ROCK Your Fucking Face Off.....Jams from the past.

"Little Hand Says It's Time to Rock"  

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Ok so its been a while but consider that a good thing cause its more to talk about.


PANDORA has given me the variety I miss and the chance for me to pick exactly what I want.  It also has reminded me of how fucking GOOD music can be and also how BAD at the same time.  First of all, NO ONE makes GOOD album covers anymore.  Look below and see why I have many of these album covers FRAMED on my wall upstairs.  The artwork KILLS and NO ONE can match it today.


Back in the 70s there was REAL rock and CORPORATE rock.  Corporate rock involved bands like Boston and the Eagles which was POP and Rock radio friendly so it got burned to a crisp. Now its just tired crap.  Bands such as Heart, Rush, Pink Floyd and Bad Company were the driving around your car bands.  AS far as metal, Sabbath and Zeppelin were pretty much it with KISS, but the late 70s had heavier bands like Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy and I know there are more, but these are more recognizable.  I am probably missing a LOT of bands but hopefully you get what I am trying to point out.  Just think if you were waxing your car, working on the transmission or driving around stoned, this was the music.


As far as GOOD and BAD music, without one the other can't exist.  For every Lips Of An Angel (Hinder) there is a Pretender (Foo Fighters) to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Think of one of your ALLTIME favorite songs and think why.  It obviously reminds you of a time or place where something happened to etch it in your head.  ONLY music can do that and I could tell you s story to go along with each and every song listed below and where it is etched in my life story.  Some of my best times were sitting behind the control room while DJing late at night on KLSU cause that was the time when you would have total control of the music and one or two would call you to thank you for finding a song to make them feel good.

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So the following list is SIMPLE and I will say it AGAIN there is NOTHING I MEAN NOTHING that compares to seeing a band LIVE.  Just look below.  Ok so lets ROCK.  This is a collection of songs put together in chronological order which is EXTREMELY important from the fact that some of these are WAY AHEAD of their time.  All together these tunes just flow into ONE collection of JAM.   Just listen and I hate to blow my wad all now but once you get started you can't stop.


Some of these songs are timely for me that is why they are included but they all ROCK in their own way. SOME MORE THAN OTHERS.  MOST OF THESE VIDEOS YOU REMEMBER AND some you might have never seen BUT for some (ex. ONE) they are still pieces of EXCELLENCE that will never be replicated.   

The LIVE videos speak for themselves, so take what you want but I suggest watching them if you have never as these are just amazing...LIVE LIVE LIVE


Strap on your helmet cause you're goin in.


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Black Sabbath - "A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning" (1970) 

Deep Purple - "Highway Star" (Live) (1972)





Pink Floyd - "On The Run" (1973) 
(Video is LIVE from 1994)


Pink Floyd - "The Travel Sequence" 
(Live at the Rainbow Theatre 1972)


Pink Floyd - The Travel Sequence (Studio Recording)

Sweet - "Ballroom Blitz" (1974)

Three Dog Night - "Shambala" (1975)


The Jam - In The City (1977)


Black Sabbath - Junior's Eyes (1978) 

REO Speedwagon - "Roll With Changes" (Live) (1978)


Thin Lizzy - Genocide (Killing Of  The Buffalo) (1980)

 

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Ozzy Osbourne - "Miracle Man" (1989)

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Iron Maiden - Murders In Rue Morgue (Live) (1982)

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Riot - "Restless Breed" (Live) (1982)


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Zebra - "Take Your Fingers From My Hair" (1983)

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Motley Crue - "Red Hot" (1983)

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Scorpions - "I'm Leaving You" (1984)


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Dokken - Into The Fire (1984)

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Great White - "Rock Me" (The Long Version) (1987)

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Metallica - "The Four Horsemen" (1988) 
(Video is LIVE 1989)
 
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L.A. Guns - "Never Enough" (1989)  

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White Lion - "Radar Love" 
(Cover of Golden Earring Classic) (1989)

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Pantera - "Cowboys From Hell"

(1990) (Live at Ozzfest 2000)

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Warrant - "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1990)

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Damn Yankees - "Come Again" (1990) 
 

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Skid Row - Monkey Business (1991)
 

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Bodycount - "Bodycount" (1992)



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Pearl Jam - "Porch" (Live Unplugged)(1992) 

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Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets" (1992) 

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Ministry - "Just One Fix" (1992) 

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Butthole Surfers "Who Was in My Room Last Night?" (1993) 

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Rollins Band - "Liar" (1994)



Sponge "Plowed" (1995)

Tool - "Ænima" (1996) 

Rammstein - DuHast (Live) (1997) 

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Monster Magnet - "Powertrip" (1998) 

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Incubus - "Pardon Me" (Live) (1999) 

