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[Eephus]

I've probably averaged about two hours each shuffling through #28, #26, #25 & #24. There are definitely some weird segues; it's hard to top Tchaikovsky to Kid Rock.

I'm just walking the dog and listening uncritically so I don't have any favorites to post. The Incubus songs I've heard have been more varied and interesting than I expected. Enjoying the deep cuts from the Jam and Faith No More. I've never really listened much to Sufjan Stevens and Roger Clyne's and David Berman's bands so I've been enjoying those too.

The one song that prompted me to listen to the whole album was "Going Down Slowly" by The Pointer Sisters. I'd never listened to Steppin' before. About two-thirds of it was terrific Funk jams with a few schmaltzy ballads thrown in to interrupt the groove.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

The Pointer Sisters have lots more cool stuff coming up. I'm glad you liked it so far.

 

[jwb]

It Doesn’t Matter

It Doesn't Matter

Stephen Stills · Song · 1972

open.spotify.com

One thing both Stills and Neil needed was control. They had their ideas, and that was that. Together (and with Nash and Crosby) it didn't work well - too much pushback with a lot of fighting. But solo was a different story. Neil had Crazy Horse, a band that would listen to him without question, and Stills put together Manassas, which had some familiar names (drummer Dallas Taylor, Chris Hillman of the Byrds). Manassas was much more of a band, even though Stills was clearly the leader and somewhat of a taskmaster - he essentially lived in the studio, sometimes logging 80 to 100 hours at a clip.

Manassas only released two albums before other committments broke the band up, but they were really good. No big radio hits (this song, It Doesn't Matter", was probably the biggest) but their double album debut belongs in any enthusiasts collection.

 

[Zegras11]

Happy Birthday Tom Petty. Miss ya

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Round 24

Top 5 Songs "New To Me"

1. Carnation - The Jam
2. Set Out Running - Neko Case
3. Heirloom - Sufjan Stevens
4. Secret World - Tears For Fears
5. She Knows - Thin Lizzy

Top 5 Songs "Known To Me"

1. Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
2. Louisiana Rain - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
3. It Doesn't Matter - Manassas
4. Parlor - Nathaniel Ratliff & The Night Sweats
5. Stone Cold - Rainbow

Other Notes

• We're back! This was a great round for old and new songs. Had to leave off some songs I really loved from both lists.
• Margaritaville really is a great song, but over-played fatigue is a real thing.
• I did really like the Mastadon song again this round - it rocked and vocals were subdued (relatively speaking).
• A few ill-advised cover songs this round. Both were interesting, but left me wanting the real thing.
• If there's anyone out there that doesn't like Tom Petty, I don't want to know you. Miss you dearly, Tommy.

 

[jwb]

Margaritaville really is a great song, but over-played fatigue is a real thing.

I still never turn it off. All time classic that I've heard way too many times. But one more time won't hurt.

 

[falguy]

I'm all caught up!!! ( At least for 24 hours.)

I liked the 24s a lot. Much more so than the previous 2, anyway. Added a bunch of New to Me's to my Favorites:

Mr. Swan
I Had This Thing
Stagger Lee - This reminded me of Red Right Hand (from Peaky Blinders)
Again Tonight - Don't think I've heard it before but it's prototypical JMC
Parlor - Loved this one. Similar to the 2 Rateliff songs that I know well that will be coming up at some point I'm sure.
She KNows
Secret World
Please Don't Bury Me - Have to be in the right mood for Mr. Prine but when I am I will be listening to lots of these types of tunes
Sugar Pie Honey Bunch - (Know the song, not this version) I typically don't like covers all that much as I almost always prefer the original but I liked Kid Rock's version

Known
Margarittaville - as mentioned previously I love this song. Makes me happy. One more listen won't hurt.
Ashes to Ashes - One of my top 2 or 3 Bowie songs

A number of others I enjoyed as well.

 

[KarmaPolice]

For anybody clicking on the Youtube for listens, I will say that the weekend Mastodon video is funny as hell to me, but probably a bit NSFW and would probably be an uncomfortable view with others around if you don't know what's coming.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

It Doesn’t Matter

It Doesn't Matter

Stephen Stills · Song · 1972

open.spotify.com

One thing both Stills and Neil needed was control. They had their ideas, and that was that. Together (and with Nash and Crosby) it didn't work well - too much pushback with a lot of fighting. But solo was a different story. Neil had Crazy Horse, a band that would listen to him without question, and Stills put together Manassas, which had some familiar names (drummer Dallas Taylor, Chris Hillman of the Byrds). Manassas was much more of a band, even though Stills was clearly the leader and somewhat of a taskmaster - he essentially lived in the studio, sometimes logging 80 to 100 hours at a clip.

Manassas only released two albums before other committments broke the band up, but they were really good. No big radio hits (this song, It Doesn't Matter", was probably the biggest) but their double album debut belongs in any enthusiasts collection.

The first Manassas album is arguably Stills' greatest accomplishment outside of his best work with Buffalo Springfield and CSN(Y). It has astonishing depth and variety.

The second one isn't very good. You can tell they were doing a lot of drugs.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

24. Carnation
Album: The Gift (1982)
Released as a single? No

As much as I like the music of Carnation, more than any other it is a top 31 Jam song of mine because of its lyrics. It sports some of the most self-loathing lines you will ever hear:

If you gave me a fresh carnation
I would only crush its tender petals
With me you'll have no escape
And at the same time there'll be nowhere to settle -
I trample down all life in my wake
I eat it up and take the cake
I just avert my eyes to the pain
Of someone's loss helping my gain
If you gave me a dream for my pocket
You'd be plugging in the wrong socket
With me there's no room for the future
With me there's no room with a view at all -
I am out of season all year 'round
Hear machinery roar to my empty sound
Touch my heart and feel winter
Hold my hand and be doomed forever -
If you gave me a fresh carnation
I would only crush its tender petals
With me you'll have no escape
And at the same time there'll be nowhere to settle.
And if you're wondering by now who I am
Look no further than the mirror -
Because I am the Greed and Fear
And every ounce of Hate in you.

