tape head 2022
on a daily basis for the entirety of 2022, a record of whatever was playing (i.e., earworm-ed) on the two-track in my brain.
202201
20220101 Lalo Schifrin — Main Title: Magnum Force
20220102 David Bowie — We Prick You “Want to be screwing when the nightmare comes; want to come quick then die…”
20220103 Mono — Life in Mono “Drowning past regrets in tea and cigarettes…”
20220104 Don Costa - Never on Sunday
20220105 Primus — Intruder [comp. by Peter Gabriel]
20220106 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers — Dat Dere [comp. by Bobby Timmons]
20220107 Spiritbox — Holy Roller “Stand to the left of me in paradise holy ghosts will…”
20220108 Joni Mitchell — Midnight Cowboy “Hey Joe, why don’t you go back home?”
20220109 David Bowie — ’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore “Man, she punched me like a dude…”
20220110 Big Wreck — Bombs Away
20220111 Haunted Garage — Theme “Are you feeling gross and twisted?”
20220112 Slipknot — (sic) “You. can’t. kill. me. ’cause. i’m. already. inside. you.”
20220113 John Coltrane — I Want to Talk About You [comp. by Billy Eckstine]
20220114 Vernon Reid & Masque — Brilliant Corners [comp. by Thelonious Monk]
20220115 Stevie Wonder — Don’t Your Worry ’Bout a Thing
20220116 Hall & Oates — Wait for Me
20220117 Sean Lennon — Would I Be the One [comp. by Marc Bolan]
20220118 Toad the Wet Sprocket — Something to Say
20220119 The Tea Party — Save Me “She said save me…”
20220121 Hall & Oates — Wait for Me
20220122 Meat Loaf — Bat out of Hell
20220123 Phish — Fast Enough for You
20220124 Sergei Prokofiev — Peter and the Wolf
20220125 NRBQ — Feel You Around Me “Oh when I feel you around me…”
20220126 Chaka Khan — A Night in Tunisia [comp. by Dizzy Gillespie & Frank Paparelli]
20220127 Mono — Silicone “I’m smiling while lying to you…”
20220128 Henry Mancini — Lujon
20220129 The Beach Boys — Deirdre
20220130 Sade — Cherish the Day
20220131 Bei Mir Bistu Shein [comp. by Sholom Secunda]
202202
20202201 Eleven — It’s Okay “I’m feeling shattered by reality but alright; if this is my life, it’s okay…”
20202202 John Zorn — Tannaim
20202203 Janet Jackson — Got ’Til It’s Gone
20202204 David Bowie — Boys Keep Swinging “When you’re a boy you can wear a uniform…”
20202205 NRBQ — Always Safety First
20202206 Big Wreck — Still Here “What the hell am I doing here?”
20202207 Janet Jackson — Runaway
20202208 Brad — 20th Century “My friends; 20th century…”
20202209 KoЯn — Somebody Someone
20202210 Alice in Chains — Dirt “One who doesn’t care is one who shouldn’t be; I tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me…”
20202211 Meshuggah — The Abysmal Eye “…it will all be torn down…”
20202212 Stevie Wonder — Visions
20202213 Living Color — Information Overload “I DON’T WANT TO LIVE LIKE THIS…”
20202214 Duke Ellington — Volupté
20202215 Secret Chiefs 3 — Ship of Fools
20202216 Stars and Stripes Forever [comp. by John Philip Sousa]
20202217 Levi Peckham — Downfall
20202218 Brian Wilson — The Barnyard
20202219 Tori Amos — Cornflake Girl “And the man with the gym golden gun thinks knows so much…”
20202220 King Crimson — Walking on Air
20202221 Primus — Is It Luck? “…the taste of sex is in our lips; is it luck?!?”
20202222 Stephen Trask — Wicked Little Town
20202223 David Bowie — No One Calls
20202224 Mad Season — Long Gone Day
20202225 John Barry — 007 and Counting
20202226 Aoife O’Donovan — Oh, Mama ’Oh, Mama, sing me a love song, pour me some bourbon and lay me down low…’
20202227 Screaming Trees — Dollar Bill
20202228 Always in All Ways [comp. by Frank Harling, Richard Whiting, Leo Robin]
202203
20220301 Paul McCartney — Maybe I’m Amazed
20220302 The Beatles — Hello Goodbye
20220303 Living Colour — Information Overload “I. DON’T. WANT. TO. LIVE. LIKE. THIS.”
20220304 Paul McCartney & Wings — Arrow Throw Me
20220305 Squeeze — Tempted
20220306 Living Colour — Pride “History’s a lie that they teach you in school…”
20220307 Robert Plant — Calling to You
20220308 Chris Cornell — Seasons
20220309 Yhe Tea Party — Taking Me Away
20220310 Billy Joel — Laura
20220311 ABBA — Fernando
20220312 Chico O’Farrill — Manteca [comp. by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo, Gil Fuller]
20220313 Soundgarden — Head Down “I see you try, I see you fail, some things never change…”
20220314 Chris Cornell — When I’m Down
20220315 Overkill — Head First “…you’ll compromise; you’ll let us in; you’ll spread ‘em wide; we’re divin’ in head first!”
