Music for the Thirtieth Day of July

0:00:01) Thank You For Being a Friend By Cynthia Fee from The Golden Girls

0:00:40 (Rev’s First Interruption: My Buddy @julps by Mexican Institute Of Sound off of Politico)

Yes, my good, the bad, and the fugly friends, it’s time for that wonderful weirdness for your earholes that makes your brain feel strange, as we skip down a winding path of sound. I’m Rev. You’re the best. We a Aurally Fixated. And today, the Thirtieth Day of July, is the International Day of Friendship. I hope you bought your insulin and toothbrush because it’s gonna get sickening sweet up in here today, hence Thank You For Being a Friend, the olden Golden Girls theme. Lets keep the good vibes going with the White Stripes.

0:01:25) We’re Going to Be Friends By The White Stripes off of White Blood Cells

0:03:45) All My Friends Are Insects by Weezer off of Yo Gabba Gabba! Hey!

0:05:05) Lean On Me by Bill Withers off of Still Bill

0:09:20) Glad To Have A Friend Like You by Marlo Thomas off of Free To Be…You And Me

0:11:35 (Rev’s Second Interruption: Ghosts by Caravan Palace off of Chronologic)

Nope, not gonna do it. You’ve gotten enough Free To Be…You And Me back on International Human Solidarity Day. That was just Glad To Have A Friend LikeYou. Before that we had the Bill Withers classic, Lean On Me. And right before that was Weezer with All My Friends Are Insects off the soundtrack from The Aquabats TV series Yo Gabba Gabba!. It’s as weird and fun an album as you’d imagine with an odd hodgepodge of artiste like; Devo, Biz Markie, Weird Al, George Clinton, Jimmy Eat World, and My chemical romance being wretchedly happy/bouncy… Now, let’s shake that off with P.O.S and his Weird Friends.

0:13:05) Weird Friends (We Don’t Even Live Here) by P.O.S off of We Don’t Even Live Here

0:15:50) Three Parts WTF by The World/Inferno Friendship Society off of All Borders Are Porous To Cats

0:18:54) My Alcoholic Friends by The Dresden Dolls off of Yes, Virginia…

0:21:35) (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn’t a Problem) by Car Seat HeadRest off of Teen Of Denial

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0:27:05 (Rev’s Third Interruption: Without Wings by Corrosion Of Conformity off of Deliverance)

Hello again friends, I am glad that you’re hearing me today, this day about our chosen families. As you know, we started off with the Weird Friends track from the album We Don’t Even Live Here. Then how could we have World Friendship Day without playing The World/Inferno Friendship Society? That was Three Parts What the Fuck, from All Borders Are Porous To Cats. Then came The Dresden Dolls with My Alcoholic Friends. And we ended with Car Seat HeadRest. The nice, concise title of the tune is Drugs With Friends. It’s full ineffable, effable parenthetical name is (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn’t a Problem). I’d wanted to play it for June’s Drug episode but it fits here just as well. Now one for all my wonderful partners in crime out there, whoever you are.

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0:29:00) Another Perfect Catastrophe by FireWater off of The Ponzi Scheme

0:33:15) In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company by The Dead South off of Good Company

0:37:10) Dudley Pippin & His No-Friend by Bobby Morse & Marlo Thomas off of Free To Be…You And Me

0:38:35) Befriend The Friendless Friendster by Busdriver off of Fear Of A Black Tangent

0:42:10 (Rev’s Fourth Interruption: Security Of The First World by Public Enemy off of It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back)

That strange bit of AvantCore Befriend The Friendless Friendster from Busdriver’s album Fear Of A Black Tangent. (a nod to Public Enemy‘s Fear of A Black Planet) I obviously lied about there being no more Free To Be…You And Me but maybe Dudley Pippin & His No-Friend will be it. That followed closely behind The Dead South and In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company. That video is simple, compelling, and delivers its message perfectly. Check it out. And we started off with FireWater bringing us Another Perfect Catastrophe from their Ponzi Scheme. Now songs is about those “part time lovers and full time friends.”

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0:43:34) Goin Out Tonight by Adam Ezra Group off of Better Than Bootleg Vol. 1

0:47:55) Pure Morning by Placebo off of Without You I’m Nothing

0:52:05) Anyone Else But You by The Moldy Peaches off of Juno OST

0:55:00) Fuck Buddy by Pansy Division off of Pileup

0:57:20 (Rev’s Fifth Interruption: In the Valley of the In-Between by Man Man off of Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between)

There were the godfathers of queer-core Pansy Division with their Fuck Buddy. And right before that we enjoyed some Moldy Peaches with Anyone Else But You. Before which we had a Pure Morning with Placebo. And we we started it all off by Goin Out Tonight with the Adam Ezra Group. Now some real Fox and the Hound shit.

0:58:15) Summer Friends by Chance The Rapper ft. Jeremih and Francis & The Lights off of Coloring Book

1:03:00) Long Gone Day by Mad Season of off Above

1:07:45) Beyond The End by Ceschi off of Broken Bone Ballads

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1:12:20 (Rev’s Sixth Interruption: Hallucination by Mike Patton off of Crank: High Voltage)

We started that off with Chance The Rapper and his old Summer Friends. Which we followed up with a song from the only record by Mad Season. The members of Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Screaming Trees made one beautiful album. Then we ended with one of my favorites, Ceschi. From his perfect record Broken Bone Ballads that was Beyond The End. All these slow songs got me thinking, Like Mary Hopkins famously did “Those Were The Days, My Friend.”