Scotch Sampler
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I've covered early Neil Young. He had a resurgence in 1989 with the album Freedom, which contained the hit Rockin' in the Free World. You can add this to the list of songs that stupid people think are patriotic.
Here's a smokin' performance from SNL
Neil Young – Rockin’ In the Free World (live)
A few years later, he released Harvest Moon, with this nice title track
Neil Young – Harvest Moon (live)
Here's a smokin' performance from SNL
Neil Young – Rockin’ In the Free World (live)
A few years later, he released Harvest Moon, with this nice title track
Neil Young – Harvest Moon (live)
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I like these lyrics from Free World:
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
But I fear those lyrics loose their meaning to those who weren't around for 41.
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
But I fear those lyrics loose their meaning to those who weren't around for 41.
Stevie Ray Vaughan was pure greatness in modern guitar playing, and making Texas style blues. I may have first discovered him when he was recording with Bowie. He had his issues with substance abuse, and unfortunately, shortly after he cleaned himself up, he died in a helicopter crash. That event hit me really hard; he was in his prime, and getting his life back together.
Anyway, his first album release was 1983's Texas Flood, which included Love Struck Baby, and Pride and Joy. That was followed by the album Couldn't Stand the Weather, with the hits Cold Shot, and the title song
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn’t Stand the Weather (live)
The album also had his great rendition of Hendrix's Voodoo Child
Stevie Ray Vaughan (covering Jimi Hendrix) – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
But it was in 1989 when he cleaned himself up, and released the hit album In Step, with songs like The House is Rockin’, Crossfire, and these
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Tightrope (live)
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Wall of Denial (live on Letterman)
The posthumous release The Sky is Crying was a collection of previously unreleased songs, including another great instrumental Hendrix cover
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Little Wing (live)
Anyway, his first album release was 1983's Texas Flood, which included Love Struck Baby, and Pride and Joy. That was followed by the album Couldn't Stand the Weather, with the hits Cold Shot, and the title song
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn’t Stand the Weather (live)
The album also had his great rendition of Hendrix's Voodoo Child
Stevie Ray Vaughan (covering Jimi Hendrix) – Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
But it was in 1989 when he cleaned himself up, and released the hit album In Step, with songs like The House is Rockin’, Crossfire, and these
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Tightrope (live)
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Wall of Denial (live on Letterman)
The posthumous release The Sky is Crying was a collection of previously unreleased songs, including another great instrumental Hendrix cover
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Little Wing (live)
I swear that you can hear me yelling in the background.
I've told this story before, but...... I had a chance to see Stevie in Toledo either late 89 or early 90. For some reason I passed thinking I'd see him next time around. In April of 90, I went to see Clapton in Michigan. Half way through the show, SRV comes out and played 3 songs with Clapton. Everyone, myself included, was blown away. I kicked myself for not seeing SRV when I had the chance and promised myself I'd catch him next time. That never happened......
I've told this story before, but...... I had a chance to see Stevie in Toledo either late 89 or early 90. For some reason I passed thinking I'd see him next time around. In April of 90, I went to see Clapton in Michigan. Half way through the show, SRV comes out and played 3 songs with Clapton. Everyone, myself included, was blown away. I kicked myself for not seeing SRV when I had the chance and promised myself I'd catch him next time. That never happened......
In 1988, Tracy Chapman hit the music scene in a big way. Her self-titled debut album was full of hits that played on the radio for months and months; and the world discovered her amazing vocal talents. As a graduate of Tufts University in Boston, there was a lot of local pride in her success.
