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Day Twenty-five: A Picture of a Band With a Strange Name

30 Day Band Challenge

Dexy's Midnight Runners

The name comes from the drug Dexadrine - a brand of dextroamphetamine that was used recreationally by Northern soul fans.

ZZ Top

Gibbons noticed that lots of artists had names that included initials. He sought to combine the names of his musical heros, B.B. King and Z.Z. Hill. He decided that 'Z.Z. King' sounded too similar to B.B. King, so he changed it to Z.Z. Top, because 'B.B. is at the top'.

Toad the Wet Sprocket

The band thought it would be funny to create a name that made no sense.

[jungleindierock]

Time Machine - 2024 - No. 2

The second Time Machine playlist of 2024, numbers 3,4 and 5 on the way very soon. 40 tracks again, as it makes the playlist not too long or too short, perfect number of tunes. The whole playlist only lasts two hours 15 minutes.

Enjoy it and share it, you might find some old bands/artists you like and want to explore their back catalogues!!

You can find previous Time Machines and more here on the Spotify

Tracklist

Foals - Two Steps, Twice

Cattle & Cane - Infant Hercules

Headgirl (Motorhead & Girlschool) - Please Don't Touch

Z.Z. Hill - Baby I'm Sorry

Courteeners - Not Nineteen Forever

Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone

Manners - Special Brew

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

The Doors - Roadhouse Blues

The Clash - Tommy Gun

T. Rex - Jeepster

Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark (OMD) - Red Frame/White Light (John Peel BBC Session Version)

The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

U.K. Decay - Rising From The Dead

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone

The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter

David Bowie - Suffragette City

Lord Tanamo - I'm In The Mood For Love

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Iggy Pop - I'm Bored

The Damned - Alone Again Or

The Jam - That's Entertainment

Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (Alt Version)

The Fall - Victoria

Half Man Half Biscuit - Restless Legs

The Melodians - Sweet Sensation

The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want To Get Over You

The Shins - New Slang

Lou Reed - Vicious

Wire - Another The Letter

Mary Love - Dance Children Dance

Pylon - Crazy

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - The Only Living Boy In New Cross

The Coral - Pass It On

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

Smog - Cold Blooded

Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven

[ttexed]

the other side of Lady Wilde

"Lady Wilde is Marie Smith, who actually was from the UK, and was recording in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. They appeared locally as Lady Wilde and the Warlocks and played at Louann’s in Dallas and Panther Hall in Ft. Worth. 

The Warlocks are the same band that included future Z.Z. Top bassist Dusty Hill and his brother Rocky Hill."

[nahalism]

z.z hill // that ain't the way you make love

[randomvarious]

California Blues Playlist

Yep, I've got the blues, folks; and this week, they happen to come from a place that you might not normally associate them with: California. See, a lot of blues scenes first popped up in the south and midwest in the early half of the 20th century, but as black southerners were packing their bags and leaving the Jim Crow south to find better opportunities, a lot of them would end up either heading straight for California or finding their way there, eventually. So, here's a little, off-the-beaten path playlist of some superb Cali-made gems, spanning from the mid-60s to the mid-90s.

Now, a rather large chunk of this thing happens to be taken up by a pair of guys who both shared the same prefix of "Little" in their stage name: Little Joe Blue and Little Johnny Taylor. And I don't know what either of their physical statures truly were, but nothing about their music would suggest to me that they were small 😅. Little Joe Blue was often derided as a copycat of B.B. King, but I think that criticism really misses the forest for the trees, because if you can sound like B.B. King, then that means that you are one hell of a talented blues musician yourself. So, on this playlist, Joe opens up with "Standing on the Threshold," a song with about 2,100 plays on YouTube, and then later follows up with "Gonna Walk On" and "Encourage Me Baby," which have about 4,000 and 6,600 plays, respectively.

And, by far, the two most popular tunes on this playlist are both by Little Johnny Taylor, whose "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" ended up being more famously covered by both The Rolling Stones and Texas soul-blues legend Z.Z. Hill; but the "Part 2" version of the song that I'm supplying here only has about 1,400 plays in total. And Taylor's other big tune, "Open House at My House," which also has a play count that numbers well past 100K, was more famously covered by Z.Z. Hill too. I like Taylor's renditions of both songs better, though.

