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Middle-aged Dummies are back and bursting at the "themes" to get going! Full theme ahead! (1 Viewer)

Combined ramble from the #27s and #26s:

:wub: Days Move Slow I've been a fan for a bit. Bully was one of the bands I was most disappointed to see on the Shukelist.
I will echo all the praises for WITCH and Lazy Bones. Loved it.
Heart and Soul got me to listen to Sports again. I've slowly working on some Huey - that was my first real "me" band. To the point where I had two hamsters named Huey and Lewis. :lol: Anyway, great track and I agree they sound great here.
Almost Paradise was another blast from the past. 0 surprise, but I had not realized who the singers were until 80s' post.
Rock Steady was great. I've digging through trying to find what I do like in the reggae genre. So far what I like more is the ska/rocksteady precursors and subgenres that followed.
Girls on Film is so good. That damn bass. :wub:


Loved Prayers for Rain. It's almost like I should have been listening to my wife a little more about music for the last few decades.
Serenade was great and a Steve Miller track I've never come across. I've been liking the variety on this playlist.
Funny enough, I stumbled on Fates Warning last week and listened to them and the album Night on Brocken for the first time then. I put them on the top of the list for the metal deep dives, so I had a huge smile when I saw this track pop up.
Live to Rise - great late-era Soundgarden track here. I don't think I've ever sat down and really listened. This one went into the Soundgarden playlist - thanks!!
Holy **** 5150 brought up some strong feelings. 80s got one of my 1984 faves and I get one of my faves from this album as well. Dreams is a favorite, but that is more sentimental. This song just flat up rules. I've listened to this one many times in the last few days. Those two albums were monsters for me in Middle School.
Beatle George had me thinking STP. Great groove on this one.
Africa will never get old, no matter which version somebody is playing.
Really liked the old school country feel of Dallas After Midnight.
The Mrs. hits another home run with Dinosaur.
Tonight, Tonight is a fave an is a song that will always getting me drumming in the car. I forget how great Jimmy is underneath the Billy screams sometimes. Mellon Collie would have been an epic album if it was a single album. I have been working on what my 14 song album would be for a little bit, as well as a similar answer for Use Your Illusion. It's harder than I thought after I trim off about 6-8 songs each and have to cut those last few.

Fantastic playlists, all! So much great music and ideas for albums and further listening.
 
krista4 said:
Wow!!! Just finished the #26s. By far my favorite playlist so far. There was actually something I liked about every song on the playlist, even songs outside my wheelhouse such as Deicide's "Dead by Dawn," where I loved the drum parts, or Fates Warning's "Night on Brocken," where I loved the guitar parts.

Hard to choose just a few to highlight, but here goes:

- "Prayers for Rain" was indeed as glum as advertised, which means I love it. My favorite rain-related song (narrowly edging out the Beatles' "Rain") is also a plea for rain. I wonder whether it will show up. Oh wait, I have the lists.

- Big ol' heart to "Night Train to Munich." I think the train songs are batting 1.000 with me.

- "Serenade" was a Steve Miller song I really liked, brining the total to, ummmm, one!

- "One Thing" by Finger Eleven sounds like another band that I can't quite put my finger on (no pun intended). Nice one.

- The "Beatle George" homage was interesting. I thought it was a cover of "The Inner Light" at first since it cribs all the lyrics.

- I would listen to Bugzy Malone talk or rap or probably just breathe forever. :wub:

- I enjoyed both Manchester Orchestra songs but especially "Telepath," definitely because of the mallet rock elements. I'm loving the Mallet Rock selections.

- Enjoying Khruangbin, I thought, "What the hell am I listening to?" Per Wiki, the band "is known for blending global music influences, such as Thai rock, Iranian pop, and dub, with American soul, rock, and psychedelia." Well no wonder I couldn't figure it out.

