Must be Wednesday, must be time for Crabby's top ten. I'm surprised my GF didn't make any comments about the Brooks & Dunn track last week.
1. I Know-Dionne Farris 1994 If I really thought about what passed for music and what gets played on radio and on my stereo I'd be wasting everybody's time and mine. It just music and sometimes I do like songs that are catchy and do get overplayed on radio. This was a giant hit for Dionne and then she disappeared forevermore. You could probably called this alternative rock but if you hear the rest of this album it's run of the mill R & B. Which is why you see her album in the dollar bins all around town. Fun fact: Randy Jackson was co executive producer. Yeah, the American Idol judge and not to be confused with Randy Jackson of Zebra. Which is rock and roll.
2. Head Like A Hole-Nine Inch Nails 1989 I'm not a big fan of Trent Reznor and most of his stuff is too off the wall for me but when I do want to hear some of this aggro techno industrial what you may call it, I put on Pretty Hate Machine to which that it will be reissued for the third time via Universal. Guess he had problems with Rykodisc when he reissued it for the second time. My copy is the Rykodisc version, found for 2 bucks in Mad City back in the summer.
3. Holy Water-Bad Company 1990 When I did the discography of Bad Company, I pretty much didn't take into account of the Brian Howe era but I kinda threw a thought or two on the albums that were out there, Fame And Fortune sucked, Dangerous Age showed promise and Holy Water was the best of the Howe years. Couldn't tell it apart from Foreigner but back then it sold decently. Wounded Bird actually reissued the CD as well as Here Comes Trouble, the followup but I found the vinyl in the dollar bins in my Madison Farewell bargain hunt and picked it up since I didn't think I would ever see it again. Fun fact number 2: got to see the Brian Howe led Bad Company when they were part of a tour with Damn Yankees.
4. Night Nurse-Gregory Isaacs 1982 RIP. Isaacs passed away from lung cancer at age 59 this week. This is his best known hit.
5. Hot And Nasty-Black Oak Arkansas 1973 For fun and games listen to the live version of this on Raunch & Roll, their biggest selling album at that time. Supposedly Jim Dandy was the inspiration of David Lee Roth and that could run good or bad. This was released at a single and the single 45 edit has a much louder mix. If you can find it.
6. I Hate To Be You On That Fateful Day-Bob Dylan 1962 The big CD of the week was Columbia reissuing The Whitmark Demos, a collection of songs that Bob recorded for ideas and thoughts for his albums but since he signed on with a music publisher, he could record his songs for ideas or for giving out to other singers and songwriters. Listening to these songs you can actually see how versatile Dylan really was. Also, Sony Music put out a box set of Bob's early albums in pristine mono. 9 Cds might be too much unless your a fanatic of BD, but there is a single cd of selected better known songs in mono for 10 bucks. Back then everything seemed to sound better in mono. Or least it did on the radio.
7. Pull Me Under-Dream Theater 1992
8. America-YES 1973
Progressive rock I can listen to at certain times. My best friend is a big YES fan and I do love Yes at times. But their mid 70's period started to reek of pretentiousness. I liked Close To The Edge, passed on Topographic Oceans and did find Relayer in the dollar section at Pawn America. Drew from Drew's Odds And Sods gives a much better review and more positive of it more than I can. I thought it was kinda noisy and disjointed although the jazzy Sound Chaser stood out better then the side long The Gates Of Delirium and failed single Soon which was basically the ending of that song. Nevertheless, I decided to pick instead their 1973 cover of Paul Simon's song which can be found as a bonus track on the remastered Fragile. Had the forty five of that song but it got cracked. Dream Theater on the other hand is prog rock of the 1990's and they have managed to have a devoted following but to be honest I haven't really gotten into these guys. Even after finding Images And Words in the dollar bins at the pawnshop, three weeks later I have yet to play that through. I tend to perfer Steven Wilson's Porcupine Tree or Spock's Beard with Neil Morse. Plus there seems to be a nasty divorce between drummer great Mike Portnoy and the rest of DT since he moved over to Sevendust another different band with a different sound.
9. You Came, You Saw, You Conquered-The Ronettes 1969 This didn't do very well on the charts, it didn't come out on Phillies but A & M around the time Ike & Tina's River Deep Mountain High. I guess it just didn't sound right for 1969 but more in line of 1964, when PS was making those Back To Mono recordings that sounded good on radio.
10. Balls To The Wall-Accept 1984 The story of my life and perhaps their best known song. They sounded a cross between AC/DC and Judas Priest to me but to you, I really don't know.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
The Randy Cliffs-Trixie's Trailer Sales
In this day and age it's hard to get into all of the music that is out there. If you include the original rock and roll era to today you have 6 decades to choose from and if you have a even bigger and open mind adding the stuff from the 20's to 40's and you may as well say goodbye to your spouse.
Upon my summer bargainhunting tour of Madison, I came across an CD in the dollar bins at Half Priced Books that caught my attention. Some band called The Randy Cliffs and the title was Trixie's Trailer Sales so I figured that this might be worth checking into. After playing this the first time on the way home, I did something that I rarely do, play the whole thing a second time and then a third. Good lord they don't make this kind of music anymore. 34 minutes of barband rock and roll, blessed by a bit of southern rock and The Bottle Rockets and driven by the punk and roll of the New York Dolls, The Stooges and even the Island era Mott The Hoople. So damn sloppy and so damn rocking that if I owned a record label or was influential like Bruce Springsteen I would have bugged the record company to put this out.
There's isn't much on The Randy Cliffs, they were formed in Madison around 2000 and put TTS out the tail end of 2003 and it got good reviews on the local papers but outside of Madison and Wisconsin nothing much was said about them. Starting out with the Southern Culture On The Skids sounding Trucker's Lullaby, it never lets up till the fadeout Rust Belt Town. Juke Joint reminds me of Mott's The Moon Upstairs in terms on how ragged it sounds, as if the wheels are ready to fall off a speeding 18 wheeler. On Fire, gives a wink to AM era Wilco, with the volume turned up to 10 and Whole Way Down, reminds me of The Sand Rubies/Sidewinders from Auntie Ramos Pool Hall. Ending with my favorite song Rust Belt Town which has a bit of Replacements and Uncle Tupelo with Johnny Thunders & Heartbreakers for rock fun.
On my fall trip to Madison I had to seek out and pick up a copy for my friend who is into the Bottle Rockets and I'm sure he won't be disappointed. I guess The Randy Cliffs broke up soon after the making of this album and sometimes do get back together for a reunion but the last time they did that was in 2009.
