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Middle-aged Dummies are back and bursting at the "themes" to get going! Full theme ahead! (3 Viewers)

Selections:

31. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers

30. Hear The Drummer Get Wicked - Chad Jackson

29. Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band

28. Virtual Insanity – Jamiroquai

27. Another Chance - Roger Sanchez

26. Living On My Own - Freddie Mercury

25. Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top

24. Better Off Alone - Alice Deejay

23. Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music

22. By The Time I Get To Arizona - Public Enemy

21. I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry

20. Goddess On A Hiway - Mercury Rev

19. Dark Therapy – Echobelly

18. Run To You - Bryan Adams

17. Inside Out – Anthrax

16. There's Nothing I Won't Do – JX

15. You - Bad Religion

14. Don't Stop Me Now – Queen

13. Moving – Supergrass

12. The Time Is Now – Moloko

11. Ms Jackson – Outkast

10. Ray of Light - Madonna

9. Winter Hill – Doves

8. Carnaval de Paris - Dario G

7. Seven Days and One Week - B.B.E.

6. Coffee and TV - Blur



Incorrect guesses:

Songs that give advice

Bands That Have Never Been in My Kitchen

Songs by artists who have headlined Glastonbury

Songs featuring the Mellotron

Fear mongering

Song titles that could be part of geometry proofs

Bands who have a member whose first or last name is a James Bond reference

Bands with family members

Songs that reference a location in another country

Songs that have nine or more words in the title

Songs that mention famous streets

Bands who had a member mysteriously disappear, get declared dead, but no body has ever been found

Songs that reference footballguys user names

Songs without a guitar

Song titles that are commands

First two words of song titles in order of lyrics from The Youngbloods’ Get Together

Songs about resilience in the face of adversity

Songs about the importance of progress

Songs to make people overthink and speculate about an imaginary theme that doesn't really exist

31 songs that MADs submitted in prior MAD rounds, but judge disqualified because the submitting MAD failed to get the long-form birth certificate of all band members before submitting

Songs NOT produced by Todd Rundgren

Artists without umlauts

Songs Sam Rockwell has danced to in a movie

Songs about navigating and adapting to a constantly changing world

Songs credited to more than one songwriter

UK top ten singles

Singles released by UK artist/bands

31 British Isles Songs That Did Not Appear in the MAD British Isles Countdown

Non-guitar driven songs

Songs in 4/4 time

Broadway shows

Songs that all charted in the same six countries:
UK
Australia
Germany
France
Ireland
Netherlands

Songs under 5 minutes

Songs where artists let out excessive vocalizations of the “ahh,” “ooh,” “dee,” etc. variety

A break up and starting over

Things that will drive a bunch of middle aged dummies who are trying to find a pattern go crazy

Stages in Rustoleum’s marriage

Guinness World Records

Songs that can qualify for other people’s themes

Songs by people with facial hair

All songs use an instrument with keys

Songs that are the narrative arc of a divorce

Addiction

Songs with 125 BPM or more

Songs that sample other songs on the list

Songs representing different Nicholas Cage movies / characters

Songs

This is your life, Krista

Something to do with Tina Turner/abused women

Jimi Hendrix

Detailing Britney Spears’ descent into madness

Addiction ... to love

Songs in A Minor

The plot to Thelma and Louise

Kourtney Kardashian

Songs about a major change in someone's life

Midlife crisis

Songs with a subject you should see a therapist about

Mental illness

Songs about the world's worst super heros

Mania

Things you do impulsively

Songs that use the word “The” at some stage in the lyrics

The Ballad of @krista4 and OH

Songs the were on the UK official singles chart for the week ending on Aug 16, 2008

Songs from multiple decades

Songs about exploration of identity

Dancing

Each of these songs holds a special place in the hearts of listeners, and they remain influential in the genres they represent

krista's iconic playlist

struggle, rebellion, and survival

songs that have no connection to each other whatsoever - y'all are just wasting your time - ha ha ha suckers

Id, ego, and superego

Each song is somehow connected to one of the first 31 themes submitted for this countdown

Songs that qualify for more than one of the MAD31 themes submitted

Obscure chess strategies

All of these songs tie into the movie Thelma and Louise

history repeating itself

Songs for which there exists another song with the exact same title

Songs that implicate the seven deadly sins

The plot of a movie

the arc of Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Being in an oppressive relationship, and the journey to take back control of your life

the arc of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

trapped in a continuous cycle and finding a release that feels like freedom

Moving on through suicide

Things that require immediate action

Determining your own destiny

the life and tribulations of Pamela Anderson

[Eliminating/adding characters to a title -or- re-ordering the words in a title] give you the title to another song.

the Kiefer Sutherland life story

Awakenings

Coming full circle

Trials and tribulations involving breasts?

My dad sucks

finding liberation

The trips Judas made and the things he did before he turned Jesus over to the Romans
Birth to Death
This a Jesus theme as we head towards Easter?
 
GTA #8 - Laura Branigan - Self Control (Flash FM, VC)

We take our second and final visit to Flash in this countdown, the pop station being the majority of player's first introduction to Vice City given it is scripted to play in either of the obvious vehicles available right at the start of the game and jump straight into Billie Jean. We've already had Aneka right at the start of the playlist, there were another bunch of strong selections from the Buggles, Bryan Adams (I think the same track that showed up on the mystery playlist?), Yes, INXS and others, but Branigan was the pick, not her biggest hit (although, per Wiki, the inclusion of it in this game leads it to being the most streamed song of hers on many online platforms), but close to it, given the theming and sources of inspiration for the game, this selection is one that was likely influenced by her involvement in the Miami Vice soundtrack
 
jwb – songs that sound great on a decent 2-channel system

Subdivisions – Rush

Lots of Rush sounds great. I know they are a bit polarizing, but I'm a big fan. I chose this song for a few reasons: I really like it, it's fairly accessible for even a non-fan, and, most importantly, I think it's amongst Neil Peart's best work. Not that it's super flashy percussion-wise - he's done more on other songs - but this one is all fills, all the time, and leaves little room for error. I recall an interview where he stated this the most demanding song for him, because there's nowhere to hide. I also really like Geddy's transition from keyboards to bass and back again, and that low keyboard rumble that's underneath for most of the song (which I never really noticed until I heard it on a good setup.)

Coming up: Speaking of nowhere to hide, gonna get a little quiet for a few songs for some awesome vocals.
I really like this song except the random saying of "subdivisions" all the way through. It's a mood killer. Why would they do that?

I agree with you (I believe that's Peart too).
 
