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Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’90s, Vol. 42

Dave Steed October 29, 2012 15

Section 3: The Airplay chart

Joe hit the airplay chart with “The Love Scene”

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Dave Steed is all about music; 80's and metal to be exact. His iPod will shuffle from Culture Club to Slayer and he won't blink an eye. He's never heard Astral Weeks but thinks "Dazzey Duks" by Duice is the bomb. It's an odd little corner of the world he lives in.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/kingofgrief Jeffrey Thames

    Wow, some key acts this week but no key tracks. I own the Stoned & Dethroned DualDisc thanks to finding it on the cheap but couldn’t even tell you where my copy is at the mo. Psychocandy indeed is the Reid brothers’ finest 30-40 minutes.

  • NastyG

    Just a little info on Jewell. Her full name is Jewell Caples, she was supposed to release an album in ’95 on Death Row called “Black Diamond” but it was shelved. Death Row finally released the album in 2011. It was self-titled and included some reworked versions of most of the songs, including Woman To Woman. ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei6eBis9RTw&feature=related

  • Aron

    I’m surprised in the Top 40 section, you forgot to mention the biggest single of all time. As for Elton’s 80s output, I actually enjoy some of the Too Low for Zero songs plus Nikita and Sad Songs. It’s Reg Strikes Back where he seems to be going through the motions. I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That is arguably his worst single ever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/SeanPOrcutt Sean Orcutt

    “I don’t wanna…” was awesome! The drum machine sucked yes, but the rest of the song was good. By FAR his worst single of this era was “heartache all over the world” followed closely by the girl-crazy anthem (how ironic) duet with George Michael, “Wrap Her Up”!

  • Guy Smiley

    “and there are points where I just don’t get why Billy was so popular.”

    Because he’s a great musician and songwriter? Unlike most of what’s on this week’s list, Billy’s a real f*cking musician. A musician’s musician. And, until he got old and lazy, a great live performer too.

    “Even though no one is going to say that Storm Front or River of Dreams represent his best work,”

    Screw you… River of Dreams is, IMO, Billy’s best album.

    It was the culmination of everything he’d done to that point, and even something of a loose concept album. Some of the best songwriting in Billy’s catalogue (and that’s saying something!), and, musically, it’s an incredibly diverse album. It also debuted at #1, the only of Billy’s albums to do so. I still listen to that album a lot, even more than The Stranger or The Nylon Curtain.

    Storm Front isn’t quite as good, and I could go the rest of the my life without hearing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” ever again, but then any album with tracks as good as The Downeaster Alexa” and “I Go To Extremes” is still pretty great. Best song from those sessions never made the album though… “The House of Blue Light” (B-side of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”) is a great bar-room blues-rocker.

  • Guy Smiley

    “One thing I do give Billy Joel props for is ending it on his own terms rather than fading out into a shell of himself.”

    Eh… I’d say he’s become a “shell of himself” by continuing to tour/perform with no new songs for almost 20 years now. Today he’s an oldies act (albeit one with a better, deeper catalogue than most), and he got lazy. Even this hardcore Billy fan has to admit that the Shea Stadium shows from a few years ago were pretty terrible.

    “I could do without “All Shook Up” here as it’s too straightforward of a version for my liking”

    Great little cover tune, recorded for the Honeymoon In Vegas movie. Not essential, but it’s good fun. What more do you want? It was the best thing on that soundtrack (well, that and Jeff Beck’s version of “Hound Dog” both).

    “To Make You Feel My Love” is simply a great song overall but I do like Garth Brooks’s version better.”

    Oh puke… Garth’s bland, vanilla, lifeless version? You do know that Dylan gave Billy the song first, before Dylan himself recorded it, don’t you? Sorry, but out of the many covers of this song out there, Garth’s, while inoffensive, is the worst. Billy’s remains the best, although I love Dylan’s own version, and the Adele version is quite wonderful too.

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    Argh. It’s the billboard book that now lists the remake of the tune right after the original and therefore puts them out of order. I forgot to go back – though I shouldn’t have even needed to, that’s for damn sure.

  • http://www.discoskonfort.com/artists/drxl/ drxl

    I am quite surprised that, af all the hip hop acts on this decade´s bottom feeders series so far, Jeru the Damaj is the only one whose songs (all of them) I remember. I was not a big fan, but he was in several trip hop/abstract hip hop/backpackers compilations, since he was on FFRR records, which had quite an impressive roster at the time, so I heard those songs over and over.

  • Jen.S

    A little angry aren’t we?

  • Bryan

    “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” also made #1 in its remake version with George Michael, and it wasn’t listed either, presumably for the same reason.

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    “Heartache All Over the World” is definitely a bad one. Strangely enough I like “Wrap Her Up” though I will still admit that it doesn’t fall anywhere in the same vicinity as any of his necessary tunes.

  • http://www.bastardradio.com steed

    2011? Wow – that seems like a totally unnecessary disc.

  • mstgator

    “It also debuted at #1, the only of Billy’s albums to do so.”

    Helps that it was his first album released in the Soundscan era, when albums debuting at #1 were no longer a rarity. But yes, it is a great album.

  • http://www.popdose.com/ DwDunphy

    The Nylon Curtain is Billy Joel’s best album.

  • http://www.popdose.com/ DwDunphy

    “To Make You Feel My Love” is diminished every time someone else covers it. It is a good song made unlistenable, thanks to overinterpretation, much like Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is effectively emotionally neutered.