El Floppo
Footballguy
Yeah.
That was going to be mine too, probably. Such a great year for music.
Eta... and that's a top 10, probably top 5 album all time.
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5-10-15-20 "Music of Our Lives" Draft - Round 14 (3 Viewers)
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That was going to be mine too, probably. Such a great year for music.
Eta... and that's a top 10, probably top 5 album all time.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
awesome ...if I could encapsulate Dayton, OH in the 70s with one song, that would be it.
every non-punk band had to play it.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
40 Year-Old Song - Lorde - Royals
From my write-up last time, in spoiler
Runner-up - The Bananas - Nautical Theme
Ella Yelich O’Connor, or Lorde, the person in question, had signed her first music deal in her mid-teens having already read 1,000 total books and proofreading her Mother’s doctoral thesis. She was singing for a mother’s friend who happened to be connected in some way to the industry. A Soundcloud success later, three years passage, and still singing after releasing a successful EP in NZ, there she was, smacking, as if instantly, off of the FM dial somehow with that song. That damn song that actually hit on U.S. radio. To get wikkid on ya, I’d worked on that type of song. Written a million raps about material attainment as toughness, as ends. It was the zeitgeist of the aughts and the time -- like these men and women within their creative niche outlets were having fights over their total inventory. And the public was buying it as art. The artists’ assets and goodwill brands acted as if, according to the “artist,” that the imprimatur of new wealth ever sanctified poetry set to a music backdrop was the raison d’etre of the effort. The songs and appearances had lurched almost fatally to celebrity appearance and cash. Accountants with attitudes showing up to work. It was so silly…and then…
But every song's like gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin' in the bathroom
Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room
We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams
But everybody's like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece
Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash
We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair
And we'll never be royals
It don't run in our blood
That kind of lux just ain't for us
We crave a different kind of buzz
Let me be your ruler, you can call me Queen B
And baby I'll rule (I'll rule I'll rule I'll rule)
Let me live that fantasy
Who said that? Why were they/it/her/he saying it? The entire industry was completely blindsided. The song hit, and hit hard, spending nine weeks at the top of the billboard charts, longer but not before cries of nihilism, elitism, racism, how dare she... flew over the song. And Lorde? That name? What the hell was that?
And did I mention she was young? Well, she knew what some of her songs were. They were shots across the celebrity bow, announced with more authority than Nuke LaLoosh of Bull Durham fame had ever dreamed, and devastated or at least turned some careers creatively toward other things then capital. People were especially thinking the song was a shot at Jay-Z and Beyonce, That caused problems, quickly put out. But it's hard to imagine a 4:44 and Lemonade might not even be subject fodder worthy of a listen without “Royals” four or so years earlier. The irony? Now everyone knew who Lorde was, too, this now-famous and likely very rich girl from a small town under the equator where even now the water goes the other way, doesn't it? And she’d tell you, too. Her lyrics dealt with the inevitability of her arrival on the scene, and with a bit of humility kept reminding us, not overtly and directly, but with well-composed lines of all too-prescient spirit, that...
1) She’s good.
2) She’s going to be famous.
3) This is how she’ll deal with it. And if you respect it, hey, come along, too...
Anyone seen @Ilov80s? He's missed the last day or two and this virus makes me do nothing but worry.
From my write-up last time, in spoiler
Runner-up - The Bananas - Nautical Theme
Ella Yelich O’Connor, or Lorde, the person in question, had signed her first music deal in her mid-teens having already read 1,000 total books and proofreading her Mother’s doctoral thesis. She was singing for a mother’s friend who happened to be connected in some way to the industry. A Soundcloud success later, three years passage, and still singing after releasing a successful EP in NZ, there she was, smacking, as if instantly, off of the FM dial somehow with that song. That damn song that actually hit on U.S. radio. To get wikkid on ya, I’d worked on that type of song. Written a million raps about material attainment as toughness, as ends. It was the zeitgeist of the aughts and the time -- like these men and women within their creative niche outlets were having fights over their total inventory. And the public was buying it as art. The artists’ assets and goodwill brands acted as if, according to the “artist,” that the imprimatur of new wealth ever sanctified poetry set to a music backdrop was the raison d’etre of the effort. The songs and appearances had lurched almost fatally to celebrity appearance and cash. Accountants with attitudes showing up to work. It was so silly…and then…
But every song's like gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin' in the bathroom
Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room
We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams
But everybody's like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece
Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash
We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair
And we'll never be royals
It don't run in our blood
That kind of lux just ain't for us
We crave a different kind of buzz
Let me be your ruler, you can call me Queen B
And baby I'll rule (I'll rule I'll rule I'll rule)
Let me live that fantasy
Who said that? Why were they/it/her/he saying it? The entire industry was completely blindsided. The song hit, and hit hard, spending nine weeks at the top of the billboard charts, longer but not before cries of nihilism, elitism, racism, how dare she... flew over the song. And Lorde? That name? What the hell was that?
