I Predict a Riot

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot

Clash - White Riot

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot

Gravity

Guided by Voices - Sensational Gravity Boy

The Verve - Gravity Grave

Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything

Not Feeling Yourself? .......Or Are You?

William Tell?

Joan of Arc?

Or Johnny Marr?

Back at Home With......

   The next few posts (after this one) are going to try to settle a classic battle of two bands.  None of the bands in the this post are the participants but each of these songs mention both combatants.

Clash - 1977

Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes

The Fall - Beatle Bones and Smokin' Stones

Standing.....

.......In the Shadows - Rolling Stones

......In my Light - Ian Hunter

......Outside a Broken Phone Booth - Primative Radio Gods

Cello Shots

   Where do my blog themes come from, you ask?  Usually from hearing commonality within two songs in quick succession from my music collection, while either driving in my car or mowing the lawn with noise-cancelling headphones. Which leads me to search out a third song in the same vein. These first two songs played back-to-back while I cut the grass the other day.  There's always room for cello.

    Begins with cello.....

Echo and the Bunnymen - Never Stop

   Ends with cello.....

Ride - Vapour Trail

  Cello all the way through....

 The Jam - Smithers-Jones

Need for Speed

  Yeah I'm still here.  If things work out right, once or twice per month I get an opportunity between midnight and 5 AM to sift through the archives of the MTV show 120 Minutes/Subterranean in an attempt to find musical gems that I either forgot about or never heard at all. The show ran in one incarnation or another from 1986 to 2013. I've been perusing the playlists chronologically for the past 3 years and I'm only up to May 1997 so far.  I only have a year to get through the final 16 seasons. So  I need to pick up the frequency and pace of my sessions or find a different method altogether, if I'm to complete the mission by next July.
  Anyway 3 weeks ago I was awed by the following song and wondered why I hadn't heard it before.  For that matter why hasn't everyone heard this cast-aside gold-plated diamond of a song?

Rollerskate Skinny - Speed to My Side

   I confess that when I first heard the next song on 102.7 WLBS in 1984, I thought it was Big Country (who like Simple Minds are from Scotland).
Simple Minds - Speed Your Love to Me

                                        

  And finally another Scottish band that produced a song keeping with the speed theme.

Teenage Fanclub - Speed of Light

Exit Music

  This past weekend on the HBO series Barry when the final scene ended and the credits started to roll, it was the accompanying song that made me sit-up and say 'What?!' (which coincidentally was the title of the episode).

  Here is the full song
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

  That got me thinking about other songs that played over closing or opening credits.


The opening credits for The Big Lebowski

Bob Dylan - The Man in Me

Rushmore - Final scene and closing credits.
Faces -Ooh La La

The best scene in Rushmore is the 'Revenge Scene' and its equally fantastic song.

The Who - A Quick One

....10.....11.....12

10 Percenter - Frank Black

   Honorable Mention

10 20 10 - Generationals

Eleven Eleven - Ass Ponys

Rainy Day Women 12 & 35 - Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

.......7..........8........9

Luna - Seven Steps to Satan

           This song appears to be a rebuttal or a prequel to the 12-step program.

Ride - Eight Miles High
  If ever a song was written for a band that wasn't even born yet it would have to be this Byrds' song covered by Ride.

   I didn't think a cover version of this next song would be possible. If I could find a way to digitize the inadvertent overdub that my friends and I created 40 years ago while buying gas at the Detroiter Truck Stop, I would have used it. Our self-incriminating recording was made when the record button was hit instead of the stop button on a boombox in the middle of the Beatles 'White Album tape while the song Revolution #9 was playing. The dialog included the counting out of less than $2 in change that was interrupted by the gas attendant who was told come back after we finished the tally.
   As the guy walked away this conversation ensued and was recorded for posterity
Greg 1 : "Don't get all psyched up about it" (to the attendant)
Dave:    " Greg...you see... that's the kind of stuff that gets us in trouble"
Greg 1 : "He won't get pissed. He's too fat anyway"
Dave, Greg 2 and Mark (in unison) : "Yeah"
Greg 1 : " Besides, if he says anything we'll beat his ass"
Greg 2 : "Then 10,000 crazy truckers come running out after us"
Greg 1 : " Not if he throws it in reverse and we run for our lives"
Dave : "What-what gameshow is this, you know?"


The Shazam - Revolution #9