krista4
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Favorite 31 Songs by US Artists According to a Bunch of Middle-Aged Dummies (3 Viewers)
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Whoopsie - will fix.
zamboni
Footballguy
I think this is the second time in the last few weeks that Sembello was mentioned, and in that same clip. Crazy - normally you can probably go 10 years without hearing his name.
Zegras11
Footballguy
This one even better live! Have seen them three times and they never disappoint. Love the horns and bass guitar on this.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
I thought whip-hits were hittin the whip cream can.....I guess it's all pretty much the same thing.....killin brain cellsThat what whip-its are, balloons filled with nitrous gas.Nitrous balloons? Is that like the fancy version of whip-hits?It seems you're heading in that direction. I'll see that you get a welcoming kit of weed, patchouli oil, and nitrous balloons for Christmas.
gimme back my bullets ...
zamboni
Footballguy
These clips have also been shown many a time here:
1970 Tanglewood performance
Cover by Leonid & Friends
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I mean, he's really only known for two things: being in Stevie's band in the 70s and "Maniac" in the 80s.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
The balloons were usually pretty cheap at concert venue parking lots.Ha! Yea thats pretty much what I was getting at originally. I grew up out in the sticks where people huffed gas, paint, whip-hits(whip cream).....I think nitrous balloons were a lil too bougiethat's the "poor mans" version.I thought whip-hits were hittin the whip cream can.....I guess it's all pretty much the same thing.....killin brain cellsThat what whip-its are, balloons filled with nitrous gas.Nitrous balloons? Is that like the fancy version of whip-hits?It seems you're heading in that direction. I'll see that you get a welcoming kit of weed, patchouli oil, and nitrous balloons for Christmas.
manual dispenser
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The entire Tanglewood set is a must-see for fans of the band. The performance, especially by Terry Kath, is monstrous.
zamboni
Footballguy
Interesting trivia I just learned from wiki:
Sembello wrote the song "Carousel", which Michael Jackson recorded for his 1982 album Thriller, but it was replaced on the track list by "Human Nature".
Manster
Footballguy
Where I grew up we blew up balloons with our mouths. Ate a lot of bologna samiches on white bread too.The balloons were usually pretty cheap at concert venue parking lots.Ha! Yea thats pretty much what I was getting at originally. I grew up out in the sticks where people huffed gas, paint, whip-hits(whip cream).....I think nitrous balloons were a lil too bougiethat's the "poor mans" version.I thought whip-hits were hittin the whip cream can.....I guess it's all pretty much the same thing.....killin brain cellsThat what whip-its are, balloons filled with nitrous gas.Nitrous balloons? Is that like the fancy version of whip-hits?It seems you're heading in that direction. I'll see that you get a welcoming kit of weed, patchouli oil, and nitrous balloons for Christmas.
manual dispenser
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
A few rounds ago, I knew this this record was my only chance to have one that hadn't been chosen before. Then, some dude here with no vowels in his handle immediately took it and some of his reasons for doing so are also mine.
Most fans of guitar-based rock will be more into Funkadelic's earlier stuff when they were much more in a Hendrix/Zappa vibe (some of those have been chosen here). "Super Stupid", "Maggot Brain", "Cosmic Slop", "Standing On The Verge", "Red Hot Moma" (which is what a country song written by David Johansen and sung by Jimi would sound like), etc.....are all great tunes and I love them.
"One Nation...." isn't like those songs. I think it was @Pip's Invitation who said that Funkadelic was converging hard with their Parliament alter-ego in the late '70s and it's true (though some of the non-radio hits on later albums still had the old sound and sounded nothing like Parliament). There's a reason for that. Several, actually.
One is that all of those great, weird guitar records weren't getting airplay. Once free-form radio started to ossify and turn into AOR, well.....what little airplay they had disappeared.
Two is that music itself changed. The only musicians crunching as hard Funkadelic in the mid-70s were the punks and THEY weren't getting any airplay, either.