In annuals of rock after Kurt Cobain offed himself, there are three albums that stand out that not too many know about that qualify as rock and roll greatness. The first is Blue Mountain S/T album, the 2nd Big Back Forty Bested that came out in 1997 and the third is The Randy Cliffs TTS. I'm sure they can be found the dollar section of your local pawnshop if you look hard enough. It would be a dollar well spent in the spirit of rowdy rock n roll.
https://myspace.com/therandycliffs
Upon my summer bargainhunting tour of Madison, I came across an CD in the dollar bins at Half Priced Books that caught my attention. Some band called The Randy Cliffs and the title was Trixie's Trailer Sales so I figured that this might be worth checking into. After playing this the first time on the way home, I did something that I rarely do, play the whole thing a second time and then a third. Good lord they don't make this kind of music anymore. 34 minutes of barband rock and roll, blessed by a bit of southern rock and The Bottle Rockets and driven by the punk and roll of the New York Dolls, The Stooges and even the Island era Mott The Hoople. So damn sloppy and so damn rocking that if I owned a record label or was influential like Bruce Springsteen I would have bugged the record company to put this out.
There's isn't much on The Randy Cliffs, they were formed in Madison around 2000 and put TTS out the tail end of 2003 and it got good reviews on the local papers but outside of Madison and Wisconsin nothing much was said about them. Starting out with the Southern Culture On The Skids sounding Trucker's Lullaby, it never lets up till the fadeout Rust Belt Town. Juke Joint reminds me of Mott's The Moon Upstairs in terms on how ragged it sounds, as if the wheels are ready to fall off a speeding 18 wheeler. On Fire, gives a wink to AM era Wilco, with the volume turned up to 10 and Whole Way Down, reminds me of The Sand Rubies/Sidewinders from Auntie Ramos Pool Hall. Ending with my favorite song Rust Belt Town which has a bit of Replacements and Uncle Tupelo with Johnny Thunders & Heartbreakers for rock fun.
On my fall trip to Madison I had to seek out and pick up a copy for my friend who is into the Bottle Rockets and I'm sure he won't be disappointed. I guess The Randy Cliffs broke up soon after the making of this album and sometimes do get back together for a reunion but the last time they did that was in 2009.
In annuals of rock after Kurt Cobain offed himself, there are three albums that stand out that not too many know about that qualify as rock and roll greatness. The first is Blue Mountain S/T album, the 2nd Big Back Forty Bested that came out in 1997 and the third is The Randy Cliffs TTS. I'm sure they can be found the dollar section of your local pawnshop if you look hard enough. It would be a dollar well spent in the spirit of rowdy rock n roll.
https://myspace.com/therandycliffs
Packaging
It's been a very slow time in the printing department where I work at so for most of the month we have been shipped out to packaging, a place where you stand on your feet for 8 hours and in my case pack books, used plastic wrap on them and ship them down the line to which I get to hear Mike bitch, moan sigh and make fun of me playing Bejeweled when I have time off.
Needless to say we don't like it there, neither does the rest of the printing crowd. But as they say it pays the bills an keeps the paycheck coming although I have saved enough to warrant a leave of absence if need be. Why is it so bad you ask well the attitude is different. The people down there while friendly at times, the majority of them look down upon us. The pretty girls there who are seniors, Wendy in particular. Who always seems when I look up she always staring at our way. Stand there look pretty Wendy, that's what you do best most of the time. Basically not my type of woman. When Mike decides to take a day or two off, my assistant is Abdullah, a guy that always has a goofy smile and laughs when you talk to him. I do like him but can't understand a single word he says. Brooke is our senior or Norman. Or Val. Brooke tends to bitch about the little things, where's your badge at? No open containers. Such petty things. Val is the more nicer. Norman oversees the NAEP booklet distribution and we do go way back to when Rock and Bach music was open and he told me that he used to hang there for hours. I seem to recall him but back then I think he had a mullet. Ended up marrying Jim Hanson's daughter. They got divorced later. I ran into her at HP Books once and she remembered me, but I didn't know her. She didn't have much good things to say about their union together. Norm is the biggest Chargers fan in the building, even more than I am. I think he was so mad about them losing to the Rams that he didn't wear anything Chargers for four days. I haven't worn anything Chargers at all this season which is how bad they suck this year.
We hate the fact of being in Packaging of the set rules down there. 10 minute breaks, five minutes doing exercises that don't work and then having a early lunch at 7. God forbid if you don't get there on time or five minutes late but then again Jeff Pauley hasn't bothered me at all so far. But see the look on Cindy's face or Miss Congeniality known as Wendy after doing a walk around a building or take a dump and coming back to miss exercises. But so far they hasn't said a word but I do noticed them as they stare and probably complain to one another. No wonder my back feels funny, must be all that backstabbing that they do.
There's a temp lady named Tammy down there. She's a big girl, reminds me of my GF, kinda looks like her too except of the fact that Tammy smokes way too much and mine don't. Told her
that I do not date smokers. When you have to deal with the puffy puffers everytime you go out walking or go past a bar or get behind some asshole smoker in the car or SUV in front of you, you too would say no to smokers. So basically in a nutshell I told her nope I don't date workmates nor smokers and I have a GF, don't need anymore than one. Thank you and get back to work.
Bill, our senior had to pull books and by the end of the first day his back was killing him, by friday he took the day off. I'm sure he can't handle all that work and end up going home with a sore back, a pissed off attitude and boot feet. Could be worse, you could come home, with boot feet, sore back and smelling like burnt plastic. I hate to say this if this is the wave of future and we can't get any printing work soon, we'll be stuck over there the rest of the fucking year, to have to deal with Wendy and sit there looking pretty and doing nothing. Or hearing some other of them stressing to make rate and me telling them the way it is. We'll make it if it ain't some out of the stratosphere figure, or better yet, having to sign in with Tandy making a comment about not having a time sheet ready for him or why my badge don't have barcodes. I can really do without this kindergarden shit. Show me the work, let me do it and leave me alone. Then we'll all get along.