And did I mention she was young? Well, she knew what some of her songs were. They were shots across the celebrity bow, announced with more authority than Nuke LaLoosh of Bull Durham fame had ever dreamed, and devastated or at least turned some careers creatively toward other things then capital. People were especially thinking the song was a shot at Jay-Z and Beyonce, That caused problems, quickly put out. But it's hard to imagine a 4:44 and Lemonade might not even be subject fodder worthy of a listen without “Royals” four or so years earlier. The irony? Now everyone knew who Lorde was, too, this now-famous and likely very rich girl from a small town under the equator where even now the water goes the other way, doesn't it? And she’d tell you, too. Her lyrics dealt with the inevitability of her arrival on the scene, and with a bit of humility kept reminding us, not overtly and directly, but with well-composed lines of all too-prescient spirit, that...
1) She’s good.
2) She’s going to be famous.
3) This is how she’ll deal with it. And if you respect it, hey, come along, too...
Anyone seen @Ilov80s? He's missed the last day or two and this virus makes me do nothing but worry.
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JZilla
Footballguy
In 2011 a good friend of mine died of leukemia. I helped out a little, in his final months, no big deal REALLY I mostly got stoned and just kept him company as I was able to. He had a fam with a little money and he left me his car.. which I appreciate for all of my days, no doubt. It was quite a sweet ride, not to mention carried me through the rest of my child support years with no car payment or crappy car stress. And I was on the road frequently. This double record sounded awesome in that car, just the way the rhythm section pops, and I had it on heavy rotation for most of 2012. I'm pretty sure this was my vote for FFA Album of the Year and I'll take it now.
40yo.album Baroness - Yellow and Green
40yo.album Baroness - Yellow and Green
Hov34
Eephus's Great Great Great Love Child
Age 40 Song 2009/10:
1901 - Phoenix
Age 40 Album 2010:
All Day - Girl Talk
My girls were 10 and 13 about this time and we played this monstrosity a lot. (father of the year), but they know most of the non rap "classic" songs from this mashup. Did have to mute some parts (thanks lil' wayne). When we are driving together we still yell: "move #####, get out the way". Actually played this a week or so ago and the girls (18/21 now) had good flashbacks.
1901 - Phoenix
Age 40 Album 2010:
All Day - Girl Talk
My girls were 10 and 13 about this time and we played this monstrosity a lot. (father of the year), but they know most of the non rap "classic" songs from this mashup. Did have to mute some parts (thanks lil' wayne). When we are driving together we still yell: "move #####, get out the way". Actually played this a week or so ago and the girls (18/21 now) had good flashbacks.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Ben Folds at 30 was my 28 Year-Old Album along with the Impossibles Enter/Return.
Good stuff in the quoted. Phoenix was my 36 Year-Old Song.
So many near snipes, so much seeming consensus by our demographic group.
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Age 40 album - Music from the motion picture Into The Wild - Eddie Vedder
This was also released when I was 39 but was still going strong at 40. My wife and I both enjoyed the film, but loved the soundtrack much more. It's a very atmospheric record that shows another side of the Pearl Jam front man.
Hard Sun
This was also released when I was 39 but was still going strong at 40. My wife and I both enjoyed the film, but loved the soundtrack much more. It's a very atmospheric record that shows another side of the Pearl Jam front man.
