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100: George Wesley, The Killers, Bob Marley, Radiohead, Tenacious D

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77. George Wesley – Timekeeper 2/3
Timekeeper is the lead in track and it’s a big party. Timekeeper you know you can’t cheat. I saw George Wesley Band at least a dozen in times during college and a few times after that. He is still doing his thing. And you gotta check it out. I need to go again! Dancing Reggae Party. Seconds turn to minutes, minutes turns to hours, hours they turn days, days turn to weeks, weeks turn to months, months to years, years to decades, and it’s a century then we’re out of here. All in that order! I saw a lot of shows with George doing all the guitar and keys it was great! I’m not sure but I think there is normally an actual keys player. Into the night! Love the horns on this album as well! Yesis we’re gonna party with. We’re gonna dance all night! Dance until the brand new light!! I want to party with you! Do what you like, all night! In the summer time when the weather is fine!! what a good time! yah george not right now!! ah well it might be snowed over outside but at least right now with George it’s summer time. What a good time! I also like the summertime.

78. The Killers – Hot Fuss 2/3
Straight into this album. I like it a lot. I’m Mr Brightside. Oops didn’t type much up while listening to this album. Was busy writing elsewhere on another topic. I also dig Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine, Somebody Told Me, Smells Like You Mean It, All These Things I’ve Done, and Midnight Show on this album. Anyway good times and I like the Killers studio albums I should check them out live some day.

79. Bob Marley – Catch a Fire 2/3
Going to go back to the Reggae to finish off what I started on the first one today. No sun will shine in my day today. Concrete Jungle. Catch a fire you’re going to get burned. Stir it up. Again didn’t type much. Just good times Bob Marley. Don’t have a particular favorite album of Bob’s they are all good so I just picked this one to play for the list. Good times.

80. Radiohead – Hail to the Theif 2/3
Two and two always makes a five. Sit down. Raindops. There’s some tracks on this album I really like (Go To Sleep, I Will, Myxomatosis, Scatterbrain). There’s some tracks on this album that literally put me to sleep.

81. Tenacious D – Tenacious D 2/3
Long as there’s a record deal we’ll always be friends. The self proclaimed greatest band in the history of rock and roll has a lot of cross over appeal but if you don’t like Jack Black you won’t like this band. I like Jables. I like his voice. Kyle Gass is an awesome guitarist and always shows up in bit parts of random movies Jack is in. I don’t care for the skits on this album so I deleted them. Plus I’m not a saxaboom kinda guy, can’t even remember if that made the disc or not, so if it did I deleted it. Wonderboy, Tribute, and a few other tracks are classic. With karate I’ll kick your ass. We’re talking double team, supreme. That’s the cosmic shame. Don’t quit your day job.

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100: CCR, Primus, Radiohead, Ween

Posted by on 12/13/2010 No comments

30. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River 12/13
Not much finer than blasting a little CCR for that soul. This is their third studio album and was released in August 1969. This albums packs a lot of punching for being under 30 minutes in length, there are are several tracks shorter than 3 minutes. Bad Moon Rising and Commotion made it to #2 on the Billboard chart, and the album itself made it all the way to #1. One of my favorite football players back in the day was Andre “Bad Moon” Rison. I also remember a lot of times borrowing my dad’s car in high school and listening to the Creedence tape that was in there over and over and over again. Wikipedia classifies this CCR album as ‘swamp rock’, further defined as “highly emotional, lovelorn lyrics, tripleting honky-tonk pianos, undulating bass lines, bellowing horn sections and a strong rhythm and blues backbeat.” Which is pretty accurate I suppose. There is something so simple and natural about what CCR does making it very appealing. Wrote a Song For Everyone, even you. Seeking my fame and fortune looking for a pot of gold. Admittedly there’s a few of these songs I don’t hear that often: Tombstone Shadow, Cross-Tie Walker, Sinister Purpose. These tracks don’t often reap the glory of this album, but they are just as deserving as Green River, Commotion, etc. Good stuff.

31. Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese 12/13
Released in 1991, their second studio album. I like Les Claypool and Primus, I’m just not as educated as I probably should be about them. I’ve listened to them here and there, but I haven’t spent time front to back with one of their albums so let’s do this. Here they come. Here Come the Bastards. Les Claypool is certifiable, that’s why he’s so great. I haven’t seen Primus live mostly cause they’ve been on hiatus for 10+ years, but I did see Les Claypool with Oysterhead. He has such a commanding stage prescense that you can’t help but feast your eyes and ears on. Fish on is pretty epic and part of their Fisherman Chronicles which are continued on later albums. Los Bastardos esta aqui. Freaks!

32. Radiohead – Kid A 12/13
Released October 2000. I dig Radiohead, but again I haven’t spent enough time with this album. Which is exactly the goal of this #100AlbumsIn100Days concept. To force myself to spend time with these albums. I certainly do not require an arm twist to listen to this one. This project will make a big difference in the coming months as to which albums I end up hanging out with more as a result of this. I have a feeling that this album could fall into that territory. Everything in it’s right place. Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon. So why haven’t I spent much time with this one? I didn’t really sink into Radiohead too deeply until 2003 with Hail to the Thief. Ok Computer and Kid A get a lot of praise. Kid A has made a lot of Top-100-Album type lists, and even ranks right at the top on several Top-100-Of-The-2000s type lists. Credit. I’ve mentioned layers before in this project, but here’s another example of an album that has so many layers to it. I’m listening with headphones today at a moderate volume, but I suspect there’s even more layers to this with even better headphones and a louder volume. Maybe this is my issue with this album, I’m already at the end of it and no individual tracks popped out for me. I like it, I guess it’s just that individual tracks don’t often play that long when they pop up on shuffle because this album is much more about the sum of its parts rather than the individuality of it’s tracks (for me). With that being said, I did enjoy the first two tracks Everything in Its Right Place, Kid A, as well as the track Idioteque more so than the rest. Not sure what’s up with all the dead air at the end of the last track, I get that they added this bonus “sound” but there’s even more emptiness after that.

33. Ween – White Pepper 12/13
Also released in 2000. Here we find Ween with a very polished album that sounds great from start to finish. This is their 7th studio album and last on Elektra Records. Where as Kid A started with “Everything In It’s Right Place”, this album startes with “Exactly Where I’m At”. Again, this is another album I haven’t spent a considerable time sitting with, but as I’m listening it’s sounding more familiar than it is. Flutes of Chi sounds very familiar. I love you even if you don’t. I had the pleasure of seeing Ween live several years back, it was a pretty crazy show. Stuck in my cabana living on bananas and blow. Speaking of, I have a banana I’ll eat right now. Part of what makes Ween Ween is their bizarre sense of humor mixed into songs that are actual songs. It’s great. As evidenced in a song like Pandy Fackler. Not many bands can release a song like that. Good stuff. Good album.