GTA #7 - Joe Smooth - Promised Land (SF-UR, SA)

Our first visit to San Fierro Underground Radio, playing primarily house and similar genres, which given the timing of the game in 92 hits into pretty much the golden era of electronic music, locking into a bunch of pioneers including Todd Terry, Frankie Knuckles, 808 State and I think the Manchester countdown may have used the same track from A Guy Called Gerald, the station having a cool Hacienda vibe to it. Hosted by drug riddled German Hans Oberlander, the station has one of the funnier scripts to it, and Promised Land is my pick of the best track, Joe Smooth arguably being better known for a later remixing and production career, but still being able to put out cracking records like this on his own. Will we see it in the Chicagoland countdown? Probably not, but you never know!
 
jwb – songs that sound great on a decent 2-channel system

Subdivisions – Rush

Lots of Rush sounds great. I know they are a bit polarizing, but I'm a big fan. I chose this song for a few reasons: I really like it, it's fairly accessible for even a non-fan, and, most importantly, I think it's amongst Neil Peart's best work. Not that it's super flashy percussion-wise - he's done more on other songs - but this one is all fills, all the time, and leaves little room for error. I recall an interview where he stated this the most demanding song for him, because there's nowhere to hide. I also really like Geddy's transition from keyboards to bass and back again, and that low keyboard rumble that's underneath for most of the song (which I never really noticed until I heard it on a good setup.)

Coming up: Speaking of nowhere to hide, gonna get a little quiet for a few songs for some awesome vocals.
I really like this song except the random saying of "subdivisions" all the way through. It's a mood killer. Why would they do that?

I agree with you (I believe that's Peart too).
Have you seen this great cover?
 
GTA #6 - Afrika Bambaataa - Looking For The Perfect Beat (Wildstyle, VC)

We've been to Wildstyle before in the countdown, with Rockit showing up in the first handful of picks, and we return with Afrika Bambaataa, one of the pioneers of the genre, mixing early electronica with early hip hop, along with Soulsonic Force who featured on many of his tracks, including this one. A long awaited follow up to Planet Rock, the record is the clear best selection on Wildstyle and typifies your newer genre early 80s sound

Up in the top 5, in no particular order, we have:

- a redo of an artist I've already picked
- a repeat selection of another playlist
- a repeat artist from another playlist
- maybe the quintessential San Andreas track if played after you beat the game
- if it is not a potential same round crossover with the new wave list, it should be
 
one of my fave new wavers...

"Don't Change" is a song by Australian rock band INXS. It was released as a single from the album Shabooh Shoobah in October 1982. It has been described as the song that made the band internationally famous.
Cash Box reviewed the "Don't Change" single saying "churning rhythms and swirling guitars provide a straight ahead forward thrust for singer Michael Hutchence's philosophical pronouncements."

"Don't Change" peaked at number 14 and number 17 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart.

In February 2014, after the Channel 7 screening of INXS: Never Tear Us Apart mini-series, "Don't Change" charted again in Australia via download sales. It peaked at #92 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

In 2017, the song was selected for preservation in the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia collection

In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Don't Change" was ranked number 28.

In a retrospective review, Allmusic described the song as "one of the best rock songs of the 1980s".





INXS are not a band that are anywhere near my favourites, but i could do a MAD 31 playlist in my sleep due to familiarity.
Theres a lot of subjectivity in that writeup.
Eg Don’t Change only reached #80 on the Billboard Chart, whereas its Predecessor “The One Thing” reached #30

That Triple M list is weird.
Here’s the top 20
20. Redgum - I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)
19. Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me
18. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
17. Stevie Wright - Evie (Parts 1, 2 and 3)
16. Cold Chisel - Bow River
15. Screaming Jets - Better
14. Daryl Braithwaite - The Horses
13. Goanna - Solid Rock
12. Cold Chisel - Flame Trees
11. The Angels - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again
10. Yothu Yindi - Treaty (Filthy Lucre Radio Remix)
9. Midnight Oil - Beds are burning
8. AC/DC - Thunderstruck
7. GANGgajang - Sounds Of Then
6. John Farnham - You're The Voice
5. AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N' Roll)
4. Icehouse - Great Southern Land
3. Jimmy Barnes - Working Class Man
2. Men At Work - Down Under
1. Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh

Back to INXS.
My faves, hopefully not spoiling any future MAD list
Just Keep Walking. Their first hit in Australia. The second I saw it, I thought that boy is gonna be a star

Dancing on the Jetty - The Swing is packed with great songs. This was the fourth single

Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain) - Hutchence does sensual so well
 
jwb – songs that sound great on a decent 2-channel system

Subdivisions – Rush

Lots of Rush sounds great. I know they are a bit polarizing, but I'm a big fan. I chose this song for a few reasons: I really like it, it's fairly accessible for even a non-fan, and, most importantly, I think it's amongst Neil Peart's best work. Not that it's super flashy percussion-wise - he's done more on other songs - but this one is all fills, all the time, and leaves little room for error. I recall an interview where he stated this the most demanding song for him, because there's nowhere to hide. I also really like Geddy's transition from keyboards to bass and back again, and that low keyboard rumble that's underneath for most of the song (which I never really noticed until I heard it on a good setup.)

Coming up: Speaking of nowhere to hide, gonna get a little quiet for a few songs for some awesome vocals.
I really like this song except the random saying of "subdivisions" all the way through. It's a mood killer. Why would they do that?

I agree with you (I believe that's Peart too).
Have you seen this great cover?

Wow!! That was awesome
 
Selections:

31. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers

30. Hear The Drummer Get Wicked - Chad Jackson

29. Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band

28. Virtual Insanity – Jamiroquai

27. Another Chance - Roger Sanchez

26. Living On My Own - Freddie Mercury

25. Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top

24. Better Off Alone - Alice Deejay

23. Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music

22. By The Time I Get To Arizona - Public Enemy

21. I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry

20. Goddess On A Hiway - Mercury Rev

19. Dark Therapy – Echobelly

18. Run To You - Bryan Adams

17. Inside Out – Anthrax

16. There's Nothing I Won't Do – JX

15. You - Bad Religion

14. Don't Stop Me Now – Queen

13. Moving – Supergrass

12. The Time Is Now – Moloko

11. Ms Jackson – Outkast

10. Ray of Light - Madonna

9. Winter Hill – Doves

8. Carnaval de Paris - Dario G

7. Seven Days and One Week - B.B.E.

6. Coffee and TV - Blur



Incorrect guesses:

Songs that give advice

Bands That Have Never Been in My Kitchen

Songs by artists who have headlined Glastonbury

Songs featuring the Mellotron

Fear mongering

Song titles that could be part of geometry proofs

Bands who have a member whose first or last name is a James Bond reference

Bands with family members

Songs that reference a location in another country

Songs that have nine or more words in the title

Songs that mention famous streets

Bands who had a member mysteriously disappear, get declared dead, but no body has ever been found

Songs that reference footballguys user names

Songs without a guitar

Song titles that are commands

First two words of song titles in order of lyrics from The Youngbloods’ Get Together

Songs about resilience in the face of adversity

Songs about the importance of progress

Songs to make people overthink and speculate about an imaginary theme that doesn't really exist

31 songs that MADs submitted in prior MAD rounds, but judge disqualified because the submitting MAD failed to get the long-form birth certificate of all band members before submitting

Songs NOT produced by Todd Rundgren

Artists without umlauts

Songs Sam Rockwell has danced to in a movie

Songs about navigating and adapting to a constantly changing world

Songs credited to more than one songwriter

UK top ten singles

Singles released by UK artist/bands

31 British Isles Songs That Did Not Appear in the MAD British Isles Countdown

Non-guitar driven songs

Songs in 4/4 time

Broadway shows

Songs that all charted in the same six countries:
UK
Australia
Germany
France
Ireland
Netherlands

