2022 FBG, 172 to 1 Beatles Countdown 1-25 lists... And 173 to 1 Countdown from 1-64 lists! (1 Viewer)

[Zegras11]

Chalk Rankings Top 10. #151T = 21.5 pts. Sponsored by: This space for rent

1 --Krista (Mom)---34.5

2 --anarchy99---32

3 --Krista (TJ/Holly)---28

4 --Krista (Sharon)---24.5

5 --Man Of Constant Sorrow---23

6 --Encyclopedia Brown---20

7 --ManOfSteelhead---19.5

8 --AAABatteries---18

9 --Alex P Keaton---18

10 --BinkyTheDoormat---15

 

[falguy]

For You Blue is a great tune.  Another one I had never heard before I started this process that instantly had me on board tapping along.  Due the fact I love so many songs on Let It Be, it never had a chance in my top 25 - I have at least 5 I like more form this album - but it's definitely in my top 60, or so.  The Beatles catalog is so strong.  

 

[heckmanm]

higher (Binky, you know what to do)

 some of my favorite running shtick across all these threads

 

[Zegras11]

 some of my favorite running shtick across all these threads

I'm surprised I don't have his 1-64 list in my inbox this morning.

 

[Anarchy99]

Don’t Bother Me
2022 Ranking: 157T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 8
Ranked Highest by: @Binky The Doormat (18)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 121/1/9

Randy Bachman rocks a little more than the original. Bob Leaper goes 60s movie Western soundtrack style. Ringo Ska and I-Tones more reggae / ska. LES ROBOTS has a cool surfer vibe. There are normally a few people like Perynn that sings or plays all the parts on YouTube. Interesting to watch them once on occasion. Not worth a steady diet of, but ok in small doses.

Smithereens, Sebastian Zaus & The Suplentes, Diane Horder, Randy Bachman,  Luis Alberto Spinetta, Bob Leaper, 
Hot Club of San Francisco, Bruce Lang, Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, Telstars, Marty Murray, Ringo Ska, I-Tones, Gregory Phillips, Eytan Mirsky, Steve Wynn, Danny Colfax Mallon, Les Fradkin, LES ROBOTS, Dtrll Smth, Perynn    

 

[Pip's Invitation]

For You Blue
2022 Ranking: 151T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 11
Ranked Highest by: @Man of Constant Sorrow (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 111T/1/11

Getz: This song received some "Get Back" time. See video link below. I can see MoCS when I hear this.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  146

2019 write-up:

For You Blue (Let It Be, 1970)

I LOVE THE LAP STEEL GUITAR ON THIS SONG.  I love the sound of that guitar and the slide; I've read variously that John used a lighter, a shotgun shell, and a lipstick tube as the slide.  George called this a "happy-go-lucky" song, and his vocal has a nice sweet quality to it.  Paul did some interesting work on the piano, putting paper between the strings to give it a fuzzy sound.  The problem I have with this song is George's silly talking during the middle.  Maybe that's just them having fun, but it detracts for me.  Though I enjoy George's vocal on this, I think I'd enjoy it more as just an instrumental.  Still a great groove, though.

Mr. krista:  "Seems fun.  Well, compared to The Long and Winding Road, surgery seems fun.  I like the self-deprecating bits of dialogue. I like the DoBro steel guitar. It was like a really concise Allman Brothers song."

Suggested cover:  Well, I can't resist this:  Dhani Harrison

2022 Supplement:  I felt like this should have been higher (Binky, you know what to do) at the time and still do today.  Not sure why it got so lost in my rankings.  Oh…holy ####.  I just read my write-up and see I docked it for George’s talking, which is now one of my favorite parts.  I love the “Go, Johnny, go!” and the rest of it.  Must have been in a bad mood when I wrote that one.

In the studio on this one:   and from the Get Back documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abPLPAm5q9o

Guido Merkins

The Beatles were not a blues band.  Obviously all rock and roll and R&B, and pretty much any other form of American music is based on the blues, but the Beatles very rarely did something that could be considered a straight up 12 bar blues.  One of the only examples was given to us by George on the Let It Be album called For You Blue.

