I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing.

Band of Horses - The Funeral
With all the free agent signings yesterday, I completely forgot the weekly MP3. Here it is a mere day late.

I'm sure you've all heard "The Funeral" by Band of Horses before, but just in case it's eluded a few of you, I urge you to download this MP3 and give it a listen. It's a fantastic tune.

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The English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
The English Beat are only The English Beat on this side of the pond, because there was already an American band known as The Beat. The Beat, errr, The English Beat had a funky ska sound and "Mirror in the Bathroom" was my favourite of their singles.

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I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing.

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
"Just Like Honey," one of my favourite Jesus and Mary Chain songs, borrows Hal Blaine's famous drum intro from The Ronettes 1963 classic, "Be My Baby", produced and co-written by Phil Spector. Spector is currently serving 19 years to life for shooting actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California home.

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Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain
This song popped up on my iPod yesterday and I was reminded how great it is. I actually think it's getting better with age.

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I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky
I've written about Mother's Milk before. It's still my go-to Red Hot Chili Pepper album. But, I rarely listen to it in the winter. It's a summer disc.

Rumour has it summer is coming. It feels like a "Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky" day.

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I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing.

The Killjoys - Rave + Drool
Listening to Canadian new rock radio in the 1990s meant hearing a lot of The Killjoys' "Today I Hate Everyone" and "Dana". I still throw those two tunes on the odd playlist.

Their third big Canadian radio single was "Rave + Drool". Would anyone outside of Canada be familiar with The Killjoys?

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I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing.

The Watchmen - Stereo
I'm sharing this great tune from Winnipeg's The Watchmen because their drummer, Sammy Kohn, wrote me about this song earlier today.

One of a million, one of a million...

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Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up
My favourite Tom Waits era was his Island years which began with Swordfishtrombones in 1983. In 1992, his Island years gave us "I Don't Wanna Grow Up", a song you likely know best as a Ramones tune.

Like most of Waits' best songs, the cover gained more prominence than the original. I'll take the crunchy, gruff and rough original, thank you very much.

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I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing.

The Remake Of A Remake (All I Need) - Wale f. Tawiah
I was reading a list of the best albums of 2008 the other day, and it mentioned an album entitled "The Mixtape About Nothing" by a rapper named Wale. "The Mixtape About Nothing" included samples from Seinfeld. That's all I needed to hear...

It turns out I really dig "The Mixtape About Nothing", and amidst all the rapping and Seinfeld samples is this tune with Tawiah called "The Remake Of A Remake".

Let's quickly review the original, remake and remake of a remake in question. "You're All I Need to Get By" is a song recorded by the American R&B/soul duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. It was the basis for the 1995 single "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By" by Method Man and Mary J. Blige, a song I still adore to this day. Then, we have this... still sweet and on my iPod right now.

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I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing.

Squeeze - Tempted
I realize it's not Wednesday, but Mike from Lowville just reminded me that I forgot to share an MP3 yesterday. Oops.

Let's go back to 1981 with this great Squeeze track. Which song is better: "Tempted" or "Cool for Cats"?

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