1. Dizzee Rascal, “Fix Up, Look Sharp.” If my history of rap serves me correctly, big meat-rock beats were standard issue when hip-hop involved jacking into a Bronx street light for power. In this early ’00s track, Dizzee brings it back.
2. St. Vincent, “Human Racing.”
3. Brandi Carlile, “Closer to You.”
4. The Flaming Lips, “The W.A.N.D.”
5. Kid Creole and the Coconuts, “Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy.” God bless the good souls who kept their VHS tapes from the old days. If not for these archivists with climate-controlled attics, ridiculous moments like these might be lost, as Rutger Hauer said, like tears in rain.
6. Dennis Wilson, “Wild Situation.”
7. The Ruby Suns, “Morning Sun.”
8. Kate Nash, “Men’s Needs.”
9. Erykah Badu, “Back In the Day.”
10. Gnarls Barkley, “Going On.” “City of God” goes sci-fi in this shiny-and-new clip.
July 17th, 2008 at 9:21 am
1. The Clientele, “Summer Crowds In Europe”
2. Jeanne Moreau, “Je suis vous tous qui m’ecoutez”
3. The Magnetic Fields, “It’s Only Time”
4. Hall & Oates, “Adult Education”
5. The Beatles, “Birthday” (ugh…not a morning song)
6. Shirley Bassey, “Goldfinger”
7. The Beatles, “Lady Madonna” (’Love’ version, not too hip on the electric guitar solo on this one…)
8. Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto, “Desifinado” (exhale….much better)
9. The Beatles, “Rain” (what’s up, ipod, what are you trying to tell me….)
10. Tony Bennett, “Anything Goes”