The Rentals - Friends of P.
The Rentals - Friends of P.
Drive By Truckers - The Day John Henry Died
Love - 7 & 7 Is
"Love Hurts" (originally by the Everly Brothers, more famously by Nazareth).
The Sonics - Strychnine
Real Real Gone. Or anything besides Brown-Eyed Girl (which is great, but there are other options).
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Talk to Me of Mendocino
The Jam - In the City
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
The Temptations - Ball of Confusion
Sara Bareilles - King of Anything
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song
The Monotones - Book of Love (not the Magnetic Fields song).
Left Banke - Walk Away Renee
Nico - These Days
Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525
Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner