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.
QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
Jessica Dayle is now at eleven weeks at the top and counting! But will Lindsay Lou be the one to finally bring an end to “Summertime”—both the song and the season……………………….
QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
Top Ten Songs for the Week of October 14, 2012
1. Summertime—Jessica Dayle
2. The Leaves Are Changing—Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
3. Maybe I’ll Fly—Barbara Lynn Doran
4. Soolaimon—Neil Diamond
5. Copperleaf—Dana Falconberry
6. Stars—Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
7. My Bet’s I’m a Fool—Jessica Dayle
8. Awaken—Yes
9. Death Trap—Charlie Peacock
10. Slouch Potato—Drew Schultz
1) “Summertime”—Jessica Dayle is still the queen of my faves list! Her web site, jessicadayle.com, is still under construction, but you can still locate this song at her Facebook page or iTunes! Do it!
2) “The Leaves Are Changing”—Lindsay Lou is probably the only person that could make stark trees and a gloomy late fall and winter sound perky and happy as she describes “Mother Nature in her underwear!” You go girl! Thanks for cheering me up for the winter!
3) “Maybe I’ll Fly”—Barbara Lynn Doran is starting to lose altitude on her smokin’ hot single! Check it out at her Facebook page!
4) “Soolaimon”—Neil Diamond put together an “African Suite” of songs on an album called “Taproot Manuscript.” It’s so difficult not to fall under the spell of the tribal drums and infectious gospel chorus that worked so well for him before on “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show!”
5) “Copperleaf”—Dana Faloconberry hangs around for a second week with pretty harmonies and a catchy melody!
6) “Stars”—Any song that starts out with the line, “I lit a fire with the love you left behind” and then proceeds to describe that the stars might remind her of the ashes from that fire, is already so far ahead of 99% of all songs ever written, that you can’t help but feel for Grace Potter in this true life ballad! She makes pain sound so poetic with an incredible vocal!
7) “My Bet’s I’m a Fool”—It looks like one song from Jessica Dayle may finally be reaching the end of its run…but I wouldn’t “bet” against it!
8) “Awaken”—Yes placed this long extended track reminiscent of their “Tales From Topographic Oceans” days on their “Going for the One” album. It contains everything that makes Yes what they are: Obscure new age lyrics, multiple textures and time changes, great harmonies, etc. I was able to hear them play this one live for the first time this past summer and I never realized or appreciated what a majestic piece it truly is! It has been on my mind ever since!
9) “Death Trap”—Charlie Peacock releases his first vocal album in thirteen years, “No Man’s Land,” and it is a gem with dense arrangements that sometimes sound like the soul of The Band has been summoned for the sessions, and very deep lyrics as he finds his way through his family’s history! “Death Trap” is the lead track and as you bop along listening to it, you don’t realize that Charlie is singing that sometimes words sting in an argument and can be a “death trap,” so don’t use them that way. But he admits he can’t always follow his own advice. This is great stuff!
10) “Slouch Potato”—This is a very funky groove from Drew Schultz off his album “Back to Class!” The whole album is retro Motown soul, and the fact that it has members of The Funk Brothers as well as closely related musicians has a lot to do with that! It’s catchy and grooooooooooooooooooovy!
QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ
