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MAD - Artist - Round 4 - #3's have been posted (19 Viewers)
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Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Whitney's in.
kupcho1
Footballguy
Rat farts, I wanted leadoff
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Lol. I was grumpy when i saw the link come through while at work.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Yes!
Zegras11
Footballguy
Binky - no!
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Last three out:
34. Life's a Party
www.youtube.com
THIS is Whitney's first appearance on vinyl. She was 14 when she and her mother sang backing vocals on this late disco-era song that failed to chart.
33. Thinking About You (w/Jermain Jackson)
open.spotify.com
Originally on the list but got bumped when I looked into what she did before her first solo album.
32. Hold Me (w/Teddy Pendergrass)
open.spotify.com
See #33. This was a tough cut.
34. Life's a Party
- 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.
www.youtube.com
THIS is Whitney's first appearance on vinyl. She was 14 when she and her mother sang backing vocals on this late disco-era song that failed to chart.
33. Thinking About You (w/Jermain Jackson)
Thinking About You
Whitney Houston · Whitney Houston (The Deluxe Anniversary Edition) · Song · 1985
open.spotify.com
Originally on the list but got bumped when I looked into what she did before her first solo album.
32. Hold Me (w/Teddy Pendergrass)
Hold Me (with Teddy Pendergrass)
Whitney Houston, Teddy Pendergrass · Whitney Houston · Song · 1985
open.spotify.com
See #33. This was a tough cut.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Wait- what folder am I in?
Yo Mama
Footballguy
YES! I was hoping to get in the top four - to get in the playlist logo.
kupcho1
Footballguy
:spittake:
krista4
Footballguy
I did get it, but hadn't signed up. I had to look at your list and make sure I hadn't drunkenly agreed to do this one night.
Eephus
Footballguy
I did get it, but hadn't signed up. I had to look at your list and make sure I hadn't drunkenly agreed to do this one night.
No backsies
Raging weasel
Footballguy
In!
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
Oops......wrong thread
Zegras11
Footballguy
haha.... yours was a "just in case" send
I did get it, but hadn't signed up. I had to look at your list and make sure I hadn't drunkenly agreed to do this one night.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Yes -> Whitney Houston -> Built to Spill will be a trip.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Now I am having a brain fart as to the order we go for the spreadsheet. Lol
ETA: Oh, yeah - it's on the top of the link when I click it.
ETA: Oh, yeah - it's on the top of the link when I click it.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Journey playlist in. If you don't embrace it with open arms we might have to go our separate ways.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Definitely not what I was expecting. I've seen a couple seasons of AGT, but have never heard of her or heard her before just clicking now. I liked what I head, with Elements getting the gold from me here.Last 5 out:
All of Me - Violin Remix
John Legend, Lindsey Stirling · John Legend x Lindsey Stirling: The Violin Remixes · Song · 2020
Possibly the youngest artist on this list, Lindsey isn’t 40 yet.
the middle child of three daughters of Stephen and Diane Stirling. Stirling describes her childhood as being raised in a modest household and stated "I would not trade my humble childhood years for anything else." Due to her family's financial limitations, her parents could only afford to find a violin teacher who would give her half lessons. Although they were told by instructors that "a child isn't going to learn how to play in 15 minutes a week", her parents persisted, and at the age of five, she began taking violin lessons.
While in high school, she joined four friends in a rock band called Stomp on Melvin. As part of her experience with the group, Stirling wrote a solo violin rock song, and her performance helped her to win the state title of Arizona's junior Miss and claim the Spirit Award in the American Junior Miss competition.
At 25, she was a quarter finalist on America’s got talent. Where judge Piers Morgan buzzed and told her: "You're not untalented, but you're not good enough, I don't think, to get away with flying through the air and trying to play the violin at the same time."
Sharon Osborne commented: "You need to be in a group. ... What you're doing is not enough to fill a theater in Vegas."
Yeah, she’s “good enough” to fill a stadium. Although her collaborations are fantastic.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
This is another that I know 0 about. About a month or so ago I had been looking at lists like "most underrated bands of ________", and saw them pop up a couple times. I was planning on listening to some soon, so I am glad for the MAD guide.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
They are one of eight this round I know nothing about. Only 1 band I know I don't like other than 5 songs .
