My Top 1000 Songs #208: Memories Can't Wait. A dark, foreboding nightmare from Talking Heads, those manipulated vocals and rumbling bass unfailingly giving me the creeps, making the brief release at the end almost palpable. #music #TalkingHeads https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/03/my-top-1000-songs-208-memories-cant-wait.html

My Top 1000 Songs #205: Layla. So many black marks against it--Clapton's a dick; radio oversaturation; the sordid saga of that stolen piano coda; the horrific omnipresent acoustic version. Yet still a song I'll never turn off when it comes on the radio. #music #classicrock #EricClapton #DerekAndTheDominos https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/03/my-top-1000-posts-205-layla.html

My Top 1000 Songs #203: Pictures Of Matchstick Men. A pre-boogie Status Quo distill the post-Sgt. Pepper UK psychedelic era into a ridiculously catchy 3-minute bubblegum-psych pop tune. Intrinsically of-the-moment yet surprisingly enduring. #music #psychedelia #classicrock #StatusQuo https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/02/my-top-1000-songs-203-pictures-of.html

My Top 1000 Songs #202: Sufficiently Breathless. Unexpected track from a mostly-forgotten early 70s prog/hard rock band--pastoral open-tuned acoustic guitars with pretty harmonies and a trippy Floyd-like jam; headphone-friendly bliss for sofa excursions. #music #ProgRock #ClassicRock #CaptainBeyond https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/02/my-top-1000-songs-202-sufficiently.html

My Top 1000 Songs #201: One Long Pair Of Eyes. Despite a catalog full of catchy tracks, I've always been particularly fond of this Robyn Hitchcock tune; delicately nuanced baroque pop that's characteristically inscrutable yet deeply poignant. #music #RobynHitchcock https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/02/my-top-1000-songs-201-one-long-pair-of.html

200 days into this silly little venture, I've now written up 20% of my Top 1000 Songs. Here's the Top 200 counted down... https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/search/label/All%20My%20Favorite%20Songs #music

My Top 1000 Songs #199: Wait Till The Morning. With a long-out-of-print catalog, 80s jangle pop act Winter Hours remains largely a well-kept secret. A sparkling tune like this, buoyed by warm vocals and a sing-along hook, makes that absolutely inexcusable. #music #JanglePop #WinterHours https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/02/my-top-1000-songs-199-wait-till-morning.html

My Top 1000 Songs #198: Point That Thing Somewhere Else. Way back in 1981, New Zealand indie rockers the Clean splayed out a post-Velvets/Stooges extended vamp with a spooky groove, giving punk rockers license to become noisy-ass jam bands. #music #indierock #KiwiRock #TheClean #FlyingNun https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/02/my-top-1000-songs-198-point-that-thing.html

My Top 1000 Songs #197: Hazy Jane II. I was a latecomer to the stunning folk-rock of tragic singer-songwriter Nick Drake, but from the very first spin this atypically poppy and joyously catchy track felt like something I'd known all my life. #music #NickDrake https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/02/my-top-1000-songs-197-hazy-jane-ii.html

My Top 1000 Songs #195: I Am The Walrus. The first of The Beatles' more psychedelic tunes I heard as a kid starting to move beyond the confines of Top 40 AM radio--and my first realization that, hey, these guys were kinda weird! And (as I realized a little later) kinda high! #music #TheBeatles #classicrock https://www.jitterywhiteguymusic.com/2023/02/my-top-1000-songs-195-i-am-walrus.html