Songs under 5 minutes

Songs where artists let out excessive vocalizations of the “ahh,” “ooh,” “dee,” etc. variety

A break up and starting over

Things that will drive a bunch of middle aged dummies who are trying to find a pattern go crazy

Stages in Rustoleum’s marriage

Guinness World Records

Songs that can qualify for other people’s themes

Songs by people with facial hair

All songs use an instrument with keys

Songs that are the narrative arc of a divorce

Addiction

Songs with 125 BPM or more

Songs that sample other songs on the list

Songs representing different Nicholas Cage movies / characters

Songs

This is your life, Krista

Something to do with Tina Turner/abused women

Jimi Hendrix

Detailing Britney Spears’ descent into madness

Addiction ... to love

Songs in A Minor

The plot to Thelma and Louise

Kourtney Kardashian

Songs about a major change in someone's life

Midlife crisis

Songs with a subject you should see a therapist about

Mental illness

Songs about the world's worst super heros

Mania

Things you do impulsively

Songs that use the word “The” at some stage in the lyrics

The Ballad of @krista4 and OH

Songs the were on the UK official singles chart for the week ending on Aug 16, 2008

Songs from multiple decades

Songs about exploration of identity

Dancing

Each of these songs holds a special place in the hearts of listeners, and they remain influential in the genres they represent

krista's iconic playlist

struggle, rebellion, and survival

songs that have no connection to each other whatsoever - y'all are just wasting your time - ha ha ha suckers

Id, ego, and superego

Each song is somehow connected to one of the first 31 themes submitted for this countdown

Songs that qualify for more than one of the MAD31 themes submitted

Obscure chess strategies

All of these songs tie into the movie Thelma and Louise

history repeating itself

Songs for which there exists another song with the exact same title

Songs that implicate the seven deadly sins

The plot of a movie

the arc of Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Being in an oppressive relationship, and the journey to take back control of your life

the arc of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

trapped in a continuous cycle and finding a release that feels like freedom

Moving on through suicide

Things that require immediate action

Determining your own destiny

the life and tribulations of Pamela Anderson

[Eliminating/adding characters to a title -or- re-ordering the words in a title] give you the title to another song.

the Kiefer Sutherland life story

Awakenings

Coming full circle

Trials and tribulations involving breasts?

My dad sucks

finding liberation

The trips Judas made and the things he did before he turned Jesus over to the Romans
Birth to Death
This a Jesus theme as we head towards Easter?
Some voodoo with the running times of each song that I haven’t figured out yet.
 
Selections:

31. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers

30. Hear The Drummer Get Wicked - Chad Jackson

29. Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band

28. Virtual Insanity – Jamiroquai

27. Another Chance - Roger Sanchez

26. Living On My Own - Freddie Mercury

25. Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top

24. Better Off Alone - Alice Deejay

23. Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music

22. By The Time I Get To Arizona - Public Enemy

21. I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry

20. Goddess On A Hiway - Mercury Rev

19. Dark Therapy – Echobelly

18. Run To You - Bryan Adams

17. Inside Out – Anthrax

16. There's Nothing I Won't Do – JX

15. You - Bad Religion

14. Don't Stop Me Now – Queen

13. Moving – Supergrass

12. The Time Is Now – Moloko

11. Ms Jackson – Outkast

10. Ray of Light - Madonna

9. Winter Hill – Doves

8. Carnaval de Paris - Dario G

7. Seven Days and One Week - B.B.E.

6. Coffee and TV - Blur



Incorrect guesses:

Songs that give advice

Bands That Have Never Been in My Kitchen

Songs by artists who have headlined Glastonbury

Songs featuring the Mellotron

Fear mongering

Song titles that could be part of geometry proofs

Bands who have a member whose first or last name is a James Bond reference

Bands with family members

Songs that reference a location in another country

Songs that have nine or more words in the title

Songs that mention famous streets

Bands who had a member mysteriously disappear, get declared dead, but no body has ever been found

Songs that reference footballguys user names

Songs without a guitar

Song titles that are commands

First two words of song titles in order of lyrics from The Youngbloods’ Get Together

Songs about resilience in the face of adversity

Songs about the importance of progress

Songs to make people overthink and speculate about an imaginary theme that doesn't really exist

31 songs that MADs submitted in prior MAD rounds, but judge disqualified because the submitting MAD failed to get the long-form birth certificate of all band members before submitting

Songs NOT produced by Todd Rundgren

Artists without umlauts

Songs Sam Rockwell has danced to in a movie

Songs about navigating and adapting to a constantly changing world

Songs credited to more than one songwriter

UK top ten singles

Singles released by UK artist/bands

31 British Isles Songs That Did Not Appear in the MAD British Isles Countdown

Non-guitar driven songs

Songs in 4/4 time

Broadway shows

Songs that all charted in the same six countries:
UK
Australia
Germany
France
Ireland
Netherlands

Songs under 5 minutes

Songs where artists let out excessive vocalizations of the “ahh,” “ooh,” “dee,” etc. variety

A break up and starting over

Things that will drive a bunch of middle aged dummies who are trying to find a pattern go crazy

Stages in Rustoleum’s marriage

Guinness World Records

Songs that can qualify for other people’s themes

Songs by people with facial hair

All songs use an instrument with keys

Songs that are the narrative arc of a divorce

Addiction

Songs with 125 BPM or more

Songs that sample other songs on the list

Songs representing different Nicholas Cage movies / characters

Songs

This is your life, Krista

Something to do with Tina Turner/abused women

Jimi Hendrix

Detailing Britney Spears’ descent into madness

Addiction ... to love

Songs in A Minor

The plot to Thelma and Louise

Kourtney Kardashian

Songs about a major change in someone's life

Midlife crisis

Songs with a subject you should see a therapist about

Mental illness

Songs about the world's worst super heros

Mania

Things you do impulsively

Songs that use the word “The” at some stage in the lyrics

The Ballad of @krista4 and OH

Songs the were on the UK official singles chart for the week ending on Aug 16, 2008

Songs from multiple decades

Songs about exploration of identity

Dancing

Each of these songs holds a special place in the hearts of listeners, and they remain influential in the genres they represent

krista's iconic playlist

struggle, rebellion, and survival

songs that have no connection to each other whatsoever - y'all are just wasting your time - ha ha ha suckers

Id, ego, and superego

Each song is somehow connected to one of the first 31 themes submitted for this countdown

Songs that qualify for more than one of the MAD31 themes submitted

Obscure chess strategies

All of these songs tie into the movie Thelma and Louise

history repeating itself

Songs for which there exists another song with the exact same title

Songs that implicate the seven deadly sins

The plot of a movie

the arc of Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Being in an oppressive relationship, and the journey to take back control of your life

the arc of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

trapped in a continuous cycle and finding a release that feels like freedom

Moving on through suicide

Things that require immediate action

Determining your own destiny

the life and tribulations of Pamela Anderson

[Eliminating/adding characters to a title -or- re-ordering the words in a title] give you the title to another song.

the Kiefer Sutherland life story

Awakenings

Coming full circle

Trials and tribulations involving breasts?

