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Favorite 31 Songs by US Artists According to a Bunch of Middle-Aged Dummies (6 Viewers)

Uruk-Hai said:
Yankee23Fan said:
Well, I still have 2 Eagles songs to go, not to mention a Tom Petty and 2 Johnny Cash.

No more Billy Joel though.
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Man, don't pay any attention to me. I'm just some doofus on a message board. Most of the negative things I say are weak attempts at shtick.

I love that you love what you love, if that makes any sense.
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All good, really. I've enjoyed this thread and was just adding to the Eagles banter.
 
AAABatteries said:
krista4 said:
I just made the mistake of asking OH which was his least favorite of three songs that have been chosen here and I knew he would hate. He chose the Eagle song I offered and then went on like a 15-minute rant about how, among other things, they "ruined Joe Walsh" (with a side rant about how at least The Steve Miller Band was fun and Joe Walsh should have ended up there). The rant was capped with "...and how can you do that much coke and still be boring?!"
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I think I mentioned this in another music thread but I’m not sure there’s another band like the Eagles where they have a few songs I love and a few songs I loathe. Desperado and Witchy Woman are nails on a chalkboard but Take It Easy and Already Gone are a couple I love.
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Same. I don’t get the Eagles hate though. They wrote some classic, pretty songs and are still rather popular to folks of many ages.
 
Uruk-Hai said:
scorchy said:
Do any of you people sleep? Criminy!!!
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I had better sleep patterns when I was slamming 8-balls up my nose back in the '80s. Nowadays, it's get it when you can.
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Another post where I'm not sure whether the like button is the best response... Maybe we can petition Joe for a "Hmmm, I get what you're saying but can't relate" emoji. The "thinking" one is too open to misinterpretation.
 
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rockaction said:

Some of us are still coasting off of last night's festivities.
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I am too! We went to Mitchell & Ness and got my son a throwback Iverson jersey. Then over to the Philly Christmas Village where I bought my wife a hand-made birdfeeder for Christmas - boy will she be surprised! Then one beer at a nice Korean Chicken place for dinner and back to the room by 9:30. Knocked out the Sunday NY Times crossword while the kid did Calc II homework. Epic night - so much better than the dance-punk days at my favorite spot off South Street.
 
krista4 said:
Lots of great new-to-me songs today, including Pearl Jam's "Off He Goes," Sun Kil Moon's "Carry Me Ohio" (which I've probably heard but don't remember), and the Indigo Girls' "Power of Two." Buddy Guy will always get a gold star from me and "Midnight Train" was no exception. I have no idea why, but to my dying day I will never be able to keep The Black Crowes straight vs. The Black Keys, but whichever one had a song today, I liked it.
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The thread that I mentioned I am planning on starting soon (delayed by work but still hope to get going in the next week or two) should help with this as both will be featured.

The Black Keys are a much more raw sound, basically heavier reworkings of hill country blues songs. They later added a little more mainstream pop element to some of their songs that got more radio play, but the majority of what they do is basically Junior Kimbrough with distorted guitars, if you know who that is. The instrumentation is a lot more stripped-down and some of it has an almost drone-like quality.

The Black Crowes, while heavily blues-influenced, is a much fuller and more diverse sound. The blues stuff sounds more like Chicago electric blues than the hill country blues of the Black Keys. Early Crowes is basically an American version of the Rolling Stones. Later Crowes are basically a jam band and the music is much more diverse and draws on folk, country, bluegrass, and multiple other genres. The Crowes also use a lot more acoustic instruments than the Keys and the vast majority of their songs prominently feature piano.

I like both but the Crowes are a much better and more interesting band to me. More to come soon.
 
I have so much time to kill before the football games that I'm thinking of joining Tinder. Any advice for a near-50 year-old who has decided he wants to spend part of his morning totally swiping left and right in futile gestures of either acceptance or rejection of the opposite sex, all based on a few blurbs about their personality and, most importantly, their appearance?

Should I not do this? I've already picked slam poetry as one of my bona fide interests, so I'm thinking there's no turning back now unless the cringe factor of doing what I'm doing becomes too much to bear. One of the photos has me wearing an Aesop Rock shirt, so the chuckle about the slam poetry might turn into confusion, which I welcome, considering I'm also confused about my relationship with slam poetry. (Left or right on slam poetry -- I can't even decide.)
 
