Obviously, this list could be much longer. "Purple Haze" didn't even make the list. Neither did "Room Full Of Mirrors," "Manic Depression," "Third Stone From The Sun," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and so many others. Give me another day and the list is completely different. But I woke up this morning and found these 10 tracks in the front of my mind. And as Dylan, Hendrix's favorite songwriter, said, Don't Look Back.

10) "Foxey Lady": I've always heard this song as an inverse on "Purple Haze." It jams with the same cool swagger and features a great guitar solo. For the sake of your sanity and brevity, we'll assume that ALL these Hendrix tunes feature great guitar. I mean, isn't that the point?

9) "Ezy Ryder": The most annoying thing about the career of Jimi Hendrix is how brief it actually was. While no one can predict what a career would've been, it stands to reason that Hendrix had some serious exploring to do. This track was originally featured on The Cry Of Love, the first

Somehow, I didn't feel like I completely captured the era in my first blog, so I opted to put together this second one. As one reader of the previous blog pointed out both the Hoodoo Gurus and Simply Red put out albums in 1985. Also, so did The Long Ryders, Green On Red and a bunch of bands whose albums I didn't buy.

25) The Dream Academy--The Dream Academy: "Life In A Northern Town" was a moody, cool single that was supposedly about Nick Drake. Apparently, "The Edge Of Forever" was in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but I've never watched that entire movie, as there is usually a home fix-up show that demands my attention, so I don't actually know this. The best way to approach the 1980s was often to pretend it wasn't happening.

24) Katrina And The Waves--Katrina And The Waves: Guitarist Kimberly Rew was once in the Soft Boys and their Canadian releases on Attic Records were pretty cool power pop. I never bought the American releases, but I remember hearing some remixing and extra

Doug Fieger, the leader of the Knack, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer. While the Knack hadn't been a true commercial force since 1979, they still remained somewhere in the back of most pop music fans' brains, either as an answer to an unused trivia question or as a group in need of serious reconsideration. (Seriously, we live in an age when Tom Petty is the recipient of a FOUR HOUR documentary. Shouldn't Hank Williams receive 10 hours then?)

Here then are 10 things to think about when it comes to the Knack.

10) They Got Terrible Reviews: I'm still not convinced that Doug Fieger didn't sleep with the wrong person's girlfriend. So many reviews back during the Knack's fling with fame charge Fieger with being a sexist, a misogynist, anything just short of the absolute pervert. Fieger's attitude, apparently, makes the Knack's music unlistenable. I assume these same people have burned their albums by Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Gary Glitter, Pete Townshend and many

One of my readers suggested that since I was so down on the Who during the Super Bowl that I should make a list of performers who could pull off a half-time performance at next year's Super Bowl.

Now, as I stated in my previous blog, it would be nice if the music industry would nurture a new band or singer who really had the staying power of the bands of old. But you look out at what has become a major success story in the past few decades and there isn't much that fits the bill for mass entertainment. Nearly everyone is a cult artist.

With that in mind, here's what I think could work. Keep in mind, just because I placed them on this list does NOT mean I like their music. It only means I think they have what it takes to potentially pull off something the whole family will be talking about. Will I like it? Probably not. But then what do I like these days?

Don't yell at me that most of them are so old. Everyone I'd really want has trouble selling out small clubs, never mind a football