Genrepalooza Presents: FG Radio - Tons of Lithium but very little Chill (17 Viewers)

[rockaction]

Putting the dice away

they forgot to show him struggling against himself. 
 

and also 

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Are there any other albums that have had all of their songs taken aside from Purple Rain, Rust Never Sleeps and that classic that everyone knows, Remember the Future? 

 

[rockaction]

Remember the Future? 

Qui? 

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Qui? 

Check the I Heart Prog and Concept Concept playlists. 

 

[Buffaloes]

Putting the dice away

I like the shirt.

Also, was going to try to make up picks from the past few days, but now not sure if i should

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I like the shirt.

Also, was going to try to make up picks from the past few days, but now not sure if i should

You might as well. Not much else is going to happen in this thread until the Summerpalooza IV draft is over. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

I will slowly work on my make up picks as well.   I think a small break is needed, but we are still going to at least rock this until the 1 year anniversary, right? 

 

[Northern Voice]

I might drive into the 100 or so rounds I owe too

 

[KarmaPolice]

I might drive into the 100 or so rounds I owe too

 

[KarmaPolice]

Would also be a fantastic time to actually get these playlists updated and maybe listen to a couple too. 

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I will slowly work on my make up picks as well.   I think a small break is needed, but we are still going to at least rock this until the 1 year anniversary, right? 

I suspect this draft will never end officially. More likely, it will lose people by attrition (as it has been) until we get to a point where the remaining people decide just to add what they want to the remaining playlists at once and call it a day. 

 

[Eephus]

must...not...roll...dice

 

[rockaction]

must...not...roll...dice

it’s not a habit it’s cool I feel alive

 

[Northern Voice]

Breathe in the air if you care, you compare, don't say farewell

 

[simey]

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have made another album together called Raise the Roof. It comes out in November.  Here is one of the songs. It is a cover of Lucinda Williams' song "Can't Let Go."

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have made another album together called Raise the Roof. It comes out in November.  Here is one of the songs. It is a cover of Lucinda Williams' song "Can't Let Go."

Cool. I LOVE the first one.

 

[rockaction]

Dice are life, according to Nas. 

https://open.spotify.com/track/5iBEUyRJL5fV0Hl5L5AqoR?si=OWwW3yklQImIJmouskcbRw&dl_branch=1

 

[The Man With No Name]

I was just talking about Tony Bennett last night, specifically the duet he did with Paul McCartney.  As much as I love Paul, he just couldn't keep up with a septuagenarian Bennett at the time.  I think his phrasing is the best I've ever heard.

Tony Bennett, 95, retires from live shows on doctors’ orders

 

[rockaction]

Tony Bennett, 95, retires from live shows on doctors’ orders

You're reading posts from April? Who is the Man With No Name?

 

[rockaction]

 AND YOU'RE ACTUALLY READING KRISTA'S POSTS???!!!!!!

TO THE HILLS! THE MAN WITH NO NAME IS HERE!

 

[Eephus]

I have seen Nanci live in concert several times and she's a wonderful storyteller and beautiful performer, this track is a perfect example of her artistry

Pick 237 - Storytellers - Love at the Five and Dime (Live 1988 Anderson Fair) from One Fair Summer Evening - Nanci Griffith 

Rest in peace Nanci

Down at the station the tracks are cold
The wheels of thunder, they roll no more
And the heart of America cries for the souls
Who won't be rollin' home
The dragon weeps with empty eyes,
The whistle sighs no more in the night

 

[krista4]

Rest in peace Nanci

Down at the station the tracks are cold
The wheels of thunder, they roll no more
And the heart of America cries for the souls
Who won't be rollin' home
The dragon weeps with empty eyes,
The whistle sighs no more in the night

Oh no!!!

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

KP took Longview for The Masturbation Channel, er, In My Room. 