We've all heard Talkin' 'bout a Revolution and Fast Car a thousand times (both great songs), so here are some less well-known favorites:
This little tune preceded the BLM movement by several decades
Tracy Chapman – Behind the Wall (live)
This is just a nice ballad
Tracy Chapman – Baby Can I Hold You (live)
She hit a bit of a sophomore slump with 1989's Crossroads, where only the title track charted. 1992's Matters of the Heart was a little stronger, with the hit Bang Bang Bang. But the album had several good songs, including this favorite, which I just find pleasant to listen to:
Tracy Chapman – I Used to Be a Sailor
Her 1995 album New Beginning contained this big hit song, that was actually written years earlier
Tracy Chapman – Give Me One Reason (live with Eric Clapton)
And though I'm trying to stay within a specific timeline for this list, I have to mention the 2005 album Where You Live, because the song Change is so powerful and meaningful
Tracy Chapman – Change
We've all heard Talkin' 'bout a Revolution and Fast Car a thousand times (both great songs), so here are some less well-known favorites:
This little tune preceded the BLM movement by several decades
Tracy Chapman – Behind the Wall (live)
This is just a nice ballad
Tracy Chapman – Baby Can I Hold You (live)
She hit a bit of a sophomore slump with 1989's Crossroads, where only the title track charted. 1992's Matters of the Heart was a little stronger, with the hit Bang Bang Bang. But the album had several good songs, including this favorite, which I just find pleasant to listen to:
Tracy Chapman – I Used to Be a Sailor
Her 1995 album New Beginning contained this big hit song, that was actually written years earlier
Tracy Chapman – Give Me One Reason (live with Eric Clapton)
And though I'm trying to stay within a specific timeline for this list, I have to mention the 2005 album Where You Live, because the song Change is so powerful and meaningful
Tracy Chapman – Change
Time to revisit the B-52's and their 1989 party classic Cosmic Thing. It's fun, it's danceable, it's got that great harmonic sound from Kate and Cindy, and whatever you call what Fred Snyder does. It's an instant party. It produced a bunch of singles, including Deadbeat Club, and all of these
B-52’s - (Shake That) Cosmic Thing (live)
B-52’s – Channel Z
B-52’s – Love Shack (edit)
B-52’s – Roam
It's the best thing they've done since their original album, and it was all downhill afterwards.
B-52’s - (Shake That) Cosmic Thing (live)
B-52’s – Channel Z
B-52’s – Love Shack (edit)
B-52’s – Roam
It's the best thing they've done since their original album, and it was all downhill afterwards.
Haha yep!
1. Love Shack (though I'm pretty sick of it)
2. Roam
3. Channel Z
4. Meet The Flintstones
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My B-52 List.
1. Rock Lobster
2. Roam
3. Love Shack
4. Channel Z
5. Planet Claire
I will have to investigate Meet The Flinstones. I did not know they did a version of that.
1. Rock Lobster
2. Roam
3. Love Shack
4. Channel Z
5. Planet Claire
I will have to investigate Meet The Flinstones. I did not know they did a version of that.
They did it for the Flintstones movie, credited as the BC-52s *rimshot*
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In 1989 Tom Petty released his debut solo album (without the Heartbreakers) called Full Moon Fever, and it yielded a slew of hit songs: I Won't Back Down, A Face in the Crowd, and these favorites -
Add this to the list of songs that sound wholesome and patriotic, but aren't
Tom Petty - Free Fallin’ (live, song ends at 4:50)
Awesome solo at the end
Tom Petty - Runnin’ Down a Dream (live, song ends at 5:00)
This really shows off his abundant talent
Tom Petty - Yer So Bad (live solo acoustic)
edit: I tried to post his Super Bowl XLII performance, but the NFL won't let me.
Add this to the list of songs that sound wholesome and patriotic, but aren't
Tom Petty - Free Fallin’ (live, song ends at 4:50)
Awesome solo at the end
Tom Petty - Runnin’ Down a Dream (live, song ends at 5:00)
This really shows off his abundant talent
Tom Petty - Yer So Bad (live solo acoustic)
edit: I tried to post his Super Bowl XLII performance, but the NFL won't let me.
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He did 2 solo albums. When asked later if he would do more, he said there was nothing he wanted to do that couldn't be done with the Heartbeakers.
On the CD version of Running Down a Dream, at the end, he has a little thing where he says that he is pausing to "let the people who have the record or cassette get up or sit down and flip the record or cassette". Then he says "Here's Side 2". I edited out that little soliloquy and put it in my cassette playlists between side 1 and side 2 so when I am listening I remember.
