Here’s a discussion of my selections for Chris’ Geography Pop Quiz, Volume 8 of the Green Monkey Music Project.

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Bob Haggart & Ray Bauduc – Big Noise From Winnetka
I think I first heard this song when my dad played it for me eons ago. Some music he would play for me I’d like, some I wouldn’t like. I really dug this song. You might recognize it from the Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull. It was used there, but only briefly.

Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Off the great album Blonde On Blonde. I find myself often singing the chorus aloud (“Ohhhh mama!”).

The Ramones – 53rd & 3rd
Another classic Ramones tune, written by Dee Dee Ramone, supposedly about his time as a male prostitute, trying to earn some money to score drugs. Sadly, Dee Dee is no longer with us. Perhaps he’s hustling in that big street corner in the sky now.

Magnetic Fields – Come Back From San Francisco
A nice pretty song from their enormous collection, 69 Love Songs (hey this damned monkey mix is only 8 shy of that!).

Tom Verlaine – Stalingrad
This is a really nice song by the singer/guitarist/songwriter from Television. He has an odd but compelling voice. Off the otherwise unspectacular solo album The Wonder.

Wire – Map Ref. 41N 93W
Oh, I’m so clever! I’m using a song that has map coordinates in its title. This is a strange, catchy pop song off their third album, 154. The location of the map coordinates is about twenty or so miles southeast of Des Moines, Iowa — I don’t know what the significance of that is.

Tino Contreras – Brazil
Brazil is one of the best damned songs ever written. It’s just absolutely wonderful. I don’t know of a definitive version of the song, but this one is damned tasty.

Thanks again to Chris for guest-hosting this volume. I’m looking forward to other Green Monkey Masters also getting their opportunity to host a mix.

Track Listing Complete!

01 – Joe Williams – Goin’ To Chicago Blues [chris]
02 – Guster – Amsterdam [chris]
03 – Donovan – Sunny South Kensington [chris]
04 – Fats Domino – Mardi Gras In New Orleans [chris]
05 – Lionel Hampton & Oscar Peterson – Indiana [chris]
06 – XTC – It’s Nearly Africa [chris]
07 – John Linnell – Michigan [chris]
08 – Fats Domino – Walkin’ to New Orleans [dguzman]
09 – Bangles – Going Down to Liverpool [dguzman]
10 – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lodi [dguzman]
11 – Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman [dguzman]
12 – Michelle Shocked – Anchorage [dguzman]
13 – Missing Persons – Walking in L.A. [dguzman]
14 – Tony Bennett – I Left My Heart in San Francisco [dguzman]
15 – John Hiatt – Memphis in the Meantime [beckeye]
16 – Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria – Florida [beckeye]
17 – Juliana Hatfield Three – Feelin’ Massachusetts [beckeye]
18 – Mason Jennings – New York City [beckeye]
19 – Billy Joel – Allentown [beckeye]
20 – Duran Duran – Rio [beckeye]
21 – The Bogmen – Mexico [beckeye]
22 – Do Make Say Think – Chinatown [manx]
23 – Stereolab – Outer Bongolia [manx]
24 – Pink Floyd – Grantchester Meadows [manx]
25 – Tortoise – Eros [manx]
26 – Sufjan Stevens – Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in his Hair [manx]
27 – Lloyd Cole and the Commotions – Charlotte Street [johnnyyen]
28 – R.E.M. – (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville [johnnyyen]
29 – Brook Benton – Rainy Night In Georgia [johnnyyen]
30 – Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska [johnnyyen]
31 – Red Rockers – China [johnnyyen]
32 – Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Born In Chicago [johnnyyen]
33 – The Blasters – Hollywood Bed [johnnyyen]
34 – Ben Kwelller – Commerce, TX [gizmorox]
35 – Okkervil River – Savannah Smiles [gizmorox]
36 – Pedro the Lion – Arizona [gizmorox]
37 – Wilco – Via Chicago [gizmorox]
38 – David Bowie – This is not America [gizmorox]
39 – Simon & Garfunkel – Only Living Boy in New York [gizmorox]
40 – The Clash – London Calling [gizmorox]
41 – Tom Waits – Singapore [bubs]
42 – Bob Dylan – Mozambique [bubs]
43 – Marty Robbins – Streets of Laredo [bubs]
44 – Elvis Presley – Viva Las Vegas [bubs]
45 – Bill Monroe – Blue Moon Of Kentucky [bubs]
46 – The Pogues – Wild Cats of Kilkenny [bubs]
47 – Lyle Lovett – That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas) [bubs]
48 – Nellie McKay – Manhattan Avenue [moxie]
49 – Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street [moxie]
50 – Dixie Chicks – Lubbock or Leave It [moxie]
51 – Led Zeppelin – Going to California [moxie]
52 – Erasure – Blue Savannah [moxie]
53 – Marc Broussard – Lonely Night in Georgia [moxie]
54 – Train – Mississippi [moxie]
55 – Bob Haggart & Ray Bauduc – Big Noise From Winnetka [splotchy]
56 – Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again [splotchy]
57 – The Ramones – 53rd & 3rd [splotchy]
58 – Magnetic Fields – Come Back From San Francisco [splotchy]
59 – Tom Verlaine – Stalingrad [splotchy]
60 – Wire – Map Ref. 41N 93W [splotchy]
61 – Tino Contreras – Brazil [splotchy]