…let’s not forget that a couple of them actually managed to pull together some pretty enjoyable solo singles.
Melanie C (with Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes), “Never Be The Same Again”:
Emma Bunton, “What Took You So Long”
Geri Halliwell, “Look At Me”
(I’d love to also post videos from Victoria Beckham and Melanie Brown, but, frankly, I’m just not a very big fan of their material.)
To prep you for our upcoming interview with Tom Jones, here are a few of the man’s performances to get you, shall we say, in the mood.
First, let’s start with a live performance…his last-ever for the late, great “Top of the Pops”…of his 2006 collaboration with Chicane, “Stoned in Love”:
Here are a few videos you may or may not have seen…
…as well as a few covers you might not have heard him perform…
“St. James Infirmary” (with Jools Holland on piano)
Hoobastank’s “The Reason”
The Manhattan Transfer’s “Boy from New York City” (as a duet with Donny Osmond, no less!)
…but, of course, we must close with an all-time classic, which sounds almost as good in 2007 as it did when he recorded it in 1965:
I like a bit of The Beach Boys’ work as much as the next guy and own all their ’60s output, save for the Christmas album, and a couple of the ’70s albums. But these guys have always had a habit of putting some downright awful crap on their albums, be they at their peak or in the gutter. Here is a hastily assembled list of 10 Beach Boys songs taken from the albums I do have that I think are pretty damn super-lame. No long annotation here, just the list. Discuss it if you like.
There are in no way ranked as they are all equally craptastic to my ears.
“County Fair”
“Our Car Club”
“All Dressed Up for School”
“Pom Pom Play Girl”
“Amusement Parks U.S.A.”
“Salt Lake City”
“Graduation Day”
“Be True to Your School”
“Matchpoint of Our Love”
“Transcendental Meditiation”
It should be noted that the early Boys albums are littered with such dreck as “Our Favorite Recording Sessions” and “Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston.” Sad that even at that point they had to junk up their LPs with completely useless tracks.
Classic “Electricity” video. Drummer John French would become an integral figure in the musical creation of Trout Mask Replica. Guitarist Jeff Cotton (on the left) was always incredible as well.
Title: Gone!
Date of Creation: Sometime around May 1992, I’d have to guess, since it would appear to be the first tape I made after graduating from Averett College. (Accordingly, the last tape I made before graduating was entitled Going, Going…)
Side 1:
“Main Title,” James Horner (Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Over the years, I’ve gotten less and less apologetic about declaring “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” to be my favorite film of all time; accordingly, I barely cringed at all when I recognized the initial strains of James Horner’s score for the film’s main title sequence. Not that I didn’t enjoy hearing it; I just immediately thought, “Oh, God, I’ve got to explain why I put it on here.” But then I realized that, no, actually, I don’t have to explain a goddamned thing. I love this score. Somehow, however, this disc managed to get purged from my CD collection, but hearing this track again makes me want to buy it back.
“That’s The Way It Stays,” Little America (Little America)
I know this was released on Geffen Records, but I always got the impression that the band’s success was rather regional. I don’t know that I ever heard their songs on the radio or saw videos for them; I just know that one of my oldest friends, Jeff Castelloe, forced their music down my throat while I was working music retail, which is how I came to hear them and learn to love them. And what’s not to love, really? It’s just good, catchy pop-rock with a bit of jangle. (And, yes, that IS a scan of the cassette rather than the CD; ever since they reissued the band’s two albums as a 2-fer, you can’t find a decent .jpg of the self-titled debut by itself.)
“Never Will Forget You,” The Candy Skins (Space I’m In)
These guys just couldn’t make a wrong move, as far as I was concerned…I’ve got every album they put out, and I enjoy them all…but it was this debut that sold me on them. It’s really one of those records where every song had the potential to be a hit single, if only the right people had been listening. Unfortunately, they weren’t. But at least the cool people were. And that’s why we covered them in our list of The Best Albums You’ve Never, Ever Heard (Well, Probably Not, Anyway).
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