- "Cantaloupe Island" is the only time I would allow the name of that evil melon to be muttered in this house. Loved the song.
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25. The Infanta - The Decembrists

You're a Jackie or a Marilyn...a line and a curve. Nothing goes better together. -Sal Romano, Mad Men, Season 2, episode 6, Maidenform


Just to prove the show wasn't going to be strictly a period piece and limited only to its time, a song contemporary to the airing of the episode as opposed to the historical setting of it still perfectly fits the scene in which it appears. Season 2, episode 6 begins with the jarring opening chords of the song The Infanta by 21st century indie band The Decemberists, playing over shots of the show's main female characters Betty Draper, Joan Holloway and Peggy Olsen getting dressed for the day. Each is seen putting layers over their bras, the piece of clothing that is the focal point of the main plot of the episode (attempting to create a new ad campaign for Playtex, in an effort to freshen up their image). On one hand, the song doesn't belong in a 'period piece' show about the 60's, and at the same time, no other song could fit here from an artistic perspective. To me, it captures the hustling pace these busy women have to work at to prepare themselves for another day and at the same time, the romantic lyrics capture a fantasy that may be running through their minds at the same time as a pleasant distraction:

Here she comes in her palanquin
On the back of an elephant
On a bed made of linen and sequins and silk
All astride on her father's line
With the king and his concubines
And her nurse with her pitchers of liquors and milk
And we'll all come praise the infanta
And we'll all come praise the infanta



There's more to the song, as ultimately the girl in song turns out to a peasant rather than a princess, but it cuts off sharply after the first verse, so I think we're not supposed to consider that part of the story. Regardless, the song fits nicely into the theme of the episode-the two sides of every woman. Matt Weiner described it thusly:

(The episode is) the first episode of the show where I was like, "This cannot be done on any other show." Because it’s so psychological and it’s about an idea, which is, "How am I perceived by other people?"

It’s thematically hammered over and over — in the ad campaign, in Don and Bobbie Barrett’s relationship, Don versus Sally, Betty in the bathing suit. At the time, I was like, "Is anybody going to understand this?" Because we’re telling a story here that probably looks like something about Don’s busted romance, and conflict in the office, and Peggy trying to get ahead. But what it really is, is "I look in the mirror and I don’t like what I see. What do other people see?" And that’s because I’ve created this false self.

Just that sentence that I gave you right there — I would have never thought that was the subject of a TV show if I hadn’t sat in a room with David Chase for four years. Even though it is the substance of our lives.

On a personal note, due to my initial ignorance of The Decemberists, I thought this was a song from the 60s and I had just never heard it before. Also, I was surprised this one didn't show up on the last M-AD countdown. It's a bit of a banger IMO.
 
Zegras11 said:
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Girls on Film - 2010 Remaster

Duran Duran · Duran Duran (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 1981
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"Girls on Film" is the third single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 13 July 1981. It became Duran Duran's first top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 5 in July 1981, and an international hit reaching the top 20 in several countries, including number 1 in Portugal, number 4 in New Zealand and number 11 in Australia.
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Late Bar - 2010 Remaster

Duran Duran · Duran Duran (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 1981
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This one was a favorite discovery for me when I listened to this album a bunch last year.
 
#25: SCOTT WALKER - TWO WEEKS SINCE YOU'VE GONE

Another album and artist suggestion from the same person and episode of "What's in My Bag?" as the Linda Perhacs track. Stunning voice here. I had never heard of Scott Walker or The Walker Brothers until watching that. I have been listening to this album and a few others a lot over the last couple months, and like the Ex Hex song this one should be higher on the playlist since it's one I seem to be getting pulled to the most since I wanted to do something from the 60s anyway.

Recommended listening: Scott 3 is a great album and the one I've been listening to the most. It's Raining Today is the album opener and probably my favorite, but I didn't want to step on too many potential toes with other themes. Rosemary was another stand out. Being a Bergman fan, The Seventh Seal was a fun opener to Scott 4, and that album is also very good. His first two albums (I bet you can't guess their titles!!) and two of the Walker Brothers' albums (Portrait and Images) have also stood out. Next I need to tackle the 70s material through his death in 2019. 30+ albums combined to get through here.