While the lyrics are overtly about personal emotions, certain lines do make you wonder whether Margaret Thatcher and the people who supported her government were in the back of Paul Weller's mind when he wrote this -- "With me there's no room for the future" is the kind of line that showed up in his more overtly political songs. And yet, the bouncy bass line, jaunty acoustic guitar and excellent vocal melody is enough to make you forget all of the doom that Weller is describing. Liam Gallagher covered this, which tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUQhdF_kAFI

The Guardian ranked Weller's 30 greatest songs and put Carnation at #21, writing:

The biggest singles band of their era – four of them went to No 1 – the Jam were also extremely adept at hiding incredible songs away on their albums. Case in point, Carnation’s gently psychedelic Beatles-soul hybrid, topped off with an extraordinary self-baiting lyric.

The Gift was The Jam's first album to go to No. 1 in the U.K., and ended up being their final LP, as Paul Weller decided to disband the group during the tour for it. It leaned heavily into the overt R&B and funk arrangements the band had started to deploy on some of its singles the year before, and as such sounds starkly different from the band's other 5 full-lengths. While there is plenty of Northern soul, jazz and other elements not displayed much previously, it does still rock out in spots. The title track, which closes the album, could even pass for something on In the City if it were played a little more amateurishly. The record's biggest hit, Town Called Malice, became by far their most successful song in the U.S., and another one of its songs set the record for best-selling import single in the U.K., surpassing another Jam track from two years before. But it also reflected tension in the band. Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler wanted to retain more of the punk/Mod elements that had been the band's calling card, and the more successful the band got, the more intense pressure the band's label put on Weller to produce material. Eventually he decided he'd had enough and wanted to explore soul/funk/R&B without the brand name of one of the biggest acts in the country and the burden that comes with that.

Ted Leo owes much of his sound to this album, to the point where his first band, Chisel, had a song called "Ripping off 'The Gift'".

Polydor released a live album called Dig the New Breed almost immediately after The Jam broke up, and it included Carnation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6zn3j4dh70
Weller's Days of Speed acoustic live album (2001) documented the tour where he finally got comfortable playing Jam and Style Council songs again, and it also included Carnation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivGOUV91z1k

At #23, the song that is so Beatlesque that you might think it's a parody, but is so well-executed that I couldn't omit it from this list.

 

[JMLs secret identity]

edit. To be filled in later

 

[Zegras11]

