I don’t know what year it is. You can look it up.

I’m as surprised as you are that I, who goes on at length whenever he talks about film that he knows nothing about film, remember film details that granuarly years later, though I couldn’t tell you who was in the original. OOPS! I DID IT AGAIN! I PLAYED WITH YOUR HEART! DUH DUH BABY BABY! (That video was the debut of her boob job. Does she still deny having it? Everyone points to the “Baby One More Time” video for comparison, but she was 16, right?)

Shows you the power of passive exposure to popular culture, and of alliteration. Makes it all the odder that I had never heard the Gnarls Barkley song, or “Home” (that 2013? song called the worst ever that supposedly was ubiquitous, though I didn’t have cable at the time and don’t listen to rock or pop radio), or even “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” until a few years ago, despite my living on oldies radio (WBIG-FM 100.3, now the classic rock station) when I was seven years old, though I can’t remember how it goes so maybe it just never left an impression on me even then.

Babble hit parade! Five big songs at five! It’s Tabernacular! I missed my calling as a college DJ. I’d make an internet radio show but nobody would listen to it. Plus I’d need a good microphone – or any microphone, for that matter.

DAVID ALLAN COE - “ROCK AND ROLL FEVER”
From the second dirty album, but not a dirty song at all. Just wonderfully evoking the redneck, wake-up-on-the-couch-with-beer-cans-on-the-floor, chaw-tobacka-chaw-tobacka-chaw-tobacka-spit vibes. Killer guitar throughout. The first side of the album is actually non-explicit: this, a song about motorcycles, “Nr Fr”, a slow blues grind about a stripper, and a cover of an old rock and roll song.

DANNY & THE JUNIORS - “ROCK AND ROLL IS HERE TO STAY”
I loved this song as a kid but it seems comparatively unknown. Their earlier song “At the Hop” is better known even though it’s the inferior song, without the giddy key-lifting in “Rock and Roll”, perhaps because of its quaint, Happy-Days title and subject matter.

JAN & DEAN - “SURF CITY”
Still better than any song the Beach Boys did until later ‘64, and yes I know Brian Wilson co-wrote it. LOL, Dean (backing vocals, harmonies) is such a dork – I don’t know if he was meant to be the goofoff sidekick or if people actually thought he was cool in 1963. Also LOL at their skateboard exits.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN - “KILL SURF CITY”
Actually one of my favorite early J&MC tracks. They had always worn their mid-’60s influences on their sleeves, though never so proudly openly as here, although they would later get more proudly open, in a track that would get the school administration involved if played in a school. Also, you’d be trespassing in a school.

DURUFLÉ - REQUIEM, OP. 9
Let me tell you a story – about two hours ago I landed a bag, smoked two bowls with no tolerance, lay down in front of the speakers and played this as loud as decency would allow, and had one of the sublime experiences of my life. This will always be a treasured composition.