Top Ten Songs With Two Names In The Title

No Name's List:
Frank & jesse James - Warren Zevon
Ellen & Ben - D-Plan
Jack & Diane - JCM
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest -Bob Dylan
The Return of Jackie and judy - The Ramones
Romeo & Juliet – Dire straits
Frankie and Albert - Mississippi john hurt
Pancho & Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
Zero & Blind Terry – Bruce Springsteen
Yoshimi battles the pink robots – flaming lips

Party Cheese's List:
8) Jerry Garcia- Reuben and Cerise
7) Bruce Springsteen-Adam Raised A Cain
6) X-Johnny Hit And Run Pauline
5) Uncle Tupelo-Acuff Rose
4) Drive By Truckers-Danko/Manuel
3) Drive By Truckers-Ronnie and Neil
2) The Long Ryders-Looking For Lewis and Clark
1) Young Fresh Fellows-Hank, Karen and Elvis

Disco Stu's List:

1. The Beatles "The Ballad of John and Yoko"

2. Townes van Zandt "Mr. Gold and Mr. Mud" Live at the Old Quarter

3. Elliott Smith "Punch and Judy" XO
4. Bonnie Prince Billy "Medeleine-Mary" I See A Darkness

5. Bob Dylan "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" Blood on the Tracks

6. Super Furry Animals "Venus and Serena" Phantom Power

7. American Analog set "Aaron and Maria" Know by Heart

8. Serge Gainsbourg "Bonnie and Clyde"

9. Radio Birdman "Aloha Steve and Dan-o"

10. The Lemonheads "Hannah and Gabi" It's a Shame About Ray

Shrimp Cracker's List:
1. Return of Jackie and Judy (Ramones)
2. Pancho & Lefty (Townes)
3. Frankie & Johnny (trad)
4. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts (Dylan)
5. Adam Raised A Cain (Bruce)
honorable 6th: Jack & Jill (went up the hill)

What's Up With T.O.? Suicide Attempt? What the hell is going on here?











Happy Birthday Meatloaf.

Coltrane

Today is John Coltrane's Birthday (09/23/1926). Happy Birthday Trane.


A Love Supreme:
Acknowledgement
Resolution
Pursuance/Psalm

Top Ten Live Albums

No Name's List:
The Byrds - Fillmore West '69
The Who - Live At Leeds
Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won
Anything from the Dead 1977 tour(s)
Bruce Springsteen - Live Box Set
Bob Dylan/The Band - 1966 Royal Albert Hall
Bob Marley & The Wailers Babylon By Bus
Neil Young - Year of the Horse/Weld
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers -- Pack Up The Plantation
Townes Van Zandt - Live At The Old Quarter
The Supersuckers -Must've Been Live.
Elvis Costello - Live at El Mocambo
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Clum
JC - Live At Folsom
Coltrane - Live at Birdland
They dont make live albums like they used to or they don't make 'em anymore

Party Cheese's List:
10) MC5- Kick Out The Jams
9) Lou Reed- Take No Prisoners
8) Thin Lizzy- Live and Dangerous
7) Johnny Cash- At Folsom Prison
6) AC/DC- If You Want Blood, You Got It
5) The Dream Syndicate-Live at Raji's
4) J. Geils Band- Full House
3) Young Fresh Fellows-Take It Like A Matador
2) Neil Young-Rust Never Sleeps or Time Fades Away
1) Little Feat- Waiting For Columbus

Hendo's List:
1. The MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
2. The Ramones - Its Alive
3. The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya Yas Out
4. Johnny Cash - Live At Folsom Prison
5. AC/DC - If You Want Blood...
6. Jerry Lee Lewis - Live At The Star Club
7. The Supersuckers - Mustve Been Live
8. The Oblivians - Rock N Roll Holiday
9. The Cramps - Smell Of Female
10. Coal Palace Kings - Live At The Garden Grill
Hon. Mention: Bob Dylan Live '66 and '75, The Figgs - Continue To Enjoy The Figgs Vol. 1, Thee Mighty Caesars - Live In Rome, The Devil Dogs - No Requests Tonight

