After 30 days, we’ve reached the end of our music countdown. Here is one opinion of the most popular song in each of five decades:
- 1960’s: The Beatles – A Day in the Life
- 1970’s: The Eagles – Hotel California
- 1980’s: Blondie – Call Me
- 1990’s: Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
- 2000’s: Eminem – Lose Yourself
And now, to put a major personal twist on this, if yours truly were nominating the #1 songs of the past 5 decades, here’s what they would be:
- 1960’s: Spencer Davis Group – Gimme Some Lovin’ (1966) + I’m a Man (1967)
- 1970’s: Traffic – The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971)
- 1980’s: Steve Winwood – While You See a Chance (1981) + Back in the High Life (1986)
- 1990’s: Hey, Winwood was tired and took a well deserved break, okay?!
- 2000’s: Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton – Live from Madison Square Garden (2008)
Your best tips, musical or otherwise, are much appreciated!
I like your list more than this one.
I’ve never seen this video without the VCR garbage at the beginning and the flaws through the tape.. easily my favorite Steve Winwood song ever, & agree with your assessment of the above songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5W2Yfze7M
Me, too. Winwood was incomparable.
Great news everybody!
https://globalnews.ca/news/9162216/canada-population-growth-statistics-canada-sept-2022/
“Canada has seen its highest population growth rate since the height of the baby boom, mostly driven by immigration, according to Statistics Canada data released Wednesday.
As of July 1, the number of people living in Canada sat at an estimated 38.9 million, an increase of 0.7 per cent, or 284,982 people, from April 1, 2022.
The estimate, marking the highest pace of quarterly growth since 1957, represents an increase of more than 3,100 people per day.”
Hopefully they are all Muslims and POC. Thank you, PM Trudeau. Diversity is truly our strength!
Progressive Pat – Show some respect, it’s orange shirt day. I presume you are wearing an orange shirt for Truth and Reconciliation and an orange hat for the NDP. BTW I just read that the Colonists gave Indigenous Americans blankets with smallpox which didn’t work:
““The infection on the blankets was apparently old, so no one could catch smallpox from the blankets. Besides, the Indians just had smallpox—the smallpox that reached Fort Pitt had come from Indians—and anyone susceptible to smallpox had already had it.””. https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets
On the other hand, Native Americans gave the colonists tobacco, which worked really well: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/latest-global-data-finds-nearly-8-million-deaths-from-smoking-in-2019-and-90-of-new-smokers-addicted-by-age-25-805072175.html#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20smokers%20worldwide,5%20deaths%20in%20males%20worldwide.
Reparations?
This also helps explain it.
https://hodja.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/islamisk_bombe.jpg?w=596&h=800
China is setting up police stations in Canada??
Naw….that can’t be!!
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-opened-overseas-police-stations-us-canada-monitor-chinese-citizens
Hmmm, I’m sensing a real Steve Winwood vibe to your personal list.
You wouldn’t happen to be an follower of the D.E.N.N.I.S. System, would you?
Spencer Davis Group – good call.
John..
Spencer Davis group
Yep, they were on of my fav bands bk in the day.
“Keep on Runnin…Keep on hiding……..
Damn, now thats gonna be in my head all freakin day..!!
My top 1 picks:
60’s: The Doors “Light my Fire”
70’s: Bob Seger “Turn the Page”
80’s: Guns ‘n Roses “Sweet Child o’ Mine”
90’s: Guns ‘n Roses “November Rain”
00s: The Heavy “Short Change Hero” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvScx3Po8I
10s: Powerwolf “Demons Are a Girl’s Best Friend” NSFW (and possibly offensive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhK2ev_O-pc
Ooopsie
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/xrkx8u/the_head_of_dagestan_sergei_melikov_has/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Rats are abandoning the sinking ship.
My great uncle was in the Derbent Regiment 115 or so years ago. He wasn’t from Dagestan. He was drafted at Saratov and sent there. Russia is using their 25% non-Russians as cannon fodder.
Draft Europeans to fight in Asia.
Draft Asians to fight in Europe.
