"The Hustle"-Van McCoy

my "business of songwriting" professor gave me a dollar for correctly naming the artist that did this song.

that's right, i am a huge suck-up. and i have ONE DOLLAR

"Break My Body"-The Pixies

If you listen to The Pixies enough, you always stay young and cool and subversive.  The Pixies listen to a lot of Pixies, and it worked for them.

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"Konichiwa Bitches"-Robyn

Robyn came out with "Show Me Love" in 1993.  You might remember this song if you are a girl and you were alive at that point.  I guess she was probably doing stuff between then and 2005, but I didn't know about it.  Somehow though, in that span of time, she must have decided that it might be cool to be the Missy Elliott of Sweden.

Hard shoes to fill.  She does an admirable job.  Don't try to resist the feeling of indestructibility that creeps up on you as you listen to these lyrics:

You wanna rumble in space?

I put my laser on stun.

And on the North Pole,

I'll ice you, son.

Yeah!

you know when shit is gettin' heavy like it weighs a ton

"Mama Said Knock You Out"-LL Cool J

DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK








blaaaaaw, how ya like me now

"Vacation"-The Go-Go's

i'm taking a may-cation

in case you don't get my drift, that is a vacation that takes place in may.   

blogging is SUCH HARD WORK

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"In The New Year"-Walkmen

guh i am completely incapacitated by this song










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"Under My Thumb"-The Rolling Stones

Some feminists have been pissed about this song for a while.  I can understand where they're coming from.  If you read the lyrics outloud in your best douchebag voice, it sounds, well, douchey.

If you look at it another way, though, it could just be about a power shift in any relationship. Like someone was treating you crappy and now you have the upper hand.  And who doesn't get a kick out of that?

Plus, all politics aside, just listen to that marimba.  No amount of possible misogyny can bury a marimba riff as smoking hot as that one.

see mick.  see mick strut.