Next: We get back to back reggae-ish picks. I'll leave it to @Eephus to judge after that how close I am to getting that merit badge. ;)
 
What I was hoping the next of number please would be

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KarmaPolice said:
#25: SCOTT WALKER - TWO WEEKS SINCE YOU'VE GONE

Another album and artist suggestion from the same person and episode of "What's in My Bag?" as the Linda Perhacs track. Stunning voice here. I had never heard of Scott Walker or The Walker Brothers until watching that. I have been listening to this album and a few others a lot over the last couple months, and like the Ex Hex song this one should be higher on the playlist since it's one I seem to be getting pulled to the most since I wanted to do something from the 60s anyway.

Recommended listening: Scott 3 is a great album and the one I've been listening to the most. It's Raining Today is the album opener and probably my favorite, but I didn't want to step on too many potential toes with other themes. Rosemary was another stand out. Being a Bergman fan, The Seventh Seal was a fun opener to Scott 4, and that album is also very good. His first two albums (I bet you can't guess their titles!!) and two of the Walker Brothers' albums (Portrait and Images) have also stood out. Next I need to tackle the 70s material through his death in 2019. 30+ albums combined to get through here.

Next: We get back to back reggae-ish picks. I'll leave it to @Eephus to judge after that how close I am to getting that merit badge. ;)
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OH is a big fan of Scott Walker. Are the Walker Brothers not on shuke's list, either? That would be a surprise. One of their big hits was the cover of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore." It featured in a fabulous scene in the criminally underrated movie "Truly, Madly, Deeply."
 
krista4 said:
-OZ- - song / music moments from the Marvel cinematic universe

Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65, Gabry Ponte
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Yo, listen up here's a story
About a little guy
That lives in a blue world
And all day and all night
And everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside

Not Yondu, not Nebula, beast, Raven or apocalypse. Not the Kree. They do have quite a few blue characters. But…

Flash back, 1999 in iron man 3, which as a 2013 release is almost as far back as the scene was when made.

In yet another scene that shows how much a party prick Tony was, and how he makes many enemies. It’s a fun song with fantastic lyrics.

I'm blue
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
I'm blue
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di

Next up - a masterpiece, in possibly my favorite movie.
 
GTA #25 - Conor & Jay - Change (Head Radio, III)

Head Radio is the only station in the series to cross over from the 2D to the 3D universe, but it really shouldn't have as it's not good. Consisting entirely of tracks written for the game in a pop/rock genre and hosted by the gloriously named Michael Hunt, this is the best of a bad bunch of options and a pretty easy choice for #25. Something has to be worst, right?
 
krista4 said:
KarmaPolice said:
#25: SCOTT WALKER - TWO WEEKS SINCE YOU'VE GONE

Another album and artist suggestion from the same person and episode of "What's in My Bag?" as the Linda Perhacs track. Stunning voice here. I had never heard of Scott Walker or The Walker Brothers until watching that. I have been listening to this album and a few others a lot over the last couple months, and like the Ex Hex song this one should be higher on the playlist since it's one I seem to be getting pulled to the most since I wanted to do something from the 60s anyway.

Recommended listening: Scott 3 is a great album and the one I've been listening to the most. It's Raining Today is the album opener and probably my favorite, but I didn't want to step on too many potential toes with other themes. Rosemary was another stand out. Being a Bergman fan, The Seventh Seal was a fun opener to Scott 4, and that album is also very good. His first two albums (I bet you can't guess their titles!!) and two of the Walker Brothers' albums (Portrait and Images) have also stood out. Next I need to tackle the 70s material through his death in 2019. 30+ albums combined to get through here.

