New Songlists for Dipshits VII

Remember to go to GROOVESHARK.COM for a free musical library...no cost and no sign in...just click the hourglass icon to start a search using name, song, or album....




1) Amy Winehouse's "rehab"....

....the first version coming up at GROOVESHARK is dance mix with about 60 seconds of banal, repetitive dance mix which ruins this song...so...find the youtube version, it gets the song out quicker....



2) "The Girl From Ipanema" by Trini Lopez or Olivia Ong

........a little Bossa Nova along the lines of a very "lazy cat" type of cha cha near the lines of samba....anyway, a new sound for you.......you can search for that song, and see about 40 different versions of the song from Frank Sinatra to Ella Fitzgerald?


3) Tom Petty's "Listen to her Heart"...............you'll hear lyrics like, "...you think your gonna take her away, with your money and your cocaine...she's gonna listen to her heart, because she's my girl...".







4) Toni Price's "Chain of Love"...<........a slow blues song from South Austin, Texas' Hippie Live Music Capital of The World...(incidentally, Hollywood and Los Angeles ruined Austin, Texas, but Toni Price still sings every Tuesday Night at The Continental Club for "Hippie Tuesday" (a pot smoking celebration that brought a lot of people together in the back alley, where, The Austin PD did "not bust us"?????.....






5) Janis Joplin "Down on Me":....
....One of Janis' most intense emotional songs...and every bit as perfect as Bobby McGee, yet...this song is rarely played on the radio...I don't think I've ever heard played on the air?





6) Warren Zevon "Werewolves of London":.........a song that even Jesse Ventura (Minnesota Governor surprise hero) had to take a crack at singing to....one of the most memorable opening piano bass quitar fusion foundations.....Kid Rock ripped it off real well with his 2008 hit "All Summer Long" (which also steals from a Lynard Skynard song)....






7) Toni Price "Just to Hear Your Voice":.......another display of Toni's ineffable "spirit and voice sound device"...a sad, soft ballad about missing love with the usual perfect violin from Champ Hood...Toni likes singing "blues with lots of acoustic strings", which hardly anyone tried doing successfully in this way?





8) Carly Simon's "Your so Vain":...<........Still a great song...and that voice...a unique voice from long ago...amazing how no two voices seem to be the same? You really have to go to Youtube.com to get her other famous songs from a 1972 concert when she's wearing the slit red dress...on stage bare foot....a beautiful young girl tan, long legged, and oozing sex appeal.

Copy and paste this URL into google to see her when she was at her best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJ_Mz8ftqI&feature=related (Carly sings "Anticipation")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7HgO9QhAc&feature=related (Carly sings "That's just the way I always heard it should be




9) Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"......the version at Grooveshark is about 7 minutes long...and, frankly, you could easily cut this song to 3 minutes and I'm guessing it would have charted higher...







10) Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Tombstone Shadow"........very Kansas City Blues from Fogerty....












11) Traffic's "Mr. Fantasy".........another Traffic song that made them an alternative "almost famous band" from the sixties....












12) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Wrote a song for everyone" ........bluesy and slow...with towers of echoing growel coming from Fogerty's unique vocals...







13) Tom Waits' "Hold On" from The "Mule Variations" album..........lyrics like, "....go ahead and call the cops, ...you don't meet nice girls in coffee shops...".....this song totally sold me on Tom Waits (a guy who does not crack Top 40 radio)....in Austin, Texas, at KGSR RADIO AUSTIN, this song...was worn out much to the appreciation of South Austin's Hipster community of pot smoking Kerouac Figures of dubious distinction.....




14) Traffic's "Feelin' Alright".......
...This song was written by Dave Mason for Traffic back in 1968...and it is a better version than all the covers.

New songlists for dipshits VI

Installment six, of "New Songlists for Dipshits".

Remember (I've only said this about a thousand times) go to GROOVESHARK.COM or click on my blog post above to get an extensive free music library...no sign in, nothing...use it like wikipedia....but, if you want to download for 99 cents, then you sign in...well worth it.

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1) "Who Needs Tears"...Toni Price from "Midnight Pumpkin" album.........fast beat, with more bluesy folk fusion? (Toni doesn't easily fit into to any musical category)....




2) "Higher Place" Tom Petty solo album "Wildflowers"....this song will pick up your drifting spirits.........and hey, like I said about a thousand times, YOU CAN HEAR THE WHOLE ALBUM FREE at Grooveshark.com by "clicking on the name of the album" and...wait for the "play all" icon to pop up in the upper left....always best to hear an album in it's entirety they way it was numbered....




