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Music Draft - Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Songs Garbage List - Now with unhealthy regional pork-stuffs! (4 Viewers)

simey said:
@krista4  This was my second consideration.  😐
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  :lol:   When fatguy sent it to me, I told him I had in line for my second round pick, too!

You know you're up?  You still get to snipe me...I'm sure you will.

Edit:  actually I think you might take what OH was going to take, which was a secondary snipe.

 
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I think my music discovery process and relative younger age helps me here. There are very few songs on the list I don't know (basically the non-English ones) but I think that's probably because I became a music nerd by choice in the early 00s and rabidly consumed all the "classics" at that time. 

Then I've tried to stay current in the years since, while exploring more I may have missed before (thanks to lists like this and the dozens and dozens - hundreds? of music drafts here in the past twenty years)

in other words, LOOK AT ME, I KNOW ALL THE SONGS

 
Northern Voice said:
I think my music discovery process and relative younger age helps me here. There are very few songs on the list I don't know (basically the non-English ones) but I think that's probably because I became a music nerd by choice in the early 00s and rabidly consumed all the "classics" at that time. 

Then I've tried to stay current in the years since, while exploring more I may have missed before (thanks to lists like this and the dozens and dozens - hundreds? of music drafts here in the past twenty years)

in other words, LOOK AT ME, I KNOW ALL THE SONGS
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Future codger

 
Northern Voice said:
Leave it to @simey to literally be off on a wild goose chase. 
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:lol:   I called my mom, and I asked her if she would feed the colony for me tomorrow night. I got my sister and BIL Counting Crow tickets for their birthdays, and I'm going too. I told mom she may also have to chase a goose back into the storage lot. She said, "Did I not ever tell you that when I was 4 years old a chicken flogged the hell out of me when I touched its chick? I'm scared of big birds."   I told her the goose will just hiss a little, but will follow directions for the most part.

 
krista4 said:
  :lol:   When fatguy sent it to me, I told him I had in line for my second round pick, too!

You know you're up?  You still get to snipe me...I'm sure you will.

Edit:  actually I think you might take what OH was going to take, which was a secondary snipe.
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There are so many I want and don't want. 

 
simey, you had the numbering correct (I was wrong) - you are 1.17.  I know I wasn't clear because I was trying to get a subtle Mr. Mom joke in there.

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
I had Surrender in the 50/50 draft, so I obviously think it rocks, despite being too neurotic to double-dip. 
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I'm shocked this one was on so many people's radars (would have been an early pick for OH, too).  fatguy's note with the pick said, "Will try to write a justification later tonight but mostly the reasoning is that the song kicks ### and I have no interest in most of that grouping."  :thumbup:  

 
I'm picking exactly the song you should all expect me to take, so here are some song facts:

This song has spent more time on the UK singles chart than any song in history (283 non-consecutive weeks).

It has spent at least one week on that chart in 16 of the last 18 years.

It is the most streamed song in UK history released before 2010.

Despite the above, it was never a #1 - it peaked at #10 in the UK.

It also peaked at #10 in the USA.

It is not a song by a British band.

It is a song by a Las Vegas, NV band

"Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine"

1.17 - Mr. Brightside - The Killers (#378)

 
1.19 - Crazy (307) - Gnarls Barkley - 2006

I'm also going to go with a song that people that have done these drafts with me might know I love. I'm going to go with a song that is memorable to me -- I can remember when I first heard it. I heard it while going under an underpass that I was used to traveling at that particular point in my life. Why it struck me? My Contracts professor had been talking in class about a group called Gnarls Barkley, and even I was left to wondering who the hell that was. When I heard the song, I immediately knew what he was talking about. You don't hear songs like that on the radio anymore. There is nothing unifying about radio. But as RS themselves point out, everybody dug this song. It cut demographics, format, algorithms, everything. Danger Mouse and Cee Lo Green, two guys I had loved from Danger Mouse's Grey Album and Cee Lo's Goodie Mob had had their popular moment, and I heard it while smoking contraband in my car under an underpass in Springfield, MA.