For You Blue was written about Pattie Boyd, George’s wife and her blue eyes.  There is a lap steel guitar played by John, ironic in that it was Harrison who would spend the rest of his career playing slide, but for this John did it.  There is no bass guitar on the track because Paul is playing a piano.  They wanted a certain sound out of the piano, so they put newspaper on the strings to give it kind of a buzz sound.  I guess make it sound old-timey.  

I love George encouraging John with stuff like “go Johnny go” and “Elmore James got nothing on this” as he chuckles.  George’s vocal on this is very good as well.  George calls the song “a 12 bar blues that follows all the principles of a 12 bar blues, except it’s happy go lucky.”  I think that’s a better description than I could ever do, so I’ll leave it at that.

This one went up in my rankings (but not into top 25) after I saw Get Back. I lamented previously that George’s songs on Let It Be aren’t of the same quality that he had on Abbey Road and most of ATMP. On the album itself, FYB just seems like an aside, something that’s only there because they needed a second George song. But the palpable fun they were having when working on this in Get Back made me reconsider it. It’s like they are flashing back to their younger days where they absorbed all things blues, early rock, soul and R&B, and forged their own way with those ingredients. The real-world responsibilities that were weighing them down completely disappeared when they were working on this song.

 

[ConstruxBoy]

This one went up in my rankings (but not into top 25) after I saw Get Back. I lamented previously that George’s songs on Let It Be aren’t of the same quality that he had on Abbey Road and most of ATMP. On the album itself, FYB just seems like an aside, something that’s only there because they needed a second George song. But the palpable fun they were having when working on this in Get Back made me reconsider it. It’s like they are flashing back to their younger days where they absorbed all things blues, early rock, soul and R&B, and forged their own way with those ingredients. The real-world responsibilities that were weighing them down completely disappeared when they were working on this song.

I was going to ask that. I'm just now watching it, after I submitted my list. But I'm sure most people on here already watched it. So it's likely that the songs featured in the documentary are going to be "over" rated, right?

 

[krista4]

2019 write-up:

For You Blue (Let It Be, 1970)

I LOVE THE LAP STEEL GUITAR ON THIS SONG.  I love the sound of that guitar and the slide; I've read variously that John used a lighter, a shotgun shell, and a lipstick tube as the slide. 

An underappreciated gem.  I think watching them working on this in "Get Back" were some of my favorite parts.  Had no clue John played the steel on this one.  

Now you're just messing with me, right?

 

[krista4]

I was going to ask that. I'm just now watching it, after I submitted my list. But I'm sure most people on here already watched it. So it's likely that the songs featured in the documentary are going to be "over" rated, right?

Probably.  I made a last-minute switch of my #24 that is probably a direct result of watching it.

 

[Shaft41]

Now you're just messing with me, right?

The default way to read anything I write in this thread with information is by following the statement with "UNTIL I READ IT IN KRISTA'S WRITEUP".

 

[Zegras11]

All Together Now
2022 Ranking: 151T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 11
Ranked Highest by: Krista (Mom/Hub) (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

Getz:  Our first voter to have three appearances.  Likely 180-+ for me. 2002 mr.k add on this one.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  171

2019 write-up:

All Together Now (Yellow Submarine, 1969)

This song, along with a few others that will come up soon-ish, is a children's song but still a blast for me.  It's also been a popular "terrace chant" at English football games - I think it was the Ron Howard documentary that had video of this (though I might be mixing that up with a different doc).  I went to see the remastered Yellow Submarine in the theater last year, and the rollicking great time people were having singing along with this one at the end might have positively affected my rating of the song.  Sure, it's a trifle, but it's just ####### fun.  Sometimes that oughta be enough.

Mr. krista:  "It’s a fun song.  It’s appropriate for a children’s movie.  [Discussion whether YS is a children's movie.]  It’s very gentle, and both a children’s song and a drinking song."

Suggested covers:  I would not argue it is "good," but the André 3000 version cracks me up.  Of course The Muppets version is recommended.

