These Go To 11

Combining three of my favorite things:
the movie Spinal Tap
great music played loud
NPR

NPR's All Songs Considered had a story this morning - because of 11/11/11 - of...

These Go To 11: Songs Best Heard Extra-Loud

There's no denying certain songs are best experienced when played as loud as possible. Since this Friday, 11/11/11, is Nigel Tufnel Day — the unofficial holiday honoring the fictional Spinal Tap guitarist, who cranked his amplifiers past 10 — this week's episode is all about the songs that instantly make you want to turn the volume up.

Click the link above or here to read the entire article - and to hear all the music.

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Here is a short, partial list of songs that I turn to 11:


Renegades of Funk - Rage Against The Machine





Oh Yeah - The Subways



Think the drummer's cute? Watch the video for him shirtless. Think the singer's cute? Go to my other blog to a post from 2008.



Sabotage - The Beastie Boys





Recently Distressed - Phantom Planet




Phantom Planet is the band that also sang California and whose original drummer was the actor Jason Schwartzman. Here's an live version of the song, before Jason Schwatzman left the band in 2004.




Think the singer is cute? He's Alex Greenwald. He did some Gap commercials...




And appeared in one of my all-time favorite movies...






Vagabond - Wolfmother

The version of the song from the excellent movie (500) Days of Summer where I discovered the song...




The whole song...





A Life of Illusion - Joe Walsh





The Bucket - Kings of Leon





Inside Out - Eve 6





Dammit - Blink 182



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What are yours?

Video: "I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy"

From Jimmy Kimmel Live on November 2...



So mean. So funny!