My coming out of age decade is the 80s. But we can all safely objectively admit that the best rock music came out between 1965 and 1975. Two of the strongest creators in that period left the planet recently within a week from each other. Legendary guitarist of Yardbirds Jeff Beck and founder of The Byrds David Crosby. Both left an permanent mark in the history of popular music. Beck as a guitarist and Crosby as a vocalist and songwriter. We merely use this sad moment to just take back the clock and listen to some music from the period when rock was truly innovative and fresh. Excuse my US vinyl for the Yardbirds, but that’s how it came out back then in glorious fake “electronically enhanced” stereo.
Byrds – Psychodrama City
Yardbirds – Train Kept A Rolling
Yardbirds – Evil Hearted You
Yardbirds – Shapes of Things
Yardbirds – Over Under Sideways Down
Yardbirds – Jeff’s Boogie
Jeff Beck – Hi Ho Silver Lining
Jeff Beck Group – Blues De Luxe
Jeff Beck Group – Spanish Boots
Jeff Beck Group – Ice Cream Cakes
Beck, Bogert and Appice – Superstition
Byrds – The Airport Song
Byrds – Wait and See
Byrds – Eight Miles High
Byrds – Wild Mountiain Thyme
Byrds – What’s Happening
Byrds – Renaiscance Fair
Byrds – Lady Friend
Byrds – Triad
Byrds – Draft Morning
David Crosby – Get Together.
Welcome to the first regular Lighthouse in 2023! We have new tunes from Trotsky Icepick, Starcrawler, Brower, Speedways and The Routes. Speedways from UK and Brower from New York have exceptionally catchy new tunes. We introduce Pointed Sticks from Canada, Rayland Baxter from Nashville and Varonas from Spain. We also have two tributes. One to Terry Hall, the vocalist of The Specials and leader of Fun Boy Three and the other to Massimo Savic, legendary Yugo rock singer. Both passed away last month.
The Walker Brothers – The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore;
Dorian Gray – Sjaj u tami;
Trotsky Icepick – Girl You Got to Change;
Petrified Max – The Big W (Happy New Year);
Mick Trouble – Me and the Riddle Tree;
Brower – Where is the Magic;
The Speedways – Secret Secrets;
Deniz Tek – Home;
Fruit Tones – Cream & Sugar;
The Pointed Sticks – Out Of Luck;
The Pointed Sticks – There’s The Door;
Rayland Baxter – Tadpole;
BBQT – JUMPOUTS (single version);
Starcrawler – Thursday;
Varonas – Décadas;
Doctor Explosion – Grises;
The Routes – Lead Lined Clouds;
Fun Boy Three – The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum);
The Specials – Friday Night Saturday Morning;
The Specials – Concrete Jungle.
Contemporary rockers like to go back to the old songs and make covers. It’s been like that since the earliest days of rock’n’roll. Pandemic lockdowns have forced musicians to stay home and pause their tours. In confinement, many found inspiration in old songs. Today’s show is just a mere selection to illustrate this phenomenon. Glam, power pop, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, 60s rock… that’s on our program tonight, but in renewed and refreshed makeovers from today’s artists.
Willie Nelson – With a Little Help from My Friends
The Flashcubes featuring Steve Conte – Gudbuy T’Jane
Bill Lloyd – Let Her Dance
The Jack Cades feat. Frankie Fuzz – For Your Love
The Zack Static Sect – Have You Seen My Baby
The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs – Slow Death
The Loud Family – Rocks Off
Hollis Brown – Stupid Girl
Melvins – Sway
The William Loveday Intention – Hurricane
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Brad Marino – Another Sad and Lonely Night
Mod Fun – Day After Day
Jeff Beck/Johnny Depp – Venus In Furs
Sounds Incarcerated – Porpoise Song
Valerie June – Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home
John Wesley Coleman – Everybody’s Talking
Phosphorescent – To Love Somebody.
We continue our list of best albums in 2022 and reveal the best albums. All top five records are extremely catchy and favor hooks to pretention. Gyasi gets an LP vinyl release for the first time on Bomp label, known for its catchiness through out the history of rock’n’roll. Vitus Mataré and John Rosewall continue with Petrified Max project and keep cranking high quality music from year to year. Joey Rubbish of Chicago’s Rubs leaves no filler on his hook laden album Dust. Alicja Trout gets together with Sweet Knives and delivers a jewel of an album with a good mix of guitars, bubblegum and synthesizers. But the most complete album this year is in my opinion brought to us by the New Zealand outfit Best Bets. On An Unhistoric Night is a fun record without much pretention, but a fantastic flow that would likely make it a classic in years to come. The rest of the list is pretty great as well and features 3rd Secret, Aoife O’Donovan, Harlan T. Bobo, Jack Broadbent, The Americans, Ghost Woman, Tony Molina, Gentleman Jesse and multiple entries by David Nance. Check it out!
Gentleman Jesse – Lose Everything;
Tony Molina – The Last Time;
David Nance and Simon Joyner – Clingy And Thick;
David Nance – Yesterday Don’t Matter;
Ghost Woman – Along;
The Americans – Sore Bones;
Jack Broadbent – Ride;
Harlan T Bobo – Free;
Aoife O’Donovan – Phoenix;
3rd Secret – Diamond in the Cold;
Gyasi – Feed Your Face;
Petrified Max – Long Way Around;
The Rubs – Dana;
The Rubs – I Don’t Wanna Wait;
Sweet Knives – Oh Danny;
Sweet Knives – On A Grey Day;
Best Bets – The Point;
Best Bets – Whataworld.
01 Best Bets - On An Unhistoric Night
02 Sweet Knives - Spritzereta
03 The Rubs - Dust
04 Petrified Max - Everything's Beautiful Now
05 Gyasi - Pronounced Jah-See
06 3rd Secret
07 Aoife O'Donovan - Age of Apathy
08 Harlan T Bobo - Porch Songs
09 Jack Broadbent - Ride
10 The American - Stand True
11 Ghost Woman
12a David Nance - Wet Candles
12b David Nance Pearl Lovejoy Boyd James Schroeder - Ash Wednesday
13 Tony Molina - In the Fade
14 Gentleman Jesse - Lose Everything
15 Julie Christensen - 11 from Kevin
16 Sylvia Rose Novak - A Miss A Masterpiece
17 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava
18 Murlocs - Rapscallion
19 2nd Grade - Easy Listening
20 Breanna Barbara - Nothin' But Time
21 Sisteria - Dark Matter
22 David Craven & Jon S Williams - Urban Trio
23 So Gung Ho
24 Schizophonics - Hoof It
25 Tav Falco - Club Car Zodiac
26 The Missed - Activation
27 Momma - Household Name
28 Black Lizard - Heads
29 Berries - High Flying Man
30 A Place to Bury Strangers - See Through You
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