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New Draft - Songs about Imperfect Relationships (1 Viewer)

Round 18: Wild card (stay tuned for a bonus track after this selection)

House Full of Reasons - Jude Cole

This is the room
Where I sat and waited till the morning
Watching the door
You slammed so hard it broke the windows
Up and down
I've climbed these walls
It seems I'm trapped inside this


House full of reasons
I should be moving on
You had me believing
This is the way love goes
Off and on among normal people

Down in the hall
The pictures of a happier couple
Just hang on the wall
And smile away through all the trouble
Side to side
The clock on the wall
Reminding me by the hour

There's a house full of reasons
I should be moving on (moving on)
You had me believing
This is the way (the way)
Love goes (love goes)
Off and on among normal people

All day
When it's dark
(When it's dark)
It seems there's nothing here but
(Nothing here but)

A house full of reasons
I should be moving on
You had me believing
This is the way (the way)
Love goes (love goes)
Yeah, a house full of reasons
I should be moving on
You had me believing
This is the way (the way)
Love goes (it goes)
Off and on among normal people[\spoiler]

Bonus pick: Disagreeable/irritating

Click link for secret bonus track!!!
 
RD 17

Wildcard: Buffalo Grass - Todd Rundgren

a later song - all about that person you just can't get out of your heart, even though they continue to mistreat you.  It's become a concert staple for nice guitar jams and fan favorites refrains

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Saw you once and you looked so sweet
Saw you twice and I felt complete
Three times thought I'd get some peace
Dozen times and there's no release and I was already gone

And life goes on in white and black
Cloaking the stealth of your attack
The tendrils creep through every crack
And every time I cut you off, you grow right back

Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh, like buffalo grass
Wrapped yourself around my heart

Day goes by and I think I'm clean
Week goes by and I feel serene
Month goes by like you're just a dream
Year goes by I'm back on my knees, when I was already gone

But since you first infected me
We've been connected karmically
Should I escape your gravity
In every other solar system there you'll be

Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh, like buffalo grass
Wrapped yourself around my heart

Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh, like hele hele
Cat's claw across my heart

Empires fall and the roach will rule
Lifetimes pass and I'm still your fool
Universe collapses in a silvery pool
Watering the root that connects me to you

Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh, like buffalo grass
Wrapped yourself around my heart

Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh, like hele hele
Cat's claw across my heart

Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh, like buffalo grass
Wrapped yourself around my heart

Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh, like hele hele
Cat's claw across my heart

Like buffalo grass
You crawled across my heart
Oh, like buffalo grass

 
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I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to all of you and cosjobs for being late to the proceedings today and yesterday. Without further adieu, I'll go ahead and list yesterday's picks.

Round Fifteen

Wildcard

Ms Fat Booty - Mos Def

Round Sixteen

Leaving

Girl Don't Tell Me - The Beach Boys

 
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A couple of questions for and about lovers to close it out. Thanks for running this cos, for doing the sheet, Mr. Ected, and to all of you for your attention, without which would make this totally pointless.

Round Seventeen

Annoying Habit

Raveonettes - Do You Believe Her

Round Eighteen

Cold/Distant

The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love?

 
Round 18 - Cheating - Someone To Lay Down Beside Me, Linda Ronstadt

I have never cheated on a woman. Not an especially heroic claim, because i havent been exclusive all that often.

I have cheated with women on several occasions, however. I'm good at it (not the sex - the spoiling & the secrets), i enjoy it immensely and it meets more of my romantic criteria than any other form of relationship. It's exciting, intimate, and largely garbage- & consequence-free if done right.

Most likely, it comes from my original gf, my Li'l Bardot, who would never let me be her first nor best, but let me seep thru the cracks of pretty much every relationship she ever had. Because we had dalliances from age 12 into our 50s, it was almost like play. 

In my first job in Albq, one of the nurses i worked graveyard shift with was a perky blonde 10 yrs older than me (@ 15yo she went out w singer Gene Pitney, who has a song in this draft, btw) who got steady/engaged with every boy in Akron who asked her before going to Nam, so they'd have a picture in their wallet to look at. One held her to it, he was a catch and promised to get her out of Akron, so what the hell?! He was a science genius, worked at Los Alamos, then Sandia Labs, was a excellent provider, a good father and an absolute lump of a hump. She wanted her boys to have a mommy & daddy til they left the nest, she found out about my thing w Li'l Bardot and decided to take her first shot at infidelity w someone whom she knew could keep a secret.

