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5-10-15-20 "Music of Our Lives" Draft - Round 14 (1 Viewer)

John Prine's last song on his last album.  🍹  🚬   That's a vodka and ginger ale, and a cigarette 9 miles long
never met him, but knew a lot of his friends (and sang a number of his tunes w them at jams). i'm soooo glad he got one more li'l run after cancer beat him up for a decade. the best thing i can say about John Prine is that everybody who knew him had a story of him putting somebody in their place with nonpareil mastery. nicest man who never suffered a fool or an ego. i wont name names, but the thing he's probably most irritated about, standing on his cloud now, is that corona took him but left another noted musician still late for the sky. RIP -

 
If you liked his album Stardust, you should like this one too.  Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin - Sample Song - Summertime
I lived in NM when i got my first Walkman. While i've always been more of a barroom-tan type, the high desert calls one to explore it, mostly because you can actually walk in places where possibly no human ever has. Walkmans added to my hiking experiences when they came out, but one did not want to get bogged down carrying cassettes, so it was one in the chamber, one in the shirt pocket. I never went out that Stardust wasnt one of those two tapes.

 
I lived in NM when i got my first Walkman. While i've always been more of a barroom-tan type, the high desert calls one to explore it, mostly because you can actually walk in places where possibly no human ever has. Walkmans added to my hiking experiences when they came out, but one did not want to get bogged down carrying cassettes, so it was one in the chamber, one in the shirt pocket. I never went out that Stardust wasnt one of those two tapes.
Willie has said in the past that he and his sister grew up playing the American Songbook, and they have a great love for that music. He said his favorite singer was Frank Sinatra, and Sinatra said his favorite singer was Willie. An odd couple who greatly respected one another.

 
entirely agree, but it was a pop album. what Frank promised was more than what B2B realized. and B2B didnt exist when i was fitty and the best album of the 21st C is my 55 album.
I'm actually getting Back To Black today via mail (ordered before lockdown). I eagerly await its delivery.

Wipe down due to COVID. Handle the package with hazmat suit. Listen. Repeat.

 
I'm actually getting Back To Black today via mail (ordered before lockdown). I eagerly await its delivery.

Wipe down due to COVID. Handle the package with hazmat suit. Listen. Repeat.
it contains the greatest musical moment of the 21st C (sry, Hamiltonians), if not in the history of recorded music. interested to see if you can guess what it is -

 
it contains the greatest musical moment of the 21st C (sry, Hamiltonians), if not in the history of recorded music. interested to see if you can guess what it is -
Wow. That's a charge. I think when we listen wikkid, you're hearing different things than I. There are a few here that do. I'm just along for pleasantville in my own world.

But I'll give it a shot. 

 
I'm actually getting Back To Black today via mail (ordered before lockdown). I eagerly await its delivery.

Wipe down due to COVID. Handle the package with hazmat suit. Listen. Repeat.
I believe it’s called Back IN Black 

it contains the greatest musical moment of the 21st C (sry, Hamiltonians), if not in the history of recorded music. interested to see if you can guess what it is -
When the bells are ringing and then the guitar comes in at the start of Hell’s Bells

 
55yo Song - On Raglan Road, Glen Hansard

I spent much of the first five years of this century getting dual citizenship w Ireland and hunting out where over there i might retire. At the time, Eire was behind only Portugal as the poorest European country west of the Balkans, so there was little doubt i could & would. After several trips, i settled upon a town in County Mayo that had it all - rolling sheep meadow in the shadow of one of Ireland's holiest spots - Croagh Patrick - tipped by a gorgeous beach where they actually rent surfboards on good days and backed by a range of mountains straight out of Middle Earth. 

Unfortunately, in the time i dallied in choosing/buying a home, Ireland underwent an internet boom and the dollar went to #### against the Euro. I'm not kidding - within 2 yrs a house going for 80,000 American was getting 250,000 and has only returned to affordability in the last coupla years. Meantime, i got murdered in the '08 crash, lost my way of making a living and had a coupla heart attacks.