My dad sucks

finding liberation

The trips Judas made and the things he did before he turned Jesus over to the Romans
Birth to Death
This a Jesus theme as we head towards Easter?
I'm guessing right region, wrong religion. How about: the Israelites exodus from Egypt/the movie The Ten Commandments?

If I'm right, I'll share the credit with @KarmaPolice
 
This song is one of my favorites off of Bob's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited. It has a bluesy feel to it, and I love the barrelhouse piano and harmonica.

Now the wintertime is coming
The windows are filled with frost
I went to tell everybody
But I could not get across
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby
I don’t wanna be your boss
Don’t say I never warned you
When your train gets lost
 

Songs in D Minor - The most Emo Key of All​

6 - My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words​


Lyric - So many bright lights, they cast a shadow, but can I speak?
Well, is it hard understanding, I'm incomplete?
A life that's so demanding
I get so weak

Source - https://tunebat.com/Info/Famous-Last-Words-My-Chemical-Romance/2d6m2F4I7wCuAKtSsdhh83
https://musicstax.com/track/famous-last-words/2d6m2F4I7wCuAKtSsdhh83

Sadness Quotient - 6/11 - More sad as in pathetic really. Emo Rock at its finest

Comment - At one stage this was the most viewed clip on youtube. Its a great number and well constructed.

Next Up - A sneak peak at my next MAD artist
 
Unfortunately I’m done with my write-ups for the remainder here. I enjoyed doing them and learning about the albums. However, my plane leaves Thursday for Amsterdam so I’ll be on vacation for what’s just about the remainder of the countdown. Enjoy the tunes everyone, it’s been fun!
 

Batman​

6 - War - Galaxy​


Relevant Lyric - People movin' to and fro
To a sonic band, and a laser show
Superman, Batman, blowin' all night
Playin' one on one with a meteorite

Batman Vibe Score - 8/10 - Not sure about Superman and Batman blowin all night though ooo eer

Where to Find - War - Galaxy the album

Quick Hit Comment - A timeless classic. I hadnt heard about it until i corrected timschochets awful 1977 song rundown j/k.

Next Up - I knew this song from the 90s, but it was a whole lot of fun revisiting it for this countdown
 
jwb – songs that sound great on a decent 2-channel system

Subdivisions – Rush

Lots of Rush sounds great. I know they are a bit polarizing, but I'm a big fan. I chose this song for a few reasons: I really like it, it's fairly accessible for even a non-fan, and, most importantly, I think it's amongst Neil Peart's best work. Not that it's super flashy percussion-wise - he's done more on other songs - but this one is all fills, all the time, and leaves little room for error. I recall an interview where he stated this the most demanding song for him, because there's nowhere to hide. I also really like Geddy's transition from keyboards to bass and back again, and that low keyboard rumble that's underneath for most of the song (which I never really noticed until I heard it on a good setup.)

Coming up: Speaking of nowhere to hide, gonna get a little quiet for a few songs for some awesome vocals.
I really like this song except the random saying of "subdivisions" all the way through. It's a mood killer. Why would they do that?

I agree with you (I believe that's Peart too).
It is. He would later use that “voice” for the rapping robot section of “Roll the Bones.”
 

Songs in D Minor - The most Emo Key of All​

6 - My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words​


Lyric - So many bright lights, they cast a shadow, but can I speak?
Well, is it hard understanding, I'm incomplete?
A life that's so demanding
I get so weak

Source - https://tunebat.com/Info/Famous-Last-Words-My-Chemical-Romance/2d6m2F4I7wCuAKtSsdhh83
https://musicstax.com/track/famous-last-words/2d6m2F4I7wCuAKtSsdhh83

Sadness Quotient - 6/11 - More sad as in pathetic really. Emo Rock at its finest

Comment - At one stage this was the most viewed clip on youtube. Its a great number and well constructed.

Next Up - A sneak peak at my next MAD artist
Of all the double up songs this is not one I'd have guessed!
 
However, my plane leaves Thursday for Amsterdam so I’ll be on vacation for what’s just about the remainder of the countdown. Enjoy the tunes everyone, it’s been fun!

Wow, man. Have a blast! Amsterdam looks like a wonderful place to visit if you can dodge the roving stoners. Very cool.
 
However, my plane leaves Thursday for Amsterdam so I’ll be on vacation for what’s just about the remainder of the countdown. Enjoy the tunes everyone, it’s been fun!

Wow, man. Have a blast! Amsterdam looks like a wonderful place to visit if you can dodge the roving stoners. Very cool.
Roving Stoners is the name of my Phish cover band that only plays Rolling Stones songs.
 
However, my plane leaves Thursday for Amsterdam so I’ll be on vacation for what’s just about the remainder of the countdown. Enjoy the tunes everyone, it’s been fun!

Wow, man. Have a blast! Amsterdam looks like a wonderful place to visit if you can dodge the roving stoners. Very cool.
Thanks, will be there a couple days and then moving down through Germany and France for a few stops. Ending in Switzerland. Should be a fun trip. I’ve heard the bicyclists are the ones to really watch out for in Amsterdam.
 
6. Bat Out of Hell
Artist: Meat Loaf
Album: Bat Out of Hell (1977)
Todd's role(s): producer, arranger, guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
Writer(s): Jim Steinman

The song: What a hell of a way to open an album. The very beginning of the song has some prog-like trills, in keeping with producer Todd Rundgren's obsession at the time, and then gets into majestic metal territory before the guitars disappear, the piano takes over and Meat Loaf starts to sing. For the entirety of the near 10-minute running time, which hits everywhere on the fast/slow and loud/quiet spectra, this is highly dramatic stuff, part Bruce Springsteen, part Broadway, part hard rock/metal theatrics and all fist-pumping glory. Just after the 6-minute mark, we get what sounds like a revving motorcycle; this is Rundgren's guitar conveying writer Jim Steinman's goal of creating "the most extreme crash song of all time." Indeed, Meat Loaf's final note of "helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll" is some of the most "extreme" singing you'll hear anywhere.

Steinman conceived the song as part of "a rock 'n roll sci-fi version of Peter Pan" but decided to use it and two other songs from that project for a rock album that he and Meat Loaf started shopping around. (The Peter Pan musical, title changed from Neverland to Bat Out of Hell, finally came to fruition in 2018.)

Meat Loaf said on a DVD commentary that, despite the sonic similarities to Springsteen (including performances by E Streeters Roy Bittan on piano and Max Weinberg on drums), the inspiration for the track came not from him but from the movie Psycho, and it was written from the perspective of visitors to the Bates Motel who "wish they would have left like a bat out of hell."

Steinman said the lyrics are based on something Peter Pan would have sang to Wendy; this is made more explicit in the musical version. But it also involves the protagonist dying in a gnarly motorcycle crash.

