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