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

[Binky The Doormat]

Round 4

#349 - Time of the Season by The Zombies

Round 5

#445 - Cosmic Dancer by T Rex

@Ilov80s

 great pics ...

thief.  

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

5.06  This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads (#123)

@Doug B is up.

@Eephus can pick whenever he returns.

 

[krista4]

With both the others on skip, @Ramsay Hunt Experience is OTC.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

5.06  This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads (#123)

@Doug B is up.

@Eephus can pick whenever he returns.

This is my first outright snipe and the song I was originally going to take in the third.  By far, my favorite TH song.  Also, another song where I like just about every cover (which to be fair, never stray too far from the original).

 

[Pip's Invitation]

5.06  This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads (#123)

One of my favorite live music memories is Arcade Fire (when Funeral was new) performing this at Irving Plaza in NYC and David Byrne coming out to sing it with them. 

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Oh dear.  I think the 426-450 segment is forcing my hand here.  It's not the Prince I really want (Little Red Corvette or Kiss), but it is a great example of one specific kind of Prince song (see also, Do Me Baby).  It's romantic as hell.  It's more sincere than International Lover (which I love for its excess).  It is, in any case, what I've described before as a five-star panty wetter and a great shower song (I don't have the balls to try it for karaoke).

Pick 5.8 (No. 434) -- Adore -- Prince

@Binky The Doormat

 

[El Floppo]

I'm having buyer's remorse about my Smiths pick... and for completely fubaring whatever plan I had for this draft.

 

[krista4]

Oh dear.  I think the 426-450 segment is forcing my hand here.  It's not the Prince I really want (Little Red Corvette or Kiss), but it is a great example of one specific kind of Prince song (see also, Do Me Baby).  It's romantic as hell.  It's more sincere than International Lover (which I love for its excess).  It is, in any case, what I've described before as a five-star panty wetter and a great shower song (I don't have the balls to try it for karaoke).

Pick 5.8 (No. 434) -- Adore -- Prince

@Binky The Doormat

Just a note that this is actually song #431.  Doesn't matter for the groupings, but in case it affects anyone's cheat sheets.

 

[krista4]

I'm having buyer's remorse about my Smiths pick... and for completely fubaring whatever plan I had for this draft.

Guess it depends upon what else you're planning, but I thought it was a great pick!

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I'm having buyer's remorse about my Smiths pick... and for completely fubaring whatever plan I had for this draft.

I am being more and more committed to my orphan plan - several buckets of 50 look so incredibly bad to me that it doesn't really matter to me.

I know I said I would turn these orphans to the streets - maybe just turn them over to some kind of wrangler. 

 

[Binky The Doormat]

5.09:  Paranoid - Black Sabbath (#339)

this one prevents me from taking another I love ...but I faced with the same choice in a lot of these tiers.

meanwhile there are already a whole buncha dead looking sets of 25 out out there for me 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJo

 

[Yo Mama]

5.09:  Paranoid - Black Sabbath (#339)

this one prevents me from taking another I love ...but I faced with the same choice in a lot of these tiers.

meanwhile there are already a whole buncha dead looking sets of 25 out out there for me 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJo

Ouch, nice pick

 

[Binky The Doormat]

@Raging weasel is OTC

 

[Eephus]

5.03

We just had a fairly long conversation about this singer (& song). She's not a singer I particularly love. So, I'm a hypocrite - who knew? In any case, she nails it here and Chic lays down a fantastic groove. I love the stuttered intro. 

#385: "I'm Coming Out" - Diana Ross

Fred Wesley with one of the great trombone solos in Pop music

Stevie J liked the intro too.

 

[krista4]

5.09:  Paranoid - Black Sabbath (#339)

#338

 

[Manster]

5.09:  Paranoid - Black Sabbath (#339)

this one prevents me from taking another I love ...but I faced with the same choice in a lot of these tiers.

meanwhile there are already a whole buncha dead looking sets of 25 out out there for me 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJo

This would've been my next one. Not shocked it didn't make it back

 

[simey]

5.09:  Paranoid - Black Sabbath (#339)

 

[Binky The Doormat]

#338

 ...doh!  apologies 

 

[Eephus]

5.05 - Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way  (#401)

There are three Fleetwood Mac songs in the 500 but this is the only one by Lindsey Buckingham.