Next: We get back to back reggae-ish picks. I'll leave it to @Eephus to judge after that how close I am to getting that merit badge. ;)
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OH is a big fan of Scott Walker. Are the Walker Brothers not on shuke's list, either? That would be a surprise. One of their big hits was the cover of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore." It featured in a fabulous scene in the criminally underrated movie "Truly, Madly, Deeply."
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As far as I could tell, no.

Also thanks for a reminder about that movie. It was mentioned as a PTA adjacent tie-in and I keep forgetting to get to it. It looked really good but I didn't find it streaming at the time.
 
World’s Worst Superhero #25

Dr. Greenthumb
Artist – Cyprus Hill (1998)

Strengths – Good with plants; always popular at parties; slightly improved night vision

Weaknesses – Lack of motivation; easily distracted; thinks everything is funny, even in the direst of situations


There Goes My Hero

Situation – You are rushed to the hospital after a catastrophic Wii Tennis accident. You need immediate medical attention.

You: “Aaaahh, my arm!”

EMT: [wheeling you into ER] “Your shoulder is completely out of the socket and you’re at risk of losing your arm if we don’t get it reset.”

You: “Hey, was that a red cross or a green cross?”

EMT: “You said you didn’t have insurance; this is the best we could do.”

Hospital PA system: “Hello Dr. Greenthumb, paging Dr. Greenthumb.”

[Huge cloud of smoke appears outside your exam room]

Dr. Greenthumb: [eyes bright red and barely open] “Hello, my name is Dr. Greenthumb.”

You: “Are those sirens I hear? Is that another ambulance to take me to a real hospital?’

Dr. G: “Nah man, that’s just the DEA. If you see the pigs, there’s no need to run.”

Anesthesiologist: “I’m here to knock the patient out before his procedure.”

Dr. G: [pulls out bong] “No worries bro. I got him covered.”

You wake up, arm in a sling. The lights are dimmed, and Rick and Morty is on the TV.

You: “Thanks Dr. Greenthumb. Hey, are you eating my Oreos?”

Dr. G, lying next to you on your hospital bed, laughs and gives you a big thumbs up.

You laugh and return the thumbs up. To your amazement, your thumb is now also green – gangrene.
 
Sorry for the novellas the past couple rounds.

I have a spreadsheet with my rankings, and I made some preliminary notes for strengths, weaknesses, and situation for most of the picks. On the ones with the fewest notes for the hero situation I tend to ramble.

For example, my hero situation notes for Living Loving Maid were “she’s just a woman” and for Dr G were “Dr G comes to rescue, eats all their snacks”. Some ideas are more flushed (fleshed?) out than others.
 

Songs in D Minor​

25 - Interpol - C’Mere​

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Lyric - Oh, how I love you
Oh, in the evenings
When we are sleeping
We are sleeping
Oh, we are sleeping

Source - https://musicstax.com/track/cmere/7IhMCVt7ryTiHaKsQ0P7r7
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Sadness Quotient - 1/11 - Interpol do sad quite well. But not much here

Comment - Artist in possible consideration for about MAD7 with one of their best songs. Does this sound like Joy Division too?

Next Up - Another MAD band gets a look in
 

Batman​

25 - R.E.M. - Revolution​

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Relevant Lyric - I don't know why I'm feeling bad, yeah
I picked up a bad vibration
Oliver North is running for senate
Bomb the abortion clinic
Reagan's defense is the deficit
The virus was invented
Black man can't get acquitted
Of the crimes that we committed
The future never happened, it never happened

Batman Vibe Score - 2/10

Where to Find - Batman and Robin Soundtrack

Quick Hit Comment - Would this even make the top 100 REM songs? Anyway, Was supposed to be a duet with British techno band Underworld. Michael Stipe hated the techno version. The two bands argued a lot so it was decided that REM would use their written in 10 minutes version and Underworld would get their own song on the soundtrack.

