Songs For The MOB
By Mitch Berg
Just a note – everyone who’s anyone is coming to the..
at Keegans, tomorrow night!
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Now, yesterday Jeff Kouba from TvM wrote in my comment section:
It being the MOB at all, there should be a rule that we can only play “Don’t Stop Believin’” on the jukebox…
Of course, Journey’s 1981 classic – which had a couple of years’ association with the TV show Scrubs – will now forever more be linked to The Sopranos, because of its prominence in the final epi. So naturally, a good MOB party should play it prominently.
But there are other good Mob – if not MOB – related songs to choose from:
- The Night Chicago Died, Paper Lace (naturally, the referenced “East Side of Chicago” exists on the same plane as, well, the Jukebox at Keegans).
- Meeting Across The River, Springsteen – maybe the best song ever about small-time hoods.
- Dance With Me, the Iron City Houserockers – great song about a small-time hood and his girl out for a night on the town.
- Princess of Little Italy, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul – and I’d suggest it even if “Little Steven” Van Zandt didn’t also wind up playing Silvio Dante for the show’s whole run…
- Big Man In Town, the Four Seasons – it just sounds right.
OK, what the heck, your turn…
July 13th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Men Without Women. I have never owned it on CD, only vinyl. A great record. I going to have to find the disc. “Forever”, the “hit” from that should have been Top40, and should have been played to death by album rock FM radio, but it wasn’t. A song only known to Springsteen fans and the watchers of MTV in it’s infancy in the early 80’s.
Mitch, is the whole disc on the juke at Keegen’s? What’s the b-side it’s a vinyl juke?
July 13th, 2007 at 7:55 am
“Gangland” by Iron Maiden.
July 13th, 2007 at 8:48 am
There actually is no jukebox @ Keegan’s.
I think you can get MW/oW at “littlesteven.com”, but I see the site is “under construction” at the moment.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Gangland?!?!?!
If you want Maiden, what about “Back in the Village” or “Flash of the Blade”?
If only Geddy Lee’s solo disk actually had a song with the same title as the album.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:14 am
See, Badda, “Gangland” is about the mafia, whereas those other songs were about a British TV miniseries and fencing, respectively. Try to stay with the program here.
July 14th, 2007 at 12:10 am
OK – I’m providing suggestions from the Logical Husband here….
1) Triumph by Rush
2) Stranglehold – Nugent!
3) American Bad A$$ – Kid Rock
I don’t know….I’m more of a Goodfellas soundtrack type.
LL
July 14th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Well, since the MOB has both left and right blogs, perhaps Gogol Bordello’s “Start Wearing Purple.” The song is raw, quirky and hard to get out of your mind … kind of like the MOB.