Songs Not By They Might Be Giants

Unless otherwise indicated, links are to YouTube; “by” means “performed by”; and you really should visit the highlighted links.

Songs you consistently like:

• Subway Joe, by Joe Bataan
• Leyendecker, by Battles
• Super Disco Breakin’, by the Beastie Boys
• Chicago Falcon, by the Budos Band
• Old Chunk of Coal, by Johnny Cash
• Wolverton Mountain, by Claude King
• Up-tempo songs by the Cure (e.g., In Between Days, Why Can’t I Be You?, Friday I’m In Love, Close to Me, Just Like Heaven…)
• “Chu chu chu song” (a/k/a +81), by Deerhoof
• Jingle Bells, in any form
• Let’s Go, by Medeski, Martin & Wood
• Thunder Chicken, by the Mighty Imperials
• Pretty Pretty Priya, by Anand Prayag & Chorus
• Itsy Bitsy Spider, by Ramona the Pest (you can hear a bit of it here [not YouTube], but the sample ends before the song reaches full howling riot grrrl)
• Pick It Up, Lay It in the Cut, by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
• Low Rider, by War
• Amen, Brother, by the Winstons
• Senses Working Overtime, by XTC

Songs I figured you’d really like, but you don’t seem to:

• Song 2, by Blur
• Whip It, by Devo
• Iko Iko, by the Dixie Cups (I’m not giving up on this one)
• 1234, by Feist, but you just saw the Sesame Street version, so we’ll have to see how that alters the mix. For what it’s worth, Norah Jones has a much stronger Sesame Street presence. And Ben Stiller used his Sesame Street appearance as an opportunity to work on his one character, a character named Ben Stiller”.
• We R Superheroes, by Robbert Bobbert
• Greenman, by XTC

Songs you like to sing:

• Mairzy Doats (I don’t know that guy, which is why YouTube is awesome. I do know Leland, but it’s not like we’re friends or anything.)
• You Are My Sunshine
• Title unknown (“[Name] came to school today / to school today / to school today / [Name] came to school today / and we’re so glad // Get up and dance, [Name] / Get up and dance, [Name] / Get up and dance, [Name] / Now sit back down!”)
• Made up stuff [not YouTube]

When AT sees this list, she will say “I’m surprised you didn’t include [thing I left out]”, which I will then include so that AT will have to travel back in time if she wants to make the same complaint again, which I know she can’t do because I sold the flux capacitor and spent the money on magic beans.