Good heavens – have I really not done this in eight months?
While I’m working on the digital media section of Windows Vista Inside Out, I get to poke around in my music library. I clicked a few buttons today and wound up with this eclectic list for reasons that are unfathomable to me. But it sounds pretty good:
- Yakety Axe, Chet Atkins, Neck and Neck
- Beautiful and Strange, Shannon McNally, Geronimo
- Popstar, The Pretenders, Viva El Amor
- The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss), Cher, The Very Best of Cher
- Twilight, Garth Hudson, The Best of Mountain Stage Live, Vol. 1
- Loose Fit, Happy Mondays, Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches
- Tombstone Blues, Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
- Two for the Road, Bruce Springsteen, Tracks Disk 3
- I Believe in You, Luther Allison, Blue Streak
- Sunday Morning/Sunday Evening, Joe Zawinul, World Tour
And a bonus track:
Get Down Moses, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Streetcore
Ed Bott 
You only have to listen to the bonus track.
Everyone should own Joe’s music.
RIP
Absolutely. One of the very first posts I ever wrote here (second one after the obligatory Hello World post) was a eulogy to Joe Strummer. There aren’t many artists who manage to create an entirely new body of work after leaving a wildly successful band. But I listen to Joe’s solo work more often than I listen to his work with The Clash. And I still love The Clash.
R.I.P., indeed.
I met Joe on a quite a few occassions (living in London as I do). You could never meet a more down to earth, all round Mr nice guy. No rock star trappings. He’s buy you a pint and chew the fat.
Saw The Clash countless times from ’76 to ’79…punk rock and all that. By far the best live band ever. Great tunes, great presence, pure energy. Joe was the ultimate front man.
The last track on Streetcore is kinda poignant….esp ‘That’s a take’ as it ends.
God Bless Joe. I recently sent a donation to Strummerville, the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music (Strummerville.com). They try to help struggling new musicians find gigs, rehearsal space, etc. Everytime I listen to Joe’s music I realize just how much I miss him.
The horror of having “The Shoop Shoop Song” on your list is more than made up for by the presence of Joe Strummer. Otherwise, you’d have to be taken out behind the record store and shot.
I was wonderwing how long it would take for someone to notice that.
It’s a reason why I am looking for a way to separate his/hers/ours music. That, needless to say, is “hers.”
Awww now… that’s the fun of it. My eldest son was ripping most of his CDs to the collection before he moved out. It has kept me from becoming decrepit (I think).
We just went from Sevendust to Genya Ravan to Audioslave to Ambrosia in under 15 minutes.