I can't decide to get either the Stereo or Mono box set of The Beatles
Remastered CDs which will be the final hoorah for the CD if you listen
to Bob Lefsetz and the other naysayers. Or just wait and just get the
cds as they come out week by week. I'm afraid they will be in those
wonderful digipaks that make your Beatles CDs look like the albums that
got played to death. Full of scratches. We got tunes up the arse so
let's see what the top ten will be like this week.
1. Come
Together-The Beatles 1969 I'm certain that we will never see the likes
of The Beatles again since the major labels only care about flavors of
the hour and not into developing bands for the long term. Now in my
lifetime, I never worshipped The Fab Four(R) like a lotta folk out there
but I do play their songs from time to time. Im not sure that the
sales of the remasters will likely get people to the music stores and
start buying again but it seems like the music of The Beatles still have
that timeless magic that harks back to the days of me and Russ riding
our bikes up and down 10th Ave and going to Jeff Kewley's house since
Jeff's brother had the coolest record collection. I don't think Jeff's
brother was heavily into The Beatles but Jeff did buy Abbey Road to give
as a birthday gift. Ah memories.
2. Wildest Dreams-Saga 1986
Band had a major hit with On The Loose and a few hit and miss singles
before moving over to Atlantic for a one and done album. To which I
found the album but used to have the CD.
3. Surrender To Your
Kings-The Amboy Dukes 1967 Best known for having Ted (Mad Dog) Nugent,
The Amboy Dukes came from the Detroit rock and roll scene of the late
60s and made some heavy duty rock n roll. They also had a excellent
vocalist in John Drake and later Rusty Day but the Dukes lineup was
always revolving. Appently Nugent was a teetodler and didn't do drugs
and booted the druggies out of the band. When inducted into the Detroit
RnR Hall Of Fame, the original Dukes did managed to take the stage one
last time although they didn't play. Seems that the other Dukes didn't
know how to play Wang Dang Sweet Pootang.
4. Breather-Chapterhouse 1991 Shoegazer alt rock from a UK Band that nobody in the US knew about then and now.
5.
Needle Down-Super 400 2009 New song from the new album from a band
that made a debut for Island and then went back to the independents for a
time. Super 400 plays some of that stoner 60s type of rock and roll,
just like our very own Radio Moscow does, but only Super 400's latest is
better than the latest from Radio Moscow. In fact I played Brain Waves
from RM one last time and decided it wasn't for me and traded it in.
I'm sure Parker don't care too much, even though Radio Moscow is one of
My Space friends, they dont read the top ten otherwise they would have
commented.
6. Janis, Jeanie & George Harrison-Redd Kross
1987 One of Rodney Bingenheimer's fave bands, this is taken from what
is considered their best album Neurotica although I perfer their 1991
Third Eye album for Atlantic. Punk rock eh? They also like The
Cowsills too. Go figure on that.
7. Ego-Elton John 1978 Back
in our days, we didn't have Itunes or MP3, we had these 7 inch circles
called 45s and that's where we got our music. Elton John did a few
singles that didn't make it to any album (till later when Universal
Island redid EJ's albums and added bonus tracks) such as this forgotten
top 50 single that was left off A Simple Man, one of the lesser Elton
John albums. But I did find a remastered reissued of Simple Man and
this was one of 5 (Count em) bonus tracks of forgotten singles and b
sides, to which are still better than anything off A Simple Man.
8.
This Time-INXS 1986 Certainly What You Need was the breakthrough hit
but this was the first single taken off Listen Like Thieves. Inxs gets
raked over the coals by halfwit critics who still live in Mommy and
Daddy's basement but I never gotten tired of them myself.
9.
Resigned-Blur 1993 They were never big in America till they did Song 2
(The woo who song) and the original thought was that they were trying to
do Pavement but upon further listening to their Modern Life Is Rubbish
album that it had more indee noise than Pavement. Perhaps Pavement was
listening to Modern Life Is Rubbish while making their Crooked Rain
Crooked Rain album that came out around that time. Blur recently has
been aping the Radiohead influence moniker it seems but I perfer their
Parklife period over the S/T or the yucky Think Tank or even Gorillaz.
10.
Train Running Low On Soul Coal-XTC 1984 The original indee art rockers
that came from Britian, XTC has always made smart rock as we call it
and this did get some airplay on KUNI in the mid 80s and I did buy the
album. It sounded much better back then.
