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MAD - Artist - Round 4 - #1's have been posted (3 Viewers)

31.
Stand- R.E.M.
from Green Album (1988)

This one obviously is divisive hit that, for many, comes off as an R.E.M. novelty song, Although not a favorite of mine... it deserves to be on the list so I'll put it at 31.It is a catchy slice of pop, though it's easily one of the most lightweight songs in the band's catalog. But, It was the biggest hit off of the group's major label debut, peaking at #6 on the billboard.

Stipe has said of the song's origin that he and the other band members were discussing The Banana Splits, The Archies, The Monkees, and similar 1960s’ pop groups. "They threw these super bubblegummy songs at me, and I said, 'I'll raise you and see you one.' And I wrote the most inane lyrics that I could possibly write. Now, it was a very intentional thing to do that. I really like most of those songs, in fact. Guitarist Peter Buck described "Stand" as "without a doubt, the stupidest song we've ever written. That's not necessarily a bad thing though", comparing the song to "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
 
tuffnutt said:
31.
Stand- R.E.M.
from Green Album (1988)

This one obviously is divisive hit that, for many, comes off as an R.E.M. novelty song, Although not a favorite of mine... it deserves to be on the list so I'll put it at 31.It is a catchy slice of pop, though it's easily one of the most lightweight songs in the band's catalog. But, It was the biggest hit off of the group's major label debut, peaking at #6 on the billboard.

Stipe has said of the song's origin that he and the other band members were discussing The Banana Splits, The Archies, The Monkees, and similar 1960s’ pop groups. "They threw these super bubblegummy songs at me, and I said, 'I'll raise you and see you one.' And I wrote the most inane lyrics that I could possibly write. Now, it was a very intentional thing to do that. I really like most of those songs, in fact. Guitarist Peter Buck described "Stand" as "without a doubt, the stupidest song we've ever written. That's not necessarily a bad thing though", comparing the song to "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
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I always associate the tune with Get A Life.
 
zamboni said:
tuffnutt said:
31.
Stand- R.E.M.
from Green Album (1988)

This one obviously is divisive hit that, for many, comes off as an R.E.M. novelty song, Although not a favorite of mine... it deserves to be on the list so I'll put it at 31.It is a catchy slice of pop, though it's easily one of the most lightweight songs in the band's catalog. But, It was the biggest hit off of the group's major label debut, peaking at #6 on the billboard.

Stipe has said of the song's origin that he and the other band members were discussing The Banana Splits, The Archies, The Monkees, and similar 1960s’ pop groups. "They threw these super bubblegummy songs at me, and I said, 'I'll raise you and see you one.' And I wrote the most inane lyrics that I could possibly write. Now, it was a very intentional thing to do that. I really like most of those songs, in fact. Guitarist Peter Buck described "Stand" as "without a doubt, the stupidest song we've ever written. That's not necessarily a bad thing though", comparing the song to "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
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I always associate the tune with Get A Life.
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​

“The sun is the hottiest planet, and it would burn you if you tried to eat it.”​

 
zamboni said:
tuffnutt said:
31.
Stand- R.E.M.
from Green Album (1988)

This one obviously is divisive hit that, for many, comes off as an R.E.M. novelty song, Although not a favorite of mine... it deserves to be on the list so I'll put it at 31.It is a catchy slice of pop, though it's easily one of the most lightweight songs in the band's catalog. But, It was the biggest hit off of the group's major label debut, peaking at #6 on the billboard.

Stipe has said of the song's origin that he and the other band members were discussing The Banana Splits, The Archies, The Monkees, and similar 1960s’ pop groups. "They threw these super bubblegummy songs at me, and I said, 'I'll raise you and see you one.' And I wrote the most inane lyrics that I could possibly write. Now, it was a very intentional thing to do that. I really like most of those songs, in fact. Guitarist Peter Buck described "Stand" as "without a doubt, the stupidest song we've ever written. That's not necessarily a bad thing though", comparing the song to "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
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I always associate the tune with Get A Life.
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Interesting thing I learned while researching ( i never knew this, maybe you all did)... But Shiny Happy People was ALMOST the Theme song for "Friends"

The Friends franchise was owned by Warner Bros. Television, who had initially wanted R.E.M.’s 1991 hit ‘Shiny Happy People’ as the theme tune. In fact, ‘Shiny Happy People’ was used in the pilot for the U.S. comedy, which was then called “Friends Like Us”.

