Up Yours Boo Berry-10 Scary Songs That Sucks

 I guess this is fitting for the end of the month subject of Schlocky songs.  This comes from the Phoenix New Times article about the 10 worst songs of 2011 (so far).  Christina Caldwell wrote and compile this since I haven't heard most of these so called songs.  Dig them and BTW......BOO!

(the link was removed but we saved the list of Quacky Crap Songs) 

LMFAO - "Party Rock Anthem" 

It seems like simple, mind numbing fun now, but I have no doubt that in 15 years, this will be the song that people listen to ironically at late 2000s-themed parties. They'll wear clothes from American Apparel, glasses that do nothing to protect from the sun or improve sight, and reminisce about how silly this shit was. I hope I'm wrong; with any luck it'll just be forgotten. 

Design the Skyline - "Surrounded by Silence"

True, I don't have the taste for metalcore, but this is asinine, faux rage from the suburbs done by skinny white kids, so weak that even I could kick their asses. Good job, Victory Records. Are you proud of yourselves? It seems like these dudes were scooped up for their "look" and were told the whole music part will come in time.  (Crabby sez:  Ugh! The worst piece of crap music, screamo, emo, bad Linkin Part earnest harmonies, and Autotuner to boot, personal to Victory Records congratulations you just passed Curb Records as the worst sucky label ever.)

Brian McFadden - "Just the Way You Are (Drunk At the Bar)"

Formerly of Australian boy band Westlife, Brian McFadden is well versed in how to get his date rape on. Classy!

Bruno Mars - "The Lazy Song" 

This is a song about jerking off and sleeping in a Snuggie all day. So rather than staying home and doing that, Bruno Mars wrote a song about it, and we have to listen to it. (Hey, has he caught that "Grenade" yet?) 

Rebecca Black - "Friday" 

Viral video turned virus. 

Kim Kardashian - "Jam (Turn it Up)"

If you couldn't get enough of this shrieking harpy on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," now you can put her nasal drone right on your iPod. Has there ever been a more generic dance song? Ever?  (Crabby sez: come back Paris Hilton all is forgiven, Next up Kim's version of The Breakup Song)

Jack White and ICP - "Leck Mich Im Arsch"

Everything Jack White touches is gold. Usually. Now, he's a failed alchemist who left this big, steaming pile of feces sweltering in the summer sun and called it satire. Not funny. (Crabby Sez: He did good things with Wanda Jackson that should account for something.)

Hot Chelle Rae - "Tonight Tonight"

This song is bad, but the lyrics are the worst of 2011. There's a classic episode of Zach Galifianakis' internet interview series "Between Two Ferns" where he interviews Charlize Theron. He tells her "[My girlfriend] looks a little bit like you and a lot like Dog the Bounty Hunter." So, Hot Chelle Rae decided to rip the joke and put its author as the butt of it. "I woke up with a strange tattoo/Not sure how I got it, not a dollar in my pocket/And it kinda looks just like you, mixed with Zach Galifianakis." 

Lady - "Yankin"

What does "Yankin" even mean in this context? Whatever. Vulgarity gets you attention. NSFW.  And crappy rapping on a cheap beat box too. Repulsive.

Limp Bizkit - "Shotgun" 

They're baaaack. Thirty seconds in, this song sounds like it's been going on for three minutes. Then, it proceeds to carry on for well over four. It's kind of a metaphor for their career. 

Limp Bizkit and ICP in the worst ten of the year?  Same as it ever was.

End Of Month Thoughts-October

Selected issues:

The return of Beavis & Butthead was somewhat fun but I do miss the little dumbasses ripping up bad videos.  They would have a field day with the crap that passes for music on top forty.  I may have been more interested in Good Vibes, the animated cartoon that followed B and B.  Granted, the hour of those cartoons was the most I watched MTV on a straight hour basis since a Spungebob Squarepants marathon a few years ago.  Which isn't saying all that much.  I am also beginning to sour on The Family Guy, which Quigmeyer is found hanging but still lives and then takes out his sister's abusive boyfriend later in the show.  Always been a big Family Guy fan but this episode just made me feel weirded out and not in a good way.  One thing to push the envelope, it's another when it begins to not be a funny show.  I'm sure Mr. McFarlane will bounce back but if he continues to go down the road like last night's show I may have to watch something else.

In Living Colour is coming back on FOX although the original cast has moved on the bigger and better things.  I doubt if Jennifer Lopez returns as a Fly Girl though.

The Iowa Hawkeyes continue to frustrate and annoy as they blew a 21-10 lead and lost by one point to a Minnesota team that was 1-6.  And for another year Floyd of Rosedale remains up in Minneapolis whereas the bad Hawkeyes defense can eat crow instead of getting the bronze pig home where it should be but then again Minnesota showed they wanted it more than the Hawkeyes, whose offense had three overthrown balls and a QB being stopped just shy of a first down.   Road doesn't get any easier with Michigan and Michigan State coming into town.  On a flip side Arizona State blew out Colorado 48-10, and Iowa State blew out Texas Tech in Lubbock 41-7.

The ratings are better than last month, thinking that we'll pull about 970 views for the month, maybe more.  I don't forsee going over 1,000 views but one never knows.  Most viewed of the month outside of the Brains Blog was The Crabbys with 15 views.  Sick Of Summer Blog refuses to die.  Big thanks to TAD for his insightful blogs on the the Schlocky Hits of the 70s  http://tadsbackupplan.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-schlocky-1-hits.html

I think Tad took it a bit further and added more crappy songs of the past.  Typically, the songs of the classic rock schlock era had earworms that would lay in your head for days but when we were up at Godfather's Pizza last night, KDAT had to play that GD Pink song Fucking Brilliant while we were there and the song got stuck in my head most of that night.  Dammit Steve next time we're up there, at least change it to something other than the monopoly that is KDAT.  Crap that is Cumulus approved.  Fuck that.

And we made it through October.  Next up, November.

It Came From The 80's-Jack The Ripper by The Raybeats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOwC6XAHIlQ

A killer version of the Link Wray classic by The Raybeats.  From the 1983 album It's Only A Movie which hasn't ever came out on CD.  This will blow your mind!

Music Of My Youth-Pop Fluff

The 70's was such a wonderful time that you can hear just about everything on AM, whereas the album rock and underground stuff was happening on FM and basically I never ventured up much on the FM scale.  Most of the stations were Muzak or Religious Hoo Ha.  But at that time, I lived in a 45's AM radio world.

If you were a girl back around 1970 thereabouts, you loved Donny Osmond and The Osmond but if you were a boy that liked that, you would be called a pussy and a few other choice words.  The girl that I was walking home from school had every Osmond album that came out and I'm sure Bobby Sherman and The Partridge Family too.  The Osmonds actually did have some listenable stuff, Yo Yo and Crazy Horses was a guilty pleasure but when Down By The Lazy River or One Bad Apple started playing up, I would change the station.  Sometimes my friends would make requests to the local station for crappy music. me wanting to hear 3 Dog Night while Craig Rothmeyer called up and requested The Candy Man.

I took my rock and roll seriously back then, with new singles by Elton John, or Led Zeppelin or 3 Dog Night to be big events of that week and poo pooing The Carpenters or Bobby Sherman or David Cassidy and The Partridge Family.  But there was plenty of god awful crap from one hit bands.  Stay Awhile by The Bells, Mammy Blue by The Pop Tops, fucking bloody awful. Chirpy Chirpy Cee Cee by Mac and Katie Kasoon.  The K Tel collections of 22 Explosive Hits pretty much sums up the AM radio playlist. Or Rhino's late Have A Nice Day Series.  So anyway,  here's a few artists from that by gone era, that made an impact on radio but to me didn't amount to much.

