Free Download: Roll the Tanks Pay Tribute to Jay Reatard

Roll The Tanks, ' Goodnight Jimmy Lee'

Ryan Russell

Click to listen to Roll The Tanks' 'Goodnight Jimmy Lee'

Los Angeles pop-punkers Roll the Tanks wrote their latest single, "Goodnight Jimmy Lee," on the day garage-rock hero Jay Reatard died last year. "The song pays tribute to his greatness but also speaks of my own shortcomings seen through his eyes," says frontman Danny Carney. "We had written and recorded it before he even reached the morgue. He would have appreciated that, hopefully." The single is in stores now, but you can download the track for free here.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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