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Ha, yup exactly, I was focused to a fault. I mean I know Bruce, I'm from NJ so it's kind of a necessity, just never really connected. Also a Beatles fan but never checked out solo stuff. I really enjoyed the Ringo playlist from the last round.
I enjoyed 14s more than 13s, but still quality.Classic
LOVE this song.
Fun little diddy
Great band live
Bruce’s second tier songs (regarding chart success anyway) are often better than his top hits.
I haven’t heard this one enough.
Some of the double-ups have been funny and surprising.
Ahhh, Jim Croce to Obituary, what more could you want? This is the last death metal song on my playlist, much to everyone's dismay. Although I know you all wanted to hear Cannibal Corpse.
We were also close to a Hall & Oates (sorry, Daryl Hall & John Oates) double-up. I structured my list so that they and Fanny would be 12 and 13, and I went with Fanny at 12 because their song was also my #12 in the MAD 3 countdown.
Things that require immediate action
I feel like this one's almost cheating, including it in the rain theme, given what a raucus, fun song it is. Fortunately rain
is right there in the title.
After Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, Orlando Julius probably belongs on any list of those at the forefront of the beginning of Afrobeat. Orlando Julius started playing in the 1960s. Fela Kuti used to regularly attend his concerts, and the story goes that Fela Kuti was inspired to learn the saxophone from watching Orlando Julius play (this song features some saxy time for @shuke, particularly near the end).
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We’ll settle for Back to back rubber band men! We could use more of this really.
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I was waiting for this one and actually thought you'd have it higher. Awesome record.
This is the one of the two oldest time-and-place songs I can clearly remember - and not "remember because I remember the memory", if that makes any sense.
If I ranked based strictly on how much I like the song, then it might have been. But I ordered things this way:
That was it(!!), which - of course - made for many juvenile jokes
Do like I did and retire with no practical plan to live past 80. All kinds of avenues open up
Mirror Man was under superhero consideration but I figured his powers might actually be slightly useful."Don't You Want Me" is a song by British synth-pop group the Human League (credited on the cover as the Human League 100). It was released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album, Dare (1981). The band's best known and most commercially successful song, it was the best selling UK single of 1981, that year's Christmas number one, and has since sold over 1,560,000 copies in the UK, making it the 23rd-most successful single in UK Singles Chart history. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 3 July 1982, where it stayed for three weeks.
In November 1983, Rolling Stone named it the "breakthrough song" of the Second British Invasion of the US.In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's seventh-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. And in 2022, Rolling Stone ranked it as one of the "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time".
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I don’t even remember what I said - senile moment.#12: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - BREAK IT ALL
I stumbled on this group as I was looking around for some more modern prog I like. Seems like most of my lean is 70s. I hinted at the other British prog band with the same initials - Porcupine Tree, who for whatever reason I don't connect with, but I found this similar sound that I really like. I like the vocals a little more and the music is a "smoother" for lack of better word. They have been pretty prolific in the last 20 years, with their 15th album just coming out last year.
Recommended listening: Broken record, but I have liked all the albums. I liked the 2010s albums Dissolution and Your Wilderness a lot, so I included tracks below from them and from the 2024 album It Leeds to This. I also tossed in a longer one from an older album. The song Private Paradise was one of the first that really grabbed my attention.
Private Paradise
The Pineapple Thief · Abducted at Birth (Remastered) · Song · 1999
Next: An entry from one of my first metal deep dives I mentioned. Hopefully @zamboni wasn't correct.
My memory is **** too, so it might not have been you. But it was some pun humor...I don’t even remember what I said - senile moment.#12: THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - BREAK IT ALL
I stumbled on this group as I was looking around for some more modern prog I like. Seems like most of my lean is 70s. I hinted at the other British prog band with the same initials - Porcupine Tree, who for whatever reason I don't connect with, but I found this similar sound that I really like. I like the vocals a little more and the music is a "smoother" for lack of better word. They have been pretty prolific in the last 20 years, with their 15th album just coming out last year.
Recommended listening: Broken record, but I have liked all the albums. I liked the 2010s albums Dissolution and Your Wilderness a lot, so I included tracks below from them and from the 2024 album It Leeds to This. I also tossed in a longer one from an older album. The song Private Paradise was one of the first that really grabbed my attention.
Private Paradise
The Pineapple Thief · Abducted at Birth (Remastered) · Song · 1999
Next: An entry from one of my first metal deep dives I mentioned. Hopefully @zamboni wasn't correct.
Fascination and Mirror Man are still in my Spotify rotation, as well as the song that was the B-side to Mirror Man, the 'instrumental' piece Non-Stop. Also liked several songs on their Hysteria album, including The Lebanon, which I think is one of the least objectionable yet effective political songs of that era."Don't You Want Me" is a song by British synth-pop group the Human League (credited on the cover as the Human League 100). It was released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album, Dare (1981). The band's best known and most commercially successful song, it was the best selling UK single of 1981, that year's Christmas number one, and has since sold over 1,560,000 copies in the UK, making it the 23rd-most successful single in UK Singles Chart history. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 3 July 1982, where it stayed for three weeks.
In November 1983, Rolling Stone named it the "breakthrough song" of the Second British Invasion of the US.In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's seventh-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. And in 2022, Rolling Stone ranked it as one of the "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time".
Jim and his wife Ingrid wrote and recorded this song in the late 60s. It has shown up on various albums over the years as a bonus track or on compilations. Ingrid backs him up on vocals during the chorus.
Determining your own destiny
It should be.
Alternate ending: a song from the mystery theme comes up and while the police and Rich Girl and everyone from the show sit around trying to figure out the theme, you and your friends slip away without any consequences.