SOP in that prison of nations. This way they are less likely to desert as none ever really wants to fight for their jailer.
Toronto’s deputy mayor charged with two counts of sexual assault:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/toronto-deputy-mayor-michael-thompson-224329115.html
Epic footage of a Ukrainian HMMWV raid. The cameramen sits in the turret with a temperamental M2 and an PRG. Captions narrate what is going on, and hilariously throughout the film the, he also addresses know-it-alls who are always ready to offer him helpful advice in the comments to his videos:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/xrl5cf/ukrainian_combat_footage_sept_29th/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
He makes a comment about his mission and also seems like he’s dome this exact type of mission before. There’s no real battle here.
My guess? They’re strictly there to draw artillery fire for counterbattery operations. I Also think when the helicopters are lobbing unguided rounds, they are doing the same thing.
Apparently the Ukrainians are elite at counter battery fire.
“My guess? They’re strictly there to draw artillery fire for counterbattery operations. ”
Possibly, I thought they were simply probing and mapping enemy responses, artillery reaction times etc. You may be right too, one does not contradict the other.
The Impeachment To Save America.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/24/the-case-for-impeachment-gets-stronger/
Gop isn’t going to impeach the prospect of being able to campaign against a drooling idiot in 2024.
If he is to be impeached let the dems take him out.
The drooling idiot won last time, and Americans still can’t run an election so there is nothing keeping the drooling idiot out of the Whitehouse again.
Impeachment is not about elections: it is a tactic to distract and disable this incomparably hateful administration from pursuing policy goals that are destroying the nation. Apparently some people missed the lessons Dems provided during the Trump years. I fear that includes the remarkably lazy and impotent Mitch McConnell.
The last great song of the 20th Century:
Drip Fed Fred – Ian Dury and Madness :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8PtlVQNh-0
Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Dance of the Crackpots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ3BOefiidg
New York takes bold action to address its obesity epidemic. One wonders if they know where electricity comes from.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-becomes-latest-state-to-ban-sale-of-new-gas-cars-by-2035
Little bit different take on the nordstream pipelines and what happened or who dunnit. He suggests accident but the coincidences are too great for me to ignore.
https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.htmlhttps://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html
The Russian version of Arkancide?
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-death-pchelnikov-shot-war-1747535
Police rescue passengers from powerless electric ferry
https://mobile.twitter.com/VotingbearNZ/status/1575289046825242624?cxt=HHwWgMCo6dbCxtwrAAAA
60s – Midnight Rambler, Rolling Stones
70s – Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd
80s – New Year’s Day, U2
90s – The Day I Tried to Live, Soundgarden
00s – No One Knows, QOTSA
Happy Friday!
Freebird, after Devils Rejects I cannot listen to this song, this film raped it for me. Sort of like Reservoir Dogs killed Stuck in the Middle With You…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOadx4ZICaQ
Further to my two posts yesterday, here is a clear, readable article describing the tense situation in and about the town of Lyman, where 3,000 Russian troops are in danger of being surrounded:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/09/29/russian-correspondent-thousands-of-russian-troops-are-about-to-get-trapped-in-the-east/
The danger of tactical nuclear weapons use is very real.
Btw, the Blazing Cat Fur site hasn’t posted anything in 24 hours. Anyone know what’s up?
Meanwhile Russians on offensive in Bakhmut and troop build up along the northern front.
There may be some truth in Bismark’s words: Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.
The Germans should know.
How long have they been attacking Bakhmut and Soledar? It seems like months.
Lyman is now surrounded. Possibly thousands of Russian troops trapped.
Easy there, about one regiment from Donbabwe with marginal combat value to begin with, one battalion of BARS, some spetsnaz (who will probably break through). It is the strategic position that counts.
A tactic Siberian used in Chechnya and tried to use around Sievierodonetsk is to leave limited avenues for escape for surrounded forces and mine and arty them when they try to run. The potential for escape encourages escape and reduces incentives for desperate stands… what’s good for the goose…
Seems the mood is much less tense the closer one gets to the front lines. Some in the West are panicking especially after Nord Stream. Popular opinion in the east is tenser but more sober. Ukrainians stoically carry on making orcs good.
