What's new
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

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

krista4 said:
For some reason, years ago a friend and I chose a person every week and then were tasked with trying to work that person's name into a conversation every day, with one having to be a work meeting.  One week we did Andrew "Dice" Clay.
Click to expand...
It gives me solace to know other people do that. One year, I was tasked with saying the phrase "Snapple: Made From The Best Stuff On Earth" two times to every new person I came into contact with. I had a disciplinary meeting with our Dean (standard stuff like flexing in the cafeteria in nothing but a pair of Calvin Klein boxer briefs the week Marky Mark posed the same way in the fashion ads. No biggie.) and I had to work that phrase in with her. Thank God the meeting was cafeteria-based and I was able to work their dining room contract with Snapple in there. Won a hundred bucks doing so! 

 
Last edited by a moderator:
By the way, "Get Lucky" and Random Access Memories is such a good album that I just gushed about over in the half-decade album draft we just did. Giorgio by Moroder is probably the most intelligent song of the decade, interspersing an interview with Moroder over dinner with a swelling beat in the background. By the time Moroder gets to talking about his music and innovations, Daft Punk stops the ambient noise, clicks the "four on the floor" beat he's talking about that is the foundation of house and techno everywhere (according to those that know. I couldn't really tell you that) and swerves into their own creative thing. It goes from originator, to critical assessment by both originator and appreciator, then onto a seventies beat of music appreciation by the new creator, then onto a synthesis with full blown digital house. It's quite remarkable. I'd urge anyone who digs that stuff to listen to it, and give it all the way through. 

Anyway, I'm no expert on that stuff. Others here are much better. But I find it fascinating. 

https://youtu.be/zhl-Cs1-sG4

 
Gonna go out on a limb and assume I have the smallest year-range with my current playlist.
 

All 8 of my songs currently come from 1981-1994. 

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
:lmao:   I had the same reaction about 30min ago.  I was set to take it with my upcoming pick.  I was hoping it was a spreadsheet error because I don't recall seeing it drafted.  

Sounds like I wouldn't have gotten it anyway.  :kicksrock:
Click to expand...
Happened last night. I'm now glad I took it. I sort of figured it was getting about time. That was an awesome block of songs. "September Gurls," "Ooh La La," "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett, and others are there, so I thought I could wait, but last night was the time. It was partially because I wasn't strategizing and just picked a song I'd wanted from the get-go. You can thank krista's longing for a drunken pick that round for it. 

 
rockaction said:
eta* And people love Peyton and Eli. I liked it for the moments I watched it, but then it got too schticky for my taste. I get serious about my football viewing, much more so than the average viewer. That's actually a fault, I know. 
Click to expand...
If Joe Buck is doing the commentary, it's not serious.

Peyton and Eli are great for the games you really don't care about.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
If Joe Buck is doing the commentary, it's not serious.

Peyton and Eli are great for the games you really don't care about.
Click to expand...
Ohhh, I was thinking of the Monday Night telecast where they still try and make it about football instead of the Joe-Tony gigglefest. My bad. You're dead on about that. 

 
Some of you are getting dangerously close to PSF fodder in the last couple of pages.  Don't make me throw you out of the draft and pick and choose which songs of yours I want for myself!

 
rockaction said:
Happened last night. I'm now glad I took it. I sort of figured it was getting about time. That was an awesome block of songs. "September Gurls," "Ooh La La," "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett, and others are there, so I thought I could wait, but last night was the time. It was partially because I wasn't strategizing and just picked a song I'd wanted from the get-go. You can thank krista's longing for a drunken pick that round for it. 
Click to expand...


You're welcome for the snipe, guys!

 
krista4 said:
Some of you are getting dangerously close to PSF fodder in the last couple of pages.  Don't make me throw you out of the draft and pick and choose which songs of yours I want for myself!
Click to expand...
Fair enough assessment. From my end, I'll certainly keep it cool. Just figured I'd be the Jack Handey lightning rod for any potential veering. That's my own mindset about the whole thing. 

Best to keep it to music. 

 
Manster said:
Am I the only one in here who can't stand Eminem's music?  

And I'm not a rap guy, but Snoop is smooth like buttah......Eminem is like a spun crackhead with that nasally voice.
Click to expand...
 Plenty of people hate him. I’m not the biggest fan anymore either. Like heavy metal, I’m just too chill now to listen to something so angry. Loved him as a teen though.
 

