Cody Jams on Friday (Volume III)

Another random selection of songs from my iTunes playlist.

Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House) -- One of the members from a band I was in during college lent me a Crowded House CD. Great melodies, smooth grooves. Our band had two guys and a girl who could sing wonderful medleys. I played rhythm guitar and wrote some of the songs for the band. We might have had some minor success but our front man had no balls and was too scared to let us pick up any gigs for want of more rehearsal. That punk, Damon, still owes me $100 too -- which was a helluva lot of money that I could have used when I moved to NYC in 1996. What a punk.

If You Want Me to Stay (Sly & The Family Stone) -- Revolutionary shit back in the day. Of course, I was one year old when this jam hit. Funky, baby.

25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago) -- From the opening riff to the trumpets blaring, this is one catchy song. My father had this record and my brother used to sneak it out when Pop was working and put it on the turntable. It was this or our own "Up with People" (just kidding, we had KISS albums galore of our own -- I realize now why my parents were so disturbed by our incessant KISS obsession at the ages of 4 to 9).

A Dios le Pido (Juanes) -- Wonderful poppy latin groove. I gotta start working on my Spanish again some day.

Emerge (Fischerspooner) -- Dance jam that rocks.

Sample in a Jar (Phish) -- I know lots of Phish freaks who think this was their sell out song. I don't care, it's a great song. On a related note, gawd those spoiled ass rich white kids who follow Phish around are almost as annoying as those hippies who did the same with Grateful Dead. Get a life.

Kool Thing (Sonic Youth) -- I always feel like Sonic Youth is flipping the listener off.

Smile Like You Mean It (The Killers) -- Better than Duran Duran. Yeah, I said it.

Pure Morning (Placebo) -- "A friend who'll tease is better." Some great lines in this one.

Dueling Banjos (Eric Weissberg & Deliverance) -- Simply one of the catchiest, greatest songs ever. I actually get pumped up when I listen to it...better than a Metallica pump up song in some ways.

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