Phil’s Faves: Songs, October 9, 2011

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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The list returns to some semblance of normalcy as some of the Beatle oriented songs fall off and Taylor Swift moves to the top. But it looks like some important jockeying is also taking place among the other listed songs….

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Top Ten Songs for the Week of October 9, 2011

1. Sparks Fly–Taylor Swift
2. Down at the Plaza–Pat Bergeson featuring Dan Anderson, Tom Roady, and Steve Shapiro)

Pat Bergeson Hippy Dance

Pat Bergeson Hippy Dance Cover

3. Time Spent in Los Angeles–Dawes
4. Stairway to Heaven–The Beatnix
5. (I Want To) Come Home–Paul McCartney (From the movie “Everybody’s Fine”)
6. It’s So Easy–Paul McCartney (Alternate take)
7. Stupid Day Job–Wally Pleasant
8. Nut Rocker–George Bedard
9. All Your Life–The Band Perry
10. We Owned the Night-Lady Antebellum

1) “Sparks Fly”—Time to give Taylor the spot she’s accustomed to! It’s not a great song, but it’s a good one!
2) “Down at the Plaza”—It’s knocking on the door, but will it make it to the top spot…
3) “Time Spent in Los Angeles”—There is something about this wistful song that I really like!
4) “Stairway to Heaven”—Since this one is a curiosity piece, it won’t last long on my list. But it is one of the best for what it is!
5) (“I Want To) Come Home”—The string arrangement really helps to make this song as good as it can be!
6) “It’s So Easy” (Alternate Take)—It seems to be getting harder for Sir Paul to move up…
7) “Stupid Day Job”—I have now run into several people that are familiar with both Wally Pleasant and this song. Good! But they were all unaware of the super awesome video! wallypleasant.com
🙂 “Nut Rocker”George Bedard moves up a couple of notches this week. He does an exceptional job with the deep bass lines on this song!
9) “All Your Life”—Hard to believe! The Band Perry are now on both of my good lists! I like the little shuffling chorus of this song!
10) “We Owned the Night”Lady A also ends up on both of my good lists! Overall, they usually provide pretty solid entries!

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