2022 Supplement:  I have a few friends who submitted lists this time around, and one of them started a chat with a third friend that began, “On the other front, what is your least favorite Beatles song?  Other than “All Together Now,” obviously.”  I’m happy with my 2019 ranking here.  It’s a fun sing-along borne of Paul’s father’s experiences in dancehall bands, but nothing more than that.  Even Paul describes it thus:  “It's a play away command song for children. It would be in G, very very simple chords, only a couple of chords, so that's what this is. There's a little subcurrent to it but it's just a singalong really. A bit of a throwaway.”

I like the “bom bom bom bom” parts and all the weird sounds.  And Paul is, as we’ve discussed in other thread, a masterful counter.

2022 Mr. krista Supplement:  I like it.  You could see a bunch of people raising steins and singing along to it, and also children, because drunks and children are essentially the same.  They’re both equally amused by the same ####.

Guido Merkins

One of the many cool things about the Beatles is that here is something for everyone.  From 8 to 80, the Beatles have a song for you.  Whether it’s When I’m 64 for the older people or All Together Now for the kids.

All Together Now was written specifically for the light hearted Yellow Submarine film and was kind of an invitation for everyone to sing a long.  The lyrics are very nursery rhymed (one two three four, can I have a little more…) etc.  Add a little hand clapping, ukelele, and some by 1969 totally passe harmonica from John Lennon, and you have the makings of a children’s song that fits with an animated film.

Play this song back to back with Tomorrow Never Knows and it’s amazing that it’s the same band, but it fits perfectly with the film, even if it’s not one that I listen to very often.

 

[Zegras11]

Chalk Rankings Top 10. #151T = 21.5 pts. Sponsored by: FFA Recently Boring Foodapooloza

1 --Krista (Mom/Hub)---36

2 --Krista (Mom)---34.5

3 --anarchy99---32

4 --Krista (TJ/Holly)---28

5 --Krista (Sharon)---24.5

6 --Man Of Constant Sorrow---23

7 --Encyclopedia Brown---20

8 --ManOfSteelhead---19.5

9 --AAABatteries---18

10 --Alex P Keaton---18

 

[simey]

For You Blue

This song has a "feelin' good" way about it. I like it.

 

[simey]

All Together Now

This song reminds me of Sesame Street and an Irish bar.  

 

[Leroy Hoard]

This song reminds me of Sesame Street and an Irish bar.  

Big Bird downing shots of Irish whiskey and picking a fight with Elmo.

 

[simey]

Big Bird downing shots of Irish whiskey and picking a fight with Elmo.

 

[zamboni]

All Together Now

This song reminds me of Sesame Street and an Irish bar. 

Brought to you by the number 9.

 

[falguy]

You could see a bunch of people raising steins and singing along to it, and also children, because drunks and children are essentially the same.  They’re both equally amused by the same ####.

You could see a bunch of people raising steins and singing along to it - TRUE
drunks and children are essentially the same - TRUE
They’re both equally amused by the same #### - TRUE

can't argue with any of this.

 

[simey]

Brought to you by the number 9.

 

[Shaft41]

All Together Now
2022 Ranking: 151T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 11
Ranked Highest by: Krista (Mom/Hub) (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

Getz:  Our first voter to have three appearances.  Likely 180-+ for me. 2002 mr.k add on this one.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  171

2019 write-up:

All Together Now (Yellow Submarine, 1969)

This song, along with a few others that will come up soon-ish, is a children's song but still a blast for me.  It's also been a popular "terrace chant" at English football games - I think it was the Ron Howard documentary that had video of this (though I might be mixing that up with a different doc).  I went to see the remastered Yellow Submarine in the theater last year, and the rollicking great time people were having singing along with this one at the end might have positively affected my rating of the song.  Sure, it's a trifle, but it's just ####### fun.  Sometimes that oughta be enough.

Mr. krista:  "It’s a fun song.  It’s appropriate for a children’s movie.  [Discussion whether YS is a children's movie.]  It’s very gentle, and both a children’s song and a drinking song."

Suggested covers:  I would not argue it is "good," but the André 3000 version cracks me up.  Of course The Muppets version is recommended.

