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Seem like a bunch of down to earth, aw shucks guys.
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Middle-aged Dummies are back and bursting at the "themes" to get going! Full theme ahead! (3 Viewers)
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simey
Footballguy
I bet you were a showoff on roller skates. I never learned to skate backwards, but my sister could, and she would whiz by going backwards like she was the queen on the rink. I'd always make an ugly face at her. I was athletic growing up, but I was not a good roller skater. I couldn't even do that fancy thing where you cross one leg over the other going forward like on a turn. If I tried, I tripped myself. I was better on a skateboard.
simey
Footballguy
I saw him back in the 90s, and his show was fun. I remember him saying to the crowd that he is a musician who can go out in public, and nobody ever recognizes him.
Yo Mama
Footballguy
World’s Worst Superheroes #26
Buddy Holly
Artist - Weezer (1994)
Strengths - Extremely prolific as an elite performer (still put out hits 10 years after his death); can seamlessly blend into the crowd, particularly in hipster places like Brooklyn, Austin, or Portland
Weaknesses - Not particularly strong or fast, not to mention his chronic nearsightedness; deathly afraid of flying
There Goes My Hero
Situation - You’re stranded on a remote island and need to be rescued. Your supplies have run out and your sat phone only has enough battery charge for one call. There’s only one person you can reach out to.
[Phone rings]: Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling
Buddy Holly: “Peggy Sue?”
You: “No, it’s me! I’m here crying, waiting, hoping for some help, Buddy Holly!”
Buddy: “What’s the matter, what’s the matter, what’s the matter you?”
You: “I’m stuck on a remote island! I’m out of food and water and need someone to come rescue me!”
Buddy: “Oh, Boy!”
You: “Can you fly over here in a helicopter or sea plane or something to pick me up?”
Buddy: “I’m not flying anywhere, that’ll be the day! Can I sail over there on my yacht?”
You: “No, that’ll take too much time. I’ll be dead by then!”
Buddy: “I don’t care about that.”
[line goes dead]
Buddy Holly
Artist - Weezer (1994)
Strengths - Extremely prolific as an elite performer (still put out hits 10 years after his death); can seamlessly blend into the crowd, particularly in hipster places like Brooklyn, Austin, or Portland
Weaknesses - Not particularly strong or fast, not to mention his chronic nearsightedness; deathly afraid of flying
There Goes My Hero
Situation - You’re stranded on a remote island and need to be rescued. Your supplies have run out and your sat phone only has enough battery charge for one call. There’s only one person you can reach out to.
[Phone rings]: Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling
Buddy Holly: “Peggy Sue?”
You: “No, it’s me! I’m here crying, waiting, hoping for some help, Buddy Holly!”
Buddy: “What’s the matter, what’s the matter, what’s the matter you?”
You: “I’m stuck on a remote island! I’m out of food and water and need someone to come rescue me!”
Buddy: “Oh, Boy!”
You: “Can you fly over here in a helicopter or sea plane or something to pick me up?”
Buddy: “I’m not flying anywhere, that’ll be the day! Can I sail over there on my yacht?”
You: “No, that’ll take too much time. I’ll be dead by then!”
Buddy: “I don’t care about that.”
[line goes dead]
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I don’t agree with Steve’s takes on the Pumpkins or Liz Phair, nor with his shot fired at Oingo Boingo, but this sentence rings true:
“Music press stooges like you tend to believe and repeat what other music press stooges write, reinforcing each other’s misconceptions as though the tiny little world you guys live in (imagine a world so small!) actually means something to us on the outside.”
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
all joking aside one of the best parts of the show is how they work all the historical events into the context of the show and the characters reactions to those events.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
26. Glory to the Day
Artist: Jesse Winchester
Album: Third Down, 110 to Go (1972)
Todd's role(s): producer, engineer
Writer(s): Jesse Winchester
The song: This stark song with a striking vocal combines Zen-like philosophy with nature imagery for a compelling listening experience. The arrangement is pretty minimalist, but every instrument comes in crisp and clear, offering bits of interest throughout but mainly ceding the spotlight to Winchester's vocal.
Note: There may be a mallet instrument on this track, I can't quite tell. There is a percussionist credited on the album.
The album: Third Down, 110 to Go was the second album for Winchester, an American folksinger who fled to Canada in 1967 to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War. But really it was his third album, as the second never got off the ground.