The most impressive performance of all, though, comes from its lone woman, Ledisi, who delivered an incredibly soulful and live, five-and-a-half-minute rendition of an old torch song called "Stormy Weather" at San Francisco's Cafe du Nord back around 1996. She's a pretty popular musician, with songs on YouTube that have racked up over millions of plays each, but this stunning tune of hers only has about 4,200.

And following her is another performance from that same Cafe du Nord, by a guy named Lee E. White, whose brand of blues-gospel flew way under the radar, as his quiet tune here, "You're Gonna Miss Me," only currently has four YouTube plays.

And not to be missed, either, are a couple tunes from the guy who was quite possibly the second most important force in west coast blues, behind T-Bone Walker: Lowell Fulson. On this playlist, he contributes "Sleeper" and "My Baby," both sweet and smooth late 60s-early 70s cuts, with ~24.5K and ~5.5K plays, respectively.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible and links are provided below to songs that have been posted about previously in order to give them more context:

Little Joe Blue - "Standing on the Threshold" Lowell Fulson - "Sleeper" Lowell Fulson - "My Baby" Little Johnny Taylor - "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" Little Joe Blue - "Gonna Walk On" Little Joe Blue - "Encourage Me Baby" Little Johnny Taylor - "Open House at My House, Part 1" Little Johnny Taylor - "When the Deal Goes Down" Ledisi feat. The Rob Rhodes Trio - "Stormy Weather" Lee E. White - "You're Going to Miss Me"

(Wow, everybody's name starts with the letter L!)

This playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So, I'll be adding more songs to this sometime in the future, but for now, we start with ten very good songs that end up totaling a little over half an hour.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

[kozykhaos]

New save and updated self-sim 🌻

Tucked aside in the rural parts of Texarkansiana, my self sim is glistening from just stepping outside into this crazy heat.

[mediamonarchy]

#PumpUpThaVolume: April 5, 2023 ♬

#PumpUpThaVolume MP3: #April5, 2023 w/@TheWatsonTwins, #StephenWilsonJr x @HaileyWhitters, @RandallKingBand & more! ♬

https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230405_PumpUpThaVolume.mp3 Download MP3 Media Monarchy plays The Watson Twins, Stephen Wilson Jr. x Hailey Whitters, Randall King and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for April 5, 2023. ♬ Z.Z. Hill – “Everybody Knows About My Good Thing” (Vinyl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAQQohSzVcI The Watson Twins – “The…

[theart2rock]

