Finishing off Shelf 6
A handful of Promo Singles, and five albums in the last of shelf 6.
Two more tracks from Big Audio Dynamite, promo singles for "Looking for a Song" and "I Turned Out A Punk" which the singles were released not quite six months apart, and you'd think they were on the same albums, but alas. Mick Jones, is quite prolific when it comes to writing and recording, because the songs are from two different albums that came out on two different labels.
I saw Big Audio Dynamite in August of '95 at one of KPNT's many Pointfest concerts. They were amazing. They turned the whole place into a big party.
Speaking of big party, that's what I envisioned going to any show by any swing artist that was big back in the late 90's must have been.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy had a number of hits, and even appeared in the movie "Swingers"with a young Jon Favreau and a thin Vince Vaughn. Listening to the album carries you back to the time of swing of the '30's and '40s.
Standout tracks: "Mr. Pinstripe Suit," "You And Me And The Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)" "Go Daddy-O" and their cover of "Minnie The Moocher"
When working in radio you get a lot of CD's sent to you and sometimes (more than that actually) you get CD's sent to you that the record label honestly has no real intention of putting any weight behind. That was the case with this band. The single the label was trying to work was "Remember (I.O.U.)" but when the label rep called me about this album what he actually said was "Amy Lee sings backup on track six, just in case you want to play that one, other wise don't worry about it." Well, we were in Little Rock, Amy's home town, I was at the station that gave them their start, so I kept the disc for that reason only.
In 1993 Big Head Todd and the Monsters released their album Sister Sweetly. To this day I've never heard the entire album all the way through, but to this day I still love the single "Bittersweet" and pull the promo single off the shelf to listen to several times a year.
In 1988 after months of hearing about it from the likes of Mary Hart on "Entertainment Tonight"and the movie segment of my local news, I finally sat down in the movie theater across the street from the apartment my mother and I lived in above the Hallmark store and saw "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." I distinctly remember two things about it: 1) my mother walked out of the movie about 35 minutes in, and 2) the opening song. Before the song was over I was making a mental note to watch through the end credits to see who sang it.
Great Aussie rock, lots of percussion. Standout tracks include: "Breakaway" "Money God" "Hungry Town"
And the last two discs on shelf 6:
The opening track is one very cool track. Listening through the disc I thought "Man, they sure do sound like Soundgarden" on their track "Look What I Found" and then after reading up on the album, found that front man Ian Thornley did that on purpose. (Thanks Wikipedia!)
In 2003 they released
Nothing from the album charted in the US and it did better in Canada than it did here in the States, but if you've heard of the band Thornley, that's the followup to this album, as Big Wreck themselves wouldn't release another album until 2012.
And that does it for shelf 6...