Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Known and liked songs from #21 include Moody Blues, STP, DMB, Chesney (one of his best, great vocal melody), Beach Boys, Doors and EWF.
Thoughts on some of the others:
More '90s-style goodness from the Tea Party, though technically this track is from the early '00s. Wiki describes it as being from a "back to basics" album.
Legal Man sounds like something from the soundtrack of a '60s movie or TV show that's trying to capture the attention of "the young people".
If Maryanne Faithfull debuted in the 2010s instead of the 1960s, her material may have sounded like First Love/Late Spring.
Joziah from Slambovia's vocal on Snow reminds me of Bowie.
Brian Setzer's cover of The House Is Rockin' is supercharged.
I really like the bass and synths on The Main Thing. Have to look up who played those parts because Roxy had session players in those slots by the time of Avalon. Oh, looks like Ferry played the synths himself and the track used two bassists, Alan Spenner and Neil Jason.
The Main Thing segues into Ananda quite fluidly thanks to the synths on the latter. I dunno if I could take an entire Strand album that sounds like Ananda, but this would be a strong song in any arrangement.
Some Heads Are Gonna Roll offers many of the elements that make Judas Priest a top-tier metal band, though I wish the '80s drum production had been toned down.
Prayers for Rain is intense and ambitious.
Hairy *** Hillbillies is fun and rambling.
I like how The Bad Arts progresses -- it's another Destroyer song that reminds me of Modest Mouse.
Painwise has dentist-drill guitar. This is better than dentist-drill vocals.
Master of Insanity is a masterful example of dawn-of-the-90s metal.
April Wine's cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man -- the original of which made my list in the British Isles MAD countdown -- is surprisingly faithful at first, but the instrumental section with three guitars trading solos is quite different from the guitar-and-sax passages in the original. It didn't sound like Myles Goodwin singing, so I found a live video to confirm it's Brian Greenway on vocals.
KP, any reason why we have a STP "bonus track" at the end of this playlist?
Thoughts on some of the others:
More '90s-style goodness from the Tea Party, though technically this track is from the early '00s. Wiki describes it as being from a "back to basics" album.
Legal Man sounds like something from the soundtrack of a '60s movie or TV show that's trying to capture the attention of "the young people".
If Maryanne Faithfull debuted in the 2010s instead of the 1960s, her material may have sounded like First Love/Late Spring.
Joziah from Slambovia's vocal on Snow reminds me of Bowie.
Brian Setzer's cover of The House Is Rockin' is supercharged.
I really like the bass and synths on The Main Thing. Have to look up who played those parts because Roxy had session players in those slots by the time of Avalon. Oh, looks like Ferry played the synths himself and the track used two bassists, Alan Spenner and Neil Jason.
The Main Thing segues into Ananda quite fluidly thanks to the synths on the latter. I dunno if I could take an entire Strand album that sounds like Ananda, but this would be a strong song in any arrangement.
Some Heads Are Gonna Roll offers many of the elements that make Judas Priest a top-tier metal band, though I wish the '80s drum production had been toned down.
Prayers for Rain is intense and ambitious.
Hairy *** Hillbillies is fun and rambling.
I like how The Bad Arts progresses -- it's another Destroyer song that reminds me of Modest Mouse.
Painwise has dentist-drill guitar. This is better than dentist-drill vocals.
Master of Insanity is a masterful example of dawn-of-the-90s metal.
April Wine's cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man -- the original of which made my list in the British Isles MAD countdown -- is surprisingly faithful at first, but the instrumental section with three guitars trading solos is quite different from the guitar-and-sax passages in the original. It didn't sound like Myles Goodwin singing, so I found a live video to confirm it's Brian Greenway on vocals.
KP, any reason why we have a STP "bonus track" at the end of this playlist?
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. I thought the same about it not sounding like Myles. I have another Brian Greenway lead vocal coming up later. I'm not sure how many songs he sang, it's not many. I don't usually love extended solos, but this one is an exception. I would imagine the drummer had lots of fun, too.
or the album.