20220316 Sepultura — Buried Words
20220317 Meshuggah — The Abysmal Eye “…it will all be torn down…”
20220318 Miles Davis — Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process
20220319 David Bowie — Let’s Dance “Because my love for you would break my heart in two…”
20220320 Roni Size & Reprezant — Hi-Potent
20220321 Grotus — Up Rose the Mountain
20220323 Squarepusher — Vic Acid
20220323 Radiohead — Fake Plastic Trees “…and it wears me out…”
20220324 Idaho — Pomegranate Bleeding
20220325 George Harrison — I’d Have You Anytime
20220326 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd — Desafinado [comp. by Antonio Carlos Jobim & Newton Mendonça]
20220327 Harry Connick, Jr. — Dumb Luck
20220328 John Zorn — The Conqueror Worm
20220329 Pearl Jam — Off He Goes
20220330 Alan Hawkshaw — Girl in a Sportscar
20220331 Laurie Johnson — Happy Go Lively
202204
20220401 Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfá — One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota Só) [comp. by Antonio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes]
20220402 Alice in Chains — Got Me Wrong
20220403 Billy Joel — She’s Right on Time
20220404 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd — Desafinado [comp. by Antonio Carlos Jobim & Newton Mendonça]
20220405 Living Colour — Solace of You
20220406 King Garbage - Busy on a Saturday Night
20220407 Antonio Carlos Jobim — Remember
20220408 Meshuggah — Broken Cog
20220409 Sean Lennon — Parachute “…we had some fun before we hit the ground…”
20220410 Voïvod — The End of Dormancy “The wake…”
20220411 Mastodon — Blood and Thunder
20220412 Stevie Wonder — Ribbon in the Sky
20220413 Focus — Hocus Pocus
20220414 David Raksin Orchestra — Sylvia
20220415 Deftones — Around the Fur
20220416 Wanda de Sah — So Danço Samba [comp. by Antonio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes]
20220417 Voïvod — Obsolete Beings
20220418 Living Colour — Solace of You “Gotta go inside, back where it started, back to the beginning, ’cause that’s where my heart is…”
20220419 Walter Wanderley — Rain
20220420 Sparklehorse — Pig
20220421 Henry Mancini — Experiment in Terror
20220422 Meshuggah — I Am That Thirst
20220423 Peggy Lee & George Shearing — Always True to You in My Fashion [comp. by Cole Porter]
20220424 Metallica — The Frayed Ends of Sanity
20220425 Nirvana — Drain You
20220426 Deodato — Rhapsody in Blue [comp. by George Gershwin]
20220427 Duke Ellington — Volupté
20220428 Scatterbrain — Don’t Call Me Dude
20220429 Them Crooked Vultures — Bandoliers “prepare, and take aim, then fire…”
20220430 David Carroll & His Orchestra — Soft Shoe Song (The Dance My Darling Used to Do) [comp. by Roy Jordan & Sid Bass]
202205
20220501 Ferrante & Teicher — Brazil [comp. by Ary Barroso]
20220502 Les Paul — Whispering
20220503 Genesis — Anything She Does
20220504 Them Crooked Vultures — Reptiles “…it’s like cleaning up after an orgy when it’s over; I wish someone would burn this place to the ground.”
20220505 Otto Sieben — Curley Shirley
20220506 Meshuggah — I Am That Thirst
20220507 Them Crooked Vultures — Bandoliers “prepare, and take aim, then fire…”
20220508 King’s — Over My Head
20220509 Prince — How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
20220510 Brad — Lift “At Alpental the skiings all at night; with alcohol your dreams are all in white…”
20220511 Ethel Smith — Brazil [comp. by Ary Barroso]
20220512 Frank Sinatra — Summer Wind
20220513 XTC — Love on a Farmboy’s Wages
20220514 Henry Mancini — Charade
20220515 King’s X — Fade
20220516 Astrud Gilberto w/Walter Wanderley Trio — So Nice (Summer Samba) [comp. by Marcos Valle & Paulo Sérgio Valle]
20220517 XTC — Deliver Us from the Elements
20220518 Mel Tormé — Dat Dere [comp. by Bobby Timmons & Oscar Brown Jr.]
20220519 Henry Mancini — Lujon
20220520 Astrud Gilberto / Walter Wanderley Trio — Goodbye Sadness (Tristeza) [comp. by Edu Lobo / Niltinho / Norman Gimbel]
20220521 Robert Maxwell & His Orchestra — Shangri-La [comp. by Matty Malneck & Robert Maxwell]
20220522 Them Crooked Vultures — Scumbag Blues
20220523 Mr. Bungle — Merry Go Bye Bye “…to beam my message into space as I die…”
20220524 Walter Wanderley — Rain [comp. by Durval Ferreira]
20220525 Big Wreck — That Song
20220526 Harry Connick, Jr. — Don’t Get Around Much Anymore [comp. by Duke Ellington & Bob Russell]
20220527 E. Power Biggs — Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565 [comp. by Johann Sebastian Bach]
20220528 Harry Connick, Jr. — It’s Alright with Me [comp. by Cole Porter]
20220529 Thelonious Monk — Blue Monk
20220530 Them Crooked Vultures — Spinning in Daffodils
20220531 David Bowie — Blue Jean “Sometimes I feel like; jazzin’ for blue jean!”
202206
20220601 The Smithereens — Too Much Passion
20220602 Cycle Sluts from Hell — I Wish You Were a Beer
20220603 Sixteen Going on Seventeen [comp. by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II]
20220604 Soundgarden — Dusty
20220605 Astrud Gilberto — Who Needs Forever [comp. by Howard Greenfield & Quincy Jones]
20220606 Seal — Still Love Remains
20220607 Bruce Hornsby & The Range — Valley Road
20220608 Peggy Lee & George Shearing — Always True to You in My Fashion [comp. by Cole Porter]
20220609 Antonio Carlos Jobim — Children’s Games
20220610 Mahavishnu Orchestra — Birds of Fire
20220611 Dream a Little Dream of Me
20220612 Danny Wilde — Time Runs Wild
20220613 Antonio Carlos Jobim — Children’s Games
20220614 Nuclear Assault — Hang the Pope
20220615 David Bowie — Sound & Vision
20220616 Municipal Waste — Grave Dive
20220617 Ken Tamplin — Never Give Up (A Wife’s Tribute)
20220618 Julee Cruise — Slow Hot Wind [comp. by Henry Mancini]
20220619 Heart — There’s the Girl
20220620 Prince — She Spoke 2 Me
20220621 Focus — Hocus Pocus
20220622 Naked City — A Shot in the Dark [comp. by Henry Mancini]
20220623 Bobby McFerrin — Another Night in Tunisia [comp. by Dizzy Gillespie & Frank Paparelli]
20220624 Stevie Wonder — With Each Beat of My Heart
20220625 Prince — Pink Cashmere
20220626 Us3 — Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
20220627 XTC — The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
20220628 Mahavishnu Orchestra — You Know, You Know
20220629 Peter Gabriel — Shaking the Tree
20220630 Babyface — Whip Appeal
202207
20220701 Living Colour - Auslander
20220702 The Beatles — Here Comes the Sun
20220703 Astrud Gilberto / Walter Wanderley — Here’s That Rainy Day [comp. by Jimmy Van Heusen & Johnny Burke]
20220704 Porno for Pyros — Blood Rag
20220705 Stevie Wonder — Ordinary Day
20220706 Porcupine Tree — Rats Return
20220707 Municipal Waste — Wave of Death
20220708 Prince — Alphabet St.
20220709 George Michael — Kissing a Fool
20220710 Faith No More — RV
20220711 Ween — Roses Are Free
20220712 Faith No More — Superhero
20220713 Pearl Jam — WMA
20220714 Wanda de Sah — So Danço Samba [comp. by Antonio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes]
20220715 Siouxsie & The Banshees — Face to Face
20220716 Pink Floyd — A New Machine
20220717 Rush — Stick It Out
