Jim's Fish Joke/The End by the Doors, from Live in New York (Rhino)
At the Felt Forum in 1969, after his off-colour gag receives a smattering of boos, Jimbo Morrison gruffly chants "Bring out your dead," as funeral chimes unnervingly clatter. Then comes the band's infamous, druggy, murder-outing opus. Nobody much laughs at that one either.
Que Paso? by By Divine Right, from Mutant Message (Hand Drawn Dracula)
" Que paso? " in Spanish means "what happened?" By Divine Right's Jose Contreras makes his first album in five years - "I slept in for half a decade" - and rejoins his generation's indie-rock revolution with psychedelic power pop that is fabuloso .
A Song for a Son by Smashing Pumpkins, from the forthcoming Teargarden by Kaleidyscope (free download at smashingpumpkins.com )
"This is a song for a dove/ this is a song for a blown-up bird/ the kind that don't return, to the nest." A minor-key power ballad with lame-o lyrics and Billy Corgan shredding guitar like it's 1979 is the vanguard song from the Pumpkins' upcoming 44-tune album. Dedicated to a boy that never was, it sounds like it was written in 15 minutes - which it was.