MAGAZINE - "Play" (1980)

 

"Play" was Magazine's fourth release. It came out in 1980.

This song is lots of fun and full of surprises thanks to Herky Jerky master Howard DeVeto.

Nobody does it better. 

MAGAZINE - "Give Me Everything" 

FULL BLOWN CHERRY - "The Rockabilly Tribute To The Ramones" (2005)

 

Besides sex, is there anything more fun than a Rockabilly cover of a punk rock song? I seriously doubt it, and Full Blown Cherry were out to prove it with this 2005 release called "The Rockabilly Tribute To The Ramones," and I think they did a good job of making their point!

FULL BLOWN CHERRY - "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" 

THE BATS - "How Pop Can You Get?" (1980)

 

The Bats is one of those kind of groups that make you wonder, how good do you have to be to be popular? They released this album in 1982 called "How Pop Can You Get?" and that's another good question.

 

Hailing from Connecticut, and before their album was released, The Bats came out with this single in 1980, and it reveals how good they really were!

THE BATS - "Popgun" 

RAY RYAN PRESENTS - "The Candy Johnson Show" (1964)

 

"Ray Ryan Presents The Candy Johnson Show Featuring Candy Johnson And Her Exciters" came out in 1964, and while it was mostly just a Las Vegas club act, Candy caught on with the surfer crowd with her hip shaking moves and wild outfits that set those moves off even more, and cool instrumentals like this!

We loved this record so much that we even did a cover of our favorite song, and here is the original!

Wind it up boys!!! 

THE CANDY JOHNSON SHOW- "The Hook" 

RASPUTINA - "How We Quit The Forest" (1998)

 

This is just an incredibly awesome song by Rasputina from their 1998 album titled "How We Quit The Forest."

Some of the music on this release is a little more difficult than this, but this song is just wild.

I actually even like the video on this one, it's short, sweet, and to the point! 

RASPUTINA - "Diamond Mind" 

List Songs, Part Three - Paul Simon

 

Rich here, continuing with the subject of songs whose lyrics are comprised of lists. 

 

Perhaps it's not surprising to discover that Paul Simon, one of the most lyrically adept and intellectually curious songwriters of the past 60-plus years, has written two songs that would qualify as "List Songs;" i.e., songs whose lyrics revolve around a list of some sort. 

 

The first List Song that Paul Simon wrote was "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" from 1965, a point in which Paul Simon and his partner Art Garfunkel were at their folk-rock peak. The song is a satirical take on Bob Dylan and his often-obtuse hipster-infused lyrics. In Simon's case, his lyrics referenced then-current notable public cultural, political, and newsworthy individuals in a witty and dexterous manner. Many of the individuals named in "A Simple Desultory Philippic" will no longer resonate in the 21st Century, but many will. Two points for each name in this list that you recognize:

PAUL SIMON - "A Simple Desultory Philippic" 

 

Years later, after Garfunkel had been ditched and Simon seemed less inclined to inject intellectual pretentiousness into his lyrics, he wrote a much more fun type of List Song, this one listing all the street-lingo phrases you could use when breaking up with your lover.

PAUL SIMON - "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"   

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND -"You're A Very Lovely Woman" (1967)

 

In 1967, an L.A. band called The Merry-Go-Round, led by a fellow named Emitt Rhodes, came onto the scene with this self-titled LP that ended up having a single on it that went to #94 on The Billboard Charts.

After the band disbanded in 1969 Emitt went on to have a fairly successful solo career. A multi-talented musician, he made four more albums, and on three of them, he played all the instruments. 

Emitt pased away in 2020, but at least he left us this very lovely tune.

THE MERRY-GO-ROUND -"You're A Very Lovely Woman"