It's pretty bad when I get stuck in my own driveway. It's icy as hell,
my brother has got way too many cars in the damn way here and I can't
manuever the Crown Victoria worth a fuck in this damn ice rink I call a
driveway. And it puts me in a real bad mood. Stuck in our own
driveway, WTMF?
When they induct ABBA in the rock n roll
hall of fame it becomes a joke. I can see Genesis, I can see Jimmy
Cliff, I can see The Hollies and The Stooges but I guess Jann Wanner
would rather see ABBA make it there than KISS. But it's pretty fucking
bad when The Moody Blues isn't in there, nor Rush, Nor______________.
ABBA?!? They're MOR Pop for fuck's sakes!.
Next week I hope to
be in the Holiday spirit although I doubt it. But my sidekick and
contributor Nicole will host the annual Christmas top ten list. She
submitted 20 songs to the fray, we'll edited it down to a chosen ten.
Usually the rule of thumb is that 10 is the limit, anything more and
people get put to sleep.
This week's songs of note:
1.
Stranded-Manfred Mann Earth Band 1980 I guess ole Manfred got stuck in
Iowa from what the song starts out. Which is why this album charted
pretty high around here, it mentioned Iowa. Stuck in my own driveway,
watta bunch of.............
2. In Walked Bud-Theolonious Monk
1958 Robert Christgau spoke so highly of this track that I decided to
pull it out and listen to it sunday night and found that Johnny Griffin
could have been the best sax player, best suited to the style of Mr.
Monk. That's saying a lot. Christgau also says that there's too much
Riverside product from Monk but he had Monk's Music, Brilliant Corners
and Mysterioso, and Solo Monk. Never heard the Town Hall Concert but
from what i heard of, The Riverside years remains his best.
3.
Cars Hiss By My Window-The Doors 1971 Played on KUNI the other night,
this is a slow burning blues to which John Morrison does some freaky
wails at the end of this song. Guess he was pretty stoned too.
4.
Kind Of A Girl-Tilted Windows 2009 I'm not very thrilled of the music
of this year, particularly of what the mags tout as the best but I'll go
with this mini super group of Cheap Trick, Fountains Of Wayne, Smashing
Pumpkins and Zack Hanson! I'm still working on the best of 2009 album
wise and finding it's taking a bit more work than expected.
5.
The Loner-Stephen Stills 1976 This actually got played on the old Q103
back in the day, long before my smarter half was born. This is a more
rocking cover of the Neil Young chestnut and I'm sure Mr. Young will
make a presence on the top ten before I go to bed. Stills' Columbia
period while uneven did pull out some good songs. One can't live on
Love The One Your With all the time.
6. Tonight Tonight
Tonight-Genesis 1986 Speaking of which, the new HOF inductees show up
with a top 30 hit from the overly commerical Invisible Touch album to
which I'm still waiting what TAD thought about that record. He didn't
care much for Duke, the 1980 album that started gave Genesis a second
chance. Never liked Duke all that much either come to think of it.
7.
Sample And Hold-Neil Young 1982 To which Neil Young beat Kanye West,
Lil Wayne and many more others of this shitty decade in Autotuning but
at that time he used a vicorder and it gave him a voice this side of
Pete Drake and Kraftwerk. While ppl continue to bitch about Trans being
a pile of crap, I actually still think it was a breath of fresh air
when he did Trans and still like it very much today. Actually got to
see Neil Young do his Trans concert on USA back around 1982 with Nils
Lofsgren, Bruce Palmer and Ralph Molina and it kinda funny to see Neil
and Nils chase each other around the stage talking computerese.
8.
Journal For Plague Lovers-Manic Street Preachers 2009 Title track from
the Manic's latest album and featuring words by Richey James who
vanished into thin air about 14 years ago. Their new album is very good
and may make my 10 best of the year but I sense that the melody of this
song recalls Spirit Of The Radio and Limelight from Rush. Somebody in
that band listens to Rush.
9. See The Light-Green Day 2009 I
didn't care much for their lastest album, it sounds like American Idiot
Part 2 and the production was overblown half the time but I do like this
finale off 21st Century Breakdown.
10. Sleigh Ride-Davie Allen
& The Arrows 2007 I don't listen to christmas music all that much
and the only two albums that I heard was Rotary Connection's Peace and
Fuzz For The Holidays, the latest Christmas offering from the dood who
gave us Blue's Theme way back in 1966. I plan on pulling out The
Ventures' Christmas Album before the 25th but this version from Mr Allen
is borderline avant garde and very noisy and I don't think the old
ladies on day shift would enjoy hearing this song. I remember a long
time ago putting together a Christmas music mix tape with songs from Bob
Marley, Foghat and the Dance Hall Crashers and the only song they
wanted to hear was The Singing Dogs' Jingle Bells. Today, ppl get
annoyed when they hear the Singing Dogs but you have to admit that it
took a lotta takes to get that right and I do smile a bit when I do hear
that. Let's face it, we're going get stuck hearing Jingle Bell Rock or
Rocking Around The Christmas Tree twice every half hour. I rather much
perfer a little fuzz for my holidays. Such as from Davie Allen.
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Stuck in my own fucking driveway.....*sigh*.
