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MAD's ROUND 2!! # 1's have been posted!! (2 Viewers)

Ok, ZaZale list is in. He told me it took him 4 weeks and 100 hours....

I'm at work and will be able to clean up the spreadsheet when I get home and get things started.

OTB, if you are around, you can still upload your list today until I get home. At that point I have to shut off new entries and edits.

So #31's will be up tonight and we will treat it like the Tuesday night post.
 
Ok, ZaZale list is in. He told me it took him 4 weeks and 100 hours....

I'm at work and will be able to clean up the spreadsheet when I get home and get things started.

OTB, if you are around, you can still upload your list today until I get home. At that point I have to shut off new entries and edits.

So #31's will be up tonight and we will treat it like the Tuesday night post.
Otherwise known as the MAD31s Genesis playlist. ;)
 
Ok, ZaZale list is in. He told me it took him 4 weeks and 100 hours....

I'm at work and will be able to clean up the spreadsheet when I get home and get things started.

OTB, if you are around, you can still upload your list today until I get home. At that point I have to shut off new entries and edits.

So #31's will be up tonight and we will treat it like the Tuesday night post.
Otherwise known as the MAD31s Genesis playlist. ;)
:laugh: True.

I’ve thought about doing a Yes list, but can’t imagine how long that playlist would be.
 
Ok, ZaZale list is in. He told me it took him 4 weeks and 100 hours....

I'm at work and will be able to clean up the spreadsheet when I get home and get things started.

OTB, if you are around, you can still upload your list today until I get home. At that point I have to shut off new entries and edits.

So #31's will be up tonight and we will treat it like the Tuesday night post.
Otherwise known as the MAD31s Genesis playlist. ;)
:laugh: True.

I’ve thought about doing a Yes list, but can’t imagine how long that playlist would be.
They proabaly have it on a loop in the Purgatory Waiting Room.
 
I believe that on a Tchaikovsky playlist. I feel like I’d get as far as deciding on track #1, and then spending 20 hours figuring which of 500 versions of that track I should put in my list, before giving up when I realize that I would need to do that 30 more times.
That's easy. Anything on Telarc. Best stuff ever.
 
I have sent the #31's to @KarmaPolice and when he creates the song list, I'll post it and the 31's.

We found out this time, if the spotify URL didn't contain the word "open" in it, the song doesn't display with the nice album cover. I will try and fix those each list the best I can.

The links with the "open" in the URL are found at the far right of each sone on spotify by clicking on the "3 dots, then "share", then" copy "song link"
 
I sent everyone a copy of their list to make sure it looked good, except for one. That was @Juxtatarot , and he didn;t include any song links. Figures the only one I didn't send LOL
 
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#31's PLAYLIST

#31's
#31 -
PrinceRamsay Hunt ExperienceI Wanna Be Your Lover
Tanya DonellyplinkoStar
Full Band Version, Feed the Tree B-side, 1993
Talking Headskupcho1Radio Head
Sia FurlerScoresmanDestiny (Zero 7)
Los LoboseephusI Got Loaded
The Seldom SceneCharlie Steiner
Kid RocksnellmanI'm a Dog (NSFW)
Against Me!scorchyReinventing Axl Rose

MastodonKarmaPolice Sultan's Curse
Neko CaseMister CIAGuided By Wire
Faith No MoreJBBreakfastClubIntroduce Yourself
black midiJuxtatarotChondromalacia Patella
Nina SimoneDon QuixoteConsummation, from Silk & Soul
https://youtu.be/is-gdWIBgHo?si=Pu05tv_o8Onubd0A
Beastie BoysYo MamaFight For Your Right
Drive-By TruckersDr. OctopusNever Gonna Change
Jimmy Buffet-OZ-
Southern Cross
The JamPip's InvitationAbsolute Beginners
RöyksoppJMLs secret identity31 - Go With the Flow (QOTSA cover - Vocals Röyksopp)
Nick Cave and the Bad SeedssalterifficYour funeral my trail
CSNYjwbSuite: Judy Blue Eyes
Roger ClyneMt. ManGood Year
David BermanThe Dreaded MarcoSuffering Jukebox
David BowieBinky the DoormatFame
Pointer SistersMrs. RannousDare Me

IncubusMAC_32Light Grenades
John MellencamptuffnuttR.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.

