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Finished the 29s last night (still have not done the 30s :(
Here are the ones I enjoyed the most. Bolding the ones that were new to me
Honey Bee - SRV
Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect - The Decemberists
Ghost of a Chance - Rush No Name #3 - Elliott Smith
Wishing You Were Here - Chicago
Sweet Talkin' Woman ELO In Walks Barbarella - Clutch
Your Cheatin' Heart - Ray Charles (Know the song, not Ray's version)
Wild - Spoon
Alone - Heart
New Orleans Is Sinking - The Hip
Candle In The Wind - Elton John
This is the 6th track on the Kinks’ concept album, Soap Opera (aka The Kinks Present a Soap Opera). This is my only song on the list from Soap Opera even though I really like the album. As is the case with many concept albums, the songs were not intended to exist in isolation. I encourage everyone to listen to the whole album if you have not done so already. Soap Opera tells the story of a musician, Starmaker, who trades places with an “ordinary man”, Norman. As the lyrics show, there is a lot of heavy sh!t to deal with in life…perhaps more alcohol is the remedy? Ray Davies certainly had his issues with alcohol over the years. But all problems aside, damn this song is catchy as hell.
Has everybody got problems?
Are you stuck in a dead end job?
Frustrated and dissatisfied?
Are you on the edge of suicide?
Terrorist bombers on the left,
Fascist plots on the right.
Mass destruction and homicide,
Are you horrified and terrified?
Such a shame.
We've all got problems we know,
There's one thing that's for sure,
There's only one cure for all your hangups and all your depressions.
Have another drink it'll make you feel better,
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
If you feel down and you're under the weather
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
(repeat above four lines).
Facts and figures.
Filling out forms.
Reading circulars.
Dictating letters.
Is your occupation
Getting to your brain?
Is there no relief?
It's like a ball and chain.
There's no need to get depressed,
Worrying won't make it better.
There's only one consolation I can recommend.
Don't take my word for it, try it for yourself.
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
Have another drink, it'll make you feel better.
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
Have another drink, it'll make you feel better.
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
If you're feeling down and you're under the weather,
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
Have another drink it'll make you feel better,
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
If you're feeling down and under the weather,
Have another drink and you'll feel alright.
Heartbreaker was Ryan's first solo effort after leaving Whiskeytown, and although I came around to it a little later than 2000, it's now one of my favorite albums (would be in Top 31 if we did this for albums).
Winding Wheel is probably the most accessible of Adams' songs I've chosen so far. Perhaps a little more country rock (in the tradition of the Byrds) than alt-country the song incorporates a nice, twangy guitar solo and a touch of organ. Adams on most of his records puts his worn out smoker damaged vocals up front with little reverb or overdubbing. I'm not sure I'd call him a great vocalist, but he sure knows how to carry a song.
'Cause I feel just like a map
Without a single place to go of interest
And I'm further North than South
If I could shut my mouth
She'd probably like this
Heartbreaker was Ryan's first solo effort after leaving Whiskeytown, and although I came around to it a little later than 2000, it's now one of my favorite albums (would be in Top 31 if we did this for albums).
Winding Wheel is probably the most accessible of Adams' songs I've chosen so far. Perhaps a little more country rock (in the tradition of the Byrds) than alt-country the song incorporates a nice, twangy guitar solo and a touch of organ. Adams on most of his records puts his worn out smoker damaged vocals up front with little reverb or overdubbing. I'm not sure I'd call him a great vocalist, but he sure knows how to carry a song.
'Cause I feel just like a map
Without a single place to go of interest
And I'm further North than South
If I could shut my mouth
She'd probably like this
Favor. Please don't post 28s until I post all of them. Tuesday pm. Thursday pm. Sunday am. Is the schedule. I will no longer be sending karma playlist in advance either.
Favor. Please don't post 28s until I post all of them. Tuesday pm. Thursday pm. Sunday am. Is the schedule. I will no longer be sending karma playlist in advance either.
Favor. Please don't post 28s until I post all of them. Tuesday pm. Thursday pm. Sunday am. Is the schedule. I will no longer be sending karma playlist in advance either.
For those who are interested, your PBS station may be airing the Roy Orbison Black and White concert. It must be pledge week here. I drafted Go! Go! Go! in the rockabilly category several drafts back. The concert features Springsteen, Costello, Raitt, lang, and a host of others.
Speaking of PBS, recently I recorded a documentary on the groundbreaking female group Fanny. Haven’t watched it yet, but have seen some YouTube clips of them in the past. Very talented band.
@New Binky the Doormat Todd appears in this. He produced their fourth album and the filmmaker interviewed him about it. They also showed pix from the sessions.
