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Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (1 Viewer)

We're allowed to post Round 44 now, I think.  I don't know what I'm taking, so am just posting this for general interest.

 
Ok - I've listened to the playlist shuffle many times - but I'll finally join the crowds doing reaction posts:

Mediteranean Sundance/Rio Ancho - Dimeola, McLaughlin and de Lucia

I love Spanish guitar and this was pretty incredible. Never heard before (so my knowledge of spanish guitar is limited) but will start listening. I think @Chaos Commish drafted this. Thanks.

M.I.A. - Foo Fighters

M.I.A., meh. FF are harmless. I mostly like what I hear from them but don't seek them out much, if at all.

Sope, Soup and Salvation - Lone Justice

I know them from my younger years. Didn't care much for them the. No much has changed.

Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues

Heard it a 1,000 times. Doesn't mean it's not a great song though. 

Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire

I don't find these guys as special as some. This song surely kicks ### though and have heard it before and liked it. Tonight it sounded particularly good.

Waiting for the Sun - The Jayhawks

This was one of my songs. I love these guys. They're one of the bands I thought should have been bigger than they were, and they were pretty successful. 

Lone Star Song - Grant Lee Buffalo.

This is a band I heard of but never heard. I liked this song. Not pushed to explore more necessarily though.

Hot Thing - Prince

I loved Prince but I have not listened to him as much as I should. I will truly try to rectify that. What a talent.

It's Not My Cross To Bear - Allman Brothers

These guys are my boys. I've seen them about 10 times - all post Duane unfortunately. This is one of their classics. Gregg may have had one of the best voices in rock.

Avalon - Roxy Music

I'm very familiar with this album. It's heavy in my rotation for a long time. Bryan Ferry delivers on this song.

 
Round 44 Piano Man - Billy Joel (1973)

I was born in Queens, and then lived on Long Island from ages 2-21 (minus time spent at Seton Hall).

Just like now that I'm a New Jersey resident I'm contractually obligated to like Bruce, as a Strong Islander I was obligated to like Billy, and I did. This album is probably truly one of my favorites so I have to take it in Round 44.

You're My Home

Captain Jack

 
KarmaPolice said:
I few Friday night music/draft questions:

1.  What have you stumbled on through the draft that was new to you and you are most excited about exploring more?

2.  What artist/album isn't new, but you know you should be listening to it more because every time it comes up you like it?

3.  What albums you drafted do you think might be new for a lot of us and would like people to listen to the most?
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Will bump this for peeps who didn't answer. 

 
Americano/Power - Earth Wind and Fire

One word: Awesome.

This Ride - Prince

I am actually very excited about another Prince song. As I just said I don't listen to him enough. I did not know this song, but cool to hear him pay straight blues to perfection. 

 
I feel like a squirrel who has acorns buried in places long forgotten.  

I have not logged into Pandora in over five years, but I know there are songs I love buried there.  I might dust off the ol' password rest feature.

 
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Dr. Octopus said:
Ok - I've listened to the playlist shuffle many times - but I'll finally join the crowds doing reaction posts:

Mediteranean Sundance/Rio Ancho - Dimeola, McLaughlin and de Lucia

I love Spanish guitar and this was pretty incredible. Never heard before (so my knowledge of spanish guitar is limited) but will start listening. I think @Chaos Commish drafted this. Thanks.
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You're welcome.   :bowtie:

 
You Love The Thunder - Jackson Browne

I never got very excited about this guy. This was a good, if simple, song though.

Carry the Zero- Built To Spill

This is a band I should probably explore more. Seems in my wheelhouse and liked this song a bunch.

Watching The Wheels - John Lennon

I picked this song in the songs to play at my funeral draft. 'nuf said.

Wildlife Analysis - Boards of Canada

Hmmmmm......

It Only Hurst Me When I Cry - Dwight Yoakam

Another one of my picks. Dwight does what he does real well. This was the song that hooked me on him for whatever reason.

Surf's Up - Beach Boys

Another band that was good as what they did and great a few times - including but not limited to the album drafted in Round 1. This song is closer to greatness than goodness.

