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Genrepalooza Presents: FG Radio - Tons of Lithium but very little Chill (2 Viewers)

Round 573 Ultra Last-Chance Bonus 

Category: Microphone #2

Song: Silly Thing 

Artist: Sex Pistols 

Paul Cook, the drummer of the Sex Pistols, gets his turn on the microphone after Johnny Rotten refused to perform with the band anymore. It's quite poppy, and hit #6 on the U.K. Charts. 

 
simey said:
Here's a song by the great Ann Peebles who was on the Hi Records label in Memphis. The Hi Rhythm Section house band is backing her. It was recorded at Royal Recording Studios in Memphis. There is a live album of hers that was released this year of a 1992 concert.

Troubles, Heartache, & Sadness - Ann Peebles    (Tennessee)

one more...

Little Milton made music for a few labels, and one of them was Stax. This is one of his signature Stax tunes.

Little Bluebird - Little Milton   (Tennessee)
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I've changed the playlist title to "Songs about any city or town in (up to and including the entire state of) Tennessee, or coming out of same, with an emphasis on Memphis but not necessarily an 'Emphasis on Memphis'."

 
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rockaction said:
Round 573

Category: Tennessee And Its Cities (It Came From Memphis)

Song: Made In Memphis

or, if this suits the list better 

Song: Last Night

Artist: The Mar-Keys 

The first house band of Stax Records, the first one incorporates the name of the city and is catchy as heck, but the other one went to #3 on the charts in '61 or '62. It's up to k4 which one she wants as she'll likely be adding the song to the playlist.  
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The Mar-Keys split into Booker T & The MGs and The Memphis Horns - kinda/sorta (it's complicated). Isaac Hayes - jack of all trades and master of most of 'em at Stax/Volt - said that all of them (black, white, and everyone in between) grew up listening to the same stuff: country, blues, and gospel. It was baked into their DNA (& and the cotton fields most of them worked in side by side).

I'd put them up against any American Band ever. 

 
krista4 said:
I've changed the playlist title to "Songs about any city or town in (up to and including the entire state of) Tennessee, or coming out of same, with an emphasis on Memphis but not necessarily an 'Emphasis on Memphis'."
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That has to be the longest Genrepalooza playlist title evah.

 
It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold but I like where I'm living 
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening

 
rockaction said:
Round 573 Ultra Last-Chance Bonus 

Category: Microphone #2

Song: Silly Thing 

Artist: Sex Pistols 

Paul Cook, the drummer of the Sex Pistols, gets his turn on the microphone after Johnny Rotten refused to perform with the band anymore. It's quite poppy, and hit #6 on the U.K. Charts. 
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Most of the stuff from the Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle isn't on Spotify which isn't necessarily a bad thing since a lot of it pretty poor.  But the remaining Sex Pistols fronted by exiled great train robber Ronnie Biggs was great schtick.

No One Is Innocent

 
Eephus said:
Most of the stuff from the Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle isn't on Spotify which isn't necessarily a bad thing since a lot of it pretty poor.  But the remaining Sex Pistols fronted by exiled great train robber Ronnie Biggs was great schtick.

No One Is Innocent
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Ronnie Biggs was doing time
Until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light
And he's sold his soul for punk 

I had The Great Rock N' Roll Swindle on cassette later in high school but remember especially the chilly fall and my freshman year of college, whereupon I would listen to the song sketches and the few singles off of it. It's got a lot of filler, as you pointed out, so the cassette format was kind of a drag. 
 

 
rockaction said:
I was going to use "We're An American Band" for the category Microphone #2 but felt like a poser. I couldn't even tell you who their original singer was, never mind know their second-in-command. 
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Yeah, it might not work for the GOAT as Brewer and Farner split lead vocals pretty evenly.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I ran out of sense about halfway through my list. BB would be in my Top 10, for sure.
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Funny, I was just typing that I just noticed you had put that it was a personal list and that I had no right to critique it as an objective one, too. So that's ironic. 

Interesting that Southern Rock checks in with a few. 

The Mar-Keys and their offspring are number two, huh? I know of Booker T and the MGs but was unaware of their origin. That's cool. 

 
rockaction said:
Funny, I was just typing that I just noticed you had put that it was a personal list and that I had no right to critique it as an objective one, too. So that's ironic. 