Olivia Newton-John    If Not For You, was a fine song and remains my favorite Olivia single, it sounded great from the AM side of things.  Let Me Be There and If You Love Me (Let Me Know) were good back to back country sounding songs with a flirty bass singer on the chorus.  Then gave the world the odious Have You Never Been Mellow or worse I Honestly Love You which may have been the inspiration for Debbie Boone's You Light Up My Life.   She got versatile, scoring big with You're The One That I Want with John Travolta for the Grease movie and then hooking up with Jeff Lynne and ELO for Xanadu.  Her last listenable single was 1976's Come On Over.  Then went dance music with Physical and worse Soul Kiss.  She tried a comeback in country with Back With A Heart in 98 which would have been fine but had to reprise I Honesty Love You again.

Paul Anka   Donny Osmond covered a few of his old 50's song (Puppy Love, Lonely Boy) so I guess we can consider Anka to be part of the 70s' pop fluff.   Anka started out at ABC Paramount and the redid some of his hits for 21 Golden Hits  for RCA to which I do like Lonely Boy (Anka's version).  I also think Anka was more in tune with Vegas Pop then actual rock and roll although he scored a freak hit with Jubilation  for Buddah in 1973  to which I enjoyed so much I bought the album as a 99 cent cut out.  Nothing else on that album is equal to the title track which works as a 4 minute single but as the full 7 minute version the arrangement get to be pompous as hell.  And then he may have made the most single puke inducing record of the 70s, You're Having My Baby for United Artist in 1974 which may be more icky than You Light Up My Life.  He did better in 2007 making a album called Rock Swings and using some of modern rock better known songs (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Oasis) into a standard swing music that works a bit.  And repeated to a more lesser success on Classic Songs: My Way.    One really doesn't need a Paul Anka overview but for the good and bad, 30th Anniversary Collection  has most of it.  21 Golden Hits isn't the actual original recordings but I grew up listening to it.  The 30th Anniversary Collection remains all the Paul Anka you can stomach, I did wish that the 45 edit of Jubilation could have been used and you'll have to fast forward through You're Having My Baby, one of those songs that are so un PC in this day and age.  

Osmonds/Donny Osmond    They could do a credible white boy version of the Jackson 5 (One Bad Apple, Double Lovin), hell they even impressed Lars Urich of Metallica to steal Crazy Horses from the internet for his own enjoyment.  That and Joe South's Yo Yo ensures them to be more metal than Limp Bizkit.  For more fun and games find their 21 Hits Special Collection on Curb.

Carpenters:  Lush Harmonies, singles that did sound good on the radio but they never did much for me. I do give them props for covering Klaatu Calling Occupants in 1975.  Great singles band although Sing with the children's choir does make me want to pull my hair out.

Partridge Family/David Cassidy    The Cowsills had better songs.  And the songs worked better on the TV show than on the turntable.  Songs I could listen to were Friend And A Lover from the Notebook LP (and a failed hit in 1972) or I Woke Up In Love This Morning  (my aunt had those 45s).  I did locate their Greatest Hits that Arista threw out and I still find that some of their songs are bubble gum fun. The late David Cassidy did embrace power pop with his live cover of the Beatles Please Please Me, which made me think he had more substance than what I gave him credit for.  

Helen Reddy:  In 1973 the underground FM station played Delta Dawn for some odd reason.  Sounded good at the time I guess.  More of a pop singer than rocker, two interesting albums she recorded for Capitol, Long Hard Climb and the Kim Fowley 1977 Ear Candy throw a few left curves.  Her strengths remain the ballads though.


