The primary music I bear in mind listening to

Oscar Model – ‘Little Brown Jug’

“It’s all about consuming, which explains lots! My dad and mom had his album, ‘American Consuming Songs’, and I bear in mind the duvet had a photograph of McSorley’s one it, which is likely one of the oldest bars in New York.”

The primary album I owned

The Beatles – ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band’

“I used to be about 10 years previous and a neighbour gave it to me. Finally, I traded it for a bunch of The Who‘s singles after I was actually entering into them. I cherished pinball and it was the visuals from ‘Tommy’ and ‘Pinball Wizard’ that did it for me. As I acquired older, I’d actually gravitated in the direction of their ‘fuck you’ perspective. The Beatles have been mushy, you recognize, The Who was exhausting!”

The primary gig I went to

The Kinks at Fox Theater in Atlanta, 1980

“I keep in mind that Dave and Ray Davies acquired in an argument and it was bizarre. They saved being pissy with one another on-stage… My good friend Glenn knew this rip-off [to get in for free] the place you’d go and volunteer to be an usher. You simply needed to have a white shirt and black pants they usually offered a crimson vest. And you then listened to half-hour of a man telling you what to do… The rip-off was that we had completely different shirts and shorts on below our [uniform] and as quickly because the music began, we took our vests off, modified tops and bumped into the group. And that was that!”

The music that jogs my memory of residence

Jay-Z – ‘Empire State Of Thoughts’ feat. Alicia Keys

“After I began spending increasingly more time in London for work… I began to palpably miss New York [where I live]. When this music got here out [in 2009] I used to be filming [TV comedy] The More and more Poor Selections Of Todd Margaret… and I’d nearly really feel patriotic [when I heard it]. It could simply actually, actually make me wish to be again in New York.”

The music I want I’d written

The Prodigy – ‘Smack My Bitch Up’

“Wouldn’t or not it’s cool if I’d by no means written any music aside from this? Me and the Prodigy boys had simply acquired collectively and give you this. And what if all I got here up with was that ‘smack my bitch up’ line? Like, they needed to say ‘fuck my bitch up’ and I used to be like, no make it extra particular, make it ‘smack’.”

The music I do at karaoke

‘Bizarre Al’ Yankovic – ‘Eat It’

“I’ve a reasonably good singing voice which individuals may not count on. Usually, with ‘Eat It’, folks suppose you’re gonna do ‘Beat It’ [by Michael Jackson] and typically they may begin dancing after which after they discover out it’s ‘Eat It’, they get upset. It occurred after I was on tour in West Virginia. We have been in the midst of fucking nowhere, in a random bar on this tiny city that was promoting karaoke. I did ‘Eat It’ and a few ladies acquired up from their tables to bop – like ‘yay, I really like that music!’ – after which after they realised [it wasn’t ‘Beat It’] they have been pissed and needed to go grumbling again to their desk.”

The music I can’t get out of my head

‘The Little Mermaid (Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack)’

“It’s particularly due to my daughter. We went to see the brand new model and he or she cherished it. I’ve heard it lots of occasions.”

The music I can not take heed to

Queen and David Bowie – ‘Underneath Stress’

“It was enjoying within the second after I was going by way of a really emotional breakup a very long time in the past. We subsequently acquired again collectively for a 12 months, however once we have been going by way of that basically troublesome time… that music got here on as we have been sitting speaking in a bar. She began crying and ran away.”

The music that all the time makes me wish to dance

Fugazi – ‘Ready Room’

“It makes me transfer, no matter the place I’m, particularly when the refrain is available in… I’ve been in a ton of mosh pits and I’ve had a couple of accidents in my time. I needed to go get an MRI scan as soon as in LA. I went to see [US alt-rockers] Buffalo Tom and there shouldn’t even be a mosh pit at a Buffalo present, however there was one and it was enjoyable. I pulled my hamstring and needed to limp out of there. I used to be solely about 35.”

The music I would like performed at my funeral

Elton John – ‘Candle In The Wind’ (coated by Cannibal Corpse)

“I’m not going to have a funeral. There is usually a occasion or a wake-type of factor however no funeral, no parading of a casket or something like that. Individuals can get collectively at a Vacation Inn banquet room in the event that they’d like. They’ll have some beers and, you recognize, bear in mind me. If I had to decide on a music it might be this however coated by [death metal band] Cannibal Corpse.”

David Cross’ standup tour ‘Worst Daddy In The World’ involves the UK in September 2023