It was the best-constructed song of the past century, just ahead of another I'm having a difficult time not taking. The link above is them performing it at the Grammys. It's a riveting live performance, and Cee Lo Green's voice is something else in all its beauty, soul, and imperfection here.

Here's the studio version: https://youtu.be/-N4jf6rtyuw

 
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Northern Voice said:
I'm picking exactly the song you should all expect me to take, so here are some song facts:

This song has spent more time on the UK singles chart than any song in history (283 non-consecutive weeks).

It has spent at least one week on that chart in 16 of the last 18 years.

It is the most streamed song in UK history released before 2010.

Despite the above, it was never a #1 - it peaked at #10 in the UK.

It also peaked at #10 in the USA.

It is not a song by a British band.

It is a song by a Las Vegas, NV band

"Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine"

1.17 - Mr. Brightside - The Killers (#378)
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First song picked that I’ve written a parody of for @bigbottom to cover. 
 

 
It's a run on the 300s!

This grouping was my lowest rated in that I had 10 songs marked in RED as "will not draft" and only four as "would love to draft," with the rest in the "just OK" range.

1.20  John Prine - Angel from Montgomery  (#350)

I always thought of John Prine as mostly a Chicago sensation.  Everyone there had stories of him, knew him, loved him.  it was only after he died tragically of COVID that I realized how far his reach had been.  That gave me a little solace.  He's one of those people whose influence and accolades I expect will continue to grow even after his death.

 
Was thinking about Crazy for a round sooner than later...great tune. And yeah- lightning in a bottle when that came out. Ubiquitous and yet still always fresh.

 
El Floppo said:
Was thinking about Crazy for a round sooner than later...great tune. And yeah- lightning in a bottle when that came out. Ubiquitous and yet still always fresh.
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I think you've mentioned that you like the song before. It was lightning in a bottle. It couldn't have been anybody but who he mentioned. It sounded like nothing else on the radio. For this exercise, I just thought, "What is your favorite song on this list? What really moved you when you heard it?" There are a few. That was one of them from this century, which I thought would be neat, though I see NV is also unafraid to break the century mark. Next round might bring another.

 
rockaction said:
I think you've mentioned that you like the song before. It was lightning in a bottle. It couldn't have been anybody but who he mentioned. It sounded like nothing else on the radio. For this exercise, I just thought, "What is your favorite song on this list? What really moved you when you heard it?" There are a few. That was one of them from this century, which I thought would be neat, though I see NV is also unafraid to break the century mark. Next round might bring another.
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The last draft I got sniped a few times on more recent stuff and 'Brightside' is definitely my favourite song on that list, so no taking chances. 

 
Binky The Doormat said:
1 hour ago, krista4 said:
Wow, I have a lot more than that on my "hate" list.  :)  

These two posts are part of the reason I was interested in having this draft and enjoy it despite its glacial pace so far.

First, because we'll get to some "difficult" picks later that make it not only fun but perhaps could open us up to listening to new-to-each-of-us music.  I know when I get stuck with a grouping without "want this song" in it, I'm going to listen to some I've never heard of before.  It's a good way to force myself into branching out.

Second, I'm interested to see the different draft strategies, for those who have strategies.  Some people are going with what they love the most, later rounds be damned.  Some people (including me) are going toward songs that might not be a top favorite overall but will help us in groupings where we don't have a lot of loves.  It might say something about our personalities, as I think the latter is the safer and more conservative approach, while the former is bolder.
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well, well ...your strategy appears to be ABUNDANTLY clear. 
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Geezus krista ...

did you abuse OH like this???

he may need an attorney!

 
rockaction said:
I think you've mentioned that you like the song before. It was lightning in a bottle. It couldn't have been anybody but who he mentioned. It sounded like nothing else on the radio. For this exercise, I just thought, "What is your favorite song on this list? What really moved you when you heard it?" There are a few. That was one of them from this century, which I thought would be neat, though I see NV is also unafraid to break the century mark. Next round might bring another.
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True. I opted for the wax recording of LCD Soundsystem from the late 1880s

 
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