RRCCA Vol. IV -- "Before You Was Born" -- The playlist
by Crooow on Feb 17, 2012 1:07 AM EST
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There is no consistent distinction between cormorants and shags. The names "cormorant" and "shag" were originally the common names of the two species of the family found in Great Britain, Phalacrocorax carbo (now referred to by ornithologists as the Great Cormorant) and P. aristotelis (the European Shag). "Shag" refers to the bird's crest, which the British forms of the Great Cormorant lack. As other species were discovered by English-speaking sailors and explorers elsewhere in the world, some were called cormorants and some shags, depending on whether they had crests or not. Sometimes the same species is called a cormorant in one part of the world and a shag in another, e.g., the Great Cormorant is called the Black Shag in New Zealand (the birds found in Australasia have a crest that is absent in European members of the species). Van Tets (1976) proposed to divide the family into two genera and attach the name "Cormorant" to one and "Shag" to the other, but this flies in the face of common usage and has not been widely adopted.
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That Drummer, Mr.
James Gadson, is still active and is a proud son of KC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gadson
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
Rocket 88 Was
My first choice, but it was a few years out of my range. Glad to see it included.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 11:03 AM EST reply actions
I considered
That one as well as the Wynonie Harris song and a Louis Jordan song (“Saturday night fish fry” ) before deciding they were all too long before I was born. It was interesting to see 2 of those songs show up from others.
Oh, and props for the Bill Withers.
"Trying is the first step to sucking" -Jimmy Chance
Withers Wasn't Mine
I was legal to drink when that came out. I also submitted Jordan’s Caldonia, and gave him the choice.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 5:01 PM EST up reply actions
Oh
I just though Withers was yours because of the James Gadson comment.
It’s good to know there’s someone older than me on the site. Sometimes I feel ancient at 47 on here.
"Trying is the first step to sucking" -Jimmy Chance
3/5/50 Was My
Cutoff.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 8:10 PM EST up reply actions
1961
Would have loved to submit 1971 by the Stooges.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 8:20 PM EST up reply actions
Iggy Wrote The
Greatest contract rider of all time. No competition.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/lust-laughs
If you don’t have the patience or desire to read the whole thing, read page 3.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 8:29 PM EST up reply actions
Fantastic. Santiago. Dolphins. Jelly.
Page 4, he describes the guitar sound as needing to be as clear and brite as jackboots on cobblestones.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 8:51 PM EST up reply actions
He's Quite Literate
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 9:33 PM EST up reply actions
Absolutely. I've seen some old interview clips of "JIM" on Youtube
he’s no dummy. the album cover of The Idiot is a riff/homage to a famous paintin’ I can’t recall the name of the painter or the exact paintin’, but it do telegraph a certain hunger for the fine arts beyond smearing yo’sef with peanut butter and goading motorcycle meatheads into knocking your toofers out.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 11:45 PM EST up reply actions
Since Connor Moylan alluded to possibly having the most recent one,
and the most recent one on there is The Trooper, I’ll guess he did that one.
Props to My My, Hey Hey. I could have gone with that one (but didn’t).
"There is nothing shrewd about running a red light and later finding out it kept you from being hit by an asteroid." - philofthenorth
by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 17, 2012 12:05 PM EST reply actions
Yeah, The Trooper was mine
by Connor Moylan on Feb 17, 2012 12:40 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Excellent choice.
"There is nothing shrewd about running a red light and later finding out it kept you from being hit by an asteroid." - philofthenorth
by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 17, 2012 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
I had the chance to see Iron Maiden over the summer.
It was an amazing show. Even though they are older, they still can perform
by Connor Moylan on Feb 17, 2012 5:24 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Dickinson Is An
Airline pilot.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 8:11 PM EST up reply actions
I once saw Coheed and Cambria do a pretty amazing cover of this song.
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by averagegatsby on Feb 19, 2012 12:29 PM EST up reply actions
I'm Pretty Sure
This version of Gimme Shelter is the studio recording before they added the Merry Clayton track.
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My all time fave Stones song
Nice call to whomever pulled the trigger on that one.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 5:20 PM EST up reply actions
Keith Was In
A lucid stupor when he penned that one.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 8:12 PM EST up reply actions
The song I picked
I first heard as part of my final in History of Rock n Roll in college. We had to analyze a song that presumably we had never heard before.
