Wailers – "Out of Our Tree" (1965)

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.

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