List Archive
Best Records of 2001 
(with some exceptions)
The Reverend Wayne Coomers
Bob Dylan -- Love and Theft
Shaver -- The Earth Rolls On
The Coup -- Party Music
Merle Haggard -- Roots, Volume 1
Afroman -- "Because I Got High"
Von Freeman -- Live at the Dakota
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant -- Collection
Bellrays -- Grand Fury
The Velvet Underground -- The Bootleg Series, Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
Luna -- Live
Maria Muldaur -- Richland Woman
Unitas -- Porch Life
Gorillaz -- "Clint Eastwood"
John Schooley One-Man Band -- Rock and Roll Party with the One Man Band
Buddy Guy -- Sweet Tea
James Blood Ulmer -- Memphis Blood
Old 97s -- Satellite Rides
John Anderson -- Nobody’s Got It All
Goddamn Gentleman -- Sexcaliber Horsepower
The White Stripes -- White Blood Cells
MF Doom -- Operation: Doomsday
Charlie Burton & Rock Therapy -- S/T (unreleased EP)
Willie Nelson -- Rainbow Connection
Strokes -- The Modern World (EP)
Ken Shimamoto, Texas Sentinel
1. Dictators - D.F.F.D. (Dictators MultiMedia)
2. Scott Morgan - Medium Rare (Real O Mind)
3. Velvet Underground - Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes (Polygram)
4. Tricky Woo - Les Sables Magiques (Tee Pee)
5. Deep Reduction - 2 (Get Hip)
6. Dragons - Rock and Roll Kamikaze (Junk)
7. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Rodeo Tandem Beat Specter (Nippon Columbia)
8. Radio Birdman - The Essential 1974-1978 (Sub Pop)
9. Angie Pepper/Passengers - It's Just That I Miss You (Citadel)
10. Stalk-Forrest Group - St. Cecilia (Rhino Handmade)
ramones-leave home
not for the reissue...for the gawdsend of the live bonus stuff!!
gillian welch-time: the revelator
the best non-rawk rawk record since have moicy???
dictators-dffd
only a surprise to anyone who hasn't seen them live recently.
velvet underground-bootleg series vol.1 "the quine tapes"
three discs and an hour's worth of "sister ray"'s
donnas-turn 21
i only hope that we get to hear it when they hit 30!
detroit cobras-love, life and leaving
ronnie spector in the garage
zodiac killers-have a blast
greg lowery...yep!
buddy guy-sweet tea
old gee-tar hero discovers the hill country
bellrays-grand fury
forget the "blank meets blank" shit...this is just power rawk!!
shaver-earth rolls on
the end of the best father/son duo ever...shit shit shit!
the rest...
lazy cowgirls-here & now
nomads-up-tight
chris knight-pretty good guy
various-truck driver boogie: big rig hits
deadly snakes-i'm not your soldier anymore
cash brothers-how was tomorrow
white stripes-white blood cells
electric frankenstein-buzz of 1000 volts
graham parker-deepcut to nowhere
merle haggard-roots vol.1
andre williams-bait & switch
dirtbombs-ultraglide in black
knoxville girls-in a paper suit
zen guerrilla-shadows on the sun
dolly parton-little sparrow
Jason Cafer, KCOU Uber-DJ
1. Sultans - Sultans vs Texas (Columbia, MO) Horny Robot Records
2. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Old 97's - Satellite Rides
4. Air - 10,000 Hz Legend
5. Ryan Adams - Gold
6. Oneida - Anthem of the Moon
7. Howe - Confluence
8. Donnas - Turn 21
9. Strokes - Is This It?
10. Steven Malkmus
11. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
12. Love As Laughter - Sea to Shining Sea
13. Ladytron - 604
14. The Clientele - Suburban Light
15. The Cherry Valence
16. Gorillaz
17. Lucinda Williams - Essence
18. Dismemberment Plan - Change
19. R.L. Burnside - Burnside on Burnside
20. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
21. Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the New Loud
22. "Oh Holy Fools" - The Music of Son Ambulance and Bright Eyes
23. Mark Kozelek - What's Next to the Moon (AC/DC songs done pretty!)
24. Trembling Blue Stars - Alive to Every Smile
25. Tortoise - Standards
26. Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
27. Rondelles - Shined Nickels and Loose Change
28. Tight Brothers From Way Back When - Lend You Attend
29. Dean Quoxite (soundtrack)
30. Junior Brown - Mixed Bag
Jesse Cravens, Rock-O-Rama Commandant
1. The Strokes - Is This It
2. The White Stripes - "Fell in Love w/ A Girl," skip the rest of the album, this is the good stuff. Best thing they've done in all their three years as a white (pun! ah!) blues duo.
3. The Strokes - "NYC Cops," the track deleted from the U.S. version of Is This It. Well worth the search on CD, but if you can find it online go for it!
4. John Mendelssohn's Appalachian Spring Rolls - "The Heart You're Trying So Hard to Break," the latest from ex-Christopher Milk acrobatix expert and rock critic extraordinaire, John Ned Mendelssohn. Not exactly a rock song per se, but hilarious. Great Ravenous-esque (teen-horror flick with music by Damon Albarn) backing tracks and dynamite lyrics for the
literacy inclined. Available for free download at (http://www.londoning.com/heartBreak.html)
SuperDJMyke's Top 10 Recordings To Rock Out To: (in no particular order)
(Ed.'s note: no 2001 recordings--but what the hell
1. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
2. Ramones - Anthology
3. The Dirtbombs - Ultra Glide in Black
4. Dead Boys - Young, Loud, & Snotty
5. Cash Money (Cash Audio) - Halos of Smoke & Fire
6. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
7. Social Distortion - White Light White Heat White Trash
8. White Stripes - De Stijl
9. the Black Crowes - the Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
10. (Tie) Led Zeppelin - III or the Clash - London Calling
Col. Gray, Vicious Kitten Records, Australia
1) Cheetah Chrome - Live In Detroit CD
2) Trash Brats - American Disaster CD
3) Dave Kusworth and The Tenderhooks - Her name In The Rocks CD
4) Dragons - Rock n Roll Kamikaze CD
5) Ian Hunter - rant CD
6) Damned - Grave Disaster CD
7) Quireboys - This is Rock n Roll
8) Rose tattoo - 25 to Life CD
9) Dictators - NYNY
10) Izzy Stradlin - River CD
John Schooley, guit/vox/pen of Austin's The Hard Feelings
Deadly Snakes I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore
Andre Williams Bait and Switch
Tyler Keith & the Preacher's Kids Romeo Hood
Tearjerkers Bad Mood Rising
Lazy Cowgirls Here and Now (Live)
Andy G and the Roller Kings s/t
Dirtbombs Ultraglide in Black
Crack Pipes Every Night Saturday Night
Bob Dylan "Love and Theft"
Campbell Brothers Sacred Steel On Tour
Dimitri Monroe, Naked Flame (in the Darkness)
IAN HUNTER "RANT"
JOE STRUMMER "GLOBAL A GO GO"
NICK CAVE "NO MORE SHALL WE PART"
DAVE KUSWORTH & THE TENDERHOOKS "ENGLISH DISCO"
TEENAGE FRAMES "1% FASTER"
PAUL K. & THE PRAYERS anything by Paul K.,I mostly have compilation tapes.
DAVID JOHANSEN & THE HARRY SMITHS s/t
SOUR JAZZ "LOST FOR LIFE" & "DRESSED TO THE LEFT"
DOGS D'AMOUR "HAPPY EVER AFTER"
UNITAS "PORCH LIFE"
BEAT ANGELS unreleased album tracks
CHEETAH CHROME "DEADBOY LIVE IN DETROIT"
TEX PERKINS "DARK HORSES"
DRAGBEAT "PUREDIRT"
PHOEBE LEGERE "SEX,DEATH,& PHAME"
MAD FOR THE RACKET "THE RACKETEERS"
TRASH BRATS "AMERICAN DISASTER"
THE HANGMEN "METALLIC I.O.U."
MICHAEL MONROE "LIFE GETS YOU DIRTY"
THE CULT "BEYOND GOOD & EVIL"
RYAN ADAMS "GOLD"
I-94 RECORDINGS V/A "DRUNK ON ROCK VOLUME TWO"
NIKKI SUDDEN "RED BROCADE"
VICIOUS KITTEN V/A "ROCKNROLL WAR"
SLOW MOTORCADE "SEX,DRAGS,& ROCKNROLL"
DANDY WARHOLS "THIRTEEN TALES OF URBAN BOHEMIA"
AMERICAN HEARTBREAK/LIBERTINE "YOU CAN'T KILL ROCKNROLL"
BEBE BUELL "FREEDOM TO ROCK" demos
CHEATER SLICKS "REFRIED DREAMS"
TRASH BRATS "SONGS IN THE KEY OF F.U."
THE SOVINES "SAD LAST DAYS OF..."
THE SCARECROWS "CLASS A ROCKNROLL"
THE VEINS "THE GLORIOUS SOUNDS OF"
TYLA "IDLE GAIT OF THE SELF POSSESSED"
BRIAN OBLIVION "BADLY BEATEN BUT STILL CONCIOUS"
AMERICAN HEARTBREAK "POSTCARDS FROM HELL"
BLACK HALOS "THE VIOLENT YEARS"
Sam D'Agostino, Rock and Roll Cub Reporter
1.Old 97's- Satellite Rides
2. The Strokes- is this it?
3. Ryan Adams- Gold
4. Bob Dylan- love and theft
5. Muckaferguson- ST
6. Steven Malkmus- ST
7. Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
8. Rufus Wainwright- Poses
9.Lucinda Williams- Essence
10. Air- 10,000 HZ Legend
Jeremiah Kidwell, howlin' from Kansas City
Arthur Alexander – The Monument Years
Bob Dylan – Love and Theft
Shaver – The Earth Rolls On
The Tearjerkers – Bad Mood Rising
Merle Haggard – Roots Volume One
The Reigning Sound – Break Up Break Down
Blaze Foley – Live at the Austin Outhouse
John Anderson – Nobody’s Got It All
The Dictators – D.F.F.D.
The Now Time Delegation – watch for today
The Dirt Bombs – Ultraglide in Black
The Detroit Cobras – Love, Life and Leaving
The Lazy Cowgirls – Here and Now
The Cripplers – One More For The Bad Guys
The Strokes – Is This It
Dr. Filth Reviews the Year in Rawk!
1. Bob Dylan - Love and Theft. #1 by such a wide margin that I think he laps just about everything else on this list at least twice. Pose the question: how do you make a great, well loved record by recycling motifs and ideas from records of your own nobody liked the first time around? I mean, I know everybody digs New Morning now, but it didn't used to be that way. And nobody still likes Shot of Love, whose "Trouble", at least, belongs on this platter. Oh well, it don't matter. He wins because he made me laugh more than anybody else this year. He wins because he rocks. He wins because he's such a good singer. He wins because he writes his ass off. And he wins because he released a record that has the line "Coffins dropping in the streets like balloons made out of lead" on September 11. Sigh. My hero.
