Wack Wack to Wait 'Til We Get Home

"Wack Wack"  Young-Holt Trio  Beg, Scream, and Shout: The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul
"Wading Through a Ventilator (live)"  The Soft Boys  A Can Of Bees
"Wagon Wheel"  Lou Reed  Transformer
"Wah Wah Man"  Young-Holt Unlimited  What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves
"Wail"  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion  Now I Got Worry
"Wailing Wintry Wind"  Baroness  Red Album
"The Wait"  Chris Joss  You've Been Spiked
"The Wait"  Pretenders  No Thanks! The 70s Punk Rebellion
"The Wait"  Pretenders  Pretenders
"Wait 'Til We Get Home"  Lone Justice  Lone Justice

  After almost the whole alphabet, my past is starting to show through in the past couple sets.  Half of these songs are from my 1980s late adolescence.  Lou counts among these - there was a renaissance of interest in both VU and all things Reed at the time.  It could be argued that this was when the rest of the world finally caught on.

  Still not sure how I missed Jon Spencer before.  There are16 tacks on that album, so expect to hear that a few more times.

  Chrissie Hynde is from Akron.  She has a vegan restaurant here in town, and I have been a couple of times.  I think I find the premise behind a vegan restaurant to be the same as Dick's Last Resort.  Dick's is just more honest about the fact that you are paying to be insulted.  That said, they have the best patio in town, and some of their mixed drinks are very good.  I like to go there on St. Patrick's day because they won't serve Guinness, so we have the place mostly to ourselves.  "The Wait" is from the Pretender's punk past and the version on No Thanks! is the single version (b-side to "Stop Your Sobbing") and is not nearly as clean as the album version.  The bridge at about 1:30/1:50, leading into the guitar break, in particular is more urgent - just thumping bass and drums.

  I only own two songs from the Young-Holt Trio/Unlimited and here they are.