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

Binky The Doormat said:
35 Yr Old Album: Throwing Copper - Live

We had moved to Kittanning, PA by this time which is one of many small river towns outside of Pittsburgh.  Great place, but fairly poor place ...and getting poorer.  Steel and coal country - big union country.  But by that time a lot of that business had left.  I was running a 100 seat unionized call center for the local telephone company.  All but one of the reps were women, many of which, were the sole bread-winners for their families.  A lot of the husbands were laid-off from what had been nicely paying union jobs.  

Everyone smoked.  Babies smoked.  Main menu items ...full chicken wings (not cut into drum/split), cheeseburgers and pitchers of beer.  Except for when my then 60 year old buddy would suggest martinis by suggesting, "Let's get invisible."  They had a really nice 9 hole country club and we fell into a great bunch of people.  Really loved our time there.  We rented the lower floor of an old house that was right on the Allegheny River for most of the first year there.  The kitchen was tiny, the stove didn't really work, and the floor was so unlevel, our poor pug (Doug) would end up at the end of the day just sitting in the lower end of the little kitchen ...tired of fighting the uphill battle of sliding back into the corner.  

We blasted our music (new Todd album No World Order and going back to Healing & Nearly Human as well) since our upstairs neighbors (Slug & wife & kid) were also relatively young and loud.  But when we saw "I Alone" on MTV we were captured and soon had this album heavy into our album rotation.  

I don't think there's a bad song on the album.  
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Love it.  Loved it.  I could never handle "#### Town" :lmao:

 
JZilla said:
Making fun of their next album, I guess it was Secret Samadhi, I couldn't remember exactly tbh

I haven't had the urge to listen to them in.. quite a while
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oh yeah, it's very much an occasional album now ...still like it a lot when I hear it, just don't feel that aggressive nearly as often  :)

 
I feel like Live is not that much different from a bunch of other bands from that era that are largely looked at as a joke these days but somehow came out with their reputation intact. Maybe they're just better. (I like them, but also associate them with Silverchair, Bush-x, Filter, Our Lady Peace, etc...)

 
Northern Voice said:
I feel like Live is not that much different from a bunch of other bands from that era that are largely looked at as a joke these days but somehow came out with their reputation intact. Maybe they're just better. (I like them, but also associate them with Silverchair, Bush-x, Filter, Our Lady Peace, etc...)
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Live felt like kinda their own thing.  Throwing Copper was pretty damn infectious as a whole.  Maybe they got a little too big for their own good.  They had more quality stuff than most of those bands IMO.. personally I liked Filter a lot but they too remain mostly in yesteryear 

 
I talk of freedom, you talk of the flag
I talk of revolution, you'd much rather brag
And as the decibels of this disenchanting discourse continue to dampen the day
The coin flips again and again and again and again as our sanity walks away
All this discussion, though politically correct is dead beyond destruction, though it leaves me quite erect
And as the final sunset rolls behind the Earth and the clock is finally dead
I'll look at you, you'll look at me and we'll cry a lot but this will be what we say
This will be what we say

 
Northern Voice said:
I feel like Live is not that much different from a bunch of other bands from that era that are largely looked at as a joke these days but somehow came out with their reputation intact. Maybe they're just better. (I like them, but also associate them with Silverchair, Bush-x, Filter, Our Lady Peace, etc...)
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They're not. But they were in that moment in time. Like Binky (correctly) said, there isn't a bad song on this album. I'm not sure they made a single piece of music that was any good after it, but they nailed this one - beginning-to-end (literally - as 'white, discussion' portrays).

 
First album had some decent tracks.  Pain Lies On The Riverside for one

Third album had some truly awful lyrics, truly, but they still had the musical chops and I dug it :shrug:

 
MAC_32 said:
They're not. But they were in that moment in time. Like Binky (correctly) said, there isn't a bad song on this album. I'm not sure they made a single piece of music that was any good after it, but they nailed this one - beginning-to-end (literally - as 'white, discussion' portrays).
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Yeah, I think of listening to them at a friend's cottage, alongside Frogstomp and The Presidents of the United States of America  but I'll concede, Throwing Copper is probably the best album of that bunch. 

I want to say my go to album back then was Let Your Dim Light Shine by Soul Asylum. But if I'm being honest, it was (What's the Story) Morning Glory or Jagged Little Pill just like everyone else.

Anyway, to bring it all together...

She starts wondering it's like to be liked by everyone
And like everyone be just like anyone
And just wants to be so just like anyone

 
40 year old song:

I have 3 clear favorite albums from 2007.  Zilla took Spoon yesterday and I'm taking one of them tomorrow. So I'm going to go with this excellent song from these guys:

The National - Mistaken For Strangers (2007)

Boxer is great from start to finish so I could easily take it as my album.  I go back and forth between this album and Alligator as my favorite from the National but both are fantastic.