Needless to say we don't like it there, neither does the rest of the printing crowd. But as they say it pays the bills an keeps the paycheck coming although I have saved enough to warrant a leave of absence if need be. Why is it so bad you ask well the attitude is different. The people down there while friendly at times, the majority of them look down upon us. The pretty girls there who are seniors, Wendy in particular. Who always seems when I look up she always staring at our way. Stand there look pretty Wendy, that's what you do best most of the time. Basically not my type of woman. When Mike decides to take a day or two off, my assistant is Abdullah, a guy that always has a goofy smile and laughs when you talk to him. I do like him but can't understand a single word he says. Brooke is our senior or Norman. Or Val. Brooke tends to bitch about the little things, where's your badge at? No open containers. Such petty things. Val is the more nicer. Norman oversees the NAEP booklet distribution and we do go way back to when Rock and Bach music was open and he told me that he used to hang there for hours. I seem to recall him but back then I think he had a mullet. Ended up marrying Jim Hanson's daughter. They got divorced later. I ran into her at HP Books once and she remembered me, but I didn't know her. She didn't have much good things to say about their union together. Norm is the biggest Chargers fan in the building, even more than I am. I think he was so mad about them losing to the Rams that he didn't wear anything Chargers for four days. I haven't worn anything Chargers at all this season which is how bad they suck this year.
We hate the fact of being in Packaging of the set rules down there. 10 minute breaks, five minutes doing exercises that don't work and then having a early lunch at 7. God forbid if you don't get there on time or five minutes late but then again Jeff Pauley hasn't bothered me at all so far. But see the look on Cindy's face or Miss Congeniality known as Wendy after doing a walk around a building or take a dump and coming back to miss exercises. But so far they hasn't said a word but I do noticed them as they stare and probably complain to one another. No wonder my back feels funny, must be all that backstabbing that they do.
There's a temp lady named Tammy down there. She's a big girl, reminds me of my GF, kinda looks like her too except of the fact that Tammy smokes way too much and mine don't. Told her
that I do not date smokers. When you have to deal with the puffy puffers everytime you go out walking or go past a bar or get behind some asshole smoker in the car or SUV in front of you, you too would say no to smokers. So basically in a nutshell I told her nope I don't date workmates nor smokers and I have a GF, don't need anymore than one. Thank you and get back to work.
Bill, our senior had to pull books and by the end of the first day his back was killing him, by friday he took the day off. I'm sure he can't handle all that work and end up going home with a sore back, a pissed off attitude and boot feet. Could be worse, you could come home, with boot feet, sore back and smelling like burnt plastic. I hate to say this if this is the wave of future and we can't get any printing work soon, we'll be stuck over there the rest of the fucking year, to have to deal with Wendy and sit there looking pretty and doing nothing. Or hearing some other of them stressing to make rate and me telling them the way it is. We'll make it if it ain't some out of the stratosphere figure, or better yet, having to sign in with Tandy making a comment about not having a time sheet ready for him or why my badge don't have barcodes. I can really do without this kindergarden shit. Show me the work, let me do it and leave me alone. Then we'll all get along.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Reviews:Neil Young, Frampton, Brains, Rants.
Interesting facts this stat tracker is. I think me and TAD were trading barbs about the worthiness of it since we get about 30 views one night and the rest of the week is like a music store out in Baghdad Arizona or in Anamosa Iowa. I don't think I can reword this to the point that the folks at Pitchfork or Spin or Rolling Stone will ever take notice but I don't believe it will get me out of the bottom ten in the Blogspot ratings.
Say a certain word or place and it does get noticed I guess. Seemed we got high ratings on the Madison Bargain Hunt and hanging at Monona Terrance after sundown. Geez ya think mentioning Pawn America would get them a bigger business in the dollar cd bins.
On The Brains. One of my earliest blogs was about this great 80s band that made a great debut and a so so followup. One of the Stats told me of a website that actually gives a better of Electronic Eden than I did. http://funderglass.blogspot.com/2010/01/brains-electronic-eden.html
I wish to fuck that Andy McKie of the Universal Reissue Department would convince the bean counters at Universal to just release The Brains album, even on a Hip O Select basis for a limited time and I'll be happy to pick up a copy or two or ten. But they're too fucking busy of reissuing Elvis Costello or Motley Crud for the 10th time. People get tired of waiting for stuff to be released and have to rip a copy off an old album or cassette. I think we have tried to a email writing, a letter writing campaign but nothing ever materializes. Even Tom Gray offered to buy the masters back and put it out but UME gave a seven digit price for that and that fell through. This is the reason people fucking hate the major labels, they continue to fuck with music lovers years later. We do not need deluxe editions of the same old albums that keep popping out. Give the fans what they want. Even the Suicide Commandos managed to have their album reissued for a time on Mercury when Polygram was doing that. Fucking Universal Music only wants to give us the same old same old everytime out. So get with it Andy McKie and Jimmy Iovine, we're getting old here and may be dead before The Brains finally get their due. But then again Tom Gray is keeping music alive with the great Delta Moon but fans do want to know how he got there from here.
Ari Up passed away, she was the leader of the Gurrl band The Slits which made an 1979 album for Island/Antilles (reissued via Koch in 2000 thereabouts) and whose mother is married to Johnny Lydon. Cut, the album, was ahead of its time and pioneered the girl punk movement. Not for the faint of heart but you either was drawn to it or ran away screaming. Either way it got its message across.
For new music, I heard the new Foghat Last Train Home and sorry to say I didn't like it all that much. Problem was that Foghat covered a few of the songs in earlier albums and did better versions. What they do best and jam and boogie and 495 Boogie is the best song of the bunch. But they do a good cover of Savoy Brown Needle And Spoon and Eddie Kirkland provides vocal relief for Charlie Huhn. The new Kings Of Leon Come Around Sundown goes further into U2 territory and not a good sign. It does mirror Only By The Night but that album had better songs. Radioactive kinda reminds me of the good old days but then again you have Pickup Truck that sounds like Use Somebody Part Two. It should crack the Billboard Top 10 but then again it just doesn't have the staying power as OBTN. Elton John/Leon Russell The Union is actually quite listenable, Elton is in fine singing form and Leon seems be more awake then on his last 10 albums. Some of the songs are ruined by a whiny screaming America Idol wannabe gospel singer which kills Hey Arab and almost sinks Monkey Suit and if John Henry (T BONE) Burnett had something to do with that he oughta be bitchslapped. Or give us an unplugged without the Over The Top Gospel screamers, guess he didn't learn from the mistakes Bob Dylan did in the mid 80s. On a plus, the dueling pianos of Leon and Elton are a marvel at times and yeah, we got the ballad radio ready if they ever play it. Tell you one thing though you'll never hear Leon Russell this excited ever again. And speaking of Bob Dylan, The Best Of The Mono Recordings really do sound warm and expressive in that mono mix but not enough for me to spring for the whole 9 cd box set that Sony Music is betting that you want to get. In other words, The Best Of Bob Dylan in Mono with a few add ons and though I'll never warm up to John Wesley Harding as much as the fans do, I must say that this works pretty damn good in its own way.