Favor. Please don't post 28s until I post all of them. Tuesday pm. Thursday pm. Sunday am. Is the schedule. I will no longer be sending karma playlist in advance either.
I am WAY behind on listening to playlists. Just finished the #30's and here's what stood out to me.
New to me that I really liked
Opera Obscura- Trail of Dead
Red moon- Big Thief
I'm a rocker- Slade
Gone Cold- Clutch
Barfruit Blues- The Hold Steady
Knock, Knock, Knock- Spoon ( really loving these guys so far!)
Old to me that I really Liked"
Telephone Line- ELO such a great song!
Hell Bells- ACDC
Born to Run- Springsteen. Top 5 for me
Never ending Math equation- Modest Mouse just SO good.
and finally Yellowbrick Road- Elton John. It goes to show how amazing his catalog is where this song, which would be the pinnacle for many artist, can be ranked so low. I'm really looking forward to the rest of his rankings
Side story about Yellow Brick road and my artist Elliott Smith.
When I read William Todd Schulz's Elliott Smith biography Torment Saint last year, I was struck to learn that Smith harbored a borderline-unhealthy fascination with this song. That same moment, the sudden, temporary leap into A-flat major, had pierced his imagination. As the Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd told Schulz, "My fondest and most disturbing memory of [Smith] was when we did ecstasy together one night… 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' came on and he started bawling his eyes out." Mark Flanagan, the owner of L.A.'s Largo club, recalls that Smith once listened to "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" for 18 straight hours, high on mushrooms.
Im going to try and get through rd 29 tonight. I just want to say you guys have amazing musical tastes and I love being introicduced to so many great and new artists.
Partway thru the 30s list and enjoying it the most of the 3 so far. On particular I like the Valentine And Garuda tune a lot. This Clutch tune, Gone Cold, tho.
, OMG. Fantastic! Can't stop listening to it.
From the album he made after his terminal cancer diagnosis, with typical gallows humor and self-deprecation.
Notable Lyric:
Gets a little lonely, folks, you know what I mean
I'm looking for a woman with low self esteem
To lay me out and ease my worried mind
While I'm winding down my dirty life and times
I was your starry-eyed lover and the one that you saw
I was your hurricane rider and the one that you'd call
We were just two moonshiners on the cusp of a breath
And I've been burning for you, baby, since the moment I left
Interesting to see one of my favorite Modest Mouse songs come in at 28.
Was randomly watching the King of Comedy this evening and forgot it was Ray Charles' Come Rain or Come Shine over the opening credits. Probably not on your 31 but again, what a tough time whittling that list down must have been.
Genesis took me back. I bought that album when it came out back in the day.
Green Day's Macy's Day Parade opening was very Decemberist-esque
Liking everything I hear from Frank Black.
Was that Pointer Sisters claim stake for reals? Are we doing that already for Vol. 2.0? I'm already getting some artist ideas if we do this again.
I was your starry-eyed lover and the one that you saw
I was your hurricane rider and the one that you'd call
We were just two moonshiners on the cusp of a breath
And I've been burning for you, baby, since the moment I left
At this point in the countdown through to about the beginning of the top 10, this is less a ranking of least to most favorite. A lot of the songs in this range are all what I would consider "good" and are more or less ranked equally. The order is mostly my attempt to try and keep a variety of styles from day to day.
This one comes off their latest album, Kviekur from 2013. This album was fairly dark and aggressive, but more rhythmic overall than most previous albums.
This track, however, is an outlier in that it isn't so dark or aggressive. Just a nice catchy tune and one of the poppiest songs they've produced. I particularly like the screeching guitar at the end of the chorus.
There's some thought that this is a(nother) song about Layne. Looking at lyrics like the ones above? It’s a fair call. Though honestly, this is a group where everyone’s struggled with addition in one form or another. The band has stuck to the idea of this being “simply” about the consequences of your actions and leave the rest up to interpretation. I suppose it could be about something as simple as, to pick a random example, peeking at a Spotify list early.
Next time on the countdown, a song put on two albums four months apart.
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Year - 1979 Album - The Raven UK Chart position - Non Single Vocals - Jean-Jacques Burnel Through a harmonizer Key Lyric -
Healthy livestock so we can eat
Human flesh is porky meat hee hee heeeeeeeeeeeeeee ...
Interesting Points
1) To say The Stranglers experimented here would be an understatement. It drove legendary and heroin loving producer Martin Rushent to storm out of recording sessions never to be seen again
2) Permanently grumpy frontman Hugh Cornwell was prompted to say shortly afterwards “We're never going to use a producer again. They are just ****ty little parasites. All they're good for is telling jokes. And we know better jokes than any of 'em.
