Hello again. Welcome back.
Sometimes you've just gotta bust out an album that you haven't listened to in forever, but you know has been enjoyed on down through the centuries.
Yes, I'm talking about the 1994 album entitled Dulcinea from the great Santa Barbara, California quartet Toad the Wet Sprocket. As everybody knows they were named after a Monty Python comedy troupe skit. Shouldn't that be obvious? But don't let the name of the band fool you.
A perfect example of a band's name where you think to yourself: 'I don't think I can be seen or heard listening to that', but you'd be foolish not to. That's a terrific album!
Just wanted to point that out.
The band still tours today and still plays a ton of those nuggets.
http://www.toadthewetsprocket.com/
Which brings me to, what album will you break out next?
That's what I want to know.
I'm talking the really good ones. The one's that stand the test of time. The one's that say 'look, I know what I'm doing when it comes to rock' n roll!'
The ones that have people's heads turning saying, 'get me some of that' or 'I'll have what she's having' or some variation.
The one's that remind the heart, soul and mind that this is where it's at when it comes to music.
If you come up with anything, let me know via the email address at the bottom of the page.
As always, there is a ton here and this month's edition lends no exception.
Look closely and you never know what you will find.
And don't be alarmed if you feel like you are starting to hallucinate as you look through this list. Some of what you see will be hard to swallow that that can exist. But exist it can. You'll know it when you see it.
So, anyhow, don't be afraid. Relax and have a look around.
Recently released and not mentioned in last edition:
* Bill Mallonee - ‘Electromeo’ EP and ‘Go and Ask Her’ EP (reissues.) and ‘WPA, Vol. 11: Kid Heart’ EP
* Bob Walkenhorst - Spare (Singer of The Rainmakers; acoustic retrospective.)
* The Goo Goo Dolls - ‘Live from Soho’ EP
* Frightened Rabbit - Tour EP
* Jim Kerr - Lostboy (Singer of Simple Minds.)
* Eleanor McEvoy - Love Must Be Tough (reissue.)
* Delicate Cutters - Some Creatures
* Linda McRae - Carve it to Heart
* Thad Beckman - Me Talking to Me
* Rick Tedesco - A Light in the Attic
* The Decemberists - iTunes Session EP
* Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live in France
* Big Country - Driving to Damascus (Deluxe.)
* Toad the Wet Sprocket - All You Want (New recordings of fan favorites.)
* Rush - Icon Series: Best of (2 CD’s.)
* Def Leppard - Definitive Visual History (book.)
+ Marillion - Live in Montreal
8/2
* John Hiatt - Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns
* Richard Buckner - Our Blood
* Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes
* O.A.R. - King
* Fruit Bats - Tripper
* Puddle of Mudd - Re: (disc) overed (Covers project; some interesting covers on here.)
* Mat Kearney - Young Love
* Brian Keenan - Today This Year
* Keb Mo - The Reflection
* Kenny Wayne Shepherd - How I Go
* Wood Brothers - Smoke Ring Halo
* Himalayan Bear - Hard Times
* Boston Spaceships - Let it Beard
* Calm Blue Sea - S/T
* Antigone Rising - 23 Red
* The Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (Deluxe.)
* The Drive by Truckers - Best of: 1998-2009
+ Jewel - Essential Live Songbook
+ Rio
+ The Music Never Stopped
+ Soul Surfer
+ Last Night
+ Cold Weather
+ The Perfect Game
8/9
* The Motels - Apocalypso
* Adrenaline Mob - S/T EP
* Trivium - In Waves
* Drive A - The World in Shambles
* Scattered Trees - Sympathy
* The Beach Boys - Smile Sessions
* Eleanor McEvoy - I’d Rather Go Blonde
* Stetsasonic - On Fire
* UFO - Best of Chrysalis Years: 1973-1979
* Michael Schenker - By Invitation Only
* Neil Young - Live on Air: the Lost Tapes
+ Lou Reed - Lollapalooza: Live 2009
+ Paul
+ Your Highness
+ Super
+ The Last Godfather
+ Jumping the Broom
+ Mars Needs Moms
+ The Fox and the Hound
8/16
* Blue October - Any Man in America
* Cut Off Your Hands - Hollow
* Psychic Babble - My Brother’s Ears/My Sister’s Eyes
* Hotel Lights - Girl Grafitti
* Botany - Feeling Today
* Case Studies - The World is Just a Shape
* Gold Leaves - The Ornament
* Guy Clark - Songs & Stories: Live
* Ollabelle - Neon Blue Bird
* Jewel - The Merry Goes Round (Children’s album.)
* The Bottle Rockets - Not So Loud: Acoustic
* Kris Delmhorst - Cars tribute
* Marc Carroll - In Silence
* Maria Taylor - Overlook
* Sena Ehrhardt - Leave the Lights On
* Ana Popovic - Unconditional
* Eric Gales - Transformation
* Sly Stone - I’m Back, Family & Friends
* Deep Purple - Four 2 CD Live sets
* Breaking Benjamin - Shallow Bay: Best of (2 CD version available.)
* O Brother, Where Art Thou - Deluxe soundtrack
+ Mark Kozelek - On Tour
+ The Grace Card
+ The Conspirator
+ Something Borrowed
+ Jane Eyre
+ Queen to Play
+ Hoodwinked Too
+ Priest
+ The Big Lebowski (Blu-ray.)
8/23
* Matthew Ryan - I Recall Standing as Though Nothing Could Fall
* Stephen Malkmus - Mirror Traffic
* Astrid Williamson - Pulse
* Downhere - Let Me Rediscover You
* Black Tide - Post Mortem
* We are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships
* Stephen Merritt - Obscurities
* Gabe Dixon - One Spark
* Sunny Sweeney - Concrete
* Zee Avi - Ghostbird
* Patti Smith - Outside Society: 1975-2007 (Retrospective.)
* Sonic Youth - Hits are for Squares (compilation.)
* Michael Monroe - Sensory Overdrive (Lucinda Williams and Lemmy guest.)
* Don Airey - All Out
* Airrace - Back to the Start
* Riverdogs - World Gone Mad
* Rainbow – Live in Germany 1976
* Tom Waits – Bad as Me (new single.)
+ Emerson, Lake & Palmer - 40th anniversary Reunion
+ Robert Plant - Blue Note documentary
+ Jesus Lizard - Club
+ The Beaver
+ Win Win
+ Troll Hunter
+ Henry’s Crime
8/30
* Red Hot Chili Peppers - I’m With You
* Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas
* Robert Earl Keen - Ready for Confetti
* Edwin McCain - Mercy Bound
* Michael Krahn – Lovers on the Edge of the Twilight
* Brigitte DeMeyer - Rose of Jericho
* Juliana Hatfield - Speeches Delivered to Animals and Plants
* Melissa Bauer - Back Here Under the Stars
* Lenny Kravitz - Black and White America
* Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
* John Doe - Keeper
* Beirut - The Rip Tide
* Mike Doughty - Yes and Also Yes
* Ray Bonneville - Bad Man’s Blood
* Tommy Keene - Behind the Parade
* Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Am I the Enemy
* Cobra Starship - Night Shades
* Nektar - Live in New York 1974
* Jeff Bridges - S/T (actor.)
* Big Country – Another Country (new single.)
+ Counting Crows - August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall, NYC 2007 (CD/DVD.)
+ The 5th Quarter
+ Prom
+ Forks Over Knives
+ In a Better World
+ Nightmare Before Christmas (Blu-ray.)
9/6
* Bill Mallonee - The Power and the Glory
* The Horrible Crowes - Elsie (Brian Fallon of Gaslight Anthem side project.)
* Snow Patrol - ‘Called Out in the Dark’ EP
* Emm Gryner - Northern Gospel
* Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sew
* Tom Russell - Mesabi
* 12 Stones - Only Human
* Outloud - Love Catastrophe
* Gavin DeGraw - Sweeter
* Hugh Laurie – Let Them Talk (actor.)
* Paul Simon - 'Graceland' and 'Rhythm of the Saints' (Deluxe.)
+ REO Speedwagon - Live in the Heartland
+ America - Live in Chicago
+ Water for Elephants
+ Everything Must Go
+ Hanna
+ Absent (documentary.)
9/9
+ X Men: First Class
9/13
* St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
* Bush - The Sea of Memories (Produced by Bob Rock.)