2. Lost Sounds - Memphis Is Dead (Big Neck LP) - Technically this was 2000, I think, but I didn't hear it 'til 2001, and it sounds 2001 to me, so here it is. Placing this at number two on my list will probably permanently remove me from the John Schooley mailing list, but que sera sera. I know he saw them down in Austin and declared them to be the first round of the inevitable result of the White Stripes' popularity - 'PRETENTIOUS GARAGE'! Wrong on most counts -- I don't think these Memphis dirtbags were particularly inspired by the White Stripes artiness to create their own artifarti, and I don't think they're garage, neither. Strange, disturbing, basement Keyb/guit/drum Joy Divisional/Screamer punk evil that speaks one multisyllabic word to me over and over again -- FRUSTRATION. An extremely well realized, well sequenced, well performed, correctly recorded transgression against the ears of modern man. Their 7" on Empty is dead-cool Wire parody/update. Second LP on Empty (Black Noise) is nowhere near as CONCISE as Memphis Is Dead but is still a noise worth hearing.
3. Shaver - The Earth Rolls On - Sometimes the Earth rolls right on over you, I guess. This is an awesome CD, and I'm sorry that I got on this particular train so friggin' late in its course (like after it jumped the tracks.). Dylan comparisons Coomers makes in his nice review of this set are superapt, esp. since the fun and sex on this set prefigure Love and Theft and actually manage to give it a run for its money. Bob's apocalypse tunes are more convincing, however. One shade too clean in the production department for my hard headed heart, but what a minor quibble.
4. V/A - Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit - (Sympathy) - Ah, goddamnit, why is Little Jackie Detroit STILL on my list for three years running? I guess it is impossible to deny the energy he's brought to rock and roll, even if next year we're going to have to put up with way to much of his bizness. I mean, like, LOOK OUT. This was my favorite bit of Detroitia out this year because it's well sequenced, well arranged, and well thought out, w/a good concept -- everybody come over to my house, play on my amplifiers, and our comp will sound coherent and cool. Oh, yeah, and then do a blues vamp. This does what a good compilation should do -- make everybody on it look better than they really are. Letmetellya -- you don't need to own no Come Ons records. You don't need no Hentchmen LPs. You sure as FUCK don't need that awful Von Bondies LP. And truth to tell you don't really need the new Detroit Cobras, especially not in the face of the fact that the hottest track on that record is here cut by this one off version w/pounding piano provided by the compiler.
5. Strokes - The Modern Age EP - The last cut on Is This It? is called "Take It or Leave It". I can, for the most part, "leave it" (Thanks for the choice, boys), when it comes to their mage labe debutt, but try though I did I could not not love their demo recordings, and I understand why they made closet rock lovers in the A&R world go nuts. I really love the moments when the singer transits from Lou Reed to Tom Jones. It don't mean a thing, but it do got that swing. Two of the three songs on this were absolutely ruined in their Is This It? incarnation. Strike two on the Schooley meater. Oh well.
6. Merle Haggard - Roots, Vol. 1 - Totally half past give a shit in terms of commerce. Who's gona buy it? Not like the alterna-kids are ever going to forgive him his jingoism. At least they can buy Johnny Cash because he paid tribute to the American Indian and all Merle ever tributed was Jimmie Rodgers. But NO COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL has done wonders for his voice. So does the production. How many overdubs again, Rev?
7. Reigning Sound - Break Up Break Down - A pretty courageous record -- Greg Cartright drops the Oblivian tag and all identifiable trappings of their giant unstoppable wham to write pure pop for now pussies. Good sound, good songs, good sequence (on CD), some good words and some bad ones. Totally welcoming vibe. Nice Beach Boys cover, filtered through the Sir Douglas Quintet. Strike three and you're out, says John Schooley. Worst marketing job of the year by Sympathy for the Record Industry, who deserve a special accolade in that particular category.
8. Monsieur Jeffery Evans - Live in the Shangri La Parking Lot LP - Sympathy for the Record Industry. The mind boggles, truly boggles, that this record got released. Jeff Evans rambling on about personal musical history often disguised as actual musical history, playing songs for about 30 seconds, getting them wrong, and going on to talk about something else. All in the guise of a "guitar lesson." But, wow, what a great Alex Chilton story. The best store-clearing device I got this year this side of the Electric Eels double. More wasted White Stripes revenue!
9. Holly Golightly/Dan Melchior - Desperate Little Town - All acoustic folk blues ramble through the pop idiom that continues to show no one makes better easy listening than our ol ex 'eadcoatee 'olly Go. Killer Nina Simone cover tops this set. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood do the delta.
10. Ugly Things - #19. The Kim Fowley Interview. This was more rock and roll than most everything I actually listened this year. Full of shit, profound, tough, mean, insensitive, biting the hand that feeds him, Fowley zaps everyone in his memory, tells great rock and roll stories that only have to be half true to be amazing, attacks Mike Stax for being such a record junkie and then whoops his ass when he catches him in a record junkie gaff, is rude to the magazine's entire readership and uses the phrase "I am a piece of shit" almost as many times as he says "I wanted to fuck dirty bitches." Fowley saves Dylan from a mob of fans! Fowley misses producing the Beatles by like two weeks! Fowley pimps for PJ Proby! No one who likes rock and roll has any excuse for not having read this interview . . .
11. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Soundtrack) - Does not play as well w/o the movie around it, but the movie itself was one of the most enjoyable rock and roll experiences of the year, reminding me again that the real point of the whole thing is personal psychodrama colliding with a confused, often hostile public. Loses the plot towards the end, but the first hour killed me.
12. White Stripes - White Blood Cells - I am beginning to have serious content issues with our boy Jackie, who's still telling me stories I know too well. But I have been too long a proponent to suddenly turn opponent. Side one of this record is fucking great. Songs, sequencing, production, voice, drum, guitar - it's all real good. Especially "I'm Finding It Hard to Be a Gentleman" -- its lyrics really appeal to the old Stones fart in me. Check out this year's fantastic "first Peel Session" (throw a rock at your computer and you'll hit an MP3) for a truly inspiring version of that song.
Three way tie for 13th (honorable mention):
13. Dirt Bombs - Ultraglide in Black, Now Time Delegation - Watch for Today, Detroit Cobras - Love, Life, Leaving - These three LPs are the essentially the same LP and they show one thing to me very clearly: the garage heroes of five years ago have turned into the seasoned pros of today. Where once sloppiness, spontaniety and stoopidity ruled the roost, these three records are staid, serious studies in soul. All three are pleasurable to listen to, have good singin' and playin' on them, and are full of well selected and occasionally well written tunes - the difference between, say, England's Newest Hitmakers and Tattoo You. They are, in the early 70s sense of the term, TASTY. Who'dve ever thought the term tasty would have more to do with, oh, the Allman Brothers than the Demolition Doll Rods when you're talking about "garage rock"?
Mick Collins' Dirtbombs album convinces because you can believe Mick grew up with these songs and he puts them over with more well thought out arrangements than he's bothered with in a long time. His cover of Thin Lizzie's "Ode to a Black Man" and his Honky Tonk Womanated "See My Love for You Growing" are brilliant. But most of it is, you know, just LOUD SOUL. From a man whose first band, the Gories, threatened to rip the blues a new asshole that would excrete an entirely new form of music, and whose second band, Blacktop, created a rock'n'roll protest record so searing and terrifying that even the well schooled Rev. Coomers never could hear it.
The Now Time Delegation record features the Bellrays frontlady and the Jack'o'Fire guit slinger turning out some well crafted songs, some swell sounding covers, and some unconvincingly polemical liner notes. And it's a shitload better than the Bellrays, but it's not gonna start a revolution.
The Detroit Cobras album carbon copies the first record with well chosen songs (I already have these, though, thanks!) sung well and played well, but w/none of the strange magic that turned all those cover songs on the first record into a joyous personal statement.
These people are professionals getting paid on a very small scale to do their job and do it well. Next year, the media machine is going to try to sell us "real rock and roll" again, if they can just find the right song to lead the attack. Everyone is on board - the slicks preach boredom against teen pap, the fashion ads show rocker chic burnout look at the height of cool, and the Gap wanted and did not get the White Stripes for their Christmas campaign. The Strokes are on MTV and in the endcaps at Best Buy. And it will be nice to hear rock and roll that doesn't sound like Kreed or Quorn. But remember this, children: IF YOU'RE NOT DANCIN' IT'S NOT ROCK AND ROLL!!!! And if anybody out there knows of anything that's really gonna shimmy my jimmy, please write me at drfilth@ioa.com and let me know where it is.
Cutz, Hot Cutz, Get 'Em from da record man . . .
1. Deadly Snakes - Graveyard Shake, Twice as Dead
2. Tearjerkers - Wire Tapper Calling
3. Steven Malkmus - The Hook
4. Buff Medways - Archive from 1959
5. Andre Williams - Detroit, Michigan
6. Dan Melchior's Broke Review - Witch on Fire/Creeping Shakes
7. White Stripes - Party of Special Things to Do
8. Demolition Doll Rods - Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart
Disappointments/Worst Ofs
1. Mick Jagger - BEING MICK - After carefully cultivating an aloof, untouched by mere mortality image for, what, 40 years of stoopid behavior, Jagger spends a year making a documentary hellbent on proving that he's just as boring if not moreso than anybody else. How can Mick Jagger film his life for a year and nothing cool end up in it? "What did you think of the Madonna show, Elton? Ah, yes, tepid. Me too." "Would you like some tea, Bono?" "Oh, why was I jilted by Kate Winslet?" "Come sing on me album, daughters!" I mean, I fuckin' love this guy. There's a line on that new Dylan album that goes, "I can't tell my heart that you're no good." But outside of the context of the Stones, the obvious is obvious. And someone needs to tell him that gestures are not emotions, his postures are not gonna connect with anybody, and nobody wants to hear him ever sing "Visions of Paradise" ever again. MICK, DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB.
2. Von Bondies - LP on Sympathy for the Record Industry. Although Rockin' John Schooley's big fear for White Stripes backlash is that a bunch of pretentious garage bands are going to try to, like, infuse content into the perfection of form that is rock and roll, this is the real fear right here: Bands that sound exactly like the White Stripes. In this case recorded by Jack White. Includes a song or two that sound so much like "Screwdriver" that Jack could sue for plagarism if he wasn't already getting some hypothetical points as producer.
3. Andre Williams/Ronnie Spector - I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine - Not so much a bad thing as a missed opportunity. If Andre were still the truly rancid genius that recorded Silky he woulda rewrote this as "It Didn't Work Out Fine", taken Ike's part 40 years later, and given Tina's to Ronnie. "Ike-y?" "What, bitch?" "I guess I really kicked your ass!" "You sure did. Oprah would shoot me if she saw me on the street."
