I'm Blue(Gong Gong Song) - The Ikettes
Show Me - Joe Tex
Climb That Tree - She Trinity
Adderall - The Coathangers
Hanging On - Radio Birdman
Hey Jean, Hey Dean - Dean and Jean
Pamela Jean - The Survivors
New Rose - The Damned
Rubber City Rebels - Rubber City Rebels
Broken By the Way - Phantom Family Halo
I Don't Really Want to be Social - Broncho
Deathbed Confession - Chain and the Gang
Looking at You - MC5 - Davis, Smith
You Tore My Brain - Jams Street Overpass
No Sorrow - Sir Winston and the Commons
LaBuscare - Las Ardillas
Nena Botella - AJ Davila
Boys in Town - The Divinyls
Not So Fine - The Touch
The Scratch Parts 1 & 2
Hoogie Boogie - John Lee Hooker
New Orleans Rain - James and the Ultrasounds
Baby Come Back - Avanties
You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover - Shadows of Knight
Esun Crimen - Eskorbuto
Tra La La Suzy - Dean and Jean
Party Girl - Bernadette Carol
Little Bit of Soul - Music Explosion
I Walk the Streets - Lyn Avalon
Midnight Radio - Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Trask
Baby Workout - Jackie Wilson- Alonzo Tucker, Jackie Wilson
Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead - Marvelettes - Stevenson, Paul, Hunter
Out of Sight - James Brown
No Good Lover - Mickey and Sylvia - Baker, Vanderpool
I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino - Domino, Bartholomew
Stranded in the Jungle - The Cadets - Curry, Johnson, Smith
Tough - Bill Black Combo
Baby I Love you - Ramones - Barry, Spector, Greenwich
White Light White Heat - Lou Reed
Anywhere the Girls Are - The Fantastic Baggys - Sloan, Barry
Out Front - The Sandals - Blakely,
Pamela Jean - The Survivors
Theme From Endless SUmmer
Watusi Freeze - Big Walter
Tiger Man - Rufus Thomas
Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio - Ramones
Boogaloo - Kid Congo
Lo Que No Sera - AJ Davila
Dead Leaves - Sultan Bathery
Stay - The Dictators - Adny Shernoff
Your Kiss of Fire - Supremes - Gordy, Fugula
Down in Mexico - The Coasters
Do You Have That Soul - Gino Washington
M.E.L.V.I.N - The Pandoras
Chick Habit - April March
Kitty Kitty - Floyd Dakil Combo
Dontcha Bother Me - Rolling Stones
Apocalyptic Love - James and the Ultrasounds
Ohh - AJ Davila
Nancy - Las Ardillas
Voodoo Woman - Curtis Knight
I Dig Love - What Four
We Want Fun - Andrew WK
Lightning's Girl - Nancy Sinatra - Hazelwood
Putty In Your Hands - Jean and the Statesides
Baby Let's Wait - Royal Gardsman - Burton, Sawyer
Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart - Young Rascals - Burton, Sawyer
Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio - Ramones
Have I the Right - Honeycombs - H.A. Blaikley
First One is Free - Flaming Groovies - Loney
Nutbush City Limits - Ike and Tina Turner - Tina Turner
They Live By Night - Makeup
Bloody Hammer - Roky Erickson
White Faces - Roky Erickson
Wind and More - Roky Erickson
AC/DC - Sweet - Chapman, Chinn
I'll Never Belong to You - King Kahn and BBQ Show
Bambino - Plastic Bertrand
Marilu - Gainsbourg
Here Comes the Night - David Bowie - Berns
All the Way From Memphis - Mott the Hoople - Hunter
Buick McKane - T Rex - Bolan
I Heard Her Call My Name - Velvet Underground - Reed
Different Days - The Men
Where Were You on Our Wedding Day - Lloyd Price - Price, Logan
Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris - Harris, R Brown
I've Been Around - Little Willie John - Jack Hammer
Fernando - Abba
"It needs to be mentioned that Mr Kent has a side to his history as
sordid and generally unsavory and sometimes downright hilarious as
anyone described in this book." -Iggy Pop in the Foreward
Number Two in the Rock and Roll Book Club is in chronological order of my life, in that I read it the summer after I read Please Kill Me (see this) and once again, my little suburban world came crashing down on me.
I remember going through this book thinking, oh my goodness, people actually lived like this?
There is a reason this is called The Dark Stuff.
Nick Kent's description of Syd Barrett is something I will never forget...
"I met Syd Barret there [Frendz journal headquarters].
Less than 5 years earlier, I'd stood transfixed, watching him in all his
retina-scorching, dandified splendor as he'd performed with his group
the Pink Floyd, silently praying that one day I might be like him. Now,
as he stood before me with his haunted eyes and fractured countenance, I
was having second thoughts."
The book is comprised of several essays and interviews
Nick Kent wrote throughout the 70's to the the 90's. Expect to see the
dark sides, obviously. The pieces on Iggy Pop, New York Dolls, and
particularly Brian Wilson are my favorites. Roky Erickson's interview is
pretty sad, but if you know the rest of his life story, it's not so bad
cause he's still touring these days so he must be ok. (Check out You're
Gonna Miss Me, a documentary on Roky.)
Brian Wilson's is the longest and was certainly the most affective on me personally. I never really cared for the Beach Boys but I respect them and after getting more incite on Brian and his father's relationship and his relationship with his bandmates, I gave Pet Sounds another listen, and from then on have really enjoyed that record. Brian has a certain sensitivity you don't see in a lot of people who are "rock stars" and went through some real bullshit too, not to say he's an angel, but he suffered from mental problems, whether or not they were drug induced, and after all is said and done, you feel for the guy.
Anyway, it's a HIGHLY recommended read.
His memoir Apathy for the Devil is on my reading list.