Steinman wanted an actual motorcycle to make the crash sounds, but Rundgren refused and instead replicated the sound on his guitar. "In fifteen minutes he played the lead solo and then played the harmony guitars at the beginning," Meat Loaf told biographer David Dalton. "I guarantee the whole thing didn't take him more than forty-five minutes, and the song itself is ten minutes long. The most astounding thing I have ever seen in my life."

As if the song wasn't wild enough, Steinman wanted to use a boys' choir in one of the quieter sections, and he wanted "a choir sounding like it was singing whole clusters of notes" in the motorcycle crash section, but Rundgren vetoed both ideas.

"Bat Out of Hell" received the "Classic Song" award from Q magazine in 2008, it was named as one of the top 5 driving songs by Top Gear listeners and Rundgren's motorcycle-sounding solo was named one of the 100 greatest guitar solos by udiscovermusic.com.

Amazingly, this behemoth of a song was released as a single in the UK, where it hit #15, higher than any other song from the album. It also had a video (with most of the instrumental intro cut out) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGMCSCFoKA that was occasionally aired on MTV, though not as often as those for "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth."

In addition to Meat Loaf, Rundgren, Bittan and Weinberg, the performers on this track are Steinman, who played keyboards and percussion, Utopia bassist Kasim Sulton, Utopia synth player Roger Powell and backing singers Rory Dodd and Ellen Foley.

The album: Most people would have never heard of Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman if not for Todd Rundgren. They shopped the Bat Out of Hell songs to numerous labels and were rejected by all of them, a process that took two and a half years. Clive Davis told Meat Loaf that "actors don't make records" and asked Steinman "do you even know how to write a song? If you're going to write for records, it goes like this: A, B, C, B, C, C. I don't know what you're doing. You're doing A, D, F, G, B, D, C."

Rundgren was fascinated by the material -- his own work between 1973 and early 1977 was equally complex -- and thought it was a Springsteen parody. He agreed to produce the record when Meat Loaf and Steinman told him they had a deal with RCA, which was false.

As Steinman did not write sheet music, Rundgren did the arrangements based on Steinman humming to him what he was hearing in his head. After learning that the RCA deal did not exist and unsuccessfully asking Albert Grossman to finance the album and release it on Bearsville, Rundgren paid for the recording himself. With an assist from another E Streeter, Steven Van Zandt, Meat Loaf's manager got an audience with Cleveland International, a subsidiary of Epic, and they accepted the record. (Label head Steve Popovich loved the record and took it on over the objections of most of his staff.) Meat Loaf and Steinman did not like Rundgren's original mix of the album, and some tracks were remixed by themselves and others before release.

The success of the record happened slowly and it first broke in the UK and Australia, where the music videos filmed for it caught on. Canada was next to embrace the record. By the end of 1977, it had sold more than 100,000 copies in the US, but was only a success in certain markets, New York being one of them. It did not become a phenomenon in the States until spring 1978, when "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" became a hit, peaking at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. (This also coincides with a surge in the volume of Rundgren's production work -- he has a ton of production credits in 1979 because everyone wanted to hire him in 1978.) And after that, like a musical Meat Loaf had been a part of, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, it became a phenomenon.

The Allmusic.com review sums up the album's appeal well: "It may elevate adolescent passion to operatic dimensions, and that's certainly silly, but it's hard not to marvel at the skill behind this grandly silly, irresistible album."

Bat Out of Hell went platinum 14 times over in the US, has the fourth-longest run on the UK album charts and is the all-time best selling album in Australia. It has sold 43 million copies worldwide, almost as much as The Dark Side of the Moon. It has shown up on the album version of the Rolling Stone Garbage List and in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Maybe even more than Something/Anything?, it paid for Rundgren's estate in Hawaii.

Rundgren covered "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" on the (re)Production album. https://open.spotify.com/track/7mbkWpJLTo8HqGrl2PvQnU?si=c030cd6e89c24514

You Might Also Like: What the hell, here's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light." It needs no introduction with this crowd. https://open.spotify.com/track/2g7gviEeJr6pyxO7G35EWQ?si=45bd5936e9c04e6f

At #5, my highest-ranking Todd-produced song by a non-Todd-related artist. I have written about it before and I'm gonna do it again.
 
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6. "Disco Inferno" - The Trammps

rockaction - Songs that state the genre they’re in

Disco Inferno - The Trammps
I don't know if a record is more aptly named than this one. This thing stomps from the get-go and doesn't stop. The one thing the Trammps had that none of the other bands of this time didn't was Wilson Pickett doppelganger Jimmy Ellis. That bass line is lethal, as are the cutting strings. The horns had to be stuffed with cocaine and the guitarist should be in prison for the lines he was laying down. There was something happening on the keys that I haven't figured out in 45 years, but it's awesome. And, in the middle of it all, is Ellis in full Voice Of God mode.

Burn that mother down, indeed.

Uruk's write-up is perfect so I'll leave it at that (I was honestly having trouble figuring out what to say about the song, so the pinch hitter was much appreciated). Thanks, Uruk and jwb for complimenting the song—I was unsure if it was too much of a known entity to really move anybody. If you want to read half of an interesting article/obituary about Jimmy Ellis, here you go. RIP, Jimmy.

 
6. "Disco Inferno" - The Trammps

rockaction - Songs that state the genre they’re in

Disco Inferno - The Trammps
I don't know if a record is more aptly named than this one. This thing stomps from the get-go and doesn't stop. The one thing the Trammps had that none of the other bands of this time didn't was Wilson Pickett doppelganger Jimmy Ellis. That bass line is lethal, as are the cutting strings. The horns had to be stuffed with cocaine and the guitarist should be in prison for the lines he was laying down. There was something happening on the keys that I haven't figured out in 45 years, but it's awesome. And, in the middle of it all, is Ellis in full Voice Of God mode.

Burn that mother down, indeed.

Uruk's write-up is perfect so I'll leave it at that (I was honestly having trouble figuring out what to say about the song, so the pinch hitter was much appreciated). Thanks, Uruk and jwb for complimenting the song—I was unsure if it was too much of a known entity to really move anybody. If you want to read half of an interesting article/obituary about Jimmy Ellis, here you go. RIP, Jimmy.

Sometimes it just clicks, right? An artist makes a perfect record and we're off. The Trammps made some other good songs, I had some of their LPs and saw them on the undercard of a KC & The Sunshine Band concert at the old Cap Centre outside of D.C. in '77 (the Trammps blew them away).

Back when I cared about genre labels, I never considered them "disco" (that was reserved for stuff like Cerrone and other Euro folks). The Trammps' records thumped as hard as anything P-Funk was doing. These guys were pro's pros and made a record that will outlast all of our lives.
 
Unfortunately I’m done with my write-ups for the remainder here. I enjoyed doing them and learning about the albums. However, my plane leaves Thursday for Amsterdam so I’ll be on vacation for what’s just about the remainder of the countdown. Enjoy the tunes everyone, it’s been fun!
Have a great trip. I briefly visited all 4 of those countries in the late 90's and loved them all. I'm sure you will also.
 
