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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Carly Rae Jepsen stays on top for another week, but beware of the Pontoon. I’m especially talking to you, banjo. Also, forget that pretend sixties stuff from Gavin DeGraw. The real thing by Savage Grace from back in the day makes an appearance!
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Top Ten Songs for the Week of June 3, 2012
1. Call Me Maybe—Carly Rae Jepsen
2. Banjo—Rascal Flatts
3. Turn Your Head—Savage Grace
4. Flash’s Theme—Queen
5. Wild Weekend—Tinsley Ellis & The Heartfixers
6. Sweeter—Gavin DeGraw
7. Over You—Miranda Lambert
8. Pontoon—Little Big Town
9. Shadow Days—John Mayer
10. Trafalgar—The Bee Gees
1) “Call Me Maybe”—Both the song and video for Carly Rae Jepsen is turning into a worldwide phenomenon!
2) “Banjo”—The banjo hangs tough for another week!
3) “Turn Your Head”—Savage Grace was an incredibly gifted Detroit area band from the early 70’s. Their self-titled first album was an instant classic. It put together so many different styles of music—many of which hadn’t even been named yet. This prototypical progressive rock song has all of the elements of the album encapsulated into one epic sojourn!
4) “Flash’s Theme”—This theme is one of my favorite Queen songs! Basically, since it was released on a soundtrack album, it was and still has been ignored by most music critics. Admittedly, the fact that the music doesn’t get to stand on its own but has to have soundtrack “chatter” as it appeared in the movie, doesn’t help. But this album was recorded when Queen was at its peak as a band. Brian May’s multi-layered guitars provide numerous sonic soundscapes for many of the songs. Another reason why this album may have been ignored was because of the campy movie it was created for. The movie, although it starred Max Von Sydow as Ming, and was very psychedellic colorful, bombed and the album pretty much disappeared, too. I really enjoyed when it was resurrected for a commercial a few years ago.
5) “Wild Weekend”—Tinsley Ellis is known more for his blues guitar work than covering other artists’ rock classics, but he does a great version of this Rockin’ Rebels nugget!
6) “Sweeter”—It’s getting close to the end of the run on this song………
7) “Over You”—I started hearing this one again and the melody and song are just so good and powerful!
8) “Pontoon”—I liked this song the first time I heard it and I’m guessing I’ll be hearing it all summer long! It’s a nice slow blues about “motor boating,” with the usual great Little Big Town harmonies!
9) “Shadow Days”—This low key John Mayer song is starting to grow on me……….
10) “Trafalgar”—I dug this Bee Gees classic out after hearing about the death of Robin Gibb. This very Beatlish sounding ballad, before they went disco, was always a favorite of mine.
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