Friday, September 5, 2025

9/4/25

iPod on Shuffle:
Love & Affection- Bob Marley & The Wailers
Right Off Rampart Street- Chuck Berry
Mississippi (Unreleased Version 1)- Bob Dylan
The Scarecrow- Pink Floyd
Ping Me- Todd Rundgren
Octopus' Garden- The Beatles
Pretty Vacant- Sex Pistols
Eleanor Rigby (Stereo)- The Beatles
Born In Time- Bob Dylan
Success Story- The Who
One In A Hundred- Gene Clark
Old Friends- Simon & Garfunkel
I Want An Alien For Christmas- Fountains Of Wayne
Early In The Morning- The Merry-Go-Round
Revelator- Gillian Welch
Rock Crazy Baby- Art Adams
Tommy's Coming Home- Paul McCartney & Elvis Costello
Though I Know She Lies- Chris Bell
It Hurts To Be Alone- Bob Marley & The Wailers
One X One- Paul Weller
Lose This Skin- The Clash
Queen Of All The Tarts (Overture)- David Bowie

v/a- Better Times: The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1971, Chapter II (2025)- ***1/2

Badfinger- Wish You Were Here (1974)- ****
(The secret weapon of the Badfinger catalogue.)


Cargoe-S/T (1972)- ****

The Band- Cahoots (1971)- ****
(This is a better record than its rep.)



Wings- Wild Life (1971, Abbey Road HSM)- ****

(Speaking of better records than their reps, "Wild Life" never fails to knock me out. It's everything Macca haters wish the hit records weren't. Think about that. I swear it makes sense.)


Pete Townshend's Deep End- Face The Face (2016)- ***1/2
The Who- Sell Out (2021, Japanese True Stereo)- ****

Pugwash- Almond Tea (1999)- ***

(I've tried for years to get on board with Thomas Walsh. He has some heavy friends, who I love. He writes songs that remind me of all my heroes--Jeff Lynne, Lennon/McCartney, Andy Partridge. But there is no record in 25 years with a homerun. The records play like a collection of bloop singles, with a rare clutch double. I listen. I like what I am hearing. And then I remember none of it when it is all over...he says, probably writing to no one.)




7 comments:

Anonymous said...

You know it's going to be a good day when iPod shuffle brings up Dylan's "Mississippi"!

Michael Giltz said...

That was me, Michael Giltz!

Anonymous said...

Lose This Skin is a favorite of mine from Sandinista. Would have liked more from The Clash with Tymon Dogg. As for Pugwash, while I have heard the name, can’t say I’ve heard a note from them.

Best thing I listened to yesterday was the new Brad Mehldau plus a playlist of the Elliott Smith originals and Nick Drake’s Sunday.

- Paul in DK

Sal Nunziato said...

That Mehldau is really something.

cmealha said...

I love "Wild Life"
Pugwash had a couple of home runs. I just don't recall them. ;-)

Guy Incognito said...

Pugwash for me too. An ok memory wipe

hpunch said...

I could've sworn you were a Pugwash fan. I guess your best bet is the best of record Andy Partridge put- Giddy.

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