"There is nothing shrewd about running a red light and later finding out it kept you from being hit by an asteroid." - philofthenorth
by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 17, 2012 2:11 PM EST reply actions
Props to whoever posted the Wynonie Harris version
of “Good Rockin’ Tonight.” I’m guessing that was Phil, since that was like 1947 and he was born in the early ‘50s or so. Either that or he posted the Hank Williams.* I’ve heard a dozen bar bands do that one, and heard like ten different recorded versions, but I’d never heard the original before.
*I once ran across a Census Bureau chart showing surnames by race. Black people, of course, have mostly British surnames, since those were the only ones that existed where they lived in 1865. So about 12% of Americans are black, but like 21% of people named Smith are black, and like 31% of Jacksons, and like 38% of Johnsons, and people named Williams are actually majority black.
Who the hell thinks “Radar Love” is a good song? And “Broken Wings” is one of my top ten most hated songs (“We Built This City” is the worst). I was there when that song came out and KY-102 PLAYED IT ALL THE FUCKIN’ TIME and it was horrible and gave me suicidal thoughts so at least I’d never hear it again. Now look what you’ve done.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
I remember We Built This City
Played at least 3 times on the radio on the way back from my first tae kwon do tournament, which was in Omaha, Nebraska. This was also the first time I saw cruise control being used on a vehicle. 1985.
Aw, man, I had a great car in high school
My dad worked for GE and he bought a company car used by this old-school salesman who retired. Green 1977 Ford LTD. Enormous old boat. The guy kept it in perfect shape, with all the oil-change receipts and everything. One of those huge old V-8 engines that turned over real slow and ran real smooth. I had that thing for like eight years. We once got eight people into it for a road trip to Memphis.
It had cruise control, but no power windows or power seats. Pretty much a no-frills working guy’s car.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
I knew these guys in a punk band and they wrote a song about my car (with a little poetic license)
Drive my car, drive real drunk
Drive my car into an old tree stump
Drive my car, drive real fine
Drive my car into a fast food sign
In my big green Pontiac
Behind the wheel is a maniac
Big green Pontiac
I’m gonna hit the road, I ain’t coming back
Drive my car, drive real stoned
Drive my car into the old folks’ home
Drive my car, drive real high
Drive my car till I crash and fry
(Chorus, repeated until they got tired)
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
by Juancho on Feb 17, 2012 4:46 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Love those old V8s
http://www.classyauto.com/v/Ford+Galaxie/XL/89930
Had a rusty one of these with the 390. Thing would get 9 to 11 MPG.
by BlueEyes_Austin on Feb 18, 2012 11:05 PM EST up reply actions
The 390 Was
A real sleeper. There were several hot rod versions of it. It was no slouch stock with a 2 barrel.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 2:49 AM EST up reply actions
Looked it up on Wikipedia
Mine was probably a 302, or possibly a 351. It was a solid car, and any idiot could fix it because it was pre-computers and catalytic converters and all that. I knew a guy who owned a ’50s GMC pickup and was into cars, and he taught me some basic shit, like changing the oil and the filters and whatever.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
My 1976 K5
Blazer is pretty easy to work on, and God knows I’ve worked on it plenty in the last 20 years. I can climb inside the engine compartment; try that with anything built after 1995 or so. I just rehung the right tailpipe and muffler with a coat hanger yesterday. Again. I’m going with stainless wire when I get around to it. I bought a roll yesterday. And no, it’s just an emergency escape pod for deep snow and backup for my 1997 GMC Jimmy.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 8:56 PM EST up reply actions
In about 1986
there was a straight two-lane road from the bottom of the Clinton Lake dam to Massachussetts St. south of town. I got the LTD up to 100 and cruised like a mile before slowing down. Incredibly irresponsible, I know, but I was 20 and wanted to know what driving 100 mph was like.
It would have gone faster than that, no question, maybe 120.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
I loved
My first car, a 1975 Grand Prix SJ, whose original owner had put a 455 engine in it. It had that old hard steel on the frame. It really would move, but when the 4 barrels kicked in you could almost watch the gas gauge go down. It would not beat the fast cars off the line but if you were racing far enough it would reel them in.
The speedometer went above 140, and my friend and i were on our way to a party out in the country, with a 12 pack of beer (we were underage) with two gone in a grocery bag on the floor of the shotgun side. My friend urged me to see if I could "peg it’- as the old speedometers actually had a peg on the right, and if you reached that speed, the needle would hit the peg.
Well, I pegged it. But while I was slowing back down to the speed limit we topped a rise and there was a policeman. He stopped me, and I sweated it out while he walked up to the car, wondering how fast I was going when he saw me, and whether I could lose my license.