Grades
Foghat-Last Train Home C+
Kings Of Leon-Come Around Sundown C+
Elton John/Leon Russell-The Union B+
Bob Dylan-Best Of The Mono Recordings A
More reviews.
Neil Young-Le Noise (Reprise) This might be his best of this millennium although I think Chrome Dreams 2 left a more lasting impression in the last decade. Noisy as hell and I'm still in the minority about having a rhythm section but this is best heard on vinyl. Still have issues with Daniel Lanois Productions but Neil hasn't written such great songs since perhaps Ragged Glory. Originally I gave it a C+ at first listen but it has crept up to a formidable A-
Jim Ed Brown & The Browns (Dot 1986) Believe the title, Jim Ed dominates on lead vocals, Maxine and Bonnie are merely background singers just above the Nashville Edition. Billy Strange produced this although it really doesn't differ from anything that came out of Nashville in the late 80s. Revisits The Old Lampliter and Pop A Top but it hardly got noticed. In fact I didn't know anything about this till I found this LP in the dollar bins. I guess back in the 80's MCA restarted up Dot Records and signed a few C & W artists (Porter Wagoner, Asleep At The Wheel, T Bone Burnett and John Hartford) but would shut it down a couple years later. This record isn't bad but if you really want to hear how The Browns were so great, find their 1960 Town And Country album (came out on a BMG Import for about a week) or Collector's Choice Best Of The RCA Years for a indication of how Maxine and Bonnie played a bigger role in the music rather than just background singers. B
Peter Frampton-Thank You Mr. Churchill (A & M 2010) Against all odds, Frampton put together a pretty damn good and hard rocking album of this year although the only track I heard off this album, the mellow Vaudeville Nanna & The Banjolele which I didn't care much for. Just in case Road To The Sun, I'm A Due You and Asleep At The Wheel is rock and roll and he learned a bit from being in The Herd and Humble Pie and of course Frampton Comes Alive which Peter can live off the royalties since somewhere in FM land Show Me The Way or Baby I Love Your Way is playing. I don't think Frampton gets enough credit, he can play guitar too. This record is his best since a certain live album to which everybody got sick of hearing. You won't have that problem with TYMC it is the essence of what rock used to be. A-
The Volebeats- In a year that also showcased a new Outrageous Cherry, Matthew Smith rejoins Jeff Oakes band to record more fun music of a cross between surf, country and Flaming Groovies. Best track is Me and You to which I downloaded as a free track from Amazon.com Rest of the record is not as good as their last album 2005's spooky and sad Like Her but the new album still is good garage country rock fun. B+
Say a certain word or place and it does get noticed I guess. Seemed we got high ratings on the Madison Bargain Hunt and hanging at Monona Terrance after sundown. Geez ya think mentioning Pawn America would get them a bigger business in the dollar cd bins.
On The Brains. One of my earliest blogs was about this great 80s band that made a great debut and a so so followup. One of the Stats told me of a website that actually gives a better of Electronic Eden than I did. http://funderglass.blogspot.com/2010/01/brains-electronic-eden.html
I wish to fuck that Andy McKie of the Universal Reissue Department would convince the bean counters at Universal to just release The Brains album, even on a Hip O Select basis for a limited time and I'll be happy to pick up a copy or two or ten. But they're too fucking busy of reissuing Elvis Costello or Motley Crud for the 10th time. People get tired of waiting for stuff to be released and have to rip a copy off an old album or cassette. I think we have tried to a email writing, a letter writing campaign but nothing ever materializes. Even Tom Gray offered to buy the masters back and put it out but UME gave a seven digit price for that and that fell through. This is the reason people fucking hate the major labels, they continue to fuck with music lovers years later. We do not need deluxe editions of the same old albums that keep popping out. Give the fans what they want. Even the Suicide Commandos managed to have their album reissued for a time on Mercury when Polygram was doing that. Fucking Universal Music only wants to give us the same old same old everytime out. So get with it Andy McKie and Jimmy Iovine, we're getting old here and may be dead before The Brains finally get their due. But then again Tom Gray is keeping music alive with the great Delta Moon but fans do want to know how he got there from here.
Ari Up passed away, she was the leader of the Gurrl band The Slits which made an 1979 album for Island/Antilles (reissued via Koch in 2000 thereabouts) and whose mother is married to Johnny Lydon. Cut, the album, was ahead of its time and pioneered the girl punk movement. Not for the faint of heart but you either was drawn to it or ran away screaming. Either way it got its message across.
For new music, I heard the new Foghat Last Train Home and sorry to say I didn't like it all that much. Problem was that Foghat covered a few of the songs in earlier albums and did better versions. What they do best and jam and boogie and 495 Boogie is the best song of the bunch. But they do a good cover of Savoy Brown Needle And Spoon and Eddie Kirkland provides vocal relief for Charlie Huhn. The new Kings Of Leon Come Around Sundown goes further into U2 territory and not a good sign. It does mirror Only By The Night but that album had better songs. Radioactive kinda reminds me of the good old days but then again you have Pickup Truck that sounds like Use Somebody Part Two. It should crack the Billboard Top 10 but then again it just doesn't have the staying power as OBTN. Elton John/Leon Russell The Union is actually quite listenable, Elton is in fine singing form and Leon seems be more awake then on his last 10 albums. Some of the songs are ruined by a whiny screaming America Idol wannabe gospel singer which kills Hey Arab and almost sinks Monkey Suit and if John Henry (T BONE) Burnett had something to do with that he oughta be bitchslapped. Or give us an unplugged without the Over The Top Gospel screamers, guess he didn't learn from the mistakes Bob Dylan did in the mid 80s. On a plus, the dueling pianos of Leon and Elton are a marvel at times and yeah, we got the ballad radio ready if they ever play it. Tell you one thing though you'll never hear Leon Russell this excited ever again. And speaking of Bob Dylan, The Best Of The Mono Recordings really do sound warm and expressive in that mono mix but not enough for me to spring for the whole 9 cd box set that Sony Music is betting that you want to get. In other words, The Best Of Bob Dylan in Mono with a few add ons and though I'll never warm up to John Wesley Harding as much as the fans do, I must say that this works pretty damn good in its own way.
