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Music Draft - Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Songs Garbage List - Now with unhealthy regional pork-stuffs! (2 Viewers)

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. 
Not a direct snipe, but in serious consideration for me to fun up my playlist, too.

By the way, I'm back and can take over all the duties again.  I did notice, though, that while I was gone someone must have mistakenly filled in Jeff Buckley's Grace as Floppo's pick, while I'm quite certain he took whatever Cardi B's song is.

 
Yo Mama’s Rolling Stoned Playlist

#107 - CREAM - Wu-Tang Clan (1994)

#248 - Straight Outta Compton - NWA (1988)

#256 - Master of Puppets - Metallica (1986)

#395 - Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa (1982)

#435 - Limelight - Rush (1981)

 
My friend Jane had her first baby about a month ago, and someone set up a Meal Train for her.  So I'm taking over some food tomorrow and saying hello, but had the following conversation with Jane a couple of weeks ago.

J:  "I know you're vaccinated against COVID, but make sure your Tdap booster is current, too.  Since you travel a lot, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about."

Me, after looking it up:  "It's not current.   :(   Do we need to reschedule for when the child is 12? "

J:  "Oh, you can still come over, but you just can't hold him."

Me:  "I have great news!"

Seriously, why is it assumed that all women want to hold a baby?  They make me so damn nervous, what with their little squishy and breakable heads, and their tendency toward shrieking and projectile vomiting.

Anyway, there is a point to this, which is that I'm going to be out starting around 2 pm tomorrow while I travel to Jane's to hand her some lasagna and wave at her baby, and then go out with other friends for a proper adult cocktails and dinner.

Can someone be in charge of moving this along, updating the spreadsheet, etc. at that time?  I'll make my picks in a timely fashion - just @ me, or I'll leave picks with someone.  TIA.

 
My friend Jane had her first baby about a month ago, and someone set up a Meal Train for her.  So I'm taking over some food tomorrow and saying hello, but had the following conversation with Jane a couple of weeks ago.

J:  "I know you're vaccinated against COVID, but make sure your Tdap booster is current, too.  Since you travel a lot, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about."

Me, after looking it up:  "It's not current.   :(   Do we need to reschedule for when the child is 12? "

J:  "Oh, you can still come over, but you just can't hold him."

Me:  "I have great news!"

Seriously, why is it assumed that all women want to hold a baby?  They make me so damn nervous, what with their little squishy and breakable heads, and their tendency toward shrieking and projectile vomiting.

Anyway, there is a point to this, which is that I'm going to be out starting around 2 pm tomorrow while I travel to Jane's to hand her some lasagna and wave at her baby, and then go out with other friends for a proper adult cocktails and dinner.

Can someone be in charge of moving this along, updating the spreadsheet, etc. at that time?  I'll make my picks in a timely fashion - just @ me, or I'll leave picks with someone.  TIA.
I can do 2:00-5:20, then I clock off for shift work and let somebody else take over?

 
Pick 5.16 - Black Sabbath - Ironman (#344).

A couple other songs I like in that group but this is the only one left that fits with my “drunk frat guys singing kick ### tunes loudly and obnoxiously” vibe.  

 
Pick 5.16 - Black Sabbath - Ironman (#344).

A couple other songs I like in that group but this is the only one left that fits with my “drunk frat guys singing kick ### tunes loudly and obnoxiously” vibe.  
It's a good rock song for sure......for me, it's kinda like Enter Sandman though....I mean not that bad, but you know what I mean?....I get why it made the list. soooooo many better Sabbath songs though

 
This grouping of 25 songs has been heavily drafted, and I only know/like three or four songs that are left. I was gonna go with a different one of those four, but I'm going with this one. I've only heard it a couple times before, but I played it earlier today about 5 times. I first heard it riding in the car with my mom a few years ago. She usually listens to country radio stations. This song came on, and I listened to the lyrics, and it made me tear up.  It did the same today.  Anyway, this song is more folky sounding to me than country. It's a nice song.

Round 5 - The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert   (#441)

 
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This grouping of 25 songs has been heavily drafted, and I only know/like three of four songs that are left. I was gonna go with a different one of those four, but I'm going with this one. I've only heard it a couple times before, but I played it earlier today about 5 times. I first heard it riding in the car with my mom a few years ago. She usually listens to country radio stations. This song came on, and I listened to the lyrics, and it made me tear up.  It did the same today.  Anyway, this song is more folky sounding to me than country. It's a nice song.

Round 5 - The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert   (#441)


I've never heard the song but will listen to it based on your write-up.  :)

 
Seriously, why is it assumed that all women want to hold a baby?  They make me so damn nervous, what with their little squishy and breakable heads, and their tendency toward shrieking and projectile vomiting.
:lol:      Baby heads are like a weapon.  It takes some time for them to be able to hold their heads up without flopping. Baby heads have hit my teeth one too many times. 