Memory Motel - Rolling Stones

One of my favorite songs by my favorite band. Keith sounds great on this one. 

 They're Blind - Matt Wallace Mix - The Replacements

Wow. I actually like the one from the original album in 1990, but this mix is better. Much cleaner.

From a Buick 6 - Robert Zimmerman

I love Dylan. This isn't one of my favorites, but it's still a good one.

 
Mister CIA said:
This guy had a smattering of hit songs in the 70s, including a few that possibly peaked at #1, but ultimately he was a forgettable guy.  BUT, he released a barnburner of an album - with one caveat, the opening track sucks balls. You'll be rewarded if you listen to it from track 2 through the end.

Resembling Richard Simmons is a bummer of a trait.

Hindsight is 20/20, but we should have been linking three songs from each album all along.  I mean, if it's one of the greatest albums of all-time...

43.37 - Just a Boy, Leo Sayer   1974

The Bells of St. Mary's

*One Man Band

In My Life

*The Hit!  Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)

* for the playlist
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He did resemble Richard Simmons back then, especially the hair. I remember having his "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" 45.  I like those songs in the links. 

 
File under "Records I Could Get in the 50th Round But Are Top 20 for Me"

44.16 - Dan Bern - Dan Bern (1997)

This was a guy I first saw play during The Chicago Years, and I was puzzling today over why he never became huge, and then I read his Wiki page and realized he's done a'ight; he's just been doing interesting stuff I didn't know about, expanding his realm.

"In early 2007, Bern's Breathe won in The 6th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album.[

In 2009, 2010 and 2012, Bern played with Common Rotation from Los Angeles, California which consists of vocals, guitar, banjo, trumpet, saxophone, and other instruments. Their concert in September 2009 at the M Bar in Los Angeles, was released as a live album in the spring of 2010 called "Live in Los Angeles" with about half the songs Bern playing solo and the other half including Common Rotation.

Bern's songwriting skills were used in the biopic parody film Walk Hard where he helped write 16 songs for the movie. Many of these songs made the theatrical cut of the film including the Dylanesque "Royal Jelly," and the melodic "(Have You Heard the News) Dewey Cox Died." He continues to write songs for films, including Get Him to the Greek and Father's Day. Bern’s song "One Dance" was also included in Kasdan's first film Zero Effect. Bern wrote "Swing Set," a duet with Emmylou Harris, for the off Broadway production of Family Week directed by Jonathan Demme, and wrote the title song for Demme's documentary Jimmy Carter Man From Plains.

In 2012, Bern released two studio recordings of American roots music: Drifter, featuring a duet with Emmylou Harris, and Doubleheader, an 18-song tribute to baseball culled from close to 30 years of songwriting and recorded at Bob Weir’s TRI Studios in Marin County."

Anyway, his music is heavily influenced by Dylan in an obvious way, and his lyrics are SO ####### GOOD.  I'm doing a swing through this record now to choose my songs, though I kinda know what I'm taking, just marveling again at how good they are.

I'll put this record as my answer to KP's Question #3, the record I wish people would listen to.

Songs to come.

 
Heaven Knows - Robert Plant

I remember this album well as Plant finally went back to his Zepplin roots. I was fine with him trying something new, and still am.

No Action - Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Is it sacralige to call Presley, the second best Elvis in music history?

Wheels of Fortune - The Doobie Brothers

I like these guys - not this song so much. 

 
To press my case, I give this write-up about Dan Bern:  "To listen to his songs is like listening to a story told by a combination of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Wayne Hancock. There is love, there is humor, there is irony and deep meaning.  His vocals are rich, sometimes raw and always honest. There are times that a Dylan twang emerges, but that is always gone right after recognizing it. With a blend of country, rock, folk and poignancy, his style is unique and powerful."