Friends Like Us Intro
 
tuffnutt said:
zamboni said:
tuffnutt said:
31.
Stand- R.E.M.
from Green Album (1988)

This one obviously is divisive hit that, for many, comes off as an R.E.M. novelty song, Although not a favorite of mine... it deserves to be on the list so I'll put it at 31.It is a catchy slice of pop, though it's easily one of the most lightweight songs in the band's catalog. But, It was the biggest hit off of the group's major label debut, peaking at #6 on the billboard.

Stipe has said of the song's origin that he and the other band members were discussing The Banana Splits, The Archies, The Monkees, and similar 1960s’ pop groups. "They threw these super bubblegummy songs at me, and I said, 'I'll raise you and see you one.' And I wrote the most inane lyrics that I could possibly write. Now, it was a very intentional thing to do that. I really like most of those songs, in fact. Guitarist Peter Buck described "Stand" as "without a doubt, the stupidest song we've ever written. That's not necessarily a bad thing though", comparing the song to "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
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I always associate the tune with Get A Life.
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Interesting thing I learned while researching ( i never knew this, maybe you all did)... But Shiny Happy People was ALMOST the Theme song for "Friends"

The Friends franchise was owned by Warner Bros. Television, who had initially wanted R.E.M.’s 1991 hit ‘Shiny Happy People’ as the theme tune. In fact, ‘Shiny Happy People’ was used in the pilot for the U.S. comedy, which was then called “Friends Like Us”.

Friends Like Us Intro
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Interesting - don't think I knew that. We wouldn't know the difference if that had stuck, but "I'll Be There For You" is so intertwined with the show, that it's weird to envision otherwise.
 
tuffnutt said:
31.
Stand- R.E.M.
from Green Album (1988)

This one obviously is divisive hit that, for many, comes off as an R.E.M. novelty song, Although not a favorite of mine... it deserves to be on the list so I'll put it at 31.It is a catchy slice of pop, though it's easily one of the most lightweight songs in the band's catalog. But, It was the biggest hit off of the group's major label debut, peaking at #6 on the billboard.

Stipe has said of the song's origin that he and the other band members were discussing The Banana Splits, The Archies, The Monkees, and similar 1960s’ pop groups. "They threw these super bubblegummy songs at me, and I said, 'I'll raise you and see you one.' And I wrote the most inane lyrics that I could possibly write. Now, it was a very intentional thing to do that. I really like most of those songs, in fact. Guitarist Peter Buck described "Stand" as "without a doubt, the stupidest song we've ever written. That's not necessarily a bad thing though", comparing the song to "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
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I'm not surprised by the backstory, sounds about right. What I didn't like was the video, because it felt like they were taking the piss out of the song itself and mocking people who may actually have liked it.

I really liked R.E.M.'s early material and initially approved when Stipe's diction got better and I could make out what he was saying. I don't know if I felt he started taking himself too seriously or there was a change in tone and they became too 'serious' with their approach/material, but the more I could understand what they were singing, the less I liked them, and I think Everybody Hurts (sorry for the spotlight) was the last straw.
 
I won't be able to comment on my entire playlist but I'll do as many as I can. Unlike most of you, I am pretty terrible at saying succinctly and effectively why I like a song, so please don't expect any complete and profound takes....

31. Time Trap from Keep It Like A Secret (1999)

Built to Spill has released 12 albums and an EP between 1993 and 2022. This song is from what many consider their masterpiece (although 2 other albums definitely have something to say about that). My playlist contains at least one song from all 13 of these albums but one. And based on # of songs per album, I guess this may be my favorite because there are 5 more coming from KILAS on this playlist---more than any other album.

I chose this song as an opener because I like the build up at the beginning of a playlist. As is usually the case with BTS, the guitars are the hero here--both at the beginning and the outro.
 