6. Bat Out of Hell
Artist: Meat Loaf
Album: Bat Out of Hell (1977)
Todd's role(s): producer, arranger, guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
Writer(s): Jim Steinman

The song: What a hell of a way to open an album. The very beginning of the song has some prog-like trills, in keeping with producer Todd Rundgren's obsession at the time, and then gets into majestic metal territory before the guitars disappear, the piano takes over and Meat Loaf starts to sing. For the entirety of the near 10-minute running time, which hits everywhere on the fast/slow and loud/quiet spectra, this is highly dramatic stuff, part Bruce Springsteen, part Broadway, part hard rock/metal theatrics and all fist-pumping glory. Just after the 6-minute mark, we get what sounds like a revving motorcycle; this is Rundgren's guitar conveying writer Jim Steinman's goal of creating "the most extreme crash song of all time." Indeed, Meat Loaf's final note of "helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll" is some of the most "extreme" singing you'll hear anywhere.

Steinman conceived the song as part of "a rock 'n roll sci-fi version of Peter Pan" but decided to use it and two other songs from that project for a rock album that he and Meat Loaf started shopping around. (The Peter Pan musical, title changed from Neverland to Bat Out of Hell, finally came to fruition in 2018.)

Meat Loaf said on a DVD commentary that, despite the sonic similarities to Springsteen (including performances by E Streeters Roy Bittan on piano and Max Weinberg on drums), the inspiration for the track came not from him but from the movie Psycho, and it was written from the perspective of visitors to the Bates Motel who "wish they would have left like a bat out of hell."

Steinman said the lyrics are based on something Peter Pan would have sang to Wendy; this is made more explicit in the musical version. But it also involves the protagonist dying in a gnarly motorcycle crash.

Steinman wanted an actual motorcycle to make the crash sounds, but Rundgren refused and instead replicated the sound on his guitar. "In fifteen minutes he played the lead solo and then played the harmony guitars at the beginning," Meat Loaf told biographer David Dalton. "I guarantee the whole thing didn't take him more than forty-five minutes, and the song itself is ten minutes long. The most astounding thing I have ever seen in my life."

As if the song wasn't wild enough, Steinman wanted to use a boys' choir in one of the quieter sections, and he wanted "a choir sounding like it was singing whole clusters of notes" in the motorcycle crash section, but Rundgren vetoed both ideas.

"Bat Out of Hell" received the "Classic Song" award from Q magazine in 2008, it was named as one of the top 5 driving songs by Top Gear listeners and Rundgren's motorcycle-sounding solo was named one of the 100 greatest guitar solos by udiscovermusic.com.

Amazingly, this behemoth of a song was released as a single in the UK, where it hit #15, higher than any other song from the album. It also had a video (with most of the instrumental intro cut out) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGMCSCFoKA that was occasionally aired on MTV, though not as often as those for "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth."

In addition to Meat Loaf, Rundgren, Bittan and Weinberg, the performers on this track are Steinman, who played keyboards and percussion, Utopia bassist Kasim Sulton, Utopia synth player Roger Powell and backing singers Rory Dodd and Ellen Foley.

The album: Most people would have never heard of Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman if not for Todd Rundgren. They shopped the Bat Out of Hell songs to numerous labels and were rejected by all of them, a process that took two and a half years. Clive Davis told Meat Loaf that "actors don't make records" and asked Steinman "do you even know how to write a song? If you're going to write for records, it goes like this: A, B, C, B, C, C. I don't know what you're doing. You're doing A, D, F, G, B, D, C."

Rundgren was fascinated by the material -- his own work between 1973 and early 1977 was equally complex -- and thought it was a Springsteen parody. He agreed to produce the record when Meat Loaf and Steinman told him they had a deal with RCA, which was false.

As Steinman did not write sheet music, Rundgren did the arrangements based on Steinman humming to him what he was hearing in his head. After learning that the RCA deal did not exist and unsuccessfully asking Albert Grossman to finance the album and release it on Bearsville, Rundgren paid for the recording himself. With an assist from another E Streeter, Steven Van Zandt, Meat Loaf's manager got an audience with Cleveland International, a subsidiary of Epic, and they accepted the record. (Label head Steve Popovich loved the record and took it on over the objections of most of his staff.) Meat Loaf and Steinman did not like Rundgren's original mix of the album, and some tracks were remixed by themselves and others before release.

The success of the record happened slowly and it first broke in the UK and Australia, where the music videos filmed for it caught on. Canada was next to embrace the record. By the end of 1977, it had sold more than 100,000 copies in the US, but was only a success in certain markets, New York being one of them. It did not become a phenomenon in the States until spring 1978, when "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" became a hit, peaking at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. (This also coincides with a surge in the volume of Rundgren's production work -- he has a ton of production credits in 1979 because everyone wanted to hire him in 1978.) And after that, like a musical Meat Loaf had been a part of, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, it became a phenomenon.

The Allmusic.com review sums up the album's appeal well: "It may elevate adolescent passion to operatic dimensions, and that's certainly silly, but it's hard not to marvel at the skill behind this grandly silly, irresistible album."

Bat Out of Hell went platinum 14 times over in the US, has the fourth-longest run on the UK album charts and is the all-time best selling album in Australia. It has sold 43 million copies worldwide, almost as much as The Dark Side of the Moon. It has shown up on the album version of the Rolling Stone Garbage List and in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Maybe even more than Something/Anything?, it paid for Rundgren's estate in Hawaii.

Rundgren covered "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" on the (re)Production album. https://open.spotify.com/track/7mbkWpJLTo8HqGrl2PvQnU?si=c030cd6e89c24514

You Might Also Like: What the hell, here's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light." It needs no introduction with this crowd. https://open.spotify.com/track/2g7gviEeJr6pyxO7G35EWQ?si=45bd5936e9c04e6f

At #5, my highest-ranking Todd-produced song by a non-Todd-related artist. I have written about it before and I'm gonna do it again.
A great song. Holds up very well. "Paradise" gets played much more but BooH is the better song IMO.
 
8s

New Songs That Caught My Attention
Temptations: I Wish It Would Rain
Santigold: You'll Find a Way
Eric Clapton: It Hurts Me Too
Girugamesh: Limit Break
Coathangers: Memories
Herlequin: Innocence
DJ Snake: Run It
The Verve: History
Trevor Jones: Promontory

Known Songs
Janis Joplin: Piece of My Heart
Alice in Chains: Man in the Box
Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc.
Bruno Mars: 24K Magic
Miami Sound Machine: Conga
Laura Branigan: Self Control
Smashing Pumpkins: The End Is...
Bruce: The Rising
Missing Persons: Words
Pixies: Here Comes Your Man
 
#, Please # 6
Song: 20th Century Boy
Artist: T-Rex
Year: 1973


(Official Music Video) T.Rex - 20th Century Boy (Official Video)
(Live version) T. Rex - 20th Century Boy (1973)

4 Lines:
Fly like a plane
Drive like a car
Ball like a hound
Babe I want to be your man


Number Theory:

20th Century Boy applied for “World’s Worst Superheroes”, but got the job here. I guess his strengths would be to move like a cat, charge like a ram and sting like a bee.His weaknesses would be acting like a “toy” and being susceptible to everything a M-AD is.

