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Please remember Record Store Day on April 19th, 2014. Support your local independent record stores please. Don't know where a local, independent record store is located? Go to the following website and you can find out: http://recordstoreday.com/Venues. For those of you who live in Utah, I recommend Graywhale. I don't buy any of the Record Store Day vinyl, but I do love the double discounts the offer for those with Killer Whale cards.
Kenny Loggins has had many hits in his career. First in Loggins and Messina and then as a solo act. For a time in the 80s he seemed to be the go to person for amazing songs for movies and soundtracks. I wrote a similar blog to this on February 13th, 2013, but that was more about all the great songs that were in 80's movies. This blog is just about most of the great Kenny Loggins songs that have been in movies. Information for this blog came from Kenny Loggins Wikipedia page, thanks to them. I also would like to thank Catherine Glotz for her Kenny Loggins movie music list at amazon.com.
From 1980's "Caddyshack", this is "I'm Alright":
From 1984's "Footloose":
"I'm Free (Heaven Helps The Man)":
And of course the incredibly catchy, dance worthy "Footloose":
From 1985's "Rocky 4", this is Kenny Loggins and Gladys Knight's "Double or Nothing":
From 1986's "Top Gun" comes one of the best openings of any movie ever. The combination of the opening scene paired with the aggressive rock music of "Danger Zone" makes for a great start of a movie.
And the almost as good "Playing With The Boys":
From 1987's "Over The Top" Wait a second you don't remember "Over The Top"? It's the Sylvester Stallone arm wrestling movie. If that doesn't jog your memory, then you are forgiven. It's probably one of the few 80's movie I haven't seen.
This isn't from the best movie ever, but "Meet Me Halfway" is a hell of a song:
From 1988's "Caddyshack 2" (another 80's movie I haven't seen) is "Nobody's Fool":
From 1996's "One Fine Day" this is "For The First Time":
themusicaddict
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein's "Mad World": A Soundtrack
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Don't forget Saturday, April 19th is Record Store Day! themusicaddict strongly encourages you to support your local, independent record retailer.
On April 15th, 2014 the book "Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980's" was released. It's written by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein. I haven't seen the book and only heard about it today. Anything from this blog is dependent on what I read at Rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone mentions 10 bands in their review. I'm going to provide a soundtrack to the book and post videos for the artists that Rolling Stone mention. I won't be spilling any of the secrets, I'm just posting songs. You can download the book to your Kindle now for $9.99 or get the paperback copy from amazon.com for $11.99. This is one of those books that I'd rather have the physical book in my collection. Without a doubt 80's music is the best and New Wave had some of that decades biggest highlights.
I'll add the video for a song if Rolling Stone mentioned it, if not I'll pick one or two songs for that artist.
1) Modern English "I Melt With You":
Although Modern English didn't go on to be a huge band, at least they gave us one of the greatest songs of all-time.
2) The Smiths are seriously one of the greatest bands of all-time! It's too bad their run was so short. Morrissey has continued making amazing music on his own though. Thank goodness.
"Bigmouth Strikes Again":
"Panic":
3) Tears for Fears Rolling Stone mentions Graduate who had a song that was big in Spain apparently. The name of the song is "Elvis Should Play Ska". The band's name is Graduate and they're a precursor band for those who formed Tears for Fears. This shows that you can find anything on youtube. Graduate's "Elvis Should Play Ska":
"Shout":
Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams "Women In Chains". I'm featuring this video because Oleta sings the hell out of this song:
4) Kim Wilde "Kids In America":
5) A-ha "Take On Me": One of the most creative videos of all-time. It seems I'm not the only one that thinks that as this video has over 67 million views.
And because A-ha wasn't just a one-hit wonder, here's their theme song from "The Living Daylights", ""The Living Daylights" (Live):
6) A Flock Of Seagulls "I Ran":
"Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You)":
7) The Thompson Twins "You Take Me Up":
And here's the extremely romantic "If You Were Here":
8) Kajagoogoo "Too Shy":
9) Devo "Whip It":
"Working In A Coal Mine":
10) Gary Numan "Cars":
themusicaddict
Don't forget Saturday, April 19th is Record Store Day! themusicaddict strongly encourages you to support your local, independent record retailer.
