THUNDER BAY – MUSIC – Eddie’s Top Thirty Music picks for the week. May 14 2014,
1. Girl – T.Rex (from Electric Warrior) (LOVE those flugel horns)
2. Chaketta – Slade (from Return To Base) (Even better than some of their bigger and earlier hits)
3. Babydoll – The Fratellis (from Here We Stand) (Great song from an outstanding band)
4. Too Taboo – Maria Haukaas Storeng (only on YouTube) (Awesome song!)
5. Na Na Na – One Direction (from Up All Night) (Their Best Song Ever!) (no pun intended)
6. Search And Destroy – Iggy & The Stooges (from Raw Power) (One of Iggy’s best)
7. Bang Bang – Melanie Fiona (from The Bridge) (NOT the Iggy Pop song)
8. Bang Bang – Iggy Pop (from Party) (THE Iggy Pop song)
9. Hello Sunshine – Jimmy Cliff (from Wonderful World, Beautiful People) (reggae at its finest)
10. Wild Sun – 999 (12 inch single version) (a punk/new wave classic)
11. Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks (single) (still as great today as it was then)
12. Send Me A Postcard – The Shocking Blue (from The Shocking Blue) (covered by many, mastered by few)
13. She’s A Lady – Tom Jones (single) (one of Tom’s best ever efforts – this one rocks!)
14. 20th Century Boy – T.Rex (single) (still timeless and still kicks ass!)
15. Bulerias – Carmen (from Fandangos In Space) (loved it on The Midnight Special in ’73 and still do now)
16. Come Together – The Beatles (from Abbey Road) (one of many awesome songs by the Fab 4)
17. Hang Fire – The Rolling Stones (single) (one of many awesome songs by these guys as well)
18. Mean Woman Blues – Jerry Lee Lewis (from The Music That Made Bolan Boogie) (Jerry’s version even puts Elvis Presley’s version to shame) (you will seldom hear me say that about ANY song Elvis ever covered)
19. Swing Shift – Soixante Neuf – Nash The Slash (single) (one of his best ever!) (I almost caught Nash performing live at The Landmark Inn one time – always regretted missing out on that) (here’s the standard version)
And now that Nash has passed away – performances like this cool live version will be rare and worth tracking down
20. Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn’t Have Fallen In Love With – The Buzzcocks (single) (one of the best punk songs of all time)
21. Spanish Castle Magic – Jimi Hendrix (BBC Sessions version) (even better than the Bold As Love version) (can’t find a link to that version – but this one is cool as well)
22. Lupe Brown – The Fratellis (from Here We Stand) (yet another awesome rocker)
23. Back In The U.S.A. – Chuck Berry (single) (so many awesome songs from one guy!)
24. I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night – The Electric Prunes (single) (timeless psychedelia!)
25. Doom And Gloom – The Rolling Stones (single) (excellent recent effort)
26. Love Her Madly – The Doors (from L.A. Woman) (one of their best)
27. I Can’t Control Myself – The Troggs (single) (a classic!)
28. Flamin’ Star – Elvis Presley (from the movie soundtrack) (great movie track)
29. Change – The Lightning Seeds (from Jollification) (their best song of all)
30. River Deep, Mountain High – Ike And Tina Turner (single) (Spector at his best!)