And I also won't be able to comment on each of the playlists but will do my best to listen to all of them in a more timely fashion than in MAD Round 3.

This group contains 6 artists I consider among my favorites: The Walkmen, Johnny Marr/The Smiths, Jeff Tweedy/Wilco, My Morning Jacket, R.E.M. and Radiohead. I suspect I'll like or love almost all the songs from them, possibly only quibbling on the ranking.

On the other hand, there are 5 artists I've never even heard of on the playlist so I'm looking forward to digging in to those.

The rest are artists I'm familiar with, some a lot more than others, and have enjoyed at least some of their music before.

Looking forward to hearing these playlists.....
 
kupcho1 said:
Scoresman said:
kupcho1 said:
Zegras11 said:
The WalkmenScoresmanAngela Surf City
open.spotify.com

Angela Surf City

The Walkmen · Lisbon · Song · 2010
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Strong opener to round 4 and one of my all time favorite songs by the Walkmen. Interesting approach going from 1-31 ;)
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You saw that it's my number 6 right? The first two arent going to be in ranked order.
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Wink emoji down?
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Just making sure because if I saw a Walkmen ranking with Angela Surf City at the bottom, heads would roll.
 
I’m almost though the 31s and while there were many songs I liked (and will comment more later) nothing really jumped out so far.
 
tuffnutt said:
zamboni said:
tuffnutt said:
31.
Stand- R.E.M.
from Green Album (1988)

This one obviously is divisive hit that, for many, comes off as an R.E.M. novelty song, Although not a favorite of mine... it deserves to be on the list so I'll put it at 31.It is a catchy slice of pop, though it's easily one of the most lightweight songs in the band's catalog. But, It was the biggest hit off of the group's major label debut, peaking at #6 on the billboard.

Stipe has said of the song's origin that he and the other band members were discussing The Banana Splits, The Archies, The Monkees, and similar 1960s’ pop groups. "They threw these super bubblegummy songs at me, and I said, 'I'll raise you and see you one.' And I wrote the most inane lyrics that I could possibly write. Now, it was a very intentional thing to do that. I really like most of those songs, in fact. Guitarist Peter Buck described "Stand" as "without a doubt, the stupidest song we've ever written. That's not necessarily a bad thing though", comparing the song to "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
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I always associate the tune with Get A Life.
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Interesting thing I learned while researching ( i never knew this, maybe you all did)... But Shiny Happy People was ALMOST the Theme song for "Friends"

The Friends franchise was owned by Warner Bros. Television, who had initially wanted R.E.M.’s 1991 hit ‘Shiny Happy People’ as the theme tune. In fact, ‘Shiny Happy People’ was used in the pilot for the U.S. comedy, which was then called “Friends Like Us”.

Friends Like Us Intro
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Trippy.
I read once that shiny happy people was either ironic or really not a happy song about drug use. That could be wrong, but considering Matthew Perry’s life it fits better than we’d like.
 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Gee @KarmaPolice, is all of Lord Huron this good? I really loved that. I've already played it several times.
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@Mrs. Rannous - Yes

I had not heard of them until I saw them open up for previous MAD31 artist Nathaniel Rateliff. Rateliff put on a better show, and I loved their songs too, but Lord Huron's music really pulled me in. That was about 10 years ago on the Strange Trails tour. I we have seen them 4-5 times now, and he has become one of my favorites on the past decade. But, as I have a habit of doing, I basically just played Strange Trails on a loop and didn't go to the other albums as much as I should have. This was going to be my post-Mastodon artist, but I was shocked when I saw that they had 30M or so listeners/month, and that knocked them out for Oingo. I am assuming the main reason is they had a song on a huge NF show, as I still run into few people who have heard of them.

This is more of a random playlist than my last 3, and Fool for Love was chosen because it's a little faster paced and has pop to it. The catalogue isn't super diverse as far as style, so I am confident if people are liking the first few songs they will like the playlist. I wanted to start with one from Strange Trails and one from Lonesome Dreams as those albums will make up around 1/2 the playlist.

Glad you enjoyed it!!!
 
