Sunday, August 20, 2006

Number 877 - Paula Cole



Number 877

Paula Cole

"Where Have All The Real
Cowboy's Gone?"

(1996)
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Genre:Alt Pop

Paula Cole asks a very important question, with all the hoo ha over Brokeback Mountain i'd say all cowboys are hiding in the forest ... alone.

"Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968 in Rockport, Massachusetts, USA) is an American singer and songwriter. Cole was born to a visual artist mother and a father who was an entomologist who formerly played polka music. Cole entered the Berklee College of Music in Boston when she was 18, where she studied jazz singing and improvisation. Although some press and stories focused on Cole being an unpopular and lonely child during her schooling in Rockport public schools, this is almost purely fiction. She was, in fact, from middle school on, a very popular student, holding office as class president and student councilor"

"In late 1996 Cole released her sophomore album on Warner Brothers, This Fire, which was entirely self-produced. The albums's debut single, "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone", became an instant smash radio (reaching #8 on Billboard magazine's pop chart) and MTV hit. The follow up single, "I Don't Want To Wait", was a #11 pop hit single, thanks in part to the fact that it was made the theme song to the popular teen drama Dawson's Creek. (The song was considered by many to be so overplayed that it was lampooned on various sketch comedy shows. Memorably, a sketch on MADtv found a spoof of Dawson's Creek in which someone bursts in on a romantic scene and destroys a radio playing the song.)"

Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Did you really need to ask?) and the Album ranked at Number (yawn)
This song has a crowbarred rating of 58.9 out of 108
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Number 876 - Elvis Costello



Number 876

Elvis Costello

"Oliver's Army"

(1979)
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Genre:Alt Pop
Buddy Holly Lives ! Well not quite. This man has a interesting bio that's for sure, here look.....

"1979 would arguably see the peak of Costello's commercial success with the release of Armed Forces (originally to have been titled Emotional Fascism, a phrase that appeared on the LP's inner sleeve). Both the album and the single Oliver's Army went to #2 in the UK. Costello also found time in 1979 to produce the debut album for ska band, The Specials."
"His success in the US was severely bruised when, during a drunken argument with Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlett in a Columbus, Ohio Holiday Inn hotel bar, Costello referred to James Brown as a "jive-ass nigger", then upped the ante by pronouncing Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger"."

"Bramlett and friends had evidently been baiting Costello with derisive comments about British rock music in general and "sawed-off Limey"-type comments aimed at him in particular.
A contrite Costello apologised at a New York City press conference a few days later, claiming that he had been drunk and had been attempting to be obnoxious in order to bring the conversation to a swift conclusion, not anticipating that Bramlett would bring his comments to the press."
"According to Costello, "it became necessary for me to outrage these people with about the most obnoxious and offensive remarks that I could muster". In his liner notes for the expanded version of Get Happy!!, Costello writes that some time after the incident he had declined an offer to meet Charles out of guilt and embarrassment, though Charles himself had graciously forgiven Costello ("Drunken talk isn't meant to be printed in the paper")."
"It is notable that Costello worked extensively in Britain's Rock Against Racism campaign both before and after this interlude. This incident specifically inspired his Get Happy! song Riot Act."
Dear oh dear, a big tsk there, don't you think? I definitely wouldn't be insulting Mr Charles that's for sure. But in the end all was forgiven which makes you wonder how Mel Gibson is doing..hmmm.
Roll Call...
For The Specials see Number 924
For James Brown see Number 741
For Ray Charles see Number 518
For Stephen Stills see Number 660
Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Not this song but 3 others did) and the Album ranked at Number 482 (Rolling Stone sure love Costello)
This song has a crowbarred rating of 59.2 out of 108
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Number 878 - Motorhead



Number 878

Motorhead

"Ace Of Spades"

(1980)
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Genre:Hard Rock
Hoo Ya! The bad mother truckers are here!

"With the 1980 release of Ace of Spaces, Motörhead had their anthem of anthems -- that is, the title track -- the one trademark song that would summarize everything that made this early incarnation of the band so legendary, a song that would be blasted by legions of metalheads for generations on end. It's a legendary song, for sure, all two minutes and 49 bracing seconds of it. And the album of the same name is legendary as well, among Motörhead's all-time best, often considered their single best, in fact, along with Overkill. Ace of Spades was Motörhead's third great album in a row, following the 1979 releases of Overkill and Bomber, respectively. Those two albums have a lot in common with Ace of Spaces. The classic lineup -- Lemmy (bass and vocals), "Fast" Eddie Clarke (guitar), and "Philthy Animal" Taylor (drums) -- is still in place and sounding as alive and crazed as ever. The album is still rock-solid, boasting several superlative standouts. Actually, besides the especially high number of standouts on Ace of Spades -- at least relative to Bomber, which wasn't quite as strong overall as Overkill had been -- the only key difference between this 1980 album and its two 1979 predecessors is the producer, in this case Vic Maile. The result of his work isn't all that different from that of Jimmy Miller, the longtime Rolling Stones producer who had worked on Overkill and Bomber, but it's enough to give Ace of Spaces a feeling distinct from its two very similar-sounding predecessors. This singular sound (still loud and in your face, rest assured), along with the exceptionally strong songwriting and the legendary stature of the title track, makes Ace of Spades the ideal Motörhead album if one were to choose one and only one studio album. It's highly debatable whether Ace of Spaces is tops over the breakthrough Overkill, as the latter is more landmark because of its earlier release, and is somewhat rougher around the edges, too. Either way, Ace of Spades rightly deserves its legacy as a classic. There's no debating that."

Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Wtf?) and the Album ranked at Number (Oh spare me)
This song has a crowbarred rating of 58.8 out of 108
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