Mixed Tape Monday: Numbers

Welcome to another installment of Mixed Tape Monday, where I will WOW you with my whimsical list of wonderful music which is brought to you by the wonder of the World Wide Web. 

Today’s topic is Numbers:

Song:             One

Artist:              U2

Album:            Achtung Baby

Song:              16 Days

Artist:              Whiskeytown

Album:            Strangers Almanac

Song:              Seven Nation Army

Artist:              The White Stripes

Album:            Elephant

Song:              Angel Dream (No. 2)

Artist:              Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Album:            She’s the One

Song:              Say Hello 2 Heaven

Artist:              Temple of the Dog

Album:            Temple of the Dog

Song:              40 Oz. To Freedom

Artist:              Sublime

Album:            40 Oz. To Freedom

Song:              Seven Bridges Road

Artist:              Steve Young (Popularly covered by the Eagles)

Album:            Rock Salt & Nails

Song:              One for the Cutters

Artist:              the Hold Steady

Album:            Stay Positive

Song:              99 Problems

Artist:              Jay-Z

Album:            The Black Album

Song:              Dash 7

Artist:              Wilco

Album:            A.M.

Song:              Nine Bullets

Artists:            Drive-By Truckers

Album:            Pizza Deliverance

Song:              Little One

Artist:              Elliott Smith

Album:            From A Basement On the Hill

Song:              60 Feet Tall

Artist:              Dead Weather

Album:            Horehound

Song:              9 Crimes

Artist:              Damien Rice

Album:            9

Song:              40 Dogs

Artist:              Bob Schneider

Album:            Lovely Creatures

Song:              One Road to Freedom

Artist:              Ben Harper

Album:            Fight for Your Mind

Song:              1000 Bpm

Artist:              Beck

Album:            The Information

Song:              One Last Dance

Artist:              Badly Drawn Boy

Album:            Born in the U.K.

Song:              Ten Thousand Words

Artist:              The Avett Brothers

Album:            I and Love and You

 Song:              17

Artist:              Cross Canadian Ragweed

Album:            The Purple Album

Read, review, and respond.

Great music awaits!

Drive-By Truckers

Today, let us rejoice in the three axe attack of Drive-By Truckers. 

Drive-By Truckers Discography and best song per album:

• Gangstabilly (1998)
  • Late for Church
• Pizza Deliverance (1999)
  • Nine Bullets
• Alabama Ass Whuppin  (Live 2000)
  • The Living Bubba
• Southern Rock Opera (2002)
  • Shut Up and Get On the Plane
• Decoration Day (2003)
  • Decoration Day
• The Dirty South (2004)
  • Carl Perkin’s Cadillac
• A Blessing and a Curse (2006)
  • Gravity’s Gone
• Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (2008)
  • Self Destructive Zones
• Live from Austin, TX (2009)
  • A Ghost To Most
• The Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities and Rarities (2009)
  • The Great Car Dealer War
• The Big To-Do (2010)
  • The Wig He Made Her Wear

Top 3 Drive-By Trucker Albums:

1. Brighter Than Creations Dark
2. A Blessing and a Curse
3. Decoration day

Top 10 Drive-By Trucker Songs:

1. Gravity’s Gone
2. Self Destructive Zones
3. Decoration Day
4. Outfit
5. A Ghost To Most
6. Nine Bullets
7. Cottonseed
8. The Righteous Path
9. Monument Valley
10. Carl Perkin’s Cadillac

As a little bonus, I will add another category that involves lyrically genius.

Drive-By Truckers Genius Lyrics:

• The hippies rode a wave putting smiles on faces, that the devil wouldn’t even put a shoe
  Caught between a generation dying from its habits, and another thinking rock and roll was new
  Till the pawn shops were packed like a backstage party, hanging full of pointy ugly cheap guitars
  And the young’uns all turned to karaoke, hanging all their wishes upon disregarded stars

 

• Reverend Bob is pointin’ his finger Mom and Dad follow every last word
  All this hollerin’ makes me wonder does a whispered prayer get heard?
  Reverend Bob is preachin’ out thunder fire and brimstone pouring down
  Me, I’m wondering what’s for dinner waitin’ for 12 o’clock to come round
  Everybody’s got their own Heaven They all find it their own way
  I am an angel

 

• Those little demons ain’t the reasons for the bruises on your soul you’ve been neglecting
  You’ll never lose your mind as long as your heart always reminds you where you left it
  And don’t ever let them make you feel like saying what you want is unbecoming
  If you were supposed to watch your mouth all the time I doubt your eyes would be above it