Winchester was signed by Albert Grossman to Ampex and his self-titled debut album was produced by The Band's Robbie Robertson and engineered by Todd Rundgren. By all accounts, the recording process went well and led to Robertson asking Rundgren to work on The Band's third album, Stage Fright. Rundgren must have also gotten along well with Winchester, and Grossman assigned him to produce Winchester's follow-up album.
That album never came to be, as Winchester hated Rundgren's production style and its effect on his songs. "It was horrible. It was just so terrible," Winchester said in the liner notes of Third Down's 1994 reissue. "I got along great with Todd personally, and I have tremendous respect for him, but the album we did together was just awful."
Complicating things was that Ampex folded and the tapes were tied up while the process of dissolving it was ongoing. Eventually Winchester's contract was assumed by Bearsville, Grossman's other imprint.
Winchester decided to produce what became most of Third Down himself, but he salvaged three songs from the Rundgren sessions, including "Glory to the Day." The Winchester-produced tracks are pretty minimalist, partly as a reaction against Rundgren's production style but partly because "I felt guilty about spending all of Albert's money -- my money, actually -- on this abortion, and I wanted to make something really cheap," he said in the 1994 liner notes. "The experience with Todd was having a lot of people around me who didn't understand what I wanted. I was so tired of trying to get across the feeling that I wanted. I just said, 'To hell with it, I'll just make the most basic, simplest thing that I can'."
The album title relates to football, which is ostensibly why all of us are on this board. It's a CFL expression meaning a long way to go. The length of a CFL field is 110 yards instead of 100. And they have 3 downs instead of 4.
One of the Winchester-produced songs, "Isn't That So," was covered by Wilson Pickett, whom we have already seen twice in this countdown. https://open.spotify.com/track/3pJJca3yhdqTuXc949HWJy?si=14c239d945804c24
Guitarist Amos Garrett and drummer N.D. Smart, who were members of Great Speckled Bird when Rundgren produced their debut album (#29 on my list), also appear on this album.
The album sold modestly, scraping the bottom of the top 200 in the U.S. Winchester was a cult artist, better known for others covering his songs than for his own performances, for all of his career, partly because he was unable to tour the U.S. until Jimmy Carter pardoned the Vietnam draft dodgers at the beginning of his term. He moved back to the U.S. in 2002, where he remained until he passed away from bladder cancer in 2014.
You might also like: While "Glory to the Day" is minimalist like the Winchester-produced tracks, the other two Rundgren-produced tracks are not. The better of these, "Midnight Bus," has some gospel elements to it: https://open.spotify.com/track/2tgMyuwnCN3cNzp5RV86az?si=82e181a742fa4d3f
At #25, a track from a debut album that came 5 years before the artist's more successful second one.
Artist: Jesse Winchester
Album: Third Down, 110 to Go (1972)
Todd's role(s): producer, engineer
Writer(s): Jesse Winchester
The song: This stark song with a striking vocal combines Zen-like philosophy with nature imagery for a compelling listening experience. The arrangement is pretty minimalist, but every instrument comes in crisp and clear, offering bits of interest throughout but mainly ceding the spotlight to Winchester's vocal.
Note: There may be a mallet instrument on this track, I can't quite tell. There is a percussionist credited on the album.
The album: Third Down, 110 to Go was the second album for Winchester, an American folksinger who fled to Canada in 1967 to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War. But really it was his third album, as the second never got off the ground.
Winchester was signed by Albert Grossman to Ampex and his self-titled debut album was produced by The Band's Robbie Robertson and engineered by Todd Rundgren. By all accounts, the recording process went well and led to Robertson asking Rundgren to work on The Band's third album, Stage Fright. Rundgren must have also gotten along well with Winchester, and Grossman assigned him to produce Winchester's follow-up album.
That album never came to be, as Winchester hated Rundgren's production style and its effect on his songs. "It was horrible. It was just so terrible," Winchester said in the liner notes of Third Down's 1994 reissue. "I got along great with Todd personally, and I have tremendous respect for him, but the album we did together was just awful."
Complicating things was that Ampex folded and the tapes were tied up while the process of dissolving it was ongoing. Eventually Winchester's contract was assumed by Bearsville, Grossman's other imprint.
Winchester decided to produce what became most of Third Down himself, but he salvaged three songs from the Rundgren sessions, including "Glory to the Day." The Winchester-produced tracks are pretty minimalist, partly as a reaction against Rundgren's production style but partly because "I felt guilty about spending all of Albert's money -- my money, actually -- on this abortion, and I wanted to make something really cheap," he said in the 1994 liner notes. "The experience with Todd was having a lot of people around me who didn't understand what I wanted. I was so tired of trying to get across the feeling that I wanted. I just said, 'To hell with it, I'll just make the most basic, simplest thing that I can'."
