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Favorite 31 Songs by US Artists According to a Bunch of Middle-Aged Dummies (4 Viewers)
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krista4
Footballguy
Ah, thanks for asking as I had meant to see what people would prefer. I'm definitely not going to post on Thanksgiving itself, but I'd kinda prefer to plow through on regular weekends. I'll do whatever the consensus might be, though.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I'll take Things I Expected Krista to Say for $200, Alex.
Chaz McNulty
Footballguy
My 3 favorites in no particular order.
Val Rannous: Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
MAC_32: American Kids - Kenny Chesney
Zegras11: My Sharona - The Knack
A song I really liked that I hadn't heard before.
ditkaburgers: Lonely Town - Brandon Flowers
Val Rannous: Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
MAC_32: American Kids - Kenny Chesney
Zegras11: My Sharona - The Knack
A song I really liked that I hadn't heard before.
ditkaburgers: Lonely Town - Brandon Flowers
Zegras11
Footballguy
ooooh... some sloppy seconds
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Favorite new-to-me songs from today:
Let the Tears Roll Down -- Marcia Ball (Simsarge) -- beautifully expressive vocal with sympathetic arrangement. Love the use of the harmonica.
In Praise of Bacchus -- Type O Negative (Manster) -- perfectly executed sludge-rock
Bury Me Deep -- Poi Dog Pondering (Neal Cassady) -- love the interplay between the instruments, especially at the beginning
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean -- Waylon Jennings (Landryshat) -- I have heard other versions of this song but not Waylon's. Badass.
Let the Tears Roll Down -- Marcia Ball (Simsarge) -- beautifully expressive vocal with sympathetic arrangement. Love the use of the harmonica.
In Praise of Bacchus -- Type O Negative (Manster) -- perfectly executed sludge-rock
Bury Me Deep -- Poi Dog Pondering (Neal Cassady) -- love the interplay between the instruments, especially at the beginning
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean -- Waylon Jennings (Landryshat) -- I have heard other versions of this song but not Waylon's. Badass.
krista4
Footballguy
Two double-up artists tomorrow, none involving MAC! Who will win the battle of the songs? Actually there are more like 2.5. One is a normal double-up: one artist with two different songs. In the other case, there is an individual who is a primary member of two different bands listed, one of which has two songs listed and the other of which has one.
Eephus
Footballguy
For those of you who weren't in the endless Genrepalooza Radio draft, @ditkaburgers is my daughter. She was bored and underemployed in 2020 so she joined that draft after handling my weekend picks for a few weeks. She really got into it and says it really helped pass the time.
She's less middle aged than the rest of us mugs. Probably less of a dummy too because she doesn't post anymore but I'm glad she submitted her list.
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
I have a pretty good guess for the 2nd case.
Sullie
Footballguy
So, the good part about making these lists is pretty obvious right? You see a bunch of songs that other people came up with and you think one of four things. 1.) I don't care for that song. 2.) I like that song, always have, always will. 3.) I love that song, haven't heard it in years, that's going into my rotation or 4.) Wow, that's awesome, I've never heard of that song/band before, etc.
Conversely, the bad part about making these lists is the "oh and this and this and this, etc." I don't know about anyone else but I rushed to toss together a list because I knew if I didn't just put something together that I would just go down this giant rabbit hole and never produce a list. And Frankenstein was the first "rabbit hole" song for me because I went down a Ronnie Montrose rabbit hole (in my mind) and I thought about session work, Van Morrison, Edgar Winter Band, Gamma and of course Montrose. Do yourself a favor and listen that album, man that album is amazing and I mean, just check out his wiki page, so much amazing work there. And, again, like The James Gang and The Doobie Brothers and many others, in my mind I thought "yep, I'll get to that one later" but then I never did. However, all that to say I really regret not putting ANY songs on my list from the first Montrose album which was produced by Ted Templeman and engineered by Donn Landee which you all probably all know and remember were so instrumental in those early DLR/Van Halen albums. And of course later on Don Landee created EVH's 5150 studio. Anyway, here's an interesting short bit of an interview with Ronnie Montrose.
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krista4
Footballguy
I suspect you have it correct.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
The authentic Midwestern **** Van Dyke accent?
(Really? Still with the kindergarten asterisks?)
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Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
How about just one list for the weekend. After all. Sunday is football day.
Right? That is why we're here, right?
Manster
Footballguy
I'm not sure why I love Type O.....but I do. Peter Steele was (RIP) about as an engimatic front man as there ever was. Bacchus is the Greek God of wine and pleasure......there is debate about the lyrical meaning of this song. I think it's mostly about drunkenly lamenting the loss of a great love, while wandering around Red hook, where Steele was born....dude had a lot of turmoil around the opposite sex and an unhealthy relationship with substances.