Vor 40 Jahren - Mai 1984

Ich möchte mir vornehmen, jeden Monat 40 Jahre zurückschauen und einen kurzen Rückblick zu machen. Dabei auch einmal über den Tellerrand der Rockmusik zu schauen. Events - 01. April - Das New Yorker Magazin Trouser Press veröffentlicht nach einer Dekade der Existenz ihre 96. und letzte Ausgabe. - 01. April - Marvin Gaye wird bei einem Streit von seinem Vater erschossen. - 01. April - München startet ein Pilotprojekt mit Kabelfernsehen. - 04. April - Ronald Reagan setzt sich ein das chemische Kampfwaffen verboten werden sollen. - 05. April - Michael Tippet's The Mask Of Time wird in der Symphony Hall in Bosten uraufgeführt. - 06. April - Die unendliche Geschichte wird uraufgeführt. - 06. April - Die 11. Space Shuttle Mission (41C) startet, es ist der 5. Start der Challenger. Und zum ersten Mal sind 11 Personen gleichzeitig im All - 07. April - Die verflixte 7 mit Rudi Carrell feiert Premiere. - 09. April - Die Oskars werden zum 56. Mal vergeben. - 11. April - Chinesen marschieren in Vietnam ein. - 13. April - Die Challenger landet wieder auf der Erde. - 14. April - Die Pop-Ska Band Doe Maar geben ihr Abschiedskonzert - 15. April - Der Komiker Tommy Cooper stirbt live am Fernsehen an einem Herzinfark. Viele dachten erst es gehört zum Programm. - 19. April - Der Stern Nemesis taucht zum ersten Mal in den Medien auf als mögliche Ursache für das Artensterben zur Zeit der Dinosaurier. - 20. April - Im Terminal 2 des Londoner Flughafens Heathrow explodiert im eine Bombe, 22 werden verletzt. - 21. April - Michael Jackson's Thriller wird nach 37 Wochen vom Soundtrack zu Footloose vom Platz 1 der Billboard Charts gestossen. - 21. April - In Frankreich wird der Virus entdeckt, der AIDS auslöst. - 24. April - Auf der Sonne bricht ein massiver Sonnensturm aus, so stark dass Blackouts auf der Erde möglich waren. - 29. April - Die Serie Per Anhalter durch die Galaxy wird zum ersten Mal im deutschen Fernsehen ausgestrahlt. Wichtige Veröffentlichungen - Lament - Ultravox - Reckoning - R.E.M. - Grace Under Pressure - Rush - At War With Satan - Venom - Crusader - Saxon - Bananarama - Bananarama - Junk Culture - Orchestrael Manoeuvers In The Dark - The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking - Roger Waters - The Top - The Cure - Vengeance - New Model Army - Caught In The Act - Styx - Keep Your Hans Off My Power Supply - Slade - New Sensations - Lou Reed - Self Control - Laura Branigan - Street Talk - Steve Perry Schweizer Hitparade Platz 1 Single Charts - Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Zu nah am Feuer - Stefan Waggershausen & Alice - Big In Japan - Alphaville Schweizer Hitparade Platz 1 Album Charts - Ammonia Avenue - The Alan Parsons Project - Victims Of Circumstance - Barclay James Harvest Schweizer Interpreten in den CH-Charts - Keine Schweizer Interpreten in den Single Charts US Billboard Single Charts - Footloose - Kenny Loggins - Against all Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) - Phil collins US Billboard Album Charts - Thriller - Michael Jackson - Footloose - Soundtrack UK Single Charts - Hello - Lionel Richie UK Album Charts - Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie - Now 2 - Various Artists Happy Birthday - 06. April - Max Bemis (Say Anything) - 07. April - Belly (Rapper) - 08. April - Andrew Huang (Produzent) - 10. April - Mandy Moore - 22. April - Amelle Berrabah - Sugababes - 23. April - Lil Eazy-E - 24. April - Tyson Ritter (The All-American Rejects) - 27. April - Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy) - 27. April - Frank Carter Farewell - 01. April - Marvin Gaye - 06. April - Jimmy Kennedy (Songschreiber) - 27. April - Z.Z. Hill Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

[syruckusnow]

List your Top 10 favorite albums

I was tagged by @biscuit-tornado I was supposed to tag 10 others, but I usually let folks self-select. No pressure.

In no particular order except for #1. Bruce is ALWAYS #1.

1. Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town

Having to fight for three years to escape his slave-trade contract with his first manager wrung all the Dylan-inflected romance and wordplay out of his work. This is the mature Bruce writing of everyday life. This is his masterpiece.

2. Elvis Costello: My Aim is True

Blown away when I borrowed this from a high school classmate and heard the blend of rock/pop/soul hitched to the most entertaining turns of phrase I’d ever heard in rock music. I saw him on his 2019 tour—still crushing it!

3. The Wailers: Burnin’

The best album with the OG’s: Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. I’m a big fan of Bob Marley’s later solo career, but it was better with all three.

4. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Ever put an album on and every single song is perfect? This is such an album. If anyone asks you “what’s Americana music?” sit them down and make them listen to this album. Poetic, funny, heartwarming and heartbreaking. Oh—and amazingly tuneful as well!

5. The Who: Quadrophenia

The better of the Who's two rock operas because it deals with real life rather than fantasy. The four separate musical themes, the majestic set against the quiet, this is Townsend at his best. Daltrey’s voice carries the bombast without breaking. Plus, has any band ever written so lovingly and eloquently about their fan base? They were after all the Mods band of choice.

6. Marshall Crenshaw: self-titled

Another out of nowhere debut album that just made me flip out. I’m a sucker for power pop anyway—I just played this and sang along for weeks after picking this up. I got to see him play a bar in Syracuse a couple albums into his career- just brilliant live as well.

7. Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey

Probably one of the untypical discs of his career—steeped in the American folk rock he was immersed in while living in Woodstock, N.Y. But I happened across a copy just as I was falling in love with my now wife. The title track was going to be our first dance song at our wedding—but both of us were too shy to dance to a 7 minute song in front of everyone. It was the second song though!

