18 Nov Matador Playlist 11/14/24

I am returned, Gentle Reader(s), to the City Indifferent after a month in the town of my birth. It was an enjoyable sojourn down south, but by the time I packed up for the long drive home I was very much ready to go. The burst of cool, dry, sunny autumnal weather that had taken hold around mid-October gradually gave away to a damp swampy vibe by the end of the month. While an extraordinary early fall blizzard was blowing through northern New Mexico in the first week of November, setting snowfall records across the region in the process, I was slogging through 85 degree temps and 85% humidity in New Orleans, returning dripping wet to Ink South after my alternating-day 25-mile bike rides and intervening Audubon Park perambulations. Time to initiate the transition from the Low and Wet back to the High and Dry.

My time in New Orleans included the fraught buildup to, and steadily building horror of, Election Day. I attended a party at my neighbor’s house on the night of 11/5 and spent my time in the kitchen getting to know some of the folks from the hood. There was another group of attendees hanging out in the room where the television was installed and, as the evening wore on, these folks started wandering in and out of the kitchen with increasingly alarmed looks on their faces. No es bueno. At about 10:00 PM CST I decided to head back next door to Ink South. I studiously avoided looking at my phone and computer and went to bed clinging to the vague hope/fantasy that some electoral miracle might take place overnight and I’d awaken to a new era of optimism and sanity.

Oh well.

I was in residence at Ink South back in November of 2016 when the Orange Goblin first laid claim to the highest office in the land, and this time around I found that I was not as stunned and horrified as I was back then (scroll back to my posts of November 2016 if you care to see what I managed to stammer out in anticipation of Original DrumpfReich). It is absolutely stunning and horrifying, of course, but we’ve been here before and at least have the advantage of a clearer notion of what ghastliness and outrages lay ahead. Will DrumpfReich 2.0 be worse than Original? Most assuredly so. What do we do about it? I most assuredly don’t know. I’ve been trying to organize my thinking about all of this and, hopefully, I’ll manage to compose some sort of coherent expression thereof to post in these pages in forthcoming days. Rumor has it that I’m a writer, so I’ll write something. It’s a start.

But, in the meantime, I have reclaimed my Thursday night slot at Ye Olde Matador Bar & Lounge and am doing my best to entertain the assembled multitudes with an evening of energetic toonage. In recent weeks the trick has been to integrate the voluminous requests for au courant reggaeton hits with the traditional Matador fare of raucous rock & roll, punk, soul and retro country and rockabilly. I had an extended chin wag with Cesar about this very topic on Friday afternoon over coffee and smoothies at Iconik Red and we were in concurrence on the best approach to achieving an artful balance: Fulfill as many reggaeton requests as is reasonable but alternate those with solidly beat-heavy rock & roll tracks to keep the old school patrons content. A great crossover band for this purpose is Girl In A Coma and the band’s post-breakup spinoff, Fea. Thrashy Latina guitar rock and witty cover toons? ¡Uhh, si, por favor, gracias!

So, I guess that’s it for now, Gentle Reader(s). Chin up, stiff upper lip, and onwards through the fog. Check back soon for my opening bid to qualify for a listing on a DrumpReich 2.0 Enemies/Detention/Deportation list. Bring it on. My grandmother was born in London, so there’s a glimmer of hope that I might qualify for U.K. citizenship.

I’m serious.

In the meantime, click on the link below for the YouTube incarnation of this week’s killer jams (bro).

DJ Inky Matador Playlist 11/14/24

Grammar of Life – Charles Bukowski
1970 – The Stooges
Sing Sing Sing – Louis Prima
Iron Fist – Motörhead
66 – Afghan Whigs
The Other Side of This Life – Jefferson Airplane
Dancing Queen – ABBA
I Got the Feeling – James Brown
52 Girls – B-52s
We The People… – Tribe Called Quest
Oh! You Pretty Things – David Bowie
Material Girl – Madonna
Shiftless When Idle – the Replacements
Double It – Galactic, feat. Big Freedia
The Big Three Killed My Baby – White Stripes
Pictures of You – the Cure
Mistaken for Strangers – the National
Lonely Weekends – Charlie Rich
There She Goes, My Beautiful World – Nick Cave + Bad Seeds
It’s A Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll) – AC/DC
Army of Me – Björk
Uncomfortable Teenager – Phantastic Ferniture
Judy is a Punk – the Ramones
She Sells Sanctuary – the Cult
Jealous Again – Black Flag
Maggie Mae – the Pietasters
S. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) – R.E.M.
Y Control – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Four Sticks – Led Zeppelin
Punk Rock Girls – the Queers
Shake – Otis Redding
Amoeba – Adolescents
Titi Me Pregunto – Nio Garcia, Casper Magico & Bad Bunny (request)
I Fink You Freeky – Die Antwoord
Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido – Karol G (request)
Hollywood Babylon – the Misfits
Con Calma – Daddy Yankee
Come On, Let’s Go – Girl in a Coma
Impossible – Luis Fonsi & Ozuna
Si una Vez – Girl in a Coma
TQG – Karol G & Shakira (request)
La Bamba – Ritchie Valens
Danza Kuduro – Don Omar
C’mon C’mon – the Von Bondies
Bebe Dame – Fuerza Regida & Grupo Frontera (request)
Yo Oigo – Girl in a Coma
La Jumpa – Arcangel & Bad Bunny (request)
Do You Wanna Dance – the Ramones
Timber – Pitbull & Kesha (request)
Que Onda – Calle 24, Chino Pacas & Fuerza Regida (request)
Voodoo Cadillac – Southern Culture on the Skids
Sugar – System of a Down (request)
International Love – Pitbull
Waiting Room – Fugazi
La Carencia – Panteon Rococo (request)
365 – Charli XCX (request)
Where Eagles Dare – the Misfits
Tirando la H – Esteban Gabriel (request)
Rehab – Amy Winehouse
Despacito – Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee
Misirlou – Dick Dale & his Del-Tones
Yo No Se Manana – Luis Enrique (request)
Panama – Van Halen
You Didn’t Need – Rollins Band
Stop Your Sobbing – the Kinks
L.A. Woman – the Doors
Le Freak – Chic
California – Low
Drive Me Crazy – Lil Yachty (request)
Well Oiled Machines – the Koffin Kats
The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn – the Pogues
Bad Habits – Ed Sheeran (request)
Vasoline – Stone Temple Pilots
Porch Light – Josh Meloy (request)
Twist & Shout – the Beatles
Lust for Life – Iggy Pop
Family Affair – Sly & the Family Stone
Firestarters – Sawyer Hill (request)
Emotional Rescue – Rolling Stones
I Walked with a Zombie – Roky Erikson
World Without Tears – Lucinda Williams
Buona Sera – Louis Prima
Happy Trails – Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
Taxi – Bryan Ferry