REISSUES/ARCHIVAL:
1. VELVET UNDERGROUND - The Quine Tapes - The Sister Ray on the second CD is just about the heaviest thing I have ever heard.
2. Arthur Alexander - The Monument Years - Ace CD - Over 25 cuts of mostly unreleased Arthur Alexander that actually cuts the Razor and Tie CD to shreds and proves that he is the black Doug Sahm. Not that Doug could sell any records either.
3. Lou Reed - An American Poet - Double LP on the Italian Get Back Label. Unreleased 1972 radio broadcast concert with the Tots, recorded right after Transformer was released. Lou still plays guitar. The same arrangements as Rock and Roll Animal, played by a lot less "professional" band. Amazing sound, amazing performances, great Lou Reed interview. (He actually says he wishes Doug Yule was dead!) You need this record.
4. Electric Eels - The Eyeball of Hell - Best liner notes of the year. Most appropriate title of the year. Most punk rock record of the year, and it was recorded before there was punk rock. Cleveland rocks!
5. X - Aspirations - Australia's X, not LA's. Gang of Four meets the Rolling Stones for fun and frolic. Recorded in a day. "Na-na-na-na Rock and Roll! Na-na-na-na Rock and Roll!"
6. V/A - It Came From Memphis Volume 2 (Birdman) - as a summation of Memphis amazingly better than the first, really great, comp CD. Tav Falco and Alex Chilton terrorize Memphis Morning Television! Jerry Lawler and Jim Dickinson terrorize Chuck Berry! Dickinson proves he won't take no shit from no woman! Otha Turner coughs the boogie! Fractured, fucked up, and profound.
7. Love - Forever Changes - Rhino - The best post-September 11 record that wasn't Love and Theft. Too many bonus tracks.
8. Ramones - Rocket to Russia - Their best album. Great number of great bonus tracks.
9. Ike Turner - Ike's Instrumentals - Ace CD - Probably heavier guitar splank than on that Velvet Underground boxset. Along with Norton's Link Wray double, the coolest CD of 50s guitar in the marketplace.
10. King Hannibal - Hannibalism - Norton Records (CD Preferred for max cuts!) - The other best liner notes of the year, penned by the Hannibal himself. The history of rock and roll told in story and song by this virtual unknown whose 50s stuff is the equal of Young Jesse, whose 60s stuff is the equal of, say, Don Covay, and whose early 70s output recalls almost no one. Featuring the amazing "Truth Shall Set You Free" - a gospel anti-Heroin designed to scare the scag sinner straight. Genius.
11. Thee Headcoats - Headcoats Down! - Finally, Billy Childish's finest outfit's (the perfect blend of form/content) first album is available again, after ten years of OOP. Sounds like the White Stripes with more rebop, humor, and, yes, roots. Where was everybody's head up?
12. The Nerves - 25th Anniversary 10" - Six song LP from this snotty '77 New York power pop trio, best "known" for their song "Hangin' on the Telephone". These folks smoke the Strokes and that's no hoax.
13. The Left Reverend Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse - CD - Insane protest jazz/funk social commentary from a one time mafia owned teenie bop hundred pounds of clay. Rumor has it it got banned by the Nixon administration for telling too much truth. I believe it. Top five all time anti/pro-Mick Jagger song. Includes a song about a white riot and how peas look like boogers.
14. Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight and How It Got That Way - Spends three LPs attempting to turn it into the Pet Sounds of Punk. Which is probably one LP too many. Sounds to me like what Eddie Poe would have sounded like if he fronted a rock band and had a faggy voice.
15. Nuggets II -- Glad to see that Jeff Bale singled out for "exclusion" "Crawdaddy Simone", "Chicks and Kicks" and "Bad Little Woman" as three expendable cuts in his review in Hitlist. They're three of my favorite tunes on this bad boy, which proves I'm still doing something right. How did the Downliner Sect even hear Reed and Cale's "Why Don't You Smile Now"?
16. Holy Modal Rounders - Give Me a Hamburger CD - Rounder - Way too many cuts from last year's Too Much Fun for me, since, you know, it's still in print, and there's still no excuse for Alleged in Their Own Time or the Clamtones album not being completely available, but this will do for now.
17. John Philips - Pay Pack and Follow - CD - Recorded with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Mick Taylor in 1977 or thereabouts. Most of this is pretty dreadful. The fewer Stones are involved, the more bathetic it gets. However, three cuts, the oddball Tattoo You-meets-Lou Reed melange of "Mr. Blue", the epic "Oh Virginia", and especially the absolutely scuzzy "Just 14" (some of the funniest Jagger ever) contain something more of the drugged out Exile vibe than I ever thought I'd hear again. A sweet sweet treat.
18. V/A - Delinquentes - Best "garage" comp I heard all year. Deranged 60s Mexican garage rumble. Features a cover of the Downliner's version of "Glendora"? Now how did they get that?
19. Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine and Roses - It was nice to see this record get its due this year.
20. V/A - GIT DOWN! - One of those "Crypt/Not Crypt" Soul comps like the great "All Night Soul Stomp" or "All Tore Up". This one covers 68-72, and gets funkier than Crypt normally gets. The real Git Down is Phil Flower's nine minute funk reading of "Like a Rolling Stone" that sounds like early Funkadelic cross pollenated with Dylan strained through Billy Stewart's "Summertime".
Rock and Roll Poker Party of Your Dreams!
This month, our visitors list the rock and rollers they'd deem most likely to, when assembled, produce an all-night poker extravaganza of such hilarity, insight, conflict, intrigue, and catalytic volatility that tales would be told, songs sung, and books written about it into perpetuity. Close yer eyes, take a whiff of smoke and spilled libations, and imagine these folks sitting around your kitchen table:
The Rev's List:
1. Bo Diddley: He's been around basically from the beginning, he's seen it all, and, from all
reports, he knows how to party.
2. Keith Richards: An underrated font of immutable wisdom, besides being fun and full of
stories.
3. Jon Langford: An essential combination of political perspective, dynamic dipsomania, and
inexhaustible, fascinating verbal flow.
4. John Lydon: Wonderfully full of piss and vinegar. But can he take it? That'd be the fun of
having him present.
5. Etta James: Never took shit from no man, and still able to rock and roll with anyone.
6. Kris Kristofferson: He's been at every OTHER great party.
7. Linda Gail Lewis: The best substitute for her near-mummified bro.
8. Lemmy: No bullshit.
9. Boots Riley (of the Coup): Ripe for a square-off or team-up with Jonboy.
10. Kathleen Hanna: Because a poker game would be the last thing she'd normally frequent.
Jesse Cravens:
Joe Strummmer: Knows what it's like to get shot for cheating. Probably played a good deal of cards in prison, back when they'd either arrest you or cut off your right hand.
Jonathan Richman: Cause you always gotta have someone who keeps asking what the difference between a Straight and a Full House is.
Bryan Ferry: He's got more gentlemanly things to do, so he bets heavily and tries to lose as much as possible, just to get out of it.
David Bowie: Tries to make it seem like he's got more gentlemanly things to do. Keeps challenging Ferry to a duel. Ferry just keeps staring at him.
Paul Weller: Cause you always need someone to be a designated driver.
Kevin Ayers: Someone's gotta bring the Margarita mix.
Brian Eno: The Subversive. Keeps trying to get Ayers and Richman to sneak off and play Fan Tan. Still asks for the house to cover his enormous losses, though.
Mark Mothersbaugh: The Degenerate. The game always ends with him pissing away his entire life's savings to Ayers (on account of Ayers' unique talent of bluffing his way through every other album) and having to do the score for yet another Nickelodeon animated series.
manthon...of The Rawk
shane macgowan...there's gotta be a drunk to take advantage of
steve albini...someone's gotta bitch about the rules
ian mackaye...gotta keep shit in line and watch the cheaters
tommy stinson...doesn't care and just wants to have fun
joan jett...to keep the danglers in line
and me! to lose all my cash!
Records You've Worn Out
This month, the First Church is soliciting lists of records our congregation has flat WORN OUT! They might not be the records you'd list as the greatest of all-time, but they're the ones you've played most often--hours in a row, days in a row, weeks in a row, months in a row, years in a row--and ones you might just have owned 3 or 4 copies of.
The Rev's List
1. Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
2. John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
3. Flying Burrito Brothers: The Gilded Palace of Sin
4. Al Green: Call Me/Livin' for You (twofer CD)
5. Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
6. Replacements: Tim
7. Tom Waits: swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs (tie)
8. Little Richard: 17 Grooviest Original Hits
9. The Clash: London Calling
10. Howard Tate: Get It While You Can
11. Howlin' Wolf: Rockin' Chair cover/Moanin' in the Moonlight (twofer CD)
12. Lucinda Williams: Lucinda Williams
13. Velvet Underground: 1969 Velvet Underground Live and The Velvet
Underground (tie)
14. Gary Stewart: Greatest Hits (RCA version)
15. Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town
16. Public Image: Second Edition
17. Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys: Basin Street Blues
18. Swamp Dogg: Total Destruction of Your Mind
19. Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk, Volume 2
20. Ray Condo & the Ricochets: Swing Brother Swing and Door to Door
Maniac (tie)
21. X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents
22. James Carter: The Real Quiet Storm
23. Stooges: Funhouse
24. Elvis Presley: '68 Comeback Special
25. New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon
Mark Pelletier, ex-Three Bags Full, Luvhandles, Boyfriend
My number one most-played record is Blue Oyster Cult's Tyranny and Mutation, still one of my all-time faves. Sounds a bit scratchynowadays, but that's part of the charm of old viny, l I suppose. (Rev's Note: Damn straight!)
Jesse Cravens, teenage visionary
PLAYED-TO-DEATH List:
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Lou Reed - The Bells
Kevin Ayers - Yes We Have No Mananas (only had it three days, and it's
sure to become a groove-less classic!)
Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) [much better than his first]
New York Dolls - Too Much, Too Soon (yeah, it's mostly covers, but it
holds together better than their first)
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (everything you've
heard is true)
The Jam - Snap! (singles comp.)
