Phil’s Faves: Songs, September 11, 2011

Posted on September 12, 2011 by PhilMaq

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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Wally Pleasant holds the top spots on both of my “faves” categories! This week’s song list brings in a double dose of John Hiatt as well as a double shot of Paul McCartney, both as a solo artist and with The Beatles! A pretty good week of listening!

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Top Ten Songs for the Week of September 11, 2011

1. Stupid Day Job–Wally Pleasant
2. Riding With the King–John Hiatt
3. Brown Eyed Handsome Man—Paul McCartney
4. Brighter Than the Sun-Colbie Caillat
5. Long Way to Go-Alan Jackson
6. I Wanna Go-Britney Spears
7. Sparks Fly-Taylor Swift
8. Down at the Plaza-Pat Bergeson featuring Dan Anderson, Tom Roady, and Steve Shapiro)
9. You May Already Be a Winner-John Hiatt
10. Yesterday-The Beatles (Full band version from a 1966 West German broadcast courtesy of “Dennis Mitchell’s Breakfast with The Beatles.”)

1) “Stupid Day Job” —I made it my “stupid day job” to count how many times he uses the word ‘stupid’ in the song. Your “stupid day job” should be watching the video at wallypleasant.com!!
2) “Riding with the King” —One of the heaviest and funkiest bass lines ever laid down on a record by producer and bassist Nick Lowe! I am not aware of this version of the song ever being sampled, but I have no idea why you wouldn’t! A song about Elvis Presley that I go crazy about every time I hear it and then try to figure out why I haven’t listened to it in so long! The bass alone must push the boundaries of the recording industry standards just like The Beatles tried to do with “Paperback Writer!” The organ is great, too, but the bass wins the match! If you are unaware of this song, check it out and turn it up to 11!
3) “Brown Eyed Handsome Man” —I have no idea why Paul decided to make this one a Cajun flavored romp of this Chuck Berry/Buddy Holly song, but it was a great idea! I haven’t been able to get it out of my head for the past few weeks, so it pops up on my favorites again in remembrance of Buddy Holly’s 75th birthday! Rumor has it that Run Devil Run is next in line to get the expanded box treatment like McCartney and McCartney II. Bring it on, baby!
4) “Brighter Than the Sun” –-Still brighter than most songs out there right now, but the luster is wearing off.
5) “Long Way Home” —I thought this song might have dropped off by this week, but I heard it a couple more times and it continues to grow on me. But will I hear it this week….
6) “I Wanna Go”  —Getting ready to be retired. But still so darn catchy…..
7) “Sparks Fly” —This one’s beginning to stick. Taylor is so good with her melodies!
8) “Down at the Plaza” —How can you keep from moving while listening to this song? This one is really starting to grab me. Pat Bergeson, Dan Anderson, Tom Roady, and Steve Shapiro put together a “musical gumbo” that Pat describes as “a combination of Dirty Dozen Brass Band, meets Bela Fleck, meets Dave Matthews Band.” I’m pretty sure I left another band out of that quote, but you get the idea. If you don’t, listen to a sample or buy it at patbergeson.com!
9) “You May Already Be a Winner” —Another long forgotten jolt of John Hiatt! Nice organ highlights along with a latin type of double beat on the bass drum tom tom, once again produced by Nick Lowe! Hiatt’s character sounds lazy but contented with his lot in life in this song. Shouldn’t sound as happy as it does, but it’s also very understated!
10) “Yesterday” —This is not one of my favorite Beatle songs. The interesting thing about this version is that instead of a solo Paul McCartney singing it with his guitar, you get the whole band playing it probably like they did before they went to the string quartet. This is a very interesting artifact!
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Phil’s Faves: Videos, September 11, 2011

Posted on September 11, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos.

