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Middle Aged Dummies!! Artists #1's have been posted!! (2 Viewers)
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krista4
Footballguy
To Be Young, still fantastic. Intrigued by the top spot. One glaring omission IMOJust a personal fave, most likely
To Be Young is my #1 Ryan Adams, and it’s not even close. This round also featured my #1 Doves song and my co-favorite from Elton John.
All in good fun here...
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I forgot to post the warning not to shuffle this playlist.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
#2 - The Stranglers - Golden Brown
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Year - 1982
Album - La Folie
UK Chart position - #2
Vocals - Hugh Cornwell
Key Lyric - Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown
Interesting Points
1- This song reached #2 in the UK for 2 weeks, with only The Jam’s Town Called Malice ahead of it.
2- Hugh Cornwell says he believes that the song would have got to Number 1 if bassist Jean-Jacques Burnelhad not told the press that the song was about heroin, at which point broadcasters removed it from their playlists, prejudicing sales. "I would have waited till it got to Number 1 and thensaid it," he commented
3- In his book The Stranglers Song by Song(2001), Hugh Cornwellstates, "'Golden Brown' works on two levels. It's about heroinand also about a girl... both provided me with pleasurable times."
4- In a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the nation's favourite singles to have peaked at number two, conducted in late 2012, "Golden Brown" ranked fifth behind "Vienna", "Fairytale of New York", "Sit Down" and "American Pie", and just ahead of "Waterloo Sunset" and "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever".
5- The first single from the album “Let Me Introduce You to the Family”, about the Manson family, flopped, Reaching only #42. Nearing the end of the recording contract, the label just wanted done with the band and didn’t want any more singles. Acquiesing to the bands desires this got released in the chart dead zone of february and became a monster hit. Big surprise to the label and JJB who didnt think much of it. The other 3 band members got the the song and felt smug satisfaction.
Bonus Music Nerd Alert
6- There is disagreement among experts as to which time signatures best represents parts of the song.: 43 The main body of the song has a triple metrewaltzrhythm, with beats grouped in threes, but the instrumental parts add an extra beat to create a phrase of thirteen beats. The thirteen beats appear in the sheet music as alternating bars of 6
8and 7
8, which has also been described as three bars of 3
4followed by one bar of 4
4.: 183 : 217 The sheet music of "Golden Brown" is published in B-flat minor.
Summary to date
Year
1977 - 13
1978 - 5
1979 - 2
1980 - 0
1981 - 2
1982 - 2
1983 - 0
1984 - 3
1985 - 0
1986 - 1
1987 - 0
1988 - 2
1989 - 1
1990 onwards - 2
Where to find
Rattus Norvegicus - 9/9
No More Heroes -3/11
Black and White - 2/12
The Raven - 2/11
The Gospel According to the Meninblack - 1/10
La Folie - 2/11
Feline - 0/9
Aural Sculpture - 3/11
Dreamtime - 1/10
All Live and All of the Night - 2/13
10 - 1/10
1991 onwards - 0
B Sides - 1
Greatest Hits - 3
Standalone Single - 3
Running Vocal Count
Hugh Cornwell - 19
Jean-Jacques Burnel - 10
Other - 1 (Instrumental)
Rundown
#31 - Walk on By
#30 - Ugly
#29 - All Day and All of the Night
#28 - Meninblack
#27 - Goodbye Toulouse
#26 - Princess of the Streets
#25 - Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)
#24 - Duchess
#23 - Sometimes
#22 - La Folie
#21 - North Winds
#20 - No Mercy
#19 - 5 Minutes
#18 - Strange Little Girl
#17 - Shut Up
#16 - Bitching
#15 - Bring on the Nubiles
#14 - 96 Tears
#13 - Down in the Sewer
#12 - Hanging Around
#11 - Straighten Out
#10 - Nice ‘N’ Sleazy
#9 - London Lady
#8 - Always the Sun
#7 - Something Better Change
#6 - Skin Deep
#5 - (Get a) Grip (On Yourself)
#4 - Peaches
#3 - Waltzinblack
#2 - Golden Brown
Last one.
Is it the UK #8 from 1977 or the UK #9 from 1983? One is the #1 song, one misses out altogether, but is the #32 ranked song.
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Year - 1982
Album - La Folie
UK Chart position - #2
Vocals - Hugh Cornwell
Key Lyric - Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown
Interesting Points
1- This song reached #2 in the UK for 2 weeks, with only The Jam’s Town Called Malice ahead of it.
2- Hugh Cornwell says he believes that the song would have got to Number 1 if bassist Jean-Jacques Burnelhad not told the press that the song was about heroin, at which point broadcasters removed it from their playlists, prejudicing sales. "I would have waited till it got to Number 1 and thensaid it," he commented
3- In his book The Stranglers Song by Song(2001), Hugh Cornwellstates, "'Golden Brown' works on two levels. It's about heroinand also about a girl... both provided me with pleasurable times."
4- In a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the nation's favourite singles to have peaked at number two, conducted in late 2012, "Golden Brown" ranked fifth behind "Vienna", "Fairytale of New York", "Sit Down" and "American Pie", and just ahead of "Waterloo Sunset" and "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever".
5- The first single from the album “Let Me Introduce You to the Family”, about the Manson family, flopped, Reaching only #42. Nearing the end of the recording contract, the label just wanted done with the band and didn’t want any more singles. Acquiesing to the bands desires this got released in the chart dead zone of february and became a monster hit. Big surprise to the label and JJB who didnt think much of it. The other 3 band members got the the song and felt smug satisfaction.
Bonus Music Nerd Alert
6- There is disagreement among experts as to which time signatures best represents parts of the song.: 43 The main body of the song has a triple metrewaltzrhythm, with beats grouped in threes, but the instrumental parts add an extra beat to create a phrase of thirteen beats. The thirteen beats appear in the sheet music as alternating bars of 6
8and 7
8, which has also been described as three bars of 3
4followed by one bar of 4
4.: 183 : 217 The sheet music of "Golden Brown" is published in B-flat minor.