Thoughts on the matter:
Pootin had two options: use nukes or call mobilization. He has chosen [im]mobilization, if he now chooses nukes this will be an utter humiliation for russia and within russia. There is only that much bullshit even a whipped russian mongrel can stomach (which is why they are voting with their feet, more escaped by now than were initially deployed). Using nukes to settle a special three day military operation after mobilization… I don’t think even Siberians will stomach that, maybe I am giving them too much credits, after all they never disappoint to disappoint.
Internationally even his loyal fellators like India would probably turn away, although Zimbabwe, Venezuela and NK probably would not. Chicoms clearly don’t want him to do it and I don’t think he has power to cross Xi. One possible scenario is that siloviki will allow him to do it and then overthrow him the next day to show the world how disgusted they are. That would be a very russian way of doing things. He has likely thought of that…
He doesn’t have to fire nukes to use nukes. If he moves tactical nuke units to the newly “russian annexed (occupied)” territory then he is putting things on knife’s edge as any attack on them is an attack on russian nuclear deterrent. This in a way would throw the nuclear ball back at Ukrainians. Will he do it? If he wants to end the war with borders as of now, he might.
Most of the winds blow east to southeast, so fallout wise…
I am not an optimist. Unlike many optimists I have never expected Ukrainians to be able to get Crimea back. If by some miracle they managed to do it, Pootin might use nukes.
Pootin is devolving though, he used to be an evil genius, but his mental deterioration progresses at seemingly increasing pace. He wanted to be Peter Great who brought russia into 18th century. Pootin is succeeding, he too is bringing russia into 18th century.
So this brings me back to the conclusion I have reached months ago: getting Ukraine into NATO is essential and much more important than any territorial changes. Also Isolating russia from civilization is essential.
More Russian desperation cuz of new sanctions in response to annexing of Ukraine territory:
“The worst is full-blown Russian retaliation and the use of oil exports as a weapon, which could deliver a bullish shock to the market, pushing prices as high as $150 a barrel…Such a scenario could increase Russia’s oil income by as much as 50 percent while exacerbating global recessionary pressures…the Biden administration and EU and UK policymakers have proven themselves incompetent in the current energy crisis, and the price cap could be their coup de grace.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daneberhart/2022/09/28/russian-price-cap-could-be-bidens-biggest-energy-folly-yet/?sh=4a08af3e6eb4
60s – Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
70s – Burn – Deep Purple
80s – Eyes of a Stranger – Queensryche
90s – Settled Down Like Rain – The Jayhawks
20s – Fear of a Blank Planet – Porcupine Tree
10s – Shadowmaker – Lovebites
20s – Manners – Band-Maid
Ha! I like your dedication to Steve Winwood, Robert. I am a huge fan of Blind Faith … a sorely underrated supergroup because they lacked the “radio hits”. I chose a slightly different Supergroup as emblematic of the 1960’s.
1960’s:Cream Sunshine of Your Love Because the 60’s were ALL ABOUT psychedelic rock.
1970’s: Stones Can’t you Hear Me Knocking The most PERFECT blues-rock song ever written.
1980’s: AC/DC Back in Black
1990’s: Beck Where It’s At
2000’s: Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
I soooooo appreciate all of your lists, everyone! They’re so much better than the “official” lists I pulled from.
Thank you for doing this, Robert … and as a thankyou …
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Because … as I said the 1960’s were ALL ABOUT psychedelic rock. Just marvel at an incredibly YOUNG Winwood just shred the guitar and lyrics of this seminal psychedelic song.
PS Robert …
Winwood’s puke-green, non-reverse, Gibson Firebird is just a sick ass guitar! Damn! He just made me want one.
https://www.guitarthai.com/picpost/gtpicpost/A2999701.jpg
Thanks Robert.
Watch “I Can’t Tell You Why (2013 Remaster)” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/YWkkZcQcb5Q
Missed them in Edmonton on the 20th…maybe next time, they’re on their “Hotel California” Tour.
