She Wears Denim Wherever She Goes - Happy Hour

She Wears Denim Wherever She Goes is part 4 of the Happy Hour series of mixes of garage rock and power pop.





 

1.   Teenage Fanclub - The Concept (Bandwagonesque, 1991)
2.   Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (Girlfriend, 1991)
3.   Oasis - She's Electric (What's The Story Morning Glory, 1995)
4.   Jason Falkner - I Live (Presents Author Unknown, 1996)
5.   The Flamin' Groovies - I Can't Hide (Shake Some Action, 1976)
6.   Big Star - Back Of A Car (Radio City, 1974)
7.   The Troggs - With A Girl Like You (The Troggs, 1966)
8.   The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend The Night Together (Flowers, 1967)
9.   The Raspberries - Go All The Way (Raspberries, 1972)
10.   Cheap Trick - Southern Girls (In Color, 1977)
11.   The Mojo Men - She's My Baby (Whys Ain't Supposed To Be, 1995)
12.   The Chesterfield Kings - She Told Me Lies (Stop, 1985)
13.   The Smithereens - A Girl Like You (11, 1989)
14.   Blur - She's So High (Leisure, 1991)
15.   Sugar - A Good Idea (Copper Blue, 1992)
16.   The House of Love - I Don't Know Why I Love You (The House of Love, 1990)
17.   The La's - There She Goes (The La's, 1990)
18.   The Beatles - Ticket To Ride (Help!, 1965)
19.   The Syndicate of Sound - Little Girl (Little Girl, 1966)
20.   Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway (Marshall Crenshaw, 1980)
21.   Elvis Costello - Possession (Get Happy, 1980)
22.   The Pretenders - Message of Love (Pretenders II, 1981)

Out of Time - Happy Hour

This is part three of a long set of a garage rock and  power pop happy hour of music. Shake some action continues.











1.   The Rolling Stones - Out Of Time (Aftermath,1966)
2.   Paul Revere & The Raiders - Just Like Me (Just Like Us, 1966)
3.   The McCoys - Fever (Hang On Sloopy, 1965)
4.   The Chambers Brothers - All Strung Out Over You (Time Has Come, 1967)
5.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Gypsy Eyes (Electric Ladyland, 1968)
6.   The Beatles - I Feel Fine (Past Masters, Vol. 1, 1988)
7.   The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Ramones, 1976)
8.   Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me (A Different Kind of Tension, 1979)
9.   The Clash - 1-2 Crush On You (Super Black Market Clash, 1994)
10. Elvis Costello - You Belong To Me (This Year's Model, 1978)
11. Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone (Violent Femmes, 1983)
12. Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (Gorgeous George, 1994)
13. The Detroit Cobras - Cha Cha Twist (Mink Rat or Rabbit, 1998)
14. Los Lobos - Come On Let's Go (And A Time To Dance, 1983)
15. The Blasters - I'm Shakin' (The Blasters, 1981)
16. The Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) (Double Shot, 1966)
17. The Dave Clark Five - Bits and Pieces (Glad All Over, 1964)
18. The Monkees - I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone (More Of The Monkees, 1967)
19. David Bowie - I Can't Explain (Pin Ups, 1973)
20. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Got My Eye On You (Strung Out In Heaven, 1998)
21. The Sights - Got What I Want (Got What We Want, 2002)
22. The Barracudas - I Can't Pretend (This Ain't My Time: Anthology 1979-1990, 2002)
23. Velvet Crush - Hold Me Up (Teenage Symphonies To God, 1994)
24. The Strokes - Someday (Is This It, 2001)

60 Albums 1979

60 albums from my collection released in 1979 and this was one of my favorite years for music. Any of my top ten could be the top of album of many other years. I really went crazy around this time buying new music. I had just moved to Buffalo in 1979 and suddenly I was in close proximity to so many more good record stores in my neighborhood.

This list has several of my all time favorites in the top five and many other wonderful releases scattered throughout. Heavy on the New Wave. I'm looking forward to the mixes that will come out of this year.

