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

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Round 563

Category: Motor City 

Song: Keep On Knocking 

Artist: Death 

Death was an overlooked proto-punk band out of Detroit that has gotten credit this past decade for being a seriously good band that anybody into that genre of rock should give a listen to. 

 
563.  Innerzone Orchestra/Carl Craig - Bug in a Bassbin  (Motor City)

Detroiters have contributed to many types of music but the city is best known globally for two genres:  Motown and Techno.  Local Techno innovators Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May and Carl Craig created a sound in the mid-80s that exploded worldwide a few years later.  Their beats and techniques were consumed by the myriad of Dance sub-genres that came out of the UK and the European continent.

I don't know much about Techno but this record by Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra project is off of the only Techno CD I ever owned.  Bug in a Bassbin is a massive jam build around a jazzy drum loop and splashes of synthesizer color.  I'm taking it easy on you by picking the more accessible and much shorter album version that has what sounds like live drums toward the end.  The original single mix (called Bug in the Bassbin) is over ten minutes long and like all Dance music is better appreciated in the mix instead of shuffled between Smokey Robinson and ilov80s' dad. 

 
Eephus said:
Detroiters have contributed to many types of music but the city is best known globally for two genres:  Motown and Techno. 
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Nice to do this. I was going to throw a nod to '80s New Wave, which ilov80s can also probably tell you was big and adopted early (I think he can tell you and i think it was) in Detroit, but I went with Death instead. 

 
While we here: 

Dice roll: 147 - 539 - 130 - 764 - 664

Categories: 

The Jose, Jimmy, And Johnny Show (songs about alcohol) (fifth roll - last chance!)

Songs About New York City (fourth roll)

Tennessee And Its Cities (music about Tennessee or its cities, namely Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis)

Emo Imo (emo songs from emo bands or other emotional songs) (fifth roll)

Jerry and Carlos (songs with Jerry Garcia or Carlos Santana (third roll)

 
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Accounting: 

Daytona Into Main Event: 

Dice Roll : 5

Botany 101 (songs about plants -- oooh boy, I wonder which plant) moves to Main Event

Hopper to Daytona: 

Dice Roll: 8

Itchy and Scratchy (songs with DJ scratching in it)

Last call on the Instrument Feedback/Distortion/Reverb category before it goes in the Hopper. Any thoughts? 

 
Eephus said:
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What, was it Memphis, too? I'm serious. I thought you left that one out on purpose. Correct me if I'm wrong. Dice aren't fallible, but the commish is. I can't remember who the Jose, Jimmy, and Johnny show are about either except for Cash. 

Or was that too broad somehow with the about or from or including Nashville? That's how I understood the category at first.

 
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Oh, I see, I think. That might be worded incorrectly. It should read Nashville, Chattanooga, and one other that isn't Memphis. It's not the whole of Tennessee. I think the city was Knoxville. I dunno. Trying to piece this one together. 

 
rockaction said:
Nice to do this. I was going to throw a nod to '80s New Wave, which ilov80s can also probably tell you was big and adopted early (I think he can tell you and i think it was) in Detroit, but I went with Death instead. 
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Yeah, before my time but Detroit definitely had a strong early new wave and punk scene. I would say Detroiters tend to like things that are a bit weird so New Wave was probably an easy sell here. 

 
Oh, it was Songs About Tennessee: Nashville, Chattanooga, and points in between. I changed it to songs from. I wonder how many songs there are about Chattanooga. Oh well. We can leave the original version. 

But does points in-between cover Memphis and Knoxville? Let's look at a map, then. 

Looks like Interstate 24 is the main road between Tennessee and Chattanooga. Here's a good map. Can't see how Memphis and Knoxville are part of "points in-between" unless you're looking purely North and South on the map. 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tennessee/@35.6725063,-86.2080249,9.13z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x88614b239e97cf03:0x33e20c1a5819156!8m2!3d35.5174913!4d-86.5804473

Would love to hear the originator of the category chime in here before I keep typing babble all over the screen. lol. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
It was not me. I don't remember who it was. Chances are the person who suggested it doesn't remember either. 😆
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Eephus, wait! Damn. He was typing a response. 