3) They were colloquially known as the men in black up until then. Their next album took it one step further and was called “The Gospel according to the Meninblack”
4) Heroin use was rife for Cornwell and JJB at this point leading to strange creative moments like this one. Its “feeling” was later used to great effect on their biggest hit Golden Brown.
5) This isnt the strangest Stranglers track. That is still to come, but it gave them a taste for not being afraid to try new things.
Where to find
Rattus Norvegicus - 1/9
No More Heroes - 0/11
Black and White - 0/12
The Raven - 1/11
The Gospel According to the Meninblack - 0/10
La Folie - 0/11
Feline - 0/9
Aural Sculpture - 0/11
Dreamtime - 0/10
All Live and All of the Night - 1/13
10 - 0/10
1991 onwards - 0
B Sides - 0
Greatest Hits - 0
Standalone Single - 1
Rundown
#31 - Walk on By
#30 - Ugly
#29 - All Day and All of the Night
#28 - Meninblack
Next, we have established the extreme boundaries that the band does as well as the Karaoke version of the band. Now we get to the meat and potatoes of what the band are about. The #27 is an album track from their masterpiece.
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) may have been Green Day's biggest left turn, but it's never been their acoustic number that does it for me so anyone looking forward to it will need to queue it up on their own. It's a good song, but Macy's Day Parade is what sends chills up my spine. I have always been more drawn to this introspective melancholy cut about over coming obstacles developing an identity in a world driven by consumerism. I've mentioned many times before that I'm sound first and lyrics a distant second, so while standard operating procedure held firm with this one the lyrics connected a lot quicker with this one than normal.
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) may have been Green Day's biggest left turn, but it's never been their acoustic number that does it for me so anyone looking forward to it will need to queue it up on their own. It's a good song, but Macy's Day Parade is what sends chills up my spine. I have always been more drawn to this introspective melancholy cut about over coming obstacles developing an identity in a world driven by consumerism. I've mentioned many times before that I'm sound first and lyrics a distant second, so while standard operating procedure held firm with this one the lyrics connected a lot quicker with this one than normal.
If you are a thief, don’t break into a haunted house or you’ll be trapped there for eternity forced to hear all the boring stories from the ghosts that reside there.
Side note: I’m going to green light a paranormal Netflix series called something like From Genesis, with episodes based on different weird Genesis songs (more to come).
This one is more of a sentimental pick for me. This was the most played song from my first Genesis album (since the other biggies all got more radio play). Also, if you include the attached Second Home By The Sea, this serves as a bridge between their pop rock stuff and their Prog stuff.
Brother Ray recorded this song as a single back in 1958, and it is on his 1961 album The Genius Sings the Blues. It is also on a couple live albums.
This song is a bluesy soul romper with Ray on the electric piano and vocals. Fathead Newman is the one who kicks the song off on sax, and Ms. Margie Hendrix is the Raelette that gets lead vocal on part of the song.
I can't figure out why . The form is closed. I can't have it change the spreadsheet. It's bizarre. What mode of spotify were you in when you created the links?
I can't figure out why . The form is closed. I can't have it change the spreadsheet. It's bizarre. What mode of spotify were you in when you created the links?
I made it through the 31s yesterday. Great playlist.
Like shuke, there are a few artists that I assume I'm going to like/love all of their songs because they're some of my favorites: Elliott Smith, Spoon, Dino Jr., Big Thief, The Kinks, The Decemberists, Ryan Adams, Doves, Frank Black, Bauhaus, Blur and The Hold Steady.
I'm pretty familiar with most of the other artists. The only ones I've heard less than a lot from are The Stranglers, Jorge Ben, Phish, Clutch, deadmau5 and Brandi Carlile.
I liked all the songs on this list---none were skipped except the ones I already knew well. Of those I knew less well, my favorites were by Clutch, Todd Rundgren, Trail of Dead and Chicago.
On to the 30s. I'm afraid I'm going to remain fairly far behind on these.
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) may have been Green Day's biggest left turn, but it's never been their acoustic number that does it for me so anyone looking forward to it will need to queue it up on their own.
I have a fond memory of this song. My oldest nephew played this song on acoustic guitar during his 8th grade graduation program. The kids sang behind him and he was in the front sitting on a chair with his guitar. He played it perfect. He was so nervous about doing it, but he did it, and I was proud of him.
Was randomly watching the King of Comedy this evening and forgot it was Ray Charles' Come Rain or Come Shine over the opening credits. Probably not on your 31 but again, what a tough time whittling that list down must have been.
I'm sure everyone had a tough time whittling their list down, but I'm not sure why you would think one way or another on what is or is not on my 31 list.
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