Sufjan Stevens Ilov80sSister Winter
Mike ShinodaJust Win BabyIt's Goin' Down
Chris Cornell Raging Weasel The Keeper
Josh HommetitusbrambleThe Vampyre of Time and Memory
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night SweatsAAABatteriesIntro
Kim MitchellSullieCellophane
Thin LizzyzamboniLittle Darling
Collective SoulfalguyThis
Tears for FearsJohn Maddens LunchboxEverybody Wants to Run the Word (Vocals Curt)
Cheap TrickFairWarning
John Prinelandrys hatSummer's End

Ben FoldsHov34Emaline
Tom PettyZegras11Runaway
Scott Hutchison snevenelevenHead Rolls Off
The New PornographersNorthern VoiceCrash Years
John Lee HookerDrIan MalcolmBirmingham Blues

Rainbow Sam Quentin Rainbow Eyes
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskyzazale1812 Festival Overture, Op. 49
 
@Sullie I didn't see your tune on spotify.

Bummer, figures, but I'm not entirely surprised. He's Canadian, not very popular these days I don't think. I think he was popular at some point in Canada but he never really took off down here. I found most of his songs on YouTube, a few were missing though. Sorry for the inconvenience to anyone that's only doing Spotify. If anyone does have a minute, please give the YouTube link a tumble when it's posted up. I mean, as soon as I heard my #31 song I was pretty excited because I immediately thought "oh, this would be a really cool song for introducing people to this guy." Ah well.
 
31

  • Song: Never Gonna Change
  • Album: The Dirty South
  • Released: 2004
  • Lead Vocals: Jason Isbell


An Isbell penned tune from his second record with the band, this song is an anthem about headstrong Southern men, filled with lyrics reflecting the album’s theme of southern gothic mythology. I love the driving beat on this one and the menacing way Isbell delivers the lyrics.

Mean and strong like liquor, mean and strong like fear
Strong like the people from South Alabama
And mean like the people from here
Take it from me, we ain't never gonna change
 
For the CSNY lead off song, I went with their first big hit / signature song. They purposely led off the CSN debut album with it because they felt it made a big statement and really showed off their harmonies. It's a complex song with a lot of time changes and sections - rather than post passages from wiki, I'll just give the wiki link for it. It's about Stephen's ex (Judy Collins), who he was on the outs with at the time.

Here's the live version from Woodstock. I like it better than the studio version. They really sound great.
 
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No. 31 -- I Wanna Be Your Lover

So, I like this a lot more than my 31st favorite Prince song. I'd say the first half of the countdown is in kind of an order that I feel like talking about them more than any objective rating. I just think that this relatively early single (off Prince's eponymously titled second album) represents a great example of what a great early Prince single sounded like. And to me, those songs are dominated by Prince's understated funk guitar riffs and their interplay with the synthesizer parts from Matt "Dr." Fink. It's particularly evident in the extended outro to this song. There are songs that I feel Prince hurts with some of those long outros, but I like this one a lot.

Anyway, it's also pretty typically horny with regard to lyrics. Prince starts out trying to be coy. "I wanna be the only one that makes you come ... RUNNING!" But he doesn't try to maintain even the thinnest veneer of double entendre any longer. "I wanna turn you on, turn you out, all night long make you shout, 'Ah! Lover!' I wanna be the only one you come for."
 
31. Nina Simone, Consummation (from Silk & Soul, 1967)
YouTube Spotify

And now we are one
Let my soul rest in peace
At last it is done
My soul has been released
For thousands of years
My soul has roamed the earth
In search of you


I mentioned in my intro post to Nina Simone that I would start with one that shows off her vocals; this one is all about her vocals to me.

The melody to “Consummation” is the same melody from the standard For All We Know, which appeared on her debut album. “For All We Know” was what she used as a closing number when started playing at the club in Atlantic City. As noted in the top YouTube comment, “Consummation” is almost like a part two to “For All We Know.” Whereas that one was about enjoying tonight because who knows what tomorrow will bring, “Consummation” is about, well, uh, having enjoyed the night.

While this is a love song and not one of her political songs, it does have a connection to the civil rights movement. “Consummation” was apparently Louis Farrakhan’s all-time favorite song. Maybe a bit TMI out of the gate, but her autobiography has an amusing anecdote (amusing to me anyway) of Nina Simone’s attempt to seduce Louis Farrakhan after having a bit too much gin.