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
40 year old song:

I have 3 clear favorite albums from 2007.  Zilla took Spoon yesterday and I'm taking one of them tomorrow. So I'm going to go with this excellent song from these guys:

The National - Mistaken For Strangers (2007)

Boxer is great from start to finish so I could easily take it as my album.  I go back and forth between this album and Alligator as my favorite from the National but both are fantastic.
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gonna snipe you for 2012 too, just for fun

 
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The Dreaded Marco said:
40 year old song:

I have 3 clear favorite albums from 2007.  Zilla took Spoon yesterday and I'm taking one of them tomorrow. So I'm going to go with this excellent song from these guys:

The National - Mistaken For Strangers (2007)

Boxer is great from start to finish so I could easily take it as my album.  I go back and forth between this album and Alligator as my favorite from the National but both are fantastic.
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Was just listening to this yesterday. A standout track on a very cool album that I've been late coming to.

 
This one is boring too because I've taken it/this band so many times recently, so I'll try to give some perspective in the write up.

I mentioned in one of my other picks, I've gravitated more towards female singers in recent years and that is absolutely true for what I listen to most of the time but in terms of concerts, I've moved towards more loud, aggressive rock. I don't know exactly where it started. Seeing Foals at Wayhome was certainly a turning point. Probably still my favourite festival show ever. I considered both 'What Went Down" and 'Mountain at My Gates' as my 35 year old song but ultimately I love that Alvvays song too much.

Seeing Japandroids in the front row was another step in the direction of going towards the more raucous stuff. That double bill was such a stroke of luck for me - Craig Finn (as a solo artist) was the opening act and if you've listened to his solo albums, they aren't as hard rocking as The Hold Steady but I just really like his stories and style of music and it was really easy t get front row for Finn - he isn't up the alley of your typical Japandroids fan - so we just stayed there right front and centre. But this isn't about those bands... though I did consider Japandroids Celebration Rock as my 30 year old album.

No, this of course is about PUP. I've seen them four times now, twice in Peterborough, once in Toronto and once at Wayhome. The first time, I've talked about before, it was Riot Fest and I had no idea who they were but everyone kept talking about them. I went to this festival solo and they were scheduled to play at like 2 PM. But they kept getting bumped later in the day.. and everyone was talking about them. I had to go see them. And I was instantly hooked. 

They came to my little town of Peterborough a year or so after and again, I couldn't get anyone to come with me. Not my wife's thing, my usual concert buddy doesn't go for the punk stuff... let me tell you, there were maybe 150 people there and it didn't matter, they completely destroyed the place.

Next time was at Wayhome with @Steve Tasker. We weren't at the front at the start, we arrived a bit late IIRC, and were towards the back left but with some work we ended up basically at the centre and I'll say 4-5 rows deep, maybe his memories are less fuzzy than mine. I do remember Stefan climbing everything in sight and singing atop the lighting structures, crowd surfing at will and some general unease among all the security wondering how they got sucked into working this set and not Tegan and Sara or Solange. 

Last time I saw them was just a month ago, just before covid shut everything down. They were on the new album for this one and I was with a different buddy who works at a craft brewery but isn't really into this kind of music but has the dangerous combination of talking a big game and being up for anything. The first few songs he saw the pit and really didn't have much interest in it... but he had talked about how he was going to the front. 

I was willing to let him off the hook and enjoy from the back like the responsible 37 year old I am, really it's a great show regardless.

Then about 20 minutes in, the pre game beers kicked in and they launched into 'Scorpion Hill'... I was in a pile of bodies, thrashing, sweat and kindness (hey, it's PUP and we're in Canada, this is lefty powerpoppunk) for the next hour. Anyway, I'm not picking the new album because it's age 35 and age 35 for me, for the sweaty shows, the festivals, the live music in general, the great camaraderie means...

Age 35 Album - PUP - The Dream Is Over

DVP

Sleep in the Heat

 
So what's the ruling on us underager's? We get to keep picking songs and albums up until our age 50 equivalent?

 
Northern Voice said:
This one is boring too because I've taken it/this band so many times recently.
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2002-2007 is the point in this draft where most of us know each other musically pretty well via the FFA music threads, drafts, hoof, etc. 

I think I joined the board in 2001 or 2002.  My first music related draft picks on this board were Who's Next by the Who in round 1 and Neutral Milk Hotel's  In The Aeroplane Over The Sea in the 2nd round of the inaugural FFA Desert Island Album Draft.  IIRC, I took some #### for that 2nd round pick.  I still stand by it.  :banned:

My picks will also be very predictable from 2002 forward.

