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Classic Album Discussion Thread: The Kinks-Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Pt. 1 (3 Viewers)

Chaos Commish said:
I either do Lynyrd Skynyrd or JImmy Buffett. Odd how the same bad voice works for either. If I pop a few pillies I might do Tom Jones, well Jimmy Buffett doing Tom Jones.
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I'm always fascinated by people's karaoke song choices.  The local place has massive binders with thousands of possible songs.  I stick to songs in my vocal register (or lack thereof).  Mrs. Eephus always goes uptempo with a song from one of her favorite bands.  Our daughter usually picks pop radio chestnuts from the early 2000s.  There are always gay guys there singing show tunes and an old Filipino regular who is slowly working through the Sinatra songbook.  We don't go that often but it seems like every night there's a different drunk chick who chooses some wildly unsuitable song, fails miserably at trying to read the words and staggers off into the night.  Good times.

 
Chaos Commish said:
####, I'm already listening to Lou. If I Neil is next just shoot me. 

What Lou, Eeph?
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"You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine".  The "You're gonna miss" section is a lot of fun to sing.  I'm awful at it of course but I'm shameless enough not to be horrible.

 
Chaos Commish said:
I either do Lynyrd Skynyrd or JImmy Buffett. Odd how the same bad voice works for either. If I pop a few pillies I might do Tom Jones, well Jimmy Buffett doing Tom Jones.
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You know who else shares the same karoake voice?  Axl Rose and Janis Joplin.  I'd never subject people in a karoake bar to me singing either of those artists, but in my car I can do both with the same voice.

 
timschochet said:
Steve Miller Band-  Greatest Hits 1974-1978

Swingtown

Jungle Love

Take The Money and Run

Rock’n Me

Serenade

True Fine Love

The Stake

The Joker

Fly Like An Eagle

Threshold

Jet Airliner

Dance, Dance, Dance

Winter Time

Wild Mountain Honey
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Underrated  -  The Stake

Overrated and horrific in every conceivable way  -  The Joker

 
Eephus said:
"You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine".  The "You're gonna miss" section is a lot of fun to sing.  I'm awful at it of course but I'm shameless enough not to be horrible.
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It was my guess but I kind of hoped you'd surprise me. Gimme Three Steps is my go to and you should try it. Really fun lines.

 
Eephus said:
I'm always fascinated by people's karaoke song choices.  The local place has massive binders with thousands of possible songs.  I stick to songs in my vocal register (or lack thereof).  Mrs. Eephus always goes uptempo with a song from one of her favorite bands.  Our daughter usually picks pop radio chestnuts from the early 2000s.  There are always gay guys there singing show tunes and an old Filipino regular who is slowly working through the Sinatra songbook.  We don't go that often but it seems like every night there's a different drunk chick who chooses some wildly unsuitable song, fails miserably at trying to read the words and staggers off into the night.  Good times.
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Do you all have one or three really awesome karaoke singer that make everyone wonder "Why aren't they doing this professionally?"

One place I used to go used to have this little old(er) lady ... probably 65-70, still spry. She just poured her heart out doing great renditions of Reba McEntire hits and other country tunes. Many standing ovations.

 
Doug B said:
Do you all have one or three really awesome karaoke singer that make everyone wonder "Why aren't they doing this professionally?"

One place I used to go used to have this little old(er) lady ... probably 65-70, still spry. She just poured her heart out doing great renditions of Reba McEntire hits and other country tunes. Many standing ovations.
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Yeah, I go with my niece in Hollywood who's professionally trained like everyone but little Jimmy Buffett here. Every show needs it's comic releif.

 
Steve Miller's "Greatest Hits" is just about the best single-disc rock compilation ever. Although it would be even better if they cut the last 3 tracks and replaced them with "Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma" and "Sugar Babe".

 
Joe Summer said:
Steve Miller's "Greatest Hits" is just about the best single-disc rock compilation ever. Although it would be even better if they cut the last 3 tracks and replaced them with "Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma" and "Sugar Babe".
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I'm glad this was posted by Joe Summer and not Joe Strummer.

 
Doug B said:
Do you all have one or three really awesome karaoke singer that make everyone wonder "Why aren't they doing this professionally?"