2022 Supplement:  I have a few friends who submitted lists this time around, and one of them started a chat with a third friend that began, “On the other front, what is your least favorite Beatles song?  Other than “All Together Now,” obviously.”  I’m happy with my 2019 ranking here.  It’s a fun sing-along borne of Paul’s father’s experiences in dancehall bands, but nothing more than that.  Even Paul describes it thus:  “It's a play away command song for children. It would be in G, very very simple chords, only a couple of chords, so that's what this is. There's a little subcurrent to it but it's just a singalong really. A bit of a throwaway.”

I like the “bom bom bom bom” parts and all the weird sounds.  And Paul is, as we’ve discussed in other thread, a masterful counter.

2022 Mr. krista Supplement:  I like it.  You could see a bunch of people raising steins and singing along to it, and also children, because drunks and children are essentially the same.  They’re both equally amused by the same ####.

Guido Merkins

One of the many cool things about the Beatles is that here is something for everyone.  From 8 to 80, the Beatles have a song for you.  Whether it’s When I’m 64 for the older people or All Together Now for the kids.

All Together Now was written specifically for the light hearted Yellow Submarine film and was kind of an invitation for everyone to sing a long.  The lyrics are very nursery rhymed (one two three four, can I have a little more…) etc.  Add a little hand clapping, ukelele, and some by 1969 totally passe harmonica from John Lennon, and you have the makings of a children’s song that fits with an animated film.

Play this song back to back with Tomorrow Never Knows and it’s amazing that it’s the same band, but it fits perfectly with the film, even if it’s not one that I listen to very often.

I love children’s songs where we take people to bed. 

 

[Zegras11]

You could see a bunch of people raising steins and singing along to it - TRUE
drunks and children are essentially the same - TRUE
They’re both equally amused by the same #### - TRUE

can't argue with any of this.

I wanted to use that line somehow in the sponsor section, but I also don't want to get banned.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I was going to ask that. I'm just now watching it, after I submitted my list. But I'm sure most people on here already watched it. So it's likely that the songs featured in the documentary are going to be "over" rated, right?

That's possible but Abbey Road and Let it Be have always been my two favorite albums well before "Get Back".

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Now you're just messing with me, right?

Did people miss George's "Go, Johnny Go" all these years? 

 

[falguy]

I wanted to use that line somehow in the sponsor section, but I also don't want to get banned.

we don't need no stinkin' mid-countdown banning's!  :cough:Timschochet:cough:

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Getz:  Our first voter to have three appearances.  Likely 180-+ for me. 2002 mr.k add on this one.
 

Sorry, Mrs. krista4.

 

[Anarchy99]

Baby, You’re a Rich Man
2022 Ranking: 156
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 9
Ranked Highest by: @Anarchy99 (17)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

I'm a little surprised that I was the only one voting for this one, but I guess with only 25 votes to dole out that a lot of folks wouldn't rank it that high.

Circle Link is a modern version with the same spirit. Analogues always try to clone the original. Steve Ewing makes it just a rock song without all the effects.

The Weeklings, Wooden Wand, Beat Bugs, Brian Sands, Mark Joseph, Dean Brown, Circe Link, Dr. Zing, Analogues, Caspar Babypants, Emily Zuzik, Jonathan Di Renzo (Acoustic), Mike Rimbaud, Cranium Pie, Umphrey's McGee, Kula Shaker, Suns of Arqa, Moke, Packy Lundholm, LaLa Swan, Native Soul, Steve Ewing, Reclinerland

 

[Anarchy99]

From Me To You
2022 Ranking: 155
2022 Lists: 3
2022 Points: 9
Ranked Highest by: Krista (TJ/Holly) (22)  @AAABatteries (22) @Alex P Keaton (25)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 122/2/8

Mobley and Bobby McFerrin are both completely different. Fidel Nadal is in the reggae universe. 

Sting, Sonny & Cher, Mobley, Futurebirds, Bobby McFerrin, Lonnie Mack, Emmerson Nogueira, Maggie Wong & The Jungle Lynxs, The Crickets, Debby Boone, Prezident Brown, Futurebirds,  Sophie Madeleine, Christopher Walcott, WS64, The Bearcuts, Off Our Rocker, Fidel Nadal, Steven Chera, Iñaki Lacunza

 

[krista4]

The default way to read anything I write in this thread with information is by following the statement with "UNTIL I READ IT IN KRISTA'S WRITEUP THREE YEARS AGO".

