Calling Out For Love (At Crying Time)- Marshall Crenshaw
Always Better With You- Paul Carrack
Kiss Me Deadly- Chuck Prophet w/ The Make Out Quartet
Fair- Ben Folds Fiive
Apostrophe- Frank Zappa
A Stone Only Rolls Downhill- Ok Go
Been A Fix- Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds
Calling Out For Love (At Crying Time)- Marshall Crenshaw
(So many great M.C. songs and so little time. Is there one more record in him?)
Always Better With You- Paul Carrack
(From "Suburban Voodoo," both an excellent Paul Carrack album and an excellent Nick Lowe album.)
Kiss Me Deadly- Chuck Prophet w/ The Make Out Quartet
(Chuck Prophet and a string section covering Lita Ford? Yes please.)
Fair- Ben Folds Five
(I found a second BFF song I like.)
Apostrophe- Frank Zappa
(During a Black Rock Coalition night at CBGBs in 1986 that Living Colour was headlining, I saw a trio not unlike Band Of Gypsys cover this song. It blew my mind. I wish I could remember their name and I wish I had their version. The OG will have to do.)
A Stone Only Rolls Downhill- Ok Go
(I really haven't followed Ok Go, other than acknowledging they make good videos occasionally. But I've listened to their new one three times and there isn't a bad song on it. This is the first single, I believe.)
Been A Fix- Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds
(My favorite Guns N Roses album and one of my favorite records of the last 30 years. Everything is better without Axl Rose. This track kicks ass and it was a b-side!)
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Calling Out For Love was a co-write with the great Don Dixon, who did a pretty good version himself
I gasped when I saw someone else giving a shoutout to those first two songs! I’ve deployed them on so many mixtapes, and danced around the apartment to both of them, so often.
Very coincidental that Cleveland Jeff mentioned Don Dixon - right before I read this post as I was listening to a Kelley Ryan album that Don produced which has a Marshall Crenshaw co-write, and that Marti Jones sings on. Yesterday, I happened to listen to Marti's Match Game LP that Marshall C. plays on and Don also produced. Also listened the new Peter Holsapple record that's a Dixon production. Serendipity, indeed!
Re: today's SOTD - I've been a huge Billy Nicholls fan since hearing Forever's No Time At All on Townshend's Who Came First when I was just a young lad.
Randy
I've liked OK Go more for their clever videos than their music but this new album is a winner.
I sure hope MC has at least another record in him. I saw him a few months back and he seemed a bit distracted and even a little bit snarly (I've seen him many, many times). Always been at the top of my lists. --Muzak McMusics
Thanks so much. These always make my weekend. The Chuck Prophet track is particularly awesome.
Looking forward to hearing that Izzy Stradlin song!
Hey Sal, here's an interesting topic, mayhap, for some future BW debate ......
I have a buddy who thinks that the only thing wrong with The Stones is Mick Jagger. He says Mick's been holding the band back from being its true, authentic self for years.
I chafed greatly when he said that .... but holy hell ....... I've found myself finding it harder to chafe at, when I think about it. Because think of how many Stones songs are great because of Keith. OK, let that sit there.
Then think of how many Stones songs are great because of Mick?
Damn, man, it's depressing, but it's something real to deal with.
And I know I'm ruffling feathers by saying I might just agree with my buddy that the Stones are all about Keef.
>>>>>>>> I DIGRESS !!!
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