Old Man Songs

Recently uncovered a cd I made a number of years ago entitled Old Man Songs. Listening, I thought, "This is good stuff, these songs really sound good together. What the heck, I should share this." So here it is.

1. If You Tolerate This - Manic Street Preachers bbc live

2. Leave - R.E.M.

3. Overcome By Happiness - Pernice Brothers Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness by SubPop

4. Mission Bell - Stan Ridgway

5. I Want Someone Badly - Jeff Buckley with Shudder to Think

6. Blue - The Jayhawks

7. I Don't Get You At All - AA Sound System. Not on YouTube or Soundcloud but I contacted the man and it will be soon, so I can fix this.

go here please

8. Lost Highway - Hank Williams



9. Just Really Want to See You - Shudder to think featuring Mimi Parker & Alan Sparhawk (first love, last rites sdtk)

10. Speed of Love - John Doe

11. Men Just Leave - Glen Phillips

12. Erecting a Movie Star - Liz Phair

Sorry, not on YouTube or Soundcloud. so it doesn't really exist, does it? Go here for a taste.

13. She's a Jar - Wilco Wilco -She's A Jar by mud_hut

14. Nobody's Fault But My Own - Beck



15. Lullaby -

16. No Distance Left to Run - Blur creepy video, though... 17. Tokyo - Bruce Cockburn



18. Crowned in Chrome - Crooked Fingers



19. Fall at Your Feet - Crowded House

20. Baby Britain - Elliot Smith

21.Sexuality - kd lang

graphic at top of blog by Michael Douglas. No, not that Michael Douglas, a much more talented Michael Douglas.

New Crooked Fingers Tune Typhoon, Album Breaks in the Armor

New Crooked Fingers album Typhoon will be released October 11. First single Typhoon is pretty catchy, no?



Crooked Fingers - Typhoon by MergeRecords

Crooked Fingers - There's A Blue Light by ashgrayproclamation

Here's some older. class Crooked Fingers for ya.





Your Control - Crooked Fingers by Constant Artists

01 Crowned In Chrome - crooked fingers by studiohum

Crooked Fingers: Shelly's Winter Love (Merle Haggard cover) by TheMusicFile

Crooked Fingers - Every Dull Moment - Engineered by Brian Paulson by SoundofMusicRecording

Crooked Fingers - Under Pressure (Queen Cover) by wtfbtw

Crooked Fingers-Carrion Doves by FrankieMancini


Crooked Fingers by Eastern Fiction


04 Sleep All Summer (Crooked Fingers cover) (w St. Vincent) by lahorademandrake

Buy the new Crooked Fingers here.

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To the Moon!

The anniversary of humans landing on the moon passed us by this week, so I started thinking about how many songs refer to space or the moon. A random sample of cds close at hand told me...maybe too many. Do you think songwriters dream about what's about there more than others, or are we all fascinated by what we don't know?

Here's one from Crooked Fingers, Under Sad Stars, found on the the band's self-titled album.



Some technical difficulties sent my spacey playlist all wonky, but you can go here to grab the rest. You'll find:

The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
Possum Dixon - Crashing Your Planet
Scruffy the Cat - Kissing Galaxy
Eat - Red Moon
Bryan Ferry - Gemini Moon
Scruffy the Cat - Moons of Jupiter
Rupert Hine - The Wildest Wish to Fly
Crooked Fingers - Under Sad Stars
Pixies - Space (I Believe In)
Fountains of Wayne - Lost in Space
The Church - Under the Milky Way
The Church - Texas Moon

Of course, many people don't believe there ever was a moon landing. See the proof below. I wonder what Courtney Love thinks about it?

Crooked Fingers + Spoon = Good Eating

Crooked Fingers have released a digital-only ep available from CrookedFingers.com or iTunes. It contains the flavourful Your Control featuring Neko Case, as well as Run, Lieutenant, Run (Britt Daniel of Spoon doing a CF tune), Sweet Marie (Lambchop also doing a CF song), as well as Your Control (The Mae Shi Remix). Crooked Fingers are also heading out on a spring tour with Ms. Case.

Listen to Your Control at the band's MySpace page, or check out one of Scruffy's favourite tunes below.