Which leads us to #3 (& 4, & 5): Money and dope and lawyers. Clinton's empire had always been wobbly from a structural standpoint. I won't get into all of the details, but George needed money and the only way he could do that was to make records that would sell.
"One Nation Under A Groove" isn't a sellout for cash, though. It's a great example of what creative minds could produce in the late 1970s. It's slinky and sexy and weird. I still haven't identified all of the percussion used here and I've listened to it 1,000s of times. It's got cowbell! All kinds of different voices drifting in and out. It's like dancing on a magic carpet.
It came out the year I got my driver's license and I wore more than one 8-track of the album out.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Welp, consider me shocked
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
@Pip's Invitation this is the song I referenced early on when some took another Pumas record. All of the left-of-the-dial channels I listened to played the hell out of it. It's fantastic - nice pull @Hawks64
MAC_32
Footballguy
@falguy I thought we may have a flow with this one, but...Margaritaville? I don't think so
My wife refers to this one as my Desperado. Although I don't shush. Or at least I don't think I do anyway. No matter the chaos going on around me when that song is on (usually while driving not coincidentally) I never miss a single world and if I do 'acknowledge' anyone in my direct vicinity it's to sing along to them. They can continue to yammer about something...anything else and I'm not listening to a damn word they're having to say unless it's Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away. Choice is theirs.
I couldn't have said this any better myself. Great choice. Sorry about Margaritaville. It's all my fault.@falguy I thought we may have a flow with this one, but...Margaritaville? I don't think so
My wife refers to this one as my Desperado. Although I don't shush. Or at least I don't think I do anyway. No matter the chaos going on around me when that song is on (usually while driving not coincidentally) I never miss a single world and if I do 'acknowledge' anyone in my direct vicinity it's to sing along to them. They can continue to yammer about something...anything else and I'm not listening to a damn word they're having to say unless it's Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away. Choice is theirs.
MAC_32
Footballguy
Well put - it being way before my time I never got an overplayed experience. There was very little Buffet in my world before college friends of mine convinced me to go to one of his shows - an event of indescribable proportions is what they said. I thought they built it up too much, but they did not. What's so cool about the song to me beyond the above is how much different it is live vs studio - usually heard on my back deck July or thereabouts. One's very chill while the other isn't at all. Or at least 50something year old Buffet wasn't to my loaded young 20something self.
Hawks64
Footballguy
Today's list...sorry on the delay.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
You put the Metallica version of Turn the Page on the playlist instead of Segar's.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
It's a plight on the scene, IMO.
zamboni
Footballguy
Nothing like feeding Lars' ego even more.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Pretty sure it's not legal anywhere. But yes there is a "mafia" that controls a lot of it.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I had a friend that worked as security at the Jones Beach Theater - an outside concert venue literally on the beach. He said that they sold more beer at the Buffet show than all other shows for the summer combined. Not sure how accurate that was but the point is, his shows were a major party event.
jwb
Footballguy
At least we both had it really high!
Yea there's soooo much stuff going on in this song. I love listening with headphones or on my good speakers that really separate the instruments, and I'm always surprised. It's also the perfect length for what it is. It's a long-ish song, but it doesn't overstay its welcome.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Actually not the Heartbreakers this time. This is on Wildflowers, a Petty solo album.
MAC_32
Footballguy
'Your night will end in sex, a blackout, or both. There is no D. But if you're lucky maybe she'll have some.'
-Female friend
MAC_32
Footballguy
Wow, you weren't kidding - **heart**
jwb
Footballguy
What she/he said. Wow.
worrierking
Footballguy
This is correct. I copied and pasted the song and title from a spreadsheet that listed all TP songs as TP & H. It's my fault. It's also an exceptional song, a brilliant closer of a fantastic album.
DrIanMalcolm
Footballguy
Yeah I can't add much to this. It's ridiculous, especially those horns, the way they come in and accent the chorus.
This is one of the funkiest AND hardest-rocking songs ever released, and it is no surprise that many people in this group love it. It has always held a special place in my heart not only for that, but also because one of my very first memories is seeing Stevie perform this on Sesame Street. I asked my mom why Stevie was wearing dark glasses and moving his head unusually, and that's when I learned what blindness was.
Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE. The guitarist to our right (Stevie's left) is Michael Sembello, later of "Maniac" fame. Stevie JAMMED THIS THE HELL OUT on a CHILDREN's show. He didn't have to do that. What a performer.
The versions by Jeff Beck (whom Stevie was going to give the song to outright until his management intervened) and Stevie Ray Vaughn are top-notch as well.
I knew I was going to double up with @DrIanMalcolm but I had no idea that @jwb would make it a threepeat.all around!
Zegras11
Footballguy
one of my favorite YT videos ever
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Today's known-to-me favorites not including my own x3 and Like a Rolling Stone and Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, which are known to be on my list:
Whipping Post -- The Allman Brothers Band (Binky)
God Only Knows -- The Beach Boys (Chaz and Marco)
One Nation Under a Groove -- Funkadelic (Uruk-Hai)
25 or 6 to 4 -- Chicago (Zegras11)
Where Did You Sleep Last Night -- Nirvana (Scorchy)
Wouldn't It Be Nice -- The Beach Boys (Eephus)
A Love Supreme, pt. 1: Acknowledgement -- John Coltrane (Neal Cassady)
Oh! Sweet Nuthin' -- The Velvet Underground (Landryshat)
Surrender -- Cheap Trick (OH)
Visions of Johanna -- Bob Dylan (Don Quixote)
I've Been Loving You Too Long -- Otis Redding (Krista4)
Time in a Bottle -- Jim Croce (Val Rannous)
Little Red Corvette -- Prince (Ditkaburgers and Just Win Baby)
Spoonman -- Soundgarden (Mrs. Rannous)
Turn the Page -- Bob Seger (MAC 32)
Bring It On Home to Me -- Sam Cooke (AAABatteries)
Circuital -- My Morning Jacket (Shuke)
A Love Supreme is the What's Going On of jazz: It changed notions of what was possible in the genre and did so in a way that had broad appeal.
I have seen two of these songs performed live by My Morning Jacket. Circuital, of course, but also Oh! Sweet Nuthin'.
Whipping Post -- The Allman Brothers Band (Binky)
God Only Knows -- The Beach Boys (Chaz and Marco)
One Nation Under a Groove -- Funkadelic (Uruk-Hai)
25 or 6 to 4 -- Chicago (Zegras11)
Where Did You Sleep Last Night -- Nirvana (Scorchy)
Wouldn't It Be Nice -- The Beach Boys (Eephus)
A Love Supreme, pt. 1: Acknowledgement -- John Coltrane (Neal Cassady)
Oh! Sweet Nuthin' -- The Velvet Underground (Landryshat)
Surrender -- Cheap Trick (OH)
Visions of Johanna -- Bob Dylan (Don Quixote)
I've Been Loving You Too Long -- Otis Redding (Krista4)
Time in a Bottle -- Jim Croce (Val Rannous)
Little Red Corvette -- Prince (Ditkaburgers and Just Win Baby)
Spoonman -- Soundgarden (Mrs. Rannous)
Turn the Page -- Bob Seger (MAC 32)
Bring It On Home to Me -- Sam Cooke (AAABatteries)
Circuital -- My Morning Jacket (Shuke)
A Love Supreme is the What's Going On of jazz: It changed notions of what was possible in the genre and did so in a way that had broad appeal.
I have seen two of these songs performed live by My Morning Jacket. Circuital, of course, but also Oh! Sweet Nuthin'.
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I haven't even thought about this song since the 80s, much less listened to it.
Hawks64
Footballguy
Should be fixed now. Trying to do this in a meeting was more challenging than I anticipated
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Someone else took One Big Holiday earlier I thought.
Regardless, they are not getting enough love in this countdown.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
That Rick Beato guy did a nice breakdown of this one.Yeah I can't add much to this. It's ridiculous, especially those horns, the way they come in and accent the chorus.
