Here at Crabb's Top Ten of The Week Incorporated, we try to give you 10
songs of varying decades. We leave no stone unturned, leave no pawnshop
without picking it over or going to the thrift stores and feel bad that
we can't buy that album since it didn't survive mold, mildew and
overplayed grooves and scratches big as cracks in the road.
Again another week of songs all over the place and knows no genre. Let's see what was in the player that might be of interest.
1.
Night Shift-Foghat 1976 B side to Drivin Wheel and the album that got
me through my sophmore year in high school. Their boogie I haven't
listen to much of the past decade but I do pull Night Shift, the album
out from time to time.
2. Do You Wonder-Joe Perry 2009 New
Joe Perry and this song features a Steven Tyler soundalike named Hagen
which to me thinks this would be a big hit if Aerosmith did cover it.
At least it's better than I Don't Want To Miss A Thing.
3.
Wargasm-L7 1992 Gurl rock from the early 90s, can't understand why
Jerry Scott at Relics thought I wouldn't like this CD till I found a new
copy in the cheap bins at Stuff Etc. L7 was a all female hard rock band
that had a hit with Pretend We're Dead and later the bass player from
Belly would join up but by then L7 became yet another footnote in the
lost decade of the 90s.
4. Little Liar-Miranda Lambert 2009
Third week in a row I included a song off her new album Revolution and
this is the new single from that album. The way I talk about it, you
might think this is album of the year. Too early to tell but I wouldn't
bet against it not bein on the best of the year.
5. Beautiful
People-Bobby Vee 1967 Going to the Quad Cities, the Mister Money in
Moline had CDs for 50 cents and I bought about four bucks worth.
Somebody got rid of their Ventures collection and a couple Bobby Vee CDs
that I picked up for gas money should I didn't like them. This song
finally ends a debate of a song that I originally thought that The
Buckinghams did. Got this confused with Don't You Care. Bobby Vee was
one of those big teen idols of the early 60s and he was a Buddy Holly
soundalike but Liberty Records stuck him with a lotta bubblegum tunes
but later on, Vee went into a folk vibe for a couple albums before going
back into Bubblegum although I think he was a step up from, say Fabian
or Frankie Avalon. Or Justin Timberlake.
6. You Are So
Beautiful-Ray Stevens 1976 Ray Stevens may have had the strangest and
most dated career of my 45 years of buying music. But his novelty songs
haven't exactly aged and I quit caring after his I Need Your Help Barry
Manilow. Used to like Along Came Jones till I heard it earlier this
year and couldn't believe how out of whack it really was. Stevens was
worse being serious (Mr Businessman, another song l like back in 68, and
heard it at McDonalds and that was enough) but he did strike a chord
with me with this bluegrass remake of the Billy Preston song that Joe
Cocker took to number one.
7. Sweets For My Sweet-The
Searchers 1963 Another 50 cent CD found at Mister Money was The
Complete Collection by The Searchers on Castle, back when Castle UK
would put out these cheap compliations of UK bands and I don't hear this
song all that much anyway. One of two singles that Mercury put out in
1963 through arrangement with UK Pye. Rhino had a best of out on cd
back in the 90s but dammed if i can find a copy. So this will do.
8. Jane Says-Jane's Addiction 1988 And the world was introduced to Perry Farrell. For better or worse.
9.
Man Named Truth-Monsters Of Folk 2009 Indee super band of Connor
Obest, Jim James (under an alias), M.Ward and Mike Mogis. I think I
like this better than the new Arvett Brothers album that came out on
American and was overrecorded and stuck in a digipak. The new Monsters
Of folk is pretty good, i might listen to it a few more times before the
year is out.
10. Caravan-The Ventures 1963 And finally a
instruemtal from the Bobby Vee Meets The Ventures album with two
instrumentals by the beloved Ventures. Duke Ellingtion never rocked
this hard before.
COMMENTS:
From Diggy Kat: wow i haven't heard about Ray Stevens in forever!!! my fave song by him
was from the 80s, gosh um... haha hang on let me think here lol "Sitting
Up With The Dead" i think!