He asked me if I knew how fast I was going, and I said no. When he said 72 in a 55 I almost celebrated. He had seen me when I had almost gotten down to the speed limit. He never asked to look in the grocery bag either. There has never been a kid so excited about his first ticket.
"Trying is the first step to sucking" -Jimmy Chance
You actually drove a car over 140 mph?
That is amazing. Completely insane, but amazing. I thought I was insanely stupid for driving 100. I didn’t feel like I was going to lose control of the car but I did feel like I was going way too fast.
For some reason I remember when we went 100 we were listening to the second part of “Live Rust” by Neil Young.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
Fastest I've ever gone was in my parents Camry station wagon
I did 112. I used to routinely do 100+ in that and my ‘87 Accord. I was doing 110 once and the wind guard flew off. I told my parents that I didn’t know what happened.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 23, 2012 5:15 PM EST up reply actions
I hit 114 in a rental car once...
It was still pulling, but I was driving into some fog.
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by averagegatsby on Feb 24, 2012 9:14 AM EST up reply actions
I recently did 130..
km/hr
"There is nothing shrewd about running a red light and later finding out it kept you from being hit by an asteroid." - philofthenorth
by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 25, 2012 3:29 PM EST up reply actions
I'm assuming the 'k' stands for 'kickass'
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 25, 2012 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
Of course.
"There is nothing shrewd about running a red light and later finding out it kept you from being hit by an asteroid." - philofthenorth
by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 25, 2012 7:05 PM EST up reply actions
I did 105 on my way from Des Moines to KC
I got pulled over a few miles later going 90 in a 70 and felt lucky.
Actually
I have done it twice. I did it in the summer of 2009 with my Pontiac G8 GT. However the second time was on a deserted stretch of road with the help of 3 law enforcement officers. 2 to make sure there were no other cars on the stretch, and one who rode with me. Sort of a controlled environment.
The first time I was just being a stupid kid. All kids do some stupid things. (Yes, your kid too!) A few of them die. The rest have stories.
"Trying is the first step to sucking" -Jimmy Chance
The best driver I have ever known was my best friend...
who was a quadriplegic who operated a car with hand controls. He got up to 140+ one day with me. Probably around 160ish. That was just from an on ramp on to a highway. Souped-up TAs will do that. I felt safe the whole time because I was in a brand new car at the time, 2001 maybe? But I would shit myself going 140 in a ’75 Pontiac. Btw, cars with hand controls rock because you can use a foot for gas and a hand for break.
I am the one who knocks.
I hit 100 in my first car
A 1974 Plymouth Fury III. Basically the 2-door version of the Blues Brothers car (which was a ‘75 Dodge Monaco). I actually still own it, and it’s sitting collecting dust in my father’s shop. Anyhow, I hit triple digits once on I-229 south of St. Joe, which is a pretty barren strip of Interstate. I swear it felt like I was floating over the highway. Not exactly a tight suspension in those old boats!
Ot Brakes
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by philofthenorth on Feb 23, 2012 10:55 PM EST up reply actions
I've Pegged Many
Different vehicles in my time. Probably never a true 120. I was in a Dodge Super Bee doing an indicated 150 on US 24, just south of Topeka, but I wasn’t driving. It almost certainly was nowhere near that fast.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 23, 2012 10:54 PM EST up reply actions
Fastest I've ever hit was 115 in a 1983 Plymouth Turismo
Screaming down a big old hill on 63 between Columbia and Rolla.
by BlueEyes_Austin on Feb 27, 2012 9:21 PM EST up reply actions
Radar Love And
Twilight Zone are both hilarious lyrics. Golden Earring was huge in Europe, but only a few of their albums made it across the pond. I had to figure out the lyrics to Twilight Zone in ‘82. I’m sure I got a lot of it wrong; fun to play, though.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 9:43 PM EST up reply actions
Weird
My favorite guy in “Wings” is ALSO Paul McCartney
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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 17, 2012 3:20 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Paul IS my favorite Beatle
He’s too mushy and soupy, but Lennon’s whole attitude was bullshit. George doesn’t quite count, and it ain’t Ringo.
They were very important in the development of rock, but it would have existed without them.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
As a long-time Beatles hater, I can say from experience
don’t tell a Beatles fan anything to the effect of
They were very important in the development of rock, but it would have existed without them.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 17, 2012 5:52 PM EST up reply actions
Yes...
