Not much to report for new tunes, I’ve been sick all week so i
haven’t been playing anything on the player this week. But I’m taking
care of some requests and give some acknowledgements to those who been
following the top ten of the week.
1. Girls Talk-Dave Edmunds 1979 For just about thirty years, I’ve
played the tried and true. If I did classic rock radio, the format
would be a lot different than it is now. There’ll be a lot more
Rockpile on the playlist. This was a minor hit for DE around August of
1979. I remember Sam Goody had something like 20 copies of this 45.
Should have picked one up for reference’s sake but I did have the
album. Linda Ronstadt even had her own version of this song.
2. Too Late-Little Walter 1953 One of the rock and roll inductees,
Little Walter pioneered the ampified harmonica. Forty years after his
death, Little Walter gets his due.
3. Ram-Bunk-Shush-The Ventures 1960 Another new inductee, The
Ventures were simply one of the best instrumental bands around and had
this top fifty number before striking number one with Walk Don’t Run.
In terms of bargain hunting, this makes great background music while
yours truly goes into Goodwill in search of the hard to find bargain.
With gas prices so damn out of reach, looks like the only bargain trips
will be in town. Or Iowa City.
4. God’s Got It-The Black Crowes 2008 My favorite track off
Warpaint. By golly Mark Prindle had it right, this album does suck! He
gave it a four to my rating of five. Translates to a B minus/C plus.
The band still sounds good, but Rich Robinson didn’t come up with
anything memorable for riffs. But they did find this obscure gospel
number to cover.
5. Good-Better Than Ezra 1995 Critics hated these guys although I
always enjoyed their first album Deluxe enough to still have it in my
collection 13 years later?!?! But it seems like BTE, like Collective
Soul are butt to bad jokes done by the corporate controlled real rock
stations of today. Bands like the Gin Blossoms who get slammed by live
at home thirty somethings who think jamming out to Black Eyed Peas is
real rock and roll. Wrong wrong and wrong again. I still think that
I’ll be listening to the Gin Bunnies 10, 15, even 20 years from now.
Perhaps somebody will play Mrs Rita at my funeral when the time comes.
Anyhow, BTE then crapped out with the awful Fiction Baby and the even
worse How Does Your Garden Grow to which the big commandant was Thou
shalt not buy anything produced by Malcolm Burn. Dan Rothchild got more
out of BTE than Burn, or Don Gehman.
6. Under The Boardwalk-John Mellencamp 1985 Does Mellencamp belong
in the HOF? Like Billy Joel that’s up to the opinion of some but he
spinned his tires in the mud till around 1983 and found himself with
good old Heartland Rock and he did start up Farm Aid with Willie and
Neil and he did have a streak from Uh Huh to Whatever We Wanted of
making quality albums till he lost most of his great band and never
recovered. But he did do a fine remake of this song which was the B
side to ROCK in the USA and it showed up on the 1997 patchjob Rough
Harvest.
7. No Way Out-Lizzy Williams 2005 Hi Lizzy, how it’s going? ;-)
Thought I give ya a shout out. Send some of that nice California
sunshine this way so we melt all this snow away before May 1st ;-)
8. Sweet Neo-con-The Rolling Stones 2005 Dedicated to Karl Rove who
payed everybody a visit in Iowa City over the weekend. Pretty sums up
for seven years of Bush-shite politics. Four dollar a gallon gas, 110
dollar barrel of oil this week. Mission accomplished dillhole.
9. Self Made Man-UFO 1995 It’s been noted that Pete Way won’t be
allowed to tour the US with UFO due to his work visa being rejected,
more corporate shenningans from our wonderful government so UFO has
brought in a replacement. The more I think about this, the more that I
believe that this has been the worst decade that I have ever lived in
and that includes the 80s. Fact of the matter is that the 90s were the
best of times for me. And for most folk too.
10. White Lies-Jason And The Scorchers 1985 And finally
Caroline/EMI has reissued Lost And Found/Fervor EP from the original
Nashville Punk band but I betcha Best Buy won’t have it so you better go
to Amazon and score your very own copy before EMI takes it out of print
again. And you know they will.
