SUYF! – Playlist 6/27/21

Songs inspired by lawn sprinklers. R..I.P. Okay.

  • ARCHIVES
  • Hot Hot Hot – Buster Poindexter and His Banshee of Blue
  • Heat Wave – Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Weston and His Orchestra
  • Too Darn Hot – Ella Fitzgerald
  • It’s Too Hot for Words – Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson
  • (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
  • Hot In The City – Billy Idol
  • Too Hot – The Kinks
  • Too Hot – Kool & The Gang
  • Too Hot – The Specials
  • City Too Hot – Lee “Scratch” Perry
  • 96 Degrees In The Shade – Third World
  • Another Scorcher – The Viscounts, The Tennors, Jackie Bernard
  • Hot Girl Summer – Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla $ign
  • Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
  • Hot in Herre – Nelly
  • Drop It Like It’s Hot – Snoop Dogg, Pharell Williams
  • Burning Up – Madonna
  • Hot Hot Hot!!! – The Cure
  • Some Like It Hot – The Power Station
  • Burning Love – Elvis Presley
  • Burning Down The House – Tom Jones, The Cardigans
  • Burnin’ – Daft Punk
  • Long Hot Summer – Jimi Hendrix
  • Burn – Nine Inch Nails
  • Beds Are Burning – Midnight Oil
  • Burnin’ For You – Blue Oyster Cult
  • Burn The Rain – Kurt Cobain
  • Burning Down – R.E.M.
  • Cool Jerk – The Go Go’s
  • Three Cool Cats – The Coasters
  • Cool Down The Pace – Gregory Issacs
  • Cool Runnings – Duane Stephenson
  • Cooling In Jamaica – Julian Marley
  • Hot You’re Cool – General Public
  • Cool It Now – New Edition
  • Cool Water – Marty Robbins
  • Cool – Leonard Bernstein, Tucker Smith

SUYF! – Playlist 6/20/21

Songs inspired by commemoration and celebration. R.I.P. Angela.

a Woman and a Sister, a Person
  • ARCHIVES
  • Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
  • No More Auction Block – Bob Dylan
  • Redemption Song – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Slave Driver – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Slavery Days – Burning Spear
  • Chains – Black & Blues
  • When the Revolution Comes – The Last Poets
  • John Brown’s Body – Paul Robeson
  • Sanders of the River – Paul Robeson
  • Go Down Moses – Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver Choir, The Allstars
  • Wade in the Water – Ella Jenkins
  • Wade in the Water – Ramsey Lewis
  • Song of the Underground Railroad – John Coltrane
  • Oh, Freedom – The Montgomery Gospel Trio
  • When Will We Be Paid – The Staples Singers
  • Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul? – Gil Scott-Heron
  • Mississippi Goddamn- Nina Simone
  • The Death of Emmett Till – Bob Dylan
  • Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution – The Last Poets
  • Fight the Power – Public Enemy
  • This is America – Childish Gambino
  • Home is Where the Hatred Is – Gil Scott-Heron
  • Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye
  • The Ghetto – Donny Hathaway
  • Chocolate City – Parliament
  • Say It Loud – I’m Black and Proud – James Brown
  • Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
  • Slave – The Rolling Stones
  • Give the People What They Want – The O’Jays
  • We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue – Curtis Mayfield
  • (For God’s Sake) Give More Power to The People – The Chi-Lites
  • Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
  • A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
  • People Get Ready – Aretha Franklin
  • Freedom – Charles Mingus
  • Summertime – Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald

SUYF! – Playlist 6/6/21

Songs inspired by rockin’ and rollin’ unidentified objects!

