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Favorite 31 Songs by US Artists According to a Bunch of Middle-Aged Dummies (1 Viewer)

krista4 said:
Hawks64 said:
krista4 said:
ANNOUNCE:

I'm not going to post the #5s until Monday. That will allow (1) falguy to catch up on playlists, (2) Hawks64 to recover from illness, we hope, and (3) a very pleasing Monday-Friday #5-#1 countdown next week, capping it off on Friday!

Tomorrow I'll post the answers to some earlier teasers (those that won't spoil anything to come), maybe some additional teasers or analysis, and if I have time, a surprise fun(?) exercise.

Today I'm watching soccer and then going to a winery to make a wreath while drinking wine. :)
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I'm still alive but good lord...you don't want this year's flu. Feels like my kids just started going to kindergarten again, it's ridiculous.
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I hope you're feeling a little better. Should we have @simey still doing the playlists for now?

I'm better today. Oddly enough, since last week, I've been sick...every other day. Wed/Fri/Sun felt awful. Thurs/Sat/today just fine. Wtf? :lol:
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I'm sort of functional...but it's been 3 days of awfulness so far.
 
krista4 said:
Uruk-Hai:

I Got A Name - Jim Croce
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My father and I had a complicated relationship. When you grow up in a small town and are named after your dad who is something of a local legend, it can be tough sometimes being the kid. We had some similarities, but some major differences and it took us several decades to reconcile those differences.

He died 8.5 years ago. We had a sort of memorial service at my aunt's house a few weeks after he passed (he had been cremated). It was a casual outdoor affair. My mom set out a bunch of mementos (his Senior yearbook, a million photos, other stuff). My mom asked if I would make a playlist for background music, which I did. This was the first song I chose. It's not really about my relationship with my dad, but it is - if that makes any sense. I miss him terribly.

Anyway, onto the record. It's freaking gorgeous and hopeful. Reminds me in a lot of ways of "Here Comes The Sun". Jim's in fine voice here, and both the vocal & musical melody are perfect for what he's saying.

Croce never got the credit he deserved as a singer-songwriter from the hip rock critics (Bill Withers is another, and don't even get me started on how Stevie Wonder got othered out of the conversation). I know at some of the reason Withers and Wonder didn't, but Croce's exclusion from The Cool Kids Club mystifies me. He was funny (I think this may have been the main reason, though Dylan seems to have gotten away with having a sense of humor), earthy, speaking in whatever vernacular worked for his songs you believed he had lived it, and his records still sound wonderful.

That his songs have been chosen multiple times in this thread just reinforces my opinion that we have way better taste than Jann Wenner.
 
krista4 said:
Hawks64 said:
krista4 said:
ANNOUNCE:

I'm not going to post the #5s until Monday. That will allow (1) falguy to catch up on playlists, (2) Hawks64 to recover from illness, we hope, and (3) a very pleasing Monday-Friday #5-#1 countdown next week, capping it off on Friday!

Tomorrow I'll post the answers to some earlier teasers (those that won't spoil anything to come), maybe some additional teasers or analysis, and if I have time, a surprise fun(?) exercise.

Today I'm watching soccer and then going to a winery to make a wreath while drinking wine. :)
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I'm still alive but good lord...you don't want this year's flu. Feels like my kids just started going to kindergarten again, it's ridiculous.
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I hope you're feeling a little better. Should we have @simey still doing the playlists for now?

I'm better today. Oddly enough, since last week, I've been sick...every other day. Wed/Fri/Sun felt awful. Thurs/Sat/today just fine. Wtf? :lol:
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What nights have you been drinking wine?
 
Dr. O has been looking through some artists for the British Isles exercise, and while I'm aware that we don't want to muck up this thread too much, I wanted to share the following ruling (if I run the countdown).

In this countdown we deemed an artist eligible if they were eligible to run for President (setting aside age requirements). For instance, an artist born outside the country to US parents was eligible. I am not going to get into the ins and outs of the requirements to be Prime Minister of England or President of Ireland or whatever, Instead, we'll use the same general rules we did here, and if a person was born outside the British Isles to citizens of a British Island nation, then they are eligible.

For example, Nick Drake was born in Burma to English parents (his dad was English and his mom was naturalized Burmese-English): eligible. The Cure drummer Boris Peter Bransby Williams was born in France to English parents: eligible. Stewart Copeland was born in Virginia to one Scottish parent and one American parent: ineligible.

If anyone is researching artists and comes across some unexpected ineligibles, please PM them to me. Once we start the new thread, I'll keep a list in there as we did in this thread.
 
krista4 said:
For example, Nick Drake was born in Burma to English parents (his dad was English and his mom was naturalized Burmese-English): eligible. The Cure drummer Boris Peter Bransby Williams was born in France to English parents: eligible. Stewart Copeland was born in Virginia to one Scottish parent and one American parent: ineligible.
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Joe Strummer was born in Ankara but his father was an official in the British foreign service
 
Eephus said:
krista4 said:
For example, Nick Drake was born in Burma to English parents (his dad was English and his mom was naturalized Burmese-English): eligible. The Cure drummer Boris Peter Bransby Williams was born in France to English parents: eligible. Stewart Copeland was born in Virginia to one Scottish parent and one American parent: ineligible.
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Joe Strummer was born in Ankara but his father was an official in the British foreign service
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Yeah, he's fine. Scottish and English parents.
 
