“fompy”: strange, outré, out of place,
unexpected, downright weird, yet all in a way that, once
digested and absorbed, seems one step away from making perfect
sense, although one will never be able to articulate how, much
less take that step; “to fomp”: to behave in a
fompy manner, hence “to fomp out”, which means
really to go to town on that shit; sometimes to bug is to fomp
Most of us want to fomp, want to conceive of ourselves as
fompy, but then one day we awake to look in the mirror and
realize we’ve been bugging all along.
- The Beatles: Happiness Is a Warm Gun
- Van Morrison: Madame George
- The Velvet Underground: Train Round the Bend
- Jane’s Addiction: Of Course
- Government Issue: Strange Wine
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
- The B-52s: Private Idaho
- The Flaming Lips: Shaved Gorilla
- Dr. Octagon: General Hospital/Blue Flowers
- Morphine: Head with Wings
- The B-52s: Planet Claire
- Handsome Boy Modeling School: Look at This Face (Oh My God They’re Gorgeous)
- The Fall: The Classical
- Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five: Tight Like This [with Earl Hines, Don Redman, Fred Robinson, Zutty Singleton & Jimmy Strong, on “Louis Armstrong (1928): The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 1 Classic Jazz”]
- The Flaming Lips: The Ceiling Is Bendin’
- Tom Waits: Jocky Full of Bourbon
- Afrique: Soul Makossa
- Radiohead: Everything in Its Right Place
- The Rolling Stones: Ruby Tuesday
- The Apples in Stereo: Drifting Patterns
- Bob Dylan: Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
- My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid and Flowers Mix)
- James Brown: Get on the Good Foot
- Violent Femmes: Blister in the Sun
- Iggy Pop: The Passenger
- Government Issue: Last Forever
- Blind Lemon Jefferson: Match Box Blues
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Matchbox
- Carl Perkins: Matchbox
- The Beatles: Matchbox [from “Live at the BBC”]
- Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan: Matchbox [from “The Johnny Cash Show”, 1969]
- The Velvet Underground & Nico: European Son
- Buffalo Springfield: Broken Arrow
- Tom Waits: Diamonds on My Windshield
- The Fall: Hip Priest
- The Zombies: She’s Not There
- The Flaming Lips: Trains, brains & rain
- James Brown: Do the Mashed Potatoes, Pt. 1
- The Beatles: I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
- The Doors: Do It
- The Austin Lounge Lizards: Brain Damage
- Tom Waits: Intro / Eggs and Sausage
- Beastie Boys: Egg Man
- The Beatles: I Am the Walrus
- Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Don’t You Just Know It
- Bill Monroe: New Mule Skinner Blues
- Bruce Springsteen: Kitty’s Back
- Beck: Get Real Paid
- Radiohead: The National Anthem
- Dr. Octagon: I Got to Tell You
- Dr. Octagon: Earth People
- Blind Lemon Jefferson: Black Snake Moan
- Cream: As You Said
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: Run through the Jungle
- The Beatles: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
- The Doors: Yes, the River Knows
- Manu Chao: Bongo Bong/Je ne t’aime plus
- Les Negresses Vertes: Zobi la Mouche
- James Brown: Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Love or Confusion
- De La Soul: Transmitting Live from Mars
- The Monkees: The Monkees
- The Beatles: Rocky Raccoon
- Radiohead: Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
- Tom Waits: Gun Street Girl
- James Brown: Mother Popcorn
- Beck: Lord Only Knows
- Bruce Springsteen: Spirit in the Night
- fIREHOSE: Me & You, Remembering
- The Beatles: The Continuing Story of Bungalo Bill
- David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
- Nirvana: About a Girl [from “Unplugged”]
- Dinosaur jr.: Show Me the Way
- R.E.M.: Underneath the Bunker
- fIREHOSE: For the Singer of R.E.M.
