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Genrepalooza Presents: FG Radio - Tons of Lithium but very little Chill (3 Viewers)

rockaction said:
Let's hope it cools down by early evening and then nightfall. 
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I hope so. Looking at the forecast, it is going to 93 at 6:30 in Cary, NC.  That is when the show starts. The humidity makes it feel even hotter. I'm going to bring a Tupperware of ice water, and I'm going to soak my cooling wrap in it, and get it out right before we go in. People can bring in one bottled water. If I feel I am getting too hot, I will fill the water bottle back up, and dump the water over my head. I'm wearing my hair in a pony tail. That will be pretty having a wet head, and then a dry bushy pony tail.  :lol:   I've dumped water over my head before at shows. Whatever it takes to not get too hot!

 
Patriotic songs twofer

Marvin Gaye - The Star Spangled Banner (Live 1983)

Kim Weston - Lift Every Voice and Sing

Since Fergie's version of the national anthem isn't on Spotify, I'll go with Marvin's landmark version.  Anthem singers have been trying their own takes on the song for almost four decades so it's easy to forget how original this sounded at the time.  The audience reaction puts it over the top.

Gaye's old Motown duet partner Kim Weston released a concept album of patriotic songs in 1968 called This is America.  It's an interesting listen although some of the schmaltzy arrangements date the record.  The standout track is her version of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" which has been known as the Black national anthem for over a century.

 
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rockaction said:
Shocked face here, too. Holy smoke. Did you see the lineups they had? Bird, Johnson, three-point shooters like Paxson, etc. 

Four threes? That's hilarious. Advanced statistics has changed sports, that's for sure. 
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All-Star game 3PT were pretty uncommon throughout the 80s.  The West didn't even attempt one in the 1985 game. 

The inflection point is 1992 where the West went 11 for 20 on 3PTs on their way to beating the East by 40.  Since then, at least one team has attempted >20 3PT in every ASG.

Michael Bolton sang the anthem before the 1992 game.  The halftime entertainment was Vanilla Ice. :bag:

 
Round 561 

Category: Emo/Imo

Artist: At The Drive-In 

Song: One Armed Scissor (Live at Jools Holland)

Song: One Armed Scissor (album version, alt mix)

Song: One Armed Scissor (album version)

I'd recommend the album version if you want pure performance, the live version if you want a screamo show. Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Jim Ward, Paul Hinojos, and Tony Hajjar were At The Drive-In, an intense, emotive act from the late '90s/early aughts. Some great stuff. 

 
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Tuesday pick - Lou Reed - My Friend George (Name Game)

When my Willie Nelson dog walking thread was winding down, I thought about doing a similar thread for Lou Reed's solo albums.  I know his early records pretty well but haven't listened to his later stuff that much.  He had an interesting career and I suspect his albums are more varied in style and quality than Willie's.  I also thought it would be funny to constantly refer to Lou (Reed) and Lou (the dog) in my posts so the reader could juxtapose to their heart's content.  I sort of lost interest in the project but may return to it some day.  I blame Lou (the dog) because his behavior is more consistent than Willie Nelson's catalog.  Not that much happens on our walks which is nice for us but bad for content.

Anyhow, New Sensations (1984) is the Reed album I listened to while I considered taking this on.  Late 60s/early 70s Lou had a bunch of songs with names in the title:  Candy Says, Stephanie Says, Lisa Says, Andy's Chest, Caroline Says (I and II), Oh Jim, Ride Sally Ride, Sally Can't Dance, Billy.  For some reason, he stopped doing this in 1975.  My Friend George in 1984 is the only title on a first name basis in the last 39 years of his career.  He still occasionally namechecked people but other than George, they were historical or literary figures, e.g. JFK, Poe, Kurt Waldheim, Romeo and Juliet. 

"George liked music and George liked to fight/He worked out in a downtown gym every night". I think he later turned to a life of crime but it's hard to say.  Reed said he didn't really have a friend named George and he made the whole thing up.  It's kind of a cool song though with a driving backbeat from the great Fred Maher.

 
I'm on the boards now, so dice roll and accounting for tomorrow. 

Dice roll: 951, 814, 26, 26 (what?), 697

Categories: 

Radio, Radio (songs about the radio or with lyrics about radio airwaves or play) (first roll)

Illegal Noir Pulp (song about crime and criminality) (third roll)

NASA Space Control (songs about space) (sixth roll - last chance!)

Motor City (songs about Detroit or from artists from Detroit) (third roll)

Replacing NASA Space Control: 

Dice Roll is 2

Emerald Isle to the main event (Songs from Ireland)

Hopper to Daytona: 

Dice roll 15

Squeezebox Redux 

Speak now or forever hold your piece about an accordion category again! Next time it's a roll for the Main Event! 

 
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Eephus said:
Tuesday pick - Lou Reed - My Friend George (Name Game)

When my Willie Nelson dog walking thread was winding down, I thought about doing a similar thread for Lou Reed's solo albums.  I know his early records pretty well but haven't listened to his later stuff that much.  He had an interesting career and I suspect his albums are more varied in style and quality than Willie's.  I also thought it would be funny to constantly refer to Lou (Reed) and Lou (the dog) in my posts so the reader could juxtapose to their heart's content.  I sort of lost interest in the project but may return to it some day.  I blame Lou (the dog) because his behavior is more consistent than Willie Nelson's catalog.  Not that much happens on our walks which is nice for us but bad for content.
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That would be a heck of a thread. Enjoying this song. Lou (the singer/songwriter) sometimes slips into really simplistic fourth-grade poetry like "I've known George since he was eight/My friend George is really great" or something like that, then he'll drop the song's denouement and it'll all be worth it. 

