Hot Love / Don't Blow Your Cool

Summer... finally... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Justus Köhncke - Hot Love (2004: Kompakt 100)

Jimi Hendrix - Long Hot Summer Night (1968: Electric Ladyland)

Stay cooool....

The Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Ice-Land (2005: Ep)

The Caravelles - Don't Blow Your Cool (1964: Don't Blow Your Cool)

Use it, Abuse It

Rhymefest - Devil's Pie (2006: Blue Collar)
 sampled:
The Strokes - Someday (2000: Is This It)
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The Go! Team - Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone
(2004: Thunder, Lightning, Strike)
 sampled:
The 5th Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic
(1968: Stoned Soul Picnic)
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Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill (2004: You Are the Light EP)
 sampled:
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - (Love is Like a) Heat Wave (1963: (Love is Like a) Heat Wave)
 and
The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walkin' In the Sand) (1964: Remember (Walkin' In the Sand))
 which was TOTALLY ripped off in the McCartney/Harrison lead vocal section of this John Lennon/Beatles/Threetles song:
The Beatles - Free as a Bird (1995: Anthology 1)
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Gianfranco Reverberi - Last Man Standing (1968: Preparati la bara!)
 - This is from the soundtrack to 'Viva! Django'... the sequel to 'Django' which inspired 'Sukiyaki Western Django.' I'm sure you can tell what this led to.

Ponies in the Surf

A brother/sister duo from Bogota, Colombia... they make quiet, pretty acoustic music. I'm not really sure how serious they are about their band... their last myspace login was last January, they release albums very infrequently and they rarely tour (I consider myself very fortunate to have caught them playing at the cake shop a few years ago). But at least they recorded three fantastic albums... I'm very thankful for that. Here's some samplings:

Ponies in the Surf - Ventricle (2004: A Demonstration)

Ponies in the Surf - Je t'aime (2004: A Demonstration)

Ponies in the Surf - Mimi Come Home (2005: Ponies on Fire)

Ponies in the Surf - Bad Crowd (2008: See You Happy)

Ponies in the Surf - Ponies in the Surf (2004: A Demonstration)

Thanks to Mike for giving me their EP in Boston.

La quatriéme chose

France Gall - La quatriéme chose
(1972: 5 minutes d'amour / La quatriéme chose)
 - Kind of sounds like it could make a good tv theme song...  maybe something like this:

Tripping Daisy - Friends/Sigmund and the Seamonsters
(1995: Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits)

France Gall - Un prince charmant
(1965: Un prince charmant)

France Gall - Frankenstein
(1972: Frankenstein / Les petits ballons)
 - The last song she recorded by Serge Gainsbourg

France Gall - A Banda
(1968: A Banda)
 - auf Deutsch!

Some Beatles Outtakes

The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand (Take 9)

The Beatles - This Boy (Take 4)

The Beatles - I Should Have Known Better (Take 11)

The Beatles - In My Life (Alternate solo)

Army Dreamers

Kate Bush - Army Dreamers (1986: The Whole Story)

Joanna Newsom - On a Good Day (2010: Have One On Me)