“Music for Aging Hipsters” Playlist by Richard F. Yates

I have been in a very Beckian mood lately, partially because I think he’s an incredibly talent individual, and partially because he is obviously a HOLY FOOL in his own right. (I’m going to go ahead and DECLARE him a HOLY FOOL in the Order of Primitives right now. The ACT of declaring something, as philosophers like John Searle have discussed, is a form of verbal magic. Before the preacher or judge says, “I now declare you ‘man and wife’ (or ‘wife and wife’ or whatever you’re into,) that’s just two people living separate lives. AFTER the statement is uttered, something has HAPPENED, and the two become a single, unified LIFE. Magic. When you sign your name on the contract: BAM! Something happens. The act, the signing, the saying, these things CAUSE a change in the reality that we live in. I DECLARE that BECK HANSON is a HOLY FOOL---and therefore, he is now a Holy Fool in our PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK. (You’re welcome, Mr. Hanson---in about three different senses of the phrase…)

Anyway, I’ve been in a serious Beck mood lately, enjoying songs like “Devil’s Haircut,” “Loser,” “Fume,” “Mixed Bizness,” “Hell Yes,” and a dozen others… His tunes are groovy and fun and challenging and hilarious! (Especially “Fume,” which MIGHT be my favorite song he’s ever done… That one or “Satan Gave Me a Taco,” maybe… But, because my rules are that I can only put one song per performer (or group) per playlist, I had to narrow down my Beck selections to just ONE cut. Tough… Really tough… I went with “Wow.” It’s dreamy and funny and has a wicked rhythm---even though it’s about a half time beat, maybe a half chill / half psychic travel tune…

Again, the purpose for this playlist is for ME to have fun. I AM an aging hipster (even though I was never a proper hipster---I’m about five years too old for that category. I’m a late-era Waver. I had a colorful, UP-IN-THE-AIR hairstyle in the late ‘80s, similar to my New Wave heroes, like Robert Smith (from The Cure, obviously) and Ian McCulloch (from Echo and The Bunnymen,) and even though I hung out mostly with skater-punks in high school, I preferred OMD and Siouxsie and The Banshees and Depeche Mode to Black Flag (especially the Henry Rollins version) or the Dead Kennedys. (I like Jello Biafra as a person, and I have several of his spoken word albums, but I don’t own a single DK record or CD.) I don’t know what any of this is supposed to mean to you people, other than to say that I’m old---and this is the music that I like. At one time, much of this music was considered “cutting edge,” although I think most of it would be “oldies,” now. It’s not my fault that time passes, and things change, but still…. I like what I like, and I’m sharing it with you!

Here are 100 songs that at least one old guy likes (and, no, it’s not all old…):

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“Music for Aging Hipsters” (Playlist) by Richard F. Yates
Approx. 7 hours and 23 minutes.

