”
Move – “Brontosaurus (Looking On)”
Mystic Tide – “Frustration”
Nazz – “Rain Rider”
New Order – “True Faith”
Nick Lowe – “Cracking Up”
Nine Inch Nails – “Hurt”
Paul Butterfield Blues Band – “Where Did My Baby Go?”
Parliament – “Up for the Downstroke”
People – “I Love You”
Peter Murphy – “Cuts You Up”
Pink Floyd – “See Emily Play”
Primus – “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver”
Procol Hotel – “Grand Hotel”
Prodigy – “Breathe”
? And the Mysterians – “96 Tears”
Quicksilver Messenger Service – “Pride of Man”
Ramones – “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker”
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “By the Way”
Renegades – “Thirteen Women”
Richard and the Young Lions – “Open Up Your Door”
Ron Wood – “We All Get Old”
Roxy Music – “Eight Miles High”
Ryan Hamilton – “A**hole”
Saliva – “Ladies & Gentlemen”
Sam & Dave – “Wrap It Up”
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – “What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?”
Spiritualized – “Come Together”
Squires – “Going All the Way”
Stone Temple Pilots – “Tumble in the Rough”
Sweathog – “Hallelujah”
Swingin’ Medallions – “Double Shot”
Talking Heads – “Pulled Up”
Tears for Fears – “Everybody Wants to Change the World”
Tears for Fears – “Mad World”
Tears for Fears – “Shout”
Toadies – “Possum Kingdom”
Tomorrow – “My White Bicycle”
Tool – “Sober”
Urges – “Passing Us By”
Vogues – “Magic Town”
Volbeat – “Still Counting”
Yardbirds – “Happenings Ten Years”
Wailers – “Out of Our Tree”
Wet Leg – “Angelica”
Yellow Balloon – “Yellow Balloon”
ZZ Top – “La Grange”
That’s at least a year’s supply of featured records. So why do I continue to take even more screenshots and add more records to my list?
Probably because I’m out of my tree.
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Click here to enjoy “Out of My Tree” by the Wailers – a garage band formed in Tacoma, Washington, in 1958 by five high-school friends.
Click here to buy that record from Amazon.
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