Frontier Archaeology, vol. 7: A-R-C-H-A-E-O-L-O-G-Y

[FP's weekly column on music before 1990 appears on Sundays]

Here at Frontier Psychiatrist, we are big fans of sesquipedalianism and logodaedaly.  Therefore, it should come to no surprise that this Friday (prior to checking out Brooklyn's Americana revival house Jalopy), we sat down in front of our TV with a bowl of vichyssoise and a cup of gyokuro to watch the 83rd Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.  Man, do we love those spelling nerds.  After 9 rounds of brutal competition, you would have needed an engysseismologist to gauge the crowd's reaction when this young person was finally crowned. 

In this episode of Frontier Archaeology, we honor the 273 intrepid spellers with some of pop music's best efforts in orthography.  And fear not; we have far too much R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the reader to make the most obvious selections:

The Pixies - Velouria


Afrika Bambaataa - Looking for the Perfect Beat


XTC - Your Dictionary (technically released after 1990, but come on, it's XTC..they're old)


The Kinks - Lola

Frontier Archaeology, vol. 7: A-R-C-H-A-E-O-L-O-G-Y