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Getcha passports ready - the middle-aged dummies are going to the British Isles! Top 31 song countdown. (2 Viewers)

It was really, really hard to pick my favourite Muse track, in the end I went for the one that first got me into them right before they started touring Origin of Symmetry, where I saw them at what would be an impossibly small venue now. Starlight, Knights of Cydonia, Stockholm Syndrome and Hysteria were doing other tracks I considered
 
Today's family writeup

Mrs. Eephus: I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses are as close as we got to sweeping the Eephus complex. I picked them earlier and they just missed the cut for ditkaburgers.

This record was one of the periodic confluences of band, time and place. Their emergence from Madchester at the end of the 80s is up there with Seattle a few years later and turn of the century NYC.

Changes in the way we consume music makes it virtually impossible that a band would put "I Wanna Be Adored" as track 1 of their debut album with a 45 second fade-in to 45 more seconds of intro. It's magnificent when the song finally kicks in.


@ditkaburgers: Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks
Rizzle Kicks were a pair of mixed-race rappers from the South Coast of England who hit it big in the UK when ditkaburgers was in school. "Down With the Trumpets" was the song that put them on the map. The due was cheeky in interviews and on social media and they put their mums in a video for a different song.

ditkaburgers became a fan via YouTube and was legitimately sad when they broke up. Rizzle turned up a few years ago in a Star Wars movie but there are no rumors of a reunion.


Eephus: The Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen
Like Marco yesterday, I had a tough time picking one song from Liverpool's second greatest band. There was about a half dozen ways I could have gone. When talking about great four album runs by an artist, don't sleep on the four starting with Echo & The Bunnymen's debut Crocodiles to Ocean Rain which contained this song.

We saw them last summer and Mac proclaimed "The Killing Moon" as probably the greatest song ever written. He mumbles through a thick Scouse accent and has always been prone to rock star overstatement but it's at least in the top seven.
 
Today's playlist was very strong as you'd expect. There were lots of great songs I've heard recently but I liked the new ones from Muse and Polly Jean.

Very cool to have two different T. Rex songs debut this late in the game. Two new ones from Cream as well.

The rhythm section in the Zombies' song was swinging.

"Lay Me Down" by the Frames was absolutely lovely. The harmony vocals couldn't have been simpler, the two singers mostly kept the same intervals throughout, but the effect was breathtaking as was the coda by the string section.

The two Radiohead songs got me thinking. I've always thought there was a big change between The Bends and OK Computer but listening to "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Let Down", there's a lot that they have in common.

Well played on the AC/DC song.
 
seems a little slow tonight, so i hope it's ok to talk about a song that I didn't put on my list

tough choice between a number of Black Sabbath songs (I chose Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) ...but as I have mentioned here many times, it's just so hard for me to emotionally separate songs from entire albums.

I mean when I hear a song I naturally yearn for the song that comes after it ...and then the one that comes after that one

a good part of the time the entire album had a "feel" about it that was inter-related ...sometimes not tightly, other times purposely "themed"

I loved a bunch of Sabbath albums - but was especially drawn to the album "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" - kick ***, but also soaring tunes

this was my tough choice that took a back seat

"Spiral Architect"
 
Somewhere In Time came out just as my friends had discovered old Iron Maiden.

"Wasted Years" brings back memories of some of those friends. What a trip to hear this song again. I know it's been picked before, but this time around I got to sit and listen to it.

Doge says, "Such rock guitar riff/solo much drums very vocal range."
 
I ranked Master of the Universe #90 in my 1971 countdown of songs from that year that did not make Tim's and Bracie's countdowns.

90. Master of the Universe -- Hawkwind (from In Search of Space)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWsq4RGXgk

The guitar and bass riffage on this one is momentous. Early Hawkwind had its toes in hard rock/metal and prog, and this song is considered one of the earliest examples of space rock. It both grinds and soars, which is not easy to do.
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Pip's Invitation said:
I ranked Master of the Universe #90 in my 1971 countdown of songs from that year that did not make Tim's and Bracie's countdowns.

90. Master of the Universe -- Hawkwind (from In Search of Space)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWsq4RGXgk

The guitar and bass riffage on this one is momentous. Early Hawkwind had its toes in hard rock/metal and prog, and this song is considered one of the earliest examples of space rock. It both grinds and soars, which is not easy to do.
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Instantly made me think of Monster Magnet. Wiki calls Monster Magnet "Stoner rock" and "space rock."
 
rockaction said:
Pip's Invitation said:
It's really hard to describe Hawkwind. So... maybe?
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The briefest of glances through their discography let me know that was going to be a tough question to answer. I can't even find which album Binky is talking about, but I figure Lemmy was on it. I knew he was in Hawkwind in their early iteration -- I'm just not familiar with their output.
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yeah, sorry, I wasn't referring to a specific album

I had just made a post lamenting the days of "album listening" vs. cherry picking songs for playlists and I saw the Lemmy meme.
 
rockaction said:
Pip's Invitation said:
It's really hard to describe Hawkwind. So... maybe?
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The briefest of glances through their discography let me know that was going to be a tough question to answer. I can't even find which album Binky is talking about, but I figure Lemmy was on it. I knew he was in Hawkwind in their early iteration -- I'm just not familiar with their output.
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I think that's just a meme that isn't directly related to any specific album.

Lemmy did not play on the first two Hawkwind albums (Master of the Universe is from the second). He joined for the third and stayed for two more, leaving in 1975 to form Motorhead.
 
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