233 Where Do I Begin?
- 'Knucklehead', The Bar-Keys. I bought the complete Stax/Volt Singles box set at a tag sale recently. An online review of the box set says "if you only want the hits...sorting through the nine discs will be a monumental task" - case in point, there's many instrumentals from the Bar-Keys scattered throughout.
- 'Hold On Loosely', 38 Special
- 'Lucky Star', Madonna
- 'Brighter Than The Sun', Colbie Caillat
- 'Bobby Jean', this is a song Bruce Springsteen should have given directly to Ronnie Spector - this is would have been a perfect Spector Ronettes song from the 1960s.
- 'Long May You Run', The Stills-Young Band
- 'True Blue', boygenius
- 'Solar Power', Lorde
- 'Poinciana', Ahmad Jamal
- 'Pop Goes The Weasel', 3rd Bass didn't listen to these guys in the 1990s, but I love their great taste in samples!
- 'Frankenstein', Edgar Winter
- 'Espresso', Sabrina Carpenter
- 'Honky Tonk Women' An example of how a great song doesn't need to follow any rules? 'Honky Tonk Women' is two four-line verses about fu*king, a two-line chorus, and that's it. Have you ever listened to it and thought "this Rolling Stones song is missing something"? Of course not.
- 'Flipside', Bleached
- 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy', Manfred Mann
- 'Birthday', The Beatles
- 'Bloodstyle', Caroline Smith
- 'I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Loved You)', Aretha Franklin
- 'Lovesong', The Cure
- 'Good Luck, Babe!' I often say in my movie reviews 'all I am looking for is something I've never seen' and this Chappell Roan song delivers - plenty of songs wind down with some variation on a fadeout - the Jenny Lewis record where it sounds like the audio file becomes corrupted comes to mind. 'Good Luck, Babe!' ends with the pitch and tempo decreasing, like someone is turning a dial on a turntable...but then Roan sings at normal speed, over her own pitch-slowed voice, an octave lower? I have never heard that before!
- 'Red Rain', Peter Gabriel
- 'Cupid', Sam Cooke