I am a Beatles maniac and YES, this flips my lid…
This is the chronology of music:
Everything before the Beatles…The Beatles…Everything after the Beatles
I am the one who knocks.
The Beatles were really good at co-opting (read: stealing)
from others and popularizing it. It definitely would have existed without them. If it weren’t for Dylan getting them into drugs, they’d still be singing that awful saccharine pop bullshit they started off doing. They weren’t even the best British band at the time they were recording. That honor goes to The Kinks.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 17, 2012 6:58 PM EST up reply actions
You've proved your point...
I don’t know if I can honor anything you say from here on out…
Agree to disagree
I am the one who knocks.
I'm just glad this isn't going to turn into a protracted McKinneyan debate.
It’s at least 40% because of the singular mindset that you laid out above that I bristle at, as it’s such an insane and absolute train of thought that is simply impossible. And I sense that you were being a bit hyperbolic, but there are plenty of Beatles fans with that narrow, limited view.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 17, 2012 7:06 PM EST up reply actions
right on...
I used to not understand the Beatles, but once I realized the grasp of their influence my mind was blown. The main thing for me was that The Beatles, unlike other groups, took fame and ran with it. They didn’t duck and hide under the pressure, and remained themselves. Still shudders me that people with that much fame could still remain cool cats.
I am the one who knocks.
Dave Davies
really defined the hard rock power chord
"Trying is the first step to sucking" -Jimmy Chance
It's Not Easy
To maintain technical mediocrity for that long a career. It works well for the band, though.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 18, 2012 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
I would amend Phatt's timeline somewhat...
Everything before the Beatles, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and everything after that.
But.....But......But........
Hair bands
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094980/
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 9:35 PM EST up reply actions
So?
You’ve played in bands. You should know that ALL musicians act like that. Those 80’s groups just had that side of them exploited more.
They Reveled In
It. Poison were my favorite booger eaters of that era. C.C. DeVille forever!
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 9:45 PM EST up reply actions
I would say Warrant was the least self aware of that set.
Thus making them the most hilarious.
Motley Crue Was
Doing a reunion tour last time I was in LA. Now that was hilarious.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 18, 2012 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
Lennon's attitude I believe is faultily remembered...
because of all the bullshit econo-hipsters rolling around these days…he seemed like a truly honest guy…
I feel like my own personal love for Lennon has waned because of this effect. I associate him with the BS that followed and it just isn’t right.
I am the one who knocks.
by PhattStairs on Feb 17, 2012 6:28 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
He was a self-absorbed jerk
Why would anyone care whether he and Yoko Ono were sitting in a bag on a bed in an expensive hotel room to protest the war? If Lennon had survived, they’d probably have done a Beatles reunion about 1990 with a whole bunch of new crappy songs.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
Paul was
the king of the infectious hook and nonsense lyric. In his prime, he could’ve written a song about any mundane thing, written in a hooky chorus with nothing to do with the rest of the song, and it still would’ve been a hit.
"Trying is the first step to sucking" -Jimmy Chance
Yep
The original lyric for “Yesterday” was “scrambled eggs.”
by BlueEyes_Austin on Feb 18, 2012 10:57 PM EST up reply actions
He wound up thinking of something simple and memorable, though
that’s known in every country in the world.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
I Believe It
Is, or at least once was, the most often covered song of all time.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
It's not a nonsense lyric, either
In fact, it’s an excellent simple lyric. It’s not deep, but it’s a universal feeling. This is why it is often used as a teaching aid in high beginner ESL classes. Everybody from Mozambique to Tibet gets the concept.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
Denny Laine FTW!
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 5:08 PM EST up reply actions
Who knew Sam Cooke could sing like that?
Great mix of tunes. Well done.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 5:22 PM EST reply actions
Me
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 8:15 PM EST up reply actions
Was that yours?
Of course I was dicking around, but Christ, sometimes when you haven’t heard something for a long time, it can knock you on your ass.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 8:17 PM EST up reply actions
Not Mine, I
Just knew he could sing like that. Have a few @’s on me.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 8:19 PM EST up reply actions
Sam Cooke was mine
I had never really listened to him…this opened my eyes!
by BlueEyes_Austin on Feb 18, 2012 10:52 PM EST up reply actions
The list was fantastic...
well, minus the Broken Wings bullshit
Bill Withers – WOW, fucking amazing…kudos to the person that put that up…I am gonna take a random shot and say its Beau
Snuff Box – WTF? only Crooow himself would submit that
Ramones I’m guessing Tiquan
Mr. Mister has to be Tito, damn you Tito
Hank Jr. surprised me…I’m guessing OMD
Dick Dale I’m guessing Nighthawk
Ronettes fits phil, but I am guess he put up Wynonie
Take it from here OMD
I am the one who knocks.
