Jan 2020 Orders

Lemon Juicer

Margarita Night

My night: Frozen Margarita, Paul Mall Menthol
and blasting Billy Idol. ~Yes Boromir is "with me".

My Dinner was Margarita Chicken w/ Salad and Avocadoes.

June Orders

Shopping and laundry cart. Should be most helpful.

March 2019 Orders

Clean out from under & behind the fridge - gotta keep it clear.

Rewards

Got another Bing Reward Amazon Card - this time I got a Soft Rock CD.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

  1. Baby I'm-A Want You

  2. A Horse with No Name

  3. Diamond Girl

  4. I Saw the Light

  5. Blinded by the Light

  6. It Might Be You

  7. She's Gone

  8. Minute by Minute

  9. Sentimental Lady

  10. How Much I Feel

  11. Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime

  12. If You Leave Me Now

  13. Sailing

  14. Waiting for a Girl Like You

  15. Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)

Disc: 2

  1. Ride Like the Wind

  2. Saturday in the Park

  3. Sister Golden Hair

  4. You're So Vain

  5. If

  6. Ooh Baby Baby

  7. Him

  8. You Are the Woman

  9. All I Need

  10. Walking in Memphis

  11. Making Love out of Nothing at All

  12. I Want to Know What Love Is

  13. The Living Years

  14. Drive

  15. One More Night

  16. I'll Be There

My Three Loves

SEAN BEAN / BOROMIR

ELVIS PRESLEY

JIM MORRISON / THE DOORS

Love, Elvis

       Well I'm happy.... I got this Elvis CD for $.49 cents!! Trying to get a small Elvis collection in my CD library... maybe I can keep getting them for these prices!

       1. Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires

  2. Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires

  3. Always on My Mind - Elvis Presley with J.D. Sumner & The Stamps

  4. It's Now or Never - Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires

  5. Love Me Tender

  6. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You

  7. Don't

  8. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I - Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires

  9. Any Way You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)

  10. Surrender - Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires

  11. Hawaiian Wedding Song

  12. Doin' The Best I Can

  13. Fever

  14. It Hurts Me - Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires

  15. I Just Can't Help Believin'

  16. The Wonder Of You

  17. Let It Be Me

  18. It's Impossible

  19. For The Good Times

  20. There Goes My Everything - Elvis Presley & The Imperials Quartet

  21. And I Love You So

  22. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

  23. Unchained Melody

  24. If I Can Dream

The Severed Garden - The Doors

The Severed Garden - The Doors

Wow! I'm sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain South
Cruel bindings

The servants have the power
Dog, men and their mean women
Pulling poor blankets over our sailors

I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the T.V. tower
I want roses in my garden bower, dig

Royal babies, rubies must now replace
Aborted strangers in the mud
These mutants, blood-meal
For the plant that's plowed

They are waiting to take us into
The severed garden
Do you know how pale and wanton thrillful
Comes death on a strange hour

Unannounced, unplanned for
Like a scaring over-friendly guest
You've brought to bed

Death makes angels of us all
And gives us wings
Where we had shoulders
Smooth as raven's claws

No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
Until it's other jaw reveals incest
And loose obedience to a vegetable law

I will not go
Prefer a feast of friends
To the giant family

My Johnny Depp Films

Johnny Depp - Magic Man

I was decided to create a video I wanted to make years ago - just for giggles tonight.

It's really a response to my old video or should I say to my younger self.

Johnny Depp Films - My Yuletide Carol

December Orders - Amazon Other

 I went ahead and one of my favorite Doors performances. I LOVE Jim Morrison. 💝😜😍

RIP Paul Revere

Paul will be greatly missed. He was a wonderful entertainer, showman and a good person. I met him and the rest of the band a few years ago after a concert - it was a great show. I still have my t'shirt from that concert. Sadly I lost all my original Paul Revere and the Raiders original LPs.... but I still have great memories to keep.

Paul's legend will forever rock on! <3

Today's Underground Rock Music

I posted a blog earlier today called "WTF Happened To Rock Music?!" and towards the end of it I stated: 

"What about NEW singers/bands that formed in the 2000/2010's? The NEW groups/singers of the 2000/2010's were Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Pussycat Dolls, Danity Kane, Justin Bieber and Jonas Brothers (to name a few)."