Nino Rota - Amarcord (soundtrack to Fellini film of same title)
Naked Raygun - Basement Screams
Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime
Television - The Blow Up
The Mirrors/The Electric Eels/The Styrenes- Those Were Different Times
T. Rex - The Slider
Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers of Romance
Yes - Yessongs
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (They just weren't rock'n'rolling after that,
near as I could tell)
The Who - Who's Next (duh)
The Small Faces - From the Beginning
Creation - Makin' Time
Jeremiah Kidwell, lead singer, the Revelators
A Played-Out Confessional... From the Beginning
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony
Beastie Boys - License To Ill
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Sonic Youth - dirty
The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle
Elvis Costello - Spike
Elvis Costello - Mighty Like a Rose
Elvis Costello - Girls Girls Girls
Crash Test Dummies - And God Shuffled His Feet
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Cracker - Kerosene Hat
Cracker - Cracker
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
The Bottle Rockets - s/t
Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Hound Dog Taylor - 1st record
Elvis Costello - Live at El Mocambo
Blues Explosion - Orange
The Bottle Rockets - The Brooklyn Side
Jack O' Fire - The Destruction of Squaresville
The Mummies - Never Been Caught
'68 Comeback - Golden Rogues Collection
The Gories - I Know You Be Houserockin'
Thee Mighty Caesars - Surely They Were The Sons of God
George Jones - Cup of Loneliness
Roky Erickson - Best of
Green Day - Dookie
Nine Pound Hammer - Hayseed Timebomb
The Rolling Stones - Out of Our Heads
The Oblivians - Soul Food
Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
Arthur Alexander - Razor and Tie comp
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at The Star Club
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
Louis Jordan - Somebody Up There Digs Me
The Devil Dogs - Saturday Nite Fever
Bo Diddley - s/t and Go Bo Diddley!
Sam Cooke - The Man and His Music
The Revelators - We Told You Not To Cross Us...
Elvis Costello - Trust
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Real Kids - The Real Kids
George Jones - Master comp tapes by the Rev.
Joe Tex - Charly Best of
Elmore James - The Sky is Crying
The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Ted Hawkins - Songs From Venice Beach
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Blacktop - I Got A Bad Feeling Bout This
O.V. Wright - The Soul of O.V. Wright
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Lazy Cowgirls - Ragged Soul
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Ramones - Ramones
Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
Maddox Brothers and Rose - Records made for Avon and Sears
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
The Mighty Clouds of Harmony - Didn't It Rain
Bo Diddley - The Black Gladiator
Shirley Caesar and the Caravans - s/t on Savoy
The Pretty Things - first record
James Carr - razor and tie comp
Sam Cooke - Live at The Harlem Square Club
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
George Jones - Sings the Songs of Leon Payne
Andre Williams - Silky
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Pogues - Rev. comp
Toots and the Maytals - Time Tough Anthology
Townes Van Zandt - High, Low, and In Between
Johnny Copeland - Sings the Blues
Stoney Edwards - Poor Folks Stick Together
The Deadly Snakes
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Tom T. Hall - Best Of's
Solomon Burke - Bell and Amy reissue on Sundazed
John Anderson - Nobody's Got It All
Don Lazo, White Sox apologist
I have one album that fits the bill for the list request. Back when I was in 8th grade, a number of the other kids at my school were donning black concert t-shirts of a band I didn't know. So many people seemed to like this band that I thought I should check them out (funny how that would ordinarily be illogical), and I blindly bought their latest album: Highway To Hell. Remains to this day the only album I've literally worn out--place the needle at the beginning of Side A and it immediately skids to the center of the disc. (Rev's note: Whatta tribute! And that album deserves it.)
Brother Ric "Killin'" Spree, Mad Bean Counter
Innocent Youth:
Rick Dees - "Disco Duck" (45)
Alan O'Day - "Undercover Angel" (45)
Beach Boys: 22 Greatest Hits
Jr. High/High School:
Missing Persons: Spring Session M
The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
The B-52s: The B-52s
College:
Led Zeppelin: III
The Beatles: White Album
Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
The Pixies: Doolittle
Love: Greatest Hits
Post College: (I've been buying CD's, but if I could wear a couple of out, I'm sure the following would be it)
The Clash: London Calling
Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground and Nico
Dexter Gordon: Go
Bob Dylan and The Band: The Basement Tapes
Public Enemy: Apocalypse '91...The Fear Strikes Black
Comp tapes from The Reverend played into oblivion:
X
The Stooges
Bill Blackmon, former drummer, The Skunks
All of the Beatles albums
All of the Rolling Stones albums through 'Get Yer Ya Yas Out!'
The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
The Kinks - The Kinks Kronikles
The Kinks - Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire0
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
The Kinks - Face to Face
The Kinks - Something Else
The Kinks - The Kinks Greatest Hits
The Kinks - Schoolboys in Disgrace
The Kinks - One For the Road
Dave Davies - AFL-1034
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Roxy Music - Country Life
Roxy Music - Stranded
The Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake
The Who - Happy Jack
The Who - Live At Leeds
The Who - Whos Next
The Yardbirds - Over, Under, Sideways, Down
Jeff Beck - first album
Jimi Hendrix - first 3 albums
Cream - first 3 albums
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
The Police - All albums
The Mothers Of Invention - Absolutely Free
The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For the Money
The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat
Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Howlin' Wolf - The Best Of, London Sessions
Muddy Waters - The Best Of, London Sessions
Aimee Mann - Bachelorette #3
The Cure - Remixed
Little Richard - Best Of
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets
Soft Machine - Soft Machine 2
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead - Europe '72
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
James Brown - Live At the Apollo
John Coltrane - Live At the Village Gate
Art Tatum - Master Series w/Buddy Rich
Louis Armstrong - Hot Five & Seven
Sidney Bechet - Best of
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Blur - The Great Escape
XTC - Oranges and Lemons
XTC - Generals and Majors
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beach Boys - Surfs Up
Buffalo Springfield - All 3 albums
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
Traffic - Traffic
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Move - Shazam
Family - Family Entertainment
Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
Colin Blunstone - One Year
Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
John Fogerty - Premonition
Fugs - Tenderness Junction
King Krimson - The Court of the Crimson King
Hank Williams - Best of
George Jones - Best of
Jerry Irby - Jerry Irby Collection (a family relative.....)
Love - Forever Changes
Squeeze - Best Of
Elvis Costello -first 3 albums
Nick Lowe - Pure Pop For Now People
The 13th Floor Elevators - first album w/long silly name
Fleetwood Mac - Live at the Boston Tea Party
B. B. King - Live at the Regal
Freddie King - Texas Cannonball
Willie Nelson - Red-Headed Stranger
The Skunks - Earthquake Shake - Live!
and it goes on and on and on......................
I think I have to run out to HMV now as some of these need to be replaced!
Josh Parshall, Teen Omni-Rocker
Greenday: Dookie
RATM: Evil Empire
Beck: Midnight Vultures
Dan Bern: Dan Bern
Steve Goodman: Anthology (live disc)
Offspring: Smash
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
John Prine: In Spite of Oursleves
George Frissell, Disseminator of Knowledge
The Animals' Greatest Hits and Van Morrison's Bang Masters collection
with the studio version of "Brown Eyed Girl" have been played to the bone in
my classroom, living room and bedroom. Also High Tides and Green Grass by
the stones has been played on my turntable since my brother mailed it to
me in the late sixties just before he left for the Peace Corp.
Ben Cianciosi, Disturbingly Anglophilic Teen Scribe
The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper..."
Radiohead "Kid A"
Patsy Cline "Commemorative Tribute"
Firesign Theatre "The Three Faces of Al" -Talking Heads "'77"
Harry Nillson "The Point"
Beatles "Hard Days Night"
Mozart "Collected Works"
Various Artists "This Ain't No Disco"
Prince "Batman: The Motion Picture Soundtrack"
Danny Elfmann "Batman: Motion Picture Score"
Buddy Holly "From the Original Master Tapes"
Operation Ivy "Untitled Compilation"
Ramones "Ramones Mania"
Various Artists "Spacecapades"
Squirrel Nut Zippers "Perennial Favorites"
Steve Martin "Wild and Crazy Guy"
Beck "Odelay" -Beck "Midnite Vultures"
Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense"
Beatles "Yellow Submarine"
P. Hux "Deluxe"
Pet Shop Boys "Discography"
K.D. Lang "Ingenue"
Zombies "Odyssey and Oracle"
Various Artists "Rushmore Motion Picture Soundtrack"
Can't think of any others right now, but believe me, there are plenty more. I forced my parents to cycle through about, maybe, 2 or t3 of these albums everytime we were on a car trip. Since I was a whee lad, just made them listen to the same thing over and over, the later releases I subjected only myself to, since my mom's cd player in the van mysteriously "broke."
Morten Gerdsen, editor, DeadBeat Magazine (see Links)
The Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones: Aftermath
Marvin Gaye: What´s Going On
Helmet: Betty
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs
The Clash: London Calling
The Hellacopters: Payin´ The Dues
Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly
Chokebore: Motionless
Mule: If I Don´t Six
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Acme
Beastie Boys: Check Your Head
Beck: Mellow Gold
AC/DC: Highway To Hell
Blondie: Parallel Lines
Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska
Fat Boy Slim: You´ve Come A Long Way, Baby...
The Beatles: Revolver
Monster Magnet: Dopes To Infinity
Stereolab: Mars Audiac Quintet
The New Bomb Turks: Information Highway Revisited
Eric Johnson, bassist for Nancy
X-Wild Gift (it's a Slash copy too. sad) (drove to Tulsa to buy it at
Starship)
Holly and the Italians-Holly Beth Vincent (never released on CD-damnit!)
Clash-London Calling (3 worn out vinyl copies, 2 copies on CD)
Dylan & the Band-Basement Tapes (inherited)
The Band-Big Pink & the Brown Album (ditto)
Blue Oyster Cult-Secret Treaties
Patti Smith-Horses (gift from Johnny zip)
Velvet underground-1969 Live
Iggy-Lust for Life
Elvis Costello-My Aim is True (inherited)
That's what sticks in my head right now. Unless otherwise noted, I bought all
of these at the Record Exchange (Fayetteville, AR) in high school. London Calling was the first album I bought with my own money. The inherited albums came from my mom.
The Funniest Songs in Rock and Roll History!