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Wally Pleasant retains the top spot for a second week as two new videos enter the countdown. There’s not much happening to knock it out at the moment, but Taylor and Colbie are making their moves………

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Top 10 Videos for the week of September 11, 2011

1. Stupid Day Job–Wally Pleasant
2. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
3. Brighter Than the Sun–Colbie Caillat
4. Holdin’ on to Black Metal–My Morning Jacket
5. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)–Katy Perry
6. I Wanna Go–Britney Spears
7. Barefoot Blue Jean Night–Jake Owen
8. Just Fishin’–Trace Adkins
9. Rain Over Me–Pitbull with Marc Anthony
10. Super Bass–Nicki Minaj

1) “Stupid Day Job” —Another deserved week at the top for Wally Pleasant! I can’t urge you enough to check out this video at wallypleasant.com!
2) “Sparks Fly” —Taylor jumps ahead of Colbie. I like the video better than the song at this point but I could do without some of the flying hair and the over-exaggerated hip action.
3) “Brighter Than the Sun” —This video might be peaking, but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Colbie look so “bubbly!”
4) “Holdin’ on to Black Metal” —I like those little swimming monsters that do the back up singing!
5) “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” —It hangs on for another week! That spit take always makes me laugh!
6) “I Wanna Go”  —I guess Britney wants to go towards the bottom of the list….
7) “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” —A nice holding on to summer video!
8) “Just Fishin” —Not much happens in this video……Just everything! A precious moment of a dad with his daughter!
9) “Rain Over Me” —The third salt flat/desert video in the countdowns. Please take note Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood on how to do it right! Not much appears to happen in this video, but at least they touch! It makes a difference!
10) “Super Bass” —Not much plot here, but a lot of work was done to make this one look different than other videos!

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“Q”sings: Foster the People’s Pumped Up Kicks= “Deflated Tricks”

Posted on September 11, 2011 by PhilMaq

“Pumped Up Kicks”—Foster the People: How does a song go from being a favorite at one time to, several months later, change and almost top the trash heap? Well, I have my teenage daughter to thank for this one. Apparently, every time I heard the song, I was listening to an edited version it. That, plus the fact that he was singing into a bullet mike to distort the vocal (which I originally thought was very cool!) kept me from catching the lyrics.

So, as I was wandering around the house whistling the song, my daughter asked me if I had actually listened to the words. I responded that, for the most part, I couldn’t even understand them. She told me to check them out because they were kind of creepy. And I have to agree with her. The song, in my opinion, now fits into that little niche alongside other infamous songs like The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays” written by Bob Geldof, but without the substance or the message.

And one last important thing: The video really isn’t that good. In this instance, it was the song that made the video seem like it was better than it was. Now that the luster has been eroded, there’s nothing left but an empty shell of a video. That makes the transformation complete and explains why it is now on the “Q” Bomb list. I, too, can be snookered. A hypnotic melody can make something seem that it is better than it truly is.

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Until next time, take care of yourself, and take care of each other!

Peace!

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“Q” Bombs:September 11, 2011

Posted on September 11, 2011 by PhilMaq

A “Q” bomb, like an “H” bomb, will be my term for a music video that I consider to be sub par in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.

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I’m still getting a cosmic smackdown this week, but for different reasons. One of my favorite songs of the summer crossed a line from which there can be no return. Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” transformed from one of my favorite songs of the summer to one of my worst. I can see a song going from “Q”Bombs to Faves as I get used to it or maybe made an original snap judgment of its worth. But once you make the journey from good to bad, I don’t see how a song can redeem itself to come back. Read more about it in a special “Q”sing on September 11, 2011.

Worst Videos for the week of September 11, 2011

1. Dirt Road Anthem—Jason Aldean
2. Pumped Up Kicks—Foster the People
3. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
4. Skyscraper—Demi Lovato
5. I Love You This Big-Scott McCreery
6. If I Die Young–The Band Perry
7. Country Girl (Shake It for Me)-Luke Bryan
8. Good Life-One Republic
9. You and I-Lady Gaga
10. Not Over You—Gavin DeGraw

1. “Dirt Road Anthem” —#1 on the CMT Top 20 Countdown…..AGAIN!!!!! Nine weeks at the top???!!! ….TRIPLE INFINITY ODWITS!!!!!!!!!
2. “Pumped Up Kicks” —How does a song go from being a favorite at one time to, months later, change and almost top the trash heap? See the September 11, 2011 “Q”sings.
3. “Remind Me” —Oh, no. It’s moving up on The CMT Top 20 Video Countdown! It’s No. 2 this week, which means that it will probably knock out “Dirt Road Anthem” next week. I can feel next week’s headache starting already……………………..
4. “Skyscraper” —Another video, 1 of 3 this week that are on my lists, that takes place on the salt flats or desert. Maybe that’s why I’m not getting the “skyscraper” thing….
5. “I Love You This Big” —Still hanging on, but dropping slowly. Yay!
6. “If I Die Young” –A song and video that seems to have a perpetual life……
7. “Country Girl (Shake It for Me) —I’ve said enough about this one already. Why you choose to watch it or listen to it is your problem….
8. “Good Life” —It looks like it leveled off this week. So close to falling off, yet so far…..
9. “You and I” —It’s been three weeks now. I guess I don’t like this one. It’s too……..weird. And for Lady Gaga that’s saying a lot.
10. “Not Over You” —Almost “over you” as it falls a lot this week.

