Monday, July 14, 2008

Fortress of Music-tude!

You want music dork? I give you music dork: I've yet to review Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, but I have compiled a soundtrack that accounts for every popular music reference in the book. So if you want some bonus flavor to your poolside reading, track these puppies down and give 'em a record-player whirl while you take in the tale of Dylan & Mingus. Warning: the soundtrack as-is is a solid 12 hours long.

1969 Jackson 5 I Want You Back
1967 The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1970 The Beatles Let It Be
1974 Rufus & Chaka Khan Tell Me Something Good
1972 Bill Withers Use Me
1971 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends Never Ending Song Of Love
1967 Miriam Makeba Pata Pata
1972 Carly Simon You're So Vain
1967 Young Holt Trio Wack Wack
1968 Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Inflated Tear
1975 Esther Phillips Black-Eyed Blues
1973 The Main Ingredient You Can Call Me Rover
1975 Shirley & Company Shame, Shame, Shame
1975 Pete Wingfield Eighteen With A Bullet
1976 Johnnie Taylor Disco Lady
1976 The Miracles Love Machine, Pt. 1
1966 Ray Charles Let's Go Get Stoned
1976 Rose Royce Car Wash
1972 The Spinners I'll Be Around
1976 Wild Cherry Play That Funky Music
1976 Steve Miller Band Fly Like an Eagle
1975 Gary Wright Dream Weaver
1975 C.W. McCall Convoy
1975 Maxine Nightingale Right Back Where We Started From
1976 Starland Vocal Band Afternoon Delight
1977 Marvin Gaye Got To Give It Up (Part 1)
1974 Babe Ruth The Mexican
1973 Fatback Band Fatbackin'
1974 Alvin Cash & The Registers Stone Thing (Part 1)
1976 La Pregunta Shangri La
1974 MFSB Love Is The Message
1964 Eric Dolphy Gazzellioni
1956 Sonny Rollins You Don't Know What Love Is
1969 The Beatles Oh! Darling
1978 Con Funk Shun Ffun
1977 Earth Wind & Fire Serpentine Fire
1971 Three Dog Night Old Fashioned Love Song
1966 Nina Simone Nobody's Fault But Mine
1954 Modern Jazz Quartet One Bass Hit
1976 Rhythm Heritage Theme From S.W.A.T.
1971 Dennis Coffey Scorpio
1978 Bootsy Collins Bootzilla
1974 Ohio Players Fire
1973 Sly & the Family Stone Que Sera Sera
1973 Frank Zappa Montana
1978 Devo (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
1959 Tom Lehrer Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
1978 Steve Martin King Tut
1973 Cheech & Chong Basketball Jones (Featuring Tyrone Shoelaces)
1969 Led Zeppelin Good Times Bad Times
1967 Jimi Hendrix Fire
1967 The Doors Love Me Two Times
1980 Parlet Help From My Friends
1978 Cheap Trick Surrender
1978 The Clash Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
1974 Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information
1973 Donny Hathaway Come Little Children
1979 Talking Heads Cities
1979 The Clash I'm So Bored with the U.S.A.
1978 Foxy Get Off
1975 The Spinners They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)
1979 The Fatback Band Kim Tim III (Personality Jock)
1976 Ramones Let´s Dance
1977 Richard Hell & The Voidoids Blank Generation
1978 Tom Robinson Band 2-4-6-8 Motorway
1973 Brian Eno Cindy Tells Me
1974 Ray Stevens The Streak
1974 Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting
1979 The Sugar Hill Gang Rapper's Delight
1977 Fleetwood Mac The Chain
1979 Stevie Wonder Same Old Story
1967 Aretha Franklin Respect
1977 The Sex Pistols Submission
1977 The Heartbreakers Born to Lose
1978 Prince Soft And Wet
1973 The Who The Real Me
1973 New York Dolls Personality Crisis
1972 Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes
1972 Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side
1980 Talking Heads Crosseyed and Painless
1977 Bunny Sigler Let Me Party With You (Party-Party-Party)
1973 O.V. Wright I Don't Know Why
1967 James Carr The Dark End of the Street
1966 Four Tops Reach Out I'll Be There
1962 The Miracles You've Really Got A Hold On Me
1971 The Temptations Just My Imagination
1964 The Supremes Baby Love
