Another week gone by and yet another invasion of the Goodwill stores
and didn't find anything to bring home although I did see a Carlton 45
of some guy that had arrangements by Barry Gordy before he started up
Motown. Be Bop A Lula by Gene Vincent, Jim Dandy by LaVern Baker and
The Impressions Greatest Hits which didn't looked too chewed up but it
smelled too much like mildew for me to buy it. I like going through
old records but sadly, too many of them got overplayed or got destroyed
by water in the basement. Anyway, the songs of the week are as follows.
1. 365 Rolling Stones (One for everyday in the year)-Andrew Oldham
Orchestra 1965 From Little Steven's Coolest Songs In The World Volume 6
probaly one of the more obscure tracks from the British Invasion Era
that featured some Rolling Stones in the background plus John McLaughlin
played guitar on this. Also Mike Leander plays piano, he'd go on to
produce pedofile in the making Gary Glitter's Rock n Roll Part 2. Don't
think this song ever made it stateside although Oldman did have two
singles for Parrot. But then again he was more famous for producing the
early Rolling Stones, before they started repeating themselves.
2. My Size-John Entwistle 1971 From Smash Your Head Against The
Wall, the best solo album that John ever put out. Rumour has it that
Jerry Shirley fell asleep on this song thus the messed up beat on the
first verse but nobody thought of it to be that bad so they left it in
the recording. Got this album for free at Pigeons Furntiure Store back
around the time it came out, but the record skipped. George Patrick was
giving them out for free, there were other albums of note, but don't
remember them.
3. Dear Lisa-The Townedgers 2008 Pawnshops For Olivia remains one
of the more requested albums on the Crabb show and although The
Townedger's website has been quiet of late, over here we're still
promoting the album. Somebody has to.
4. Lively Up Yourself-Bob Marley and The Wailers 1975 First Marley
album I've ever bought was the Live album and had it on squeaky
cassette. I also have the studio version somewhere but it's not as
intense as the live album. But then again I don't think Bob ever topped
that live album in terms of pure intensity.
5. Down On The Streets-The Stooges 1970 Sad to hear that Iggy and
the boys got their music gear stolen up in Montreal in a motel parking
lot. Geezus talk about lax security. Little Steven includes a track
off their last album on the Coolest Songs In The World 6. I never did
buy it, heard it wasn't that great.
6. Holiday-Bee Gees 1968 In terms of theory, I don't have much Bee
Gee product in the house although there are albums that I do enjoy
hearing. Mostly Mr. Natural, their forgotten 1974 effort which was sort
of a blueprint of better things to come. This is off their first album
which showed a heavy reliance on Sgt Pepper era Beatles trickery.
Polygram reissued this album as a budget priced CD, and then Reprise
replaced it with a much more expensive 2 cd set of outtakes and alt
takes.
7. Postcard-Widespread Panic 1993 This band's music reminds me of
driving on Route 66 from Kingman to Oatman. Lotta twists and turns and
tempos galore. I guess they replaced Phish as the ultimate Jam band
although a little jam band goes a long way. Especially when they do a
36 minite version of Godzilla.
8. Matriarch-Montrose 1975 Every time I think of Montrose, I think
back to the band days to which every time we did a Montrose song, the
hired hand numbnutz whammy bar specialist would always go 'A little
Montrose for you'. How bout a "little shut the fuk up douchebag".
Memories....anyway this comes off the first album that Ronnie did
without Sammy Hagar and the album got slammed in reviews. Even Ronnie
didn't like the production on this, should have kept Ted Templeman
around. Good song, so-so album.
9. Sex Type Thing-Stone Temple Pilots 1992 Half the fun of going to
a STP show is seeing if Scott Wieland can remember the words. The sign
of the true rock and roll star, just like remember old Numbnutz and "a
little Montrose for you"......................
10. Keep On Walking-Spanic Boys 1990 KUNI used to play this song a
lot. I forgot all bout this father/son duo till I found the album this
song was on at the pawnshop for a dollar. They made a few more albums
of varying degree and quality. Just another band that if you find their
stuff in the clarence section at HP Books, you can check them out.
Celeb marriages...they just don't last. Charlie Robison, the
chainsmoking singer songwriter is divorcing Emily Robison of the Dixie
Chicks after eight years and three children. Clash of interests they
call it.
In the latest efforts of karoke sing along with a dead icon, there
will be a Christmas album of Elvis and some of country's finest female
singers, which only can be of one reason; to get the odious Carrie
Underwood to sing along with Elvis. So where's Lisa Marie on that one?
Not around, she's got twins to be born later. Sure hope she don't name
them Knox Leon or Apple. But basically this falls under the catagory
of who cares? Lady across the street got one in the oven ready to pop
out to add to her miniclan of Dugger Wannabees. Some people just don't
stop at one or two, they have to have four or five.
On the saga of Brett Favre, I'm sure this will somewhat tarnish his
reputation at Green Bay but I'm sure he'll do fine as a Jet. But then
again, I had the same thoughts when Johnny Unitas became a Charger and
you can guess the rest of what happened. I think there's a bit of ego
that happened on this and had Brett bided his time and not gone "diva"
to the media he could have been the Packers QB for the regular season.
Aaron Rogers does have a lot to prove and he has shown to be injury
prone. Does this make the Packers a lesser team? Donno but it does make
the Jets a better team. Just not Super Bowl worthy that's all.
