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Devo performing Satisfaction on Saturday Night Live is 10 kinds of awesome. I think I probably must have some Devo on my iPod. I’m going to have to rock that tonight.

The Shatner Woo Remix is 10 kinds of awesome. The David Bowie and Cher Medley is 10 kinds of something else.

Last week, I was deleting an episode of Gilmore Girls that Tivo recorded for me. As I was deleting it, I noticed the episode title, “One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes”. That struck a chord with me. It sounded so familiar that I thought maybe it was a pun on a song lyric or something.

I couldn’t think of the song though and no manor of Google searches could turn up the lyric I was looking for. I thought it was a Springsteen song or maybe Billy Joel. It just kept coming back and back — some barely remembered wisp of a lyric that I couldn’t quite catch and couldn’t quite forget.

This morning, I finally thought of the lyric that was driving me crazy. “Somebody’s going to emergency. Somebody’s going to jail” from Don Henley’s “New York Minute”. I still think the Gilmore Girls show might be referring to a different song, but that’s the one I was thinking of. I also think it’s funny that Google turned up a West Wing episode called Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail, which is obviously a better match.

It’s such a relief to get that out of my head!

The Colbert Report’s Countdown to Guitarmageddon was awesome. Who knew that Kissinger could rock that hard?

OK, so we won’t go into why I was watching Saturday Night Live. Suffice it to say that if you can watch the show on a TiVo, it isn’t too painful, and I typically don’t have a lot of shows to watch on Sunday morning when I wake up anyway, so the season pass doesn’t really cost me much.

Anyway, I’m watching last nights show, and Gwen Stefani is one of the musical guests. This was quite possibly one of the worst performances I have ever seen in my life. I thought that when she did a cover from Fiddler on the Roof that was kind of bad, but this went so far beyond that it was actually a little awe inspiring.

She start off yodeling. Then she moves onto to this sort of rap. I think it’s supposed to be a look how sexy I am Fergie type of song (and Stefani is really sexy, so it should work well), but the rap itself is so forced and stilted that it’s even worse than Fergalicious. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get this performance out of my head.

She only did one song on the show. They had somebody else do the second act for some reason. If that’s the song from her new album that she decided to lead with, I would love to hear what else didn’t get performed. It must suck harder than 100 black holes.

I finally managed to get a good rip of “Don’t Tell a Soul” by The Replacements. I had this on CD and played the hell out of it, but when I went to rip all my old music it was damaged or something, so the songs had a lot of speaker breaking, ear splitting, white noise.

I know that music fans who care about this stuff think that “Don’t Tell a Soul” is one of the weaker Replacements albums, but I always loved it — proving yet again that my musical taste pretty much sucks. It’s finally on my iPod now though. So Happy!!!!

You have to hear this guy who imitates various artists like the Beach Boys or Frank Sinatra covering Pixies tracks the way those artists might have done them.

So much potential for horror, and yet, they are surprisingly good and compelling versions of the songs.

Boy, somebody is stuck in an early 90s alt-chick loop. Yesterday, I got in the car. The radio came on, and they were playing “Cannonball” by the Breeders. I remember thinking to myself wow, I haven’t heard that in a while. Cool.

Today, I got in the car. The radio came on and they were playing “Feed the Tree” by Belly. I hadn’t heard that in a while either, so that’s kind of cool too I guess. Still, the pattern is becoming clear to me. I fully expect to get in the car tomorrow and either hear Four Non Blondes “What’s Up?” (which I would have sworn was called “What’s Going On?” or maybe “Seether” by Veruca Salt.

Also, what does it say about me that while I recognize the songs and the era, I had to look up all of those bands. I would have sworn that it was the Breeders who sang Feed the Tree, and I had no idea who did Cannonball.

Audiri looks like a pretty good resource for finding new artists. I’m assuming that these are all unsigned artists. I’ll have to explore a bit more and maybe buy a few CDs.

Wow! The Beatles Songs page on Wikipedia is a tremendous resource. Lots of interesting background about nearly 200 Beatles songs.