URBAN VERBS - "Subways" (1980)

 

The Urban Verbs were from Washington D.C. and this self-titled LP came out also in 1980.

If Urban Verbs sound remotely like Talking Heads to you, the reason is probably that the frontman of the band, Roddy Frantz, was the brother of Talking Heads drummer Christ Frantz.

Damn, unfortunately, while writing this, I just found out that Roddy passed away a couple of weeks ago on October 01 at the age of 71. 

URBAN VERBS - "Subways" 

 

I give Warner Brothers Records a lot of credit for coming out with records like this one titled "Troublemakers" in the 1980's. It introduced me to a lot of new music.

This album was the first time I heard bands like Urban Verbs, Wire, Buggles, & Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, who were bands that weren't getting played on the radio where I lived.

TALKING HEADS - "Stop Making Sense" (1984)

 

Before The Finn Brothers were "Only Talking Sense," Talking Heads wanted you to "Stop Making Sense in 1984.

The Talking Heads have been around a long time, and I'd call them a popular band, but they never had a number one hit song. The highest they ever got on The Billboard charts was #9 in 1983.

 

That hit song came off of this "Speaking In Tongues" album, and was titled "Burning Down The House."

The following year they came out with their film called "Stop Making Sense."

That movie has got one of my favorite videos of a 'live' song by anyone, and what else could it be?

 I get tired just watching it! 

TALKING HEADS - "Burning Down The House"

FINN BROTHERS - "Only Talking Sense" (1995)

 

In 1995 The Finn Brothers Neil and Tim released an album titled simply "Finn."

These two are so talented I could gush on forever about their music, but why waste time talking?

Here's quite a beautiful song that perfectly makes my point! 

FINN BROTHERS - "Only Talking Sense" 

ROBIN LANE & THE CHARTBUSTERS - "Don't Wait Till Tomorrow" (1980)

 

This LP by Robin Lane & The Chartbusters is classic 1980, or is it?

1980 was obviously one of the worst years of popular music, but don't get me wrong, the unpopular music of the same year was some of the best. 

Some of the top 100 songs on the Billboard Charts of 1980 were drivel like Rupert Holmes' "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)," "Do That To Me One More Time" by Captain and Toenail, "Sailing" by Christopher Cross, "Woman In Love" by Barbara Streisand, and "Lady" by Kenny Rogers.

It's like rock and roll didn't even exist.

Meanwhile, the cool people were listening to this stuff, "Brass In Pocket" by The Pretenders, "Whip It" by Devo, "What I Like About You" by The Romantics, "I Got You" by Split Enz, "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors... 

and, of course this song, by Robin Lane & The Chartbusters...

ROBIN LANE & THE CHARTBUSTERS - "Don't Wait Till Tomorrow"

LILLYS - "Better Can't Make Your Life Better" (1996)

 

Lillys, also known sometimes as The Lillys, recorded for some 20 years from 1992 to 2012. Their style changed many times over that period of time, and Wikipedia has the band having over 58 different members over the years if I counted right, with one constant, that being Kurt Heasley as frontman.

This is what the band sounded like in 1996.

From the album titled "Better Can't Make Your Life Better." here's...... 

LILLYS - "Cambridge California

HALF MAN - "Round And Round" (2000)

 

"Right In The Nuts" was an Aerosmith tribute CD that came out in 2000, and featured a lot of bands with wild names like Drunk Horse and Electric Frankenstein, and even though this is a bit more heavy handed than most of what I get into around here, I think this just might be a better version than the original, and I like the long ending a lot better for sure!

So here you go, straight out of who knows where....

HALF MAN - "Round And Round" 

A One-Man Band - Richard X. Heyman, Loud (1991)

 

Rich here. I've written about my fascination with home-recording artists, HERE and HERE. One particular artist, Richard X. Heyman, totally blew me out of the water when I first heard him on a tape that my erstwhile singing partner Jeb Bolan sent me of Heyman's 1988 album "Living Room." 

 

Heyman had previously played in a popular Washington, DC, band, The Rage, with cult power pop god, Tommy Keene. But when the band broke up, Heyman basically said, "I don't need no stinkin' band; I'll do it myself." And "Living Room" was literally recorded in a living room. The record was self-released by Heyman, and the album featured him writing & singing all the lead vocals & harmonies and playing all the instruments. Turns out he's no slouch as a player or a singer. Most particularly, he's a helluva drummer.

