Random Bests II
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Best One Note Guitar Solo - Neil Young on his song Cinnamon Girl
Put simply, it's the right note. There is actually a better version on the CD reissue of John Entwistle's first album, Smash Your Head Against The Wall (it's played by Cyrano Langston)..
Runner up: Pete Townshend on The Who's I Can See For Miles

Best Farewell Speech - "You ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Johnny Rotten on behalf of the Sex Pistols.

Best Radio Station Mentioned In A Song - WJAZ on the Donald Fagen song The Nightfly
And independent station, playing jazz and conversation.
Runner up: Parliament's WEFUNK on P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) and WBALLZ on Snoop Doggy Dog's sample of P. Funk

Best Bass Player - John Entwistle... period
The Ox, The Quiet One, Thunderfingers, Boris... whatever you want to call him, there is/was/never will be anyone better.

Best Bass Player You've Never Heard Of - Victor Lemonte Wooten
Amazing player for The Wootens & B�la Fleck & The Flecktones.
Runner up: John Glascock (Gods, Carmen, Jethro Tull)

Best All Guy Band Fronted By A Woman - Pretenders
God i love Chrissie Hynde.
Runner up: Big Brother & The Holding Company (Janis Joplin)

Best Obscure Liner Note That Doesn't Refer To Music -
"We stood before it and began to freeze inside from the exertion. We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it: We called it mother, called it whore and slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas...."
An excerpt from Herman Hesse's Demian from Santana's second album Abraxas.
Runner up:
"Give me time! Now! Wierd Bierd! 3C, man! Really 3C. Cool, calm and collected. What's this strange omnipotent person doing on the back of our latest record? The Right Honourable Wierd Bierd Pridden. Yours Faithfully, Big T."
By Pete Townshend from The Who's Odds & Sods

Best Spoken Word Outro To A Song -
Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bedsitter people look back and lament,
Another day's useless energy spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one,
Lonely man cries for love and has none.
New mother picks up and suckles her son,
Senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white.
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?
Late Lament, written by Graeme Edge, on the Moody Blues song Nights In White Satin.



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