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Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions?


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This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical cousin, reckon, of Wall Street's "profit-sharing," decorators' "wall-hanging," or The Riches' Eddie Izzard's "ass-having." It's the holiday least commodified by the entertainment industry, possibly because it's so pre-owned by food concerns? It was even the final calendar-refuge from slasher films until Eli Roth's fake Grindhouse trailer.

So I...made a playlist. Please feel free to contribute to its comprehensiveness via the comments section. Yup, I am aware that I omitted relevant jams by Dido, George Winston, Kelis, Brad Paisley, and Sum 41. I'm also yet to hear that popular Williams S. Burroughs thing. And I know that Big Black released a Thanksgiving EP, but I've always avoided them out of a certainty that nothing music could be good enough to earn the cover art of Songs About Fucking. And let me warn you: even though it was on the 1984 Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, the awkwardly of-its-moment Danny Elfman song is somehow much easier to swallow if you used to be engaged to a girl who looks like Eric Stoltz in 1989's The Fly 2. -- William Bowers

The National- "Mr. November"
Sick Fix- "Thanks For Telling Me I'm Fat"
Tom Waits- "November"
Gorillaz & MF Doom- "November Has Come"
Christina Aguilera- "Thank You"


Led Zeppelin, "Thank You"

Bjork & Will Oldham- "Gratitude"
My Chemical Romance- "Thank You For The Venom"
Abba- "Thank You For The Music"
Marvin Gaye- "Got To Give It Up"
Guns N Roses- November Rain"
Bright Eyes- "I Will Be Grateful For This Day"
Loudon Wainwright- "Thanksgiving"
Cam'ron- "Family Ties"
Reggie & The Full Effect- "Thanks For The Misery"
Beastie Boys- "Gratitude"
Devo- "Thanks To You"
Oneida- "Thank Your Parents"
Ozzy Osbourne- "Thank God For The Bomb"
Charles Mingus- "Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am"


Sister Sledge, "We Are Family"

Elvis Presley- "Thanks To The Rolling Sea"
The Frogs- "Thank God I Died In The Car Crash"
The Skatalites & King Tubby- "Give Thanks"
The Strawbs- "Thank You"
Graham Parker- "Almost Thanksgiving Day"
Cody Chesnutt- "Family On Blast"
Paul Butterfield Blues Band- "Thank You Mr. Poobah"
Puffy AmiYumi- "Thank You"
His Name Is Alive- "November Cotton Flower"
Jane's Addiction- "Thank You Boys"
Robert Pollard-"Thank You"
Dominion- "Appreciate To Mutilate"
Sparks- "Thank God It's Not Christmas"


Guns N Roses, "November Rain"

Bing Crosby- "Thanks"
The Commitments- "I Thank You"
Paul McCartney- "Gratitude"
James Gang- "Thanks"
Will Oldham- "Let's Start A Family"
Earth Wind & Fire- "Gratitude"
Wayne Kramer & Johnny Thunders- "Hey Thanks"
Jerry Cantrell- "Thanks Anyway"
Johnny Cash- "Thanks A Lot"
Something by the Mount Eerie-ish band (often covered by Mount Eerie) called Thanksgiving
Something by the psych underdogs Family
Something pissy from the punk boxset No Thanks
Something by the Grateful Dead


Cynthia Fee/ Andrew Gold- "Thank You For Being A Friend (Golden Girls Theme)"


Beastie Boys, "Gratitude"

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Actual Music Listener says:

searching your iTunes for song with key phrases does not a playlist make

the lazy-man, hipster method of playlisting has degraded the art, making for disjointed and gimmicky collections of theme-based tunes. i suspect this is also the genesis of lazy dj'ing, mixing songs together that both have the word "love" in the title, disregarding the fact that the two songs couldn't be more mis-matched musically or emotionally, not even lending themselves to ironic juxtaposition.

this method is a selfish and perfunctory survey of your download collection, which shamefully, doesn't include the most stunning example of musical gratitude, Alicia Myers' "I Want To Thank You".


Posted On: Saturday, Nov. 28 2009 @ 11:22AM

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