Grades
Foghat-Last Train Home C+
Kings Of Leon-Come Around Sundown C+
Elton John/Leon Russell-The Union B+
Bob Dylan-Best Of The Mono Recordings A
More reviews.
Neil Young-Le Noise (Reprise) This might be his best of this millennium although I think Chrome Dreams 2 left a more lasting impression in the last decade. Noisy as hell and I'm still in the minority about having a rhythm section but this is best heard on vinyl. Still have issues with Daniel Lanois Productions but Neil hasn't written such great songs since perhaps Ragged Glory. Originally I gave it a C+ at first listen but it has crept up to a formidable A-
Jim Ed Brown & The Browns (Dot 1986) Believe the title, Jim Ed dominates on lead vocals, Maxine and Bonnie are merely background singers just above the Nashville Edition. Billy Strange produced this although it really doesn't differ from anything that came out of Nashville in the late 80s. Revisits The Old Lampliter and Pop A Top but it hardly got noticed. In fact I didn't know anything about this till I found this LP in the dollar bins. I guess back in the 80's MCA restarted up Dot Records and signed a few C & W artists (Porter Wagoner, Asleep At The Wheel, T Bone Burnett and John Hartford) but would shut it down a couple years later. This record isn't bad but if you really want to hear how The Browns were so great, find their 1960 Town And Country album (came out on a BMG Import for about a week) or Collector's Choice Best Of The RCA Years for a indication of how Maxine and Bonnie played a bigger role in the music rather than just background singers. B
Peter Frampton-Thank You Mr. Churchill (A & M 2010) Against all odds, Frampton put together a pretty damn good and hard rocking album of this year although the only track I heard off this album, the mellow Vaudeville Nanna & The Banjolele which I didn't care much for. Just in case Road To The Sun, I'm A Due You and Asleep At The Wheel is rock and roll and he learned a bit from being in The Herd and Humble Pie and of course Frampton Comes Alive which Peter can live off the royalties since somewhere in FM land Show Me The Way or Baby I Love Your Way is playing. I don't think Frampton gets enough credit, he can play guitar too. This record is his best since a certain live album to which everybody got sick of hearing. You won't have that problem with TYMC it is the essence of what rock used to be. A-
The Volebeats- In a year that also showcased a new Outrageous Cherry, Matthew Smith rejoins Jeff Oakes band to record more fun music of a cross between surf, country and Flaming Groovies. Best track is Me and You to which I downloaded as a free track from Amazon.com Rest of the record is not as good as their last album 2005's spooky and sad Like Her but the new album still is good garage country rock fun. B+
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Top Ten Of The Week-Here, There Everywhere
No shortage of finding things in the cutouts and in the pawnshops. Plus new music to contend with. Gotta feed the frenzy of my five favorite followers. You know who you are.
1. Bad Company-Bad Company 1974 Yeah, I heard the new version from Five Finger Death Punch and like Limp Bizkit deconstructing The Who's Behind Blue Eyes a few years ago makes this unlistenable. Wasn't a hit for Bad Company but classic rock radio plays it to death too.
2. Monkey Suit-Elton John & Leon Russell 2010 I'm sure most of you don't give a shit but when I heard that Sir Elton was making an album with Brother Leon I had to add it on my list of things to listen to. Actually The Union is pretty good, not that Elton has been making bad ones, I did enjoy The Captain And The Kid but Leon needed a good album since he's been putting out turds for the past two decades. Elton gets more soulful with age and least Leon sounds like he's awake this time out. John Henry Burnett production gets in the way sometimes and hasn't he learned from the Bob Dylan albums of the 80s not to use soul sisters screaming in the background? Good album but leave the soul sisters at the church next time T Bone.
3. Stupid Girl-Rolling Stones 1966 Even if they never put out another album The Stones have reminded us at times why they were known as The Greatest Rock and Roll Band Ever which is debatable since I grew up a hardcore Who fan. Eagle Rock has put out Ladies & Gentlemen...The Rolling Stones on DVD and blue ray and with Mick Taylor in tow, they did rock hard and often. I never considered getting Aftermath till hearing this song on XM radio in Arizona and it reminds me more of Sam The Sham then Muddy Waters. Which isn't a knock since I love Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs. Found this on DSD which adds a bit more clarity but since Dave Hassinger recorded everything in a bowling alley tends to date itself.
4. Bye Bye Love-Simon & Garfunkel 1970 Found this on gold disc at the pawnshop and this knocks even the re remaster out of the way. Bridge Over Troubled Water is a love hate album for me, some of the songs I like, some I don't and the title track I can take or leave. But when Paul and Art cover The Everly Brothers I do take notice. My favorite track off that album hands down.
5. 495 Boogie-Foghat 2010 For the past three months I have been getting emails from the Foghat site at Facebook to buy their blues based Last Train Home and kept throwing good reviews so finally I caved in and decided to check it out and just like I figured, I didn't like it much. It's one thing to cover the blues and they did it good when Lonesome Dave and Rod Price was around but Charlie Huhn doesn't have it. Bryan Bassett knows how to play guitar and did helped Molly Hatchet make one decent album before joining Foghat. We really don't need another cover of It Hurts Me Too or Feels So Bad, Dave sang it better. But what they should have done was make it a blues instrumental album, then that would have been something to hear. Last Train Home isn't a bad album but it's not something that's going to be in regular rotation on my player. Sorry guys.
6. Red Dirt Road-Brooks & Dunn 2003 My GF tells me that I don't listen to enough new country to which I tell her but dear new country sucks, well most of it anyway. I do tend to pull something out once in a while from Keith Urban or Love & Theft and Blackhawk's first album still remains on the shelf. Hard to fathom 20 years ago just about that B and D gave us that GD Boot Scoot Boogie which gives me nightmares of spending too much time at Desoda's and thinking that I was going to get lucky and going home disappointed. I am really not a big fan of B & D but thankfully they gotten away with that numbskull line dance number and gave us better songs. Red Dirt Road is one of the few songs that I do play from time to time and don't change the channel on KHAK which is rare. And I put this song up just to see if she's still reading the top ten like she says she does. Love ya too dear.
7. Temptation-Joan Armatrading 1985 Stolen from TAD's list of songs, I did buy this on 45 years ago but not sure if the FM stations played it all that much. Public Radio did. I think her biggest hit was Drop The Pilot but then again radio didn't play it all that much either.
8. Whole Way Down-The Randy Cliffs 2003 For a dollar CD this has been the most played this year. Something about sloppy barroom rock and roll always does that to me. They were from Madison or hung around there but by the time I found their classic Trixie's Trailer Sales they broke up and then reunited once again and broke up again. If Kings Of Leon were this sloppy good I'd be a fan for life too. That reminds me....I need to get the new Kings Of Leon CD.
9. Wives & Lovers-Jack Jones 1963 Another forgotten pop classic till I came across on a budget compliation called Jackpot! The Las Vegas Story which came out on Rhino years ago. Came with miniature dice to boot. To which I think this top ten reminds me of radio in the 60s. We played just about everything....except Bad Company by Five Finger Death Punch.
10. Transmission-Joy Division 1978 Sure Love Will Tear Us Apart is a classic but for good paranoid fun I perfer this little nifty number that Ian Curtis gave the world. Too damn bad he had to hang himself. Joy Division has had more best ofs than actual albums but Substance, the first one that Quincy Jones put out remains my go to when I want to hear Ian and company. As for New Order.....I have yet to buy their albums. Maybe someday.....
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1. Bad Company-Bad Company 1974 Yeah, I heard the new version from Five Finger Death Punch and like Limp Bizkit deconstructing The Who's Behind Blue Eyes a few years ago makes this unlistenable. Wasn't a hit for Bad Company but classic rock radio plays it to death too.
2. Monkey Suit-Elton John & Leon Russell 2010 I'm sure most of you don't give a shit but when I heard that Sir Elton was making an album with Brother Leon I had to add it on my list of things to listen to. Actually The Union is pretty good, not that Elton has been making bad ones, I did enjoy The Captain And The Kid but Leon needed a good album since he's been putting out turds for the past two decades. Elton gets more soulful with age and least Leon sounds like he's awake this time out. John Henry Burnett production gets in the way sometimes and hasn't he learned from the Bob Dylan albums of the 80s not to use soul sisters screaming in the background? Good album but leave the soul sisters at the church next time T Bone.
3. Stupid Girl-Rolling Stones 1966 Even if they never put out another album The Stones have reminded us at times why they were known as The Greatest Rock and Roll Band Ever which is debatable since I grew up a hardcore Who fan. Eagle Rock has put out Ladies & Gentlemen...The Rolling Stones on DVD and blue ray and with Mick Taylor in tow, they did rock hard and often. I never considered getting Aftermath till hearing this song on XM radio in Arizona and it reminds me more of Sam The Sham then Muddy Waters. Which isn't a knock since I love Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs. Found this on DSD which adds a bit more clarity but since Dave Hassinger recorded everything in a bowling alley tends to date itself.
4. Bye Bye Love-Simon & Garfunkel 1970 Found this on gold disc at the pawnshop and this knocks even the re remaster out of the way. Bridge Over Troubled Water is a love hate album for me, some of the songs I like, some I don't and the title track I can take or leave. But when Paul and Art cover The Everly Brothers I do take notice. My favorite track off that album hands down.
5. 495 Boogie-Foghat 2010 For the past three months I have been getting emails from the Foghat site at Facebook to buy their blues based Last Train Home and kept throwing good reviews so finally I caved in and decided to check it out and just like I figured, I didn't like it much. It's one thing to cover the blues and they did it good when Lonesome Dave and Rod Price was around but Charlie Huhn doesn't have it. Bryan Bassett knows how to play guitar and did helped Molly Hatchet make one decent album before joining Foghat. We really don't need another cover of It Hurts Me Too or Feels So Bad, Dave sang it better. But what they should have done was make it a blues instrumental album, then that would have been something to hear. Last Train Home isn't a bad album but it's not something that's going to be in regular rotation on my player. Sorry guys.
6. Red Dirt Road-Brooks & Dunn 2003 My GF tells me that I don't listen to enough new country to which I tell her but dear new country sucks, well most of it anyway. I do tend to pull something out once in a while from Keith Urban or Love & Theft and Blackhawk's first album still remains on the shelf. Hard to fathom 20 years ago just about that B and D gave us that GD Boot Scoot Boogie which gives me nightmares of spending too much time at Desoda's and thinking that I was going to get lucky and going home disappointed. I am really not a big fan of B & D but thankfully they gotten away with that numbskull line dance number and gave us better songs. Red Dirt Road is one of the few songs that I do play from time to time and don't change the channel on KHAK which is rare. And I put this song up just to see if she's still reading the top ten like she says she does. Love ya too dear.
7. Temptation-Joan Armatrading 1985 Stolen from TAD's list of songs, I did buy this on 45 years ago but not sure if the FM stations played it all that much. Public Radio did. I think her biggest hit was Drop The Pilot but then again radio didn't play it all that much either.
8. Whole Way Down-The Randy Cliffs 2003 For a dollar CD this has been the most played this year. Something about sloppy barroom rock and roll always does that to me. They were from Madison or hung around there but by the time I found their classic Trixie's Trailer Sales they broke up and then reunited once again and broke up again. If Kings Of Leon were this sloppy good I'd be a fan for life too. That reminds me....I need to get the new Kings Of Leon CD.
9. Wives & Lovers-Jack Jones 1963 Another forgotten pop classic till I came across on a budget compliation called Jackpot! The Las Vegas Story which came out on Rhino years ago. Came with miniature dice to boot. To which I think this top ten reminds me of radio in the 60s. We played just about everything....except Bad Company by Five Finger Death Punch.
10. Transmission-Joy Division 1978 Sure Love Will Tear Us Apart is a classic but for good paranoid fun I perfer this little nifty number that Ian Curtis gave the world. Too damn bad he had to hang himself. Joy Division has had more best ofs than actual albums but Substance, the first one that Quincy Jones put out remains my go to when I want to hear Ian and company. As for New Order.....I have yet to buy their albums. Maybe someday.....
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Davenport October Bargain Hunting Notes
Took the day off, went to Davenport to look for more things I didn't need.
Stopped in Lowden to visit Ben's grave. hard to believe he's been gone for over two years. He finally has a headstone and his picture on it. Has a nice view of Lowden.
Number of trains seen on Highway 30 to and from Davenport, Zero.
At the Moline Salvation Army, they had animal control in there trying to catch a runaway cat. I don't think they caught it, it may have ran out the door. But I did see Mr Pussycat darting around the area.
Walking on the biketrail on the Davenport side of the Mississippi, I saw something in the water drifting towards shore and it was a snake! Threw a nice boulder at it and watched it get knocked out for a bit before retreating back over the illinois side of the river.
