The Jam - "Disguises"
Honest, I've always wanted to like The Jam. For some reason they've always bored me. I keep trying. Here they are again. They still bore me. I wish I knew why.
The Flaming Lips - "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere"For a group as creative as The Flaming Lips, you'd think they might have done something different and interesting. But they have a lot of fun, which is fine.
The Bards - "My Generation"
One of the Great things about The Who is how amazingly talented they were as instrumentalists. As this track starts out, the bass player is trying to match the original John Entwistle bassline. About 19 seconds in, you can start to hear the notes falling over each other, and the beat begins to drag a bit. At 44 seconds, the bass player has given up and switched over to straight quarter notes.
Snuff - "I Can't Explain"
An excellent high speed late 80's speedpunk romp.
Fastball - "The Real Me"
A mediocre high speed late 90's speedpunk romp.
The Greenhornes - "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand"
A live track. The band is having a great time, and so is the crowd.
The Litter - "Substitute"
This is how I got that yam thing started. You will be surprised to hear that I have stopped listening to this track before I could develop an opinion.
Doleful Lions - "Heinz Baked Beans"
Recorded especially for this compilation. How charming.
Pat Dinizio - "Behind Blue Eyes"
I have to give credit to anyone who can sing this without sounding like an enormous prat. Cudos.
Tommy Keene - "Tattoo"
This is one of those artists who I keep reading about and thinking "I have to get something by him." I see why now.
Richard Thompson - "Legal Matter"
Off the "1000 years of Popular Music" album. Astonishingly good.
Waco Brothers - "Baba O'Riley"
An alt-country version that teeters on the edge of being gimmicky. Which is pretty good for a song that's square in the middle of being gimmicky.
Lord Sitar - "I Can See For Miles"
Lord Sitar seems to have been some session musician playing over a pack of happy big band horns. The liner notes claim that people actually believed that this was George Harrison having a Bunbury. Shame on them. Never has the sitar sounded more caucasian.
Sandy Nelson - "Pinball Wizard"
Countless high school football teams must have cruised to victory after the pep band used this arrangement in their half-time show.
Petra Haden - "Armenia City in the Sky"
About a split second after I saw what the theme of this disk was, I knew that there was going to be something from Petra Hayden. This is cool stuff, and good on Mojo for picking this lovely yet comparably obscure track, but I can't listen to it without thinking of all the fourth rate acapella groups who are going to be "inspired" by this. Petra, you are going to have much to answer for.
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