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Middle-aged Dummies are back and bursting at the "themes" to get going! Full theme ahead! (8 Viewers)

This popped in my youtube algorithm for a couple days for some reason. Finally clicked and listened. Then about five more times.

So does a ladle qualify as a mallet? Asking for a friend
Having seen way too many percussion ensemble concerts and watch my kid play everything from a church bell to sandpaper to slapsticks to cell phones... I'll say- depends what you're doing with it.
 
#29 songs
DrIanMalcolm – Songs about New York


Leaving New York - R.E.M.

So...like a bunch of the songs on the New York list, this one is about loneliness. It's a recurrent theme and hard to avoid. It also comes near the end of REM's long and illustrious career, and so it has another reason for a touch of the melancholy. However...I'm gonna say "Jesus Just Left Chicago" is better, even if the song isn't all that Chicago-y. So the Windy City now leads, 2-1. (You know I'm gonna find a way to make this a 16-15 final score).

On the NY scale:

Artist connection to New York (1-5 scale): 1. REM is from Georgia, and while Michael Stipe is an ornery *******, the band has little connection to New York.
Song connection to New York (1-10 scale): 3. The song mentions New York and it's wistful, but that doesn't count for much.

So that's a 4, lowest on the NY scale so far.

I didn't realize that we had songs about leaving [city of choice] slotted at the same spot. I did the Sinatra one on purpose, but this was a happy accident. I wonder if we'll have others.
 
I wasn't quite as keen on the #29s as the prior playlists. I enjoyed "Replay" by Tems and "Disco" by Surf Curse, but the only two songs to make my new-to-me favorites playlist were "Mind Idea" by Jeremy Enigk and "We Bros" by WU LYF. The latter was my favorite by far, but it almost didn't make my playlist due to extreme hesitation in adding something called "We Bros." Really? You couldn't do better than that?
 
I wasn't quite as keen on the #29s as the prior playlists. I enjoyed "Replay" by Tems and "Disco" by Surf Curse, but the only two songs to make my new-to-me favorites playlist were "Mind Idea" by Jeremy Enigk and "We Bros" by WU LYF. The latter was my favorite by far, but it almost didn't make my playlist due to extreme hesitation in adding something called "We Bros." Really? You couldn't do better than that?
Wee Bros is the name of my friends 6’0” and under men’s rec basketball team (not mine, I’m a FBG so I’m 6’12”) made up of his former frat members.
 
I wasn't quite as keen on the #29s as the prior playlists. I enjoyed "Replay" by Tems and "Disco" by Surf Curse, but the only two songs to make my new-to-me favorites playlist were "Mind Idea" by Jeremy Enigk and "We Bros" by WU LYF. The latter was my favorite by far, but it almost didn't make my playlist due to extreme hesitation in adding something called "We Bros." Really? You couldn't do better than that?

When I read the playlist I felt the same way. When I listened to it, it became my favorite of the 3. :shrug:
 
Pip’s Invitation – songs from albums produced and/or engineered by Todd Rundgren

Smiling Wine – Great Speckled Bird
I really liked this one. I think a coupe of current women country singers like Sierra Farrell and Margo Price may have heard this album at some point.
Sylvia Tyson has influenced numerous country and folk singers, so you are probably right.
 
Pip’s Invitation – songs from albums produced and/or engineered by Todd Rundgren

Smiling Wine – Great Speckled Bird
I really liked this one. I think a coupe of current women country singers like Sierra Farrell and Margo Price may have heard this album at some point.
Sylvia Tyson has influenced numerous country and folk singers, so you are probably right.

There's a mononymous Sylvia but she's a different artist who went on to found Sugar Hill Records.
 
Even before this morning's deluge of "I liked this song" comments, "We Bros" was the song I had on repeat on my way to an appointment yesterday. I heard the song about four times in that span.

Great stuff, and I love the chorus of "We Bros," which is cool with this former bro (in every sense of the word). I can see where it's questionable, but heh. The message is just fine by me.

We bros you lost man!
We bros so long!
Put away your guns man!
And sing this song!


Amen.
 
I'm going to deviate from consensus and say that the #29s were a fine effort and I enjoyed more of the playlist than I did the other two. "Robot Rock" hits a sweet spot for me—as does "Man on the Moon," "Rockit," "China Grove," "Bulls on Parade," and "Der Kommissar." Just great songs, IMO. "China Grove" sometimes gets in my head for days and sticks there like rot on cheese.