#23's PLAYLIST

		#23 -
Prince	Ramsay Hunt Experience	Soft and Wet Soft and Wet Prince · Song · 1978 open.spotify.com Prince - "Soft And Wet" (live Columbia 1980) **HQ** Prince"Soft And Wet" LIVECarolina Coliseum, Columbia, South CarolinaMarch 16th, 1980soundboardLyrics:Hey, lover, I got a sugarcaneThat I want to lose in youB... youtu.be
Tanya Donelly	plinko	Pretty Deep Lovesongs for Underdogs, 1997 Pretty Deep Tanya Donelly · Song · 1997 open.spotify.com
Talking Heads	kupcho1	I Zimbra I Zimbra Talking Heads · Song · 1979 open.spotify.com
Sia Furler	Scoresman	I Go To Sleep I Go To Sleep Sia · Song · 2008 open.spotify.com
Los Lobos	eephus	Malaque Malaque Los Lobos · Song · 2002 open.spotify.com
The Seldom Scene	Charlie Steiner	Hello Mary Lou Hello Mary Lou Provided to YouTube by Entertainment One Distribution USHello Mary Lou · Seldom SceneAct Two℗ Rebel Records LlcReleased on: 2005-04-19Auto-generated by YouTube. www.youtube.com
Kid Rock	snellman	Cowboy (NSFW) Cowboy Kid Rock · Song · 1998 open.spotify.com
Against Me!	scorchy	Transgender Dysphoria Blues Transgender Dysphoria Blues Against Me! · Song · 2014 open.spotify.com
Mastodon	KarmaPolice	The Motherload The Motherload Mastodon · Song · 2014 open.spotify.com Mastodon - The Motherload [Official Music Video] Watch the official music video for The Motherload by Mastodon from the album Once More ’Round the Sun.🔔 Subscribe to the channel: https://youtube.com/mastod... www.youtube.com
Neko Case	Mister CIA	I Wish I Was The Moon Neko Case - "I Wish I Was the Moon" (Full Album Stream) Listen to the full album: https://antircrds.io/3bTXcUi"I Wish I Was the Moon" by @nekocaseofficial from the album 'Blacklisted'Order, stream & download at ht... www.youtube.com
Faith No More	JBBreakfastClub	the Gentle Art of Making Enemies The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Faith No More · Song · 1995 open.spotify.com
black midi	Juxtatarot	[skip]
Nina Simone	Don Quixote	Lilac Wine, from Wild is the Wind Nina Simone - Lilac Wine (Audio) "Lilac Wine" by Nina Simone from the album “Wild Is The Wind.” Subscribe and ring the bell to never miss an update: https://NinaSimone.lnk.to/NinaSimoneYoutu... youtu.be Lilac Wine Nina Simone · Song · 1966 open.spotify.com
Beastie Boys	Yo Mama	The New Style The New Style Beastie Boys · Song · 1986 open.spotify.com
Drive-By Truckers	Dr. Octopus	Hell No, I Ain't Happy Hell No, I Ain't Happy Drive-By Truckers · Song · 2003 open.spotify.com
Jimmy Buffet	-OZ-	Coconut Telegraph Coconut Telegraph Jimmy Buffett · Song · 1981 open.spotify.com Jimmy Buffett - Coconut Telegraph 2016 - I Don't Know TourJimmy Buffett"Coconut Telegraph"Cincinnati, OHRiverbend Music Center06/21/2016Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/margaritaville/Twitte... www.youtube.com
The Jam	Pip's Invitation	Start! Start! The Jam · Song · 2015 open.spotify.com
Röyksopp	JMLs secret identity	23 - Meatball (Instrumental) Röyksopp - Meatball Röyksopp's personal contribution to their 'Back To Mine' mix album under the pseudonym 'Emmanuel Splice'. This is a remix / edit of Mike Oldfield's 'North St... m.youtube.com
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	salteriffic	Sorrow's child https://open.spotify.com/track/3pzvnshVv1OAQonlJlM0To?si=51327fa7ce494b6e
CSNY	jwb	Cowboy Movie Cowboy Movie David Crosby · Song · 1971 open.spotify.com
Roger Clyne	Mt. Man	I Know You Know I Know You Know Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers · Song · 2008 open.spotify.com
David Berman	The Dreaded Marco	Horseleg Swastikas Silver Jews - Horseleg Swastikas great mid-album track from the joos' 4th full-length, /bright flight/, 2001, drag city www.youtube.com
David Bowie	Binky the Doormat	Diamond Dogs Diamond Dogs (2016 Remaster) Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKDiamond Dogs (2016 Remaster) · David BowieDiamond Dogs℗ 1974, 2016 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Co., LLC under exclusiv... www.youtube.com
Pointer Sisters	Mrs. Rannous	Should I Do It The Pointer Sisters - Should I Do It Music video by The Pointer Sisters performing Should I Do It. (C) 1981 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainmenthttp://vevo.ly/5QBZF5 www.youtube.com Should I Do It The Pointer Sisters · Song · 1981 open.spotify.com
Incubus	MAC_32	Take Me To Your Leader Take Me to Your Leader Incubus · Song · 1997 open.spotify.com
John Mellencamp	tuffnutt	Jackie Brown John Mellencamp - Jackie Brown Music video by John Mellencamp performing Jackie Brown. (C) 1989 John Mellencamp under exclusive license to the Island Def Jam Music Group#JohnMellencamp #Ja... www.youtube.com
Sufjan Stevens	Ilov80s	Mercury Mercury Bryce Dessner, James McAlister, Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens · Song · 2017 open.spotify.com
Mike Shinoda	Just Win Baby	One Step Closer One Step Closer [Official HD Music Video] - Linkin Park Watch the official HD music video for One Step Closer by Linkin Park from the album Hybrid Theory.----------Papercuts - Singles Collection (2000-2023) | Avai... www.youtube.com
Chris Cornell	Raging Weasel	Sound Of A Gun Sound Of A Gun Audioslave · Song · 2006 open.spotify.com
Josh Homme	titusbramble	First It Giveth First It Giveth Queens of the Stone Age · Song · 2002 open.spotify.com
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	AAABatteries	You Should've Seen the Other Guy You Should've Seen The Other Guy Nathaniel Rateliff · Song · 2017 open.spotify.com You Should've Seen The Other Guy (Live) Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupYou Should've Seen The Other Guy (Live) · Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night SweatsLive At Red Rocksâ 2017 Bottleneck... youtu.be
Kim Mitchell	Sullie	Karoke Queen Karoke Queen Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupKaroke Queen · Kim MitchellItch℗ 1994 Alert Music Inc.Released on: 1994-01-01Auto-generated by YouTube. www.youtube.com
Thin Lizzy	zamboni	The Boys Are Back In Town The Boys Are Back In Town Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThe Boys Are Back In Town · Thin LizzyJailbreakâ 1976 Mercury Records LimitedReleased on: 1990-03-05Associated P... www.youtube.com
Collective Soul	falguy	Compliment Compliment Collective Soul · Song · 1999 open.spotify.com
Tears for Fears	John Maddens Lunchbox	The Hurting (Vocals Roland and Curt) The Hurting Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThe Hurting · Tears For FearsThe Hurting℗ 1983 Mercury Records LimitedReleased on: 1999-01-01Producer, Associated... m.youtube.com
Cheap Trick	FairWarning	Need Your Love Need Your Love Cheap Trick · Song · 1979 open.spotify.com
John Prine	landrys hat	Clock and Spoons Clocks and Spoons John Prine · Song · 1972 open.spotify.com
Ben Folds	Hov34	Don't Change Your Plans Don't Change Your Plans Ben Folds Five · Song · 1999 open.spotify.com
Tom Petty	Zegras11	Mary Jane's Last Dance Mary Jane's Last Dance Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers · Song · 2008 open.spotify.com
Scott Hutchison	sneveneleven	Music Now Frightened Rabbit - Music Now (Live on KEXP) http://KEXP.ORG presents Frightened Rabbit performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded on October 15, 2012.Host: Cheryl WatersAudio Engineer: Jackson LongCa... www.youtube.com
The New Pornographers	Northern Voice	Twin Cinema Twin Cinema The New Pornographers · Song · 2005 open.spotify.com
John Lee Hooker	DrIan Malcolm	I Got a Letter I Got A Letter (This Morning) John Lee Hooker · Song · 1962 open.spotify.com
Rainbow	Sam Quentin	Death Alley Driver https://spotify.link/oCTIHaCxyDb
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	zazale	Capriccio italien, Op. 45, TH 47 Capriccio italien, Op. 45, TH 47 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev · Song · 2015 open.spotify.com

 

[Zegras11]

Thin Lizzy

zamboni

The Boys Are Back In Town The Boys Are Back In Town Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThe Boys Are Back In Town · Thin LizzyJailbreakâ 1976 Mercury Records LimitedReleased on: 1990-03-05Associated P... www.youtube.com

#23???? This is Sugar Mountain level absurdity!!

 

[Pip's Invitation]

23. Taxman Start!
Album: Sound Affects (1980)
Released as a single? Yes (UK #1)

Here it is, @krista4 . The lead single from Sound Affects, The Jam's second UK #1, is so much of a Beatles homage (parody?) that I had to think long and hard about whether to include it in my top 31. But the performance is so well-executed and the non-Beatles elements are so good that I had to find room for it. The obvious thing to say here is that some of the guitar and bass parts are lifted wholesale from Taxman.

Bruce Foxton told MusicRadar: "We were listening a lot to The Beatles' Revolver album. It wasn't intentional, but 'Taxman' subconsciously went in and when we came up with the idea for 'Start!' that's what went in. It isn’t exactly the same thankfully, otherwise I'm sure Paul McCartney would have thought about suing us!"