The Rev's List
1. The Beastie Boys: "Hold It, Now Hit It" (from Licensed to Ill)
2. Evolutionary Control Committee: "By the Time I Get to Arizona" (Whipped
Cream Mix) (Eerie Themes 45)
3. Pop-O-Pies: "The Catholics are Attacking" (from The White EP)
4. Alfred E. Newman: "It's a Gas" (Mad magazine flexi)
5. Butthole Surfers: "Lady Sniff" (from Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac)
6. The Coasters: "Bad Blood" (from 50 Coastin' Classics)
7. Johnny Cash: "A Boy Named Sue" (from Live at Folsom and San Quentin)
8. Loudon Wainwright: "Rufus is a Tit Man" (from Unrequited)
9. Slim Gaillard: "Laughing in Rhythm" (from Laughing in Rhythm)
10. Replacements: "I Hate Music" (from The Replacements Stink!)
11. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper: "The Chicken Drop" (from Root Hog or Die)
12. Swamp Dogg: "Wife Sitter" (from Gag a Maggot!)
13. Charlie Burton & the Cut-Outs: "Breathe for Me, Presley" (from ...or What?)
14. Tom Waits: "Frank's Wild Years" (from swordfishtrombones)
15. Huey Piano Smith and the Clowns: "Don't You Just Know It?" (from Havin' A
Good Time with Huey Piano Smith & the Clowns)
16. The Fugs: "CIA Man" (from The Fugs' First Album)
17. Big Brother: "I'll Change Your Flat Tire, Merle" (from Be a Brother)
18. Terry Allen: "The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)" (from Lubbock on
Everything)
19. Swamp Dogg: "Call Me Nigger" (from Fuck the Bomb Stop the Drugs)
20. The Coasters: "Shoppin' for Clothes" (from 50 Coastin' Classics)
21. Funkadelic: "The Doo Doo Chasers" (from One Nation Under a Groove)
22. Bob Dylan: "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" (from Bringing It All Back Home)
23. John Prine with Iris DeMent: "In Spite of Ourselves" (from In Spite of
Ourselves)
24. The Fearless Iranians from Hell: "Theme" (Boner 45)
25. Dictators: "The Next Big Thing" (from Go Girl Crazy!)
26. "Bill Parsons" (Bobby Bare): "All-American Boy" (from The Best of Bobby
Bare)
27. Ramones: "We're A Happy Family" (from Rocket to Russia)
28. Bo Diddley: "Say Man" (from The Chess Box)
29. Black Flag: "TV Party" (from the Repo Man soundtrack)
30. Bo Diddley: "Cops & Robbers" (from The Chess Box)
31. Jeffrey Fredericks and the Clamtones: "Beer Shits" (from Spiders in the
Moonlight)
32. Bob Dylan: "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" (from Bringing It All Back Home)
33. Spike Jones: "My Old Flame" (from The Spike Jones Anthology)
34. Camper Van Beethoven: "(We're a) Bad Trip" (from II & III)
35. Dash Rip Rock: "Bumfuck, Egypt" (from Boiled Alive!)
"untitled"- loudon wainwright III
"the spazz"- elastik band
"surfin' bird"- trashmen
"jolly green giant"- kingsmen
"the blimp"- capt. beefheart
"hey punk"- mothers of invention
"psycho"- (never can remember the guys name, you taped it for me)
"der weinerschnitzel"- descendents
"big bottom"- spinal tap
"anarchy burger"- vandals
"please don't go topless, mother"- troy hess
"meatman"- jerry lee lewis
"customer"- replacements
"great big balls of navel lint"/"big fucking coke" (tie)- wayne coomers and the original sins
"do whatcha like"- digital underground
"dear doctor"- stones
"get off the air"- angry samoans
"hole in my record collection"- enormous richard
"i just wanna be a movie star"- lester bangs
"where the hell is bill?"- camper van beethoven
"hot for twinkies"- go nuts
Donnie Idol
"The Crusher" - Novas (Editor's note: Nice list, Don! A great choice, tho')
Dave Ungar
Here, these are the funniest songs I can think of. None of 'em are too old, so I'm sure I'm leaving out an untapped goldmine of laughs.
The Puppy - Killdozer (Actually - all of Li'l Baby Bunting wins the top honors: nothing on that album that isn't funny.)
Chris Mars - Gymnasium Blues (Flexi from 'The Bob' magazine)
She Was Bananas - Slovenly
Chickentruck - Fetchin' Bones
Go Fuck Yourself - Hamell on Trial
You and Me Rememberin' - fIREHOSE
Time Zone - Negativland
Cheese and Onions - The Rutles (Do parodies count?)
Who Stole the Kishka? - Polkaholics
Fat Chance Hotel - PiL
Chicken Shit Farmer - Southern Culture on the Skids
Big Bottom - Spinal Tap (Do parodies count?)
Union Man - Neil Young
And I'm sure if I listened to them more, I could name some funny songs by Bonzo Dog Band, Half Japanese, the Fugs, even Wild Man Fischer. And then there are the songs that have made me laugh, but aren't really worth mentioning (but don't let that stop YOU from mentioning them) by the likes of Dead Milkmen, Mojo Nixon, Robyn Hitchcock, King Missile ... and still there are the songs that are a joke but weren't meant to be funny --like Puffy Combs's (I have laughed incredulously at much of his "work").
The Unstoppable Dr. Filth
1. I Believe I'm Gonna Make It - Joe Tex
2. No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry
3. Ride on Josephine - Bo Diddley
4. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
5. Divorce Court - The Five DuTones
6. But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown Jr.
7. No Compute (Spit Don't Make No Babies) - Funkadelic
8. GI Jive - Louis Jordan
9. Ain't Got No Home - Clarence Frogman Henry
10. Good Times - Nobody's Children
11. Framed - The Coasters
12. Wiggling Fool - Jack Hammer
13. Lovin' Machine - Wynonie Harris
14. The Ostrich - The Primitives
15. Stronger Than Dirt - The Mummies
16. Annie Had a Baby - Hank Ballard
17. We're a Happy Family - Ramones
18. Dear Doctor - Rolling Stones
19. City Lights - Flamin Groovies
20. Wedding in Cherokee County - Randy Newman
21. Boobsalot - The Fugs
22. It's a Gas - The Hombres
23. Testify, Pts. 1 & 2 - Isley Brothers
24. High Plains Drifter - Beastie Boys
25. David Watts - The Kinks
26. 18 With a Bullet - The Realistics
27. Poontang - Treniers
28. Ring Dang Doo - Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
29. Big Boy Pete - Olympics
30. Nanook of the North - Thee Headcoats
31. It's My Own Fault - Professor Longhair
32. Bikini Girls with Machine Guns - The Cramps
33. Thank You For Making Me an Angel - The Country Teasers
34. Stranded in the Jungle - New York Dolls
35. Dark End of the Street - Clarence Carter
36. Surfin' Bird - Trashmen
37. Muleskinner Blues - Fendermen
38. Fried Chicken Baby/Surfin' on Cedar Lake - Slough Boys
39. Flower Punk - The Mothers of Invention
40. Sassy Sarah - Huey 'Piano' Smith
41. Beck - Satan Gave Me a Taco
42. Soft Boys - Rock and Roll Toilet
43. The Who - Pictures of Lily
44. Holy Modal Rounders - Synergy
45. Replacements - Treatment Bound
46. the monks - That's My Girl
47. Penetrators - #1 Band in this Town
48. Roger Miller - Squares Make the World Go Round
49. Pigmeat Markham - Here Comes the Judge
50. Louis Prima/Sam Butera/Witnesses - There'll Be No Next Time
51. The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso
52. The Chips - Rubber Bisquit
53. Tonio K. - How Come I Can't See You in My Mirror?
54. Jerry Lee Lewis - Birthday Cake
55. Louis Jordan and the Tympani Five - Jordan for President
Inspirational Discs of the Year 2000!
The Reverend Coomers
1. James Carter: Chasin' the Gypsy (Atlantic)
2. Del the Funky Homosapien: Both Sides of the Brain (Hiero Imperium)
3. Hamell on Trial: Choochtown (Such-A-Punch)
4. Bob Dylan: "Things Have Changed" (Sony)
5. Merle Haggard: If I Could Only Fly (Anti)
6. Waco Brothers: Electric Waco Chair (Bloodshot)
7. Alvin Youngblood Hart: Start with the Soul (Hannibal)
8. The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits (Strange and Beautiful
Music)
9. AC/DC: Stiff Upper Lip (Elektra)
10. Asylum Street Spankers: Spanker Madness! (Spanks-A-Lot)
11. Outkast: Stankonia (LaFace)
12. David S. Ware: Surrendered (Sony)
13. Various Artists: Free the West Memphis 3 (Koch)
14. James Carter: Layin' in the Cut (Atlantic)
15. At the Drive In: Relationship of Command (Grand Royal)
16. Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue Volume II (Elektra)
17. Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek: Reflections Eternal--Train of Thought (Rawkus)
18. Willie Nelson: Me and the Drummer (Luck)
19. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP (Aftermath)
20. The Bellrays: Let It Blast (Rotz)
21. Bob Dorough: Too Much Coffee Man (Blue Note)
22. Ray Condo & the Ricochets: High and Wild (Joaquin)
23. Otha Turner & the Afrossippi All-Stars (Birdman)
24. The Monkey Wrench: Electric Children (Estrus)
25. Lou Reed: Ecstasy (Reprise)
Manthon (of The Rawk)
stooges-funhouse sessions
new york dolls-hard night's day
tav falco/panther burns-panther phobia
johnny cah-american III: solitary man
steve earle- transcendental blues
lazy cowgirls- somewhere down the line
gimmicks- honeymoon's over
hasil adkins- poultry in motion
monster magnet- god says no
merle haggard- if i could only fly
hard feelings- fought back and lost
t-model ford- she ain't none of your'n
mooney suzuki- people get ready
ac/dc- stiff upper lip
gaza strippers- 1000 watt confessions
thee headcoats- elementary headcoats (singles 90-99)
makers- rock star god
dwight yoakam- tomorrow's sounds today
r.l. burnside- wish i was in heaven sitting down
white stripes- de stijl
go nuts- dunk and cover
billy bragg and wilco- mermaid ave. II
gluecifer- tender is the savage
jayhawks- smile
waco brothers- electric waco chair
Forth Worth Ken (pungent contributor to The Rawk)
1. Spencer P. Jones - The Last Gasp
2. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Gear Blues
3. Psychotic Youth - Stereoids
4. Celibate Rifles - A Mid-Stream of Consciousness
5. Gluecifer - Tender Is the Savage
6. Lou Reed - Ecstasy
7. Mooney Suzuki - People Get Ready
8. Eastern Dark - Where Are All the Single Girls
9. Captain Beefheart - I'm Going To Do What I Wanna Do
10. Rendezvous Band - Gettin' There Is Half the Fun
Rick Rose Rude (self-made Rock and Roll Star)
(In Alphabetical Order)
Dimestore Haloes:"Long Road To Nowhere"(Pelado,2000)
Dogs D'amour:"Dogs Dinner"(Basement Boy,2000)
Hanoi Rocks:"Decadent, Dangerous, Delicious"(Essential,2000)
Joneses:"Criminal History"(SFTRI,2000)
Malakas:"Too Good To Be True"(I-94,2000)
New York Dolls:"A Hard Night's Day"(Norton,2000)
Nutrajet:"Nutrajet"(20 Stone Blatt,2000)
Sour Jazz:"Lost For Life"(Ghost Rider,2000)
Sylvain Sylvain & the Criminals:"Bowery Butterflies"(Munster,2000)
Johnny Thunders:"In Cold Blood"(Cherry Red/Jundgle,2000) Book & CD
Dr. Filth (Keepin' it Alive & Raw in Asheville)
1. Bob Dylan "Things Have Changed" (cd single (but not on the soundtrack)
2. The White Stripes - De Stijl LP, "Hello Operator/Jolene" 7" (and live)
3. Tav Falco and His Unbeatable Panther Burns - Panther Phobia LP
4. Buff Medways - "Fire/Manic Depression" 7"
5. She Bang - "I Can't Make It Tonight" - CDRom
6. David Johansen and the Hairy Smiths CD
7. Johnny Cash - American III LP (side one)
8. The Monkeywrench - Electric Church LP.
9. Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue II
10. Les Sexareenos - Live! In the Bed! - LP
Reissues
1. Three Souls in My Mind - Que Viva El Rock and Roll CD
2. Penetrators - Kings of Basement Rock - LP - (Rave Up)
3. Mudhoney - March to Fuzz - LP
4. The Mops - LP bootleg reissue
5. The Monks - Black Monk Time - LP bootleg reissue
6. Slim Gaillard - Slim's Jam CD on the Topaz label.
Bootleg CDs
1. Bob Dylan - Genuine 1966 (Scorpio)
2. Jeff Tweedy - Outta Print/Outta Site
3. John Phillips and His Fabulous Rolling Stones - Half Stoned
Top Five Rockin' Moments of 2000
1. White Stripes, She Bang, Labiators - Sept. 29, 2000, Vincent's Ear.
2. Watching Johnny Legend perform the theme to 2000 Maniacs in front of a crowd of drunken Atlanta rockbilly rednecks on a small stage in front of a drive in at the climax to a Labor Day weekend drive in movie/band fest, as fireworks went off all around him. As everyone there sang "Yeeeeeeehaw! The south's gonna rise again!" the one black kid I'd seen in attendance all weekend was looking substantially nervous. The gig Johnny Legend was born to play.
