Favorite 31 Songs by US Artists According to a Bunch of Middle-Aged Dummies (2 Viewers)

[Dr. Octopus]

ditkaburgers:

Lonely Town - Brandon Flowers

another that I didn't know the song or artist that I liked a lot.

 

[krista4]

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.

Off the top of my head I recall two other Christmas songs that were selected in addition to your two. Could be more.

 

[AAABatteries]

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.

Off the top of my head I recall two other Christmas songs that were selected in addition to your two. Could be more.

Bunch of Scrooges in here.

 

[Doug B]

Somewhat spoilerish but I have one other Christmas song on my list because I think it's "better" but this one is my favorite.

Hmmm ... I wonder if it's going to be the second one I cut? The song I'm thinking about is, vocally, a technical knockout. It is not a "new classic" -- it's one that would've been popular when many/most Boomers were children.

 

[AAABatteries]

Somewhat spoilerish but I have one other Christmas song on my list because I think it's "better" but this one is my favorite.

Hmmm ... I wonder if it's going to be the second one I cut? The song I'm thinking about is, vocally, a technical knockout. It is not a "new classic" -- it's one that would've been popular when many/most Boomers were children.

Good chance it's the same one.

 

[falguy]

AAABatteries:
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole

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.

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.

My family wore out The Christmas Album. It was a staple for all my childhood Christmases. This song was my favorite too. And every single time the line "a turkey and some mistletoe" was played my brother and I would point at each other and yell "A TURKEY!". Great memory.

I never even really considered any Christmas songs, I Probably should have because they were a huge part of my childhood, but this would surely have been my #1.

 

[Ilov80s]

I am one of the Christmas song drafters. I won’t spoil it but it’s a very old song and it’s ranked quite high for me.

 

[Ilov80s]

Wait did someone say Tangled Up in Blue was new to them?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I am one of the Christmas song drafters. I won’t spoil it but it’s a very old song and it’s ranked quite high for me.

I'm really good at guessing these. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer?

 

[simey]

Wait did someone say Tangled Up in Blue was new to them?

That person put a bag over their head, but when you look through the eye holes you can see that it is scorchy.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Wait did someone say Tangled Up in Blue was new to them?

It’s hard to imagine avoiding that song but obviously it’s possible if you never listened to classic rock radio or had friends into Dylan.

 

[scorchy]

Wait did someone say Tangled Up in Blue was new to them?

New here? Seriously, just blame my parents...

The first time i heard a Dylan song, he was performing at the Grammies or VMAs with the harmonica thingamajig strapped to his head. It was awful and I thought maybe something was wrong with him. Never really got past it.

 

[falguy]

Of the songs I knew I liked many this time around, Here are my fav's of these

Killing Me Softly (simey)
I Will Always Love You (Yankee23Fan)
Me and Bobby McGee (DrIanMalcolm)
More Than a Feeling (Zegras11)
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) (AAABatteries)

Still many songs selected that I was unfamiliar with including one that's probably a moment. These 3 were probably my favorites.

Everybody Dance (Uruk-Hai)
Champagne Problems (Chaz McNulty)
LA Freeway (worrierking)

 

[Dr. Octopus]

MAC_32:

Avenues & Alleyways – Rancid

They tried to fool us into thinking that they were British, but we outted them here.

 

[heckmanm]

What a Fool Believes is definitely on the high end of that style of smooth rock

If you follow the official Yacht Rock podcast (from the guys who coined the term and did the web series), it's the perfect song for the genre. (And if you haven't seen the Youtube series, you should.)

 

[heckmanm]

I see that no one gave any love to my selection this round

I totally grooved on it and I was typing the lyrics to it to post here, but it was a lame post and I didn't go through with posting it for posterity. I said I could hear theremin in it -- or a theremin-like effect, anyway. But I didn't post it. So I guess I could really say it's not you, it's me.

Kudos to Tanner for pulling that from somewhere.

Lead vocalist reminds me of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah a bit with the way his voice breaks in a few places.

 

[shuke]

Of the unknown:


Silver: Tangled Up in Blue (krista)

WHAT?

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

it’s a very old song and it’s ranked quite high

I'm going to plug this into Bing and see what comes out.

 

[heckmanm]

Work has been killing me for a couple weeks, but Imma hipple along as best I can.

