This is My Favorite Song

“Earth Angel” by The Penguins (1954).

This one goes out to all of you who were at Hill Valley High’s Enchantment Under The Sea Dance.  Can you believe it was 54 years ago?  So many memories…

“Jack-Ass” by Beck from Odelay (1996).

A HAIKU ABOUT BECK:

Hey, remember Beck?

That guy used to be so good.

What the hell happened?

“That’s Entertainment” by The Jam from Sound Affects (1980).

(NOT SO MUCH) FUN WITH ANAGRAMS: THE JAM

• Ham Jet
• Jam The

“Let Her Dance” by The Bobby Fuller Four (1965).

The forgotten pop masterpiece that ends Fantastic Mr. Fox.

“VCR” by The xx from xx (2009).

Today marks my first step to becoming a music supervisor.  Watch Lie to Me on Fox tonight at 9 pm to see/hear how I used this song in the episode.  This is the first time one of my suggestions has made it to air.  It’s also the first time I’ve suggested a song, so I’m batting 1.000.

“Pueblo Nuevo” by Buena Vista Social Club from Buena Vista Social Club (1997).

FILE UNDER: Things my Dad used to play on Sundays.

“For Reverend Green” by Animal Collective from Strawberry Jam (2007).

FUN WITH ANAGRAMS: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

• Evil Llama Conceit
• A Climatic Novelle
• Acclimation Level
• Vaccinate Ill Mole
• Allocate Civil Men
• Vanilla Lice Comet
• Volcanic Metal Lie
• Mice Volt Alliance
• Clinical Love Team
• Metallic Cave Lion

“The Tracks of My Tears” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles from Going To a Go-Go (1965).

SMOKEY ROBINSON SONG OR LIFETIME MOVIE?

1. Hanging On By a Thread
2. The Only One I Love
3. Taking Back My Life
4. You Belong To Me Forever
5. A Child’s Cry
6. And I Don’t Love You
7. Precious Little Things
8. Untamed Love
9. That Day When She Needed Me
10. She Was Taking My Baby

“Muswell Hillbilly” by The Kinks from Muswell Hillbillies (1971).

I’m a Muswell Hillbilly boy.

“Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles” by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band from Clear Spot (1972).

FILE UNDER: Songs featured in The Big Lebowski.

SEE ALSO:

• “Mucha Muchacha” by Esquivel (1962)
• “Dead Flowers” by Townes Van Zandt (1993)

“Strange Powers” by The Magnetic Fields from Holiday (1994).

STRANGE POWERS:

• You can talk to vegetables.
• You can shape shift, but only into a less attractive person.
• You are invulnerable to the common cold.
• You can control how humid it will be today.
• You can explode on command.  Once.
• You can eat faster than everyone else in the world.
• You can teleport one step away.
• You can steal another person’s powers, but only if their power is that they can steal another person’s powers.
• You can juggle pretty well.
• You can sense that someone has better powers than you do.

“TV in The Radio” by Wale from Attention Deficit (2009).

I’ll be honest: Wale’s new album (released tomorrow) is not his best.  I prefer any one of his five mixtapes, which you can (and should) download for free right this second:

1. Paint a Picture (2005)
2. Hate is The New Love (2006)
3. 100 Miles & Running (2007)
4. The Mixtape About Nothing (2008)
5. Back To The Feature (2009)

(Pictured: Wale and Mystery Friend.)

“Nuages” by Django Reinhardt (1936).

True story: Even though the Nazi regime killed several hundred Gypsies and did not allow jazz music to be performed or recorded, luckily Django survived World War II because Luftwaffe officer Dietrich Schulz-Köhn (aka “Doktor Jazz”) was a big fan.  WTF Nazis?

“Hole in My Head” by Box Elders from Alice and Friends (2009).

NOMINEE: Catchiest Song of 2009.

What else is in the running?

“So Long, Marianne” by Leonard Cohen from Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968).

FUN WITH ANAGRAMS: LEONARD COHEN

• Enhance Drool
• Cleaned Honor
• Anchored Noel
• Ordnance Hole
• Radon Echelon
• A Cloned Heron
• No Hero Candle
• Oh Lone Dancer
• Ode Or Channel
• Loenard Cohen