Once things developed w some nibbles in the med room at work, every Thursday the garage door of her house (near Hank's in Breaking Bad, btw) would open @ 11:30am, close ten minutes later. If my car made it in, we spent the next couple hours spoiling the hell out of each other. Gifts, treats, fantasies, whatever. When i left Albuquerque, her one indiscretion was a long letter thanking me for keeping her from going nuts. Though she never had another dalliance, she moved out of that house three days after her youngest went off to college.

When I moved back to Albuquerque a dozen years later, i called her, we picked up where we left off for several years. Never a relationship, one weekly sesh of the same kind as before, without the secrecy. Her call, and she was right. This song reminds me of her and i'm pretty sure it reminds her of me. She's almost 80 now, and yes i would.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Round 18 - Cheating - Someone To Lay Down Beside Me, Linda Ronstadt

When I moved back to Albuquerque a dozen years later, i called her
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It's funny because every time I read one of your formative posts now I think of the cover of Let It Bleed (How's that for some cake?) and then I think of Bugs Bunny coming up out the ground with a map, wondering aloud to himself if he should have taken that missed right turn back there along the way. Something so apt about it. You'll be happy to know I can now spell its name. Albuquerque. What a cool place it must have been!

 
Wrapup

Man, so many great songs chosen in this draft. Its really a shame we couldn't have a spreadsheet and I'd love spotify list(s). If someone has them, @ me and I'll put them in the first post.

I hope you are enjoying the format. It make it much more fun and much less stressful for  me. I think we may be missing some of the interaction and chatter I am used to having in a draft, but it may be more pandemic related than format.

I'd like to start another one, in particular the Crimes and Criminal Draft. I think no categories wold make it smoother. I like categories, as they make me dig more and look outside my box, but without a spreadsheet, its really hard, although I guess we could maintain a complete draft in the first round. But I also don't want to assume draftmaster if y'all would liek to do the next one under new management.

My other draft idea was a Body Parts Draft. Beyond hearts and eyes, there is plenty of other body parts mentioned din songs.

Finally, I also love the idea of a sax draft, I'm just afraid there might be slim pickings to do more than half a dozen rounds. Maybe we could do Sax Crimes draft where everyone must include at least 4-5 sax songs in the crime and criminal picks?

Having a draft going really helps me keep my sanity. I really treasure all the interaction and hearing all these tunes that bring back memories or expand my music horizons. 

I'm open for anything to keep it going.

 
cosjobs said:
Wrapup

Man, so many great songs chosen in this draft. Its really a shame we couldn't have a spreadsheet and I'd love spotify list(s). If someone has them, @ me and I'll put them in the first post.

I hope you are enjoying the format. It make it much more fun and much less stressful for  me. I think we may be missing some of the interaction and chatter I am used to having in a draft, but it may be more pandemic related than format.

I'd like to start another one, in particular the Crimes and Criminal Draft. I think no categories wold make it smoother. I like categories, as they make me dig more and look outside my box, but without a spreadsheet, its really hard, although I guess we could maintain a complete draft in the first round. But I also don't want to assume draftmaster if y'all would liek to do the next one under new management.

My other draft idea was a Body Parts Draft. Beyond hearts and eyes, there is plenty of other body parts mentioned din songs.

Finally, I also love the idea of a sax draft, I'm just afraid there might be slim pickings to do more than half a dozen rounds. Maybe we could do Sax Crimes draft where everyone must include at least 4-5 sax songs in the crime and criminal picks?

Having a draft going really helps me keep my sanity. I really treasure all the interaction and hearing all these tunes that bring back memories or expand my music horizons. 

I'm open for anything to keep it going.
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RE: the bolded. I think that may also be a function of not having a draft order, where people just pick at their leisure and there is less likelihood of being sniped if you are early to post.

I'm game with the crimes and criminal draft or whatever works.

 
zamboni said:
RE: the bolded. I think that may also be a function of not having a draft order, where people just pick at their leisure and there is less likelihood of being sniped if you are early to post.