Summary to date
Year
1977 - 13
1978 - 5
1979 - 2
1980 - 0
1981 - 2
1982 - 2
1983 - 0
1984 - 3
1985 - 0
1986 - 1
1987 - 0
1988 - 2
1989 - 1
1990 onwards - 2
Where to find
Rattus Norvegicus - 9/9
No More Heroes -3/11
Black and White - 2/12
The Raven - 2/11
The Gospel According to the Meninblack - 1/10
La Folie - 2/11
Feline - 0/9
Aural Sculpture - 3/11
Dreamtime - 1/10
All Live and All of the Night - 2/13
10 - 1/10
1991 onwards - 0
B Sides - 1
Greatest Hits - 3
Standalone Single - 3
Running Vocal Count
Hugh Cornwell - 19
Jean-Jacques Burnel - 10
Other - 1 (Instrumental)
Rundown
#31 - Walk on By
#30 - Ugly
#29 - All Day and All of the Night
#28 - Meninblack
#27 - Goodbye Toulouse
#26 - Princess of the Streets
#25 - Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)
#24 - Duchess
#23 - Sometimes
#22 - La Folie
#21 - North Winds
#20 - No Mercy
#19 - 5 Minutes
#18 - Strange Little Girl
#17 - Shut Up
#16 - Bitching
#15 - Bring on the Nubiles
#14 - 96 Tears
#13 - Down in the Sewer
#12 - Hanging Around
#11 - Straighten Out
#10 - Nice ‘N’ Sleazy
#9 - London Lady
#8 - Always the Sun
#7 - Something Better Change
#6 - Skin Deep
#5 - (Get a) Grip (On Yourself)
#4 - Peaches
#3 - Waltzinblack
#2 - Golden Brown
Last one.
Is it the UK #8 from 1977 or the UK #9 from 1983? One is the #1 song, one misses out altogether, but is the #32 ranked song.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
We talked about "hits" from Dino, or what their sound is - my # 2 song of Grab It would probably be my answer if somebody asked me what Dinosaur Jr sounded like and I had 1 song to answer them. Also, my favorite of the songs to air drum to, so there's that as well. To me it hits that 90s sweet spot perfectly and was a song I kept listening to over and over as I was making the playlist. I said before, most days if you ask I what my favorite by them is and it would be Grab It, Pieces, or Almost Ready. My top 5 isn't set in stone or anything. I thought I had taken the other 2 in something else, so that's the main reason why it's at #2 of the playlist - to keep a couple songs likelier new to the masses at the end. Pieces I've taken a few times and thought people seemed to really like it and it was new to a lot of people at that time, which helped me decide on Dino for the playlist. Besides being a theme behind dreams by @rockaction, Almost Ready might just be the reason for my current love of Dino since back when Beyond came out. It's the opener for that album, and it was random reasons I was trying the album (I'm sure FFA related, though) and was hooked right away, and remember going out and buying the CD right away.
I can't believe we are down to the last couple playlists for these artists. I'm looking forward to digging farther into the artist playlists as people post them. On Tuesday we will go out with an epic Mascis solo and from what I can tell, the longest song in the Dinosaur Jr. arsenal. Hope y'all got at least a song or two of goodness from the playlist.
I can't believe we are down to the last couple playlists for these artists. I'm looking forward to digging farther into the artist playlists as people post them. On Tuesday we will go out with an epic Mascis solo and from what I can tell, the longest song in the Dinosaur Jr. arsenal. Hope y'all got at least a song or two of goodness from the playlist.
snellman
Footballguy
My personal fav and really, one of the limited that I knew about this is either going to be #1 or I am going to be disappointed
FairWarning
Footballguy
Great thread, just catching up from a busy summer. Didn’t have the time, but was going to use UFO.
plinko
Footballguy
That would be awesome and I think we’re rolling right into another round …
kupcho1
Footballguy
The Decemberists
#2 July, July!
You've got to love a song about ghost chickens.
From Songfacts:
Despite the somewhat morbid nature of the subject matter, July, July! is quite a rousing, joyful tune.
Tip of the cap to whoever used Bill Hader's Stefon first, but this song has everything: crooked French Canadians, rattled chicken chains and nappy blueish grey camisoles.
There is a road that meets the road
That goes to my house
And how it green grows there
And we've got special boots
That beat the path to my house
And it's careful and it's careful when I'm there
And I say your uncle was a crooked French Canadian
And he was gut-shot running gin
And how his guts were all suspended in his fingers
And how he held 'em
How he held 'em, held 'em in
And the water rolls down the drain, the water rolls down the drain,
Oh what a lonely thing! in a lonely drain!
July, July, July! It never seemed so strange
July, July, July! It never seemed so, it never seemed so strange
This is the story of the road that goes to my house
And what ghosts there do remain
And all the troughs that run the length and breadth of my house
And the chickens, how they rattle chicken chains
And we'll remember this when we are old and ancient
Though the specifics might be vague
And I'll say your camisole was a sprightly light magenta
When in fact it was a nappy blueish grey
And the water rolls down the drain
The blood rolls down the drain
Oh what a lonely thing
In a blood red drain
July, July, July! It never seemed so strange
July, July, July! It never seemed so, it never seemed so strange
It never seemed so strange
It never seemed so strange
It never seemed so strange
#2 July, July!
You've got to love a song about ghost chickens.
From Songfacts:
Despite the somewhat morbid nature of the subject matter, July, July! is quite a rousing, joyful tune.
Tip of the cap to whoever used Bill Hader's Stefon first, but this song has everything: crooked French Canadians, rattled chicken chains and nappy blueish grey camisoles.
There is a road that meets the road
That goes to my house
And how it green grows there
And we've got special boots
That beat the path to my house
And it's careful and it's careful when I'm there
And I say your uncle was a crooked French Canadian
And he was gut-shot running gin
And how his guts were all suspended in his fingers
And how he held 'em
How he held 'em, held 'em in
And the water rolls down the drain, the water rolls down the drain,
Oh what a lonely thing! in a lonely drain!
July, July, July! It never seemed so strange
July, July, July! It never seemed so, it never seemed so strange
This is the story of the road that goes to my house
And what ghosts there do remain
And all the troughs that run the length and breadth of my house
And the chickens, how they rattle chicken chains
And we'll remember this when we are old and ancient
Though the specifics might be vague
And I'll say your camisole was a sprightly light magenta
When in fact it was a nappy blueish grey
And the water rolls down the drain
The blood rolls down the drain
Oh what a lonely thing
In a blood red drain
July, July, July! It never seemed so strange
July, July, July! It never seemed so, it never seemed so strange
It never seemed so strange
It never seemed so strange
It never seemed so strange
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
@FairWarning - This. Keep your eyes peeled for Part 2 soon. I think the plan is to catch our breath from this one a little and start the next soon, but zegrass can talk more specifics.
FairWarning
Footballguy
Thanks for the heads up. It’s been a whirlwind of a couple of years now, should have more time after august.
Mt. Man
Footballguy
2. Down in a Hole (off Dirt, 1992)
Down in a hole, and they've put all the stones in their place
I've eaten the sun, so my tongue has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more of my feelings beneath
(Official Video) Alice In Chains - Down in a Hole
(Unplugged Alice In Chains - Down in a Hole
You might have figured it out based on my last ‘teaser’. But yes, “Down in a Hole” appeared as track 12 between “Angry Chair” and “Would?” on early U.S. and Canadian pressings, before ending up as track 4 on most editions, which was its intended spot. So there’s a tiny extra layer here of putting it just before “Would?”. If only on the final playlist.
Anyway, that’s maybe .1% of why this is here. Mostly it’s because, well, I kind of love it a lot. How surprising for the song that made it to #2, right? Seriously, though, this song obviously stands out to me, and I’d hope a(nother) listen or two leaves you with the same impression. A power ballad that Cantrell was initially unsure about sharing with the band for being “too soft”. Fortunately the band responded well, and that attitude likely helped paved the way for a lot of AIC’s hits.
Also, it’s to be said that this song isn’t about death. At least not in the traditional sense. Quoting Music Bank’s liner notes again: “It's to my long-time love. It's the reality of my life, the path I've chosen and in a weird way it kind of foretold where we are right now. It's hard for us to both understand...that this life is not conducive to much success with long-term relationships.”
Next on the countdown? Remember months ago where I said that this list could be considered a list of 30, with a bit extra? No? Well, it was something like that. The point being that I’ve given 30 songs, and so what’s left could be a bit extra. That if you’d prefer to move everything (or at least most songs) one space up, that’s your choice.
Otherwise. Next… no, Last on the countdown, harmonica. Alternatively (ha?), a song you’ll say could deserve it’s spot, or will add the word “I” to the title.
Down in a hole, and they've put all the stones in their place
I've eaten the sun, so my tongue has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more of my feelings beneath
(Official Video) Alice In Chains - Down in a Hole
(Unplugged Alice In Chains - Down in a Hole
You might have figured it out based on my last ‘teaser’. But yes, “Down in a Hole” appeared as track 12 between “Angry Chair” and “Would?” on early U.S. and Canadian pressings, before ending up as track 4 on most editions, which was its intended spot. So there’s a tiny extra layer here of putting it just before “Would?”. If only on the final playlist.
Anyway, that’s maybe .1% of why this is here. Mostly it’s because, well, I kind of love it a lot. How surprising for the song that made it to #2, right? Seriously, though, this song obviously stands out to me, and I’d hope a(nother) listen or two leaves you with the same impression. A power ballad that Cantrell was initially unsure about sharing with the band for being “too soft”. Fortunately the band responded well, and that attitude likely helped paved the way for a lot of AIC’s hits.
Also, it’s to be said that this song isn’t about death. At least not in the traditional sense. Quoting Music Bank’s liner notes again: “It's to my long-time love. It's the reality of my life, the path I've chosen and in a weird way it kind of foretold where we are right now. It's hard for us to both understand...that this life is not conducive to much success with long-term relationships.”
Next on the countdown? Remember months ago where I said that this list could be considered a list of 30, with a bit extra? No? Well, it was something like that. The point being that I’ve given 30 songs, and so what’s left could be a bit extra. That if you’d prefer to move everything (or at least most songs) one space up, that’s your choice.
Otherwise. Next… no, Last on the countdown, harmonica. Alternatively (ha?), a song you’ll say could deserve it’s spot, or will add the word “I” to the title.
simey
Footballguy
My dad's bday is today.Reminds me of my loony ol mom, her bday was yesterday
otb_lifer
Footballguy
#2 - The Stranglers - Golden Brown
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Year - 1982
Album - La Folie
UK Chart position - #2
Vocals - Hugh Cornwell
Key Lyric - Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown
Interesting Points
1- This song reached #2 in the UK for 2 weeks, with only The Jam’s Town Called Malice ahead of it.
2- Hugh Cornwell says he believes that the song would have got to Number 1 if bassist Jean-Jacques Burnelhad not told the press that the song was about heroin, at which point broadcasters removed it from their playlists, prejudicing sales. "I would have waited till it got to Number 1 and thensaid it," he commented
3- In his book The Stranglers Song by Song(2001), Hugh Cornwellstates, "'Golden Brown' works on two levels. It's about heroinand also about a girl... both provided me with pleasurable times."
4- In a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the nation's favourite singles to have peaked at number two, conducted in late 2012, "Golden Brown" ranked fifth behind "Vienna", "Fairytale of New York", "Sit Down" and "American Pie", and just ahead of "Waterloo Sunset" and "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever".
5- The first single from the album “Let Me Introduce You to the Family”, about the Manson family, flopped, Reaching only #42. Nearing the end of the recording contract, the label just wanted done with the band and didn’t want any more singles. Acquiesing to the bands desires this got released in the chart dead zone of february and became a monster hit. Big surprise to the label and JJB who didnt think much of it. The other 3 band members got the the song and felt smug satisfaction.
Bonus Music Nerd Alert
6- There is disagreement among experts as to which time signatures best represents parts of the song.: 43 The main body of the song has a triple metrewaltzrhythm, with beats grouped in threes, but the instrumental parts add an extra beat to create a phrase of thirteen beats. The thirteen beats appear in the sheet music as alternating bars of 6
8and 7
8, which has also been described as three bars of 3
4followed by one bar of 4
4.: 183 : 217 The sheet music of "Golden Brown" is published in B-flat minor.
Summary to date
Year
1977 - 13
1978 - 5
1979 - 2
1980 - 0
1981 - 2
1982 - 2
1983 - 0
1984 - 3
1985 - 0
1986 - 1
1987 - 0
1988 - 2
1989 - 1
1990 onwards - 2
Where to find
Rattus Norvegicus - 9/9
No More Heroes -3/11
Black and White - 2/12
The Raven - 2/11
The Gospel According to the Meninblack - 1/10
La Folie - 2/11
Feline - 0/9
Aural Sculpture - 3/11
Dreamtime - 1/10
All Live and All of the Night - 2/13
10 - 1/10
1991 onwards - 0
B Sides - 1
Greatest Hits - 3
Standalone Single - 3
Running Vocal Count
Hugh Cornwell - 19
Jean-Jacques Burnel - 10
Other - 1 (Instrumental)
Rundown
#31 - Walk on By
#30 - Ugly
#29 - All Day and All of the Night
#28 - Meninblack
#27 - Goodbye Toulouse
#26 - Princess of the Streets
#25 - Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)
#24 - Duchess
#23 - Sometimes
#22 - La Folie
#21 - North Winds
#20 - No Mercy
#19 - 5 Minutes
#18 - Strange Little Girl
#17 - Shut Up
#16 - Bitching
#15 - Bring on the Nubiles
#14 - 96 Tears
#13 - Down in the Sewer
#12 - Hanging Around
#11 - Straighten Out
#10 - Nice ‘N’ Sleazy
#9 - London Lady
#8 - Always the Sun
#7 - Something Better Change
#6 - Skin Deep
#5 - (Get a) Grip (On Yourself)
#4 - Peaches
#3 - Waltzinblack
#2 - Golden Brown
Last one.