I guess we go with songs about Tennessee and Its Cities: Nashville, Chattanooga, and points in between. If you guys must pick songs about Memphis or Knoxville as an in-between point, then we'll let it go, but I trust you all enough to stick to the script for at least three or so rounds. 

That's my thought process, anyway. Any other suggestions are welcome. 

eta* I'm leaning towards making it broad since I haven't heard anything. Music about or from Tennessee and its cities. This should be a broad, broad category. 

eta2* After doing a search and reading krista's explanation of the thread, she seems like she was looking for songs about Tennessee and cities, especially Memphis. Got it. So we'll do that. Songs about Tennessee and its cities. 

 
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@rockaction or whoever: more housekeeping, please add these songs to NASA Mission Control. (Most of these were picked in 2021 😆)

Planet Claire by the B-52s

Space Travel Is Boring by Sun Kil Moon

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun by Pink Floyd

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized

Cajun Moon by JJ Cale

Apollo 19 by Adam Ant

Every Planet We Reach is Dead by Gorillaz

Watch the Moon Come Down by Graham Parker and the Rumour

Apollo Vibes by Pole Folder

Space Cowboy by Steve Miller

Spaced Cowboy by Sly and the Family Stone

Yulia by Wolf Parade

Spacewalker by Depeche Mode

Rocket Fuel by DJ Shadow and De La Soul

Starlight by Muse

The Lost Planet by Planisphere

Galaxy by War

Space Station on the 4, 5 and 6 by The Sound of Urchin

Saturn by Stevie Wonder

 
rockaction said:
Eephus, wait! Damn. He was typing a response. 

I guess we go with songs about Tennessee and Its Cities: Nashville, Chattanooga, and points in between. If you guys must pick songs about Memphis or Knoxville as an in-between point, then we'll let it go, but I trust you all enough to stick to the script for at least three or so rounds. 

That's my thought process, anyway. Any other suggestions are welcome. 
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My original note was

Tennessee Channel (Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and points between) need to decide whether songs about or artists from

We still never made a decision regarding  songs about and/or artists from the state.

It was @krista4 idea IIRC

 
Eephus said:
My original note was

Tennessee Channel (Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and points between) need to decide whether songs about or artists from

We still never made a decision regarding  songs about and/or artists from the state.

It was @krista4 idea IIRC
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Thank you, Eephus. Solid. 

Okay, so that wasn't workshopped as well as I thought. Any suggestions? I'll decide by later tonight if there aren't any. @krista4. Any thoughts about what the original intent was for the Tennessee channel (you know I'm a sucker for original intent when text won't do)? 

 
Ilov80s said:
Yeah, before my time but Detroit definitely had a strong early new wave and punk scene. I would say Detroiters tend to like things that are a bit weird so New Wave was probably an easy sell here. 
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I can't think of many New Wave acts from Detroit who broke big.  Iggy and Kramer influenced the genre but weren't part of it (except for "Bang Bang")

The Romantics and Marshall Crenshaw are more Power Pop to me.  Was (Not Was) is plenty weird but can't be pigeonholed.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
@rockaction or whoever: more housekeeping, please add these songs to NASA Mission Control. (Most of these were picked in 2021 😆)

Planet Claire by the B-52s

Space Travel Is Boring by Sun Kil Moon

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun by Pink Floyd

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized

Cajun Moon by JJ Cale

Apollo 19 by Adam Ant

Every Planet We Reach is Dead by Gorillaz

Watch the Moon Come Down by Graham Parker and the Rumour

Apollo Vibes by Pole Folder

Space Cowboy by Steve Miller

Spaced Cowboy by Sly and the Family Stone

Yulia by Wolf Parade

Spacewalker by Depeche Mode

Rocket Fuel by DJ Shadow and De La Soul

Starlight by Muse

The Lost Planet by Planisphere

Galaxy by War

Space Station on the 4, 5 and 6 by The Sound of Urchin

Saturn by Stevie Wonder
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I think mcilheda is @ilov80s