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Dang, I wasn't expecting the funk I heard on Thinking About You. Good tune, not so sure about the album cover.Last three out:
34. Life's a Party
- 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.
THIS is Whitney's first appearance on vinyl. She was 14 when she and her mother sang backing vocals on this late disco-era song that failed to chart.
33. Thinking About You (w/Jermain Jackson)
Thinking About You
Whitney Houston · Whitney Houston (The Deluxe Anniversary Edition) · Song · 1985
Originally on the list but got bumped when I looked into what she did before her first solo album.
32. Hold Me (w/Teddy Pendergrass)
Hold Me (with Teddy Pendergrass)
Whitney Houston, Teddy Pendergrass · Whitney Houston · Song · 1985
See #33. This was a tough cut.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
This isn't a true last 5 out, as I will save all 70s Journey and any surprises for people that might be new to some of that. Here are some 80s and newer songs I really liked that were in battles at the end. I keep talking about the 70s output, but let's not get crazy here - Escape is a fantastic album. I don't like Departure as much, thinking about Escape and the 70s stuff and that is an epic run of albums to start their journey. (you aren't the only one, Yo Mama!!) Unfortunately, it has what is probably my second least favorite song of theirs during this stretch. Of course it's on one of their best charting songs. 
Anyway here are a couple on the album that I loved but just barely missed the cut.
Still They Ride
www.youtube.com
Lay It Down
www.youtube.com
Still it Rides is great, but it has a Journey DNA that I think they do a little better in songs to come. Lay It Down has some 80s hair metal feels before 80s hair metal. Loved it, but again - I was searching for 70s music a little more so it got cut in the end.
Only the Young
www.youtube.com
This is when you know this playlist is serious business - a tune from an 80s movie didn't make it but a cover did?? Love it, but decisions were made and I stand by them.
All the Things
www.youtube.com
I don't know that I liked this song as much as I was interested in it. Their 90s album and this one felt like a band that is struggling with their identity and had too many ideas after not releasing albums for nearly a decade each time. They are a scattershot of ideas both from song to song and also within the songs. The songs and albums feel overlong. Also it feels like their sound is lagging a bit, as we see here as they try on more of a 90s sound about 5 years too late. Schon's solo is still kick *** though.
Edge of the Moment
www.youtube.com
Piggybacking off the above idea I plucked out a song from their newest albums with the newest singer. I like that they didn't just try to find another Perry clone. I also like that I got hints of Queensrÿche, but now we are talking maybe 2 decades to late as far as what their sound is. Still, the albums were better than expected just not near good enough to make the cut for the 31. I think of the initial 80 only about 6-7 were from this era compared to the 50 from the first 5 albums.
Anyway here are a couple on the album that I loved but just barely missed the cut.Still They Ride
Journey - Still They Ride (Official Audio)
Official audio for "Still They Ride" by JourneyListen to Journey: https://Journey.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more Journey videos: https://Journey.lnk.to/listenYD/y...
www.youtube.com
Lay It Down
- 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.
www.youtube.com
Still it Rides is great, but it has a Journey DNA that I think they do a little better in songs to come. Lay It Down has some 80s hair metal feels before 80s hair metal. Loved it, but again - I was searching for 70s music a little more so it got cut in the end.
Only the Young
- 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.
www.youtube.com
This is when you know this playlist is serious business - a tune from an 80s movie didn't make it but a cover did?? Love it, but decisions were made and I stand by them.
All the Things
- 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.
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I don't know that I liked this song as much as I was interested in it. Their 90s album and this one felt like a band that is struggling with their identity and had too many ideas after not releasing albums for nearly a decade each time. They are a scattershot of ideas both from song to song and also within the songs. The songs and albums feel overlong. Also it feels like their sound is lagging a bit, as we see here as they try on more of a 90s sound about 5 years too late. Schon's solo is still kick *** though.
Edge of the Moment
- 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.
www.youtube.com
Piggybacking off the above idea I plucked out a song from their newest albums with the newest singer. I like that they didn't just try to find another Perry clone. I also like that I got hints of Queensrÿche, but now we are talking maybe 2 decades to late as far as what their sound is. Still, the albums were better than expected just not near good enough to make the cut for the 31. I think of the initial 80 only about 6-7 were from this era compared to the 50 from the first 5 albums.
