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Genrepalooza Presents: FG Radio - Tons of Lithium but very little Chill (1 Viewer)

 
My oldest nephew caught Covid in Las Vegas last week. He was there for a bachelor/bachelorette party. Tomorrow his family is going to Emerald Isle for a week to meet extended family on his dad's side. They are supposed to spread Katie's ashes tomorrow night. She was his dad's cousin. He will miss it, and will come on Tuesday if he test negative. My sister told him not to come unless he knows he is totally over it. They are celebrating his great Uncle Bob's 85th birthday too, and they don't want it to be his last if my nephew shows up with Covid still lingering in him.

 
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simey said:
My oldest nephew caught Covid in Las Vegas last week. He was there for a bachelor/bachelorette party. Tomorrow his family is going to Emerald Isle for a week to meet extended family on his dad's side. They are supposed to spread Katie's ashes tomorrow night. She was his dad's cousin. He will miss it, and will come on Tuesday if he test negative. My sister told him not to come unless he knows he is totally over it. They are celebrating his great Uncle Bob's 85th birthday too, and they don't want it to be his last if my nephew shows up with Covid still lingering in him.
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Best of luck, simey. I hope your nephew continues to be okay and tests negative so that you might all enjoy each other's company for the upcoming events. 

I sincerely hope he stays home if he tests positive. That just seems wise. 

 
Haven't sent any new channels to Dayton in a while

#### ### (Songs with cussing)

Walk Hard (Songs about walking or just good to walk to)

Crayola Box (Songs about colors)

Eagles Channel :bag: with one degree of separation

Songs that Build (in intensity, not songs about buildings (and food))

 
Eephus said:
Haven't sent any new channels to Dayton in a while

#### ### (Songs with cussing)

Walk Hard (Songs about walking or just good to walk to)

Crayola Box (Songs about colors)

Eagles Channel :bag: with one degree of separation

Songs that Build (in intensity, not songs about buildings (and food))
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I support all of these

 
rockaction said:
Best of luck, simey. I hope your nephew continues to be okay and tests negative so that you might all enjoy each other's company for the upcoming events. 

I sincerely hope he stays home if he tests positive. That just seems wise. 
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I'm not going, and I know my nephew won't go if he still test positive. I just hope he isn't one of those people that test negative and then it comes back a day or two later as positive again. There is going to be several people in their 80s there. He said that all of the men that were in the group caught covid, but none of the women did, and that includes his girlfriend that lives with him. He said he felt so sick when he caught it there that they stayed an extra day in a different hotel, because he felt too bad to fly. I hope someone did not sit beside him on the plane other than his girlfriend. 

 
Eephus said:
Haven't sent any new channels to Dayton in a while

#### ### (Songs with cussing)

Walk Hard (Songs about walking or just good to walk to)

Crayola Box (Songs about colors)

Eagles Channel :bag: with one degree of separation

Songs that Build (in intensity, not songs about buildings (and food))
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These are excellent. 

 
rockaction said:
The dice roll is simply this: I take a thousand-sided die and roll it. There are fifty categories, numbered 1-20, 21-40, etc., up until one thousand. I take the number that the generator tells me the dice has rolled and use a spreadsheet to select the corresponding category. Those categories last five times being rolled. On the sixth roll (or if the playlist is more than three hours it's the next roll after it hits three hours) the category is retired from the Main Event. 

What is the Main Event? Well, the Main Event is composed of those categories aforementioned. How does one get into the Main Event? Well, we have percolated categories sitting in a location that we call "Dayton" after the play-in games for college basketball. I take a six-sided die and roll it. Whatever number comes up, that's the new category in the Main Event! 

How do we replace those categories promoted from Dayton? Well, we already have categories, or we come up with a new category. If it meets the appropriate vetting process (and our vetting process is much like the uncertainty of the electoral college and its electors these days), it goes in The Hopper. The dice are then rolled (however many categories there are is how I choose the number of sides of the die) and the corresponding category moves into Daytona. 

So it goes like this

Main Event - fifty categories, thousand sided-die
Dayton - six categories, six-sided die
The Hopper - where all the categories go to wait their turn 

LOLOLOLOL. I must admit something. I've been really bumbling this up all along. It's "Dayton" and not "Daytona," which I've been using. Eephus has been kind not to remind me that I'm really messing it up and that its origin starts with college basketball, not Pusha T's great 2018 album or the race cars. 
 
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That you took five paragraphs to explain it kinda shows why he was intimidated. 😂

 
Eephus said:
I used to spend about one work week out of five in Frederick, MD. 

Fredneck may not have been the ###hole of the state but I was counting down leaving for IAD from the moment I arrived on Monday.
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My one attempt at karaoke was in or near Frederick. I was too drunk to tell exactly where I was.

 
Sunday's picks:

Round 587:

Segue Way

A. And... / Somewhere I've Never Travelled -- Ambrosia

Drummer Burleigh Drummond brought some songs to the sessions for Somewhere I've Never Travelled, Ambrosia's second and proggiest album. Chief songwriters David Pack and Joe Puerta didn't really care for any of them, but they took the chorus of one and made it the intro to their song which became the title track. The songs are joined by a harmony note.

B. Cold Slope / King of You -- Wilco

On the first few listens to Star Wars, I thought these two were a single song. The staccato bursts at the end of Cold Slope continue at the beginning of King of You.

C. Sergeant Politeness / Segue 1 -- Failure

A great example of the grunge-prog fusion that spawned a cult following for the Fantastic Planet album is the second and third tracks, the first of which is a fist-pumping anthem, which seamlessly slinks into a spacey instrumental.

D. Sao Paulo Sunrise / Costa del Sol / Marvellous Moses / It's All Over -- Nektar

Side 2 of the Recycled album is about the environmental impact of tourism, and its four songs all run together; it's particularly hard to tell where the first one ends and the second begins. 

E. Mike's Song / I Am Hydrogen / Weekapaugh Groove (live) -- Phish

"Mike's Groove" has been one of the warhorses of Phish's live sets since the '80s. Mike's Song and Weekapaugh Groove are both vehicles for extended improvisation, the former generally more rocking, the latter generally more funky. In concert they form a "sandwich" and any number of things can appear between them. For the first few years this appeared in sets, the "meat" was the airy instrumental I Am Hydrogen. Mikes/Hydrogen/Weekapaugh is referred to as "the classic Mike's Groove." I selected the version from the Live in Brooklyn album, from a show I attended. But sometimes the "meat" is not Hydrogen; sometimes it is multiple songs; at one show I saw, it was Neil Young's Albuquerque. 

 
Round 587 (Songs that Make You Cry)

The Last Day of Our Acquaintance - Sinead O'Connor 

Sinead always carries so much emotion in her voice, but my lord does this one hit especially hard.  Never been divorced (knock on wood) but still feel like I'm living through every word she sings.  Two lines especially crush me:

I know you don't love me anymore
You used to hold my hand when the plane took off

My wife is a bit of a nervous flyer and I definitely used to hold her hand on planes.  And then, for no real reason, I stopped.  So whenever I hear this song I make a promise to be kinder - and it lasts until it doesn't. 😢

This live video is a little tough to make out at times, but it turns the pain/anger in the studio version up to 11.

The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - Frank Turner

I'll wear my badge
A vinyl sticker with big block letters
Adhering to my chest
That tells your new friends
I am a visitor here: I am not permanent

Goosebumps.  Every time I hear it, I feel like it was written specifically for me, even if came out years after a visit to a soon-to-be-ex who had moved to DC.  The Postal Service original is a little more clinical, but like Sinead, Frank Turner just nails the emotions of it all.  

And I am finally seeing
Why I was the one worth leaving

 
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Dice roll for Monday and Tuesday 

233 - 764 - 174 - 985

Associated Acts (bands with members more famous for another band. Supergroups welcome but no solo material)

Non-Stop Party Mixtape (party tape -- a running mix with BPM considerations)

Vocal Chords/Cords (songs with great harmony vocals)

Fleetwood Mac and Whoever Was In The Band (songs by the Mac or solo or other group endeavors)

 
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587.  The Feelies - Slipping (Into Something)  (The Velvet Underground and Bands That Bought Their Album)

I'm surprised that I haven't drafted them before with more than 600 picks in the bag.  Nobody else has picked them either.

The VU influence is always there in the rhythm guitars and Glenn Mercer's voice but it becomes more evident when they knock off the crazy rhythms and slow things down a little.

 
Associated Acts was described by Eephus as "Bands with members more famous for another band. Supergroups welcome but no solo material"

 
Also, Wikkid loved Nektar. I don't recall if he ever discussed Recycled, but he loved Remember the Future and the stuff before it. 

He liked that they were a prog rock band that actually rocked. 

 
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Accounting: From The Hopper To Dayton

11-1-7

Ip Theft (songs with significant sampling or interpolation or just rip offs)
Doom Metal (uh, KP?)
Walk Hard (songs to walk to)

 
588 a & b

Heaven's in Here - Tin Machine (Associated Acts)

 line-up: 

David Bowie

Reeves Gabrels

Tony Fox Sales

Hunt Sales

Miracle Worker - Super-Heavy (Associated Acts)

 line-up: 

Mick Jagger

Joss Stone

A. R. Rahman

Dave Stewart

Damian Marley

 
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Round 588:

Vocal Cords/Chords

A. Rock & Roll Woman -- Buffalo Springfield

CSN belongs here, but they are no longer on Spotify other than a 2012 live album recorded after Stephen Stills couldn't sing anymore. So we have the next best thing. This is the Buffalo Springfield song that was the closest precursor of the CSN(Y) sound, and it features incredible harmonies from Stills and Richie Furay -- Stills' new friend David Crosby is rumored to have sang on it as well. They didn't let Neil anywhere near the microphone. 

B. Coax Me -- Sloan

When I binged their first two albums a few weeks ago, this track stood out to me, in part because of the harmonies.

Associated Acts

C. The Act We Act -- Sugar

What Bob Mould did for a few years after Husker Du. Sugar was more polished and actually more commercially successful, but didn't last very long because Mould and bassist David Barbe felt overwhelmed by the demands from the industry that came after the success of their records. 

D. Walls Come Tumbling Down -- The Style Council

What Paul Weller did for a few years after The Jam. Their second album, Our Favourite Shop, is by far their best, and this is one of its standout tracks. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
Ah, haven't checked recently. 

If Neil ever comes back to Spotify, there will be headlines about it, given the ruckus he made when he left. 
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The rest came back and said they would donate "some" of their first month of revenue to Covid-19 charities.

Deja Vu is even back but the Neil songs are grayed out (can't be played).

 
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