MAC_32
Footballguy
Given my #27 if I had a 4th double dip in a row I'd have screamed RIGGED!!!
worrierking
Footballguy
It makes me happy to see all the talk about Warren Zevon, as he is my all-time favorite artist. He will make an appearance on my list. One of my friends calls me a Zevongelist, because I preach the gospel of Zevon wherever I go. He is musically gifted and lyrically unique. Both Keith Richards and Bob Dylan have listed him as a favorite songwriter. When Zevon was dying of cancer, Dylan heard about it and started covering a few Zevon songs in concert. Zevon said that gesture made terminal cancer almost worth it.
Pretty much everyone knows the Excitable Boy record, which is great and his commercial peak (such as it was). I recommend Sentimental Hygiene, which featured REM as his backing band, and Life'll Kill You, from 1999 as phenomenal albums that most people would never have heard of. The Eponymous first album (technically not really his first) is actually his best.
Worrierking, my screen name, is an obscure Zevon song only available on a live album. It became my wife's nickname for me when I was having some emotional struggles early in our marriage.
Enjoy every sandwich y'all.
Pretty much everyone knows the Excitable Boy record, which is great and his commercial peak (such as it was). I recommend Sentimental Hygiene, which featured REM as his backing band, and Life'll Kill You, from 1999 as phenomenal albums that most people would never have heard of. The Eponymous first album (technically not really his first) is actually his best.
Worrierking, my screen name, is an obscure Zevon song only available on a live album. It became my wife's nickname for me when I was having some emotional struggles early in our marriage.
Enjoy every sandwich y'all.
DrIanMalcolm
Footballguy
That's the "Learning to Flinch" live acoustic, isn't it? That's a killer one start to finish, including that one, Jungle Work, Boom Boom Mancini, Mr. Bad Example, and all of the other more well-known ones. He's a rare artist who could truly be funny in his lyrics, and yeah, he'll make an appearance on my list. He's sorely underrated.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
…And Neil Young on the title song.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I read somewhere that Mary Tyler Moore had a nickname for Richard. It was "Penis Van Lesbian".
Doug B
Footballguy
I don't if others grew up with this particular experience, but:
If the kids in your neighborhood got excited when these items appeared curbside ... if you had to move "the dance floor" off the driveway so your dad could park the car ... if you shopped Chess King for your parachute pants and Genera t-shirts ... then chances are, you have good memories of "Jam On It"
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krista4
Footballguy
Number 27:
krista4:
Tangled Up in Blue – Bob Dylan
Just Win Baby:
He Still Loves Me (2003), from The Fighting Temptations: Music from the Motion Picture - Beyonce and Walter Williams Sr.
simey:
Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
scorchy:
F*ck and Run – Liz Phair
neal cassady:
Fall On Me - R.E.M.
Uruk-Hai:
Everybody Dance - Chic
Yankee23Fan:
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Manster:
Exiled – Floater
shuke:
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone
rockaction:
Come Together - MC5
Mrs. Rannous:
What About Us - Pink
New Binky the Doormat:
Nice, Nice, Very Nice – Ambrosia
Pip’s Invitation:
Makes No Sense At All - Husker Du
Dr. Octopus:
Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams
Val Rannous:
Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon
Chaz McNulty:
Champagne Problems - Taylor Swift
Don Quixote:
Hey Ya! - OutKast
Sullie:
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams – Cinderella
jwb:
Welcome to my Nightmare – Alice Cooper
DrIanMalcolm:
Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin
Hawks64:
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town – Pearl Jam
MAC_32:
Avenues & Alleyways – Rancid
falguy:
Tighten Up - Black Keys
simsarge:
Extraordinary - Liz Phair
worrierking:
LA Freeway – Guy Clark
Eephus:
Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall) - Mystikal (feat. Pharrell Williams)
Hov34:
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
ditkaburgers:
Forgot About Dre - Dr. Dre ft. Eminem
AAABatteries:
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole
landryshat:
If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
Zegras11:
More Than a Feeling - Boston
Ilov80s:
I Only Have Eyes for You - The Flamingos
Oliver Humanzee:
I Apologize - Husker Du
The Dreaded Marco:
A Good Idea - Sugar
Doug B:
If You Don't Want Me To - Ronnie Milsap
krista4:
Tangled Up in Blue – Bob Dylan
Just Win Baby:
He Still Loves Me (2003), from The Fighting Temptations: Music from the Motion Picture - Beyonce and Walter Williams Sr.
simey:
Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
scorchy:
F*ck and Run – Liz Phair
neal cassady:
Fall On Me - R.E.M.