During those five years, though, i logged a lot of pub time and for some reason found that my singing style lent itself well to Irish tunes. Skiberreen, Curragh of Kildare, Tura Lura Lural and this'n (my favorite love song, tho based on a poem whose composer, often found passed out a morn outside Dublin pubs, says was based on a quickie from a Colleen he trolled from a bus bench) were all tunes that Irish craicsters would pint me to hear.

I knew the song in no other form until Luke Kelly's version of it was used behind quite an incredible scene in the movie In Bruges. Don't like Kelly's version of it, nor Sinead O'Connors, nor in fact Hansard's here as much as the way i learned it in the pubs - still wistful, but more rollicking. I post Hansard's here though because his soundtrack of the incredible Once came out about the same time.

On Raglan Road of an Autumn Day,
I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I may one day rue.


I saw the danger, yet I passed
Along the enchanted way
And I said let grief be a falling leaf
At the dawning of the day.


On Grafton Street in November,
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worst of passions pledged.


The Queen of Hearts still baking tarts
And I not making hay,
Well I loved too much; by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.


I gave her the gifts of the mind.
I gave her the secret sign
That's known to all the artists who have
Known true Gods of Sound and Time.


With word and tint I did not stint.
I gave her reams of poems to say
With her own dark hair and her own name there
Like the clouds over fields of May.


On a quiet street where old ghosts meet,
I see her walking now away from me,
So hurriedly. My reason must allow,
For I have wooed, not as I should


A creature made of clay.
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of the day.


 
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You could have picked any song off of Fontaines D.C.'s Dogrel and been done with it in under two and a half minutes, codge.

You're not alive until you start kicking
When the room is spinning and the words ain't sticking
And the radio is all about a run away model
With a face like sin and a heart like a James Joyce novel


Said "O sister sister how I missed ya ya
let's go wrist to wrist ta take the skin off of my blisters"
If you're a rock star porn star superstar doesn't matter what you are
Get yourself a good car, get out of here


Driver's got names
To fill double barrels

Spits out, Brits out
Only smokes Carroll's


But the Boys in the better land
You're always talking about the boys in the better land


 
55.S  In This House That I Call Home  - X

I reviewed my new songs playlist for 2015 but couldn't find a track that epitomized my age 55 season.  So I'm going back to the stacks for this song from 1981.  2015 was around this time that Mrs. Eephus upped her love for her favorite band.  We had been regulars at their SF shows every December for years but now that we had an empty nest, she started traveling to other shows in California.  She got to be friendly with Exene who is now the coolest contact in her phone--they swap gifts every year at the Xmastime shows.  I've probably seen the band play twenty times, even but Mrs. Eephus has got to be well over fifty by now.  There's no band I'm looking forward to seeing again more than them.

The song could double as my age 22 pick because the lyrics describe my first home in the city better than I could. 

 
55.S  In This House That I Call Home  - X

I reviewed my new songs playlist for 2015 but couldn't find a track that epitomized my age 55 season.  So I'm going back to the stacks for this song from 1981.  2015 was around this time that Mrs. Eephus upped her love for her favorite band.  We had been regulars at their SF shows every December for years but now that we had an empty nest, she started traveling to other shows in California.  She got to be friendly with Exene who is now the coolest contact in her phone--they swap gifts every year at the Xmastime shows.  I've probably seen the band play twenty times, even but Mrs. Eephus has got to be well over fifty by now.  There's no band I'm looking forward to seeing again more than them.

The song could double as my age 22 pick because the lyrics describe my first home in the city better than I could. 
@timschochet's favorite band (one of them). Mrs. Eephus's, too, apparently. They're easily cracking my hundred favorite punk songs. Easily one of the greatest punk bands ever.

Love both yours and wikkid's picks at 55. 

I just can't drive it, though. 

 
Here's my music nerd family story for today.

My daughter and I have been taking daily 40 minute social distancing walks up and down the hills in our neighborhood.  We've been around each other a lot lately so we don't talk a lot on our walk; we mostly just listen to our own music.