Mt. Man
Footballguy
They're a band that you could have strong second 31 after their first. Mostly looking forward to the ride.
That said, you'll of course be strictly judged by whether a certain part is one song or two. >.>
kupcho1
Footballguy
It's just blank space to me.
-OZ-
Footballguy
Unless someone else jumped in, journey to Lindsey could be fun. For those not shuffling.
-OZ-
Footballguy
Last three out:
34. Life's a Party
- 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.
THIS is Whitney's first appearance on vinyl. She was 14 when she and her mother sang backing vocals on this late disco-era song that failed to chart.
33. Thinking About You (w/Jermain Jackson)
Thinking About You
Whitney Houston · Whitney Houston (The Deluxe Anniversary Edition) · Song · 1985
Originally on the list but got bumped when I looked into what she did before her first solo album.
32. Hold Me (w/Teddy Pendergrass)
Hold Me (with Teddy Pendergrass)
Whitney Houston, Teddy Pendergrass · Whitney Houston · Song · 1985
See #33. This was a tough cut.
Whitney is one I’m looking forward to despite not liking much of what I know from her. I know she’s done a lot I don’t know.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Let the judging begin, as I rated the songs that segue separately.
That said, in typical KP fashion I am only 90% sure i know which you are talking about because i thought of a couple examples. One i think is what you are referring and the other was my favorite listening experience of this round of research. I seem to tend to do things slightly askew.
ETA: i just saw another online mentioned and i don't have either of those, so
Zegras11
Footballguy
Who's the dumbest of the dummies here?
krista4
Footballguy
This isn't a true last 5 out, as I will save all 70s Journey and any surprises for people that might be new to some of that. Here are some 80s and newer songs I really liked that were in battles at the end. I keep talking about the 70s output, but let's not get crazy here - Escape is a fantastic album. I don't like Departure as much, thinking about Escape and the 70s stuff and that is an epic run of albums to start their journey. (you aren't the only one, Yo Mama!!) Unfortunately, it has what is probably my second least favorite song of theirs during this stretch. Of course it's on one of their best charting songs.
Still They Ride
Ooooo, this is a really good song I'd forgotten about!
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I've always liked these three.Still They Ride
Journey - Still They Ride (Official Audio)
Official audio for "Still They Ride" by JourneyListen to Journey: https://Journey.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more Journey videos: https://Journey.lnk.to/listenYD/y...
Lay It Down
- 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.
Still it Rides is great, but it has a Journey DNA that I think they do a little better in songs to come. Lay It Down has some 80s hair metal feels before 80s hair metal. Loved it, but again - I was searching for 70s music a little more so it got cut in the end.
Only the Young
- 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.
This is when you know this playlist is serious business - a tune from an 80s movie didn't make it but a cover did?? Love it, but decisions were made and I stand by them.
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Going through her catalog was a test of whether or not I'd really listen to her sing the phone book. In the process of compiling the list, I stopped paying attention to the 'style' of song and just focused on her voice; I came to not care about the style of the song and just enjoyed hearing it go through its paces. In the end, I didn't love all of the songs, but I loved her voice in all of them.Last three out:
34. Life's a Party
- 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.
THIS is Whitney's first appearance on vinyl. She was 14 when she and her mother sang backing vocals on this late disco-era song that failed to chart.
33. Thinking About You (w/Jermain Jackson)
Thinking About You
Whitney Houston · Whitney Houston (The Deluxe Anniversary Edition) · Song · 1985
Originally on the list but got bumped when I looked into what she did before her first solo album.
32. Hold Me (w/Teddy Pendergrass)
Hold Me (with Teddy Pendergrass)
Whitney Houston, Teddy Pendergrass · Whitney Houston · Song · 1985
See #33. This was a tough cut.
