I guess I stuck a nerve on some things, so thought I'd share some with you before going into the songs of the week.
There
was this spambot name Luvlot in Mingles that flooded my mailbox with
winks and a chain letter and I took it to Twitter. And, the Twitter bot
known as Fart Robot got a hold of it. Check this.
RT @RSCrabb Too bad there's not a I fart in your direction email that I can send to you.. FART ROBOT APPROVES.
Thank You Fart Robot, lord knows I do that a lot (as my other half would know all too well)
Oh
those Carrie Underwood fans in Twitter. I made a comment about
Underwood being a diva and got two responses from a overzealous CU fan
on the subject of Carrie Underwood Vs Taylor Swift.
ny4carrie
@RSCrabb
Carrie Underwood is definitely not a diva. She is amazing to her fans
but doesn't brag about it like Taylor does. Taylor Swift remixes every
song to pop, so if anyone is a pop diva pretending to be country, it is
Taylor.
Hate to differ on you on that one Ny4Carrie but I think
Taylor does care a little bit more for her fans and doesn't come as Diva
like as Carrie seems to do. Anybody who writes with Max Martin on
their latest IS trying for the pop market. And Taylor did a good job on
SNL. Ms. Underwood would she do something like that on SNL? Probably
not unless making a bit of demands.
RIP Tom Brumley who was Buck Owen's steel guitar player on most of Buck's big recordings. He passed October 20th I think.
And
Nicole isn't in a jolly mood. 2 of the Michigan music stations she
listens to are now playing Christmas music. Um, too early for that.
Only after Thanksgiving and Christmas Day is when I play anything
Christmas and usually not the overplayed Vanessa Williams garbage.
Top ten of the week.
1.
There's No Other Way-Blur 1991 Oh yeah you can't go to a sports arena
without hearing Song 2 (The Woo Hoo Song) but once upon a time they were
in that shoegazer alt rock scene along with Stone Roses, Catherine
Wheel, Charlatans UK etc and really was seeking direction till
discovering The Kinks and redefining their music on Parklife, then later
discover Pavement and cheapen up their sound but this UK top ten is off
their Leisure album, which didn't sell very well in the US.
2.
Runaway-Love & Theft 2009 This is getting some airplay on the new
country charts and I have to say that this is pretty good considering
that it is new country and most new country is cookie cutter crap.
Thankfully somebody decided to keep the fiddles and banjo at the minimum
and focused more on those smooth harmonies. No relation to either the
Del Shannon nor Bon Jovi songs.
3. Mercury Blues-David Lindley
1981 Lindley, you know from Jackson Browne's Running On Empty and
earlier a band called Kadlieoscope (sic) that had a few albums out on
Epic in the late 60s but he managed to do three albums on his own for
Elektra/Asylum Records in the 80s. This is the final cd that was
brought at CDs Plus, a day before they closed up shop and never bothered
to tell nobody. So much for my next free cd up there.
4. Melt
The Ice Away-Budgie 1978 The first Budgie album that I ever got was
Impeckable, although they had been around for a while I had a friend
Leon D that told me to buy some Budgie if I needed a different type of
rock n roll. So I got this on cassette and later spent 25 bucks for a
Japenese copy at Relics. Still love this album a lot and to me has the
craziest album art ever. This song appeared on the Proctor and Bergman
video J Men Forever, which was shown quite a bit on Night Flight on USA
in the early 80s. I did managed to record the movie on audio. Would
love to get a DVD of J Men Forever.
5. Sexy Little
Thing-Chickenfoot 2009 This is actually pretty good. Sammy Hagar and
Mike Anthony, booted from Van Halen picks up Joe Satriani on guitar and
Chad Smith on drums and make a rock album that Van Halen should have
done had Eddie decided to take up Casino Keyboards (although 5150 was
pretty good in spots). Chickenfoot is destined to rock out more then do
limp ballads but at least they only put two on this album. Not sure if
this is the record of the year but it a surprise and rocks pretty damn
hard too.
6. Saved-Swans 1989 Goth rock from a band that seemed
out of place when they got signed to MCA/UNI records. With Mike Gira's
deadpanned vocals and Bill Laswell's production The Burning World was
supposed to break them but most cds and tapes got dumped in the dollar
bins. I do recall seeing a lotta cassettes of the Burning World for 50
cents but I think I only saw the CD one time and that was in Arizona at
Zia's and yes it's in my procession.
7. Lucy In the Skies With
Diamonds-William Shatner 1968 Say what you want about Bill's acting in
Star Trek as the OTT James Kirk but somebody at Decca Records thought it
would be a hoot to get him to recite songs in that manner with a cheesy
backing vocals. And somebody at Universal thought it would be a great
idea to reissue The Transformed Man on CD back in 2004. And fucking
Andy McKaie still won't reissue The Brains for frek's sake. Later
Shatner and Ben Folds would collerbrate on Has Been. Is it comedy or is
it serious music? Good question.
8. Woman With Soul-The Cruel
Sea 1993 Another forgotten band whose album made a bee line in US
bargain bins, this is actually pretty good Austrialian rock n soul and
they even have 4 instrumentals on this album to boot. They wouldn't get
away with that in this day in age.
9. New Shoes-Bus Boys 1982
Real hard rock and roll from a black band that made two albums for
Arista Records but never got their due. They are featured in 48 Hours
with The Boys Are Back In Town.
10. Blow Your Tuneless
Trumpet-The Mekons 1989 Dedicated to the Dublin Messiah. You know who
he is and what important band he plays in. If you don't, your not
paying attention, googie it then.