One place I used to go used to have this little old(er) lady ... probably 65-70, still spry. She just poured her heart out doing great renditions of Reba McEntire hits and other country tunes. Many standing ovations.
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The one near me has a largely gay clientele and has some very fine singers.

We used to occasionally visit the karaoke bars in Japantown.  The vibe there couldn't have been more different from the usual American collection of drunks and ironists.  Most of the singers were dead serious businessmen in suit and tie belting out syrupy ballads in Japanese.

 
krista4 said:
I played that Johnny Cash one for Mr. krista a couple of weeks ago, and he called it "gruesome."  He might have meant that as a compliment, though.  Another good cover of that song is from...wait for it...Ozzy Osbourne.
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The Black Sabbath frontman, who is virtually synonymous with heavy metal, specifically credits The Beatles' "She Loves You" with igniting his love of music.

I remember exactly where I was," Osbourne says of the first time he heard the song. "I was walking down Witton Road in Aston, I had a blue transistor radio and when that song came on, I knew from then on what I wanted to do with my life.

“This was so brand new and there was just a great feeling it gave me. Then I became an avid Beatles fan – they were great."

The singer says it changed his "whole world." 

“I owe my career to them because they gave me the desire to want to be in the music game.”

 
Eephus said:
The one near me has a largely gay clientele and has some very fine singers.

We used to occasionally visit the karaoke bars in Japantown.  The vibe there couldn't have been more different from the usual American collection of drunks and ironists.  Most of the singers were dead serious businessmen in suit and tie belting out syrupy ballads in Japanese.
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My experience with Asian, mostly Filipino, karoake was living in Vegas. They seem to have genetically superior vocal chords to the common white folk.

 
peaces said:
The Black Sabbath frontman, who is virtually synonymous with heavy metal, specifically credits The Beatles' "She Loves You" with igniting his love of music.

I remember exactly where I was, ," Osbourne says of the first time he heard the song. "I was walking down Witton Road in Aston, I had a blue transistor radio and when that song came on, I knew from then on what I wanted to do with my life.
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NARRATOR:  This proved to be the last time Osbourne knew exactly where he was

 
peaces said:
The Black Sabbath frontman, who is virtually synonymous with heavy metal, specifically credits The Beatles' "She Loves You" with igniting his love of music.
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Paul recalling writing this with his father's bad advice in one of the best parts of the awesome Car Ride thing he did recently.

 
The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers (1971) 

Side One

Brown Sugar

Sway

Wild Horses

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

You Gotta Move

Side Two

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I Got the Blues

Sister Morphine

Dead Flowers

Moonlight Mile

This album and the one that follows it, Exile on Main Street, are the Stones at their absolute best, (which means the best rock and roll music ever produced), with the two albums before it just slightly below, IMO. I chose this album over Exile not because I think it’s better (that’s a close call which I don’t want to make) but because this thread is about the AOR radio days, as much as anything, and this album is more radio friendly. 

What makes this version of the Stones the best? Mick Taylor. I love Ron Wood, especially paired with Rod Stewart (we’ll get to it) but Taylor’s second guitar was perfect for Keith and Mick and an improvement on Brian Jones. I love every song on this album; my personal favorite is Moonlight Mile. 

 
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The side street to the Steve Miller Band seems really out of place here!  Some Steve Miller Band songs are ok but I never chose to listen to any of his music.  As another poster noted it reminds me of being a kid and hearing one of his songs while riding along in the family trickster.  Music is subjective though and if that is what you like then good for you. 

 
I have a very distinct memory of the Steve Miller Band. 1970? Rock festival in NH, biker gang decides to ride down on the show because Sha Na Na's playing. A bunch of em rode/straddled between the hippie blankets as SMB (pretty sure Scaggs was with em) played. Somebody musta ####ily wisecracked one of em, cuz he sent his boot right thru the poor sap's temple. They rumbled with hippies, roadies (once Miller told em to screw and then shut down), security and stayed there til Sha Na Na hurriedly set up and played til the Staties arrived an hour or so later (so many bikers even they just corraled em out). I got to know SNN's drummer Jocko from the poker tables in Reno and, when i mentioned that to him he said it was like the Old West, dancing as outlaws shot at your feet, and happened more than once in those days after they gained festival fame from playing Woodstock.

 
timschochet said:
Dead Flowers
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This is my favorite song on the album. I love the Stones , Im partial to Keeth’s lead songs and I’m a sucker for country Mick. Dead Flowers tells a great story and also was a tremendous way to end The Big Lebowski with a Townes Van Zandt cover

 
wikkidpissah said:
Greatest guitar song of all time.
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It was an accident (the ending). From what I’ve read they were finished and there was supposed to be a fade out but Mick Taylor kept on playing. He was just screwing around but then the other musicians picked up their instruments again. 

A lot of people don’t seem to like that ending. I really like it. 

 
Billy Preston is also credited on that song. It’s interesting that so many of my favorite songs from this era seem to have Billy Preston on them. 

 
Mick Taylor was easily the most accomplished guitarist the Stones ever had.  He played a big part in some of the band's greatest records (and by extension some of the greatest rock albums ever). 

But he wasn't a showman.  If you watch concert performances of this version of the Stones, he's usually off to the side with his head down.  It's a much more withdrawn stage demeanor than Bill Wyman's bemused detachment.  Taylor was ideal for the 69-74 period but he wasn't well suited for the later phases of the band's career where they relied much more on massive tours than hit records.  Ronnie Wood would agree his chops are no match for Taylor's but Woody's on-stage interplay with Keith became a part of their on-stage act.

 
Some other interesting trivia from Wiki: 

Andy Warhol designed the album cover. It’s supposed to be a photo of one of his models, or his boyfriend. He never revealed it. 

The cover also creatures the first time the famous Rolling Stones “tongue” image was used. 

 
wikkidpissah said:
The combination of one of one of Richards' best 5-string-tuning riffs and Taylor's solo work in the middle is why i say that
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Mick Taylor was their best guitarist by a good margin - it's a shame that they drove him away because they refused to give him song writing credits.  

 
Eephus said:
Mick Taylor was easily the most accomplished guitarist the Stones ever had.  He played a big part in some of the band's greatest records (and by extension some of the greatest rock albums ever). 

But he wasn't a showman.  If you watch concert performances of this version of the Stones, he's usually off to the side with his head down.  It's a much more withdrawn stage demeanor than Bill Wyman's bemused detachment.  Taylor was ideal for the 69-74 period but he wasn't well suited for the later phases of the band's career where they relied much more on massive tours than hit records.  Ronnie Wood would agree his chops are no match for Taylor's but Woody's on-stage interplay with Keith became a part of their on-stage act.
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Mick Taylor made a solo album in 1979. I discovered it on Apple Music and I love it. At least 3 songs are in my normal rotation. 

 
timschochet said:
It was an accident (the ending). From what I’ve read they were finished and there was supposed to be a fade out but Mick Taylor kept on playing. He was just screwing around but then the other musicians picked up their instruments again. 

A lot of people don’t seem to like that ending. I really like it. 
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Who wouldn't like it?

 
timschochet said:
Mick Taylor made a solo album in 1979. I discovered it on Apple Music and I love it. At least 3 songs are in my normal rotation. 
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I have the CD - like it a lot.

He also came back into semi-prominence in 1988 playing guitar on Joan Jett's I Hate Myself for Loving You - a pretty famous guitar riff.

 
@timschochet, you're kind of moving the goal posts here. Are we discussing these records in an AOR radio or Classic Rock radio context? I know it may seem like a small thing, but there were (are) some differences between the two.

Anyway, Sticky Fingers is my favorite Stones album. Exile On Main Street is too much of one thing (heroin). 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
@timschochet, you're kind of moving the goal posts here. Are we discussing these records in an AOR radio or Classic Rock radio context? I know it may seem like a small thing, but there were (are) some differences between the two.

Anyway, Sticky Fingers is my favorite Stones album. Exile On Main Street is too much of one thing (heroin). 
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I don’t know. I wasn’t aware there was a difference. 

 
Seen the Stones 11 times. Have seen them peform everything off the album except Sway and I got the blues.

One of the best shows I ever saw by them was in 2002 at the Oakland Coliseum indoors. They finished with a blistering version of "Brown Sugar" and left the stage no encore. Great way to end.

I think I like Exile on Main Street a little better then Sticky Fingers. But either one is in the top 50 rock albums of all time

 
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