Next Up - A song I thought would rank nicely at #30, until 6 others songs weren’t as good as it. So it rose to #24
 
krista4 said:
kupcho1 – rain

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - B.J. Thomas
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I figured we needed a palate cleanser after the previous rain song. ☔

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, if you weren't already aware, was in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. When it's played in the movie (around 1/2 hour in), it's not raining. BJ Thomas explains why
It’s really a song about freedom. It’s not about rain. Here, we have these outlaws that have finally found a little respite there out in the woods. They have a place to kind of relax. It’s kind of an American song. The rain falls on everybody, but as long as you are free, everything is okay.
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You don't hear a lot of ukele, and I think it sets the tone in the opener. Also, I love it when the horns come in around the 1:30 mark.

But there's one thing I know
The blues they send to meet me
Won't defeat me, it won't be long
Till happiness steps up to greet m
 
OK, non-random walk this time. I want to talk about a few that caught my ear (and since the artist roster changes each playlist - with the exception of Talk Talk - I don't think I'll miss anything).

krista4 said:
Charlie Steiner – songs from Mad Men

The Infanta - The Decembrists
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The Decemberists are one of my all-time favorites (see: MAD Round 1). Even though I watched every episode of Mad Men, I have no recollection of this in the episode referenced. I think if I had, notwithstanding my love for the band, I'd have found it jarring. Infanta means the daughter of a ruling monarch, so if they'd focused on Sally it might have worked better. :D

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simey – train songs

Railroad Man – Eels
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Love me some Eels too! Sometimes I feel like an old railroad man (although I'm not always tryin' the best that I can). I'd have added it to my 2005 playlist, but there's an even better Eel song (IMHO) on the album.

krista4 said:
shuke – Saxytime

Sir Duke (Spotify) - Stevie Wonder
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Woo hoo! I wish I'd been into Stevie Wonder when the album was released. Unfortunately, I was not. Hell, I wasn't even that aware of it to be honest. I remember running into a friend's older brother on the bus. He was coming home from the record store and he had a Stevie Wonder album, I think it was Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants. I was like, WTF?
Anyway, I wised up and eventually found him.

krista4 said:
Zegras11 – New wave

Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
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Great selection! I think Adam Ant, and Adam & The Ants are criminally underrated. So many great songs.

krista4 said:
Anonymous Mystery Theme Dictator - ???

Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
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This song fits in very well with the mystery theme. I assume. I have no freakin' clue so far on what the theme may be.
Anyway, ZZ Top. Saw 'em a day or two after HS graduation. They played for about 45 minutes. In an arena show. I suppose they could have put in less effort, but they put in little enough as it is. Great song, though. You may be familiar with their music videos for this and a few other songs from Eliminator. I know I was. ;)
 
krista4 said:
shuke – Saxytime

Sir Duke (Spotify) - Stevie Wonder
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If you recall I was originally going to do 31 songs with horns, until I was told that the saxophone wasn't a horn. Had to switch to sax because a number of songs I had on my lists only had a sax and not "actual" horns. This is one of a handful of songs where the sax isn't prominent but it's in there, with the horns, so I kept them in.
 
krista4 said:
Charlie Steiner – songs from Mad Men

The Infanta - The Decembrists
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The Decemberists are one of my all-time favorites (see: MAD Round 1). Even though I watched every episode of Mad Men, I have no recollection of this in the episode referenced. I think if I had, notwithstanding my love for the band, I'd have found it jarring. Infanta means the daughter of a ruling monarch, so if they'd focused on Sally it might have worked better. :D

I thought you had done The Decemberists in the last round, but I do remember waiting for this one to be revealed in that countdown.

The song only plays through the first verse, so it doesn't appear for very long, and again it's just right at the very beginning of the episode, plus I can understand one not remembering anything from that scene other than Betty, Joan and Peggy in their underwear. The first few seconds of the song before the guitars begin are cut out, which provides more of a jolt when the song starts.