 
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rockaction said:
That would be a heck of a thread. Enjoying this song. Lou (the singer/songwriter) sometimes slips into really simplistic fourth-grade poetry like "I've known George since he was eight/My friend George is really great" or something like that, then he'll drop the song's denouement and it'll all be worth it. 
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Based solely on his song titles, my sense/guess is that as Reed matured as a songwriter, he moved away from the simpler  Rock 'n Roll song-based (clerk/work) structures of his early career.  He became more self-consciously literary in his later poetry.

I could be totally wrong though.

 
rockaction said:
How was the show? 

eta* Oh man, that's a downer of a song. 
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It wasn't a downer for Mr. Webster. He got that raise he felt he always deserved. I'm sure Mr. Frizby wasn't happy. 

I enjoyed the music. Both Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell sounded great, and their bands sounded great too. Waxahachie opened the show, and the female lead singer has a nice voice.

One of the guys that was supposed to go with us to the show backed out, because he had a bad headache and felt the heat would make it worse. It definitely would have. All three of us that went got heat headaches at the show, and mine is still lingering. It was just so hot and humid, and there was only a slight bit of relief when the sun went down. However, the moon was pretty,  I was with good friends, and the music sounded great, so it wasn't all bad. 

 
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Eephus said:
Based solely on his song titles, my sense/guess is that as Reed matured as a songwriter, he moved away from the simpler  Rock 'n Roll song-based (clerk/work) structures of his early career.  He became more self-consciously literary in his later poetry.

I could be totally wrong though.
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From what I've seen, his solo stuff has more of that seemingly trite and uninspired stuff, but I could be wrong about that. It's almost like he uses it as a purposeful juxtaposition. Or he's just outta words. 

 
Eephus said:
Based solely on his song titles, my sense/guess is that as Reed matured as a songwriter, he moved away from the simpler  Rock 'n Roll song-based (clerk/work) structures of his early career.  He became more self-consciously literary in his later poetry.

I could be totally wrong though.
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I’d say you’re right based on the two later albums I know best, New York and Magic and Loss. 

 
Rd 562: Detroit Riot by DBM Studios (Motor City)

Now the police called the mayor, Jerome Cavanagh

The mayor called the Governor, got the National Guard 

Then Romney called the President, Lyndon Johnson for some help

There's a riot in Detroit, Three days of living hell 

 
562.  Talking Heads - Radio Head  (Radio Radio)

The soundtrack to David Byrne's 1986 film True Stories is kind of an oddball in Talking Heads' catalog.  It was recorded with the band but the music is tied into Byrne's movie vision so it comes off as more of a solo project.  This song is most noteworthy for the band who took the title as their name.  It was performed in the movie with more of a Tex-Mex flavor by Tito Larriva of the Plugz and Cruzados with the great Steve Jordan on the accordion.

My friend Randy had connections in the SF film industry so I was able to see an advance preview of True Stories in a small downtown screening room several months before it came out.  I remember the print they showed didn't have opening or closing credits yet so we left literally not knowing what we had just seen.

 
Round 562

Category: Radio, Radio 

Artist: Jimmy Eat World 

Song: Your New Aesthetic

Imitate and water down
(Selection breathes on its own)
Until we crash, I'll write it out
(Selection breathes on its own)
Make them open the request line
Let selection kill the old
(Take back the radio!)

 
rockaction said:
Power pop for sure. Never had heard it because I somehow really never listened to much Teenage Fanclub. I remember Bandwagonesque being in all the stores because of major distribution, too, even though that was off of Thirteen.  
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Thirteen was the follow-up to Bandwagonesque and, in my area at least, got about as much play on "modern rock" radio at the time. But the reviews were mixed at best and its legacy isn't anywhere near that of its predecessor. (Another factor is that the band doesn't have fond memories of recording it, so they rarely play anything from it live anymore.) However, to me it's kind of like their White Album. Their sound is much more diverse than usual -- Radio is one of the few tracks that sticks to their core power-pop sound -- and they attempt a bunch of things they would never try again. And to my ears most of it works. 

The two places to start, because they sound the "most" like what people perceive the band to be, are Bandwagonesque and Songs from Northern Britain. 

 
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Thirteen was the follow-up to Bandwagonesque and, in my area at least, got about as much play on "modern rock" radio at the time. But the reviews were mixed at best and its legacy isn't anywhere near that of its predecessor. (Another factor is that the band doesn't have fond memories of recording it, so they rarely play anything from it live anymore.) However, to me it's kind of like their White Album. Their sound is much more diverse than usual -- Radio is one of the few tracks that sticks to their core power-pop sound -- and they attempt a bunch of things they would never try again. And to my ears most of it works. 

The two places to start, because they sound the "most" like what people perceive the band to be, are Bandwagonesque and Songs from Northern Britain. 
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...and Grand Prix

 
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