The album title relates to football, which is ostensibly why all of us are on this board. It's a CFL expression meaning a long way to go. The length of a CFL field is 110 yards instead of 100. And they have 3 downs instead of 4.
One of the Winchester-produced songs, "Isn't That So," was covered by Wilson Pickett, whom we have already seen twice in this countdown. https://open.spotify.com/track/3pJJca3yhdqTuXc949HWJy?si=14c239d945804c24
Guitarist Amos Garrett and drummer N.D. Smart, who were members of Great Speckled Bird when Rundgren produced their debut album (#29 on my list), also appear on this album.
The album sold modestly, scraping the bottom of the top 200 in the U.S. Winchester was a cult artist, better known for others covering his songs than for his own performances, for all of his career, partly because he was unable to tour the U.S. until Jimmy Carter pardoned the Vietnam draft dodgers at the beginning of his term. He moved back to the U.S. in 2002, where he remained until he passed away from bladder cancer in 2014.
You might also like: While "Glory to the Day" is minimalist like the Winchester-produced tracks, the other two Rundgren-produced tracks are not. The better of these, "Midnight Bus," has some gospel elements to it: https://open.spotify.com/track/2tgMyuwnCN3cNzp5RV86az?si=82e181a742fa4d3f
At #25, a track from a debut album that came 5 years before the artist's more successful second one.
scorchy
Footballguy
It's sad to say that I was better at rolling skating than anything else I've ever attempted in my life. In NFL terms, I had all the tools - could skate fast, lead the dance lines, get under the lowest limbo bars, etc. Unfortunately, all those things ceased mattering by the end of junior high - I peaked when I was 14.I bet you were a showoff on roller skates. I never learned to skate backwards, but my sister could, and she would whiz by going backwards like she was the queen on the rink. I'd always make an ugly face at her. I was athletic growing up, but I was not a good roller skater. I couldn't even do that fancy thing where you cross one leg over the other going forward like on a turn. If I tried, I tripped myself. I was better on a skateboard.
scorchy
Footballguy
This one's gorgeous. Billy C seems like an insufferable prick (or "a baldy **** in a dress" as Sharon Osbourne famously called him) but I always appreciated that he made great sounding records at a time when that sort of thing was frowned upon.
MAC_32
Footballguy
For those that often struggle with Billy's vocals (hi), I strongly endorse the strings only version of this track.
MAC_32
Footballguy
@krista4 's favorite saxophonist LeRoi Moore's #1 DMB cut. I've commented before in posts no one reads that I am much, much partial to the Lillywhite renditions of most tracks on Busted Stuff. This is probably the one exception, but that's not why this is here. While I am a catholic, as it's probably evident by now, there's not going to be much church music in this list. This is the closest thing we've had to a confessional to this point, it just so happens that in this case God is the bartender, which given my past is more appropriate anyway. The more reflective ying to the last cut's (One Last Drink) celebratory yang. Dave's got several tracks that fit this theme, but this one stands above the rest. Cheers
-OZ-
Footballguy
We're insane but not alone
We hold on
And let go
Soundgarden's first new song in 15 years is this midtempo track that was written by the band specifically for the soundtrack to Marvel's The Avengers film.
Cornell said the song did not come easily. "This song came arduously," he said. "It's different, because it has to be a Soundgarden song. It has to resonate with every band member. Writing a song for the Avengers film, it has to be lyrically not specific to the movie or the story, but it has to work with it. It wasn't so easy. But it turned out absolutely a Soundgarden song."
Ben Shepherd discussed the difficulties of recording material for a different audience. He said: "I personally never think about what studios or people like that want, but they said it couldn't be as extremely hardcore as some Soundgarden material. We didn't want to scare off families, so it had to be toned down a little." "But it was fine," he added. "The lyrics are still beautiful, powerful and dark. We're probably the darkest band to ever be associated with Disney. It sounds like Soundgarden to me."
Next up - getting colorful with Europeans.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Round 26 - Night on Bröcken - Fates Warning
Fates Warning are a prog rock band from the US.
Per Wikipedia:
The title of the album is apparently a reference to the Brocken, a mountain in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which is traditionally associated with witches (Walpurgis Night), most famously in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1806–1831).
Please notice that the mountain has no umlauts. But those sneaky little dots are in the title.
Fates Warning are a prog rock band from the US.
