Tributes And Covers

covers of songs performed by Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet are bolded.

• "White Dress" (Wiseman)
• "Real Thing" (Wiseman)
• "Didn't I Get My Wish" (Wiseman)
• "For Joseph K." (Wiseman)
• "Purple City" (Wiseman)
• "Song For Amnesty International" (Wiseman)
• "Have A Nice Day" (Wiseman)
• "How Round The Earth" (Wiseman)
• "In Spite Of The Danger" (Wiseman)
• "Hold Me Blues" (Wiseman)
• "City Of Wood" (Wiseman)
• "The Trouble With Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet" (Wiseman)

OK, the last track really isn't a cover or tribute in the traditional sense because the song isn't a cover of a Shadowy Men song, and in fact, the style is radically different from the Shadowy sound (it's a moody piano instrumental). Bob Wiseman played numerous shows with Shadowy Men, so it's obviously a friendly reference. I'm assuming the title is also intended to be a play on the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film "The Trouble With Harry".

INDIE SIDE:

• "Shadowy Bangers From A Shadowy Duplex" (Jansen)

• "Song For 'R'" (Jansen)

This one isn't really a cover either, and the style is radically different from the Shadowy sound. However, the title and the cartoon characters at the top of the sleeve are a definite homage to Shadowy Men (and hey, the worked the title into the lyrics), so I've included it.

• "Dolphins Love Kids" (Jansen)
• "Great Legs" (Jansen)
• "Where's Your Mom?" (Jansen)
• "Henry Rollins Is No Fun" (Jansen)
• "I Wanna Hump You" (Jansen)
• "Song for 'R'" (Jansen)
• "Stacked Like That" (Jansen)
• "Hemp Hemp Hooray" (Jansen)
• "323" (Jansen)
• "Angriest Young Men (We're The)" (Jansen)
• "Toilet Seat's Coming Down" (Jansen)
• "Shadowy Bangers From A Shadowy Duplex" (Jansen)
• "Van Horne" (Jansen)
• "I Drove the Coquihalla" (Jansen)
• "(I Feel Like) (Gerry) Cleevers (Stitch Marks On My Heart)" (Jansen)

See the note on the Shadowy Bangers From A Shadowy Duplex single above.

SIDE SURF:

• "Good Cop Bad Cop" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Bustin' Surfboards" (Delaney/Sanders/Sanders/Sanders)
• "Shake Some Evil" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Harlem By The Sea" (Hagen)
• "Cecilia Ann" (Hoffman/Horton)

• "Rawhide" (Wray/Grant)
• "Commanche" (Wray/Grant)
• "Slinky" (Wray/Grant)
• "Run Chicken Run" (Wray/Cooper)
• "Jack The Ripper" (Wray)

• "Bailout" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Preacher Stomp" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Pajama Party" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Tiki Lounge Mix" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Mecca" (Nader/Gluck)
• "Kickstart Torpedo" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Spy-Fi" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Go Betty" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Yo Queiro Talento" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)

(You can buy this CD through the Shadowy Web)

• "Deep Eddy" (James)
• "Hombrecito" (James)
• "No, Mr. Bond. I Expect You to SURF!" (James)
• "Squid Racer" (James)
• "Casino Royale" [live] (Cooke)
• "Egypt Texas" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Allison's Off the Wagon" (Cooke)
• "Backburner" (James)
• "Armadillo Races" (James)
• "Velvet" (James)
• "Bandera!" (James/Porter)
• "Skankin' Eddy" (James)
• "Wade In The Water" (James/traditional)
• "Fishnet Stockings" [live] (Setzer)

You can buy this CD through the Shadowy Web or from CD Baby (and you can hear samples of all the tracks at CD Baby)

• THE HEATSCORES: "Good Cop Bad Cop" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE DEAD BARONS: "Zombie Compromise" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE MULCHMEN: "Shake Some Evil" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE INSECT SURFERS: "Egypt Texas" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE UNKNOWN: "Customized" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE NEPTONES: "Harlem By The Sea" (Hagen)
• DIRK DOOM & THE OVERDRIVE ORCHESTRA: "Having An Average Weekend" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• SPY-FI: "Reid's Situation" [1st version] (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE SANDBLASTERS: "Aunt's Invasion" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• DERF ZORR & STELLA: "Hot Box Car" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• BASS PLAYIN' BEN: "Jackpot" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• POPDEFECT: "Ben Hur Picked Off In A Gazebo" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE DEORAS: "Siesta Cinema" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE MILL VALLEY TATERS: "Unwatchable / Three Piece Suit" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• BREAKFASTIME: "That Wuz Ear Me Callin' A Horse" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• SQUID VICIOUS: "Spy School Graduation Theme" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE COCKTAIL PREACHERS: "Mecca" (Nader/Gluck)
• THE SADIES: "Algoma Reflections" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE SURFDUSTERS: "Peas Porridge Rock / You Spin Me Round '86" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• THE FABULOUS PLANKTONES: "They Don't Call Them Chihuahuas Anymore" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• SAWNEY BEAN: "Off Our Back Conrad Black" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• URBAN SURF KINGS: "Memories of Gay Paree" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)