I know.  Don't care.  They should really be together.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I'll also have time to make up picks.  Probably during dinner.  Here's one:

That Numbers Category  -  Straight To Number One (Duck's Radio Mix)  -  Touch and Go

 

[Pip's Invitation]

@krista4will probably not be amused to hear that the "soft rock" station on Cape Cod that my mom listens to played Let It Be. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

I know.  Don't care.  They should really be together.

Hey - there are rules around here and ####.   

 

[rockaction]

Hey - there are rules around here and ####.   

 
, he said as she cracked her gum and tapped a baseball bat in her hand, just long enough for her embroidered satin jacket to reflect the sunlight. 

 

[rockaction]

Looming in back of her was her boyfriend, a Danny Zucco look-alike who was a choreographed dance/violence type of guy. As she tapped the bat, he gently opened a switchblade comb and eased his pompadour back into shape, impossibly moving his hips while he walked toward the citizen's arrester.  

"Hey, what did you say about rules now? OW!" 

 

[rockaction]

Around this time, Wolfman Jack howled in the studio 

All you ladies and your cool cats
Come check the Chuck as we roll on into the three o'clock hour 

School Day (Ring Ring Goes The Bell)

 

[rockaction]

@Pip's Invitation

I know you're driving back on vacation, but perhaps you'd be interested in reading this.

https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/hall-and-oates-daryl-hall-interview.html

Daryl Hall tells Vulture about the best and worst of Hall & Oates.

 

[krista4]

A little catch-up on Beatles-related picks:

543.k4  Paul McCartney - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter  (Jazz Singer)

I'm taking the "Kisses Live" track from the expanded version of Paul's "Kisses on the Bottom" album, mostly because I love watching Diana Krall.  

545.k4  The Fireman - Travelling Light (Songs in the Key of Sea)

Paul improvised this one based on sea shanty musical that his collaborator, Youth, had on a CD in the studio.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

@Pip's Invitation

I know you're driving back on vacation, but perhaps you'd be interested in reading this.

https://www.vulture.com/2021/08/hall-and-oates-daryl-hall-interview.html

Daryl Hall tells Vulture about the best and worst of Hall & Oates.

Thanks.

I don’t think there is one best Hall & Oates album. Truthfully, the most impactful albums to me are my solo albums. They’re the ones that matter the most to me because I liked the people I worked with.

 

[rockaction]

Thanks.

Maybe he's talking about their label? Otherwise, that's a big-time big time.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Maybe he's talking about their label? Otherwise, that's a big-time big time.

It's possible, but you don't really need to be vague and "political" about record company executives from many decades ago. 

It's been known for some time now that H&O, probably since the late '80s/early '90s, only continues to exist as a business partnership. They are not interested in being in each others' lives to the extent, say, Mick and Keith are. 

Ween is the same way, as I have mentioned in the GP4 thread. Some long-term bands are just like that. 

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Now, the person Hall is most bitter about is Chris Bond, who produced some of their mid-70s albums and whose relationship with them completely fractured during the making of Beauty on a Back Street, to the extent that H&O both try to pretend the album doesn't exist. Sacred Songs happened right after that, so that may be part or all of what Hall is referring to. 

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Robert bloody ####### Christgau gave Abandoned Luncheonette a C. [Ed. note: It was a B-.] One of the great albums of the ’70s. So there you go. What an #######.

I imagine he's not the only musician from that era who thinks of Christgau that way. 

 

[Eephus]

I imagine he's not the only musician from that era who thinks of Christgau that way. 

He was fun to read though. It's rare to see such strong opinions (positive and negative) nowadays.

I've enjoyed some of the weird stuff he's championed over the years.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I discussed it briefly when I chose a song from it for the Goin' Solo playlist, but RA, I think you would enjoy Sacred Songs. It's quite different from the usual H&O stuff but, except for track 4, not a difficult listen at all. Just a bit more challenging than their usual fare. 

 

[rockaction]

I imagine he's not the only musician from that era who thinks of Christgau that way. 

Christgau is an interesting read. I still remember when the "Dean" of American rock critics came to our Music, Market, and Youth Culture class while I was in college. Some jazzhole from who headed up the student part of the jazz department asked him at least four questions about Captain Beefheart and would not let up about it. Finally, Christgau asked if we'd had him all the way from the City to talk about an artist he didn't much care for. I think he was pretty direct. "Did you have me all the way up here to give a lecture about Beefheart?" I lerfed. I was a babe then and didn't know Christgau from Adam, but he struck me as well thought-out and very cool.

The jazzhole was the same guy who got all worried about the FCC when I did my Thursday night radio show (does every flowery, slang-influenced, neologist-loving writer around here have a radio history?) prompting my move back to Sunday at 1 A.M. where I rightfully belonged, terrorizing the late night potheads from the university, a potential muse to local and misfit punks.

I discussed it briefly when I chose a song from it for the Goin' Solo playlist, but RA, I think you would enjoy Sacred Songs. It's quite different from the usual H&O stuff but, except for track 4, not a difficult listen at all. Just a bit more challenging than their usual fare. 

I like Hall and Oates. Really do. I really like Daryl Hall's voice and their pop leanings. I might very well enjoy Sacred Songs. I'll check it out.

 

[krista4]

OH was championing some Daryl Hall solo thing a couple of weeks ago.  I'm too lazy to see if this is what you guys are discussing.  Guess I should give it a chance, though, given that OH - that OH - had good things to say about something that is, shall we say, not in his wheelhouse.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

OH was championing some Daryl Hall solo thing a couple of weeks ago.  I'm too lazy to see if this is what you guys are discussing.  Guess I should give it a chance, though, given that OH - that OH - had good things to say about something that is, shall we say, not in his wheelhouse.

I'd be shocked if it wasn't Sacred Songs. Robert Fripp produced it and it has a cult following among some people that aren't otherwise majorly into H&O. Hall's other solo albums aren't that different from the typical H&O sound. 

 

[simey]

I don’t think there is one best Hall & Oates album. Truthfully, the most impactful albums to me are my solo albums. They’re the ones that matter the most to me because I liked the people I worked with.

Abandoned Luncheonette is their best album by a country mile.  In the interview when asked what their best single is, Hall says She’s Gone, because they wrote that song together, and all the other songs he wrote.  Oates wrote some songs by himself (Abandoned Luncheonette has three of them), and he co-wrote some other songs with Hall (some were singles).

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Oates wrote some songs by himself (Abandoned Luncheonette has three of them)

I have drafted two and will take the third when the appropriate category comes up. 

But yeah, his rationale didn't make much sense. They co-wrote a lot of songs aside from She's Gone. 

 

[krista4]

I'd be shocked if it wasn't Sacred Songs. Robert Fripp produced it and it has a cult following among some people that aren't otherwise majorly into H&O. Hall's other solo albums aren't that different from the typical H&O sound. 

I just asked him, and you were on the money.  He said it's great.  

OH:  "I wish some of those bad Wings records sounded like this.  It's almost what they were trying to do."

 

[Chaos Commish]

You quitters.

 

[Ilov80s]

You quitters.

I think it broke my brain. Every song I hear now, I start analyzing which categories it would work for. 

 

[rockaction]

Fortitude wept. 

 

[Chaos Commish]

I think it broke my brain. Every song I hear now, I start analyzing which categories it would work for. 

I was so looking forward to the national anthems station.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I was so looking forward to the national anthems station.

Already drafted

 

[rockaction]

Back for Faction. 

Not sure how this group didn't make it. 

Added at my discretion: 

Bonus Round 

Category: Faction 

Artist: Against Me! 

Song: Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled Fists

The tension in this song is incredible. Total anger anthem with almost scat singing at times. Phrasing, again. Sometimes the bassist and guitarist sound like they want to explode into warp speed and a sonic payoff, but the vocalist reins it back in for the most part.