A Stinky-Stravaganza for Our 100th Post!

It took two and a half years to reach a hundred blog posts, and it would have taken much longer without the contributions and support of Stinky LePew, resident musicologist and mixologist. He is a conceptual artist: a wellspring of ideas for new series of compilations based on unique themes.

Stinky has created mixes of songs about footwear, lipstick, car trouble, and getting into trouble in the backseat. He has celebrated holidays in song (both Christmas and Halloween), and he's curated compilations that feature falsetto singers and sound effects. And don't miss his career overviews of Brian James and Stiv Bators!

Some of Stinky's more inventive concepts include Songs That Start With The Chorus, Answers To Elvis, and today's new series. Keep My Name Outcha Mouth compiles tunes by artists with names that reference famous people, places, religious figures, fictional characters, actors, and other musical performers.

Some of the names are puns (The Coal Porters, Noel's Cowards), and others are portmanteaus (The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Artimus Pyledriver).

Readers are again invited to share suggestions for future volumes in this new series. Many thanks to everyone who reads, follows, and comments on the blog. Thanks most of all to Stinky LePew, without whom post #100 would still be far away. Two more volumes of The Backseat are already cued up, plus a slew of Rough Trade singles, so stay tuned!