Fixed.   

 

[Zegras11]

Mobley and Bobby McFerrin are both completely different. Fidel Nadal is in the reggae universe. 

Sting, Sonny & Cher, Mobley, Futurebirds, Bobby McFerrin, Lonnie Mack, Emmerson Nogueira, Maggie Wong & The Jungle Lynxs, The Crickets, Debby Boone, Prezident Brown, Futurebirds,  Sophie Madeleine, Christopher Walcott, WS64, The Bearcuts, Off Our Rocker, Fidel Nadal, Steven Chera, Iñaki Lacunza

any further Sonny and Cher and/or Debby Boone covers could lead to a perma ban.   Off Our Rocker had like 27 views in 7 years 

 

[AAABatteries]

For You Blue
2022 Ranking: 151T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 11
Ranked Highest by: @Man of Constant Sorrow (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 111T/1/11

Getz: This song received some "Get Back" time. See video link below. I can see MoCS when I hear this.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  146

2019 write-up:

For You Blue (Let It Be, 1970)

I LOVE THE LAP STEEL GUITAR ON THIS SONG.  I love the sound of that guitar and the slide; I've read variously that John used a lighter, a shotgun shell, and a lipstick tube as the slide.  George called this a "happy-go-lucky" song, and his vocal has a nice sweet quality to it.  Paul did some interesting work on the piano, putting paper between the strings to give it a fuzzy sound.  The problem I have with this song is George's silly talking during the middle.  Maybe that's just them having fun, but it detracts for me.  Though I enjoy George's vocal on this, I think I'd enjoy it more as just an instrumental.  Still a great groove, though.

Mr. krista:  "Seems fun.  Well, compared to The Long and Winding Road, surgery seems fun.  I like the self-deprecating bits of dialogue. I like the DoBro steel guitar. It was like a really concise Allman Brothers song."

Suggested cover:  Well, I can't resist this:  Dhani Harrison and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N6aW4Gh2LU

2022 Supplement:  I felt like this should have been higher (Binky, you know what to do) at the time and still do today.  Not sure why it got so lost in my rankings.  Oh…holy ####.  I just read my write-up and see I docked it for George’s talking, which is now one of my favorite parts.  I love the “Go, Johnny, go!” and the rest of it.  Must have been in a bad mood when I wrote that one.

In the studio on this one:   and from the Get Back documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abPLPAm5q9o

Guido Merkins

The Beatles were not a blues band.  Obviously all rock and roll and R&B, and pretty much any other form of American music is based on the blues, but the Beatles very rarely did something that could be considered a straight up 12 bar blues.  One of the only examples was given to us by George on the Let It Be album called For You Blue.

For You Blue was written about Pattie Boyd, George’s wife and her blue eyes.  There is a lap steel guitar played by John, ironic in that it was Harrison who would spend the rest of his career playing slide, but for this John did it.  There is no bass guitar on the track because Paul is playing a piano.  They wanted a certain sound out of the piano, so they put newspaper on the strings to give it kind of a buzz sound.  I guess make it sound old-timey.  

I love George encouraging John with stuff like “go Johnny go” and “Elmore James got nothing on this” as he chuckles.  George’s vocal on this is very good as well.  George calls the song “a 12 bar blues that follows all the principles of a 12 bar blues, except it’s happy go lucky.”  I think that’s a better description than I could ever do, so I’ll leave it at that.

When your 150+ best songs contain:

• The definitive cover of Money
  
• One of the better covers of Long Tall Sally
  
• Rocky Raccoon
  
• Lovely Rita
  
• I'll Cry Instead
  
• From Me to You
  
• For You Blue
  

Well, that's pretty, pretty, pretty good.

 

[BobbyLayne]

we don't need no stinkin' mid-countdown banning's!  :cough:Timschochet:cough:

Winston Churchill will be running the draft for the next 30 days

 

[AAABatteries]

 Sonny & Cher,

I'm not a big Sonny & Cher fan - on any level.  My only question - how did that goofy looking mf'er get a smokeshow* like Cher?