  • ARCHIVE
  • Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer – Ella Fitzgerald
  • Destination Moon – Dinah Washington
  • Here Come the Martian Martians – Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
  • Flying Saucer – Little Walter
  • Rocket 69 – Todd Rhodes, Connie Allen
  • Flying Saucers Rock & Roll – Robert Gordon, Link Wray
  • Out Of This World – The Detroit Cobras
  • Zero Zero UFO – Ramones
  • I Got Abducted by a UFO – The Lillingtons
  • Alien She – Bikini Kill
  • Astro Zombies – Misfits
  • Books About UFOs – Hüsker Dü
  • Planet Claire – The B-52’s
  • 53 Miles West of Venus – The B-52’s
  • Bike Ride to the Moon – The Dukes of Stratosphear
  • Unfunky UFO- Parliament
  • Mothership Connection (Star Child) – Parliament
  • UFO – Sun Ra
  • Planet Queen – T. Rex
  • I Made Love to a Martian – Mustard Plug
  • Sex Dwarf – Soft Cell
  • Homo Sapiens Extraterrestrials – Space Tribe, Volcano
  • Monkeys in Space – Akira the Don, Joe Rogan
  • Space Monkeys On The Radio – Aaron Leister
  • Space Monkey – Patti Smith
  • My Flying Saucer – Billy Bragg, Wilco
  • It Came Out Of The Sky – Credence Clearwater Revival
  • Waiting For The UFO’s – Graham Parker
  • Mr. Spaceman – The Byrds
  • Starman – David Bowie
  • Loving The Alien – David Bowie
  • Alien – Die Antwoord
  • Subterranean Homesick Alien – Radiohead
  • Spacelab – Kraftwerk
  • Planet Rock – Afrika Bambaataa, The Soulsonic Force
  • Flying Saucers – Nina Hagen
  • Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft – Carpenters
  • Interplanet Janet – Schoolhouse Rock

SUYF! – Playlist 5/30/21

Songs inspired by everything that Summer is about. Thank you my dear friends! Happy Birthday Richard! Keep on huffin’ the dinosaur!

  • ARCHIVE
  • Summertime – Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
  • Summertime – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
  • Summer – War
  • In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry
  • Hot Fun in the Summertime – Sly & The Family Stone
  • Hot Child in the City – The Nick Gilder Sweeney Todd Group
  • Hot Love – T. Rex
  • Feels Like Summer – Childish Gambino
  • Veranda Suspensa – Céu
  • Suddenly Last Summer – The Motels
  • Cruel Summer – Bananarama
  • Rock Lobster – B-52’s
  • Misirlou – Dick Dale and his Del-Tones
  • In the Sun – Blondie
  • In the Summer – Fastbacks
  • Rockaway Beach – Ramones
  • Celebrated Summer – Hüsker Dü
  • Summertime Blues – The Who
  • Summer Babe – Pavement
  • Don’t Touch My Bikini – The Halo Benders
  • A-Punk – Vampire Weekend
  • Someday – The Strokes
  • Here Comes the Summer – The Undertones
  • Breeze – Lush
  • Summer Breeze – Seals and Crofts
  • A Summer Song – Chad & Jeremy
  • That Summer Feeling – Jonathan Richman
  • Summer Nights – John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
  • 4th of July (Sandy) – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
  • Summer, Highland Falls – Billy Joel
  • Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer – Nat King Cole
  • Summer Holiday – Cliff Richard, The Shadows
  • Summer Samba (So Nice) – Astrid Gilberto, Walter Wanderley
  • Summer of ’69 – Tim Timebomb
  • Long Hot Summer – Jimi Hendrix
  • Could You Be Loved – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Positive Vibration – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Your Summer Dream – The Beach Boys
  • Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys
  • Theme from “The Endless Summer” – The Sandals
  • The Boys of Summer – Don Henley
  • Ice Cream Man – Van Halen
What happens at the Baranof, stays at the Baranof!” – Puppet Master 5/29/21

SUYF! – Playlist 5/23/21

Songs inspired by a day of sun. Happy 80th Birthday tomorrow, Bob!