 

In summary: "Living Room" was ALL KILLER, NO FILLER.

 

In the early '90s rush to find the next R.E.M. or Nirvana and plunk them from the underground and into the mainstream, Sire Records signed Richard X. Heyman to a major label contract, and in 1991 released his major label debut, "Hey Man!" As with "Living Room," Heyman once again wrote & sang all the songs and played all the instruments (with his wife playing bass on a few songs). 

 

All the songs on "Hey Man!" were fab, and the album's production was pristine. Unfortunately by that point, Grunge had become mainstream, not Guitar-Pop-and-Harmony records that wouldn't have sounded out of place on a Byrds and Beatles playlist, and the public didn't notice. A year or two later, you could pick up a copy of the "Hey Man!" CD for just $3-4 in a cut-out bin. 

 

But these days "Hey Man!" is considered a Cult Classic, and it's so hard to find that it costs over $100 if you try to buy a copy from Amazon.

RICHARD X. HEYMAN - "Loud" 

JAMES HILL - "TCAB Studio" (2026)

 

James Hill is an independent musician from California who is a master of the trumpet. The tones he gets from his horn are just amazing. James has been producing his own distinct music for decades, and is now using some AI programs to augment and enhance his sound to make it even bigger and better, but believe me, it's still all his own original music and tone.

 

 

Here's the introduction from his Bandcamp page, and I agree with every single word of it.

"James Hill creates a beautiful and compelling array of musical landscapes—fusing genres, styles, instruments, and rhythms into intensely evocative compositions. He is a brilliant musician and composer."

 

If that's not enough for you, then you can listen to what I'm sure are 100's of his tunes for free from his TCAB Studio at The Internet Archive.

Do yourself a favor and go check out this man's incredible talent!

  Here's just one sample of his awesome jazz styling.

JAMES HILL - "Along Came Betty" 

THE FRIGGS - "Juiced Up" (1995)

 

The Friggs were an all female band from Camden, New Jersey that formed in 1990, and released five singles between then and 1995.

For some silly reason, they never had any chart success and broke up in 2000.

 

In 2007, this CD of singles and unreleased songs titled "Today Is Tomorrow's Yesterday," was released, and I recommend it for the hilarious cover if nothing else.

Not only are they funny, they Rock!! 

THE FRIGGS - "Juiced Up" 

COKE ESCOVEDO - "Life Is A Tortured Love Affair" (1975)

 

A few years later, and Linda Tillery was the lead singer in percussionist Coke Escovedo's fine band. Coke is the brother of Pete Escovedo, and the Uncle of Shiela E.

In 1971 and 1972, Linda Tilley recorded with Santana, Boz Scaggs and founding member of the Steve Miller Band, percussionist Tim Davis before joining Coke's band.

Anyway, Linda did not stop in the 70's, and if you've got thirty minutes to kill, here's the link to her whole story in Wikipedia. 

 Unfortunately, at the end of that article it's very clear that her health has not been that great the past few years

Here's to you Linda!! 

I can't think of a more perfect song title!

COKE ESCOVEDO - "Life Is A Tortured Love Affair" 

SWEET LINDA DIVINE - "Good Day Sunshine" (1969)

 

Linda Tillery just turned 78 about a month ago, and I hope she's doing fine. Fifty-seven years ago after her stint with The Loading Zone, she came out with this really fine solo LP called "Sweet Linda Divine."

It was produced by the phenomenal Al Kooper, a real person, that's Al, not AI and it shows. 

Why, at this point in time Linda wasn't a superstar is anybody's guess.

This has got to be the only record by a female vocalist that also has two instrumental songs on it, but Linda is also a drummer, so why not show off her skills? 

Here's a very unique Beatles' cover that shows just how talented this lady is! 

SWEET LINDA DIVINE - "Good Day Sunshine" 

THE LOADING ZONE - "Don't Lose Control (Of Your Soul)" (1968)

 

Let's talk about Linda Tillery aka Sweet Linda Divine, because if you don't know who she is, then you should, and I'm gonna take care of that for you right now, or at least some of it in this, and my next two posts.

Linda has a voice from the heart, and if that ain't enough, she plays the drums too.

