Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. I promised myself last year that I would no longer put blogging first in my life when there are other things to do. And there have been other things to do! When it rains here in So Cal–and it has rained a LOT–it’s time to put native seeds in the ground. November is prime planting time so I am pushing it a bit, but I am always sorry that I didn’t plant more so I’m going for it.

And that brings me to the theme of this week’s Contrast Podcast: GO. This week also marks the 200th podcast, and since it’s a weekly deal, that tells you how dedicated our host Tim Young and my fellow contributors are. I compiled a list of 30 songs with variations on the word “Go,” and these were at the top of the list.

I mistakenly introduced my song choice as being from my third favorite album of 2009 and only later remembered that Kabukimono was actually my fourth favorite album. I’ll excuse that error because I liked my top 5 of 2009 so much, any one of them could have been #1! I am still nuts about Rainbow Arabia’s multi-layered rhythms, Middle Eastern ululations, and microtonal keyboard riffs, and I play the album often–maybe more often than the three albums that preceded it on my Top 10 of 2009.

Rainbow Arabia - I Know I See I Love I Go from Kabukimono
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It’s hard to say anything about this except that it is gorgeous.
Ane Brun - To Let Myself Go from A Temporary Dive (2004)
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Vintage Queens of the Stone Age! Songs for the Deaf was such an amazing album. I might as well say here that I don’t get the broken light bulb mascots that QOTSA started using a couple of years ago. What’s that about?
Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow from Songs for the Deaf (2002)
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Material Issue was one of my favorite bands of the 90s (I had a lot of favorite bands in the 90s). We miss you, Jim Ellison.
Material Issue - Goin' Through Your Purse from Freak City Soundtrack (1994)
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I love how Tony Joe White drawls out ominously, “Y’all ain’t from around heah, are ya?” You just know there’s something about that swamp he isn’t telling.
Boozoo Bajou - Keep Going from Dust My Broom (2005)
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And of course, I could have selected one of my favorite songs of all time, “Go Insane.” Lindsey Buckingham is still a damn sexy guy, at least to an old lady like myself. I still love the video too.
Lindsey Buckingham - Go Insane from Go Insane (1985)
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Photo: Sky On Fire, December sunset by alt-gramma

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