Happy Birthday Dave Blood!

Dave Blood of the Dead Milkmen would have been 64 today, if I've done my sums right.

Walter Lure & the Waldos - Crazy Kids

Here is a great track by Walter Lure & the Waldos.

Walter Lure played guitar in The Heartbreakers aka Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers.

Supertramp - Give A Little Bit

This is not the most rockin' song ever. But it's one of my favorites, and despite my general "meh" reaction to most of Supertramp's library, this cements them in my mind as a good band.

Billie Joe Armstrong - Whole Wide World

Billie Joe Armstrong just released a cover of Wreckless Eric's classic Whole Wide World:



Good stuff!

I prefer the original:




And I also like this cover by The Prissteens better:




That's actually the first version I heard of the song. I heard the original after listening to that Prissteens version over and over again.
(I first heard them on Terre T's show on WFMU, where she said that The Prissteens put the angry in Shangri-Las. Awesome.)


You could go down a whole rabbit hole of covers of this song - The Proclaimers do a good cover, for one, (and one with Eric), and Torres, as did Green Day:

Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation

I first heard this on a collection of punk 45s. It's still a classic:



Great guitar start and rhythm change.