Sampler of artists on Lookout! Records

• AMERICAN STEEL: "Turn It Out" (American Steel)
• BLACK CAT MUSIC: "Princess Dress" (Black Cat Music)
• THE DONNAS: "Do You Wanna Hit It" (The Donnas)
• THE GAZA STRIPPERS: "Juvenile Detention" (The Gaza Strippers)
• THE PATTERN: "Finger Us" (The Pattern)
• BRATMOBILE: "It's Common (But We Don't Talk About It)" (Bratmobile)
• THE EYELINERS: "Wishing On A Star" (The Eyeliners)
• BIS: "Dead Wrestlers" (Bis)
• TED LEO: "Under The Hedge" (Leo)
• ANN BERETTA: "Glory Bound" (Beretta)
• YESTERDAY'S KIDS: "Perception (It's All A Matter Of)" (Yesterday's Kids)
• COMMON RIDER: "Am I On My Own" (Common Rider)
• THE ENEMIES: "Down There" (The Enemies)
• THE LILLINGTONS: "One Armed Man" (The Lillingtons)
• SCREECHING WEASEL: "Pauline" (Screeching Weasel)
• THE ALKALINE TRIO: "Hell Yes" (The Alkaline Trio)
• THE WANNA-BE'S: "Hello" (The Wanna-Be's)
• THE MR. T EXPERIENCE: "Mr. Ramones" (The Mr. T Experience)
• PITCH BLACK: "Rottweiler" (Pitch Black)
• THE GO-NUTS: "A Day In The Life Of A Snack Rock Superstar" (The Go-Nuts)
• THE QUEERS: "I'm The Boy For You" (The Queers)
• SQUIRTGUN: "Trial & Error" (Squirtgun)
• YESTERDAY'S KIDS: "(Ode To) Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet" [demo version] (Perkins)
• BLACK CAT MUSIC: "Dirty Penny" (Black Cat Music)
• THE WANNA-BE'S: "Let's Go" (The Wanna-Be's)
• AMERICAN STEEL: "Shrapnel (Demo Version)" (American Steel)

Like the Bob Wiseman and Chixdiggit! entries, the Yesterday's Kids track isn't a cover or tribute in the traditional sense either. The chorus just repeats "Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet", but that's the only connection. But like the other two, I've included it anyway.

• "(Ode To) Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet" (Perkins)
• "Eighteen" (Schweiger)
• "Keep It Down" (Perkins)
• "I Wanna Be Alone (With You)" (Schweiger)
• "Too Late (For Walking in the Dark)" (Perkins/Schweiger)
• "I Don't Care" (Perkins/Schmidt/Schweiger)
• "Be All Right" (Perkins)
• "The Shithead" (Perkins/Schweiger)
• "She's Paul's Girl" (Kalfahs)
• "Trouble On The Way" (Perkins/Schweiger)
• "You Can't Fake Being Chinese" (Schweiger)
• "What I've Become" (Schweiger)

Just being thorough: See the note with Lookout! Freakout Episode 2 above. And yes, this is a different version of "(Ode To) Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet".

DISC ONE:

• "Stratfordized!!" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "Friction Proof" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "Garaged!!" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "Flux Meditations" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "History Of Rock n Roll" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "The Night is Young" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)

• "Stratford After Dark" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "Hey Mr. Rock n Roll" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "Foam Aroma" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "Dirty Wheels" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "Unwatchable/Three Piece Suit" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Walk On By" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "Christmasized" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)
• "History Of Rock n Roll" (Andrukevich/Sullivan/Neal)

• "Flemgringo" (Heter)
• "Zippy to the Rescue" (Heter)
• "Unbundled" (Heter)
• "Sticky Finger Sunset" (Heter)
• "Pale Face Hombre" (Heter)
• "Honeybaked Ham" (Heter)
• "Dos, Dos Equis Por Favor" (Heter)
• "Harlem By The Sea" (Hagen)
• "He No Lickety Split" (Heter)
• "Prague Rock" (Heter)
• "Dead Pedestrian" (Heter)
• "Ricko Suave" (Heter)
• "Strait Up Chuck" (Heter)
• "Country-Fied" (Heter)
• "Quarter Pump" (Heter)
• "Bullfight In April" (Heter)
• "Sleigh Ride" (Parish/Anderson)