31: New To Me that I liked
Anemone - Brian Jonestown Massacre
Oh Mandy - Spinto Band
ZZZ Top - Aesop Rock
Knee Deep - Parliament
Methamphetamine - Son Volt

Familiar favorites
What a Fool Believes
Float On
Reelin' in the Years
For the Love of Money
Humpty Dance

 

[Hov34]

What a Fool Believes is definitely on the high end of that style of smooth rock

If you follow the official Yacht Rock podcast (from the guys who coined the term and did the web series), it's the perfect song for the genre. (And if you haven't seen the Youtube series, you should.)

HD version - So good.

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That's what a fool believes, Kenny. That's what a fool believes.

Get yout **** out of your heart.

 

[AAABatteries]

it’s a very old song and it’s ranked quite high

I'm going to plug this into Bing and see what comes out.

No spotlighting!!!

 

[MAC_32]

A familiar sound in which I never knew who it was nor the song title - The Flamingos **added**
A familiar sound in which I never knew the song title and inexplicably don't have it on my shuffle - Tighten Up **derp**
Best new to me - Champagne Problems...maybe I'll develop into a Swiftee

The medal round was easy in this one:
Bronze medal - Forgot About Dre
Silver medal - Me & Bobby McGee
Gold medal - Hey Ya

None were in the final bubble, but all were on my original list so they're on the tier just outside of it.

 

[rockaction]

another that I didn't know the song or artist that I liked a lot.

It's the lead singer from The Killers. I would imagine it sounds dramatic and a lot like Springsteen, as the Killers are wont to do sometimes.

You probably knew him -- you just didn't know you knew.

 

[simey]

Favorite Five of round 27:

Tangled Up In Blue
Fall On Me
L.A. Freeway
If I Had a Boat
More Than a Feeling

Favorite(s) I didn't know:

Avenues & Alleyways
Tighten Up
A Good Idea

 

[Don Quixote]

Best new to me - Champagne Problems...maybe I'll develop into a Swiftee

Not my pick, but love the bridge in this one. I was just posting in the Taylor Swift thread about her new album a week or two ago. Hop in - the water’s fine. There’s another song of hers that caused me to do a 180 on her, but I’ll say no more in case it appears.

 

[Chaz McNulty]

My favorites from this round in order.

Hov34: God Only Knows - The Beach Boys - (I don't this is the last time we will see this song)

DrIanMalcolm: Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin


My favorites that I had not heard before.

Val Rannous: Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon - WOW - great song

Dr. Octopus: Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams

simsarge: Extraordinary - Liz Phair

 

[Hov34]

Top 5 from Round 27

@Zegras11 More Than a Feeling - Boston: Greatest Debut album ever.
@simsarge Extraordinary - Liz Phair: Kelly Clarkson with an edge!
@falguy Tighten Up - The Black Keys: 2nd Tighten Up this week I've liked!
@Don Quixote Hey Ya! - Outkast: Hell ya!
@Uruk-Hai Everybody Dance - CHIC: So good.

2 New2Me:

@New Binky the Doormat Nice, Nice, Very Nice - Ambrosia: Only really know the big 3 Yacht Rock songs from them. Nice.
@worrierking L.A. Freeway - Guy Clark: Enjoyed this a lot, went down a rabbit hole and enjoyed the trip.

 

[Ilov80s]

I have more to report later but I put on this #27 and am post toke doing the dishes: I am in Heaven. We killed this round.

 

[Ilov80s]

it’s a very old song and it’s ranked quite high

I'm going to plug this into Bing and see what comes out.

bing bong you guessed wrong

 

[rockaction]

27 and am post toke doing the dishes

Girl, you were born with dishpan hands…

 

[rockaction]

I said - I baby
I don’t need romance
Little girl I just wanna get in your

Stationery?

And read your diary

 

[rockaction]

Lyrical mash-up there with a tense change. Fifty points if you can get it without Google.

 

[MAC_32]

MAC_32:

Avenues & Alleyways – Rancid

They tried to fool us into thinking that they were British, but we outted them here.

I was very confident this one wasn't getting double dipped. It's absolutely an age thing, but I much prefer the highs of 90's punk to those prior. One contribution was important to me, but not an obvious one. Front-to-back this was the best punk album of the era and this one aged the best of the lot - timely message for our current day too.