Anyway, definitely another song where I don’t have to explain the number. This is an upbeat, rather fast and catchy song, making it an easy inclusion for the countdown. I’ve certainly enjoyed the other T-Rex songs on the countdown, but may have snagged the best one for myself. YMMV, of course.

20th Century Boy has an interesting history. It was left off of the original version of 1973’s Tanx,and released on its own as a single (see below).Naturally after its success, it was added to future versions of Tanx as a bonus track starting in 1985. It’s also another song on this playlist to chart in different decades, as it regained popularity in 1991 after being used in a TV commercial

Significant Digits:
Off album#: N/A (but see above)
Track #: Released as single
Charted twice. 1973: #1 Ireland, #3 UK Singles. 1991-92: #5 Denmark, #8 Ireland, #13 UK

Artist crossover with other playlists: 29
(Known: 22)


Next on the countdown, a song I’m not too afraid to show off, so I’ll go ahead and give it to you.
 
20th Century Boy has an interesting history. It was left off of the original version of 1973’s Tanx,and released on its own as a single (see below).Naturally after its success, it was added to future versions of Tanx as a bonus track starting in 1985. It’s also another song on this playlist to chart in different decades, as it regained popularity in 1991 after being used in a TV commercial

T. Rex's cutting floor from that era is pretty outstanding. I never really liked Tanx and have not been able to get into it even as the years go along. Throw this song on it, though, and it sells. This is a fantastic song. Everything that Bolan was about.
 
20th Century Boy has an interesting history. It was left off of the original version of 1973’s Tanx,and released on its own as a single (see below).Naturally after its success, it was added to future versions of Tanx as a bonus track starting in 1985. It’s also another song on this playlist to chart in different decades, as it regained popularity in 1991 after being used in a TV commercial

T. Rex's cutting floor from that era is pretty outstanding. I never really liked Tanx and have not been able to get into it even as the years go along. Throw this song on it, though, and it sells. This is a fantastic song. Everything that Bolan was about.
I do love this one. I’ve toyed with T.Rex/Tyrannosaurus Rex for one of the artist countdowns, but, when I tried doing it, I found it be too much Electric Warrior and Slider. Some good stuff outside that (such as this one), but I was struggling to make it something other than 70% those two albums.
 
Some good stuff outside that (such as this one), but I was struggling to make it something other than 70% those two albums.

Yeah, His first one (the eponymous T. Rex) and a few subsequent albums are worth listening to and are enjoyable, but you won't get too much off of them if you're doing a top of artist countdown. I tried listening to Marc Bolan's Zip Gun a few times recently, and liked the first song decently enough, but it's not The Slider and it's not Electric Warrior. But few things are, I guess.
 
Some good stuff outside that (such as this one), but I was struggling to make it something other than 70% those two albums.

Yeah, His first one (the eponymous T. Rex) and a few subsequent albums are worth listening to and are enjoyable, but you won't get too much off of them if you're doing a top of artist countdown. I tried listening to Marc Bolan's Zip Gun a few times recently, and liked the first song decently enough, but it's not The Slider and it's not Electric Warrior. But few things are, I guess.
Yeah, I think I had a couple from Zip Gun and Futuristic Dragon. I went in hoping that some of the earlier, more folky, pre-name change Tyrannosaurus Rex stuff could be good to mix in. But it mostly left me wanting the glam.
 
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New-to-me songs from #7 that caught my ear:

simey – train songs

Dusty Boxcar Wall - Eilen Jewell


Yambag – Metal songs from 1988-1992 that became the gateway into the world of music for a young Yambag

Bullet In The Head - Rage Against The Machine

KarmaPolice – songs from artists not on shuke’s list

How I Got Over - The Roots


Don Quixote – Afrobeat

Talkin’ Talkin’ (Spotify) - Matata (Kenya)


JMLs secret identity – songs in D#Minor, the saddest key of all

Forever Autumn (Spotify) - Justin Hayward


-OZ- - song / music moments from the Marvel cinematic universe

On And On - Curtis Harding


Mt. Man – Number, Please

21 Guns - Green Day


Ilov80s - One song from each of the 31 best albums of 1984

Eye to Eye - Chaka Khan


El Floppo – Mallet Rock

The Silent Orchestra - Hamilton Leithauser


MrsKarmaPolice – Animal Kingdom

Kangaroo Court - Capital Cities


Chaos34 - Post Surf Rock Surf Rockish (80s fwd)

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs


krista4 – Chicagoland

Slow Down Chicago – Canasta
 
Since I was talking about what artist I set aside and others have posted what artist they plan to do next, I suppose I’ll drop a bomb on you… I mentioned in Pip’s thread that I could help fill in the gap with some R&B if he went psych rock over R&B. The next time we do artists, I’m planning to do The Gap Band/Charlie Wilson. Mostly The Gap Band, but I expect to throw in some of Charlie Wilson’s solo stuff and maybe some songs that “Uncle Charlie” has collaborated on with the likes of Snoop Dogg and Kanye.
 
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The 6's
Known and liked songs


No Rain
I'm a Man
Missionary Man
Vacation
Bat out of Hell
Misguided Angel
Subdivisions
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Disco Inferno
In My Dreams
Don't Change

New to me likes
Borrow Trouble
Money, Love and Change
Teenage Crime
Famous Last Words
20th Century Boy
Clear Skies
Somewhere on Fullerton
 
#, Please # 6
Song: 20th Century Boy
Artist: T-Rex
Year: 1973


(Official Music Video) T.Rex - 20th Century Boy (Official Video)
(Live version) T. Rex - 20th Century Boy (1973)

4 Lines:
Fly like a plane
Drive like a car
Ball like a hound
Babe I want to be your man


Number Theory:

20th Century Boy applied for “World’s Worst Superheroes”, but got the job here. I guess his strengths would be to move like a cat, charge like a ram and sting like a bee.His weaknesses would be acting like a “toy” and being susceptible to everything a M-AD is.

Anyway, definitely another song where I don’t have to explain the number. This is an upbeat, rather fast and catchy song, making it an easy inclusion for the countdown. I’ve certainly enjoyed the other T-Rex songs on the countdown, but may have snagged the best one for myself. YMMV, of course.

