The King-Cat Top Forty

2008 Top Forty (No Particular Order)
(Last updated 6/3/08)

1. King-Kong (Orig. Movie)
2. The Jazz Singer (1927 version)
3. "Happy Hottentots" Joe Frisco/Bob Callahan 1930 (Short film-- funniest thing I've seen since Horse Feathers)
4. KC NITE 11/24/07 Wax Trax
5. Bears vs. Broncos 11/25/07 (37-34 OT)
6. Cloud Factory 12/3/07
7. King-Cat Midwest Tour Oct 07
8. Walt and Skeezix Vol 3 (D+Q collection of a beautiful story)
9. Classic Rock A-Z on the Fox (103.5 FM): Rolling Stones - "Miss You" / Mountain - "Mississippi Queen" /Zep - "Misty Mountain Hop"; 12/5/07
10. Beatles "Long Long Long"
11. U2 "New Year's Day"
12. Gram Parsons bio: 20,000 Roads (by David Meyer)
13. Joann Sfar The Rabbi's Cat
14. W.C. Fields - Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
15. John Lennon - Walls and Bridges (Capitol/EMI)
16. Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - s/t (Impulse)

17. Schulz and Peanuts bio (David Michaelis) - Controversies aside, this was well worth reading. It gave me stuff to think about for weeks...

18. John Lennon "Meat City"
19. Be Here to Love Me (Townes Van Zandt documentary)
20. Super Bowl XLII
21. Off the Charts movie - (song-poem documentary)
22. Canned Heat "Going Up The Country"
23. Robert Johnson "Love in Vain" and "Drunken Hearted Man Blues"
24. Hound Dog Taylor & the House Rockers "Give Me Back My Wig"
25. Cloud Factory - 6/2/08

LIFETIME ALBUMS LIST

Ten Albums that Changed my Life (Pt. 3)
(A Chronological list of records that turned my Life in new Directions- 1977-2006)

Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack) - The Stranger (Billy Joel) - The Beatles 1962-1970 (the Red & Blue albums) - All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) - Rio (Duran Duran) - Friend or Foe (Adam Ant) - Close to the Edge (Yes) - After the Gold Rush (Neil Young) - Zen Arcade (Husker Du) - Album (Flipper) - Paranoid (Black Sabbath) - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (The Replacements) - Throb Throb (Naked Raygun) - Chronic Town ep (R.E.M.) - Let It Be (the Replacements) - New Day Rising (Husker Du) - Fables of the Reconstruction (R.E.M.) - Loose Nut (Black Flag) - Made To Be Broken (Soul Asylum) - Greatest Hits Volume 1 (Bob Dylan) - The Ragged School (Jacobites) - I Often Dreams of Trains (Robyn Hitchcock) - Telephone Free Landslide Victory (Camper Van Beethoven) - Master of Puppets (Metallica) - Upstairs at Eric's (Yaz) - Rumours (Fleetwood Mac) - Frank Sinatra Sings For Only the Lonely - Louder than Bombs (the Smiths) - If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (The Mamas & the Papas) - Surfer Rosa (the Pixies) - Just Keep Eating (Scratch Acid) - Led Zeppelin III - House Tornado (Throwing Muses) - Fear of a Black Planet (Public Enemy) - Rembrandt Pussyhorse (Butthole Surfers) - Anthology (Sly & the Family Stone) - Are You Experienced? (Jimi Hendrix Experience) - Paul's Boutique (Beastie Boys) - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd) - Heaven or Las Vegas? (Cocteau Twins) - On Fire (Galaxie 500) - She Hangs Brightly (Mazzy Star) - More (Pink Floyd) - Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival) - Labour of Lust (Nick Lowe) - Self-Titled (the La's) - A Song for You (the Carpenters) - A&M Classics / Greatest Hits (Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass) - Loveless (My Bloody Valentine) - 1983-1985 (Beat Happening) - A Love Affair with Nature (the Cannanes) - The Wilderness Years (Nick Lowe) - Self-Titled (Velvet Underground) - Tonight's the Night (Neil Young) - Double Nickels On the Dime (Minutemen) - Juvenilia (Verlaines) - Grievous Angel (Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris) - 40 Greatest Hits (Hank Williams) - The Essential Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - Genius of Modern Music Vol.1 (Thelonious Monk) - Songs For Swingin' Lovers (Frank Sinatra) - The Essential Porter Wagoner - Pink Moon (Nick Drake) - Self-Titled (Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers) - Soul Station (Hank Mobley) - Pick Yourself Up (Anita O'Day) - Bringing it All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan) - The Best of Leonard Cohen - Pet Sounds (Beach Boys) - Anniversary (Tammy Wynette) - From Elvis in Memphis (Elvis Presley) - Court and Spark (Joni Mitchell) - Fresh (Sly and the Family Stone) - Sunflower (The Beach Boys) - Veedon Fleece (Van Morrison) - American Primitive Vol.2 (Various Artists) - Who's Next (The Who) - On the Beach (Neil Young)

SIXTEEN BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE, PT. ONE

(in chronological order)

1. Home For a Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown & Garth Williams
2. D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths, Edgar and Ingri D'Aulaire
3. Good News For Modern Man
4. The Hodgepodge Book, Duncan Emrich and Ib Ohlsson
5. The World of Pooh, A.A. Milne and Ernest Shepard
6. Pond Life, George K. Reid, Sally D. Kaicher and Tom Dolan
7. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
8. The Reproduction of Daily Life, Fredy Perlman
9. Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons
10. How the Great Religions Began, Joseph Gaer
11. The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
12. Moon in a Dewdrop, Dogen Zenji
13. Opening the Hand of Thought/Approach to Zen, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
14. Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
15. Chuang Tzu, trans. Burton Watson
16. Chronicles, Vol. One, Bob Dylan

FAVORITE MOVIES

In no particular order:

Horse Feathers / The 400 Blows / Nights of Cabiria / Repo Man / Blazing Saddles / Alice in the Cities / Amarcord / The Full Monty / Adaptation / Monty Python and the Holy Grail / 8 1/2 / Time Bandits / Quadrophenia / La Dolce Vita / Animal House / Grease / Breaking Away / The Wizard of Oz / Akira Kurosawa's Dreams / The Kids Are Alright / Il Posto / Rose Hobart / Koyaanisqatsi / Never Give a Sucker an Even Break ...

FAVORITE T.V.

In no particular order...

The Little Rascals / The Dick Van Dyke Show / Night Flight / The Brady Bunch / Son of Svenghouli / Image Union / The Ray Rayner Show / Monty Python's Flying Circus / Chicago Bears Football / The Young Ones / The Twilight Zone / Roseanne / The Office (UK and US) / My Name Is Earl / Everybody Hates Chris / The George Lopez Show / Home To Roost ...