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2025 SONGLIST ICONoCLASTICS iconOclastics
ROCKABILLY CLUB PEACE
I make mistakes.
that's why I'm not a professional
Got a New Idea to work with though.
Ten percent of musicians make enough money to live on, right?
What about the other 90%? I think they'd love an outlet for playing and I have the best forum for being inclusive of as many instruments as possible.
First, All percussion is welcome on all songs.
Just stick to the beat and any particular dynamics that are BEING UTILIZED FOR THAT PARTICULAR SONG. The Beat is the Remedy. No squares daddio, no comfort zone here, we're looking for good but not popular songs that need an update. No insipid clingy beats. Here is the current playlist.
2025 SUMMER SONGLIST
1 Em DRINKIN’
GASOLINE THE BABOONS
2 E Don’t Look Now
3 F Rockabilly Hall of Fame
4 G Jenny Are You Gay?
5 A Instant Karma
6 Bb to B HEY LITTLE COBRA
7 C New
York is a lonely town Trade Winds
8 D I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU
9 E Blue Boat Home
10 E
GROOVELINE
11 I KNOW YOU Dave Clark 5
12 GHOST
DANCE
13 CRY
BABY CRY
14 Mother
of a Miners Child
15 THE
CHRISTIANS AND THE PAGANS///DARK DREAM
16 Ab-Bb I’M TELLING YOU NOW
17 Bb WALK LIKE A MAN
18 C# WORKING MAN
19 Dm Layla
20 D TABACCO ROAD
21 Eb
DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER
22
Em ACE OF SPADES
23
Em HURT YOU FIRST
24 E HEADS CAROLINA
25 E COMING UP
26 F RED
CLAY HALO
27 F brorn to be Bushy
28 F#
REDNECK WOMAN
29 G
Sugar Shack
30 G
Mary Lou
31 Am
My Love Forevermore
32 A Its
my party
33 C#m UNDERDOG
34 D
JUDYS TURN TO CRY
35 D
CHANGES IN LATITUDE
36 D HOLD ON LOOSELY
37 GROOVE
LINE
38 F
THE RUMOUR
39 G
FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE
40 SAIL INTO TOMORROW
41 A CALL
ME THE BREEZE
42 A OI
OI OI
43 C HILLBILLY HIWAY
44 D SKINHEAD LOVE AFFAIR
45 E to F
TAPESTRY
46 Gm G#m
WHEN SHE SEES ME
47 D STAY
GONE
48 D SUNNY AFTERNOON
49 Bb
SECOND WIND
50 f# TO g# THE CHEATER
51 C HOOKED ON A FEELING
52 Fm Born to be Bushy
BEATRX ICONoCLASTICS iconOclastics BEATRX - YouTube My drumming beats I use near the songs in the same order as above
This is a prototype musical configuration that can be used anywhere in the world to bring communities back together through music. Music is what many feel is the best healer.
Basically, I'm trying to stick with American music to preserving the good songs and forgotten album cuts, or songs never heard. And you do you. If you need comfort zone, overheard songs, then start your own combo. We want to rock and put a good beat to good songs.
One important thing about the Beatrx musical system is that there is one person in the group that knows all the songs completely. Or has the proper prompts nearby and not forgetting to give old, tired songs a beat treatment with, knowing it completely with a beginning and ending.
Our folk tales for future generations.
LYRICS PROMPT the least words to remember the verse.
1 Em Drinkin' gasoline 90 Train well I'm driving traveling lies me by a road turning black 2 Well I met quite tuned me up drinkin gasoline outta your silver cup 3 Well I drove ten thousand The Baboons - Drinkin' Gasoline see no traffic jam aint no desert storm drinkin silver cup is all I do SOLO 4 Engine started smokin big wheel started shakingand I lost a tire My baby she exploded thT DOGGONE THAT DOGGONE MEAN machine we were doing swell
2 DON’T LOOK NOW dual note pattern
1 who’ll take the coal from the mine, who'll take the salt from the earth, who'll take a leaf 2 who’ll work the field who'll put his back to the plough who'll take the mountain and give DON’T LOOK NOW IT AIN'T YOU OR ME 3 dual note pattern and my solo in A
DONT LOOK NOW SOMEONES DONE YOUR STARVIN’) DLN someones done your prayin too
solos repeat chorus repeat don’t look now
5 who'll make the shoes for your feet? who'll make the clothes you wear? who'll take the promise that you don't have to keep don't look now it aint you or me
DONT LOOK NOW SOMEONES DONE YOUR STARVIN’) DLN someones done your prayin too 5 Solo 6 who’ll take the coal from the mine who'll take the salt from the earth? Who'll take the promise that you don't have to keep?
3 F SIMPLE 130 ROCKABILLY HALL OF FAME B side Band. The Rockabilly Hall of Fame has yet to embrace this song. I give it a more danceable beat
1 found ourselves this cool won't believe the folks we saw ....eddie cochran didnt stop 2 posters hung up on the wall perkins vincent had a ball Johnny Cash and Elvis too ,,....... link rays rockin didnt stop 3 Marty Robbins made us dance Elvis put us in a trance that night won't forget the sights we saw all those rockers yelled for more
4 G JENNY ARE YOU GAY? HILLBILLY MOON EXPLOSION From 2010. R'BILLY 110
jenny are you gay 2 jenny r u gay you
got a real cool shirt 3 I didn’t see you at the ball game.4 I saw you dancing
techno
5 INSTANT KARMA
Instant karma's gonna get you Gonna knock you right in the head
You better get yourself together Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of? Laughing in the face of love. What on Earth you trying to do? It's up to you, yeah, you
Better recognize your brothers
Everyone you meet\\
Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain in fear Why on earth are you there?When you're everywhere Gonna get your share
Yeah we all shine on Come on and on and on, on, on
6 HEY LITTLE COBRA - The Rip Chords
1963 140 simple The Rip Chords. Great key change third
verse 1
I took my Cobra 2 when the flag went down 3
around the far turn in the striaghtaway
7 C New York is a lonely town Trade Winds The last surf song to reach the top ten. 1965 130 simp 138 SEEMS BETTER but keep it slow, not sped up in any way and I have yet to figure out the instrumental break.
1 my folks moved to New York 2 from central park to Pasadena’s such a long way
8 D I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU 120 GROOVE BEAT keep it slow like volbeat does it live.
I don't know what it is that makes me love you so I only knew I never want to let you go
You started something, can't you see? And ever since we met, you've had a hold on me
It happens to be true I only wanna be with you
INTRO PATTERN
[Verse 2]It doesn't really matter what you say or do I want to spend each moment, any day with you
Look what has happened with just one kiss I never knew that I could be in love like this
It's crazy but it's true I only wanna be with you
[Bridge] You stopped and smiled at me And asked me if I cared to dance
I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance
[Verse 3}SOLO
VERSE 4 I don't know what it is that makes me love you so I only knew I never want to let you go
You started something, can't you see? And ever since we met, you've had a hold on me
It happens to be true I only wanna be with you
[Bridge]
You stopped and smiled at me And asked me if I cared to dance
I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance
[Verse 5] Now, listen honey I just want to be beside you everywhere
As long as we're together, honey, I don't care
Cause you started something, can't you see? Ever since we met, you've had a hold on me
No matter what you do I only wanna be with you
No matter, no matter what you do
There's the first 8 songs. Call it a set.
EVERYONE INSISTS I HAVE TO PLAY WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR.
No thank you. Not a trained monkey and I'm going to do what I can while I still can.
So here is the crux of the Bisquit. It’s said that 10% of musicians make a living at it. The big question is this: what are the other 90% doing? I'm thinking, many of them would like to have a community combo that they can participate in, when they want to.
This is what this is. Tightly managed to avoid the inevitable disagreements, but freedom to come and go as you want, so no one feels pressured or obligated. The BEATRX MUSICAL SYSTEM allows for maximum musical expression amongst a community, and freedom for musicians.
All percussion is welcome but please, remember the beat is the remedy. This is not a comfort zone for Boomers. Neither is it a safe space where the maudlin sentimentality of Pop music is glorified. I'm trying to revive songs that had a lame ass beat back in the day or re-invent some really good songs that are sounding outdated. Studiously avoiding the same old same old we've heard on the radio for decades.