A while later I met Louis Farrakhan, too, through a friend of mine who had converted, Pearl Reynolds Bryce. Reverend Farrakhan sent a message through her that I was his favourite singer and that my song Consummation was his all-time favourite. He invited me to meet him at a temple in New York, so I had a special hat and dress made for the occasion and went along. We chatted a little and I invited him home with me. We got back to Mount Vernon and he sat in the living room and started talking about separatism, Islam and the need to convert the whole of black America to his way of thinking. He talked for hours and I sat across from him, drinking gin and nodding my head, trying to take it all in.

The night got longer, the gin took effect and I got a little distracted, especially by his feet, which were tiny. I'd never seen feet that small, and I wondered if his mother had bound them when he was a baby like the Chinese used to do with their daughters. Minister Farrakhan talked on into the small hours and I sat staring at his shoes, sipping my gin and wondering what he'd say if I invited him upstairs. He kept giving me these looks as if he knew what I was thinking. At last I couldn't stand it any longer and came out and asked him. It was more out of mischief than anything else, but he spoilt the fun by turning me down; he just started talking politics again and I was too tired for that, so I sent him home. Afterwards I got messages saying he was still interested in me and would like to meet some time, but we didn't see each other again. So he didn't manage to convert me and I didn't convert him; an honourable draw. I respected him for that.
 
Sultan's Curse kicks off Emperor of Sand. Not my favorite song on the album, but it's a perfect intro to the album and an very good intro to the band for new listeners. For starters I like that on the first track you get all 3 of the vocals from the 3 singers. For a reminder, in my head I have:

Troy, the bassist = deeper/growly He kicks off the track. "tired and lost..."
Brent, the lead guitar = nasally/growly He is the second voice you hear starting at "the long embrace" They go back and for then
Brann, drummer = clean vocals He comes in for the pre-bridge and bridge. "Oceans of sand and Rust"



For the first track introduced from each album, I will talk a little about the album as a whole. Unfortunately, Emperor of Sand was largely born of tragedy and family members battling cancer. Brann's mom has been getting chemo for years and was sick during this time. Troy's wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and he missed sessions at the start while being with her. Lastly, Bill's mother passed during the making of the record from cancer that she just discovered 7-8months previous. He would sit by her bed and work on songs as a way to cope. My understanding is Brann is the ringleader when it comes with album concepts and naming them. Here are a few blurbs about the album from the boys:

“He’s a metaphor, some kind of Grim Reaper,” says Dailor. “Not a good feeling from that guy, the Emperor.”

It’s a concept album (not their first – see the box out) with the hero on the run from the death penalty, lost, alone and hungry in a desert wasteland, with a fate worse than death haunting his every step out among the endless dunes. So far, so fantastical, and so very Mastodon. But as Kelliher puts it: “It all came from a very real place.”

While the band were writing and recording Emperor Of Sand, Kelliher’s mother was dying from cancer. He talks now about sitting by her bedside as she slept. After he’d fed her and held her hand, he would put his headphones on, plug his guitar into his computer and write and play at her side as her life force diminished and faded away, bringing songs to life even in the throes of death. “I had to do something to stop myself going crazy,” he says. “To stop from crying my eyes out.”


So how did the cancer metaphor come about? Kelliher explained:

"It was the elephant in the room so to speak that, we were like, "yeah, I don't want to f--king deal with cancer. I f--king hate cancer. I hate the fact that we are losing everyone to it." So we kind of just turned it around and were like… writing a concept record, we had all these different ideas, and we're just like, 'What are we talking about?'

I was playing 'Sultan's Curse' and Brann was like, 'That song just reminds of like pitches of vast desert and a lonely guy running through it,' a metaphor for someone who has got a death sentence and wants to get out and get away from it, you're running, you're running, you always have dreams where you're always just running, you're trying to get away from something, and that's what we were all feeling."
 
Talking Heads
#31 Radio Head


First of 2 songs from 1986's True Stories. From Songfacts:
  • The band Radiohead took their name from this song. Originally, they were known as On A Friday.
So, you know, bona fides as an influence on other bands.

Baby your mind is a radio
Got a receiver inside my head
Baby I'm tuned to your wavelength
Lemme tell you what it says:

Transmitter!
Oh! Picking up something good
Hey, radio head!
The sound, of a brand-new world.
 
