Year End Dance Party

The Hood Internet- Doe Boys and Girls In America (MP3)

You don't want to be me. Constant echoes in my head are the price of being a music obsessive. Only with intense concentration can I turn it off.

While there are more artful mash-up crews, it's the Hood Internet that most faithfully recreates the sounds I hear even when no music is playing. In this case, they replace Craig Finn's caterwauling in "Stuck Between Stations" with the surreal lyrics of Three 6 Mafia's "Doe Boy Fresh".

There are literally over a hundred additional mash-ups by the Hood Internet available here. The best of them is probably the Ghostface overlay on Spoon in "The Ghost of You Lingers."

In my case, however, the culture clash doesn't stop at the intersection of indie rock and hip hop. I often hear Ronnie Milsap singing over Oscar Peterson. And in my world, Peter Tosh and Los Tigres del Norte are musical partners.

I'd like to think that many of the "crazy little women" of Kansas City- pictured here on stage with Robert Randolph- dig those sounds too.

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Below is a list of music-related passings that I compiled in 2007. I realize that reducing an artist's life's work to a couple words is woefully inadequate, but that's the nature of this morbid roll call.

Music Deaths in 2007
1/01/07 Del Reeves, country singer, "The Girl On the Billboard"

1/06/07 Sneaky Pete Kleinow, pedal steel player, member of the Byrds

1/12/07 Alice Coltrane, jazz musician

1/13/07 Michael Brecker, jazz saxophonist

1/16/07 Thornton James "Pookie" Hudson, 76, lead singer of the Spaniels

1/19/07 Denny Doherty, 66, Mamas & the Papas

1/23/07 David Shayman, aka, Disco D, hip hop producer

1/31/07 Ronald Muldrow, 57, guitarist for Staple Singers, Eddie Harris

2/01/07 Whitney Balliett, 80, jazz critic

2/02/07 Eric Von Schmidt, 75, folk musician

2/02/07 Billy Henderson, 67, Spinners

2/04/07 Barbara McNair, 72, vocalist and actress

2/06/07 Frankie Laine, 93, vocalist and TV personality

2/15/07 Ray Evans, songwriter of "Mona Lisa," "Que Sera, Sera"

2/21/07 Al Viola, 87, jazz guitarist, Sinatra sideman

2/24/07 Leroy Jenkins- 74, jazz violinist

2/25/07 Mark Spoelstra, 67, folk artist for Elektra

2/27/07 Billy Thorpe, 60, Australian rock artist, "Children of the Sun"

3/01/07 Joel Brodsky, 67, rock photographer

3/07/07 Paul deLay, 55, Portland bluesman

3/09/07 Brad Delp, 55, Boston vocalist

3/16/07 Tupper Saussy, 70, songwriter

3/19/07 Luther Ingram, 69, soul singer and songwriter

3/20/07 G.E. Patterson, 67, "prince of preachers"; TV personality

3/29/07 Tony Scott, 85, jazz clarinetist

4/05/07 Mark St. John, 51, former Kiss guitarist

4/10/07 Dakota Staton, 76, jazz vocalist

4/12/07 Bill Guffey, original keyboard player for Shooting Star

4/13/07 Don Ho, 76, Hawaiian legend

4/17/07 James B. Davis, 90, Dixie Hummingbirds founder

4/19/07 Dick Allen, 80, Dixieland jazz historian

4/20/07 Andrew Hill, 75, jazz pianist

4/21/07 Lobby Loyd, 64, Australian rock guitarist of X

4/28/07 Tommy Newsom, 78, of the Tonight Show band

4/30/07 Zola Taylor, 69, the Platters

5/03/07 J. Robert Bradley, 87, black gospel singer

5/06/07 Carey Bell, 70, Chicago bluesman

5/20/07 Ben Weisman, 85, wrote movie songs for Elvis

5/20/07 Rod Poole, 45, experimental jazz musician

6/04/07 Freddie Scott, 74, "Hey Girl"

