Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Top Ten: Coming To You At 50.6 KPS

Just in time for the first true weekend that kicks off summer.  Memorial Day Weekend.  Where's the party at?

1.  Mother Mary-Foxboro Hot Tubs 2008  Green Day incognito. After spending four years promoting American Idiot, the boys go into their 60s roots and dig up loads of garage rock that's fun to listen to.  Not as fun as say Len Price 3 nor Insommiac, but still more worthwhile than anything on radio.

2.  Famous In A Small Town-Miranda Lambert 2007  Congrats to Miranda for getting Album Of The Year from the ACMs Sunday night.  No need to apologize for overtaking Kenny Chesney, your album was ten times better than his.

3.  Sniffin About-Ace 1975  B side to How Long and my favorite song from the Paul Carrack led pub band of that time.  While followups were not good or as chart ranking as How Long, this B side actually got some airplay on the FM underground stations of that time.  Back when radio was good.

4.  Switch Board Susan-The Searchers 1979  Another forgotten album classic, The Searchers have their Sire albums now reissued once again.   There's good music out there.  Too bad you have to find it online since most of the record stores closed up shop around here.  And Best Buy doesn't carry Wounded Bird product.  They didn't have The Coolest Songs In The World Volume 5 either today.

5.  What's Wrong With Yo Yo-The Van DeLecki's  1996 A side project featuring Jamie Hoover of the Spongetones this cd sat for months at Half Priced Books till they slashed the price down to a dollar. Very Rockpileish sounding and nice harmonies to boot.  Dollar well spent I think.

6.  Anytime U Want Me-Alvin Lee 2007  Former Ten Years After frontman makes a pretty good album of late.  Still sounds better in voice than Mick Jagger so to speak.

7.  Love/Sex-Pearls Before Swine 1972  Hippy Dippy music from that era led by Tom Rapp.  Kinda of a backhanded slap at Steve Stills Love The One You're With.  Acquired taste to boot but Tom Rapp has his share of fans.  I'm not too sure I'm one of them.

8.  Packet Of Good Times-Livingston Taylor 1970  James Taylor's brother to which I have never heard anything from till I found his CD at Goodwill the other day.  Again a truckload of hippy dippy on this album (Doctor Man? eck) but there are some songs that do have  a good hook or two. And Livingston sounds a bit more earnest than his brother, although not as successful as James.

9.  Lonely Street-EmmyLou Harris 1989 Found this on vinyl.  EmmyLou is hit and miss for me although it seems on this album she caught me offguard with her sweet vocals on this Carl Belew classic song.  But then again it seems that I can be had at anytime this spring when I hear a lonesome female vocal.  Think I have done more crying the past month than the last five years put together.  So where's this place called Lonely Street?  Just down County Home Road dood.

10.  Hit Me Like A Train-Dan Baird 1994  Dan Baird has done wonderful things since Georgia Satellites.  This is one of them.  Also he has a My Space site too. 

Be safe.

Comment love from Lizzy Williams

 Great taste my friend. And ears too. :p