Random thoughts
Scott Van Pelt is an annoyance. SportsCenter sucks if we have to listen to Van Pelt or John Anderson.
The
Madison bargain hunt has been postponed (what else is new?) till
later. Complications of getting days off and being short handed had
something to do with it plus the fucking weather for this weekend is
showers and thunderstorms both days. Wish we can have drought conditions
but every time I wish for that, we get more rain or storms. Hopefully,
we won't have to deal with floods this year since the snow melted
away. Let's pray we don't get the forty days and nights of rainstorms
that got us into the flood mess last year.
Counting Crows have
bid adieu to Geffen Records after 18 years. Guy Hands has resigned as
head huncho of EMI records. EMI has been in a big mess since Terra
Ferra bought them out. The major labels are such in a disarray. Warner
Music Group posted a big loss but still gave Edgar Brotman Jr a couple
million dollar bonus for doing a shit job. Seems like the American way
of life 2000, do a shit job and get a big bonus. See it did wonders for
AIG and Wall Street.
And there's a promise of a new Lizzy Williams album this year. Can't wait for that.
Finally,
got to eat at Hot Harry's Burritos on Tuesday. I think I perfer them
over Pancheros. At least they don't burn the steak like Pancheros but
then again I kinda turned away from Pancheros, I don't like the way they
mix everything up, I prefer my beans and rice and meat layered rather
than smashed together. Yeh, I know it all goes down the same hole but I
don't need to get grossed out.
And now the songs of the week.
1.
Super Natural-Everything 1998 Jam band that had a hit with Hootch.
Made a couple albums for Capricorn that went nowhere and then signed to
an offshoot of Sire Records. this track reminds me of One Fine Morning
by Lighthouse with terms of beat but that's where it all ends. This
album is easily found in the buck bins in what's left of the cd stores
in the state.
2. Helen Says-Hank 1995 Not Hank Jr, Sr, or the
3rd but a band from Boston that sounded a cross between Del Amitri and
the Gin Blossoms. I guess you can call it alternative rock and Joan
Jett was impressed enough to issued their first album on her Blackheart
label. I think alternative rock was the last gasp of good music, seems
like everything went downhill after Big Back Forty's Bested in 1997.
Reality shit killed the video star.
3. The Clowns Lead The
Band-Devonsquare 1991 Another clearance sale cd found, this band
started out as an New Age answer to Abba before switching over to a
Fleetwood Mac style sound on their second Atlantic platter Bye Bye Route
66, in fact Alana MacDonald sounds a bit like Stevie Nicks, though not
as clever or mystical. But I'm sure none of y'all out there knows about
this band, hell I don't even think I have readers anymore. Just
blogging to myself don't mind me.
4. Woodstock-Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young 1970 Hard to believe that this year will mark the 40th anniversary of 3 days of peace and love. And I'm sure that these guys
will play at the 40th anniversary if they all stay alive. Don't look
for MTV or VH1 to show this. It will cut into their reality shit and
nobody watches rock concerts anymore anyway.
5. Tropical Flesh
Mandala-Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians 1988 I still have yet to
find his new album so I thought I go back into the archives and play one
off his Globe Of Frogs album.
6. Must Have Been Crazy-Chicago
1979 Yeh Donnie Dacus was no Terry Kath but he did his best on the two
albums that he played on. If Hot Streets bombed, 13 crashed and so did
this failed single. Catchy as hell, it should have gotten up higher on
the charts than it did. Maybe it would have better luck had PC Moblee
sang it instead.
7. PT Nuts/Linus And Lucy-Pat Travers 2006 A
guitar reworking of the Peanuts classic song. You can't say that Pat
doesn't have a good sense of humor.
8. My Time Ain't Long-Canned
Heat 1970 The foretelling of the future of Al Wilson. Canned Heat was
never the same after Wilson hung himself.
9. Hang On Sloopy-The
Beau Brummels 1966 And for their effort of getting on Warner Brothers,
they got to do a covers album chosen by their label to further shame
them by calling it Beau Brummels 66. Some of the songs here are not too
bad but Warner Brothers didn't do them any favors by ordering them to
cover Mrs Brown You Got A Lovely Daughter or These Boots Were Made For
Walking. Good thing it was 2006, otherwise the Beaus may have forced to
do American Idol covers!
10. One In The Sun-Steve Gaines 1977
But wasn't released till ten years later but this song also appeared on
the Lynyrd Skynyrd Legend grab bag. It's too bad that Steve Gaines
wasn't given the ablitity to showcase more of his music for had Synyrd
continued with both Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines alive that there
would be more classics coming from them. Now the only Gary Rossington
and Rickey Medlocke remained from the early band but Medlocke left to
formed Blackfoot before returning to Skynyrd in 1997. However, Skynyrd
will have a new album out later in the year. Just so that you know.
...
And
the Chicago and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young can be called
Seastarr's Sis Picks Of The Week, to which Seastarr picks her favorite
song of the week. You can catch her over at Multiply at Yardbird's
Roost.