I'm waiting to be outted before diving in.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 17, 2012 6:59 PM EST up reply actions
But for the record,
when I listened to them all last night, I thought for sure than Dick Dale was Nighthawk. And Wynonie seems like it has to be Phil.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 17, 2012 7:03 PM EST up reply actions
And I knew Iron Maiden was Connor instantly
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 17, 2012 7:07 PM EST up reply actions
I More Or
Less said so upthread, but good guess if you didn’t catch it. I pretty much had to go to the 40’s.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 8:18 PM EST up reply actions
I figured it had to have been yours.
That or Rocket 88 were the only two old enough, but I didn’t peg you for that.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 17, 2012 10:16 PM EST up reply actions
Pegged as usual
I’m too lazy to take a stab at the math, but I’m going to venture Nilsson for OMD. I generally agree with Stairs guesses, esp Croooow.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 8:18 PM EST reply actions
I think Tito is too old for the Mr. Mister...
but I still want to know who put that in there. I can handle a good listening to Radar Love once in a while, but Broken Wings was the ONLY track I didn’t listen to all of.
I am the one who knocks.
This Ridiculous Thing
Placed something like 97th on MTV or VH1’s Top 100 videos of the 90’s. It’ll be a while before this shows up in this list. Samsung is using it in their latest smart phone commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYNYb30nxU
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Yeah. Like a dog eating its vomit. Then shatting. Then eating the shat. And then vomiting.
Or in other words, derivative of Queen, filtered thru 15 other bands. Not to associate Queen with dogshit, BTW.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 8:53 PM EST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure they were kidding, man..
by thejosephboys on Feb 17, 2012 9:02 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Darkness = Weird Al Yankovich, or MTV = National Lampoon?
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 9:06 PM EST up reply actions
What's your guys' issue with the Darkness?
Sure the falsetto is a joke, but the combination ACDC rhythms, Thin Lizzy harmonies and Spinal Tap lyrics is at the very least good on paper.
I don't personally care for it, and was being inarticulate about my reasons why
I realize that most art/music is derivative of something, but Darkness a photocopy of a photocopy, etc…..but to each his own. Agreed with it should be good on paper. Dred Zepplin?
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 17, 2012 9:30 PM EST up reply actions
The Amazing Things
About Dread Zep are: A) Someone thought of it, B) They carried it off so well.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 17, 2012 9:38 PM EST up reply actions
The Darkness may be a crappy band...
but that one song was AMAZING, regardless of genre.
I am the one who knocks.
by PhattStairs on Feb 17, 2012 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
Dude, they're a parody act
A loving one, sure, but a parody nonetheless. Would you consider The Rutles or the Dukes of Stratosphear or Ween to be derivative?
by thejosephboys on Feb 18, 2012 1:34 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Scorn, like an angry bear, does not pause for nuance. Not should it.
Ween? More irritating than derivative, or serial genre hoppers. The Rutles, straight up comedy. I could never get down with XTC, had friends that loved them, but they always left me cold. Other parody acts: Monsters of Folk, Queens of the Stone Age acoustic sets, Smashing Pumpkins, Chris Gaines, Fleet Foxes, Odd Future, Wynton Marsalis, and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 18, 2012 7:42 AM EST up reply actions
I smell even bitterer
Mostly bluffing. I went to HS with Chris Gaines, that guy was intense even back then.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 19, 2012 12:25 AM EST up reply actions
To be clear
I don’t like any of the misc bands you mentioned either. (Smashing Pumpkins in particular. Jesus..)
Still though, that Darkness song, I would argue, is harmless fun by people that not only had the silly vision but bothered to see it to fruition. Short version: I’m not in to wacky shit either usually but they get a pass. They just do. The hook is too tight and the shooting-lightening-from-their-guitars biz at the end of the video is priceless.
by thejosephboys on Feb 19, 2012 2:27 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
I actually agree with you. I can tell from your posts that your taste in music has game.
I was caught in a moment of bombast.
by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 19, 2012 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
I Saw The
Video for the first time a month or two ago. I had never heard the song before. Good to know they’re not serious.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
this sparked a thought...
normally we tend to think that bands spawn other bands and the bands those bands spawn normally suck (say that five times fast).
A main example would be:
Nirvana then Bush.