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Chaos34 said:
Also surprised KP and simey were unfamiliar with it. I have drafted it twice pimping it pretty hard both times.
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Chaos Commish you have a new handle (name). I do recall you pimping songs, but I don't recall which songs they were. We like a lot of similar music, and I'm sure I like the song as much now as I did the last two times you shared it. I added it to my "cabin fever" playlist.
 
rockaction said:
I have so much time to kill before the football games that I'm thinking of joining Tinder. Any advice for a near-50 year-old who has decided he wants to spend part of his morning totally swiping left and right in futile gestures of either acceptance or rejection of the opposite sex, all based on a few blurbs about their personality and, most importantly, their appearance?
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What kind of appearance attracts you?
 
simey said:
What kind of appearance attracts you?
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I'm aborting that mission because I find it impossible to reconcile with my more worldly goals of spiritual understanding.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, though. That's serious criteria. Of course, that also means my bar is probably low, but I'm a regular open-minded soul, simey -- a mover and shaker. Can't get hung up in the minutiae.
 
simey said:
I just looked up slam poetry, and it sounds like it would be sorta like rapping
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It takes a lot from rap and a lot from spoken word poetry. It's a melding of the two. It's generally very personal, not unlike a soliloquy. In fact, the only slam poetry I ever wrote was entitled "Ill Soleil Aqui," or, literally translated from French and Spanish, "Ill Sun Here," making it sound exactly like "Ill Son Here," if one will grant me the homophone of son/sun. But the title was a play on the Shakespearian soliloquy, where the actor takes front of the stage and addresses the audience about his or her predicament.

And that was way too serious an answer given the subject at hand, but it sounds like you wanted to know, so...
 
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rockaction said:
I have so much time to kill before the football games that I'm thinking of joining Tinder. Any advice for a near-50 year-old who has decided he wants to spend part of his morning totally swiping left and right in futile gestures of either acceptance or rejection of the opposite sex, all based on a few blurbs about their personality and, most importantly, their appearance?

Should I not do this? I've already picked slam poetry as one of my bona fide interests, so I'm thinking there's no turning back now unless the cringe factor of doing what I'm doing becomes too much to bear. One of the photos has me wearing an Aesop Rock shirt, so the chuckle about the slam poetry might turn into confusion, which I welcome, considering I'm also confused about my relationship with slam poetry. (Left or right on slam poetry -- I can't even decide.)
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I haven't been on a date since 1998, so....

Yes?
 
Yankee23Fan said:
I haven't been on a date since 1998
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No? Not even a night out with a significant other? Never mind me prying, I honestly don't think I've been on a proper date since '00, so we're sort of brothers-in-arms on that one. Alcohol and group meets were all the rage in the aughts.
 
rockaction said:
Yankee23Fan said:
I haven't been on a date since 1998
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No? Not even a night out with a significant other? Never mind me prying, I honestly don't think I've been on a proper date since '00, so we're sort of brothers-in-arms on that one. Alcohol and group meets were all the rage in the aughts.
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We got married in 1998. I'm not sure what we go out on constitutes dating, but then we'd been best friends for a while when we started dating.
 
KarmaPolice said:
Problematic stiff. I think I will try using that one on the wife soon. "Honey, I need your help with something...."
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Damn. I just really thought about Karma Police as a tangible, proper entity and was going to go to the PSF/Test Forum to post about it.

Anyway, as soon as I was typing that I knew it could be bent or curved for naughty purposes.
 
simey said:
Chaos34 said:
Also surprised KP and simey were unfamiliar with it. I have drafted it twice pimping it pretty hard both times.
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Chaos Commish you have a new handle (name). I do recall you pimping songs, but I don't recall which songs they were. We like a lot of similar music, and I'm sure I like the song as much now as I did the last two times you shared it. I added it to my "cabin fever" playlist.
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Hi simey. Yep yep, we have some very similar taste and even both like the Eagles. :) My second favorite pick of this thing is He Went to Paris. I probably would end up ranking it near where you did.

Chaos Commish got binkey-ed when the board changed and support here was, well wasn't, so I just made this acct. I also had a fairly long hiatus from here when baseball was ending, football and basketball starting and moving to a new house.

My favorite Bruce, Petty, Eagles, and Steely Dan have not been chosen. It's fun having a private list and being kind of anxious to find out what else will be duplicates and what will be just mine. Fun.
 
New Binky the Doormat said:
krista4 said:
I just made the mistake of asking OH which was his least favorite of three songs that have been chosen here and I knew he would hate. He chose the Eagle song I offered and then went on like a 15-minute rant about how, among other things, they "ruined Joe Walsh" (with a side rant about how at least The Steve Miller Band was fun and Joe Walsh should have ended up there). The rant was capped with "...and how can you do that much coke and still be boring?!"
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I clearly don't know OH, but his pretentiousness is both certain and entertaining.

I totally respect his knowledge of music ...but gd ...

btw: this comes off as though I don't like OH, I do ...he seems like someone very cool to hang with
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I often imagine OH as Jack Black's character in High Fidelity.
 
Uruk-Hai said:
krista4 said:
I just made the mistake of asking OH which was his least favorite of three songs that have been chosen here and I knew he would hate. He chose the Eagles song I offered and then went on like a 15-minute rant about how, among other things, they "ruined Joe Walsh" (with a side rant about how at least The Steve Miller Band was fun and Joe Walsh should have ended up there). The rant was capped with "...and how can you do that much coke and still be boring?!"
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:lol:

I rag on the Eagles a lot, but they made a lot of good records. Their problem was that they wanted to be IMPORTANT and got so sour because no one else agreed that their last real album was an interminable bore (except for Walsh's "In The City", which was a solo cut anyway). Way too many "people need to take us serious!' rants from them got old to me pretty quickly.

In a battle of the bands, though, they smoke Steve Miller. Joe Walsh was funky and, if he had joined Miller's band, he'd have lost all of his funk the moment he parked his Maserati at the studio. He would have instantly turned into Toby from The Office. Steve Miller was so unfunky and so jive that people stopped using the word "jive" because they were afraid he'd come back with another godawful hit.

(narrator: the author of this post likes "Fly Like An Eagle" and "Abracadabra" so don't take anything he says seriously)
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Hmmm. I can't stand Abracadabra but like most of Miller's other hits.
 
Thinking back on my submission, I think today's pick should have been quite a bit higher if my numerous playings of the song since I submitted the list is any indication. It feels like it's my most played song in the last few years since I stumbled on it researching stuff for another draft. Looking at my list, #5 or #6 is probably a better reflection of my reaction to the song, which is a strong desire to get in a power stance and air guitar. :oldunsure:
 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Chaos34 said:
moving to a new house.
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Ooo. Where'd you move to?
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Same area (15 minutes from previous) just north of hell in the Mojave Desert. Rented "our house" to chaosburgers and friends. Bought a fixer to keep me busy. I "retired" early to try flipping homes here long before prices went to the moon. It hasn't been successful but it's kept me out of trouble. I'm a serial diy-er and this one has a couple nice view acres and a 2br 1 bath shack on it. I'm erecting a steel bldg barndominium on it. The foundation is in. Long way to go. The shack is basically a single old guy's man cave. I'm happy in it, but really excited about the barndo. It seems forever I have wanted to design a floorplan from the ground up and just for me. Welp, this is it and it's gonna be kinda weird. haha
 
Could be my searching skills, but I didn't see the main Podcast thread. I just stumbed on a music one the other day under The Ringer umbrella - Bandsplain

Basic premise is explaining the band, history, discography, etc. Yesterday I listened to the really long Smashing Pumpkins 2 parter, and started the Radiohead one this am. Next up is a couple from this draft that I realize I need to get into more - Big Star and Rilo Kiley.
 
rockaction said:
I have so much time to kill before the football games that I'm thinking of joining Tinder. Any advice for a near-50 year-old who has decided he wants to spend part of his morning totally swiping left and right in futile gestures of either acceptance or rejection of the opposite sex, all based on a few blurbs about their personality and, most importantly, their appearance?

Should I not do this? I've already picked slam poetry as one of my bona fide interests, so I'm thinking there's no turning back now unless the cringe factor of doing what I'm doing becomes too much to bear. One of the photos has me wearing an Aesop Rock shirt, so the chuckle about the slam poetry might turn into confusion, which I welcome, considering I'm also confused about my relationship with slam poetry. (Left or right on slam poetry -- I can't even decide.)
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If you need some tips, I'm the guy to tell you what NOT to do :lol:

Man, oh man. I started I-dating back in the late 90s (both before & after I got with the lady I wrote about in my "Luckenbach, Texas" follow-up) when it was basically the Wild West. I think Yahoo Personals was the biggie, maybe Netscape (?) was another. No one posted pictures of themselves back then, because "axe murderers are on the internet....." or whatever. Every fair-skinned brunette said she looked like Marisa Tomei or Sandra Bullock, every blonde said she looked like Gwyneth Paltrow, all the Hispanic ladies were J Lo.....you get the picture (the ladies of African and Indian descent didn't give a damn about a celeb-lookalike and would say it straight out). There are several people in this thread that have met me - I ain't no Brad Pitt - but what did these women think was going to happen when we met? I met a lot of fake movie stars.

Things are a lot different now. Don't be afraid of putting yourself out there if you want to. You know how to reach me if you'd like to chat about it. The stigma's gone. I'm pretty much retired from dating these days because I'm too set in my ways, but am always here to help.

There were several of us from this message board who had a place to talk more freely about I-dating. I know at least one person who posts in this thread a lot was a member of that group. That was in the mid-late 00s, IIRC.
 
scorchy said:
KarmaPolice said:
Could be my searching skills, but I didn't see the main Podcast thread. I just stumbed on a music one the other day under The Ringer umbrella - Bandsplain
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Been pimping Bandsplain for a while now (though not it the podcast thread). Took me a while to "get" Yasi but now I'm all in.
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She has some tics that grate on me a tad like the "babe" thing, but the few I've listened to have been really interesting.

There was a bunch of stuff I didn't know about Billy that came up in that pod, and I liked them framing the Pumpkins vs. the rest of the grunge bands and how he and the band didn't fit what else was going on. The guy on the RH episode was bringing some interesting music theory into the mix that I for sure am not knowledgeable to hear and pick up on.
 
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