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Phil’s Faves: Songs, September 4, 2011

Posted on September 7, 2011 by PhilMaq

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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So, the same thing happened to my favorite songs category: There was a fire sale and more songs fell off this list than my favorite videos list. Well, I guess that means I have more space for Labor Day type of favorites including a pleasant double dose of one artist. Also, this is the first time that the same song tops both my favorite video and favorite song lists. Let’s hear it for Wally Pleasant!!!!

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Top Ten songs for the week of September 4, 2011

1. Stupid Day Job-Wally Pleasant
2. Brighter Than the Sun-Colbie Caillat
3. Industrial Disease-Dire Straits
4. I Wanna Go-Britney Spears
5. Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man-Travis Tritt
6. Long Way to Go-Alan Jackson
7. Post Graduate Overeducated Out of Work Blues-Wally Pleasant
8. Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall-Coldplay
9. Sparks Fly-Taylor Swift
10. Down at the Plaza-Pat Bergeson featuring Dan Anderson, Tom Roady, and Steve Shapiro

1) “Stupid Day Job”—You can’t help but laugh, smile, chuckle, or guffaw at a song that has “stupid” in it fifty-three times! It has a comfortable folk feel reminiscent of early Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers. It is the perfect Labor Day song and one that should be kept in a glass container on the wall to be broken open on any awful work day!
2) “Brighter Than the Sun”–-As summer starts to fade, this one tries to keep it going!
3) “Industrial Disease”—This might be Mark Knopfler’s sharpest and funniest song with many memorable lines: “Two men say they’re Jesus/One of them must be wrong,” or “How come Jesus gets industrial disease?” The farfisa organ keeps everything sounding happy as things appear to be going terribly wrong. This is a masterpiece!
4) “I Wanna Go” —This one will remind me of last summer.
5) “Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man”—This is a seemingly unforgotten song with a lot of great observations! My favorite is “Why’s the fat man busy dancin’/While the thin man pays the band. Oh, they’re billin’ me/For killin’ me!” Unfortunately, things haven’t changed since this song came out and should at least be remembered on Labor Day! His best song as far as I’m concerned because it’s his most real song!
6) “Long Way Home”—Alan Jackson usually isn’t big on good melodies, but the chorus on this one is very catchy!
7) “Post Graduate Overeducated Out of Work Blues”—This was my favorite Wally Pleasant song until I stumbled upon until I heard “Stupid Day Job!” Set against a “Mystery Train” background, Wally lays it on really thick with a tremendous amount of great lines. My favorite line is so long that I don’t feel like copying it, but it has to do with a thirty-five page paper he wrote analyzing a business situation and now he’s out of work anyway. Probably the best unemployment song ever!
8) “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” —Fading fast. Not one of their best.
9) “Sparks Fly”—I’m liking it more, but it hasn’t really grabbed me yet.
10) “Down at the Plaza”—A song from an all instrumental album called “Hippy Dance” by Pat Bergeson that starts out slow in one direction and then makes a complete peppy U-turn, sort of like a New Orleans funeral! It has nice guitar and harmonica (by Pat), vibraphone (a nice touch by Steve Shapiro), and tuba, (Yes, tuba, done surprisingly in a melodic manner by Dan Anderson!) all thrown together in a kind of latin shuffle that’s kept on track by the understated steady drumming of Tom Roady! There are also plenty of cymbal splashes, that absolutely make me lose my mind! This is one of the happiest songs I’ve heard in a while! Check it out at www.patbergeson.com!

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Phil’s Faves: Videos, September 4, 2011

Posted on September 6, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos.