On April 15th, 2014 the book "Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980's" was released. It's written by Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein. I haven't seen the book and only heard about it today. Anything from this blog is dependent on what I read at Rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone mentions 10 bands in their review. I'm going to provide a soundtrack to the book and post videos for the artists that Rolling Stone mention. I won't be spilling any of the secrets, I'm just posting songs. You can download the book to your Kindle now for $9.99 or get the paperback copy from amazon.com for $11.99. This is one of those books that I'd rather have the physical book in my collection. Without a doubt 80's music is the best and New Wave had some of that decades biggest highlights.
I'll add the video for a song if Rolling Stone mentioned it, if not I'll pick one or two songs for that artist.
1) Modern English "I Melt With You":
Although Modern English didn't go on to be a huge band, at least they gave us one of the greatest songs of all-time.
2) The Smiths are seriously one of the greatest bands of all-time! It's too bad their run was so short. Morrissey has continued making amazing music on his own though. Thank goodness.
"Bigmouth Strikes Again":
"Panic":
3) Tears for Fears Rolling Stone mentions Graduate who had a song that was big in Spain apparently. The name of the song is "Elvis Should Play Ska". The band's name is Graduate and they're a precursor band for those who formed Tears for Fears. This shows that you can find anything on youtube. Graduate's "Elvis Should Play Ska":
"Shout":
Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams "Women In Chains". I'm featuring this video because Oleta sings the hell out of this song:
4) Kim Wilde "Kids In America":
5) A-ha "Take On Me": One of the most creative videos of all-time. It seems I'm not the only one that thinks that as this video has over 67 million views.
And because A-ha wasn't just a one-hit wonder, here's their theme song from "The Living Daylights", ""The Living Daylights" (Live):
6) A Flock Of Seagulls "I Ran":
"Wishing (If I Had A Photograph of You)":
7) The Thompson Twins "You Take Me Up":
And here's the extremely romantic "If You Were Here":
8) Kajagoogoo "Too Shy":
9) Devo "Whip It":
"Working In A Coal Mine":
10) Gary Numan "Cars":
themusicaddict
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
themusicaddict's "The Greatest CDs Of All-Time": Halestorm's "The Strange Case of..."
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5) "Beautiful With You" (13:18) (Not only can they rock you out, but they also have a soft side.)
6) "In Your Room" (16:35)
7) "Break In"(19:22):
8) "Rock Show" (24:09):
"Rock Show" (Live):
9) "Daughters of Darkness" (27:27):
10) "You Call Me A Bitch Like It's A Bad Thing" (31:23)
11) "American Boys" (34:36)
12) "Here's To Us" (38:07) (The language in this song will offend most.)
13) "Don't Know How To Stop" (41:16)
14) "Private Parts" (featuring James Michael) (45:13)
15) "Hate It When You See Me Cry" (49:12)
"Hate It When You See Me Cry" (Live):
Of all of the CDs that in my opinion are Greatest CDs Of All-Time, this is the one that's most recently released. "The Strange Case of..." just barely celebrated its second anniversary, it was released on April 10th, 2012. I only knew about this band because my brother was able to see them in concert and was a fan. For the longest time I thought they were from Europe, before realizing they are from Philadelphia. Slowly but surely I listened to more and more of their music and became a huge fan. I'm now a Halestorm fan especially of their second CD.
I usually don't say that a CD that has been released so recently is a classic. Classic usually implies something has been around for awhile and has stood the test of time. In that sense, this isn't a classic. But in the sense of it being so good that it's a classic, then this is definitely a classic.
I usually don't say that a CD that has been released so recently is a classic. Classic usually implies something has been around for awhile and has stood the test of time. In that sense, this isn't a classic. But in the sense of it being so good that it's a classic, then this is definitely a classic.
Again thanks to Spotify for helping me expand my horizons and discovering Halestorm. As I've said many times before there's just as much great music being released now as there ever was. Also it's a lot easier to discover with Spotify and other music services. It's too bad you won't discover great music on MTV or the radio any more, especially in this time of all flash and no substance proudly exhibited by people like Miley Cyrus. (Note I was a big fan of Cyrus's "Can't Be Tamed", but her recent twerking and riding a wrecking ball naked shows how unimportant the music is. When I think of great music and wrecking ball, Bruce Springsteen is the person I'm thinking of.)