My favorite new-to-me songs were "We Bros" (natch), "Spices" (awesome), "Where Are Ü Now" (Diplo and Skrillex are massive), "Disco" (cool), and "Don't Wanna Cry" (because it proves that puberty doesn't speak a language; and therefore, something is universal, so sorry, Derrida, you lose)

eta* Okay, Derrida was talking about morality and not primal urges but somehow I'm going to make the argument they're inextricably linked, so sorry again, Derrida, I win.
 
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El Floppo – Mallet Rock

Spices - The Hold Steady

movign out of the 80s and into the 20s. From their album "Open Door Policy".

tbh, I'm not sure which instrument they used- I think maybe Vibraphone or Glock (metal) rather than something wood (marimba)- but you can hear it as the song builds, used here in a more orchestral way as part of the larger instrumentation rather than as a stand alone playing a theme or adding tonal percussive highlights.
We're at the table and she's yelling out her order
Vanilla vodka in a Diet Dr. Pepper
Something wrapped in a black wax paper
We're gonna see where this goes


At this point, Craig's lyrics are bordering on self-parody (or an AI-bot after being force-fed Separation Sunday on repeat), but dammit I still love this anyway,
 
Pip’s Invitation – songs from albums produced and/or engineered by Todd Rundgren

Smiling Wine – Great Speckled Bird
I really liked this one. I think a coupe of current women country singers like Sierra Farrell and Margo Price may have heard this album at some point.
Sylvia Tyson has influenced numerous country and folk singers, so you are probably right.

There's a mononymous Sylvia but she's a different artist who went on to found Sugar Hill Records.
Is that a different mononymous Sylvia that the one who was a big one-hit wonder and Grammy nominee in the early 80s?
 
Pip’s Invitation – songs from albums produced and/or engineered by Todd Rundgren

Smiling Wine – Great Speckled Bird
I really liked this one. I think a coupe of current women country singers like Sierra Farrell and Margo Price may have heard this album at some point.
Sylvia Tyson has influenced numerous country and folk singers, so you are probably right.

There's a mononymous Sylvia but she's a different artist who went on to found Sugar Hill Records.
Wasn't it also her that had a monster hit with "Pillow Talk" in the '70s?
 
Theme: 31 Songs from 31 Manchester(ish) Artists
Song: We Bros
Band: WU LYF
From: Manchester (or so they say)


No time to write much about WU LYF because I'm headed out to meet some freshman year college friends, two of whom I haven't seen since the mid-90s. Seems perfect that we're meeting at some bar called The GenX Tavern. Good thing is there's not much to say about WU LYF anyway as they were shrouded in mystery and disappeared as quickly as they came. They managed to drum up a ton of coverage as the next big thing in the indie press around 2009/10, released their lone album in 2011, and broke up in 2012. The album still holds up, but the fact that I can understand about 10 percent of the lyrics keeps me from revisiting too often.
 
That's because it's a great record. It's full of hooks and all of them work.

From the opening riff on through, it rocks out. I'm not sure whether that's echo or delay that he has on the guitar (it's delay, I just looked it up), but it rules. Doobies!
The Doobies got dissed by every major rock critic and music nerd, but they made good records - a lot of them. I wish Binky had been able to do his Doobie countdown (countUP?) in the last MAD exercise.
 
The Doobies got dissed by every major rock critic and music nerd, but they made good records - a lot of them.

Not Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati. Dude loved the Doobies (I kid, I have no idea).

But yeah, I definitely see them as not appealing to critics and nerds (My friend who was a rock critic for an alt weekly would have hated the Doobies). Critics were tough on certain genres, easy on others. They truly took their gatekeeper positions seriously, that's for sure.
 
Toulouse Street was one of the first five albums I owned. Always liked the Doobie Brothers. Saw them at Wolftrap on a sweltering Virginia summer day a decade ago and they delivered. Still amazed they did what they did in that humidity as old as they were. I looked like I fell in the pool. I also had a blast.
 
Pip’s Invitation – songs from albums produced and/or engineered by Todd Rundgren

Smiling Wine – Great Speckled Bird
I really liked this one. I think a coupe of current women country singers like Sierra Farrell and Margo Price may have heard this album at some point.
Sylvia Tyson has influenced numerous country and folk singers, so you are probably right.