Paul Weller told the authors of 1000 UK #1 Hits: "I thought it was all a bit stupid, the riff thing doesn't bother me at all. I use anything and I don't really care whether people think it's credible or not, or if I'm credible to do it. If it suits me, I do it."

Also helping them out was that George Harrison, who as the author of Taxman was actually the one who had standing to sue, was embroiled in his own plagiarism lawsuit at the time and accusing someone else of doing what he was accused of probably would not have helped his legal case, or at least the optics around it. I'm not aware what George thought of the song, or if he even heard it.

The lyrics were inspired by George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. "There is a lot of talk of an egalitarian society where all people are equal but this was it, actually in existence, which, for me, is something that is very hard to imagine," Weller said in 1000 UK #1 Hits.

It doesn't matter if we never meet again
What we have said will always remain
If we get through for two minutes only
It will be a start

Weller and Foxton reprise the Taxman guitar and bass parts expertly, but Rick Buckler's drumming is what really stands out here. His fills cut through everything like a buzzsaw. The "if I never ever see you" bridge is blissfully exquisite and the trumpets that show up in the end accentuate the band's looming turn towards more overt R&B.

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8AOkbfgNE
Dig the New Breed version -- I love how the crowd comes in on the "agaaaaaain" part in the bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7DFE4rembk
Start! was one of the two songs The Jam played in one of their few U.S. TV appearances, on Fridays, ABC's knockoff of Saturday Night Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZMmfaR7rE
Fire and Skill 1980 disc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbXzrY3KXcU
Fire and Skill 1982 disc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E0FCwka81o
Demo version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTy2h6c3tiU

At #22, a track that showed that while Weller could get pretty radical in his politics, he did not care for nihilism and violence. Also, as I found 22 covers the band performed, I will start spotlighting them one at a time, as none made my top 31.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I've gotten way behind on the playlists due to work, fantasy football, the baseball playoffs and Survivor and its related podcasts, so I'm gonna run off the known-to-me favorites since I last checked in at #27. I'll weigh in with new-to-me favorites when I can, but my business trip next week won't help as far as catching up goes.

#26:
Chicago (Graham Nash, not Sufjan Stevens, which was a different playlist)
Starman
Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart
Video
Handle with Care -- Petty performed this at all three shows of his that I saw, even though it's more associated with George Harrison and Roy Orbison
My Rights Versus Yours
Street of Dreams

#25:
The Book I Read
Carry On
Young Americans
Your Life Is Now
Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye
Donald and Lydia
A Thing About You
Mr. Lucky

#24:
Houses in Motion -- yes, I was the one who said all of Remain in Light might be in my top 31 Talking Heads
Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
It Doesn't Matter
Ashes to Ashes
Louisiana Rain
Stone Cold

#23:
Soft and Wet
I Zimbra -- the prototype for Remain in Light
Cowboy Movie
Diamond Dogs
Should I Do It
Jackie Brown
Sound of a Gun
The Boys Are Back in Town
Mary Jane's Last Dance -- possibly a top 5 Petty for me
Twin Cinema
Death Alley Driver

 

[Scoresman]

Sia Chronological #23: I Go To Sleep

Scoresman Rank # 6

Does it count as a cover if the artist who wrote the original never actually recorded it? That is the case here. This song was composed by Ray Davies of MAD31's first round band The Kinks. This has been covered by other artists such as Cher and The Pretenders, but the Kinks never actually recorded or released it themselves.

Sia's version doesn't stray too far from The Pretender's version which is probably the most popular rendition of the song. I do feel her haunting vocals on this track make it my favorite version of the song. Just a great, chill tune.

With this song, we're now at Sia's fourth studio album, and my personal favorite, Some People Have Real Problems.

 

[Yo Mama]

Beastie Boys #23 - The New Style
Album - Licensed to Ill (1986)

Peacockin'
Ad-Rock: 3, MCA: 2, Mike D: 3, Beastie Boys: 2, Greater NYC: 3

Name Rockin'
Picasso, Jimmy Page, Colombo

Rhyme Squawkin'
Went to the prom, wore the fly blue rental
Got six girlies in my Lincoln Continental

Yo Mama Talkin'
This song (and one other further up the countdown) are really what initially drew me to the Beastie Boys, more so than their bigger radio hits. Just some classic hip-hop goodness.

The beat drop / transition at the end always gets me.

This song has some great reaction videos out there since some of their beats / change ups come out of nowhere.

(Apologies for some cringey lyrics on this one)

 

[Raging weasel]

I've also fallen way behind, just finished the 25's.
25's
Known songs
Untogether
Feel Like Making Love
Young Americans
New to me favs
Don't Lose Touch
Precious Stones
Mullet Head
I'll be There

Still liked the tracks by Sia,Neko,Nina,DBT and Incubus just not as much as the first few.

Not sure how I feel about Steve McQueen the song/poem

 

[Tau837]

I finally listened to the #25 playlist.

Excluding my own song, I already knew that I liked these songs:

• CSNY - Carry On
• David Bowie - Young Americans
• Incubus - A Kiss to Send Us Off

On first listen to this playlist, these were the unfamiliar songs I liked the best:

• Sia - The Bully
• The Seldom Scene - With Body And Soul
• Drive-By Truckers - Feb. 14
• Jimmy Buffett - Oldest Surfer On the Beach
• Royskopp - The Alcoholic - kind of surprised I'm choosing an instrumental, but really liked this
• Rainbow - Stranded

The way I decide what to highlight is that I listen to the playlist straight through, and I choose from among the songs I feel compelled to go back and listen to again.

I liked other songs I didn't highlight, they just didn't rise to the same level for me as these.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Tears For Fears
#23 - The Hurting

The Hurting

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThe Hurting · Tears For FearsThe Hurtingâ 1983 Mercury Records LimitedReleased on: 1999-01-01Producer, Associated...

m.youtube.com

Appears - The Hurting LP
Year - 1983
UK Highest Chart Position - Non Single
US Highest Chart Position -Non Single
Key Lyric - Is it an horrific dream?
Am I sinking fast?
Could a person be so mean
As to laugh and laugh

Notes
1- The Hurting was inspired musically by Curt Smith’s recollections of a show by Bristol band Electric Guitars. “Curt described their music,” Orzabal recalls, “and I wrote the guitar riff.” The song was later sampled for Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? “I found that amusing,” Smith laughs, “‘cos they didn’t invite us!”

