Been listening to some Stones lately and this song has inspired a post of rock songs celebrating rock from different bands and genres:

Artists: Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman
Album: If You Knew Suzi...
Song: "Stumblin' In"
1978 RAK Records

Following a recurring role as bass player Leather Tuscadero on the popular American sitcom Happy Days, her duet "Stumblin' In" a song written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn performed by Quatro with Chris Norman of the band Smokie reached number 4 in the USA in 1979. Quatro has sold over 50 million albums[4] and continues to perform live, worldwide.

Artist: She Wants Revenge
Album: She Wants Revenge
Song: "Killing Time"
Geffen Records, 2006

This is Track 66 on the original disc. Album, in whole, is terrific. Sounds a little like Depeche Mode, but edgier with less self-loathing. No video here. just the song.

Artist: Amy Winehouse
Album: Back to Black
Song: "Back to Black"
Island Records, 2006

Miss the hell out of this tremendous talent. Unique voice - very soulful and authentic. A shame she was such a mess in her real life, although that probably added a little to her aura.

"Ride, ride, ride--hitchin' a ride"

Artist: Vanity Fare
Album: issued as a 7" single
Cut: "Hitchin' A Ride"
1969 Page One Records





Vanity Fare (due to the similarity of the novel and magazine title often misspelled Vanity Fair) are a UK pop/rock group formed in 1966, best remembered for its million-selling song, "Hitchin' a Ride", which became a worldwide hit in 1970.

For their next release "Hitchin' a Ride", they added keyboardist Barry Landemen (born 25 October 1947, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) to the group. "Hitchin' a Ride" is a song written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander issued as a single by the UK-based band, Vanity Fare in late 1969. It reached #16 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1970, but was a bigger hit in the United States, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1970 (June–July 1970). Billboard ranked the record as the No. 14 song of 1970. The song reached #1 for two weeks each on Chicago radio stations WLS (May 1970) and WCFL (June 1970).

The hit was preceded by a tour of the United States, following which both Dick Allix and Tony Goulden left the band and were replaced by guitarist and singer Eddie Wheeler and drummer Mark Ellen.

The song is about a young man who is attempting to hitchhike, since he has no money. The song is noted for its two recorders, first heard in the introduction as well as in the sections between the choruses and the verses. The song is also noted for its instrumental middle section, featuring an electric piano, that plays a bass line in repetition, which is accompanied by the piano's upper register, bass, drums, and guitar, which is later heard before the song's fade. The single edit shortens the ending by eliminating the final repeated lines "RIDE, RIDE" before the song fades out. It sold a million copies in the United States alone.

Here's this week's video analogy to the Rice-WKU game. Congrats to WKU. Enjoy!





"Crush With Eyeliner"

I know you
I know you've seen her
She's a sad tomato
She's three miles of bad road
Walking down the street
Will I never meet her?
She's a real woman-child
Oh my kiss breath turpentine

I am smitten
I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
Have you seen her come around?
My crush with eyeliner

I'm in like
I'm infatuated
It's all too much pressure
She's all that I can take
What position should I wear?
Cop an attitude? (You faker)
How can I convince her? (Faker)
That I'm invented, too, yeah

I am smitten
I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
We all invent ourselves
And you know me

She's a sad tomato
She's three miles of bad road
She's her own invention (She's her own invention)
That gets me in the throat
What can I make myself be?
Life is strange, yeah (Life is strange)
What can I make myself be? (Fake her)
To make her mine?

I am smitten
I'll do anything (I'll do anything)
A kiss breath turpentine
My crush with eyeliner

I am smitten
You know me (Yeah, you know me)
I could be your Frankenstein
My crush with eyeliner

I am smitten
I'm the real thing (I'm the real thing)
Won't you be my valentine?
My crush with eyeliner

this is the theme of our offense in the second half of games. coach brohm is played by the woman.





the actual song.

clyde carson - slow down

Artist: The Smithereens
Album: Green Thoughts
Cut: "Something New"
1988 Capitol Records

Artist: Sisters of Mercy
Album: Vision Thing
Track: "More"
13 November 1990 Merciful Release/EastWest Records

simple stuff to define the today.....I just like the guitar riff....and I got mine back (finally...my neighbors love me ) the lyrics are hilarious rhetorical punk angst...

(10-05-2015 09:50 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Artist: The Smithereens
Album: Green Thoughts
Cut: "Something New"
1988 Capitol Records

I saw those guys in vegas during my college days....that rem rockabilly thingy was what us "X"ers did......lmao....

PTNC has been jamming too:














Dug them once they broke with the original Fast and Furious soundtrack tunes.... copped a $5 bargain bin hits disc a few years ago and really dug their material.

Ohhh yeah...great disc everyone should check out...



Picked this up in a Wal Mart bargain bin....excellent stuff there...



Just got it today, haven't listened to it yet.





Technically, it was the 30th Anniversary one but...

I use to work for Elektra Records in the late 90's thru 2005. I had the pleasure of attending this taping in San Fran. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience.

It's starting to cool off here in Atlanta, that means you can drive with the top down... One of my current favorites...

to PTNC and Herd-in-Atl.....fkn-A to your recent posts....

having a compare and contrast weirdo moment.....I do this from time to time....

it would be cool for ted and claypool to jam.....

(10-13-2015 09:42 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  to PTNC and Herd-in-Atl.....fkn-A to your recent posts....

having a compare and contrast weirdo moment.....I do this from time to time....

it would be cool for ted and claypool to jam.....

@ stink
you know I bring that hotness all the time.


I can respect Primus for what they were/are but I never got into them.... it always seemed to me that they were based around the "Less Claypool plays bass showcase" instead of "music" so to speak...in essence, not quite a hater, not quite a fan.

Nuge could really lay it down. But then there was that Damn Yankees phase LOL


Damn, now that you mention it.... who was the bassist for the band in that VH1 show Supergroup? I believe Nuge was guitar and vocals, Sebastian Bach (Skid Row) was vocals, lead singer from Biohazard was vocals and guitar?, Scott Ian (of Anthrax fame) was bass? I believe the kid of John Bonham (Led Zep) was the drummer....

(10-13-2015 10:43 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  [quote='stinkfist' pid='12498845' dateline='1444790558']
to PTNC and Herd-in-Atl.....fkn-A to your recent posts....

having a compare and contrast weirdo moment.....I do this from time to time....

it would be cool for ted and claypool to jam.....

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@ stink
you know I bring that hotness all the time.


I can respect Primus for what they were/are but I never got into them.... it always seemed to me that they were based around the "Less Claypool plays bass showcase" instead of "music" so to speak...in essence, not quite a hater, not quite a fan.

Nuge could really lay it down. But then there was that Damn Yankees phase LOL


Damn, now that you mention it.... who was the bassist for the band in that VH1 show Supergroup? I believe Nuge was guitar and vocals, Sebastian Bach (Skid Row) was vocals, lead singer from Biohazard was vocals and guitar?, Scott Ian (of Anthrax fame) was bass? I believe the kid of John Bonham (Led Zep) was the drummer....

lmao.....

I understand the lack of want regarding primus.....

however, I told you it was a wierdo moment....

overlay those two songs when ted goes into the slowdown motion of the solo.....it might make you see that primus song differently....

I got my black beauty back and have it tuned down to drop B so I can play the deftones song I previously posted.......time for a few hits, some bangin', and night night

you're a stoned cold groove man....I like how you come with it....I miss playin' you fkrs

damn you ptnc....now you got me thinkin' about these turds....dreams come true....lol.....

Skid Row with Bach as the frontman was a bad ass bandfor sure...