This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site that I am obsessed with music. I am constantly hunting it down whether it’s online, on CD, from my personal collection, from a library (Yes, I think the library is a great source of music–especially for music that you aren’t sure about.), TV, or radio. Since most of these sources mostly emphasize new music, the odds are pretty good that most of the songs on this list will be new. But in my search, I don’t use any boundaries for the other sources. I am just looking for good music that I haven’t heard, or happened to forget about. Everyone, including myself, has forgotten way more great music than they can ever remember-even if they are also music fanatics.
Also, there will be no rules concerning songs on this list. A song can show up or drop off a number of times. This will be the most volatile of my lists. It all depends on how much music I am exposed to during the week and what I find interesting. On really obscure stuff, I will try to include the source, if I know it.
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Whoooo! Unless you were Paul McCartney, it was pretty difficult to make this list since half the slots have his name on them! Since I lean very heavily towards The Beatles and I do listen to something by them every week including two radio shows, this will occasionally happen. It sure did this week! Congratulations to the other artists who did place!
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Top Ten Songs for the Week of October 2, 2011
1. Stairway to Heaven-The Beatnix
2. Sparks Fly-Taylor Swift
3. Down at the Plaza-Pat Bergeson featuring Dan Anderson, Tom Roady, and Steve Shapiro
4. Time Spent in Los Angeles-Dawes
5. Stupid Day Job–Wally Pleasant
6. It’s So Easy-Paul McCartney (Alternate take)
7. Hold Me Tight-The Beatles
8. (I Want To) Come Home-Paul McCartney (From the movie “Everybody’s Fine”)
9. Hitchhike-Paul McCartney (Live from “The Apollo Theater”)
10. Nut Rocker-George Bedard
1) “Stairway to Heaven”—I was fascinated for another week by this pseudo Beatles song!
2) “Sparks Fly”—The song is fine without the video, but they both work fine separately!
3) “Down at the Plaza”—It keeps inching towards the top. I don’t know if it’ll make it there, but this is a worthy entry!
4) “Time Spent in Los Angeles”—I like the song way better than the video! The song gets better every time I hear it! The video…not so much.
5) “Stupid Day Job”—One of the “stupidest” choruses you’ll ever hear—and in this instance, that’s a good thing! wallypleasant.com! Do it. Now!
6) “It’s So Easy” (Alternate Take)—“It’s sooo easy” to like this song!
7) “Hold Me Tight”—My favorite song on “With The Beatles!” If you’re not listening very closely, you won’t catch the “Wipe Out” drum solo that Ringo Starr plays underneath Paul’s vocal the second time through the middle eight!
8)(“I Want To) Come Home”—Wow! This one is really hitting me hard and I think it’s going to make a good run up my chart! It’s a song that was used in the movie “Everything’s Fine” and is only available as a download but it is well worth it! It was nominated for a Golden Globe but was insultingly ignored for an Academy Award. It is one of the best songs he has written in the last 30 years!
9) “Hitchhike”—Yay! Dennis Mitchell’s Breakfast With The Beatles played it again last week! It has just the right amount of energy!
10) “Nut Rocker”-George Bedard digs up a classic pop/classical oldie from the past and gives it a nice rockin’ big sound! It a solid interpretation without the over the top guitars on Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s version—although that one is good, but in a different way! Little does George know that he has now given me a Christmas song of his to play, too!
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