1) Hue and Cry – Labour of Love
2) Ferraby Lionheart – Before We’re Dead (New Orleans Song)
3) Man Man – Banana Ghost
4) Har Mar Superstar – Let’s Get This Party Kickin’
5) Deadbolt – A Hit Gone Wrong
6) The Pogues – A Pair of Brown Eyes
7) Bunky – Chuy
8) Das EFX – They Want EFX
9) Def Leppard – Let’s Get Rocked
10) Daniel Johnston – Good Morning You (Have you seen the documentary on Johnston yet? You should.)
As for the AWESOME 80′s. I was a little lost when The Darkness came out a few years ago, popular for parodying the excesses of 80′s glam metal, because why would anyone settle for satire when the real thing is just as ridiculous? Presenting Savatage with “Hall of the Mountain King.” Fantastical.
The best part? When the guy at the end finds a SAVATAGE CASSETTE TAPE on top of the BOX OF TREASURE. Brilliant!
01 A Lot of People Tell Me I Have a Fake British Accent – Don Caballero
02 What I Could Stand For – Mates of State
03 Machine Gun – Slowdive
04 Tonight – The Avalanches
05 London – Patrick Wolf
06 It’s a Hectic World – The Descendents
07 Sabotage – Beastie Boys
08 World of Shit – Eels
09 Ever Somber – Dälek
10 The Golden Gate – John Vanderslice
Dear gods that’s frightening. The hair! The expressions! Ack!
Anyways…
Artist — “Song”
The Beatles — “Hello, Goodbye”
Chevelle — “Comfortable Liar”
Ozzy Osbourne — “Time After Time”
A Perfect Circle — “Pet”
Ludacris — “Coming to America”
Johnny Cash — “Rusty Cage”
Terrance Mann — “Javert’s Suicide” from Les Misérables
Pantera — “Shattered”
Metallica — “The Struggle Within”
The Cox Family — “I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)”
Awesome 80s Metal Bonus Track: Scorpions — “Send Me an Angel”
Savatage is no Helloween.
My absolute favorite awsome ’80s tune is “Kiss Me Deadly” from Lita Ford. Poison’s “Talk Dirty To Me” is a close second.
I’ll do my Sunday blogwhoring a few days earlier; the Friday Random video 10 is up at my place with musical acts from across genres and the decades (there’s some Runaways, Frankye!). As for my immediate portable player top 10….
(1) In the Evening by Led Zeppelin
(2) Hey There Fancypants by Ween
(3) Swamp by Talking Heads
(4) Dois Dais by Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66
(5) Shotgun by Lightnin’ Hopkins
(6) Chevrolet by ZZ Top
(7) Neat Neat Neat by The Damned
(8) The Best of Times by Styx [slinks off in embarrassment, returns]
(9) Funky Miracle by The Meters
(10) Neuschnee by Neu!
I trust this list suffices for Jill’s entry as well.
I only discovered Savatage a few years ago (I missed most of the 80s, for obvious reasons). I refuse to mock them because they own my heart.
I realize that I’ll probably be ridiculed here, but I think most of the 80s were awesome.
Here we go:
FRT – The “Yes, A College Course In The History Of Physics Is Supposed To Be Hard” Edition:
1. “Rock & Roll Stew”, Traffic
2. “Dear Prudence”, Siouxsie and the Banshees (awesome cover!)
3. “I’m Only Sleeping”, The Beatles
4. “Shiny Shiny”, Haysi Fantayzee (talk about awesome 80s)
5. “Porcelain”, Moby
6. “Fight The Power”, Public Enemy
7. “Blue Jean”, David Bowie
8. “Closing Time”, Semisonic
9. “Don’t Believe The Hype”, Public Enemy
10. “Why Isn’t It You?”, Ivor Novello
Nice. Pair of Brown Eyes is one of the best songs ever.
Here’s a wish in the form of a playlist but I couldn’t cut it from 11:
1 Ramones – I Remember You
2 TMBG – She’s an Angel
3 Cat Power – Could We?
4 PJ Harvey – Good Fortune
5 Lucinda Williams – Right in Time
6 Sonic Youth – Wildflower
7 Cee-Lo – All Day Love Affair
8 Jurrasic 5 – High Fidelity
9 Drive-by-Truckers – Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
10 The Coup – Heven Tonite
11 Chemical Brothers – Dream On