Interesting that Southern Rock checks in with a few. 

The Mar-Keys and their offspring are number two, huh? I know of Booker T and the MGs but was unaware of their origin. That's cool. 
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I'm being disingenuous a bit with the Beach Boys, since the Wrecking Crew played on a lot of their best-loved records. If you're a Byrds fan and think they are an awesome band, I'd suggest not looking into who actually played on their records too (something Jan Wenner and his merry band of idiots always leave out of their version of rock history).

As for the rest, I'm a Boomer and love bluesy/mountain/funky/gospel-y stuff. So Memphis soul and southern rock are my wheelhouse. The only "pure" country bands I'd include would be the Buckaroos and the Stranglers, but they were both really bluesy and funky. Also, Elvis' band at Sun laid a ton of R&R groundwork.

 
Feels like everyone has picked or hung out so I think I'll roll for Monday and Tuesday, Rounds 574 and 575

Dice roll 

361 - 171 - 882 - 879

Side 1, Track 1 (fifth roll)

Horny Time (sixth roll - last chance!)

The Jazz Singer (second roll)

Up/Downstairs (fifth roll)

Replacing Horny Time in Main Event from Daytona: 

Vocal Cords/Chords (songs with great harmonies)

Replacing Vocal Chords in Daytona from The Hopper: 

The Medium Is The Message (songs about television/journalism/newspaper/movies)

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
If you're a Byrds fan and think they are an awesome band, I'd suggest not looking into who actually played on their records too (something Jan Wenner and his merry band of idiots always leave out of their version of rock history).
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Another reason why I love the final lineup, because they did play on the records and were a damn good live band.

The liner notes of the Byrds box set was pretty upfront about how reliant the early records were on session players.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
Another reason why I love the final lineup, because they did play on the records and were a damn good live band.

The liner notes of the Byrds box set was pretty upfront about how reliant the early records were on session players.
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I tend to overplay it when it comes to a musician's hypocritical stances about "integrity" like, oh I don't know.....let's pick a  random name out of a bag.... and the winner is......David Crosby! I don't really care about what the musicians themselves say, even a blowhard like Crosby who didn't even play an instrument on the records that made him a star. 

Don't take anything I say too seriously. I like to poke, but I'm lazy as hell and can't carry it through for more than a couple of minutes. Except if someone dissed Mark, Don, & Mel. Gloves off, then.

 
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rockaction said:
I was going to use "We're An American Band" for the category Microphone #2 but felt like a poser. 
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You couldn't have anyway,* as I took it for Moar Cowbell.

So I guess we do have one rule aside from Don't Go to the PSF. 

* - unless you used a live version.

 
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Pip's Invitation said:
You couldn't have anyway,* as I took it for Moar Cowbell.

So I guess we do have one rule aside from Don't Go to the PSF. 

* - unless you used a live version.
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Nope. I was going to check the sheet, though, so I would have caught it. I've been doing that for all of my picks, "14 Years" notwithstanding. 

 
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Round 573:

Microphone #2 Blow-Out: The Last Deuces Dropped

Since we've been talking about David Crosby's tenure with The Byrds, and I consider Roger McGuinn to be their Microphone #1:

A. Everybody's Been Burned -- The Byrds (lead vocals: David Crosby)

As we earlier paid tribute to Dusty Hill, so we should to Robby Steinhart, who passed away last year. He sang this JJ Cale cover that appeared on Kansas' debut album.

B. Bringing It Back -- Kansas (lead vocals: Robby Steinhart)

Buffalo Springfield is about the only way to access Neil on Spotify anymore. There he was actually Mic #3 behind Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, to the point where most of his songs on their first album were sung by Furay, who had a more commercially appealing voice. But he sang all three of his compositions on their second album. Mr. Soul has been drafted several times via covers and Neil's Unplugged version, but the studio version is still sitting there. So:

C. Mr. Soul -- Buffalo Springfield (lead vocals: Neil Young)

Hey, I can fit Todd on this too. Though Rundgren wrote all of Nazz' originals, most of them were sung by keyboardist Robert "Stewkey" Antoni. After their debut album, the band record a double album to be titled Fungo Bat. Some of its songs were pensive ballads and sweeping pop sung by Rundgren and modeled after his idol Laura Nyro. The record company wasn't so interested in that stuff, and took most of the rockers from the project and released them as a single album, Nazz Nazz. This prompted Todd to quit the band. After Todd's first solo album was successful, Nazz' label took the remaining songs and released them as Nazz III, but not before replacing Todd's vocals with Stewkey's on most tracks. But a few were left intact including this one.

