If You Kick Him, He Will Cry Out in Pain
Rockin' Ed Voyles kicks in on this list thing....
I tried to keep in the CLASSIC rock frame of mind on these.
Ok... here's my LORD STOP! don't play these things again:
1) MONEY: pink flyod, by a big margin. I can leave any chosen oldie stations for months and come back and hear this "gem" being played in any 10 minute listening session.
2) Rockin' Roll Hochie Coo: Rick Derringer... one break comin' up.
3) Stairway To Heaven: Zep, it hurts now to hear. I know it's any easy pick.... but it trully hurts that much.
4) Piano Man: Billy Joel. I'll put some bread in his jar -- if he'll just shut the f up.
5) Boston anything they've done sucks. PS Boston sucks more than anything that has sucked before.
6) Joker: Steve Miller I'm sick of this song, in fact even in my youthful days this became tiresome quickly.
7) Jump: Van Halen. Sad, sad, sad. Even for Van Halen, this is lyrically and musically their nadar...... that is prior to Hagar's sappy piano, love ballads. I can't put the Hagar songs above Jump, 'cause they're so easily forgettable.
8) Jackie and Diane: Mellancamp. If there truly is a place called HELL, this song there is in constant rotation.
9) Hello, Goodbye: Beatles. I don't know if Paul ever knew John's outro addition was an inside joke. The Beatles are too good of a band to allow such a poor novely song like Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Though I also am tired of Paul's "serious" works like- Long and Winding Road and Let It Be. This is there worst released single, only challenged by Obla de ble da...or what ever it is (you know it's bad by any spelling I may give it.)
10) Rozanna: Toto. This song is so bad, the actress it inspired should fuckin' sue -- 'cause I'm forced to also despise her for ever being the imputes for such a putrid diddy.
Wish I'd hear more: Atlantic City (Bruce Springsteen), Lodi (CCR), Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Beatles), Let It Bleed (Stones), Sunny Afternoon (Kinks), Shoot To Thrill (AC/DC), Highway 61 (Dylan), Driver 8 (REM), Eleanor Rigby (Beatles), Heard It Though The Grapevine (Mavin Gaye), Eight Miles High (Byrds), Little Wing (Hendrix).
My 5 worst million seller bands: Boston, Styx, Journey, Kiss, and Bon (you give music a bad [my italics - C] name) Jovi. There is no good KISS period, there is no good Boston era--nothing good has ever spilled out of these 5 picks.
Man I gotta agree on four of those five, but there's something about Kiss [Almost] Alive! that just makes me yearn to be 11 again... but the same can be said [when the mood is right] for Frampton Comes Alive, even the 12 minute torture of Do You Feel Like We Do? Maybe it's the "Blind pig finds an acorn once in a while" thing becuase Frampton's studio albums were very plain and unexciting, too, just like Kiss...
Oh, I had forgotten the Joker... maybe I had blocked it out of my mind...
Sunday, April 25, 2004
I got stood up for dinner yesterday. I was supposed to meet V for sushi, but she got told at the last minute that they might have to call her back in at 1100, so she needed to get some rest. "No biggie, next time," I said.
Turned out to be an interesting twist of fate.
Since it cleared up, I decided I'd try to get some steps in [about 1500; it's a long story about a guy United Way had as a motivational speaker that my Dad picked up at the airport. Yes I am trying to get excercising again now that I am on true daylight...] Anyway, I walked dow to the halfway point, and went over to a little turnout on the path where you can look down at Bear Creek... I try to stop and catch my breath and let my muscles relax a little [since I am just getting started again] before tackling the second part and back up the hill... Usually Bear Creek is a nice running little brook through here and I look back up where it runs over some rocks and listen to it gugling along and medittate for a minute as the airplane noise fades away and I can hear birds and brook again... anyway, since it had been raining the vrrek was full, but appeared to be moving pretty slow, just a few twigs and bark flowing over this muddy brown mini-river... just as I turned the sun burst through and removed all the dull greys and suddenly everything burst into great color, like the Wizard of Oz or something... all the great spring greens and the smell of wet grass and evergreens [later down the path, Iswore I smelled ahint of honeysuckle], just a great explosion of the senses...
I crossed over the road and I could hear the creek really roaring. I loooked down there and there was just this powerful little river going down there... I guess they narrow the creek and force it over the smooth concrete of the bridge/culvert and it picks up speed there to run into some strategically placed stones a few yards down, making a really neeat little scene, really reminding me of the power of water... not a few hundred yards downstream, it widens out into the slow, fat lazy looking stream again, but I couldn't look at it the same way. It made me remember Saturday in the State Parks in West Virginia tossing a baseball with my dad and grilling dogs and burgers... made me wonder what happened to MY baseball glove. I'd had a Richie Zisk outfielder's glove... I think I saw it last was when I was fifteen or so, when I'd throw a tennis ball against the wall and 'shag grounder' or off the roof to catch some flies...
I was walking back up the hill, whuch walks down where the family units are in my complex and I saw a girl taking her bike out... I remebered Saturdays when I was a kid and the exhilaration and the pent up energy having had to spend most of a rainy Saturday inside. When we lived over of Matlock in Arlington, I'd ride my bike across to Vandergriff park, up around the ball fields or the community center imagining I was Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader chasing down [or being chased by] enemy fighters. When we lived in West Viginia, in the apartment, you'd see one or two kids comeing out and do a couple laps around the parking lot or doing some sprint races on their bikes, the a couple more would come out and pretty soon we'd have a pick up game of whiffle ball going...
Turned out to be an interesting twist of fate.
Since it cleared up, I decided I'd try to get some steps in [about 1500; it's a long story about a guy United Way had as a motivational speaker that my Dad picked up at the airport. Yes I am trying to get excercising again now that I am on true daylight...] Anyway, I walked dow to the halfway point, and went over to a little turnout on the path where you can look down at Bear Creek... I try to stop and catch my breath and let my muscles relax a little [since I am just getting started again] before tackling the second part and back up the hill... Usually Bear Creek is a nice running little brook through here and I look back up where it runs over some rocks and listen to it gugling along and medittate for a minute as the airplane noise fades away and I can hear birds and brook again... anyway, since it had been raining the vrrek was full, but appeared to be moving pretty slow, just a few twigs and bark flowing over this muddy brown mini-river... just as I turned the sun burst through and removed all the dull greys and suddenly everything burst into great color, like the Wizard of Oz or something... all the great spring greens and the smell of wet grass and evergreens [later down the path, Iswore I smelled ahint of honeysuckle], just a great explosion of the senses...
I crossed over the road and I could hear the creek really roaring. I loooked down there and there was just this powerful little river going down there... I guess they narrow the creek and force it over the smooth concrete of the bridge/culvert and it picks up speed there to run into some strategically placed stones a few yards down, making a really neeat little scene, really reminding me of the power of water... not a few hundred yards downstream, it widens out into the slow, fat lazy looking stream again, but I couldn't look at it the same way. It made me remember Saturday in the State Parks in West Virginia tossing a baseball with my dad and grilling dogs and burgers... made me wonder what happened to MY baseball glove. I'd had a Richie Zisk outfielder's glove... I think I saw it last was when I was fifteen or so, when I'd throw a tennis ball against the wall and 'shag grounder' or off the roof to catch some flies...
I was walking back up the hill, whuch walks down where the family units are in my complex and I saw a girl taking her bike out... I remebered Saturdays when I was a kid and the exhilaration and the pent up energy having had to spend most of a rainy Saturday inside. When we lived over of Matlock in Arlington, I'd ride my bike across to Vandergriff park, up around the ball fields or the community center imagining I was Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader chasing down [or being chased by] enemy fighters. When we lived in West Viginia, in the apartment, you'd see one or two kids comeing out and do a couple laps around the parking lot or doing some sprint races on their bikes, the a couple more would come out and pretty soon we'd have a pick up game of whiffle ball going...
Thursday, April 22, 2004
DIGGING THIS LIST THING!
REDUX: MY Top 25 Albums of All Time [touch this link!]
Well, it's kepping me out of trouble, anyway... How about Songs You AUTOMATICALLY TURN UP When they come on the Radio:
1. "Photograph" - Def Leppard
2. "Hair of the Dog" - Nazaraeth [you know it! "Now you're messin with a/ a son of a bitch!"]
3. "Highway to Hell" - AC/DC
4. "Surrender" - Cheap Trick [prefer the live version, but either will do it...]
5. "Hard to Handle" - Black Crowes
6. "30 Days in the Hole" - Humble Pie
7. "20th Century Boy" - t. Rex
How about Ulitimately Disposable Albums You May Have Been Fooled Into Buying:
1. Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
Only important on CD beacuse it was the only place to get I Am the Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever, All You Need Is Love, Penny Lane and Baby You're a Rich Man, which were singles added to a 6 song British EP to fill out the American album. But let's face it, the rest of this is SHIT! Hello Goodbye? Magical Mystery Tour? Fool on the Hill? PHEWWWW!!! Equally disposable: Yellow Submarine.
2. The Soft Parade and Waiting For the Sun - The Doors
1968 and 1969 did not prove kind to the Doors and these mediocre records PROVE it. I am guessing the were into being 'Artists' and forgot how to rock and roll. Just MY opinion of course. There's a few good tracks on each: Not to Touch the Eart, Hello, I Love You, Five to One, Love Street on WFtS; Shaman Blues, Wild Child, The Soft Parade, Wishful, Sinful on SP but for once, I recommend getting some collection with this handful and save yourself the misery of Spanish Caravan, My Wild Love. Tell All the People, Do It, Easy Ride...
3. Their Satanic Majesty's Request and Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
The Sotnes have made some maddeningly inconsistant and mediocre record on their 40 years [NOT counting the record company cash in records Flowers and Metamorphisis], but their "Sgt Pepper tuned upside down" STINKS. I am not making any friends by listing Aftermath, but I just can't get into it... it just never finds a groove for me...
4. Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
Sure it has their 'hits' Somebody to Love and White Rabbit; the rest of the album is just so mediocre... folkies trying to get into really rocking and not succeeding very well. My Best Friend? DCBA 25? She Has Funny Cars? Give me a break. This band got better the weider they got: After Bathing at Baxter's, Crown of Creation, Volunteers.
5. Transformer - Lou Reed
Produced by Bowie, this sounds TOO MUCH like Bowie. Lou's at his best when he's edgy and dangerous or depressed, like Sally Can't Dance or Berlin. Still, the treatment and arrangement of Satelite of Love is WONDERFUL.
6. Tommy - The Who
A 'Rock Opera'? Contradiction in terms. Some good songs but ultimately too self important and overblown.
7. 1/2 each of Live at the Fillmore East and Eat A Peach - Allman Brothers
Did the world NED the 23 minute Whippin Post? Did the world NEED two sides/45 minutes of Mountian Jam that makes up 1/2 of Peach? Trim those two sides and that becomes an indespensiable record!
9. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
The 14 minute side of Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands... ever listen to it in its entirity in one sitting without being so stoned you can't move? Okay sure Rainy Day Women [Everybody must get stoned...], Just Like A Woman. I want You, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues... that's a SIDE. I find other [live verisons] of other songs so much better, ESPECIALLY live takes Visions of Johanna [Biograph or Live 1966, which may be the same] and Most Likeley You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine [Before the Flood]... it's NOT Highway 61 Revisited and Bob wouldn't make an album THAT strong again until Blood on the Tracks.
From THE ROCK AND ROLL REPORT: [which you should be reading anyway!
Top 10 WORST ALBUM COVERS: These are NOT for the easily scared 'cause some of these people be UGLY [no nudity other than hippie chest hair]
REDUX: MY Top 25 Albums of All Time [touch this link!]
Well, it's kepping me out of trouble, anyway... How about Songs You AUTOMATICALLY TURN UP When they come on the Radio:
1. "Photograph" - Def Leppard
2. "Hair of the Dog" - Nazaraeth [you know it! "Now you're messin with a/ a son of a bitch!"]
3. "Highway to Hell" - AC/DC
4. "Surrender" - Cheap Trick [prefer the live version, but either will do it...]
5. "Hard to Handle" - Black Crowes
6. "30 Days in the Hole" - Humble Pie
7. "20th Century Boy" - t. Rex
How about Ulitimately Disposable Albums You May Have Been Fooled Into Buying:
1. Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
Only important on CD beacuse it was the only place to get I Am the Walrus, Strawberry Fields Forever, All You Need Is Love, Penny Lane and Baby You're a Rich Man, which were singles added to a 6 song British EP to fill out the American album. But let's face it, the rest of this is SHIT! Hello Goodbye? Magical Mystery Tour? Fool on the Hill? PHEWWWW!!! Equally disposable: Yellow Submarine.
