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This Top 5 comes from Chuck Levin of Wayland, Massachusetts. The actual full title of his Top 5 is Not So Fast With The Fadeout! Top 5 Songs That I Wish Would Continue Much Longer and it’s subtitled Does Someone Out There Have The Master Tapes So We Could Hear The Rest Of What The Band Played? Chuck is a life long music lover. He played a couple different instruments in his high school band, was an avid concert goer and occasionally guest DJs at WMBR in Cambridge, Mass. This is Chuck’s first Top 5 but he has already submitted another list we can look forward to.
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Blind Faith: Well All Right
Chuck’s first song was written by Buddy Holly and the Crickets. The version of the song he chose comes from the Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker Rick Grech supergroup from their one and only album. About the song Chuck said, “Stevie Winwood is absolutely on fire on the piano as the band jams into the fade out. How talented do you have to be to shine through so prominently in that quartet? I want to hear how it confinued unfil they stopped!”
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The VooDoo Dolls: Bone Dog
Chucks second song comes from the Boston group the voodoo dolls that released only one album, Not For Sale, in 1993. About the song Chuck said, “Superb Indie Power Pop Punk from the early 90s Boston music scene. Loyal to the genre, many of their songs are quite short in length. On this one, the band is cooking so hard as they fade out that I want to hear more and more!”
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Stevie Ray Vaughn: Tightrope
The third song that Chuck wishes would continue much longer came from 1989’s In Step which is the last album that Stevie Ray Vaughan did with his band Double Trouble. About Tightrope Chuck wrote, “Stevie and bassist Tommy Shannon are pufting their talents on full display as they head into the fade out. Each one on their own is fantasfic and their interacfion superb. How special would it have been to be in the studio to hear the rest of what they played?”
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Red Hot Chile Peppers: Breaking The Girl
Song number four from Chuck’s Top 5 is by Red Hot Chili Peppers and it comes off their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. About the song Chuck wrote, “There are so many layers of music going on as the vocals end and the band plays on that it’s almost symphonic. I very often play that secfion of the song a second fime as once is not enough. The 3⁄4 fime signature is not frequently used in pop music and pulls you in even further. On the album, the fade out ends abruptly without a break as the next song begins. It’s made me wonder – did they not realize how special a moment they were cufting into? Again, is there a master tape out there with the rest of what they played?”
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Family: Lives And Ladies
The number one song that Chuck wishes would continue much longer comes from the British band Family and appeared on their 1970 LP Anyway. Chuck had this to say about the song, “This is a unique war protest song that the exceptionally talented duo of Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney conceived. Family was operating on an artsy plane far above the norm, with eclectic compositions and lyrics that were downright literary. For this fadeout category, this was an easy number 1 pick. Underneath the guitar solo, they ignite a percussive clapping sound, one clap then two. They hadn’t used that in the song until then and it sounds fantastic! And we barely get to hear it. Why would they do that to us???”
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