Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia

Aaron said he wanted Gould to be Gould and post a Zappa song. So here we go. This and Inca Roads are my two favorite Zappa songs, since Inca Roads is like 8 minutes long I picked this one. I could probably listen to this song once a day for the rest of my life and not get tired of it. Hopefully you guys like this and you feel the urge to dance to it like I do.

Adrian Belew - I See You

Adrian Belew is a guitarist who has played with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, Nine Inch Nails, and King Crimson. He also writes some Beatlesque pop on his solo albums. This is from my favorite album of his, Here, which is a great pop record. This isn't my favorite song of his, but it does have a funny video.



Also, while searching youtube I found this hilarious commercial he did in Japan. He did a couple others, but this seemed to be the best.

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

When I was in high school, HBO used to show what they called "guilty pleasure movies". And what these movies usually consisted of were some third rate action star(Dolph Lundgren, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Jeff Speakman) who takes on some type of gang of criminals. At some point he meets a hot female who sometimes gets naked, but always falls in love with the star. And oh yeah, lots of shooting, kicking, and limbs being broken. These movies were stupid and kind of boring, and yet I would sometimes watch them for no good reason. Well this is the musical equivalent to these movies. It's Wang Chung's dance hall days. Yes, that wang chung. I am not generally a fan of 80s synch pop and I don't like Wang Chung. I can't explain why I like this song, but I do. On the plus side, the video is realy stupid. Just think of this like you would the movie "Stone Cold" starring The Boz, Brian Bosworth.

Turtles - Elenore

In keeping with Aaron's last song, here's another underrated song from the 60s. Apparently the record company wanted a hit single and the singer was so mad that he wrote what he thought was the most generic and bad song to prove the record company wrong. And he ended up writing this song. Look at the outfits and the haircuts. Also, the drummer is definitely trying to steal the show and failing.

Full disclosure: The two singers went on to sing with Frank Zappa so Dave please tell me I only like it because of Zappa. Also, Zappa said this about the two singers: "I regard Howard as a fine singer and Mark as a great tambourine player and fat person." You figure out which one is which.

Johnny Guitar Watson

Johnny Guitar Watson started as a blues musician in the 50s and later integrated funk and soul into his music in the 70s. This song is from that later era as if you couldn't tell by the clothing. This song is called I Wanna Ta Ta You. There's no denying how cool he is in this clip or how weird he holds his guitar when he plays the solo.



Also, when he started the funk-blues music in the 70s, most of his songs seemed to be about how poor he was and he also added a lot of humor into his songs as well. In "Ain't That a Bitch" when talking about grocery prices he says "Abdul-Jabbar couldn't of hit these prices with a sky hook". So, I figured I couldn't play Johnny Guitar Watson without one of those type of songs. This song is "Telephone Bill" and it's about his phone bill being too high.

smooth 70s music

It's been a while since I posted so I figure I get two songs. Both of them are pure 70s. The first one is Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E.'s in Love. The song is really catchy. I just always love hearing this song. I never get up the nerve to buy the cd for some reason like I'm afraid the rest of her songs could suck. Or maybe it would look too wussy next to my Joni Mitchell cds. One other note: the drum fill coming out of the quiet section of the song is mindblowing. Rewind it a couple time if need be.



For my second song I picked Fool Yourself by Little Feat which is just a laid back song that is great. The chorus is great, the vocal are amazing, this song is just sweet. This is the type of song that they'd play in a montage in a current movie that's set in the 70s. Plus that opening beat was sampled by A Tribe Called Quest.

John Zorn- Batman

So for my first post I figured I have a lot of pressure to go about as nerdy and weird as possible so I went with John Zorn and Naked City. This was the first song of the first cd I got by him and it's amazing. It has great energy and is just a fun song even with all the saxophone screeching, and it keeps with the dark knight theme of the summer. Surma you better give this an honest chance. p.s the video is dumb.