If anybody would lives here knows, if you live next to a river in the
springtime, the river tends to claim back what it once theirs when we
get way too much rain and way too much water in the basement. Personal
to Bob Schneider of Olin, usually floods are typical in Olin and if you
live there, you'll going to have a few more friendly visits from the
Wapsi. You may want to consider cutting back on your beer and
cigarettes and get some flood insurance. I love the Wapsi as much as
anybody else, but enough to have it visit my basement in the springtime.
And if you see houses for sale for 7 thousand dollars in Independence
with a scenic river view, think twice before buying. Or keep your
valueables on the highest floor. Amazingly I managed to start listening
to some new tunes and revisit old reliables. The weather is nice today
but guess what, we got the same shit storms coming this weekend again.
Ridiclous.
1. Closer To Free-Bo Deans 1993 For a band that has been around for
over twenty years, this is the only thing they ever came close to
cracking the top ten and they gave this song to the Party Of Five TV
show but I find this song is fun to sing along with. And sometimes in
this day and age of trails and tribulations, we all need something to
sing along with.
2. I Go Crazy-Paul Davis 1978 This was number one on the local
charts for a whopping five weeks and actually for a MOR song it is
pretty catchy and pretty emotional. I know this song figured in my teen
years while walking home alone after a saturday night high school
dance. For such a mellow song, this was sung by one of more uglier
guys, long hair and a odd beard to boot. Davis would touch the top ten a
couple more times before concluding his career with 65 Love Affair,
which was played a lot at Super Skate. Another story for another time.
3. Drop The Gun-Kings Of The Sun 1990 Oh goodness I love this
band. They made two albums here and one that didn't make it but the
song that came off this album Full Frontal Attack, that album had the be
the most sloppiest but most rockingist album of that year. Made my
best record of the year of 1990.
4. Doctor Gee-Len Price 3 2007 Little Steven loves these guys
enough to put out a album of theirs last year. One good thing about the
Underground Garage Show is that Little Steven continues to find these
garage rock acts that play music as if 1966 never ended. No disco, no
grunge, no new wave, nada. These guys love the sounds of the early Who,
Creation, early Kinks, and Easybeats. Like The Stabilizers, LP3
celebrates their influences and they do it great. Too damn bad that
Best Buy hasn't supported the Wicked Cool artists like they did last
year. Last year we have four volumes of Coolest Songs In The World,
this year we still waiting for the next volume. I know I know, Mariah
Carey is gonna save rock n roll. Pfffffffft.
5. Golden Light-Georgia Satellites 1986 B side to Battleship
Chains, this song didn't much play on my player till I rediscovered it
the other night. And proves that Dan Baird is one of the great lost
songwriters of the era.
6. Beautiful Goodbye-Jennifer Hanson 2003 In a different era, this
song would have fitted on lite rock radio but she did have a sizable hit
with this on country radio. But her label screwed around with her and
six months she had this on and off the charts Capitol finally got around
putting her album out. Five years later, Hanson hasn't had a followup
and her new label Universal South is doing the same thing Capitol did,
lose momentium by not releasing anything except a video of a new song.
On a side note, Little Big Town has signed with Capitol after getting
their career back on track with two independent releases. Before that,
they made a album for Sony/Monument that died since the major label
didn't promote it. Some bands never learn. But who knows, Capitol got
lucky with Lady Antebellum's new album hitting number one on the contry
charts. We'll see where this goes.
7. Thank You Girl-The Beatles 1963 Over the weekend I did pull out
the VHS of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, a funny 1978 movie about 1964 era
Beatlemania and a bunch of girls who wanted to crash the Fab Four's
motel room. Who could forget Nancy Allen's getting a big O, while
holding Paul McCartney's bass when she got into the room. I have no
idea if this is out on DVD but I did get this on VHS a few years ago.
Makes me wish I could have been there with Beatlemania. Or good music
stations. Unlike today.
8. Outskirts-James McMurtry 1989 Jimmy Mack's latest is a classic
but we go back to when he was just starting out and John Mellencamp
helped him along the way by granting him studio time and his backing
band to boot. A tale about a guy trying to visit a love lost in a
icestorm. Hmm, he must have been living in Iowa eh?
9. The Devil's Right Hand-Steve Earle 1989 I seen that Universal
has reissued this as a overpriced two cd Definite Edition to which the
second cd has a 1996 show which I'm sure is great but as I keep telling
people, I get a little bit tired of rebuying definite albums only to see
them reissued with bonus tracks or a bonus cd or DVD. For 28 bucks,
I'll keep my original copy but then again if I come across this used
somewhere for 16, i'll then make the purchase. This is one great song
you can't mess up....unless you're Marah Carey or some American Idol
warbler.
10. The Rip-Portishead 2008 And finally, we end this on a strange
note. These guys sound like Kraftwerk, Neu!, Tangerine Dream and
Throbbing Gristle with Beth Gibbons sounding lots like Kate Bush. They
make the sound their very own and really their new album is a strange
listen, even to all the above mentioned songs, this sticks out like a
sore thumb. I think P3 is their most definite statement, but in the era
of the album non existant that's not saying a lot if people can't hear
or rather steal it online. This also doesn't mean that while P3 is
their best to date, like Throbbing Gristle or Sonic Youth, that I'm
going play it everyday. Especially when you're cleaning up the basement
three weeks in a row. For that I tend to pull out Yummy Yummy Yummy to
get me out of my fowl mood. This documents that I have listened to it
and made a note of it and like the song enough to include it. And to
let the buyer decide wether or not to check it out.
My top tens are never bad songs. If they were they wouldn't be included here.
Like Mariah Carey.