More Pop Fluff:

Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast-Wayne Newton 1972
Something's Wrong With Me-Austin Roberts 1972
Don't Say You Don't Remember-Beverly Bremmers 1971
Precious And Few-Climax 1972
The Candy Man-Sammy Davis Jr. 1971
Torn Between Two Lovers-Mary McGregor 1977
Billy Don't Be A Hero-Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods 1973
You Light Up My Life-Debby Boone 1978
Reunited-Peaches & Herb 1979
Oh Babe What Would You Say-Norman Hurricane Smith 1973

Top Ten Of The Week-The Crabbys

What's a person to do when he's out and about and looking for places to hit up for new or good music?  20 years ago it was hard to compile a best places to go for records and CDs, there's was so many in town.  Nowadays the 10 or 12 that I know about are spread over two hours driving distance.  Even in Arizona or Madison, the music places are dropping off like flies but thank Zia's for coming through this year and not bother me so much.  I also give Hastings a shout out, they seem to be the go to place if you want Sony Music stuff for 3.99 or a buck more.  For cheaper CDs, Bookman's got the nod but I have yet to find the Half Priced Bookstore in Phoenix, I'm sure they have some cheaper stuff too.

Up here's it's different.

Best Record Stores In the 200 mile range.

1.  Mad City Music Exchange (Madison)
2.  Record Collector (Iowa City)
3.  Moondog Music (Dubuque)
4.  CD's 4 Change (Dubuque)
5.  The Exclusive Company (Madison and other places in Wisconsin)
6.  Co Op Records (Moline/Davenport)
7.  Borders (RIP)
8.  Best Buy (Cedar Rapids)
9.  Barnes & Noble (Cedar Rapids)
10. Strictly Discs (Madison)

Do you see a pattern here?  All the record stores are not in the Cedar Rapids area since there are no record stores anymore in the CR area.  Or Waterloo, or if there is I don't know anything about it.  I didn't include FYE in Moline or Des Moines, haven't been to the latter and the former has a crappy CD section.  I think I'm overrating Co Op since most of their inventory is basically the same that doesn't get moved all that much.  Besides nobody wants to pay 8 bucks for that crappy 90s cd that you can find for 2 bucks at the local pawnshop if lucky.  Pre Played fell off the list simply of the fact that they have really upped the DVD section and made the CD section a quick glance and go.  I think I'm shortchanging Strictly Discs in Madison, they continue to have a fine vinyl section and sometimes I do come across out of print CDs in their store.  But when I'm in Madison, a trip to Mad City Music X remains priority number 1, they tend to have a lotta good LPs in the dollar bins and sometimes have some hard to find oddities as 45s or CDs too.  There's a couple more Madison stores up there B sides and another place which escapes my mind but I have yet to go to those places.  Maybe someday I will.  As for Borders, their budget section did have some fine albums (Sly & The Family Stone, Paul Desmond) but also their 30 percent off closing sale benefitted them dearly.  They'll never be rated again since they're now history but they did go out with a bang.

Best Used Places For Music

1.  Half Priced Books (Madison, Des Moines, Marion)
2.  Frugal Muse (Madison)
3.  Goodwill (CR, Marion, Coralville, Iowa City, Plattville, Dubuque, Madison)
4.  Stuff Etc. (CR, Coralville, Iowa City, Davenport, Waterloo)
5.  Sweet Living Antiques (Iowa City)
6.  Segal's Pawnshop (Cedar Rapids)
7.  Salvation Army (Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Moline, Marion)
8.  St. Vincent De Paul (Waterloo, Madison)
9.  Hastings (Various Locations)
10.  Pawn America (Madison)

Thank God for Half Priced Books.  The only place that can actually challenge me with  a different inventory of albums, cds and even 45s to keep the top ten lists interesting.  With the closing of Relics and Ratz Records, the only place to find music outside of Goodwill or The Army is HP Books and they still have an award winning dollar bins to beat.  If you want to hear Limp Bizkit 3 Dollar Bill Y'all for 2 bucks or less or get some Alan Jackson or Len Steal My Sunshine for a price of a 45, you can't beat it.  If nothing else you have a decent jewel case (sometimes.)  Sweet Living in Iowa City remains ideal for the great lost vinyl piece (or Record Collector for that matter).  Stuff Etc is a consignment place, kinda like Savers' but unlike Savers' I do manage to find some cool 2 dollar cds from time to time.  Savers is so hit and miss.  Just like Goodwill to which most of the places up in Waterloo or Dubuque are so picked clean I rarely find anything of note.  Frugal Muse can surprise me from time to time in their 2 dollar bins, you have to outsmart the Madison collectors since they're on the ball but I know last year I did find John Hartford Aereo Plain  for 2 bucks on CD.  And Frugal Muse gets points for having the hard to find Train Meets Truck Never Been There cd (TMT features Sean Beal later of Big Back Forty fame).  Promos are hit and miss but if Half Priced Books didn't have that Rockpile Live In Montreaux 1980 CD, I know that Best Buy would have never had it.  Despite what that zit face sales associate at Best Buy tells you.