It also turns out my 22 y.o. daughter, who's not much into music, knows this band as well but did not know this song. She dug it when I played it for her.
 
Theme: 31 Best Albums of 1984

25. Sex Farm by Spinal Tap

Album: This is Spinal Tap
Released: March 2

Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and their rotating cast of drummers reimagined what a comedy could be and gave us an incredible send up of the first 20 years of rock music. Sorry Metallica but this is the original Black Album and still to this day there are none more black.

Speaking of black, I’ve had dark times in my life that I don’t usually like to talk about here. Times where I was really struggling just to put one foot in front of the other. But as fellow music lovers you probably know that sometimes a song comes around that speaks to us when we need it the most. For me that song was Sex Farm.

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Sex Farm

Spinal Tap · This Is Spinal Tap · Song · 1984
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krista4 said:
Just starting Mad Men. Showed up as available on YouTube TV from something called “Stories by AMC” so I threw it in my library right quick. Won’t be watching in time for the TV thread but maybe in time to read some of Charlie’s posts. :)
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Mazel tov.

The good news is that despite all the things in my write-ups so far, I'd say that ~99% of the show has remained spoiler free. The only other 'spoiler' I'll throw in is that the real key to this whole show is subtext and easter eggs abound.
 
25. Celeste - "Stop This Flame" (2020) - Single (Named) Ladies
Full name: Celeste Epiphany Waite (first name mononym)

Celeste was born in LA but moved to the UK as a child and grew up in Bristol. She had the unfortunate timing of launching her career in 2020. This single was released in January 2020 but her debut album was held for over a year due to lockdown. Her full name is very musical sounding but I don't think she was named after the mallet adjacent keyboard instrument of the same name.

"Stop This Flame" rides on a piano vamp sampled from Nina Simone's "Sinnerman". It gives the song a jazzy feel when coupled with a funky drum part and Celeste's vocal stylings. The video was shot in New Orleans with a brass band, a drill team and an old man with a street piano.
 
krista4 said:
#26 songs


Dr. Octopus – guitarists I’ve seen live

Serenade - Steve Miller Band (Steve Miller)


Yo Mama – World’s Worst Superheroes

Buddy Holly - Weezer
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JMLs secret identity – songs in D#Minor, the saddest key of all

North Winds Blowing (Spotify) - The Stranglers


Mt. Man – Number, Please

5150 - Van Halen

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

I Feel Love – Donna Summer


titusbramble – Grand Theft Auto, specifically the 3D era

Africa - Toto (VC - Emotion 98.3)


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

People Everywhere (Still Alive) - Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You (2015)


higgins – Instrumentals with places in the title

Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock


Zegras11 – New wave

Pretty in Pink - The Psychedelic Furs


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

Voodoo Princess Terror - Hawaii Samurai


krista4 – Chicagoland

Tonight, Tonight – The Smashing Pumpkins
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Another great set, these are my favorites.
 
krista4 said:
Yo Mama said:
Yo Mama said:
krista4 said:
Anonymous Mystery Theme Dictator - ???

Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
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Hmmm, interesting selection . . .
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I thought someone guessed this already but I didn’t see it on the list of wrong guesses - songs that can qualify for other people’s themes?
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titus did a bit of a ramble going in this direction, but not concrete. It's a really good guess, and also wrong.
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I was hoping it was actually in your list so I could blame missing it on not reading your posts.
 
My 27... The Manchester Orchestra dirty projectors remix...I heard recently and loved that it was more dancey- something not usually happening in these songs with mallets. Knew I wanted to put it in there.

My 26... It's a Stones tune (they have another wit featured mallets) and I wanted to include as a "classic". Not my favorite, but I wanted to show as much breadth and history as I could in the genre.
 
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El Floppo said:
Uruk-Hai said:
krista4 said:
- Enjoying Khruangbin
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They are really, really good. There's no one that sounds like them and they've done work with other great artists like Leon Bridges.
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Goat? Imho.

