That cockamamie Covid, among many other things, certainly allowed us the time and quarantined spaces within which to reflect, rewind, and apply a 2020 rear-view as it were to things gone real by. And me being me, with a turntable or two never more than a tone-arm away, took said opportunity to listen then list straight through my particular Life in Music – in all its strictly “SEVEN” and TWELVE -inch varieties, that is.
So then, Here’s what I hear first when I look loud and clearly back upon…
1955 – “ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK” (Bill Haley and his Comets)
1956 – “HOUND DOG” (Elvis Presley)
1957 – “KEEP A-KNOCKIN’” (Little Richard)
1958 – “BREATHLESS” (Jerry Lee Lewis)
1959 – “IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE” (Buddy Holly) (RIP)
1960 – “WHEN WILL I BE LOVED” (The Everly Brothers)
1961 – “HELLO MARY LOU” (Rick Nelson)
1962 – “WALK RIGHT IN” (The Rooftop Singers)
1963 – “THE MARTIAN HOP” (The Ran-Dells)
1964 – “NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO” (Chuck Berry)
1965 – “A MUST TO AVOID” (Herman’s Hermits)
1966 – “INSIDE – LOOKING OUT” (The Animals)
1967 – HEADQUARTERS (The Monkees)
1968 – WE’RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY (The Mothers of Invention)
1969 – STAND! (Sly and the Family Stone)
1970 – PENDULUM (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1971 – MEATY BEATY BIG AND BOUNCY (The Who)
1972 – ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
1973 – “RING RING” (ABBA)
1974 – “TINSEL TOWN (HITCH-A-RIDE TO HOLLYWOOD)” (Jan Berry)
1975 – GLAD ALL OVER AGAIN (The Dave Clark Five)
1976 – SINCERELY (The Dwight Twilley Band)
1977 – NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS (Sex Pistols)
1978 – “GIVING IT ALL” (20/20)
1979 – “I WANT MY WOODY BACK” (The Barracudas)
1980 – DEFACE THE MUSIC (Utopia)
1981 – PLEASANT DREAMS (Ramones)
1982 – SUNDOWN (Rank And File)
1983 – BANGLES EP (Bangles)
1984 – GO INSANE (Lindsey Buckingham)
1985 – “BLUE KISS” (Jane Wiedlin)
1986 – TELEGRAPH MELTS (Jandek)
1987 – THE COMPLETE MILLION DOLLAR SESSION
(The Million Dollar Quartet)
1988 – PAST MASTERS (The Beatles)
1989 – FLAT DUO JETS (Flat Duo Jets)
1990 – A PROUD CANADIAN (Stompin’ Tom Connors)
1991 – ARC (Neil Young)
1992 – 12 IN A ROOM (Mark Johnson)
1993 – ROCK (Tiny Tim)
1994 – AMERICAN RECORDINGS (Johnny Cash)
1995 – I JUST WASN’T MADE FOR THESE TIMES (Brian Wilson)
1996 – WRONG SIDE OF MEMPHIS (Johnny Dowd)
1997 – SURFIN’ RAMPAGE (Chesterfield Kings)
1998 – LIVE 1966: THE ‘ROYAL ALBERT HALL’ CONCERT (Bob Dylan)
1999 – BALLERINA BREAKOUT (The Lolas)
2000 – CANDYPANTS (Candypants)
2001 – “THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN” (Bee Gees)
2002 – THE MUSEUM OF ME (Chris Butler)
2003 – D.T. DELINQUENT (Jack Pedler)
2004 – MUSIC FOR THE GIRL YOU LOVE (Raquel’s Boys)
2005 – KaBOOM! (The Explosives)
2006 – “TOKYO I’M ON MY WAY” (Puffy AmiYumi)
2007 – ROCK IT RACKET (The Squires of the Subterrain and Big Boy Pete)
2008 – TEENAGE HEAD WITH MARKY RAMONE (Teenage Head)
2009 – LATE MUSIC (Dennis Diken with Bell Sound)
2010 – GREASY LOVE SONGS (Ruben and the Jets)
2011 – PLASTIC SOUL: THE EXOTIC BEATLES, PART FOUR
2012 – ONE DOVER SOUL (Alan Clayson)
2013 – REMBRANDT X (Sex Clark Five)
2014 – WaS (Electric Prunes)
2015 – POP SPACEMAN (Rick Harper)
2016 – INFLORESCENCE (8X8)
2017 – AMERICAN BEAUTY (CJ Ramone)
2018 – ELECTRIC LADYLAND: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION
(Jimi Hendrix)
2019 – BETWEEN THE LINES: THE COMPLETE JORDAN/WILSON
SONGBOOK (Flamin’ Groovies)
2020 – ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS (Bob Dylan)
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Gary Pig Gold may have grown up in Port Credit, run away to Hamilton to join his first rock ‘n’ roll group, hung out with Joe Strummer on his first-ever night in the UK, returned to T.O. to publish Canada’s first-ever rock ‘n’ roll (fan)zine, run away again 
to Surf City to (almost) tour Australia with Jan & Dean, come home again to tour O Canada with that country’s first-ever (authorized!) Beach Boys tribute band …but STILL, he had to travel all the way back to the USSR to secure his first-
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8:08 PM · Mar 31, 2021
January 27, 2021 at 3:13 am
Gonna make us work?! Fine…cheers, mate, here’s looking at you, Pig. Really can’t wait to start digging…except for, y’know, filling out gov’t. paperwork, trudging to the bank, stores, pharmacy, But I get it, it’ll be fun, a revelation, an unveiling of something extraordinary, except it was like breathing for somebody…I can relate, because I used to be like them, at least from the creative side…but the light said no, and I remain, in part out of spite, in part, laziness, and a wee, vain smidge of hahaha hope.