Whitney is one I’m looking forward to despite not liking much of what I know from her. I know she’s done a lot I don’t know.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Made me check.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
BINKY! It's you! I didn't recognize the new avatar.Now I am having a brain fart as to the order we go for the spreadsheet. Lol
ETA: Oh, yeah - it's on the top of the link when I click it.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Triumph list in. Here are the Last 5 Out:
32. Rock Out, Roll On
Album: Thunder Seven (1984)
Writers: Rik Emmett, Mike Levine and Gil Moore
Lead vocals: Rik Emmett
Chart History: None
Video?: No
Lyrical categories: Rocking out / Inspirational/hockey coach
Rock Out, Roll On is as good as an example as any of where Triumph's sound was at the dawn of its new contract with MCA. More synths are in the mix than with their previous material, but they don't take over the mix. Rik Emmett's guitar riffs and Mike Levine's melodic bass parts are at the forefront, and Emmett's impassioned vocal and guitar solo really grab your attention.
The song functions as both an ode to rocking out and a pep talk for struggling/exhausted musicians, and has a particularly compelling bridge: "A chance will surely come your way/To say the things you need to say/To play like no one else has played/And blow them away".
Rock Out, Roll On appeared in some setlists on the Thunder Seven tour, but not after that.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oInPqAOhbXgKJt1q9Z6Vz?si=1d3b7084650447a4
33. All the Way
Album: Never Surrender (Canada 1982, US 1983)
Writers: Rik Emmett, Mike Levine and Gil Moore
Lead vocals: Rik Emmett
Chart History: US Mainstream Rock #2
Video?: No
Lyrical category: Inspirational/hockey coach
All the Way charted higher on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart (known at the time as Top Rock Tracks) than any other Triumph song, but its popularity must have varied greatly by market. It did not have a video and the FM stations in Philly didn't play it, so I never heard it until I got Never Surrender on cassette.
But I can see why it caught on elsewhere. The riffs come hard and fast, the chorus is instantly memorable, and Rik Emmett's guitar solo boasts some really fast fretwork. And it may be the only track on Never Surrender that doesn't have any bitterness in its lyrics.
Despite its chart success, All the Way was rarely played live (only a handful of appearances on the Never Surrender tour) and does not appear on any of Triumph's compilation albums, so the band does not seem to consider it one of their greatest hits.
https://open.spotify.com/track/3l65YbrbUVNrK12hgYeTIb?si=dd1b86a85ba44901
34. New York City Streets, Part 1
Album: Rock & Roll Machine (Canadian version, 1977)
Writer: Gil Moore
Lead vocals: Gil Moore
Chart History: None
Video?: No
Lyrical category: Vaguely political
Before starting my listening for this countdown, I had never heard any of the songs from Triumph's first two Canada-only albums that did not make the cut for the US/International debut album, which consisted of four songs from each of the two Canadian records. Of those, "New York City Streets, Part 1" was the biggest surprise. It sounds like nothing else in the Triumph catalog, not even its "Part 2" companion, and I am fascinated by it.
Instead of a Triumph song, "New York City Streets, Part 1" sounds like something my MAD 1 artist Chicago would have put out between 1975 and 1980, but without horns. It also may be the only Triumph track where professional backup singers play a prominent role -- typically they were employed to add on to the band's harmonies or to provide something wordless and atmospheric, but here they engage in a call-and-response with Gil Moore to thrilling effect. The track culminates in one of Rik Emmett's jazziest guitar solos, sounding not unlike some of Terry Kath's contributions to the final Chicago albums he appeared on before his death.
For the Canadian Rock & Roll Machine album, Moore wrote two separate and distinct songs about the dangers of the streets in New York City -- which was a much scarier place in the '70s than it is now -- but the lyrical theme is the only thing they share. "Part 2," sung by Emmett at his most Geddy Lee-like, is a more typical Triumph rocker of the time, and one of its riffs borrows from Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein".
Setlist records for Triumph's early years are extremely spotty, but we know both parts were performed live at times in the late '70s. Their last known appearance is in 1981 in Toronto.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nInC1oSpICIT2wr3jS8tw?si=4a2aa0880fee4178
If you want to check out Part 2, which did not make my top 36, it's here: https://open.spotify.com/track/71z2nPVLDnpw6yvxEoaSxa?si=18b86a3d1d794272
35. Headed for Nowhere
Album: Surveillance (1987)
Writers: Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, Gil Moore and Rick Santers
Lead vocals: Gil Moore
Chart History: None
Video?: No
Lyrical category: Vague enough to interpret as Love/lust/breakup or Vaguely political
Triumph did not deploy big-name guest stars on its albums, but the closest it came was on Surveillance, where prog guitar legend Steve Morse -- then of Kansas, previously of the Dixie Dregs and the Steve Morse Band, and later of Deep Purple -- showed up to trade electric licks with Rik Emmett on "Headed for Nowhere" and acoustic licks on "All the King's Horses," which he co-wrote (and is not in my top 36).
