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FUBAR
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I was all set to take this. I haven't attended many concerts, but the Steve Miller band concert was an annual rite of summer for a few years in high school and college.
Instead, I'll take a song that combines two of the greatest ever, one wrote the song, the other convered it arguably better (though arguably just more mainstream). As a deputy, I appreciate the sentiment. I shot the sheriff, Eric Clapton. 1974 song.
otb_lifer
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rd. 25
take one part rockabilly, one part punk ... toss in a blender with the muckiest muck from the muckiest of mucked up swamps - sprinkle in the brilliant Alex Chilton (producer) at the controls - and VOILA!
The Cramps - Human Fly (1977 song)
so they birthed a few genres here ... Psychobilly/Swampabilly/Punkabilly/Gothabilly/Horrorbilly - no matter what ya call it, one thing is certain - Lux (Elvis on 'shrooms) and Ivy (faithful sidekick, with her sweet pickin') forged a sound and style that stood out so distinctly, and it carved them their own unique niche in the rock universe.
most of their damage was done from the 80s up until when Lux passed away a few years ago, but this here track is from their first ever proper recording sessions, and shows just how honed and tight they already were - BUZZBUZZ
legendary live performances, scores of infectious tracks and albums ... a seminal act that had balls, chops, a sweetly sick sense of humor - oh, and they rocked the #### out like none other - they were truly in their own demented little world, and bless them for that.
take one part rockabilly, one part punk ... toss in a blender with the muckiest muck from the muckiest of mucked up swamps - sprinkle in the brilliant Alex Chilton (producer) at the controls - and VOILA!
The Cramps - Human Fly (1977 song)
so they birthed a few genres here ... Psychobilly/Swampabilly/Punkabilly/Gothabilly/Horrorbilly - no matter what ya call it, one thing is certain - Lux (Elvis on 'shrooms) and Ivy (faithful sidekick, with her sweet pickin') forged a sound and style that stood out so distinctly, and it carved them their own unique niche in the rock universe.
most of their damage was done from the 80s up until when Lux passed away a few years ago, but this here track is from their first ever proper recording sessions, and shows just how honed and tight they already were - BUZZBUZZ
legendary live performances, scores of infectious tracks and albums ... a seminal act that had balls, chops, a sweetly sick sense of humor - oh, and they rocked the #### out like none other - they were truly in their own demented little world, and bless them for that.
simey
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Buzzbait
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25.01 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By the Light (1976 song)
Mann’s version of ‘Blinded By the Light’ is the only time a Springsteen song hit No. 1. ‘Dancing in the Dark’ reached No. 2 in the summer of 1984, but was kept out by Prince’s ‘When Doves Cry.’
Mann’s version of ‘Blinded By the Light’ is the only time a Springsteen song hit No. 1. ‘Dancing in the Dark’ reached No. 2 in the summer of 1984, but was kept out by Prince’s ‘When Doves Cry.’
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Uruk-Hai
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Tom Skerritt
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25. Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (1971 song)
Such a great groove to this song. The guitar strum is so simple yet so awesome.
Treat Her Like a Lady
Such a great groove to this song. The guitar strum is so simple yet so awesome.
Treat Her Like a Lady
ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Crosby Stills, Nash and Young) - 1971 song
simey
Footballguy
25.xx- KC and The Sunshine Band - KC and The Sunshine Band (1975 album)
I played side one of this album all the time in 1975. Side one kicks off with the lively Sunshine Band song Let it Go (Part One), and then comes the awesome trio of That's the Way (I Like It), Get Down Tonight, and Boogie Shoes. Side Two is good as well with a mix of funk, disco, and ballads. Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch were a good songwriting team, and also wrote songs for other people. Nowadays Harry (KC) is hanging out in the sunshine counting his money, and Richard Finch is spending time in the big house for having sexual contact with a 17 year old male.
I played side one of this album all the time in 1975. Side one kicks off with the lively Sunshine Band song Let it Go (Part One), and then comes the awesome trio of That's the Way (I Like It), Get Down Tonight, and Boogie Shoes. Side Two is good as well with a mix of funk, disco, and ballads. Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch were a good songwriting team, and also wrote songs for other people. Nowadays Harry (KC) is hanging out in the sunshine counting his money, and Richard Finch is spending time in the big house for having sexual contact with a 17 year old male.
ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
Blank Generation - Richard Hell - Punk Song
ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
I had no idea that this kind of thing was frowned upon.Richard Finch is spending time in the big house for having sexual contact with a 17 year old male.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
yeahyeahyeah we all know the r n' r HoF is basically a joke ... but with some of the 'marginal' acts/artists they've let in, WHY NOT K.C.??!?25.xx- KC and The Sunshine Band - KC and The Sunshine Band (1975 album)
I played side one of this album all the time in 1975. Side one kicks off with the lively Sunshine Band song Let it Go (Part One), and then comes the awesome trio of That's the Way (I Like It), Get Down Tonight, and Boogie Shoes. Side Two is good as well with a mix of funk, disco, and ballads. Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch were a good songwriting team, and also wrote songs for other people. Nowadays Harry (KC) is hanging out in the sunshine counting his money, and Richard Finch is spending time in the big house for having sexual contact with a 17 year old male.