So today she says "Dad, you know Good Vibrations really isn't a very good song.  I like the chorus but the rest of it sort of sucks".  I was about to throw down and fight her right in the middle of Hayes Street.  I started in on what a great song it is and how it influenced so much of the music she listens to but she interrupted me and said "I love the Beach Boys, I was talking about Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch".

The end.

 
Here's my music nerd family story for today.

My daughter and I have been taking daily 40 minute social distancing walks up and down the hills in our neighborhood.  We've been around each other a lot lately so we don't talk a lot on our walk; we mostly just listen to our own music.

So today she says "Dad, you know Good Vibrations really isn't a very good song.  I like the chorus but the rest of it sort of sucks".  I was about to throw down and fight her right in the middle of Hayes Street.  I started in on what a great song it is and how it influenced so much of the music she listens to but she interrupted me and said "I love the Beach Boys, I was talking about Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch".

The end.
LOL.

You and lakerstan both stole my supplemental picks, you spotlighters!

Nah, I'm done. I had wanted to put down how much What's Going On and "Good Vibrations" (the Beach Boys one) influenced my 47 and 27 year-old self, respectively. I would have done it earlier but couldn't do either justice in the write-ups that (no lie) I started (one today, even), so I went with easier stuff to put into words.

 
I loved this movie and listened to the soundtrack frequently when it came out.  Both outstanding.
seldom have i been happier over an Academy Awards win as when he and Marketa Irglova won for "Falling Slowly", especially after John Stewart made a point of bringing Irglova back out to give the acceptance speech she was cut off from, for the express reason that she & Hansard were playing "dolls make out" with their Oscars backstage.

 
The vibrations good like Sunkist
Many wanna know who done this
Marky Mark and I'm here to move you
Rhymes will groove you
And I'm here to prove to you
That we can party on the positive side
And pump positive vibes
So come along for the ride


Good like Sunkist? :shrug:

 
I have been to a couple Farm Aids, and when you have purchased tickets in the past they always send emails about farmers, etc. I got this email from Willie today:

Dear simey,

We have some exciting news: You can join us this Saturday, April 11 at 8:00PM ET / 5:00PM PT for “At Home with Farm Aid,” a live music event hosted by me and my sons Lukas and Micah Nelson. Catch us with our friends Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as we perform from our homes in a virtual show of support and solidarity for family farmers and ranchers. The event will be streamed on our website and on AXS TV.

There was more that he wrote about farmers and ranchers and them being essential workers, their uncertainty, etc.  I just wanted to share about the above music thing Saturday night.

 
50 year old album:  Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

This one was released in my 49th year but was played often and well into my 50th.  Still is.

Will Toledo is super talented and all his albums are worth hearing--this is probably my favorite.    

Fill in the Blank

(Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using)Drugs with Friends(But Says This Isn't a Problem)

Cosmic Hero

I introduced his music to my daughter when his previous album, Teens of Style, was released in 2015--she's a huge fan. She is now 20 and a sophomore in college.  We've bonded a lot over music over the years and have gone to many shows together--including Car Seat Headrest. I treasure that connection.  

Side note:  she has a unique talent of obtaining the set list from most shows she attends.  I never knew that was a thing.  She has 40+ now.  She is now living back at home for on-line COVID19 college classes and just informed me that we saw Car Seat Headrest in Boise two years ago today.  She got the set list that night.

 
Country music has definitely come on strong for me the last several years.  This one blew me away when it came out. 
Country music came on strong for me right after my punk daze (those would not totally end at twenty-four, but they'd seen their most hectic days) and the journey into marijuana saw me get way into country.

 
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Side note:  she has a unique talent of obtaining the set list from most shows she attends.  I never knew that was a thing.  She has 40+ now.  She is now living back at home for on-line COVID19 college classes and just informed me that we saw Car Seat Headrest in Boise two years ago today.  She got the set list that night.
Mrs. Eephus is afflicted with this as well.  She keeps 'em of course but never really looks at them afterwards as far as I can tell. 

