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Shafton Ron
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Doors/Soft Parade
Forgot to mention this masterpiece earlier in my blog.
12 January 2007 - Pig's Ear
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What About?
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Early ZZ Top was some great blues/rock.
Particulary Fandango. They do a kick-butt cover of JailHouse Rock.
12 January 2007 - Tejas
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Zappa Krappa
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Underated....obscure?
Frank Zappa/Hot Rats
Zappa was pure genius, who brought diversity and incomparable production to the music industry.
12 January 2007 - Out There!
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Joe G
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Underrated artists
Willy Deville (Perhaps the best rnr singer ever)
Dave Alvin "King of California & Blackjack Davey"
Willy Nile
Garland Jeffreys
Joe Ely
Cactus (greatest American hard rock band featuring Jimmy McCarty)
12 January 2007 - Nose to the grind
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Joe G
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Andy Welcome aboard for the Spainish tour Great to read all the music posts
Fave raggae lp 'Natty Dread'
12 January 2007 - Home
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ZEKE
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Off the top of my head with no thinking in no order
Bruce Born to Run
Houserockers Coming Home
Ryan Adams Gold
Johnny Cash Unchained
Sinatra Come Fly With Me
That's just the way I'm feeling today. You could put every Joe/Hard Rain/Doors/Billy Joel/Beatles/Huey Lewis/Clarks/Springsteen/Tom Breiding/ cd as these bands NEVER released a bad cd. Some weren't great or my favorite but never a poor or bad release. Very rare
Sinatra, Cash, U2, Mellencamp, The Ramones, Dylan, and many others have put out bad cd's. And sometimes bad is crappy.
12 January 2007
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Keith Harrison
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Anyone up for a different spin on this list thing? How about the five most underappreciated discs of all time? Classic discs that never hit the top of the charts, and remain sadly unknown to most casual music fans.
Just to keep things from getting too repetitive, let's agree that everything and anything by Joe Grushecky would belong at the top of such a list, and thus let's exempt all of those great records. And I like Joe's earlier suggestion for these lists -- no live discs or greatest hits discs -- to make the choices even tougher, and thus more fun, to make.
My Top 5 Most Underappreciated Discs:
1. The Waco Brothers -- Cowboy in Flames: Blazing, boozy, rocking country punk. Rolling Stone called 'em Clash meets Johnny Cash, and that's as good a shorthand description as you'll find.
2. The Replacements -- Let it Be: America's greatest "indie rock" band, in all their beer-drenched, heart's on the sleeve glory. They were true believers in the power of rock'n'roll, but unlike U2 they were notoriously wary about stardom. It kept them from hitting the big time, but made them the better band.
3. Tramp on Your Street -- Shaver: The great Billy Joe Shaver's comeback disc is the perfect country record for rock fans who hate generic Nashville hat/hack country.
4. Entertainment -- The Gang of Four: The perfect post-punk record -- jagged guitars atop jittery rhythms, a sound at once menacing and dancefloor funky. They are the Velvet Underground story for this decade: They didn't sell squat when this disc came out in '79 -- but more than two decades later the Kaiser Chiefs, Strokes, Bloc Party, and the Hives, among others, have resurrected this sound and taken it to the bank. But like a fax of a fax, the original is always sharper than the copies.
5. Loco Gringo's Lament -- Ray Wylie Hubbard: Just in case you think all singer-songwriter folkies are wusses. Ray Wylie Hubbard, coming straight outta Texas, strikes the right balance here between poet and bad dude you wouldn't ever want to meet in a dark alley. And then he straps on an electric guitar for "Wanna Rock and Roll," which he accurately describes as "Tom Dooley" meets "Gloria." And which, come to think of it, would make a killer Houserockers cover.
Honorable mentions: Joe Strummer, "Streetcore"; X, "Under the Big Black Sun"; Professor Longhair, "Rock'n' Roll Gumbo"; Common, "Resurrection."
P.S. My bruddah Matt's list is awesome ... but he should have noted that he'd give Steve Earle's great "Hardcore Troubadour" bonus points for being in the movie "Talladega Nights."
11 January 2007 - Shaler
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Wil Kondrich
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If I could put one of Joe's albums I would put, A Good Life.
11 January 2007 - Pittsburgh PA
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Wil Kondrich
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My favorite top five albums are Born 2 Run/Bruce Springsteen, Let it Go/The Clarks, Kansas 30th anniversary edition/Kansas, Greatest Hits/Billy Joel, and Within A Mile of Home/Flogging Molly
11 January 2007 - Pittsburgh, PA
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Dave
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Blue oyster cult Agents of Fortune another good one that needs some notice. By the way Danny , thanks for backing me up on that Zeppelin.
11 January 2007 - Larimer
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