2-3-10 Top Ten Of The Week-It's The Youngster's Music Now

A week hardly ever passes when Bob Lefsetz continues to broadcast that the CD is dead and the album format is on the way out and that nobody buys albums no more but they'll download a single. But no bitching about it because that's the wave the future.

Again, if that's the wave of the future, then I'm comitted to be stuck in the past till the day I die. But I also have given up on new music and the new artists that are on the radio or what public radio tauts. I cannot get into Beach House and don't even ask me about half the bands that SPIN or Rolling Stone reviews anymore. Don't ask me about the rappers, don't care don't like them case closed. Even No Depression has thrown up a list of bands that I don't have a clue of who they are.

It seems to me that at some point in one's life there is a cut off point. Mine was 2009. After that year and that sorryassed decade, I retired from reviewing new artists or bands that you should know about but don't care. The ones that I cared nobody listened to. Most you can find for a penny at Amazon. Plus three dollars shipping and handling.

The CD time is drawing to the end. Wal Mart has now rearranged their selection to one aisle of everything. Used to be fun seeing what I could find for music, now they hardly have anything anymore. Best Buy, shit. They still don't have the new Len Price 3. There are stuff coming out on the wish list. In April Killing Joke will return with their first album as the original lineup in over 25 years. Collector's Choice has reissued some quality Tommy James albums. And I'm sure Wounded Bird or American Beat will tempt us with mail order gotta have it. Outside of that, I don't care. Animal Collective is for the young generation. Lil Wayne for the Autotune heads. Like my Grandma Ambrose said, it's the youngster's music, it's not mine. And my Grandma was wise beyond her years too.

The Top Ten Of The Week.

1. Same Old Song & Dance-Aerosmith 1974 Aerosmith remains Steven Tyler although he's becoming more harder to work with and more harder to listen to as he channels his inner Mick Jagger. The other guys want to keep going but with other vocalists filling in (Paul Rodgers said no, Billy Idol and Lenny Kravitz are up next). Tyler was the only constant when Joe Perry went to do his project in the early 80s, and Brad Whitford hooked with Derek St Holmes for a one off before everybody came back for Done With Mirrors. But perhaps after forty years, their time has come and gone, even Tyler tried out for Led Zeppelin as we found out. That doesn't make sense either. Is the magic gone for Aerosmith, it looks that way and it's been that way since I Don't Want To Miss A Thing. Perhaps it's time to retire boys. Cause all we're getting from this soap opera is The SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE.

2. I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight-Russell Smith 1989 Former lead singer of The Amazing Rhythm Aces went for a country solo career in the late 80s but never did sell enough copies of his album to maintain a career although This Little Town was a fine album and did made a few critics best of 1989 albums. Camelot Music had a few copies of this CD in the 3 dollar bins but it has become a collector's item via Amazon. Smith later came up a country curio band called Run C & W which made two novelty albums for MCA but I never heard them.

3. Here Is Gone-Goo Goo Dolls 2002 Funny how this band of Replacement wannabes became a big selling outfit in the late 90s and good for them. I always been a Goo Goo Dolls fan since Superstar Car Wash and then followed them up to the crappy 2007 Glen Ballard farce Let Love In. Didn't buy 2002's Gutterflower till I saw it at the pawnshop for a couple bucks. This album had more in common with Boy Named Goo than Dizzy Up The Girl which became their biggest selling album. Gutterflower kinda flopped but it's too bad, it is a really good album and Robby sings twice as many songs as he did on Dizzy Up The Girl. Hard to believe that in the first three albums that it was Robby rather than Johnny doing the majority of the vocals. Supposely a new album is in the works.

4. Day Of The Locust-Bob Dylan 1971 From New Morning, one of the lesser known Bob songs out there. He caught a lotta flack for Self Portrait and I think I liked that one better than I did of New Morning.

5. Nite Klub-The Specials 1980 Terry Hall has rejoined this band and they will tour the US for the first time in 30 years but they still won't have Jerry Dammers on board. Basically, The Specials have been mostly hit and miss although their first and second album remain ska punk classics. Always thought that The English Beat was a bit more pop friendly than the hard reality punk ska of Nite Klub but gotta agree that the beer that they served at the local pub down here tasted like piss too. (It was Bud Light)

6. Dreams-The Allman Brothers 1969 Their first album defined that classic ABB sound more than Ramblin Man ever did and Dreams remains a very dreamy jazz like jam vibe to it.

7. Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up-Pink Floyd 1970 From Zabriskie Point. You know I really don't understand why The Flaming Lips would redo Dark Side Of The Moon but then again The Smitereens did Tommy as a tribute too so it's up to the listener to decide if it's worth the download or the money to get the tribute. Me I can live without the Flaming Lips. Too bad somebody out there won't do Ummagumma as a tribute album. Side Note: Come In No. 51 sounds like a alternative version of Careful With That Axe Eugene, although Come In sounds slower and more creepier.

8. I'm Alive-Mach Five 1998 Another band that made a one and one album for Island before the Polygram takeover by Universal, Mach Five sounded a lot like Del Amitri and why this song didn't become a hit remains a mystery to me. You can find their album in the dollar bins all across finer pawnshops or Amazon (plus 3 dollars shipping n handling). I think 1998 was the cut off date for good music cuz anything after 1998 either sucked or got done in by the CD Loudness issue. It's one thing to be good and loud, another to be LOUD AND TOO DISTORTED. Anyway I'm Alive got a good write up in Billboard and predicted it would have the potential to be a hit. Unfortunly the radio stations never played it. Except the the solitary car with the discman playing the song.

9. Hand Clapping-Link Wray 1959 This wasn't a hit, it was a forgotten album cut that managed to get on a compliaton called Rockabilly Stars Volume 2 that CBS put out in 1982. Kinda hard to believe that Link Wray was on a label that had Mitch Miller overseeing things. It's also hard to believe that Mitch Miller has outlived Link Wray too.

10. Baby, Don't You Do It-The Who 1972 B Side to Join Together and supposely availble on Greatest Hits Live (which is only availble as a download) and played on Beaker Street this weekend. This track was supposed to be on a followup album to Live At Leeds but got scrapped and parts of that concert made it to various compliations and box sets. But as far as I know this live track hasn't been availble in the US since the 45 single (remember forty fives Bob Lefsetz?) Which that Universal would quit fucking around with the continual greatest hits of The Who and give us something that we don't have or have wore out the grooves on our 45s. Side note: Polydor gave us a truincated version of said song. Nevertheless I'm sure this song will be longer than the Medley Pete and Roger are going to come up on Super Bowl Sunday. Can't wait to hear that one.