Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Top Ten Of The Week-Maladjusted Attitude

Random thoughts

Scott Van Pelt is an annoyance.  SportsCenter sucks if we have to listen to Van Pelt or John Anderson.

The Madison bargain hunt has been postponed (what else is new?) till later.  Complications of getting days off and being short handed had something to do with it plus the fucking weather for this weekend is showers and thunderstorms both days. Wish we can have drought conditions but every time I wish for that, we get more rain or storms.  Hopefully, we won't have to deal with floods this year since the snow melted away.  Let's pray we don't get the forty days and nights of rainstorms that got us into the flood mess last year.

Counting Crows have bid adieu to Geffen Records after 18 years. Guy Hands has resigned as head huncho of EMI records.  EMI has been in a big mess since Terra Ferra bought them out. The major labels are such in a disarray.  Warner Music Group posted a big loss but still gave Edgar Brotman Jr a couple million dollar bonus for doing a shit job.  Seems like the American way of life 2000, do a shit job and get a big bonus.  See it did wonders for AIG and Wall Street.

And there's a promise of a new Lizzy Williams album this year.  Can't wait for that.

Finally, got to eat at Hot Harry's Burritos on Tuesday.  I think I perfer them over Pancheros.  At least they don't burn the steak like Pancheros but then again I kinda turned away from Pancheros, I don't like the way they mix everything up, I prefer my beans and rice and meat layered rather than smashed together.  Yeh, I know it all goes down the same hole but I don't need to get grossed out.

And now the songs of the week.

1.  Super Natural-Everything 1998  Jam band that had a hit with Hootch.  Made a couple albums for Capricorn that went nowhere and then signed to an offshoot of Sire Records.  this track reminds me of One Fine Morning by Lighthouse with terms of beat but that's where it all ends.  This album is easily found in the buck bins in what's left of the cd stores in the state.

2.  Helen Says-Hank 1995  Not Hank Jr, Sr, or the 3rd but a band from Boston that sounded a cross between Del Amitri and the Gin Blossoms.  I guess you can call it alternative rock and Joan Jett was impressed enough to issued their first album on her Blackheart label.  I think alternative rock was the last gasp of good music, seems like everything went downhill after Big Back Forty's Bested in 1997.  Reality shit killed the video star. 

3.  The Clowns Lead The Band-Devonsquare 1991  Another clearance sale cd found, this band started out as an New Age answer to Abba before switching over to a Fleetwood Mac style sound on their second Atlantic platter Bye Bye Route 66, in fact Alana MacDonald sounds a bit like Stevie Nicks, though not as clever or mystical.  But I'm sure none of y'all out there knows about this band, hell I don't even think I have readers anymore.  Just blogging to myself don't mind me.

4.  Woodstock-Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 1970  Hard to believe that this year will mark the 40th anniversary of 3 days of peace and love.  And I'm sure that these guys will play at the 40th anniversary if they all stay alive.  Don't look for MTV or VH1 to show this.  It will cut into their reality shit and nobody watches rock concerts anymore anyway.

5.  Tropical Flesh Mandala-Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians 1988  I still have yet to find his new album so I thought I go back into the archives and play one off his Globe Of Frogs album. 

6.  Must Have Been Crazy-Chicago 1979  Yeh Donnie Dacus was no Terry Kath but he did his best on the two albums that he played on.  If Hot Streets bombed, 13 crashed and so did this failed single.  Catchy as hell, it should have gotten up higher on the charts than it did. Maybe it would have better luck had PC Moblee sang it instead.

7.  PT Nuts/Linus And Lucy-Pat Travers 2006  A guitar reworking of the Peanuts classic song. You can't say that Pat doesn't have a good sense of humor.

8.  My Time Ain't Long-Canned Heat 1970  The foretelling of the future of Al Wilson.  Canned Heat was never the same after Wilson hung himself.

9.  Hang On Sloopy-The Beau Brummels 1966  And for their effort of getting on Warner Brothers, they got to do a covers album chosen by their label to further shame them by calling it Beau Brummels 66.  Some of the songs here are not too bad but Warner Brothers didn't do them any favors by ordering them to cover Mrs Brown You Got A Lovely Daughter or These Boots Were Made For Walking.  Good thing it was 2006, otherwise the Beaus may have forced to do American Idol covers!

10.  One In The Sun-Steve Gaines 1977  But wasn't released till ten years later but this song also appeared on the Lynyrd Skynyrd Legend grab bag.  It's too bad that Steve Gaines wasn't given the ablitity to showcase more of his music for had Synyrd continued with both Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines alive that there would be more classics coming from them. Now the only Gary Rossington and Rickey Medlocke remained from the early band but Medlocke left to formed Blackfoot before returning to Skynyrd in 1997.  However, Skynyrd will have a new album out later in the year.  Just so that you know.
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And the Chicago and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young can be called Seastarr's Sis Picks Of The Week, to which Seastarr picks her favorite song of the week.  You can catch her over at Multiply at Yardbird's Roost.