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Say Anything… or: The Less Desirables Movie of the Week

10 Saturday Jun 2017

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Per IMDb: “A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.”

Lloyd Dobler (Cusack) starts obsessing over Diane Court (Skye) at their high school graduation. She’s the valedictorian, and most assume she’s “out of his league.” She has won a fellowship to attend school in England and her father, Jim (Mahoney), couldn’t be happier. Jim is the owner of a retirement home and is his daughter’s best friend, after the divorce from her mother. They have a good bit of money and that adds to the ways that Diane and Lloyd are different, although neither of them cares.

Jim is worried that Lloyd may be a detriment to Diane’s upcoming matriculation in England; afraid that she’ll want to stay home instead of going. The more the two teens get involved, the more Jim becomes less tolerant of Diane’s “freedoms.” It doesn’t help that the IRS is investigating Jim on fraud charges through the retirement home.  Do the crazy kids stay together? Do they break up? What happens with the IRS? You’ll have to watch to find out.

As usual, Joan Cusack plays in the film with her brother, John. She doesn’t give any Oscar-winning performances but that wasn’t what she set out to do, in this film. It was so strange seeing John Mahoney with dark hair and playing a role outside of Martin Crane, Frasier’s father in the television series. There are times when you don’t like him and I’m not used to that with him, either. There are times when you certainly do like him, though.

The BCPF thinks Ione Skye got the part because she’s pretty while I think she is an awful actress and looks like a horse. As the film went on it was like she learned to act. The acting was less atrocious from her the deeper the film went. Beyond that, I think that she and Cusack (who can act) actually had good screen chemistry.

Another Frasier cast member, Bebe Neuwirth (she played Frasier’s ex-wife, Lillith), made an appearance here, as well. Other cameos include Jeremy Piven, Chynna Phillips, Eric Stoltz and Lili Taylor.

Probably the most notable thing about this film is its soundtrack. One of the most famous scenes of teen-driven dramedies happens in this film: the iconic holding of the boombox playing “In Your Eyes” from Peter Gabriel (off my favorite album of all-time). Cusack reenacted that onstage at a Peter Gabriel show a few years ago. In addition to PG, the soundtrack included Nancy Wilson of Heart (her husband, Cameron Crowe wrote the film), Depeche Mode, The Replacements, Cheap Trick, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Living Colour and Joe Satriani. It’s a great soundtrack and the songs fit well in the film.

Overall, I think it was a decent film. Not my favorite of teen films but it was pretty good. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 98% Fresh with an Audience Score of 85%. IMDb has it at 7.4 stars out of 10. We rented it from Amazon Prime and I will rate it 4 stars out of 5. Have you seen it? What would you like to hear/read me review?

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“One question: are you here ’cause you need someone, or ’cause you need me?… Forget it, I don’t care.” – Lloyd Dobler

Silent Sunday or: The Loot

02 Sunday Apr 2017

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I believe I’m going to start using my Silent Sunday to talk about the haul we get fromR-9473688-1481204754-7100.jpeg Underdog Records on Saturdays, that is unless there is an item of importance I need to talk about. Underdog Records has become part of our Saturday routine. It’s walking, Mary’s Gourmet Diner, Underdog, Twin City Hive and then Hoots, if we have a hankering for a brew. Now that the weather is warming up, we’ll be going by there more often.

So, this week, at Underdog Records, we got the following:

Underdog Records is the Official Vinyl Sponsor of The Less Desirables and we love our growing record collection, all thanks to Jonathan and his awesome record store. You can find Underdog at 835 Burke Street in Winston-Salem.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Lord, here comes the flood. We’ll say goodbye to flesh and blood. If again the seas are silent in any still alive. It’ll be those who gave their island to survive. Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry.” – “Here Comes the Flood” (Gabriel)

This Slacker’s Day Off or: Hauling It In

04 Wednesday Jan 2017

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First let me say the title here “…Slacker’s Day Off” is not mine. I borrowed it from Eugene who used to make fantastically themed mix tapes that were really great and I really wish he had the wont (and want) and time to do them again. I will say my favorite one, ever, was for the wonderfully awful John Wayne picture, The Conqueror (1956), where Wayne plays Timujin who later becomes Genghis Khan. Yes, imagine that and then realize how bad it could be and then realize that it was so bad it was beautiful! I rated it 5 stars out of 5. Okay, Eug, get back to making those mix tapes, dangit! 2017-01-04-16-12-35

So, I had a meeting today with some local musician types that have a really cool idea coming that I and The Less Desirables will be part of, but that’s not what this is about, so more on that later. After lunch and this meeting, I ran down to see my pal, Jonathan, at Underdog Records (TLD’s official vinyl sponsor) and grabbed a few records to add to my ever-growing collection. I grabbed four used and two new discs. And by new, I mean one new album and one reissue. But, that reissue may surprise you. Let’s start with the used vinyl, first, though.

