Middle Aged Dummies!! Artists #1's have been posted!! (4 Viewers)

[Pip's Invitation]

"Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory" is the cover song I was talking about before we started, GBV as if you couldn't tell.

I had completely forgotten it was a cover until I went to the album's Wikipedia page yesterday.

 

[zamboni]

#12 - "As"

"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" Part II, except funkier and longer. It's damned near a perfect piece of music writing and playing, the sentiments are clear, and Stevie gives one of the best vocal performances of his career. This would have been the best song the Commodores (no strangers to hit-making) ever did, and it wasn't even much of a hit for Stevie. It think, like my #13 "Another Star", it got buried by the sheer lack of oxygen left by the monster hits from this album.

If I were ranking in order of my favorites, this would probably be #1. I wish I had kept track of who has drafted it the most over the years - wikkid or myself. He loved this one. I think krista may have chosen it before, too.

My favorite Stevie song as well. It's really amazing.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Foo Fighters

Just Win Baby

This Is A Call This Is a Call Foo Fighters · Foo Fighters · Song · 1995 open.spotify.com

This is the first song I chose from Foo Fighters, the Foos' 1st studio album, which was nominated for the 1996 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. The album has been described as follows:

Foo Fighters is the debut studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters... Dave Grohl wrote and recorded the entire album himself, with the assistance of producer Barrett Jones at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, Washington, in 1994. He said that he recorded the album just for fun, describing it as a cathartic experience to recover from the suicide of Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain.

After Grohl completed the recordings, he chose the name "Foo Fighters" for the project to hide his identity, and passed cassette copies of the sessions to personal friends. When the tapes attracted record label interest, Grohl signed with Capitol and recruited a full band to perform the songs live. The album was promoted through extensive tours and six singles, two of which were accompanied by music videos.

Upon its release, Foo Fighters earned positive reviews, praising its songwriting and performances, and was also a commercial success, becoming the band's second-best-selling album in the United States. It also peaked within the top five of charts of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Dave Grohl said about the song:

"The chorus says 'This is a call to all my past resignation'. It's just sort of like a little wave to all the people I ever played music with, people I've been friends with, all my relationships, my family. It's a hello, and in a way a thank you."

"'This Is A Call' just seemed like a nice way to open the album, y'know, 'This is a call to all my past resignations...' I felt like I had nothing to lose, and I didn't necessarily want to be the drummer of Nirvana for the rest of my life without Nirvana. I thought I should try something I'd never done before and I'd never stood up in front of a band and been the lead singer, which was ****ing horrifying and still is!"

In 2020, Kerrang ranked the top 20 all-time Foo Fighters songs and ranked This Is a Call #9. This is their writeup:

Foo Fighters’ first single proper is also arguably the ultimate distillation of what they’re about. Marrying power pop melody to a barroom beat and some downright grungy six-strings, This Is A Call set the template for virtually everything that would follow. The lyrics about Ritalin, balloons, pretty fingernails and bartering cysts and mollusks are full of much of the same subverted childish wonder as Nirvana classics like Polly, but when Dave declares ‘This is a call to all my past resignations’, it lands with more propulsive hope than pained introversion. A quarter-century on, it remains a potent call to arms for the Foos’ ever-enduring fanbase.

In 2023, Consequence of Sound ranked what they characterized as all 156 Foo Fighters songs up to that point, ranking This Is a Call #4. Here is their writeup:

Although rawer than anything that came after it, the first widely heard Foo Fighters song established Grohl’s preferred aesthetic: vague yet relatable lyrics and stadium-sized hooks. The words are nothing more than a series of positive non sequiturs to Grohl’s friends and former bandmates (“fingernails are pretty!” “Them balloons are pretty big!”), but that doesn’t matter. “This Is a Call” is about an energy, an optimism, a starting over. In other words, it was just what Grohl needed given that Kurt Cobain had shot himself only six months prior to the recording. Nirvana fans needed it, too.