Pawnshops really suck when it comes for used CDs but Segal's Pawnshop is the exception.  I've been known to find new stuff up there.  And Pawn America at the old Circuit City Building in Madison still has a big CD section and although they have been picked clean from the last dollar sale, if you can invest 2 hours to look through it all, you might find something of note.  Led Zeppelin 4 for a dollar anyone?  The St. Vincent De Paul in Madison gets the nod over Waterloo in terms of where to find music, I found some 45s in Mad City last year and usually Waterloo has junk but the Waterloo store has a nice music room where they have the records.  The owner tends to be a bitch though but still if I get the urge to go up to Waterloo (which isn't too often anymore) St. Vincent De Paul is the destination.  As for other pawnshops, with Mister Money now a thing of the past or a shadow of itself, going thru their cd's takes about 20 seconds at best.  Not like it was 10 years ago when it took a good hour to sort through them.   Another causality of the internet it seems.

Top Ten Of The Week:

1.  Here We Go-Shelter 1995   Long time ago during the big Green Day Dookie outbreak, labels were signing up punk bands to see who would be the next big thing.  This band was one of the more successful hardcore punk bands but Ray Cappo was into Hare Krishna Straight Edge philosophy which made their albums somewhat hard to get through at times.  I think this was probably as close to a hit single that Shelter ever gotten and after a second album they parted ways with Roadrunner Records.

2.  Man Sized Wreath-REM 2008  Continuing our band of the month preview, this is off Accelerate.  Never you mind, they earned it.

3.  Hell On Heels-Pistol Annies 2011  A month after issuing this as a digital only album, Sony Music quietly put their album out on physical product and it is one of the better country albums of this year.  Good enough to make the top ten remains to be seen but it is a strong effort from Miranda Lambert's side project.  Next week, her new album Four The Record will be out and already Spin has called it one of her least interesting albums.  I'll be the judge of that next week.

4. Can't Be Who (You Want Me To Be)-Lizzy Williams 2005   When I was over at My Space a few years ago I ended up buying Magic 8 and it became of my go to albums of the last decade.  Kind of lost track with Liz Chaffe till she found me on Facebook and we rekindled our friendship.  Anyway, this song was the basis of a Townedger song but with a different spin on the title.  Liz has informed me that she's working on some new material for a new project and I guess she got some help from Universal in terms of releasing it.  In the meantime Super 8 still can be brought at CD Baby..

5.  Six Days On The Road-Johnny Rivers 1974   Johnny Rivers has always been to me a singles artist.  He makes great singles that sound great on the radio but could never get into any of his albums except for a long ago comp for Pickwick that showcased some of his earliest material before hitting the Go Go scene and hitting it big.  9 years after the fact, he recorded what might be his best album for Atlantic and a top 20 cover of the Dave Dudley number and it did get some airplay on the radio here.  Next year found him on Big Tree with Slow Dancing.

6.  Public Image-Public Image 1978  Life after the Sex Pistols and he never rocked harder since.  If anybody notices Johnny Lydon reformed the Image a couple years ago.

7.  You Let Yourself Down-Rollins Band 2000  Big story was Rollins ditching his old band in favor of a more harder rocking outfit called Mother Superior and went from a funk sound to a more of MC5 sound although this song has a bit of a nod to Motorhead.  Album also features a Thin Lizzy cover called Are You Ready to which Scott Gorham plays guitar on it.

8.  Satin Sheets-Jeannie Pruett 1973  This gets played on classic country radio and even KHAK has been known to play it (although I'm sure it goes against Cumulus wishes of playing Need You Now every hour on the hour).  Found the 45 up at HP Books for 50 cents.

9.  Memories Of El Monte-The Penguins 1963  Produced by Frank Zappa who had a genuine love of doo wop.  Co written with Ray Collins who you all know would be the lead singer for the Mothers Of Invention.

10.  Wrong-Train Meets Truck 1994  No used explaining this one to y'all but I'll try to do my best.  Band came from Ohio and made a hard to find CD called Never Been There but it features Sean Beal  who went on to another band named Big Back Forty which made a great album for Polydor and made it to Gabe's in 1998 with the Honeydogs.  But anyway, Never Been There owes a lot to the Crazy Horse sound and somewhere Nirvana figures into the equation.  But it's more hard edge Americana than grunge.  Worth finding if you can.  All Music Guide will not help you, it's not even in it's data base.  After Can't Smile Without You on the Dunce Bigalo S/T, Sean Beal disappeared or simply retired from music.  Such a shame really, he was one of my favorite artists of the 90s.

Side Note: After they opened for the Honeydogs at Gabes, at some point I had Sean right next to me as he was digging the tunes from The Honeydogs.  For an encore, the guys of Big Back 40 and the opening act Arthur Dodge and the Horsefiles did some backing vocals for I Can't Turn You Loose, an old Otis Redding song.  It was a fun time.  If Sean Beal is out there reading this, if ya get a band going again and need some help with it, look me up and maybe we can come up with something.

Side note 2:  Blood should have been a hit single for Big Back Forty.

Late news to add.
What does Jani Lane and Amy Winehouse have in common?  Both died from alcohol poisoning.  In Amy's case an irony.

The blog that will not die: Sick Of Summer Ready For Fall has once again popped up on the all time top five blogs.  Would it be easier just to compile the ten songs into a sellable album (Hits of Sick Of Summer Ready For Fall).  While it will not be anywhere near the Brains Blog for all time best.  I'm sure second place isn't out of the question, especially when Sick Of Summer has been the second most read blog of two months straight.  Can't figure that one out, may as blame the links for that.

Paul Leka passed away at age 68 from lung cancer.  Better known as a producer (Peppermint Rainbow, Harry Chaplin, REO Speedwagon come to mind) he may have penned the best B side turned A side with Kiss Him Goodbye (Na Na Na Na) for a fictional band called Steam to which he hated the song that much that Mercury put it on the Fontana label.  And ended up being the best known song for Steam which did become a real band, and put out a real album for Mercury and had a few more Mercury singles which may have been better but never sold as well as that throwaway Na Na song Leka calls it. 

Crabb Bits: New Music and the strange fascination of Jessie J

After surviving another failed attempt by Harold Camping to predict the end of the world, I pretty much turn my attention to whatever is played on radio anymore.  Basically on another website I got into with the 14 year olds of the flavor of the week, one Jessie J.  In other words another MTV manufactured chick singer that can do ten octaves in one chorus line, which seems to be the thing of the day.  See how high they can scream doesn't account for music for me and basically my thoughts were another artist destined for the dollar bins or Goodwill Clarence Sale.  Again it's music for the junior high circuit and the new generation, us old fools have no use for it or can't get into it, just like Grandpa Smith couldn't get into Grand Funk Railroad but enjoyed Glenn Miller.  Grandma Ambrose always had a more objective mind, I don't think she ever complained, even though my mom did when I played Medicine Man 10 times in a row.

