Weekend Listomania: Special A Tribute to the Great White North! Edition

Well, tomorrow is the 150th birthday of Canadia, home of Justin Trudeau, William Shatner, and Gino Vanelli.

And you know what that means.

So let's get right to it:

Best or worst post-Elvis pop/rock/soul songs by Canadian artistes (or about Canadia!)

No arbitrary rules, although if you nominate anything by Rush I will come to your house and slap you silly.

And my totally top of my head Top Five is....

5. The Guess Who --Albert Flasher



4. The Guess Who -- Dancin' Fool



3. The Guess Who -- Guns Guns Guns



2. The Guess Who -- Running Back to Saskatoon



And the number one Bacon! flavored song of all time quite clearly is....

1. Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- The Canada Song



Alrighty, then -- what would YOUR choices be?

Your Friday Moment of Big Time Professional Radio

For your listening pleasure, please enjoy my appearance (from Tuesday last) on Capt. Al's intertube radio show.

The theme being A Tribute to Tribute Albums, so expect some interesting stuff.

And have a great weekend, everybody!!!!

Closed for Monkey Business

Had a productive, but very long and tiring, night in the studio yesterday.

Regular tanned, rested and ready posting resumes on the morrow.

Your Wednesday Moment of Surprisingly Way Cool

So we had a lot of fun doing Capt. Al's intertube radio show yesterday -- the theme being a tribute to tribute albums. (I'll post a link to the audio tomorrow).

Played this one -- from a 2004 Warren Zevon homage -- which I hadn't heard since the thing came out, and had forgotten how unsucky it is. In fact, it's pretty great.



I mean, say what you will about Sandler, but he gets it.

That's Waddy Wachtel on guitar, by the way, and Mick Fleetwood on drums.

Programming Notes From All Over

So later today yours truly is going to be the guest on friend of PowerPop Capt. Al's intertube radio show Lost at Sea over at Area 24 Radio.

The broadcast starts at 12pm New York City time (EST) and it can be accessed by clicking on the Listen Now! button HERE.

Here's a clue to the theme of the show...



...and I strongly doubt Captain Al will get it.

If you do, however, you win a coveted PowerPop No Prize. So e-mail us at ssimels@gmail.com and we'll talk.

Wails From the Crypt

Long-time readers are perhaps aware that your humble scribe has toiled, off and on since high school, in a garage band (more accurately a basement band) known under a variety of names but mostly as The Weasels.

What they may not know, however, is that having, of late, a surfeit of time on my hands, I have been engaged recently in compiling an actual CD -- to be entitled Let There Be Weasels: Greatest Hits 1973-2016 -- and that, to that end, I and some technical professionals have been restoring, to the best of our meager ability, the various home recordings and el cheapo music videos in our poorly maintained multi-media vaults.

Here's one we just sort of finished -- the official promo film for our classic 1977 or 1978 rocker "Sweet Geraldine." Now with a genuine stereo audio track!!!



BTW, in case you were wondering, the guy singing -- the song's composer Glenn Leeds -- is doing hilariously over-the-top impressions of the other guys in the band. And yes, the one with the makeup is supposed to be me.

Friday 23 Revisited

From the incredibly great Willie Nile's killler new album of Dylan covers - please enjoy his fabulous Byrds Meets the Ramones version of "Blowin' in the Wind."

You can -- and should -- order Positively Bob, which drops (as the kids say) today over at Amazon HERE.

Have a great weekend, everybody.

Closed for Monkey Business

Regular -- apolitical, BTW -- postings resume on the morrow.

Your Tuesday Moment of Words Fail Me: Special Beat the Devil Edition

From who the fuck knows when, although possibly 2017, please enjoy (yeah, right) The Jay Skekulow Band and...jeebus fuck, I can't go on. It's a Boston song, and it's not Boston's fault.

The Jay Sekulow band was founded by Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice and includes an all-star cast: John Elefante former lead singer of Kansas, John Schlitt of Petra, Mark Townsend of DC Talk, Dr. Steve Guthrie, Marco Pangallo, and Scott Kirkman. Together they play songs that often resonate with the work and mission of the ACLJ. All these men above are Messianic-Christians and Pro-Israel-Yisrael / Pro-Zionism / Pro-USA!!

I really don't know how to say this, er, politely, but everybody in this band who isn't that fascist shitheel Jay Sekulow -- an evil sonofabitch who made his TV bones shilling for Pat Robertson on The 700 Club -- deserves to rot in hell along with him.

Your Monday Moment of Atonal Groaning*

From the Pathe Archives, via Charlie Pierce:

Here's Marlene Dietrich, singing in Russia. This is not to be confused with singing about Russia, which I suspect will be a serious choral work in a few weeks.

BTW, apparently, Burt Bacharach was the musical director on this, which is pretty cool.

*[h/t my late Stereo Review colleague Noel Coppage, who coined that phrase to describe Dietrich's inimitable...er...vocal stylings.]