Around 2019 (2014 article was updated "4 years ago"), Spin ranked what they characterized as all 152 Foo Fighters songs up to that point, ranking This Is a Call #16. Here is their writeup:

One of those bands whose first single actually is their quintessential song, the self-titled’s kickoff track contains everything that makes this band a band. There’s the instantly memorable melody, sparkling guitars at war with filthy ones, dynamo drumming that you didn’t even know power-pop needed, and a blunt-force riff that works as a bridge in this case, before giving way to the oddball opening statement: “Fingernails are pretty / Fingernails are good!” Grohl made a vow to work on his lyrics next time. The rest was already there.

This album knocked my socks off, in the era of Hootie and Alanis

It was much needed at the time.

Between 1997 and 2000, the "alternative" scene I had followed since the early '90s got pretty dire, so I mostly listened to live Phish during those years. The first two Foo albums were a major exception.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Phish

shuke

Bathtub Gin Bathtub Gin Phish · Lawn Boy · Song · 1990 open.spotify.com

Great groove, silly lyrics, audience participation, and an ode to Rhapsody in Blue.

This is widely considered their greatest performance, although the jam is not very experimental. You want to see Phish fan nerdom at full display, watch this analysis of this version. May be interesting to those of you that are heavily into music composition, but I really don't understand what he's talking about for the most part.

More evidence that 1997 was their best year onstage.

 

[Raging weasel]

#12 - "As"

"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" Part II, except funkier and longer. It's damned near a perfect piece of music writing and playing, the sentiments are clear, and Stevie gives one of the best vocal performances of his career. This would have been the best song the Commodores (no strangers to hit-making) ever did, and it wasn't even much of a hit for Stevie. It think, like my #13 "Another Star", it got buried by the sheer lack of oxygen left by the monster hits from this album.

If I were ranking in order of my favorites, this would probably be #1. I wish I had kept track of who has drafted it the most over the years - wikkid or myself. He loved this one. I think krista may have chosen it before, too.

I drafted it in GP4

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Keep Me In Your Heart For a While is such a devastating song in the context it was written for.

Just amazingly beautiful and a song that may take some sting away from the prospect of losing some one.

 

[Galileo]

A few 12's thoughts...
I Saw the Light - probably my favorite Rundgren tune
Lenny - so chill
Welcome to Paradise - high energy goodness
Stay With Me - gives me a bit of a Robert Plant "Little by Little" vibe
That's What Friends Are For - thought I was getting some sort of Rod Stewart cover
Bathtub Gin - fun song, but the vocals seem a little creepy to me for some reason.
Immortal - another heart. I am enjoying Clutch more than I expected to.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - can't help but bop around to this one, love the rockabilly style
Inside Out - killer groove

 

[simey]

Some of the #12s I like a lot. I like more than what is listed.

Can't Get It Out of My Head - My favorite ELO song
I Saw The Light - My second favorite Todd song, and sometimes tied for first favorite.
As - Groovy feel good tune.
Lenny -
In the Flat Field - I like the drums and guitar on this one, and the singer's delivery gives me a Jim Morrison vibe, although the music doesn't sound like The Doors.
Keep Me In Your Heart -
A Banda do Ze Pretinho - I like the energy in this one.
The Legionnaire's Lament - I've always been a fan of the accordion.
Happiness/The Gondola - I like the melody on this one. This song is a bit upbeat for Elliott.
Change - Nice bare boned folk song.
Headache - Headache free listening.
Green Fields - I like this acoustic song.
Satellites - I like the use of the backup singers in this one.
Loneliness is Just a Word -
Hanging Around - Dig it.
Apeman -
Little Queen - I like Ann's voice a lot on this one.
Stay With Me - This reminds me of an early 80s pop rock tune.
Welcome to Paradise -

Maybe more later.

 

[scorchy]

The Hold Steady “Realistic” Dream Setlist Song 20: Banging Camp

I saw her at the party pit
She was shaky, but still trying to shake it
Half naked and three-quarters wasted
She was completely alone

Album: Separation Sunday (song 4 of 5)

Year: 2005

# of Times Seen Live: 13 of 39 shows

The Story: Banging Camp is a treasure trove of references for those of us entrenched in the THS/Lifter Puller mythology. Christian imagery, drinking and drugs, party pits, the Mississippi River, and a sequence that brings all those together into a ####ed-baptism that sets the stage for culminating event of Holly’s Separation Sunday story::

I saw him at the riverbank
He was breaking bread and giving thanks
With crosses made of pipes and planks
Leaned up against the nitrous tanks
And he said take a hit
Hold your breath and I'll dunk your head
Then when you wake up again
Yeah, you'll be high as hell and born again

 

[Mt. Man]

It depends on the day, but this may be my favorite Foos track (yes I know I've written this about others before).

