You can talk all you want, dear Aquarius, but it won't do you any
good if no one is listening. There is a good chance that what you say
will go in one ear and out the other. Be aware that even if you say
something to someone that you think is perfectly clear, there is a good
chance that he or she will not understand your message the way you
intended it. If there is a piece of information that is extremely
important, you are better off putting it in writing.
Such as this top ten.
1.
Turn Up The Radio-The Rockets 1979 Long forgotten band from Detroit
formed from the ashes of Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels, made a few
albums on RSO and Elektra, the Elektra albums got reissued as a 2 on 1
via Wounded Bird and now the RSO albums come courtesy of Renaissance
Records. Turn Up The Radio was a better album than No Ballads the
followup and contained Oh Well, the only top ten The Rockets ever had.
This song got released as a forty five and went nowhere.
2.
Shut Up-Kelly Osbourne 2002 Dedicated to Bob Lefsetz and his rants
against us record collectors. Stream all you want but give me the
product so I can read the liner notes and see the artwork. I'm
beginning to think that Gene Simmons was right about you.
3.
Summer Means Fun-Bruce And Terry 1964 With Memorial Day weekend coming
up, it is the unofficial beginning of summer if you can believe that.
Makes you wonder where all the time goes by. Of course summer means the
usual vacation to the desert and our 30th high school reunion to which I
have to go and see the usual suspects. The options of vacation this
year is Vegas or Phoenix? To be determined although I have yet to even
attempt to look at airplane fares.
4. She Got The Mojo And
The Say So-The Blue Band 1993 They remain the party band of Eastern
Iowa although without a mom and pop record store around the area, it's
hard to know what they got out for music anymore. Sometimes Bob Dorr
plays it more for yucks than music but once in a while The Blue Band
will come up with a sing along song such as this one. It's summertime
and I'm sure Bob Dorr will be in your neighborhood very soon. Check out
and enjoy.
5. Cold Chillin-Len featuring Kurtis Blow 1999 One
hit wonder group struck it big with Steal My Sunshine to which Z102
doesn't even play anymore (it's too old the reason) the album does have
some choice cuts of note but LEN reminds me of the first album from
Bloodhound Gang, lots of beat boxes and vinyl cuts and on occasion a
punk rock song but this is mostly your typical beat number with original
rapper Kurtis Blow talking shit and Shar cooing in the background.
Catchy, but don't tell Bob Lefsetz about it or he will puke. (can you
tell i'm still pissed bout his catty remark about us cd and record
buyers, does it still show?)
6. Lungs-Steve Earle 2009 A
radical reworking of a Townes Van Zant song that Steve does with The
Nightwatch Man (Tom Morello) on guitar. The Townes tribute album that
Earle does is pretty good and it should make you go seek out the
original artist.
7. As Tears Go By-Marianne Faithfull 1990
Can't tell you why I'm into Faithfull's music this late in life. Just a
change of pace I guess. From her 1990 live Blazing Away album.
8.
Trashy Women-Confederate Railroad 1992 Hard to believe these guys were
the toast of country radio back in that day but in some ways their
first album was that trailer trash fun rock and country that a lotta
people liked. But of course they had to be the most heaviest (meaning
fattest) band to ever hit the stage since Bachman Turner Overdrive and
when they played live they had to use those heavy duty steel stages that
wouldn't collaspe and crush the first five rows ;-) I don't think
Atlantic ever let this band play on the albums, they ended up using
Nashville sessionmen. They did managed to make about five albums for
Atlantic regardless and may have been the most successful country band
on Atlantic, when Atlantic was into country music. But then again
Confederate Railroad didn't have much for competition anyway. John M.
Montgomery? Neal McCoy? The Great Divide? Lil Kim?!? KHAK still
plays this song sometimes before going to the pop country of Taylor
Swift, Brad Paisley and the queen of country music, Miss Carrie
Underwood. No wonder country radio is the pits.
9. Poor
Poor Pitiful Me-Warren Zevon 1976 Six years has passed since the
passing of Warren Zevon and I donno. I miss his dry wit and witty
remakes of Raspberry Beret and Mannish Boy. Linda Ronstandt had a top
ten hit with this a year later.
10. See The Light-Green Day
2009 New Green Day, new concept album and it's not as memorable as
American Idiot but it does has it moments despite it being 69 minites
long. And the album is number one on the Billboard this week. To all
the haters out there, Green Day is no longer a fucking punk band,
they're a rock and roll band. They moved out of the basement years
ago.
....