* Blondie - Panic of Girls
* The Bangles - Sweetheart of the Sun
* The Gourds - Old Mad Joy
* Saves the Day - Daybreak
* Blind Pilot - We are the Tide
* Wild Flag - S/T
* Black Francis & Reid Paley – S/T
* Mogwai - ‘Earth Division’ EP
* JJ Grey and Mofro - Brighter Days
* We Came As Romans - Understanding What We’ve Grown to Be
* Neon Indian - Era Extrana
* Staind - S/T
* A.A. Bondy - Believers
* Umphrey’s McGee - Death by Stereo
* Laura Marling - A Creature I Don’t Know
* Saves the Day - Daybreak
* Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing
* Howling Bells - The Loudest Engine
* Wolves Like Us - Late Love
* Cant - Dreams Come True
* Anathema - Falling Deeper
* Joy Kills Sorrow - This Unknown Science
* The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne
* Madina Lake - World War III
* Mates of State - Mountaintops
* Pajama Club - S/T
* Richard Thompson - Strict Tempo
* Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton - Play the Blues
* Mason Jennings - Minnesota
* Lady Antebellum - Own the Night
* Terri Clark - Roots and Wings
* Trent Dabbs - Southerner
* Nick Lowe - Old Magic
* The Kooks - Junk of the Heart
* Kathryn Calder - Bright and Vivid
* Chuck Ragan - Covering Ground
* Bryan & Katie Torwalt - Here on Earth
* Kevin DeVine - Between the Concrete and Clouds
* Yes - Symphonic: Live
* Edguy - Age of the Joker
* Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
* Primus - Green Naugahyde
* Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (New drummer Mike Mangini.)
* Anthrax - Worship Music (Joey Belladonna returns.)
* John Arch and Jim Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance (Reunion of Fates Warning members.)
* Jimi Hendrix - ‘Winterland’ (5 CD box set; Amazon exclusive.) and ‘In the West’ and ‘Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970’ DVD
* Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time (2 CD’s/1 DVD; Walmart exclusive.)
* Aerosmith - Essential (2 CD’s.)
+ Paul Rodgers – Live at Montreux 1994
+ Doro Pesch - 25 Years in Rock: Live in Germany
+ Gentle Giant
+ Thor
+ Hesher
+ Incendies
+ Meek’s Cutoff
+ The Tempest
+ Bill Cunningham: New York
+ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Blu-ray.)
9/16
+ Star Wars (All six episodes on Blu-ray.)
9/20
* The Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time
* Superheavy - S/T (Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Dave Stewart & Damien Marley.)
* Tori Amos - Night of Hunters (Tori goes classical...sort of.)
* Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical
* Thrice - Major/Minor
* Katie Herzig - The Waking Sleep
* Lisa Hannigan - Passenger
* Kasabian - Velociraptor
* Halloween, Alaska - All Night the Calls Came In
* Ivy - All Hours
* Needtobreathe - Reckoning
* Van Dyke Parks - Arrangements, Vol. 1
* Opeth - Heritage
* Rise to Remain – City of Vultures
* Leslie West - Unusual Suspects
* Tony Bennett - Duets II
* Everclear - Return to Santa Monica (New recordings of fan favorites.)
* Pearl Jam - ‘Twenty’ soundtrack
* Nirvana - Nevermind (20th anniversary Deluxe.)
* The Waterboys - An Appointment with Mr. Yeats (import.)
+ Gary Moore - Live at Montreux 2010
+ Bridesmaids
+ Bride Flight
+ Today’s Special
9/27
* Wilco - The Whole Love
* Matthew Sweet - Modern Art
* Will Hoge - Number 7
* Switchfoot - Vice Verses
* Chickenfoot - III (Their second album, best not to ask.)
* Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning (singer of Porcupine Tree.)
* VHS or Beta - Diamonds & Death
* Jim Cuddy - Skyscraper Soul (singer of Blue Rodeo.)