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
2002-2007 is the point in this draft where most of us know each other musically pretty well via the FFA music threads, drafts, hoof, etc. 

I think I joined the board in 2001 or 2002.  My first music related draft picks on this board were Who's Next by the Who in round 1 and Neutral Milk Hotel's  In The Aeroplane Over The Sea in the 2nd round of the inaugural FFA Desert Island Album Draft.  IIRC, I took some #### for that 2nd round pick.  I still stand by it.  :banned:

My picks will also be very predictable from 2002 forward.
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meh, it's not a contest like some of the other drafts - to have the "coolest" list.  It's a celebration of your life - and the music connected to it.   :hifive:

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
My first music related draft picks on this board were Who's Next by the Who in round 1 and Neutral Milk Hotel's  In The Aeroplane Over The Sea in the 2nd round of the inaugural FFA Desert Island Album Draft.  IIRC, I took some #### for that 2nd round pick.  I still stand by it.  :banned:
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Yeah, I may have given you #### for it at the time :bag: but it absolutely holds up and is worthy of it. 

 
This came out when I was 41;  but I really love it, so suck it.

40 year old song  -  Shine  -  Dolly Parton

Backed by Nickle Creek, from her album Little Sparrow.

 
40.s  Disney Mambo No. 5   -  Lou Bega

In 2000, I was 40, the kids were 4 and 8 and Radio Disney was 1310 on the AM dial.  The lunatics were running the car radio in the asylum with lots of boy bands, tween idols and Disney Channel tie-ins.  This record is a de-sexed version of Lou Bega's novelty hit.  If you click the link, good luck getting the song out of your head.

The Radio Disney came and went pretty quickly but 1999-2001 or so was its peak.  My daughter moved on to slightly more mature Pop and my son was never really into the Disney stuff to begin with.  They've both grown up to have decent musical tastes; they aren't as committed to it as much as their nerd parents but they seem to be bigger music fans than their friends.

I feel sorry for any parents who are currently holed up with children of that age, especially if they're in a small place like ours.  But I'm also a little jealous of them because kids fly through that time of their lives in an instant.

 
Playing catch-up here:

Not surprisingly, most of the rest of my picks will be songs/albums that came out way before the year of each respective birthday. While I'm always on the lookout for new, fresh bands, I've always had a preference to discover - or re-discover - "older" music that I missed out on in my youth. 

At age 35 (or thereabouts), I had been fairly familiar with this classic band, but mainly their main songs heard ad nauseum on FM radio. Then I heard this one and it gave me a whole new perspective of them. I've used it before in other drafts/threads, but every time I hear it, it still gives me goosebumps as to the power and incredible musicianship.

Age 35 song: Deep Purple - "Child In Time"

For my age 35 album, it may have very well this board where I first fully discovered and embraced it. I have always had a curious fascination with the whole CBGB/punk phase going on in the mid-'70s, as I was living in the NYC burbs at the time but, as an elementary school kid, too young to appreciate it. Plus, I was mainly focused on my Kiss army stint.  Once I heard this album around age 35, I was forever hooked. Such a different sound from that era, with a surprisingly unique focus on the musicianship in addition to the lyrical messages.

Age 35 album: Television - Marquee Moon

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
This came out when I was 41;  but I really love it, so suck it.

40 year old song  -  Shine  -  Dolly Parton

Backed by Nickle Creek, from her album Little Sparrow.
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I think going +/- a year or two is still in the spirit of the draft, as it’s more a time period than just hard cut off ages, imo.

 
Eephus said:
40.s  Disney Mambo No. 5   -  Lou Bega

In 2000, I was 40, the kids were 4 and 8 and Radio Disney was 1310 on the AM dial.  The lunatics were running the car radio in the asylum with lots of boy bands, tween idols and Disney Channel tie-ins.  This record is a de-sexed version of Lou Bega's novelty hit.  If you click the link, good luck getting the song out of your head.

The Radio Disney came and went pretty quickly but 1999-2001 or so was its peak.  My daughter moved on to slightly more mature Pop and my son was never really into the Disney stuff to begin with.  They've both grown up to have decent musical tastes; they aren't as committed to it as much as their nerd parents but they seem to be bigger music fans than their friends.

I feel sorry for any parents who are currently holed up with children of that age, especially if they're in a small place like ours.  But I'm also a little jealous of them because kids fly through that time of their lives in an instant.
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It was included on the VHS version of A Goofy Movie. My middle son loved that movie so I heard that one a bunch.  This could very easily have been my age 40 song as well.