Hard Sun
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I’m around. I have to do 35 song and album but then I’m done. Nothing really jumped out at since it’s so recent, 35 doesn’t seem like it’s in the past just being 2 years ago.
rockaction
Footballguy
Cool. Just saw you in the sports draft. You're usually first up with these. Carry on then...
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
No sweat. Things, so far, are good. How about you? I am waiting with bated breath on news from friends in CT and MA in congested areas. Me and my family are well to this date. Several old friends have gotten back in touch - they're well and wanted to check in. One is from SF and thankful to be from there. I suppose the news will only get worse as time goes, so my initial optimism and good cheer might fade. Best to you and yours, bud.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
40yo Album, Red Hot + Blue, Various Artists
My Mary & i had very different taste in music. She - Husker Du, Bauhaus, Sonic Youth, me - Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder etc. When she got sick, her 4 ft boombox went into the master bedroom and her discs ruled. The only CDs we agreed on was her 3-disc Sinatra Capitol set, Seal, Chris Isaak's Heart-Shaped World and this one. This was mostly cuz post-cancer Mary's favorite thing in the world was for her and her enormous black cat Rajah to lie with their heads on my chest and and feel my deep voice make my breastbone vibrate. I had to speak in my FM voice all the time, make a rattling purr for the cat now & then and do what we called "underlining" these croony records - harmonize waaaay below the notes or singalong an octave below on em.
Red Hot + Blue - an AIDS-benefit Cole Porter tribute album - was actually a nice break because Mary would join in on the ones by punk (duets by Iggy/Debbie Harry, McGowan/MacColl) or world artists, but she would brook no interruption, even throw Raj off the bed sometimes, when i harmonized w Annie Lennox on Every Time We Say Goodbye or, especially w kd lang on So In Love. The latter is about the most strange and beautiful thing i've ever done, strange because my beginning note is like an F1 and then winds around lang's notes like a python on a jungle tree. If i did it juuuust right, i could actually feel the poisons of dread & potions of gloom escape my beloved oh so briefly.
My Mary & i had very different taste in music. She - Husker Du, Bauhaus, Sonic Youth, me - Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder etc. When she got sick, her 4 ft boombox went into the master bedroom and her discs ruled. The only CDs we agreed on was her 3-disc Sinatra Capitol set, Seal, Chris Isaak's Heart-Shaped World and this one. This was mostly cuz post-cancer Mary's favorite thing in the world was for her and her enormous black cat Rajah to lie with their heads on my chest and and feel my deep voice make my breastbone vibrate. I had to speak in my FM voice all the time, make a rattling purr for the cat now & then and do what we called "underlining" these croony records - harmonize waaaay below the notes or singalong an octave below on em.
Red Hot + Blue - an AIDS-benefit Cole Porter tribute album - was actually a nice break because Mary would join in on the ones by punk (duets by Iggy/Debbie Harry, McGowan/MacColl) or world artists, but she would brook no interruption, even throw Raj off the bed sometimes, when i harmonized w Annie Lennox on Every Time We Say Goodbye or, especially w kd lang on So In Love. The latter is about the most strange and beautiful thing i've ever done, strange because my beginning note is like an F1 and then winds around lang's notes like a python on a jungle tree. If i did it juuuust right, i could actually feel the poisons of dread & potions of gloom escape my beloved oh so briefly.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
Things mostly good. My friends son has it but seems to be moving in a positive direction. My mom works at the local hospital in food prep and she said it's actually been really slow for her. She isn't entirely sure why and she never ventures up from the kitchen to the hospital itself but she assumes it because that so many of the patients eating via an IV due to the respirators. But mostly things are good. Wife and I rarely leave home and are making the best of it.
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Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Have to say here, I've had a mancrush on Chris Isaak since first hearing his second album in '86, and I'm still glad I own both of Seal's first two albums.
rockaction
Footballguy
There's no emoji for sort of an ambivalence about something, but I wish the best for your mother and friend's son. Ugh.
Eephus
Footballguy
I'm surprised this went undrafted (I think) in the 2010s Decade Draft. I considered it, listened to it on a bike ride and then forgot about it when I made my list.