Halestorm introduced themselves to the world in 2009 with their self-titled debut CD. They continue the proud tradition of Led Zeppelin and other bands, great albums full of great songs but no hits. "Halestorm" includes such great, should be classic songs as: "It's Not You", "I Get Off", "Bet U Wish U Had Me Back", "I'm Not An Angel", "Better Safe Than Sorry" and "Nothing To Do With Love".
Following "Halestorm" the band released "Live in Philly" in 2010. This is basically a live version of their self-titled CD, with the new song "Tell Me Where It Hurts".
Here's Halestorm live at The Webster on July 14th, 2013. The sound starts out a bit rough, but does get better:
Here's Halestorm live at The Webster on July 14th, 2013. The sound starts out a bit rough, but does get better:
Halestorm is made up of Lizzy Hale on killer vocals. Joining her is drummer Arejaye Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger and bassist Josh Smith. In 2012 they released the kraken known as "The Strange Case of...". (Thanks to wikipedia.org for biographical information, all opinions are mine. Feel free to disagree in comments.)
Listening to these songs again reminds me of how great this CD is, every song is absolutely great. A modern day classic.
Listening to these songs again reminds me of how great this CD is, every song is absolutely great. A modern day classic.
The times listed to the right of the songs below are when each song begins in the above video. Then I'm also adding the individual tracks for each song below the song's title.
1) "Love Bites (So Do I)" (Lizzy sings "love bites, so do I", why don't I have a hard time in believing that?)
"Love Bites (So Do I)" (Live in Germany):
2) "Mz. Hyde": (3:11)
"Mz. Hyde" (Live in Atlantic City)
3) "I Miss The Misery" (6:35) (Here's a song meant to be played at maximum volume and intensity):
"Mz. Hyde" & "I Miss The Misery" (Live):
4) "Freak Like Me": (9:37):
5) "Beautiful With You" (13:18) (Not only can they rock you out, but they also have a soft side.)
6) "In Your Room" (16:35)
"In Your Room" (Live):
7) "Break In"(19:22):
8) "Rock Show" (24:09):
"Rock Show" (Live):
9) "Daughters of Darkness" (27:27):
10) "You Call Me A Bitch Like It's A Bad Thing" (31:23)
11) "American Boys" (34:36)
12) "Here's To Us" (38:07) (The language in this song will offend most.)
13) "Don't Know How To Stop" (41:16)
14) "Private Parts" (featuring James Michael) (45:13)
15) "Hate It When You See Me Cry" (49:12)
"Hate It When You See Me Cry" (Live):
themusicaddict
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
themusicaddict's Greatest CD's of All-Time: The Wallflowers "Bringing Down The Horse" (Updated and Finished 4/15/14)
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Released on May 21st, 1996 The Wallflowers "Burning Down The Horse" was a slow burning hit CD. Although it started out slowly, eventually it exploded. I was vaguely aware of The Wallflowers because of this CD's first two singles: "6th Avenue Heartache" and "One Headlight". And while I thought both songs were okay, I definitely wasn't a big Wallflowers fan. They were sort of just there.
I remember the tipping point for me though in becoming a huge Wallflowers fan. I was with my at the time wife and we were in Park City browsing at one of their discount retail stores. I'm fairly sure I'd heard "The Difference" before that day. But when I heard it that day I realized how great of a song it was. I was overwhelmed by how incredibly catchy the song is. Although the lyrics make no sense, I couldn't resist that incredibly catchy song any more. I wanted to find out more about The Wallflowers after that. That same day I went and bought "Bringing Down The Horse".
The Wallflowers self-titled CD released in 1992 was definitely a band finding it's sound. The group grew up considerably before making "Bringing Down The Horse". Although the Wallflowers have released some good CDs since "Bringing Down The Horse", that was their peak. I'm a big fan of "Breach" however and "Red Letter Days" is a perfectly fine CD.
The make up of the band for the recording of "Horse" was Mario Calire on drums, Rami Jaffee on keyboards, piano and vocals, Greg Richling on bass guitar and Michael Ward on lead guitar. Of course their lead singer is Bob's son, Jakob Dylan.