But maybe it is more that one style of music gets big because of one band, then the other bands come out of the woodwork even though they existed all along. And because they didn’t come out of the woodwork by themselves, they probably suck.
I know I am not saying anything new here, was just something that made me think for a second.
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by PhattStairs on Feb 17, 2012 10:05 PM EST up reply actions
They are very entertaining in my book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMogMOjIH8M
Tell me they’re not having fun making music. Way better than a lot of music that gets processed through computers and sold the masses like Velveeta these days.
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- Crow T. Robot
biggest upset since Buster Douglas
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by PhattStairs on Feb 17, 2012 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
I did Mr. Mister
Do you all hate me now?
Don't you ever play GM- Lee "Touch of Gray" Judge
by tiquanunderwear on Feb 18, 2012 5:45 PM EST reply actions
for me...
It was just that the list had hit a stride. I was grooving to some Wynonie and some Rocket 88 (which I don’t ever remember hearing, so that was awesome), and I thought there was some real cohesion, and then SMACK, Broken Wings super machismo 80s bullshit.
I will say this. I don’t think I was fully mature until I was about 25 years old. There will be songs you love, then hate, then love, then hate again. It’s life’s bitch smack on your ego. I will again call this the Clockwork Orange effect. You hate, then sympathize, then hate again.
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with that said...
I am surprised with your maturity for your age.
I know I can think of all the stupid shit I did, and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that social media and the internets were in full stride yet.
I do think it is hilarious the weirdness that social media has brought into our lives. For example, I have a buddy that is a VP of a school and also a teacher, and some of his friends on facebook are students and when his friends from the high school days posts photos of him partying back in the day, he has to beg them to take them down.
I am the one who knocks.
And this is part of why I've never had a Facebook account.
Another small part is that it seems like when people surround themselves with their high school friends on there, their maturity levels go back to that stage.
Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.
Rock Chalk Talk
Ha!
I didn’t have any High School friends!
I mean… yeah.
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by averagegatsby on Feb 19, 2012 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
I See Nothing
Wrong with Broken Wings. I remember the song, but could not have named the band. I had no idea they also did Kyrie, Both are good, high gloss radio fare. I love it when something like this prompts me to look into a band’s history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Mister
Richard Page had previously worked as a session musician (for Quincy Jones) and had composed for Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Kenny Loggins, Al Jarreau, and many more. In the late 1970s, he and his childhood friend Steve George founded the band Pages (most notable song: “I Do Believe in You”) in Phoenix, Arizona, from which Mr. Mister was founded in 1980. The two continued to apply their tight harmonies to background vocals on albums by successful pop artists like Laura Branigan and the Village People, while working to break out their own material. All four members had done extensive session work for other artists and brought numerous influences to the band.
When the first Mr. Mister album, I Wear the Face, was released in 1984, Page was offered the chance to replace Bobby Kimball as lead singer of Toto, and later was offered Peter Cetera’s place in Chicago; he refused both offers
It’s interesting to me, anyway. Thanks, Tiquan.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 18, 2012 7:52 PM EST up reply actions
Bobby Kimball could have been the poster child for people looking to deter others from cocaine use.
I love Toto, but man, watch that Hold the Line video.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 18, 2012 8:13 PM EST up reply actions
A Lot Of
People thought Hold The Line was Kansas at first blush. Kimball was nothing like Walsh, though.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 18, 2012 10:24 PM EST up reply actions
I think
They are completely different musically, even besides the vocals. They come from totally different approaches. (Although Kansas’ second lead singer, John Elefante sounded more like Kimball than Walsh)
I love “Hold the Line”. I used to hang out with some hardcore musicians, most of whom were into heavier fare than Toto and were often disdainful of bands with more of a pop style. But they had a ton of respect for Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro.
"Trying is the first step to sucking" -Jimmy Chance
It's All Opinion
And I’ll put mine up against anyone’s. Rich did what he did, Lukather is a studio pro. Ehart, Porcaro, who cares. They’ll both do what you want them to do. They’re unlimited by chops.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 2:54 AM EST up reply actions
And Toto were essentially the studio band for much of Thriller,
so there’s that, too.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 19, 2012 2:57 AM EST up reply actions
Yep, Like Bread
They were studio cats who decided to come out and make some real money. KC And The Sunshine Band, too. There are many other examples.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 3:00 AM EST up reply actions
I love me some Bread
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 19, 2012 3:08 AM EST up reply actions
And Jeff and Steve Porcaro were legit
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 19, 2012 3:09 AM EST up reply actions
Little Known Fact
Lukather played the guitar lead on The Tubes’ Talk To You Later.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
I would have figured it was yours.