3. Patti Smith live in Knoxville, TN.
4. Every single time I heard "Things Have Changed" on the radio, scaring off every song around it for about 15 minutes (esp. on our rotten AAA "public" radio station.) 5. "The Real Slim Shady" ditto.
Lit
1. Richard Meltzer - A Whore Just Like All the Rest
2. Dr. Filth in Match
3. The Revs Norb and Phil in the same Hit List
Marquis de E
I Marty E., aka Dr. Rock, aka the Marquis de E, bestow upon you my Top 10 Holy Hellraising records of the year 2000....
At the Drive-in-Relationship of Command...At this point-it's almost cliche' to rave about this album...but I don't really give a Ratt's ass, now do I? The saviours of Rock N Roll? Perhaps not, but it's still the best Rock N Roll album I've heard in years-beating out the Backyard Babies-Total 13 as my most overplayed album. In this dismal world of Korn Bizkwikks and Creed 182s, it's the proper kick in the ass that I needed...if only because the drummer playes exactly the same way I do....
PJ Harvey-Stories of the City, Stories of the Sea...Again, it's so commonly raved about, I needn't even bring it up, but I love this album, and hope to spoil it for others by blasting it at 4:30am when I get back from...uhh...where the hell was I...?
Jeff Buckley-Mystery White Boy...I needn't explain.
Deftones-White Pony...A fantastic Metal record...a departure from the aforementioned millionaire amatuers that are their peers.
Richard Ashcroft-Alone With Everybody...not quite up to par with the last two Verve albums...but, so much better than almost anything else...the track New York is worth the price of admission alone.
The Yo-Yos-Uppers and Downers...Go see 'em live...It just makes sense...
Zen Guerrilla-Trance State in Tongues...Ditto...but, it makes even more sense...I saw them blow Nebula and the Go off the stage on the Sub Pop 2000 tour...
"Good Boys (When They're Asleep)"-The Best of the Faces...Where much great Rock N Roll originated...from the Replacements to Guns N Roses to Billy Bragg to whomever...It's a crying shame that old Ronnie Lane isn't still here to show up Rod the Mod.
A Perfect Circle-Mer Der Noms...A wonderfully orchestrated neo-metal album...possibly some of the most superb vocal performances in the history of the genre. Extraordinary....
Placebo-Black Market Music...No comment....
MC5-Big Bang: the Best of the MC5
Makers-Rock Star God
Big Dave Ungar
Hamell on Trial - Choochtown (Pulp Fiction: The Musical!)
Go-Betweens - The Friends of Rachel Worth (Return to old ways)
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man (The Mercy Seat carries the whole thing.)
Lou Reed - Ecstasy
Yo La Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-out
The John Doe Thing - Freedom Is....
Wilco & Billy Bragg - Mermaid Ave. II (Still waiting for Merman Avenue - the poetry of Ethel Merman.)
Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Rotten Soul
Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy (Dude had range)
Reissues:
15:60:75 - Jimmy Bell's Still in Town (Actually would be #1 if not a reissue.)
The Stooges - The Funhouse Sessions (more more more versions of 'down on the street')
Songs That Changed Our Lives
Rick Rose Rude, Rock and Roll Star (Bored, Bombed & Beautiful)
When I was two years old, Mrs. Funnicello would babysit me from time to time when Moma & Popa Rude were out working. She had a son named Johnny who went by the last name of Angel, & everytime he would put on the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" & the opening chords of "Brown Sugar" came blaring from his room (or the New York Dolls' first LP & those first three chords that kick off "Personality Crisis"), I would mysteriously be drawn to the room & the sounds coming from the record player. As I grew older, I learned a lot from Johnny--attitude, coolness, three chords & snappy dressing--but most importantly THAT THESE SONGS(& RECORDS!) ROCK & ROLL! Yes kids, they ALSO roll! So many of you get caught up in your rocking you forget to roll, but, alas, you probably never learned. If you have these slices of R & R history, give 'em another spin, they deserve it! If you don't, SHAME ON YOU! STEAL THEM if you must but GET THEM! Or you'll NEVER be welcome to hang around me, sweetheart!
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Ric "Killin'" Spree
Innocent Youth (pre '80 - largely influenced by my older brothers)
California Girls - The Beach Boys: Fun to jump around as a kid and lip-synch like a rock star
Abacab - Genesis: My brother Randy's favorite as he blasted the 8-track in his '71 Chevelli
More Than A Feeling - Boston: My brother Ronnie's favorite as he blasted the 8-track in his '69 Super Bee
High School ('80 to '85 - largely marked by a bizarre fascination with Techno-Pop)
The Chauffeur - Duran Duran: No apologies, still find this song haunting...
Goin' Under - Devo: Still love this song
Legal Tender - The B-52's: Great party band
College ('85 to '90 - small representation of a great period of awakening)
Hat's Off (To Roy Harper) - Led Zeppelin: Coincided with my introduction to pot
I Bleed - The Pixies: Have been playing their stuff ever since
Drama - IceT: My introduction to gangsta rap back when it was still good
Chicago ('90 to '92' - jumped on the "Manchester Sound" bandwagon of the early '90's, even listened to The Farm)
Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays: By the time I was into the Manchester music scene it was long dead in England
Brother's Gonna Work it Out - Public Enemy: Still find this song amazing...
The Changeling - The Doors: The great opening song on a notorious compilation that features sound bites from Blue Velvet
St Louis ('92 to present - after massive VU and Stooges phase, have settled into discovering Dylan and Bop)
Please, Mrs. Henry - Bob Dylan and The Band: This song began my fascination with Dylan, which has never stopped growing...
"Go" and "Our Man In Paris" - Dexter Gordon: Went into Vintage Vinyl and told an employee to recommend a couple of CDs to introduce me to jazz...my favorite genre ever since.
"George Jones Compilation" - Wayne Coomers: Realization that there was, in fact, great country music despite what the radio would have me believe
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Katie Cleary
i have memories of emotions i felt and things i was doing (or people i was doing) when i heard these songs. they all provoke an emotional response. they signal a beginning to something. i remember the feeling i got from some of these songs,
like i had my whole life ahead of me and felt at one with the universe. others reminded me of something i'd lost, somewhere i'd fucked up or somewhere i never want to be again.
love removal machine the Cult
white wedding Billy Idol
the one thing INXS
in the light Led Zep
my fist your face Aerosmith
round the way girl LL Cool J
jane says Jane's Addiction
under my thumb Stones
rio Duran Duran
radio free europe REM
sign of the gypsy queen April Wine
photograph Def Leppard
ramble on Led Zep
ice cream summer Hanoi Rocks
smokescreen Michael Monroe
let's go to bed the Cure
minute by minute Doobie Brothers
i don't want to know the Goo Goo Dolls
pretty in pink Psychedelic Furs
your love the Outfield
wanna be startin' somethin' Michael Jackson
round and round Ratt
town called malice the Jam
justify my love Madonna
shadow dancing Andy Gibb
silly love songs Paul McCartney
cherry came too Jesus and Mary Chain
video killed the radiostar the Buggles
whirlpool Seal
don't dream it's over Crowded House
dear prudence the Beatles
even the losers Tom Petty
one U2
brass in pocket Pretenders
money in the ghetto Too Short
i want you to want me Cheap Trick
sir duke Stevie Wonder
last cigarette Dramarama
desire Gene Loves Jezebel
freedom George Michael
when the world is running down the Police
eyes of a stranger Queensryche
is it really so strange? the Smiths
what a man Salt-n-Pepa
head on Jesus and Mary Chain
whenever you're on my mind Marshall Crenshaw
rock-n-roll high school the Ramones
american pie Don McLean
runnin' with the devil Van Halen
fame David Bowie
when doves cry Prince
If you can't understand what people are talking around you,
then you can rely on your imagination.
And your imagination will never let you down.
- Nick Cave
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Bryan Stuart, guitarist for the Ditchdiggers
One Last Beer, Wayne Coomers and the Original Sins
Loose, The Stooges
Rumble, Link Wray
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
Strychnine, The Sonics
Cover Songs That Changed My Life:
Louie Louie, The Kingsmen
Gloria, Patti Smith (Saturday Night Live performance)
Showdown, The New York Dolls
Songs that Should Have Changed My Life, but Didn't:
My Generation, The Who
Stairway to Heaven, Led Zepplin
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
Rap
Songs that Shouldn't Have Changed My Life, but Did:
Philadelphia Freedom, Elton John (first dry hump experience)
Loving You, MinnieRipperton (first stinky finger)
Mr Blue Sky, ELO (first blow job: receiving end, smartass)
Double Vision, Foreigner (you figure it out) (Ed. note: You were still listening to
Foreigner in '90?)
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Julie Stuart, fully self-sufficient wife of Ditchdiggers guitarist:
I Honestly Love You, Olivia Newton John
Mandy, Barry Manilow
Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen
Baba O'Reilly, The Who
New Years Day, U2
West End Girls, The Pet Shop Boys
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Lord Rutledge
The following songs are not necessarily my 20 favorite all-time tunes, but they are all songs that have made a profound impact upon my existence. Some inspired me to fall in love with rock-n-roll. Others soothed my aching soul when I was at an emotional rock bottom. And the rest of them were jolts of ecstasy that sent life-altering chills through my stunned body.