Her first gig was with the San Francisco band called The Loading Zone, and they came out with this album in 1968.

I read that when The Loading Zone opened up for Big Brother And The Holding Company one time, after the gig, and because Linda was so awesome, Janis Joplin said she didn't ever want that band opening for them again because Linda's vocals made her look bad.

For a long time, I thought this was one of the strangest album covers I'd ever seen, especially back in 1968. 

THE LOADING ZONE - "Don't Lose Control (Of Your Soul)

CORNERSHOP - "Handcream For A Generation" (2002)

 

I don't exactly know why, but I really like Cornershop and their take on popular music. I will admit sometimes it goes on repetitiously for too long, but other than that, it's full of surprises and it's made to dance to!

Cornershop were from Wolverhampton, UK and formed in 1991 by brothers Tjinder and Avtar Singh. The group is fleshed out by David Chambers and Ben Ayres.

This album titled "Handcream For A Generation" was their fourth, and came out in 2002, and is well worth a listen.

CORNERSHOP - "People Power" 

One Last Swim Before Summer's End - Webb Wilder And The Beatnecks, Poolside (1986)

 

Rich here. And here it is, October already! Living in the Pacific Northwest, I always lament the end of Summer, which is that all-too-short wonderfully beautiful, temperate period before our gray days and rain return.

 

So before the Pacific NW Gloom Descends altogether with Daylight Savings Time, it's a perfect time to remember the best days of our long 70-degree days, tanned bodies in shorts and t-shirts, baseball as it's meant to be played (in the sunshine), and hanging around the pool. 

 

And who better to capture the quirkiness of the best summertime poolside culture than the underknown rock 'n' roll humorist, Webb Wilder, whose music Wikipedia describes as a combination of "straight-ahead rock & roll with the surf guitar of the Ventures and the twang of Duane Eddy, drawing on the feel of blues, R&B, country/rockabilly and film noir . . .(and a) sound incorporating influences from Americana music as well as from the British Invasion." Now, THAT's a great bio that interests me!

 Happy swimming, poolsiders!

WEBB WILDER AND THE BEATNECKS - "Poolside" 

KEEP ON TRUCKIN' (1937 - 1971)

 

In 1968 Robert Crumb introduced the underground world to truckin' with this comic strip.

 

In 1969, the Los Angeles band Spirit released this album called "Clear," and on it was a song titled

I'M TRUCKIN'

In 1970, The Grateful Dead released an LP called "American Beauty," and on it was probably one of the most iconic truckin' songs.

TRUCKIN' 

 

Also in 1970, a much more obscure band, a group from Wisconsin by the name of Tongue released this album called "Keep On Truckin' With Tongue," and something a little closer to the original version.

KEEP ON TRUCKIN'

Then in 1971, Eddie Kendricks took his turn at Truckin' lyrics.

KEEP ON TRUCKIN'

Over the years there's been Truckin' songs by everybody from Dave Dudley to Hot Tuna, but most people agree that the original concept was that of Blind Boy Fuller, and this 78 RPM release in 1937.

TRUCKING MY BLUES AWAY No.2 

THE QUINTET OF THE HOT CLUB DE FRANCE FEATURING DJANGO REINHARDT & STEPHANE GRAPPELLY - "Limehouse Blues" (1942)

 

Django Reinhardt is considered by many to be the greatest guitar player in all of history, and he definitely, and without a doubt, is the best two-fingered guitar player that ever existed.

In 1928 a fire caused by a candle severely damaged his hand, and only left him with the two fingers functioning on that hand, but somehow, through sheer determination, he managed to work through it.

Django and violinist Stephane Grappelly were a duo who made music that is unsurpassed to this day.

After some 30 years, Stephane changed his name back to it's original spelling as Grappelli, and I was lucky enough to see him perform in the seventies as that name. It was one of the most beautiful concerts I have ever attended. 

The band was fleshed out with bassist Louis Vola, and rhythm guitarists Roger Chaput and Joseph Reinhardt (Django's brother). 

Here's a little sample of why people think these guys were so magnificent. 

THE QUINTET OF THE HOT CLUB DE FRANCE - "Limehouse Blues"   

TOMMY JAMES - "Christian Of The World" (1971)

 

I'll admit that I probably wasn't really paying a lot of attention back in 1971, so I guess it slipped by me that Tommy James was throwing his whole religious card into the game of music.

