1. BREAKING CIRCUS -
Home of the Brave (7" single) This somber Naked Raygun cover is really
just Steve Björklund with a keyboard and drum machine. The fanzine came free
with an issue of the Pope fanzine.
2. MAMAS & the
PAPAS - That Kind of Girl (All the Leaves are Brown: Golden Era Collection)
A peppy done-wrong song with big harmonies and wicked little fuzzy guitar solo.
3. FALCO - the Sound
of Musik (extended rock & soul mix) (the Sound of Musik 12" 1986)
- An absolutely ridiculous and over-the-top song that always makes me smile
(and usually hit repeat). It's one of the rare songs that I have multiple mixes
of on my MP3 player (in this case, three of them). This one clocks in at almost
ten minutes and I'd be happy if it went on aanother ten minutes.
4. WILCO -
Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again) (Summerteeth 1999) I like Wilco and
recognize how incredibly talented they are, but Summerteeth is the only album
of theirs that's ever in regular rotation for me.
5. JOAN JETT - NAG -
(I Love Rock n Roll 1981) "Run down to the butcher shop and buy me a
roast". Joan Jett has the absolute best taste in covers, as evidenced by
this ripping fun cover of the Arthur Crier song.
6. AC/DC - Rocker
(Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 1976) He's a rocker AND a roller. Man.
7. the HITMEN -
Private Eye (Aim for the Feet 1980) New wave pop with that sounds like it
could be Graham Parker produced by Clive Langer. Without knowing the year it
would be pretty easy to peg this a s a 1980 song based on the production alone.
8. the MOTHERS OF
INVENTION - Any Way the Wind Blows (Freak Out 1966) One of my favorite
record buying stories involves this record. One of my former co-workers was a
young record buyer when this album first came out and he and his friend had
heard good things about Zappa but neither of them could afford the double
album. So they pooled their money together and bought the album, then tore it
in half in front of the record store and each took their album and half of a
cover to their respective homes. It was a few days later before they swapped
copies, and both became big Zappa fans, but one of them always favored Zappa's
shorter, silly songs and the other ended up preferring the longer, weirder pieces
- which corresponded to the half of Freak Out that they each first went home
with.
9. EUGENIUS - On the
Breeze (Mary Queen of Scots 1994) This album would be in my top five of
underrated albums of the 90's. Great big guitar pop.
10. CHARLOTTE
GAINSBOURG - Trick Pony (IRM 2009) Fantastic production from Beck really
puts this album over the top.
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