"Headed for Nowhere" cemented its place in my top 36 due to the instrumental passage that starts at the 3-minute mark, in which Emmett and Morse trade solos fiercely but never get in each other's way. The fireworks resume for the coda starting around 5:30.
The song also boasts one of Gil Moore's most anguished vocals, as he renounces someone -- it's not clear whether it's an ex-lover, a former friend, someone in the music industry, a cult leader or what -- and sounds really pained about it.
"Headed for Nowhere" has one documented live performance, at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1988.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fQYb7MV6zVWQoJ49BxrGM?si=6bda19206b074930
36. Hard Road
Album: Progressions of Power (1980)
Writers: Rik Emmett, Mike Levine and Gil Moore
Lead vocals: Rik Emmett
Chart History: None
Video?: No
Lyrical category: Vaguely political
"Hard Road," Progressions of Power's closer, is an early example of Rik Emmett's "ordinary person against the world" theme he returned to consistently throughout his tenure in Triumph. In the acoustic coda, Emmett sings that your hard work may go unrewarded at the time, but in the end, it will be remembered fondly.
Before we get to that, though, we have a number of thrilling riffs and soaring harmonies. Emmett's voice gets really high at the end of the bridge just before the guitar solos, foreshadowing some of the peaks that were to come on the band's next album, Allied Forces.
There are no documented live performances of "Hard Road." The layers of guitars that appear in the instrumental passage in the middle of the song probably have a lot to do with that.
https://open.spotify.com/track/094DFy5iiqAkw125uahFHr?si=d4f5bbd003dd49d0
32. Rock Out, Roll On
Album: Thunder Seven (1984)
Writers: Rik Emmett, Mike Levine and Gil Moore
Lead vocals: Rik Emmett
Chart History: None
Video?: No
Lyrical categories: Rocking out / Inspirational/hockey coach
Rock Out, Roll On is as good as an example as any of where Triumph's sound was at the dawn of its new contract with MCA. More synths are in the mix than with their previous material, but they don't take over the mix. Rik Emmett's guitar riffs and Mike Levine's melodic bass parts are at the forefront, and Emmett's impassioned vocal and guitar solo really grab your attention.
The song functions as both an ode to rocking out and a pep talk for struggling/exhausted musicians, and has a particularly compelling bridge: "A chance will surely come your way/To say the things you need to say/To play like no one else has played/And blow them away".
Rock Out, Roll On appeared in some setlists on the Thunder Seven tour, but not after that.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oInPqAOhbXgKJt1q9Z6Vz?si=1d3b7084650447a4
33. All the Way
Album: Never Surrender (Canada 1982, US 1983)
Writers: Rik Emmett, Mike Levine and Gil Moore
Lead vocals: Rik Emmett
Chart History: US Mainstream Rock #2
Video?: No
Lyrical category: Inspirational/hockey coach
All the Way charted higher on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart (known at the time as Top Rock Tracks) than any other Triumph song, but its popularity must have varied greatly by market. It did not have a video and the FM stations in Philly didn't play it, so I never heard it until I got Never Surrender on cassette.
But I can see why it caught on elsewhere. The riffs come hard and fast, the chorus is instantly memorable, and Rik Emmett's guitar solo boasts some really fast fretwork. And it may be the only track on Never Surrender that doesn't have any bitterness in its lyrics.
Despite its chart success, All the Way was rarely played live (only a handful of appearances on the Never Surrender tour) and does not appear on any of Triumph's compilation albums, so the band does not seem to consider it one of their greatest hits.
https://open.spotify.com/track/3l65YbrbUVNrK12hgYeTIb?si=dd1b86a85ba44901
34. New York City Streets, Part 1
Album: Rock & Roll Machine (Canadian version, 1977)
Writer: Gil Moore
Lead vocals: Gil Moore
Chart History: None
Video?: No
Lyrical category: Vaguely political
Before starting my listening for this countdown, I had never heard any of the songs from Triumph's first two Canada-only albums that did not make the cut for the US/International debut album, which consisted of four songs from each of the two Canadian records. Of those, "New York City Streets, Part 1" was the biggest surprise. It sounds like nothing else in the Triumph catalog, not even its "Part 2" companion, and I am fascinated by it.
