Wednesday, February 14, 2007

I am yours and you are mine the way it should be

The Smithereens - A Girl Like You







Go ahead and call me cheesy for doing a show of love songs on Valentine's Day. The shoe fits. I couldn't help it. So I'm interrupting the "connected" theme this week for a group of my favorite tunes about love, requited and unrequited and all types in between. I must confess I am a sucker for more of the "Love Untold" type but I wanted to give equal airtime to the likes of "Another First Kiss" as well.

  • Billy Bragg - The Fourteenth of February
  • They Might Be Giants - Another First Kiss
  • Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All
  • The Smithereens - A Girl Like You
  • Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
  • Beulah - Popular Mechanics For Lovers
  • The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe You
  • The Shins - Gone For Good
  • Sloan - The Other Man
  • Freedy Johnston - While I Wait for You
  • Luka Bloom - I Need Love
  • Jets to Brazil - In the Summer's When You Really Know
  • The Wrens - 13 Months in 6 Minutes
  • Bob Mould - See a Little Light
  • The Rosebuds - Wishing for Kisses
  • Paul Westerberg - Love Untold
  • Sugar - Your Favorite Thing
  • Eels - Jeannie's Diary
  • Damian Jurado - I Can't Get Over You
  • Dean & Britta - Night Nurse
  • The Orange Peels - You're So Clever
  • Camera Obscura - I Love My Jean
  • The Pixies - La La Love You
  • The Martinis - You Are the One
  • Portastatic - Sweetness and Light
  • Weezer - Falling for You
  • The Smiths - I Want the One I Can't Have

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

If you make sure you're connected the writings on the wall

Stereo MCs - Connected

The theme for this installment of Battlestar Rock-tactica is somewhat of 6 degrees of separation type dealie. Bands and the bands that formed after break-ups plus side-projects, solo work and the like. You get the idea.



  • Alan Sparhawk - Be Nice to People with Lice
  • Low - In Metal
  • The Retribution Gospel Choir - Breaker
  • Mark Kozelek - What's Next to the Moon
  • Red House Painters - New Jersey
  • Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities Made of Ash
  • Uncle Tupelo - Acuff-Rose
  • Son Volt - Windfall
  • Wilco - I'm A Wheel
  • Billy Bragg & Wilco - Secret of the Sea
  • Glenn Kotche - Reductions or Imitations
  • The Autumn Defense - Canyon Arrow
  • Jay Farrar - Like a Hurricane
  • The Minus 5 - With a Gun
  • Loose Fur - Stupid as the Sun
  • Golden Smog - Pecan Pie
  • Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
  • Stars - Romantic Comedy
  • Metric - Patriarch on a Vespa
  • Feist - Let it Die
  • The Posies - Grant Hart
  • Jon Auer - Four Letter Word
  • Big Star - Hot Thing
  • Ken Stringfellow - Reveal Love
  • Bob Mould - Days of Rain
  • Husker Du - Chartered Trips
  • Sugar - Gee Angel
  • The 6ths - He Didn't