Per Wikipedia:
The title of the album is apparently a reference to the Brocken, a mountain in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which is traditionally associated with witches (Walpurgis Night), most famously in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust (1806–1831).
Please notice that the mountain has no umlauts. But those sneaky little dots are in the title.
kupcho1
Footballguy
I think you should expect songs in the Rain theme to be depressing, but the Cure take it to a whole 'nother level. The Cure have a number of depressing songs, but I'd put Prayers for Rain near the top of the list. It's a relentless litany of hopelessness and despair.
My interpretation of the song is that it is post-breakup, and a likening to feeling like you've been buried alive.
I suffocate, I breathe in dirt
And nowhere shines but desolate and drab
This marks the first song where it isn't actually raining; just a prayer for rain.
You fracture me, your hands on me
A touch so plain, so stale it kills
You strangle me, entangle me
In hopelessness and prayers for rain
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I have at least one song that should make this playilist. Fingers crossed.
scorchy
Footballguy
Theme: 31 Songs from 31 Manchester(ish) Artists
Song: Beauty and the Beast
Band: Bugzy Malone
From: Manchester
Bugzy's second appearance on a MAD list after JML highlighted him a couple of rounds back. My knowledge of UK grime begins and pretty-much ends with The Streets Original Pirate Material so Bugzy Malone isn't exactly in my wheelhouse. Apparently his feud with London rapper MC Chip was like Biggy/Pac without the murders.
Song: Beauty and the Beast
Band: Bugzy Malone
From: Manchester
Bugzy's second appearance on a MAD list after JML highlighted him a couple of rounds back. My knowledge of UK grime begins and pretty-much ends with The Streets Original Pirate Material so Bugzy Malone isn't exactly in my wheelhouse. Apparently his feud with London rapper MC Chip was like Biggy/Pac without the murders.
MrsKarmaPolice
Footballguy
I was hoping this would show up on your list. Disintegration is one of my favorite albums.
MrsKarmaPolice
Footballguy
Dinosaur - Manchester Orchestra - Animal Kingdom
Manchester Orchestra is out of Georgia. The lead singer Andy Hull wrote and recorded the first album during his senior year of high school. He wrote this song about his son hence the dinosaur reference. It's about the worries of a parent who doesn't want to pass the worst parts of themselves (or of past generations) on to their child. I can definitely relate.
Pertinent lyrics:
Fall asleep, start drifting over
Stunned police, wildly enlightened
Pace your peace, nobody really knew him
But you and me, were raised by the lion
Hold me now, I will not repeat myself,
So hold me now, all I do is repeat myself
Over and over
Wait for me, the future is passing
You and me, and nobody's laughing
Fate, for me, it's recycled and haunted
So rescue me from raising a lion
Hold me down, I will not repeat myself
So hold me down, yeah all I do's repeat myself
Manchester Orchestra is out of Georgia. The lead singer Andy Hull wrote and recorded the first album during his senior year of high school. He wrote this song about his son hence the dinosaur reference. It's about the worries of a parent who doesn't want to pass the worst parts of themselves (or of past generations) on to their child. I can definitely relate.
Pertinent lyrics:
Fall asleep, start drifting over
Stunned police, wildly enlightened
Pace your peace, nobody really knew him
But you and me, were raised by the lion
Hold me now, I will not repeat myself,
So hold me now, all I do is repeat myself
Over and over
Wait for me, the future is passing
You and me, and nobody's laughing
Fate, for me, it's recycled and haunted
So rescue me from raising a lion
Hold me down, I will not repeat myself
So hold me down, yeah all I do's repeat myself
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I loved this. It's hypnotic.
Also found out I really like this surfer stuff. It's like the Sixties, only more rocky.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I took a Manchester Orchestra tune too! albeit remixed and with added marimba. but what are the chances?
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
This song was so far ahead of its time, the future is still trying to catch up.
El Floppo
Footballguy
I was JUST coming in to post about it...but wasn't sure how to put it. What you said is perfect. this song is SOOOO freaking good- I had forgotten.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
There's also the fact that I was 15 years old when this record came out and watching Donna Summer (a rather fetching lass) singing this in a teddy on American Bandstand (or whatever show I saw it on) was quite the thing
titusbramble
Footballguy
Tonight Tonight probably my favourite Pumpkins song, nice
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Mr R says he looks like Clark Kent. Coincidence? I think not.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Is it one of the songs that Jann Wenner doesn’t want us to care about?
