no comment. neil young & crazy horse - cortez the killer paperboy - ditty crowded house - don't dream its over radar bros - we're not sleeping the caesers - you're my favourite oasis - mucky fingers the hollies - bus stop lee hazlewood - summer wine rem - hope eric burdon [...]
i can't remember if i've written about big star before but they are great. underrated back in the day but people came around. i'm not too sure about the history of big star ( here ) but i know that chris bell died back in the 70's and alex chilton sang lead vocals on the box tops' 'the letter' back in the 60's. chris bell recorded a stellar solo record, 'i am the cosmos', before his death that wasn't officially released until 1992. first appearing on the 'from a basement on a [...]
sheboygan wisconsin's (wheeeuh! wisconsin!) own the chordettes brought together pieces of early traditional pop and (mostly) barbershop (fucking wheeeeuh! barbershop!) starting off with their take of pat ballard's 'mr sandman'. since forming in 1946 they had many a-hit in their tenure but that means nothing compared to the road they paved for future girl groups such as the supremes, the ronettes, the crystals, the angels, the shangri-las et al, and held some inspiration for the vocal stylings of the rest of motown. motown fucking rules but more on that later. once again, again, we head over to the [...]
that hippydippy terry jacks brought the song 'seasons in the sun' to the beach boys where they recorded but never officially released their pretty great take. terry then recorded and eventually released his version and it sold like hotcakes. somewhere around 6 million units pushed for the man. not bad after it sat dormant on his shelf for a year or so. terry jacks is canadian and part is me is super jealous of that. he also rewrote some of the lyrics that was originally written by some french fucking guy as to not [...]
and here i thought ironic rap covers were a thing of the 1990's. someone needs to ironically cover 'nuthin' but a g thing' and 'dre day'. or how about this entire album cause it's fucking stellar. that would totally get someone on the map. i didn't know that ben folds had given this a shot until this last summer when i saw him perform it on tour every fucking night. still dude can play two pianos at once. one with his hands and one with his feets. and that's pretty goddamn sweet and that makes ben folds a [...]
fucking snow. the exit - home for an island the detroit cobras - let's forget about the past the afghan whigs - john the baptist possum dixon - in her disco suicide - rocket usa [...]
times new viking 'present the paisley reich' after hearing about these guys from shane in two cow garage , i checked it out. i'm glad i did but i'll let them describe themselves. "Breath in: snuff a line speed, a half hour jump on your cheap amplifiers, salad yet once a half hour with you yet cheaper guitar against the wall. Write eleven popliedjes, lay the emphasis on cryptic and forget everything your song teacher you ever learned has. Seek your neighbor girl on and tell her that your musics will make. Lay her emphatically from that she [...]
sinapore sling - listen tupac - hit 'em up neil young - all along the watchtower mojo nixon - elvis is everywhere [...]
hopefully i keep finding cool shit from last year or this theme is gonna die. speck mountain 'summer above' wooden shjips 'wooden shjips' when i hear the term space rock i get a few sound images swirling around inside my head. explosions in the sky , the secret machines , spacemen3 / spiritualized , pink floyd (specifically the 'piper at the gates of dawn', 'meddle', 'dark side of the moon' and 'saucerful [...]
after his first solo venture mike ness released his second solo outing 'under the influence' which is made up of covers (almost, he adds a new version of 'ball and chain' which is full of honkytonk swagger). choice rock, bluegrass and country covers from the likes marty robbins, carl perkins, hank williams and on. here he gives hank williams haunting 'six more miles (to the graveyard)' an excellent fiddle-filled punkabilly take. and despite looking like a serious bro, mike ness is a total badass. and speaking of badass, bluegrass loving pseudo-christians 16 horsepower also [...]
i didn't want the best of list to fall on a tuesday as this is a lot of tuneage for one day. oh well. shit happens. lee hazlewood - friday's child lucero - the weight of guilt william elliott whitmore - the buzzard's won't cry [...]
so i just peeped '3:10 to yuma'. as it seems to be listmania times, here are the best 6 westerns in the last 20 years. 6 sunset riders (the arcade game) 5 unforgiven 4 back to the future 3 3 the proposition 2 tombstone 1 3:10 to yuma ps i haven't seen 'the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford' yet. go see '3:10 to yuma'
well here are the efforts that didn't make the cut. expect the big winner list tomorrow or the next day or the next at some point. i figured a lot of totally decent records might have gotten snubbed. so here's the rest of the end of the year dealy. and then the lame-o's. first?!? (brah, i'm totally confused and disillusioned.) still competent or didn't get enough spins young galaxy 'young galaxy', terrene 'the indifferent universe', pela 'anytown graffiti', [...]
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