I think it's kind of like an achievement point that's somehow used to measure the success of an evening out.  Haven't cracked the code yet but I'm working on it.

 
Age 55 54 "album":

As this is my last entry for the draft and I still don't have an album, I'm going out with a flourish:  the actual pick, a runner-up pick and an honorable mention.

Runner-up:

One of the things I enjoy about the internet is the abundance of rabbit holes. For example, when wikipedia first appeared, I used to spend hours going through random articles, and if I found one that piqued my interest, I would also go through most of if not all the links in the article as well.  The drawback for me is that I very rarely track the course of events that lead me to particular points of interest.  One such example is my runner-up song.  The artist is Norma Tanega, who's probably mostly remembered now for her song You're Dead, which was used for the TV show What We Do in the Shadows, but that wasn't the direct reason (It may have been in some thread here for all I remember). Whatever the exact reason was, I gave myself a quick internet tutorial on this woman and her music, which apparently has been around about as long as I have. I quickly cycled through the grainy youtube videos of her performances of Walkin' My Cat Named Dog and You're Dead, as well as the non-performance videos of most of the rest of her catalog, but it was one song in particular that I enjoyed the most: A Street That Rhymes At 6 A.M.

Before I reveal my actual pick, here is my honorable mention:

This song actually entered my life back in 2011 but it grew on me over the years: Jaan Pehechaan Ho by Mohammed Raffi. No doubt most of you will recognize it from other uses, but this version is from the Bollywood film in which it debuted. I find it catchy and infectious and made me wish I knew the language it's sung in.

Actual pick:

Towards the end of 2017, I learned that the Smithereens were going to be playing a venue near me, so I told my wife I wanted 2 tickets to their show as a birthday/Christmas present. About a week later, the band's lead singer passed away, prompting them to cancel their current shows while they regrouped.

As much as I have loved this band's music over the years, I also had fallen out of touch with their exploits, so when they released their last album in 2011, I hadn't really paid much attention. However, in whatever process it was in which my love of their music re-awoke, I found the song Sorry. I don't know if this is healthy or not, but I will crank this song in the car if/when the Mrs. is on the warpath--without her around, of course. To me, it's one of the greatest songs of their entire catalog:
 

Things get better when we're apart
'Cause every time I'm with you
Girl, you break my heart
'Cause you don't look at things the same as me


You say stay and I say no
You make me wanna run
When you say hello
'Cause you and I will always disagree


I will stand up, I will fall
Please don't wait for me to call
I would like to say I'm sorry
But I won't


Words you whispered into my ear
Just make me wanna run
Wanna disappear
'Cause I don't look at things the way you do


I'm not happy when you're around
You make me wanna run,
Fall and hit the ground
And you're just not the girl that I once knew


I would like to make your day
But I'd rather fade away
I would like to say I'm sorry
But I won't


Now my back's against the wall
But I'm not afraid at all
I would like to say I'm sorry
But I won't


Things get better when we're apart
And every time I'm with you, girl
You break my heart
'Cause I don't look at things the way you do


You will not forgive my sins
In this game where no one wins

I would like to say I'm sorry
But I won't
No, I'm never going to stay
And I'll soon be on my way
I would love to say I'm sorry
But I won't
Say sorry, baby but I won't
Baby, I won't
Say sorry, baby but I won't
Baby, I won't
Say sorry, baby but I won't
Baby, I won't
Say sorry, baby but I won't

 
Age 55 54 "album":

As this is my last entry for the draft and I still don't have an album, I'm going out with a flourish:  the actual pick, a runner-up pick and an honorable mention.