Eephus
Footballguy
My daughter's friend's mom dated Isaak in the 80s. You'll be happy to know he's enormously hung.
Hov34
Eephus's Great Great Great Love Child
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
40 Yr Old Song: Sleep To Dream - Fiona Apple
Well, this is where a lot of "my music" loses it's currency ...not money, music of that time. Starting about 10 years prior, I found that I mostly gravitated back to the music of my teens. Not everything but each year, I found that my tastes were less and less drawn to what was popular at the time. Certainly there was some good stuff, but I wasn't buying much music (my wife would generally be the one buying new music by that point).
A lot of things had changed again. It was really one of the most exciting times of my life. I had become a dad for the first time the previous year, we had made our final move to date - down to Little Rock, Arkansas from PA after a nice promotion and career opportunity with the telephone company. House on the golf course, along with close to 20 friends from the company (also golfers) that I had known well for over 10 years. We all lived in the neighborhood. Drove our golf carts to the club and each other's homes - golfed and partied constantly. It was heaven (still is ...but most of the guys have moved on). This was not a hard rockin' crowd - many were 10-12 years older so many of the parties we were playing "their music" ...or "new country" for the our new southern friends.
Most of my music listening was my drive to work and back. Fiona's CD "Tidal" was in the car quite a bit then. This is the lead song - and it always just drew me in.
Well, this is where a lot of "my music" loses it's currency ...not money, music of that time. Starting about 10 years prior, I found that I mostly gravitated back to the music of my teens. Not everything but each year, I found that my tastes were less and less drawn to what was popular at the time. Certainly there was some good stuff, but I wasn't buying much music (my wife would generally be the one buying new music by that point).
A lot of things had changed again. It was really one of the most exciting times of my life. I had become a dad for the first time the previous year, we had made our final move to date - down to Little Rock, Arkansas from PA after a nice promotion and career opportunity with the telephone company. House on the golf course, along with close to 20 friends from the company (also golfers) that I had known well for over 10 years. We all lived in the neighborhood. Drove our golf carts to the club and each other's homes - golfed and partied constantly. It was heaven (still is ...but most of the guys have moved on). This was not a hard rockin' crowd - many were 10-12 years older so many of the parties we were playing "their music" ...or "new country" for the our new southern friends.
Most of my music listening was my drive to work and back. Fiona's CD "Tidal" was in the car quite a bit then. This is the lead song - and it always just drew me in.
rockaction
Footballguy
I loved Fiona in my late twenties and early thirties. I still really like her, I just don't follow her new releases. I have a different mindset. But Tidal and When The Pawn Strikes... are stone cold classic albums. Glad to see her in this thread as meaningful in one part of someone's life as it was to a 27 or 28 year-old me. Mine would have been from When The Pawn... because that's the album that was released right around the time I started to get into her, but Tidal had great songs, too. I remember buying Tidal from a used CD store for about $3.99 because so many people had sold it back because the "Criminal" video marketed her much differently than she was. She was a supposed music industry vixen in that video. Later check-ins with Fiona would find this not to be the case in the least.
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Eephus
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
had no idea ...would love to hear it
she's an old soul ...hopefully she's ok, I think she had some problems for a while.
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Well my mother told me first
She said when things aren't getting bad
Look out they might be getting worse
And now I always fall
A little short in front of you
She said when things aren't getting bad
Look out they might be getting worse
And now I always fall
A little short in front of you
Northern Voice
Footballguy
For the last few years, my friends and I have had a standing meeting on Fridays after work at our "local" - Mcthirsty's (bad name, great beer).
They do a "tappy hour" (for a long time happy hours and discounted beer were illegal in Ontario, they still kind of are but restrictions have been loosened any way it could never be called happy hour), from 4-6, where all the craft beers pints are $4.50 taxes in, plus 1/2 price wings and $7 fish and chips all night. Now I won't say I'm there every Friday but if it's not, its because I have a concert or some sort of event to attend instead.