2- This is one of the few Tears for Fears songs where both sing the verse and it works so well. A song we will see later, uses the same technique. They really should have done it more often. Roland sings the chorus or what you would call a chorus

3- I always have a fascination for Side One, track one on a debut album and this fits the bill. Its an impressive opener, but far better was contained within

Where to find
The Hurting - 2
Songs from the Big Chair - 0
The Seeds of Love - 0
Elemental - 0
Raoul and the Kings of Spain - 0
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending - 4
Ready Boys and Girls - 0
The Tipping Point - 0
Greatest Hits only - 0
B- Sides - Other/Non Album Songs - 3

Year
1981 - 0
1982 - 0
1983 - 3
1984 - 0
1985 - 0
1986 - 1
1989 - 0
1993 - 0
1995 - 1
2004 - 4
2014 - 0
2017 - 0
2021 - 0
2022 - 0

Next up we stay in the same era and Rolands passionate voice shines through. Why he never had confidence in that, I will never know.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

@Zegras11 are we locked in on 3 playlists a week?
Seems several are falling behind and that means we get less comments and less interest….maybe im wrong.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

#23 Prince -- Soft and Wet (from For You)

Prince was still a teenager when he wrote, sang, and played all the instruments for every song on his debut album for Warner Brothers (there is a co-songwriting credit for lyrics on this cut in particular, Soft and Wet). There's no band to speak of here. By his next album, he'd recruited childhood friend Andre Cymone to play bass (you're welcome, Hold Steady enthusiasts) and filled out a number of members of what would be the Revolution (Bobby Z, Dr. Fink, Dez Dickerson), most of them to tour to support For You, but none of them are evident on the recording itself. It's all Prince. I don't think the rest of the album reaches these heights, but this is one of my favorite Prince singles. One that could easily land in my Top 10. But I wanted to talk about the early stuff now, so here we are.

This does not sound like a single from (early!) 1978 to me. There's no disco horns. There really isn't a huge funk guitar line or even driving bass. It's pretty much straight synth-funk. Pure, ecstatic, horny, danceable synth-funk. Somewhat amazingly, it hit No. 12 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, and even snuck into the BIllboard Hot 100. Not bad for a 19-year old neophyte (albeit one whose demo had started a record label bidding war). His next (eponymously titled) album would go platinum. I used to think that Prince didn't really arrive as a charting artist until 1999, but he was charting pretty reliably almost from the beginning, even if he didn't have any Top 10 singles until Little Red Corvette.

 

[Tau837]

Mike Shinoda

Just Win Baby

One Step Closer One Step Closer [Official HD Music Video] - Linkin Park Watch the official HD music video for One Step Closer by Linkin Park from the album Hybrid Theory.----------Papercuts - Singles Collection (2000-2023) | Avai... www.youtube.com

One Step Closer is Linkin Park's first single ever released. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard US Mainstream Rock chart and at #5 on the Billboard US Alternative chart. Not bad for a debut single. This is the 2nd or 3rd song I have included from their debut album, Hybrid Theory, depending on if you count She Couldn't as a Hybrid Theory song or not (not on the original release but included in 20th anniversary release).

This song is somewhat famous for some of the lyrics, which Chester Bennington screams out:

SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!
SHUT UP!!!! SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!!
SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!
SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!!!
SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M ABOUT TO BREAK!!!!

I love love love this. Who among us hasn't wanted to scream something like this at someone...

Mike said this about the song:

"The song is generally about being at the end of your rope. It's very descriptive and I think that's why people gravitate towards it. It's a very self-descriptive song and it's easy to understand and probably very easy to relate to."

And this:

"The music came together quickly but the lyrics took a few tries. I wrote 'Shut Up' as a rough example for Chester to scream and we kept that lyric. I remember thinking that was a great calling-card song. It said, 'Hello, we are going to crush you.'"

Producer Don Gilmore said this:

"Chester went out and sang it and it was just overpowering... When he sang it, he just literally destroyed the whole thing and almost broke the microphone. He was just out of his mind. And the rest is history."

Chester Bennington said this in 2011:

"When we were recording it, (producer) Don Gilmore was really drilling me and Mike (Shinoda) about lyrics, and it had gotten to the point where we had rewritten some songs 30 times! I remember walking into the control room, handing Don the lyrics and he grabbed them, passed them in front of his face without even looking, handed them back to me, and told me to do it again. I lost my ****ing mind, thinking, 'This guy's a ****ing maniac!' But that kind of inspired the lyrics - 'I cannot take this anymore/I'm saying everything I've said before/ All these words make no sense,' and the chorus, 'Everything you say to me takes me one step closer to the edge.' - it all came from that frustration. So I guess in the end he inspired me the way he wanted to."

In 2021, Kerrang ranked the top 20 Linkin Park songs of all time and ranked One Step Closer at #4. Here is their description of the song from that ranking:

On one hand, Hybrid Theory’s lead single did little to foreshadow Linkin Park’s full, genre-trampling potential. Boiled down, this was nu-metal in its purest form, with Chester’s immortal ‘SHUT UP WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!’ (lifted from an argument with producer Don Gilmore about the song’s direction) as much of a one-line encapsulation of the genre as anything spat by Jonathan Davis, Fred Durst or David Draiman. On the other hand, though, this was the band at their absolute best, with a laser focus on world domination as those crunching guitars, scratched vinyls and earthquake drums layer up into a momentous whole – capable of levelling anything in their path. 20 years (and thousands of rock club dancefloor demolitions) later, there’s not a second of this song that feels any less urgent, heartfelt or iconic than it did back then.