I mean the cover from his solo LP called "Christian Of The World" was pretty much a 100% giveaway, but I am one of those who didn't realize that "Draggin' The Line," along with his smash hit with The Shondells, "Crimson And Clover" were Christian songs.

What a brilliant disguise! 

While not overtly Christian, this song is about Christian values.

Two different charts had this song at #2, and #4 in the U.S. 

Tommy James - "Draggin' The Line" 

THE GUESS WHO - "It's My Pride" (1966)

 

I thought I was pretty familiar with the music by The Guess Who, but I heard this song the other day, and had to look it up to see who the artist was because it really didn't sound like anybody I knew about.

 

 

This song wasn't really on any of their early albums but was the 'B' side of their first single release from 1966 called "His Girl," and it just might be the most raw and rockin' song in their vast catalogue of great music!

This sounds like it was off one of the "Nuggets" LP's. 

 

It was however on this 2003 Greatest Hits CD titled "Anthology."

THE GUESS WHO - "It's My Pride" 

ANTHONY MOORE - "World Service" (1981)

 

This 1981 LP by Anthony Moore titled "World Service" is very cool and chock full of good music if you're not familiar with it.

I really dig the song "Broke'n Idle" but the version I like is much shorter than the one I found on YouTube, so as an introduction to Anthony's music, I think this song is a better choice.

If you like it, then go and listen to the long version of  "Broke'n Idle" too, because you'll like that one also!

ANTHONY MOORE - "Run Right Back"    

THE GODZ - "Contact High With The Godz" (1966)

 

The Godz were the third member of the 1960's ESP trifecta of talent along with The Fugs, and Pearls Before Swine, and they released this LP called "Contact High With The Godz" in 1966.

Talk about raw, here they completely destroy this classic Hank Williams' song, and didn't even use the correct title which was "May You Never Be Alone"

THE GODZ - "May You Be Alone (Hank Williams)"

ONE-HIT WONDERS, PT 2 - Crabby Appleton ("Go Back," 1970)

 

Rich here. By the end of the Sixties the Album-Era had definitely arrived. It wasn't just the Beatles and The Who and The Beach Boys making great albums, anymore. Many of the major bands liked the freedom that making an album provided, with longer songs and thematic & sonic experimentations, and some of them were turning away from making singles altogether.

 

But making albums was an expensive proposition, and a band had to earn a certain level of stature and experience before the record company would give them the budget to make an album.

 

All of which meant a band needed to score some hit singles first, and the early '70s were full of one-hit wonders -- bands that recorded their best song as a single, which might go on to garner lots of radio play and an admirable showing on the singles charts. But, oftentimes, a band was unable to follow up their hit single with another record its equal. 

 

But, indeed, there were some GREAT one-hit wonders in the early '70s. And one of my favorites was by Crabby Appleton. No, not the villain from the animated Tom Terrific cartoons on the daily Captain Kangaroo TV show, but a band who released a terrific single in 1970.

 

"Go Back" is a radio-friendly rocker full of fizzy guitar riffs, hard-charging drums & percussion fills, lots of guitar-jangle, and a catchy straight-through-to-the-chorus by a commanding lead singer whose occasional welps explode into the mix. 

 

"Go Back" was unquestionably as good as songs being released by other bands from the newly emerging Power Pop movement, like Badfinger, The Raspberries, and Big Star -- but, unfortunately, just like their one-hit-wonder brethren Sugarloaf, nothing else by Crabby Appleton ever made a dent on the charts. Nonetheless, the song remains a classic power pop gem.

CRABBY APPLETON - "Go Back" 

CRAZY ELEPHANT - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' (1969)

 

Crazy Elephant was another one of those bands that was created by Kasenetz-Katz in the studio, and they also have the notoriety of being another of the 60's one hit wonders.

The record came out in 1969, and this single made it to number 12 on the charts.

This is not really one of my favorite songs, but it ain't bad in a goofy kind of way, but more than anything, I like this video, because it's always amazing how you can take footage of people dancing, and it will almost always be in sync with the music, and using footage of some of the TV goddesses of the 60's is sheer genius.  

CRAZY ELEPHANT - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'

YUSEF LATEEF - "The Blue Yusef Lateef" (1968)

 

To say it simply, Yusef Lateef was a musical genius!

