BBC - Ming Tea
There are brief musical interludes in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery that show Austin jamming with his band, Ming Tea. This ode to 1960s Britishness makes me laugh every time, and I feel sorry for future generations who won't understand how funny it was now that we really do have BBC3 through 7.
Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
I usually got intensely irritated by my boarding-school roommates' music, but I ended up liking the Cure so much I even went to see them at Wembley a couple of years ago. Robert Smith has his finger firmly on the pulse - the one in your wrist - of teen angst. So angry! Yet so miserable!
Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra
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Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
My introduction to the world of the Everlies was Simon & Garfunkel's cover of this song on Bridge Over Troubled Water. A song with lyrics like this shouldn't make the audience get to its feet and clap in time to the music, yet it does.
Blues Run The Game - Jackson C. Frank
Another song I first heard as a Simon & Garfunkel cover and fell in love with. Pandora astutely played me the original; currently awaiting delivery of the CD.
On the B-list: Baby Can I Hold You (Tracy Chapman), Break On Through (The Doors), Big Bad John (Jimmy Dean), Birdhouse In Your Soul (They Might Be Giants), Bobby Brown Goes Down (Frank Zappa)
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