Mother Nature did us no favors last weekend, Lake Delhi's dam failed and broke and now there is no Lake Delhi, only the Maquoketa River going through a mud spot. While the news station gave it all gloom and doom, the Wapsi at Anamosa crested at 23.9 feet a foot under the 2008 record and the Maquoketa River at Maquoketa city around 34 feet which ranked number one in highest crest. Thankfully the rains held off this weekend but the Grand Funk/Styx/Joan Jett show at Jones County in Monticello was canceled due to flooding concerns. Still while it could have been worse for Anamosa, the folks down river in Olin got flooded out for the second time in two years and finally there's some folks who had enough of living in a floodland. Yes, the Wapsi is a mighty beautiful river but I don't love it enough for it to love me enough to pay me a visit and leave behind a muddy mess after 10 inches of rain upstream.
Mark Prindle remains a great reviewer but ever since his supposedly soul mate wife left him after 15 years, he hasn't been much fun lately. Prindle raped all over the post death Hendrix albums and seemed to have a hard on for Nine To The Universe, that 1980 bottom of the barrel scraper of Hendrix jams and whatnot. I think I share his opinion that the Valleys Of Neptune isn't that great and remains a cash in from the Hendrix Estate. I like Hendrix just as much as the next person but Valleys Of Neptune is most certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel and although they claim there's still 10 years worth of Hendrix unreleased stuff to dish out, unless we really want to hear a half thought out version of Sunshine Of Your Love, think I'll stick with the originals and...ahem...Nine To The Universe. And I sure hope Mark Prindle will find that special somebody soon.
New Sheryl Crow? No thank you. Not a fan.
Plenty of music but only ten selections so a few are going have to be omitted till next week.
1. Old Man-Neil Young 1972 Dedicated to Ben Keith who died Monday at age 72. Out of all the musicians that ever worked with Neil Young, Ben Keith was his favorite to jam with, to create songs with. In concert Monday night, Neil dedicated this song to him. Keith also played steel guitar on Patsy Cline's I Fall To Pieces. In 1994 Ben Keith recorded his only known album, the Christmas themed Seven Gates, an all star album featuring Neil Young, Johnny Cash, J J Cale and many others.
2. Real Enough-Doug & The Slugs 1982 Goofballs from Canada that sounded a bit like Huey Lewis & The News and The E Street Band and Doug was Doug Bennett who may or may not have been the Producer on some of the albums from Hawkwind or Stiff Little Fingers. This got some airplay in 1982 on FM radio. I have the forty five somewhere in my collection. One of two albums that were recorded for RCA and later reissued via One Way Records.
3. Oh Yeah-Yello 1985 Kraut rock done disco style in the mid 80s, this band featured Boris Blank and the mysterious Deiter Meier and at first Mercury/Polygram wanted nothing to do with them in the US, so Elektra issued two of them, one was total nonsense and the second is their classic called Stella. However, this song didn't take it till it was used in a commercial and then the final scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off to which the defeated principal had to walk to the back of the bus and had to sit next to the freaky girl with the warm gummy bears in her pocket and runny nose to boot. Yuck.
4. Yesterday's Gone-Chad & Jeremy 1964 They weren't rock, nor they were all that much folk but rather middle of the road pop music and not a critics favorite. But they did have big hits with this song and Summer Song, which is one of the most prettiest songs of the 60s. Recorded for World Artists and then moved over to Columbia with mixed results. Found their best of in the dollar bins at Madison the other day and had a nice conversation with the dude who said they did a nice version of World Without Love to which I corrected him that was Peter and Gordon. Which isn't the same thing at all.
5. Chain Gang-Bobby Lee Springfield 1987 Rick's brother ha ha. But actually a rockabilly artist with a love of hillbilly music who recorded a one off for Epic in 1987 and even gets Eddie Arnold to introduce What's He Doing In My World but the guy wasn't all that great and Epic dropped him. Found the vinyl for a buck at the Madison Goodwill Store. There was a CD of this at Half Priced Books but really don't see the need to get that.
At this point, my computer took a shit so have to redo the last top five.
6. Tom Sawyer-Rush 1981 From Moving Pictures. You hear it on the radio all the time so why include it on a top ten. Cuz I lost the other choice and too tired to redo it all over. Thus, you get the hit.
7. Use Somebody-Kings Of Leon 2008 Watch out for bird poop. Band played at St. Louis last weekend and got pooped on by a irate pigeon. After three songs they walked off leaving a few pissed off people in the wake but they did get their refund back.
8. The Middle-Jimmy Eat World 2001 Band from Tempe and their best known hit. Originally known as Bleed American but changed over to Jimmy Eat World due to 9/11.
9. I'll Get You-The Beatles 1964
10. The Dujon Song-Gomez 1999 From an EP that was the bonus disc off their 2000 compilation of B sides, BBC recordings and alt takes. Sounds like a shorter version of Pink Floyd's Echoes.
Till next time folks, if the computer is willing to print my whole top ten and not just the first five.
Goodnight.
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