The band, not "of all time"
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I'm sorry, Flop. I only have 3 brain cells left and have no idea what your comment means.
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The band Goat sounds a bit like them in terms of a melange of world music sounds mashing with indie
 
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Uruk-Hai said:
El Floppo said:
Uruk-Hai said:
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- Enjoying Khruangbin
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They are really, really good. There's no one that sounds like them and they've done work with other great artists like Leon Bridges.
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Goat? Imho.

The band, not "of all time"
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I'm sorry, Flop. I only have 3 brain cells left and have no idea what your comment means.
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The band Goat sounds a bit like them in terms of a melange of world music sounds mashing with indie
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Gotcha - thanks
 
I'm on the subway, so had to figure out how to write that initial Goat comment. Knew as soon as 8 saw it that it didn't make total sense
 
krista4 said:
Mt. Man – Number, Please

19-2000 - Gorillaz
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I think i was going to do this for the last list but got distracted and this pops up here. Oh well, too hard to start from scratch again so may as well write something here. Love the Gorillaz. They are worthy of their own MAD list, although Eephus covered Mr Albarn in his entirety.
krista4 said:
OZ- - song / music moments from the Marvel cinematic universe

Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65, Gabry Ponte
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One of those Euro dance tracks that hits the mainstream. A lot of fun.
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scorchy – songs by Manchester(-ish) artists

One Day Like This – Elbow
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Manchester must really be miserable.
Ive only been there for a day and it was raining the whole time and everyone there made Morrissey look like Happy Larry
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shuke – Saxytime

Sir Duke (Spotify) - Stevie Wonder
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One of the funnest tracks ever. I dont think Stevie is as appreciated as he should be
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Ilov80s - One song from each of the 31 best albums of 1984

Sex Farm - Spinal Tap
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This song goes all the way to 11. Nice to see a second selection from them
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Zegras11 – New wave

Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
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True Story. First year of high school, Adam and the Ants Antmusic was a #1 hit in Australia.
We had a few jokers in our class who thought it would be funny to buy a packet of band aids and put across the bridge of our nose like Mr Ant in the film clip. A few hold outs, but 90% of the class did to the bemusement of our poor English teacher.
Love Adam. Ant music for Sex People
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MAC_32 – Songs to play during (and after) a funeral

Famous Last Words - My Chemical Romance
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Wonder if this is in D Minor…..of course it is.
 
Really looking forward to listening to this one. At my daughter's tennis matches, so likely not appreciated by the other folk.

Big Elbow fan without having gotten myself immersed
 
krista4 said:
Yo Mama said:
Yo Mama said:
krista4 said:
Anonymous Mystery Theme Dictator - ???

Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
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Hmmm, interesting selection . . .
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I thought someone guessed this already but I didn’t see it on the list of wrong guesses - songs that can qualify for other people’s themes?
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titus did a bit of a ramble going in this direction, but not concrete. It's a really good guess, and also wrong.
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So did I, in a reply to his post. Hence the looking for umlauts comment.
 
John Maddens Lunchbox said:
True Story. First year of high school, Adam and the Ants Antmusic was a #1 hit in Australia.
We had a few jokers in our class who thought it would be funny to buy a packet of band aids and put across the bridge of our nose like Mr Ant in the film clip. A few hold outs, but 90% of the class did to the bemusement of our poor English teacher.
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Monty Python had just hit in the US when I was in high school. My computer class all came in with handkerchiefs, knotted them, and played the Gumbys saying, "My brain hurts" when Ms Manning came in. Since she was quite young, we thought she would know the reference. We were so, so wrong. The look on her face!
 
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Goody Two Shoes

Adam Ant · Friend Or Foe · Song · 1982
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"Goody Two Shoes" is the debut solo single by Adam Ant, released on 7 May 1982. It became Ant's third overall number one in the UK and his highest-charting song in the US, where it peaked at number 12.