I was able to see The Wallflowers twice in concert. I saw them in the mid-90s when they had blown up and may have been bigger than Counting Crows, who they were opening for. That was a great concert, the Wallflowers were great that night. That was a concert that the only reason I went to it was to see The Wallflowers. But I stuck around to see Counting Crows and I'm really glad I did, because I hadn't appreciated how great of a band they were until that night.
The second time I saw The Wallflowers was near the end of the 90s, they were the headliner and had Everlast open for them. He was good and The Wallflowers were also good. Although at the time they probably weren't quite ready to be a headliner. I do remember their very energetic take of Blur's "Song 2", they rocked that song out. Too bad I can't find a video of it on Youtube. But because it's such a great song, here's Blur performing their hit live:
This is the video for the entire "Bringing Down The Horse":
I listen to the CD I'm writing about while writing these blogs. Most of the time I remember why I really love a CD, but sometimes that turns into complete admiration. This is such a great CD and Jakob Dylan's voice sounds so good here.
1. "One Headlight":
2. "6th Avenue Heartache":
"6th Avenue Heartache" (Live On Letterman):
3. "Bleeders":
4. "Three Marlenas":
"Three Marlenas" (Live):
5. "The Difference":
"The Difference" (Live)
6. "Invisible City":
7. "Laughing Out Loud":
8. "Josephine":
9. "God Don't Make Lonely Girls":
"God Don't Make Lonely Girls" (Live) (Jakob sounds a lot like his Dad here.)
10. "Angel on My Bike":
11. "I Wish I Felt Nothing:
Released on May 21st, 1996 The Wallflowers "Burning Down The Horse" was a slow burning hit CD. Although it started out slowly, eventually it exploded. I was vaguely aware of The Wallflowers because of this CD's first two singles: "6th Avenue Heartache" and "One Headlight". And while I thought both songs were okay, I definitely wasn't a big Wallflowers fan. They were sort of just there.
I remember the tipping point for me though in becoming a huge Wallflowers fan. I was with my at the time wife and we were in Park City browsing at one of their discount retail stores. I'm fairly sure I'd heard "The Difference" before that day. But when I heard it that day I realized how great of a song it was. I was overwhelmed by how incredibly catchy the song is. Although the lyrics make no sense, I couldn't resist that incredibly catchy song any more. I wanted to find out more about The Wallflowers after that. That same day I went and bought "Bringing Down The Horse".
The Wallflowers self-titled CD released in 1992 was definitely a band finding it's sound. The group grew up considerably before making "Bringing Down The Horse". Although the Wallflowers have released some good CDs since "Bringing Down The Horse", that was their peak. I'm a big fan of "Breach" however and "Red Letter Days" is a perfectly fine CD.
The make up of the band for the recording of "Horse" was Mario Calire on drums, Rami Jaffee on keyboards, piano and vocals, Greg Richling on bass guitar and Michael Ward on lead guitar. Of course their lead singer is Bob's son, Jakob Dylan.
I was able to see The Wallflowers twice in concert. I saw them in the mid-90s when they had blown up and may have been bigger than Counting Crows, who they were opening for. That was a great concert, the Wallflowers were great that night. That was a concert that the only reason I went to it was to see The Wallflowers. But I stuck around to see Counting Crows and I'm really glad I did, because I hadn't appreciated how great of a band they were until that night.
The second time I saw The Wallflowers was near the end of the 90s, they were the headliner and had Everlast open for them. He was good and The Wallflowers were also good. Although at the time they probably weren't quite ready to be a headliner. I do remember their very energetic take of Blur's "Song 2", they rocked that song out. Too bad I can't find a video of it on Youtube. But because it's such a great song, here's Blur performing their hit live:
This is the video for the entire "Bringing Down The Horse":
I listen to the CD I'm writing about while writing these blogs. Most of the time I remember why I really love a CD, but sometimes that turns into complete admiration. This is such a great CD and Jakob Dylan's voice sounds so good here.
1. "One Headlight":
2. "6th Avenue Heartache":
"6th Avenue Heartache" (Live On Letterman):
3. "Bleeders":
4. "Three Marlenas":
"Three Marlenas" (Live):
5. "The Difference":
"The Difference" (Live)
6. "Invisible City":
7. "Laughing Out Loud":
8. "Josephine":
9. "God Don't Make Lonely Girls":
"God Don't Make Lonely Girls" (Live) (Jakob sounds a lot like his Dad here.)