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
3. XTC - Drums and Wires
4. The Only Ones - Special View
5. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
6. Squeeze - Cool For Cats
7. Elvis Costello - Armed Forces 
8. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
9. David Bowie - Lodger
10. Gang of Four - Entertainment
11. James White & The Blacks  - Off White
12. The B-52's - The B-52's
13. The Romantics - The Romantics
14. The Specials - The Specials
15. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
16. Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
17. The Roches - The Roches
18. Joe Ely - Down On The Drag
19. The Fabulous Poodles - Think Pink
20. Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
21. The Undertones - The Undertones
22. Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary
23. Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust
24. Marianne Faithful - Broken English
25. The Jam - Setting Sons
26. Patti Smith - Wave
27. Devo - Duty Now For The Future
28. Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension
29. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory
30. Van Morrison - Into The Music
31. Wire - 154
32. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedos
33. James Chance & The Contortions - Buy
34. Bob Marley - Survival
35. Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
36. Neil Young - Live Rust
37. James Blood Ulmer - Tales of Captain Black
38. Roxy Music - Manifesto
39. Bruce Cockburn - Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws
40. John Hiatt - Slug Line
41. Joan Armatrading - How Cruel
42. Leonard Cohen - Recent Songs
43. Skids - Scared To Dance
44. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
45. The Slits - Cut
46. Little Feat - Down On The Farm
47. Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons - Screaming Targets
48. The Soft Boys - A Can Of Bees
49. The Cars - Candy-O
50. Peter Tosh - Mystic Man
51. The Inmates - First Offense
52. Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
53. Blondie - Eat To The Beat
54. The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
55. Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming
56. Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
57. Cheap Trick - Dream Police
58. Donna Summer - Bad Girls
59. Ry Cooder - Bop To You Drop
60. Swell Maps - A Trip To Marineville

60 Albums 1995

60 albums from 1995. This was another year that a bunch of great albums didn't quickly rise to the top of my list.  There were plenty of good albums but I wasn't really blown away by much in 1995. I went with Chris Isaak because that album got a lot of play from me immediately and has continued through the years. A few others here like the Emmylou Harris and the Wondermints grew on me intensely over the years.

For me it was overall a pretty good year for folky and Americana stuff and also for power pop and Brit pop. There wasn't a whole lot of challenging releases that made a big impression on me and made it into my collection.

1. Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
2. John Hiatt - Walk On
3. Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
4. Son Volt - Trace
5. Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
6. Wondermints - Wondermints
7. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory
8. Wilco - A.M.
9. X - Unclogged
10. Steve Earle - Train a Comin'
11. The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
12. The Smashing Pumpkins  - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
13. Sun Dial - Acid Yantra
14. Pulp - Different Class
15. Chris Whitley - Din of Esctasy
16. Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
17. Radiohead - The Bends
18. The Rembrandts - L.P.
19. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
20. Freakwater - Old Paint
21. Blue Rodeo - Nowhere To Here
22. Neil Young - Mirror Ball
23. The Verve - The Northern Soul
24. Blur - The Great Escape
25. Peter Case - Torn Again
26. Julian Cope - 20 Mothers
27. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
28. Marianne Faithful - A Secret Life
29. BoDeans - Joe Dirt Car
30. Spiritualized - Pure Phase
31. Joe Ely - Letter To Laredo
32. Bjork - Post
33. Pavement - Wowee Zowee
34. Blind Melon - Soup
35. Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
36. The Charlatans - The Charlatans
37. Slowdive - Pygmalion
38. Vic Chesnutt - Is The Actor Happy?
39. Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-Pur
40. Luna - Penthouse
41. The Innocence Mission - Glow
42. Morphine - Yes
43. Anton Barbeau - Waterbugs and Beetles
44. The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
45. PJ Harvey - To Bring My Love
46. The Sea and Cake - Nassau
47. Sugar - Besides
48. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
49. The Boo Radleys - Wake Up
50. St. Germain - Boulevard
51. Joan Osborne - Relish
52. Lilys - Eccsame The Photon Band
53. Superchunk - Here's Where The Strings Come In
54. Elliot Smith - Elliot Smith
55. Red House Painters - Ocean Beach
56. Elastica - Elastica
57. The Apples in Stereo - Fun Trick Noisemaker
58. Waco Brothers - To The Last Dead Cowboy
59. Enya - The Memory of Trees

Another good year for compilations. Here are a few from my collection.

1. The Stone Roses - The Complete Stone Roses
2. Cream - The Very Best of Cream
3. The Smithereens - Blown To Smithereens: The Best of The Smithereens
4. The J.B.'s - Funky Good Time: The Anthology
5. Joy Division - Permanent
6. Colin Blunstone - Some Years: It's The Time of Colin Blunstone
7. Various Artists - Move To Groove: Best of 70s Jazz-Funk
8. Dexys Midnight Runners - Radio One Sessions 1980-1982
9. Otis Redding - The Very Best of Otis Redding Vol. 2
10. Ennio Morricone - The Ennio Morricone Anthology: A Fistful of Film Music
11. Various Artists - Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon
12. Ohio Players - Funk On Fire: The Mercury Anthology
13. The Ruts - Something That I Said: The Best of the Ruts
14. Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
15. The Meters - Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology
16. Elvis Presley - Walk A Mile In My Shoes: The Essential 70s Masters
17. Link Wray - Guitar Preacher: The Polydor Years
18. Miles Davis - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
19. Various Artists - Macro Dub Infection Volume 1
20. U-Roy - Original DJ
21. Various Artists - The Manchester Story '88-'91: Madchester 

and so many more...