7/02/07 Beverly Sills, 78, opera singer and advocate

7/03/07 Boots Randolph, 80, popular saxophonist

7/05/07 Regine Crespin, 80, opera singer

7/05/07 George Melly, 80, trad jazz vocalist

7/09/07 Eddie Fisher, 64, St. Louis blues guitarist

7/10/07 Jerry Hadley, 55, opera singer

7/15/07 Kelly Johnson, 49, Girlschool guitarist

7/17/07 Teresa Stich-Randall, 79, opera singer

7/17/07 Bill Perry, 49, blues guitarist

7/26/07 Art Davis, 73, jazz bassist

7/28/07 Sal Mosca, 80, jazz saxophonist

8/04/07 Lee Hazlewood, 78, songwriter

8/06/07 Paul Rutherford, 67, jazz trombonist

8/10 Tony Wilson, 57, founder of Factory Records

8/11/07 Herb Pomeroy, 77, jazz trumpeter

8/13/07 Jerome "Jah Jerry" Haynes, 86, Jamaican guitarist

8/15/07 John Wallowitch, 81, cabaret artist

8/16/07 Max Roach, 83, drummer

8/18/07 Jon Lucien, 65, jazz vocalist

9/03/07 Janis Martin, 67, the female Elvis

9/05/07 Luciano Pavarotti, 71, opera star

9/09/07 Hughie Thomasson, 55, Outlaws guitarist

9/11/07 Joe Zawinul, 75, jazz innovator

9/11/07 Wilson "Willie Tee" Turbington, 63, New Orleans musician and producer

9/12/07 Bobby Byrd, 73, James Brown arranger

9/15/07 Generoso Jimenez, 90, Cuban trombonist

9/28/07 Lamine Koite, , Senegalese kora player and vocalist

10/05/07 Jack Wilson, 71, jazz pianist

10/11/07 Mike Stewart, 64, acoustic blues revivalist and historian

10/16/07 Deborah Kerr, 86, actress

10/17/07 Teresa Brewer, 76, jazz and pop vocalist

10/19/07 Lucky Dube, 43, reggae star

10/20/07 Paul Raven, 46, bassist for Killing Joke, Ministry, Prong

10/21/07 Donald Ayler, 65, jazz trumpeter, younger brother of Albert

10/22/07 Paul Fox, 56, guitarist for the Ruts

10/22/07 Lance Hahn, 40, founder of Austin punk band J Church

10/27/07 Ricky Parent, age?, Enuff Z'Nuff drummer

10/28/07 Porter Wagoner, 80, country star

10/30/07 Robert Goulet, 73, Broadway star

10/30/07 Marchel Ivery, 69, Texas tenor jazz musician

11/02/07 Dan Billings, 51, drummer for Missouri

11/06/07 Hank Thompson, 82, country star

11/20/07 Ernest "Doc" Paulin, 100, New Orleans trad jazz musician

11/2307 Gary Deal, 52. KKFI radio DJ

11/23/07 Casey Calvert, , rhythm guitarist for Hawthorne Heights

11/25/07 Kevin DuBrow, 52, vocalist for Quiet Riot

12/01/07 Zayda Pena, 28, front person in Zayda & Los Culpables

12/02/07 Sergio Gomez, , vocalist for K-Paz de la Sierra

12/04/07 Pimp C, 33, UGK

12/05/07 Carlos "Patato" Valdes, 81, Cuban percussionist

12/05/07 Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, composer

12/13/07 Ike Turner, 76, rock architect

12/14/07 Frank Morgan, 73, jazz saxophonist

12/16/07 Dan Fogelberg, 56, pop folk star

12/17/07 Joel Dorn, 65, jazz and pop producer

12/23/07 Oscar Peterson, 82, jazz pianist

12/25/07 Cotton Candy, 76, Kansas City blues singer

12/26/07 Joe Dolan, 68, Irish vocalist