The media paints a picture that stains all of us
Pit dogs against cats now who is responsible
The power in the issue the force is unstoppable
I'm a battering raaaaa-am coming through right you
In every alleway and every avenue
OY-OY-OY-OY

 

[rockaction]

but I much prefer the highs of 90's punk to those prior

I left off all my nineties punk because those records sit in an area of my record collection I didn't get to when I was doing this. I lament that. There should be at least one song from the 90s punk rock era on there, and I plum forgot to put it on. You can find two others in my "last nineteen out." Yes, I changed it to nineteen. Sue me. It's actually as good a listen as my first thirty-one, because, well, record collection location was the only thing determining what got on the list at that point.

Yours is also a good choice. I own that record, too. I don't listen to it all that much, but it's a defining record of that era, for sure.

 

[landrys hat]

Fav picks of the day

krista4:
Tangled Up in Blue – Bob Dylan

shuke:
Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone

Sullie:
Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams – Cinderella

 

[simey]

I listen to it every Christmas Eve sitting around the fire drinking whiskey. And Cole was just a phenomenal talent.

His version of The Christmas Song is my favorite, and he was a phenomenal talent. I especially love his albums with Billy May. There is a compilation of their work together called The Billy May Sessions. It's great and it swings.

 

[rockaction]

I came awfully close to politics in the music thread, which is like chocolate and hummus mixed together. Ewwwwww. Sorry about that.

 

[krista4]

simsarge: & The Dreaded Marco: Extraordinary - Liz Phair

 

[MAC_32]

I came awfully close to politics in the music thread, which is like chocolate and hummus mixed together. Ewwwwww. Sorry about that.

It's a thin line with many artists - no need to apologize. Some music is meant to relax, others the opposite, then everywhere in between.

 

[rockaction]

I came awfully close to politics in the music thread, which is like chocolate and hummus mixed together. Ewwwwww. Sorry about that.

It's a thin line with many artists - no need to apologize. Some music is meant to relax, others the opposite, then everywhere in between.

Yeah, Rancid intended it to be political and their affiliation is worn unabashedly (CPUSA), but I figured it’s a slippery slope, so I deleted it. No biggie.

The band I picked today was part of the White Panther Party and was meant to be viewed through that lens, so…

 

[krista4]

Where did we come out on weekend posts? I'm going to post one tomorrow, but what about Sunday? I saw one yea vote and one nay.

 

[MAC_32]

Where did we come out on weekend posts? I'm going to post one tomorrow, but what about Sunday? I saw one yea vote and one nay.

If you post a list then I'll shuffle at night. If you don't then I'll shuffle something else. I'm a low maintenance participant.

 

[rockaction]

Where did we come out on weekend posts? I'm going to post one tomorrow, but what about Sunday? I saw one yea vote and one nay.

I’ll defer to the group. I think a good case can be made for catching up to the thread on Sunday. I also think the beat goes on, so I’m undecided.

 

[simey]

Yea

 

[Zegras11]

Where did we come out on weekend posts? I'm going to post one tomorrow, but what about Sunday? I saw one yea vote and one nay.

YES, IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT.

 

[Chaz McNulty]

simsarge: & The Dreaded Marco: Extraordinary - Liz Phair

oops. corrected.

 

[krista4]

Where did we come out on weekend posts? I'm going to post one tomorrow, but what about Sunday? I saw one yea vote and one nay.

YES, IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT.

I HAVE A PREFERENCE TO PLOW THROUGH SO YES WOULD PREFER IT.

 

[Zegras11]

Where did we come out on weekend posts? I'm going to post one tomorrow, but what about Sunday? I saw one yea vote and one nay.

YES, IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT.

I HAVE A PREFERENCE TO PLOW THROUGH SO YES WOULD PREFER IT.

I know a guy that once did five per day.

 

[krista4]

Where did we come out on weekend posts? I'm going to post one tomorrow, but what about Sunday? I saw one yea vote and one nay.

YES, IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT.

I HAVE A PREFERENCE TO PLOW THROUGH SO YES WOULD PREFER IT.

I know a guy that once did five per day.

Revealing of 35 different songs by 30+ different artists with links, most of which are not provided? Bless his little heart.

 

[krista4]

By the way, we do have many instances of the same song in exactly the same slot. I don't remember when the first one comes up, but probably soon.