Similarly, I’ve seen two posters here say Smoke on the Water was a big omission. I don’t see that at all. Cool enough song but nothing special at all IMO. Very standard 70s kind of rock song to me.

 
rockaction said:
Fair enough assessment. From my end, I'll certainly keep it cool. Just figured I'd be the Jack Handey lightning rod for any potential veering. That's my own mindset about the whole thing. 

Best to keep it to music. 
Click to expand...


Nah, it's all good.  Nothing was out of place; just wanted to make sure it stayed that way.

 
Ilov80s said:
 Plenty of people hate him. I’m not the biggest fan anymore either. Like heavy metal, I’m just too chill now to listen to something so angry. Loved him as a teen though.
 

Similarly, I’ve seen two posters here say Smoke on the Water was a big omission. I don’t see that at all. Cool enough song but nothing special at all IMO. Very standard 70s kind of rock song to me.
Click to expand...
Eminem, despite the attendant issues that go with him, changed how rappers rap. That's a feat. His internal rhyme and assonance changed the entire game. And the thing is, very few people could do it like he could. Pharoahe Monch is one that comes to mind that could keep up with him. Mos Def was doing it, too, and successfully. But he left an underground and overground imprint that's tough to quantify or really get a hold of. As a raw emcee, he's one of the greatest. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Similarly, I’ve seen two posters here say Smoke on the Water was a big omission. I don’t see that at all. Cool enough song but nothing special at all IMO. Very standard 70s kind of rock song to me.
Click to expand...
I think Smoke on the Water probably deserves to be here for the same reason I thought Iron Man deserved it.  Those few chords are just so instantly recognizable.

 
Yo Mama said:
Gonna go out on a limb and assume I have the smallest year-range with my current playlist.
 

All 8 of my songs currently come from 1981-1994. 
Click to expand...
If I go by the date my songs peaked on the charts/public consciousness, rather than the date they were released, I have inadvertantly already drafted from each the 60s (Stand By Me), 70s (Life on Mars, Born to Run), 80s (Blue Monday), 90s (Rhythm Nation), 00s (Mr. Brightside, Umbrella) and 10s (Dancing on My Own).

But that's cheating and really Rhythm Nation was released in late 1989 and I haven't hit the 90s

 
krista4 said:
I was just admiring all these awesome spider webs out my window, when a hummingbird alit onto the fence.
Click to expand...
Wow. Those are really some webs. We have a hummingbird feeder out back, but they prefer the flowers and skip the sugar water for the natural stuff. 

Personal observation: Every time I see a web I think of Charlotte's Web, remember how much I loved The Trumpeter Swan and E.B. White's writing, and remind myself that I need to read the book/story. It's something I never did in childhood nor had anybody read it to me (though I was read to plenty). It would be cool to do that. 

/end observation

 
rockaction said:
Wow. Those are really some webs. We have a hummingbird feeder out back, but they prefer the flowers and skip the sugar water for the natural stuff. 

Personal observation: Every time I see a web I think of Charlotte's Web, remember how much I loved The Trumpeter Swan and E.B. White's writing, and remind myself that I need to read the book/story. It's something I never did in childhood nor had anybody read it to me (though I was read to plenty). It would be cool to do that. 

/end observation
Click to expand...


I have two hummingbird feeders back there, but for some reason they're really going for this one.  I get so many of them out there!  They're all Anna's hummingbirds; the males in particular are so gorgeous.

 
My next pick is not the only song on the list to have been covered by William Shatner, but I think it's the only one to have been covered well by William Shatner.  This pick also represents the absolute nadir of my karaoke career.  Just a trainwreck of a performance that I chalk up to way too many tequila shots.

8.whatever (no. 75) -- Common People -- Pulp

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
My next pick is not the only song on the list to have been covered by William Shatner, but I think it's the only one to have been covered well by William Shatner.  This pick also represents the absolute nadir of my karaoke career.  Just a trainwreck of a performance that I chalk up to way too many tequila shots.

8.whatever (no. 75) -- Common People -- Pulp
Click to expand...
Probably my favourite song in that group (but it's a very strong group)

 
rockaction said:
By the time Moroder gets to talking about his music and innovations, Daft Punk stops the ambient noise, clicks the "four on the floor" beat he's talking about that is the foundation of house and techno everywhere (according to those that know. I couldn't really tell you that) ...