Uruk-Hai:
Everybody Dance - Chic
Yankee23Fan:
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Manster:
Exiled – Floater
shuke:
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone
rockaction:
Come Together - MC5
Mrs. Rannous:
What About Us - Pink
New Binky the Doormat:
Nice, Nice, Very Nice – Ambrosia
Pip’s Invitation:
Makes No Sense At All - Husker Du
Dr. Octopus:
Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams
Val Rannous:
Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon
Chaz McNulty:
Champagne Problems - Taylor Swift
Don Quixote:
Hey Ya! - OutKast
Sullie:
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams – Cinderella
jwb:
Welcome to my Nightmare – Alice Cooper
DrIanMalcolm:
Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin
Hawks64:
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town – Pearl Jam
MAC_32:
Avenues & Alleyways – Rancid
falguy:
Tighten Up - Black Keys
simsarge:
Extraordinary - Liz Phair
worrierking:
LA Freeway – Guy Clark
Eephus:
Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall) - Mystikal (feat. Pharrell Williams)
Hov34:
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
ditkaburgers:
Forgot About Dre - Dr. Dre ft. Eminem
AAABatteries:
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole
landryshat:
If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
Zegras11:
More Than a Feeling - Boston
Ilov80s:
I Only Have Eyes for You - The Flamingos
Oliver Humanzee:
I Apologize - Husker Du
The Dreaded Marco:
A Good Idea - Sugar
Doug B:
If You Don't Want Me To - Ronnie Milsap
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Well that is certainly an eclectic list now isn't it.
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
Pretty great list there---my favorite so far.
worrierking
Footballguy
Excellent list today. Again, I know most of them. Four artists who will appear on my list and one song that will.
Pearl Jam, Black keys and Ambrosia tunes get major kudos from me.
Pearl Jam, Black keys and Ambrosia tunes get major kudos from me.
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
Same for me.
krista4
Footballguy
I was thinking that as I looked for the links!
Our most eclectic yet, I think. I'm looking forward to listening to those I don't already know.also one of my favorite videos ever
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
For #27 I'll mix the light & the dark. God Only Knows & Welcome to my Nightmare.
Doug B
Footballguy
Had two Xmas songs on my list of 60-ish, and ended up cutting them both. This was one and very glad to see this classic get a nod.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
She recently announced she has ALS and can't sing anymore
Tau837
Footballguy
My top 5 from round 27 excluding my own choice:
- @Hawks64 : Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town – Pearl Jam
- @Hov34 : God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
- @AAABatteries : The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole
- @neal cassady : Fall On Me - R.E.M.
- @Zegras11 : More Than a Feeling - Boston
- 3 songs - @AAABatteries , @Hov34
- 2 songs - @falguy, @Hawks64, @MAC_32, @Yankee23Fan
- 1 song - @Chaz McNulty, @DrIanMalcolm, @Dr. Octopus, @Eephus, @jwb, @Ilov80s, @neal cassady, @Pip's Invitation, @Val Rannous, @worrierking, @Zegras11
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scorchy
Footballguy
Dang. Decisions, decisions.
Of the known:
Gold: God Only Knows (Hov) if only because it's one of the best songs ever written
Silver: Forgot About Dre (Ditka). One of my ATFs. #### you too ######, call the cops, I'ma kill you and them loud-###mother####### barking dogs.
Bronze: Keep Me In Your Heart (Val). Beautiful but really, really hard to listen to.
Of the unknown:
Gold: He Still Loves Me (Just Win)
Silver: Tangled Up in Blue (krista)
Bronze: Exiled (Manster)
Of the known:
Gold: God Only Knows (Hov) if only because it's one of the best songs ever written
Silver: Forgot About Dre (Ditka). One of my ATFs. #### you too ######, call the cops, I'ma kill you and them loud-###mother####### barking dogs.
Bronze: Keep Me In Your Heart (Val). Beautiful but really, really hard to listen to.
Of the unknown:
Gold: He Still Loves Me (Just Win)
Silver: Tangled Up in Blue (krista)
Bronze: Exiled (Manster)
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
So, Chic....... I think most that haunt these kinds of threads have heard my rants about how underrated they are. How influential they were in both style and sound. How freaking cool they were. About 1/3 of early 80s music owes them, which makes sense since Nile Rodgers seemingly produced damned near every record that came out then. They got slotted as "disco" and that was pretty much that by 1980. But they were much more New Wave than they were stuff like Cerrone. The "skinny-tie" bands should all be sending royalty checks.
This wasn't their biggest radio hit, nor their most influential. But it's my favorite. It has one of the few "real" solo lead vocals on a Chic record and she nails it. Just listen to it when, at around the 3 minute mark, Bernard Edwards turns his bass loose. And when the vocals come back, he goes full Stanley Clarke/John Entwhistle for the rest of the record - make sure your speakers have the bass at safe levels before listening. Plus, Nile plays an actual guitar solo! And there's the always awesome strings-and-piano work going on. Tony Thompson does Tony Thompson things on drums.