On the CD version of Running Down a Dream, at the end, he has a little thing where he says that he is pausing to "let the people who have the record or cassette get up or sit down and flip the record or cassette". Then he says "Here's Side 2". I edited out that little soliloquy and put it in my cassette playlists between side 1 and side 2 so when I am listening I remember.
It's a bonus day here at DRC! Here's another favorite music post.
Similar to how I cringed a little when I posted Sting's solo work, there's a bit of a cringe with Red Hot Chili Peppers. Even the name makes me cringe a little. I've been so inundated with 90's "classic alternative" radio, that plays RHCP and Sublime every 10 minutes, that I no longer personally ever play a RHCP song. However, they're a great band, and if I could transport back to 1999, I'd still appreciate that fact. They've definitely inspired a generation of copycat garage bands, and Flea is versatile bass guitar icon.
They first got noticed for their '89 cover of Higher Ground, but it was 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik that made them big. Under the Bridge is a song that will hold up for a long time, although I'm sick of it, and never really embraced it as a Peppers song. Other hits include Breaking the Girl, and these head-banging favorites
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give it Away (live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Suck My Kiss
Their follow-up was 1995's One Hot Minute, with Aeroplane, and this one that's my most favorite song of theirs
Red Hot Chili Peppers – My Friends
I'll save Californication for another day.
Similar to how I cringed a little when I posted Sting's solo work, there's a bit of a cringe with Red Hot Chili Peppers. Even the name makes me cringe a little. I've been so inundated with 90's "classic alternative" radio, that plays RHCP and Sublime every 10 minutes, that I no longer personally ever play a RHCP song. However, they're a great band, and if I could transport back to 1999, I'd still appreciate that fact. They've definitely inspired a generation of copycat garage bands, and Flea is versatile bass guitar icon.
They first got noticed for their '89 cover of Higher Ground, but it was 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik that made them big. Under the Bridge is a song that will hold up for a long time, although I'm sick of it, and never really embraced it as a Peppers song. Other hits include Breaking the Girl, and these head-banging favorites
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give it Away (live)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Suck My Kiss
Their follow-up was 1995's One Hot Minute, with Aeroplane, and this one that's my most favorite song of theirs
Red Hot Chili Peppers – My Friends
I'll save Californication for another day.
I said it before so I won't elaborate but I immediately went nuts for them in the summer of 1989 (thank you Steven Tyler/MTV) with "Fight Like A Brave" (released two years earlier). "Give It Away" and "Under The Bridge" made them huge, but I didn't like either one much at first, they had to grow on me. With One Hot Minute, they pretty much lost me.
While researching chronologically for this list, I noticed a convergence of one-off favorites, around the late 80's to early 90's. So I put them together here.
I'm posting this first one as a one-off hit, although I bought the whole album. The Trinity Session was recorded inside Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity, with the band circled around a single microphone. Any list of the all-time best cover songs would have to include this version of the Velvet Underground tune
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
A ubiquitous hit from this time period, this Leno appearance reminds us that there's a real band behind the song
Jesus Jones – Right Here, Right Now (live on Leno)
This one may not have aged too well, but I still enjoy hearing it
EMF – Unbelievable
Siouxsie had a number of hits, but this is my favorite, as it sets-up one of the best rhythmic grooves around
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Kiss Them for Me
I'm posting this first one as a one-off hit, although I bought the whole album. The Trinity Session was recorded inside Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity, with the band circled around a single microphone. Any list of the all-time best cover songs would have to include this version of the Velvet Underground tune
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
A ubiquitous hit from this time period, this Leno appearance reminds us that there's a real band behind the song
Jesus Jones – Right Here, Right Now (live on Leno)
This one may not have aged too well, but I still enjoy hearing it
EMF – Unbelievable
Siouxsie had a number of hits, but this is my favorite, as it sets-up one of the best rhythmic grooves around
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Kiss Them for Me