How I Met Your Get Psyched List

In one of the best season one episodes of How I Met Your Mother, The Limo, Barney, played by the actor formerly known as Dougie Howser, Neil Patrick Harris, gets things going with his Get Psyched playlist. The only song played from it in the show is however Bon Jovi's Shot Through The Heart. Which begs the question, what is the full list.

A bit of googling revealed the following, as identified by fans of the show with the aid of freeze frame, 20/20 vision and a zoom in on the slipcase.

1. “I Wanna Rock” — Twisted Sister
2. “You Give Love A Bad Name” — BJ (Bon Jovi)
3. “Lick It Up” — KISS
4. “Paradise City” — GNR (Guns & Roses)
5. “Dancing With Myself” — Billy Idol
6. “Rock You Like A Hurricane” — Scorpy (Scorpions)
7. “Panama” — Van Halen
8. “Talk Dirty To Me” — Poison
9. “Thunderstruck” — AC/DC
10. “Dr. Feelgood” — Crue (Motley Crue)
11. “Round and Round” — Ratt

Good choice.

An examination of Barney's blog on the CBS website reveals a second version of the list:-

1. “You Give Love a Bad Name” - Jonathan B. Jovi
2. “The Humpty Dance” - Digital Underground
3. “Come Sail Away” - Stix
4. “Don’t Stop Believin’” - Journey
5. “The Transformers Theme Song” - O. Prime
6. “You’re the Best Around” - Joe Esposito
7. “High Enough” - Damn Yankees
8. “Jessie’s Girl” - Rick Springfield
9. “Rock You Like a Hurricane” - The Scorpions
10. “Hip Hop Hooray” - Naughty by Nature
11. “Change of Heart” - Tom Petty
12. “Run Away” - Slade

Interestingly, the track played when the CD was first played in the show, was Bon Jovi's Shot Through The Heart that tallies with the blog version not the listing on the CD case. But with the mighty Thunderstruck on the TV version, I know which one I prefer.

Remember though, if you burn it to CD, don't let Moby steal it.

As an aside you can get the DVD of Season 1
really cheap on Amazon at the moment. Check it out, it's legendary. Thanks to Laura for the heads up on the show.

Now the hard part, if you were going to put together a CD's worth of heart pounding, adrenalin fueled, all thriller no filler, musical mayhem, what would make the grade?

To be continued...

Comedy Club

Thursday night at the Brussels comedy club was a sweltering affair with temperatures hovering around that of the surface of the sun. The biggest round of applause that night was for the worthy individual who had the sense to throw open the doors and let some air into the auditorium. If he hadn't then I think the audience would have transformed into empty clothing and puddles of water.

Here's one of the nights acts, and arguably the pick of the bunch, John Maloney.

CAR2D2

After a spate of breakins in the company car park, some employees took the issue of automotive security way too seriously...

Chester French

Tonights Chester French gig at Botanique's Rotonde was short, around 45 minutes, sweet and highly enjoyable. And with only 60 ish people in the audience, they managed to do what much bigger bands have failed to do here, and got the denizens of Brussels dancing en masse. Meanwhile yours truly did his one man mosh pit impression, pogoing along to the beat like some kind of demented dancing bear.

The only track of theirs I'd heard before was She Loves Everybody which I aquired courtesy of a free download. I'll put that to rights later when I give the album I bought after the gig, Love the Future, a spin. Not a bad buy for 5 euros, signed by the dude with the mike.




The band were formed by Maxwell Drummey and D.A. Wallach at Harvard University in 2003 and are named after the sculptor Daniel Chester French, who among other things designed the statue at the Lincoln memorial.

A piece of trivia for the geek files - Chester French were one of the first bands to promote themselves using Facebook, being freshmen at Harvard at the same time as a certain Mark Zuckerberg launched his social website.

Todays video is brought to you by the letter 'B'.

Brighton seems to be a musical Mecca in Britain at the moment. Brakes, British Sea Power and one of my favorite bands of the moment, Bat for Lashes. They do like the letter 'B' in Brighton. Check out this video of the band from the David Letterman show.



Natasha Khan has a great voice and Two Suns is a great album.

The Hangover

Every once in a while a movie comes along that makes you laugh like a drain from start to finish. Old School was the last film to hit all the relevant funny bones, so it's apt that the latest injection of mirth should come from the same stable.

The Hangover is the story of the stag party to end all stag parties, a lost groom, a tiger a chicken and iron Mike Tyson. Throw in roller girl herself Heather Graham, some excellent totally un-PC gags and a funny as feck script and you're on a winner. Warning, don't drink while watching this or your beverage will shoot out your nostrils as you roll around the floor laughing your socks off. Highly recommended.

Breakfast Of Champions

In search of petit dejeuner this fine Brussels sunday morning I googled my way to this fine breakfast emporium at Place Luxembourg, Le Pain Quotidien. A basket full of lovely breads, a selection of spreadables (jams, marmalade, chocolate spread etc.) and a soft boiled egg washed down with a coffee.

Aahhh, now on with the day!