 

• It’s all about where you put the horizon said the Great John Ford to the young man rising
  You got to frame it just right and have some luck of course and it helps to have a tall man sitting on the horse
  Tell them just enough to still leave them some mystery a grasp of the ironic nature of history
  A man turns his back on the comforts of home the Monument Valley to ride off alone

 

• Stop that dope smokin! stop that masturbation!
  Take the Lord into your heart and stop that fornication.
  We’re building us an army, gonna knock out Satan.
  Visa or Mastercard, our operator’s waiting.
  Too much sex, too little Jesus.”

“Read, review, and respond.

 Great music awaits!

You should be listening to the Drive-By Truckers “Live from Austin, TX”!

The Drive-By Truckers are a band best experienced live.  The raw energy of the show further enhances the poignancy of the songwriting and showcases their musicianship.  This is why their latest release Live from Austin, TX is the best of both worlds. 

Live from Austin, TX captures the Trucker’s live show at the legendary Austin City Limits television show.  Recorded on Sept. 26^th 2008, it is a combo package of CD and DVD.  The set list includes thirteen classic Trucker songs and showcases the vocal stylings of Cooley, Hood, and bassist Shonna Tucker. 

Cooley sounds just as warm and laid back on “Ghost to Most” and “Space City” as Hood sounds raspy, angry, and whisky soaked on “Righteous Path” and “The Living Bubba”.  Bassist Shonna Tucker makes her songwriting debut with “I’m Sorry Houston”.  Brighter Than Creations Dark, arguably one of the best Trucker albums, gets a lot of attention on this live set with four songs while the remaining Trucker catalog gets one or two songs.  I’m sorry to say “Gravity’s Gone”, “Nine Bullets”, and “Carl Perkin’s Cadillac” did not make the set list.  Clocking in at 82 minutes of live music, it is hard to cover all the great songs from their extensive catalog.

“18 Wheels of Love” from Gangstabilly is a rocking, eleven minute labor of love with about six minutes of tribute to Patterson’s mother and Chester the truck driver’s unlikely courtship and eventual marriage. 

The Drive-By Truckers have built an impressive body of work and have held to the vision of founders Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood.  While they have had some band members leave over the years, most notably Jason Isbell, the Truckers have remained resilient and the music has not suffered.   This is clearly evidenced on this album.

Check out the Drive-By Truckers at www.drivebytruckers.com.

Great music awaits!

You should be listening to the Drive-By Truckers

The music of the Drive-By Truckers is a pounding mix of southern rock and alt/country.  From a musical perspective, they are one of the few current bands that have and utilize three guitarists.  They also generously share the writing and vocal responsibility between Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, bassist Shonna Tucker, and from about 2002-2007 (former) guitarist Jason Isbell. All four have pretty distinct sonic styles and really make the music interesting. 

The Drive-By Truckers were co-founded by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley in the musical Mecca of Athens, Georgia in 1996. 

Deeply rooted in their southern heritage and more than a little influenced by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Drive-By Trucker’s embrace and at times enhance the myths of the South.  They unabashedly sing about all of the things that are a caricature of the southern lifestyle.  They do this with insightful and intelligent lyrics, moving harmonies, the occasional pedal steel and lots of guitars.

 Drive-By Truckers  Discography

• Gangstabilly
• Pizza Deliverance
• Southern Rock Opera
• Decoration Day
• The Dirty South
• A Blessing and a Curse
• Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
• The Fine Print (A Collection of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008)

 Top 5 Drive-By Truckers Songs according to Butler (Albums listed to right of song):

1.  Nine Bullets (Pizza Deliverance)
2. Shut Up and Get on the Plane (Southern Rock Opera)
3. Carl Perkin’s Cadillac (The Dirty South)
4. The Great Car Dealer War (The Fine Print)
5. The Righteous Path (Brighter Than Creation’s Dark)

A great live band, I saw them recently in Dallas at the House of Blues and several years ago in Austin at Austin City Limits Music Festival.  Both shows were fantastic. 

Give the Drive-By Truckers a spin and let me know what you think.

 Drive-By Truckers music is available is available on iTunes, record stores and www.drivebytruckers.com

Also, if you have a facebook page, you can become a fan of the blog.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/pages/Music-you-should-be-listening-to/261897107787?ref=ts

Great music awaits!