20220718 Faith No More — Ashes to Ashes “Give the same to me then I’ll be closer, closer…”
20220719 Porno for Pyros — Pets
20220720 Sparks — This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us
20220721 Gwen Stefani — Luxurious
20220722 Phish — Lengthwise
20220723 Pink Floyd — Us and Them
20220724 The Alan Parsons Project — Time
20220725 Siouxsie & The Banshees — Kiss Them for Me
20220726 Phish — My Friend, My Friend
20220727 Sparks — This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us
20220728 Tomahawk — Red Fox
20220729 Helmet — Sinatra “What’s the best for me?”
20220730 Fugazi — Merchandise “What could a businessman ever want more than to have us SUCKING in his STORE?”
20220731 Mr. Bungle — Retrovertigo
202208
20220801 Pantera — A New Level
20220802 Mad Season — Long Gone Day
20220803 Francis Lai — Theme from “A Man and a Woman”
20220804 Dizzy Gillespie — Manteca
20220805 Pebbles — Mercedes Boy
20220806 The Main Ingredient — Everybody Plays the Fool
20220807 Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose — Too Late to Turn Back Now
20220808 Frank Sinatra — All or Nothing at All [comp. by Arthur Altman & Jack Lawrence]
20220809 Credence Clearwater Revival — Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
20220810 Beck — Little One
20220811 Radiohead — Fake Plastic Trees
20220812 America — A Horse with No Name
20220813 Bill Withers — Lovely Day
20220814 Metallica — Harvester of Sorrow
20220815 Porcupine Tree — Rats Return
20220816 Stephen Trask — Wicked Little Town
20220817 Faith No More — Mark Bowen
20220818 XTC — You’re the Wish You Are I Had
20220819 John Coltrane — My Favorite Things [comp. by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II]
20220820 Rustic Overtones — Baby Blue
20220821 Chuck Berry — You Never Can Tell
20220822 Tribe — Miracle of Sound
20220823 Stephen Trask — Wicked Little Town
20220824 Antonio Carlos Jobim — Children’s Games
20220825 Porno for Pyros — Blood Rag
20220826 Johnny Rivers — Secret Agent Man
20220827 Porcupine Tree — Rats Return
20220828 Roy Ayers — Everybody Loves the Sunshine “Just bees, and things, and flowers…”
20220829 Nirvana — Turnaround
20220830 Naked City — A Shot in the Dark [comp. by Henry Mancini]
20220831 Anita Baker — Sweet Love
202209
20220901 Iron Reagan — Dead with My Friends
20220902 George Michael — Hand to Mouth
20220903 Forbidden — Forsaken at the Gates “Corpses laid out for the rapture…”
20220904 Enuff Z’Nuff — New Thing
20220905 The Flaming Lips — The Spark That Bled “The softest bullet ever shot…”
20220906 Willie Nelson — Crazy
20220907 Living Colour — Type
20220908 Armando Trovajoli — Vivere Felici
20220909 George Bizet — Habanera (L’amour est un oiseau rebelle)
20220910 The Beatles — I’m Only Sleeping
20220911 Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody “Any way the wind blows…”
20220912 Chris Cornell — Seasons
20220913 Living Colour — Mind Your Own Business
20220914 Arling & Cameron & Joost Swarte — Fun Shopping
20220915 Mr. Bungle — Retrovertigo
20220916 David Bowie — Absolute Beginners
20220917 Janet Jackson — Escapade
20220918 Faith No More — As the Worm Turns
20220919 Walter Wanderley — Surfboard [comp. by Antonio Carlos Jobim]
20220920 Herbie Hancock — Main Title: Deathwish
20220921 The Melachrino Strings — Sand in My Shoes [comp. by Victor Schertzinger]
20220922 Sacred Reich — Supremacy
20220923 Melvins — Copache
20220924 Terror — Don’t Need Your Help
20220925 Mr. Bungle — None of Them Knew They Were Robots
20220926 Forbidden — Forsaken at the Gates
20220927 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers — Moanin’ [comp. by Bobby Timmons]
20220928 Mr. Bungle — Eracist
20220929 Fear Factory — Aggression Continuum [Instrumental]
20220930 Pixies — Monkey Gone to Heaven “And if the devil is six then GOD IS SEVEN…”
202210
20221001 Faith No More — Just a Man
20221002 Faith No More — Evidence
20221003 [Nothing]
20221004 Stephen Trask — Angry Inch “My mother made my tits out of clay…”
20221005 Sacred Reich — Don’t Do It Donnie
20221006 Queen — I’m Going Slightly Mad
