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!!!

LIVE MUSIC part DEUCE

Ok so here is PART 2 of the LIVE blog.........These are some REAL classics......These LIVE versions of these songs are why I love LIVE music......just go through one by one and ENJOY.......

with that said.....

The Police





Metallica




Pink Floyd.....

This needs no introduction as I have heard people have flashbacks at shows and all kinds of stuff.....just watch and ENJOY......BRILLIANT......and notice the crowd doesn't MOVE....I have never seen people at a show look like cardboard cutouts....WOW



Pink Floyd - Echoes (Live at Pompeii)



Pink Floyd - Live 1972 The Travel Sequence



FAVORITE ALERT!!!!!! ---- ECHO and the Bunnymen  (LIVE 84)


ECHO and the Bunnymen - Never Stop




DEPECHE MODE at the ROSE BOWL 89.......this concert is one of my all time favorites.....EVER.....it perfect....






Walking In My Shoes (Live in Barcelona)


RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE OH MY GOD!!!!!




JOURNEY



HEART




RUSH - LIVE in Rio



RUSH - Exit Stage Left







RUSH - LIVE (1978)


BEASTIE BOYS - LIVE....I miss MCA so much as the Beastie Boys are the best concert as they mix it up so much.



Beastie Boys - Shake you rump




UNPLUGGED....

Stevie Ray Vaughan



R.E.M.

Just amazing and after the second verse you can see the passion.....ENJOY




PEARL JAM UNPLUGGED......this is before Pearl Jam hit and when I saw this I was blown away.....JUST INCREDIBLE



IF you are not moving out of your seat after this....you are legally dead


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And Now to finish I present you with TOOL doing a LIVE version of PUSHIT.....this is so amazing on so many levels......just listen

LIVE MUSIC

There's an old saying from REAL Musicians.....
"If you can't play it live, you can't really play it"

and NOTHING is more true than the following posts.....

Here are some of the songs by some of the bands that have moved me throughout the years of my life.....

R.E.M - WORLD LEADER PRETEND (1989)

"This is my world
And I am world leader pretend
This is my life
And this is my time
I have been given the freedom
To do as I see fit
It's high time I've razed the walls
That I've constructed"

R.e.M. is one of my all time favorite bands and seeing them for the second time in 1989 for the GREEN tour at LSU was just amazing.  THIS song was one of my top R.E.M. songs before and it became my all time favorite because of this version.....ENJOY


BOB SEGER - TURN THE PAGE (1976)
"Out there in the spotlight 
You're a million miles away 
Every ounce of energy 
You try to give away 
As the sweat pours out your body 
Like the music that you play"

FUCKING AMAZING!!!! STILL!!!!....I can't get enough of this song and I used to not really like it.  Once I sat and listened to it and could hear the crowd at points and just the overall passion of this song is just ridiculous.  THIS IS A CLASSIC!!!!....you have to turn this up....





METALLICA - NO LEAF CLOVER (1999)

"Says it feels right this timeTurned it 'round and found the right line“Good day to be alive, sir

Good day to be alive,” he says"

I was knocked out of my chair the first time I heard this.  Just so heavy and with the San Francisco Symphony just makes it.

METALLICA - FOUR HORSEMAN (1989) 
"Time has taken its toll on you
The lines that crack your face
Famine, your body it has torn through
Withered in every place
Pestilence, for what you had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death, deliverance for you for sure
Now there's nothing you can do"

2:37 is when I OFFICIALLY became a Metallica fan.  That transition is one of the most intense and abrupt ever.  No one other than TOOL or Rush can switch gears like that.  ENJOY and its LIVE from 1989. The crowd at Metallica shows in that day were just out of control crazy...If you didn't see them LIVE at that time you missed it.  Hopefully this and the next video catch the intensity.

METALLICA - BLACKENED (1989)

"Callous frigid chillNothing left to killNever seen beforeBreathing nevermore"

The next video.  The long intro makes it.  Every Metallica show starts with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly graveyard scene and music and just hits a crescendo and then they start.....ITS INTENSE and the FUCK YEAH at the end sums up an ENTIRE Metallica show.  Brutal from start to finish.

IRON MAIDEN - FEAR OF THE DARK (1992)
"Have you ever been alone at night
Thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no one's there?
And as you quicken up your pace
You find it hard to look again
Because you're sure there's
someone there"




Ok this song might have jump started Iron Maiden's career as they were in limbo for a little while and then this came out and it skyrocketed.  The LIVE version captures what an Iron Maiden show is all about.  And to this day is played at every Iron Maiden show.   UP THE IRONS!!!

SCORPIONS - BLACKOUT (1984)

"I grab my things and make my run

On the way out, another one
Would like to know before I stop
Did I make it or did I flop
Don't want to find out

Just want to get out"

Another CLASSIC....just watch the kids go fucking bonkers in beginning....captures METAL fans from the past and still today...metal fans are the most loyal EVER.....CHEERS

VAN HALEN - HEAR BOUT IT LATER, SO THIS IS LOVE and UNCHAINED (1981)

This list would not have been a list of LIVE shows without seeing these 3 VH songs with Roth on vocals AND all 3 songs are from FAIR WARNING the best VH album.....if you have never seen these you are not old enough and never watched MTV in early days.....THIS IS WHAT VAN HALEN WAS....just WATCH and KEEP THE VOLUME UP

JUDAS PRIEST - HELLION/ELECTRIC EYE (1982)

"Up here in space
I'm looking down on you.
My lasers trace

Everything you do."

Same for this video as Judas Priest and MTV went hand in hand in the beginning and this concert hit me in the face.  The motorcycle, the leather and the music are JUDAS PRIEST.  ENJOY


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I missed a TON of LIVE stuff so next time will be DEPECHE MODE, PINK FLOYD etc....

until then have a GREAT WEEKEND & Rock the FUCK ON!!!!!


And just an awesome song by Scorpions......

Oldies? DAMN I am OLD!!!!!

So I am going to my 30th Grade School reunion next week in New Orleans.  First of all, this is NOT High School, this is grade school so K thru 8th grade and we lived in the best time for music.  Think late 70s early 80s.....so the beginning of MTV, NWOBHM, AC/DC - Back in Black, KISS, The Police, Culture Club,....basically every form of music you could think of and this was before most of the great 80s tunes we know today.

Anyway these are the cheesier, yet awesome ones I have found.  Just sing along, you know you want to.

Some of these are so bad but that is what makes them awesome.  Check out the ones I lifted from shows like Solid Gold so they're lip synced.

TURN IT UP and SING ALONG!!!!

Cheers fuckers.
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I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG......


Thanks Joey for the song but wow you need better stage presence.

AGAIN.....great lip syncing....and nice outfits guys.....and this video has so much going on like the guy in the blazer just up there to sing....the Rebel flag....the drummer....the disco lights....WOW


ANOTHER I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG....RIP Mr Palmer


OH YEAH!!!!!...check out the movement....Heatwave baby!!!!


Do I even mention the puffy shirt or Kevin Cronin's blue diamond shirt?  These guys kept Chess King in business.


Which Doobie you be?

My Kinda LuVUHHHHH!!!!!!....YEAH!!!!!


No intro needed.  The MTV Saturday Night Concert.....perfect.


I think I will leave you with this.....again no intro needed.



OK BONUS......I like his Garcia hat so you know which one is which in Buckner & Garcia.  SO BAD!!!!




Since I could not end with Pac Man Fever.....I will leave you with this......CLASSIC!!!!


Me in 6th Grade circa 1980

POWERFUL, Weird and Awesome.....that is all

Jazz Fest NOLA....best pic ever

When thinking of what to write for this I was graced by the awesome sound of the first song and remembered the video being super powerful.  And now I am sharing them with you.....



10 Years - Wasteland


Now that you understand what this about you will see that most of these are goofy & funny while some are just plain weird. See Aphex Twin.  Some try and send a message and some are just brilliant.  See video below.

Wax - California
The stuntman is only running a half a block, ut they slowed it down to make it fit the length of the song......BRILLIANCE....the kid at the end is fucking brilliant


Ultravox - Vienna
I fucking love this song.....black and white....MTV beginnings....just plain incredible.



Foo Fighters - The Pretender
What needs to be said that hasn't been said.  Incredible song and even more incredible video.



Butthole Surfers - Who Was In My Room Last Night?
Freaking love this song and the video is just out there.


The Avalanches - Since I Left you


Pulp - Bad Cover Version
Here is the list of impersonators for those of you, like me, that care about that shit.
Robbie Williams 0:24 Liam Gallagher 0:32 Phil Collins 0:41 Kylie Minogue 0:43 David Bowie 0:53 Noel Gallagher 1:00 Missy Elliott 1:10 George Michael 1:12 Bono 1:26 Paul McCartney 1:36 Craig David 1:49 Tom Jones 1:59 Keith Richards 2:04 Bjork 2:10 Kurt Cobain 2:21 Rod Stewart 2:25 Meat Loaf 2:31 Cher 2:36 Jay Kay 2:50 Jarvis Cocker 2:55Mick Jagger 3:00 Jennifer Lopez 3:12 Elton John 3:19 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 3:36 Gary Numan3:46 Brian May 3:50



Moby - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
Song is brilliant and video is even stranger


Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
You make your own assessment of this but whoever made this is flipping out there


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I boxed the next two in for a reason......you will see....READ

Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (UNCENSORED) 

 ....I still remember the first time I saw this in like 1997.  It was midnight and I was flipping channels and go figure MTV is playing a video.  After I watched it I was floored at what it got away with....it came with a disclaimer.  FANTASTIC VIDEO....All Time Favorite.


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Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy SCARY!!!!  if you can make it to 3:50 mark I guarantee if you have not crapped yourself you will.....this is quite possibly the freakiest video ever.  I remember waking up at like 3am and seeing this and not being well.  ENJOY!!!!


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David Hasselhoff - Hooked On A Feeling
Just fucking funny and weird and Hasselhoff



Living Sisters - How Are You Doing?
You might have to watch this one 3 times....out there.....WOW



Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise
Cameos cameos and more cameos.....and its the Beastie Boys....RIP MCA



Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc


MC 900Ft Jesus - If I Only Had A Brain

Can't go wrong with a Spike Jonze video



Metallica - One
Look I know you've heard the song a billion times but just watch this video and let it take you back in time to first time you saw it.....YES!!!!!



and just a damn good song!!!!!

Eminem - Stan
Brilliant video for and even more brilliant song



Cheers to a beautiful weekend. And an even better weekend for my son's lacrosse team in the playoffs, NHL Playoffs, Kentucky Derby, Jazz Fest In NOLA and of course......Talladega

No clue what's going on here but it's funny. I think.


and THIS!!!!!!