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Desperate but Not Serious

Adam Ant · Friend Or Foe · Song · 1982
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Friend Or Foe

Adam Ant · Friend Or Foe · Song · 1982
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Strip - Single Version

Adam Ant · Strip · Song · 1983
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Ilov80s said:
Theme: 31 Best Albums of 1984

25. Sex Farm by Spinal Tap

Album: This is Spinal Tap
Released: March 2

Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and their rotating cast of drummers reimagined what a comedy could be and gave us an incredible send up of the first 20 years of rock music. Sorry Metallica but this is the original Black Album and still to this day there are none more black.

Speaking of black, I’ve had dark times in my life that I don’t usually like to talk about here. Times where I was really struggling just to put one foot in front of the other. But as fellow music lovers you probably know that sometimes a song comes around that speaks to us when we need it the most. For me that song was Sex Farm.

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Sex Farm

Spinal Tap · This Is Spinal Tap · Song · 1984
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What makes Spinal Tap work is that the music for the songs is legitimately good. (Even if you don't care for whatever genre they are, they are good for that genre.) And the lyrics are hilarious.
 
25. Living Color
Artist: Jill Sobule
Album: Things Here Are Different (1990)
Todd's role(s): producer, engineer, guitar
Writer(s): Jill Sobule

The song: "Living Color," the first song on Jill Sobule's debut album and one of its two singles, has a strong vocal and a stately arrangement that adds elements as the song goes on. The vocal melody is not unlike what we hear on some of producer Todd Rundgren's own records. After the main melodic themes are done, we are treated to a coda with what sounds like a sitar, though no one is credited with playing one, so it was probably a synthesizer programmed to sound like one. The song is about someone having enough of an effect on you that you see the world differently.

The album: When I first heard Sobule in 1995 due to "modern rock" radio picking up her song "I Kissed a Girl" (not the Katy Perry tune), I had no idea that she had issued her debut recording 5 years earlier and that it was produced by Todd Rundgren.

That debut album, Things Here Are Different, purveys the poppier kind of folk that was gaining traction at the end of the '80s and the beginning of the '90s (think Suzanne Vega). Despite the involvement of Rundgren, a single cracking Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart and exposure from a tour opening for Joe Jackson, her label MCA didn't do anything to build momentum for Sobule. She recorded a follow-up produced by Jackson, but MCA dropped her before the record was released, and it has never seen the light of day. She did not release another album until her self-titled second record came out on Lava, a subsidiary of Atlantic, in 1995. This was her commercial breakthrough due to "I Kissed a Girl," and the reissued version includes her other well-known song, "Supermodel," which first appeared on the Clueless soundtrack. Since then, Sobule has made more "serious" music that gets more traction with critics than it does with the public.

Rundgren covered "Tell Me Your Dreams," itself a cover of a song by Chris Eaton, from this record on the (re)Production album. https://open.spotify.com/track/5cZ5MvzwXTI2YzDAVgptLI?si=9bbb698991a24930

You Might Also Like: The more successful of the album's two singles, "Too Cool to Fall in Love," sounds like Suzanne Vega crossed with Sade. This is a good thing. https://open.spotify.com/track/6xh7nrOtfNSWeSePnA3GtH?si=8cbf0923e3b54b0b

At #24, a band that was toward the end of its 15 minutes of fame when Rundgren came into their orbit.
 
Eephus said:
krista4 said:
Pip’s Invitation – songs from albums produced and/or engineered by Todd Rundgren

Living Color – Jill Sobule
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MADs coincidence.

We're going to see Jill Sobule tonight. She's the opener for a John Doe acoustic show.
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Thank you for giving me a lead-in to mention this:

Sobule and Doe covered Neil's "Down by the River" for Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Covering Neil Young for Charity.

And it has a mallet instrument! (As well as the first part of the guitar solo being played on banjo.)

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Down By the River

Jill Sobule, John Doe · Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity · Song · 2008
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