*at the time

 

[Zegras11]

Roll Over Beethoven
2022 Ranking: 150
2022 Lists: 3
2022 Points: 11
Ranked Highest by: @John Maddens Lunchbox (21) Krista (Mom) (22) @Anarchy99(24)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

Getz : Three votes in 2022, none in 2019. Tenth song on list so far NR in 2019. Two more lists appear for a third time.  YT Video above from 4/28/64

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  186

2019 write-up:

Roll Over Beethoven (With the Beatles, 1963)

Obviously this is one of the greatest songs of all time, and the Beatles perform it fine.  It just falls into my lowest-tier of covers category, "Covers that were worse than the originals."  The other Beatles cover of a Chuck Berry tune, "Rock and Roll Music," is more, for lack of a better word, rollicking than this one.  This seems to lack a little energy in comparison to that, and certainly in comparison to the original.  I guess I'd term this song "well-intentioned" - George appears not to mimic but to sing and play with reverence for it.  I dig that.

Mr. krista:  "They clearly loved the jam, but Chuck Berry rocked from like 1956 to about a year ago.  He invented how to play guitar like that, and obviously Lennon and Harrison aren’t going to match that, but they just had fun.  I mean, Willie Dixon played bass on that.  Paul McCartney is great, but he’s not playing boogie woogie like Willie Dixon."

2022 Supplement:  Chuck Berry was the Beatles’ favorite artist to cover, having performed 15 of his songs at various shows and on recordings (and apparently, in the case of John, to steal lyrics from, but we’ll get to that one later).  John usually sang the vocals and did so with this song until George took over in 1961.  John said of Berry’s music, “When I hear rock, good rock, like the caliber of Chuck Berry, I just fall apart and have no other interest in life, you know. The world could be ending if rock and roll is playing.”

“Roll Over Beethoven” was a staple of their live performances from the time of the Quarrymen through the end of their shows.  It was first on the set list of the Beatles’ first US concert, on February 11, 2964:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4sTUfhMNc

Upon Chuck Berry’s death in 2017, Paul wrote this tribute:

"From the first minute we heard the great guitar intro to ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’ we became fans of the great Chuck Berry. His stories were more like poems than lyrics – the likes of ‘Johnny B Goode’ or ‘Maybellene’. To us he was a magician making music that was exotic yet normal at the same time. We learnt so many things from him which led us into a dream world of rock ‘n’ roll music.

 Chuck was and is forever more one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest legends all over the world. I was privileged to meet him in his home town St Louis when I played there on tour and it’s a memory I will cherish forever."

2022 Mr. krista Supplement:  I like their version, but I heard the Chuck Berry version recently, and it’s just not close.  I like the vocals, but the guitar, George Harrison is not Chuck Berry.  I still like it, it’s a fun listen, but Chuck Berry is incredibly good and clean playing, and that boogie-woogie playing style, where his chords are going all over the place, like Jerry Lee Lewis playing piano, it’s so distinctive it’s un-####-with-able.  Like if you hear someone try to sing I’m So Lonesome I could Cry.  Nobody sang like that.

Guido Merkins

The Beatles love of Chuck Berry is well established.  For the 1963 album With the Beatles, they recorded Roll Over Beethoven with George taking the lead vocal.  Apparently John did the lead on this song for years, until George started signing it sometime during their Hamburg days.

The recording was pretty easy since they were so familiar with the song.  They did a good job with it, although the solo is a bit TOO rehearsed IMO.  I actually prefer the version on Live at the Star Club where George REALLY lets it rip.  Even with a few mistakes, it’s still a far more exciting version. 

The other thing that also bothered me is the obvious final chord which was not played live, but stuck on at the end.  It’s not like George Martin to have something so obvious like that.  Just always bothered me, but other than that, it’s a solid performance and a good album track.

 

[Zegras11]

Chalk Rankings Top 10. #150 = 23 pts each. Sponsored by: Banana Fosters

1 --Krista (Mom)---57.5

2 --anarchy99---55

3 --Krista (Mom/Hub)---36

4 --Krista (TJ/Holly)---28

5 --Krista (Sharon)---24.5

6 --Man Of Constant Sorrow---23

7 --John Maddens Lunchbox---23

8 --Encyclopedia Brown---20

9 --ManOfSteelhead---19.5

10 --AAABatteries---18

11 --Alex P Keaton---18

 

[BobbyLayne]

I'm not a big Sonny & Cher fan - on any level.  My only question - how did that goofy looking mf'er get a smokeshow* like Cher?