20221007 Pink Floyd — Us and Them
20221008 The Flaming Lips — Waitin’ for a Superman
20221009 Sacred Reich — Don’t Do It Donnie
20221010 Toad the Wet Sprocket — All I Want
20221011 The Bad Plus — And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation
20221012 Clutch — A Shotgun Named Marcus
20221013 Harry Connick, Jr. — Forever, for Now
20221014 Pink Floyd — Pigs on the Wing [1]
20221015 Pink Floyd — Dogs
20221016 Sevendust — Rumble Fish
20221017 [Nothing]
20221018 Armando Trovajoli — Vivere Felici
20221019 The Bad Plus — Anthem for the Earnest
20221020 John Barry — Midnight Cowboy
20221021 The Bad Plus — Anthem for the Earnest
20221022 Soundgarden — Head Down
20221023 Living Colour — Desperate People
20220124 Spiritbox — Holy Roller “Stand to the left of me in paradise holy ghosts will…”
20221025 Seal — No Easy Way
20221026 Angelo Badalamenti — Red Bats with Teeth
20221027 The Beatles — Good Day Sunshine
20221028 Tomahawk — POP 1 “This beat could win me a Grammy…”
20221029 Mr. Bungle — My Ass Is on Fire “Redundant…redundant…redundant…”
20221030 Big Wreck — The Pleasure and the Greed
20221031 Queen — I’m Going Slightly Mad
202211
20221101 [Nothing]
20221102 Fredrick Thordendal — Sol Niger Within Medley
20221103 Michael Penn — No Myth
20221104 The Candy Skins — Wembley
20221105 Ray Stevens — Everything Is Beautiful
20221106 Eleven — Now Is the Word
20221107 The Beatles — Girl
20221108 Miles Davis — In a Silent Way
20221109 Filter — Skinny
20221110 Dead Kennedys — Let’s Lynch the Landlord
20221111 Billy Joel — She’s Right on Time
20221112 The Beatles — Michelle
20221113 Sepultura — Moloko Mesto
20221114 David Bowie — ’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore
20221115 Shallow North Dakota — Backbone
20221116 Dizzy Gillespie — Manteca
20221117 Henry Mancini — Lujon
20221118 Billy Joel — She’s Right on Time
20221119 Fastball — The Way
20221120 Antonio Carlos Jobim — Wave
20221121 Billy Joel — Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
20221122 “Weird Al” Yankovic — Like a Surgeon [comp. by Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly]
20221123 Prince — Love Sign [Remix by Shock G.]
20221124 The Beatles — Rain
20221125 Ethel Smith — Brazil [comp. by Ary Barroso]
20221126 Prince — Blue Light
20221127 SWV — Right Here [Human Nature Remix]
20221128 Richard Marx — Don’t Mean Nothing
20221129 John Coltrane — I Want to Talk About You [comp. by Billy Eckstine]
20221130 Fleetwood Mac — Everywhere
202212
20221201 Janet Jackson — Love Will Never Do (Without You)
20221202 The Doors — Riders on the Storm
20221203 Terence Blanchard — She Hate Me
20221204 “Weird Al” Yankovic — Virus Alert “Turn off your computer and make sure it powers down, drop it in a forty-three-foot hole in the ground…”
20221205 Don Costa — Never on Sunday [comp. by Manos Hatzidakis]
20221206 Cultura Tres — The World and Its Lies
20221207 Dizzy Gillespie — Manteca
20221208 Vince Guaraldi — Cast Your Fate to the Wind
20221209 Mats/Morgan Band — ADAT Dropouts I Love You
20221210 Radiohead — Knives Out
20221211 Korn — A.D.I.D.A.S
20221212 Vince Guaraldi — Christmas Is Coming
20221213 Queen — Who Needs You
20221214 Queen — I’m Going Slightly Mad
20221215 Faith No More — Caffeine
20221216 Phish — Lengthwise
20221217 Crash Test Dummies — Afternoons and Coffeespoons
20221218 Herbie Hancock — Tell Me a Bedtime Story
20221219 [nothing]
20221220 Derek & The Dominos — Layla
20221221 Jerry Goldsmith — The Gremlin Rag
20221222 Freddie Hubbard — Polar AC [comp. by Cedar Walton]
20221223 Crash Test Dummies — In the Days of Caveman
20221224 John Coltrane — I Want to Talk About You [comp. by William Clarence Eckstein]
20221225 Belinda Carlisle — I Get Weak [comp. by Diane Warren]
20221226 Willie Bobo — Midnight Sun [comp. by Lionel Hampton & Sonny Burke]
20221227 Mudhoney — Acetone
20221228 Nino Rota — Amarcord
20221229 Frank Zappa — Your Mouth “Your mouth is you religion; you put your faith in a hole like that..”
20221230 Filter — Skinny
20221231 Fredrik Thordendal — Ooo Baby Baby