My Last Top Ten Of The Week
That said, welcome to reality. My take on the Iran contest is that A-Jad, for better or worse proabably still would have won the election but with about 52 percent of the vote. But then if Obama is the Bush that AJad complains about, then A-Jad is the Dick Cheney of Iran. Pot, kettle black eh. Although A-Jad is better looking than the death warmed over Cheney. The general feeling of Irianians is that most of them do want a workable relationship with the US but unfortunly the US had a dictator named the Shah in there and Iranians, well most of the government heads there have been pissed off of the fact that the US supported the Shah even though his politics were worst then the Ayatollah and A Jad. It's a no win situtaion for the US, even if Mosavi would have won the election, he too was part of the islamic revolution 30 years ago and he too did take part in many of those Death to America rallys that we all seen so much of. That shit is more upstaged than Jerry Springer and the WWE put together. They cry when we don't help but if we do help we then get accused of meddling into their affairs. It's called opinion assholes and we have the freedom to do that, unlike the Iran folk who get whacked upside the head with batons or get shot at. If A Jad did win with 64 percent of the vote then the minority who protested all week are very vocal indeed. But it won't change a thing regardless due to the Ayatollah and the Revolutory Guard much in control. The major difference between now and 1979 is that everybody hated the Shah and everybody loved Ayatollah Khomeini despite his backward thinking ways. So much for him and so that for that. Basically we got a much bigger pain in the ass and that's Kim Jong Ill. Should have voted for McCain and Palin so they would have wiped him off the map with a couple nukes.
I'm not sure if the American Way has worked very well either. Greed seems to be business as usual in Wall Street and if the Republicant's are still bitching about Obama, they can still go have affairs such as that Nevada Republican Dickhead and Mark Sanford, Mr I Dont Want A Stimilus Package so I'll take it to South America and see my mistress and then goes in front of the camera just like Jimmy Swaggart and do that act. What a fucking hypocrite. Mr High And Mighty got caught poking somebody in a different country. I'm sure FOX news will have something to justify for his actions or have another excuse to show Ann Coulter and her adam apple jabberjawing with her right wing rhetoric which is no different than A Jad and his rhetoric. Same bullshit different religion.
And here in our very own state, The coach for Aplington/Parkersburg who guided the team to the title last year after a F5 tornado almost wiped Parkersburg off the map is shot and killed by some halfwit who vandalized a home and Cedar Falls and goes on a high speed chase which ended when a deer sacificed his life to take out this douchebag hits the car. Dumbass goes to the hospital for observation and the hospital doesn't notify the police that he was released. Next day, Douchebag Mark No Pecker Becker shoots the coach in the head and is arrested. Thank you Covenient Medical in Cedar Falls for your wonderful judgement. Problem of the world is that these assholes get caught but then get let go cuz of stupidity or techinicallites and then tragedy comes out. Wonderful world we live in. Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life here, especially in the government sector or FOX news.
After six and half years of commenting on the music side of things and putting together a top ten listing of music on my player, I have decided that this is my final top ten for a while. I am amazed myself of even how long I have stayed with this, long after everybody else moved on to other things. The past month without having my own car and looking at each and every new release and having to deal with crappy digipak albums, it got to the point that this wasn't as much fun as it was when I first started out and had something to say. Since it's summer, people would rather do other things than read a blog from a unknown blogger whose been in the shadows for seven years. But in the seven years of doing top tens of the week, I also seen the merger of BMG and Sony Music that caused great damage with their copy protected crap of 2005 which blew up in their face which cause the great migration to downloading on the net. Which also led to the closing of a lot of music stores (Wherehouse Music, CD Warehouse, Relics, Tower, Sam Goody/Musicland, Rockaway, Virgin Megastore and lots more) and CD sales went into the toilet to the point that even pawnshops CD collections got thinned out. Instead of boasting of our collection of songs, I was documenting the end of music as I know it and the countless banter from downloaders of MP3s even getting on my case of even buying cds or albums. This is what I do best kiddies, the thrill of going to music stores and finding something cool to listen to. You don't get that from downloading and true it may free up lots of room in your house, you still don't get the thrill of opening up a new vinyl record or popping a cd of an album you didn't think existed on CD.
So basically the top ten meant that I gave you ten suggestions from the archives and if you did your homework well, even you could make up your ten best of the week. I think I gave y'all some suggestions out there and with my reasons. I think I gave y'all plenty of resourses to choose from. Your job: seek them out, you have the net and you have the music stores (or thrift stores).
Now go.
