In 1999, there were few internet outlets for this sort of thing. I did get some interest and some airplay out of some college radio stations, until a dispute with HFA knocked it off the air. I maintained that it was a clear case of Fair Use given that it was a parody, but they had better lawyers, and claimed that it was a rework of the original, which required publisher permission.

Anyway, here it is; click Continue Reading for the lyrics:

Albania, Slovenia, Time to catch a train yeah
Out of Serbia and Bosnia, NATO’s going to bomb ya,
Sarajevo, Montenegro, baby why don’t we go Croatia

Off the border of Greece there’s a place called Kosovo
But you don’t want to go Because they’re bombing it all
Bodies in the sand, You can feel blood dripping through your hands
You’ll be dragged through the streets by the mobs of raving Serbians
Way down in Kosovo

Albania, Slovenia, Time to catch a train yeah
Out of Serbia, and Bosnia, NATO’s going to bomb ya,
Sarajevo, Montenegro, ooh time to go anywhere but Kosovo,
Get killed by people who you used to know
That’s just the way things go
Way down in Kosovo

Milosavic, somebody catch that bitch

We’ll put out to sea, the Adriatic’s the place to be
If we’re lucky we’ll see the ships of the US Navy
Afternoon delight, watch the missiles taking flight
Looks like somebody else is going to meet their maker tonight
Way down in Kosovo

Albania, Slovenia, Time to catch a train yeah
Out of Serbia, and Bosnia, NATO’s going to bomb ya,
Sarajevo, Montenegro, ooh time to go anywhere but Kosovo,
Get killed by people who you used to know
That’s just the way things go
Way down in Kosovo

Milosavic, somebody catch that bitch

Even NATO knows, it’s too late for Kosovo,
But if you want to see
How bombs help out the refugees
Get down to Kosovo

Hope you like it. It’s Called Fright Night.

This is a stripped-down cover of What’s Love Got to Do With It, made famous by Tina Turner in 1984, and winner of several 1985 Grammy Awards.

Obviously, since I didn’t write it, I haven’t been able to include it on albums released with a Creative Commons License.

Let me know what you think.

With their professional music licensing, Jamendo is taking unsigned, Creative Commons artists into new markets.

Just in the last couple of months, my music has been used in a video in Vancouver BC, a film in Sweden, aboard French High Speed Rail, and now comes loaded on the latest mp3 player from Archos.

Top Five Songs on Jamendo Pro

The icing on the cake is that one of my tracks, Move A Little Closer, is currently one of the top 5 tracks in sales on Jamendo Pro. I don’t know exactly what that means yet in terms of dollars, but Jamendo promises to pay 50% of revenue directly back to the artists. Not bad for music that I planned to give away.

• Jamendo Ambient Mix
• Drive-By Truckers (available on emusic.com)
• Tim Fite’s free album, “Over the Counter Culture”

Jamendo’s album count keeps going up, and the quality of the music keeps improving as well. I’m loving the tag-based streaming player built into the web browser. One can also stream music with Pandora, or Last.fm, but with Jamendo, if you find something you love, it’s easy and free to download it immediately.

The Drive-by Truckers are classified as Alternative Country on emusic.com, but as several reviewers have pointed out, they are perhaps better referred to as Southern Rock.

Tim Fite is clever, bitingly sarcastic, and bouncy. It’s definitely hip-hop, also country, Texan, and scathingly political. I’m a fan of bargain-bin-diving djs, hunting for wacky samples. Tim Fite has taken this technique to a new plateau.