“fompy”: strange, outré, out of place,
unexpected, downright weird, yet all in a way that, once
digested and absorbed, seems one step away from making perfect
sense, although one will never be able to articulate how, much
less take that step; “to fomp”: to behave in a
fompy manner, hence “to fomp out”, which means
really to go to town on that shit; sometimes to bug is to fomp
- The Beatles: Happiness Is a Warm Gun
- Van Morrison: Madame George
- Velvet Underground: Train ’Round the Bend
- Jane’s Addiction: Of Course
- Government Issue: Strange Wine
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
- The B-52s: Private Idaho
- The Flaming Lips: Shaved Gorilla
- Dr. Octagonacologyst: General Hospital/Blue Flowers
- Morphine: Head with Wings
- The B-52s: Planet Claire
- Handsome Boy Modeling School: Look At This Face (Oh My God They’re Gorgeous)
- The Fall: The Classical
- Louis Armstrong: Tight Like This [Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five, from “Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens”, Volume 3]
- The Flaming Lips: The Ceiling Is Bendin’
- Tom Waits: Jocky Full of Bourbon
- Afrique: Soul Makossa
- Radiohead: Everything in Its Right Place
- The Rolling Stones: Ruby Tuesday
- The Apples in Stereo: Drifting Patterns
- Bob Dylan: Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
- My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: A Daisy Chain for Satan (Acid and Flowers Mix)
- James Brown: Get on the Good Foot
- Violent Femmes: Blister in the Sun
- Iggy Pop: The Passenger
- Government Issue: Last Forever
- Blind Lemon Jefferson: Match Box Blues
- Jerry Lee lewis: Matchbox
- Carl Perkins: Matchbox
- The Beatles: Matchbox [from “Live at the BBC”]
- Velvet Underground: European Son
- Buffalo Springfield: Broken Arrow
- Tom Waits: Diamonds on My Windshield
- The Fall: Hip Priest
- The Zombies: She’s Not There
- The Flaming Lips: Trains, brains & rain
- James Brown: Do the Mashed Potatoes, Pt. 1
- The Beatles: I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
- The Doors: Do It
- The Austin Lounge Lizards: Brain Damage
- Tom Waits: Intro / Eggs and Sausage
- The Beastie Boys: Egg Man
- The Beatles: I Am the Walrus
- Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & His Clowns: Don’t You Just Know It
- Bill Monroe: New Mule Skinner Blues
- Bruce Springsteen: Kitty’s Back
- Beck: Get Real Paid
- Radiohead: The National Anthem
- Dr. Octagonacologyst: I Got to Tell You
- Dr. Octagonacologyst: Earth People
- Blind Lemon Jefferson: Black Snake Moan
- Cream: As You Said
- Creedence Clearwater Revival: Run through the Jungle
- The Beatles: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
- The Doors: Yes, the River Knows
- Manu Chao: Bongo Bong/Je ne t’aime plus
- Les Negresses Vertes: Zobi la Mouche
- James Brown: Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Love or Confusion
- De La Soul: Transmitting Live from Mars
- The Monkees: The Monkees
- The Beatles: Rocky Raccoon
- Radiohead: Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
- Tom Waits: Gun Street Girl
- James Brown: Mother Popcorn
- Beck: Lord Only Knows
- Bruce Springsteen: Spirit in the Night
- fIREHOSE: Me & You, Remembering
- The Beatles: The Continuing Story of Bungalo Bill
- David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
- Nirvana: About a Girl [from “Unplugged”]
- Dinosaur jr.: Show Me the Way
- R.E.M.: Underneath the Bunker
- fIREHOSE: For the Singer of R.E.M.