20th Century Boy has an interesting history. It was left off of the original version of 1973’s Tanx,and released on its own as a single (see below).Naturally after its success, it was added to future versions of Tanx as a bonus track starting in 1985. It’s also another song on this playlist to chart in different decades, as it regained popularity in 1991 after being used in a TV commercial

Significant Digits:
Off album#: N/A (but see above)
Track #: Released as single
Charted twice. 1973: #1 Ireland, #3 UK Singles. 1991-92: #5 Denmark, #8 Ireland, #13 UK

Artist crossover with other playlists: 29
(Known: 22)


Next on the countdown, a song I’m not too afraid to show off, so I’ll go ahead and give it to you.
20th Century Boy would have made a good/bad superhero
 
7s

New Songs That Caught My Attention
Ellen Jewel: Dusty Boxcar Wall
Buddy Guy: Damn Right I Got The Blues
Husker Du: She's a Woman...
The Roots: How I Got Over
Stone Roses: Made of Stone

Known Songs
Eddie Rabbitt: I Love a Rainy Night
Madonna: Like a Prayer
Queen: Fat Bottomed Girls
Green Day: 21 Guns
Madonna: Vogue
Cutting Crew: (I Just) Died In Your Arms
Black Sabbath: Electric Funeral
Queen: We Will Rock You
Scorpions: No One Like You
Lovin' Spoonful: Summer in the City
Pink Floyd: Terminal Frost
Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls
Fleetwood Mac: Landslide
 
Posted this is in the unathletic loser kids thread, but will post here since you're all a nice cross section of my FFA life and friends...

My son was in his final HS Musical over the weekend. He was the wolf in Into the Woods.

My wife, as she always does, posted a clip on IG for friends and family on Tues with a couple hashtags including show name and "musical theater".

She looked last night to see who'd checked in of our usual 50-100 folk... 45,000 views. This morning 55k. No idea what happened, but this is our first taste of viral.
still going... up to 63k at lunch
72k
90k
100k

It must chatbots sending to chatbots. As much as I love my son and think he's great, I don't get it.
150k
Thought it had stalled out, but nothing can stop musical theater nerds..

200k.
 
New-to-me songs from #7 that caught my ear:

simey – train songs

Dusty Boxcar Wall - Eilen Jewell


Yambag – Metal songs from 1988-1992 that became the gateway into the world of music for a young Yambag

Bullet In The Head - Rage Against The Machine

KarmaPolice – songs from artists not on shuke’s list

How I Got Over - The Roots


Don Quixote – Afrobeat

Talkin’ Talkin’ (Spotify) - Matata (Kenya)


JMLs secret identity – songs in D#Minor, the saddest key of all

Forever Autumn (Spotify) - Justin Hayward


-OZ- - song / music moments from the Marvel cinematic universe

On And On - Curtis Harding


Mt. Man – Number, Please

21 Guns - Green Day


Ilov80s - One song from each of the 31 best albums of 1984

Eye to Eye - Chaka Khan


El Floppo – Mallet Rock

The Silent Orchestra - Hamilton Leithauser


MrsKarmaPolice – Animal Kingdom

Kangaroo Court - Capital Cities


Chaos34 - Post Surf Rock Surf Rockish (80s fwd)

Lost In The Dream - The War On Drugs


krista4 – Chicagoland

Slow Down Chicago – Canasta
Surprised you didn't know Bullet in the Head
 
Single (Named) Lady #6 - Feist - "Borrow Trouble" (2023)
Full name: Leslie Feist

Feist was born in Nova Scotia and got her start in Canadian punk bands. She was part of (last five out single named lady) Peaches' live show singing and performing with a sock puppet. She was also briefly a member of Toronto band Broken Social Scene along with dozens of others. She launched her mononymous solo act around the turn of the century and made three albums before winning the golden ticket in 2007 when her song 1234 was featured in an iPod commercial.

"Borrow Trouble" is from her most recent album which came out of a time where she gained a daughter and lost her father. The song started off as a contemplative acoustic number but was transformed in the studio to the epic sounding track that you hear on the playlist. It's a song about how people sometimes take on the problems of the world and the anxiety that brings. The swirling strings in the chorus and the skronking sax solo epitomize the trouble along with the repeated mantra "I'll take all of it that you've got to give". The last chorus is like Feist purging herself with shouts of "trouble" that resemble a primal scream.

The video is Feist dressed all in white dancing around the studio with some persistent digital effects that are like a vapor trail.
 
El Floppo – Mallet Rock

Clear Skies - Keane

MrsKarmaPolice – Animal Kingdom

Fragile Bird - City and Colour
Lots of great stuff in the 6s, but wanted to call out these two new-to-me songs. Two of my favorite new songs of any of the theme rounds.
I have a feeling City and Colour will be a big hit in the next round of MAD31. More great songs to come...
 
#5 songs

kupcho1 – rain


It Never Rains In Southern California - Albert Hammond


Eephus – Single (Named) Ladies


Hyperballad - Björk


Charlie Steiner – songs from Mad Men


You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge


simey – train songs

Empty Trainload of Sky - Gillian Welch, David Rawlings


Yambag – Metal songs from 1988-1992 that became the gateway into the world of music for a young Yambag

18 and Life - Skid Row


Dr. Octopus – guitarists I’ve seen live


Pride - Living Colour (Vernon Reid)


Yo Mama – World’s Worst Superheroes

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam


Mrs. Rannous – umlauts

Big Bottom - Spın̈al Tap


KarmaPolice – songs from artists not on shuke’s list

Old Crows – Alexisonfire


Don Quixote – Afrobeat

Soul Makossa (Spotify) - Manu Dibango (Cameroon)


JMLs secret identity – songs in D#Minor, the saddest key of all

That's How Strong My Love Is (Spotify) - Otis Redding


-OZ- - song / music moments from the Marvel cinematic universe

No Woman No Cry - Tems


Mt. Man – Number, Please

19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones


Pip’s Invitation – songs from albums produced and/or engineered by Todd Rundgren

Baby Blue - Badfinger


falguy – songs by 31 different Canadian artists

Dream Of A Child - Burton Cummings


Raging weasel – name-checking Beatles or their songs

All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople


jwb – songs that sound great on a decent 2-channel system


Old Man (live at Massey Hall) - Neil Young


scorchy – songs by Manchester(-ish) artists

Sit Down – James


titusbramble – Grand Theft Auto, specifically the 3D era


Mother - Danzig (SA - Radio X)


shuke – Saxytime

Us and Them (Spotify) - Pink Floyd


Ilov80s - One song from each of the 31 best albums of 1984

I Feel Love - Bronski Beat


John Maddens Lunchbox – Batman

Fun for Me (Spotify) – Moloko


Mister CIA – Texas Places in Song Titles

Luckenbach, Texas - Waylon Jennings


El Floppo – Mallet Rock

You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos! (for 3yo Floppinho)


landrys hat - favorite Side 2 Track 1s from my record collection

China Cat Sunflower - Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa (1969)


rockaction - Songs that state the genre they’re in


Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - David Bowie


ditkaburgers - Girl Groups X Boy Bands

Tearin' up My Heart (Radio Edit) - *NSYNC


MrsKarmaPolice – Animal Kingdom

When Doves Cry - Prince


Tau837 – Hair metal

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne


DrIanMalcolm – Songs about New York


Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack


higgins – Instrumentals with places in the title


Flying in a Blue Dream - Joe Satriani


Zegras11 – New wave

We Got The Beat - The Go-Go's


Chaos34 - Post Surf Rock Surf Rockish (80s fwd)

Without U - Beach Goons


krista4 – Chicagoland

Stratford-on-Guy – Liz Phair


Anonymous Mystery Theme Dictator - ???

Losing My Religion - REM


MAC_32 – Songs to play during (and after) a funeral


Pnuema - Tool
 

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