It started as mostly me and one friend and then we met the guy who does the beer there and he started to join in. Then another couple we met at some beer festivals. Then another "pub regular" started to join us (and I've actually become really good friends with that guy, we play squash 2-3 times a week... or we did...) and he had a group of 3-4 other guys, so by the start of this year we probably had a solid group of 10-12 regulars and you'd get 7 or 8 there every Friday.
For a group that basically came together from liking to drink good beer with not much in common, it's a really great group. I genuinely like all of them and we've done some card nights and beer shares and hockey games and such outside of just the Friday beers.
It's just been the thing that I've looked forward to at the end of every work week, where I can kind of always see that light at the end of the tunnel. I have a pretty flexible job and I get down there a bit early, leave the car at my wife's work (which happens to be around the corner from the pub) and she takes it home and picks me up and usually some take out dinner when I'm ready to come home... and maybe 4-5 times a year, a few of us just stay out, play euchre and drink until it's time to sing a long with the acoustic guy who plays at 10.
I think it's that group and that night out that I miss most of all so far. Or maybe the second most behind the Petes games but I think I'll have a few more beers before I open that wound for everyone
They do a "tappy hour" (for a long time happy hours and discounted beer were illegal in Ontario, they still kind of are but restrictions have been loosened any way it could never be called happy hour), from 4-6, where all the craft beers pints are $4.50 taxes in, plus 1/2 price wings and $7 fish and chips all night. Now I won't say I'm there every Friday but if it's not, its because I have a concert or some sort of event to attend instead.
It started as mostly me and one friend and then we met the guy who does the beer there and he started to join in. Then another couple we met at some beer festivals. Then another "pub regular" started to join us (and I've actually become really good friends with that guy, we play squash 2-3 times a week... or we did...) and he had a group of 3-4 other guys, so by the start of this year we probably had a solid group of 10-12 regulars and you'd get 7 or 8 there every Friday.
For a group that basically came together from liking to drink good beer with not much in common, it's a really great group. I genuinely like all of them and we've done some card nights and beer shares and hockey games and such outside of just the Friday beers.
It's just been the thing that I've looked forward to at the end of every work week, where I can kind of always see that light at the end of the tunnel. I have a pretty flexible job and I get down there a bit early, leave the car at my wife's work (which happens to be around the corner from the pub) and she takes it home and picks me up and usually some take out dinner when I'm ready to come home... and maybe 4-5 times a year, a few of us just stay out, play euchre and drink until it's time to sing a long with the acoustic guy who plays at 10.
I think it's that group and that night out that I miss most of all so far. Or maybe the second most behind the Petes games but I think I'll have a few more beers before I open that wound for everyone
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
I'd say you have a pretty flexible wife. She sounds like a saint.For the last few years, my friends and I have had a standing meeting on Fridays after work at our "local" - Mcthirsty's (bad name, great beer).
They do a "tappy hour" (for a long time happy hours and discounted beer were illegal in Ontario, they still kind of are but restrictions have been loosened any way it could never be called happy hour), from 4-6, where all the craft beers pints are $4.50 taxes in, plus 1/2 price wings and $7 fish and chips all night. Now I won't say I'm there every Friday but if it's not, its because I have a concert or some sort of event to attend instead.
It started as mostly me and one friend and then we met the guy who does the beer there and he started to join in. Then another couple we met at some beer festivals. Then another "pub regular" started to join us (and I've actually become really good friends with that guy, we play squash 2-3 times a week... or we did...) and he had a group of 3-4 other guys, so by the start of this year we probably had a solid group of 10-12 regulars and you'd get 7 or 8 there every Friday.
For a group that basically came together from liking to drink good beer with not much in common, it's a really great group. I genuinely like all of them and we've done some card nights and beer shares and hockey games and such outside of just the Friday beers.
It's just been the thing that I've looked forward to at the end of every work week, where I can kind of always see that light at the end of the tunnel. I have a pretty flexible job and I get down there a bit early,leave the car at my wife's work (which happens to be around the corner from the pub) and she takes it home and picks me up and usually some take out dinner when I'm ready to come home... and maybe 4-5 times a year, a few of us just stay out, play euchre and drink until it's time to sing a long with the acoustic guy who plays at 10.