2. The Soft Parade and Waiting For the Sun - The Doors
1968 and 1969 did not prove kind to the Doors and these mediocre records PROVE it. I am guessing the were into being 'Artists' and forgot how to rock and roll. Just MY opinion of course. There's a few good tracks on each: Not to Touch the Eart, Hello, I Love You, Five to One, Love Street on WFtS; Shaman Blues, Wild Child, The Soft Parade, Wishful, Sinful on SP but for once, I recommend getting some collection with this handful and save yourself the misery of Spanish Caravan, My Wild Love. Tell All the People, Do It, Easy Ride...
3. Their Satanic Majesty's Request and Aftermath - The Rolling Stones
The Sotnes have made some maddeningly inconsistant and mediocre record on their 40 years [NOT counting the record company cash in records Flowers and Metamorphisis], but their "Sgt Pepper tuned upside down" STINKS. I am not making any friends by listing Aftermath, but I just can't get into it... it just never finds a groove for me...
4. Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane
Sure it has their 'hits' Somebody to Love and White Rabbit; the rest of the album is just so mediocre... folkies trying to get into really rocking and not succeeding very well. My Best Friend? DCBA 25? She Has Funny Cars? Give me a break. This band got better the weider they got: After Bathing at Baxter's, Crown of Creation, Volunteers.
5. Transformer - Lou Reed
Produced by Bowie, this sounds TOO MUCH like Bowie. Lou's at his best when he's edgy and dangerous or depressed, like Sally Can't Dance or Berlin. Still, the treatment and arrangement of Satelite of Love is WONDERFUL.
6. Tommy - The Who
A 'Rock Opera'? Contradiction in terms. Some good songs but ultimately too self important and overblown.
7. 1/2 each of Live at the Fillmore East and Eat A Peach - Allman Brothers
Did the world NED the 23 minute Whippin Post? Did the world NEED two sides/45 minutes of Mountian Jam that makes up 1/2 of Peach? Trim those two sides and that becomes an indespensiable record!
9. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
The 14 minute side of Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands... ever listen to it in its entirity in one sitting without being so stoned you can't move? Okay sure Rainy Day Women [Everybody must get stoned...], Just Like A Woman. I want You, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues... that's a SIDE. I find other [live verisons] of other songs so much better, ESPECIALLY live takes Visions of Johanna [Biograph or Live 1966, which may be the same] and Most Likeley You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine [Before the Flood]... it's NOT Highway 61 Revisited and Bob wouldn't make an album THAT strong again until Blood on the Tracks.
From THE ROCK AND ROLL REPORT: [which you should be reading anyway!
Top 10 WORST ALBUM COVERS: These are NOT for the easily scared 'cause some of these people be UGLY [no nudity other than hippie chest hair]
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
CHIME IN! Ed, that means YOU!
My friend and yours, Amanda chimed in on the previous piece. Not Used with permission, but sue me...
on my list of WHIPS:
-- most of the beach boys music that gets constant
airplay, while their better songs get no airplay
-- "band on the run" by wings
-- anything by led zeppelin, rush or pink floyd.
seriously. i've heard it all way too much to tolerate
it anymore.
-- that "long cool woman in a black dress" song by the
Hollies (although see my comments about the Hollies
below)
-- anything from moby's "play" album (yeah, breaking
from my oldies theme for a moment)
: Then again, there's Great Songs You NEVER Hear on
: the Radio:
: 3. "Simple Twist of Fate" - Bob Dylan
funny, i would have chosen a different dylan song off
the same album: "you're gonna make me lonesome when
you go". or maybe "if you see her". maybe... oh, fuck
it: i love that whole damn album. lo-ooove it. play
'em all over and over, i say.
also on my list of great songs you never hear on the
radio:
-- john lennon's "jealous guy" TOTALLY AGREE!
-- beach boys "caroline no" Great Song!
-- and, even though the oldies station plays that one
Hollies song over and over, i still find radio in
general to not be playing anywhere enough Hollies (or
most of the good Brit invasion bands) for my taste.
