Happy Birthday Dave Blood, RIP

Dave Blood of The Dead Milkmen would have been 60 today.

Dave Schulthise

Thanks for the tunes man.



There is also a full tribute show up.

The White Stripes - City Lights

I heard this previously unreleased track by The White Stripes on the radio a week or so back.

I just sat there and listened until it was all done. It's a great song, and it just reminds me how much I miss The White Stripes. They are one of my favorite bands of all time. As much as I like Jack White's other work - and I do - I just wish Meg White would team back up with him and release more songs. Songs like Fell In Love With a Girl, Icky Thump, and gems like this one:

The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind

So what kind of Rock and Roll needs to be saved?

This kind. The Easybeats:



Equal parts The Zombies, The Dave Clark Five, The Beatles, the Yardbirds, and undefinable excellence. . . this is 1960s pop-rock at its best.

Dire Straits - So Far Away

Just sharing my favorite Dire Straits song. I love the guitar work - how loose and relaxed it sounds - and the lyrics are just plain gold when your significant other is a significant distance away.

Who Killed Liddle Towers?

Yesterday, I heard this song for the first time in a really long time:

Justifiable Homocide, by Dave Goodman and Friends. Dave Goodman was closely connect to the Sex Pistols, if that name seems very familiar. If you've heard either Spunk or No Future UK, you've heard early Pistols recordings produced by Dave Goodman. Two of the "Friends," uncredited, are Paul Cook and Steve Jones of Sex Pistols.

In any case, this song mentions Liddle Towers, a man who died after abuse in police custody:



This reminded me that there is another song I like about the same man: The Murder of Liddle Towers by the Angelic Upstarts:



The Dave Goodman song seems to directly refer back to the Angelic Upstarts song. Both are really good, and both remind me of the other song. Can't hear one without hearing the other, basically.

I wasn't aware until today of the Tom Robinson Band's song "Blue Murder," though. And that's not even the end of the songs about Liddle Towers.

Joe Walsh - The Worry Song

I was worried I was gonna forget to post this.

The Whores of Babylon - Two Hearts

Whores of Babylon was a collaboration project between:

Stiv Bators (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church)

Johnny Thunders (The Heartbreakers)

Dee Dee Ramone (The Ramones)

They didn't get much done before it all came apart. One track that features - at the very least - Stiv and Johnny Thunders is this one, Two Hearts.



Since I love, love, love everything Stiv Bators ever did and I love The Ramones and Johnny Thunders as well, well, this was a cinch to like.

Sadly they didn't do much else, and all three of them died too fast, too young.