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Wow! I haven’t seen this much open territory on the countdown since…since…the zoning laws were changed! And maybe it’s because it’s Labor Day Weekend that two songs about fishing and a song about a “stupid day job” shows up on my faves list this week, but I don’t think so. Well that’s true about the fishing videos…

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Top 10 Videos for the week of September 4, 2011

1. Stupid Day Job-Wally Pleasant
2. I Wanna Go-Britney Spears
3. Brighter Than the Sun-Colbie Caillat
4. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
5. Holdin’ on to Black Metal-My Morning Jacket
6. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)-Katy Perry
7. Long Way to Go-Alan Jackson
8. Just Fishin’-Trace Adkins
9. Barefoot Blue Jean Night-Jake Owen
10. Fish-Craig Campbell

1) “Stupid Day Job”—A very funny relatively unknown song with a new video that visually resembles Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing!” It is astoundingly excellent!!!!
How can you not sing along to this song unless you’re one of the top 1% in the country who doesn’t have a “stupid day job?”
2) “I Wanna Go” —Britney surrenders the top spot to a song about something she’s never had!
3) “Brighter Than the Sun”—The words aren’t great, but the melody rules!
4) “Sparks Fly”—A great visual scrapbook of her summer tour!
5) “Holdin’ on to Black Metal”—The video reminds me of Neil Young’s “Rust Never Sleeps” Tour!
6) “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”—This video was really popular before I started making the lists. And since it will probably disappear from the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown in the next week or two, I thought it deserved recognition for the slick spoof of the movie “Weird Science” that it is! Having Hanson as the party band was an added bonus, and it includes the only time I haven’t found Kenny G annoying as a member of the band!
7) “Long Way to Go”—A bunch of bikini clad women and he’s “got a bug in his margarita.” What’s not to like?!
8) “Just Fishin”—One of those songs that only Trace Adkins can get away with singing. I mean, who else could rhyme “biggun” with fishin.’ His daughter’s pink fishing rod is really cute! How could you not like it?!
9) “Barefoot Blue Jean Night”—I like the chorus, and it’s another eye candy video—for both sides! Keep ‘em coming!
10) “Fish”—A song loaded with double entendres!!! Way to go Craig!!

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“Q” Bombs: September 4, 2011

Posted on September 4, 2011 by PhilMaq

A “Q”bomb, like an “H” bomb, will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.

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Although cosmic forces mentally smacked me around again by having “Dirt Road Anthem” rebound to return as the #1 video on the CMT Top 20 Video Countdown Homeboy, for an eighth week, I am happy to report that with “Homeboy” by Eric Church falling off of the countdown, I found it difficult to replace it on the “Q”bomb list. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t a lot of bad videos and songs out there, they just appear to be more of a mediocre variety. Of course, that’s a whole different issue.

Worst Videos for the week of September 4 , 2011

1. Skyscraper—Demi Lovato
2. Dirt Road Anthem—Jason Aldean
3. I Love You This Big-Scott McCreery
4. If I Die Young-The Band Perry
5. Not Over You—Gavin DeGraw
6. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
7. Country Girl (Shake It for Me)-Luke Bryan
8. Good Life-One Republic
9. You and I-Lady Gaga
10. Stereo Hearts-Gym Class Heroes with Adam Levine

1. “Skyscraper”—Welcome to the top of the trash heap! This video hit #1 on The VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown this week so it gets top “Q” Bomb honors. I saw Demi do a live version of this song this week and it wasn’t any better.
2. “Dirt Road Anthem”—#1 on The CMT Top 20 Video Countdown…..AGAIN!!!!! I never thought I would have to resort to this but….DOUBLE INFINITY ODWITS!!!!!!!!!
3. “I Love You This Big”—Yay! It dropped a notch this week! Honestly, couldn’t anybody else beat this guy on American Idol!!????
4. “If I Die Young”–The only reason this video isn’t ahead of Scott McCreery’s is because no matter how much I don’t like the song or the video, I have to admit that Kimberly Perry is pretty easy on the eyes. But didn’t she used to be Meg Ryan?
5. “Not Over You”—Not going any higher yet. I’ll take that as a good sign.
6. “Remind Me”—Same thing. Holding steady is a good thing.
7. “Country Girl (Shake It for Me)—Still hanging in the Top 10. I still can’t believe that people like this atrocious video and song. It has zero sex appeal and the fake documentary style can’t give it any appearance of substance.
8. “Good Life”—Still falling! Maybe it is a “good life.”
9. “You and I”—I’m still not sure about this one. I can tell you that the song hasn’t hooked me yet.
10. “Stereo Hearts”—A tough choice for this list. That can change.

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Phil’s Faves: songs, August 28, 2011

Posted on September 2, 2011 by PhilMaq

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.