- Hmm, well I was going over the Holies in my head this morning and I might skip "Stop Stop Stop", but "On A Carousel" and "Bus Stop" are pretty good songs... "Hey Carrie Anne" for that early British Invasion feel... Other good British Invasion: Dave Clark Five "Glad All Over", Zombies "Tell Her No"...
The Beach Boys... "Dance, Dance, Dance", "In My Room", "Shut Down", "All Summer Long"... If I NEVER hear "Kokomo" again, that's be all right with me... How about great surf songs like the Chatay's "Pipeline" and Jan and Dean's "Surf City and "deadman's Curve"? Have those songs fallen off the planet?
I can't say I agree on Zep, Rush and Floyd, although since I QUIT listening to the radio, I can tolerate them better, with exceptions: "Money", "Wish You Were Here", "Stairway", "Kashmir", "Rock and Roll", "Brain Damage/Eclipse"... but for that matter I can add Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" and the Eagles "Hotel California" and "Life in the Fast Lane"... sometimes when you're in the mood you can get into it but most of the time, it's a punch out. Still, there's still some good ones you rarely hear like "Time", "The Great Gig in the Sky", "When the Levee Breaks", "Ten Years Gone", "Subdivsions" and "Free Will". But I understand totally.
My friend and yours, Amanda chimed in on the previous piece. Not Used with permission, but sue me...
on my list of WHIPS:
-- most of the beach boys music that gets constant
airplay, while their better songs get no airplay
-- "band on the run" by wings
-- anything by led zeppelin, rush or pink floyd.
seriously. i've heard it all way too much to tolerate
it anymore.
-- that "long cool woman in a black dress" song by the
Hollies (although see my comments about the Hollies
below)
-- anything from moby's "play" album (yeah, breaking
from my oldies theme for a moment)
: Then again, there's Great Songs You NEVER Hear on
: the Radio:
: 3. "Simple Twist of Fate" - Bob Dylan
funny, i would have chosen a different dylan song off
the same album: "you're gonna make me lonesome when
you go". or maybe "if you see her". maybe... oh, fuck
it: i love that whole damn album. lo-ooove it. play
'em all over and over, i say.
also on my list of great songs you never hear on the
radio:
-- john lennon's "jealous guy" TOTALLY AGREE!
-- beach boys "caroline no" Great Song!
-- and, even though the oldies station plays that one
Hollies song over and over, i still find radio in
general to not be playing anywhere enough Hollies (or
most of the good Brit invasion bands) for my taste.
- Hmm, well I was going over the Holies in my head this morning and I might skip "Stop Stop Stop", but "On A Carousel" and "Bus Stop" are pretty good songs... "Hey Carrie Anne" for that early British Invasion feel... Other good British Invasion: Dave Clark Five "Glad All Over", Zombies "Tell Her No"...
The Beach Boys... "Dance, Dance, Dance", "In My Room", "Shut Down", "All Summer Long"... If I NEVER hear "Kokomo" again, that's be all right with me... How about great surf songs like the Chatay's "Pipeline" and Jan and Dean's "Surf City and "deadman's Curve"? Have those songs fallen off the planet?
I can't say I agree on Zep, Rush and Floyd, although since I QUIT listening to the radio, I can tolerate them better, with exceptions: "Money", "Wish You Were Here", "Stairway", "Kashmir", "Rock and Roll", "Brain Damage/Eclipse"... but for that matter I can add Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" and the Eagles "Hotel California" and "Life in the Fast Lane"... sometimes when you're in the mood you can get into it but most of the time, it's a punch out. Still, there's still some good ones you rarely hear like "Time", "The Great Gig in the Sky", "When the Levee Breaks", "Ten Years Gone", "Subdivsions" and "Free Will". But I understand totally.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
There’s a lot of lists going around right now, notably Blender’s list of Top Worst Songs Ever. Now I had to think about this pretty hard, but I have come up with my own list of Worst Songs. I will immediately dismiss such total shit as “Achy-Breaky Heart” and “Afternoon Delight.” "The Night Chicago Died"? Jeez, what were people thinking? No, I intend to go for the worst of the worst. The thing to remember here is that there are two lists: one for Worst Songs and one for Songs That Whip Me Down the Most, i.e. Songs I Would Ban Forever Because They Grate Mt Nerves So Bad.
First: The Worst
1. “Monday Monday” – The Mamas and the Papas
Honestly I have never understood people’s fascination with the band, unless they are imagining them all porking Michelle Phillips in a tub of baked beans with a mud shark.
2. “The Immigrant Song” – Led Zeppelin
What the fuck are they talking about?
3. “Playground In My Mind” – Clint Holmes
If you’ve never heard this, consider yourself lucky. I remember this from one of those summers with my Grandmother… I’d RATHER hear “Tie A Yellow Ribbon.” I’d RATHER hear “Seasons in the Sun.” What does that tell you?
4. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” or “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” – The Beatles
Paul McCartney at his WORST. Even George Harrison hated MSH. And “Revolution 9” is not a SONG, it’s a ‘sound experiment’ gone horribly horribly wrong. Lenon wouldn’t write his worst song for another couple years: “Woman Is the Nigger of the World.” SHIT! I almost forgot "Hello Goodbye"....
5. ‘The Worst” – The Rolling Stones
The Stones have done some filler songs in their 40 years, but this one from Voodoo Lounge [with Keith on lead vocals] is the ultimate stinker. Yes, that includes all the mediocrity of Undercover, Dirty Work, Goats Head Soup and It’s Only Rock and Roll. [Though their covers of the Temps “My Girl” [Flowers] and “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” [Only Rock and Roll] come pretty close.
6. “Stand” –R.E.M.
They release their major label debut and THIS is the ‘Big Breakthrough Hit?’ Should have been a sign of the selling out to come…
The WHIPS: Revised 4/22
1. "American Pie - Don McLean
1. “Free Bird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. ANYTHING by Boston, but especially “Long Time” and “Don’t Look Back”
3. “Aqualung” – Jethro Tull
4. “Dream On”/"Dude Looks Like A Lady" – Aerosmith
5. “Born to Be Wild” – Steppenwolf
6. "Crocodile Rock"/"Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters" - Elton John
7. "Wonderful Tonight" - Eric Clapton
8. "Old Time Rock and Roll" - Bob Seger
9. "Peg" - Steely Dan
10 . "Pertty Woman" - Van Halen
11. "Rock You Like A Hurricane" - Scorpions
12. "Livin' On A Prayer" AND "Wanted Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi
13. "House of the Rising Sun" - Animals
14. "California Girls" - Beach Boys
15. "Wipe Out" - Surfaris
16. "Crosroads" -Cream
17. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" - ANYONE
18. "Rock and Roll Part 2" - Garry Glitter
19. "Layla" - Derek and the Dominos
20. "Maragritaville" - Jimmy Buffett
Then again, there's Great Songs You NEVER Hear on the Radio: Also revised 4/22
1. "So Lonely" - The Police
2. "All Day Music", "Summer" - War
3. "Simple Twist of Fate" - Bob Dylan
4. "Stop This Game" - Cheap Trick
5. "Season of the Witch" -Donovan [just heard it in my head today]
6. "Try" - Janis Joplin ["trrrryyyyyyy --- just a little bit harder..."]
7. "I'm A Rocker" - Bruce Springsteen [great cut from The River]
8. "I Can't Explain" - Who
9. "Strutter" - Kiss
10. "Rebel Rebel"/"The Jean Genie" - David Bowie
11. "High Time We Went" - Joe Cocker
12. The Ballad of Curtis Leow" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
13. "Sweet Hitch Hiker" - CCR
14. " Swlabr" - Cream
Though I did hear Cheap Trick "If You Want My Love" and the Stones "Dance Little Sister" [with that Keef Richard solo that just dies right in the middle] on the way home tonight on The Bone. But they also played Bon Jovi
THE NHL PLAYOFFS:
Well I was scared because I picked Toronto to win it all... I feel better tonight. Not great, but better. I think Toronto's experience will eventaully beat Tampa Bay in the East. I HOPE so anyway.
I HAD picked the Stars to beat Colorado, based on Colorado's play the last two weeks of the seaon. Oh, Well. I think the Sharks beat Colorado. They're just too fast and they will outwork them. I ALSO think Calgary will put the fear into Detroit. Nashville outworked them at times and I see Calgary just as fast and dedicated with more talent than Nashville. But I will take the Sharks out of the West in the end. Good goaltending is the key...
