Irrelevant

It struck me today as I gently skimmed through the living section in our local Sunday newspaper -- it's that time of year for best of lists -- well, they had a top 10 list of best singles of the year

And I was like, none -- zero, got any airplay in Hawaii. So why would I as a reader of local newspapers even remotely care to read a half pager?

The irrelevance of the article kind of faded away -- and made me think, wow, my musical tastes are pretty irrelevant for this place as well

I have updated my list of songs that WWLT -- or what we listen to -- and again, none, zero will receive play here so ... take it for what it is, the height of irrelevance

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I've really grown fond of the fresh pop hooks of Keane over the past month -- I think I may have indicated before that the lead vox has a style that recalls the pop era of Queen in the early 80s -- Everybody's Changing is another hit off of a really great album, that no one west of the UK seems to be paying much attention to

Damien Rice -- here's another guy, huge in the UK -- and has the hooksy minimalist folk thing down -- if you like sparser emotional vox, like say Norah or Joan Arma.. -- this guy has an amazing evocative voice and haunting pop/folk style

I heard Mahgeetah on WOXY -- it's a little older -- from 2003, but My Morning Jacket has a pretty interesting approach on Mahg ... it reminds of some Jackson Browne influence and some nice 70s atmospherish, understated stuff, cool

The revival of Green Day -- American Idiot -- perhaps is the album that us long timers have been waiting for -- Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the hit that is getting massive play all over -- shows a very mature approach, solid lyrics and is a fusion of the serious GD and the power of early GD

Scissor Sisters was a unique find for me -- heard it on Virgin UK -- two songs, Laura and Take Your Mama -- ironically those two songs are unlike their other dance oriented songs, but these two are great pieces of compelling modern alterna-pop

I also have been listening to the new one from Kings of Leon -- as I often grumble, Europe gets their CD first -- very underappreciated band here in the lower 48 plus 2 ... Other notable songs I have enjoyed are Shivaree's older one -- Goodnight Moon where she takes a dark smoldering crooning approach that I really love out of Concrete Blonde's Johnette (also feat. on Kill Bill, Vol. 2)

An odd selection this time is the new one from DIO ... yes that Dio ... One more for the Road is exactly that -- a chug rocking dinosaur that could easily have been on Heaven and Hell/Mob Rules or Holy Diver/Last in Line ... Awesome, for all us old metal dinos