One of the things about St Louis that made
things stand out was meeting Nicole aka Sassy and watching her buy more
cds at two of the three cd stores we went to. Since security searched
us at the Arch I figured may as well go up to the top of that and check
out the sights. Good view of Busch Stadium but barely could see The
Chain Of Rocks Bridge from there but I knew where it was at.
Outside
of the monsoon, nothing out of the ordinary stood out. And I had my
first choclate shake from Ben And Jerry's, that ice cream store in
University District. It was addicting.
On the Twitter side of
things, I finally gave up following Courtney Love's incoherent blabbing
about nothing and added Blake Shelton instead. He's much more funnier
than Courtney. Courtney's tweets are lots like a novel that goes
nowhere. Sure hope she gets over her hatred of Mandy Moore, Jim Barber,
Irving Azhoff and Ryan Adams had nothing to do with this Ms Love.
Peter
Criss has revealed that he had breast cancer and had it taken care of.
Contrary to rumour guys can get breast cancer too. I wonder if there
will be some snide comments from Mr. Tongue or Starboy on that. If they
do, I'll lose all respect for them. Mr Tongue better hope he don't get
cancer of his family jewels...
There's a big fucking mess we
call the Marion beautifacation project and appently the smug seven fucks
who supposed to be representing the people have decided that they going
to clean up the brownlands (the former APCO, Marion Iron,Coast to Coast
properties). Nothing like Jack Larson trying to decide what's right
for you never mind the fact that the fucking sewer systems suck and fail
half the time Marion gets a half foot of rain or when Indian Creek pays
you a visit. Other bright ideas include a fucking roundabout (i hate
this contraption) that will make a traffic jam much longer than before
and moving the busy 7th Avenue down a block to 6th Avenue. I like to
know how the fuck they're going to pull that one off. Seems like Jack
larson and that idiot mayor are looking out for their best interests
only. Either you with them or not. A Joke upon itself.
And
after having a very dry september, we're back in another wet fucking
month again. 7 Days into October and already 2 and half inches of rain.
And more coming tomorrow, lucky us. Pour some more water on this
drowning man.
The Top Ten Of The Week (any typos or errors feel free to add them to the comments)
1.
Beginning Of The End-Status Quo 2009 Actually this came out a couple
years earlier but it's finally seeing the light of day on this side of
the pond via Eagle Rock Music. The Quo has been around for 40 plus
years and never became more than cult artists in the US but in the UK
and Europe they are considered rock gods. In Search Of The Fourth Chord
is a better album than 2005's The Party Ain't Started Yet but their old
label Sanctuary never saw fit to issue it in the US. The Quo remain
the ultimate boogie kings but then again don't look for them to be
played on your radio station anytime soon. It takes away playing time
from Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac (and i do like that song but
something's wrong when you hear a 32 year old song on three radio
stations at the same time today.
2. Cold Gin-KISS 1974 No I
don't have the new KISS album Sonic Boom in my collection yet, Wally
World didn't have any copies as I went to press today and so far the
reviews of that new album is that it's their best record since side 4 of
KISS Alive 2. Guess Paul Stanley knows how to produce a better rock
record than Gene $immon$ but geezus Paul get off Ace and Peter's ass.
Everytime I turn around your bad mouthing on them again. Just take your
millions and shut the fuck up.
3. Real Fine Love-John Hiatt
1990 I didn't play a whole lot of CDs for Nicole in our venture around
St Louis, we settled to listen to KSHE 94.7 most of the time and perhaps
that was a mistake on my part but we did managed to hit some fine honky
tonk and reaggae on a left of the dial station. But I did play some
John Hiatt as a introduction to what I listen to and she seemed to like
it some. If I get sappy smack me but I think this song is how I feel
about her and what has things become. And if you think I'm getting
sappy folks, you know where the door is at.
4.
Hypnotized-Fleetwood Mac 1973 I'm sick of hearing Go Your Own Way which
has wore out its welcome this weekend. Again the fact is that had we
known that radio would be still playing the same songs of long ago, my
45 collection would be much less. However classic rock radio does play
this Bob Welch number and it may have been the best song Welch wrote for
the Mac. I tend to favor the lesser heard rather than the overplayed
to which my top tens of the week try to point out. Heard on KSHE right
before we got to Sonic, just in time to hear Bye Bye Bye by some boy
band of the late 90s.
5. Paingiver-Full Fathom Five 1988 This
band came from Iowa City and make a hell of a classic alt rock album
called 4AM on Link Records and FFF was IC's answer to Husker Du in terms
of buzzing guitar and intense bass and drums. 4AM supposely came out
on CD although I do have the vinyl album. This track appeared on the
Link Record compliaton All The Young Dudes.
6. Crash Course In
Brain Surgery-Budgie 1971 Originally a single on Kapp Records (!) and
later covered by Metallica on their Garage Days Re Revisited EP. Budgie
was a power metal trio with Burke Shelley beating Geddy Lee in terms of
that high falsetto vocals that could curdle milk. Meaning that Shelley
was on the music scene two years before Geddy.
7. That's The
Way The World Goes Around-Miranda Lambert 2009 She's back with a new
album and with the same 'don't fuck with me' attitude that makes her a
joy to listen to. This is a hard rock cover of a John Prine song and I
betcha the pussies at KHAK won't play this. But I will.
8.
Lucky Number-Lene Lovich 1979 Another album that came acrossed by
accident at Vintage Vinyl in St Louis, this is actually on the
Stiff/Epic label and not Rhino. I always got a kick out of her Doot
Doot Doot chorus. One of the real early music videos that I remember
the Midnight Special or Don Kirshner's Rock Concert played. Before MTV.
9.
(whatever happened to the) Great American Bubble Factory?-Drivin n
Cryin 2009 Plenty of new music to talk about, last time Kevn Kenney and
company made an album was about 12 years ago and now they are back and
louder than ever. I still believe in the bands that I grew up listening
to and follow and DnC are no exception. Just don't bore me to death.
10.
Black Gives Way To Blue-Alice In Chains 2009 And finally, say what you
will about AIC and how it pales compared to the long departed Layne
Staley who couldn't get over his demons and drug habit. But Jerry
Cantrell really shaped more of the songs and the vocals more than what
he's credited for. I could only take so much of Layne's screaming which
is why I don't bother with Facelift or their S/T album. William Duvall
is a good sub and has more soul in his vocals than Layne's dread. In
essenence, Cantrell wrote most of the songs and although this would
replace Dirt as the all time classic AIC it does hold it's own and in
some ways is better than Facelift but then again that's my opinion and
don't get your panties in a wad if you disagree. Side note: piano is
played by the one and only Elton John. Take that anyway you want to.
Coming
Friday night at 1st Street Live-Roger Clyne And The Arizona
Peacemakers. I have the night off, perhaps I'll go check them out. But
I won't be in the mood to party too much since I'm off to get my
prostate checked on.
Kudos to Jimmy Zack's Pizza for their
buffet customed to my liking. In marion i have two pizza joints I enjoy
the most, Jimmy Zack's and Naso's. October is national pizza month so
I'll be doing my share to promote eating pizza.