Hawks64
Footballguy
Playlist link...apologies on the lateness, Fri-Sun expect it a bit later than normal somewhere around 11/12p CST or possibly even later depending on what I have going on. I'll effort to be as quick as possible.
Note - we are missing - He Still Loves Me (2003), from The Fighting Temptations: Music from the Motion Picture - Beyonce and Walter Williams Sr. because it's not available on Spotify that I can find.
Hov34
Eephus's Great Great Great Love Child
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
A rather wide-ranging rack here, but I want to single this one out because I suspect it'll get lost in the shuffle. Fantastic choice and a truly weird record.
Hawks64
Footballguy
That video is absolutely ridiculous
krista4
Footballguy
That one was on my short-short-short list of favorites to acknowledge, too. IIRC, wikkid loved this song as well.
Zegras11
Footballguy
I wrote down notes for each song as I created my list so that I could C&P them when posted.
Several songs on my list are not huge faves for me now, but were at that time of my life. This is one of them and really represents the entire album.
Look forward to listening to todays and yesterdays lists. I only know 8 from today. How pathetic LOL.
Maybe nine if Rock's is a cover I hope it is. LOL. More Than A Feeling notes: Song debuted at the start of senior year of HS in Burbank. That album was played endlessly at all of our numerous senior parties and Friday nights at Stough park.
krista4
Footballguy
Just found it. It was the fourth song he shadow-picked in one of Captain Cranks's charity drafts (wikkid was on strike against Joe at the time so only sent his picks to me with the vow I wouldn't share them at the time).
4.xx I Only Have Eyes For You, The Flamingos, Pop
What makes Pop? The moment. The created moment. The moment that consecrates life & music as part of the soundtrack of existence and crystalizes both into a synesthetic element.
Dbop-shbop. With that reverberating in my ears, my heart, my deepest places, I see daylight fade, bright midnight, starry eternity, misty dawn, musky dusk. I see ecstatic forms writhe above and below me. I see yesterday, now and forever. All at the same time and one-by-one at once. And only have eyes for it.
I'm reminded of the moment i realized i could be a songwriter. Having come to "my book" late in life, i was unsure (which i rarely am) at first so i started experimenting in as many musical genres as i could think of. When i was exploring doowop, i wrote a stanza on a whim and was so struck by the beauty & simplicity of it that i could go no further.
Ruby baby
Ruby baby
She smiled at me
Now I can see
No one but Ruby baby
Many times over several years did i go back to build a song around it and find again & again that any addition besmirched, if not insulted, its purity.
I found a way to use it, though. It's in GLASS, my Alice musical. The premise is a successful Manhattan publicist, whose inner life doesnt match her outer, has a date with yet another charming loser - a struggling musician who shoots publicity stills as a sideline - falls asleep at home alone afterward, reading her favorite book and has a wine & Ambien dream where the people and aspects of her life are represented by Alice characters. She ends up on trial @ GLASS, the hottest club in town which is the principal domain of the Queen of Hearts. As she defends her life (in song) she has the Scroogian revelation of her dream and starts to grow, gigantically as she sings until, at the big note, she breaks the GLASS ceiling. It awakens her, only to find that she's just knocked her wine glass over because someone's buzzing. It's the dateboy she's been dreaming about, with bagels & coffee. They play tag, in and out of song, until they find a reason to continue and a closing song.
Part of the tag is that she asks him if he has a stock song to hit on women. He shyly reveals...........Ruby Baby, cept it's Lisa Baby (Alice is Lisa in real life, the Loon in her dream gets her to say "Lisa" over&over until the emphasis changes and becomes "Alice"). So i dont have to fill out the song, yet get to use it for great moment. Pop!
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Yeah, this exercise made me really think and decide how I wanted to go about it. I decided that I wanted to "reward" my favorite artists and also songs that are very sentimental to me. I have songs that remind me of my wife (several), kids (a couple) and then things like Christmas, which is just a huge holiday in our family. Somewhat spoilerish but I have one other Christmas song on my list because I think it's "better" but this one is my favorite. I listen to it every Christmas Eve sitting around the fire drinking whiskey. And Cole was just a phenomenal talent.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
8 of my 25 songs have already been revealed - I think I said it before but there's a chance that my entire list will be reveled before we get to the top 10.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Never heard this song or even of Marcia Ball but this song was very cool.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
My top 5 (no order) from Number 27:
- Hey Ya! - OutKast - (Don Quixote)
- Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town – Pearl Jam - (Hawks64)
- Tighten Up - Black Keys - (falguy)
- God Only Knows - The Beach Boys - (Hov34)
- More Than a Feeling - Boston - (Zegras11)
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