rockaction
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Oh heck yeah. I go Beatles, Kinks, The Who, Stones, The Zombies, and many others…
…then Led Zeppelin
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Getcha passports ready - the middle-aged dummies are going to the British Isles! Top 31 song countdown. (1 Viewer)
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Oh heck yeah. I go Beatles, Kinks, The Who, Stones, The Zombies, and many others…
…then Led Zeppelin
rockaction
Footballguy
I’m not slagging Zeppelin so much as commenting on The Big Three, which I assume is The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin
Tau837
Footballguy
My top 17 from the 27 point round, excluding my own selection:
- Ilov80s: When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin -- my #3 song in the Zep countdown
- Zegras11: Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin -- my #10 song in the Zep countdown
- Mister CIA: In My Life - The Beatles -- my #3 song in the most recent Beatles countdown
- Manster: Something - The Beatles -- my #4 song in the most recent Beatles countdown
- Chap : Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5) – Pink Floyd
- Dr. Octopus: Just Like Heaven - The Cure -- my #9 song in this countdown
- Scooter : Bad – U2 -- my #3 song in the most recent U2 countdown
- shuke: Abbey Road Medley – The Beatles -- my #7 song in the most recent Beatles countdown
- falguy: Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
- simey: Running To Stand Still - U2 -- my #9 song in the most recent U2 countdown
- Yankee23Fan: Hey You – Pink Floyd
- higgins: Paranoid Android - Radiohead
- Doug B: How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths -- my #18 song in this countdown
- Don Quixote: Karma Police - Radiohead
- DrIanMalcolm: Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor -- my #26 song in this countdown
- Mrs. Eephus: Cuts You Up - Peter Murphy
- cosjobs: Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
I've always considered my personal Big 3 to be the Kinks, Led Zep and the Who.
Love the Beatles and Stones too, just not quite as much.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Fairport Convention will go down for me as the biggest discovery of this draft. I don’t think I had ever heard a song of theirs before (though the lead singer sounds vaguely familiar). So far I’ve been jamming out to them last evening and this morning, loving every minute of it.
timschochet
Footballguy
You guys are right. My bad, should have checked first.
It's one of many Elton songs that I love. Happy to see it get some love.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Same, I rarely listed to Elton John but that’s a great friggin song.
Eephus
Footballguy
Sandy Denny sang on "The Battle of Evermore" on LZ IV.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
When I think Big 3, I think GM-Ford-Chrysler.
Manster
Footballguy
I know War Pigs has been picked like 47 times, but I'm gonna talk about it a bit anyway.....best anti war/elite song ever?
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord, yeah!
To this day, every time I hear this opening, and then iommi's guitar, wards drums kick in.....how can you not pound your steering wheel?!
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh lord, yeah!
To this day, every time I hear this opening, and then iommi's guitar, wards drums kick in.....how can you not pound your steering wheel?!
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
oh man ...80s - I can see that if you were an 80s kid/teen and just heard his later stuff
but his run of albums in the early to mid-70s still stand up beautifully today
Elton John
Tumbleweed Connection
11-17-70
Madman Across the Water
Honky Chateau
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
even most of the hard rockers loved this stuff back then and remained in the heavy rotation with all the harder stuff
granted, things weren't as consistently solid starting with Caribou - some all-time greats over the years after that, but not the song-for-song gold from those earlier times
give it a run man
maybe we need an Elton draft
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I considered another Elton song over Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - and I'm very surprised it hasn't been mentioned. Same with my #1.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
you must be an unemployed union-man
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
No, I'm just old. Now get off my ****ing lawn.
rockaction
Footballguy
The Big Three killed my baby
(not eligible, though he lives in the U.K.)
(not eligible, though he lives in the U.K.)
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Elton has so many iconic songs that it isn’t a surprise that they haven’t all appeared. Same with the Big 3, Floyd, etc.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
My top 3 songs have not been picked by anyone else yet.
simey
Footballguy
Squeeze wrote some great pop songs. This one is probably my favorite. I love the melody, hook, guitar solo, bass, drums, singing, everything and more. It's the perfect length of about 3 minutes of pop greatness. When I was in college there was a band (I think they still play sometimes) from Raleigh called Mr. Potato Head, and they played the college circuit often. I was always excited when they came to town, because they were so much fun, and they always played this song, and they did it really well. I loved dancing to it and still do. It's an automatic mood booster.
And here in the bar, the piano man's found
Another nail for my heart
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Andy Dufresne
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Never mind, I guess it has been taken twice. My spreadsheet search skills were lacking this morning, apparently.
I was talking about Someone Saved My Life Tonight.
BTW - Is there a better movie soundtrack than The Lost Boys? Daltrey's version of DLTSGDOM is good...