Well, I’ve got a thing for some Peter Garbiel and there was a really good copy of Peter Gabriel (Melt), ripe for the taking and I grabbed that as soon as I saw it. That album has “Games Without Frontiers,” “Biko” and “Family Snapshot” on it, among others. I do really dig me some PG. In fact, you may recall that I have stated that my favorite album of all time is So (1986), so there you have it…

John Mellencamp’s American Fool (when he was still known as John Cougar) was next up and it has two of my favorite Johnny Cougars tunes, “Jack and Diane” and “Hurts So Good.” Yay!

I’m an Elton John fan, too, and there was a decent price on Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player, so, of course, I snatched it. This is the album with “Daniel” and “Crocodile Rock.” I don’t really like that latter song but it’s a decent album.

When I was doing the Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of All Time, I will admit, there wasn’t a lot of rap/hip hop that I liked. But, one of the rap albums I did like was Dr. Dre’s Chronic. I had to purchase it from Amazon so that I could listen to it. Dre’s other albums were available on Napster but not this one, for whatever reason. I really did like it and decided that I’d look for it on vinyl. Jonathan found it for me and put it back. I picked it up today. I can’t wait to hear it on vinyl. That’s the used stuff…

When I was putting together the commercial from Underdog Records last week, Jonathan had mentioned Cass McCombs in that as one of the albums of the year.I liked what I heard when I was picking music to be background, so I just had to go with it. I haven’t listened to anymore than that, but I trust his opinion and will be giving it a spin, soon.

So, that leaves the one that may surprise you. Again, leading back to the RS Top 500 Albums of All Time, I skipped the compilations. At least I did after one of the earlier segments when I had to squeak through a few of them, including Loretta Lynn and 100 Merle Haggard songs, back-to-back and a few others in the next few segments. One that I left off was The Complete Recordings by Robert Johnson. Turns out that yes, while it was, technically, a compilation, it wasn’t a greatest hits record as most of them were. I still count it as a comp, but I did say, promised even, to go back and listen to some of the stuff that I skipped and that this would definitely be on the list. Well, I was in the record store on Saturday and there it was, a reissue in glorious 180g black vinyl. Yeah, I grabbed it. It’s not really my thing, but it’s not “cringe-worthy” and doesn’t suck. I figured if I was going to listen to it, if I were going to be a collector, that is, why not have it in this lovely package? So, that’s what I did. I have listened to the first of the two records, so far. I can’t understand anything he’s saying as the recordings are pretty bad, and he’s not really playing anything that a 11-year old, first time guitar student couldn’t play, but that’s not important. It’s influential, not only to the overrated Eric Clapton, but to even guitarists and songwriters that are in my wheelhouse. I’m not at all knocking it, so while it may seem like I’m taking a shot, there, I’m not. Back then, that was a big deal. I appreciate that.

A good haul, I feel. I’m digging my collection and since I’m done with the big lists, for now, I may talk about my collecting over the next bit. I have to slow down, though, I spent a good bit of cash on those. I only have a monthly stipend to spend on vinyl and need to pull back. But, that’s a lesson to be learned at another time. You can check out what’s happening at Underdog Records by watching their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds. Be sure to listen to each episode of The Less Desirables to hear what the weekly TLD promotion is at Underdog. They’re located at 835 Burke Street! Oh, and yes, Wednesdays are usually the beer of the week but this week, we didn’t do a show. Just go in and tell Spencer, at City Beverage, you want some TLD beer and get your 5% off.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Jeux sans frontieres…” – “Games Without Frontiers” (Gabriel)