8. Z.Z. Top: Tres Hombres

I picked this up early in high school, one of the first albums I bought on my own. Bluesy rock stomp. They are the perfect band—although the MTV era sometimes got a little too poppy and synth-heavy. But MTV doesn’t play music anymore and despite the recent passing of Dusty Hill, that li’l old band from Texas is still at it!

9. J. Geils Band: Full House Live

The greatest rock/soul/blues band not named the Rolling Stones. Peter Wolf is the frontman every frontman wishes they could be. And of course, do not forget Magic Dick on the lickin’ stick! I mean, c’mon—how much more rock and roll does it get than a harp player who is only identified as Magic Dick?

10. Little Feat: Waiting for Columbus

They paired the slightly off-kilter sensibilities of Lowell George, with a tour-hardened band and THEN threw in the Tower of Power horn section—this document of the band at its peak is just amazing. Even after all these years, I get a buzz when I hear the band’s a capella coming-to-the-stage rave up “Join the Band” diving into the announcer doing the call and response F-E-A-T! cheer. It is no surprise that this was the first album I bought when I got a component stereo system. It was also the very first CD I bought when I moved away from vinyl.

[fifihunterbakariafrocentric]

Z.Z. Hill - Cheating In The Next Room

[sakisg]

Όταν λοιπόν μιλάμε για τους ZZ Top, μιλάμε για μια μπάντα που από την αρχή κατέκτησε ένα μεγάλο μέρος του κοινού (της) χρησιμοποιώντας ως εργαλεία και όπλα της την ίδια της την εικόνα -και τη μυσταγωγία που προέκυπτε από την εικόνα αυτή. Ακόμη και η πληροφορία για την προέλευση για το ίδιο το όνομα της μπάντας παραμένει αδιευκρίνιστη και συγκεχυμένη: το όνομα ΖΖ Τοp είτε αποτίει φόρο τιμής στη μπλουζ κληρονομιά του αμερικανικού Bible Belt (συνδυάζοντας ��α ονόματα από τους ντόπιους μπλουζίστες B.B. King και τον Z.Z. Hill), είτε αναφέρεται σε μια, πλέον εκτός κυκλοφορίας, αμερικανική μάρκα για χαρτάκια για να τυλίγουν τους μπάφους τους. Η συνεχεια εδω https://intothemysticcrypt.blogspot.com/2023/10/zz-top-stoner-blues-queens-of-stone-age.html

[aaalac-blog]

WALKING IN PURPOSE WITH ANGELA ON WBNN DYNASTY CALL IN AT 516-453-9133 PRESS 1 TO TALK

2023 IIRHOF Broadcasting Enshrinee #TheLegacyContinues #TheDynasty Join us for our 3508th presentation of Ngozi Time Multimedia LLC w/ our topic: When will Mental health & Wellness In Minorities Be Taken Seriously | Silently Hurting Inside; Hurt No More w/ by Angela Thomas Smith & our soundtrack of our lives ft. Iconic Blues Vocalist Z.Z Hill

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/ngozitime/2023/07/27/walking-in-purpose-w-angela-thomas-smith

[mossworldsstuff]

Fog and Sun, Sea and Stone The Monterey Coast, 1980

[bamboomusiclist]

1/15 おはようございます。Half Pint / In Fine Style  等更新しました。

Oscar Peterson / The Lost Tapes 529 096-1 Johnny Hodges / Blue Notes v8680 Art Farmer ]Benny Golson / Meet the Jazztet Lp664 Art Pepper /  Intensity S7607 Jean Bonal / Flash Back TR18006 Helen Merrill / Nearness of You Mg36134 Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So Bcp72 Jo Stafford / Jo+Jazz cl1561 Frank Sinatra / & Antonio Carlos Jobim Fs1021 Mel Torme / it's a Blue World Bcp-34 Dollar Brand / At Montreux enja3079ST NG La Banda / No Se Puede Tapar El Sol LD-4709 Malta / High Pressure VIJ-28117 Ahmad Jamal / Genetic Walk T600 OST / Burt Reynolds Sharky's Machine bsk3653 Z.Z. Hill / In Memorium 1935-1984 mal7426 Half Pint / In Fine Style Dub Syndicate / What Happened ON-U DP 25 Hugh Mundell / Africa Must Be Free By 1983 Gregory Isaacs / Cool Ruler fl1020

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