I guess our last top ten didn't win any new converts over. Well, guess
we won't win any newbies over this on this ten best of the week. Looks
like the Mulitpy ratings are much better than the top ten followers over
here. But if we pulled the plug here, then the unknowns come out to
email and keep the Top Ten going. So be it.
The rainy season
came way too early this year with four straight days of rain over the
weekend. I am not a fan of rain, not now not ever. Going through two
historic floods in 15 years will do that to you and pity the dumbass who
built his house along the English River outside of Kalona. Yeh, I love
the Wapsi and the Red Cedar but not enough to have the river love me
back to pay me a visit. We are praying that this spring will not be as
bad as it was last year. I rather not see another historic flood ever
in this lifetime again.
The Chrome Horse Saloon makes it's grand
opening on Friday the 13th with the next night Doug Spinler and the
merry gang we call 5 of Hearts will play the next night. They have
taken over the Dillon's building and forced the 3rd Street Live move
down to First Avenue whereas they are known as First Avenue Live. Maybe
I'll pay Doug and company a visit one of these years but really can't
take the drummer and his disco drums. Real music should be play on real
instruments, not Casio Drums. Which leads us into the top ten of the
week.
1. Mamma Let Him Play-Doucette 1978 The CD if you still
have a copy is worth about 75 bucks on EBAY. I used to have it but
traded it in long time ago and should at least made a copy of the title
track. Nothing else on that album is as good and as rocking as this
song. Jerry Doucette made another album for Mushroom USA records, The
Deuce Is Loose to which negative reviews and a smartass critic called it
the Douche Is Loose. I did find a VG copy vinyl album of this for a
buck. Sure beats paying 80 bucks for it used at Amazon. Fun fact, the
reissue came from K Tel records when K Tel was resurrected from the dead
in the mid 90s but is now dead again. Blame Obama on that Rush
Limburger.
2. Perfect Skin-Lloyd Cole 1984 Some things get
better with each listen and some become more forgettible as the years go
by and I'm thinking that it's the latter with Lloyd Cole. This track
got some airplay on KUNI back in the 80s garage rock era and his Geffen
debut Rattlesnakes was his best record and remains so. But I chose to
keep his best of that Captiol put out in 1989, after acquiring the
masters from Geffen. But I donno, Cole remains a acquired taste at best
and perhaps Robyn Hitchcock is a better choice. Not for everybody.
3.
Chinese Rocks-The Heartbreakers 1977 The Johnny Thunders led
Heartbreakers not Tom Petty, this band was the offshoot of the New York
Dolls but with a more rock and roll attitude and not so much punk.
There's a early version of this with original bass player Richard Hell
on Hell's overview CD Spurts-The Richard Hell Story, but the best known
version is done by The Ramones. Punk and roll at it's best but Thunders
and company does such a looseknit version of this, you'd think they're
about ready to trip over their guitars and drums.
4. Cruel
World-Don Hollinger 1967 See blog before this one for comment about
Don. This came from a scratchy ATCO 45 that we won at a Waterloo Drive
In around 1968. This was the B side but it was one of my favorite 45s.
I'd like to find a better copy of a 45 but I don't even known ATCO even
put out a stock copy of this song and the only 45 on EBAY they want 40
bucks for it. My record looks very rough but it does play VG on the
turntable.
5. Circumstances-Rush 1979 B side to Spirit Of
Radio, also B Side to The Trees to which I've never seen the 45 of
that. Didn't care much for the live version that came out on Snakes And
Ladders Live but I think the studio version I can take better now than
30 years ago. Perhaps when I go see 5 Of Hearts, think I'll ask Doug
Spinler if they know it ;-)
And watch them throw me out of the bar on that one.
6.
Middle Cyclone-Neko Case 2009 A weird album from Neko, has it's good
moments such as this title track to which I had to hear again while
driving to work. But I still think her best moments are still on the
New Pornographers' albums. Even the reviews have been mixed. But I
think this record is better than the new U2. And I wish U2 would stop
reminding us that THEY ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT BAND IN YOUR LIFE cuz
they're not in my life. Unless you're The Who. And they're not.
7.
Decision Or Collision-Z Top 1989 Or Got me Under Pressure Part 2 cuz
it's sounds the same as that song. No wonder they named the album this
track come from Recycler. Cuz most of the songs sound recycled from
other ZZ Top albums. A start of the long decline in sales of ZZ Top
albums and the last studio album for Warner Brothers.
