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Music Draft - Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Songs Garbage List - Now with unhealthy regional pork-stuffs! (1 Viewer)
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rockaction
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I like Pink Moon's starkness. I think it makes it more resonant than if he had had instrumentation. And he apparently argued with his record label over who was to provide instrumentation to his songs and how. Anyway, I gave half of Bryter Layter a listen tonight. The swells of the orchestra distracted from what he was trying to do, I thought. Perhaps a fuller listen will reveal itself differently. I think, almost like Johnny Cash and others, he's at his best alone with a guitar. But everyone's mileage will vary.
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Mrs. Rannous
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fatguyinalittlecoat
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I’ll take Tammy Wynette -Stand By Your Man (#473)
This is the song I mentioned at the beginning of the draft where there is video somewhere of me performing at live band karaoke. I love this song.
This is the song I mentioned at the beginning of the draft where there is video somewhere of me performing at live band karaoke. I love this song.
Chaos Commish
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hello insomniakrista. this is insomniachaos. i'm streaming seinfeld and looking at week 5 waivers.
simey
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There are three songs left that I like in this grouping and that I know. This big tune is still sitting there, and there is a milestone attached to it. The first time I ever smoked pot this song was playing. It was my gateway to drugs. 
This video footage was shot a little over three months before their plane went down.
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Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#407)
This video footage was shot a little over three months before their plane went down.Round Something
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#407)
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Northern Voice
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Rolling Stone wrote that the song sports "a spare yet irresistible synth hook augmented by a tongue-twisting refrain".
The Guardian called the track "irresistible" due to its "sparse orchestral samples and snaking chorus".
Pitchfork Media said, "the bounce is straight-up irresistible, Dre at both his minimalist best and most deceptively infectious."
Splendid magazine called the song an "insanely catchy" single with its "stanky, horn-addled thump".
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I've never thought about why I like this song so much but those quotes above nail it. It's relatively minimal in terms of production, huge drum beat aided by lots of synths and horns. Maybe it's the hip-hop version of a Spoon song. This section of the draft is getting thin for me, so I better jump on it now.
13.18 - In Da Club - 50 Cent (#444)
The Guardian called the track "irresistible" due to its "sparse orchestral samples and snaking chorus".
Pitchfork Media said, "the bounce is straight-up irresistible, Dre at both his minimalist best and most deceptively infectious."
Splendid magazine called the song an "insanely catchy" single with its "stanky, horn-addled thump".
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I've never thought about why I like this song so much but those quotes above nail it. It's relatively minimal in terms of production, huge drum beat aided by lots of synths and horns. Maybe it's the hip-hop version of a Spoon song. This section of the draft is getting thin for me, so I better jump on it now.
13.18 - In Da Club - 50 Cent (#444)
Steve Tasker
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rockaction
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13.19 - Pete Rock and CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.) (430) - 1992
My freshman year of college. This is a hip hop classic. Famous for the phrase "when my biological didn't bother," it's an ode to a deceased stepfather. In a form that often longs for father figures, this is a song that lionizes one.
My freshman year of college. This is a hip hop classic. Famous for the phrase "when my biological didn't bother," it's an ode to a deceased stepfather. In a form that often longs for father figures, this is a song that lionizes one.
rockaction
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rockaction
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Sniped! For realz, though I had another from this block that I could use.There are three songs left that I like in this grouping and that I know. This big tune is still sitting there, and there is a milestone attached to it. The first time I ever smoked pot this song was playing. It was my gateway to drugs.
Round Something
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (#407)
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Steve Tasker
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Yeah, twice....once at Bonnaroo 2014 or 2015, and then once just back in August. That August one was a free ticket from a buddy, I was a last-minute callup.
When he played "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" in August, I don't think I'd ever heard the song before
. The rest of the crowd knew like every word.He puts on a good show though. I recommend seeing him.
simey
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Good!
I didn't think that would be a song I'd snipe you on. I think I've told this story before, but one of my roommates in college married a guy (who was also a roommate) whose last name is Skinner. She said if they had a boy, she would name him Leonard. I think she was kidding, but they divorced, and when she remarried her last name became Ellis. She named her son Perry, so maybe there was some truth to the Leonard Skinner.
Pip's Invitation
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rockaction
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Uruk-Hai
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Yeah, I knew that was coming. I don't know if I've ever heard the song I'll end up with. Who knows? I may love it.
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krista4
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I called this totally wrong, having told Uruk there’s no ####### way Manster would take Strange Fruit.
Uruk-Hai
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I chuckled when he took Holiday, thinking of that conversation.
I just listened to the Beyonce song. Not my style, but it's fine. The video has like 500 million views. After watching it, I can understand why so many people have seen it - good lordy.
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cosjobs
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I respect the hell out of Billie and had a couple of her albums, but I never played them.
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timschochet
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My late mother grew up in Boyle Heights, a poor section of Los Angeles which during the early 40s was mostly Jewish but blacks were moving in to work for the war effort. The street my mom lived on had a nightclub on the corner and Billie Holliday performed there several times. My mom and her friends would walk by there on their way from school and apparently one time she actually waved at them and introduced herself.
Alas, my grandfather grew nervous at the amount of blacks moving into the neighborhood and soon moved the family to another part of LA, more Jewish and white.
Alas, my grandfather grew nervous at the amount of blacks moving into the neighborhood and soon moved the family to another part of LA, more Jewish and white.
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simey
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I just listened to the song and watched the video. You definitely get some eye candy (NOT JayZ) watching the video, but the song itself is not pleasing to my ears. RS ranked it #16. Maybe they watched the video with the volume off.
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timschochet
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Yep.
My grandfather would have bridled at the notion that he was a racist (he was an old time, FDR Democrat who supported the Civil Rights movement and contributed to the NAACP) but he was definitely a product of his times and he didn’t want to live among “the schwartzes”.
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cosjobs
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That's pretty much how I feel about Billie's music. I surprised they didn't select I Cover the Waterfront. Its much kinder to modern ears and I think it was her biggest hit.
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simey
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<------ that is not the emoji I used, and it wasn't the middle finger one either. It was the OK sign. It is filtered now.
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Manster
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Yep.....
My grandmother called black folks "colored".....she had a "colored" friend......it always struck me as odd when I was a kid, but I knew she was just kinda old school. she grew up in Oklahoma in the depression....my grandmother was pretty cool. Although her speech was that of the "times", she didn't know a stranger.....I realized as I got older she didn't have the hate in her that was taught to many back in her day....she was a good soul.
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When I say she had a "colored" friend this was in A small eastern Oregon town where the black population was essentially non existent.....not saying she was special or anything.....just she was a decent human being, who kind of broke free from some the racist ideals of her time.
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El Floppo
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Similar backgrounds, but Brooklyn instead of LA. When my grandparents moved to Miami, it was eye-opening to hear just how racist my (step) grandfather was -as a non-racist- when he had to leave the all jewish enclave to the new mixed area in FL. Ironically, the neighborhood my dad grew up in (Brownsville) transitioned from poor jews to poor African Americans....same place Mike Tyson grew up in.
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My MIL (from back-country SW Virginia) still uses that term. I know she doesn't mean anything by it- she hates all people pretty equally.
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