 
I went through a period of time between ages 17-19 in which I was introduced to a lot of the 60's, 70's, and 80's music that you all have been talking about. Some classic (Zep, Pink Floyd), some not (Bee Gees, Van Halen), some stuck (Neil Young, Bob Seger), some didn't (Elton John, Queen - these later got corrected). But there was only time to soak so much in during this period of time. The birth of the digital age distracted me before I could get too deep and I ended up back in my wheelhouse (late 80's-on). My life was on varying waves of topsy turvy from this point until I met my now wife - and to some degree sustained after too. But around this time the games Guitar Hero and Rock Band were in peak popularity. And I was exposed to several songs back from these eras that I had missed years prior, but one especially chaotic epic got my attention more than others.

Bonus pick #1: Becoming an actual young adult song, The Outlaws - Green Grass & High Tides

It's clear to this point that I'm a sucker for length. Jane's Addiction 3 Days, Bruce Springsteen's Jungleland, Tool's everything. So when I first saw this song and it's 9 minutes plus in length while the others groaned a feeling of jubilation came over me. Little did I know what was to come. I thought guitar solos round #1 was wild enough, but little did I know there was still a more frantic 3 minute one to come. THIS IS FREE BIRD ON SPEED I hollered partway through to laughs from some and exhaustion to others. My now-wife was one reason for my rekindled pursuit of music before my time, but these video games were another - and looking back I think this one in particular stands out above the rest.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I think going +/- a year or two is still in the spirit of the draft, as it’s more a time period than just hard cut off ages, imo.
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This is clearly not in the spirit of my picks. I demand a refund.

There's no Modest Mouse, dance punk, hip hop, or anything in my world. Ay de mi!

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
40 year old song:

I have 3 clear favorite albums from 2007.  Zilla took Spoon yesterday and I'm taking one of them tomorrow. So I'm going to go with this excellent song from these guys:

The National - Mistaken For Strangers (2007)

Boxer is great from start to finish so I could easily take it as my album.  I go back and forth between this album and Alligator as my favorite from the National but both are fantastic.
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My very favorite National song. Just popped up on a shuffled playlist of mine

 
Age 40 album:

My album buying and listening days are long gone by this point, so I don't think I'll have album picks the rest of the way.

Delivering pizzas as a means to support a family at age 40 might make most guys kind of maudlin, but since I tend to be maudlin more than most people I know, there really wasn't anywhere I could go with that anyway. Instead, I focused more on what 'matters' and not worrying about the rest. It was during those years where the part of my personality that doesn't worry nor care as much about others' opinions really took off. As a result, I began 'reclaiming' parts of my past that I had put behind because I thought I was supposed to be a certain way given my station as a Christian husband and father.

Anyway, I was listening to a lot more music while delivering pizzas, and by extension, more classic rock.  One song that I had always liked took on a deeper meaning for me during this time: Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who, mainly because of the opening line: We'll be fighting in the street with our children at our feet, but also between the last line "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and all the threads here in the FFA where inevitably someone would post "same as day one", this sentiment really took a stronger hold on me than ever before.

 
Thinking about it, it feels like I have been pretty set in my music tastes in my 40s.   The one thing that did stand out as I thought about it was that because of drafts and because it was a music blind spot and I was digging deeper, the last 5 years or so have had me digging more into female artists and bands.  They have been popping up a lot more in my draft selections and in my playlists.   Most is traced to my love of this band and specifically this song:

40 Year Song:  SLEATER-KINNEY = ONE MORE HOUR

 
40.A   Bachelor No. 2 (Or, The Last Remains of the Dodo)  -  Aimee Mann

In 2000, I was still a year or two away from downloading music so I was still relying on CDs and tapes.  I became a big huge fan of Aimee Mann's melodic and literate music, so much so that I owned her first two albums on both disc and cassette.  Bachelor No. 2 came out in 2000 and I loved it, even though it was more down tempo than her previous releases.  Bachelor has a lot of overlap with the Magnolia OST which had been released a year earlier.

I listened to these records so much that Mrs. Eephus started referring to Mann as "your girlfriend" which she had to backtrack on almost immediately when our eight year old was confused by it.  The girlfriend schtick had to go underground for a few years before returning but it's been an inside joke for the better part of two decades.  It's all ridiculous because Mann's icy blondeness is like the opposite of my type if a guy who's been monogamous for 35+ years could even have a type.

 
My 40 year old album is another no-brainer for me.

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007)

This album came out in late March and I saw his show at Coachella the next month.  The Sahara tent (?) was literally packed in from the stage all the way out the back of the venue out into the polo fields.  Still a top 5 concert experience for me and he played this entire album.  My most played of my 40th year for sure.

This run of tracks 3-5 is tough to beat:

North American Scum

Someone Great

All My Friends

 
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