 
Yeah, Memphis is literally the birthplace of rock-and-roll.  As far as Western contemporary music goes, it's the cradle of civilization.  It is to rock/blues/country/maybe even contemporary jazz, what Jerusalem is to world religion.  And as a weird aside, it's established that there are more songs about/mentioning Memphis than any other city in the world.  Odd, that.

If y'all need to add Nashville(?reallywtf), Knoxville (literally no idea), etc., then it's a different channel.  And I don't know about that channel nor care.

 
So krista4 has weighed in. LOL. And leaves me with a conundrum here. 

The omnipresence of Memphis and its Western location are sorta why I thought we left Memphis out, actually. I had no idea the original idea was for a "songs about Memphis and Memphis solamente" channel. 

So krista4 was overridden by the previous commish and it seems like the current one is about to waffle stomp his way to a category. I have no idea. 

Folks, do what you can about Tennessee and its cities tomorrow. Please think of and do it for Memphis. All about Memphis. It begs of you to do so. 

I know of one already, but I always draft it. 

In k4's honor, we'll rename the category Songs about any city or town in (up to and including the entire state of) Tennessee, with an emphasis on Memphis

 
rockaction said:
So krista4 has weighed in. LOL. And leaves me with a conundrum here. 

The omnipresence of Memphis and its Western location are sorta why I thought we left Memphis out, actually. I had no idea the original idea was for a "songs about Memphis and Memphis solamente" channel. 

So krista4 was overridden by the previous commish and it seems like the current one is about to waffle stomp his way to a category. I have no idea. 

Folks, do what you can about Tennessee and its cities tomorrow. Please think of and do it for Memphis. All about Memphis. It begs of you to do so. 

I know of one already, but I always draft it. 

In k4's honor, we'll rename the category Songs about any city or town in (up to and including the entire state of) Tennessee, with an emphasis on Memphis
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:heart:   Couldn’t be better.

 
Maybe I care too much about music history, but I feel like if you are “why Memphis” you don’t actually like music.

I don’t mean that in connection to anyone here, of course.  This is a group with way more music knowledge than I have.  I just direct that to the world at large.

 
krista4 said:
Maybe I care too much about music history, but I feel like if you are “why Memphis” you don’t actually like music.

I don’t mean that in connection to anyone here, of course.  This is a group with way more music knowledge than I have.  I just direct that to the world at large.
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I think you made the case quite well, actually. Sun Records is what I know of Memphis. That's pretty darn significant in rock and roll and country/rockabilly history. I was thinking Sun and Elvis were reasons for its exclusion, though I have to admit that my original comment for Tennessee was "we're scraping" when it came to songs about, but I'm not sure what I was thinking when I said that. Maybe thought that there wouldn't be so many songs about a place, but that sounds inaccurate now. 

 
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rockaction said:
I think you made the case quite well, actually. Sun Records is what I know of Memphis. That's pretty darn significant in rock and roll and country/rockabilly history. I was thinking Sun and Elvis were reasons for its exclusion, though I have to admit that my original comment for Tennessee was "we're scraping" when it came to songs about, but I'm not sure what I was thinking when I said that. Maybe thought that there wouldn't be so many songs about a place, but that sounds inaccurate now. 
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Actually I think I made my case poorly.  Comparing, say, a Joliet to Chicago is meaningless as there isn’t a Joliet sound.  But when it comes to Tennessee, Memphis does not equal Nashville does not equal anything else.

But the fact is that an inordinate amount of anything we enjoy had its roots in Memphis.  And I suppose that leads to the fact that there are more songs about Memphis than any other locale…people who make music get it and honor it.

 
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