  • ARCHIVE
  • Sunday Morning – The Velvet Underground
  • Good Day Sunshine – The Beatles
  • Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash
  • Everyday is Like Sunday – Morrissey
  • Here Comes The Sun – Ritchie Havens
  • Here Comes The Sun – Nina Simone
  • Sunrise – Norah Jones
  • Sun Is Shining – Bob Marley & The Wailers
  • Sunshine On My Shoulders – John Denver
  • I’ll Follow The Sun – The Beatles
  • Sun King – The Beatles
  • Mambo Sun – T. Rex
  • Malibu Love Nest – Luna
  • Up on the Sun – Meat Puppets
  • Island in the Sun – Weezer
  • Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks
  • Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon – Queen
  • Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon – Madeleine Peyroux
  • A Place In The Sun – Stevie Wonder
  • You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder
  • Sunday Sermon – Booker T. & the M.G.’s
  • On The Sunny Side Of The Street – Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins
  • When Sunny Gets Blue – McCoy Tyner
  • Sunny – Bobby Hebb
  • Who Loves the Sun – The Velvet Underground
  • California Sun – Ramones
  • The Sun Always Shines on T.V. – a-ha
  • Invisible Sun – The Police
  • Waiting on a Sunny Day – Musica Para Bebes
  • Hard Sun – Eddie Vedder
  • Saturday Sun – Nick Drake
  • Waiting for the Sun – The Doors
  • Let The Sunshine In (Reprise) – The 5th Dimension
  • Sunshine – Mos Def
  • Sunblind – Fleet Foxes
  • Sunsetz – Cigarettes After Sex
  • Sundown Syndrome – Tame Impala
  • Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot
  • Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
  • You Are My Sunshine – Johnny Cash
  • That Lucky Old Sun – Bob Dylan
  • Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows – Lesley Gore

SUYF! – Playlist 5/16/21

Songs inspired by freakin’ out! Get your shots, strip the mask and get freakin’!

  • ARCHIVE
  • Le Freak – CHIC
  • Super Freak – Rick James
  • Get Ur Freak On – Missy Elliot
  • Freak Like Me – Santigold
  • Freak Like Me – Adina Howard
  • Freaks of the Industry – Digital Underground
  • Freaks Come Out at Night – Whodini
  • Freak-A-Zoid – Midnight Star
  • B-Boys Makin’ With The Freak Freak – Beastie Boys
  • Psychobilly Freakout – The Reverend Horton Heat
  • Freakin Out – Death
  • Freak Magnet – L7
  • Freak Magnet – Violent Femmes
  • Freak – Silverchair
  • Freak Train – Kurt Vile
  • Freak Scene – Dinosaur Jr.
  • Bleed the Freak – Alice in Chains
  • Pinhead – The Ramones
  • Hungry Freaks, Daddy – The Mothers of Invention
  • Freakin’ At the Freakers’ Ball – Dr. Hook
  • Freak Flag – Southern Culture on the Skids
  • White Trash Freaks – Rob Zombie
  • Hollywood Freaks – Beck
  • I Need a Freak – Sexual Harrassment
  • I Need Love – LL Cool J
  • I Need Drugs – Necro
  • Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Ian Dury
  • Be Gay, Do Drugs, Hail Satan – Super Cassette
  • I Did Acid With Caroline – Jad Fair, Daniel Johnston
  • 88 Lines About 44 Women – The Nails
  • Sensitive Artist – King Missle
  • Echo Beach – Martha and the Muffins
  • Having an Average Weekend – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
  • Punk Rock Girl – The Dead Milkmen
  • Part Time Punks – Television Personalities
  • American Music – Violent Femmes
  • Whole Wide World – Wreckless Eric
  • Apeman – The Kinks
  • Homosapien – Pete Shelley
  • I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar – Jonathan Richman
Gabba gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us

SUYF! – Playlist 5/9/21

Songs inspired by sitting still. Happy New Year Robyn! Get well Lucinda. Don’t forget to ask Mom how she got to be a Mom.

