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Desert Island Song Draft - Alphabet thievery afoot - Thievery abounds, XTC and Queen popular. Starting Round 25. Chaos coming (1 Viewer)

krista4 said:
13.k4 Icehouse - Crazy

Was reminded of this band in the Worldwide dummies countdown. Hadn't thought of them in years and always loved this song.
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Wow. Icehouse was almost chosen, but went with Interpol.
I just had trouble picking a song
Sister, Icehouse or Can’t Help Myself off Icehouse- Flowers
Glam, Great Southern Land and Hey Little Girl off Primitive Man
Taking the Town or Don’t BeLieve Anymore off Sidewalk
No Promises or Baby Youre So Strange off Measure for Measure
Man of Colours or Electric Blue off Man of Colours

After that only Touch the Fire comes close, although he has some wonderful covers on the Berlin Tales, including the Bowie cover Loving the Alien
 
John Maddens Lunchbox said:
krista4 said:
13.k4 Icehouse - Crazy

Was reminded of this band in the Worldwide dummies countdown. Hadn't thought of them in years and always loved this song.
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Wow. Icehouse was almost chosen, but went with Interpol.
I just had trouble picking a song
Sister, Icehouse or Can’t Help Myself off Icehouse- Flowers
Glam, Great Southern Land and Hey Little Girl off Primitive Man
Taking the Town or Don’t BeLieve Anymore off Sidewalk
No Promises or Baby Youre So Strange off Measure for Measure
Man of Colours or Electric Blue off Man of Colours

After that only Touch the Fire comes close, although he has some wonderful covers on the Berlin Tales, including the Bowie cover Loving the Alien
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I was surprised you didn't take them. I need to listen to a lot more of them! For some reason, Electric Blue always irritated me, but I've enjoyed everything else from them I've heard.
 

12.C - Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - This House Is Empty Now​


I'll leave McManus' noms de plume for other drafters and pick today's pair of songs in memory of the great Burt Bacharach. This one's a tearjerker performed by Costello from their 1998 album.

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krista4 said:
John Maddens Lunchbox said:
krista4 said:
13.k4 Icehouse - Crazy

Was reminded of this band in the Worldwide dummies countdown. Hadn't thought of them in years and always loved this song.
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Wow. Icehouse was almost chosen, but went with Interpol.
I just had trouble picking a song
Sister, Icehouse or Can’t Help Myself off Icehouse- Flowers
Glam, Great Southern Land and Hey Little Girl off Primitive Man
Taking the Town or Don’t BeLieve Anymore off Sidewalk
No Promises or Baby Youre So Strange off Measure for Measure
Man of Colours or Electric Blue off Man of Colours

After that only Touch the Fire comes close, although he has some wonderful covers on the Berlin Tales, including the Bowie cover Loving the Alien
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I was surprised you didn't take them. I need to listen to a lot more of them! For some reason, Electric Blue always irritated me, but I've enjoyed everything else from them I've heard.
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I get it, Electric Blue was tailor made to be a US hit.
You should enjoy the first two albums. Pop and rock hooks everywhere. The band stood out like a sore thumb on the aussie rock scene. Few artists were as imfluenced by Bowie as Iva Davies. Check out a few of the ones Ive listed and see if you want to dig deeper. Sidewalk and Measure for Measure are harder work
If I had to pick 3, Can’t Help Myself, No Promises and Sister to showcase the variety.

I was deep for me. Interpol, Icehouse and Icicle Works are top tier in my collection. Loads of other good choices under I as well.
 

13.M - Alison Moyet - God Give Me Strength​

"God Give Me Strength" was the first song Bacharach and Costello composed for the 1996 film Grace of my Heart. They enjoyed writing together so much they decided to write and record an album (actually two albums if you count the companion Jazz album The Sweetest Punch).

The movie was a fictionalized biography of a Pop songwriter whose career resembled Carole King's. Illeana Douglas was terrific in the lead role but didn't do her own singing. Her vocals in the movie were dubbed by a singer named Kristen Vigard whose main claim to fame is as the first child actress to portray Little Orphan Annie in the pre-Broadway run of Annie. It's a pretty good movie in spite of Matt Dillon being in it.

Costello and Bacharach recorded it for Painted by Memory and their version replaced the film version on the soundtrack album. I never liked Costello's singing on the song; it was written for a woman's vocal range and Costello really strains to hit the high notes in the chorus and bridge. I prefer Alison Moyet's version because she can nail all the notes. Moyet was the vocalist for Yaz/Yazoo back in the 80s. I've drafted her song "Invisible" multiple times on this board but this cover is a first.


