Here’s a discussion of my selections for the Numb3r5 mix, Volume 14 of the Green Monkey Music Project.

Four Thousand Days – Luna
The best song off their later album The Days Of Our Nights. If you can resist singing the chorus “Remember, remember…” out loud when you hear it, you’re a stronger person than I.

Every 1’s A Winner – Hot Chocolate
MizSplotchy introduced me to this band when we first started dating. She had a 70’s music compilation that had the wonderful “You Sexy Thing” on it. If you’re not familiar with them, they are a great, funky band worth checking out.

From A Motel 6 #1 – Yo La Tengo
A nice instrumental track from their two-disc outtakes/rarities collection Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo

106 Beats That – Wire
I dip once again into Wire’s debut album Pink Flag for a short, sweet track.

Expresso 2222 – Gilberto Gil
The title song from a great album. Wonderful, high-energy song.

The Thousandth and Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole – Captain Beefheart
The last song off the last album of Captain Beefheart.

There was a gurgling and googling heard
A tenth of the way up the pole.
Approaching was a small child
With Statue of Liberty doll.

Volume 14 of the Green Monkey Music Project is completed and available for download!

If the participants of this mix want to discuss their own selections, please feel free to do so! I’ll put a pointer on this post if you end up posting about it on your own blog (or you could always just add comments here, I suppose).

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Rules and Theme Details

The Participants Discuss Their Selections:
Allen L!
Dale!
SamuraiFrog!
Bull!
Splotchy!

The Songs:
All of Allen L’s songs
All of Dale’s songs
All of SamuraiFrog’s songs
All of GKL’s songs
All of the Ultramundane’s songs
All of Bull’s songs
All of Flannery Alden’s songs
All of Splotchy’s songs

Track Listing
01 – My Hero, Zero – Lemonheads [allenl]
02 – One More Minute – Weird Al [allenl]
03 – Death on 2 Legs – Queen [allenl]
04 – Three Small Words – Josie and the Pussycats [allenl]
05 – Sixty-eight Guns – The Alarm [allenl]
06 – Julia, we don’t live in the 60’s – The Indelicates [allenl]
07 – 2:19 – Tom Waits [dale]
08 – 40,000 Years B.C. – Gyan [dale]
09 – 96 Tears – The Stranglers [dale]
10 – 25 Minutes To Go – Johnny Cash [dale]
11 – 10 Fingers 11 Toes – The Ponys [dale]
12 – 5 and 1/2 Minute Hallway – Poe [dale]
13 – 100 Years Ago – Rolling Stones [samuraifrog]
14 – Care of Cell #44 – Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs [samuraifrog]
15 – 4 AM – Suggs [samuraifrog]
16 – Swords of a Thousand Men – Tenpole Tudor [samuraifrog]
17 – 1234 – Jack Penate [samuraifrog]
18 – One Hundred Years from Now (Gram Parsons vocal) – The Byrds [samuraifrog]
19 – Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams [GKL]
20 – Edge of Seventeen – Stevie Nicks [GKL]
21 – If I Had a $1,000,000 – Bare Naked Ladies [GKL]
22 – Four Leaf Clover – Abra Moore [GKL]
23 – #41 – Dave Matthews Band [GKL]
24 – 6th Avenue Heartache – Wallflowers [GKL]
25 – Strawberry Letter 23 – Brothers Johnson [ultramundane]
26 – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer – George Thorogood [ultramundane]
27 – Take Five – Dave Brubeck [ultramundane]
28 – 10 A.M. Automatic – The Black Keys [ultramundane]
29 – $100 Groom – Paul Westerberg [ultramundane]
30 – Love Me Two Times – The Doors [ultramundane]
31 – Zero – Smashing Pumpkins [bull]
32 – Three Sisters – Jim Carroll Band [bull]
33 – Four Sticks – Led Zeppelin [bull]
34 – Six Pack – Black Flag [bull]
35 – Louis Quatorze – Bow Wow Wow [bull]
36 – 22 Acacia Avenue – Iron Maiden [bull]
37 – Four Minutes To Save the World – Justin Timberlake/Madonna [flanneryalden]
38 – 500 Miles – The Proclaimers [flanneryalden]
39 – 1999 – Prince [flanneryalden]
40 – 99 Red Balloons – Nena [flanneryalden]
41 – Just the Two of Us – Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr [flanneryalden]
42 – Gimme Three Steps – Lynyrd Skynyrd [flanneryalden]
43 – Four Thousand Days – Luna [splotchy]
44 – Every 1’s A Winner – Hot Chocolate [splotchy]
45 – From A Motel 6 #1 – Yo La Tengo [splotchy]
46 – 106 Beats That – Wire [splotchy]
47 – Expresso 2222 – Gilberto Gil [splotchy]
48 – The Thousandth and Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole – Captain Beefheart [splotchy]