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Slipknot - "Wait And Bleed" (1999)
 

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Tool - "The Grudge" (2001) 

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Queens Of The Stone Age - "The Flow" (2002)




Slipknot - "Duality" (2004) 
(Video is from Download Festival)

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Clutch - "The Mob Goes Wild" (2004)

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Avenged Sevenfold - "Bat Country" (2005)

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Foo Fighters - "The Pretender" (2007)

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ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD !!!!!!from one of the most underrated bands of ALL TIME


Pixies - "Cecilia Ann/Alison" (Live)

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and arguably the GREATEST VIDEO EVER MADE.....show me better as I STILL to this day remember seeing this really late at night and being just dumbfounded at how powerful this is.....STILL to this day.....PERFECTION!

Metallica "One" (1988)

OK I AM OFFICIALLY DONE AS I FEEL LIKE I GAVE BIRTH....to a bunch of metalheads


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HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT AS MUCH AS I DID!!!

GUILTY PLEASURES STRIKE 3

"'Cause like a picture she was layin' there
Moonlight dancin' off her hair
She woke up and took me by the hand
She's gonna love me in my Chevy van
And that's all right with me"

"Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns 1975



Hope that tune above spoke to your inner asshole.  It just reeks of 70s date rape, but hey songs like this back then were HITS.

So you have figured out by now that I have MANY MANY guilty pleasures....like too many to where I basically I am a fuck face who just can't admit he likes douchy tunes but hides behind the mask of "Guilty Pleasures"....well I say fuck you....this is my blog and I guarantee you like at least HALF of these tunes....Most are like the second releases by 80s bands etc so they weren't as good to the masses, but I fucking love them....some you might say WTF? that is a good song....

ALSO, most of the videos are so damn cheesy i.e. "Night Owls" as the bands are so nerdy but they think they look cool when making the video.

remember it's my blog....

ENJOY....

FIRST SONG drips cheese!!!!

Jermaine Stewart "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off"



Ace of Base - The Sign


The Outfield "Since You've Been Gone"


Manfred Mann's Earth Band "The Runner"


Little River Band "Night Owls"


Falco "Der Kommisar" - Not Guilty unless by guilty you mean AWESOME!!!


La Bouche - "Be My Lover"


Boys Don't Cry "I Wanna Be A Cowboy"


ASIA "Only Time Will Tell"


Spandau Ballet "Gold"


Pet Shop Boys "Opportunities"


Go West "We Close Our Eyes"


BONUS Go West for the Pretty Woman crowd.....


Go West"King Of Wishful Thinking"


Mr. Mister "Is It Love?"------from the movie "Stakeout" so it rocks...



The Fixx "Are We Ourselves?"


SAGA "On The Loose"-----the codpiece is key 80s....lol


Loverboy "Turn Me Loose"


White Lion "Tell Me"


Level 42 "Lessons In Love"-----FAVORITE!!!!!


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Let's take a break to JAM!!!.....the following is brought to you by awesome

Warrant "Uncle Tom's Cabin"


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Yes "Rhythym Of Love"


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BREAK #2!!!!-----This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES!!!!!

Genesis "Land Of Confusion"



and SOME that just have to make every list.....

Joey Scarbury "Believe It Or Not" (Theme from Greatest American Hero)



OK so that is it.....for now....Guilty Pleasures FOUR soon...

I will leave you with this......just a BONUS because the bass is so good in this CLASSIC

Level 42 "Something About You"



cheers

My Head Explodes, My Ears Ring...I Can't Remember Just Where I've Been....................Weekend Jams

ITS FUCKING FRIDAY!!!!!!

.....and the end to a very shitty week for many of us (you know who you are) so I just want to jam.....

This weekend I am playing paintball for my nephew's 11th birthday and I am taking my 11 yr old boy who has never been to an NFL game  to the Saints/Texans game this weekend .  His favorite team is the Saints and we have FIELD PASSES...so yes it will be awesome!!!!

These are some really badass videos from arguably the BEST ERA of music....probably not a bad song on here....and the videos are classic in their own way....some cheese, some jam and some flat out rock....

you have to turn this up to 11....to quote Spinal Tap....




Winger "Easy Come, Easy Go"


Motley Crue "Too Young To Fall In Love"


The Cult "Sweet Soul Sister"




Rainbow "Stone Cold"

White Lion "Radar Love"


April Wine "Sign Of The Gypsy Queen"


Night Ranger "Don't Tell You Love Me"


Riot "Restless Breed"  FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG!!!