1. THE VAPORS- “Turning Japanese”--This is not even the best song on the brilliant NEW CLEAR DAYS LP, but it is the tune that started it all for me. I heard this song in 1980, when I was nine years old. I’ve been a rock-n-roll junkie ever since.
2. PRETENDERS- “Back On The Chain Gang”--This song still takes my breath away. Listening to Chrissie Hynde sing is like hearing the voice of God.
3. SEX PISTOLS--“God Save The Queen”--Need I explain?
4. T. REX- “Metal Guru”--Majestic, sexy, soulful rock-n-roll bliss.
5. HUSKER DU- “Too Far Down” and “I Apologize”---The former has given me glimmers of hope at the worst of times; the latter was the bolt of infectious, thrashy sonic lightning that led me into the wild world of punk rock.
6. THE SMITHS-“There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”--The most marvelous love song ever recorded. Beautiful.
7. MATERIAL ISSUE-“Li’l Christine”--Several years after his death, Jim Ellison speaks to me in ways that few others ever could. This fragile soul sang of love, loss, longing, alienation, and emotional agony with poignant grace. “Li’l Christine”, a sad and funny tale of unrequited adoration, was his finest achievement.
8. THE REPLACEMENTS-“Bastards Of Young”, “Little Mascara”, “Swingin’ Party”--Wow, TIM was such an amazing record!
9. BUZZCOCKS-“What Do I Get?”--The story of my life.
10. HOLLY AND THE ITALIANS-“I Wanna Go Home”--A hooky, electrifying rock-n-roll song that embodies everything that I love about power pop.
11. PSYCHEDELIC FURS- “Pretty In Pink”--A pretty typical choice, but so what?
12. BLONDIE- “One Way Or Another”--The finest track on the first album I ever bought.
13. ELVIS COSTELLO- “Oliver’s Army”---If you don’t believe that rock-n-roll is an art form, then you’ve never heard this song!
14. THE MUFFS--“From Your Girl”--The greatest band of the 90’s.
15. DIMESTORE HALOES- “Death Is A Star”---This stunning track from the Haloes’ forthcoming CD EP is the most electrifying rock-n-roll tune I’ve heard in ages. Hearing it live was the highlight of my summer.
16. THE KNACK- “Good Girls Don’t”--Simple pop fun at its most orgasmic.
17. THE CLASH- “Janie Jones”--It is because of songs like this one that the world still worships The Clash.
Josh Rutledge is the drooling rock and roll fanatic behind NOW WAVE MAGAZINE
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Joe Hutchinson, of HUTCH:
A song that changed my life was "Kiss Me Deadly" by Generation X. People can say what they want about Billy Idol, but the fucker helped make punk listenable!
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Fort Worth Ken:
1. Zombies, "Remember You." I didn't even know what this was until recently,
when I discovered it was in the movie "Bunny Lake Is Missing." This was the
first radio song I remember making an impression on me, way back when I was
7 yrs old. Prior to that time, I thought that Elvis was Italian (well, everybody I knew who DRESSED and ACTED that way WAS), and the Beatles were silly shit for 7-yr-old girls ('cos everyone I knew who dug 'em was a 7-yr-old girl).
2. Deep Purple, "Hush." The first radio song I went apeshit over enough to buy the record.
3. The Who, "Pinball Wizard." I'd been reading stuff about 'em that got me
intrigued, but this was the first song of theirs I actually heard. Never been the same since.
4. Junior Walker, "Shotgun." In the German/Irish/Italian Catholic neighborhood where I grew up, the older guys all dug soul music, of both the authentic and blue-eyed varieties. Kinda ironic when you consider that James Brown and Wilson Pickett represented exactly the kinda urban black masculinity that scared the living shit out of those guys when encountered in person. This song and Stevie Wonder's "Uptight" were two of the top ones, and I especially like "Shotgun" because seeing Nils Lofgren wax Roy Buchanan's tail on his PBS special while playing this tune inspired me to pick up a guitar AND taught me the only two licks I knew for the first year I played in bands.
5. The Temptations, "I Wish It Would Rain." Listening to some teen band play this at a junior high dance, slow dancing with a girl a full head taller than me, thinking it was THE SHIT.
6. Jimi Hendrix, "Like A Rolling Stone." 1970 was the year AM radio became
absolutely intolerable. That was also the year I spent about 2 months in bed
with an oxygen tank due to some respiratory problems, reading "The Lord of
the Rings" and listening to "free-form" WNEW-FM. When Bloodrock's "DOA" came on, I'd slide out of bed and CRAWL ACROSS THE FLOOR to turn it off. I'd heard the "Are You Experienced" album but couldn't yet comprehend that ALL OF THOSE SOUNDS were actually guitar. This was the song (in its live-at-Monterey
version) that turned me on to Hendrix, the idea of musicianship as craft, and
a lot of other things.
7. Captain Beefheart, "Alice In Blunderland." My second semester at college I
roomed with a guy who was way into Beefheart; his hometown band actually used
to PLAY some of it, including this song. He introduced me to "Trout Mask Replica" and "Strictly Personal" by degrees, a cut here, a cut there. The "Spotlight Kid" album was easier to digest, but it still took me 20 years to learn Eliot Ingber's incredible solo from this.
8. Fleetwood Mac, "Station Man." The soundtrack to my First Sexual Experience (involving another person).
9. John Coltrane, "Ascension." Around the time of the Bicentennial, rock started to suck (the age of Boston and Foreigner, Styx and Journey) and I started to develop an interest in jazz. This was the first Coltrane record I ever bought and it scared me half to death. Powerful, CLEANSING noise. Later I got to like him playing chord changes, too.
10. The Clash, "Clash City Rockers." Noo Yawk punk kinda passed me by (although, looking back on it, me and my no-'count pals shoulda been way into it, but back in '73 when we were sitting in front of the deli in my town having spitting and farting contests and wondering why the REALLY NEAT GIRLS didn't wanna go out with us, we thought the Dolls were fags and used to play stupid Cream and Allman Bros. songs) and after even a season in Austin during the heyday of the Skunks, the Huns, and the Big Boys, I still didn't really GET IT until I heard this record.
11. Grandmaster Flash, "The Message." When I was in the Air Force in Korea in
'82, this song and "Atomic Dog" were like the dual National Anthems. It started me thinking how polarized this country is, even overseas -- the white GIs (who used to dig VAN HALEN) had one set of bars, while the brothers I used to hang out with had another. Strange.
12. Lou Reed, "Dirty Blvd." I sat out most of the eighties being married and
in the military, but when I picked up Lou's "New York" album when I was
stationed in Abilene, Texas, I started getting pulled back in to the Rawk.
Haven't looked back.
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Beth Hartman:
1. Chet Baker, "My Funny Valentine"
2. Big Star, "When My Baby's Beside Me"
3. Cheap Trick, "Surrender"
4. Elvis Costello, "Alison"
5. Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man"
6. Joe Ely, "Dallas"
7. Marianne Faithful, "Broken English"
8. John Lee Hooker, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"
9. Husker Du, "Turn On The News"
10. George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
11. Peggy Lee, "Is That All There Is"
12. Nirvana, "Lithium"
13. Pavement, "Silence Kid"
14. Pixies, "Gigantic"
15. R.E.M., "Radio Free Europe"
16. Jimmy Scott, "Someone To Watch Over Me"
17. Sex Pistols, "God Save The Queen"
18. Tom Waits, "San Diego Serenade"
19. X, "Los Angeles"
20. Neil Young, "Southern Man"
What I find curious about this list is that it does not include the
artists that I would consider among my favorites...
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Manthon Chimes In:
in chronological order--
hamilton, joe frank and reynolds: "don't pull your love out"
first song i really remember hearing because when i was in 2nd grade it, for some reason, blasted from an alarm clock across the house at 2am...at full volume...scared the shit outta me.
simon and garfunkel: "sounds of silence"
my mom took me to see the graduate. this song made me want my first record. she bought me their greatest hits a week later.
carl douglas: "kung fu fighting"
the first record i bought with my own money.
**long drought begins here**
years later...
alice cooper: "only women bleed"
i know, i know...but the point is i now knew who he was!
elvis costello: "allison"
i traded my next door neighbor this stinky ass parliament (what the hell did i know) record i got from a record club for his "piece of shit" elvis costello record he had acquired the same way.
neil young: "hey hey, my my"
read a review in the la times (paired up with seger's AGAINST THE WIND which i also bought) that pretty much called RUST NEVER SLEEPS the last great album of the '70's. sold the seger back the same day i bought it. the times was right until...
the clash: "brand new cadillac"
everything has changed. now i get in music arguments at school over who kicks ass: the clash or styx.
X: "los angeles"
you mean this shit is happening right down the road?
black flag: "six pack"
what the fuck is going on here?
minutemen: "this ain't no picnic"
my hero is born
meatloaf: "that stupid ass bashboard light song"
made me realize i'm never going back.
velvet underground: "white light, white heat"
college...new found friends...the noose tightens.
patti smith: "gloria"
same friends...changing my life once again. how'd i miss this shit the first time?
stooges: "no fun"
see above
replacements: "i hate music"
what the fuck???
REM: "radio free europe"
here it comes...
husker du: "diane"
sounds awesome...what's he singing about?
prince: "if you were my girlfriend"
hmmmm...perfect fucking song.
guns and roses: "sweet child o' mine"
putting me back in touch
nomads: "she pays the rent"
oh yeah...
dwight yoakam: "guitars, cadillacs"
country????
beastie boys: "no sleep til' brooklyn"
what the hell is this?
big star: "september gurls"
what took me so long?
mekons: "memphis, egypt"
holy crap....
sonny rollins: "g-man"
so this is jazz...
sonic youth: "cool thing"
turn it up
lazy cowgirls: "goddamn bottle"
i'd come back later...
nirvana: "smells like teen spirit"
oh shit...
junior kimbrough: "i feel alright"
the blues..the right way...what a concept
makers: "do what i wanna"
the garage door re-opens
hellacopters: "(gotta get some action) now"
there's something going on over there..
reatards: "when i get mad"
there's something going on over here, too!!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dimitri's Late-Night List:
I WAS ACTUALLY IN BED THINKING ABOUT THIS AND THE ONLY WAY I'M EVER GONNA FORK ANYTHING OVER IS STRAM OF CONCIOUSNESS SPILLAGE WHERE I JUST DUMP A BUNCHA STUFF OUT...THESE ARE SENTIMENTAL FAVORITES,THAT EITHER SET ME OUT ON THIS PATH OR WERE A SOUNDTRACK,OR ALTERED MY CONCIOUSNESS IN SOME WAY,AND OBVIOUSLY NOWHERE COMPLETE....
