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Chapter 134: So It Goes

Pop rock & new wave

This would be an excellent set list for a amateur cover band, songs that are durable, unpretentious, and hard to fuck up if you’re singing and playing with enough heart. The escalating series of double rhymes (and life events) on “Up The Junction” is incredibly winning, and “American Girl” is a roll-the-windows-down, pound-the-steering-wheel jam for the ages. “Jack And Diane” is practically an implanted memory in song; I swear it was just yesterday I was suckin’ on chili dogs outside the Tastee Freeze…
1. Rick Springfield

Jessie's Girl

2. John Mellencamp

Jack & Diane

3. Squeeze

Tempted

4. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

American Girl

5. Huey Lewis & The News

The Power Of Love

6. The Soft Boys

I Wanna Destroy You

7. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Don't Do Me Like That

8. Squeeze

Up the Junction

9. J. Geils Band

Centerfold

10. Nick Lowe

So It Goes