Scorpions "Blackout"


Living Colour "Glamour Boys"


Dokken "Into The Fire"


Billy Squier "My Kinda Lover"


Twisted Sister "Burn In Hell"


ZZ Top "La Grange"


WATCH THIS!!!!....great slow jam in middle...the metal gods have spoken
Judas Priest "Victim Of Changes" LIVE 1982


Damn Yankees "Coming Of Age"


Ozzy Osbourne "You Can't Kill Rock And Roll"


HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!!!!! 

and lets end with this.....FUCKING JAM....Just appreciate the year it came out....watch whole thing as it jams....

Sweet "Love Is Like Oxygen"

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SONGS ...REVISED with TWO MORE!!!

As most of you have already noticed, I love music.   All kinds but mostly my heart falls in pure ROCK AND FUCKING ROLL.  Mostly classics from 70s and 80s but over the years I have run across a few songs that I cannot stop listening to....THEY NEVER GET OLD.  I am writing this as there is a song by the Bee Gees my dad used to love and I can listen to it 5 times in a row and it never gets old....to this day.  With that said here is a list of some of the songs I listen to and for some reason they just never tire me out. You will also notice its NOT songs from my all time favorite bands as I like almost everything by my favorites so picking one is ridiculous.   These are also songs that the FIRST time I heard them I was hooked and never looked back.   These select songs are perfect at painting a picture and not many songs can do that.  The CLASSICS always do......ENJOY playing in my mind for a while.
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FIRST is my ALL TIME FAVORITE....I decided this was it as I was driving with my son the other day and it came on and I was like "This is it" spanning my entire music library in my head this is the one song I can always go to if I need to sing loud or smile or whatever.  Its  absolutely perfect.  And because the ORIGINAL is the ORIGINAL its the post....every version of this song is amazing.

The Police "Message In A Bottle" (from the album Reggatta De Blanc - 1979)

The next song is arguably my SECOND favorite song of all time as we were driving through San Diego the first time I heard it and was floored.  STILL today!!!!!!

Foo Fighters "The Pretender" (from the album Echoes Silence Patience Grace - 2007)

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I had to add these THREE as they are FUCKING AWESOME!!!!

Blue Oyster Cult "Burnin' For You" (from the album Fire Of Unknown Origin -1981)

The Tubes "Talk To Ya Later" (from the album Complete Backwards Principle - 1981)

Metallica "Sabbra Cadabra" (from the album Garage Inc - 1998)

For the next TWO I had to include both of these song as they are both so powerful and fall into the "every time" category....Frusciante is the man for backing vocals and guitar


Red Hot Chili Peppers "Otherside" (from the album Californication - 1999)

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Californication"  (from the album Californication - 1999)



Toad The Wet Sprocket "Nightingale Song" (from the album Fear - 1991)

R.E.M. "World Leader Pretend" (video from the movie Tourfilm) (from the album Green 1988)

The House Of Love "You Don't Understand" (from the album Babe Rainbow - 1992)

The Replacements - "Alex Chilton" (from the album Pleased To Meet Me - 1987)

Seven Mary Three "My My" (from the album American Standard - 1995)

OK so here we go again with TWO songs by Peter Murphy but I could not post one without the other.....both phenomenal and deep in so many ways....JUST LISTEN

Peter Murphy "Cuts You Up" (from the album Deep - 1990)


Peter Murphy "A Strange Kind Of Love" (from the album Deep - 1990)


Freedy Johnston "Bad Reputation" (from the album This Perfect World -1994)

Oasis "Don't Go Away" LIVE (from the album Be Here Now -1997) 

Just fucking PERFECT!!!!!  came to me at a time in my life when I needed this....





Breaking Benjamin "Diary of Jane" (from the album Phobia - 2006)

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THE ALL-TIME CLASSICS!!!!

Journey "Wheel In The Sky" (from the album Inifinity - 1978)

Heart "Crazy On You" (from the album Dreamboat Annie - 1976)





Bee Gees - "New York Mining Disaster" (from the album Bee Gees 1st - 1967)

.38 Special "Hold On Loosely" (from the album Wild Eyed Southern Boys - 1981)

Scorpions "No One Like You" (from the album Blackout - 1982)

REO Speedwagon "Take It On The Run" (from the album High Infidelity - 1980)





Jim Croce "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" (from the album Life and Times - 1973)

Guns N' Roses "Civil War" (from the compilation album Nobody's Child - 1990)

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OK I could do at least 10 more but you get it.....BONUS below

Warrant "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (from the album Cherry Pie - 1990)

Skid Row "Monkey Business" (from the album Slave To The Grind - 1991)

BONUS 2:   Doobie Brothers "Takin' It To The Streets/Jesus Is Just Alright"  


NOW WATCH THIS......part of the Foo Fighters movie "Back and Forth" and just the best part showing so many live cuts and just amazing.....ENJOY




HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!!!!

GO SAINTS!!!