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23 April 2006

Answer The Phone, Dummy! →[More:]

A theme set of YSI's.

Replacements - Answering Machine
Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone
Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line

and (completely unrelated, but kickass) bonus track:

Misfits - Where Eagles Dare

post by: jonmc at: 08:33 | 11 comments

How about Operator by Grateful Dead, Telephone Blues by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Phone Calls from the Dead by Meat Beat Manifesto, Call Me by Al Green, Please Call Home by The Allman Brothers, Alarm Call by Bjork, or even London Calling by The Clash?

posted by terrapin 23 April | 09:19

All great songs, terrapin, but these are more up my alley, and what I had on hand digitally and i didn't wanna go bananas.

posted by jonmc 23 April | 09:22

hey, at least I left off Blondie, dude

posted by terrapin 23 April | 09:36

I like Blondie, dude. They're part of the Bowery crew that epitomizes punk rawk to me. And they covered the Nerves song I posted above. And I remember seeing video of Debbie Harry performing in the 70's in a Brenda Starr t-shirt. There's a lady who understands cool. Plus there's this classic picture:

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by jonmc 23 April | 09:40

De La Soul - Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)

posted by box 23 April | 11:13

Yeah, Blondie is great. They are considered pretty serious in the pantheon of NYC post punk. And Debbie Harry is actually a very cool individual.

posted by Miko 23 April | 11:26

They are considered pretty serious in the pantheon of NYC post punk.

I wouldn't even bother with the 'post.' They were part of the original Ramones/Dictators/Talking Heads/Voidoids posse back in the day. And NYC and Detroit was where punk began, not London.

posted by jonmc 23 April | 11:32

Never said anything about not liking Blondie, but "Call Me" was a not their best song IMHO, and a little overplayed.

But my comment was that "Call Me" was a bit too obvious, and I had Al Green's song with that name already.

Sorry. Back to cleaning the house on this rainy Sunday.

posted by terrapin 23 April | 11:48

no love for tommy tutone, eh

posted by Wedge 23 April | 19:51

Aieee! The bane of my eighth grade year (although I spell it IE)!

posted by brujita 23 April | 22:49

Yo, I saw Tommy Tutone open up for Tom Petty when I was in grade school.

posted by Hugh Janus 24 April | 08:13

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