As we continue to do the top ten of the week, I am really getting more
and more annoyed of seeing all these Match.com ads all over My Space to
the point that I'm no longer comfortable putting any top tens out here.
Ya think My Space got bought out by Match.com for flying fuck's sake.
My Space has been going down the toilet for the last year and it's
really beginning to show.
Special thanks to Sassygirl for hosting
our top ten. I think I taught her well in terms of music and such.
I've known her since 2000 and we actually have kept in touch thoughout
the years and gotten closer. No thanks to Match.com, give credit to
Mingles.com.
Some random thoughts over the week.
Great
seeing my classmates of MHS 1979. Tim Henderson made a interesting
comment that we should do a get together for sunday afternoon drinks
every other month and I'm all for it. I'm sure Alan Heeren agrees too.
The power of Facebook is that the class of 1979 have gotten in touch
and probably is a better networking site than this site. At least
Facebook don't have those fucking Match.com zombies staring at you while
you type the top ten of the week.
I'm not that interested in the
new Weezer, never gotten into them don't plan to start now. I'm just
waiting to see if Best Buy will stock the Status Quo album come
september 15th.
I have no idea why My Space is given me
spam messages when I try to access TAD's blogspot site of music.
perhaps i'll take my business over at Blogspot in the forseeable future
but will still keep in touch with what's left of my friends here at My
Space if they want to. Anyway I have two weeks to prepare a top ten
since SassyPassy took the weight off me last week. We'll see where this
leads.
1. Release-Sister Hazel 2009 For a band that peaked
with All For You 13 years ago Sister Hazel has continued to carve out a
career of alt rock with a side of jamband on the side. They never went
away after Universal dropped them but they jammed on and on this album
each and every guy in the band writes at least two songs. Major labels
may not care but I do.
2. Hello Melinda Goodbye-Five
Man Electrical Band 1971 Found their Goodbyes and Butterflies album at
Goodwill last weekend looked like the record had a crack in it but it
does play. This was the B side to Signs to course gets airplay on the
oldies station.
3. Liar-Three Dog Night 1971 It's too bad top
forty radio is not like it was back when I was in grade school, I heard
plenty of music, in fact more music was played then than all these FM
stations today. Like Cable TV we have more channels but less content.
Joy To The World is so much overplayed so I went with the lesser
played. A cover of the Russ Ballard/Argent song and Three Dog Night
could find great songs to cover.
4. If It's Not Love-Rhett
Miller 2009 Moving to a Bo Diddley via Buddy Holly beat, Rhett Miller
continues to make great albums and good songs that nobody listens to.
5.
Maggie-Redbone 1971 Not every song made it to KCRG, I actually heard
this on the Peoria Radio station that my Aunt Virginia used to listen to
when she was sunbathing bout 40 years ago. I think I learn my music
buying expierences from my mom and her sisters although I don't think
they went to extremes like I do in finding music. Columbia did a 2
minite edit on this song on Different Strokes, a 19 song sampler that
tried to beat K Tel at their own game but pissed me off due to crappy
editing.
6. Love Leads To Madness-Nazareth 1982 This did get
some airplay in the early 80s but Nazareth is forever linked to Love
Hurts and Hair Of The Dog although not too many ppl could take Dan
McCaffery vocals.
7. Shame On Me-The Bottlerockets
2009 new song from the new album from Festus Missouri's best known rock
band. Grant Alden from No Depression calls the new album uneven but i
think I liked it better then he did.
8. Sad And Beautiful
World-The Questionaires 1991 Nope, these guys never made it big, they
weren't as radical as Jason and the Scorchers and they were about 15
years too early for the Country popper who are ruling country radio.
These guys were actually Nashville sessionmen that got to made two
albums for EMI a label that knows nothing about promoting music and this
is off their lost classic, the wishful thinking Anything Can Happen, a
title that Leon Russell thought so much of, he called his 1992 album the
same title. And got the same result as The Questionaires did.
9.
Get It In The End-Humble Pie 1980 Steve Marriott, oh man his voice was
so shot on this 1980 album On To Victory that critics wondered why the
hell ATCO even gave them a contract. Poorly produced, the album did
yield a top forty hit with Fool For A Pretty Face but I always liked
this cut, hidden as track 7 on the cd to which I'm sure most
people never went that far into this cd. Sure Humble Pie's flame burned
out after Smokin and some of their A n M albums are crap, but at least
On To Victory there's a tinge of inspiration.
10. Crazy
Circles-Bad Company 1979 and finally a nod to my classmates with this B
side to Rock n Roll Fantasy off Desolation Angels, an album that hasn't
aged very well last I heard it. But I do find myself singing to this
song out in the car and thinking about 30 years ago when we gradurated
from HS and was ready to take on the world.
COMMENTS:
The lovely Liz Chaffe from Lizzy Williams writes:
Hi Crabby! Just stopping by to do some reading of your Top 10. I had a
Singer in my band who played Guitar for Redbone. Not sure if he did
or didn't but he had some things to say.
Ever no a Guy named Raven to
be in that Band? He played Guitar for them. Never know whats up in L.A.
and I'm gullable sometimes. :)
DIGGY KAT:
omg! Five Man Electrical Band!! lol you know i stumbled across their
song Werewolf and that's been the "OMG BEST SONG EVER!" for this month
lol (the "omg best song ever" seems to change every month or so though)
and under a little more research i didn't realise they had the hit
"Signs", knew and loved the song, guess i didn't know who sang it lol
however i do remember Tesla's version lol. i just bought FMEB's greatest
hits a couple days ago from amazon as well.
Rhett Miller, i have his 2006 cd, wasn't that impressed but i did enjoy Cellular Girl i believe it was called.