The old Fuddruckers' is now a TGIF Friday's.
Mister Money in Moline suprised me with 50 cent cds and found a whole bunch of Ventures and Bobby Vee CDs. Im sure if I don't need them somebody out there will want them.
CO-OP Records in moline has the worst selection of 8 dollar cds. A lotta of old 90s crap bands that nobody cared about in the first place. Since i found a lotta cheap CDs at Mister Money I didn't see the need to go to CO OP in Davenport or the Moline FYE.
Went to Los Rodeo for mexican tonight and should have went to Cracker Barrell instead. They had a damn football game at the Brady Street Stadium and when I got done with supper, the game was over. Took about 20 minites to get the hell out of town.
Was treated to a beautfiul sunset along the Mississippi. Think I spent too much time at the Moline CO OP, was there a hard to believe two and half hours. And didn't find much for music at the Salvation Army. Somebody must have donated their collection that was in the flood, too much mold, mildew and yuck to consider them.
A fun trip, good weather, not too buggy and around 60 degrees but i did forget my damn jacket but had a long sleeved shirt on so didn't freeze. Would have been much more fun if I had my other half with me. Bargain hunts aren't much fun when the one you love isn't around to see them ;)
Stopped in Lowden to visit Ben's grave. hard to believe he's been gone for over two years. He finally has a headstone and his picture on it. Has a nice view of Lowden.
Number of trains seen on Highway 30 to and from Davenport, Zero.
At the Moline Salvation Army, they had animal control in there trying to catch a runaway cat. I don't think they caught it, it may have ran out the door. But I did see Mr Pussycat darting around the area.
Walking on the biketrail on the Davenport side of the Mississippi, I saw something in the water drifting towards shore and it was a snake! Threw a nice boulder at it and watched it get knocked out for a bit before retreating back over the illinois side of the river.
The old Fuddruckers' is now a TGIF Friday's.
Mister Money in Moline suprised me with 50 cent cds and found a whole bunch of Ventures and Bobby Vee CDs. Im sure if I don't need them somebody out there will want them.
CO-OP Records in moline has the worst selection of 8 dollar cds. A lotta of old 90s crap bands that nobody cared about in the first place. Since i found a lotta cheap CDs at Mister Money I didn't see the need to go to CO OP in Davenport or the Moline FYE.
Went to Los Rodeo for mexican tonight and should have went to Cracker Barrell instead. They had a damn football game at the Brady Street Stadium and when I got done with supper, the game was over. Took about 20 minites to get the hell out of town.
Was treated to a beautfiul sunset along the Mississippi. Think I spent too much time at the Moline CO OP, was there a hard to believe two and half hours. And didn't find much for music at the Salvation Army. Somebody must have donated their collection that was in the flood, too much mold, mildew and yuck to consider them.
A fun trip, good weather, not too buggy and around 60 degrees but i did forget my damn jacket but had a long sleeved shirt on so didn't freeze. Would have been much more fun if I had my other half with me. Bargain hunts aren't much fun when the one you love isn't around to see them ;)
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Top Ten Of The Week-My Version Of Classic Rock
Anything released after last week counts as my version of classic rock. Yours may vary.
1. Witchy Woman-The Eagles 1972 Dedicated to the toothless hag that frequents State Street and tried to pick a fight with me. There's a reason why your homeless witch. It's hard to take pictures when some toothless skank blows smoke in your face and tells her homeless friends to watch out for that crabb. I thought about driving deep in my pockets with all my change, throw it up and the air and say something hey folks, here's some change for your crack habit or smokes. Rock on.
2. I Will Dare-The Replacements 1984 While walking through Madison on State Street, I had some pasta at Noodles & Company and they actually played this song. Despite the evil voodoo hag bothering the working folk and tourists, it's a pretty happening place when the light comes up and the sun goes down. In fact when I was at Noodles & Company, I thought I seen Margaret Cho, getting an order of something, this woman was Oriental and she had tattoos all over her in spots that reminded me that it might have been Ms. Cho. She's supposed to do a comedy show in Madison on Thursday but I figured not to bother her. Who knows, it could have been Margaret's double for all I know.
3. God Knows I Love You-Solomon Burke 1970 By now you know that Burke died at age 70 of natural causes en-route to a show in Stockholm. I think I read that he had like 21 children, goodness we all know what he liked to do in his spare time. Better known for his hits on Atlantic this little number was his last single for Bell Records and produced by Mac Davis who co wrote this with Delaney Bramlett. Remember the days of the 10 45s for 2 dollars? They would sandwich two big hit 45s and the middle would stuff it with singles that didn't sell. This was one of the mystery 45's in a box collection that Grandma Ambrose brought me at around 1971. Grandma would have been 92 this year.
4. The Ballad Of Evermore-Led Zeppelin 1971 Going to Pawn America, that super pawnshop that opened up in the old Circuit City in Madison yielded some amazing cds that I found for a buck apiece and goodness I found plenty. They even had the remastered reissued of Led Zep IV or ZOSO and I really didn't need it but it was in like new shape and so I bought it. Funny how everytime I hear songs off that album on classic rock radio bores me but when I play the album in the car in its entirety it sounds better. And it's still an A plus album. Of course it helps Sandy Denny adds her vocals to this. That woman could sing.
5. Omaha-Moby Grape 1967 I didn't tell you but the find of last week was going to Goodwill and coming across a copy of Moby Grape's first album with the Don Stevenson middle finger picture for a dollar fifty. Of course the album was well played but side one was actually kinda listenable and I didn't see much scratches that would make the record skip but side 2 looked pretty beat. But it's the album cover which I would never see again in my lifetime so had to get it. The record was mono, so the introduction kinda loses its flash beginning from left to right speaker.
6. MTV-Deep Purple 2006 You gotta credit Ian Gillan for a dry sense of humor as he recounts a meeting with a classic rock radio station more interested in Smoke On The Water rather than Rapture Of The Deep, which was the last DP album. Pretty much says about the current affairs of FM radio today like it did four years ago.
7. Stargazing-Spectacle 1998 I'm sure nobody knows about this band so I'm wasting my time telling you about this lost classic from the 90s. This was the final stages of alternative rock before Limp Bizkit and the Telecomm Act of 1996 killed it off but Spectacle sounded a bit like Ride via Stone Roses with a bit of Brian Wilson thrown in for good measure. Came out on Island/Supreme just before Polygram got bought out by Universal and Spectacle went to the dollar bins soon after. Worth seeking if you have a open mind.