example - much more deserving (imo) than, say ... the Jackson 5
(and there are others worthy of induction, of course, but it's a KC choice here by Simey, so applicable soapbox)
Uruk-Hai
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Before they hit big (and the reason they did so) was that they were the brains behind "Rock Your Baby" by George McRae (sue me if you're worried about spotlighting at this point)25.xx- KC and The Sunshine Band - KC and The Sunshine Band (1975 album)
I played side one of this album all the time in 1975. Side one kicks off with the lively Sunshine Band song Let it Go (Part One), and then comes the awesome trio of That's the Way (I Like It), Get Down Tonight, and Boogie Shoes. Side Two is good as well with a mix of funk, disco, and ballads. Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch were a good songwriting team, and also wrote songs for other people. Nowadays Harry (KC) is hanging out in the sunshine counting his money, and Richard Finch is spending time in the big house for having sexual contact with a 17 year old male.
Uruk-Hai
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Don't EVEN get me started this morning. I've got too much to do, but KC not being in is a farceyeahyeahyeah we all know the r n' r HoF is basically a joke ... but with some of the 'marginal' acts/artists they've let in, WHY NOT K.C.??!?
example - much more deserving (imo) than, say ... the Jackson 5
(and there are others worthy of induction, of course, but it's a KC choice here by Simey, so applicable soapbox)
simey
Footballguy
Mister CIA loves that song.Before they hit big (and the reason they did so) was that they were the brains behind "Rock Your Baby" by George McRae (sue me if you're worried about spotlighting at this point)25.xx- KC and The Sunshine Band - KC and The Sunshine Band (1975 album)
I played side one of this album all the time in 1975. Side one kicks off with the lively Sunshine Band song Let it Go (Part One), and then comes the awesome trio of That's the Way (I Like It), Get Down Tonight, and Boogie Shoes. Side Two is good as well with a mix of funk, disco, and ballads. Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch were a good songwriting team, and also wrote songs for other people. Nowadays Harry (KC) is hanging out in the sunshine counting his money, and Richard Finch is spending time in the big house for having sexual contact with a 17 year old male.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
did not know this about "Rock Your Baby"
- man, that was as smooth a groove as any decade ever heardAND MORE HOF CRED FOR THEM
jwb
Footballguy
25.xx - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature - The Guess Who - 1970 Song
My favorite Guess Who song. Half of it (No Sugar Tonight) was the B-Side to American Woman, but for me, it doesn't work without the New Mother Nature part.
My favorite Guess Who song. Half of it (No Sugar Tonight) was the B-Side to American Woman, but for me, it doesn't work without the New Mother Nature part.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
If you listen to the music on that record, it becomes really obvious that it's the Sunshine Band -or at least, it sounds just like what they would sound like down the road (don't know if it's all the same players). I saw then at the Cap Centre in DC in 1977 and they did this song. KC couldn't come close to singing like McRae, so he sang it in his own style.did not know this about "Rock Your Baby"
AND MORE HOF CRED FOR THEM
dal_boys_phan
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25.xx - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama (1974 song)
Still out there, so happy to the song that propelled one of Kid Rock's biggest hits years later. It's a weekend, so I'm going to cut the commentary short.
Still out there, so happy to the song that propelled one of Kid Rock's biggest hits years later. It's a weekend, so I'm going to cut the commentary short.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
you posted this just as i was playing it 'in my head' and thinking that the guitar funk and popping key were reminiscent of KC, a sweeping keyboard crescendo up in there comes back so clearly in 'Please Don't Go'
all those years and I honestly never made the correlation ... cool to learn something new along the way
rockaction
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
kinda surprised it lasted this long, given that the genre had it's own category, and this is arguably on the 'Mount Rushmore' of the first American wave
rockaction
Footballguy
25.xx - Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On The Moon - Wildcard Song
A rat done bit my sister Nell...
A rat done bit my sister Nell...
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
The rhythm guitar part is almost exactly the same as "Keep It Coming Love" (oopsy - more spotlighting) and really similar to about 1/3 of the rest of their catalogueyou posted this just as i was playing it 'in my head' and thinking that the guitar funk and popping key were reminiscent of KC, a sweeping keyboard crescendo up in there comes back so clearly in 'Please Don't Go'
all those years and I honestly never made the correlation ... cool to learn something new along the way
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Airmail special!
Seriously, it's a tragedy what happened to this guy in his personal life. Last most heard from him, he was walking around his house with a blowtorch and looking for crack on his floor. Brutal. RIP.
worrierking
Footballguy
In a hurry, hope this isn't taken:
25.xx Rikki Don't Lose That Number-Steely Dan (1974 Song)
25.xx Rikki Don't Lose That Number-Steely Dan (1974 Song)
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
He put out a pretty good album not long before he died.
He never really had a chance, between his own addictions and his refusal to pull punches on what he saw as social ills. You can be sure the old white dudes running the music business were gonna make sure his voice never got as loud as it should/could/would have. Because Gil didn't #### around - he named names and pointed fingers.
