Bad Company can bring me back to the summer after high school graduation very easily. “The Cruise” on First Street in Livermore was big, and everyone had their car stereos blaring music, and Bad Company was very often on ours.
I know this is a simple country pop song from the 1970s, but the vocals work well. I’ve always liked the first album by The Bellamy Brothers (and I will admit, I have no others). It’s where their biggest hit, Let Your Love Flow, came from as well.
This isn’t the first solo Beatles’ song to be listed and it won’t be the last, but it is likely to be the only Ringo Starr song. It feels like this song primarily came from the mind of George Harrison, and Starr admitted that Harrison co-wrote it, but nevertheless it is well performed by Starr.
The older I get, the more fitting and relieving the song “Nature’s Way” by Spirit becomes to me.
I know I said before that I’m not a big Clash fan, but maybe I don’t know myself. I’ve already posted a Joe Strummer song, and now here’s a great tune from The Clash’s second album, “Give ‘Em Enough Rope”.
Torn and Frayed is one of the severely underplayed songs from The Rolling Stones’ catalog.
I’ve always liked Roxy Music, it was just different than the rest of the stuff out there, with some curious lyrics. And I love the late albums by the group, but maybe my favorite song by them is “Do The Strand”.
You probably do hear Happy Xmas a bit this time of year. It’s one of John Lennon’s best, though.
One of the earliest of the visible punk banks, Eddie and the Hot Rods had a brief but very engaging time as a recording artist in the “movement”.
In the years since 1977 I have grown to be a fan of Rush, have several albums (including 2112) by them, and this song is probably my favorite of theirs.