I found with the arthuritis I can't play the 13th+5 chords anymore, so I find songs with some potential for heavy power chords. Fifth's they're called. I try to blend bluegrass, rockabilly and Metal.
You got a Ukelele club, then surely a Rockabilly Club can be created. You got a song to suggest? First ask yourself ‘have I already heard this 10,000 times on the radio?’ Then, “can I teach others to play it?" No one wants homework and our underlying theme is NO CLICHES.
Not practicing for a performance but simply making music. We can have a general assembly to vote in songs to add. Songs in the on deck circle are listed later. We can all vote to add songs but I have to be able to play it so it can't be too complicated. You'll find the songs I chose are relatively easy to learn but not repetitive 1 4 5 songs about drinking and stupid shit.
In the BEATRX musical system one person knows all the songs. Songs have a beginning and an end. Instrumental solo verses are real easy to add with the songs I have found for anyone that shows up to jam. Bring something to the table.
My particular concept aside from song selection is the songs stay in the order I have listed for a concept that needs to be tested. Instead of randomly jumping around to different keys, as per the usual, the songs progress in an ascending order of keys. The first song is in Em and the next is in E, then songs in the keys of F then G are next. Then the next song is in A.
For me the fun is in learning the song. Finding a way to modernize the beat. Let's take this raw song. "Hooked on a Feeling" Boomers heard it a thousand times on the radio. I already got a list of fifty songs, then I hear 'hooked on a feeling' has a Quintessential, floating and sinking, chromatic progression so I got the chords just below. That and Born to be Bushy.
So I came across a tutorial on diminished and augmented cords and she began by showing the grand progression. C C/B C/Bb F/A Fm/Ab c/G D/F#. So I look up the song and Ultimate guitar has an easy transposing method. So it was in G and I converted it to "C"
Hooked On A Feeling Chords
[Verse 1]
(A cappella + Ooga Chucka through first verse. I added the chords.)
C G C7 F
I can't stop this feeling, deep inside of me
Fm C G
Girl, you just don't realize, what you do to me
C E7
When you hold me, in your arms so tight
Am C7
You let me know, everything's alright
[Chorus]
F G C
I-I-I-I I'm hooked on a feeling
G F
I'm high on believing
G C Em F G
That you're in love with meeeee
[Verse 2]
C G C7 F
Lips as sweet as candy, its taste is on my mind
Fm C G G7
Girl, you got me thirsty for another cup of wine
C G C7 F
Got a bug from you, girl, but I don't need no cure
Fm C G G7
I just stay a victim, if I can for sure
C E7
All the good love, when we're all alone
Am C7
Keep it up babe, yeah, you turn me on
[Chorus]
F G C
I-I-I-I I'm hooked on a feeling
G F
I'm high on believing
G C Em F G
That you're in love with meeeee
[Interlude]
C G C7 F Fm
[Verse]
(A cappella + Ooga Chucka until chorus.)
C E7
All the good love, when we're all alone
Am C7
Keep it up girl, yeah, you turn me on
[Chorus]
F G C
I-I-I-I I'm hooked on a feeling
G F
I'm high on believing
G C Em F
That you're in love with me
[Outro]
G C
I'm hooked on a feeling
G F
and I'm high on believing
G C Em
That you're in love with me
F G C
I said I'm hooked on a feeling
G F
and I'm high on believing
G C Em F
That you're in love with me
HERE'S THE TOP 52 LIST WITH DETAILS. BPM STYLE QUIRKS
SUMMER SONGLIST lyric prompt
1 Em DRINKIN’ GASOLINE THE BABOONS 2012'''trainbeat 90'''
2 E Don’t Look Now Nashville Groove 120
3 F Rockabilly Hall of Fame 130 simple don't forget pause for Elvis and Buddy Holly
4 G Jenny Are You Gay? ROCKAabilly 100
5 A Instant Karma 123+loop
6 Bb to B HEY LITTLE COBRA 1963 140 simple The Rip Chords. Great key change third verse 1 I took my Cobra 2 when the flag went down 3 around the far turn in the striaghtaway