Disco Stu's List:

1. The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East

2. The Grateful Dead Dicks Picks Vol. 8: Harpur College 5/02/70

3. Cannonball Adderley Sextet Nippon Soul

4. The Band The Last Waltz

5. Sam Cooke At the Harlem Square Club

6. Ramones It's Alive

7. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Shrine '69

8. The Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya Yas Out

9. Chet Baker Quartet Live, Vol. 1: This Time the Dream's on Me
10. Big Star Live

Happy Birthday Pizza Face (aka Todd Delamucca)

HoJo's Top Ten Bill Murray Movies:
10) Groundhog Day
9) Coffee & Cigarettes
8) Ghostbusters
7) Royal Tennenbaums
6) Mr. Mikes Mondo Video
5) Rushmore
4) Meatballs
3) Stripes
2) Kingpin
1) tie:Caddyshack/Where The Buffalo Roam

Happy Birthday Bill. We Love You.

Top Ten Underrated Records

Disco Stu's List:
1. Chris Bell "I Am The Cosmos"
2. Teenage Fanclub "Thirteen"
3. Mary Lou Lord "Live City Sounds"
4. Yo La Tengo "Summer Sun"
5. Fleetwood Mac "Albatross"
6. The Band "Northern Lights Southern Cross"
7. Marshall Crenshaw "Marshall Crenshaw"
8. Neil Young "Trans"
9. Graham Nash "Songs For Beginners"
10. Sparklehorse "Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot"
Honorable Mention:
Elliott Smith "Figure 8"
Mike Nesmith "Loose Salute"
Mr. T Experience "Night Shift At The Thrill Factory"
NOFX "So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes"

Hendo's List:
1. The Figgs - Everything
2. The Mooney Suzuki - People Get Ready
3. The Greenhornes - S/T and Gun For Hire
4. The Supersuckers - Must've Been High
5. MC5 - High Time
6. The Go - Watcha Doin
7. The Replacements - Sorry Ma... and Stink
8. Link Wray - Everything
9. Husker Du - New Day Rising
10. The Clash - Cut The Crap
Honorable Mention: The Ramones.

JoseReyesMVP's List:
10- The Verlaines-everything. jinglejanglejanglejing.
9 - Rory Gallagher- Deuce ('71) blues and more. my all time favorite white boy blues guitarist.
8 - The Haynes Boys-Guardian Angel ('96) before Tim Easton went solo. still his best work.
7 - The Only Children-Change Of Living ('04) former emo-screamo dude get's his Wilco/Band/Stones groove on.
6 - The Long Ryders-State Of Our Union ('85) take no country/RAWK prisoners. use this as a template
5 - The J. Geils Band-Full House ('72) the Geils Band Live.holyfuckinshit.
4 - Superchunk -Foolish ('94) buncha young punk rockers from North Carolina finally grew up with this masterpiece.
3 - The Mekons - The Mekons Rock'n'Roll ('89) railing against the music industry and anything else that got in their way
2 - Prisonshake- The Roaring Third ('93) fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
1 - Young Fresh Fellows- This Ones For The Ladies ('89) I've been banging my head against the wall for over 20 years trying to understand why this band never toured by private jet, never had a run on the Billboard charts, never played for Carson, never had billboards on the Sunset Strip, never had They Might Be Giants/Presidents Of The United States of America/The Rolling Stones open up for THEM!! The lack of mass appeal after this brilliant record sent me to the top of McDonalds on Central Ave. with a machine gun. Everybody's got their breaking point, this one was mine.

The Voice

Oh fuck, was Phil Spector on to something good. Before he went insane, grew that killer afro, held the Ramones captive in the studio and pulled a gun on Leonard Cohen (a buddhist?), he locked Ronnie Spector up in a castle somewhere in L.A. In light of Spector's other famous hollywood hills incident, Ms. Spector got off pretty easy. But before Flip could lock Ronnie up he had to discover her along with the Ronettes, produce the living daylights out of them and then marry her. Going with the obvious - post-castle lock up he felt the need to try and take everything away from Ronnie Spector. But there was one thing, no maybe two, he would never be able to take away from her: That Voice and that unwavering spirit.
But enough about Phil "I've never done anything sane in my life since I was 23" Spector. Ronnie Spector and that voice represent everything great about this country and her new album, "The Last Of The Rock Stars" proves this without missing a beat or Whu-Uh-Oh note. There aren't enough words in this writers' vocabulary to give praise to Ms. Spector. I have never heard her sing anything I didn't want to repeat forever and if the little voice in my head could sound like that then the mundane would be amazing and everything else would be a packed beach or a drive to the burger joint. Oh wait that's Brian Wilson's imagination.
Ronnie began her career as a Ronette. Was there a better girl group? If so please let me know or keep it to yourself because you'll ruin the post. After the Ronettes, she released a few solo L.P.'s and a bunch of E.P.'s (one produced by Joey Ramone and the other made up of Marshall Crenshaw songs - does it get any cooler for the record geek than that?). I beleive there are also is a 45 of Bruce and the E-Street band backing her up. If anyone has access to this please inform me. Maybe its the fact that Ms. Spector has never oversaturated us with music over the last several decades and the result is a craving for her to sing just about anything.
So the point of this post was to highlight Ms. Spector and her new album which finds her playing with the Greenhornes, Patti Smith, Joey Ramone, The Raveonettes and Keith Richards (a duet no less). This is a post of the lead off track Never Gonna Be Your Baby. Any song where she sings "baby" is bound to be a good one. Also included is a take of You Can't Put Your Arm Around A Memory by Johnny Thunders (Richard Hell, I'm the guy passing you every afternoon on the east river).
The new record displays the full circle of Ronnie Spector's music and the music of the wall of sound girl groups which after traveling across the country to the West Coast morphed into the type of music the Beach Boys made popular. After criss-crossing the country again that little bit pop, tiny shake of harmony, and lots of attitude found its way into the New York early punk scene with the Ramones, The Dolls, JT & The Heartbreakers, and many other bands. From there, what the Ronettes did has been tweaked and altered so many times that I'm sure there are a few bands out there that don't even realize the impact Ronnie Spector and her girls had on their band and its' sound. I could be wrong about that but for sure the landscape of modern music would be a little less fun without the influence of Ronnie Spector.
If there is one important tidbit to take away it is this: The sound that comes out of Ronnie Spector is bliss and one that no one else can produce. It's a reminder of everything pure about music and growing up in this country, in that Beach Boys, Everly Brothers sort of way (in a time where it is sometimes hard to be an American in a global context these folk make it worthwhile). And honestly, Ronnie Spector doesn't seem to get the recognition she deserves, even by critics whose occupation it is is to remind us of things we need to listen to and consume, So I propose that like Roy Orbison we try and get Ronnie Spector a stamp (for godsakes she put up with Phil Spector and deserves us to stick her to an envelope and send her all over the globe so no one in Denmark can forget. In summation, Ms. Spector's been around since the dawn of rock and roll and its time we appreciate her for her contributions.

Happy 50th, and Top Ten Albums You've Purchased This Year

Well folks, this is the 50th post on this here blog, who'da thunkd it.


Top Ten Albums That You've Purchased This Year (not that came out this year, just ones youve bought)

Disco Stu's List:
1. Billy Bragg - Back To Basics
2. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
3. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Spanish Dance Troupe
4. The Vibrators - The Independent Punk Singles
5. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
6. Pogues - Rum Sodomy And The Lash Reissue
7. Ween - The Mollusk
8. Emmitt Rhodes - Emmitt Rhodes
9. Harry Smith Anthology Of American Folk Music
10. Feist - Let It Die

No Name's List:
1. The Wild Tchoupitoulas - S/T
2. Teddy Thompson - Separate Ways
3. Junior Byles - 129 Beat Street Ja-Man Special: 1975-1978
4. Afghan Whigs - 1965
5. Meat Purveyors - Paint By Numbers
6. Tom Petty - Hard Promises
7. Kamikaze Hearts - Oneida Road
8. Wackies 1720 - Jamaica Super Dub Session
9. V/A - I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen Soundtrack)
10. The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees

Hendo's List:
1. Link Wray - Missing Links Vol. 1 - 4
2. The Cramps - How To Make A Monster
3. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
4. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Thank God For Mental Illness
5. V/A - Songs The Cramps Tought Us Vol. 1
6. Roky Erickson - Gremlins Have Pictures
7. Kamikaze Hearts - Oneida Road
8. Black Lips - Let It Bloom
9. Dan Melchior's Broke Revue - This Love Is Real
10. NRBQ / The Incredible Casuals - A Whole Bunch Of Stuff

Suck It

JoseReyesMVP says:
20 - Seasons since the Mets' last World Series title.
18 - Seasons since the Mets have won the NL East.
12 - Seasons since somebody besides the Braves have won the NL East.
6 - Seasons since the Mets have made the playoffs.
1 - This tiny, magical number is all that stands between us and the postseason.
Let's Go Mets!

Now, I like the Mets, and I'd love to see a Mets-Yankees World Series, but I'm rooting for The Yankees or Tigers personally. I just now lost hope that the Royals would turn it around, they showed so much potential.

Moisturize My Situation...

I hope that by now, you have all seen on tv the commercial for pro-activ, featuring P. Diddy. In this commercial, P Diddy is talking with Vanessa Williams and talking about how he uses the product to deal with acne on his face. He says that it "moisturizes my situation, preserves my sexy...". Ok, this is quite possibly the most asinine thing i have heard in at least the last 3 weeks. What a moron. I also give props to Pro-Activ for keeping that clip in the commercial and making one of hip hops top moguls look a total moron. Check this out. And this.
I know this is old news but Diddy sued the company for making him look stupid.
Here is the take on the situation from Concreteloop.com, the Black Celebrity Gossip Blog.

I just think that the commercial is funny...Here's a song:

The Gories - Hey, Hey We're the Gories

September 11th

Its kind of weird that a day that has to go down as one of the more fucked up days of all of our lives will pretty soon be just another holiday and an excuse for all of the malls to have huge sales....And Dont Miss Our Huge 9/11 Blowout Sale!!!!!!!, either that or another excuse for a bbq.


Anyway, if you're in the mood for a laugh, you gotta check out The Show With Ze Frank. Every weekday, he posts these video blogs that are absolutely hilarious. Scroll through the archives too, cause every one I've ever seen cracks me up.

Hendo Bendo Podcast Bonanza # 3

The latest news from Billy Childish camp, is that the Buff Medways are no more. They are playing their last few shows, then calling it quits. Billy already has his next project lined up though. His next band is rumored to be called: Billy Childish and The Musicians Of The British Empire. Wolf from the Buff Medways will return on drums, and Julie is on Bass. I look forward to hearing some new material...........


Anyway, here is the next podcast and the tracklist:

Hendo Bendo Podcast Bonanza # 3

The Upsetters - The Strip

The Supersuckers - Mudhead
The Little Killers - Been So Long
The Waco Brothers - I Fought The Law
Teenage Head - Tearin' Me Apart
The Tampoffs - All The Time
The Third Bardo - I'm Five Years Ahead Of My Time
The Shadows Of Knight - Gospel Zone
Wayne Raney - Jack & Jill Boogie

The Triumphs - Burnt Biscuits

Hank Williams - Rockin' Chair Money
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos - We're Gonna Let The Good Times Roll
The Meat Purveyors - Little White Pills
The Drive-By Truckers - Steve McQueen
The Broke Revue - Upside Down
Hawkwind - Motorhead
The Scientists - Shake Together Tonite
The Dream Syndicate - Definetly Clean
Bob Dylan - Rollin' And Tumblin'
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - I Wanna Be Loved
Roky Erickson - Don't Shake Me Lucifer

The Mar-Keys - Morning After

Top Ten Books/Authors

Hendo's List:
1. Maurice Sendak - Where The Wild Things Are
2. Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn
3. H.A. Rey - Curious George
4. Dr. Seuss - Everything
5. Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth
6. Roald Dahl - The BFG
7. Margaret Wise Brown - Goodnight Moon
8. Bill Waterson - Calvin and Hobbes
9. Crockett Johnson - Harold and The Purple Crayon
10. Stan Berenstain Berenstain and Jan Berenstain - All Of The Bernestain Bears Books

Disco Stu's List:
1. James Joyce - "Dubliners"
2. JD Salinger - "Raise High The Roof Beams Carpenters/Seymour: An Introduction"
3. Ernest Hemingway - "The Complete Short Stories, Finca Vigia Edition"
4. Stephen Crane - "The Open Boat and Other Tales"
5. John Updike - "Rabbit Run"
6. John Cheever - "The Enormous Radio And Other Stories"
7. Jorge Louis Borges - "Labyrinths"
8. Thomas Mann - "Death In Venice"
9. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "Love In The Time Of Cholera"
10. Nathaniel West - "Miss Lonelyhearts"

JoseReyesMVP's List:
10-Lester Bangs
9 - Roger Kahn- The Boys Of Summer
8- Anthony Bourdain- Kitchen Confidential
7- Tommy Womack- The Cheese Chronicles
6- Jim Bouton- Ball Four
5- Ed Linn- Veeck As In Wreck
4- Michael Azerrad- Our Band Could Be Your Life
3- Ken Kesey- One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
2- Ted Williams- The Science Of Hitting
1- Hunter S. Thompson

Break Me Off A Piece Of That Kit Kat Bar's List:
1. Michael Ende - The Neverending Story
2. Julia Alvarez - In The Time Of The Butterflies
3. Isabel Allende - The House Of The Spirits
4. Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club
5. Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate
6. Dante Aligheri - The Divine Comedy
7. Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron
8. JRR Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
9. Geoffrey Chaucer - The canterbury Tales
10. Umberto Eco - In The Name Of The Rose
Honorable Mention - Special Mention: Ul de Rico - The Rainbow Goblins
Honorable Mention Poets - Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Gwendolyn Brooks

Edna Krabappel's List:
1. Sula--Toni Morrison
2. Interpreter of Maladies--Jumpa Lahiri
3. Blindness--Jose Saramago
4. Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor
5. The Beautiful and the Damned- F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. God of Small Things--Arundhati Roy
7. The Alchemist--Paulo Coelho
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Snow Country--Yasunari Kawabata
10. If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home--Tim O'Brien
(11. The Outsiders--S.E. Hinton)

Collin York Ashmead Bobbitt III Esq.'s List:
1. The Phone Book
2. Tight
3. Juggs
4. Homer - The Odyssey
5. James Joyce - Ulysses
6. Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
7. Anthony Burgess - Clockwork Orange
8. Jack Kerouac - On The Road
9. William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch
10. William Patrick - Saving Troy

EzRock's List:
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections (Most depressing characters)
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Most GRE words)
Michael Azzerad - Our Band Could Be Your Life (Most fetish like)
Michael Lewis - Moneyball (Most activating of formerly DOA interests)
Stephen Jay Gould - Hen's Teeth, Horse's Toes (Most times I've ever said ohhhhhh while reading)
Neil Gaimon - Neverwhere (most geeky)
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (most revered by folks smarter than me)
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity (most horny)
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (most groundbreaking in my little world)
Bill Waterson - The Indespensible Calvin and Hobbes (most everything good in the world)

No Name's List:
Fiction
1. Rabbit Angstrom - The Four Novels - John Updike
2. Mr. Hemingway esp. The Sun Also Rises/A Moveable Feast
3. The Naked And The Dead - Norman Mailer
4. From Here To Eternity - James Jones
5. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salmon Rushdie
6. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
7. Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
8. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
9. American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis/The Secret History - Donna Tartt
10. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Honorable Mentions: Long Days Journey Into Night; Ulysses; Albany
Trilogy; All The King's Men; Sound & THe Fury; Orlando; A Death In The
Family; THe Things They Carried; Empire Falls; Ira Sleeps Over; Huck
Finn; Wll Self
NonFiction
1. HST - esp. the multi-volume collection of his letters
2. Last Train To Memphis/Careless Love - Peter Guralnick
3. David Halberstam - Anything
4. Calvin Trillin - Food Trilogy
5. Dispatches - Michael Herr
6. A World Lit Only By Fire - William Manchester
7. Battle Cry Of Freedom - James McPherson
8. The Rise of Teddy Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
9. What It Takes - Richard Ben Cramer
10. Hammer Of The Gods - Stephen Davis
Honorable Mention: Sarah Vowell - read her while imagining her
actually speaking the words doubles the fun; Gay Talese

Bonanza Jellybean's List:
1. Hunter S. Thompson: The Rum Diary
2. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
3. Hunter S. Thompson: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
4. Tom Robbins: Still Life with Woodpecker
5. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings Trilogy
6. Tom Robbins: Villa Incognito
7. Tim O'Brien: The Things They Carried
8. Norman Mailer: Tough Guys Don't Dance
9. Ernest Hemingway: Garden of Eden
10. Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

What Did Hendo See??

Ok, for all of you haters out there, here is how it went down:

It was an overcast Saturday afternoon in Latham, NY 2 weeks ago. I was arriving back at my apartment complex, and I pulled into the parking lot in front of my building. I had a lot of crap to bring in to my apartment, and as I was stacking things up on my arms, I noticed a rustling of the bushes in front of my apartment. I walked up the stairs, and as I turned the corner, I saw the wierdest fuckin animal I have ever seen. It was like 5 feet tall, had really long skinny legs, a huge dark-colored body, and its head sat on top of a really long neck. I stood there dumbfounded as this thing was taking a shit (i shit you not) all over the patio in front of my door. It turned and looked at me, and there was a standoff for like 2 seconds before it took off and ran faster than I have ever seen anything run into the woods. Since I hadn't seen anything like it, I had no idea what it was. I called up Break Me Off A Piece Of That Kit Kat Bar, and she asked if it was a wild turkey. I had no idea, so I went on the computer and looked up a wild turkey to see what they looked like. The picture I saw online looked pretty similar to the animal I saw, so I assumed that it was a wild turkey. So, I filled up 7 buckets of soapy water and cleaned up all of the wild turkey crap in front of my apartment. I went to work the next day, and told everyone what happened to me. You would have thought I said I saw 56 unicorns having an orgy in front of apartment based on the way those stupid crackers reacted. Needless to say, I was the butt of many jokes around the office that I "must have been drinking wild turkey", or "are you sure you didnt see someone dressed in a turkey costume?" and other stupid crap like that. In a conversation with Shrimp Cracker, he noted that there was an escaped Emu running around the capital district not too long ago. I went back, and looked up a picture of an emu. Now I'm confused, cause the thing I saw looked like the picture of an emu also. I think it was an emu, but then again I'm not sure. It also kind of looked like an ostrich too. I need your help.


It's time to play "What Did Hendo See??". I need you to vote for the animal you think I saw that day. Leave your vote in the comments section, and whatever animal wins, that will be the definitive answer as to what I saw.

Wild Turkey:


Emu:


Ostrich: