Posted on 08/29/2025 3:54:34 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The use of Colin Hays’ “Overkill” on the comedy “Scrubs” was a great way to set up an episode. And Colin’s cameo was a nice touch.
They weren't as big as "The Heart of Rock & Roll", "Heart and Soul", and "I Want a New Drug" form 'Sports' (3rd album) but would be right up there with "If This Is It" from 'Sports'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL8LBifGHqI&list=RDlL8LBifGHqI&start_radio=1
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You got me. I only heard these songs at the same time so I wrongly assumed they were on the same album.
“Derek and The Dominos” — silly for the guy to put that on the list, considering it was a project, not a band per se, and everyone on the record went on to great fame (Duane Allman for one).
BTW, Eric Clapton supposedly left The Yardbirds after their hit “For Your Love” because he thought it was “too commercial”, then spent some time in Blue Breakers which is where I think he met Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker and the three of them formed Cream.
The Sex Pistols album was “Never Mind the Bollocks”, huge phenom, but there was also “The Great Rock and Roll Swindle” which they recorded without Johnny Rotten; I remember it on vinyl but I’ve only seen that one copy. :^) And Sid killed himself either deliberately or through misadventure not that long after, I can’t remember the details. Oh, he murdered his girlfriend first. His fake last name was Vicious, which checks out, eh?
The only other artist whose name I’d heard before was Lauryn Hill, and her name is all I know.
Same goes for Hootie et al. The singles from the first two albums were recorded and released on some indie label, but those versions are a bit different. It’s usually reissued in the leadup to Christmas (there at least used to be a magical six weeks when almost everything came back into print for the shopping season, y’know, back when people used to buy records, tapes, and/or CDs), but I’m pretty sure it’s available on YouTube, because I’m pretty sure I’ve got a copy on a thumb drive.
Whoa! I’m using that in this month’s musical interlude! Nice! The smiling is making my face hurt!
Another band that had a couple of hits on their first album and charted just a little bit later was The Left Banke — “Walk Away Renee” b/w “Pretty Ballerina”. A third track, the best in my opinion, is “She May Call You Up Tonight”, was also written by Mike Brown, inspired by the girlfriend (Renee something, who was indeed a ballerina) who visited the studio with another band member.
The last original member passed away a few years ago, btw, but they did a reunion tour circa 2012.
the track SMCYUT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aNM6l0l3NY
Emerson, Lake & Powell - only album without Carl Palmer
Hawklords - 25 Years On - Some of Hawkwind, who couldn’t use the Hawkwind name, with a few others. Not the later incarnation, which had all different members.
Black Betty, she from Birminham, Way down in Alabam
Blind Faith should be on the list, for sure.
“Overkill” on “Cargo” is my favorite “Men at Work” song.
Totally agree!
I can only imagine what they’d be saying about that song if it was released today. I don’t even think a record company would produce it.
Dwayne Allman played in the studio for that album.
CTA had numerous albums, mostly after changing the name to merely “Chicago”. Same group.
Me too. Never heard of the rest of them.
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