Is it the UK #8 from 1977 or the UK #9 from 1983? One is the #1 song, one misses out altogether, but is the #32 ranked song.
i recall highlighting "Golden Brown" in one of @rockaction's free form forays, and he responded with "when did the Stranglers become the Doors"?
(were also the thread i got to turn ol' MoCS on to "Peaches", which he adopted as his favorite new song he discovered on the bored).oh, but it ("GB") are phenomenal ... one of those that never fails to floor me - it's so lush and gorgeously textured - but still retains a slight glint of danger, and therein lies it's genius.
slotted perfectly at #2 (AtS shouldt be unanimous #1, imo), so no quibble on this ranking of "GB"
you've done remarkable work fleshing out one of the most compelling "unfamiliar" bands - i salute your efforts here, nothing short of spectacular.
... but i gots an inkling of where you are going with #1, and, as goodt as it are, i don't think it sniffs GB or AtS.
plz don't take that as a slag, as this are all subjective and pursuant to personal preferences ... not meant at all to disparage your taste, nor the rankings - just a chasm between how we wouldt rank them.
thanks for the ride - been a blast!
plinko
Footballguy
Good stuff, pins & needles for #1
otb_lifer
Footballguy
kupcho1
Footballguy
I thought I already gave it away earlier with the "literary" comment.
plinko
Footballguy
I may not know it, or the reference is eluding me so farI thought I already gave it away earlier with the "literary" comment.
Safe to say then that my favorite didn't make it. I forgive you.
"Feel Good Inc" is such a ****ing monster
rockaction
Footballguy
Uh huh. Yes. No doubt. And then some.
We gonna go down like Motown
(I'd written that line years earlier. Think I should sue?)
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
2. Aja is the third of three songs from, and the title track to the album of the same name to appear on my list.
Fagen himself said this about this song: "Aja is the name of a woman. I had a friend in high school, and he had an older brother who went to Korea and married a Korean girl and brought her back. And her name was Aja. We thought that was a good name, just a very romantic sort of image, the sort of tranquility that can come of a quiet relationship with a very beautiful woman."
The 'tranquility' of this song is probably what I like best about it. Founding member Denny Dias provides the solo guitar work here, and to me it almost plays the part of Aja herself: delicate, inviting and soothing.
For good measure, they enlisted the talent of saxophonist Wayne Shorter, whose resume also includes playing with Miles Davis and being a co-founder of fusion jazz powerhouse Weather Report. Like all hired guns Fagan and Becker brought into the studio, Shorter was given the freedom to create his part the way he saw fit, ultimately allowing the song itself to inform his solos instead of overlaying some preconceived riff that he already had in his head.
As for the lyrics, I had always interpreted 'Aja' to be a place the narrator found solace in after nights out with nameless jaded partygoers. Knowing Fagan, it's just flowery language that actually refers to the narrator's life as a prison guard.
Up on the hill
People never stare
They just don't care
Chinese music under banyan trees
Here at the dude ranch above the sea
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you
Up on the hill
They've got time to burn
There's no return
Double helix in the sky tonight
Throw out the hardware
Let's do it right
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you
Up on the hill
They think I'm okay
Or so they say
Chinese music always sets me free
Angular banjoes
Sound good to me
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you
Fagen himself said this about this song: "Aja is the name of a woman. I had a friend in high school, and he had an older brother who went to Korea and married a Korean girl and brought her back. And her name was Aja. We thought that was a good name, just a very romantic sort of image, the sort of tranquility that can come of a quiet relationship with a very beautiful woman."
The 'tranquility' of this song is probably what I like best about it. Founding member Denny Dias provides the solo guitar work here, and to me it almost plays the part of Aja herself: delicate, inviting and soothing.
For good measure, they enlisted the talent of saxophonist Wayne Shorter, whose resume also includes playing with Miles Davis and being a co-founder of fusion jazz powerhouse Weather Report. Like all hired guns Fagan and Becker brought into the studio, Shorter was given the freedom to create his part the way he saw fit, ultimately allowing the song itself to inform his solos instead of overlaying some preconceived riff that he already had in his head.
As for the lyrics, I had always interpreted 'Aja' to be a place the narrator found solace in after nights out with nameless jaded partygoers. Knowing Fagan, it's just flowery language that actually refers to the narrator's life as a prison guard.
Up on the hill
People never stare
They just don't care
Chinese music under banyan trees
Here at the dude ranch above the sea
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you
Up on the hill
They've got time to burn
There's no return
Double helix in the sky tonight
Throw out the hardware
Let's do it right
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you
Up on the hill
They think I'm okay
Or so they say
Chinese music always sets me free
Angular banjoes
Sound good to me
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you
rockaction
Footballguy
#2 - Giorgio by Moroder - Daft Punk (Random Access Memories)
This could have been #31 by way of an introduction to Daft Punk, but here it sits at number two as a retrospective and summation of what you've all been hearing (or what I've been putting forth as the best of Daft Punk) the past twenty-nine tracks. It begins with an interview over restaurant noise (forks and plates clanking) with Giorgio Moroder, largely credited as the progenitor of using synthesizers within pop music and disco, notably using a Moog modular, an analog synthesizer, the use of which gave birth to house music and techno music. In the song, Daft Punk sets a microphone (well, microphones. Daft used a microphone from each decade for each decade he recounts in the story) in front of Giorgio and asks him to tell his story -- How did he create the four-on-the-floor click track that made him the "Father of DIsco Music"? -- and Moroder obliges with a brief story about how he came to innovate the sound that he did.
From an article from Two Story Melody:
"Giorgio speaks about his youth as a musician, going from a restaurant ambiance into a seventies funk as he begins to speak about the discotheques in Germany.
'I didn’t have any idea what to do but I knew I needed a click -- so we put a click on the 24-track which then was synced to the Moog modular. I knew that could be a sound of the future, but I didn’t realize how much the impact would be.'
As Giorgio narrates, the instrumentals mimic his words, clicking and keeping time with his story, then busting into a groove that carries us wordlessly through the progression of techno. Jazz breaks and synths wash in and out of the beat, then we hear again Giorgio’s voice echoing:
'Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being correct you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.'
Strings swell to match the power of his words, and then the melody snaps back in at full force. A triumphant concoction of synths, bass, strings, and record scratches zoom through the track at a soaring speed, eventually pulling away and dipping down into the bare bones of a modern house song, a steady thumping beat."
The metaphor here, as Wiki notes, is one of musical freedom and exploration, being able to hop from sound to sound and genre to genre, much like Daft Punk often does. It's a triumphant track, a reflection upon the creative process turned into a banger, and it's easily one of my favorites from the band as it serves as both a thank you and homage to the innovator of the vast genre within which they operate while also nicely summarizing what they're all about.
Here's a Guardian article counting down Moroder's Top Ten Songs for anybody interested. "Giorgio by Moroder" checks in at ten. It calls Daft Punk's song "a sprawling soundscape of mind-altering beauty." The only one on the list that he didn't produce or arrange, it stands out, singular in its accomplishment within the disco/Moroder world.
This could have been #31 by way of an introduction to Daft Punk, but here it sits at number two as a retrospective and summation of what you've all been hearing (or what I've been putting forth as the best of Daft Punk) the past twenty-nine tracks. It begins with an interview over restaurant noise (forks and plates clanking) with Giorgio Moroder, largely credited as the progenitor of using synthesizers within pop music and disco, notably using a Moog modular, an analog synthesizer, the use of which gave birth to house music and techno music. In the song, Daft Punk sets a microphone (well, microphones. Daft used a microphone from each decade for each decade he recounts in the story) in front of Giorgio and asks him to tell his story -- How did he create the four-on-the-floor click track that made him the "Father of DIsco Music"? -- and Moroder obliges with a brief story about how he came to innovate the sound that he did.
From an article from Two Story Melody:
"Giorgio speaks about his youth as a musician, going from a restaurant ambiance into a seventies funk as he begins to speak about the discotheques in Germany.
'I didn’t have any idea what to do but I knew I needed a click -- so we put a click on the 24-track which then was synced to the Moog modular. I knew that could be a sound of the future, but I didn’t realize how much the impact would be.'
As Giorgio narrates, the instrumentals mimic his words, clicking and keeping time with his story, then busting into a groove that carries us wordlessly through the progression of techno. Jazz breaks and synths wash in and out of the beat, then we hear again Giorgio’s voice echoing:
'Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being correct you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.'
Strings swell to match the power of his words, and then the melody snaps back in at full force. A triumphant concoction of synths, bass, strings, and record scratches zoom through the track at a soaring speed, eventually pulling away and dipping down into the bare bones of a modern house song, a steady thumping beat."
The metaphor here, as Wiki notes, is one of musical freedom and exploration, being able to hop from sound to sound and genre to genre, much like Daft Punk often does. It's a triumphant track, a reflection upon the creative process turned into a banger, and it's easily one of my favorites from the band as it serves as both a thank you and homage to the innovator of the vast genre within which they operate while also nicely summarizing what they're all about.
Here's a Guardian article counting down Moroder's Top Ten Songs for anybody interested. "Giorgio by Moroder" checks in at ten. It calls Daft Punk's song "a sprawling soundscape of mind-altering beauty." The only one on the list that he didn't produce or arrange, it stands out, singular in its accomplishment within the disco/Moroder world.
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MAC_32
Footballguy
Oh, wow - this was it? I definitely thought you had something else in mind, so instead - great minds think alike!Hooray! Proud of you, @MAC_32
Green Day MAC_32 Hitchin' A Ride
Hitchin' a Ride - Live at Milton Keynes National Bowl, Milton Keynes, England, 6/18/05
Green Day · Bullet in a Bible · Song · 2005open.spotify.com
Have always loved this song. Great choice. Even better live...
This is live Green Day at its peak. Every time. Never a doubt I was taking a live version; the only struggle was finding the best version on streaming services (You Tube has better). Even without the live performance it's a great track by itself (I chose it for one of our other recent count downs), but the way Billy Joe whips the crowd into a frenzy before the final sonic blast? Not much compares. Enjoy in one...two...one-two-three-four-SHIIIIIIIT!!!
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Holy **** the songs and music on display for this #2s playlist!! Only to Stevie because I've had to replay a few songs right away.
Daft Punk in general- htf have I not heard that song (or really listened?) before, the drumming on Aja, the bass on Genesis, I could go on and on
Daft Punk in general- htf have I not heard that song (or really listened?) before, the drumming on Aja, the bass on Genesis, I could go on and on
kupcho1
Footballguy
Awesome!
Ryan Adams Dr. Octopus To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
(Added to 2000 - Walk without rhythm)
Galileo
Footballguy
#2 Better Things (1981 - Give the People What They Want)
This is another song I suspect isn’t very high on most people’s Kinks rankings, if it appears at all, but it has sentimental value to me. Although Better Things has an ominous origin as the product of Ray’s failing 2nd marriage, it is a somewhat rare type of Kinks song in that it is filled with optimism and a look forward to a new beginning. I sought comfort in this song and shared it with my wife after a miscarriage ended our first pregnancy. That was a time of a lot of sorrow in our lives, and this song helped lift our spirits during those dark days. Happily, we bounced back with 2 wonderful kids. So while this song may not seem to be musically special for most, I seek it out anytime I may feel I need a little lift. It just makes me smile.
Here's wishing you the bluest sky
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme
And the very best of choruses, too
Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on the way
Here's hoping all the days ahead
Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you
Be an optimist instead
And somehow happiness will find you
Forget what happened yesterday
I know that better things are on the way
It's really good to see you rocking out
And having fun
Living like you've just begun
Accept your life and what it brings
I hope tomorrow you'll find better things
I know tomorrow you'll find better things
Here's wishing you the bluest sky
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme
And the very best of choruses, too
Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on the way
I know you've got a lot of good things happening up ahead
The past is gone, it's all been said
So here's to what the future brings
I know tomorrow you'll find better things
I know tomorrow you'll find better things
I hope tomorrow you'll find better things
I know tomorrow you'll find better things
I hope tomorrow you'll find better things
This is another song I suspect isn’t very high on most people’s Kinks rankings, if it appears at all, but it has sentimental value to me. Although Better Things has an ominous origin as the product of Ray’s failing 2nd marriage, it is a somewhat rare type of Kinks song in that it is filled with optimism and a look forward to a new beginning. I sought comfort in this song and shared it with my wife after a miscarriage ended our first pregnancy. That was a time of a lot of sorrow in our lives, and this song helped lift our spirits during those dark days. Happily, we bounced back with 2 wonderful kids. So while this song may not seem to be musically special for most, I seek it out anytime I may feel I need a little lift. It just makes me smile.