This is one of the funkiest AND hardest-rocking songs ever released, and it is no surprise that many people in this group love it. It has always held a special place in my heart not only for that, but also because one of my very first memories is seeing Stevie perform this on Sesame Street. I asked my mom why Stevie was wearing dark glasses and moving his head unusually, and that's when I learned what blindness was.
Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE. The guitarist to our right (Stevie's left) is Michael Sembello, later of "Maniac" fame. Stevie JAMMED THIS THE HELL OUT on a CHILDREN's show. He didn't have to do that. What a performer.
The versions by Jeff Beck (whom Stevie was going to give the song to outright until his management intervened) and Stevie Ray Vaughn are top-notch as well.
I knew I was going to double up with @DrIanMalcolm but I had no idea that @jwb would make it a threepeat.
This is music In Excelsis. What gets me is that almost no one ever mentions Wonder's vocal.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
They are. I've been to several and they are always a good time.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
I use balloons to make funny voices... I'm guessing that is not the topic at hand.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Just came up on the playlist. I do recognize it. Just had no idea about title/artist. It's definitely the kind of thing XPN would play the hell out of, so I'm sure I heard it a few times there.
krista4
Footballguy
In case anyone really wants to nerd out on "Superstition," in the NY Times interactive piece on the 50th anniversary of Talking Book, which I previously linked - gestures widely - somewhere around here, several musicians/producers commented on this song. Some of my favorite tidbits:
Robert Margouleff (producer/engineer): "He walked into the studio and said, “Bob! Malcolm! I have a really good idea for a song. Without any kind of a click track, with the song totally in his head, he sat down and played the drum track for “Superstition.” He sat down at the drums and in 10 or 15 minutes, he said, “That’s it.” We said, “It’s great. Now what?” He said, “Let’s make the bass sound.” We whipped up the synthesizer stuff, and boom! That was the beginning of “Superstition.” Working like that was like a fever dream."
Smokey Robinson: "If you ever see Stevie Wonder, that’s his closing song. From the very downbeat until he finishes, everybody is up and dancing and having a good time and singing. Berry used to say to us, “We got to get them in the first 10 seconds.” So when you hear the first 10 seconds of “Superstition,” he’s got you. It’s one of the funkiest tracks that you’re going to hear. And he’s one of the first people to even utilize the Clavinet to that degree. Stevie put the Clavinet on the map! It’s funky, man!"
Robert Glasper (pianist): "That’s the Clav line. There’s not another Clav line to my knowledge that is as iconic as “Superstition.” I’m not gonna lie; I was a little — not a little, I was very intimidated to play it when Stevie sat down next to me [at a Q-Tip show around 2007]. I was hoping he would play that part and I could play some other part. [Laughs] But I got through it. Stevie has a certain slop on drums. That’s what we call it. It’s the Stevie slop. He made it OK that he’s sloppy. He has a sloppy funk. It’s not tight funk, it’s not neat, it’s not perfect, but it feels amazing. “Superstition” wouldn’t be the same without that particular drumbeat and that style of how he’s playing it."
The Stevie slop! Ithat.
If you're interested in a really cool breakdown of this song, check out Rick Beato's video.
And now I'll stop typing about the greatness of someone's else's pick. My Otis Redding pick was cool, too.
Bumping this re Superstition and a link to the Rick Beato video.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
First 3 for the firsts at #3:
A Love Supreme
Whipping Post
Flying in a Blue Dream
A Love Supreme
Whipping Post
Flying in a Blue Dream
Doug B
Footballguy
The "Franke" in Franke and the Knockouts is Franke Previte, who is a Jersey guy, from New Brunswick. He might be more known in the music business for his work on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, co-writing "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" and "Hungry Eyes" -- winning an Oscar for the former.
I don't know if Previte still performs regularly in NJ or not. Thought some of our resident Jersey folks might know.
Manster
Footballguy
Wow, I had no idea it was this big of a thing.....weird
jwb
Footballguy
This is a weird one for me - definitely something I "should" know. It's got that 80's sound that says it's from a time where I must have heard it. And it's good - I like it. But I really don't remember it. I don't think...
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