He taught a course at The Manhattan School Of Music in "Autophysiopsychic Music,"aka "Music From The Heart," and he had the creds to back it up.

Yusef played Tenor Sax, and Flute, but he also experimented with other instruments and was known to also record with the Oboe, Bassoon and anything else that had a mouthpiece.

He was literally making "World Music," before it was even a term. 

Here's about the most standard blues song I've ever heard by Yusef, and it just shows how versatile he really was. I dig this song because it swings, and is so unlike most of the man's music!

This tune sounds like it was from some low budget 60's horror movie, and you can't get much cooler than that! 

Another saxophonist by the name of Buddy Lucas is the one blowin' the harp! 

Yusef Lateef - "Othelia" 

RUSTY DRAPER - "In The Middle Of The House" (1956)

 

Farrell Haliday Draper, aka Rusty Draper, at one time was one of the biggest pop and country crossover stars of the 50's, but that was a long time ago, so you probably have never heard of him.

I had this record as a little kid, and I always thought this song was the 'B' side.

Another singer named Vaughn Monroe also released this same song a couple of weeks earlier than Rusty Draper. 

Monroe's version made it to number eleven, and Rusty's version peaked at 24 on the charts. On a separate set of charts, Rusty's was one notch higher.

The song was so damn popular in the UK that there were three different versions in November of 1956 on the UK charts, one by Alma Cogan, one by Jimmy Parkinson, and one by The Johnston Brothers.

That's crazy! 

The writer Bob Hilliard must have been in heaven to see his song in the charts in the same year by five different artists.

I hope he made a lot of money!

RUSTY DRAPER - "In The Middle Of The House" 

THE BUGGLES - "The Age Of Plastic" (1980)

 

This album titled "The Age Of Plastic" by The Buggles in 1980 had the song "Video Killed The Radio Star" on it which made it to number one in 16 countries, but only made in to number 40 on the U.S. charts.

 

Whatever you do, don't get The Buggles mixed up with Sid and Marty Krofft's The Bugaloos.

 

Or even worse, the world's most obnoxious kid's show, "The Teletubbies."

 

The Buggles' music might be very cartoonlike but they are much better than that!

Here's the proof! Try to not tap your foot!!

THE BUGGLES - "Clean Clean"

THE COLLECTORS - "She (Will-O-The-Wind)" (1968)

 

It was suggested to me by my friend Robert Lindsey to give this 1968 album by The Collectors a try, so I did, and I remember this album cover, but I don't think I ever owned this one.

The Collectors were from Canada, and started out in 1961 as the CFUN Classics, and they recorded two singles in 1963, one as The Classics, and one as The Canadian Classics before morphing into The Collectors, and in 1969 they became Chilliwack.

There is one song on this album that is a 19 minutes and 15 second long suite. That's ambitious but I like this one better.

THE COLLECTORS - "She (Will-O-The-Wind)" 

RICHIE HASS AND THE BEATNIKS - "I Wanna Be On "Lost In Space" (1986)

 

Richie Hass was mostly a writer and a sideman percussionist on projects by Zoogz Rift, John Trubee And The Ugly Janitors of America and others. With his band Richie Hass And The Beatniks, he didn't really have any releases, but he did put out a single in 1980 as Richie Hass And The Solutions.

Unfortunately Richie's life was cut short in 2008 due to cancer. 

 

This song was one of two songs Richie had on this various artists compilation LP from 1986 titled "Obscure Independent Classics: Volume 3 - It Was Clearly The Belgian That Was Tampering With The Pilchard."

Just in case you're wondering, a pilchard is a type of sardine. 

Too bad he didn't get a chance to do more, because he obviously had a great sense of humor as this song will attest to! 

RICHIE HASS AND THE BEATNIKS - "I Wanna Be On "Lost In Space" 

The Alternative to Alternative™- Sam Phillips - "Where the Colors Don't Go" (1991)

 

Rich here. You know, it's always struck me weird that when Grunge was so dominantly popular in the Nineties, it was called "ALTERNATIVE MUSIC." I mean, the sheer popularity of Grunge meant that it was the mainstream, not the alternative.