The most popular artists tend to have more than a million listeners. To give you and idea of the popular artists that started (formed) in 2000's-2014's I will go by Last.FM's number of listeners to give you an idea. Keep in mind that Last.FM is only ONE place to hear music on the internet... there are several other online and offline radio stations.

1. Britney Spears (2,885,103 listeners) 

2. Christina Aguilera (2,501,538 listeners) 

3. Pussycat Dolls (1,893,984 listeners) 

4. Justin Bieber (1,073,034 listeners) 

5. Jonas Brothers (548,137 listeners) 

6. Danity Kane (500,855 listeners)

The above artists I do not listen to... yet I have heard of them due to their popularity. I have sampled some of their music but do not find it at all appealing, in-fact I find the sound appalling. The "mainstream" Rock Music of today is not my cup of tea.  These modern "hyped" artists do not have sound nor the feel of the older REAL ROCK MUSIC. In my opinion the "popular" rock of today has defaced Rock Music... they are trying to sound more hip-hop while calling it Rock Music.

I stated in my earlier post "WTF Happened To Rock Music?!": 

"If you want to hear "REAL ROCK MUSIC" today you will have to find a band that has been together before the 2000's or search hard and deep "underground". By "underground" I mean a group/singer is NOT "mainstream" or "popular"."

Over the last few weeks of listening to a handful of "underground" modern bands I found a few that I actually like. What I like is the retro sound/feel to the music. They are influenced by "REAL ROCK MUSIC" that most of us have enjoyed over the years and it shows in their music.  The modern "underground" bands take their influences from groups like Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, The Cure, The Beach Boys etc. while maintaining their own unique Rock sound. The bands below is what "Modern Rock" should sound like (IMHO). Below are a handful of "new" bands that I am enjoying listening to.

 DIIV (2011 - present)

Song: "Doused" has a new wave, post-punk, surf rock sound about it.

 

She Wants Revenge (2005 - present)

Song: "Written in Blood" is  post-punk, new wave and gothic rock

Jex Thoth (2007 - present)

Song: "The Places You Walk" a psychedelic, heavy metal (doom), (neo) folk sound. 

If REAL ROCK MUSIC is to survive then we should not call the Hip-Hop sound Rock Music. This ruins both genres. If the two sounds are mixed then it should be tagged/stated as such. Hip-Hop is what it is "Hip-Hop".  Rock Music is "Rock Music". A fusion of the two genres one might call Hip-Rock or Rock-Hop but certainly NOT Rock Music.

The "mainstream" bands/singers that started out in 2000-present should listen to the older Rock Music or the modern "underground" Rock Music to know what REAL ROCK MUSIC should sound like.

I'm still in hopes that in the future (2020's) that the new bands/singers of that era will bring about REAL ROCK MUSIC once again. Whether it be Punk, New Wave, Psychedelic, Progressive, Folk-Rock, Disco, Rockabilly, Gothic, Heavy Metal or some new form of Rock - as long as it it REAL ROCK MUSIC on the modern Rock Stations once again.

WTF Happened To Rock Music?!

It's been awhile since I've posted here on this blog... been busy with other things. This morning I was listening to some old music from the 1980s -- I forgot just how good some of the music was back then. For a long while I quit listening to most music from the 80s, I guess I was just tired of it for awhile but now I'm back listening to music from my teen years again.

I listen to a variety of music from different time periods but I still love my Rock Music the best. While listening this morning I got to thinking about how much Rock Music has changed since it's inception in the 1950s. Generally speaking, Rock Music has always been good music to my ears except for the last decade (or so). Most of the "Pop Music" (popular music) of today pales in comparison to the Rock Music most all of us grew up with.

My choices below are random (off the top of my head). This is no easy task to pick one song from each decade of GOOD ROCK MUSIC (1950's - 1990's).