Instead of a Triumph song, "New York City Streets, Part 1" sounds like something my MAD 1 artist Chicago would have put out between 1975 and 1980, but without horns. It also may be the only Triumph track where professional backup singers play a prominent role -- typically they were employed to add on to the band's harmonies or to provide something wordless and atmospheric, but here they engage in a call-and-response with Gil Moore to thrilling effect. The track culminates in one of Rik Emmett's jazziest guitar solos, sounding not unlike some of Terry Kath's contributions to the final Chicago albums he appeared on before his death.
For the Canadian Rock & Roll Machine album, Moore wrote two separate and distinct songs about the dangers of the streets in New York City -- which was a much scarier place in the '70s than it is now -- but the lyrical theme is the only thing they share. "Part 2," sung by Emmett at his most Geddy Lee-like, is a more typical Triumph rocker of the time, and one of its riffs borrows from Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein".
Setlist records for Triumph's early years are extremely spotty, but we know both parts were performed live at times in the late '70s. Their last known appearance is in 1981 in Toronto.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nInC1oSpICIT2wr3jS8tw?si=4a2aa0880fee4178
If you want to check out Part 2, which did not make my top 36, it's here: https://open.spotify.com/track/71z2nPVLDnpw6yvxEoaSxa?si=18b86a3d1d794272
35. Headed for Nowhere
Album: Surveillance (1987)
Writers: Rik Emmett, Mike Levine, Gil Moore and Rick Santers
Lead vocals: Gil Moore
Chart History: None
Video?: No
Lyrical category: Vague enough to interpret as Love/lust/breakup or Vaguely political
Triumph did not deploy big-name guest stars on its albums, but the closest it came was on Surveillance, where prog guitar legend Steve Morse -- then of Kansas, previously of the Dixie Dregs and the Steve Morse Band, and later of Deep Purple -- showed up to trade electric licks with Rik Emmett on "Headed for Nowhere" and acoustic licks on "All the King's Horses," which he co-wrote (and is not in my top 36).
"Headed for Nowhere" cemented its place in my top 36 due to the instrumental passage that starts at the 3-minute mark, in which Emmett and Morse trade solos fiercely but never get in each other's way. The fireworks resume for the coda starting around 5:30.
The song also boasts one of Gil Moore's most anguished vocals, as he renounces someone -- it's not clear whether it's an ex-lover, a former friend, someone in the music industry, a cult leader or what -- and sounds really pained about it.
"Headed for Nowhere" has one documented live performance, at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1988.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fQYb7MV6zVWQoJ49BxrGM?si=6bda19206b074930
36. Hard Road
Album: Progressions of Power (1980)
Writers: Rik Emmett, Mike Levine and Gil Moore
Lead vocals: Rik Emmett
Chart History: None
Video?: No
Lyrical category: Vaguely political
"Hard Road," Progressions of Power's closer, is an early example of Rik Emmett's "ordinary person against the world" theme he returned to consistently throughout his tenure in Triumph. In the acoustic coda, Emmett sings that your hard work may go unrewarded at the time, but in the end, it will be remembered fondly.
Before we get to that, though, we have a number of thrilling riffs and soaring harmonies. Emmett's voice gets really high at the end of the bridge just before the guitar solos, foreshadowing some of the peaks that were to come on the band's next album, Allied Forces.
There are no documented live performances of "Hard Road." The layers of guitars that appear in the instrumental passage in the middle of the song probably have a lot to do with that.
https://open.spotify.com/track/094DFy5iiqAkw125uahFHr?si=d4f5bbd003dd49d0
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Never heard the first three before. They're all quite pleasant.Last 5 Out:
36.
Song: Love is Everywhere (Beware)
Performed by: Wilco
Album: Ode To Joy
Year: 2019
Ode to Joy is the eleventh studio album by Wilco, released on October 4, 2019. "Love Is Everywhere (Beware)" was the lead single released prior to the album, and the song eventually made its way onto a national television commercial (for what product? damn, if I remember)
35.