 

Meanwhile, all the music of the late '70s and Eighties that had once been referred to as "alternative" because it didn't fit neatly on commercial playlists still didn't get much airplay, but it was no longer fashionable to call it "alternative." After all, New Wave, Ska, Power Pop, Neo-Surf, Folk-Punk, Alt-Country, Retrobilly, etc. had been considered "alternative" before Grunge came along and took over sole ownership of the term.

 

Then, there was also the Paisley Underground -- bands and artists who were delving into the psychedelic sounds of the Sixties and updating them. It was a movement that included a revival of Baroque Pop, which hadn't been a popular presence since the late '60s when bands like The Left Banke, The Moody Blues, The Zombies, The Beach Boys, and (of course) The Beatles all released popular songs that featured lush melodies and harmonies accompanied by classical instruments in addition to their rock-band foundations.

 

So it was that I began referring to all these genres as "The Alternative to Alternative™." And one of my favorites was Sam Phillips, who was not the famous 1950's record producer who gave us Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison. The "new" Sam Phillips was a hugely talented young singer-songwriter who wrote impeccable songs with intellectual impulses that challenged popular notions of pop music, truly making her music an alternative to Alternative™, and "Where the Colors Don't Go" from 1991 was a Baroque Pop masterpiece.

SAM PHILLIPS - "Where the Colors Don't Go"  

JOAN JETT, LITA FORD, DORO & LEE AARON — 1980s vs 2026

 

Now this IS cool, and I can honestly say that I think this is the first time I've seen A-I technology put to good use!

I just happened to stumble onto this video, and what a great concept, introduce a bunch of the hard rockin' women of the late 70's and 80's, and show them as they were, as they are now, or as they could be.

Not my favorite kind of music, but what the Hell does that have to do with it, I'm still going to watch this video over and over and over! 

Big kudos to Let's Rewind, job well done!! 

"Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Doro, Lee Aaron and More - 1980s vs 2026" 

COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN - "Lost In The Ozone" (1971)

 

"Lost In The Ozone" by Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen just might be one of the best Country Rock albums of 1971, or at least if it's not the best, it's a damn good one.

There were quite a few bands performing in the alt-country genre that year like The New Riders Of The Purple Sage, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Byrds and Poco, but Commander Cody really did the best job of getting real Western Swing into the act, or at least that's my humble opinion!

Judge for yourself! 

COMMANDER CODY AND HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN - "Lost In The Ozone" 

JOE HENDERSON - "Page One" (1963)

 

"Page One" was the first album the brilliant saxophonist Joe Henderson ever recorded.

It came out in 1963 and along with Joe, it featured Kenny Dorham on Trumpet, and the freakin' amazing pianist McCoy Tyner, who only got a credit as "/Etc." on the cover. Wow! 

This album is pretty mellow by Joe Henderson standards, because a lot of the time, musically, Joe liked to color outside the lines.

This is the thing about jazz, if you don't like jazz, then you will probably not like this cut, but if you do like jazz, then you'll love it!

That's just the way jazz works! 

JOE HENDERSON - "Recorda Me" 

SOUL COUGHING - "Ruby Vroom" (1994)

 

Soul Coughing was from New York, started out in 1992, and disbanded in 2000, but reunited in 2024 to go on tour.

This is a unique band that did it their way, but I'm not sure the world was ever completely ready, but I've always enjoyed their quirky poetic style.

This album called "Ruby Vroom" was released in 1994, and here's just a small sample of their genius. 

SOUL COUGHING - "Down To This" 

PATRICK D. MARTIN - Computer Datin' (1981)

 

This self-titled EP by Patrick D. Martin came out in 1981, and is in the genre of Electronic, Minimal, New Wave, Synth-pop, and it lives up to all of that.

I was going to play a cool instrumental called "?" but I can't find it on Youtube, and I'm too lazy to do it myself, so this will work just fine. 

This is Quirky & Fun music!

PATRICK D. MARTIN - Computer Datin'

THE RED TYGER CHURCH - "Free Energy" (2004)

 

The Red Tyger Church was from Sacramento, California, and they came out with this release called "Free Energy" in 2004.

The name Angie has been used in at least four other songs since 1969 by Badfinger, Stevie Wonder, Helen Reddy, and of course, The Rolling Stones.

This song is ten or twenty times better than The Rolling Stones' "Angie." 

THE RED TYGER CHURCH - "Angie Vampyre"