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience: If 6 Was 9
- The Flaming Lips: She is death
- The Starlight Mints: Valerie Flames
- Dinosaur jr.: Yeah We Know
- Government Issue: When I’m Alone
- R.E.M.: Swan Swan H
- fIREHOSE: Making the Freeway
- X: True Love, Pt.2
- Squirrel Bait: Disguise
- The Fugees: Chinese Restaurant
- Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Love Paris
- Cyndi Lauper: She Bop
- The Doors: Peace Frog
- Joni Mitchell: California
- Belle & Sebastian: A Century of Elvis
- Elvis Presley: Too Much
- Roy Orbison: Candy Man
- Blondie: Rapture
- Burl Ives: Old Witch Old Witch
- The Replacements: I’m in Trouble
- XTC: Senses Working Overtime
- Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Mickey’s Monkey
- The Mahotella Queens: Wozani Mahipi (Hippies Come To Soweto)
- Ted Nugent: Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
- Harry Belafonte: Mama Look a Boo Boo
- Khachaturian: Sabre Dance
- Afroman: Because I Got High
- Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra [Dudamel, Berliner Philharmoniker]
- Portishead: Mysterons
- Government Issue: Memories Past
- Pixies: Monkey Gone to Heaven
- T. Rex: Mambo Sun
- Romeo Void: Never Say Never
- Velvet Underground: Lady Godiva’s Operation
- Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
- Screaming Trees: Grey Diamond Desert
- Cibo Matto: Sugar Water
- Hank Williams: Ramblin’ Man
- Nick Drake: Pink Moon
- Ella Fitzgerald: Anything Goes [from “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book”, with the Buddy Bregman Orchestra]
- Michigan J. Frog: The Michigan Rag
- Gorillaz: 5/4
- The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird
- Scott Biram: Real Life Yodel
- Henry Mancini: Baby Elephant Walk
- The Beasties: Intergalactic
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Voodoo Chile
“to bug”: to behave in a nonsensical or asinine
manner, to err, to miss the target, often frenetically or
frenziedly (early 80s hiphop slang); hence ‘to bug
out’, which means really to go to town on that shit;
sometimes to fomp is to bug
This is named after a phrase from the first song, not after
the title of the songlet’s face it, consistency is
over-rated (except, I reckon, for the first-order predicate
calculus, but, c’mon, who really gives a crap about
that?)the wonderfully evocative claim “The Wild
Tchoupitoulas gonna stomp some rump” captures the thing
perfectly.
- The Wild Tchoupitoulas: Meet de Boys on de Battlefront
- Eric Burdon and War: Spill the Wine
- The Allman Brothers: Les Brers in A Minor
- The Diamonds: The Stroll
- Hank Williams: Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
- Fats Domino: Blueberry Hill
- Miles Davis Quintet: Ahmad’s Blues [from “Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet]
- Booker T. and the M.G.s: Green Onions
- Beastie Boys: Jimmy James
- Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Mickey’s Monkey
- Bob Dylan: I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- Bob Marley and the Wailers: Roots, Rock, Reggae
- Boston: More Than a Feelin’
- The Beatles: Flying
- Jorge Ben: Ponta de Lanįa Africano (Umbabarauma)
- Gilberto Gil: So Quero Um Xodó
- Caetano Veloso: Um Canto De Afoxé Para O Bloco Do Ilę (Ilę Ayę)
- The Mahotella Queens: Wozani Mahipi (Hippies Come To Soweto)
- Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell: You’re All I Need to Get By
- Elvis Presley: Blue Moon of Kentucky [from “The
Complete Lousiana Hay Ride Archive”, first version]
- Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line
- Beck: Nicotine & Gravy
- fIREHOSE: Backroads
- Earth, Wind & Fire: September
- Cream: Strange Brew
- Sly & and The Family Stone: Everybody Is a Star
- De La Soul: The Magic Number
- Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Ooh Baby, Baby
- Beck: Hollywood Freaks
- The Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music
- The Beatles: Two of Us
- Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing
- Stevie Wonder: Master Blaster
- Huey ‘Piano’ Smith and His Clowns: Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
- The Steve Miller Band: Swingtown
- Beck: Where It’s At
- fIREHOSE: Honey, Please
- The Beatles: Day Tripper
- Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop
- Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids: She’s So Fine
- Dire Straits: Lions
- Led Zeppelin: D’yer Mak’er
- Rufus with Chaka Khan: Tell Me Something Good