• "Zippy To The Rescue" (Heter)
• "Flemgringo" (Heter)
• "Unbundled" (Heter)
• "Our Weapons Are Useless" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Plastics For 500, Bob" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Pale Face Hombre" (Heter)
• "They Don't Call Them Chihuahuas Any More" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Sticky Finger Sunset" (Heter)
• "Honeybaked Ham" (Heter)
• "Dead Pedestrians" (Heter)
• "Dos, Dos Equis Por Favor" (Heter)
• "Harlem By The Sea" (Hagen)
• "Ricko Suave" (Heter)
• "He No Lickety Split" (Heter)
• "Oahu Community Correctional Center" (Laika & The Cosmonauts)
• "C'mon Do The Laika" (Laika & The Cosmonauts)
• "Boris The Barbarian" (Laika & The Cosmonauts)
• "Strait Up Chuck" (Heter)
• "Prague Rock" (Heter)
• "Memory Man" (Heter)
• "Quarter Pump" (Heter)
• "Zombie Compromise" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Country-Fied" (Heter)
• "Bullfight In April" (Heter)
• "Sleigh Ride" (Parish/Anderson)

"Plastics For 500, Bob" is listed as "Rip Off Another One" on the CD.

• "The Curse of Pier 13" (The Metalunas)
• "Scooby Doo" (Curtin/Hanna/Barbera)
• "Surf Party" (Dunham/Beverly)
• "Mojo Mojo" (The Metalunas)
• "Plastics For 500, Igor" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Death Comes at Midnight" (The Metalunas)
• "Ghosts of the Wild Frontier" (The Metalunas)
• "The Cat's Pajamas" (The Metalunas)
• "Munster Mosh" (The Metalunas)
• "Crash" (C. Delaney)
• "Godzilla Stomp" (The Metalunas)
• "Go-Go Gremlin" (The Metalunas)

• "Banzai" (Welch/Marshall/Carmen/Spickard/Waters)
• "Highball Holiday" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Long Boards Rule" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Tailspin" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Baja" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Mecca" (Nader/Gluck)
• "Margarita Meltdown" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "I Think It Means Death" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Roswell Surf Report" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Last Ride" (Arcidiacono/Lipscher/Mandina/Sullivan)
• "Branded" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Albatross Joe" (Chant/Orze/Panchisin)
• "Having An Average Weekend" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)
• "Pipeline" (Spickard/Carmen)

• "Sixty Seconds To What?" (Morricone)
• "Lungbucket" (Cooper)
• "Theme From 'The Ramblin' Bastards'" (Cooper)
• "Hawgtied" (Cooper)
• "Dead Man's Flats" (Cooper)
• "Hangin' Tree" (Cooper)
• "Hup Two Three Four" (The Sid Presley Experience)
• "Twenty Original Fembots" (Connelly)
• "The Hairless Cat" (Cooper)

• "Twenty Original Fembots" is one of three titles for the same song. Shadowy Men titled it "Telepathetic" at their Peel Session, and Atomic 7 titled it "Daddy's Little World" on their second album ... en Hillbilly Caliente.
• The Ramblin' Ambassadors are Brent J. Cooper from S-Men fans Huevos Rancheros, along with Scott Nickless and Tyler Pickering.

(You can buy this CD through the Shadowy Web)

• "James Bond Theme/Goldfinger" (Norman,Barry/Bricuse/Newley)
• "Secret Agent Man" (Sloan/Barri)
• "Penetration" (Leonard)
• "Town w/o Pity" (Washington/Tiomkin)
• "Neptune" (Pervanje)
• "Dick Tracy" (Bogle/Edwards/Wilson/Taylor)
• "Persuasion" (Pervanje)
• "Reid's Situation" [2nd version] (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle/Spy-Fi)
• "Mother's Worry" (Surfaholics)
• "Batman" (Hefti)
• "Experiment In Terror" (Mancini)
• "Man From Uncle" (Goldsmith)
• "Telstar" (Meek)

• Yes, you're seeing that right ... "Reid's Situation" is credited to both S-Men and Spy-Fi. This version (which is a different version from the one on Better Than The Average Weekend) includes some original parts added by Spy-Fi. It's a very cool version.
• And yes, there is a Volume Two, subtitled "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". It's also available now. There isn't a Shadowy Men cover on there, so I haven't listed it here.

• "Rancho Cucamonga" (James/Higgins)
• "Bandera!" (James/Porter)
• "Egypt Texas" (Connelly/Diamond/Pyle)

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