Duquesne Whistle- Bob Dylan
Walk A Thin Line- Fleetwood Mac
Gawd Above- John Fullbright
I Am That I Am- Peter Tosh
Something Is Slipping My Mind- The Rails
Play This Game- Utopia
Inside Out- Silver Ginger 5
Duquesne Whistle- Bob Dylan
(From "Tempest," an album that I think has aged really well, this was the first single, which still kills.)
Walk A Thin Line- Fleetwood Mac
(I've never warmed to "Tusk," or to double albums in general. This could use a nice single disc edit. Please include this song, if you're doing the edit. And if any fans of The Cure are reading, how about nice 45 minute, single disc edits of "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" and "Disintegration?")
Gawd Above- John Fullbright
(The opening one-two punch of "Gawd Above" and "Jericho" set the table for what I thought might be the best record of 2012. "From The Ground Up" is a very good album, but nothing that followed was as strong as those two opening tracks.)
I Am That I Am- Peter Tosh
(Cleveland Jeff says "Equal Rights" is the best reggae album of all. When I play it, it's hard to disagree.)
Something Is Slipping My Mind- The Rails
(Stunning harmonies and a gorgeous melody will get me every time.)
Play This Game- Utopia
(Speaking of harmonies, here are Todd Rundgren and the boys and one of their most power poppiest.)
Inside Out- Silver Ginger 5
(Ginger Wildheart's one and done side project was a hard, fast and REALLY LOUD affair. It's full of big choruses and pop hooks, if you can deal with what sounds like 40 guitars on every song. This is one of the easiest tracks to digest.)
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Me commenting on this collection sounds like a fat guy on a YouTube video eating BBQ! -- "Oh delicious." "I love that." "Yumm....!"
ReplyDeleteAnd you wonder why I'm not a music critic!
So I'm playing the Dylan. Next will it be Peter Tosh or John Fullbright?
Stay warm everybody.
Thanks for the shout out. I have often considered a number of other contenders for best Reggae record, but head to head Tosh always wins. The percussion is killer throughout, and so I’d everything else.
ReplyDeleteThat Silver Ginger 5 hits hard, have to check out more from him!
ReplyDeleteDisintegration is Perfect as it is IMO, no edit needed.
ReplyDeleteTo me War Ina Babylon by Max Romeo & The Upsetters is The Best Reggae album ever.
ReplyDeleteMay have to post my Top 20 Reggae Records.
ReplyDeleteChallenge accepted. I like the Tusk album very much, always have. I tried to maintain a balance of the 3 songwriters. I'm not totally sure on the sequencing, but I know the openers and closers for each side are set.
ReplyDeleteSide 1:
Think About Me (Christine)
The Ledge (Lindsey)
Walk A Thin Line (Lindsey)
I Know I’m Not Wrong (Lindsey)
Sara (Stevie)
Side 2:
Tusk (Lindsey)
Angel (Stevie)
Never Make Me Cry (Christine)
That’s Enough For Me (Lindsey)
Never Forget (Christine)
What was interesting was eliminating songs. The following are, in order, the songs I removed. So the last ones are the ones that were hardest for me to cut.
Save Me A Place (Lindsey)
What Makes You Think You’re The One (Lindsey)
Not That Funny (Lindsey)
Over & Over (Christine)
Storms (Stevie)
Beautiful Child (Stevie)
Brown Eyes (Christine)
Honey Hi (Christine)
Sisters Of The Moon (Stevie)
That’s All For Everyone (Lindsey)
Hope you enjoy it.
This is great, Troy. Thanks!
DeleteBut...
Save Me A Place (Lindsey)
What Makes You Think You’re The One (Lindsey)
...are two of my very favorites on the album.
Might have to sneak them in.
Wow, funny but those are probably my two least favorite. Or they were the ones I could drop early on. To each his own.
DeleteI guess you could expand this to 12 songs instead of 10 and still have a single disc. A couple of the songs are barely 2 minutes and 1 is shorter than that.
I had fun digging through the album today.