Top Three Favorite Spain Songs - Election Results

Recently I asked the question, "What are your three favorite Spain songs?"

Election results are in: Out of 21 responses - 17 from Facebook, three from Twitter, and one from Ping - (band members don't count) the top three favorite Spain songs are: Untitled #1, Every Time I Try, and Nobody Has To Know (official tally below).

"Every Time I Try" will thus be added to Spain's live set starting in May. :) (Untitled is already in the set.)

Thank you everyone who let your opinions be known!!

Untitled #1: 12
Every Time I Try: 9
Nobody Has To Know: 6

Easy Lover: 5
Ray Of Light: 4
Before It All Went Wrong: 3
Our Love Is Gonna Live Forever: 3
Spiritual: 3
Mary: 2
She Haunts My Dreams: 2
Do You See The Light: 1
Hoped And Prayed: 1
I’m Leaving You: 1
I Believe: 1
I Lied: 1
I Love You: 1
It’s So True: 1
Long Time Ago: 1
Phone Machine: 1
Ten Nights: 1
Waiting For You To Come: 1
World Of Blue: 1

Quote Of The Day

Actually from yesterday (can't blame me for having trouble keeping up with my newspaper reading).

"I think it's a lot to ask of a candidate to think about not only who gave them money, but who those contributors might be doing business with," - Laura Friedman, Glendale (CA) City Councilmember. From here.

Today's update to this story is here: Lockyer, Chiang freeze money they got from developer

Read it and weep. Happy holidays and Merrrrry Christmas Los Angeles!

White Sand

"White Sand" is a song from the new "Blue Moods Of Spain: A History, Pt. 1", released this week from my Diamond Soul Recordings label. Enjoy as a song from my oft-neglected podcast, Diamond Sounds.

Blue Moods Of Spain: A History, Pt. One Now Available

13 previously unreleased songs, 20-page .pdf booklet with liner notes, archival photos, song descriptions, album credits, and lyrics, exclusively from bandcamp.com.

Treacherous Jaywakers - Life Is Lived In Vain & Hey Hey Hey

Another record I listened to was a test pressing of my first band Treacherous Jaywalkers' debut EP entitled "Sunrise". I couldn't find any of the songs on the internet but two videos of this band do exist on youtube. The videos were shot for Public Access TV in San Diego, CA sometime in 1990 shortly before the band broke up, if I'm not mistaken. These are songs from late in our repertoire...if you listen to "Hey Hey Hey" you can already hear the seeds of my band Spain, I'm even playing the same bass I used for "Blue Moods" in this clip. Treacherous Jaywakers was a band I started with friends in high school when I was sixteen, we recorded a lot of songs and I'm still proud of all of them. Enjoy.

Soulsavers - Love & Precious Time

Tonight was vinyl night...meaning I listen to old records from my youth while my wife falls asleep on the couch :) .... anyways, I came across the debut 2002 ep from a great band from the U.K. called Soulsavers...I sang on a song or two on it and on their debut CD called Tough Guys Don't Dance...happy to see the songs on youtube...I think they stand up pretty well...proud of the songs and of the band...enjoy.

Rocktime Podcast

Spain's latest song, "I'm Still Free", was included in a recent edition of the Rocktime podcast.