Raging weasel
Footballguy
The 26's
Known and liked songs
Prayers For Rain
Serenade
Buddy Holly
Night On Brocken
Live to Rise
5150
One Thing
Africa
Pretty In Pink
Tonight,Tonight
New to me likes
How You Got That Girl
Jungle Music
North Winds Blowing
I Feel Love
Dallas After Midnight
People Everywhere (Still Alive)
Cantelope Island
Voodoo Princess Island
Known and liked songs
Prayers For Rain
Serenade
Buddy Holly
Night On Brocken
Live to Rise
5150
One Thing
Africa
Pretty In Pink
Tonight,Tonight
New to me likes
How You Got That Girl
Jungle Music
North Winds Blowing
I Feel Love
Dallas After Midnight
People Everywhere (Still Alive)
Cantelope Island
Voodoo Princess Island
Zegras11
Footballguy
"Pretty in Pink" is a song by the English band the Psychedelic Furs, originally released in 1981 as a single from the band's second album, Talk Talk Talk. The 1986 film was named after the song and a re-recorded version of the song was included on its soundtrack.
Others:
I probably like Heartbreak Beat best of these, but I wanted to give a shout out to the iconic John Hughes and his 1980's films.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
26) Beatle George -Turn Me On Dead Man
The song title is an obvious reference but the band's name is a more subtle reference . Turn me on dead man is supposedly what your hear if you play Revolution #9 backwards. There are references in the lyrics but was unable to find the actual lyrics to post them.
The song title is an obvious reference but the band's name is a more subtle reference . Turn me on dead man is supposedly what your hear if you play Revolution #9 backwards. There are references in the lyrics but was unable to find the actual lyrics to post them.
titusbramble
Footballguy
Hoping we go down slightly over 2000 for the next installment of number please. If not in one shot, then in steps
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Nice - Ghost in You is probably my favorite. Love 'em all, though!
"Pretty in Pink" is a song by the English band the Psychedelic Furs, originally released in 1981 as a single from the band's second album, Talk Talk Talk. The 1986 film was named after the song and a re-recorded version of the song was included on its soundtrack.
Others:
I probably like Heartbreak Beat best of these, but I wanted to give a shout out to the iconic John Hughes and his 1980's films.
titusbramble
Footballguy
GTA #26 - Toto - Africa (Emotion 98.3, Vice City)
A song that shouldn't need much introduction. Emotion plays power ballads and soft rock (as per one of the station's bumpers, we give you emotion 24/7, not just once a month), and is hosted by Fernando Martinez, a recurring character throughout the GTA series, first appearing (IRL) in GTA III as an interviewee on one of the talk stations, but being the host of Emotion in Vice City earlier in the in game universe, where he gave some great quotes (people often ask me, Fernando, are you bilingual? I'll try anything once) and shills for pretty much anything (I have teamed up with Medallion Man, the shop for medallion needs)
A song that shouldn't need much introduction. Emotion plays power ballads and soft rock (as per one of the station's bumpers, we give you emotion 24/7, not just once a month), and is hosted by Fernando Martinez, a recurring character throughout the GTA series, first appearing (IRL) in GTA III as an interviewee on one of the talk stations, but being the host of Emotion in Vice City earlier in the in game universe, where he gave some great quotes (people often ask me, Fernando, are you bilingual? I'll try anything once) and shills for pretty much anything (I have teamed up with Medallion Man, the shop for medallion needs)
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Yeah, I just liked a song from the Mrs enough to double check Shuke's playlist to verify they were on there.Nice. I will inform @MrsKarmaPolice about the competition.I think the Mrs. is doing a better job with my theme than I am.
She's identified 2 new me that will make the list, you have one but technically Cherry is a second since it hasn't appeared.
jwb
Footballguy
Like a few have already said, this song really feels ahead of its time. Released in 1977 during the thick of disco, it uses a Moog synthesizer that almost overwhelms the listener (in a good way). It's got all kinds of sound coming from the speakers - left/right/middle/back... all over. Then you get Donna's silky smooth, sexy voice right in the middle, which really made an impression on an 11-year-old jwb. This song was written and produced by Giorgio Moroder, a disco legend and pioneer of electronic music who did a ton of work with Summer. His excellent Chase almost made the list, but I picked this one instead because... it's Donna freaken' Summer!
jwb
Footballguy
At one point this was on my 2-channel list. Not sure why it didn't make it, but I could say that about a bunch of songs too. Always happy to hear this one.
-OZ-
Footballguy
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Produced by Todd Rundgren!Another shout out to your film with the SAE brothers at the end:Others:
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Eephus
Footballguy
MADs adjacent new album releases for Friday.
