Topic: Tab Views
Most-viewed tabs for the month of May 2010:
27 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
24 - Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
20 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
20 - Trooper - Boys In the Bright White Sports Car
17 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
17 - Girlschool - Yeah Right (guitar)
17 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
17 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
17 - Max Webster - Blowing the Blues Away
16 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
Total Tab Views For May: 938
By section: Canadian-612 Girlschool-169 Various-70 Chords-87
Most-viewed tabs overall (up to May 31/10):
464 - Honeymoon Suite - Burning In Love
436 - Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
429 - Harlequin - Thinking Of You
334 - The Kings - This Beat Goes On
303 - A Foot In Coldwater - (Make Me Do) Anything You Want
274 - Harlequin - I Did It For Love
273 - April Wine - Cum Hear the Band
270 - Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light
265 - The Kings - Switchin' To Glide
260 - Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
Tabs reaching 100 overall views this month:
You Are the Light, Boys In the Bright White Sports Car, Deep Cuts the Knife, C'mon Let's Go, Diamonds Diamonds, Bus Rider
*Only tab views made by people (excluding my own views) are counted here. Webcrawler/bot views are excluded.
Updated: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 1:39 AM EDT
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In what's been a mostly overcast and rainy week, this seems like an appropriate tab to be posting, (although it's quite nice out today.) So, by request, "Blowing the Blues Away", a relaxed feel-good tune from Max Webster's 1976 self-titled debut album. Like "Let Go the Line", the previous Max tab posted here, this song was penned by keyboardist Terry Watkinson. While it seems like a pretty straightforward song, there are some things about the tab that I'm not sure about. Those things are outlined in the "Notes" section of the tab itself.
In 1974, Five Man Electrical Band scored a Top 10 hit in Canada with the song "Werewolf". The single, which peaked at #6, first appeared on the LP The Power Of The Five Man Electrical Band, a greatest hits compilation that was released in 1975. This same album was later re-issued on CD under the title of Absolutely Right: The Best Of Five Man Electrical Band. 
The Runaways are certainly topical these days, what with the feature film about their career that's currently in theatres. The film originally had a working title of Neon Angels: The Runaways. I guess that was abandoned somewhere along the line, since the final title seems to be simply The Runaways. That working title came from the fact that the movie is based on lead singer Cherie Currie's 1989 autobiography Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story.
The Helix track "Breakdown" comes from the band's seventh studio album, Back For Another Taste (1990). They toured extensively behind the album, playing showcase bars. At one point during this touring, while in England, the band were called home to Canada to tour, in order to build on momentum started when the song "Good To the Last Drop" took off as a single there. Ultimately, the album peaked at #82 in Canada and #179 in the US.
Today's posting features some early 1970's pop psychedelia from the dark side. "Where Evil Grows" comes from The Poppy Family's second (and final) album, Poppy Seeds (1971). The album was the follow-up to their highly successful debut album, Which Way You Goin' Billy? (1969), with its #1 charting title song.