1. Finding Out True Love is Blind – Louis XIV
2. Habit – Jump, Little Children
3. I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) – Ella Fitzgerald
4. I Heard Love Is Blind – Amy Winehouse
5. If Love is Blind – Tiffany
6. Gone – Lianne La Havas
{ 1 comment }
August 24, 20121. I Never Loved a Man (The Way That I Love You) – Aretha Franklin
2. Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth – The Dandy Warhols
3. Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby – Dinah Washington
4. It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) – Duke Ellington
5. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) – Etta James
6. Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows) – Fall Out Boy
7. At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used to Be) – Fun.
8. Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) – Handsome Boy Modeling School
9. Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning – Irving Berlin
10. I Wish I Was a Lesbian and Not a Hetero – Loudon Wainwright III
11. Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off – Panic! at the Disco
12. I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) – Stevie Wonder
13. Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work) – They Might Be Giants
14. Live Life Like It’s the Last Day of School – WyldeBunch
{ 1 comment }
August 10, 20121. Stand By Your Man – Lyle Lovett (cover)
2. I’ll Be Your Man – The Elected
3. Here Comes Your Man – The Pixies
4. I’m Gonna Be Your Man – The Senate
5. Gonna Be Your Man – MC Frontalot
6. I’m Your Man – Wham!
7. I’m Your Man – Michael Bublé (cover)
8. I Am Your Man – Rockapella
{ 0 comments }
July 19, 20121. You Don’t Mind – Mon Frere
2. You Don’t Know Me – Ben Folds ft. Regina Spektor
3. You Don’t Know Me – Ray Charles
4. You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told) – White Stripes
5. You Don’t Like Me – They Might Be Giants
6. You Don’t Own Me – Lesley Gore
7. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield
8. You Don’t Mean Anything – Simple Plan
9. You Don’t Send Me – Belle and Sebastian
{ 1 comment }
June 10, 20121. Italian Leather Sofa – Cake
2. Sofa – Caravan Palace
3. Couch Potato – Weird Al Yankovic
4. Couch Surfer – Bran Van 3000
5. Growing Up On A Couch – Less than Jake
{ 0 comments }
April 23, 20121. This Time Tomorrow – The Kinks
2. Maybe This Time – Cabaret
3. Maybe, This Time – OK Go
4. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) – Shakira
5. This Time – Intervision 5
{ 0 comments }
April 21, 20121. Would You Come With Me? – The Elected
2. Walk with You – Dispatch
3. Come Fly with Me – Michael Bublé
4. Is She Really Going Out With Him? – Goldfinger (cover)
5. Won’t Go Home Without You – Maroon 5
6. Come Dance with Me – Frank Sinatra
7. Life Goes On Without You – Jill Sobule
{ 0 comments }
April 21, 20121. In The Garage – Weezer
I write these stupid songs, I write these stupid words, and I love every one.
2. Across the Sea – Weezer
Goddamn, this business is really lame.
3. I Suck ft. Rivers Cuomo – Mark Ronson
I suck. What the fuck.
{ 0 comments }
April 16, 20121. Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
2. I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise – Rufus Wainwright (cover)
3. Come Downstairs and Say Hello – Guster
4. Creepin Up the Backstairs – The Fratellis
{ 0 comments }
April 9, 2012Well folks, it’s been a wild ride.
This project was directly motivated by Ms. Shelley and the PDX Fun-a-Day project. On the record, the York Uke 30 project took a little longer than 30 days due to unforeseen schoolwork and illness. To view the full playlist, go to the York Uke 30 on Youtube.
I think I’ve been the most shocked at the videos with the most views: Public Property, I Am A Wizard, and Decomposing Composers. I’m not sure if I filled a certain ukulele youtube void, or if it was just the luck of the digital draw.
From the player’s perspective, my favorite songs are the ones in which I sing the instrumental breaks:
24: Friend is a Four Letter Word by Cake
21: Something by the Beatles
17: Sad Songs and Waltzes by Cake
13. Where Is My Mind? by the Pixies
8: Then I Met You by The Proclaimers
6: Mother of Pearl by Nellie McKay
4. I’ll Follow the Sun by the Beatles
{ 0 comments }
March 19, 2012