Runner-up:

One of the things I enjoy about the internet is the abundance of rabbit holes. For example, when wikipedia first appeared, I used to spend hours going through random articles, and if I found one that piqued my interest, I would also go through most of if not all the links in the article as well.  The drawback for me is that I very rarely track the course of events that lead me to particular points of interest.  One such example is my runner-up song.  The artist is Norma Tanega, who's probably mostly remembered now for her song You're Dead, which was used for the TV show What We Do in the Shadows, but that wasn't the direct reason (It may have been in some thread here for all I remember). Whatever the exact reason was, I gave myself a quick internet tutorial on this woman and her music, which apparently has been around about as long as I have. I quickly cycled through the grainy youtube videos of her performances of Walkin' My Cat Named Dog and You're Dead, as well as the non-performance videos of most of the rest of her catalog, but it was one song in particular that I enjoyed the most: A Street That Rhymes At 6 A.M.

Before I reveal my actual pick, here is my honorable mention:

This song actually entered my life back in 2011 but it grew on me over the years: Jaan Pehechaan Ho by Mohammed Raffi. No doubt most of you will recognize it from other uses, but this version is from the Bollywood film in which it debuted. I find it catchy and infectious and made me wish I knew the language it's sung in.

Actual pick:

Towards the end of 2017, I learned that the Smithereens were going to be playing a venue near me, so I told my wife I wanted 2 tickets to their show as a birthday/Christmas present. About a week later, the band's lead singer passed away, prompting them to cancel their current shows while they regrouped.

As much as I have loved this band's music over the years, I also had fallen out of touch with their exploits, so when they released their last album in 2011, I hadn't really paid much attention. However, in whatever process it was in which my love of their music re-awoke, I found the song Sorry. I don't know if this is healthy or not, but I will crank this song in the car if/when the Mrs. is on the warpath--without her around, of course. To me, it's one of the greatest songs of their entire catalog:
 
rabbit holes are where most of music lives. good doing this with you, bud

 
This song actually entered my life back in 2011 but it grew on me over the years: Jaan Pehechaan Ho by Mohammed Raffi. No doubt most of you will recognize it from other uses, but this version is from the Bollywood film in which it debuted. I find it catchy and infectious and made me wish I knew the language it's sung in.
 
I dont follow Spotify playlists, but i bet some Breaking Bad fan has one of songs that Gale Boetticher sings in his apartment. this should be on it -

 
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wikkidpissah said:
55yo Song - On Raglan Road, Glen Hansard

I spent much of the first five years of this century getting dual citizenship w Ireland and hunting out where over there i might retire. At the time, Eire was behind only Portugal as the poorest European country west of the Balkans, so there was little doubt i could & would. After several trips, i settled upon a town in County Mayo that had it all - rolling sheep meadow in the shadow of one of Ireland's holiest spots - Croagh Patrick - tipped by a gorgeous beach where they actually rent surfboards on good days and backed by a range of mountains straight out of Middle Earth. 

Unfortunately, in the time i dallied in choosing/buying a home, Ireland underwent an internet boom and the dollar went to #### against the Euro. I'm not kidding - within 2 yrs a house going for 80,000 American was getting 250,000 and has only returned to affordability in the last coupla years. Meantime, i got murdered in the '08 crash, lost my way of making a living and had a coupla heart attacks.

During those five years, though, i logged a lot of pub time and for some reason found that my singing style lent itself well to Irish tunes. Skiberreen, Curragh of Kildare, Tura Lura Lural and this'n (my favorite love song, tho based on a poem whose composer, often found passed out a morn outside Dublin pubs, says was based on a quickie from a Colleen he trolled from a bus bench) were all tunes that Irish craicsters would pint me to hear.

I knew the song in no other form until Luke Kelly's version of it was used behind quite an incredible scene in the movie In Bruges. Don't like Kelly's version of it, nor Sinead O'Connors, nor in fact Hansard's here as much as the way i learned it in the pubs - still wistful, but more rollicking. I post Hansard's here though because his soundtrack of the incredible Once came out about the same time.

On Raglan Road of an Autumn Day,
I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That I may one day rue.


I saw the danger, yet I passed
Along the enchanted way
And I said let grief be a falling leaf
At the dawning of the day.


On Grafton Street in November,
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worst of passions pledged.