Below is just a sample of my favorites from each decade (the era of GOOD ROCK MUSIC):

1950's

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

1960's

The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)

1970's

Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same

1980's

The Clash - Rock the Casbah

1990's

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

*I hear a record scratch starting around 2000*

The most popular (and good) bands of the 2000s were bands that started out in the late 1980's to 1990's. Band like: Green Day (1987), Blink-182 (1992), Radiohead (1985), The White Strips (1997), Nickleback (1995) etc... were all popular in the 2000's but not "new" in the 2000's.

What about NEW singers/bands that formed in the 2000/2010's? The NEW groups/singers of the 2000/2010's were Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Pussycat Dolls, Danity Kane, Justin Bieber and Jonas Brothers (to name a few).  All of a sudden I'm feeling sick while laughing...

The era of BAD ROCK MUSIC (2000's to today)

2000's

Jonas Brother - Burnin' Up

He's burning up while I'm barfing up... ugh!

 2010's

Justin Bieber - Boyfriend

This is so bad I can't even listen to the first full minute of the song.

WTF Happened To Rock Music?!

WTF happened to "REAL ROCK MUSIC"? We had some hard hitting music starting way back in the 1950's. Sure some of the Rock Music of the 1950's was not the hard/heavy rock most of us grew up with but it was the "roots" or beginning of Rock Music. By the time the of the late 1960's Rock Music became very hard/heavy sounding and it remained that way until the "new bands/singers" of 2000's came along to ruin Rock Music.

If you want to hear "REAL ROCK MUSIC" today you will have to find a band that has been together before the 2000's or search hard and deep "underground". By "underground" I mean a group/singer is NOT "mainstream" or "popular".

We've had about 5 decades or 50 years (50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's) of GOOD ROCK MUSIC. I can't wait to hear Rock Music of the 2020's. Maybe, just maybe, GOOD ROCK MUSIC will come back during the 2020's. I can only hope the "new bands/singers" of the future will listen to and bring back REAL ROCK MUSIC.

Maybe I'm just getting old... or maybe the Rock Music of 2000's-2010's really is that bad.

My teenage years was in the 1980's... that was considered to be the worst time period of music  until the beginning of 2000's. Even the worst music of the 1980's was still good by comparison to today's music.


Now let's get back to some GOOD ROCK MUSIC! I will leave you with one of my favorite songs that was very popular in my teen years... compare this to the "teen music" of today (Jonas Brother or Justin Bieber).

1987

INXS - Need You Tonight

Happy 4th of July

A very happy 4th of July to everyone!

An American Prayer - Jim Morrison

L'America - The Doors

The Doors: Unhinged

The Doors: Unhinged by John Densmore "The subject of the book is the “greed gene,” and how that part of the human psyche propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of our principles and friendships and the well being of society. A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, THE DOORS, fractured because of this. In his book, drummer John Densmore looks at the conflict between him and his band mates as they fought over the right to use The Doors’ name. At the same time, Densmore examines how this conflict mirrors and reflects a much larger societal issue - that no amount of money seems to be enough for even the wealthiest people."

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Jim Morrison (In Memory)

Born: December 8, 1943, Melbourne, FL

Died: July 3, 1971, Paris, France

 James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American singer-songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead singer of Los Angeles rock band The Doors.

 

The Doors - When The Music's Over

Brian Jones (In Memory)

Born: February 28, 1942, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Died: July 3, 1969, Hartfield

Lewis Brian Hopkins Jones was an English musician and a bandleader of the Rolling Stones. Jones's main instruments were the guitar, the harmonica and the keyboards, but he was a talented and wide-ranging multi-instrumentalist.

Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (1965 with Brian Jones)

In Memory of Ray Manzarek

I mourned the passing of Ray Manzarek (of The Doors). I fell in love with his hypnotic keyboard/piano style of playing music years ago. About 2 years ago I started getting into his solo career more and more - really dug his sound and style.

A few minutes ago I seen this T'Shirt that was in memory of Ray Manzarek posted on Ultimate Classic Rock website. Then I quickly went to The Doors website to look at it closely. It is a very nice commemorative T'Shirt. You can buy one at TheDoors.com online store.

I WANT THIS!

Thanks for the memories and music Ray. Love you.