Top Ten Songs for the Week of August 28, 2011

1. Brighter Than the Sun-Colbie Caillat
2. Am I the Only One-Dierks Bentley
3. I Wanna Go-Britney Spears
4. Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall-Coldplay
5. Mean-Taylor Swift
6. Brown Eyed Handsome Man-Paul McCartney
7. Honey Bee-Blake Shelton
8. Letting Go-Suzy Bogguss
9. Best Thing I Never Had-Beyonce
10. Sparks Fly-Taylor Swift

1) “Brighter Than the Sun”–-A big “simbie” for me right now! However, this one looks like a “bear song.”
2) “Am I the Only One” —Still good, but Dierks ran into the Colbie lawnmower.
3) “I Wanna Go” —The repetition in the song just keeps on working! That whistling helps a lot, too!
4) “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall” —This is not that good, but there’s no competition right now to knock it off.
5) “Mean” —Might be the last week for this one.
6) “Brown Eyed Handsome Man” —A Cajun flavored Buddy Holly cover from Run Devil Run that just sounded GREAT this week.
7) “Honey Bee” —Nothing out there to keep this from popping back onto my list. This must really be the “dog days of summer.”
8) “Letting Go” —A song I haven’t heard in years that, I swear, can still make me cry every time I hear it.
9) “Best Thing I never Had” —Welcome back!
10) “Sparks Fly” —I think this is one that will grow on me, but I smell a “bear!”
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Phil’s Faves: Videos, August 28, 2011

Posted on September 2, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos.

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos.

Top 10 Videos for the week of August 28, 2011

1. I Wanna Go-Britney Spears
2. Am I the Only One-Dierks Bentley
3. Best Thing I Never Had-Beyonce
4. Brighter Than the Sun-Colbie Caillat
5. Honey Bee-Blake Shelton
6. Mean-Taylor Swift
7. Take It Off-Joe Nichols
8. Different—Ximena Sarinana
9. Holdin’ on to Black Metal-My Morning Jacket
10. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift

1) “I Wanna Go” —A good song and Britney looks great in the video!
2) “Am I the Only One” —A favorite summer video of mine hangs on!
3) “Best Thing I Never Had” —I wonder if this video had anything to do with the baby bump?
4) “Brighter Than the Sun”—Can anyone say “heavy rotation!”
5) “Honey Bee” —Still a “sweet” little video!
6) “Mean” —Probably the last week for this second best video of this summer!
7) “Take It Off” —Yeah! The return of this hot little video!
8) “Different”–A catchy song with a cute video!
9) “Holdin’ on to Black Metal”—Wow! The reason why bands make videos!
10)”Sparks Fly”—A concert video recap with a good song!

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“Q” Bombs: August 28, 2011

Posted on August 28, 2011 by PhilMaq

A “Q”bomb, like an “H” bomb, will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.

Worst Videos for the week of August 28, 2011

1. If I Die Young-The Band Perry
2. I Love You This Big-Scott McCreery
3. Dirt Road Anthem—Jason Aldean
4. Skyscraper—Demi Lovato
5. Not Over You—Gavin DeGraw
6. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
7. Good Life-One Republic
8. Homeboy—Eric Church
9. You and I-Lady Gaga
10. Country Girl (Shake It for Me)-Luke Bryan

1. “If I Die Young”–Come on! #1 on VH1 Top 20 Countdown??!! This was on the CMT list for almost a year and never made it to #1! My blog about country crossovers gets proven again—unfortunately.
2. “I Love You This Big” —#1 on the CMT Top 20 Countdown??!! If I Die Young #1 on VH1??!! Definite signs of the coming apocalypse!!!! INFINITE ODWITS!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. “Dirt Road Anthem” —Finally, some good news! No longer #1… and the downward slide begins.
4. “Skyscraper” —I thought this might be my bomb for the week, but my attention was diverted to other lousy videos.
5. “Not Over You” —Still wearin’ the same hat, dude?
6. “Remind Me” —All right! More good news! This one is already starting to fall on CMT. I don’t know. Maybe it’s me. It just makes so much sense for Carrie to wear those heels crossing that salt flat!
7. “Good Life” –No longer #1 on VH1. My migraine is beginning to ease a bit.
8. “Homeboy” —Even the title isn’t spelled correctly! It should be “Home Boy.”
9. “You and I” —Visually interesting but way too freaky—so far.
10. “Country Girl (Shake It for Me) —It’s baaaack! Like a bad penny!

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