Andrew Gold passed away from a heart attack at age 59. Best known for the 1977 hit single Lonely Boy and playing with Graham Gouldmann in Wax UK in the mid 80s.
1. Rock Anthem For The Retarded Teenage Hipster Population-Smile 1994 Before we start I want to say that we are done...So begins the start of a forgotten grunge pop song from a band nobody really knew about outside of Tustin California. The album is called Maquee which came out on Headhunter/Cargo before Atlantic Records picked it up for a tax write off. Somewhere between the left of Mudhoney and the right of Melvins. When I worked at Relics the album got some instore play. I don't believe any videos were made of this song although you can find a 1995 performance at the Desert Sky Pavilion in Phoenix on a nice hot sunny day in September via You Tube.
2. World Gone Crazy-Doobie Brothers 2010 It's a different world when this song makes the top twenty country countdown on GAC rather than the rock charts but that's the way it is anymore. Yep The Doobies are still around, yes Tom Johnston still leads them and yes Pat Simmons does the other songs too and of course John McFee still hangs around. Album didn't exactly sell very many copies though.
3. Feeling Satisfied-Boston 1978 The ultimate garage band, all their recordings (well, most of them) came from Tom Scholtz's basement and featuring the late great Brad Delp doing the vocals. Scholtz always thought that his record label rushed this out too early but if they hadn't I'm sure he would have worked on it for another four years. They only have had five albums released and a couple greatest hits comps to boot. This song didn't chart as high as Don't Look Back but I do have a 45 promo of this in my collection somewhere. And Brad Delp is still badly missed.
4. Straight From The Heart-The Allman Brothers Band 1980-RIP David Frank Toler who sat in on drums on their Brothers Of The Road album LP and for a while they called a day while Greg did his own band and so did Dickie Betts. Toler plays on the I'm No Angel song. However the secret weapon of getting the Allman Brothers Band back together was in Betts' band, Warren Haynes.
5. Hey You-Bachman Turner Overdrive 1975 It was simple back then and BTO kept it simple. Three chords and the truth but while Four Wheel Drive was being poo pooed for recycling the same riffs that made the previous three sell many times over, I found that this record was my favorite. Really didn't bother me of hearing this song four or five times a day back then. But then again I was much more tolerant of the overplayed back then, never knowing that 36 years later the classic rock format hasn't changed at all since then.
6. I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore-The Young Rascals 1966 So Quit It........
7. Fool's Bargain-The Why Store 1996 Funny how when I don't play the stereo that I get certain songs inside my head all dang week. Like this particular song. They came from Muncie Indiana and made a couple of pretty good albums for MCA/Way Cool before disappearing. Best known for their only hit Lack Of Water which was tacked on the album at the tail end.
8. Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In Bed-Kinky Friedman 1973 From Sold American. Dude at Half Priced Books put some decent CDs in the 2 dollar bins today and while waiting to go to the dentist I decided to waste an hour. Somebody dumped some blues CDs as well but since I had most of them anyway. I suppose you can call this one country.
9. US Blues-The Grateful Dead 1974 I don't think this gets used much in the million of Dead best ofs out there but I think this was one of their better songs from the ill fated United Artists stint. But then again Dead Heads always have their favorites as well. So to speak.
10. Comforting Sounds-Mew 2003 This is prog rock in the Y2K age I guess. Kind of hard to peg these guys, Radiohead seems to be one source point, The Droves the other and neither band I have any use of. They also seem to like Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd to which this song owes it's 8 minute length from. But then again give me three chords and a simple melody and I'll be happy. And leave The Killers to the young ones out there.
5 comments:
Glad to hear your GF is in your life and you and her are making a life together. My hope for you is that she really hates snakes ;) My GF and I are getting married July 30. After 49 years of footloose and fancy free it is finally time to settle down and make a commitment.
I still listen to BTO once in a while. They sure were a breath of fresh air on the AM in '73. Hey You is great, and of course Let It Ride. Always liked Blue Collar too, and many others. I remember how awesome Not Fragile sounded when it came out. The production on that LP was really something back then. I read somewhere about Neil Young saying all the guitar players in Canada looked up to Randy Bachman back in the day, Neil included.
I would also like to submit Honeybucket by the Melvins for the underground grungy stuff category. I'll crank that one up after a rough day and then I'll feel better. Take care, Crabb.
Congrats on your engagement Starbro and all the best to y'all. I know the long distance relationship she didn't care much for. Of course it's been ages since I actually had somebody here more than once every five months. And no she's not into snakes unlike you know who ;)
We grew up with BTO with or without Randy in it although I know we're all sick of Takin Care Of Business or Let It Ride, Although Four Wheel Drive remains recycled, I still have a fondness of the title track, although it does recall Free Wheelin. Freeways is probably their weakest but call me crazy but I do like Street Action after all these years.
As for The Melvins, Houdini remains good fun. Perhaps some day I'll add a song from them. Cheers!
Crabby!: Nice Top 10. Enjoyed BTO & Boston, & the other more-off-the-wall stuff too...
Just a few thoughts here....
My folks just went to see the Doobies up in a casino in the boondocks in the Upper Peninsula. They said the show was pretty good. Inspired, I soon learned they'll be at a fair about 45 minutes to the west of me over the Labor Day weekend. Now, who would have thunk of seeing the Doobies for about a mere ten bucks a person? My girlfriend and I are seriously thinking of going.
Saw Boston in concert during their 1988 "reunion" tour supporting the Third Stage album-great show!
I just LOVE LOVE the Warren Haynes/Dickey Betts combo!
US Blues in one of my fav tunes from the Dead, along with Franklin's Tower.
hi Drew, Boston played up here around 2006 and really wished I could have gone seen them pending what would happen to Brad Delp the next year...Never knew about the Warren Haynes joining Dicky Betts band till I found the Pattern Disruptive LP for 50 cents at Zia's last year, the start of something great so to speak. And we did see the Doobies play here a few years ago and as always they put on a great show. Cheers.
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