#73 White Stripes – Blue Orchid https://youtu.be/QKntY8WkNYQ via @YouTube
We’ll keep Blue Orchid at #73- a great Rock tune, especially if the meaning begins to show through: The White Orchid is the lapel worn at weddings.
This is about when the American reverberation of the British invasion landed in London by airplane. Putin beware.
# 70 Amboy Dukes– Journey To The Center Of The Mind https://youtu.be/Beh1ipK3hN0 via @YouTube
#70 in the classic countdown of the philosophic DJ Dr. MMac. Detroit’s own Ted, before he became a….
This is Crazy Ted BEFORE he took up hunting! Dude did not learn that from a journey to the center of mind! Oh well, he never said we’d MAKE it !
Beyond thought and “what” is of course interesting, because the Lord too is said to be beyond being or logos. He calls it the center, too, as of a circle. He warns of the danger of becoming trapped in the products of the imagination: Jung speaks of getting “possessed” by an “archetype-” the sources of the products of the imagination in the knowledge that is within the soul. We integrate the contents, by understanding, or else these disintegrate us. Hence the danger of psychedelic drugs especially for those who do too much, are not friends with themselves, and do not have the patience to sleep off a bad trip. One wonders if Ted did not get possessed, as by an Artemis the huntress archetype! Apologies from Michigan!
#69: The Bob Seger System – White Wall https://youtu.be/1CNDIl0mbd8 via @YouTube
This whole album is a classic, with most of my favorite Bob on it.
#68: Creed – Beautiful https://youtu.be/8Otwa3exj2k via @YouTube Self indulgence: (Not as famous as it should be). Platonic contemplaters of the beautiful should get it.
We’re doing the 76 candidates for the 17 best Rock songs, to forget the Corvid for a while and for the liberty of the Fourth: Now 244 years, and nearly 300 million people- give or take a few hundred thousand, depending on whether we wear masks and be more cautious.
It seemed to us that very few continued the Classic Rock strain at this level among the “newer” stars, that is, after the Eighties. “Arms Wide Open” is of course another.
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#65: Uriah Heep – Wizard https://youtu.be/u0iuaxvkXv4 via @YouTube
Ignore Amazon, though, and buy from Barnes and Noble. Bozo puts YOU in HIS shopping Cart! Uugh, what America has become! Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus amazon.com/dp/158648382X/ via
#63: When the Levee Breaks Zeppelin
Caption: George III when he/she read Jefferson: (Or was it when he learned his favorite petticoat was not back yet from the cleaners?)
‘Least ‘e remembered t’ poof ‘is f’n whig! Dudes were cross-dressin back then! French fashions.
#61: Fortunate Son (Live At Cobo Hall 1986)- Bob Seger (Vinyl Restoration) https://youtu.be/MJYHSdObPJo via @YouTube
#59: The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live at Kilburn 1977) https://youtu.be/WX_96uKZ7yQ via @YouTube
Twitter DJ is a strange occupation. It of course does not work in a certain way, but we get some Tweet-ees in Europe, eh? Right, no one likes the 76 candidates for the 17 greatest rock tunes of all time!
#54: Robin Trower – The Fool and Me. https://youtu.be/UIHKI_gd3iA via @YouTube
#50: Blind Faith – Presence of the Lord https://youtu.be/HIcESt9eYRk via @YouTube
Oops, that’s a religion hymn, and a bit too mellow. Move up # 52 1/2!
#49: Sunshine Of Your Love https://youtu.be/f3y8jf01UY8 via @YouTube
Guest Lyricist- some roadie!
This one was written by some roadie. Prob’ly some St. John’s college reject #46 Cream – Tales of Brave Ulysses https://youtu.be/J2CCfxiQ5QY via @YouTube
Soon the noise bombs, then the fireworks come out to cover the skirmishes in the edges of town, if there are any Redcoats about…
#45 Who Who Are You
#44 The Who – Magic Bus – Live At Leeds HQ https://youtu.be/TmfQQC1bsf4 via @YouTube
#41: The Who – I Can See For Miles https://youtu.be/h3h–K5928M via @YouTube
#37: Time of the Season – The Zombies (Lyrics on the screen) https://youtu.be/wG5R7vyu-mA via @YouTube
Counting Crows – Mr. Jones (Official Video) https://youtu.be/-oqAU5VxFWs via @YouTube
#26: Dream On – Aerosmith https://youtu.be/9bAoq7k3tZ0 via @YouTube
#25: Led Zeppelin – The Rover (Physical Graffiti) https://youtu.be/gJ-v0CCfEqE via @YouTube
#21: Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion (Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/82cJgPXU-ik via @YouTube
Side 2 is THE rock tragedy.
#18: Jethro Tull – Cross-Eyed Mary https://youtu.be/Tvt6lyiDwQc via @YouTubevia @YouTube
Bowie met a 60’s violent revolutionary. His answer is “I wished someone would phone.” Human connectedness in the modern world is the cause of twentieth century totalitarianism in each case. He wished someone would phone.
#14: The Who : The Real Me https://youtu.be/FTwSKepkmdE via @YouTube
Jimmy the Mod goes to the doctor, then the mother, then the preacher in an attempt to cure his teen age Quadrophrenia. Given that the preacher showed him “to the Golden Gate,” one sees what Plant means about the evangelicals in Stairway. Not that Jimmy needs a robed exorcist! The plea of Jimmy is surely not comprehensible to our science of psychiatry, which is why music is better at the healing of the soul than our over-paid “doctors.” They killed Nick Drake, for Chrissakes!
#4: Led Zeppelin- Dazed and Confused https://youtu.be/-rmtJ6-EY1E via @YouTube
The essential White blues. You thought the hipsters were about “free love?” Try following this guy while lied to.
#3: The Who – Love Reign Over Me https://youtu.be/gDbAtWpoA6k via @YouTube
#1: Kashmir – Led Zeppelin https://youtu.be/sfR_HWMzgyc via @YouTube
“Oh Father of the four winds, fill my sails…”
#00: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower (Audio) https://youtu.be/TLV4_xaYynY via @YouTube