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I meant just seeing them, but yep. The Ronettes or Martha and the Vendellas doing a mall gig is sad, and probably would be even sadder to somebody who grew up with them.
I always feel this way whenever I see someone is playing the Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun rather than the arena 100 yards away.
He's been all over the place, but I remember him most as the guy who tried to fill in for Robert Palmer in Power Station when Palmer decided not to do the Power Station live tour. Didn't really work as a replacement IMO, but then - who could have?
I also grew up in northern Minnesota which didn't exactly have alot of radio options nor did we have cable when that new fangled mtv came out.
This is huge. I grew up in small town CT and didn't get cable until 1984, so a lot of this countdown is lost on me, too. Plus, I'm also 45 and I think we're youngsters here.
No apologies needed. This is your list, not mine. Me, I could not get much past a dozen or so, tops, and I would violate my own rules and have more than one Leo Sayer song on the list.
Nah, most like myself are probably only a few years older than you. Fair point about MTV though - if you had it from the beginning, a lot more of these lesser known songs will resonate because MTV played the crap out of them before moving to the more mainstream artists with snazzier videos.
Youngsters was too strong a word. I mean like four or five years younger, really, which makes a bit of difference but I was more just offering excuses for a lack of music nerdery on my end and all that.
We've covered Sweet. They had several hits, so don't qualify as a one-hit wonder.
Nonsense, they had Little Willie and then nothing else. Na Na Na na Na na na.
I love, love, love this song.
I think I'm committing to just appreciating the songs themselves (when worthy) and focusing less on the one hittedness aspect of them from here on out.Agreed - good song, there she had several other top 40 hits
That famous doo *** singer Marainne Faithful and her one and only hit The Eyes of Lucy Jordan.
two number ones four top tens several other top 40s, but the boots video was put in rotation on MTV creates a revisionist view of her career...not complaining, just busting stones
Sorry, it was the Ballad of Lucy Jordan, ballad, not eyes. I should leave this to the pros.
She doesn’t have 2 #1s. “Something Stupid” was a Number #1 hit, but that was a collaboration with Frank.
Interesting - just learned that the Wrecking Crew bass player on Boots (Chuck Berghofer) also played the memorable bass in the theme from Barney Miller. Lots of other credits, obviously.
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I used to be a member of a music discussion forum with someone who had dated R.B. Greaves. She said he was a serial exaggerator and that his links to Sam Cooke and the Seminole tribe were tenuous at best.
He pops up in that Stones Latin America promotional doc on Netflix.#FUNFACTnce pleaded no contest to child porn charges
Hey now! You're really underselling the great Michael des Barres! First off, he's arguably best known for being the husband (and namesake) of the most famous rock groupie in the history of the genre.
Even with 43 more to go, I am fairly certain that this will be the best song in the entire countdown.
Agreed. But I love Aimee Mann. Apparently that's because I'm female, which was news to me. (Not the being female part, which I've known for some time, but the fact that all women are required to love Aimee Mann.)
You're damn right it will.
I know a lot of guys who love Aimee Mann. I think I listened to Mental Illness for 2 months straight when it came out. Listening to my favorite song off that album right now.
Times were different in the early 2000s ... Wachtel's career barely missed a beat. Maybe because he was never super famous.#FUNFACT