The Queen of Hearts still baking tarts
And I not making hay,
Well I loved too much; by such and such
Is happiness thrown away.


I gave her the gifts of the mind.
I gave her the secret sign
That's known to all the artists who have
Known true Gods of Sound and Time.


With word and tint I did not stint.
I gave her reams of poems to say
With her own dark hair and her own name there
Like the clouds over fields of May.


On a quiet street where old ghosts meet,
I see her walking now away from me,
So hurriedly. My reason must allow,
For I have wooed, not as I should


A creature made of clay.
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of the day.
Rick Rubin and Malcolm Gladwell have a podcast called "Broken Record". They recently had an episode featuring Glen Hansard and his music. If you are a fan, it is worth checking out.

 
Rick Rubin and Malcolm Gladwell have a podcast called "Broken Record". They recently had an episode featuring Glen Hansard and his music. If you are a fan, it is worth checking out.
he's the Amy Klobuchar of musical talent - just doesnt get why the world doesnt speak of him in the same breath as Paul McCartney. I'm one of the few who almost do, but i'd never let on. will def check it -

 
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Damn, fell way behind in here.  Damn movies and Apex...

This one was a little harder to narrow down than I thought it would be.  As I posted last week with my Sleater-Kinney pick, this was when I was getting more and more into female artists, but I guess with that I was listening to more singles, since no albums stood out in that department.   What I narrowed it down to was a 70s album, an 80s album, but then this was the winner.  I know I have drafted them (him) in a couple drafts, and wore my copy out in my car since it wasn't on Spotify until recently I believe.  

40yoA:  SUN KIL MOON - GHOSTS OF THE GREAT HIGHWAY

Glenn Tipton

Carry Me Ohio

Gentle Moon

The other two I was considering were :  Joshua Tree and Fear of Music

 
55yo Album - Raising Sand, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant

The first album - Eve & the Snake tempt each other to a draw and leave the rest of creation & spacetime to trouble out who won. nufced
I choose a song from it for my 40 year old pick, but it easily could have been the album pick as well. It's a magical pairing.

 
Another easy slam dunk.  Of course this was the album most listened to for the last 2 years on my Spotify year in review stats.   When my son was this age, I was able to make playlists of music that I like, and he would listen to that.   Not sure if my daughter wore me out more, I am just getting older and lazier, turned into a softie - who knows.   But of course this is played on a loop, thankfully I actually like most of the songs.  Just last night we treated the other two members of the family to a sing along during bath time.  We are really getting the dueling parts down in the first song linked...

45YO Album:  FROZEN OST

Love is An Open Door

For the First Time In Forever

 
50 Yr Old Album: Trick of the Tail - Genesis

Surprise!  Well, this album and the newer Todd album of that time ...Arena.  I had bought Trick of the Tail way back my freshman year of college ('76) when one of my friends was really into Genesis.  I had heard them, but their music hadn't really captured me quite yet.  I was a big fan of Creem/Circus magazines and Peter Gabriel was all over those rags back when.  This guy was convinced they would suck after Gabriel left, but he was really into this album.  

Well, it remained with me over the years, sometimes resting for a few years and sometimes not.  After 20 years of marriage, I find that my wife loves this album.  Whenever we would decide we were putting the speaker outside for drinks/grilling/hang - this became her "go to" pick.  Sometimes we'd play in twice, but it was always a part of our little party.  And it remains there today.  

Such a great album.  

 
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55.A   HEAL  - Strand of Oaks

This album came out when I was 54 but I listened to it a lot at 55 and every year since.  I've drafted Strand of Oaks a lot in song drafts so this pick should be no surprise to the regulars. 

I'm a huge fan of Tim Showalter's songwriting, singing and guitar playing.  His Rock classicism is especially fitting for this draft since the opening number Goshen '97 looks back to his days as a 15 year old listening to and playing music in his hometown of Goshen, Indiana.

Singing Pumpkins in the mirror
Porn and menthols under my bed
Before I was fat drunk and mean
Everything still lied ahead


 

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