I think it's that group and that night out that I miss most of all so far. Or maybe the second most behind the Petes games but I think I'll have a few more beers before I open that wound for everyone
My wife will always offer to be the DD when we go out (not that often anymore) but I don't think she'd sign up for an every-Friday-night gig of picking my drunk self up, let alone with take out! I hope you appreciate what you've got going there!
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Northern Voice
Footballguy
Haha yes, absolutely. My wife in recent years has become quite the hippie. She's gone vegan, we do the rescue stuff with dogs and we went down to one vehicle, so she walks or takes the bus to work most days. She uses those Friday afternoons with the car to get stuff done she can't during the week or... go home and have a napI'd say you have a pretty flexible wife. She sounds like a saint.
My wife will always offer to be the DD when we go out (not that often anymore) but I don't think she'd sign up for an every-Friday-night gig of picking my drunk self up, let alone with take out! I hope you appreciate what you've got going there!
. But yes, she is absolutely the best and I do appreciate her and let her know
Northern Voice
Footballguy
So I just learned 'Men in Black' is same song as 'Forget Me Nots'...
Northern Voice
Footballguy
I think 'Miami' may owe a debt to The Whispers too. Tough night for Will Smith imo
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Let me tell ya baby I'll tell your mama
I'll tell your friends
I'll tell anyone who's heart can comprehend
Send it in a letter baby tell you on the phone
I'm not the kinda girl who likes to be alone
I miss ya much I really miss you much
I miss ya much baby I really miss ya much
I'm rushing home just as soon as I can
I'm rushing Home to see your smiling face
And feel your warm embrace
I'll tell your friends
I'll tell anyone who's heart can comprehend
Send it in a letter baby tell you on the phone
I'm not the kinda girl who likes to be alone
I miss ya much I really miss you much
I miss ya much baby I really miss ya much
I'm rushing home just as soon as I can
I'm rushing Home to see your smiling face
And feel your warm embrace
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Glitter on the west streets
Silver over everything
The rivers all wet
You're all chrome
Dripping with alchemy
Shiver stop shivering
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome
Silver over everything
The rivers all wet
You're all chrome
Dripping with alchemy
Shiver stop shivering
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome
rockaction
Footballguy
I always thought it was sugar over everything...learn something new every night in italicized lyrics.
Also, isn't "Miss You Much" Ms. Jackson? Break it down for me, Jimmy. Woot woot. That's right, Terry.
Or something like that with keytars.
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Yes. I’m listening to DJScene Coronavirus quarantine mixes and they’re really very good and also bringing these songs to me.
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Coolin' on the corner on a hot summer's day
Just me, my posse and M.C.A.
A lot of beer, a lot of girls and a lot of cursing
.22 automatic on my person
Got my hand in my pocket and my finger's on the trigger
My posse's gettin' big and my posse's gettin' bigger
Just me, my posse and M.C.A.
A lot of beer, a lot of girls and a lot of cursing
.22 automatic on my person
Got my hand in my pocket and my finger's on the trigger
My posse's gettin' big and my posse's gettin' bigger
Northern Voice
Footballguy
You might think you've peeped the scene
You haven't
The real one is far too mean
The watered down, the one you know
Was made up centuries ago
They it sound all wack and corny
Yes its awful blasted boring
Twisted fictions, sick addiction
Well gather 'round children
Zip it listen!
@Steve Tasker
You haven't
The real one is far too mean
The watered down, the one you know
Was made up centuries ago
They it sound all wack and corny
Yes its awful blasted boring
Twisted fictions, sick addiction
Well gather 'round children
Zip it listen!
@Steve Tasker
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Northern Voice
Footballguy
I step up in the club, I'm like who you with
G-Unit in the house, yeah that's my clique
Yeah I'm young, but a ##### from the old school
On the dance floor, a ##### doin' old moves
I don't give a ####, I do what I wan' do
I hit your ### up, boy I done warned you
Better listen, when I talk, ##### don't trip
Yo' heat in the car, mine's in this #####
G-Unit in the house, yeah that's my clique
Yeah I'm young, but a ##### from the old school
On the dance floor, a ##### doin' old moves
I don't give a ####, I do what I wan' do
I hit your ### up, boy I done warned you
Better listen, when I talk, ##### don't trip
Yo' heat in the car, mine's in this #####
Northern Voice
Footballguy
I'm so thankful that edited what it needed to 
rockaction
Footballguy
That's Nicki off of My Beautiful or I've messed this up again...