There's a mononymous Sylvia but she's a different artist who went on to found Sugar Hill Records.
Wasn't it also her that had a monster hit with "Pillow Talk" in the '70s?he

That's the Sylvia I was talking about although there's another mononymous Sylvia who had a couple of big poppy Country hits in the early 80s.
 
Also, crossover update - jwb's pick of Kool and the Gang was close to being in the top 100, the track appearing on Vice City's Fever 105, but I only picked 4 tracks and that ranked 6 sadly. Strong station, just others were overall better for me. No other direct picks that I could have used, but definitely some artists have shown up that will appear later
 
Full disclosure: I've always disliked (I won't go so far as to say hated) the Doobie Brothers. Black Water in particular, is just nails on a chalkboard for me.
But ... you picked the one song of theirs that doesn't give me the howling fantods. Nice work.
 
shuke – Saxytime

Magma (Spotify) - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Sax by band member Ambrose Kenny Smith.

I've barely scratched the surface in getting into their catalog, but this is one of a few songs with sax that have stood out. If you're not sure you like these guys, just listen to the next song of theirs. Style is all over the place.
Hey @shuke (or anyone else), I’ve liked every song people have picked for King Gizzard in this and other drafts. What’s a good album or two for a new listener to jump into for them?

Like I said, I've barely scratched the surface. I'd recommend something live. They have a bunch of shows on the Relisten app.
 
jwb's pick of Kool and the Gang

Speaking of hi-fi, I spent some time today on Amazon Music trying to decide if I should drop it since I joined Spotify (for this). Amazon has a massive catalog of hi res lossless flac etc music that Spotify just doesn't. I've had these mono blocks since just before Christmas. Found them used on Ebay for $750. That's half what they cost new, but they're discontinued. They're driving these speakers, which I mentioned earlier. I built them from a flat pack 3 years ago. They've always been the best I've ever owned and cautiously the best I've ever heard. Today I really tested them figuring the new output tubes were nicely burned in and ready rock. Holy smokes. I'm keeping Amazon. The combo is honestly incredible. They were $1200 to finish, and while that's a ton to some, 2k to have the best I've ever heard hooked up to a pc in my office is completely worth it to me. I've heard far more expensive systems and they're not this good.

If you have decent headphones, you might get an idea from this youtube of him testing out a transmission line version. But you'd really have to be here to really hear them. I can't wipe the stupid grin off my face. Somewhere at diy audio he's looking for a couple more to sign up for flat packs before having the cabinets built. It's not an easy build like Ikea furniture with Chinese instructions, but I'm completely blown away today.
 
shuke – Saxytime

Magma (Spotify) - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Sax by band member Ambrose Kenny Smith.

I've barely scratched the surface in getting into their catalog, but this is one of a few songs with sax that have stood out. If you're not sure you like these guys, just listen to the next song of theirs. Style is all over the place.
Hey @shuke (or anyone else), I’ve liked every song people have picked for King Gizzard in this and other drafts. What’s a good album or two for a new listener to jump into for them?

Like I said, I've barely scratched the surface. I'd recommend something live. They have a bunch of shows on the Relisten app.

IIRC, @landrys hat is the Gizzard Wizard on this board
 
My next pick is the one that would have probably crossed over with the wrestling list, and looking at the market, might be used by someone headlining WrestleMania in a couple of months
 
“Leaving New York” could have made Zamboni’s planned Songs That Piss Off the Grammar Police list for the line “Leaving was never my proud.”

Mike Mills hated the line and begged Stipe to change it, to no avail.
 
shuke – Saxytime

Magma (Spotify) - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Sax by band member Ambrose Kenny Smith.

I've barely scratched the surface in getting into their catalog, but this is one of a few songs with sax that have stood out. If you're not sure you like these guys, just listen to the next song of theirs. Style is all over the place.
Hey @shuke (or anyone else), I’ve liked every song people have picked for King Gizzard in this and other drafts. What’s a good album or two for a new listener to jump into for them?

Like I said, I've barely scratched the surface. I'd recommend something live. They have a bunch of shows on the Relisten app.

IIRC, @landrys hat is the Gizzard Wizard on this board
I think they have close to 30 albums now (not including live releases). Lots of different genres - here are 3 to check out:

I'm In Your Mind Fuzz - (pysch/garage) the first one i heard and probably still my favorite
Polygandwanaland - (pysch/prog) probably my second favorite
Nonagon Infinity - (pysch/rock) their most popular

Butterfly 3000 - for more that sound like Magenta Mountain
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava - for more that sound like Magma
 

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