His new solo album is very good if you like Lindsey. Warning to @Ilov80s, it's self-titled after almost fifty years in the business.  There's no sign of the vocal cord damage he talked about after his heart surgery a couple of years ago.  He's certainly capable of studio trickery to disguise any shortcomings.

 

[Ilov80s]

All the Prince picks are great.  This is definitely in contention for my favorite of the ones listed here (kind of a three-horse race for me).  I took 1999 over Purple Rain in the 80s album draft and I'd do it again.  

I am with you. I just took 1999 in the most recent half decade draft. 

5.09:  Paranoid - Black Sabbath (#339)

this one prevents me from taking another I love ...but I faced with the same choice in a lot of these tiers.

meanwhile there are already a whole buncha dead looking sets of 25 out out there for me 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJo

I’m not really a heavy metal, hard rock guy but this song is elite. As a kid I bought the album for Ironman and after 1 spin it was evident Paranoid was the best hard rock/metal song I’d ever heard. Probably still is.

 

[krista4]

I’m not really a heavy metal, hard rock guy but this song is elite. As a kid I bought the album for Ironman and after 1 spin it was evident Paranoid was the best hard rock/metal song I’d ever heard. Probably still is.

+1 on all the "Paranoid" love.  Super-upper-tier-elite.

 

[krista4]

The fastest day of the draft has coincided with my busiest workday, so please double-check my work for your picks to ensure I haven't accidentally Angry-Red-Shaded the wrong groupings for you or anything.   

 

[El Floppo]

+1 on all the "Paranoid" love.  Super-upper-tier-elite.

yeah. that was the song I had "planned" to take instead of the Smiths.

but yeah- I'm a big fan of How Soon is Now, definitely prefer it to Paranoid, but I might be scrambling.

 

[Ilov80s]

yeah. that was the song I had "planned" to take instead of the Smiths.

but yeah- I'm a big fan of How Soon is Now, definitely prefer it to Paranoid, but I might be scrambling.

I put How Soon is Now in a similar category of song that instantly blew me away. A song so good, I had to instantly hear it again and again. 

 

[Yo Mama]

The fastest day of the draft has coincided with my busiest workday, so please double-check my work for your picks to ensure I haven't accidentally Angry-Red-Shaded the wrong groupings for you or anything.   

Yeah it looks like Paranoid is showing up under Binky this round and not in my pick that I haven’t made yet. Please fix at your earliest convenience. Thanks. 

 

[Raging weasel]

  Round 5

3 of my picks got taken, including 2 by Binky. This is an all timer for me.

Jimi Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower(40)

 

[krista4]

@El FloppoOTC to screw up another pick.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Yeah it looks like Paranoid is showing up under Binky this round and not in my pick that I haven’t made yet. Please fix at your earliest convenience. Thanks. 

my recent pick.

 

[Raging weasel]

I am with you. I just took 1999 in the most recent half decade draft. 

I’m not really a heavy metal, hard rock guy but this song is elite. As a kid I bought the album for Ironman and after 1 spin it was evident Paranoid was the best hard rock/metal song I’d ever heard. Probably still is.

Paranoid was Sabbaths first single but originally wasn't even on the album. The record company said the album was too short so they wrote this as a filler to make them happy . The first time Ozzy saw the lyrics was right before they recorded it. He sang them as he read them from a piece of paper that Geezer handed him.

 

[El Floppo]

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE WORST PICK EVER

5- Jeff Buckley- Grace (1994) #394

big fan of the album, although there are other songs I've talked about liking more. This was always in my plans.... I'm back on track, baby!

 

[krista4]

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE WORST PICK EVER

5- Jeff Buckley- Grace (1994) #394

big fan of the album, although there are other songs I've talked about liking more. This was always in my plans.... I'm back on track, baby!

Other than being my next planned pick, it sucks.   

 

[krista4]

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE WORST PICK EVER

5- Jeff Buckley- Grace (1994) #394

big fan of the album, although there are other songs I've talked about liking more. This was always in my plans.... I'm back on track, baby!

If the song had been "Last Goodbye," I would have taken it before you got to it.  I love "Grace" too, though.

 

[Yo Mama]

@timschochet

 

[krista4]

@timschochetOTC

I'm going to go do yoga to lessen my fury at El Floppo.  Someone please keep the lights on while I'm gone.