Anyway, I'm no expert on that stuff. Others here are much better. But I find it fascinating.
Click to expand...
3 minute video that'll walk you through it. You'll be easily able to pick it out of other songs.

 
rockaction said:
I was unaware karaoke was such a big part of people's lives. I saw it once at an airport bar in Windsor Locks, CT, noted that the people were really trying (some guy was doing "Stairway" in all its glory one Friday night) and thought it seemed less than festive at the time. Apparently in most areas, at most times, it's a hoot!
Click to expand...


"karaoke at an airport bar" is phrase that screams sadness 

it also sounds like it might be one of Eric Roberts' early movies.

 
El Floppo said:
Walking down the sidewalk right now and may have heard my next pick wafting out of a car
Click to expand...


El Floppo said:
argh! who took Pavement!???!

a couple other options left in this group that I genuinely like, but the rest... bleh. and even thought it got played to death, this one stands above and was one of my favorites from the block to begin with- glad it fell. Always makes me feel good and bopping my head- funky pop bliss.

8?- Daft Punk- Get Lucky (2013) #465
Click to expand...


that was the tune from yesterday.

the car-waft, I had already forgotten about until just now

 
Doug B said:
3 minute video that'll walk you through it. You'll be easily able to pick it out of other songs.
Click to expand...
Very cool. Love stuff like that. 

The Moroder track is talking about the "click on the twenty-fourth" beat of the Moog modulator synthesizer (I sound like Marvin the Martian from Warner Bros. cartoons saying that) but four on the floor is that disco beat, man. 

He says "...the sound of the future...why don't I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future...and I didn't have any idea what to do, but I knew I needed a click...so we put atheclick on the twenty-fourth track, which then was synched to the Moog modular -- I knew it  that could a the sound of the future, but I didn't realize how much the impact would be...my name is Giovanni Giorgio...but everybody calls me Giorgio" then disco! 

 
Doug B said:
And here's the Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes song he cites as the first commercially-produced record with a disco beat -- "The Love I Lost" from 1973. The disco strings are there, too, but the flute and synths would come with later disco songs. "The Love I Lost" is kind of a missing link in music evolution.
Click to expand...
Oh wow. That's really disco/soul. Unreal. 

 
That sounds so incongruous to modern ears, really. You've got an orchestra swelling (not that disco music didn't see orchestral arrangements) and a soul singer belting it out like it's 1968, and it's completely a disco beat.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
"karaoke at an airport bar" is phrase that screams sadness 

it also sounds like it might be one of Eric Roberts' early movies.
Click to expand...
That whole bar screamed sadness, now that I think about it. I think it was called Airways or something like that. Skyline? No, that's the Cincinnati chili. I forget now. I think it was Airways. Thank God those days of watching football pretty much by myself are done and I live out West now with DirecTV and all that. 

 
krista4 said:
I was just admiring all these awesome spider webs out my window, when a hummingbird alit onto the fence.
Click to expand...
Cool webs!  I love hummingbirds. That Va cabin I have visited a couple times in the last few months with no running water has 4 hummingbird feeders hanging on the porch. They are kept filled.  Those feeders attract a lot of hummingbirds, and they aren't shy of people. We'd sit on the porch sometimes and watch them fuss over spots on the feeders, and they would zoom by our heads, which sounded like a real motorized object going by. 

The first night we got there it was windy and chilly, and a birds nest on the porch rafter had fallen on the porch floor. One baby was deceased, but the other three were still alive. We put them on the nest, but it couldn't be put back up on the rafter. The nest had to have been barely hanging on in the first place to what little wood was there to prop it. We barricaded it to block the cold wind, but had it where mama bird could have access to them. The next morning two more were dead, and one was barely hanging on. The mom would fly over and look and fly away. The last one died by lunch.  😪 We had a short funeral for them, and placed them in the woods to let the cycle of life do its thing.

 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Eephus
Summerpalooza VII Music/Football Draft - Congratulations Three-Time Leeg Champ Eephus
24 25 26
Replies
1K
Views
63K
Mrs. Rannous
Mrs. Rannous
Zegras11
Middle Aged Dummies - Artist - Round 3 - #1's have been posted!
67 68 69
Replies
3K
Views
298K
zamboni
zamboni
Eephus
Pick a Pair/Half Decade Album Draft - Bonus Rounds Thu & Fri - Pick three if you want
52 53 54
Replies
3K
Views
66K
rockaction
rockaction

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top