Lyrics from "Wasteland," which won't be one of my two songs but damn:

I saw the best of my generation playing pinball
Maked up and caked up and lookin' like some kind of china doll
With all of Adolf Hitler's moves down cold
As they stood up in front of a rock and roll band
And always moving upward and ever upward
To this gentle golden promised land
With the smartest of them all moonlighting as a word processor
And the strongest of them all checking ID's outside saloons
And the prettiest of them all taking off her clothes
In front of men whose eyes look like they were in some
Little hick town near Omaha watching the police chief
Run his car off the side of a bridge
I saw men with dreams like the ones I'd had
Beg quarters outside the 7-11
Till it got so they didn't affect me anymore
Then the mailboxes I'd passed 'cept that sometimes
I'd put something in the mailbox
I'd had the wind at my back
Now I felt it cold in my face
And for an awful long time now you were the only one who ever
Called me late at night and I really never noticed till after
You stopped calling and the emptiness, silence got so heavy

Broken up in the wasteland
Broken up in the promised land
Broken up in Disneyland
Broken up in the plastic land
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the wasteland
Broken up in the wasteland

I saw dead Marilyn Monroe strung up on every street corner
In Hollywood like some two bit whore offering a discount rate
And I wondered how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw dead James Dean's ghost wandering the sidewalk
Looking troubled and I wondered how his mama felt
I saw signs that said head shots done for cheap
Signs that said extras wanted top dollars paid
Signs for haircuts signs for manicures and
Signs for tanning salons and signs for wardrobe specialists
Signs for cosmetic surgery and signs for assertiveness training
And I stopped to read them all
And every single block looked like every single block
Looked like every single block looked like every single block
Looked like every single block but you kept driving
Cause everyone else kept driving and cause gridlock
Is evil and not knowing your way is evil
And those that had money looked good but weren't too happy
And those who didn't have money didn't look so good
And weren't too happy either and in a city of three million
two hundred and sixty nine thousand nine hundred eighty four
Everyone was lonely

Broken up in the wasteland
Broken up in the promised land
Broken up in Disneyland
Broken up in the plastic land
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the wasteland
Broken up in the wasteland

And I watched as everyone I knew spent their lives
Trying to be watched on a stage or watched on a film
Or listened to on a record and they thought well maybe
That way I could get a little love out of this life
And I watched as the best of my generation abandoned their dreams
And settled for making a little money
And I watched TV and read the papers and listened to the radio
And made all the fancy scenes and said all the right words
And wore all the right clothes and knew the names of the hip people
But I still felt out of touch so I stopped watching TV
And reading the papers and listening to the radio
And making the fancy scenes and saying the right words
And wearing the right clothes and knowing the names of the hip people
And I felt more out of touch than ever but I didn't care anymore
And I felt you slipping away, and I felt myself slipping from you
And I wanted more than anything else for it to rain for one
Whole day like it used to but all there ever was was sun
Relentless sun hot beating sun and everyone wore their
Sunglasses and walked around like flies under a magnifying glass
With their eyes removed

Broken up in the wasteland
Broken up in the promised land
Broken up in Disneyland
Broken up in the plastic land
Broken up in the wasteland, broken up in the wasteland
Broken up in the wasteland

 
Eephus said:
We've had July Talk, Talk Talk, Body Talk, Girl Talk and lots of Talking Heads drafted.
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I was pleasantly surprised to find this still available when I searched for talk

44.18 - Talking Book - Stevie Wonder (1972)

I love the early 70s records where Stevie discovered the brave new world of synthesizers.  There were no rules to break, just sounds and possibilities.

Superstition

I Believe (When I Fall in Love)

 
Eephus said:
I was pleasantly surprised to find this still available when I searched for talk

44.18 - Talking Book - Stevie Wonder (1972)

I love the early 70s records where Stevie discovered the brave new world of synthesizers.  There were no rules to break, just sounds and possibilities.

Superstition

I Believe (When I Fall in Love)
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I think people must have seen all the Stevie taken early and assumed this was gone.  ####### steal.

 
Song choice #1 for Dan Bern:  Jerusalem

Yes, I'm giving him at least four separate posts of his own.

