Weekend Listomania: Special "DJ Shaggy" Edition

[I originally posted a version of this so long ago I can't even deal with the guilt. Consequently, I've rewritten a lot of it and swapped in some new entries, and blah blah blah. Enjoy!!! -- S.S.]

Well, it's Friday, and my beloved pussycat Mickey Six-Toes© has survived another week without having been devoured au poivre by marauding non-citizens of Ohio.

Whew. Although who knows -- if I was to nod off even briefly, it could get ugly.

But in the meantime, here's a fun little project to help us all wile away the darkening hours:

Best or Worst Post-Elvis Record Referencing Hair (or Hair Care Products or Hair-dos or Whatever) in Either Its Title or Lyric Or Band/Artists Name!!!

No arbitrary rules.

Oh wait -- if you nominate the crappy theme song (best known in the version by The Cowsills) from the world's crappiest Broadway musical, I will come to your house and slap you within an inch of your life.

Sorry -- that's just the way it is.

And my totally Top of My Head(Hah!!!) Top Eight is/are:

8. Lady Gaga -- Hair

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know Gaga's rip-off of that titular show tune I mentioned above probably saved some poor deeply sensitive kid's life, despite the fact that it's a piece of utter pompous crud in the abstract. But hey -- I felt obligated to include something recorded in the 21st century.

7. Nazareth -- Hair of the Dog

I've had a soft spot for these guys ever since they turned Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight" into a thoroughly convincing piece of pop-metal (I've always wondered what Joni thought about it, come to think). This one, of course, deserves a special wing in the Cowbell Hall of Fame.

6. The Crew Cuts -- Sh-Boom

To this day, I can't figure if this is sad period schlock or some kind of interesting white-guy doo-wop. Your thoughts?

5. CSNY -- Almost Cut My Hair

Very silly stuff, thank you Mr. Crosby, but the Stills/Young guitar interplay is awesome, no?

4. Daddy Cool -- Teenage Blues

"I've been thinking a lot about getting a job, but I'm paranoid about my hair" has to be one of the greatest opening lines not just in pop music but in the entire history of literary endeavor going back to the Greeks. Or so I thought when I originally wrote that; I could be wrong. In any event, it's the work of one of the Great Lost Aussie Bands, and you need to hear the entirety of that album, trust me. Order a vinyl copy over at Amazon for the ridiculously inexpensive price of $8.70 HERE.

3. The Morells -- Growin' A Beard

An ode to the uses and cultivation of whiskers by the greatest party band of them all (they were The Skeletons in a later incarnation). Seriously -- I've said this before, but if I'd had an unlimited budget for a shindig and could have hired any rockers in the world as the featured entertainment, these are the guys I would have hired. And yes, I would have chosen them over NRBQ.

2. Syd Barrett -- Terrapin

"Well, oh baby, my hair's on end about you." BTW, and to give you an idea of just how long ago I first wrote this, I originally referenced the Smashing Pumpkins 2009 cover version and Billy Corgan's sad and pathetic cueball noggin in this slot.

Wow -- is it just me, or does anybody else totally not miss those pretentious putzes?

And the Numero Uno follicularly-fabulous tune of them all is obviously...

1. The Lovin' Spoonful -- Bald Headed Lena

And speaking of cueball noggins, heh heh. That's the late great Zal Yanovsky on lead vocals and "electric gorgle" (or so it says on the second Spoonful album liner notes) BTW.

Alrighty, then -- and what would your choices be?

And have a great weekend, everybody!!!