While NPR has been playing some new bands of late, I can always say that Deer Tick isn't my band of choice either, finally turning the station after 3 minutes of some song that KUNI played featuring them.  I think the Fleet Foxes might be the best of the so call new bands of jam or modern rock, but I also couldn't get into them either although their harmonies are kinda mellow and nice.  Grizzly Bear was another band who had one good song and the rest was noodling around.  Dawes, a band whose latest on ATO is my pick of the litter, their recent album would make Jackson Browne proud.  In fact he plays on that album too.

My best friend Steve works at Godfather's Pizza and my GF had a craving for pizza so we went there Saturday Night.  Perhaps in one of the big cases of radio overkill, Need You Now, the overplayed Lady Antebellum song of  a few years ago was played in a 10 minute span on the worst GD station in this GD town, KDAT, along with the insufferable Take On Me by A Ha and some other piece of shit song with the lyrics were repeated over and over, can't think of the name and better off that way.  However we got stuck with the Sheryl Crow overplayed First Cut Is The Deepest to which one wishes KDAT would at least play Keith Hampshire or Rod Stewart, or even Cat Stevens.  It seems that I hate enough of Sheryl Crow but in the era of music of the past 20 years, Sheryl Crow seems to be the highlight of female singers of KDAT or Cumulus Radio, the monopoly assholes of Cedar Rapids Iowa.  I hate Cumulus Radio more than Clear Channel since Cumulus owns the majority of stations in this God Forsaken city.  I know my GF likes Need You Now since she's got a dialtone of it on her cellphone but even she said that was getting a bit overplayed.  Need You Now, is this decade's version of Margaritaville or American Pie or Piano Man, a song that knows no one straight format.  I can still vouch for Lady A's first album (at least the first three songs) but when songs get overplayed, they're no better than the annoying Viagara or drug commercials that make watching cable TV annoying.  Maybe KDAT or John Tesh might like that song but hearing it twice in 10 minutes is overkill.  Makes you wish that John Test would go back to Entertainment Tonight or play his new age music rather than bore us with the same easy listening crap that every Cumulus station shoves down our unwilling throats.

For football, The Iowa Hawkeyes outscored Indiana.  Marvin McNutt had three touchdowns and Marcus Coker went over 100 yards in the first half against a hapless Hoosier Defense.  Iowa's defense isn't much better, as Indiana matched them TD for TD in the first half.  Plus Iowa's Defense makes anybody look like Tom Brady, just ask Steele Jantz, the Iowa State Cyclone QB that lead them a OT victory over the Hawkeyes but since then has gotten benched after getting blown out by the likes of Texas, Missouri and Texas A and M.    Here's hoping Iowa gets their act together before going up to Minneapolis for a rematch with Minnesota who has only won one game all year.  If the Hawkeyes can't get the Floyd Of Rosedale back, we may as well call a season.  Injuries do play a role but basically, Norm Parker's crappy cover 2 and bend don't break defense have been lax all season.  But it could be worse, just ask the Marion Indians which won't make it to the playoffs again this year.  They lost their 4th in a row to Maquoketa 31-7.


For the NFL side of things, The San Diego Chargers blew a 14 point lead and lost to the New York Jets in what amounted to be some of the worst playing that the Chargers did all year.  Mr. All Everything Phillip Rivers had a lousy clock management in the last two minutes and most of the fourth quarter to which San Diego showed a lack of urgency on the part of not getting the plays in on time.  I'm not a big Rivers fan, would have been nice if A J would have kept Drew Brees and let Rivers go to some other team.  However the Jets seem to get some lucky breaks judging from that 62 yard interception by Revis and Plaxico Burress having his way with crappy San Diego DBs who couldn't cover him.  And seeing Rivers' fail job in the last two minutes didn't endure me to think he's as great as people perceive him to be.   Next up, a return to Kansas City on Halloween Night to which I may just pass on watching it since San Diego seems to fall on their face at Arrowhead.

And so it goes, I'll be back later in the week with  a new top ten and more rant and raves.  It's what I do best.

The End Of The World

Didn't happen.

Sorry Harold Camping.

You're wrong again.