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Alison Moyet - God Give Me Strength

from her album "Voice" (2004)
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Eephus said:

12.C - Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach - This House Is Empty Now​


I'll leave McManus' noms de plume for other drafters and pick today's pair of songs in memory of the great Burt Bacharach. This one's a tearjerker performed by Costello from their 1998 album.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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perfect eephus ...just perfect
 
New Binky the Doormat said:
RD 13: "E" - Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire

I almost went a couple songs off this album ..."Cindy Tells Me" or "Needles In The Camel's Eye" - this entire album is so great, really wish he would have continued this path.

yeah, his instrumental, ethereal stuff is interesting - but I'd much rather hear several albums like this one at least mixed in ...
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I read somewhere that he didn't like his voice enough to stick with the vocal tracks, thus all the instrumental stuff. But yeah, this album and the before and after science album had some real jems.
 
Well, OK, I dip into one of my favorite artists again, but as with the others I'm trying not to take the same songs I always take (though I believe I did add this in a draft once).

14.k4 Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

I'm specifically selecting this particular version of the song, live from the Stax/Volt tour in 1967. Backing band including Booker T, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Cropper, the Memphis Horns...and oh my, was Otis on fire. My guess is that after this was over, 100% of the women in the audience, and a majority of the men, threw their panties/tighty-whities on stage.
 
13.xx (re-do)

O - OFF! - I Don't Belong/Upside Down

Oh yeah, Keith. Tell it! Okay, they're not two tracks, but they're short enough. I'll go with "I Don't Belong"

B, E, G, J, O, P, Q, S, U, W, X, Y, Z
 
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Yo Mama said:
I think that means I’m in the chamber.

Round 14.F - Fugees - Ready or Not

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Ready or Not

Fugees, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Pras · The Score (Expanded Edition) · Song · 1996
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This was my pick the last few rounds. I may steal it later. 😀 I will use Family Business if I do. Surprised this went this early.
 
OFF!'s The First Four EPs is truly something else if you like old L.A. hardcore.

I'm probably the only one here who does, so I guess I'm typing into the ether, but it truly was formative music for me growing up. I mean, it doesn't really inform my musical tastes, but was a soundtrack to a hectic youth. (Not too troubled a youth, actually.)
 
New Binky the Doormat said:
RD14: Queens Of The Stone Age - Go With The Flow

also all-time classic video
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Grave robber.

Yeah, the video is an all-timer. Saw it in a sneaker store in a mall once and just sat there, jaw sort of agape, watching it and feeling the music. I think I was stoned. I had wandered in the store because it was playing inside. They were sort of just looking at me (I pretty obviously was not in the market for new Air Jordans).
 
Pip's Invitation said:
I did a within-thread search for "Costello" in that other thread. Looks like no one has officially taken him.
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I think you're right. I thought about it for a nanosecond, but his catalogue is way too vast for me to endeavor through right now. I also don't know if I have the proper temperament to rank him. I love his power pop stuff, but I'm not familiar with the other parts of his catalogue, and I'd rather do rankings of an artist whose material I know beforehand. I'd also rather get rankings from people who are least reasonably familiar with their artist's whole catalogue before the exercise. That's just me, though.
 
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rockaction said:
Pip's Invitation said:
I did a within-thread search for "Costello" in that other thread. Looks like no one has officially taken him.
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I think you're right. i thought about it for a nanosecond, but his catalogue is way too vast for me to endeavor through right now. I also don't know if I have the proper temperament to rank him. I love his power pop stuff, but I'm not familiar with the other parts of his catalogue, and I'd rather do rankings of an artist whose material I know beforehand. I'd also rather get rankings from people who are least reasonably familiar with their artist's whole catalogue before the exercise. That's just me, though.
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I know there was some discussion in the thread about it. I briefly considered taking Costello myself but I was concerned that most of my favorites would end up coming from his early albums that the cool and edgy people already know and have firm opinions on.
 
landrys hat said:
Eephus said:
landrys hat said:
13.J - Durand Jones and the Indications - Giving Up
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Giving Up

Provided to YouTube by BWSCD IncGiving Up · Durand Jones & The Indications · Durand JonesDurand Jones & The Indications℗ 2018 Dead OceansReleased on: 2016-03...
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Have you heard Jones' new solo album?
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I listened to a couple of the singles, but have not heard the whole album yet.
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I gave it a quick spin but need to go back to it. First impression is that was stylistically all over the place which isn't a bad thing.
 
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