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zamboni
Footballguy
I’ve drafted this before and always ranks very highly with me. I view the tune right up there among the most perfect pop songs ever written - the sublime harmonies, great instrumentation (particularly drummer Bobby Elliott), terrific chord progressions. Just a delight to listen to.
krista4
Footballguy
Squeeze wrote some great pop songs. This one is probably my favorite. I love the melody, hook, guitar solo, drums, singing, everything and more. It's the perfect length of about 3 minutes of pop greatness. When I was in college there was a band (I think they still play sometimes) from Raleigh called Mr. Potato Head, and they played the college circuit often. I was always excited when they came to town, because they were so much fun, and they always played this song, and they did it really well. I loved dancing to it and still do. It's an automatic mood booster.
And here in the bar, the piano man's found
Another nail for my heart
I
this song, but it's a crazy earworm. Heard it on the radio a couple of weeks ago and couldn't shake it for a week. Not a bad earworm to have, though!
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
This is a perfect record. Everything works. If an alien landed today and asked me to describe popular music in the mid-60s, I'd turn this on.
Tau837
Footballguy
My top 15 from the 28 point round, excluding my own selection:
Edited by request.
- Pip’s Invitation: Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
- worrierking: A Day In The Life - The Beatles -- my #2 song in the most recent Beatles countdown
- Yankee23Fan: Sympathy For The Devil – The Rolling Stones
- DrIanMalcolm: In The Light - Led Zeppelin -- my #25 song in the Zep countdown
- Doug B, Chaz McNulty: In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins -- my #8 song in this countdown
- Westerberg: Abbey Road Medley – The Beatles -- my #7 song in the most recent Beatles countdown
- Mt. Man: Miss You - The Rolling Stones
- Chaos34 : Lola - The Kinks
- Mrs. Rannous: In Your Eyes (Secret World live) - Peter Gabriel -- my #13 song in this countdown
- Andy Dufresne: Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
- Chap : Hey You - Pink Floyd
- Oliver Humanzee : Black Dog - Led Zeppelin -- not ranked in my top 25 in the Zep countdown
- AAABatteries : A Well Respected Man - The Kinks
- Hawks64: Misty Mountain Hop – Led Zeppelin -- not ranked in my top 25 in the Zep countdown
- Zegras11 : Get Back - The Beatles -- my #23 song in the most recent Beatles countdown
Edited by request.
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rockaction
Footballguy
I agree. The harmonies that The Hollies sung were sublime. I didn't know they were eligible, or this for sure would have been in one of my lists, likely the top thirty-one.
rockaction
Footballguy
What station are they on (I'm guessing they're on a station because they're not eligible and you're not high enough to bring them up out of the blue, I'm guessing)? Are they on a Super Bowl run-up or something?
krista4
Footballguy
Yeah, the Fox run-up.
jwb
Footballguy
Favorites today (great list again)
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Another Nail In My Heart – Squeeze
Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra
Bus Stop - The Hollies
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
A Well Respected Man - The Kinks
The King Of Wishful Thinking - Go West
This Time Tomorrow - The Kinks
At this point, I'm going right to @ditkaburgers pick first, as I know it's either going to be something unknown to me that I'll probably like, or some "oh yea THAT song" 80's/90's pop tune that I also like.
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Another Nail In My Heart – Squeeze
Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra
Bus Stop - The Hollies
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
A Well Respected Man - The Kinks
The King Of Wishful Thinking - Go West
This Time Tomorrow - The Kinks
At this point, I'm going right to @ditkaburgers pick first, as I know it's either going to be something unknown to me that I'll probably like, or some "oh yea THAT song" 80's/90's pop tune that I also like.
jwb
Footballguy
Yup. I know OF the Black Keys, but I don't "know" them. First time I've seen them perform. And yea, that's good description.
krista4
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
I think the aliens were intercepted over Northern Michigan
Eephus
Footballguy
Mrs. Eephus: I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones
As discussed earlier, this isn't the Bacharach-David song. It was written a few years earlier by Lonnie Donegan "The King of Skiffle" who also performed it himself.
Jones' version blows the original out of the water. It has a typical 60s MOR ballad arrangement with lots of strings that might have drowned a lesser singer. Jones delivers the verses with restraint and sensitivity; Mrs. Eephus says he sings it like someone who's just had their heart broken. He rachets up the power a bit on every chorus saving the octave jump for the final time through.
@ditkaburgers: The King Of Wishful Thinking - Go West
Today it's a 90s Pop song with an 80s Pop song sound. Go West were a duo with a bunch of UK hits but this was their biggest song in the US, aided by a clever video and an appearance on the Pretty Woman soundtrack.
ditkaburgers said she picked a lot of happy sounding songs with sad lyrics but that's just a coincidence. This is another breakup song but the R&B groove and synthesized horns give it a bright feel. The record was produced by Peter Wolf, not the guy from J. Geils but instead an Austrian who used to play with Frank Zappa.