 
Are you ####### kidding me!!! :lmao: . This is the song I was talking about earlier today that I wanted to draft so people would listen to because it's the best in its group bit I decided I could wait a lot longee. 

Fantastic song, really great pick. 
You know what's funny about that? Your goal was achieved. I listened to it.

 
I've never heard the song but will listen to it based on your write-up.  :)
It makes me miss going to my grandparents house, and I was thinking about that recently.  My parents had gone to a high school reunion for my dad a couple weeks ago, and mom said, "The outside of the house (where mom grew up) looks awful. Mama is probably rolling over in her grave."

 
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).
This was my first big boy song I liked when I started listening to the radio...age 9 or so. Have always had a super soft squishy baby head type spot for it.

 
Alright, a couple of the other ones I considered were gone - I only looked at the sheet, I'll read through later but I'm glad someone stopped the insanity and picked Smells Like Teen Spirit. 

This is the other "classic" favourite that I need, obviously a huge influence on a lot of my favourites including my first round pick The Killers and the shockingly absent Arcade Fire. 

In any case.  Tramps Like Us, etc. etc..

5.18 - Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (#27)

 
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Round 5.19 - (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais (340) - The Clash - 1978

This might seem really normal for me, but I hadn't really considered this song as anything special until conversations with @otb_liferabout two months or so ago during Summerpalooza drafting. Then I read the lyrics. Fantastic. He'd riffed on The Clash in PMs in a funny way, but ultimately recommended this. I hope to flesh this out with my next pick, but we'll see about that.

 
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YES!  Thank you!  I like your pick, too.
I had one in mind that I thought you might really like an that you'd think I'd take, actually. It's a rich block of songs, though, so I sort of am avoiding it early.

 
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374 - Be Thankful for What You Got / William DeVaughn / 1974

 I haven't heard or thought of this song in ages. In fact, I didn't even remember it at all, Until I played it on YouTube a few hours ago. It's a treasure and a classic. It's probably the original Gangster record and it's in a really weak tier. My link

 
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This grouping of 25 songs has been heavily drafted, and I only know/like three of four songs that are left. I was gonna go with a different one of those four, but I'm going with this one. I've only heard it a couple times before, but I played it earlier today about 5 times. I first heard it riding in the car with my mom a few years ago. She usually listens to country radio stations. This song came on, and I listened to the lyrics, and it made me tear up.  It did the same today.  Anyway, this song is more folky sounding to me than country. It's a nice song.

Round 5 - The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert   (#441)




This song was on the charts around the time my mother died. I remember hearing it when I went home over for the Mother's Day weekend of 2010 to help her get some things together for her move to an assisted living facility. She ended up passing away later that month, four days before her scheduled move in date. My late father would have been happy we got our deposit back.

My sisters and I sold the house we grew up in a couple of years later. It was priced below market and sold three days after it was listed.  When Ditkaburgers graduated from Marquette in 2014, my mother-in-law came along for the occasion. We had some extra time before our flight back to SF and she was curious about the house that I grew up in.  The current occupants happened to see us outside and invited us in to see the house again.  I thought I'd be sad to be back in the old house but I was mostly happy to see the young couple with child making new memories in the place.

The song still gets me though. :cry:

 
Alright, a couple of the other ones I considered were gone - I only looked at the sheet, I'll read through later but I'm glad someone stopped the insanity and picked Smells Like Teen Spirit. 

This is the other "classic" favourite that I need, obviously a huge influence on a lot of my favourites including my first round pick The Killers and the shockingly absent Arcade Fire. 

In any case.  Tramps Like Us, etc. etc..

5.18 - Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (#27)
You should ask @MAC_32 about his wife and this song. It's a really funny, sweet thing they have going with it.

 
This song was on the charts around the time my mother died. I remember hearing it when I went home over for the Mother's Day weekend of 2010 to help her get some things together for her move to an assisted living facility. She ended up passing away later that month, four days before her scheduled move in date. My late father would have been happy we got our deposit back.

My sisters and I sold the house we grew up in a couple of years later. It was priced below market and sold three days after it was listed.  When Ditkaburgers graduated from Marquette in 2014, my mother-in-law came along for the occasion. We had some extra time before our flight back to SF and she was curious about the house that I grew up in.  The current occupants happened to see us outside and invited us in to see the house again.  I thought I'd be sad to be back in the old house but I was mostly happy to see the young couple with child making new memories in the place.

The song still gets me though. :cry:
Oh, Jesus. Now I'm :cry:

 
I had one in mind that I thought you might really like an that you'd think I'd take, actually. It's a rich block of songs, though, so I sort of am avoiding it early.


I didn't figure you'd snipe me, but there's always a risk.  This grouping got killed for me today, and while there were a few others that would have been OK, this was the only "want to have" left.  Whew.

 

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