A still from The Boy Wonder's first "arthouse, foreign" film, 1981's Diva, directed by French director, Jean-Jacques Beineix. Bathed in color, with a noir-esque plotline involving a moped messenger and a opera singer, this film was French butter-rich in imagery.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM
Got a Thing on My Mind/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’02, Dap Dippin’ With...)
Sock It To ‘Em JB/ REX GARVIN & THE MIGHTY CRAVERS ('66)
Money I$ King/ LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS (’09, My World)
Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart/ THE SUPREMES ('66)
B Movie/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!!)
Time of the Season/ THE ZOMBIES (’68)
The Right/ LOU BARLOW (’09, Goodnight Unknown)*
Time Is Nigh/ DOUG GILLARD (’09, Call From Restricted)*
So It Goes/ NICK LOWE (’78, ’08 reissue, Jesus of Cool)
Don’t Ever Do That Again/ GOLDEN SHOULDERS (’04, Friendship Is Deep)
Savoir Faire/ MINK DeVILLE (’80, Le Chat Bleu)
Goin’ Out West, Take 2/ TOM WAITS (’09, Gloom & Doom Live)*
Wake Up and Make Love (live)/ IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS (’78, Live Stiffs)
Boys Keep Swinging/ LORETTE VELVETTE (’00, Rude Angel)
She Keeps Riding/ THE LONG RYDERS (’83,
Reptile Style/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’02,
Train Kept A Rollin’/ JOHNNY BURNETTE & THE ROCK AND ROLL TRIO ('56)
We’re In Yr Corner/ CORNERSHOP (’97, When I Was Born the 7th Time)
The Cutter/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’82, Porcupine)
The Palace at
Box Elder (live,
Real Men/ THE JAZZ BUTCHER (’84, Scandal in
It’s A Curse/ THE FALL (’93, The Infotainment Scam)
Polish Girls/ CALIFONE (’09, All of My Friends Are Funeral Takers)*
Impossible
Long Time Gone/ DON McGLASHAN/ 7 WORLDS COLLIDE (’09, The Sun Came Out)*
Ghost on the Highway/ THE GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)
Definitely Clean/ THE DREAM SYNDICATE (’82, Days of Wine and Roses)
*new or recent release