B.A. Robertson - Bang Bang
Supermax - Lovemachine (Part 1)
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Tubeway Army - Are "'Friends" Electric ?
Wings - Goodnight Tonight

L'Orange-"The Night"
The Magnetic Fields-"Strange Powers"
Ol Dirty Bastard-"Drunk Game (Sweet Sugar Pie)"
Nuclear Assault-"Inherited Hell"
Santana-"Fried neckbones (Live at Woodstock)"

Friday's five:

• The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
• Rival Sons - Open My Eyes
• Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
• 54-40 - Ocean Pearl
• Meredith Brooks - Bitch

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'So you listen to me and you listen well. Are you behind on your credit card bills? Good, pick up the phone and start dialing! Is your landlord ready to evict you? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Does your girlfriend think you're f****** worthless loser? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!' -Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street)

More music to go along with the miles on the car...

• Streetheart - Action
• The Offspring - Come Out and Play
• Big Wreck - That Song
• Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy
• Sam Roberts - Where Have All the Good People Gone

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'So you listen to me and you listen well. Are you behind on your credit card bills? Good, pick up the phone and start dialing! Is your landlord ready to evict you? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Does your girlfriend think you're f****** worthless loser? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!' -Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Five tunes heard on today's road trip:

• Grand Funk Railroad - The Loco-Motion
• The Scorpions - No One Like You
• Seal - Kiss from a Rose
• The Four Tops - It's the Same Old Song
• Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator

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'I, for one, think it's great that Justin Lin is directing the new Star Trek film. I've always wanted to see how fast a tricked out Enterprise could go.' -unknown Netizen

Coliseum - Detached
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression
The 4 Skins - Norman
Joy Division - Passover

Electric Light Orchestra - Strange Magic
Smith - Baby It's You
Steely Dan - Dirty Work
Nick Gilder - Roxy Roller
Roberta Flack - Compared to What

Here are five songs for the start of the work week:

• Boston - Don't Look Back
• Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
• Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
• Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
• INXS - The Devil Inside

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The Ultimate Theatrical Experience: DVS in DTS on a 3D IMAX screen with D-Box seats and closed captioning.

Mya-"Movin' On"
Prong-"Lost and Found"
WAR-"Don't let no one get you down"
Devine-"Walk like a man"
Slowdive-"Blue Skied an' Clear"

Tunes for Tuesday...

• Tommy James and The Shondells - I Think We're Alone Now
• Styx - Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
• Bing Crosby - White Christmas
• The Who - Who Are You
• Slade - My Oh My

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'I, for one, think it's great that Justin Lin is directing the new Star Trek film. I've always wanted to see how fast a tricked out Enterprise could go.' -unknown Netizen

Con Funk Shun - Play Widit
Shock - Crank It Up
Bootsy Collins - Take A Lickin' And Keep On Kickin'
Xavier - Do It To The Max
Klymaxx - Wild girls

Morning commute:
Funkadelic: Bop Gun - lysergic funk classic
Beach Slang: Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas - retro dreamrock pop punk
Jimi Hendrix: Up from the Skies - wah-wah workout
Simple Minds: All the Things She Said - a particular favorite from my childhood, I really like the chorus on this song
INXS: Don't Change - a classic new wave track off of INXS's first album.

Short story regarding the last song, "Don't Change": in the very early eighties (probably late 1981, when I was 8) a friend of mine was the first to get MTV. This must have been just as it launched. I remember seeing the video for this song on his TV in the basement, it was one of the first music videos I've ever seen. The new wave keyboard line in particular stuck in my head.

Fast forward 13 years. In 1994, INXS released their greatest hits. I didn't really like the band, but remembered that I really this song. I couldn't remember the name of the song and I bought the Greatest Hits comp on CD just to hear this song again. Remember, this was pre-internet so if you couldn't remember a somewhat obscure, 14 year old Australian song's name, you were pretty much screwed. Inexplicably, "Don't Change" is not on their greatest hits comp (to this day, this annoys me). I forgot about it again.

Fast forward to about five years ago. I was watching "Adventureland" a movie with a good soundtrack (I think created by Yo La Tengo). The closing credits start: holy shit, it's that INXS song!

I immediately flashed back to my friend's basement circa 1981. All of the other crap I liked from that time flooded my mind: the Milton Bradley Starbird, the Apple 2, Carrera slot car sets, Mattel Electronic Football, Big Trax, that crazy vacuum-powered Micronauts set, Stretch Armstrong, Kenner Star Wars vehicles, "Big Green Machine" arm-powered Big Wheels etc (my parents were pretty awesome). I hadn't heard "Don't Change" in almost 30 years. I still liked it. Now I listen to it frequently.

These Arms Are Mine - Otis Redding
Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Last Beat Of My Heart - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Hymn For The Dudes - Mott and the Hoople
One Small Day - Ultravox

From my iPhone 6:

The Thorn - Leaves' Eyes
Coat of Arms - Scar the Martyr
Goodnight Kiss - Dream Theater
Blacken the Cursed Sun - Lamb of God
Stars Die - Porcupine Tree

Cool story...I can certainly relate to the Kenner Star Wars toys, had a Big Trax, and definitely remember the Apple II and Stretch Armstrong even though I never had either. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Five for the midweek hump:

• Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
• Red Sun Rising - The Otherside
• Pink Floyd - Breathe in the Air
• Hozier - Take Me to Church
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Waiting

Lio - Amoureux solitaires
Ricchi e Poveri - Sarà Perché Ti Amo
Adriano Celentano - L'Unica Chance
Umberto Tozzi - Gloria
Raffaella Carrà - A Far L'Amore Comincia Tu (Liebelei)

Sex Gang Children-"Mauritia Mayer"
Funkdoobiest-"Rock On (Buckwild remix)"
Tangerine Dream-"Genesis"
Josephine Baker-"La Petite Tonkinoise"
Paul Revere and the Raiders-"Steppin Out"

Today's tunes...

• Finger Eleven - Gods of Speed
• Tears For Fears - Mothers Talk
• Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
• Rick Springfield - Love Somebody
• The Lazys - Black Rebel

The Pretenders - Talk of the Town
The Adicts - Love Sucks
The Germs - Strange Notes
Trajedy - Not Fucking Fodder
Iron Maiden - Two Minutes to Midnight

One of my favorite songs of all time. So. Good.

Save Us - Helloween
Node - Between the Buried and Me
Unforgivable - Evergrey
Eternal World - Crimson Glory
Demersal: Cognitive Dissonance - The Ocean

Tina Charles - Dance Little Lady Dance
Donna Summer - Down Deep Inside (Theme From The Deep)
Sheila B. Devotion - Love Me Baby
Penny McLean - Dance, Bunny Honey Dance
Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

Friday's Five:

• Blur - Song 2
• The Foo Fighters - My Hero
• Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face
• Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
• Big Wreck - The Oaf (My Love Gets Wasted)

Alessia Cara-"Here"
Butthole Surfers-"Something"
The Guess Who-"Undun"
DJ Shadow-"High Noon"
Diamanda Galas-"Gloomy Sunday"

Music from today's travels...

• Billy Talent - Try Honesty
• April Wine - You Could Have Been a Lady
• Barenaked Ladies - Do They Know It's Christmas?
• Deep Purple - Space Truckin'
• AC/DC - Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution