IdRatherBeSkiing's Top 20 (Sunday, June 21st, 2020 version)

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Today's Top 10: Paul Simon
Only his solo work. No Garfunkel.

10. Under African Skies
9. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
8. Slip Slidin' Away
7. Kodachrome
6. Mother and Child Reunion
5. Loves Me Like a Rock
4. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
(I think this was the first Paul Simon song I heard and/or remember. My grade 9 art teacher had the radio on in art class and this song was played a lot).
3. Late In The Evening
2. You Can Call Me Al
1. Graceland

 

[sadchild]

Paul Simon

1. You Can Call Me Al
2. The Obvious Child
3. Wristband
4. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
5. Slip Slidin' Away

 

[Aaron]

Still Crazy After All These Years
Slip Slidin' Away
American Tune
You Can Call Me Al
Father and Daughter
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Kodachrome
Late in the Evening
Mother and Child Reunion

 

[sadchild]

I heard "Me & Julio" yesterday and I'm thinking that should be my #5 instead of "Slip".... *ponder emoji*

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Cassette AR Recorded 1994/11/05 & 08

Side 1
Time to Relax - The Offspring
(This song is about 25 seconds. It's all spoken word and just says enjoy the CD. I think it got placed in this cassette due to it's length. I obviously needed to fill 25 seconds of blank space. However, I have put it in every cassette playlist to mark the beginning of the playlist so if I hear it I know I have looped around and it is time to move to the next one.)
And If Venice Is Sinking - Spirit of the West
Andres - L7
Backwater - Meat Puppets
Today - The Smashing Pumpkins
Five Free Minutes - Spirit of the West
Sometimes Always - The Jesus and Mary Chain
I Think I'll Disappear Now - Crash Test Dummies
Bone of Contention - Spirit of the West
Nights On Fire - Gumball
Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
No Worries - Love and Rockets
Fell on Black Days - Soundgarden

Side 2
Round Here - Counting Crows
Low - Cracker
How Does a Duck Know? - Crash Test Dummies
King of Comedy - R.E.M.
Say Something - James
Afternoons and Coffeespoons - Crash Test Dummies
Love Colours - The Pretenders
Sometimes (Lester Piggot) - James
When I Go Out With Artists - Crash Test Dummies
Come On - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Here I Stand Before Me - Crash Test Dummies
This Heaven - Love and Rockets

 

[sadchild]

Andres - L7

YES! Been too long since I've heard that one, and "Shitlist" too!

Afternoons and Coffeespoons - Crash Test Dummies

Great tune!

This Heaven - Love and Rockets

Wow, I'd long forgotten about this album. They went from international alt-rock stars to not touching a single music chart around the world (as far as I know). I tried giving this album a shot but couldn't do it. "Trip & Glide" was the only song I sorta liked. And I even lost track of that one over time.

Daniel Ash: "...we made Hot Trip to Heaven, but unfortunately that was commercial suicide because we were sort of known as a guitar band. I heard stories of, especially in the U.S., of people taking the CD back and saying, 'This isn't Love and Rockets. I want my money back..' ... I was hoping it was going to be our Dark Side of the Moon. It was either going to be that, or it was going to be a flop. Unfortunately it was a flop."

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Today 5 more **** selections.

Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson



Always on My Mind - The Pet Shop Boys
Cool remake



Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes



America - Neil Diamond
Another song from the summer of 1981. And another Neil Diamond song. I should do a top 10 of his. Watching the video, I have one thought: I want to seem him in concert. Fuck you covid.



American Dream - Crosby, Stills & Nash

 

[sadchild]

Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson

4 stars for me too (maybe 3 3/4...)

Always on My Mind - The Pet Shop Boys

4 stars for me too (maybe 4 1/4...)

Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes

I should put this on my "expanding beyond 500+" list

America - Neil Diamond

On my "expanding beyond 500+" list

American Dream - Crosby, Stills & Nash

First time hearing this one.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Cassette AS Recorded 1994/10/29

Side 1
Rock 'N' Roll Star - Oasis
Get off This - Cracker
Baby Come Back - Pato Banton
God Shuffled His Feet - Crash Test Dummies
Jane - Barenaked Ladies
Sadness Grows - Spirit of the West
Two Knights and Maidens - Crash Test Dummies
Sullivan Street - Counting Crows
I Will Believe - Oasis
X-Ray Man - Liz Phair
Luna - The Smashing Pumpkins
Digsy's Dinner - Oasis

Side 2
Jane Says - Jane's Additction
Coax Me - Sloan
A Murder of One - Counting Crows
Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots
Pen Pals - Sloan
The Psychic - Crash Test Dummies
God's Apprentice - Spirit of the West
Impossibilium - The Tragically Hip
Lounge Fly - Stone Temple Pilots
Girlfriend - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Be My Hero - October Project

 

[sadchild]

Get off This - Cracker

Nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks they have good songs aside from "Low". The radio would disagree.

X-Ray Man - Liz Phair

Listening for the first time.

 

[HecticArt]

Nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks they have good songs aside from "Low". The radio would disagree.



Listening for the first time.

"Radio" is stoopid. I'd be happy if there was more Cracker in the world.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Today a top 10: Neil Diamond

A lot of good songs not included.

10. I Am...I Said
9. Brother Love'S Travelling Salvation Show
8. Longfellow Serenade
7. Beautiful Noise
6. Craclin' Rosie
5. Song Sung Blue
4. America
3. Forever In Blue Jeans
2. Desiree
1. Sweet Caroline (bah bah bah)

 

[Aaron]

Cracklin' Rosie
Sweet Caroline
Love on the Rocks
Solitary Man
Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon
Heartlight
Red Red Wine
Play Me
Song Sung Blue
Hello Again
America
I Am I Said

 

[HecticArt]

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Cassette AT Recorded 1994/11/19
This was a 'greatest hits' cassette of the cassettes AP, AQ, AR & AS plus a couple of new songs.

Side 1
Baby Come Back - Pato Banton
Roam - The B-52's
Backwater - Meat Puppets
Get off This - Cracker
Seether - Veruca Salt
Selling the Drama - Live
Comin' Down - Meat Puppets
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.
Low - Cracker
We Are the Pigs - Suede
Shine - Meat Puppets
Today - The Smashing Pumpkins
Night in My Veins - The Pretenders
Tequila - The Pretenders

Side 2
Self Esteem - The Offspring
Fall Down - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Creep - Radiohead
Loser - Beck
Andres - L7
Laid - James
Supernova - LIz Phair
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R. E.M.
Feel the Pain - Dinasaur Jr.
REMember - Corky and the Juice Pigs
Coax Me - Sloan
King of Comedy - R.E.M.
Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
I Alone - Live
Diet Riot - Corky and the Juice Pigs

Extras:
Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now) - Cracker
Crush With Eyeliner - R.E.M.
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

 

[sadchild]

A number of duplicates from other tapes. I used to do that too. A song could be on 3 or 4 mixtapes.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

More ****

American Idiot - Green Day
Weird Al's Parody "Canadian Idiot" is pretty good too.






Amie - Pure Prairie League



And We Danced - The Hooters
Love the Hooters first album



Angel Mine - Cowboy Junkies
Gripping song.

 

[HecticArt]

Hooters!

 

[sadchild]

Ditto! "And We Danced" is catchy as all heck. I actually have video of me and a friend back in '85 dancing around like American Idiots to that song. It's on a VHS tape in my basement.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Cassette AU Recorded 1995/03/19

Side 1
Welcome to Paradise Green Day
Girls & Boys - Blue
Shine - Collective Soul
You Suck - Murmurs
Miss World - Hole
Seether - Veruca Salt
When I Come Around - Green Day
Buddy Holly - Weezer
Blame Your Parents - 54-40
Basket Case - Green Day
It's A Shame About Ray - The Lemonheads
Dance Naked - John Mellencamp
Mrs. Robinson - The Lemonheads
Longview - Green Day

Side 2
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - Crash Test Dummies
(their last really good song. They changed with this song from the interesting baritone guy to his girlfriend as lead. Didn't have the same catch, This song is on the 424 (spoiler alert)).
You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty
One Gun - 54-40
Salesmen, Cheats and Liars - The Lowest Of The Low
Headline News - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Supersonic - Oasis
Cut Your Hair - Pavement
Can't Get Out Of Bed - The Charlatans UK
Lightning Crashes - Live
Ocean Pearl - 54-40
Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies - "Weird Al" Yankovic
Down by the Water - PJ Harvey
Number One Blind - Veruca Salt

Extras:
Charmless Man - Blur