D. Only One Winner -- Nazz (lead vocals: Todd Rundgren)

Long ago in this thread we discussed bands whose members all sang lead. Here's another one. Most of Phish's originals are written (or co-written) and sung by Trey Anastasio, but the other members take their turns in front of the mic too.

E. Mound -- Phish (lead vocals: Mike Gordon)

F. It's Ice -- Phish (lead vocals: Page McConnell)

G. Crosseyed and Painless (live) -- Phish (lead vocals: Jon Fishman)

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
The only "pure" country bands I'd include would be the Buckaroos and the Stranglers, but they were both really bluesy and funky. 
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Do you mean The Strangers that played often as Merle Haggard's backing band? There really is a Stranglers band. I saw The Strangers with Merle Haggard back in 2014 at the Merlefest, and then I saw them again in 2018 when they were backing Kris Kristofferson at the Merlefest (Merle Haggard had passed by then). Merle's son Ben was playing with them, and they did a couple Merle numbers during Kristofferson's set, and Ben sang lead. He sounds a lot like his dad. I was so excited that they did Sing Me Back Home. I love that Merle Haggard song. The female voice helping sing backup on the chorus is Bonnie Owens (Bucks wife). They are really good, and as you know weren't just Merle's backing band. They produced some of his records and helped co-write a few songs too. Glen Campbell played with The Strangers on a few of Merle's early albums including the Sing Me Back Home album. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
I'd never heard this before. It's actually pretty good. 
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Glad you liked it. I've always enjoyed it. It's never too far from my memory as far as power-pop/punk songs go, so it must have left an impression during those formative years. Steve Jones plays both bass and guitar on it, I think. Just like on Never Mind The Bollocks.

 
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573.NV - Radio Song - Jet - radio radio

Do you all know
Of the Emperor's clothes
Walking down an empty road.
We see
What you
Can see
That's not how I want to be
Anyhow
Every time
The same dream
This won't be played on your radio
Tonight
This won't be played on your radio
Tonight

 
krista4 said:
I don't know where to put this bluegrass cover of "She's Not There" by The Zombies (renamed "She Ain't There") that a friend just sent me, so here it is.
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Normally I wouldn't be game for countrified Zombies, but that stand-up bass work was wonderful. What a song the original was, too. Just so damn cool. I remember being twenty-four, really discovering the Zombies, and thinking what perfect lounge music it would make (this was back around the time of lounges, say...1998) if they would just play The Zombies instead of the crappier electronic offerings we were getting. 

Esquivel! and all that. 

 
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rockaction said:
Normally I wouldn't be game for countrified Zombies, but that stand-up bass work was wonderful. What a song the original was, too. Just so damn cool. I remember being twenty-four, really discovering the Zombies, and thinking what perfect lounge music it would make (this was back around the time of lounges, say...1998) if they would just play The Zombies instead of the crappier electronic offerings we were getting. 

Esquivel! and all that. 
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I posted this with you in mind as I think the two of us are the biggest fans of the band here.  I’m glad you enjoyed!

 
The "kids" and niece of Barry, Maurice, Robin, and Andy Gibb made an album covering some of their songs a few years ago. This song is a Bee Gees cover with five of the kids singing in it. Samantha, Adam (Maurice's kids) Stephen (Barry's kid) Peta (Andy's kid) and Spencer (Robin's kid) sing this song. Robin John (Robin's kid), Travis (Barry's kid) and Bernice "Berry" Gibb Rhodes (their niece) also sing on the album, but aren't on this song.

Round 574

Please Don't Turn Out The Lights - Gibb Collective / VA     (Vocals/Harmonies)

one more from the mentors (minus Andy)

Lonely Nights - Bee Gees   (Vocals/Harmonies)

 
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