First: The Worst
1. “Monday Monday” – The Mamas and the Papas
Honestly I have never understood people’s fascination with the band, unless they are imagining them all porking Michelle Phillips in a tub of baked beans with a mud shark.
2. “The Immigrant Song” – Led Zeppelin
What the fuck are they talking about?
3. “Playground In My Mind” – Clint Holmes
If you’ve never heard this, consider yourself lucky. I remember this from one of those summers with my Grandmother… I’d RATHER hear “Tie A Yellow Ribbon.” I’d RATHER hear “Seasons in the Sun.” What does that tell you?
4. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” or “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” – The Beatles
Paul McCartney at his WORST. Even George Harrison hated MSH. And “Revolution 9” is not a SONG, it’s a ‘sound experiment’ gone horribly horribly wrong. Lenon wouldn’t write his worst song for another couple years: “Woman Is the Nigger of the World.” SHIT! I almost forgot "Hello Goodbye"....
5. ‘The Worst” – The Rolling Stones
The Stones have done some filler songs in their 40 years, but this one from Voodoo Lounge [with Keith on lead vocals] is the ultimate stinker. Yes, that includes all the mediocrity of Undercover, Dirty Work, Goats Head Soup and It’s Only Rock and Roll. [Though their covers of the Temps “My Girl” [Flowers] and “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” [Only Rock and Roll] come pretty close.
6. “Stand” –R.E.M.
They release their major label debut and THIS is the ‘Big Breakthrough Hit?’ Should have been a sign of the selling out to come…
The WHIPS: Revised 4/22
1. "American Pie - Don McLean
1. “Free Bird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. ANYTHING by Boston, but especially “Long Time” and “Don’t Look Back”
3. “Aqualung” – Jethro Tull
4. “Dream On”/"Dude Looks Like A Lady" – Aerosmith
5. “Born to Be Wild” – Steppenwolf
6. "Crocodile Rock"/"Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters" - Elton John
7. "Wonderful Tonight" - Eric Clapton
8. "Old Time Rock and Roll" - Bob Seger
9. "Peg" - Steely Dan
10 . "Pertty Woman" - Van Halen
11. "Rock You Like A Hurricane" - Scorpions
12. "Livin' On A Prayer" AND "Wanted Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi
13. "House of the Rising Sun" - Animals
14. "California Girls" - Beach Boys
15. "Wipe Out" - Surfaris
16. "Crosroads" -Cream
17. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" - ANYONE
18. "Rock and Roll Part 2" - Garry Glitter
19. "Layla" - Derek and the Dominos
20. "Maragritaville" - Jimmy Buffett
Then again, there's Great Songs You NEVER Hear on the Radio: Also revised 4/22
1. "So Lonely" - The Police
2. "All Day Music", "Summer" - War
3. "Simple Twist of Fate" - Bob Dylan
4. "Stop This Game" - Cheap Trick
5. "Season of the Witch" -Donovan [just heard it in my head today]
6. "Try" - Janis Joplin ["trrrryyyyyyy --- just a little bit harder..."]
7. "I'm A Rocker" - Bruce Springsteen [great cut from The River]
8. "I Can't Explain" - Who
9. "Strutter" - Kiss
10. "Rebel Rebel"/"The Jean Genie" - David Bowie
11. "High Time We Went" - Joe Cocker
12. The Ballad of Curtis Leow" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
13. "Sweet Hitch Hiker" - CCR
14. " Swlabr" - Cream
Though I did hear Cheap Trick "If You Want My Love" and the Stones "Dance Little Sister" [with that Keef Richard solo that just dies right in the middle] on the way home tonight on The Bone. But they also played Bon Jovi
THE NHL PLAYOFFS:
Well I was scared because I picked Toronto to win it all... I feel better tonight. Not great, but better. I think Toronto's experience will eventaully beat Tampa Bay in the East. I HOPE so anyway.
I HAD picked the Stars to beat Colorado, based on Colorado's play the last two weeks of the seaon. Oh, Well. I think the Sharks beat Colorado. They're just too fast and they will outwork them. I ALSO think Calgary will put the fear into Detroit. Nashville outworked them at times and I see Calgary just as fast and dedicated with more talent than Nashville. But I will take the Sharks out of the West in the end. Good goaltending is the key...