10. "Angel on My Bike":
11. "I Wish I Felt Nothing:
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
themusicaddict's Greatest CD's of All-Time: James Blunt's "Back To Bedlam"
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Today's blog is about James Blunt's debut CD, "Back To Bedlam". Blunt is yet another musician who peaked with his first CD. "Back To Bedlam" was released October 11th, 2004. From Wikipedia, Blunt recorded this CD while staying at Carrie Fisher's (Princess Leia!) house. He recorded "Goodbye My Lover" in her bathroom. He recorded most of the album at producer Tom Rothrock at Rothrock's home studio. Also Fisher was the one who suggested the album's title, which is a reference to an "infamous psychiatric institution"(quote from Wikipedia's "Back To Bedlam" article) in England.
After a slow start "Back To Bedlam" went on to be a big seller. It has sold over 3.2 million copies in England, which is the 16th best selling CD in England's history. The CD has sold over 2.5 million copies in the US and over 11 million copies worldwide.
As I always say, a true measure of a musician comes out when performing live. I was a fan of Blunt before seeing him in concert a few years ago, it was a couple years after "Bedlam" was released. However after seeing him in concert I became a big fan. He out performed the show's headliner Sheryl Crow, who wasn't bad at all. Blunt was a swirling burst of energy even going out in the crowed a couple of times. Blunt is a great singer, his voice sounds even better live, and his band was very good. They put on a great show.
Although "Back To Bedlam" is a classic, sadly Blunt's career has gone downhill since then. His second album "All The Lost Souls" is a solid CD. It's anchored by "1973", "Give Me Some Love" and "I Really Want You". However his third CD "Some Kind of Trouble" was a big drop in quality. And sadly the descent continued with 2013's disappointing "Moon Landing". (Thanks to Wikipedia for many details in this blog.)
Here's James Blunt in concert on May 9th, 2007 in London:
The full video for "Back To Bedlam". Enjoy:
Here are the individual songs for the band's 10 tracks:
1) "High" (James Blunt first single, which didn't do very well when released. However it's a very good song.):
2) "You're Beautiful" (The third single released from the CD and the song that finally got Blunt some attention, and of course went on to worldwide acclaim.)
"You're Beautiful" (Live):
3) "Wiseman":
4) "Goodbye My Lover" (Not only one of the best songs on "Bedlam", but one of Blunt's best songs. This song features one of my favorite Blunt lines: "I saw the end before we begun":
5) "Tears and Rain":
"Tears and Rain" (Live):
6) "Out Of My Mind":
7) "So Long Jimmy" (Is that a Doors homage near the end of this song?) This is my favorite James Blunt song, although it took me awhile to figure it out. I have the lyric video for those of you who might be a bit dense like me. Listen to the song and tell me what you think.
Well at least I thought I had figured the song out, I thought the song was sung from the perspective of a woman saying "so long Jimmy". But some people suggest this is a tribute to Jim Morrison, which would explain the "Riders On The Storm" tag.
"So Long Jimmy" (Live):
8) "Billy":
"Billy" (live):
9) "Cry":
10) "No Bravery" (A heart breaking song and video, I had no idea what this song was about before writing this blog.):
themusicaddict
Today's blog is about James Blunt's debut CD, "Back To Bedlam". Blunt is yet another musician who peaked with his first CD. "Back To Bedlam" was released October 11th, 2004. From Wikipedia, Blunt recorded this CD while staying at Carrie Fisher's (Princess Leia!) house. He recorded "Goodbye My Lover" in her bathroom. He recorded most of the album at producer Tom Rothrock at Rothrock's home studio. Also Fisher was the one who suggested the album's title, which is a reference to an "infamous psychiatric institution"(quote from Wikipedia's "Back To Bedlam" article) in England.
After a slow start "Back To Bedlam" went on to be a big seller. It has sold over 3.2 million copies in England, which is the 16th best selling CD in England's history. The CD has sold over 2.5 million copies in the US and over 11 million copies worldwide.
As I always say, a true measure of a musician comes out when performing live. I was a fan of Blunt before seeing him in concert a few years ago, it was a couple years after "Bedlam" was released. However after seeing him in concert I became a big fan. He out performed the show's headliner Sheryl Crow, who wasn't bad at all. Blunt was a swirling burst of energy even going out in the crowed a couple of times. Blunt is a great singer, his voice sounds even better live, and his band was very good. They put on a great show.
Although "Back To Bedlam" is a classic, sadly Blunt's career has gone downhill since then. His second album "All The Lost Souls" is a solid CD. It's anchored by "1973", "Give Me Some Love" and "I Really Want You". However his third CD "Some Kind of Trouble" was a big drop in quality. And sadly the descent continued with 2013's disappointing "Moon Landing". (Thanks to Wikipedia for many details in this blog.)
Here's James Blunt in concert on May 9th, 2007 in London:
The full video for "Back To Bedlam". Enjoy:
Here are the individual songs for the band's 10 tracks:
1) "High" (James Blunt first single, which didn't do very well when released. However it's a very good song.):
2) "You're Beautiful" (The third single released from the CD and the song that finally got Blunt some attention, and of course went on to worldwide acclaim.)
"You're Beautiful" (Live):
3) "Wiseman":
4) "Goodbye My Lover" (Not only one of the best songs on "Bedlam", but one of Blunt's best songs. This song features one of my favorite Blunt lines: "I saw the end before we begun":
5) "Tears and Rain":
"Tears and Rain" (Live):
6) "Out Of My Mind":
7) "So Long Jimmy" (Is that a Doors homage near the end of this song?) This is my favorite James Blunt song, although it took me awhile to figure it out. I have the lyric video for those of you who might be a bit dense like me. Listen to the song and tell me what you think.
Well at least I thought I had figured the song out, I thought the song was sung from the perspective of a woman saying "so long Jimmy". But some people suggest this is a tribute to Jim Morrison, which would explain the "Riders On The Storm" tag.
"So Long Jimmy" (Live):
8) "Billy":
"Billy" (live):
9) "Cry":
10) "No Bravery" (A heart breaking song and video, I had no idea what this song was about before writing this blog.):
themusicaddict
Thursday, April 3, 2014
themusicaddict's Greatest Hits of All-Time: Donna Summer's Bad Girls
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Honestly this is probably a bit of a stretch for a greatest CD of all-time. Although Disco music had many great songs, there were few, if any, great CDs. "Bad Girls" has to be considered one of the best all-time Disco CDs. Any CD that has "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Sunset People" and "Dim All The Lights" has to be a great CD.
"Bad Girls" was released April 25th, 1979, this CD might have been the last hurrah before Disco crashed. It was only 2 1/2 months later that the famous Disco Demolition happened following a MLB game. A promotion for the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park probably was the tipping point in the Disco craze coming to an end. From Wikipedia:
"At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Many of those in attendance had come to see the explosion rather than the games and rushed onto the field after the detonation. The playing field was damaged both by the explosion and by the rowdy fans to the point where the White Sox were required to forfeit the second game of the doubleheader to the Tigers."
(Thanks to wikipedia.org for information for this blog.)
Although Donna Summer continued making music until her death on May 17th, 2012, "Bad Girls" was her personal peak. Although she released several more CDs after that, none of them had the impact that "Bad Girls" had. One sign your career is reaching a crossroads is that your record company starts releasing greatest hits CDs. Summer had greatest hits CDs released in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The most famous of these is "On The Radio Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2". This CD produced one of Summer's final classic songs. That's her duet with Barbara Striesand "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)".
Her last three relatively significant songs are the underwhelming "She Works Hard For The Money", "The Wanderer" and the funktastic "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)".
For a bonus here's the Chromeo and O's remix of "Love Is In Control":
Her 2008 "Crayons" CD was released and quickly disappeared, for those who even knew about it. That's too bad because "Crayons" is a perfectly decent CD. This is the video for the full version of "Crayons":
Before CDs were made available, most people bought their music on what were called records, albums or record albums. See below for what these looked like. Each side would have 4 or 5 songs on it. After one side was done, you'd get up and listen to side 2. If a album had a lot of songs it would be released in a double album, such as "Bad Girls" was. Although many people prefer the sound that comes with albums, give me CDs and iTunes any day.
This is the best I could do for videos for most of this CD, here's side A of the first "Bad Girls" album:
First album, side B:
Album two, side A:
Album two, side B:
1) "Hot Stuff":
2) "Bad Girls":
"Bad Girls" (live): (Donna Summer wasn't known for being great live, but I never was able to see her in concert to have an opinion about that.)
Anastacia and Jamiroquai's cover of "Bad Girls": (I quite like this version.)
3) "Love Will Always Find You":
"Love Will Always Find You"(Patrice Extended Mix):
4) "Walk Away": (Another great song, one of Summer's lesser known songs.)
5) "Dim All The Lights":
"Dim All The Lights" (Live):
6) "Journey To The Center of Your Heart":
7) "One Night In A Lifetime":
8) "Can't Get To Sleep At Night":
9) "On My Honour": (Another of Summer's lesser known songs that I really like.)
10) "There Will Always Be A You":
11) "All Through The Night":
12) "My Baby Understands":
"My Baby Understands" (remix):
13) "Our Love":
14) "Lucky" (Giorgio Moroder remix):
15 "Sunset People" and "Bad Girls":
"Our Love", "Lucky" and "Sunset People" all in one video:
"Sunset People":
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Honestly this is probably a bit of a stretch for a greatest CD of all-time. Although Disco music had many great songs, there were few, if any, great CDs. "Bad Girls" has to be considered one of the best all-time Disco CDs. Any CD that has "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Sunset People" and "Dim All The Lights" has to be a great CD.
"Bad Girls" was released April 25th, 1979, this CD might have been the last hurrah before Disco crashed. It was only 2 1/2 months later that the famous Disco Demolition happened following a MLB game. A promotion for the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park probably was the tipping point in the Disco craze coming to an end. From Wikipedia:
"At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Many of those in attendance had come to see the explosion rather than the games and rushed onto the field after the detonation. The playing field was damaged both by the explosion and by the rowdy fans to the point where the White Sox were required to forfeit the second game of the doubleheader to the Tigers."
(Thanks to wikipedia.org for information for this blog.)
Although Donna Summer continued making music until her death on May 17th, 2012, "Bad Girls" was her personal peak. Although she released several more CDs after that, none of them had the impact that "Bad Girls" had. One sign your career is reaching a crossroads is that your record company starts releasing greatest hits CDs. Summer had greatest hits CDs released in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The most famous of these is "On The Radio Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2". This CD produced one of Summer's final classic songs. That's her duet with Barbara Striesand "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)".
Her last three relatively significant songs are the underwhelming "She Works Hard For The Money", "The Wanderer" and the funktastic "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)".
For a bonus here's the Chromeo and O's remix of "Love Is In Control":
Her 2008 "Crayons" CD was released and quickly disappeared, for those who even knew about it. That's too bad because "Crayons" is a perfectly decent CD. This is the video for the full version of "Crayons":
Before CDs were made available, most people bought their music on what were called records, albums or record albums. See below for what these looked like. Each side would have 4 or 5 songs on it. After one side was done, you'd get up and listen to side 2. If a album had a lot of songs it would be released in a double album, such as "Bad Girls" was. Although many people prefer the sound that comes with albums, give me CDs and iTunes any day.
This is the best I could do for videos for most of this CD, here's side A of the first "Bad Girls" album:
First album, side B:
Album two, side A:
Album two, side B:
1) "Hot Stuff":
2) "Bad Girls":
"Bad Girls" (live): (Donna Summer wasn't known for being great live, but I never was able to see her in concert to have an opinion about that.)
Anastacia and Jamiroquai's cover of "Bad Girls": (I quite like this version.)
3) "Love Will Always Find You":
"Love Will Always Find You"(Patrice Extended Mix):
4) "Walk Away": (Another great song, one of Summer's lesser known songs.)
5) "Dim All The Lights":
"Dim All The Lights" (Live):
6) "Journey To The Center of Your Heart":
7) "One Night In A Lifetime":
8) "Can't Get To Sleep At Night":
9) "On My Honour": (Another of Summer's lesser known songs that I really like.)