  • ARCHIVE
  • Don’t Change – INXS
  • Happy Birthday – Altered Images
  • Unhappy Birthday – The Smiths
  • The Book of Love – Peter Gabriel
  • Modern Love – David Bowie
  • Fantastic Voyage – David Bowie
  • Blackstar – David Bowie
  • Heroes – Peter Gabriel
  • Devil Rides Backwards – R.E.M.
  • Life And How To Live It – R.E.M.
  • Sitting Still – R.E.M.
  • Sitting Still – Tony Montana
  • Sitting Still – Sofia Härdig
  • Sezimary (Sitting Still) – Katsa
  • Games Without Frontiers – Peter Gabriel
  • In The City – The Jam
  • Never Say Never – Romeo Void
  • Head Over Heels – The Go-Go’s
  • Let’s Go Trippin’ – The Beach Boys
  • Sitting in the Midday Sun – The Kinks
  • In My Room – The Beach Boys
  • My Body Is A Cage – Peter Gabriel
  • Weird Little Birthday Girl – Happyness
  • I Have a Woman Inside My Soul – Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful Girl – Robyn Hitchcock
  • Queen Bitch – David Bowie
  • I Can’t Give Everything Away – David Bowie
  • Jubilee – Patti Smith
  • Rock & Roll – The Velvet Underground

SUYF! – Playlist 5/2/21

Songs inspired by verse versus verse dancing around the Maypole.

  • ARCHIVE
  • The ‘Layla’ Riff to Todi – Amit Chaudhuri
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues – Bob Dylan
  • America – Allen Ginsberg
  • Subtext – John Fox, Harold Budd
  • Fingernail Poem – Alan Watts
  • Gangster Poem – Mack 10
  • Farewell to the God of Plague – Zhang Yingzhe
  • I Am a Reasonable Man – Charles Bukowski
  • I Knew a Woman – Theodore Roethke
  • Go Tell the Women – Grinderman
  • Underwear – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas
  • Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town – e.e. cummings
  • The Red Wheelbarrow – William Carlos Williams
  • The Gift Outright – Robert Frost
  • A Poem on the Underground Wall – Simon & Garfunkel
  • Clem Snide – William S. Burroughs
  • The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious – Ornament & Verbrechen
  • Canto #38 – Ezra Pound
  • I Have Known Rivers – Langston Hughes
  • ‘B’ Movie – Gil Scott-Heron
  • The Last Hotel & Some of Dharma – Jack Kerouac
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man – Ogden Nash
  • 1959 – Patti Smith
  • May Day – Patti Smith
  • June’s Poem – June Carter Cash
  • Daddy – Sylvia Plath
  • Salt on a Slug – Black Flag
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – T.S. Eliot
  • Dream – Gregory Corso
  • Ho Chi Minh – The Last Poets, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  • If I Ran the Zoo – Dr. Seuss
  • Ring Around the Rosie

SUYF! – Playlist 4/25/21

Songs inspired by four beers, two shots and a friend. R.I.P. Shock G and Jim.

  • ARCHIVE
  • 300 Conejos – Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • São Jorge – Hermato Pascoal
  • Celluloid Héros – The Kinks
  • The Good’s Gone – The Who
  • The Gun and the Bible – Negativland
  • Moisture – The Residents
  • Telepathy – Swans
  • Mother_Father – Swans
  • Super-Electric – Stereolab
  • Things Happen – Coil
  • Too Drunk to Fuck – Nouvelle Vague, Camille
  • My Favourite Beatles Song is Octopus’s Garden – the internet band
  • Octopus’s Garden – The Beatles
  • Octonauts Theme Song – Kid Jr.
  • Yellow Submarine – Rockabye Baby!
  • War Pigs – Black Sabbath
  • Am I Going Insane – Black Sabbath
  • If the Kids are United – Sham 69
  • We’re Coming Back – Cock Sparrer
  • Flowers of Romance – Public Image Ltd.
  • There is a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
  • Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You) – Quilloughby
  • Mexican Radio – Celtic Frost
  • R.A.M.O.N.E.S. – Motorhead
  • Out of Focus – Love Battery
  • Second Skin – The Gits
  • Celebrity Skin – Hole
  • Love Buzz – Nirvana
  • I Ran Away – Dinosaur Jr.
  • Blank Generation – Richard Hell
  • Domingo – Titãs
  • I Got The Blues – Come
  • Cosmic Dancer – T. Rex
  • Tarot Will Teach You / Burn Your Money – Alejandro Jodorowsky
Thank you Ju!