Expanded Edition with 19 live versions
New album from Joe Ely whose Boxcars got a lot of love last week
Yet another album from a band more prolific than King Gizzard
Greatest Hits compilation - no idea if there's any new material
New Dream Theater for the Proggies and Sharon Van Etten, Heartworms and Squid for the Indies and a 2 Chainz-Larry June/The Alchemist collab for everyone.
Expanded Edition with 19 live versions
New album from Joe Ely whose Boxcars got a lot of love last week
Yet another album from a band more prolific than King Gizzard
Greatest Hits compilation - no idea if there's any new material
New Dream Theater for the Proggies and Sharon Van Etten, Heartworms and Squid for the Indies and a 2 Chainz-Larry June/The Alchemist collab for everyone.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
My fave is President Gas.
"Pretty in Pink" is a song by the English band the Psychedelic Furs, originally released in 1981 as a single from the band's second album, Talk Talk Talk. The 1986 film was named after the song and a re-recorded version of the song was included on its soundtrack.
Others:
I probably like Heartbreak Beat best of these, but I wanted to give a shout out to the iconic John Hughes and his 1980's films.
Pretty in Pink is pretty inappropriate for a Molly Ringwald sweetheart role though.
Its like John Hughes didnt listen to the lyrics
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Donna Summer with this and Love to Love You Baby and then turning around and going mega crazy whackball
Giorgio Moroder is rightly revered in the electronic music scene.
My fave story is Together in Electric Dreams with Phil Oakey of Human League.
Oakey thought he was just laying down a backing track. Moroder said perfect. One take.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Talking about oddities, i was listening to countless rap Batman song and the Bugzy Malone just stood out from the US rap ones talking about Batman. It may be the only Bugzy Malome track i listen to. Until this one
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Songs in D Minor - The Saddest Key of All
26 - The Stranglers - North Winds Blowing
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Lyric -
I heard of two generations that were
Being murdered
In a Europe that was shrouded in black
I witnessed the birth pains of new nations
When the chosen people finally went back
North Winds Blowing
Source - https://musicstax.com/track/north-winds-blowing/1OZEifEoPpWpDJ1FybjW5E
https://tunebat.com/Info/North-Winds-Blowing-Live-The-Stranglers/1gtFOMfmspS62Z18ZKpP97
Sadness Quotient - 6/11 - The sadness of Europe after two world wars is recalled heavily in this wistful somg
Comment - I chose this on the Stranglers MAD run down in the top 10. Perhaps my fave track on the Aural Sculpture album
Next Up - When a band has their main comparison as Joy Division, expect sadness. Except on the next track.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Batman
26 Al Martino - I Have But One Heart
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Relevant Lyric - Dicimo o mari, facimu l'amore,
A curi a curi che ci passa,
Ca u mare parla e na' carezza,
Ma a tia la brezza, fina murir.
You are my one love, my love I live for you,
I have but one heart to give to you.
Batman Vibe Score - 0/10 - Some contrived love scene in the Robert Pattinson version of The Batman.
Where to Find - The songs from this album were not given a Soundtrack release. I have at least two of them on my list. You can find it on the Godfather Soundtrack
Quick Hit Comment - As mentioned, this song is very well known for Al Martino as Johnny Fontaine singing it at Connie’s wedding in the Godfather. Film clip linked has loads of wonderful Godfather memories. Batman, not so much.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
No. Well, maybe but what I was going for there were songs between Holly's death and the Beatles playing on Ed Sullivan. You know, when there WAS no rock and roll according to that idiot.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Former Drive-By Trucker, Jason Isbell has a new release as well:MADs adjacent new album releases for Friday.
Expanded Edition with 19 live versions
New album from Joe Ely whose Boxcars got a lot of love last week
Yet another album from a band more prolific than King Gizzard
Greatest Hits compilation - no idea if there's any new material
New Dream Theater for the Proggies and Sharon Van Etten, Heartworms and Squid for the Indies and a 2 Chainz-Larry June/The Alchemist collab for everyone.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Great set of songs here. And Heartbreak Beat might be the best thing they ever did.
"Pretty in Pink" is a song by the English band the Psychedelic Furs, originally released in 1981 as a single from the band's second album, Talk Talk Talk. The 1986 film was named after the song and a re-recorded version of the song was included on its soundtrack.
Others:
I probably like Heartbreak Beat best of these, but I wanted to give a shout out to the iconic John Hughes and his 1980's films.
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