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Music Draft - Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Songs Garbage List - Now with unhealthy regional pork-stuffs! (1 Viewer)

We're now at the point where we're playing whack-a-mole, addressing the blocs where we are about to run out of songs we like, and hoping the others don't run out in the meantime.

16.22 Rid of Me -- PJ Harvey (#194, bloc 176-200)

This bloc was down to 2 songs I marked as No Hesitation, so waiting even to the early 17th round could have exhausted them. 

Polly Jean is just a badass and has made exceptional music her entire career. While I am not a fan of the production on this album, the title track is one of many excellent selections from it. I'm a little surprised this is what was chosen out of all of her catalog -- I would have gone Dress, Sheela-Na-Gig, To Bring You My Love, Long Snake Moan or This Is Love -- but I'll certainly take it. 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PlaNe3mXl8

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3m2Zd230K68bC4Qe961d9p?si=2de00854a90d42fb

@Uruk-Haiup.

@The Dreaded Marcotimed out and can pick whenever. 

 
Round 16

#55 "Like A Prayer" - Madonna

If the Who & Donna Summer ever had a kid, she would have made this record. It's full of hooks and drama. Always love the vocal melody on both the verses and the chorus.

@Ilov80s

 
El Floppo said:
:lol:

I genuinely like it- brings me right back to my happy youth club days (cue Binky meme)- and IIRC it's actually people playing instruments as opposed to press play, turn auto-tune on and go.

if you want to organize a trade for that one and IIRC my RHCP tune from the same block, I'm open.
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Dude I'd take anything for the house music one!..... I used to work with someone who was super into the "rave" scene, whatever that means.....he'd play all that stuff, and I think he DJ'ed or something at "raves".....to each his own, but I couldnt understand that whole thing

 
Pip's Invitation said:
We're now at the point where we're playing whack-a-mole, addressing the blocs where we are about to run out of songs we like, and hoping the others don't run out in the meantime.

16.22 Rid of Me -- PJ Harvey (#194, bloc 176-200)

This bloc was down to 2 songs I marked as No Hesitation, so waiting even to the early 17th round could have exhausted them. 

Polly Jean is just a badass and has made exceptional music her entire career. While I am not a fan of the production on this album, the title track is one of many excellent selections from it. I'm a little surprised this is what was chosen out of all of her catalog -- I would have gone Dress, Sheela-Na-Gig, To Bring You My Love, Long Snake Moan or This Is Love -- but I'll certainly take it. 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PlaNe3mXl8

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3m2Zd230K68bC4Qe961d9p?si=2de00854a90d42fb

@Uruk-Haiup.

@The Dreaded Marcotimed out and can pick whenever. 
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How did this one make it so far?  She is pretty awesome

 
I'm here to make my pick coming around the turn if 80s shows up fairly soon. I see landry lurking (shudders). 

If it's more than an hour from now, I'll have to leave my next pick with someone.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Wasn't there some famous Rolling Stone cover in the 80s that declared Jim was "He' Hot, He's Sexy and He's Dead" based on the resurgence of The Doors popularity.
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https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jim-morrison-hes-hot-hes-sexy-and-hes-dead-113162/

From 1981. That was earlier than I would have thought ... but I'm sure the nine- and ten-year-olds of '81 were influenced by what the teens were playing in their households (I was, but it wasn't The Doors).

This magazine cover was more reflective of the "revisit the late '60s" pop culture trend that was all-pervasive during my high school years. That encompassed The Doors, of course, but also a Beatles revival among my cohort and a general yen for early classic rock. Remember when some TV stations (UHF ones?) started replaying The Monkees TV show, and the band even started recording and touring again for a bit. The Rolling Stones highest grossing tour to date came in 1989, as did The Who's reunion tour.

 
Greetings from the sky!  Getting on this plane was way more adventurous than it should have been, which means I’ll be having a wine with my lunch while quietly sobbing over the selection of Roadrunner.

I’m watching A Quiet Place, Part II, mostly because it was the first movie that popped up.  My mom, on the other hand, read every movie before selecting, most of them aloud to me.