DIMITRI'S DETOX JUKEBOX AS OF11:00 THURS.NITE
1)LONELY PLANET BOY-NY DOLLS
2)IN MY LIFE-BEATLES
3)TANGLED UP IN BLUE-BOB DYLAN
4)CAROLINE NO-BEACHBOYS
5)ROCKNROLL NIGGER-PATTI SMITH
6)LIFE ON MARS-DAVID BOWIE
7)PRETTY IN PINK- PSYCHEDELIC FURS
8)BEFORE THEY MAKE ME RUN-ROLLING STONES
9)AIN'T IT FUN-DEADBOYS
10)TALK OF THE TOWN-PRETENDERS
11)UNTOUCHABLES-GENERATION X
12)POISON MOON-ELVIS COSTELLO
13)DOWNTOWN TRAIN-TOM WAITS
14)OOH LA LA-FACES
15)I WISH I WAS YOUR MOTHER-MOTT THE HOOPLE
16)ANSWERING MACHINE-REPLACEMENTS
17)VALERIE LOVES ME-MATERIAL ISSUE
18)UNGUARDED MOMENT-THE CHURCH
19)MELT WITH YOU-MODERN ENGLISH
20)WHEN DOVES CRY-PRINCE
21)PUMPING FOR JILL-IGGY POP
22)DAY & NIGHT-JIM CARROLL
23)ROCKNROLL SUICIDE-DAVID BOWIE
24)THE PILGRIM-KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
25)SOUVENIRS-JOHN PRINE
26)BACK TO MYSTERY CITY-HANOI ROCKS
27)CAN'T HARDLY WAIT-REPLACEMENTS
28)COCONUT GROVE-DAVID LEE ROTH
29)STILL WANNA DIE-CHEETAH CHROME
30)SIMPLE TWIST IN FATE-BOB DYLAN
31)ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER PLANET-ONLY ONES
32)NOT GONNA TRY NO MORE-BEASTS OF BOURBON
33)RUBY TUESDAY-ROLLING STONES
34)LOOKIN AT YOU-MC5
35)CLAMPDOWN-CLASH
36)CRYSTAL SHIP-DOORS
37)JASON B.SADD-T.REX
38)PRIVELAGE SET ME FREE-PATTI SMITH GROUP
39)BE MY LOVER-ALICE COOPER
40)DEATH OR GLORY-THE CLASH
41)WHISKEY TALKIN NOT ME-JERRY LEE LEWIS
42)CHERRY CAME TOO-JESUS & MARY CHAIN
43)DAYDREAM BELIEVER-MONKEES
44)11TH ST.KIDS-HANOI ROCKS
45)OPEN YOUR EYES-LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH
46)SHE BELONGS TO ME-BOB DYLAN
47)SUBWAY TRAIN-THUNDERS IN JAPAN-"HEY REMEMBER?"
48)CHIP AWAY-AEROSMITH
49)SYLVIA PLATH-PETER LAUGHNER
50)ROOT CANAL BLUES-PAUL K.
51)Miss You-Rolling Stones
52)Whiskey River-Willie Nelson
53)Shake Some Action-Flamin Groovies
54)Make Up Your Mind-Stiv Bators
55)Where Have All The Good Times Gone-Van Halen version
56)Havin' A Party-Sam Cooke
57)L.A.Woman-the Doors
58)Everybody Knows-Leonard Cohen
59)Joey-Concrete Blonde
60)Prime Mover-Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction
61)Hide Your Love Away-Beatles
62)Live With Me-Rolling Stones
63)God Only Knows-Beach Boys
64)Desolation Row-Bob Dylan
65)Lust For Life-Iggy Pop
66)Rise-Public Image Ltd.
67)Ace of Spades-Motorhead
68)Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory-J.Thunder
69)She Sells Sanctuary-the Cult
70)Dead On Arrival-Billy Idol
71)Happy-Rolling Stones
72)How Soon Is Now?-the Smiths
73)Bastards of Young-Replacements
74)Anything,I'll Give You-Dramarama
75)Haunted-Pogues
76)Million Miles Away-Plimsouls
77)Broken Whiskey Bottle-Jason & the Scorchers
78)Wait Until I'm Dead-Dogs D'Amour
79)Call of the Wild-Circus of Power
80)I Believe In Miracles-Ramones
81)Travellin' Man-Bob Seger
82)No Easy Way Out-Wayne Kramer
83)Glamourizing Cigarettes-Scarce
84)Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns-Mother Love Bone
85)Lucy-Shane MacGowan
86)She's Like Heroin To Me-Gun Club
87)Ship Song-Nick Cave
88)Young Turks-Rod Stewart
89)Shine a Light-Rolling Stones
90)Dreaming-Blondie
91)Nice Boys-Rose Tattoo
92)Caught in a Dream-Alice Cooper
93)Ain't Talkin Bout Love-Van Halen
94)Haunted When the Minutes Drag-Love & Rockets
95)Last Horizons-Gin Blossoms
96)Wide Awake-U2
97)Scream Like a Baby-David Bowie
98)Return of the Grievous Angel-Gram Parsons
99)Save a Prayer-Duran Duran
100)Even the Losers-Tom Petty
.....Y'KNOW I'M ABSOLUTELY GONNA HATE THIS LIST TOMORROW....
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The Rev:
1. Bob Dylan: “Like a Rolling Stone”--split my head in two...first sounds of real freedom...after all these years, I still think he's singing about himself: not an accusation but a reality check and a head-inventory.
2. Spinners: “Mighty Love”--first song to give me goosebumps, to make me fall in love with love.
3. Alice Cooper: “Eighteen”--began an obsession with private mirror lip-synch that lasted over 20 years!
4. Robert Johnson: “Hellhound on My Trail”--terror-stricken ghost wailing across a half-century through my first shitty speakers...sat up straight, you bet.
5. Huey “Piano” Smith: “Don’t You Just Know It”--The Joy of Lunacy.
6. Merle Haggard: “Swinging Doors”--they finally swung open for me as far as country music was concerned...first experience with Honky Tonk Singalong Syndrome: "Shhee-it, I can sing as good as that--uh, no I can't!"
7. Lou Reed: “Street Hassle”--still my favorite "rock opera"
8. Minutemen: “the punch line”--my introduction not only to real history, but to the greatest three-piece that ever strode a stage. Thanks Mark!
9. John Coltrane: “A Love Supreme”--my introduction not only to real spirituality but to "black classical music": could the voice of God actually drive "normal people" nuts? Yep.
10. Kinks: “I’m Not Like Everybody Else”--an anthem we all can use, and I sure as shootin' needed it when it hit me between the eyes. Thanks Kent!
11. Mekons: “Memphis, Egypt”--In the words of David St. Hubbins, "Too much fucking perspective."
12. Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys: “Basin Street Blues”--the living ideal of cameraderie and cooperation on wax. It follows me in every undertaking.
13. Replacements: “Bastards of Young”--My "My Generation."
14. George Clinton: “Atomic Dog”--WOOF!!!
15. Patti Smith Group: “Dancing Barefoot"--First song to make me wish I was a woman...then I realized I didn't need to be.
16. Public Image Limited: “Albatross”--this sumbitch got me through multiple dark nights of the soul at 19 (along with some Bacardi 151).
17. The Clash: “Death or Glory”--still my favorite lyrics about rock and roll, with a line that visits me every week: "He who fucks nuns/Will later join the church."
18. Al Green: “Belle”--A thin line between sex and God.
19. Ornette Coleman: “Theme from a Symphony (Variation 1)"--The Joy of Noise.
20. Velvet Underground: “What Goes On"--convinced me I could survive on stage.
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Bent Kent:
Mary, Mary--The Monkees:
First song of my early child years that made me ask Santa for a drumset, and Santa honored my deal. Beat the shit outta them and rock'n'roll began for me at the early age of ten. Still wish I could find that damn 45 (later bought The Monkees' Greatest Hits---still a great album)
LaGrange--ZZtop:
Remember listening to the 45(whoa! showing my age) at the local mall with my buddy and it blowing me away!!!!!!!!!!! "Who are these guys from that godawful state of Texas (I'm a loyal Razorback fan, you know)?
Crocodile Rock-- Elton John
My brother bought me my first album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What? I gotta listen to these other songs??????????????
Won't Get Fooled Again--The Who
Ok, the summer before my senior year in high school and me and a buddy sneak a bottle of whiskey into the theatre(yeah, that's right--this movie was debuting @midnight). By the time this song came on I was looped and The Who blew me away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God, what power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pete is my Guitar Hero.
All Along the Watchtower--Jimi Hendrix
Heard it on the radio and have played air guitar ever since
Kick Out the Jams---Mc5
Senior year and my brother inducts me into his world of Rock and Roll (God luv him forever)!
Heroin (live)-- Lou Reed
see above
Gloria--Patti Smith
Watching my brother fantasize about being "he parking meter"---hello!
Born to Run--Springsteen
Just a masterpiece!!!!!!!!! Freshman year, and meeting Phil and Bryan (real Jersey boy)!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like a Rolling Stone--Dylan
Walking back from a keg party(only first few weeks of college) in the rain and mud belting out the words to this masterpiece. The walk was long, but we knew every lyric and were damn proud of it!!!!!!!!!!!! (Rev's Note: Still the best keg party I ever guzzled at.)
Never Mind The Bullocks--Sex Pistols
The night I met my next door neighbor at the college dorm. Partying and going through his tapes and albums and laughing at the fact that we both owned this gem. Oh yeah: his name is the Reverend!!!!!!!!!! (Rev's note: I remember thinking, "I am not alone. I am not wrong. We are right--this is good!)
I Will Follow--U2
Pretty sure this was blaring from my college dorm speakers the day that I met Manthon (my new next door neighbor the following year) and two worlds collided (his was Black Flag, X, Adolescents, etc.--- the world of California punk).
Away from the Numbers--The Jam
When I felt isolated, this song and the Kinks' "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" were there for me
Radio Free Europe--REM
"Hey, I'm gonna start a band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
It's Not Funny Anymore--Husker Du
God, I was so happy when I learned this ditty on the cheap guitar and Ampeg amp.
No Fun--The Stooges
Ok, dammit: I can play the guitar!!!!!!!!!!!!
September Gurls--Big Star
God, I'm in luv! What's that song?--thanks Paul!!!!!!!!!!!
So Alone--Johnny Thunders
Me and Bryan covering this song in my parents' "cold as hell "garage. Bryan hitting the guitar notes just right and I was in Heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Little Mascara--The Replacements
Not their best song, mind you, but the time it came out was perfect. My brother was a part-time DJ and sent it out as my first-ever dedication to a girl over the Little Rock airwaves.
I Feel Good--James Brown
First got me heavily into Soul and R&B music (the purest of rock and roll)
Evil--Howlin Wolf
Started the Blues Craze for me, and I gobbled everything up by the man, Muddy, and John Lee back in the early 80's. Now, you must buy everything (well, almost) on Fat Possum records (Oxford,MS) A moment of silence for Robert Palmer.
Green Onions--Booker T and the MG's
Man, what is this Memphis thang called Stax!!!!!!!????