Song: Ted Lasso Theme Song
Performed by: Jeff Tweedy
Album: Ted Lasso: Season 2 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
Year: 2021
I don't remember this song from the show, let alone it being the theme song, but usurpingly it showed up in my Spotify algorithms. The song is as cool and as sweet as the show.
Ted Lasso Theme
Jeff Tweedy · Ted Lasso: Season 2 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) · Song · 2021
34.
Song: Summer Noon
Performed by: Tweedy
Album: Sukierae
Year: 2014
Sukierae is the debut album by Tweedy, a side project formed by Jeff Tweedy and his son Spencer. It is a double album featuring 20 new songs. I won tickets to come see Jeff and his son be interviewed and play a few songs in the Sirius Radio studios. It was a very cool experience, made a bit more surreal when Chris "Mad Dog" Russo walked by the stands where we were sitting and listening.
33.
Song: Far Far Away
Performed by: Wilco
Album: Being There
Year: 1996
Being There is the second studio album by Wilco, released on October 29, 1996, by Reprise Records. Despite its release as a double album, Being There was sold at a single album price as a result of a deal between lead singer Jeff Tweedy and the band's label Reprise Records. The album took it's name from the Peter Sellers movie of the same name.
32.
Song: Humming Bird
Performed by: Wilco
Album: A Ghost is Born
Year: 2004
A Ghost Is Born is Wilco's fifth studio album, released on June 22, 2004, by Nonesuch Records. It features singer Jeff Tweedy on lead guitar more than any previous Wilco album. Leroy Bach who played guitar and other instruments in the band left after the recording of this album and was replaced by Nels Cline for the subsequent tour who became a permanent member as the band's lead guitarist, A Ghost is Born was an even further departure from their Alt-Country roots and was a sonic force, despite the quiet nature of this song.
IIRC Glenn Kotche got the invite to join Wilco because he was Spencer's drum teacher. Tweedy fired original drummer Ken Coomer at the beginning of the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sessions and Wilco needed a replacement on short notice.
Being There was an album I played constantly when it came out. By the mid '90s, few bands were putting out albums as diverse and warmly produced as that. Far, Far Away is one of its best acoustic songs.
Tweedy took guitar lessons from Television's Tom Verlaine before the A Ghost Is Born sessions, and you can hear Verlaine's influence throughout the record (on which Bach mostly played keys). It was also a natural sound for Nels Cline to slip into on the subsequent tour and thereafter. The first time I saw the new lineup with Cline and Sansone, they opened with Hummingbird, which is one of their most Beatlesque songs.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Damnation. The songs are in the Thunderdome now. This is pretty hard. I new it would be, but this is ridiculous. I may have to turn in my list tomorrow.
Zegras11
Footballguy
The show was awesome. You guys will hopefully be pleasantly surprised with my list. They grow on you quickly.
I've always loved violins in rock music.
So one of the funny things, because I've gone through all their songs like five times the last ten days. I get to the show and there is no mention online, when buying the tickets, or when I walked in, that there was going to be a warmup band.
I printed and brought with me their setlist from two days. ago. This band starts playing and they didn't announce the band name. And I'm scrambling in the dark trying to find the song titles on the setlist print out and am getting nothing until after the fifth song played, I ask the waitress if this is a warm up band LOL. I had scored all five songs for my 1-31, with notes. LOLOLOLOL, thinking it was Airborne.
The name of the band was, "Brigitt Call Me Baby," and they were very good.
I was on the first table in the balcony. Great seats. The mixers booth was in front and below me. After the show, I asked for and received the printed set list for the show used in the mixers booh, which was wayyyyyy different than the one two days ago, and a major surprise because the setlist has been almost the same for weeks.
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Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Also, plausible deniability.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
The independent radio stations I frequent play the hell out of that artist. Unique sound. I think the lead singer is the "band" and uses backing musicians. @Pip's Invitation , do you know? XPN plays him/them a LOT.
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Socialism for Dummies
For Robyn Ive still got to get 50 down to 31 and yes @New Binky the Doormat that one is still in the running.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I see you are also having a song battle. This artist really interests me, so make 'em good.
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