Either that or Golden Earring. I’m not hating on you, though.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 18, 2012 8:11 PM EST up reply actions
Yes. You gave me suicidal thoughts.
You made me think of that song, and that made me think of “We Built This City,” and that reminded me of 1985, and it just got worse from there.
Our College Bowl team got twenty points on that theme against Washington-St. Louis.
The question was, "According to a hit song this year, we built—
BUZZ. Other team: “Jefferson Starship.”
Moderator: "No, I’m sorry, According to blah, we built this city on what?
Me: BUZZ. “On Rock And Roll!” And they’re dead, we get the bonus question and go on to wipe them out. Would have protested their answer anyway on the grounds their name was simply “Starship” at that time.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
Mickey Thomas Sang
Fooled Around And Fell In Love for Elvin Bishop. I don’t think he got much credit for that.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
The John Mayall was me.
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by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 18, 2012 10:57 PM EST reply actions
Not sure why, but I was going to guess Klaassen on that one, although I wasn't sure he'd submitted this time around.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 19, 2012 1:17 AM EST up reply actions
The Ronettes was mine
"You're like that guy who wrote that thing about remembering stuff!!"
- Crow T. Robot
Would not have gotten that one.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 19, 2012 1:16 AM EST up reply actions
Guesses
All right, these were the ones that have been claimed already (I would have guessed the ones submitted by Nighthawk, Phil, Connor, and Tiquan, I had no idea on KeepItCopacetic’s and Crooow’s, and I wouldn’t have guessed BlueEyesAustin was in the mix)
Dick Dale – Nighthawk
The Ronettes – Crooow
Iron Maiden – Connor
John Mayall – KeepItCopacetic
Wynonie Harris – Phil
Sam Cooke – BlueEyes
Mr. Mister – Tiquan
This leaves:
Wings – PhattStairs (I believe you are within a year of my age making this fall just barely outside of five years)
Bill Withers – thejosephboys
Small Faces – Loose Seal
Neil Young – dadunca
Harry Nilsson – Retro
Golden Earring – no idea (and I would guess that Klaassen submitted one, but would have to rework some predictions)
Jackie Brenston/Ike Turner – KHAZAD
The Stones – Tito, although I’m basing this solely on the fact that he found a replacement video for the one that was taken down, which is sort of cheating
Screaming Jay Hawkins – Juancho
The Ramones – Gatsby
Hank Williams – Kansas City Keith
There was one person who doesn’t appear to have posted in either thread that I simply cannot divine.
That leaves the selection from Snuff Box for me. Apparently no one is familiar with the sketch show that it comes from, but I was hoping someone would at least recognize Matt Berry, Rich Fulcher, or Richard Ayoade and get a kick out of it. The clip ‘happens’ in 1974, making it barely work (1979, bitches) if we’re accepting the alternate reality created in the show.
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Not a bad guess, but "Rocket 88" was mine
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
And since gatsby is my long lost twin and I looooove the Ramones...
It will be interesting to see if that is right
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1979 is an excellent vintage
And yes, Gimme Shelter was mine. I should have gone with that clip in the first place. I didn’t because I usually don’t like montages that fans put together on YouTubes, but that one has many of the iconic photographs of an age I never lived to see, and is pretty well done, actually.
It's an awesome video
Never heard it without Merry Clayton.
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It Was Definitely
The studio recording.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
I indeed chose the Ramones...
I had no idea that song was that old… All I did was google top 100 songs of 1976, and it was like 5
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by averagegatsby on Feb 19, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
I did the Nilsson
Wanted to go with Jump into the Fire, but it was a little long so I went with Gotta Get Up.
Yeah,
the Nilsson, Small Faces, and Bill Withers could have all been chosen by the three of you (you, thejosephboys, and Retro) in my book. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. There’s a fair amount of crossover, especially with you and thejosephboys, so it was kind of randomly assign who did what at a certain point.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 19, 2012 4:54 PM EST up reply actions
Mine was the Billy Nicholls (Small Faces)
important to make the distinction as that Billy Nicholls LP is one of the great “lost” rock albums of the 60’s. More Zombies/Left Banke than Small Faces.
by thejosephboys on Feb 19, 2012 2:23 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
The Zombies Are
Remarkable in that their hits could be released today and not sound dated.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
I read somewhere that there was a band billing itself as the Zombies
and playing all the Zombies’ songs, but none of them had ever been in the Zombies, and all the guys who really were in the Zombies are like, dead or something.
