As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, September 29, 2017

#157 The Big Heat – Stan Ridgway (1986)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZfNo30VwNw
 
You can have roman noir and film noir – Stan Ridgway is the king of music noir, if that’s an actual thing. (It’s no accident that the title of this song is identical to that of the 1953 movie starring Glenn Ford.) This one is Ridgway’s best, but if you like it, check out “Peg And Pete And Me”, “Drive, She Said”, and “Camouflage”.
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