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience: If 6 Was 9
- The Flaming Lips: She is death
- Starlight Mints: Valerie Flames
- Dinosaur jr.: Yeah We Know
- Government Issue: When I’m Alone
- R.E.M.: Swan Swan H
- fIREHOSE: Making the Freeway
- X: True Love, Pt.2
- Squirrel Bait: Disguise
- The Fugees: Chinese Restaurant
- Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris
- Cyndi Lauper: She Bop
- The Doors: Peace Frog
- Joni Mitchell: California
- Belle & Sebastian: A Century of Elvis
- Elvis Presley: Too Much
- The Beatles: It’s All Too Much
- Roy Orbison: Candy Man
- Blondie: Rapture
- Burl Ives: Old Witch Old Witch
- The Replacements: I’m in Trouble
- XTC: Senses Working Overtime
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Mickey’s Monkey
- The Mahotella Queens with Mahlathini: Wozani Mahipi (Hippies Come To Soweto)
- Howlin’ Wolf: Wang Dang Doodle
- Ted Nugent: Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
- Harry Belafonte: Mama Look a Boo Boo
- Khachaturian: Sabre Dance [Aram Khachaturian and London Symphony Orchestra]
- Afroman: Because I Got High
- Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra: I. Einleitung [von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, 1974]
- Portishead: Mysterons
- Government Issue: Memories Past
- Pixies: Monkey Gone to Heaven
- T. Rex: Mambo Sun
- Romeo Void: Never Say Never
- The Velvet Underground: Lady Godiva’s Operation
- Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
- Screaming Trees: Grey Diamond Desert
- Cibo Matto: Sugar Water
- Hank Williams: Ramblin’ Man
- Nick Drake: Pink Moon
- Ella Fitzgerald: Anything Goes [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
- Michigan J. Frog: The Michigan Rag (Hello, My Baby)
- Gorillaz: 5/4
- The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird
- Scott Biram: Real Life Yodel [from “Preachin’ & Hollerin’”]
- Henry Mancini: Baby Elephant Walk
- Beastie Boys: Intergalactic
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Voodoo Chile
This is named after a phrase from the first song, not after
the title of the songlet’s face it, consistency is
over-rated (except, I reckon, for the first-order predicate
calculus, but, c’mon, who really gives a crap about
that?)the wonderfully evocative claim “The Wild
Tchoupitoulas gonna stomp some rump” captures the thing
perfectly.
- The Wild Tchoupitoulas: Meet de Boys on de Battlefront
- Eric Burdon and War: Spill the Wine
- The Allman Brothers Band: Les Brers in A Minor
- The Diamonds: The Stroll
- Hank Williams: Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
- Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill
- The Miles Davis Quintet: Ahmad’s Blues [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet, with Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones]
- Booker T. and the M.G.s: Green Onions
- Beastie Boys: Jimmy James
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Mickey’s Monkey
- Bob Dylan: I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- Bob Marley & The Wailers: Roots, Rock, Reggae
- Boston: More Than a Feeling
- The Beatles: Flying
- Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)
- Gilberto Gil: Eu Só Quero um Xodó
- Caetano Veloso: Um Canto de Afoxé para o Bloco do Ilê (Ilê Ayê)
- The Mahotella Queens: Umculo Kawupheli (No End to Music)
- Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell: You’re All I Need to Get By
- Elvis Presley: Blue Moon of Kentucky [from “The
Complete Lousiana Hay Ride Archive”, first rendition]
- Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line
- Beck: Nicotine & Gravy
- fIREHOSE: Backroads
- Earth, Wind & Fire: September
- Cream: Strange Brew
- George Benson: White Rabbit
- Sly & The Family Stone: Everybody Is a Star
- De La Soul: The Magic Number
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Ooh Baby, Baby
- Beck: Hollywood Freaks
- The Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music
- The Beatles: Two of Us
- Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing
- Stevie Wonder: Master Blaster
- Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
- Steve Miller Band: Swingtown
- Beck: Where It’s At
- fIREHOSE: Honey, Please
- The Beatles: Day Tripper
- Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop
- Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids: She’s So Fine
- Dire Straits: Lions
- Led Zeppelin: D’yer Mak’er
- Rufus featuring Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good