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Looks Like They're
Still alive and well.
http://thezombies.net/present/biography/
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 3:21 PM EST up reply actions
Speaking Of Which
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdB3msFJWyM
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
Along those lines, I'm waiting for all the Rolling Stones to die.
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by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 20, 2012 1:40 AM EST up reply actions
Has A Rocker
Died of old age? I can’t think of one.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 20, 2012 4:19 PM EST up reply actions
Well Jerry Garcia...
was reported to have died from natural causes. So there’s that.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 20, 2012 10:51 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Garcia died, I believe, of a heart attack
due to the cocktail of drugs he was taking (and had been for many years), supposedly for an abcessed tooth. The wave of million-dollar lawsuits that followed Garcia’s death over his fortune shows what a real down-to-earth workingman he was.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
Well, most rockers are young at the time, and rock hasn't been around long enough
for many to be in that position.
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by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 20, 2012 10:59 PM EST up reply actions
What Was His
Official COD?
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by philofthenorth on Feb 21, 2012 12:23 AM EST up reply actions
Stomach cancer. I'd say probably not. George Harrison died of cancer as well.
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by KeepItCopacetic on Feb 21, 2012 12:42 AM EST up reply actions
Carl Perkins Was
Throat cancer.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 21, 2012 1:32 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I've Always
Said after 75 years, no body part fails. It has already succeeded wildly. So Bo died at 79 of heart retirement. I guess that counts.
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by philofthenorth on Feb 21, 2012 9:52 AM EST up reply actions
Over-and-unders
Jagger, Ray Davies, and McCartney will all make it to 80. Richards won’t. Neither will Dylan or Neil. I’m taking the under on Townshend as well, and on everyone who was ever in Led Zep. I’ve got Eddie Van Halen under 70, along with the guys in Aerosmith. Ringo will outlive all the rest of them, except Johnny Rotten, who will make it to 103.
"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943
I'll bet Whitford and Perry both make it to 70.
Perry became a health nut after getting clean and Brad Whitford never really had a drug problem at all. And isn’t Jimmy Page like 70 now? He’s still pretty active, I could him going another ten years.
If Johnny Rotten makes it to 103, it’s safe to say there is no correlation between talent and longevity.
That leaves twelve years left for him to croak
on the 80-year over-under.
That bunch of ‘70s California singers-songwriters—Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Don Henley—isn’t going to make 80 either.
Charlie Sheen’s not going to make 60. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sean Penn didn’t make 70.
The other guy who’s going to live to 103 is Willie Nelson. He’s disinfected his entire body with so much marijuana smoke that it’s cured, like a ham, and can’t be infected.
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Neil Young wasn't me.
I’m only going to submit songs I’ve played in a band. The best guess for me is always a bar band staple.
I can't stop watching the Snuff Box video...
Just so many angles of awesome. I can’t even begin to explain my glee.
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Awesome.
It’s so goddamn funny. The show is out on DVD stateside. It’s not always that amazing, but YouTube will return a plethora of great clips from the show.
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 19, 2012 4:55 PM EST up reply actions
Oh man...
the smooth radio voice interviewer… The Spinal Tap type dialog, Im still not convinced the guitarist (playing the righteous double guitar) and the keytar thingy aren’t the same guy. And its pretty over the top too.
And holy shit, upon further review… That isn’t a double guitar, that is a bass guitar and 12 string guitar combo.
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by averagegatsby on Feb 19, 2012 7:58 PM EST up reply actions
This Is The
Son of one of the pilots I work with, screwing around with a cam and some editing equipment circa 2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaxNXklP-Ik
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by philofthenorth on Feb 19, 2012 9:04 PM EST up reply actions
The interviewer is Richard Ayoade.
He was also in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and The IT Crowd and also wrote and directed Submarine. He was featured a few times in The Mighty Boosh as well, as was Rich Fulcher (the shorter fatter one on the 12-string/bass) although he was on it much more.
Matt Berry is a goddamn comic genius. He was also in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace and was The IT Crowd from series two on. He was in two episodes of Saxondale, which is fucking amazing, and on two episodes of The Sarah Silverman Program. He’s also released two records. Better yet, he did this (from Garth Marenghi):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4_mZh-bj8
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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 19, 2012 9:23 PM EST up reply actions
I put in the Neil Young.
I was angry that Sophie B. Hawkins didn’t start her career five years before my birth.
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