7 C New York is a lonely town Trade Winds
8 D I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU
9 E Blue Boat Home start with drone beat set 2
Though below me, I feel no motion
Standing on these mountains and plains
Far away from the rolling ocean
Still my dry land heart can say
I ve been sailing all my life now
Never harbor or port have I known
The wide universe is the ocean I travel
2 Leaning over the edge in wonderCasting questions into the deep
Drifting here with my ship s companions
All we kindred pilgrim souls
Making our way by the lights of the heavens
In our beautiful blue boat home
3 I give thanks to the waves upholding me
Hail the great winds urging me on
Greet the infinite sea before me
Sing the sky my sailor s song
I was born upon the fathoms
Never harbor or port have I known
The wide universe is the ocean I travel
And the earth is my blue boat home10 E GROOVELINE
Pack your grip
Takin you on a trip
Ain't no seats
All we got's dancin' feet
Leave your worries behind
'Cause rain, shine don't mind
We're ridin' on the groove line tonight
Get this train
Know you'll be glad you came
Hit the track
Party hard there and back
Leave your worries behind
'Cause rain, shine don't mind
We're ridin' on the groove line tonight
Check out the wheels a turnin'
You know we won't stop
We got this boiler burnin'
We're keepin' it hot
So grab your friends
Get the train comin' through
Climb on board
Where you leave's up to you
Leave your worries behind
'Cause rain, shine don't mind
We're ridin' on the groove line tonight
Leave your worries behind
'Cause rain, shine don't mind We're ridin' on the groove line tonight
Check out the wheels a turnin' You know we won't stop
We got this boiler burnin' We're keepin' it hot
So grab your friends
Get the train comin' through
Climb on board
Where you leave's up to you
Leave your worries behind
'Cause rain, shine don't mind
We're ridin' on the groove line tonight
Rain, shine don't mind
We're ridin' on the groove line tonight
Rain, shine don't mind
We're ridin' on the groove line tonight
11 I KNOW YOU Dave Clark 5
12 GHOST DANCE
Crows brought the message to the children of the sun, f or the
return of the buffalo
And for a better day to come You can kill my body
Bb F
Gm Cm
You can damn my soul For not believing in your
god Gm And some world down below Cm
[Chorus]Eb Bb C F
Eb Bb C F
You don't stand a chance against my prayers You don't stand a
chance against my love
Gm C
They outlawed the Ghost Dance (2) they shall live again
F
Bb Cm But we shall live again, we shall live again
2 My sister above She has red paint She died at Wounded Knee
By the latter day saint You got the big drum in the
distance
Bb
F the blackbird's in the sky
That's the sound that you hear When the buffalo cry
(chorus)
3 Crazy Horse was a mystic
Gm He knew the secret of the trance
And Sitting Bull the great apostle Gm Of the Ghost Dance
13 CRY BABY CRY SIMP 140
1 The king of Marigold was in the kitchen 2
the king was in the garden 3 the duchess of Kirkaldy 4 at twelve o clock a
meeting for a seance
14 Mother of a Miners Child
1 she is my flower (waits for me beside the
kitchen door) 2 She is my light (wash away the coal dust from my face)
3 SOLO 4 When the night shifts done
(and the promise I made to carry on) 5 sometimes I smile in the cage where the
cables softly hum I'd curse that old straw boss to the bone but the mother of a
miners child is waiting for her paycheck to come home come saturday (he is just
a miners boy, I hope that he will find a better way
6 repeat 1
15 THE CHRISTIANS AND THE PAGANS///DARK DREAM
1 THERE was a girl I could have loved but no I left for space
There IS A NAME FOR WHAT I DO. YOU KNOW I CAN NEVER BE TRUE
gigolo YES i'M HEADED FOR FAME BUT NOW i WISH i KNEW YOUR NAME
2 SINCE IVE BEEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD NOTHING LEFT TO SEE MILLIONS
