Basically my excuse to get “Life in a Northern Town” on a list. That is a great song.
Rock
Devo
If your brain didn’t immediately bust out with, “Whip it! Whip it good!,” you are either under 30 or over 100. And even the 100+ crowd was probably bopping along with Devo when they were 70-something whippersnappers.
Crew-Cut Rock
AKA, “Songs my mother is referring to when she calls herself a rocker.” I hesitated on this one for a long time, but since I finally gave in on Elvis, I figured it was hard to argue that “Rock Around the Clock” wasn’t influential. Even if “influential” means, “Convincing record companies that they could make money by having white people sing songs originally done by black people.”
Captain Beefheart
I don’t think he’s from Santa Cruz, but I’m guessing that maybe there were a few drugs involved here also.
Camper Van Beethoven
Based on the group name and song titles, I had a feeling that maybe drugs were involved. Then I found out they are from Santa Cruz, and now I’m sure there are drugs involved. (That’s not a dig. I’ve been to Santa Cruz many times, and … whoa.)
Buzzcocks
The Buzzcocks have a song titled “Ever Fallen in Love (With Some You Shouldn’t).” Clearly, they haven’t been around my love life. If so, they would have a song titled “Are Your Ever Going to Stop Falling in Love (With Some You Shouldn’t).”
Bonnie Raitt
“Nick of Time” is pretty much my theme song. Or will be, once I take care of that “finding love” part.
Bill Laswell
Not Bill Frisell. Also, not someone I especially like (which at least gives him something in common with Bill Frisell).
Ben Folds
You know the whole John Hiatt/John Prine thing? 90s version: Ben Folds and Ben Harper.
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