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1 Elvis Presley - That's All Right
2 Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle and Roll
3 Bill Haley & the Comets - Rock Around The Clock
4 Dean Martin - That's Amore
5 Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line
6 Perry Como - Papa Loves Mambo
7 Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
8 Ray Charles - I've Got a Woman
9 Harry Belafonte - John Henry
10 The Crew Cuts - Sh-Boom
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U.S. under the spell of commie-hunter senator McCarthy (1950-1956)
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My music interests emerged from the Space Cowboys videos which have been aired on the German TV channel BR since the late 90s. You can watch them here. I was introduced to Simon & Garfunkel, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, The Beach Boys, The Doors and many more seminal musicians of the 60s. This would change my life forever ...

Here is a list from the songs which appear in the videos.

Project Gemini:

1) Angel (Acoustic) - Jimi Hendrix
2) I'm A Man - The Spencer Davis Group
3) Bus Stop - The Hollies
4) Yes, I'm Ready - Barbara Mason
5) All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks
6) Born Free - Matt Monro
7) Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys
8) Georgy Girl - The Seekers
9) You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge
10) Get Off My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
11) California Dreamin' - The Mamas & The Papas
12) A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
13) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka
14) Light My Fire - The Doors
15) Black Is Black - Los Bravos
16) Stroll On - The Yardbirds
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Nick Cave's Jukebox again
Another CD set of songs which have inspired Nick Cave over the years is going on the market. This is the third this year and the fifth overall. The first two were Original Seeds way back in 1998 and the follow up Original Seeds, Volume 2 in 2004. I would rate the first Original Seeds very highly just because there was nothing like it before but now that is very different.

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Original Seeds - Track listing:
1. Tim Rose - Long Time Man
2. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Cat Man
3. Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
4. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
5. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Hammer Song
6. Tom Jones - Weeping Annaleah
7. The Loved Ones - Sad Dark Eyes
8. Scott Walker - The Big Hurt
9. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
10. Lefty Frizzell - The Long Black Veil
11. Johnny Cash - The Folk Singer
12. Odetta - Another Man Done Gone
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I bothered many of my friends with the question for the sexiest songs ever during the last days. I thank you all for the lots of recommendations I got. The result is an awesome, very eclectic mix of sexy tunes. Starting with the 1969 song of Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (that was a scandalous piece music at that time in Europe and deeply impressed this guy at age of 15) the tunes are ordered generally by the release year of my albums, no ranking. Enjoy!

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Ooh La La :: Sounds of Sexy

Je t'aime...moi non plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg

• Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine - James Brown
  
• Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer
  
• I Want You - Marvin Gaye
  
• Fever - Peggy Lee
  
• Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
  
• I'm On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
  
• I Touch Myself - Divinyls
  
• Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
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To celebrate the return of well formatted lists to the Last.fm journals, I made a list of One Hit Wonders with a little help of my friend knirrie and Last.fm's tags. Don't bother if you find your favorite artist here, some of mine are as also on this list. "A one-hit wonder is a music industry term to describe an artist generally known for only one hit single." says Wikipedia.
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One Hit Wonders

Wild Thing - The Troggs

• Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
  
• Je t'aime... moi non plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
  
• Where Do You Go To My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt
  
• In The Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
  
• Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
  
• Popcorn - Hot Butter
  
• Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon
  
• Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
  
• I Can Help - Billy Swan
  
• All By Myself - Eric Carmen
  
• In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin
  
• Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
  
• Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
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I have a radio show on WVAU -- www.wvau.org, that is. The name of this show is "Gone Fishing," and, as you might imagine, it's full of puns about boats and sea bass, not to mention some really lovely pop songs.

Here is a slightly redundant description for the show that I took from my facebook group.

Gone Fishing gathers the best and brightest pop songs of the last fifty years and serves them to you, crisp and tasty, every Wednesday night from 8:00 to 10:00 EST.

If you like pop music and you happen to be reading this on a Wednesday, then you should listen to my show tonight!

Here are a whole bunch of artists that I've played on my radio show.

Belle & Sebastian, Dionne Warwick, Lee Hazlewood, The Shangri-Las, McCarthy, Sambassadeur, The Left Banke, Wings, Jens Lekman, Another Sunny Day, Shop Assistants, The Beach Boys, Felt, Times New Viking, The Supremes, Talulah Gosh, James Dean Driving Experience, Yo La Tengo, The Magnetic Fields, The Brilliant Corners, Razorcuts…

Last year, in an effort to keep track of the years great albums I'd blog about an album I loved - for no other reason than as a reminder. I intended doing the same this year - but this year has been funny - I still haven't managed to get used to the downloaded = owned thing - so it took me a while to realise that I owned some great albums from this year even if I couldn't hold them. So this is catch-up. I only have physical copies of two of these albums - which is bothering me a little...

Drums And Guns
After the near-grunge annoyance of The Great Destroyer with Drums and Guns it seems Low are heading back in towards being the band I love. This is the first Low album since Secret Name that is likely to make my end of year lists. Maybe it's all relative - maybe it's not better than Things We Lost In the Fire but it is an improvement on the previous album (which TWLITF clearly wasn't).

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It took almost three years for me to like Blonde Redhead's previous album Misery Is a Butterfly, but I love it now. …

1 Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting
2 Nena 99 Red Balloons
3 Afroman Because I Got High (had two hits)
4 The Archies Sugar Sugar
5 Mock Turtles Can You Dig It?
6 Monty Python Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
7 Doctor and the Medics Spirit In The Sky
8 Baha Men Who Let The Dogs Out? (had three hits)
9 Men Without Hats The Safety Dance
10 Splodgeness -abounds Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please
11 Deee-Lite Groove Is In The Heart
12 Shampoo Trouble
13 Weather Girls It's Raining Men
14 Eric Carmen All By Myself
15 Jilted John Jilted John
16 Rembrandts I'll Be There For You (Theme From Friends)
17 Timelords Doctorin' The Tardis
18 Falco Rock Me Amadeus (had two hits)
19 Mr Oizo Flat Beat
(NOT IN ORIGINAL SHORTLIST!!)
20 The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star (had two hits)
21 Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus)
22 Lou Bega Mambo No.5
23 The Vapors Turning Japanese
24 Toni Basil Mickey
25 Lieutenant Pigeon Mouldy Old Dough (had two hits)
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