1. Beck – “Wow”
2. Bran Van 3000 – “Drinking in L.A.”
3. Missing Persons – “Walking in L.A.”
4. Telex – “On the Road Again”
5. M R M – “Walking in Memphis (Club Mix)”
6. Ian McCulloch – “Honey Drip”
7. Kirsty MacColl – “There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis”
8. mc chris – “C-3PO”
9. Theatre of Disco – “Go Fifi”
10. Depeche Mode – “Told You So”
11. The Cure – “Push”
12. Ian Dury – “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”
13. The Modern Lovers – “Roadrunner”
14. Men at Work – “Overkill”
15. Liam Lynch – “We’re All-Nighters”
16. The Soft Boys – “(I Want to be An) Anglepoise Lamp”
17. Siouxsie and The Banshees – “Burn Up”
18. Solar Enemy – “Burn-Up”
19. Passion Fodder – “I’d Sell My Soul to God”
20. Groovie Ghoulies – “Lookout, Here Comes Tomorrow”
21. Oingo Boingo – “No One Lives Forever (Live)”
22. Pat Benatar – “We Belong”
23. Adam Ant – “Bright Lights Black Leather”
24. Men Without Hats – “Safety Dance (Orange Remix)”
25. The Human League – “Circus of Death”
26. Death – “Politicians in My Eyes”
27. Alien Sex Fiend – “I Walked the Line”
28. The Mission – “Deliverance”
29. Simple Minds – “Being Boiled”
30. Kraftwerk – “Antenna”
31. Gary Numan – “I Dream of Wires”
32. Howard Jones – “Things Can Only Get Better”
33. Tears for Fears – “Shout (U.S. Mix)”
34. Wang Chung – “Abducted by the 80’s”
35. 7 Seconds – “99 Red Balloons”
36. Peter Schilling & Bomm-Bastic – “Major Tom ’94 (Techno Version)”
37. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – “If You Want It (We Have Band Mix)”
38. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – “Frenzy”
39. Black Randy & The Metrosquad – “Marlon Brando”
40. Drugstore – “Say Hello”
41. Fallen Angel – “Hello Lover”
42. Cabaret Voltaire – “Product Patrol”
43. Pink Floyd – “Fat Old Sun”
44. Little John – “Shoelace”
45. Gwen Mars – “Dragster”
46. The Rentals – “Friends of P.”
47. The Presidents of the United States of America – “Back Porch”
48. Captain Sensible – “Stabilizer Jam”
49. The Residents – “Wolverines”
50. A3 – “U Don’t Dance 2 Tekno Anymore”
51. The K.G.B. – “Space Cadet (Galactic Version)”
52. Spacemen 3 – “Repeater (Alternate Mix)”
53. Spiritualized – “Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space”
54. Queen – “The Prophet’s Song”
55. Queens of the Stone Age – “Never Say Never”
56. Replicants – “Dirty Work”
57. Skinny Puppy – “Deep Down Trauma Hounds”
58. Front 242 – “Master Hit (Part 1 & 2)”
59. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult – “A Girl Doesn’t Get Killed by a Make-Believe Lover… ‘Cuz It’s Hot”
60. Amorphous Androgynous – “The Mello Hippo Disco Show”
61. The Beta Band – “Life”
62. Telephone – “Sugar Coated”
63. Zero Zero – “True Zero”
64. Ruby – “Salt Water Fish”
65. Opus III – “It’s a Fine Day”
66. Ride – “Moonlight Medicine (Portishead’s Ride on the Wire Mix)”
67. T99 – “Dogwalk”
68. DJ Hell – “Suicide Commando”
69. MC 900 Ft. Jesus with DJ Zero – “Too Bad”
70. Sir Mix-A-Lot – “Buttermilk Biscuits (Keep on Square Dancin’)”
71. Machines of Loving Grace – “Burn Like Brilliant Trash (At Jackie’s Funeral)”
72. Rise Robots Rise – “Flowers & Birds II: The Return”
73. Killing Joke – “Democracy (Conspiracy Theory Averted Mix)”
74. Gang of Four – “It was Never Gonna Turn Out Too Good”
75. The Fall – “New Face in Hell”
76. The Kinks – “Strangers”
77. Slade – “How Does It Feel”
78. KISS – “God Gave Rock & Roll to You”
79. The Legendary Pink Dots – “Hellsville”
80. Die Antwoord – “Love Drug”
81. The Death Set – “Around the World”
82. The Attery Squash – “Devo was Right (Remix by Robert & Gerald Casale)”
83. Devo – “Girl U Want”
84. “Weird Al” Yankovic – “Dare to be Stupid”
85. Buckner & Garcia – “Pac Man Fever”
86. Powerpill – “Pac-Man (Heavy Mental Mix)”
87. Orbital – “Halcyon & On & On”
88. The Prodigy – “Everybody in the Place (Fairground Mix)”
89. Pop Will Eat Itself – “Inject Me”
90. Renegade Soundwave – “Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield Remix)”
91. Prince – “Hot Thing”
92. Sly Fox – “Let’s Go All the Way” (Extended Version)”
93. Hall & Oates – “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do) (The Ben Liebrand Remix)”
94. M/A/R/R/S – “Anitina”
95. Money Mark – “I Don’t Play Piano”
96. The Mothers of Invention – “Let’s Make the Water Turn Black”
97. Tiny Tim – “The Other Side”
98. Wild Man Fischer – “Monkeys vs Donkeys”
99. Wesley Willis – “Nirvana”
100. The Dead Milkmen – “I’m Flying Away”

There you go. If you made it to the end of this list, congratulations! If you manage to listen to more the three songs in the playlist, congratulations for THAT, too! This is some seriously fun tunage, but it’s probably not for everybody. (Technically, it’s mostly for ME.) If there are a few names on here that you’ve never heard before, give them a listen on YooToob. Might be something fun that you’re missing out on! Regardless, STAY HAPPY (or be DESTROYED!) HOORAY!!!!

---Richard F. Yates
(Primitive Thoughtician and Holy Fool)

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