In 2017, Billboard ranked the top 15 Linkin Park songs of all time and ranked One Step Closer at #4. Here is an excerpt about the song from that ranking:

If you could reduce the nu-metal era to one sound bite, it’d either be Jonathan Davis scatting in tongues, Fred Durst telling you precisely where to stick that cookie, or Chester Bennington insisting with zero room for negotiation: “SHUT UP WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!”

Again, I recommend you play this in a setting where you can turn the volume up loud.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

23. Hello Mary Lou

This is the only song on the list from their second album, Act II, released in 1973, and another one I saw them perform live several times.

Though made famous by Ricky Nelson, this song was "written" by Gene Pitney and first recorded by Johnny Duncan a year before Ricky's version. The word 'written' is in quotation marks because Pitney was sued for plagiarism due to its similarity to a song named 'Merry, Merry Lou', which had been released 3 years before Pitney wrote this one. It was also covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival and Led Zeppelin both in 1972, and also by The Statler Brothers in 1985.

Hope the short write-up isn't too much of a let-down; also, the next write-up is going to be on the short side as well. Don't worry, though, I still have a lot to say.

 

[Yo Mama]

Mike Shinoda

Just Win Baby

One Step Closer One Step Closer [Official HD Music Video] - Linkin Park Watch the official HD music video for One Step Closer by Linkin Park from the album Hybrid Theory.----------Papercuts - Singles Collection (2000-2023) | Avai... www.youtube.com

One Step Closer is Linkin Park's first single ever released. It peaked at #4 on the Billboard US Mainstream Rock chart and at #5 on the Billboard US Alternative chart. Not bad for a debut single. This is the 2nd or 3rd song I have included from their debut album, Hybrid Theory, depending on if you count She Couldn't as a Hybrid Theory song or not (not on the original release but included in 20th anniversary release).

This song is somewhat famous for a line in the lyrics, which Chester Bennington screams out:

SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!
SHUT UP!!!! SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!!
SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!
SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!!!
SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M ABOUT TO BREAK!!!!

I love love love this. Who among us hasn't wanted to scream something like this at someone...

Mike said this about the song:

"The song is generally about being at the end of your rope. It's very descriptive and I think that's why people gravitate towards it. It's a very self-descriptive song and it's easy to understand and probably very easy to relate to."

And this:

"The music came together quickly but the lyrics took a few tries. I wrote 'Shut Up' as a rough example for Chester to scream and we kept that lyric. I remember thinking that was a great calling-card song. It said, 'Hello, we are going to crush you.'"

Producer Don Gilmore said this:

"Chester went out and sang it and it was just overpowering... When he sang it, he just literally destroyed the whole thing and almost broke the microphone. He was just out of his mind. And the rest is history."

Chester Bennington said this in 2011:

"When we were recording it, (producer) Don Gilmore was really drilling me and Mike (Shinoda) about lyrics, and it had gotten to the point where we had rewritten some songs 30 times! I remember walking into the control room, handing Don the lyrics and he grabbed them, passed them in front of his face without even looking, handed them back to me, and told me to do it again. I lost my ****ing mind, thinking, 'This guy's a ****ing maniac!' But that kind of inspired the lyrics - 'I cannot take this anymore/I'm saying everything I've said before/ All these words make no sense,' and the chorus, 'Everything you say to me takes me one step closer to the edge.' - it all came from that frustration. So I guess in the end he inspired me the way he wanted to."

In 2021, Kerrang ranked the top 20 Linkin Park songs of all time and ranked One Step Closer at #4. Here is their description of the song from that ranking:

On one hand, Hybrid Theory’s lead single did little to foreshadow Linkin Park’s full, genre-trampling potential. Boiled down, this was nu-metal in its purest form, with Chester’s immortal ‘SHUT UP WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!’ (lifted from an argument with producer Don Gilmore about the song’s direction) as much of a one-line encapsulation of the genre as anything spat by Jonathan Davis, Fred Durst or David Draiman. On the other hand, though, this was the band at their absolute best, with a laser focus on world domination as those crunching guitars, scratched vinyls and earthquake drums layer up into a momentous whole – capable of levelling anything in their path. 20 years (and thousands of rock club dancefloor demolitions) later, there’s not a second of this song that feels any less urgent, heartfelt or iconic than it did back then.

In 2017, Billboard ranked the top 15 Linkin Park songs of all time and ranked One Step Closer at #4. Here is an excerpt about the song from that ranking:

If you could reduce the nu-metal era to one sound bite, it’d either be Jonathan Davis scatting in tongues, Fred Durst telling you precisely where to stick that cookie, or Chester Bennington insisting with zero room for negotiation: “SHUT UP WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!”

Again, I recommend you play this in a setting where you can turn the volume up loud.

I mentioned this before, but I’ll always cherish screaming SHUT UP WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!!!! at the top of my lungs with my kids when they were standing on their seats at their first rock concert. The best.

 

[KarmaPolice]

THE MOTHERLOAD

This is the last album of theirs I will have a song from on the playlist, leaving one of theirs untouched on purpose. This is from Once More 'Round the Sun. The title is fitting, because it's largely a repeat of The Hunter in that it's a scattershot of ideas and songs. I think it's even more of a range of weirdness and ideas. During my research phase this was one that kept climbing up my list of favorites. I dig Brann's opening and his drumming in general on this one, but what really keeps me coming back to the song is that awesome tone shift around the 2:45 that leads into the great Brent solo that starts about a minute later. It's just a bonus that the video is funny to me as well. THIS GUY is definitely not Brann, but it's another drumming rabbit hole that I've been down, and his videos sound great and showcase the drumming from different tracks than the ones Brann has posted through Meinl. What really stood out to me when I was watching these was I underestimated the snare work and the amount of ghost notes being played and how complicated some of the fills get. Again, Brann is doing this while singing - this song is 80% Brann singing. It's another I thought would have a higer chance of landing with the group as a whole. The next one from Emperor of Sand is also 80% Brann, which is a big reason these two are paired together.

 

[Mt. Man]

#23 I Know You Know (off Turbo Ocho, 2008)

(Youtube version) Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers - I Know You Know
(live version) Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers, I Know You Know in Houston

Wrote you a poem
"A little haiku
I want you under my skin
My new tattoo, yeah!"