Thanks again to whoever keeps this moving along and updates the spreadsheet.  I’m on my phone so updates would be a PITA.

 
krista4 said:
Greetings from the sky!  Getting on this plane was way more adventurous than it should have been, which means I’ll be having a wine with my lunch while quietly sobbing over the selection of Roadrunner.

I’m watching A Quiet Place, Part II, mostly because it was the first movie that popped up.  My mom, on the other hand, read every movie before selecting, most of them aloud to me.

Thanks again to whoever keeps this moving along and updates the spreadsheet.  I’m on my phone so updates would be a PITA.
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Are you staying in the sky, or do you have a destination? I do read your posts, but this week has been a ##### for me and I may have missed one.

 
Manster said:
Dude I'd take anything for the house music one!..... I used to work with someone who was super into the "rave" scene, whatever that means.....he'd play all that stuff, and I think he DJ'ed or something at "raves".....to each his own, but I couldnt understand that whole thing
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the molly was good

 
Doug B said:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jim-morrison-hes-hot-hes-sexy-and-hes-dead-113162/

From 1981. That was earlier than I would have thought ... but I'm sure the nine- and ten-year-olds of '81 were influenced by what the teens were playing in their households (I was, but it wasn't The Doors).

This magazine cover was more reflective of the "revisit the late '60s" pop culture trend that was all-pervasive during my high school years. That encompassed The Doors, of course, but also a Beatles revival among my cohort and a general yen for early classic rock. Remember when some TV stations (UHF ones?) started replaying The Monkees TV show, and the band even started recording and touring again for a bit. The Rolling Stones highest grossing tour to date came in 1989, as did The Who's reunion tour.
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I went though all of that too, and saw that 1989 Who tour (in Philly). Didn't see the Stones until 2002. I remember The Monkees being on (did Nickelodeon air them?) and the reunion tour and album happening (didn't partake in either of those.)

 
For those keeping score:

Flu shot left arm, shingles shot right arm.

Left arm sore, right arm not. However, the shingles shot hurt more going in. 

Shingles shot had a sizable co-pay, flu shot did not. I have to come back in 2-6 months for a second shingles shot. 

 
Round 17

#142 "He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones

This routinely gets registered as the #1 country song of all time by the country establishment. I don't think it is, but it's maudlin and magnificent. Special credit to the producers & engineers, who had to piece it together because George was so ####ed up he couldn't sing it all of the way through in one take. And, I don't care how many pieces it took - George Jones could freaking sing.

@Pip's Invitation

 
Uruk-Hai said:
I'm pretty much cooked in 2 categories, though. I should have been more flexible earlier.
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there are some great, great songs still hanging out there - unfortunately, none are in my remaining categories - I see some decent ones in ONE of my open tiers ...that's it

I may be forced to take something I like less for the first time - but would veer from my initial stance on the matter.

 
As I said in GP4, I may rag on Springsteen, but I do have a clear #1 of his. 

17.04 Atlantic City -- Bruce Springsteen (#289, bloc 276-300)

This bloc was down to 3 No Hesitation songs, the other two of which I don't love to the extent of this one, and a bunch of songs I had no interest in picking. This song is everything Bruce's boosters say is great about him. I also like The Band's cover. 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3eu1gW-bQ8

Spotify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3eu1gW-bQ8

@Eephus up.

 
17.5  Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (#83)

Eleven minutes of peak-era Dylan to bring Highway 61 Revisited to a suitably apocalyptic conclusion.  It's one of the poet's finest epics full of verse after verse of imagery, symbols and literary references.  Charlie McCoy's guitar picking is a marvel of counterpoint.

@The Dreaded Marco

 
Eephus said:
River Deep Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
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16.21 Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High

This track is Phil Spector's magnum opus. Ike's name is on the label but he's nowhere to be found in the wall of sound because he didn't show up to the recording session.

The version on Spotify is a stereo mix but like most Spector recordings it sounds murky and narrow through headphones.  For proper sonic enjoyment, it should be played at maximum volume  through the crappiest speaker in the house.

 
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