60 Albums 1994

60 favorite albums from my collection for 1994. This was a little more difficult list. It really wasn't a great year for music in my opinion. I think that most of the top ten are interchangeable. Nothing really stood out. Many of these albums I came to like more over the years but there wasn't a whole lot here I ran out and got when they were released.

I was working at the downtown public library and had daily access to their fabulous CD collection. I was constantly bringing home new music. I was also making lots of mixes during this time. I was filling in my collection of albums I'd missed over the years as many of the albums on this list were I actually added in subsequent years.

This was also the time when I started learning more about music on the Internet for the first time. Of course the world wide web wasn't really happening yet but I was on the music discussion boards that were popping up around the net and in particular on the Buffalo Free-Net.

1. Sugar - File Under: Easy Listening
2. Tom Petty - Wildflowers
3. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
5. The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
6. Blur - Parklife
7. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
8. Various Artists - Beat The Retreat: Songs of Richard Thompson
9. Jeff Buckley - Grace
10. Portishead - Dummy
11. R.E.M. - Monster
12. Johnny Cash - American Recordings
13. Ramones - Acid Eaters
14. Jimi Hendrixs - Blues
15. Beck - Mellow Gold
16. Live - Throwing Coppers
17. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
18. Page & Plant - No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded
19. Nanci Griffth - Flyer
20. Alejandro Escovedo - Thirteen Years
21. Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
22. Richard Thompson - Mirror Blue
23. John Mellencamp - Dance Naked
24. Lyres - Some Lyres
25. Neil Young - Sleeps With Angels
26. Richard Buckner - Bloomed
27. Shawn Colvin - Cover Girl
28. Luna - Bewitched
29. The Spongetones - Beat & Torn
30. Sam Philips - Martinis & Bikinis
31. Versus - The Stars Are Insane
32. Pulp - His 'n' Hers
33. Ride - Carnival of Light
34. Soundgarden - Superunknown
35. Love Spit Love - Love Spit Love
36. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
37. Suede - Dog Man Star
38. The Charlatans - Up To Our Hips
39. Green Day - Dookie
40. Superchunk - Foolish
41. Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
42. Iris DeMent - My Life
43. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange
44. The Black Crowes - Amorica
45. Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers
46. Tadpoles - He Fell Into The Sky
47. Rusted Root - When I Woke
48. Todd Snider - Songs For The Daily Planet
49. Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
50. Beck - One Foot In The Grave
51. Nico - Heroine
52. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
53. James Blood Ulmer - Blues Preacher
54. Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)
55. Seal - Seal
56. Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay
57. The Magnetic Fields - Holiday
58. Sebadoh - Bakesale
59. Bush - Sixteen Stone
60. Freedy Johnson - This Perfect World

Here are some compilations from my collection released in 1994 that weren't included in the list above.

1. Various Artists - The Doo Wop Box
2. Various Artists - Woodstock 25th Anniversary Box Set
3. Otis Redding - The Very Best of Otis Redding
4. Aretha Franklin - The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The 60s
5. Aretha Franklin - The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The 70s
6. Loretta Lynn - Honky Tonk Girl: The Loretta Lynn Collection
7. Willie Nelson - The Early Years: The Complete Liberty Recordings Plus More
8. New Order - Best of New Order
9. Bill Withers - Lean On Me: The Best of Bill Withers
10. Various Artists - Rock Instrumental Classics: Volume 3 - The Seventies
11. King Tubby - Dub Gone Crazy: The Evolution of Dub at King Tubby's 1975-1979
12. The Lovin' Spoonful - The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful

Todd Snider - Agnostic Hymns

Just listened to Todd Snider's new album Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables, 2012. This is another delight from this interesting and entertaining singer songwriter. "We still need religion to keep the poor from killing the rich". Todd Snider sings this line on the opening song of his new album. Lots of his usual funny leftist folkie humor.

Becky and I saw Todd Snider perform at the Tralf last April. It was a wonderful show. He was quite the character on stage... and barefoot too. All of his albums are good and have that strange alternative folkie attitude.

I have a few Todd Snider albums in my collection including:

• Songs for the Daily Planet, 1994
• Step Right Up, 1996
• Viva Satellite, 1998
• East Nashville Skyline, 2004
• That Was Me: The Best of Todd Snider: 1994-1998, 2005
• The Devil You Know, 2006
• Peace, Love and Anarchy, 2007
• Peace Queer, 2008
• The Excitement Plan, 2009
• Todd Snider Live - The Storyteller, 2011
• Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, 2012