Why I Chose It:
The shortest song on this countdown at 2:43, it’s here for a good time, not a long time. This song’s got a bit of a different vibe to it. Higher tempo, largely powerpop if you feel like defining such things. If nothing else, it serves as a good palate cleanser while tying into #22 pretty decently. Though I think this one would be able to hang around with the styles of a few other artists in the countdown. See what you think for yourself!

Bonus song:
If you like this one, check out "I do" (Live version: "I do") from the same album. There’s (not surprisingly) a mix of styles and speeds on Turbo Ocho, so I don’t want to give the impression that the album’s all like that. But those two definitely share a vibe. I’ll get into more of the story behind Turbo Ocho… sometime later in the countdown.

 

[JMLs secret identity]

Röyksopp
23 - Meatball (Instrumental)

Röyksopp - Meatball

Röyksopp's personal contribution to their 'Back To Mine' mix album under the pseudonym 'Emmanuel Splice'. This is a remix / edit of Mike Oldfield's 'North St...

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Year - 2007
Appears on - Back To Mine
Vocalist - Instrumental
Key Lyric - Instrumental

Notes
1- Back to Mineis a series of mix albums, usually mixed by DJs or composers of electronic music. The compilations usually feature artists other than the artist compiling the album, and are based on what the compiler would play in their home after a night out, rather than as part of a nightclub session.

2- This album contains songs from, among others, The Talking Heads, Edgar Winter, Mr Flagio, Art of Noise, Idris Muhammed and Funkadelic. Its really a nice listen and we get to see something from a similar concept in Late Night Tales later.

3- To get past the “feature artists other than the artist” section, Röyksopp created a pseudonym called Emmanuel Splice to do their track for this album.

4- The previous track on the album is called Platinum - Part Three Charleston by Mike Oldfield. Röyksopp did part four called North Star by Oldfield and renamed it Meatball.

5- A rare track not written by the band.

6- The film clip is such a happy joyous thing too.

Running Vocal Count
Röyksopp - 2
Robyn - 1
Gunhild Ramsay Kovacs - 1
Alison Goldfrapp - 1
Jamie Irrepressible - 1
Instrumental - 3

Where to find
Melody A.M - 0
The Understanding - 0
Röyksopp’s Night Out - 1
Back to Mine Series - 1
Junior - 0
Senior - 1
Late Night Tales Series - 0
Do It Again EP - 1
The Inevitable End - 1
Profound Mysteries I - 0
Profound Mysteries II - 0
Profound Mysteries III - 2
Other/Non Album Songs - 2

Year
1999 - 0
2001 - 0
2002 - 1
2005 - 0
2006 - 1
2007 - 1
2008 - 0
2009 - 0
2010 - 1
2013 - 0
2014 - 2
2016 - 1
2022 - 2

Next up perhaps the most revered song from the Profound Mysteries trilogy, but while i enjoy it, it takes 4 minutes to get going

 

[Mister CIA]

I'm a Nick Cave fan and I'm more familiar with his body of work than the average bear. Sorrow's Child was a fantastic discovery.

 

[snellman]

Cowboy (NSFW)

Cowboy

Kid Rock · Song · 1998

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Cowboy was the song I was first introduced to by Kid Rock. Not sure what about it attracted me, other than it was a rebel song and I was going through a stage in my life that it felt like it was me against the world. As the years have gone by, It has lost some of its luster, hence why it is lower on my list, but every once in a while I still have the urge to get in the vehicle and just crank it (even at 51)

 

[Mister CIA]

Cowboy (NSFW)

Cowboy

Kid Rock · Song · 1998

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Cowboy was the song I was first introduced to by Kid Rock. Not sure what about it attracted me, other than it was a rebel song and I was going through a stage in my life that it felt like it was me against the world. As the years have gone by, It has lost some of its luster, hence why it is lower on my list, but every once in a while I still have the urge to get in the vehicle and just crank it (even at 51)

Look at me! I'm only 51.

 

[Mister CIA]

The Boys Are Back In Town has aged well. Only 47.

 

[Mister CIA]

Clocks and Spoons is sweet AF.

 

[Mister CIA]

Ben Folds is the elixir I did not ask for.

 

[Mt. Man]

Selected favorites from the #23s. I decided to go back to a ratio of 4 favorites and 6 new songs for this round. There were simply more songs I didn’t know on this playlist, and again it was somewhat difficult to trim things down. Shuffled, because I can.
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Familiar songs:
Sorrow’s Child - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Soft and Wet - Prince
The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
First it Giveth - QotSA/Josh Homme

New discoveries:
Clocks and Spoons - John Prine
Should I Do It - Pointer Sisters
The Motherload - Mastodon
Hell No, I Ain’t Happy - Drive-By Truckers
Pretty Deep - Tanya Donelly. Today’s “maybe heard this before but can’t be sure” entry.
I Wish I Was The Moon - Neko Case

Shuffle Adventures:
Nina Simone, Linkin Park, Jimmy Buffet and then The Seldom Scene? Shuffle’s a bit all over the place. Though not unlike the regular order, in that way. Still, what would this category be without either some mood whiplash or some serendipity?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

23.

• Song: Hell No, I Ain’t Happy
• Album: Decoration Day
• Released: 2003
• Lead Vocals: Patterson Hood

This is a straight out Southern Rocker which releases Hood’s “angry southern man” personality. The boisterous song depicts both the tough life on the road with a band and the perverse love musicians have for that lifestyle.


There's a purdy little girl outside the van window
'Bout 80 cities down, 800 to go
Six crammed in, we ain't never alone
Never homesick, ain't got no home

Check my mail, if you would please, Jenn
Collect my things, well, now I'm in town again

Hell no, I ain't happy
Hell no, I ain't happy
Hell no, I ain't happy
But I get a little closer everyday
Gonna be a while 'fore I'm back your way

And I've seen just how much I can stand
One night in Kansas City we thought about killing a man
Seen my number fly by on Interstate Ten
Seen the mountains of Montana at 7 a.m.

