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.)

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

#185 Shakedown Street – Grateful Dead (1978)


 
Although I’ve never been a Deadhead, I’ve always liked a number of the band’s songs (“Truckin’”, “Uncle John’s Band”, “Hell In A Bucket”, among others). For me, “Shakedown Street” is to the Dead what “Nighttime In The Switching Yard” is to Warren Zevon: probably not their greatest work from an artistic standpoint, but with hooks and a beat that refuse to leave your brain. (Not that you would want them to.)

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