OF PLANETS MOONS AND BARS LOTS OF ladies TO MEET
IVE BEEN TO vENUS BEEN TO mARS ive even been to the black hole zoo
I've crossed a million mile void just to be here tonight with you
REMEMBER Eb E Bb E
3 added sedative effect measures lose their meaning sleep wins and
then I start to dream 1 I was walking through the night when i heard something
call was it a deathly scream of fright or was it nothing at all
2 So up the path i went f and now I know what it meant a new
shipment had come by rail
3 There I was in a strange place I had no voice
at all I couldn’t see very far in front of me
4 Connecting parts control of them now they rule themselves
5 Electric beam brings hand to life then it moves a way
fight another world war our only human function
16 Ab-Bb I’M TELLING YOU NOW
17 Bb WALK LIKE A MAN
18 C# WORKING MAN
19 Dm Layla
20 D TABACCO ROAD
21 Eb DON’T DREAM IT’S OVER
22 Em ACE OF SPADES
23 Em HURT YOU FIRST
24 E HEADS CAROLINA
25 E COMING UP
26 F RED CLAY HALO
27 F brorn to be Bushy
28 F# REDNECK WOMAN
29 G Sugar Shack
30 G Mary Lou
31 Am My Love Forevermore
32 A Its my party
33 C#m UNDERDOG
34 D JUDYS TURN TO CRY
35 D CHANGES IN LATITUDE
36 D HOLD ON LOOSELY
37 GROOVE LINE
38 F THE RUMOUR
39 G FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE
40 SAIL INTO TOMORROW
41 A CALL ME THE BREEZE
42 A OI OI OI
43 C HILLBILLY HIWAY
44 D SKINHEAD LOVE AFFAIR
45 E to F
14 I’M TELLING YOU NOW
I'm Telling You Now chords Freddie and the Dreamers G# C# Cm F# G# C# Cm D#7
Ab to Db I'm telling you now, I'm telling you right away.
A#m D# G# Fm
I'll be staying for many a day,
2 G# C# G# C# D#?
I'm telling you now, I'll say what you wanna hear.
A#m D# G# Fm
I'll be saying for many a year,
A#m D#
Do you think I'm foolin' When I say "I love you"?
C# Cm F#
I love you.
A#m D#
Maybe you'll believe me,
3 G# C# G# C#
I'm telling you now, I know it's been said before.
A#m D# G# Fm
Say you love me and I will be sure,
A#m D# G# F#
I'm in love with you now.
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E|--3-3-3-------------3-3-3------------5----5-5 ---------5-3-3-5------5-5-------5-3----|
D7
4]A D A D
I'm telling you now, I'm telling you right away.
Bm E A F#m
I'll be saying for many a day,
Bm E A A7
I'm in love with you now.
Bm E
Do you think I'm foolin'
Bm E A
When I say "I love you"? D C#m G I love you.
Bm E
Maybe you'll believe me,
5 A# D# A# D#
I'm telling you now, I know it's been said before.
Cm F A# Gm
Say you love me and I will be sure,
Cm F A# Gm
I'm in love with you now.
Cm F A# D# Dm G# A#
I'm telling you now.
15 WALK LIKE A MAN 1
Nashville country pop 120
Oh how you tried to cut me down to size Tellin' dirty lies to my friends
But my own father said give her up, don't bother The world isn't comin' to an end
(He said) Walk like a man, talk like a man Walk like a man my son
No woman's worth crawlin' on the earth So walk like a man, my son Oh, walk, walk, walk, walk
2 Oh Bye bye baby, I don't-a mean maybe Gonna get along somehow
Soon you'll be cryin' on account of all your lyin' Oh yeah, just look who's laughin' now
(I'm gonna) Walk like a man, fast as I can Walk like a man from you
I'll tell the world forget about it, girl And walk like a man from you
16 WORKIN’ MAN
The Working Man country train 110 4/4 130
I cant solo on this but anyone that can solo in C# is welcome and this is a song that can have as many solos as there are people
1 Well, I was born on a Sunday; since I loined right from wrong.
2 Mama said I was bad,
Pattern and solo verse
BREAK I ain't never been in trouble; I ain't got the time. I don't mess around with magic, child. What I got is mine.
3 Whatever you say, Lord, well, Lordawww I do the job for you. 4 Every Friday, well, that's TAPESTRY
46 Gm G#m WHEN SHE SEES ME
47 D STAY GONE
48 D SUNNY AFTERNOON
49 Bb SECOND WIND
50 f# TO g# THE CHEATER
51 C HOOKED ON A FEELING
52 Fm BORN TO BE BUSHY