Can it get much higher oh oh oh oh
Ohhh ohhh
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Nah not right place/time
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John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
Yep. Robbie Williams was huge, especially in the UK. He was in the equally huge boyband Take That before being kicked out. He struggled as a solo artist until the song Angels went massive.
I always struggled with why he was so successful. The production was average and the songwriting bland, but he was lapped up like a god. I always think of him and Alan Parsons Project when i think of artists who should have been massive, but there was just something missing.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
You should read an interview with Billy Idol where he talks about this song. He loathes it. After declining another Keith Forsey song, “Dont you forget about me” which became a number one smash (funnily enough Simple Minds hate that song too ), he felt he had to do Cradle of Love, but all his grunts and wooos are his rebellion at having to do the song.
rockaction
Footballguy
John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
Age 25 Album
Funny how Eephus picked the Oasis album for his pick in this decade. I clearly fell on the main rival to that band. I was struggling to find an artist to latch onto during this time and this was like a gift from the gods. Cheeky, wildly different musical styles and truly capturing the zietgeist of london at the time. Oasis were northern yobs who listened to Beatles albums one too many times before writing their own stuff. Liam Gallagher was particularly odious.
Anyway, this album is like a greatest hits compilation. A couple of duds that dont hold up, but ambition needs to fail occasionally
Age 25 Album - Blur - Parklife
Girls and Boys
Parklife
To the End
Bank Holiday
Funny how Eephus picked the Oasis album for his pick in this decade. I clearly fell on the main rival to that band. I was struggling to find an artist to latch onto during this time and this was like a gift from the gods. Cheeky, wildly different musical styles and truly capturing the zietgeist of london at the time. Oasis were northern yobs who listened to Beatles albums one too many times before writing their own stuff. Liam Gallagher was particularly odious.
Anyway, this album is like a greatest hits compilation. A couple of duds that dont hold up, but ambition needs to fail occasionally
Age 25 Album - Blur - Parklife
Girls and Boys
Parklife
To the End
Bank Holiday
rockaction
Footballguy
Always someone there that you really love
I remember that song, for sure.
Not for nothing, but Oasis wasn't the only one taking a shot at Blur. Mogwai once made a shirt. It read...
blur: are ####e
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John Maddens Lunchbox
Footballguy
30yo song.
i was really torn here. I so wanted to pick the amazing Da Funk by Daft Funk, but the other choice is simply generational. The artist is iconic, the song is a masterclass of pop writing full of hooks, key changes and performed to perfection. The wonderful Robyn had a very similar song written by Max Martin as well called Show me Love the year before and this follows on a very similar path. Its just better. Pop simply doesnt get better than this.
30yo song - Britney Spears - (Hit me) Baby one more time
i was really torn here. I so wanted to pick the amazing Da Funk by Daft Funk, but the other choice is simply generational. The artist is iconic, the song is a masterclass of pop writing full of hooks, key changes and performed to perfection. The wonderful Robyn had a very similar song written by Max Martin as well called Show me Love the year before and this follows on a very similar path. Its just better. Pop simply doesnt get better than this.
30yo song - Britney Spears - (Hit me) Baby one more time
rockaction
Footballguy
I'm only commenting on your selections because it's late night West Coast and I'm up, but in my especially humble opinion (given that you have broken down the pop matrix and have your own very good reasons) Da Funk >>>>>>>>>>> (Hit Me) Baby One More Time. One was made for a generation, the other one for many generations. Da Funk still works. Navel rings with hangy things during volleyball practice don't. But who the heck am I?
Maybe the guy with the red pill. Or whichever Wachowski color they chose.
Love the Daft "Funk" typo/malaprop, by the way. Nothing more appropriate and subconsciously slippery than calling them that on accident. Random Access Memories was much more Daft Funk than Daft Punk, anyway.
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