1. Vavoom: Ted The Mechanic-Deep Purple 1996 People said that Deep Purple was dead once Richie Blackmore left after The Battle Rages On and they were wrong. In some ways Steve Morse added a bit more guitar work to the band on Purpendicular, their comeback album of 1996. And it did get some airplay believe it or not before Newt Gingerich's wonderful Telecom Act of 1996 killed off radio as we used to enjoy listening to. Purple continues to rock on although Ian Paice remains the only connection to the original lineup (That would be Kentucky Woman/Hush era Purple).
2. Hell Driver-UFO 2009 And people also said that UFO was washed up when Michael Schneiker left too but they too found a guitar virtuoso in Vinnie Moore whose been a part of UFO since You Are Here in 2003. UFO has gone more bluesy in their wake since Moore joined up. You gotta admire a band forty years on still coming up with new albums and new music and not redoing K Tel versions of their classic rock hits. However, their label just declared bankruptcy last month and how long SPV remains in business remains to be seen. This is the first UFO album since the 1985 hair metal spoof Missdemenor that Pete Way has not been involved with. We wish him well.
3. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is-Chicago Transit Authority 1970 Overplayed it is but I always that piano introduction that Robert Lamm does before going into the song. I also heard rumours that Lamm have been jamming with Peter Cetera off and on but don't expect Mr. Next Time I Fall In Love to rejoin Chicago anytime soon. Fun fact, Chicago wanted to be known as the CTA before the real Chicago CTA said no and threatened them bodily harm if they didn't. So they became Chicago and trademarked that.
4. Listen To The Flower People-Spinal Tap 2009 I have no idea why bands return to make albums to redo them in the first place rather to make money on the subject. The Tappers, as I called them made this rockamockery in 1984 called Spinal Tap, a metal version of The Rutles and it's one of the all time great rockmocks ever made. They also made a spoof album but the fun fact was that it was a great album. What made it work was that Rob Reiner co wrote some of the funny lyrics. Anyway the Tappers are back with a remake of their first album called Back From The Dead and it's a step up from Break Like The Wind. They do a reggae version of this song. You can probably live without this album too.
5. Girls Like Me-Bonnie Hayes 1982 This still remains the lost classic of the girl bands of the early 80s and surprised that Wounded Bird found it and reissued it. If your record store has a copy of this, let me know where this store is at so I can visit it.
6. Only Love Can Break A Heart-Neil Young 1971 For all his hits and misses, Neil Young has always managed to stay on the cutting edge of music for most of his forty plus years of rock and roll. For some reason he didn't include this on his Decade album but did on his Greatest Hits. I have seen his big Archives Volume 1 on Blu Ray. Gawd, that would make a very expensive door stop.
7. Stranger-The Black Lips 2007 Garage rock in this decade, recorded in front of a Mexican audience which has to be heard to be believed. The Lips along with Radio Moscow have been the best of the garage rockers that I have heard too.
8. Middle Of Hell-Queensryche 2009 Geez in seven years of compiling the list I have got to check the name of this band before I write them down. Can't seem to spell them right at all. Their new album is called American Soldier and it's their best in years. Better than the Operation Mindcrime 2 followup. If my ex GF Isabella taught me anything, it would be that this band actually made some good albums. Just like Rush, you have to get used to them first.
9. We Play Rock And Roll-Five Men Electrical Band 1972 Forever known as the guys who did Signs, this band had some nice string of hits up in their native Canada. After all these years, they finally have their very own best of released in the US and I haven't seen it but I did pony up some bucks to get their Absolutely Right best of that came out on Canada Polydor ten years ago. Personal to TAD, yeah I remember those hits you mentioned, I remember good radio when we had good radio.
10. Remember Me I'm Gone-Motorhead 1984
Finally, I guess this is as good as putting together a final piece to the puzzle that has been a top ten of the week. B Side to Dancing On Your Grave, Roadrunner Records added this as a bonus track to Another Perfect Day, their one off with Brian Robertson as guitarist.
Final passings to Ed McMahon who passed at age 86, the perfect sidekick and perfect pitchman for Budweiser (Budweiser is the king of beers, but you knew that). And to Farrah Fawcett, who in 1977 was every teenager boy's favorite poster girl and had the hairdo that most of the girls in high school had. Dead of cancer at age 62.
Final thoughts, I'm sick of that Will I AM video of Forever Young for Pepsi. It wasn't that good in the first place. Yo yo yo, you suck hows that? Black Eye Peas suck too.
Gotta get back to packing and taking the emptys back to City Carton and the spray the fucking earwigs bugs (the mini A-Jads as i call them). See y'all when I get back.
RIP Sky Saxon, from the Seeds (Pushin Too Hard, Mr. Farmer, Can't Seem To Make You Mine).
RIP Michael Jackson (Thriller, Off The Wall, Jackson Five)
when you get back, let's do some talking about working on that song together for the Vufcup cd.
have fun!!! =D