Here's wishing you the bluest sky
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme
And the very best of choruses, too
Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on the way
Here's hoping all the days ahead
Won't be as bitter as the ones behind you
Be an optimist instead
And somehow happiness will find you
Forget what happened yesterday
I know that better things are on the way
It's really good to see you rocking out
And having fun
Living like you've just begun
Accept your life and what it brings
I hope tomorrow you'll find better things
I know tomorrow you'll find better things
Here's wishing you the bluest sky
And hoping something better comes tomorrow
Hoping all the verses rhyme
And the very best of choruses, too
Follow all the doubt and sadness
I know that better things are on the way
I know you've got a lot of good things happening up ahead
The past is gone, it's all been said
So here's to what the future brings
I know tomorrow you'll find better things
I know tomorrow you'll find better things
I hope tomorrow you'll find better things
I know tomorrow you'll find better things
I hope tomorrow you'll find better things
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Ryan Adams Dr. Octopus To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
This song and my next song are very Dylan-esque in sound and tone, both would have fit right in on Highway 51.
This is the fun one. It’s just a great rock and roll song.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
There’s round 2
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I alluded to that when I teased my #2 in my #3 writeup. But nobody reads my posts.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
2. Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Make Me Smile / So Much to Say, So Much to Give / Anxiety's Moment / West Virginia Fantasies / Colour My World / To Be Free / Now More Than Ever
Album: Chicago (aka Chicago II) (1970)
Writer: James Pankow
Lead vocals: Terry Kath (Make Me Smile, Colour My World, Now More Than Ever) / Robert Lamm (So Much to Say, So Much to Give) / instrumental (Anxiety's Moment, West Virginia Fantasies, To Be Free)
Released as a single? Yes (Make Me Smile, US #9; Colour My World, US #7 (double A-side with Beginnings) in 1971; the "Make Me Smile" single is actually parts of Make Me Smile and Now More Than Ever pieced together)
Spotify would have you believe this is seven songs (sorry for the chaos on the playlist), but it's in fact one suite with seven parts written by James Pankow that takes up most of side 2 of the second album. Within it are two of Chicago's biggest hits, Make Me Smile and Colour My World. Really three, as the closing section, Now More Than Ever, is a reprise of Make Me Smile, and the single labeled as "Make Me Smile" is actually parts of Make Me Smile and Now More Than Ever pieced together.
Adding to the confusion is that the suite's title was supposed to be Ballet for a Girl in Buckhannon, as the lyrical sections are about Pankow trying to win back his ex-fiancee, who was attending college in Buckhannon, West Virginia at the time. But the title was misspelled on the record label and has never been fixed.
Terry Kath alluded to all of this when he introduced it at the Tanglewood show: "This next thing we're going to do was written by Jimmy, trombone. It's, uh, the real name is Ballet for a Girl in Buckhannon, but most people know it, I guess, by Make Me Smile." The suite has been performed live in its entirety for much of their career, including at the show I saw in 1995, but sometimes Make Me Smile and/or Colour My World are performed separately.
The suite was a deliberate attempt to add classical influence and structures to the band's jazz/pop/rock sound. Pankow said in the Group Portrait box set liner notes: "Originally, I had been inspired by some classics. I had bought the Brandenburg concertos, and I was listening to them one night, thinking, man, how cool! Bach, 200 years ago, wrote this stuff, and it cooks. What a concept, I mean, if we put a rock 'n' roll rhythm section to something like this, that could be really cool. I was also a big Stravinsky fan, and his stuff cooked. These Russian composers, they boogie. It's classical, but yet it's got a great passion to it, and it's got some really rhythmic stuff going on. So, I kind of toyed with the idea. We were on the road, and I had a Fender Rhodes piano between Holiday Inn beds, and I came up with things that emulated the classical composers, but yet identified with the modern idioms. The next step was arranging some horn lines with these grooves that I had come up with, and then I found myself just going back to some arpeggios, a la Bach, and along came 'Colour My World.' It's just a simple 12-bar pattern, but it just flowed. Then I called Walt [Parazaider] into the room, and I said, 'Hey, Walt, you got your flute? Why don't you try a few lines?,' and one thing led to another. These things were disjointed, but yet I liked it all. So, I figure, I wonder if I can sew all this stuff together and do kind of a mini-symphony thing. That's what Stravinksy does, after all. One movement is completely different from the next. Why can't a rock 'n' roll band do that? And, bang, we started rehearsing it, and ultimately it was a matter of just sewing these things together, creating segues and creating interludes to sew one little piece to another."
Make Me Smile was the band's first top 10 hit and is arguably the catalyst of their transition from cult band to mainstream force. It's basically big band music set to a pop/rock beat, and boasts an infectious rhythm and one of Terry Kath's jazziest guitar solos.
Parazaider: "Up to that time, to be very honest, I don't think people were really ready to hear horns the way we were using them. But after we established something with horns - ... 'Make Me Smile,' which was our first bona fide hit - it seemed like it broke the ice and it became easier."
So Much to Say, So Much to Give is a brief, impassioned interlude that is the core of Pankow's efforts to win back his ex (which didn't work).
A series of staccato piano notes, not dissimilar to what the Beatles often employed in their later years, marks a shift into the suite's first instrumental section, Anxiety's Moment, which is dominated by piano and horns and only lasts for one minute.
The next section, West Virginia Fantasies, is the crown jewel of the instrumental segments. Piano and bass propel things along while flute, trumpet, organ and guitar play a series of cascading measures that roll around in your head like a ball in a Rube Goldberg contraption.
That slows down into the piano-driven ballad Colour My World, which has been a staple at weddings for more than 50 years. It was initially released as the B-side of Make Me Smile when the second album came out. A year later, after the singles from Chicago III underperformed, Columbia re-released it as a double A side with Beginnings (entry #3), and it too became a top 10 hit.
To Be Free is a galloping piece that highlights Danny Seraphine's drums.
The suite closes with Now More Than Ever, which you probably know as "the last verse of Make Me Smile", but which also brings back Seraphine's great fills from the previous section and some of the horn motifs from earlier in the suite.
The suite is a perfect example of how early Chicago managed to be both commercially appealing and musically adventurous, and makes as good a case as anything for their importance to modern music.
Tanglewood version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFWdkBvxDoA
Leonid and Friends version of Make Me Smile (really Make Me Smile/Now More Than Ever): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXhWneEDq7I
Leonid and Friends version of Colour My World (with string section): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts86Heyj_e4
Should I try to do some more? One more.