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!PrinceRamsay Hunt Experience
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Tanya Donellyplinko
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Talking Headskupcho1
My List Is Ranked ChronologicallySia FurlerScoresman
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Los Loboseephus
My List Is Ranked ChronologicallyThe Seldom SceneCharlie Steiner
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Kid Rocksnellman
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Against Me!scorchy
My list is ranked some other way.MastodonKarmaPolice
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Neko CaseMister CIA
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Faith No MoreJBBreakfastClub
My list is ranked some other way.black midiJuxtatarot
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Nina SimoneDon Quixote
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Beastie BoysYo Mama
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Drive-By TruckersDr. Octopus
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Jimmy Buffet-OZ-
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!The JamPip's Invitation
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!RöyksoppJMLs secret identity
My list is ranked some other way.Nick Cave and the Bad Seedssalteriffic
My list is ranked some other way.CSNYjwb
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Roger ClyneMt. Man
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!David BermanThe Dreaded Marco
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!David BowieBinky the Doormat
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Pointer SistersMrs. Rannous
My list is ranked some other way.IncubusMAC_32
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!John Mellencamptuffnutt
My list is ranked some other way.Sufjan Stevens Ilov80s
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Mike ShinodaJust Win Baby
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Chris Cornell Raging Weasel
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Josh Hommetitusbramble
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night SweatsAAABatteries
My list is ranked some other way.Kim MitchellSullie
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Thin Lizzyzamboni
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Collective Soulfalguy
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Tears for FearsJohn Maddens Lunchbox
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Cheap TrickFairWarning
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!John Prinelandrys hat
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Ben FoldsHov34
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Tom PettyZegras11
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Scott Hutchison sneveneleven
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!The New PornographersNorthern Voice
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!John Lee HookerDrIan Malcolm
My list is ranked some other way.Rainbow Sam Quentin
In Order with Fave #1 at TOP and Least Fave at BOTTOM. Don't Binky It!!Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskyzazale
 
Incubus is jammed between The Pointer Sisters and Mellencamp? That's gonna lead to some awesome playlist sequencing
 
I've stated a few times that I'm not a lyrics guy; they go in one ear and out the other. But Neko is an exception, and maybe the only one. I can ruminate on hers for days. I probably should have ranked Guided By Wire much higher, but it's the perfect introduction to a thread well-traveled by people deeply connected to listening to music.

Haha, I almost pasted today's Wordle result.
Guided By Wire



The voices that did comfort me
At furthest from my sanity
Come from places I had never seen
Even in my darkest recollection
There was someone singing my life back to me

The life you learn from someone else
That you can only trust yourself
Sometimes that is still too much to want
Morality won't get you through the mazes
You can never travel by the way you've come

I could never choose the ones to love
And the ones who took the credit left me reeling
But I owe much to the nameless
And all the surrogates
Those who're singing my life back to me

Life is not a constant thing
It's only made of short stories
I couldn't even tell you where I'm from
Guided by the voices I've perfected
Guided by electric wires' hum

I could never choose the ones to love
And the ones who took the credit left me reeling
But I owe much to the nameless
And all the surrogates
Those who're singing my life back to me

Well I'll see you in the future skipping time
While the eyes of all the faithful rest in peace
And tonight I see the highway
Like a cheetah underfoot
And someone's singing my life back to me
Someone's singing my life back to me
 
#31 Good Year (off The Bottle and Fresh Horses, 1997)

[Official video, with a bit of intro] The Refreshments Good year
[Live Version, with a bit of “Pfft You Were Gone” before it] The Refreshments - Good Year (Taste of AZ, 1998)

Truck tires, trash fires
Face first through the wire
Adois, Au revior
I see now what I never saw


Why I chose it
Though it appears to have never have charted highly, I definitely remember this song getting some MTV play and hearing it on the radio occasionally. So maybe it’ll strike that “oh, yeah, this song” chord for you.

Though, even if it doesn’t, it serves as a good bookend. It’s a song I still associate with the year’s end, for obvious reasons. Even with the idea that the song’s more about the end of a relationship. Whatever the case, there’s the optimism that though things were bad, there’s a new opportunity for good things.

Special Mention
The lyrics call out Catcher in the Rye, Cat’s Cradle, The White Album, and Abbey Road. Blush wrote this one, and from Clyne’s account, did so quickly as this was originally meant to be a B-side that the record label ended up pushing(/releasing as a single). So the reasoning is hard to pin down.

I might play with the format a bit this time around. If nothing else, there’s unlikely to be a special mention every time. We’ll see how it goes.
 

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