#hashedtunes

"What I'm Doing Here", Lake Street Dive

"Summer in the City", Regina Spektor

The Smiths - Paint A Vulgar Picture

At the record company meeting

On their hands - at last! - a dead star

"Plain Gold Ring", Nina Simone.

I can listen to that lamenting bass line all day.

"Rapture", Blondie. Rap-ture. Get it?

I don't know what they were thinking. Or smoking. But I like the punch at 3:54.

Go out to the parking lot And you get in your car and you drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and lands on the ground And out comes a man from Mars And you try to run but he's got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head And then you're in the man from Mars You go out at night, eatin' cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercuries and Subarus And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars Then, when there's no more cars You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet Face to face, dance cheek to cheek One to one, man to man Dance toe to toe Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars

"Consequence of Sounds", Regina Spektor

"Has Been", William Shatner

"The Fear", Lily Allen

"I am a Weapon of Massive Consumption."

"Caroline says II", Lou Reed

"Stephanie Says", The Velvet Underground

"God Bless The Child", Billie Holiday

First recording (1941).

"Lufthansa", Kvuzat Gotel Botel

"My Way", Nina Simone

"Let It Go" from Frozen (performed by Idina Menzel). This song is 100% Oscar worthy. Though there's a slight dissonance between the powerful voice and the fragile Elsa, the punch @ 3:02 makes up for that.

"On Melancholy Hill", Gorillaz

Apples (from Annie the musical, first draft).

The first draft of Annie is just a two man sketch, a thumbnail of the future, but is already filled with the humor and melody that later shine in the musical itself.