I'm right with you there!

It was much needed at the time.

Between 1997 and 2000, the "alternative" scene I had followed since the early '90s got pretty dire, so I mostly listened to live Phish during those years. The first two Foo albums were a major exception.

I'm also with you on the Foo Fighters part helping to fill that gap. Less on the Phish.

 

[plinko]

It depends on the day, but this may be my favorite Foos track (yes I know I've written this about others before).

I'm right with you there!

It was much needed at the time.

Between 1997 and 2000, the "alternative" scene I had followed since the early '90s got pretty dire, so I mostly listened to live Phish during those years. The first two Foo albums were a major exception.

I'm also with you on the Foo Fighters part helping to fill that gap. Less on the Phish.

Local H turned my crank as well... still do!

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Still a few lists behind but I did finish the 13s today. Very strong playlist.

Top 5 songs for me personally from Doves, Spoon, Bahaus, Modest Mouse, Kinks, Big Thief and Gorillaz.

Of the lesser known to me artists I really liked songs from Stevie Wonder, Sigur Rós, Brandi Carlile and Tragically Hip.

Also enjoyed the GBV cover by ToD.

 

[Mt. Man]

Selected favorites from #12. It’s definitely getting more difficult to narrow these down to, say, less than half of the songs.

*She’s the One - Bruce Springsteen
*Nothing New - Taylor Swift (& Phoebe Bridgers)
*Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon
*Fifty-Mission Cap - The Tragically Hip. They already were in my “new favorites” pile, but this song only helped solidify that.
*Headache - Frank Black
*Inside Out - Spoon
*I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) - Genesis
*Loneliness is Just a Word - Chicago. Super jazzy, and caught me very early on.
*I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren
*Welcome to Paradise - Green Day
*Every Saturday Night - Ray Charles

 

[Mister CIA]

Everytime we get a new Frank Black song I lament all the time I've spent not listening to him over the years.

Glad you're digging Frank Black. I've mentioned it before, but his post-Pixies work always hit me hardest. I think today's song Headache was my introduction to him. Pretty sure I watched that video a few times on 120 Minutes (MTV show).

Thinking about it, I did not watch 120 Minutes all that much. Maybe I caught 20 episodes altogether, but it sure had a lasting effect on my music taste.

EDIT: Not Buzzed

 

[Mister CIA]

Svefn-g-englar (Sleepwalkers) - Ágætis byrjun - 1999

Svefn-g-englar

Sigur Rós · Ágætis byrjun · Song · 1999

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This song goes to 11.

 

[krista4]

12. Loneliness Is Just a Word
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZQTHxmiQn56gWyTslmcF2?si=85c5fddc7f284fff Album: Chicago III (1971)
Writer: Robert Lamm
Lead vocals: Terry Kath
Released as a single? No

Here it is, the song I predict @krista4 will like. This is based on Birds being one of her favorites from my Neil Young countdown and her being a big fan of Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake. What this song has in common with that material is that it is compellingly sung and has exquisite lyrics dealing with loneliness, in this case caused by a breakup. She will hear the initial horn blasts and say, "Oh no, Pip, what are you thinking? DO YOU NOT READ MY POSTS?" But starting at 0:13 -- and running only a little more than 2 minutes longer than that -- we get a brisk but restrained organ-driven arrangement which is the perfect backdrop for Terry Kath's incredible interpretation of Robert Lamm's gut-wrenching lyrics.

I'm done with - but still exhausted from - my mom's five-day birthday extravaganza, but this seems like a good time to jump back in here. I'm going to catch up on posts and hope to listen to the 12s tomorrow.

 

[Mister CIA]

Pardon the Intermission

 

[krista4]

Had a longer more detailed post but a kitten we are watching somehow deleted it lol

 

[krista4]

I've been going to Cannon Beach, OR to vacation almost every summer for 50 years. My grandparents, who lived there for whole summers when they were kids, took us grandkids there for a couple weeks every summer growing up. I tried to continue that tradition with my kids, and still try to make it up there every year.

The entire coastline is beautiful. One of my favorite places on Earth.

Omg did you have to leave the beach due to the cougar? We were on the Washington coast Sun/Mon and heard about the cougar on Haystack Rock!

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

I've been going to Cannon Beach, OR to vacation almost every summer for 50 years. My grandparents, who lived there for whole summers when they were kids, took us grandkids there for a couple weeks every summer growing up. I tried to continue that tradition with my kids, and still try to make it up there every year.

The entire coastline is beautiful. One of my favorite places on Earth.

Omg did you have to leave the beach due to the cougar? We were on the Washington coast Sun/Mon and heard about the cougar on Haystack Rock!

We arrived that same day. We rented a house almost in front of Haystack Rock and saw this view when we went out on the deck:

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We worried that someone had fallen or had been injured when we saw the rock cordoned off with police tape.

By the following morning they were taking down the police tape and opened up the site for the rest of the week. The cougar had slunk off back into the nearby mountain forest in the middle of the night.

 

[krista4]

I'm done with - but still exhausted from - my mom's five-day birthday extravaganza, but this seems like a good time to jump back in here. I'm going to catch up on posts and hope to listen to the 12s tomorrow.

Made it through some of the #12s while fixing dinner, so I'll do a partial report on some favorites.

"I Saw the Light" by Todd Rundgren - Not new to me so made a big leap to my "Thirteen" playlist, which is all of my favorite songs (currently >500).

"A Banda do Ze Pretinho" by Jorge Ben Jor - Might be my favorite from him yet? Hard to say as I've loved so many. Very fun to dice onions to.

"Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive Negative)" by Modest Mouse - Overcame a super-annoying song title to get a big WOW from me.

"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" - by Genesis - What's with the long song titles and parentheticals? Loved this one anyway. Killer rhythm section.

"Lenny" by SRV - Great for finely dicing garlic. Relaxing and lovely.

"...The Legionnaire's Lament" by The Decemberists - Starting off just like "I'm a Loser" by the Beatles must have been by design, right?

"The Analog Kid" by Rush - one of my favorite new-to-me songs from them.

"Svegn-g-englar" by Sigur Ros - Mmmmmmmmm.

"Change" by Big Thief - After a strong start out of the gate, my love for Big Thief's songs has been in a lull. That changed here - could be my favorite yet.

"High Life" by Daft Punk - Stirring and dancing, stirring and dancing.

"Happiness/The Gondola Man" by Elliott Smith - Hadn't heard this in so long I'd forgotten it. Great choice. Almost upbeat-sounding!

I'd just gotten to the Chicago song when dinner was ready, so it will wait for tomorrow.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I'd just gotten to the Chicago song when dinner was ready, so it will wait for tomorrow.

Reaction.

 

[krista4]

On Turpentine, Brandi Carlile's vocal reminds me of Lucinda Williams in spots.

I've felt a Lucinda Williams vibe on a few of her songs. Yet despite being a huge Williams fan, the Carlile songs I like best don't have that. Go figure.

 

[krista4]

Sorry I've fallen behind in the thread and playlists.

As some of you know from previous drafts, our son is a police officer. The other night he was involved in an incident where his partner was shot in the face with a sawed-off shotgun. Neil said he isn't able to discuss details of the case but between what he's said and the accounts in the local news, it appears he pursued, wounded and arrested the suspect. We know it's a dangerous job but it's still a shock when you hear about someone shooting at your baby. He's always been a pretty reserved kid but he sounded when he called us the morning after it happened. He seems to be doing better today because he texted a picture of some fried trotters he had picked up when he went to El Paso to visit his partner in the hospital.

Jesus, just seeing this and am so sorry.

 

[krista4]

Officer Anthony Ferguson passed away late Sunday night. Neil was informed he'd been taken off life support shortly after sending us the food pictures in the afternoon.

Not sure if we're going down there. We want to be with he and his wife of course but don't want to crowd in as he processes everything that has happened.

Well ****.

 

[kupcho1]

"...The Legionnaire's Lament" by The Decemberists - Starting off just like "I'm a Loser" by the Beatles must have been by design, right?

I wasn't familiar with "I'm a Loser" so I listened to it a couple of times.

Granted, both songs start off with "I'm a", but I don't see much similarity or pick up any influence.

One's a loser; one's a legionnaire.
One is about romantic rejection; one's a tale of a soldier overseas pining for home.

 

[krista4]

Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles really bring balance to the playlists.

I made a "mom's favorites" playlist to use for our trip to the coast and back this weekend. Over 10 hours of music for <5 hours of travel. Ray and Stevie featured prominently.

 

[krista4]

"...The Legionnaire's Lament" by The Decemberists - Starting off just like "I'm a Loser" by the Beatles must have been by design, right?

I wasn't familiar with "I'm a Loser" so I listened to it a couple of times.

Granted, both songs start off with "I'm a", but I don't see much similarity or pick up any influence.

One's a loser; one's a legionnaire.
One is about romantic rejection; one's a tale of a soldier overseas pining for home.

It was mostly a joke, but the "starting off" part was meant to indicate...well, starting off. A capella "I'm a..." part.

 

[krista4]

Not that it's scientific, but OH just got home and I said, "What's this sound like, at the beginning?" He immediately started singing along after "I'm a.." with "loooooo-oo-ser..."

 

[krista4]

I'd say the Decemberists were the Pacific Northwest cousins of Belle and Sebastian.

I like this comparison.

 

[krista4]

RIP, Tony Bennett

IMO had the best phrasing of any singer I've ever heard. Glad he had a long, full life.

 

[Eephus]

Damon Albarn song #12

The Good, The Bad and The Queen - "Green Fields" from S/T (2007)

Albarn's supergroup The Good, The Bad and The Queen included one of my favorite drummers Tony Allen among its members but Allen sits out on this mostly acoustic number. Its Hunky Dory and Syd Barrettisms sound very different from everything else on the album. The only songs that come close are from the two albums released under Damon's name.

I may be rating it too highly but "Green Fields" kept climbing up my rankings the
The more I listened to my Albarn longlist. It's a work of great beauty.

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/5tjHC6InhhtXQKCLcze6BN

Live in 2007

The Good the Bad and the Queen - "Green Fields"

GREEN FIELDSI wrote this song years agoLate at nightSomewhereOn the Goldhawk roadI was never sure how or whyBefore the war and the tidal waveEngulfed us all ...

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[Eephus]

Our plans are back on hold. We were planning on going down to visit on Monday but they're putting him back on graveyard shift patrols starting that night. Once more into the breach. He's made of much stronger stuff than I am.

It's looking more like our trip will be the following week when he's supposed to get three days off. I feel better after talking to him tonight because his sense of humor is back.

 

[rockaction]

they're putting him back on graveyard shift patrols starting that night. Once more into the breach. He's made of much stronger stuff than I am.

Count me among those with less stronger stuff. Godspeed, Neil. Safe travels and passage.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

RIP, Tony Bennett

IMO had the best phrasing of any singer I've ever heard. Glad he had a long, full life.

Agreed. I don't know his entire catalog (he released something like 150 albums), but I've never heard a performance by him that wasn't awesome. Nat Cole is probably the closest 2nd.

 

[otb_lifer]

#13 Dark Entries - Live n' LOUD

saw where @scorchy said that he ranked this #6 in his post-punk countdown (which i missed?) - will find some time to pore over that thread - good lookin' out

from their debut album, which are still such a kick to the teeth - they were operating in spaces nobody else had thought of prior, and they were so COTdamn tight as a band, a straight FACT which so many will never care to know or give two f**** about - but one cannot come away from full exposure to all their work from '79-'83 and not be cognizant of the talent ... the ferocious talent.

Daniel Ash owned that first platter with his seditious shredding ... him and Keef Levene (PiL) were the two most interesting and innovative guitarists operating during that window, and that includes all genres, mind you - all because you didn't hear the tree fall in the woods don't mean it weren't felled.

Danny were slapping angular passages and lunges all over the sludgey bottom of his dissonant rhythms - swooping in and out with them while never overwhelming Peter ... he indulges more in the live version i linked above - and the Murphy monolog gets a fist rammed right up it's keester in this iteration - the power harnessed in this live setting is jaw-dropping ... hail Danny!

#12 In The Flat Field

title of their first album, and a perfect back end of the double Danny dose ... see all praise above, and apply generously to this one as well - Danny sounds as if he's just peeling notes off that ax ... it wails and moans and screams like a serf lowered on the Judas Cradle.

perhaps my favorite lyrics from them ... big brain bombast - in my yearn for some cerebral fix - laying the template for that familar "if it ain't done right it's pretentious" bent of the burgeoning genre they were birthing here - this are not the "mall goff" most of you are prolly most famiar with ... the early to mid 80s heyday of the scene owed more to Byron & Shelley & Poe & warped Victorian swooning than it did to Hot Topic & Spencers - this genre got swallowed and spit up by some real dumdums, not unlike it's wayward PUNK big brother ... once the gene pool were infested there were no turning back - but the creative and artistic heights of the purists were as glorious as any could wish for ... pockets of the original ethos still persevered, but the logs floating in the latter day were not of the O Henry variety - they were straight up, legit s*** drops.


*wik regaled us with quite a few tales of his Mary ... but the one nugget he dropped that grabbed my imagination most were that "In The Flat Field" were her all-time favorite jam ... "Scary Mary", indeed - i had a few pm convos about that with him, and they kinda went the way you are imagining - flat out f****** legends

hammer me into blazing pain/moulding shapes - no shame to waste/and drag me there with deafening haste

 

[KarmaPolice]

The 8 year old cracks me up. I think she hangs around with me too much for her own good. We were listening to the 12s, and back to back on the shuffle were the SRV track and Sigur Ros. No vocals and foreign vocal, so I started yammering on how you don't need to have words or understand them because you can use your imagination and decide for yourself what the song means for you or the imagines it creates for you. We had fun talking about what we thought about while it was playing.

Her take on the Ray Charles: it sounds like a mystery is being solved. Phish?: it sounds like somebody is dreaming that they forgot how to play their instruments.

 

[kupcho1]

Her take on the Ray Charles: it sounds like a mystery is being solved. Phish?: it sounds like somebody is dreaming that they forgot how to play their instruments.

Please keep these coming.

 

[plinko]

You’re dooming her to the life of an insatiable music geek

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Favourite 13/12s:

Twilight - ELO
To Fall - Queen
I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren
Time Out Of Mind - Steely Dan
Welcome To Paradise - Green Day
As - Stevie Wonder
This Is A Call - Foo Fighters
This Song Has No Title - Elton John

 

[plinko]

A cool cover of Apeman

 

[MAC_32]

I've been going to Cannon Beach, OR to vacation almost every summer for 50 years. My grandparents, who lived there for whole summers when they were kids, took us grandkids there for a couple weeks every summer growing up. I tried to continue that tradition with my kids, and still try to make it up there every year.

The entire coastline is beautiful. One of my favorite places on Earth.

Omg did you have to leave the beach due to the cougar? We were on the Washington coast Sun/Mon and heard about the cougar on Haystack Rock!

Cougars on the beach usually don't result in me thinking it's time to leave.

 

[jwb]

Can't Get It Out of My Head

Can't Get It out of My Head

Electric Light Orchestra · Eldorado · Song · 1974

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ELO's first (and probably best) ballad, this was a big hit (top 10 in the US), and put them on the road to stardom. The story goes that Jeff Lynn's father was disappointed they couldn't seem to do anything of real substance (wait, he didn't like Showdown?) Lynn pulled out all the stops with this one, writing about a guy who dreams of a better life, and is disappointed he's not really living it. Lynn says in VH1's storytellers: “It’s about a guy in a dream who sees this vision of loveliness and wakes up and finds that he’s actually a clerk working in a bank,” he recalled. “And he hasn’t got any chance of getting her or doing all these wonderful things that he thought he was going to do.”

It's also one of Lynn's better vocals. His voice is not a classic ballad voice (especially here), but it really works - I can't imagine anyone else singing this and having it be as impactful. It's a great song.

 

[simey]

Her take on the Ray Charles: it sounds like a mystery is being solved.

She knows a thing or two. The mystery was what were all those people doing on Saturday night starting at sundown. People were coming in wagons from all around. Turns out they were listening to old men plucking on bass string guitars. They were also drinking corn liquor and homemade brew, and eating pigs feet, bbq, catfish, butter beans and chitterlings too. Every Saturday night.

 

[Scoresman]

Her take on the Ray Charles: it sounds like a mystery is being solved. Phish?: it sounds like somebody is dreaming that they forgot how to play their instruments.

Please keep these coming.

Yeah I love hearing opinions from people who never heard of the band before.

My wife does not like Sigur Ros.

She does not like #12 in particular. She says he just keeps saying “ yoooouuuu” over and over. I keep telling her no, he’s saying “Tchyooohooo” but it still didn’t click.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Her take on the Ray Charles: it sounds like a mystery is being solved.

She knows a thing or two. The mystery was what were all those people doing on Saturday night starting at sundown. People were coming in wagons from all around. Turns out they were listening to old men plucking on bass string guitars. They were also drinking corn liquor and homemade brew, and eating pigs feet, bbq, catfish, butter beans and chitterlings too. Every Saturday night.

100%. I thought that was really astute of her. We started talking about that a little, because she started listening to the lyrics and I heard her say something like "uh, was he just singing about beans or something?".

How about we stick to the Thumper Rule and not comment about how accurate the Phish comment was, just that it's funny.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

The new-to-me songs from #12 that I liked include:

A Bando do Ze Prethino -- so the late '70s musical trends were similar in Brazil, I guess. There are actually some similarities between this and my #85 Chicago song, which was a reaction to those same late '70s musical trends.
Wherever Is Your Heart
Svefn-g-englar
Nothing New
Happiness/The Gondola Man -- another exquisitely well-crafted one from Smith.
Hanging Around
Stay With Me -- Almost as much of a banger as the Faces song by the same name.
That's What Friends Are For -- Too rockin' for Dionne Warwick.
Immortal -- The vocals are just on the right side of the singing/screaming line.
Pond Song -- More pensive and lyrical than what I was expecting from '80s Dino.
Sea of Sorrow -- OK, here's a second song I can say I like from Facelift.
High Voltage
Every Saturday Night
In the Flat Field -- This is quite the epic -- they really have 11 songs better than this?
Fifty-Mission Cap

 

[simey]

Missed a lot of discussion so to catch up:

the first LP was Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--the movie soundtrack.

I saw the movie back in the 70s and had the soundtrack. Anyway, today I read this article, and it is Peter Frampton, Joe Perry and Alice Cooper talking about the movie.

“It was one of those movies that ended up being so bad that it was great,” said Cooper more fondly of what is now considered a cult classic. “It was consistently horrible to the point where it was great.”

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[Charlie Steiner]

Missed a lot of discussion so to catch up:

the first LP was Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band--the movie soundtrack.

I saw the movie back in the 70s and had the soundtrack. Anyway, today I read this article, and it is Peter Frampton, Joe Perry and Alice Cooper talking about the movie.

“It was one of those movies that ended up being so bad that it was great,” said Cooper more fondly of what is now considered a cult classic. “It was consistently horrible to the point where it was great.”

That's how I feel about Streets of Fire.

 

[Raging weasel]

Knew 12 of the 12's going in.
Random comments in playlist order.
I Saw the Light - one of the few I've heard from him before this. Good tune
So Divided - really kicks up a notch at 4:20, coincidence?
Apeman and Analog Kid- pair of forgotten classics
Nothing New- except this song to me, really good song!
Stay With Me- sounds more like Bryan Adams than what I've heard from Ryan so far- like it
As- top 4-5 for me
Keep the Customer Satisfied - not sure I ever heard this before. Kind of a rocker for them- good stuff