Album: Chicago (aka Chicago II) (1970)
Writer: James Pankow
Lead vocals: Terry Kath (Make Me Smile, Colour My World, Now More Than Ever) / Robert Lamm (So Much to Say, So Much to Give) / instrumental (Anxiety's Moment, West Virginia Fantasies, To Be Free)
Released as a single? Yes (Make Me Smile, US #9; Colour My World, US #7 (double A-side with Beginnings) in 1971; the "Make Me Smile" single is actually parts of Make Me Smile and Now More Than Ever pieced together)
Spotify would have you believe this is seven songs (sorry for the chaos on the playlist), but it's in fact one suite with seven parts written by James Pankow that takes up most of side 2 of the second album. Within it are two of Chicago's biggest hits, Make Me Smile and Colour My World. Really three, as the closing section, Now More Than Ever, is a reprise of Make Me Smile, and the single labeled as "Make Me Smile" is actually parts of Make Me Smile and Now More Than Ever pieced together.
Adding to the confusion is that the suite's title was supposed to be Ballet for a Girl in Buckhannon, as the lyrical sections are about Pankow trying to win back his ex-fiancee, who was attending college in Buckhannon, West Virginia at the time. But the title was misspelled on the record label and has never been fixed.
Terry Kath alluded to all of this when he introduced it at the Tanglewood show: "This next thing we're going to do was written by Jimmy, trombone. It's, uh, the real name is Ballet for a Girl in Buckhannon, but most people know it, I guess, by Make Me Smile." The suite has been performed live in its entirety for much of their career, including at the show I saw in 1995, but sometimes Make Me Smile and/or Colour My World are performed separately.
The suite was a deliberate attempt to add classical influence and structures to the band's jazz/pop/rock sound. Pankow said in the Group Portrait box set liner notes: "Originally, I had been inspired by some classics. I had bought the Brandenburg concertos, and I was listening to them one night, thinking, man, how cool! Bach, 200 years ago, wrote this stuff, and it cooks. What a concept, I mean, if we put a rock 'n' roll rhythm section to something like this, that could be really cool. I was also a big Stravinsky fan, and his stuff cooked. These Russian composers, they boogie. It's classical, but yet it's got a great passion to it, and it's got some really rhythmic stuff going on. So, I kind of toyed with the idea. We were on the road, and I had a Fender Rhodes piano between Holiday Inn beds, and I came up with things that emulated the classical composers, but yet identified with the modern idioms. The next step was arranging some horn lines with these grooves that I had come up with, and then I found myself just going back to some arpeggios, a la Bach, and along came 'Colour My World.' It's just a simple 12-bar pattern, but it just flowed. Then I called Walt [Parazaider] into the room, and I said, 'Hey, Walt, you got your flute? Why don't you try a few lines?,' and one thing led to another. These things were disjointed, but yet I liked it all. So, I figure, I wonder if I can sew all this stuff together and do kind of a mini-symphony thing. That's what Stravinksy does, after all. One movement is completely different from the next. Why can't a rock 'n' roll band do that? And, bang, we started rehearsing it, and ultimately it was a matter of just sewing these things together, creating segues and creating interludes to sew one little piece to another."
Make Me Smile was the band's first top 10 hit and is arguably the catalyst of their transition from cult band to mainstream force. It's basically big band music set to a pop/rock beat, and boasts an infectious rhythm and one of Terry Kath's jazziest guitar solos.
Parazaider: "Up to that time, to be very honest, I don't think people were really ready to hear horns the way we were using them. But after we established something with horns - ... 'Make Me Smile,' which was our first bona fide hit - it seemed like it broke the ice and it became easier."
So Much to Say, So Much to Give is a brief, impassioned interlude that is the core of Pankow's efforts to win back his ex (which didn't work).
A series of staccato piano notes, not dissimilar to what the Beatles often employed in their later years, marks a shift into the suite's first instrumental section, Anxiety's Moment, which is dominated by piano and horns and only lasts for one minute.
The next section, West Virginia Fantasies, is the crown jewel of the instrumental segments. Piano and bass propel things along while flute, trumpet, organ and guitar play a series of cascading measures that roll around in your head like a ball in a Rube Goldberg contraption.
That slows down into the piano-driven ballad Colour My World, which has been a staple at weddings for more than 50 years. It was initially released as the B-side of Make Me Smile when the second album came out. A year later, after the singles from Chicago III underperformed, Columbia re-released it as a double A side with Beginnings (entry #3), and it too became a top 10 hit.
To Be Free is a galloping piece that highlights Danny Seraphine's drums.
The suite closes with Now More Than Ever, which you probably know as "the last verse of Make Me Smile", but which also brings back Seraphine's great fills from the previous section and some of the horn motifs from earlier in the suite.
The suite is a perfect example of how early Chicago managed to be both commercially appealing and musically adventurous, and makes as good a case as anything for their importance to modern music.
Tanglewood version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFWdkBvxDoA
Leonid and Friends version of Make Me Smile (really Make Me Smile/Now More Than Ever): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXhWneEDq7I
Leonid and Friends version of Colour My World (with string section): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts86Heyj_e4
Should I try to do some more? One more.
simey
Footballguy
#2 - Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
Ray recorded this song in 1960 for his album Genius Hits the Road. Ray said he used to hum the song all the time, and his driver told him he should record it. It was written by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics). Ray said he loved the chord structure in the song, and especially the middle part that has beautiful changes in it. He said, "Hoagy Carmichael, I have to give him some skin, he wrote some beautiful stuff on that song."
Ray had a history with the state of Georgia. He was born in Albany, Ga, but grew up in Florida. When coming back to Georgia as a musician, he experienced the Jim Crow laws of the South. He was to play at a venue in Augusta, Ga, in 1961, but learned the venue was segregated, so he refused to play there. He was fined for breach of contract. He didn't care, and he said he would never play there until it was desegregated, which it was a year later. Ray wasn't banned from Ga like the movie Ray led viewers to believe. Ray and many other black artists such as Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, BB King, Count Basie, James Brown, etc. were told in the Jim Crow South where they could and couldn't play, as well as where they could and couldn't eat, sleep, use the bathroom, etc. The black artists played what was called the "Chitlin Circuit," which were clubs/theaters in the South, East, and Midwest that were safe for black artists to perform, and were found mostly in black neighborhoods. These clubs hosted some of the greatest black artists in American music history.
In 1979, 15 years after the Jim Crow Laws were overturned, the state of Georgia apologized to Brother Ray for the past. Georgia told him they wanted to make his version of "Georgia On My Mind" their official state song. Ray held no grudge and was honored by the gesture. In his own words he said, "My version of ‘Georgia’ became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.” Ray sings from his soul, and that expressive voice fills this song with pure beauty.