Eephus: A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys' debut album amazed me like few others have since. They combined disparate threads of UK music from The Stones to The Streets and made something that sounded familiar yet fresh. As a lyricist, Alex Turner is the spiritual successor to Difford and Costello with his brilliant wordplay and storytelling.
"A Certain Romance" was the first song I put on my long list. The closing song of their first album was two minutes longer than anything else on the record and hinted at the potential of the band. It starts with a furious punkish intro, transitions to a tale of a futile night out before concluding with a driving guitar coda that touches down on a ragged chord.
As discussed earlier, this isn't the Bacharach-David song. It was written a few years earlier by Lonnie Donegan "The King of Skiffle" who also performed it himself.
Jones' version blows the original out of the water. It has a typical 60s MOR ballad arrangement with lots of strings that might have drowned a lesser singer. Jones delivers the verses with restraint and sensitivity; Mrs. Eephus says he sings it like someone who's just had their heart broken. He rachets up the power a bit on every chorus saving the octave jump for the final time through.
@ditkaburgers: The King Of Wishful Thinking - Go West
Today it's a 90s Pop song with an 80s Pop song sound. Go West were a duo with a bunch of UK hits but this was their biggest song in the US, aided by a clever video and an appearance on the Pretty Woman soundtrack.
ditkaburgers said she picked a lot of happy sounding songs with sad lyrics but that's just a coincidence. This is another breakup song but the R&B groove and synthesized horns give it a bright feel. The record was produced by Peter Wolf, not the guy from J. Geils but instead an Austrian who used to play with Frank Zappa.
Eephus: A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys' debut album amazed me like few others have since. They combined disparate threads of UK music from The Stones to The Streets and made something that sounded familiar yet fresh. As a lyricist, Alex Turner is the spiritual successor to Difford and Costello with his brilliant wordplay and storytelling.
"A Certain Romance" was the first song I put on my long list. The closing song of their first album was two minutes longer than anything else on the record and hinted at the potential of the band. It starts with a furious punkish intro, transitions to a tale of a futile night out before concluding with a driving guitar coda that touches down on a ragged chord.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
We had the Puppy Bowl on. I napped through some of it.
rockaction
Footballguy
I've never sat and tried to get through an Arctic Monkeys record from start to finish (don't flagellate me, NV). I have no idea why. Anyway, that's almost neither here nor there, but I'm impressed that they made it that high on your list of songs. Not very chalky (not that yours are -- it's just not what I'd expect in the top four. That's high praise for the song).
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I knew the artist and song, which is often not the case with her picks!
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
Davinci was clearly the MVP (most valuable pup).
Eephus
Footballguy
They're the greatest rock band of this century hands down
krista4
Footballguy
Going to post a little early about tomorrow's picks since most of us are getting ready for The Big Game.
A couple of firsts tomorrow:
- Our first Menage FaLaLa Trois of this countdown (a song selected by three different people at the same position). And oddly enough, it's from a song making its countdown debut.
- For the first time in Middle Aged Dummy history, an artist will have an octuple-up.
And get this, the octuple-up will comprise seven different songs, with only one Deja Vote.
A couple of firsts tomorrow:
- Our first Menage FaLaLa Trois of this countdown (a song selected by three different people at the same position). And oddly enough, it's from a song making its countdown debut.
- For the first time in Middle Aged Dummy history, an artist will have an octuple-up.
And get this, the octuple-up will comprise seven different songs, with only one Deja Vote.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
It was amazing at the time. It has held up well, as has pretty much all of his stuff. I picked him twice, so you can tell I like him.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah I would say head and shoulders above whatever the next option would be. I like all of their stuff but their debut album is an all timer. It never gets old for me.
rockaction
Footballguy
Listening to Converge's Jane Doe.
This is quite a listen. All my hardcore/metal friends were into it and it doesn't disappoint the expectation of being hard and challenging in the least. It's quite awesome, really. One does have to be used to screamed vocals, though.
This is quite a listen. All my hardcore/metal friends were into it and it doesn't disappoint the expectation of being hard and challenging in the least. It's quite awesome, really. One does have to be used to screamed vocals, though.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Tom Jones sings the hell out of this. Call it MOR or whatever you want, this is a rocket. Give Mrs E a high-five from me, sir.
Eephus
Footballguy
For the first time in Middle Aged Dummy history, an artist will have an octuple-up.
One Direction?
scorchy
Footballguy
Add me to the list of folks happy to hear this song again. Pretty Woman had a sneaky good soundtrack.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Will see where things end up but if the top 5 end up Beatles, Stones, Zep, Kinks and The Who I have it:
Beatles > LZ >> Kinks >> Stones >>>>> Who
Beatles > LZ >> Kinks >> Stones >>>>> Who
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