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10 lame Beach Boys songs

June 18, 2007 /

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.

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Flashback Friday – “Gone!”

June 15, 2007 /

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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Road Warriors 19

June 15, 2007 /

Kelly Clarkson’s summer tour has been postponed before it even started. Clarkson fired her management earlier this week, and with ticket sales for the tour not being what they should have been, her reps are looking to re-book another tour at smaller venues. Ouch. If an artist of Clarkson’s magnitude is having trouble moving tickets, it just goes to show you how difficult it is to compete for anyone’s entertainment dollar these days. Her new album, My December, is due out on June 26, so don’t expect it to take long for Clarkson’s peeps to have new tour dates in place.

Australian rockers Silverchair hasn’t toured the US in almost ten years, but their latest album, Young Modern, has gone double platinum Down Under, prompting a return here. The tour kicks off in San Diego on July 13 and runs through August 5 in Minneapolis.

Bon Jovi is having special guests perform with them on their MTV Unplugged series, and the first official guest announced is the All-American Rejects. Nick Wheeler of All-American Rejects had this to say about the event: “Holy Crap!”

Justin Timberlake will be joined by rock band Good Charlotte this summer for an arena tour beginning August 6 in Memphis and running through September 17 in Los Angeles. Good Charlotte is going out in support of their new album, Good Morning Revival.

Guerilla Union’s Rock The Bells North American Tour will kick off July 26 in Mansfield, Massachusetts. As was announced recently, the shows will be headlined by Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and Rage Against the Machine, and will be joined by Cypress Hill, UGK, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, David Banner, Immortal Technique, and Jedi Mind Tricks. In addition, the show that Rage was set to headline on August 11 in Southern California has been moved from the NOS Events Center to the Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen. Dates are Continue reading »

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