So, 30 Years On or: A Double Posting

19 Thursday May 2016

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Yes, I know I’ve already posted for today, but that was business. This is pleasure and it certainly is a pleasure. 30 years ago, today, May 19, 1986, my favorite album of all time, So, from Peter Gabriel, arrived. I will not begin to remotely state, honestly, that I was a fan from the beginning. Until “Sledgehammer” came out, I had never heard of Peter Gabriel. Again, I didn’t have access to him or I just didn’t listen to enough radio to know any better. They played “Sledgehammer” on the radio prior to my moving to WSNC.1so

Once I moved, and had MTV, I saw the video for it and “Big Time,” a lot. I didn’t like it. It wasn’t my “cup of tea.” But, over time I listened more and more and more. It became obvious to me how well the songs were written on those songs. I was introduced to other songs on that album, including “Red Rain” and “Don’t Give Up.” Probably, the biggest boost to the album was “In Your Eyes” being on the Say Anything soundtrack, and the iconic scene of John Cusack holding up the boom box (that was in 1989).

Over the years, I got more and more into Peter Gabriel and realized the genius that he is. I knew, again, the songs from So but never put together the intensity of all those songs together; packaged in an album. Now, the kicker of that was that “In Your Eyes” in the regular release was track 1 on side 2 because the record company wanted it to stand out as a single. The original intended order had it closing the album. When the album was re-released in 2012 (25th Anniversary – and yes I know that the dates don’t exactly match up) they put it the way it should be. I purchased the box set including a digitally remastered version of So in the artists’ preferred listing order, a 2-disc 1987 live concert from Athens, Greece, the So: Classic Albums DVD, the So DNA CD that shows the development of the songs of the album from start to finish, a booklet and, to me, the coup de grace, the LP of So in 180-gram black vinyl and a Double A side 12 vinyl collectible containing two previously unreleased tracks Courage and Sagrada plus Don t Give Up (alternative version piano and bvox mix). That whole collection was/is awesome.

Tony Levin is one of my favorite bassists ever and that’s all because of his work on PG’s albums. I do have some solo stuff, but nothing touches the PG stuff in my opinion. Daniel Lanois produced the album (along with PG) and should be given medals for that. He was instrumental in the songwriting process, whether he actually wrote anything or not. He did as a producer must and directed and mentored PG through the songs. I did talk about it briefly when it was #187 on the Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of All Time (read that HERE), but I’ll talk about it again, also briefly.

The album starts with “Red Rain” and you can tell there’s a foreboding about it from the get go. From what I can figure it’s from a movie idea that he had that the villagers of some fictional town paid for their sins by being washed in blood, or something like that. That’s the “red rain.” Great lyrics and a great arrangement. Stewart Copeland played the really rhythmic hi-hat throughout. It was meant to sound like rain.

“Sledgehammer.” My all-time favorite song. It’s my ringback tone, so if you call me, that’s what you’ll here. Great horns, sexual innuendo throughout – I mean, “open up your fruit cage, cause that fruit, bet it’s sweet as can be…?” Yep. A great bassline in that song, too. There’s just power there, I don’t know what it is, but that song rocks my soul.

“Don’t Give Up.” I love this song. Another great bassline. I really enjoy PG and Kate Bush singing together. It’s a story about a man unable to find/keep work and the trouble it causes his relationship with his wife/domestic partner and her trying to keep him motivated. Good double stops from Levin. It’s really intricate work.

“That Voice Again” is a song, as far as I can tell, about a person’s inner struggle with himself and decisions. Perhaps right and wrong, perhaps something they’ve already done and the demon/angel conscience debate? I’m not sure, but I like it.

“In Your Eyes.” I didn’t see Say Anything until way after it was released, so I don’t really associate it with that. The want to be with someone and how you work through everything to make it work; the ups and the downs. There’s a rumor that it was written for Rosanna Arquette, basically a response to Toto’s “Rosanna,” which also was reportedly written about/for her.

“Mercy Street.” Another haunting song. It’s based on the works of the American poet Anne Sexton and her poem, “45 Mercy Street” and is a song that NME magazine called one of the “10 Most Depressing Songs Ever.” PG even mentions Anne in the coda of the song. It features Larry Klein on bass.

“Big Time.” Another of my faves on the album, it features Stewart Copeland on drums and the song was where the idea of Levin’s “funk fingers” came from. The percussive bass sound, especially in the interlude between the opening chorus and first verse, was achieved by regular drummer Jerry Marotta playing the bass strings with his drumsticks while Levin fingered the fretboard. Ingenious, really. So Levin made “funk fingers” to attach to his fingertips to recreate that sound/technique live. He used it for more than “Big Time.” The song, itself, is about excess. Too much of just about everything. Great song.

“We Do What We’re Told (Milgram’s 37).” Not really much about it other than giving yourself obediently to someone else, disregarding yourself. My least favorite tune on the album.

“This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds).” Co-written by Laurie Anderson, and included on her 1984 Mister Heartbreak album. The best I can figure, this is just a song about life. More specifically, looking at your life, not only from your perspective but perhaps from others’ as well? I’m really not sure. It’s a good listen, though, and the timings are a bit odd, but that is what makes it so cool, I think.

As I said in the review for the RS list, to say that I love this album wouldn’t really do it justice. It’s a sonic masterpiece and I don’t know how anyone couldn’t like it. Do I think it should be someone’s favorite album? Not at all. It just has all the components of all the “greatest of all time.” I just think it should be higher on that list. So, happy birthday So and thanks for being “so” important to me (see what I did there?). You sound better every time I listen.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Anne, with her father is out in the boat. Riding the water, riding the waves on the sea.” – “Mercy Street” (Gabriel)

I’ll Be a Big Noise with All the Big Boys or: At Least It’s Not QMS (RS Part 32)

01 Tuesday Dec 2015

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Wow, it’s been a long while since I’ve posted a Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums of All Time entry. About a month, I think. Business has really picked up so, whilst that is a good thing, it’s cramping my music listening style. But, I’ll take the picked up biz over the free time, any day. Anywhat! Last segment was pretty right on, so let’s hope this one is. Let’s hit it!

#190 – From Elvis in Memphis by Elvis Presley. I’ve never been a big Elvis fan, at all. I do, however, appreciate his contributions to the overall canon of music history. He’s influential in many of those that I listen to and their mentors, as well. He helped bring legitimacy to rock and roll and show that a white boy could actually sing the soul, the 1Elvisblues and the gospel and gain respect for doing so. Speaking of which, this album shows a lot of that latter point. Elvis had been throwing down some soundtrack albums in the few years prior to this (1969) to fulfill his obligation to Paramount Pictures for allowing him to make horrendous movies. There’s plenty of the blues and gospel on here with a lot of soul aspects thrown in. There’s even some rock happening. “I’m Movin’ On” is an example of such an amalgamation: country rock rhythms with the feeling of soul and gospel choirs. It’s a thorough representation, I think. The first part of the album, to me, started a bit slow (not the tempo, just the pace of the album) but at the point of the aforementioned song, it picks up. “Power of Love,” whilst a blues song, it rocks and pretty hard for The King. I love the aggressiveness of that song and the strong rhythmic punches it throws. Elvis’ history comes to life in “Gentle on my Mind.” The lone hit on this album was “In the Ghetto,” although one of my favorite Elvis songs, if I had any, is “Suspicious Minds,” and that song was recorded during the sessions but released independent of the album. And “In the Ghetto” reminds me of Taylor Hicks from back in the days when I watched that ridiculous program, American Idol. I liked this album, and I will admit I was surprised to say so. I’m saying yes, to Elvis’ comeback record and I dig.

#189 – Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service. If you could see my face right now, it would read: “what the (expletive) is this (expletive)!?!?” “Side One” of this is all a jam-bandy mishmash of takes on Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?” It’s a live recording with tunes like: “Who Do You Love? (Part One),” followed by “When You Love” (guitar), “Where You Love” (drums), “How You Love” (guitar) “Which Do You Love” (bass) and “Who Do You Love (Part Two).” Each are given writing credits to the individuals that solo in that section. That’s what the parenthetical descriptions are about. I’m not going to lie, the players do a fabulous job with their parts, but jeez, it went on forever. “Side Two” was also a fine time to find something else to do whilst it played. I read the first four chapters of War and Peace whilst this album played. I’m kidding! You know I don’t read, Dear Reader! C’mon! I just have little tolerance for jam bands and this didn’t help that stance. A watched pot never boils. A watched elapsed time doesn’t reach the end of a frickin’ album, either. I wanted it to be over so badly. Eventually it was. I was quite disappointed that this was on the list, much less in the top 200!? I was glad to tell it, “Happy trails!” Ugh!

#188 – Buffalo Springfield Again by Buffalo Springfield. After the last album, I was glad to hear Neil Young sing, and we’ve been over how I feel about that most of the time. I almost kissed my speakers. And, hey! A song that was over in less than three minutes. The time didn’t matter so much as it (“Mr. Soul”) was a good song, they got to the point and we moved on. “Everydays” is a great jazz tune. I really enjoyed listening to that. Seems the regular bass player, Bruce Palmer was absent because he’d been busted for drugs, and the replacement, Jim Fielder, really rocked the thunderstick in that song. This album is a headphone-listeners dream. Sound traveled the fantastic panning highway throughout. It was subtle at times and out front at others. I really noticed it on “Expecting to Fly.” Granted, that song only features Young. The rest of the band was absent and it relied heavily on orchestration, but I like orchestration. “Sad Memory” is chilling but beautiful. “Good Time Boy” throws it back to the late 1960s and the Stax sound. What do you know? The Memphis Horns was most likely the only musicians to actually play on that track. Even Dewey Martin, the drummer of Buffalo Springfield, and the singer of the song, can’t say for sure if he played drums on it or not. “Rock & Roll Woman” could possibly be the first collaboration between Stephen Stills and David Crosby, but that can’t be affirmed. “Broken Arrow” is a broken-up song. It’s at six minutes and goes about ninety seconds before it switches to another song fragment. While I did like the song’s components, it was a bit disjointed and hard to follow. Overall, I’m giving this album a great big DUG! I am not sure, however, if that’s because it was really that great or that it wasn’t Quicksilver Messenger Service.

#187 – So by Peter Gabriel. Caveat here… this is my all-time favorite album. It also features my all-time favorite tune, “Sledgehammer.” Also, this album isn’t available on 1soRhapsody, but I am an Amazon Prime customer and have been since it started. This was the first time that I used Prime Music and it’s awesome! I have the album on CD (two versions, the original release and the original concept) and vinyl (the 25th anniversary edition). Let’s say that I LOVE this album. I’m working (read: chipping away at) on Vagabond Saints Society to do this album front to back with me doing the PG parts. The only part that I don’t really care for is “We Do What We’re Told (Milgrams 37)” and that’s just because there’s not a lot to it. It was recorded for Melt, also known as Peter Gabriel (3). It’s an interlude, really. And, it’s only lately that I’ve grown fond of “This is the Picture (Excellent Birds).” That tune has some weird timings and I think that really it was thrown together. I know, for a fact, that it was decided just in the last 48 hours before submission to the record company to even include it. It was written with Laurie Anderson and was on an album of hers in 1984. If I ever get to do this with VSS, then I guarantee that it will be a visual show. I even have my Kate Bush picked out (and she agreed). Now, who that will be, you’d have to wait to see if we do it. You won’t be disappointed. Anywhat! To give this a dug or twenty dugs wouldn’t do it justice about how I feel about this album. If you want to know more about my thoughts and feelings about it, hit me up. I can talk about it for sure. My only regret about this album is its placement. To me, and yes, I’m biased, it should at least be in the top twenty if not fifteen. But that’s just me. At least it’s not Quicksilver Messenger Service.

#186 – Fresh by Sly and the Family Stone. I’ve gotten into the funk, slightly, since I started this RS Top 500 thingy. I can tell that Prince was influenced by Sly, I can hear a lot of him in this album. I especially hear it in “Let Me Have It All.” The bass work on “Frisky” (Sly) is fantastic. In fact, the bass duties, minus a few guest or session players, is Sly on the entire album. Regarded as one of the top funk albums of all time, I don’t know how to respond to that. I have started appreciating it more, but not claiming to know a lot about it. The cover of “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)” was great. It was easy to listen to. However, nothing really stood out as great on here other than some musicianship. But, because it was a good album, I’m going to give it a “dug.” And, it’s not Quicksilver Messenger Service.1stooges

#185 – The Stooges by The Stooges. This seems like heavy dirty pop for 1969 but, there ain’t nuttin’ wrong with that! “I Wanna Be Your Dog” and “1969” are that way at least. “We Will Fall” made me feel like I was tripping on acid and I’ve never even done an illegal substance. Again, nuttin’ wrong with that. The chanting and droning notes would go great with some lava lamps, green-tinted sunglasses, bell bottoms and hashish (I guess). Ten minutes of it is a bit much but I still dig it. I don’t know why when I’ve always thought of Iggy Pop, I thought of bad singing and just outright cutting himself. He may have become that but he could sing back here in 1969. The one from last segment (the follow up to this album, Fun House) was that way, too. Sadly, Iggy’s the only one that is still alive from The Stooges. I dug it. And you know what else? It’s not Quicksilver Messenger Service.

