The Presidents of the Unites States of America: Peaches [ Purchase ] It's a bit under the wire here, but I realized this song hadn'...

There really *is* no place like home - so comforting to once again be under my own roof, with my own family and dog... and my own CD collec...

Yusef Lateef: The Plum Blossom [ purchase ] While scouring my music library for fruit and vegetable songs, I kept finding myself coming bac...

XTC : The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead [ purchase ] What would Jesus do? It’s a valid question. But here, XTC asked, what would we do to Jesu...

Hindu Love Gods: Raspberry Beret [ purchase ] In the mid-80s, while three-quarters of R.E.M. were helping Warren Zevon record his Sentiment...

Ween: Bananas and Blow [ purchase ] I'm a bit too old for Bonnaroo. Fighting crowds of up to a hundred thousand in the southern heat t...

Harry Nilsson : Coconut [ purchase ] OK. Let’s get this produce party started. This strange little ditty caught my ears the first time I hea...

Fiona Apple: Slow Like Honey [ Purchase ] As far as song similes go, this one has more than it's fair share. Pretty much every line con...

Whiskeytown: Drank Like a River [ purchase ] Slow start this week... Here's one to get everybody ramped up again. This is Ryan Adams a...

Fats Waller : Your Feet‘s Too Big [ purchase ] Fats Waller was one of the great talents from the time before jazz had a name. Starting in th...

All Gods' Children: Peace Fills Your Head [ purchase ] From the mid '80s to the mid '90s, New Brunswick, NJ had a very fertile ...

Mark Kozelek: Up To My Neck In You [ purchase ] AC/DC: Up To My Neck In You [ purchase ] Though I'm a coverblogger at home, I tend to f...

Slim Harpo: Baby Scratch My Back [ purchase ] "Ahhh, itchy! And I don´t know where to scratch..." You may know Slim Harpo because ...

The Naysayer: My Liver Needs a Lawyer [ Purchase ] The Naysayer is the music of Anna Padgett. She makes folk/country music and most of her ...

Lou Reed: Foot of Pride [ purchase ] Here's a song to bridge the gap between last week's theme and this week's. Back in 1992, I...

The Balancing Act : Fishing in Your Eye [ purchase ] This post happened by accident. The Balancing Act was an undeservedly obscure band on t...

Dar Williams: Mortal City [ purchase ] This song took a while to grow on me; for years, I skipped past it, looking the harder, more upbeat ...

The Poozies : Ma Plaid/ Freya Dances [ purchase ] Ma Plaid is a traditional Scottish tune which, as recorded by The Poozies, comes in at abo...

Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder : Diaraby [ purchase ] I first thought of posting the great Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed, but then to my ...

Television: Marquee Moon [ purchase ] Well it seems like a lot of the SMMers are on summer vacation, so here's another one from the new...