GSH's influence on hip hop is incalculable. If James Brown was its sound, Gil was it's voice.
timschochet
Footballguy
Glen Campbell- "Rhinestone Cowboy"-1975 song
There's been a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon
Great pop tune
There's been a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon
Great pop tune
Buzzbait
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Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I'm trying real hard to think of another musician who was as jack-of-all-trades-and-master-of-all-of-them as Glen Campbell. Stevie Wonder & Paul McCartney, I guess; but those guys were stars from the beginning. Campbell was one of the few musicians who had a long, successful career behind the scenes and then became a bona fide superstar. Dude had an incredible voice and could play any damned instrument with a string attached as well as anyone else ever could.
timschochet
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Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Yeah, that's a good comparison. I had also forgotten Prince, who's more in the Stevie/Paul vein than Glen or Carole.
Doug B
Footballguy
Quoth Eephus from back in the 2009 Soft Rock Draft when I picked "Miracles" there:
"Wanna feel old? Grace Slick makes 70 years old this year."
Still kickin' at 76 years young -- then and now shots are interesting. She's not a train wreck, just aging gracefully.
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"Miracles" was recorded during a tumultuous time within the band, as singers Marty Balin and Grace Slick were barely on speaking terms. One of the underlying sources of discord has been said to be the fact that Balin was the only member of the band that Slick wouldn't sleep with.
Uruk-Hai
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I know this is heretical, but I like the singles they put out towards the end of the 70s more than most of what the original Airplane did. Balin was the singer on all of them, and they hold up way better today than their "classic" songs do to my damaged ears. "Miracles" us probably my least favorite of these records, but damned if it wasn't put together well. Balin was a ##### in a lot of ways, but he paid a ton of bills for the rest when most of them were zoned out. Grace is an icon, but she needed to shut the hell up after foisting "We Built This City" on us a few years later.
Eephus
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Eephus
Footballguy
Campbell also had a weekly TV show and starred in movies. Let's just say he had more range as a singer than an actor.
Mrs. Eephus and I went to see him at the Hollywood Bowl on his farewell tour a few years. Our kids didn't know who he was and wondered why we were going down to LA to see some old guy, so I tried to come up with some modern point of comparison to explain what a huge star Campbell was in his prime. I couldn't come up with any; TV variety shows died decades ago and pop music has fragmented into tribalism.
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Binky The Doormat
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Can't believe there are no comments on this one. Rod was so good at this point. Would highly recommend "Every Picture Tells a Story" in every catalog.
ETA: I see Simey's comments and having drafted before - I should have known!!
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timschochet
Footballguy
I've posted too much about this in other threads. For a brief period of time, as good as any rock and roller who's ever been.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Ever watch Blank Generation? Great doc with him and others in the NYC punk scene.
Eephus
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otb_lifer
Footballguy
AMEN.
and seeing the amazing mashup of genres here on everyone's board just goes to show how the 70s was the last decade where it was so much more mosaic ... i recall hearing Lou Reed followed by Jigsaw followed by the Chi-Lites followed by the Sweet followed by Manilow followed by Barry White, etcetcetc - all on the same freakin' AM RADIO station (77 WABC here in NYC)
nowadays the only way you sniff a run like that is on yer Spotify
jwb
Footballguy
sooo remember that station. And WNBC too.AMEN.
and seeing the amazing mashup of genres here on everyone's board just goes to show how the 70s was the last decade where it was so much more mosaic ... i recall hearing Lou Reed followed by Jigsaw followed by the Chi-Lites followed by the Sweet followed by Manilow followed by Barry White, etcetcetc - all on the same freakin' AM RADIO station (77 WABC here in NYC)
nowadays the only way you sniff a run like that is on yer Spotify
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Mark Simone was doing three hour blocks from selected dates in the 70s ... not the top forty countdown, but just a three hour run of what the actual day churned out (playlist wise) on that particular day.
he was doing this for about 5 years, called 'Saturday Night 70s' on WABC, from 8-11.
man, was i glued to that, last one i heard was 'bout five years ago ... and it was so emblematic of the diversity i pointed out in my previous post.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Yeah, and we complained like crazy about it.AMEN.
and seeing the amazing mashup of genres here on everyone's board just goes to show how the 70s was the last decade where it was so much more mosaic ... i recall hearing Lou Reed followed by Jigsaw followed by the Chi-Lites followed by the Sweet followed by Manilow followed by Barry White, etcetcetc - all on the same freakin' AM RADIO station (77 WABC here in NYC)
nowadays the only way you sniff a run like that is on yer Spotify
Prior to FM stations starting to play album rock that you would NEVER hear on AM, it was really a problem. That's why FM was such a big deal.
The Dreaded Marco
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25.xx The Kinks - Juke Box Music (1977) 1977 song
I had to get a Kinks song--first concert I ever attended, with my uncle in 1979. This is such a great song, and criminally underplayed on the FM dial.
I had to get a Kinks song--first concert I ever attended, with my uncle in 1979. This is such a great song, and criminally underplayed on the FM dial.
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