Yes #31 - Sweet Dreams
Album - Time and a Word (1970)

I mentioned previously that this was a fun experience for me to rediscover the first two Yes albums, which had completely fallen off my radar for some reason.

I find these first two albums (Yes and Time and a Word) really interesting because to me it’s feels like they were still figuring out who they were going to be - and in Yes fashion it seemed like every band member had their own idea of what direction they should take.

They were much more Brit Pop than power Prog at this point, and seemed more reminiscent of bands like the Beatles, the Byrds, and even some early Pink Floyd and Genesis at points - spoiler alert, there are even a couple covers from some of these bands further ahead in my list.

Sweet Dreams was released as a single from their second album and was a radio friendly jam. This was an example of some very Beatles like vocals at certain sections.
 
Yo Mama said:
Yes #31 - Sweet Dreams
Album - Time and a Word (1970)

I mentioned previously that this was a fun experience for me to rediscover the first two Yes albums, which had completely fallen off my radar for some reason.

I find these first two albums (Yes and Time and a Word) really interesting because to me it’s feels like they were still figuring out who they were going to be - and in Yes fashion it seemed like every band member had their own idea of what direction they should take.

They were much more Brit Pop than power Prog at this point, and seemed more reminiscent of bands like the Beatles, the Byrds, and even some early Pink Floyd and Genesis at points - spoiler alert, there are even a couple covers from some of these bands further ahead in my list.

Sweet Dreams was released as a single from their second album and was a radio friendly jam. This was an example of some very Beatles like vocals at certain sections.
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Interesting that this tune appeared in the countdown for Yes before it did for Annie Lennox.
 
zamboni said:
Yo Mama said:
Yes #31 - Sweet Dreams
Album - Time and a Word (1970)

I mentioned previously that this was a fun experience for me to rediscover the first two Yes albums, which had completely fallen off my radar for some reason.

I find these first two albums (Yes and Time and a Word) really interesting because to me it’s feels like they were still figuring out who they were going to be - and in Yes fashion it seemed like every band member had their own idea of what direction they should take.

They were much more Brit Pop than power Prog at this point, and seemed more reminiscent of bands like the Beatles, the Byrds, and even some early Pink Floyd and Genesis at points - spoiler alert, there are even a couple covers from some of these bands further ahead in my list.

Sweet Dreams was released as a single from their second album and was a radio friendly jam. This was an example of some very Beatles like vocals at certain sections.
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Interesting that this tune appeared in the countdown for Yes before it did for Annie Lennox.
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I told you Yes had some covers
 
Yo Mama said:
zamboni said:
Yo Mama said:
Yes #31 - Sweet Dreams
Album - Time and a Word (1970)

I mentioned previously that this was a fun experience for me to rediscover the first two Yes albums, which had completely fallen off my radar for some reason.

I find these first two albums (Yes and Time and a Word) really interesting because to me it’s feels like they were still figuring out who they were going to be - and in Yes fashion it seemed like every band member had their own idea of what direction they should take.

They were much more Brit Pop than power Prog at this point, and seemed more reminiscent of bands like the Beatles, the Byrds, and even some early Pink Floyd and Genesis at points - spoiler alert, there are even a couple covers from some of these bands further ahead in my list.

Sweet Dreams was released as a single from their second album and was a radio friendly jam. This was an example of some very Beatles like vocals at certain sections.
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Interesting that this tune appeared in the countdown for Yes before it did for Annie Lennox.
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I told you Yes had some covers
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Who am I to disagree?
 
Yo Mama said:
Yes #31 - Sweet Dreams
Album - Time and a Word (1970)

I mentioned previously that this was a fun experience for me to rediscover the first two Yes albums, which had completely fallen off my radar for some reason.

I find these first two albums (Yes and Time and a Word) really interesting because to me it’s feels like they were still figuring out who they were going to be - and in Yes fashion it seemed like every band member had their own idea of what direction they should take.

They were much more Brit Pop than power Prog at this point, and seemed more reminiscent of bands like the Beatles, the Byrds, and even some early Pink Floyd and Genesis at points - spoiler alert, there are even a couple covers from some of these bands further ahead in my list.

