Unexpected Songs of Joy, and Celebrations of Music Stars

***Unexpected Songs of Joy, and Celebrations of Music Stars*** is the fifth album of The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan. It was released on April 27, 2011, seven months after the artist's prior album. It has 72 tracks and a run time of 2 hours, 16 minutes. This is a huge jump over all of this artist's prior albums, and marks the beginning of a series of albums by this artist with well over 70 tracks each.

The album cover features Farley standing in a doorway wearing a red t-shirt and giving a thumbs up gesture. It is the first album cover from this artist to not have a black-and-white photocopied album cover.

Amazon's listing of this album splits it into two CDs. Track one of CD 2 is  *I Grew Up Loving Barry Manilow Songs (and I still love them!)*, which at 3:49 in length is an in-depth celebration of Manilow.

This album contains the first Motern Media song to identify Matt Farley by name in the title, in "Matt Farley is an Unstoppable Songwriting Maniac Magician!" In fact, as of February 2021, except for five songs by The Singing Animal Lover about that artist's feud with Motern Media, the only other song with Farley's name in it is 2020's "Matt Farley Fan Club Song" by Papa Razzi and the Photogs.

## Reception

Music critic A. Gleich gave this album a five star rating and positive review on amazon.com. Gleich purchased this album as "payment" for a custom song that Farley did for his wife's birthday. Unfortunately, the review doesn't delve into any songs on this album but he does encourage all readers of his review to "buy some of his music. You'll be supporting one of the kindest people I've ever traded emails with. "

The Steel Belted Radio Podcast played "Stu Reid of Twang Trust (Thanks, Friend)" on its January 8, 2015 episode, as well as some other Motern Media songs. It was also played on the Tell the Band To Go Home podcast on March 31, 2019.

## Tracks

1. Stu Reid of Twang Trust (Thanks, Friend) (1:16)
2. Jeff Mangum, You are a Lo-Fi Music Wizard! (1:36)
3. My Favorite Beatles Solo Albums (2:35)
4. Win Butler, You Are A Great Great Guy! (1:27)
5. Tegan Quin, You Are An Indie Pop Goddess! (Call Me Sometime!) (2:08)
6. Sara Quin, I Like You! (2:05)
7. Lindsey Buckingham is a Great Rock and Roll Genius (1:35)
8. Stevie Nicks is Awesome! (1:18)
9. Rod Stewart Does Great Tom Waits Covers (1:36)
10. Matt Farley is an Unstoppable Songwriting Maniac Magician! (1:51)
11. A Song About General Cordswainer (1:17)
12. Hope Sandoval, I Like How You Sing (1:23)
13. A Musical Song About Tristan Omand, The Fine Music Man (2:10)
14. Scott Avett, You are a Great Guy! (1:37)
15. Seth Avettt, Let Me Tell You About How Great You Are! (2:28)
16. Neil Diamond = Songwriting God! (1:55)
17. How About That Johnny Cash! (2:02)
18. Mark Mothersbaugh is a Great Genius Guy! (1:48)
19. Jon Brion is a Very Good Musical Genius (1:31)
20. Ludwig van Beethoven, What a Great Musical Genius! (2:27)
21. An Honest Song About Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1:13)
22. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Great Composer, Don't You Think? (1:14)
23. Millhouse G., I Love Your Music and Comedy! (1:13)
24. I Love George Gershwin! (1:50)
25. Cole Porter was a really Good Songwriter! (1:22)
26. How About That Johann Sebastian Bach! (1:14)
27. Irving Berlin is a lot like me! (1:38)
28. Kate Smith (0:57)
29. Amy Winehouse, You Are So Filled With Controversy! (1:35)
30. A Song About a Girl Named Duffy Who Sings Songs Well (1:50)
31. A Song About a Girl Named Adele Who Sings Songs Well (1:05)
32. Marcus Mumford is a Genius Music Folk Awesome Rock and Roll Guy! (1:38)
33. John Fogerty is Just Great! (1:51)
34. How About That Scott Joplin and His Ragtime Brilliance! (1:33)
35. I Love John Coltrane (Except For His Crazy Experimental Later Stuff) (2:18)
36. Good Ol' Charlie Parker (1:09)
37. Miles Davis, I Like You So Much (1:47)
38. Hey, Richard Edwards from That Margot Band, I Like You (2:41)
39. Wilco Hasn't Been The Same Since Jay Bennett Left (2:29)
40. Aimee Mann is a Very Good Singer (1:13)
41. I Grew Up Loving Barry Manilow Songs (and I still love them!) (3:49)
42. Michael Diamond, You are a Great Rapper (1:35)
43. Adam Keefe Horoitz, You are the King, Man! (1:44)
44. Adam Yauch, I Like Listening to Your Awesome Raps! (1:50)
45. George Martin is a Fine Music Producer! (1:35)
46. Good Ol' Beck Hansen is a Music Genius, and I Like Him. (1:48)
47. Bill Mallonee is a Secret Among Music Lovers in the Know (2:02)
48. Justin Vernon, I Hope you have a Good Winter! (2:56)
49. Butch Walker, I Discovered Your Music Recently and I Really Enjoyed It! (1:14)
50. John McCrea, What Do You Do on Your Free Time? (2:28)
51. Carole King, I Love Your Work (2:52)
52. Cat Stevens, You are a Great Guy! (1:18)
53. I Like an Obscure Charlie Rich Album From the Seventies (2:07)
54. Colbie Caillat, I Like The Music You Play! (2:04)
55. Oh Adam Duritz, I Love Your Songs and Stuff (1:33)
56. Daryl Hall, I Love All Your Songs! (2:50)
57. Don Henley is the Greatest! (1:23)
58. Frank Turner, You are an Angry Young Man (3:06)
59. Isaac Slade, You Do a Good Job Singing and Playing the Piano With Your Band! (2:25)
60. Phil Collins Deserves to be Worshipped By All of Us. (4:16)
61. Good Old Gordon Lightfoot. I Love His Gold. (1:26)
62. William Bruce Rose is Great! He is Ahead of his Time! (1:11)
63. Samuel Beam, I Hear Your Songs and I Love Them! (2:59)
64. Jon Foreman, You Make Very Good Music. Yes You Do. (0:58)
65. Joseph Arthur, I Downloaded One Of Your Songs. (1:34)
66. Lauryn Hill is Like Awesome and Great! (2:09)
67. Mason Jennings, My Girlfriend Prefers Your Music to Mine. (1:11)
68. Eddie Vedder, You are the High Priest of Rock and Roll. (1:42)
69. I'm Losing Interest in Radiohead. I am Feeling Disillusioned. (2:24)
70. Jack White, You are the Messiah of Rock and Roll. (1:41)
71. Daniel Spedding of Dutch Uncles, You and Pete Broadhead like me! (3:21)
72. Bo Burnham, You are a Wordsmith and a Piano Player. (2:12)

## References

1. ↑ (4 April 2014). Amazingly prolific and funny, A Gleich, Amazon Music Critic
2. ↑ Podcast: Steel Belted Radio – Jan. 8, 2015 (see 33:00)
3. ↑ Tell the Band to Go Home March 31, 2019: episode #784 - Postcard from Winnipeg

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