Put on ELVIS Now, in an effort to try and listen to most of the records my aunt gave me.
Some of the gospel style stuff is pretty cool. But man, does he BUTCHER Hey Jude! 
Something funny about the way he completely half asses one of the Beatles biggest tunes, and he’s one of their biggest influences. The best of the best, by one of the best, and it adds up to suck! It was that bad.
Totally badass album. Probably one of my favorites.
But man, does he BUTCHER Hey Jude!
I wouldn’t say he butchers it but it just doesn’t work. He’s done a couple Beatles songs before and something doesn’t seem right each time.
Bob’s album from 2001 which I don’t listen to that often. It’s good and seems to touch on a lot of different genres but the songs just aren’t that catchy to me so they’re hard to get into. Not a bad album but when I look at my collection of Dylan stuff to chose, it’s no surprise I don’t pick this one much.
Love and Theft is great. Actually, I think it is the catchiest/poppiest of his recent albums.
^Yeah, it really taps into all sorts of genres…I just couldn’t get into it. Weird. Maybe another listen when I’m in a better mood.
Love it. Worth a listen every month.
One of those that I remember not liking so I didn’t listen to it for a while. Much better than I remember…lots of slow ballads. The title track is still pretty awful…it’s always weird when the big single is the worst song on the album.
Been listening to Yes a bit. Got really sick of 'em for a while. But they’ve got a record coming out. Siberian Khatru live, on Pandora right now.
Clutch too, but that’s nearly constant.
This morning I realized, I’ve always liked Def Leppard’s Foolin’, more than Rock of Ages, which is the more popular tune.
This morning’s office playlist included:
Joni Mitchell - Blue
The Who - Who Are You?
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
… before giving up the DJ act and submitting to Pandora.
This morning I realized, I’ve always liked Def Leppard’s Foolin’, more than Rock of Ages
Can’t say I’d agree. F-F-F-Foolin’ is pretty weak.
This morning’s office playlist included:
Oh…this is a fun game. This morning it was:
Paul Simon – Born at the Right Time
Paul Simon – Train in the Distance
Paul Simon – Cool Cool River
Paul Simon – I Know What I Know
Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star
Bangles – Hazy Shade of Winter
Bobby Darin – Dream Lover
Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Right Round
Well, maybe not now, but a week from Sunday, it’ll be some old d00ds at a local basketball arena.
Hot Tuna and Leon Russell are touring together and Toms River is one of their stops. Tickets were about fifty apiece, so I couldn’t justify not going even if there is work the next day.
My buddy just got me to check out Dustin Bentall. Been really enjoying his tunes and Kendel Carson (fiddle) is sexy as fuck.
Crash Hard:
youtube.com/watch?v=wvp5FONOkgU
3000 Miles:
youtube.com/watch?v=6qudrc04NUU
Draft Dodger (and Kendel’s sexy black dress lol)
Love this one. So many good tunes.
Love it.
Was listening to Mr. Jones from
on the way to work this morning, and having a pretty nice time doing it, I must say.
My travels take me through the town of Lakewood, NJ, once the summer home of John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and other swinefully rich people at the turn of the 20th century. They flocked to this area because it is noted for its “pine barrens”, huge tracks of prisitine pine forests, the popular thought at the time being that the air filtered through these trees had curative, regenerative properties. And lord knows when you have all the money in the world, why not try to live and enjoy it for as long as you can, no?
But as of late, the rich people have gone, and Lakewood is now a center for Orthodox Jews seeking an area outside of NYC where they can live together in close harmony, believing in the traditions of an age old religion and attempting to live their lives according to those traditions. So you can see these folks walking the streets as you drive by, as easily identifiable as the Amish in Lancaster and other counties throughout the world. Their dress is simple, the men wearing mostly black and white clothing, the women mixing in some gray here and there, the children ocassionally wearing some color.
So it wasn’t hard, as I drove along Hope Chapel Rd, grooving to the pleasant rhythms of Mr. Jones, to notice a fourteen or fifteen year old Jewish boy riding his bicyle on the other side of the street, heading in my direction. His dress was black slacks, long sleeve white shirt, dark blue yarmulke. But as he approached and the rhythm of the song crescendoed on my stereo to a conclusion, it became evident that he was listening to something in his head because he was bobbing his head back and forth in time to the pumping of his legs, but his peyot were swnging from side to side across his face almost in the way that Stevie Wonder’s braids would swing around as he lifted his head in song while he performed.
This young man was in total harmony with me for brief few seconds that my car sped by him in the opposite direction, but for that infinetesimal moment, it seemed to me at least, that the world was perfectly in synch the moment our paths crossed in time and space. He had a smile on his face, and so did I.
Just seems at times, that life can’t get much cooler.
This young man was in total harmony with me for brief few seconds that my car sped by him in the opposite direction,
I absolutely love when I’m at a traffic light and look into my rearview mirror and see the person in the car behind me dancing around and singing out loud to whatever they’re listening to. Kinda of feels like we’re kinship since I do the same. Rock on, fellow car rocker.
Always dig this one. Good stuff.
Uh oh…I’m busting out the DMB studio albums. Could it be that I’m seeing him next week??
^Could Mink Car be their very best record maybe?
^I’d be hard to top Factory Showroom, Flood or the first album in my book. But for a late-career entry, I like it a lot.
DMB’s latest. I tend to like this one a lot. Great last song in Drunken Soldier.
Love Factory Showroom.
Listening to Yes - the band’s 1969 debut that’s like, far out man. Some good songs on there, just not a big fan of the recording or the original guitar player God rest his soul. Seemed like a good guy though. It’s suiting the office really well this morning IMO.
Have been on a Yes bender a bit. I got to keep it slow though, or you know, I’ll burn out on them again. I can’t listen directly to the Beatles anymore, for instance. At home I’ve got the Tales from Topographic Oceans LP goin, and I spun some live stuff in the car last week. They can be a frustrating band. But brilliant in some way usually.
I’ve been wanting to get this album.
How is this album compared to the groove grux king? I liked that album, a few songs were really good, but overall it was lacking something. Obviously without Leroi you knew it would be different and not quite the same.