{"id":2367,"date":"2008-03-13T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/13\/futurebaby-playlist-hn\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T11:51:10","slug":"futurebaby-playlist-hn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/13\/futurebaby-playlist-hn\/","title":{"rendered":"FutureBaby Playlist: H-N"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at this segment of the playlist, it&#8217;s clear that I was, consciously or not, giving a good deal of weight to how well a given song works as a sing-along. For whatever reason, this chunk of the artist alphabet is loaded with tunes that are maybe a little dubious content-wise, but good fun to sing along with.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Play the Hits,&#8221; Hal<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Fools By Your Side,&#8221; Hal<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Your Asterisk,&#8221; The Halo Benders (It&#8217;s just this side of word salad, but really fun to sing along.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The World Without Logos,&#8221; Hellsing (This <strong>is<\/strong> word salad, on account of its Japanese origin, but there are few tunes that sound cooler.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Closer To Fine (live at KBCO),&#8221; Indigo Girls<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Galileo,&#8221; Indigo Girls<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Want You Back,&#8221; The Jackson 5<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A.B.C.,&#8221; The Jackson 5<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Love You Save,&#8221; The Jackson 5 (Michael Jackson recorded some goof stuff before he hit puberty and slipped his moorings.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Got You (I Feel Good),&#8221; James Brown<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Night Train,&#8221; James Brown (Weirdly, I associate this with playing rugby my senior year in college. It doesn&#8217;t bear explaining.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Tailspin,&#8221; The Jayhawks<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Blue,&#8221; The Jayhawks<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Miss Williams&#8217; Guitar,&#8221; The Jayhawks (I could probably put most of the Jayhawks catalogue on this&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cheeseburger In Paradise,&#8221; Jimmy Buffett (Yeah, yeah, yeah&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Almost Saturday Night,&#8221; John Fogerty<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Tennessee Plates,&#8221; John Hiatt<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Slow Turning,&#8221; John Hiatt<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Stolen Moments,&#8221; John Hiatt<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All The Lilacs In Ohio,&#8221; John Hiatt<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My Dog &#038; Me,&#8221; John Hiatt &#038; The Goners<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Window On The World,&#8221; John Hiatt &#038; The Goners (We own a lot of John Hiatt.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;There She Goes,&#8221; The La&#8217;s (I don&#8217;t want to hear about how it&#8217;s really about drugs. It&#8217;s a brilliant pop song, and you can&#8217;t tell.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Over The Hills And Far Away,&#8221; Led Zeppelin (Probably the most dubious choise in this set, but I like it.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;D&#8217;Yer Mak&#8217;er,&#8221; Led Zeppelin<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Fool In The Rain,&#8221; Led Zeppelin<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hey Hey What Can I Do,&#8221; Led Zeppelin<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If I Could Talk I&#8217;d Tell You,&#8221; The Lemonheads<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Into Your Arms,&#8221; The Lemonheads<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Oh Atlanta,&#8221; Little Feat<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off,&#8221; The Magnetic Fields (Kate may veto this in the end&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You),&#8221; Marvin Gaye<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pride And Joy,&#8221; Marvin Gaye<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),&#8221; Marvin Gaye<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Heard It Through The Grapevine,&#8221; Marvin Gaye<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dance The Night Away,&#8221; The Mavericks<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Tracks Of My Tears,&#8221; The Miracles (Simply can&#8217;t be beat as a sing-along.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Float On,&#8221; Modest Mouse (I&#8217;m not 100% sure of the lyrics, but I think it works.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Was Born,&#8221; Natalie Merchant (A nonsense song from one of the Billy Bragg\/ Wilco albums of Woody Guthrie songs. Kate may veto this, too.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Heart Of Gold,&#8221; Neil Young<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You Get What You Give,&#8221; New Radicals (The &#8220;come around, we&#8217;ll kick your asses&#8221; line is a little dubious&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Cruel To Be Kind,&#8221; Nick Lowe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at this segment of the playlist, it&#8217;s clear that I was, consciously or not, giving a good deal of weight to how well a given song works as a sing-along. For whatever reason, this chunk of the artist alphabet is loaded with tunes that are maybe a little dubious content-wise, but good fun to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/13\/futurebaby-playlist-hn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FutureBaby Playlist: H-N<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}