This week's Roaster Boy's playlist

• Curtis Mayfield - Move on up ( Monday, Feb 04 at 08:02 PM )

  There are so many things right about this tune - the beat, the lyrics, the singing. -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Drink from the well and yield your place to another. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

• Happy 60th Birthday, Vince Furnier, aka Alice Cooper ( Monday, Feb 04 at 06:48 PM )

  Also, Happy Almost 18th Birthday, MFH. This song, written and delivered quite a while ago, still tells the story of eighteen years old better than any other song I know: I'm Eighteen

• YouTube - Step Right Up (Tom Waits) ( Monday, Feb 04 at 10:27 AM )

  With a voice like rocks in a metal bucket, Tom Waits 'splains our As Seen on TV world : Step Right Up . The large print giveth while the small print taketh away.

• Rolling Stones - You can't always what you want ( Saturday, Feb 02 at 03:31 PM )

  -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Drink from the well and yield your place to another. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

• YouTube - Talking Heads - Life During Wartime ( Thursday, Jan 31 at 03:28 PM )

  YouTube - Talking Heads - Life During Wartime

• YouTube - Dave Brubeck - Take Five ( Thursday, Jan 31 at 11:35 AM )

  You'd be hard pressed to find a more nerdly-looking bunch, but this tune, nearly 50 years old and with its iconic 5/4 time, still defines cool: YouTube - Dave Brubeck - Take Five

• Fleetwood Mac - Oh, Well (Live at the Boston Tea Party) ( Wednesday, Jan 30 at 08:36 PM )

  The Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac shows off its stuff in this somewhat-hard-to-find recording from 1969.

• January 30, 1969: The Beatles make their last public appearance with a free rooftop concert. "Get Back." ( Wednesday, Jan 30 at 12:33 PM )

  FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3363759) January 30, 1969: The Beatles make their last public appearance with a free rooftop concert. "Get Back."

• Fred Neil- The Dolphins ( Wednesday, Jan 30 at 11:29 AM )

  Another old folkie gem - YouTube - The Dolphins . We mostly know Fred Neil from Everybody's Talkin' , popularized by Harry Nilsson as a part of the soundtrack for Midnight Cowboy.

• The music in our heads ( Tuesday, Jan 29 at 09:04 PM )

  From time to time, we all have songs stuck in our heads. The folks in this story (NPR: Hearing Things: When Sounds Come Unbidden) , however, get music delivered through their own, bored auditory systems.