*at the time

taught her how to ski

#truestory

 

[BobbyLayne]

Narrator

Well actually, Cherilyn Sarkisian first met Salvatore Bono in a Los Angeles coffee shop in November 1962, when she was sixteen. Eleven years her senior, Bono was working for record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood.

 

[Zegras11]

Obscure # Fact:

2022 had 63 lists with 10 or more votes.
2019 #63 song had 3 votes.

 

[krista4]

My favorite part of that write-up was when Mr. krista coined the term "un-####-with-able."  I'm not sure if I got the right hyphens in there.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

taught her how to ski

#truestory

I know the word "ironic" is often misused, but this seems to qualify.

 

[krista4]

I'm thinking of retiring the "no one reads my posts" shtick.  In the market for a new shtick, so open to any suggestions.  (And I know I've just set someone up for a joke about not reading this post.)

You will have to pry "Binky, higher" shtick from my cold, dead hands, though.

 

[BobbyLayne]

I didn’t realize Cher was 16 when I met. I do distinctly remembering one of them telling a story in a talk show interview that shortly after they met, he took her to his tennis club. After they finished playing, they went into their respective locker rooms. Five minutes later he came running through the door, anxious to see what she looked like naked…

”That’s it? That's all there is?”

the story finishes as the audience roars in laughter. 

27 & 16

man things were different in the 60s eh

 

[krista4]

And just after posting that, I had to go back and correct a 2022 Supplement in the master document comparing Chuck Berry songs, because I realized I'd misread my own post about one of them.   

 

[BobbyLayne]

I’m going to a funeral in about an hour. Have gone to a ton the last few years…at one point last year I went to 5 in three months. I mention this bc I **think** I’m more or less up to date on funeral etiquette / trends.

My fiancé’s entire family is dressing super casual. Like, I’m wearing black jeans, black sweater & a charcoal sport coat. I was worried I wasn’t dressed appropriately. I’m way overdressed.

Everyone else is wearing yoga pants and track suits.

#ifeelold

 

[AAABatteries]

I'm thinking of retiring the "no one reads my posts" shtick.  In the market for a new shtick, so open to any suggestions.  (And I know I've just set someone up for a joke about not reading this post.)

You will have to pry "Binky, higher" shtick from my cold, dead hands, though.

“I’d like to call you all a bunch of <bleeps> but my mother is here.”

 

[Anarchy99]

Tell Me Why
2022 Ranking: 153T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 10
Ranked Highest by: Krista (Mom) (16)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

BOOTIK is kind of interesting. Most of them are similar to the original.

Beach Boys, April Wine, Zone, Limelight, Sixth Wave, Me & Them, Shampoo, The Bats, Harri Stojka, Joey Levine, BOOTIK MOOSIK, The Daly Blues, Sixth Wave, The Bestbeat, Beat-Lele, The Chenille Sisters, Two Of Us, The Coverbeats, MADOKA, Billy Lee Riley, Singing None, JFeez, Shindig!, Psicoacustic, Alicia Barbas, Peggy Silvestri, Bruce Springsteen, Blotto

 

[krista4]

“I’d like to call you all a bunch of <bleeps> but my mother is here.”

Ah no, she'd be the first to call you a bunch of dickmittens, though very nicely.

 

[AAABatteries]

Ah no, she'd be the first to call you a bunch of dickmittens, though very nicely.

And she'd be right.  At least about @Getzlaf15

 

[Pip's Invitation]

My favorite part of that write-up was when Mr. krista coined the term "un-####-with-able."  I'm not sure if I got the right hyphens in there.

I prefer it as no hyphens. All one word.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Ah no, she'd be the first to call you a bunch of dickmittens, though very nicely.

If you can’t remember something:

My mother should know

 

[krista4]

I prefer it as no hyphens. All one word.

Excellent idea.

If you can’t remember something:

My mother should know