Sweet Dreams was released as a single from their second album and was a radio friendly jam. This was an example of some very Beatles like vocals at certain sections.
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I fixed my post because I had the album wrong. I often conflate the first two albums because I bought them on the same day and they sound a lot like each other and little like the subsequent albums. The main difference is that some of the tracks on the second album have heavy orchestration, which is a bit of a nod to the direction that they would take.

These albums are very much of the '60s, which is part of their charm. The third album was very much a break from that.
 
Uruk-Hai said:
This multiplied x 8 bazillion.

What Rolling Stone has done over the decades has formed a warped and corrupt version of what popular music is - what's "important" and what's not. Boomers and Gen Xers are so locked into it that there's no way out. Music made by women, hillbillies, and black artists got othered, even if they were making the most exciting music of their eras.

I think younger generations are more free to like what they like, and not what they are "supposed" to like.
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It wasn't just them. Look at this interview Rik Emmett gave earlier this year:

Rik Emmett: Triumph Won't Make Rock Hall Due to 'Huge Prejudice'

“There was a huge prejudice that [Rolling Stone and Hall of Fame co-founder] Jann Wenner [had]. It bled throughout the entire board of that thing, which was, 'No, we're only gonna recognize the truly great, and the thing that defines truly great is what I say is truly great,'” Emmett declared. “And he thought Foreigner and Rush and Styx and Triumph, he thought all that stuff was crap. And he would hire writers to write stuff in Rolling Stone that would say, 'Yeah, these bands are ****. They're terrible. They're crap.' And so that became sort of the standard thing of, 'Yeah, well, no, we're not gonna put them in the Hall of Fame. They're ****ty.' There you go."
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Pip's Invitation said:
Uruk-Hai said:
This multiplied x 8 bazillion.

What Rolling Stone has done over the decades has formed a warped and corrupt version of what popular music is - what's "important" and what's not. Boomers and Gen Xers are so locked into it that there's no way out. Music made by women, hillbillies, and black artists got othered, even if they were making the most exciting music of their eras.

I think younger generations are more free to like what they like, and not what they are "supposed" to like.
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It wasn't just them. Look at this interview Rik Emmett gave earlier this year:

Rik Emmett: Triumph Won't Make Rock Hall Due to 'Huge Prejudice'

“There was a huge prejudice that [Rolling Stone and Hall of Fame co-founder] Jann Wenner [had]. It bled throughout the entire board of that thing, which was, 'No, we're only gonna recognize the truly great, and the thing that defines truly great is what I say is truly great,'” Emmett declared. “And he thought Foreigner and Rush and Styx and Triumph, he thought all that stuff was crap. And he would hire writers to write stuff in Rolling Stone that would say, 'Yeah, these bands are ****. They're terrible. They're crap.' And so that became sort of the standard thing of, 'Yeah, well, no, we're not gonna put them in the Hall of Fame. They're ****ty.' There you go."
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Considering how look how long it took for Rush to get in, I'd say there's no chance of Triumph getting in.

As an aside, your avatar of the band is interesting in retrospect - it's Rik Emmett and not Mike Levine wearing a hockey jersey. And Rik is wearing a Canadiens jersey - being from Toronto, he must have gotten a lot of **** for that.
 
Yo Mama said:
Yes #31 - Sweet Dreams
Album - Time and a Word (1970)

I mentioned previously that this was a fun experience for me to rediscover the first two Yes albums, which had completely fallen off my radar for some reason.

I find these first two albums (Yes and Time and a Word) really interesting because to me it’s feels like they were still figuring out who they were going to be - and in Yes fashion it seemed like every band member had their own idea of what direction they should take.

They were much more Brit Pop than power Prog at this point, and seemed more reminiscent of bands like the Beatles, the Byrds, and even some early Pink Floyd and Genesis at points - spoiler alert, there are even a couple covers from some of these bands further ahead in my list.

Sweet Dreams was released as a single from their second album and was a radio friendly jam. This was an example of some very Beatles like vocals at certain sections.
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This was pretty good. I only know Yes from their 4 album run starting with The Yes Album,90125 and Big Generator so looking forward to hear what else I've missed out on.
 
zamboni said:
Pip's Invitation said:
Uruk-Hai said:
This multiplied x 8 bazillion.