8. I Will
Dare-The Replacements 1984 From their sloppy classic Let It Be, The
Replacements were alternative rock's darlings of this time. But they
didn't call this alternative rock, I think they called it the Neo Garage
movement. But didn't they call The Strokes emergence the new Neo
Garage movement too? Hell, I call it rock and roll. Public and College
radio played the hell out of Let It Be in the mid 80s and is regarded
as one of the top 10 best albums of the 80s.
9. What You're
Missing-Chicago 1982 They were on the wane and this song only managed
to make it as high as number 82 on the Billboard Chart in 1983 but I
remember this song since I bought the 45 at Camelot Records at Westdale
Mall aka the Mall Of Death. Credit or blame David Foster for their big
comeback on with big hits such as Love Me Tomorrow and Hard To Say I'm
Sorry. I bought Chicago 16 when it came out and thought it sucked on
the majority of the album which includes their big hits. Only two good
songs was on this 45 (b side Rescue You) I thought which meant I traded
the album in for a couple albums that I don't remember. I hated David
Foster simply of the fact that he turned one of the best horn bands out
there to a 2nd rate keyboard band and paved the way for Peter Cetera to
turn into Goopy ballad singer with the crapfest Solitaire/Solitude in
1985. But Cetera wasn't always the goopy crappy ballad singer, he made a
helluva debut solo album in 1981. David Foster, we hate you, you even
made The Tubes sound like crap too. And that's why you're being
punished by the powers that be and having spoil brats for your
offspring. And while we're at it, your reality show sucks.
10.
Juvenile-The Black Lips 2007 Finally, this generation's answer to 60's
Pebbles. They recorded a live album in Tiujana Mexico and it might be
the 40 year answer live record to MC5's Kick Out The Jams. Appently the
crowd had one of those mariaschi spanish bands honking all over the
record and the liner notes claim that hookers would dance naked on the
stage doing naughty things and I guess you had to be there to see this.
Supposely, The Black Lips lost a few of their instruments and drums
trying to get the hell out of Mexico before the drug cartel came calling
but there just might be a bit of fibbing there. Wonder if they got a
DVD to this show ;-)
Congrats to Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams for
tying the knot. This means we won't have the usual five albums a year
from Ryan anymore but perhaps they're make great music together.
Diggy
Kat, my good friend, long lost brother and many things great has put
together a downloadable CD of 19 bands that he believes that have made
an impact on the independent music scene and I'm honored to say that he
has picked a track off The Townedger's Pawnshops For Olivia for
inclusion. Thanks to him and Brown Dog Radio, The Townedgers have been
getting some great PR from net sources. But also this is your chance to
hear other great bands with their own great music. Support independent
music and support your local starving artist. For more info, DECKQ
explains it all.
Hello everyone!
Im honored to announce, just
put up today for a free download is the release of the compilation cd!
(The link is below this message) Compiled by a fellow artist "Vufcup" it
features yours truly and a bunch of local and far off independent bands
that contributed to it. Entitled "Songs That Made An Impact" thats
exactly what it is because we know these tracks will have a postitive
and memoriable impact on the listeners. Its such a variety (punk, rock,
metal, electronic, etc) so there is definitely something for everybody!
These independent artists all willingly contributed for your listening
pleasure as a free download. Im honored to be featured with these
talented bands.
This cd is apart of you, your world and your generation so get the free copy!!!
.:Support the independent movement:.
=Track List=
1. "Sittin on the Sun" by The Artful Dodger
2. "Now" by The Atomic Squirrels
3. "Exhumed" by Black Chapel
4. "Lemmings" by Darcy
5. "Down in Mexico" by Death At Ten Paces
6. "Silver Bullet Vampire Hunter" by DECKQ
7. "Deal" by Flamingos by The Yard
8. "Rebel (Without A Cause)" by Malfunktion
9. "Clear" by Nacosta
10. "Coffin Dodgers" by Obliterated
11. "Gay Solo" by The Rarities
12. "Prelude" by Sindarin
13. "Caffeine and Nicotine (Special edit)" by Sky Keegan
14. "Son Of A Hero" by Sound Mind
15. "Wake Up" by Spartacus
16. "Beautiful Intentions (Demo)" by Stephanie Andreus
17. "I Wonder" by The Townedgers
18. "Dont Cut, Baby" by Vufcup
19. "Home" by Wasted Days