 

[El Floppo]

If the song had been "Last Goodbye," I would have taken it before you got to it.  I love "Grace" too, though.

definitely. I mentioned in the decades draft... Lover you should've come over is my favorite though. but yeah- love Grace too. and it was strategical.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

definitely. I mentioned in the decades draft... Lover you should've come over is my favorite though. but yeah- love Grace too. and it was strategical.

Same.  If Lover..... had made the list I would've already taken it.

And you sniped me again on How Soon Is Now?.  That's 2 now.

 

[Yo Mama]

I’ve got 10 different songs in 10 different groupings that I want to take here and I’ll be bummed if any get taken before I can pick them in future rounds. This draft is set up to piss us all off due to the finite list. Thanks Krista!

 

[timschochet]

5. Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road”

Probably his best song. 
 

@Yo Mama

 

[Doug B]

@Doug B is up.

Is the Google Sheet current? Last picks shown:

58Ramsay Hunt ExperiencePrinceAdore431

59Binky the DoormatBlack SabbathParanoid338

510Raging WeaselJimi HendrixAll Along the Watchtower40

511El FloppoJeff BuckleyGrace394

EDIT: Looks like it was pretty much current, just missing the pick tim just made.

 

[Yo Mama]

I’ve got 10 different songs in 10 different groupings that I want to take here and I’ll be bummed if any get taken before I can pick them in future rounds. This draft is set up to piss us all off due to the finite list. Thanks Krista!

I’m probably overthinking things like I normally do, but going with the grouping I have the least viable other options in. Yo Mama selects:

#395 - Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force

No other song (maybe Herbie Hancock’s Rockit) will make me awkwardly pop and lock like this one. Whether at a wedding reception, washing the dishes, on a long car drive, coaching my daughters softball team - I can’t resist it’s incredible powers. 
 

My playlist just got 139% more fun. 

 

[Yo Mama]

@Manster

 

[Chaos Commish]

I’ve got 10 different songs in 10 different groupings that I want to take here and I’ll be bummed if any get taken before I can pick them in future rounds. This draft is set up to piss us all off due to the finite list. Thanks Krista!

pretty sure somewhere around rd 20 i will decide to never speak to krista again

 

[Doug B]

5.07: "What a Fool Believes", The Doobie Brothers (343)

Much love for Kenny Loggins, especially for co-writing this unrequited-love classic. However, even Loggins would have to admit that Micheal McDonald took this song to the stratosphere compared to Loggins' own recording (released five months earlier).

 

[Eephus]

I’m probably overthinking things like I normally do, but going with the grouping I have the least viable other options in. Yo Mama selects:

#395 - Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force

No other song (maybe Herbie Hancock’s Rockit) will make me awkwardly pop and lock like this one. Whether at a wedding reception, washing the dishes, on a long car drive, coaching my daughters softball team - I can’t resist it’s incredible powers. 
 

My playlist just got 139% more fun. 

Like Planet Rock, we just don't stop
We're gonna drive you nuts
Don't touch that radio
Don't touch that radio
Don't touch that knoooob

 

[Yo Mama]

5.07: "What a Fool Believes", The Doobie Brothers (343)

BOOOOOOO - I almost went with this one. Love this song. 
 

The song I will sing along to the most while knowing the least amount of lyrics of any song. 

 

[Yo Mama]

My playlist just got 139% more fun. 

My playlist just got 85% more sad

 

[krista4]

I’ve got 10 different songs in 10 different groupings that I want to take here and I’ll be bummed if any get taken before I can pick them in future rounds. This draft is set up to piss us all off due to the finite list. Thanks Krista!

YW!

pretty sure somewhere around rd 20 i will decide to never speak to krista again

That long?

 

[Manster]

#61 Stairway To Heaven  Zep.

I mean its been overplayed forever, but it's a killer song, and I needed a Zep song.  IV was my favorite album of theirs as a kid......used to crank it on my dad's turn table.....especially Black Dog!  It's a mean track!  Anyway, I got the Led out.....

@the moops

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

  Round 5

3 of my picks got taken, including 2 by Binky. This is an all timer for me.

Jimi Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower(40)

This is the all-time Vietnam song.  If I just see a caption like "Saigon -- 1968" I start going "Bah dum bum dum bum bum.  Bah dum bum dumm bum bum" like Pavlov's dog.

 

[Doug B]

The song I will sing along to the most while knowing the least amount of lyrics of any song. 

I will say that listening to Kenny L's version makes it easier to suss out the lyrics. Delivered much more straightforwardly ... but with far, far less soul.