What Rolling Stone has done over the decades has formed a warped and corrupt version of what popular music is - what's "important" and what's not. Boomers and Gen Xers are so locked into it that there's no way out. Music made by women, hillbillies, and black artists got othered, even if they were making the most exciting music of their eras.

I think younger generations are more free to like what they like, and not what they are "supposed" to like.
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It wasn't just them. Look at this interview Rik Emmett gave earlier this year:

Rik Emmett: Triumph Won't Make Rock Hall Due to 'Huge Prejudice'

“There was a huge prejudice that [Rolling Stone and Hall of Fame co-founder] Jann Wenner [had]. It bled throughout the entire board of that thing, which was, 'No, we're only gonna recognize the truly great, and the thing that defines truly great is what I say is truly great,'” Emmett declared. “And he thought Foreigner and Rush and Styx and Triumph, he thought all that stuff was crap. And he would hire writers to write stuff in Rolling Stone that would say, 'Yeah, these bands are ****. They're terrible. They're crap.' And so that became sort of the standard thing of, 'Yeah, well, no, we're not gonna put them in the Hall of Fame. They're ****ty.' There you go."
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Considering how look how long it took for Rush to get in, I'd say there's no chance of Triumph getting in.

As an aside, your avatar of the band is interesting in retrospect - it's Rik Emmett and not Mike Levine wearing a hockey jersey. And Rik is wearing a Canadiens jersey - being from Toronto, he must have gotten a lot of **** for that.
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No chance. He also talked about how once the Hall did start letting "those" kinds of bands in, the nods were going to go to those like Journey and Rush who had far greater sales.

Not sure if there is any rhyme or reason to their hockey apparel. Levine wore jerseys of several different teams onstage. I found a clip on Youtube where he is in Philadelphia and wearing a Flyers jersey.
 
Pip's Invitation said:
Not sure if there is any rhyme or reason to their hockey apparel. Levine wore jerseys of several different teams onstage. I found a clip on Youtube where he is in Philadelphia and wearing a Flyers jersey.
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I always think of him in the St. Louis Blues jersey, which I think he wore often. Or maybe that was just for one of the MTV specials you mentioned that they played a lot.
 
Top 5 "New to Me" Songs
  1. Take Me Down - The Pretty Reckless
  2. Angela Surf City - The Walkmen
  3. Time to Get a Gun - Fred Eaglesmith
  4. Deadly Kiss - The Tourists
  5. Spaceman - Journey
Top 5 "Known to Me" Songs
  1. Black Star - Radiohead
  2. Sweet Dreams - Yes
  3. Time Trap - Built to Spill
  4. Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
  5. Fool For Love - Lord Huron
I have to believe it will get better than this. Nothing really jumped out at me yet - but I can see a few artists that I think I'm really going to like.
 
zamboni said:
Pip's Invitation said:
Not sure if there is any rhyme or reason to their hockey apparel. Levine wore jerseys of several different teams onstage. I found a clip on Youtube where he is in Philadelphia and wearing a Flyers jersey.
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I always think of him in the St. Louis Blues jersey, which I think he wore often. Or maybe that was just for one of the MTV specials you mentioned that they played a lot.
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He does have it on in some of their performance-based videos. But there were others.
 
Pip's Invitation said:
Uruk-Hai said:
This multiplied x 8 bazillion.

What Rolling Stone has done over the decades has formed a warped and corrupt version of what popular music is - what's "important" and what's not. Boomers and Gen Xers are so locked into it that there's no way out. Music made by women, hillbillies, and black artists got othered, even if they were making the most exciting music of their eras.