And I keep it all together for the sake of the kids
Got your fine-*** self on the back of my lids

Hell no, I ain't happy
Hell no, I ain't happy
Hell no, I ain't happy
But I ain't too crappy

 

[tuffnutt]

28s

Favorite Known to me:

Incubus- Pantomime- Man I forgot hoe much I like these guys
Bowie- Modern Love- Great tune
Tom Petty- You got lucky- Probably top 10 Petty song for me!

Favorite New to me:
I Remember you- Silver Jews- This is the best new to me song I've heard thus far. Listened to this one half dozen times already. Just Great!
Strip Mall Parking Lot- Rise Against Great song!
As I come of Age- Pointer Sisters- I had NO idea that they had songs like this. loved it.

On to the 27s maybe I'll catch up some day

 

[tuffnutt]

23.
Jackie Brown- John Mellencamp
from Big Daddy Album

"Jackie Brown" touches on poverty and economic hardship, and the problems that remain a challenge for the U.S. government to solve. "Jackie Brown" speaks to the cycle of poverty that is the truth for many Americans... particularly Rural Americans. "What ugly truths freedom brings.. and it hasnt been very kind to you"... man what a powerful lyric.

John Himself had this to day about it..."Jackie Brown might be one of the best songs I ever wrote," he said. "It's very honest. That song's been written before, but I think I wrote it as good as anybody could write it."

 

[Don Quixote]

23. Nina Simone, Lilac Wine (from Wild is the Wind, 1966)
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Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me, I cannot see clearly
Isn't that he… coming to me… nearly here?

Another well-covered song about heartache from losing a lover and finding comfort (and getting a bit intoxicated) in drinking wine made from a lilac tree.

While there are a lot of versions of this song, the two that stand out for me are Nina Simone’s and Jeff Buckley’s from his Grace album. (For any fans of Jeff Buckley, he once described himself as, in part, “the warped lovechild of Nina Simone and all four members of Led Zeppelin…”)

This is the first song in my list from the “The Wild is the Wind” album (whose album cover is featured in my avatar). It is compiled of leftover songs from other recording sessions, but it is one of her more celebrated albums. Pitchfork ranked it the fifth best album of the 1960s, and Rolling Stone ranked it #212 on its top 500 albums of all-time list, FWIW. More from that album to come.

At #22, Nina Simone gets apocalyptic...

(I’ll add in danger of falling behind here. I had a weekend full of youth soccer activities for my kiddo, and flying to FL for a conference tomorrow morning. Will see if I can listen to some of the 23’s on the plane.)

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Yum. Caprice Italian. One of my favorites.

 

[kupcho1]

Talking Heads
#23 I Zimbra

This song is the most direct indication of where Talking Heads were headed on their next album (Remain in Light), as the African influences are front and center. I'm not sure if it is more of a reflection of how strange the late 70s were, or the nature of Talking Heads, but this song was actually released as a single (the 2nd one, I'm sure you can guess the first if you look at the track listing for Fear of Music). Keeping in the spirit of weirdness, the lyrics are "an adaptation of Dadaist* Hugo Ball's poem Gadji beri bimba." Because of course they are.

Gadji beri bimba clandridi
Lauli lonni cadori gadjam
A bim beri glassala glandride
E glassala tuffm I zimbra

* the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. (source: Wikipedia)

 

[jwb]

Cowboy Movie

Cowboy Movie

David Crosby · Song · 1971

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After Deja Vu, the four all released "solo" albums. I put solo in quotes because they generally guest-starred on each other's (predictably Neil's After the Gold Rush is easily the most solo).

Crosby's was called "If Only I could Remember My Name". He was in a dark place, grieving his girlfriend's death, and getting deep into drugs. But this is a good album, and really emphasizes his unique voice. This song is about some outlaws whose group is torn apart by a woman. It's really about Rita Coolidge, who was dating Stills but left him for a post Joni-Mitchell Nash. Lots of drama, but a decent song.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Round 23

Top 5 Songs "New To Me"

1. I Wish I Was the Moon - Neko Case
2. Twin Cinema - The New Pornographers
3. Son of a Gun - Audioslave
4. Sorrow's Child - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5. Malaque - Los Lobos

Top 5 Songs "Known To Me"

1. Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
2. You Should've Seen The Other Guy - Nathaniel Ratliff
3. I, Zimbra - Talking Heads
4. Clocks and Spoons - John Prine
5. The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy

 

[-OZ-]

As should probably be expected going forward, this was one of the best lists so far! I knew quite a few of the songs and enjoyed the majority.

Known favorites:
Hell no I ain’t happy
Mary Jane’s last dance
The boys are back
One step closer
Jackie brown

New songs;
Horse leg swastikas
I know you know
Pretty deep
Should I do it
Music now

I’d forgotten how Prince is either a home run or a miss IMO. talent for sure, but some songs aren’t my thing.

 

[falguy]

Today's Collective Soul song features one of the biggest artists in music. You'll know who this person as as soon as you hear the voice.

I hope someone likes it.

 

[kupcho1]

I ain't gonna lie, I was pleasantly surprised by the Pointer Sisters. Song had a 50s girl group vibe which I enjoyed quite a bit.

 

[-OZ-]

Today's Collective Soul song features one of the biggest artists in music. You'll know who this person as as soon as you hear the voice.

I hope someone likes it.

Today’s Jimmy might just make you hungry.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

Today's Seldom Scene is...another cover song.

 

[falguy]

Today's Collective Soul song features one of the biggest artists in music. You'll know who this person as as soon as you hear the voice.

I hope someone likes it.

Today’s Jimmy might just make you hungry.

 

[Yo Mama]

Quick 24s thoughts before I fall even further behind today.

Lots of known to me favorites this round led by Bowie and Incubus.

Really liked the Kim Michell song.

Thin Lizzy and Rainbow songs both brought be back to earlier Yo Mama days. I thought for a long time Stone Cold was a Foreigner song.

Sufjan, Frightened Rabbit, and New Pornographers were my favorite other new to me songs.