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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13 very lucky weeks for Jessica Dayle as she stays on top of a list that features mostly Halloween songs! Barabara Lynn Doran puts a second song on my faves list!
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Top Ten Songs for the Week of October 28, 2012
1. Summertime—Jessica Dayle
2. The Leaves Are Changing—Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys
3. Haunted Castle—The Kingsmen
4. The Spider & The Fly—Sylvia Herrold & The Rhythm Bugs
5. All Hallow’s Eve—Mannheim Steamroller
6. Sweet Cider—Gathering Time
7. Hillbillies in a Haunted House—The Austin Lounge Lizards
8. Little Misunderstood—Barbara Lynn Doran
9. Dig Gravedigger Dig—Corb Lund
10. Maybe I’ll Fly—Barbara Lynn Doran
1) “Summertime”—I’m getting the feeling I may just have to retire Jessica Dayle’s GREAT song! I still go out of my way to listen to this song. It picks my spirits up! Go to jessicadayle.com and order it!
2) “The Leaves Are Changing”—The leaves have changed and pretty much fallen off the trees, but Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys have staying power!
3) “Haunted Castle”—Probably the last week for this lost instrumental. I just really like all of the stops and starts that allow the band members to take little solo turns!
4) “The Spider & the Fly”—This Halloween themed song—and it wasn’t made as one – is a tight, jazzy look at the encounter between a male fly and a female spider. The chorus of silly sounding voices singing, “Poor fly/Bye bye” is too cute and hilarious! This is another one of those songs that can lift a Halloween party, because no one else knows about it!
5) “All Hallow’s Eve”—Mannheim Steamroller at their spookiest best! The synthesizers sound really sinister!
6) “Sweet Cider”—Gathering Time is a folk trio that put out a collection of songs emphasizing apples. Sounding a lot like a reunited Peter, Paul, & Mary, this song is as sweet as the cider that they are singing about!
7) “Hillbillies in a Haunted House”—This Austin Lounge Lizards song is way out of left field. There is a plot describing what happens when a group of hillbillies meet horrible deaths as they party in a haunted house! The song is a total black comedy classic, including how the situation resolves itself. What else would you expect from a song on an album called “Never an Adult Moment!”
8) “Little Misunderstood”—I, myself, stumbled upon this Barbara Lynn Doran cut that is as good as her other song that has caught my attention for the past two months! It’s a somewhat autobiographical song about not quite fitting in to a conforming world when you have different aspirations. It’s very touching…and it rocks!
9) “Dig Gravedigger Dig”—I’m going to put Corb Lund’s latest offering onto my Halloween favorites! It’s an eerie folksy foot stomper that looks at the life of a gravedigger, who thinks of his job as doing “piecework,” and has nice rhymes around things like cadavers!
10) “Maybe I’ll Fly”—Barbara Lynn Doran’s other song is ready to fly away. I thoroughly enjoyed the time it spent visiting!
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