When a song begins and ends with this stanza, you know it must be good:

When I tell you that I love you
Don't test my love
Accept my love
Don't test my love
Cause maybe I don't love you all that much

 
krista4 said:
I saw dead Marilyn Monroe strung up on every street corner
In Hollywood like some two bit whore offering a discount rate
And I wondered how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw dead James Dean's ghost wandering the sidewalk
Looking troubled and I wondered how his mama felt
I saw signs that said head shots done for cheap
Signs that said extras wanted top dollars paid
Signs for haircuts signs for manicures and
Signs for tanning salons and signs for wardrobe specialists
Signs for cosmetic surgery and signs for assertiveness training
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Get Happy!!!

 
Eephus said:
krista4 said:
I saw dead Marilyn Monroe strung up on every street corner
In Hollywood like some two bit whore offering a discount rate
And I wondered how Joe Dimaggio felt
I saw dead James Dean's ghost wandering the sidewalk
Looking troubled and I wondered how his mama felt
I saw signs that said head shots done for cheap
Signs that said extras wanted top dollars paid
Signs for haircuts signs for manicures and
Signs for tanning salons and signs for wardrobe specialists
Signs for cosmetic surgery and signs for assertiveness training
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Get Happy!!!
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I think this part is even more sad and is of course my favorite part:

And every single block looked like every single block
Looked like every single block looked like every single block
Looked like every single block but you kept driving
Cause everyone else kept driving and cause gridlock
Is evil and not knowing your way is evil
And those that had money looked good but weren't too happy
And those who didn't have money didn't look so good
And weren't too happy either and in a city of three million
two hundred and sixty nine thousand nine hundred eighty four
Everyone was lonely

 
Here Comes My Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

What a loss this guy was. He's a perennial top 10 act for me and this is one of his great ones

 
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Dr. Octopus said:
Here Comes My Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

What a loss this guy was. He's a perennial top 10 act for me and this is one of his great ones
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I should listen to more of his stuff, because I don't think I like him until I hear something like this song or some others and am reminded how much I do.  And he did a kick-### version of the Beatles' "I Need You."

 
krista4 said:
I think this part is even more sad and is of course my favorite part:

And every single block looked like every single block
Looked like every single block looked like every single block
Looked like every single block but you kept driving
Cause everyone else kept driving and cause gridlock
Is evil and not knowing your way is evil
And those that had money looked good but weren't too happy
And those who didn't have money didn't look so good
And weren't too happy either and in a city of three million
two hundred and sixty nine thousand nine hundred eighty four
Everyone was lonely
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From the South Bay to the Valley
From the West Side to the East Side
Everybody's very happy
'Cause the sun is shining all the time
Looks like another perfect day

I love L.A. (we love it)
I love L.A. (we love it)
We love it

 
OK, this one is upbeat and funny.  For Eephus, I choose as song #2, "Marilyn".

Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller

But if she did
He'd a taken her to Paris
And if she did
She'd a smoked a lot of opium
And if she did
She'd a dyed her hair blue
And if she did
She might be alive

Oh-ohh Henry Miller
Oh-ohh Marilyn Monroe
Oh-ohh Henry Miller
Oh-ohh Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
She lived outside the Tropic of Capricorn
Marilyn Monroe didn't marry Henry Miller
I don't even know if she knew Henry Miller

But if she did
He'd a taken her to Paris
And if she did
They'd a ####ed every day
And if she did
She'd a felt like a woman
Not a photogragh
In a magazine

Oh-ohh Henry Miller
Oh-ohh Marilyn Monroe
Oh-ohh Henry Miller
Oh-ohh Marilyn Monroe

This is not a knock against Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman is my favorite play
But Marilyn Monroe
Should have married Henry Miller
And if she did
She might be alive

Cause if she did
He'd have taken her to Paris
Tied her to the bed
And eaten dinner off of her
And okay maybe
She'd have died the same, anyway
But if she did
She'd a had more fun

Oh-ohh Henry Miller
Oh-ohh Marilyn Monroe
Oh-ohh Henry Miller
Oh-ohh Marilyn Monroe

 
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