1959 The Drifters There Goes My Baby
1960 James Brown Bewildered
1958 Jackie Wilson Lonely Teardrops
1964 Solomon Burke Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
1966 James Brown It's A Man's Man's Man's World
1961 The Five Royales Dedicated To the One I Love
1965 Sam Cooke Jesus Gave Me Water
1972 The O'Jays Love Train
1973 Marvin Gaye What's Going On
1970 Curtis Mayfield Move On Up
1972 Al Green Love And Happiness
1975 The Stylistics Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)
1970 The Delfonics Didn't I Blow Your Mind
1975 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Wake Up Everybody (Part 1)
1976 The Manhattans Kiss & Say Goodbye
1969 The Spinners Where is That Girl
1984 Meat Puppets Lake Of Fire
1999 Ron Sexsmith Tears Behind The Shades
1975 Brian Eno Sky Saw
1972 Bill Withers Lonely Town, Lonely Street
1965 Sam Cooke A Change Is Gonna Come
1970 Curtis Mayfield We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
1969 Johnny Adams Reconsider Me
1998 Lucinda Williams Can't Let Go
1954 Johnny Ace Pledging My Love
2001 Gillian Welch Elvis Presley Blues
1960 Little Jimmy Scott Everybody's Somebody's Fool
1949 Little Esther Double Crossing Blues
1999 Dump The Words Get Stuck In My Throat
1988 The Go-Betweens Streets Of Your Town
2002 The Blind Boys of Alabama People Get Ready
1967 The Beach Boys Heroes and Villains
1977 Television Marquee Moon
1973 Ann Peebles I Can't Stand The Rain
1967 Bar Kays Soul Finger
1975 Hot Chocolate You Sexy Thing
1969 Syl Johnson Is It Because I'm Black?
1975 War Why Can't We Be Friends?
1975 Kool & The Gang Summer Madness
1983 The Gap Band Outstanding
1974 Barry White You're The First, The Last, My Everything
1956 Johnny Ray Just Walkin' In The Rain
1964 Bob Dylan Chimes Of Freedom
1970 Eddie Holman Hey There Lonely Girl
1979 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Cruisin'
1979 Prince I Wanna Be Your Lover
1970 Van Morrison Crazy Love
1972 Albert King Don't Burn Down The Bridge
1964 The Supremes Come See About Me
1965 Elvis Presley Hi-Heel Sneakers
1993 Sheryl Crow Strong Enough
1982 The dB's Amplifier
1992 R.E.M. Drive
1999 Beck Nicotine & Gravy
1988 N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton
1953 The Prisonaires Just Walkin' In The Rain
1982 Central Line Walking Into Sunshine
1968 Van Morrison Astral Weeks
1968 The Grateful Dead (live) Saint Stephen (Live)
1980 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Enola Gay
1972 David Bowie Soul Love
1981 Rick James Super Freak
1973 The Who I'm One
1980 The Residents Amber
1977 Wire Mannequin
1978 Devo Mongoloid
1974 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
1988 The Psychedelic Furs All That Money Wants
1979 Ian Dury And The Blockheads Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
1966 Otis Redding Try A Little Tenderness
1973 Gladys Knight And The Pips Midnight Train To Georgia
1964 Maxine Brown Oh No, Not My Baby
1966 Howard Tate Ain't Nobody Home
1986 Run-D.M.C. Walk This Way
1967 The Velvet Underground I'm Waiting for the Man
1975 Bob Dylan Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
1966 The Godz Lay in the Sun
1966 Lee Dorsey Working In The Coal Mine
1972 Arlo Guthrie The City of New Orleans
1962 Bob Dylan Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
1960 John Coltrane Giant Steps
1968 Tommy James & The Shondells Crimson & Clover
1975 Teddy Pendergrass Bad Luck
1969 The Shaggs Philosophy Of The World
1963 Charles Mingus Solo Dancer
1960 Bobby "Blue" Bland I Pity The Fool
1956 Little Willie John Fever
1984 The Go-Betweens Bachelor Kisses
1980 Kurtis Blow The Breaks
1982 The Sugarhill Gang 8th Wonder
1971 Curtis Mayfield Stare and Stare
1971 Curtis Mayfield Stone Junkie
1981 Laurie Anderson O Superman
1975 Patti Smith Redondo Beach
1980 Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime
1975 Brian Eno Golden Hours

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