8. Rock On-David Essex 1973 On the way from Madison, I stopped at Mineral Point to look for the haunted Walker House that's down the hill from Downtown MP and this song was actually playing when I stopped and took some midnight pics hoping to find a ghost or shadow in the picture that I took. Too dark to see. For the adventurous, The Walker House is up for sale so if you're not afraid of ghosts or things that go bump in the night, here you go.
9. Kid Gloves-Rush 1984 Grace Under Pressure didn't get all that great reviews since it was following a bunch of classic Rush albums (Moving Pictures, Signals) and even my best friend whose the biggest Rush fan I known wasn't that crazy about it but I don't mind the new wave sound of this song. Or the album for that matter but it would get worse. Power Windows and Hold Your Fire anyone?
10. Buzz Buzz Buzz-The Primitives 1988 I suppose with these 10 songs this week I'd be fired from a classic rock station for the inclusion of a Deep Purple song that's not from Machine Head and throwing Solomon Burke and the Replacements as curves but rock and roll knows no era especially classic rock. But then again I think outside the concept more often than Clear Channel or Cumulus Radio and their shitty format. Alternative rock can be considered classic rock and in my world that's classic rock to me. I remember hearing this being played on the alt rock station in Phoenix back around 1990 when Rockaway Records was at the hopping Fiesta Village, which now sits empty for the past 11 years. And didn't know who did it till I found the cd in the buck bins at HP Books and now I so impressed I'm off the find the followup to this album. It rocks, it rolls and that's all you need to know.
1. Witchy Woman-The Eagles 1972 Dedicated to the toothless hag that frequents State Street and tried to pick a fight with me. There's a reason why your homeless witch. It's hard to take pictures when some toothless skank blows smoke in your face and tells her homeless friends to watch out for that crabb. I thought about driving deep in my pockets with all my change, throw it up and the air and say something hey folks, here's some change for your crack habit or smokes. Rock on.
2. I Will Dare-The Replacements 1984 While walking through Madison on State Street, I had some pasta at Noodles & Company and they actually played this song. Despite the evil voodoo hag bothering the working folk and tourists, it's a pretty happening place when the light comes up and the sun goes down. In fact when I was at Noodles & Company, I thought I seen Margaret Cho, getting an order of something, this woman was Oriental and she had tattoos all over her in spots that reminded me that it might have been Ms. Cho. She's supposed to do a comedy show in Madison on Thursday but I figured not to bother her. Who knows, it could have been Margaret's double for all I know.
3. God Knows I Love You-Solomon Burke 1970 By now you know that Burke died at age 70 of natural causes en-route to a show in Stockholm. I think I read that he had like 21 children, goodness we all know what he liked to do in his spare time. Better known for his hits on Atlantic this little number was his last single for Bell Records and produced by Mac Davis who co wrote this with Delaney Bramlett. Remember the days of the 10 45s for 2 dollars? They would sandwich two big hit 45s and the middle would stuff it with singles that didn't sell. This was one of the mystery 45's in a box collection that Grandma Ambrose brought me at around 1971. Grandma would have been 92 this year.
4. The Ballad Of Evermore-Led Zeppelin 1971 Going to Pawn America, that super pawnshop that opened up in the old Circuit City in Madison yielded some amazing cds that I found for a buck apiece and goodness I found plenty. They even had the remastered reissued of Led Zep IV or ZOSO and I really didn't need it but it was in like new shape and so I bought it. Funny how everytime I hear songs off that album on classic rock radio bores me but when I play the album in the car in its entirety it sounds better. And it's still an A plus album. Of course it helps Sandy Denny adds her vocals to this. That woman could sing.
5. Omaha-Moby Grape 1967 I didn't tell you but the find of last week was going to Goodwill and coming across a copy of Moby Grape's first album with the Don Stevenson middle finger picture for a dollar fifty. Of course the album was well played but side one was actually kinda listenable and I didn't see much scratches that would make the record skip but side 2 looked pretty beat. But it's the album cover which I would never see again in my lifetime so had to get it. The record was mono, so the introduction kinda loses its flash beginning from left to right speaker.
6. MTV-Deep Purple 2006 You gotta credit Ian Gillan for a dry sense of humor as he recounts a meeting with a classic rock radio station more interested in Smoke On The Water rather than Rapture Of The Deep, which was the last DP album. Pretty much says about the current affairs of FM radio today like it did four years ago.
7. Stargazing-Spectacle 1998 I'm sure nobody knows about this band so I'm wasting my time telling you about this lost classic from the 90s. This was the final stages of alternative rock before Limp Bizkit and the Telecomm Act of 1996 killed it off but Spectacle sounded a bit like Ride via Stone Roses with a bit of Brian Wilson thrown in for good measure. Came out on Island/Supreme just before Polygram got bought out by Universal and Spectacle went to the dollar bins soon after. Worth seeking if you have a open mind.
8. Rock On-David Essex 1973 On the way from Madison, I stopped at Mineral Point to look for the haunted Walker House that's down the hill from Downtown MP and this song was actually playing when I stopped and took some midnight pics hoping to find a ghost or shadow in the picture that I took. Too dark to see. For the adventurous, The Walker House is up for sale so if you're not afraid of ghosts or things that go bump in the night, here you go.
9. Kid Gloves-Rush 1984 Grace Under Pressure didn't get all that great reviews since it was following a bunch of classic Rush albums (Moving Pictures, Signals) and even my best friend whose the biggest Rush fan I known wasn't that crazy about it but I don't mind the new wave sound of this song. Or the album for that matter but it would get worse. Power Windows and Hold Your Fire anyone?
10. Buzz Buzz Buzz-The Primitives 1988 I suppose with these 10 songs this week I'd be fired from a classic rock station for the inclusion of a Deep Purple song that's not from Machine Head and throwing Solomon Burke and the Replacements as curves but rock and roll knows no era especially classic rock. But then again I think outside the concept more often than Clear Channel or Cumulus Radio and their shitty format. Alternative rock can be considered classic rock and in my world that's classic rock to me. I remember hearing this being played on the alt rock station in Phoenix back around 1990 when Rockaway Records was at the hopping Fiesta Village, which now sits empty for the past 11 years. And didn't know who did it till I found the cd in the buck bins at HP Books and now I so impressed I'm off the find the followup to this album. It rocks, it rolls and that's all you need to know.
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