These are the Top 5 things you’ve all been looking at since we got under way in August 2012. I’m proud to say this may be the only place where Captain Beefheart was in a Top 5 in terms of popularity. If you haven’t perused these yet, check ’em out:
1. The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party, from SNL Sept 2012
2. “Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson” by Kevin Avery
3. “Saturday Night Live 1980″ – Nathan Rabin’s “How Bad Can it Be? Case File #23″
https://davesstrangeworld.com/2012/09/08/saturday-night-live-1980/
4. “Hard Working Man” – Captain Beefheart / Ry Cooder / Jack Nitzche, from the film “Blue Collar” (1978) dir. Paul Schrader
https://davesstrangeworld.com/2012/09/04/1276/
5. “Poetic License is Not Appreciated” a look at “American Me” (1992) dir. Edward James Olmos and “Blood In, Blood Out” (1993) dir. Taylor Hackford
Forever Changes – Love
Trout Mask Replica – Capt Beefheart
Notorious Byrd Brothers – Byrds
Moondance – Van Morrison
American Beauty – Grateful Dead
Clear Spot – Capt Beefheart
Hot Rats – Zappa
Safe As Milk – Capt Beefheart
Liege & Lief – Fairport Convention
Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix
A Top 10 “Most Played” list from a 1974 magazine I subscribed to. The good Captain was top of the pops in the UK.
Very happily, I stand corrected! I also like the fact that Fairport Convention made this very cool Top 10.