3) "Do-Re-Me", John Mellencamp, from "Folkways: a vision shared, A tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly"...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZBB73nBb-dLQz3fgdeBrW2pomOhR0TUC8RQ5E0-JRvLbMX8Bq0vOku351YT2X9HqAj5g4TDbezXA13IkCtQVp9wcf5p8YCag7g78AyCq35IqAy8oyCuuxRHo5D1Vnn5bXY_CxOIMTGc/s1600/P4050051.JPG">...nice use of a steel guitar...and you should hear the whole album, too bad only selected cuts are available at Grooveshark....



4)"Everybody Be Yoself", by Chic Street Man, T.V. show "Northern Exposure" album....calypso beat ballad....







5) "Your life is now" by John Mellencamp...nice violins...maybe Mellencamp's best song...I always liked John's voice....lyrics like, "....would you teach your children to tell the truth, would you take the high road if you could choose, do you think you are a victim of a great compromise, because I believe you change your mind, you change your life"...
.......and, later, when he got away from the "John Cougar" packaging, he went a lot farther then the confining "pop rocker" flash in the pan track that "the money boys" tried to burry him with....Listen to his "Cherry Bomb" song, and hear a violin launched midwestern poet capture small town dreams, and summer time girls in barefoot, swigging beer on the hood of a Dodge while listening to top 40 FM radio hits....




6) "Jolie Louise" by Dan Lanois, "Northern Exposure" album (French cajun slow ballad of love, marriage, oui?...
......a nice change of pace, and what will be a "new sounding song" for you...



7) "Start of Something Good" Toni Price's "Midnight Pumpkin" album.....I always saw the genius of Toni in her unique interpretation of lyrics....here's a song that starts out real slow and bluesy........
...then, Toni hangs a long ass bluesy falsetto note like a musical roller coaster hitting the first whoop de do's....and right there, YOU ARE HOOKED ON TONI PRICE....no?





8) Passionate Kisses" by Lucinda Williams.......lyrics like,
"...shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have all this and PASSIONATE KISSES from you"....Lucinda's first big hit, that caught the critics ear, then it was only a matter of a time before "Carwheels on a Gravel Road" came out solidifying Lucinda's reputation as a first class morose songbird telling tales of poor white trash troubles...





9) "Murder, Tonight, in a trailer park" from The "Black Eyed Man" album by COWBOY JUNKIES....
....a song for everyone in law enforcement who has worked weekend nights in the down side of town, where, sometimes you hit a red light and you don't stop....





10)"You Wreck Me Baby" Tom Petty from the "Wildflowers" album...solo album with no heartbreakers?.....
....I think "Wildflowers" is Petty's best album...If you don't own any a Petty, this album is a safe buy....First time I heard this album, I couldn't believe it, "A perfect album"?????





11) "Common Disaster" by Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Sessions" album....classic Cowboy Junkies....
....a very unique whispering female vocals...backed up with real subtle, slow, electric guitars....this is just one of many songs that solidified the Junkies as a break out sound making trio....

Art of the Car: Hood Ornaments...at Moab, Utah's 2011 Spring Hot Rod Show

Moab, Utah had their spring Hot Rod show recently.

Bright colors...unique curves....and badges of infinite delusional power, set off by fantasy fetishes....all used to hook the buyer.

Cars from the 50's-60's...seem to be a lot more interesting in the curve department.

And, Hood Ornaments...are largely dead as a styling fetish?

So....to bring it all back, take a look at what used to be.



This is off the hood of an immaculately restored Packard. This is a cormorant bird.


























This is a quail from Henry Ford, on a Model A.

Hope CHENEY doesn't get drunk and start shooting Texas lawyers again.

The infamous winter SAND HILL CRANE FLY IN of Wilcox, Arizona

In several places, the sand hill cranes gather either to winter...or stop during the spring migration north. If your lucky...you'll find them.


This flock was hanging around Wilcox, Arizona...right smack down south in the desert. Unusual upland wetlands bird...to be doing winters in the desert southwest?. But, oddly enough...this part of Arizona has a lot of standing water?

If you've never seen a muttering flock of Sand Hill Cranes wing over head with outstretched wings measuring seven feet.......you just don't know what America is all about.

This crane is...a majestic bird.

"Madness" and "Art": two kissing cousins?

In Blythe, California....not far from the western border with Arizona...near Quartzite....is a very interesting piece of spray can graffiti art.








I think this artist....could go a long way...towards being well known