10) "There Will Always Be A You":
11) "All Through The Night":
12) "My Baby Understands":
"My Baby Understands" (remix):
13) "Our Love":
14) "Lucky" (Giorgio Moroder remix):
15 "Sunset People" and "Bad Girls":
"Our Love", "Lucky" and "Sunset People" all in one video:
"Sunset People":
themusicaddict
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
The LA Dodgers, Your 2014 World Series Champs
Hello,
Last season I wrote a blog about nearly every Dodgers game, but sadly that took up too much time. I decided not to do that this season, but I still plan on checking in with the Dodgers occasionally on this blog.
After 4 games, here's the Dodgers good and bad:
Good:
1) The Dodgers are 3-1 and are first place in the NL West.
2) L.A. returns Yasiel Puig, who will play his first full season in MLB. Puig hit a two run homer Tuesday, that was the Dodgers big blow.
3) L.A. welcomes back Hanley Ramirez, playing in a contract year.
4) The Dodgers have that great pitching staff, even though they have 3 starters on the DL. However the Dodgers still have Zack Greinke, Hyun Jin-Ryu and maybe Dan Haren can give them something this year.
Bad:
1) Are we gonna do this again LA? Through 4 games the Dodgers have only scored 14 runs, that's only an average of 3.5 runs per game. That's not terrible, but they scored 7 of those runs in one game. I'm more concerned about the two games they only scored 3 runs and the 1 game they only scored 1 run. Having the same inept offense as last season will not be enough for the Dodgers to win the World Series, I don't care how good the pitching is. The same team that scored the most runs last season was also the same team that won the World Series, the Boston Red Sox. No, I don't think that was a coincidence.
2) Speaking of which, the Dodgers have over $60 million in injured players sitting on the disabled list. That includes Josh Beckett and Chad Billingsley, honestly if the Dodgers get anything significant out of either one of those pitchers, I'll consider that a small miracle. I cannot wait until the Dodgers can dump Beckett and his $17 million dollar contract.
Also Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers best pitcher, will be out 2 to 3 weeks more. Aargh!
3) I know it's only 4 games in the season, so I'm not panicking too much. These are some of the most important Dodgers and their current batting averages: Hanley Ramirez, .067, Adrian Gonzalez, .077, Andre Ethier 1.33, A.J. Ellis .167 and Carl Crawford .222. Also Matt Kemp hasn't played this season yet, but there's some talk that he may be able to play for the Dodgers home opener on Friday.
themusicaddict
Last season I wrote a blog about nearly every Dodgers game, but sadly that took up too much time. I decided not to do that this season, but I still plan on checking in with the Dodgers occasionally on this blog.
After 4 games, here's the Dodgers good and bad:
Good:
1) The Dodgers are 3-1 and are first place in the NL West.
2) L.A. returns Yasiel Puig, who will play his first full season in MLB. Puig hit a two run homer Tuesday, that was the Dodgers big blow.
3) L.A. welcomes back Hanley Ramirez, playing in a contract year.
4) The Dodgers have that great pitching staff, even though they have 3 starters on the DL. However the Dodgers still have Zack Greinke, Hyun Jin-Ryu and maybe Dan Haren can give them something this year.
Bad:
1) Are we gonna do this again LA? Through 4 games the Dodgers have only scored 14 runs, that's only an average of 3.5 runs per game. That's not terrible, but they scored 7 of those runs in one game. I'm more concerned about the two games they only scored 3 runs and the 1 game they only scored 1 run. Having the same inept offense as last season will not be enough for the Dodgers to win the World Series, I don't care how good the pitching is. The same team that scored the most runs last season was also the same team that won the World Series, the Boston Red Sox. No, I don't think that was a coincidence.
2) Speaking of which, the Dodgers have over $60 million in injured players sitting on the disabled list. That includes Josh Beckett and Chad Billingsley, honestly if the Dodgers get anything significant out of either one of those pitchers, I'll consider that a small miracle. I cannot wait until the Dodgers can dump Beckett and his $17 million dollar contract.
Also Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers best pitcher, will be out 2 to 3 weeks more. Aargh!
3) I know it's only 4 games in the season, so I'm not panicking too much. These are some of the most important Dodgers and their current batting averages: Hanley Ramirez, .067, Adrian Gonzalez, .077, Andre Ethier 1.33, A.J. Ellis .167 and Carl Crawford .222. Also Matt Kemp hasn't played this season yet, but there's some talk that he may be able to play for the Dodgers home opener on Friday.
themusicaddict
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