krista4 said:
Hov34 said:
Can we all just agree that Surrender by Cheap Trick is a great fricken song?
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Speaking of which, looks like potentially a two-song race for the "one-hit wonder" title. After the #5s:

Surrender - Cheap Trick - 89 points
Let's Stay Together - Rev. Al Green - 76 points

Next ones are at 47 points.
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I would have expected to see more than one song from each. Let’s Stay Together is definitely Green’s best-known song but he has quite a few others that are beloved as well. Among Cheap Trick fans I’ve interacted with, Surrender doesn’t seem to be revered to a greater degree than I Want You to Want Me or Dream Police.
 
working on the spreadsheet updates. Might take a bit longer I have to change the loading process. Got a new computer for work and it's a MAC and things work a bit differently. Have a few kinks to iron out. I may have to enter the songs/artists myself rather than let excel just load them from a file. Anyway, nobody cares about that, I'm sure. I just wasted 2 minutes typing this, could have entered 3 picks already.
 
krista4 said:
Pip's Invitation said:
@krista4 I don’t think Frankenstein has been picked before. It was in Doc Oc’s thing. But I don’t remember it in our thing and I don’t see it on the spreadsheet.
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Chosen by Sullie in Round 28. Not sure why it's missing from the spreadsheet.
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krista4 said:
Pip's Invitation said:
Also high on my list:

Frankenstein -- The Edgar Winter Group (Sullie)
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In fact you commented on it before! :)
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Cool. I’m on my phone so I can’t navigate the spreadsheet as well as when I’m on my desktop or laptop. And my short-term memory sucks but you knew that.
 
Uruk-Hai said:
krista4 said:
Pip’s Invitation:

Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
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I don't care all that much for Dylan's records. I could make a listenable-for-me Greatest Hits package. The rest of his stuff could go into the Jackson Browne Bin for all I care.

THIS one, though, kills it. It's the closest he ever got to writing a Chuck Berry record.
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The list of songs that one can recognize in two notes - even before Al Kooper comes in with the organ intro - is likely very short, and this is one IMO.
 
falguy said:
working on the spreadsheet updates. Might take a bit longer I have to change the loading process. Got a new computer for work and it's a MAC and things work a bit differently. Have a few kinks to iron out. I may have to enter the songs/artists myself rather than let excel just load them from a file. Anyway, nobody cares about that, I'm sure. I just wasted 2 minutes typing this, could have entered 3 picks already.
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This is totally unimportant but it's driving my OCD crazy. On the tab "Who picked each song" the song "September" shows up first even though the list is alphabetized. What gives?

I'll now return to flipping my light switch on an off 10 times before I leave the room.*


*I don't really do this and apologies if there's anyone in here who truly does suffer from OCD
 
Uruk-Hai said:
krista4 said:
Pip’s Invitation:

Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
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I don't care all that much for Dylan's records. I could make a listenable-for-me Greatest Hits package. The rest of his stuff could go into the Jackson Browne Bin for all I care.

THIS one, though, kills it. It's the closest he ever got to writing a Chuck Berry record.
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My listenable Bob Dylan is one song long...and it was #14 for me in this exercise. I've tried many times before to integrate more from his catalog (i.e. the last month), but every time I try I hit skip before the halfway point. We'll see what happens this afternoon!
 
MAC_32 said:
My listenable Bob Dylan is one song long...and it was #14 for me in this exercise. I've tried many times before to integrate more from his catalog (i.e. the last month), but every time I try I hit skip before the halfway point. We'll see what happens this afternoon!
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You're missing out on one of the richest catalogs in all of music.

Bosley would be rolling over in his grave if he knew any tricks.
 
krista4 said:
Pip's Invitation said:
@krista4 I don’t think Frankenstein has been picked before. It was in Doc Oc’s thing. But I don’t remember it in our thing and I don’t see it on the spreadsheet.
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Chosen by Sullie in Round 28. Not sure why it's missing from the spreadsheet.
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Yeah, I noticed that when I was adding today's picks. I have NFI! lol. I think it's strightened around now. Tabs 1 and 2 are updated, i'm just running the excel analysis tools to create the rest of the data
 
Eephus said:
MAC_32 said:
My listenable Bob Dylan is one song long...and it was #14 for me in this exercise. I've tried many times before to integrate more from his catalog (i.e. the last month), but every time I try I hit skip before the halfway point. We'll see what happens this afternoon!
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You're missing out on one of the richest catalogs in all of music.

Bosley would be rolling over in his grave if he knew any tricks.
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**skips Shelter from the Storm**

I absorb my music via sound first. A lot of different avenues it can go from there, but if that first box is not checked I move on. And I cannot get past his vocals. I can't articulate why they work for me in The Hurricane and nothing else, but that's the way it is.
 
krista4 said:
krista4 said:
Pip's Invitation said:
@krista4 I don’t think Frankenstein has been picked before. It was in Doc Oc’s thing. But I don’t remember it in our thing and I don’t see it on the spreadsheet.
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Chosen by Sullie in Round 28. Not sure why it's missing from the spreadsheet.
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Confirmed it's in the spreadsheet. Wanted to be sure not to besmirch falguy's good name.
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After all, I am a senior intern.

"besmirch", there's a word you don't hear often.
 
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