Ray recorded this song in 1960 for his album Genius Hits the Road. Ray said he used to hum the song all the time, and his driver told him he should record it. It was written by Hoagy Carmichael (music) and Stuart Gorrell (lyrics). Ray said he loved the chord structure in the song, and especially the middle part that has beautiful changes in it. He said, "Hoagy Carmichael, I have to give him some skin, he wrote some beautiful stuff on that song."
Ray had a history with the state of Georgia. He was born in Albany, Ga, but grew up in Florida. When coming back to Georgia as a musician, he experienced the Jim Crow laws of the South. He was to play at a venue in Augusta, Ga, in 1961, but learned the venue was segregated, so he refused to play there. He was fined for breach of contract. He didn't care, and he said he would never play there until it was desegregated, which it was a year later. Ray wasn't banned from Ga like the movie Ray led viewers to believe. Ray and many other black artists such as Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, BB King, Count Basie, James Brown, etc. were told in the Jim Crow South where they could and couldn't play, as well as where they could and couldn't eat, sleep, use the bathroom, etc. The black artists played what was called the "Chitlin Circuit," which were clubs/theaters in the South, East, and Midwest that were safe for black artists to perform, and were found mostly in black neighborhoods. These clubs hosted some of the greatest black artists in American music history.
In 1979, 15 years after the Jim Crow Laws were overturned, the state of Georgia apologized to Brother Ray for the past. Georgia told him they wanted to make his version of "Georgia On My Mind" their official state song. Ray held no grudge and was honored by the gesture. In his own words he said, "My version of ‘Georgia’ became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.” Ray sings from his soul, and that expressive voice fills this song with pure beauty.
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
What confusion?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Galileo
Footballguy
A Chicago explosion!
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
My wife's cousin named her oldest daughter after this song.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Little known fact, Pip’s uncle was in Chicago for a while and he’s just trying to put $1.35 in the old guy’s pocket for all the additional streams.
simey
Footballguy
They have a drummer, but the drummer was not with them. The lead singer said part of their band couldn't be there. It was three of them. They had a Cure vibe to them, but with a soulful sounding lead singer, and more shoegazey, but sometimes they sounded experimental psychedelic indie if that makes sense. They were different. I'd love to see them with their full band.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Someone could write a book just about this. And probably has.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
@rockaction love the placement for your#2. I was getting nervous it wasn’t going to make the cut. It’s possibly my #1 for them.
JB Breakfast Club
Footballguy
Brandi Carlile S-tier songs
5. the Joke - this is a whale of a song that won the Grammy for Best Americana Song and Performance. It feels like this was Brandi's coming out story (although she has been openly gay since high school), and it was a powerful song of representation for LGBTQ+ community in 2018. It is the song that took the band from playing clubs to stadiums in some markets.
4. Pride and Joy - a song that continues to grow on me over the years, Pride and Joy has become a live show anthem that is often used as the final song of the encore. The band gets a few minutes to rock out at the end as their send-off. I recorded a bit of this at the Minnesota State Fair in 2019 - the show was going long, and the end of the night fireworks were going off in the background. She's back this year, and I was lucky enough to pull front row seats at random.
https://youtu.be/EMSzkjaGLYY
3. Party of One - Brandi gets to sing a solo on the piano for the song she wrote for her wife. I really appreciate a love song that doesn't shy away from how messy and complicated a relationship can be. They might struggle , but when Brandi sings "...but I'm coming home, because I am yours..." and the strings kick in, I often get a lump in my throat. It's a really underrated and beautiful song to close out By the Way, I Forgive You (and it is usually the final song of the main set of their concerts).
2. the Story - this is the song that brought Brandi Carlile to the masses. Honestly, it is their best song, and I think it is still Brandi's best vocal performance after all these years.
#1 (song title redacted until released) - I bumped a song up to the top spot because it was the performance that took me from a casual fan to a diehard. I attended the Austin City Limits music festival in October 2018, and I grabbed a nice spot to see Brandi Carlile in the middle of the afternoon on the second stage. Brett Kavanaugh had just been sworn in as a supreme court justice, and many of the artists talked about it (and trying to vote out Ted Cruz) that weekend. Brandi spoke about how Trump and his judges were scary and intimidating to her relationship, and then played (song title redacted). I was fully hooked in that moment, and their performance usurped Metallica, Paul McCartney, and the Arctic Monkeys as the best of the weekend.
5. the Joke - this is a whale of a song that won the Grammy for Best Americana Song and Performance. It feels like this was Brandi's coming out story (although she has been openly gay since high school), and it was a powerful song of representation for LGBTQ+ community in 2018. It is the song that took the band from playing clubs to stadiums in some markets.
4. Pride and Joy - a song that continues to grow on me over the years, Pride and Joy has become a live show anthem that is often used as the final song of the encore. The band gets a few minutes to rock out at the end as their send-off. I recorded a bit of this at the Minnesota State Fair in 2019 - the show was going long, and the end of the night fireworks were going off in the background. She's back this year, and I was lucky enough to pull front row seats at random.
https://youtu.be/EMSzkjaGLYY
3. Party of One - Brandi gets to sing a solo on the piano for the song she wrote for her wife. I really appreciate a love song that doesn't shy away from how messy and complicated a relationship can be. They might struggle , but when Brandi sings "...but I'm coming home, because I am yours..." and the strings kick in, I often get a lump in my throat. It's a really underrated and beautiful song to close out By the Way, I Forgive You (and it is usually the final song of the main set of their concerts).
2. the Story - this is the song that brought Brandi Carlile to the masses. Honestly, it is their best song, and I think it is still Brandi's best vocal performance after all these years.
#1 (song title redacted until released) - I bumped a song up to the top spot because it was the performance that took me from a casual fan to a diehard. I attended the Austin City Limits music festival in October 2018, and I grabbed a nice spot to see Brandi Carlile in the middle of the afternoon on the second stage. Brett Kavanaugh had just been sworn in as a supreme court justice, and many of the artists talked about it (and trying to vote out Ted Cruz) that weekend. Brandi spoke about how Trump and his judges were scary and intimidating to her relationship, and then played (song title redacted). I was fully hooked in that moment, and their performance usurped Metallica, Paul McCartney, and the Arctic Monkeys as the best of the weekend.
Galileo
Footballguy
Hard to imagine Brandi and Metallica playing the same gig.
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Can't help but think of this.
Galileo
Footballguy
Loved this one. Just the right amount of quirkiness in the music which in some ways reminds me of an organ grinder.
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