* Pieta Brown - Mercury
* Beth Hart - Don’t Explain
* James Morrison - The Awakening
* Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
* Willie Nile - Innocent Ones
* Mastodon - The Hunter
* Jane’s Addiction - The Great Escape Artist
* Blink 182 - Neighborhoods
* Zebrahead - Get Nice
* Ozric Tentacles - Paper Monkeys
* Rush of Fools - We Once Were
* Man Overboard - S/T
* Machine Head - Unto the Locust
* Carolina Liar - Wild Blessed Freedom
* Mekons – Ancient & Modern
* Daryl Hall - Laughing Down Crying
* Sebastian Bach - Kicking & Screaming
* Woody Guthrie tribute
* Sting - ‘25 Years’ (3 CD/1 DVD box set.)
* Pink Floyd - Entire catalog remastered
+ Uriah Heep - Live in Armenia
+ Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
10/4
* MuteMath - Odd Soul
* Feist - Metals
* Erasure - Tomorrow’s World
* Indigo Girls - Beauty Queen Sister
* Jack’s Mannequin - People and Things
* We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach
* New Found Glory - Radiosurgery
* Iron Claw - A Different Game
* Paul McCartney – Ocean's Kingdom (score.)
* Hank Williams tribute
* The Smiths - Complete Deluxe Box Set
+ African Cats
+ Fast Five
+ Buck
+ The Undefeated
+ The Heart Specialist
+ Submarine
+ Scream 4
10/11
* Marketa Irglova - Anar
* Rachael Yamagata - Chesapeake
* Evanescence - S/T
* Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire
* Martina McBride - 11
* Stephen Kellogg - Gift Horse
* Joe Henry - Reverie
* Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do
* Metric - Fantasies (Fan created remixes.)
* Ben Folds - Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective (3 CD’s.)
* Yes - Live on Air: 1985
* Neil Young - Live on Air: Lost Tapes, Vol. 2
* Michael Schenker - Temple of Rock
+ Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
+ Terri
10/14
+ Neil Peart - Taking Center Stage: A Lifetime of Live Performance (Instructional DVD from the world’s greatest drummer!) ;-)
10/18
* June Tabor & the Oysterband - Ragged Kingdom
* Martin Simpson - Purpose and Grace
* Shelby Lynne - Revelation Road
* Chris Isaak - Beyond the Sun (Tribute to Sun Records.)
* Buxton - Nothing Here Seems Strange
* Bobby Kimball and Jimi Jamison - S/T
* My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind
* Iced Earth - Dystopia
+ Monte Carlo
+ Page One
+ Red State
+ Bad Teacher
+ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (40th anniversary Blu-ray.)
10/25
* Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
+ Rush - Time Machine Tour 2010: Live in Cleveland
+ Peter Gabriel - New Blood: Live in London (CD/DVD.)
+ A Little Help
+ Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
11/1
* Jonathan Segel - All Attractions
* U2 - Achtung, Baby (20th anniversary Deluxe.)
LYRICS of the MONTH:
This is a song that I'm certain my late Aunt Sally never heard and I think my cousins might even laugh thinking about the notion of her hearing this song, but it's always been an inspirational song for me for many years and it's from one of my favorite bands of the 1980's and also features one of my all-time favorite guitar players. It's always better to hear these songs, but here are the lyrics. To my late, great Aunt Sally, may she rest in peace. We love and miss you. To all who fought the good fight and to those who continue to do so...may my Aunt Sally be an inspiration. She will always be to us.
“The days grow shorter and the nights are getting long
Feels like we’re running out of time
Every day it seems much harder telling right from wrong
You’ve got to read between the lines
Don’t be discouraged, don’t be afraid
We can make it through another day
Make it worth the price we pay
The good book says it’s better to give
Than to receive
I do my best to do my part
Nothing in my pockets I got nothing up my sleeve
I keep my magic in my heart
Keep up your spirit, keep up your faith
Baby I am counting on you
You know what you’ve got to do
Chorus
Fight the good fight every moment
Every minute, every day
Fight the good fight every moment
It’s your only way
All your life you’ve been waiting for your chance
Where you’ll fit into the plan
But you’re the master of your own destiny
So give and take the best that you can
You think a little more money
Can buy your soul some rest
You’d better think of something else instead
You’re so afraid of being honest with yourself
You better take a look inside your head
Nothing is easy, nothing good is free
But I can tell you where to start
Take a look inside your heart
There’s an answer in your heart.”
Rik Emmett, (Triumph), the song 'Fight the Good Fight' off of the album Allied Forces released in 1981.
See you in September.
Chris Barlow
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