Gotta do LIVE VERSION lists next!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYB8NBlOes4
More Emergencies Act inquiry liars:
“Were any loaded firearms found?”
“No charges have been laid.”
“Yes or no, were any loaded firearms found, as was reported in the media?”
“No firearm charges have been laid.”
“Were any loaded firearms found?”
“As I indicated, no firearm charges have been laid.”
Ad nauseum.
https://youtu.be/V3w4_M7nNVw
President Biden Vows Continued Cooperation with US Muslim Brotherhood Organization; Top Democrats Address Annual Gathering
https://www.global-influence-ops.com/president-biden-vows-continued-cooperation-with-us-muslim-brotherhood-organization-top-democrats-address-annual-gathering/
1920’s – Frank Crumit – A Tale of the Ticker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYv5FjnZeM
1933 – Ramona Davies – Raising the Rent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9sqFfp0FVs
1940’s – Oscar Aleman – Bésame mucho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP7hDZzuQ90
1950’s – Hank Penny – Bloodshot Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8GCaLpXWg
1960 – Big Brother Is Watching You – Sheldon Allman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQyue_X4Pk4
🙂
Released in 1969 – Ashton Gardner & Dyke – Resurrection Shuffle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH5ke-C_80
1970 – Focus – Hocus Pocus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ouPGGLI6Q
1981 the year lefties took over music – Meredith Monk – The Tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-I53yUoTU
I forgot about the 1917 hit by Billy Murray – They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4OL4LAly34
Looks like the porn piano player has just applied for NATO membership, within hours of Russia annexing the east into the Federation.
80s: In the Air Tonight
Sadiq snubs the Queen: No statue of Elizabeth on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth for the foreseeable future as monument to Malawian anti-colonialist hero is unveiled instead
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11260795/Sadiq-snubs-Queen-No-statue-Elizabeth-Trafalgar-Square-fourth-plinth-foreseeable-future.html
Council replaces story-telling library bear with gender-neutral dungaree-wearing rainbow alien
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/council-replaces-story-telling-library-bear-with-gender-neutral-dungaree-wearing-rainbow-alien/372111
Final suspect arrested in 2021 drive-by killing in Etobicoke
https://www.cp24.com/news/final-suspect-arrested-in-2021-drive-by-killing-in-etobicoke-1.6086286
That pic and name surprised the socks off me.
‘The police has been captured by the rainbow shirts’, says Laurence Fox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twjdi3Tqasg
We just have to hope that Orbán is wrong.
Orbán: “By 2040, Muslim immigrants will be the majority in French cities” Op-ed.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/360554
Suspected Chinese hackers tampered with widely used Canadian chat program
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-718622
Courage is Contagious….
Manitoba takes its turn to put wee, little tears on Marcos pillow tonight.
https://thecountersignal.com/breaking-manitoba-doesnt-want-rcmp-aiding-trudeaus-gun-grab-scheme/
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/here-s-what-would-happen-if-putin-ordered-a-nuclear-strike-in-ukraine/ar-AA12o7u6?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=d1c3dff4350e42b9b798974ee9b714a3
“5,977.
That’s how many nuclear warheads Russia has, according to an estimate by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Around 1,500 are retired and due to be dismantled, the organization says. Most of the remaining warheads are strategic—larger weapons that can be used over long distances—and the rest are smaller tactical weapons.
Russia is believed to have more nuclear weapons than any other country. It is followed by the U.S., which has an estimated 5,428 warheads, according to FAS, and the two together have approximately 90% of all nuclear warheads.
Seven other countries are known or widely believed to possess nuclear weapons: China (350), France (290), the U.K. (225), Pakistan (165), India (160), Israel (90) and North Korea (20).”
Happy Friday.
Eight-Year-Old Ukrainian Refugee Girl Stabbed ‘Up to 74 Times’ in Irish Migrant Accommodation
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/09/30/eight-year-old-ukrainian-refugee-girl-stabbed-up-to-74-times-in-irish-migrant-accommodation/