#184 – The Immaculate Collection by Madonna. I own this, I’ll say that. It’s a great greatest hits album of the Queen of Pop, but a greatest hits album nonetheless. And, yes, it’s not QMS.

#183 – Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson. So the best I can figure about this album is that there’s an overall story about this “red headed stranger,” a cowboy or sorts, it seems, who thinks his wife is cheating on him, finds out that she is, kills her and her lover. He travels on to mourn the loss of his wife. He ends up killing another woman because she tried to steal his horse. He got off, of course because you can’t 1redheadedhang a man for killing a woman what was stealing his horse, I guess (that’s what the lyrics pretty much said). I think that horse belonged to his wife. As you’d guess, he falls in love with another woman and they live happily ever after or something like that. I’m not giving this facetious sounding review to be negative. There’s a lot of good instrumental interludes and storytelling here. There’s nostalgia to hearing Willie because Ma Père is a Willie fan and makes me think back to my childhood. Willie, like Neil Young, Lou Reed and especially Bob Dylan, aren’t the greatest singers but their stuff is full of emotion and conviction. There’s something endearing about that; warm, embracing. And it was short! Fifteen songs in just over thirty-three minutes. That’s where the instrumental interludes happened. Is this something that I’d want to hear a lot of? Not at all. I am, however, glad that I listened as it’s certainly one that I’d not get close to voluntarily. I dig it for what it is, though. Especially since it’s not Quicksilver Messenger Service.

#182 – Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac. The first with Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. And, it is just like you’d expect that era of songs to sound: Buckingham doing jangly pop, Christine McVie doing jazzy, sappy, laid-back softer stuff and Nicks doing some mysterious-sounding, ethereal sugar pop. Yep, that’s this. That’s not a bad thing. This is the album that set all that into motion, even though Rumours, the follow1fleetwood up album, is better known and probably the better album. It seems that while they let the lovers in the band they didn’t really feel easy with their songs. Yes, Lindsay started the album off with “Monday Morning” and each had three writing credits per with some extra vocals. But, out of the four singles released (“Warm Ways,” “Over My Head,” “Rhiannon” and “Say You Love Me”) three were McVie and one, “Rhiannon,” was Stevie. I think “Monday Morning” would have been a better choice than either “Warm Ways” or “Over My Head.” “Landslide” was released as a single twenty years later when the band stopped squabbling long enough to do a reunion tour and release an album commemorating it. I’ve always like McVie the least, but think she’s a great songwriter, even if I’m not the biggest fan of those songs. Like I said, Rumours was a better album, and her songs on that album were, to me, much better. I’m not saying these are bad, just not my faves. Give me Lindsay and Stevie first. Still, this is a good album. It’s not Quicksilver Messenger Service and I dug it.

#181 – Natty Dread by Bob Marley & The Wailers. This is the first without Peter Tosh or Bunny Wailer. Also, it’s the first that is credited to Bob Marley and the Wailers, not just The Wailers. And, then Bob’s wife, Rita gets to sing with the band. It’s not just her, though, she’s part of a group within the group called, I-Threes. The only song on the album (the official album) is “No Woman No Cry” which I had to find because for some reason, the version on Rhapsody left that out. Instead it put a bonus track on. Boo Rhapsody. Even though I’m coming around to the whole reggae thing, this still is a bit much for me. There was less of a pop vibe (Legends anyone?) and just reggae. I think it was fine for what it does, just didn’t thrill me and it became a little background music for other things that I was doing. So, really I don’t have much to say about his album other than: at least it’s not Quicksilver Messenger Service and meh.

So, methinks this a really good segment, n’est ce pas? I mean, my absolute favorite album of all time is on this piece. Plus, I only gave one meh, there was one greatest hits and then something else I can’t quite remember or put my finger upon. Oh well. No matter how much of the bad stuff would have been on here, So would have saved the day. I do love that album so. I’m thinking that the next segment most likely won’t have Quicksilver Messenger Service so it will at least be that good, right?

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Show me round your fruit cage, ‘cos I will be your honey bee. Open up your fruit cage, where the fruit is as sweet as can be. I want to be your sledgehammer.” – “Sledgehammer” (Gabriel)