Top Ten Of The Week-The Pig

 In the never ending cycle of the week, it must be time for another ten songs of note.  Thanks to Tad for the real comments, the rest were porn spam.  That feels great time to go take a shower.  And I am still deleting two more spam crap emails.

Another award winning radio station to tell you about. THE PIG. KPIG from Freedom California, the closest station to free form radio the way it used to be.  http://www.kpig.com/



But if you liked those overplayed classic oldies try this one. http://siouxcountyradio.com/ 

1.  Ready To Roll-Jet Black Stare 2008   Modern rock and roll blows today, I'm spending too much time arguing with the dumbass at Hot 101 in Steambath Arkansas about how Rush doesn't get any airplay anymore and his radio station plays real rock. Bullshit Jackson, nobody is going to be remember half of the crap you play anyway (Hinder anybody?).  I still give a shit about real rock, provided if I find real rock and real rock isn't played too often on the so called real rock stations anymore.  BTW hotshot radio programmer at Hot 101, Rush gets plenty of airplay on the classic rock radio.  New bands today are like new bands of the last decade, make one album and get bounced.  Jet Black Stare is one band that got hooked up to Island and made a one off album that didn't sell and they are quickly forgotten but thanked their label for the cool tattoos and new gear.  I still like In This Life in spots but seems to me all three of their uptempo numbers sound the same with little variation.  And they couldn't decide to go in a Saliva  mode or Jonas brothers or their more successful labelmates Hoobastank in the ballads department.  Probably would have been better in their favor had they got Howard Benson to produced instead of Gordini and Jeff Johnson but perhaps Island's budget wouldn't allowed that to happen.  Perhaps they thought they would have gotten to make a second album.  And they thought wrong.

2.  She's The One-The Buzzards 1982   This is where I give big thanks and kudos to Bob Dorr again for his Saturday Night Backtracks show which was better explained in my last blog.  The Buzzards were from Iowa City and got to make a 3 song 45 to which this was also featured in a Battle Of The Bands LP as well.  Lead singer Nick Strika actually continues to play as a solo artist and sometimes in the fan favorite band Dogs On Skis.


3.  Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution-The Last Poets 1970  Originally on a Douglas 3 8 track that I found at Goodwill years ago, The Last Poets are basically the first true rappers but they didn't use a beat box or stolen beats but a percussion player instead.  40 years after the fact, Omar Ben Hassen's raps remain very true and dead on. Don't shoot the messenger folks, this the actual title of rap. Don't like it, change the station.


 4.   Space Cowboy-Spinout 1991  More one album silly shit that you have to hear to believe.  But first, I wrote a review about another one album band by the name of Starclub and I gave it a one star review and called it a waste of time in Amazon and basically 1 out of 5 folk thought the review helped them.  Well to the four who disagreed with me, I'm still waiting for your opinion of that album and why I should rebuy it since it sucked in the first place.  At least Spinout had a certain charm that enables me to revisit it when I get a dead moment.  Spinout the band incorporates a bit of MC5 here, Steve Miller there (on this little tune to which lead singer screams out YOU SUCK at the beginning of the song) and makes Miller sound like Elvis Pop in the end.  Spinal Tap they're not, but after this album they would regroup under the name Acetone and made a couple albums of Shoegazer/Alt country  type music before the lead singer committed suicide in 2001 and Acetone came to a screeching halt.

5.  Hard Knocks-Joe Cocker 2012  Guess who's back with a new recording?  Hold it down y'all!  Cocker still has that rough edge vocals although on this album his producer reshaped it using Pro Tools.  Matt Serletic produced it and I think Ethan Johns did a better job getting more out of Joe on the Hymm To My Soul album of 2007. 

6.  17 Pine Avenue-New Riders Of The Purple Sage 2012   Holy fuck more hippie dippy shit from another hippy dippy band.   Hey kids, The New Riders always had a bad knock against them, they were Jerry Garcia's offshoot band when he got tired of Grateful Dead and they were acid country when John Dawson and David Nelson took over.  The Columbia albums started out great and got erratic as the year progressed (I liked Adventures Of Pamana Red and Powerglide, Gypsy Cowboy not much so) and the MCA albums were boring at best and by the time they got to A & M they had no clue or tunes to be considered a second listen.  Like any other bands, they reformed in 2005 and with Nelson and Buddy Cage from the original Columbia years still in tact, they enlisted Robert Hunter to write the lyrics and Where I Came From their 2009 album turned out to be their best since Jerry was alive and well.  Their new album 17 Pine Avenue continues the winning streak and although it's not as good as Where I Come From, it still beats most of their back catalog.  Credit Mike Falzarano (Former Hot Tuna player) production which combines Grateful Dead speedway boogie and Hot Tuna electric jamming as well.  Title track finally might be Robert Hunter's answer to The Grateful Dead's Truckin.  Worth seeking out if you can find the album.

7.  Knife's Edge-Emerson, Lake & Palmer 1971  I suppose I probably gave them too much kudos this month but ELP was better than I originally thought.  Their glory years were the first four albums and anything after that, you're on your own.   Since nobody had Brain Salad Surgery, I decided on the new ELP best of Come And See The Show and it steals good moments from that album and the first but nothing from Taukus (their loss) and Love Beach (everybody wins).

8.  Hollywood Swinging-Kool & The Gang 1974  Earworm of the week and you know how I feel about earworm music.  Love this song but not hearing it 6 hours straight in a row.  If my brains keeps this up, I'm going back to drinking Long Island Teas & Jack n Cokes.

9.  Show Me The Way-Peter Frampton 1975  Not the overplayed Comes Alive version, hell everybody is sick of hearing it but rather the original version from the Frampton album.  Life after Humble Pie and before Frampton Comes Alive, he was a journeyman cult favorite and I remember hearing this on the old G100 radio station (now the Cumulus owned FOX to which they'll play the live version but not the studio-fuck them).  Also the original Baby I Love Your Way is on Frampton as well.  Side note: Andy Bown plays bass on this album, who would later join the Status Quo.


10. It's Not Too Late-The Monkees 1996  I was to include this on last week's top ten in fitting tribute to the late great Davy Jones but lack of braincells prohibited me from doing so till it came back to me a few days later.  Which is why I need to start writing things down.  This is off the 1996 Justus album which all 4 Monkees got back to the studio for new songs and although it didn't sell, it was much better than the 1986 throwaway Pool It!  This concluded Justus, just Davy doing what he does best.  Sing love songs and tells you that it's not too late.  Till you're dead and gone.