Top Ten:Broke My Rocking Chair Feel Sorry For Me

Some thoughts of note.  If we not in the depression we sure are in the mist of a bigger recession.  Perhaps I'll try to change my currency over to Euros.

Who needs Viagra or Cilalis when you can eat Watermelon rinds and get the same stuff as the little blue pill with the same results as they say.  VIVA Watermelons Rinds, so long Bob don't need your stinkin drugs.
CiCi's, I enjoy those Pepperoni/Jalapenos Pizza combos although it gives me heartburn so after.
ZZ Top is moving over to American Recordings for their next recording.  I'm sure it'll be in a digipak. (it was)

Songs of the week of note.

1.  Midnight Highway-Southern Pacific 1988  Sort of a minor super group of Doobies, CCR and Pablo Cruise that had a few country hits but this song was as close as they got to the Doobie harmonies that made those songs worth singing to.  Hotshot singer Tim Goodman left to persuade a solo career before this song came out and was never heard from again.  Southern Pacific made another album before John McFee and Keith Kundsen returned to the Doobies and Stu Cook went back to CCR revisited.  This song would have felt at home on Mix 96.5 during their 80s weekend tribute thingys.

2.  Let The Music Do The Talking-Joe Perry Project 1980  From the first Joe Perry Project album of the same name, this record beats the hell out of Night In The Ruts or Rock In A Hard Place.  Of course, Joe Perry couldn't keep a band going himself, Ralph Morman leaving to join up with Savoy Brown soon afterward.  Aerosmith did a version of this song, with different lyrics on Done With Mirrors five years later.  Sloppier but just as fun.

3.  Maggie's Farm-Bob Dylan (from the Newport folk 1965 show)  The beginning of something different and something new to which the folk purists didn't get and booed ole Bobby when he went electric that year.  History in the making, but if you thought the Newport crowd was pissed, you should have heard the Brits when he went over there in 66.  Swim with the tide or get swept away.

4.  Club Mekon-The Mekons 1989  I know Jim Messer swears by Jon Langford and his projects but I only found The Mekons to be enjoyable on their 1989 classic Mekons Rock And Roll album.  Found this CD in the cutouts at Camelot when they were out in Westdale years ago.

5.  Tales Of Endurance (Parts 4,5 & 6)-Supergrass 2005  They do have a new album out but I had to check out Road To Rouen, their overlooked album of three years ago.  A bit more darker sound which alienated their fan base so they return to a more pop sound on Diamond Hoo Ha.  But I think like Road To Rouen better.  I like darker music, goes well with the events of this year.

6.  The Wrong Thing To Do-Mudcrutch 2008  Okay so I was interested to hear how this new album sounded on vinyl so I drove down to Real Records in Iowa City and plucked down 30 bucks for the effort and found that the vinyl does sound better than the cd that was in it.  Note that when you bought the album, they threw the CD in as a bonus, and it does beat the compressed version that Warner Brothers threw out earlier in the year.  Mudcrutch is the original band that Tom Petty was in before he formed the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch had Tom Leadon playing guitar and Petty playing bass.  Sounds like a Tom Petty band, only a bit more countrified and a bit more jammy.  Rest assured that Tom will return with The Heartbreakers very soon.

7.  Poetry Man-Queen Latifah 2007  Don't laugh, she's actually pretty good in this remake of the Phoebe Snow song you all know and love.  And actually, I find her quite attractive as well too.  I think I perfer a plus sized woman over those sticks you call actresses these days.  Kinda like reminding me of the long forgotten Big Fat Blonde song by The Rainmakers.  I doubt if the Queen would give me a second look if it ever happened.

8.  Jacob's Latter-Huey Lewis And The News 1986  Dedicated to the Muckrakers and their top ten Huey Lewis songs.  Yup Bruce Hornsby wrote a great song and Huey did a fine job covering it.  It's actually better than the one that Hornsby put on his album a year later. Does The Muckrakers ever look at our top ten?!?

9. Darkness Darkness-Mott The Hoople 1972  Wicked cover of the Youngbloods version.  Apparently, Guy Stevens recorded this song and many others off Brain Capers in one take.  I should include more Mott songs in my top tens but you know I only have 10 spots and usually by then, I have to wait till next week, if I remember to.  That's the problem of getting old, the short term memory ain't worth a shit anymore.

10. Space Wrangler-Widespread Panic 1988 Perhaps the last longstanding jam band that's still around, which is twenty years now.  Life after the Grateful Dead for a jam head has been painful. Yeh, Phish did their best then they disbanded but Widespread continued to keep the jams going.  I passed on their latest album due to digipak issues but this album was recommended to me by Bob Lefsetz who calls this track their best.  I'm sure I'll catch up more on the Widespread Panic backcatalog later on but for now this song will do.
There's other I would have liked to include but you'll have to wait till next week to see what's on the list.
Finally, I broke another fucking bolt on my rocking recliner.  Jeezus they don't make rocker recliners worth a shit anymore. In the two years I have had it, I broken three of them damn bolts.  How can I jam to my tunes when I don't have  a decent rocker to rock to?!?  I don't need another reminder of how this year has sucked.

Comments from friends:

Lizzy Williams: I LOVE Maggie's Farm. So funny about your rocking chair. :)

Diggy Kat:  Speaking of top 10s, you had mentioned Ned's Atomic Dustbin in one and i FINALLY got round to listening to them! lol so far on first listen they're OK for me =)

i had completely forgotten about hearing about them until you brought that up, thank you!