I think younger generations are more free to like what they like, and not what they are "supposed" to like.
Click to expand...
It wasn't just them. Look at this interview Rik Emmett gave earlier this year:

Rik Emmett: Triumph Won't Make Rock Hall Due to 'Huge Prejudice'

“There was a huge prejudice that [Rolling Stone and Hall of Fame co-founder] Jann Wenner [had]. It bled throughout the entire board of that thing, which was, 'No, we're only gonna recognize the truly great, and the thing that defines truly great is what I say is truly great,'” Emmett declared. “And he thought Foreigner and Rush and Styx and Triumph, he thought all that stuff was crap. And he would hire writers to write stuff in Rolling Stone that would say, 'Yeah, these bands are ****. They're terrible. They're crap.' And so that became sort of the standard thing of, 'Yeah, well, no, we're not gonna put them in the Hall of Fame. They're ****ty.' There you go."
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Three Dog Night says howdy.
 
My round of 31 favorites (playlist order, not ranked):

Known to me
- The Clash (great selection to kick off their list)
- Journey
- Funkadelic
- Radiohead
- BeeGees

New to me
- Built to Spill
- Johnny Marr
- The Pretty Reckless
- Wilco
- MMJ
- Candlebox (I had their biggest album and loved it but never listened to any of their other stuff. Should be a fun list)
- Eddie Vedder ♥️
 
I’m going top 3 known and unknown this round.

Known

Take me down - pretty reckless, I’m looking forward to more of their songs, I’m mostly familiar with their hits as they play on pandora’s hard rock strength station.

Radio clash - IIRC clash is hit or miss with me

Stand - this is the song I think of with REM, and yes I always think of the theme song

New

Get off your *** - I only know some of their stuff, looking forward to more

Elegante - count me among the many who had their big album but nothing else

Fool for love - I’ve only heard a few lord Huron songs, i like them but it depends on mood.
 
OK, so I've been through the playlist 2x

Oldies (to me) but and goodies (playlist order):
The Walkmen - Angela Surf City
Yes - Sweet Dreams (lil' kupcho1 was way into Yes)
Built to Spill - Time Trap
Triumph - I Can Survive (wow this takes me back :headbang: )
Funkadelic - Get Off Your *** And Jam (you bet this one's already on my 1975 - Hustle's the name of the game)
R.E.M. - Stand (ain't gonna lie, I was an early adopter and this disc was where I started drifting away from the Athenians)
Bee Gees - Jive Talkin' (also was anti-"disco" back in the day; later rectified)

3 that are new to me that caught my ear (in no particular order):
Tim Maia - Broken Heart (really dig his sound; this might now be my most anticipated 31)
Robyn - Robyn is Here
Lord Huron - Fool for Love
 
Onto Round 4. Ah, that smell of fresh playlists. This time around we’ll take things in playlist order, but per usual I reserve the right to shuffle most of the way. There are a handful of bands I know really well, but also at least an equal number that I don’t know (or at least can’t immediately think of a few songs from). Lots of fun times all around, then!

Selected Favorites:
Angela Surf City - The Walkman
This Is Radio Clash - The Clash
Caught Up - Johnny Marr
A Shot in the Arm - Wilco (/Jeff Tweedy)
Denied - Our Lady Peace
The Walk - The Airborne Toxic Event
At Dawn - My Morning Jacket
Black Star - Radiohead. This may be the hardest artist to not spotlight every time. We'll see.
Jive Talkin’ - Bee Gees
 
Mrs. Rannous said:
The Dreaded Marco said:
Deadly Kiss (Annie Lennox channeling Grace Slick here? Love this one)
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Oh. I wondered why this was the one I really liked.

They won't be showing up again, so If JML wants to post a couple of others, feel free.
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First of all you may have noticed on some youtube clips there is a “RAGE” in the bottom left corner.
The Australian Public Broadcaster (ABC) hosted an all night music clip marathon from about 10pm to 9am on friday and saturday nights, culminating in the top 50 songs on the official charts. It has been running, and still is, from 1987.
I used to video record it every time and tgen watch back on fast forward and watch any clip that piqued my curiousity.
Love that show.

Anyway, the reason I bring that up is that the first clip has the RAGE logo on it

Annie Lennox​

The Tourists - I Only Want To Be With You (Yes that song)​

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
m.youtube.com m.youtube.com


The Tourists - So Good to Be Back Home Again​

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
m.youtube.com m.youtube.com

Geez the second song sounds like the Indie Power pop of the late 80s, early 90s like The Primitives and the Darling Buds
 
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