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1 Queensryche - Best I Can - Shameless favoritism for my entry...
2 Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky - I wonder if, back in the summer of 1976, Mr. Lynn took too many quaaludes. He found himself immobilized on a mangy couch, while Abbey Road was stuck on repeat on one of those mid-70s turn tables with the fancy new auto-replay features. After a 34 hour fugue state, he rose from his stupor and shambled outside. Once there, his eyes squinting in the bright sunlight, he looked up and said "well...hello Mr. Bluesky!" He then lurched next door to the music studio, looking like a real life incarnation of Phenous T. Freak, of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers fame, sat down, and wrote his biggest hit. The song could easily have appeared on the aforementioned Beatles masterwork - it is that derivative, and that good.
3 Balance of Power - Chemical Imbalance - A tad too symphonic for my taste, but has a ripping solo and some tasty riffs.
4 Moby - My Weakness - This immediately transported me back to the mid-90s Boston rave scene, when i was spinning records at all-night trance parties and driving home with giant pupils.
5 Led Zeppelin - Ramble On - I love Zep, but there are several tunes of theirs I never need to hear again. This is one of them.
6 Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water - Ditto with this band.
7 Graveyard - Please Don't - Speaking of the 70s, when I was about 5 years old, my mother, who was a little hippy chick, lived behind a bar called the Oxbow in Tucson AZ. They had a pinball machine, a pool table, and your usual collective of day drinkers that would sit around inside smoking cigarettes and drinking **** beer, only emerging to take a piss just outside the back door because some other drunk was in the bathroom at the time, refusing to come out for some reason or another. My Mom would sometimes hang around at this bar, and because it was the 70s, I was allowed to hang around with her, playing pinball, or just watching the drunks. At night, a band would play. This band had a fat drummer with bad pattern baldness, a big biker for a singer, donned in leather vest, dirty jeans, and big black boots, and some skinny guitarist that looked like he hadn't eaten in weeks. This song immediately reminded me of that band.
8 Phoebe Killdeer and the Short Straws - The Fade Out Line - Smokey lounge music that didn't do anything for me.
9 Sonny James - Young Love - Not my thing!
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