I'm game with the crimes and criminal draft or whatever works.
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I completely agree, but the added stress of people waiting on me makes it much less enjoyable. Me waiting on others even moreso. 

 
cosjobs said:
I completely agree, but the added stress of people waiting on me makes it much less enjoyable. Me waiting on others even moreso. 
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In the past, we've set a timer of say, an hour or half hour, to make your pick or it goes to the next drafter. Seems to work well, but requires a bit more hands-on work by the OP/drafters.

 
zamboni said:
In the past, we've set a timer of say, an hour or half hour, to make your pick or it goes to the next drafter. Seems to work well, but requires a bit more hands-on work by the OP/drafters.
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Yes, I'm familiar. I'm not handling stress/pressure very well right now

As far as being sniped, it hasn't happened to me more than any other format. 

 
zamboni said:
In the past, we've set a timer of say, an hour or half hour, to make your pick or it goes to the next drafter. Seems to work well, but requires a bit more hands-on work by the OP/drafters.
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I actually prefer this format. I'm not sure if it affects the chatter or not - but not sure why it would.

 
Timed and ordered drafts keep me focused and provide an adrenaline rush that the other format doesn't, but I like having time to think about it, or if you get sniped, going back to the drawing board or memory banks or research or what have you that the looser format entails. Consider me fine with either, though I'm not even positive I'll be in, I'm just assuming I am. 

 
I’m fine either way as well but I also have a very light schedule right now so it’s easy on me. As for theme, crime is my preference but body parts is interesting. If we did sax, it might have to be more a brass-woodwind-strings draft.

 
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rockaction said:
It's funny because every time I read one of your formative posts now I think of the cover of Let It Bleed (How's that for some cake?) and then I think of Bugs Bunny coming up out the ground with a map, wondering aloud to himself if he should have taken that missed right turn back there along the way. Something so apt about it. You'll be happy to know I can now spell its name. Albuquerque. What a cool place it must have been!
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Albq's coolness lies in utter lack of coolness. I described it during the food draft -

Albuquerque's an accidental town. The only reason it exists is because of tuberculosis hospitals and being where a weak radiator used to give out driving Rte 66. My arrival there in '79 was accidental. ......

....And then there's visible horizons. Look east and the great shoulders of the Sandia Mountains make you feel small. Look west to sunsets that make you feel eternal. Average em out and life is your size, and you realize that humility is the best kind of excellence. All that's left then is to be. Love it, miss it.
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Combine that with a climate that has all four seasons but none too severe and the desert code of "dont like it? move on to the next pile of useless dirt" and one can write their own life there.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Combine that with a climate that has all four seasons but none too severe and the desert code of "dont like it? move on to the next pile of useless dirt" and one can write their own life there.
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Sorely missing in today's world. But sort of like a message board then. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I actually prefer this format. I'm not sure if it affects the chatter or not - but not sure why it would.
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I think rock nailed it - when you get sniped, the music nerds in us sometimes get our ganders up and are more likely to comment. Also, the threat of being sniped makes you do some more research.  

All that said, I really don't have a dog in the fight so I'm fine either way.

 
cosjobs said:
I hope you are enjoying the format. It make it much more fun and much less stressful for  me. I think we may be missing some of the interaction and chatter I am used to having in a draft, but it may be more pandemic related than format.

I'd like to start another one, in particular the Crimes and Criminal Draft.
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I like the idea of a crimes and criminal draft. I also like your format, but I'm ok with whatever. 

 
Sounds like a general mummur of agreement on a Crimes draft. I'd kind of like to add three mandatory sax songs, that may be unrelated to crime. Seems incongruous, but like some others here, I love me some sacs.

 
cosjobs said:
hmm. kind of woodyallenish
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my greatest comedic triumph was at an Albuquerque Dukes AAA baseball game in the 80s. Hershiser was pitching and a foul tip knocked the catcher out of the game. Subbed in was famous cokehead 2B Steve Sax's brother Dave - a utilityman who could field several positions poorly. The second pitch after play resumed, i was brought to my feet by an awesome realization. "Omigod" i exclaimed, "The battery is now Orel/Sax!" The fish has rotted progressively from that moment of mental decay....

 
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This one lost me, sorry to bail on it. I've realized I really prefer the broader drafts, not the pick 20 songs about this specific topic ones. I guess this is why the genrepaloozas are so great IMO, they have the specific topics but they constantly change up, best of both worlds.

 
I guess I have come to realize that lots of songs that I thought were about imperfect relationships, were really more about complicated people with an imperfect relationship with the world in general.  so, yeah....really i need about 10 slots for distant/cold or disagreeable behaviors.  Nevertheless!

Round 13 - Wild Card

I love you in your tragic beauty - the legendary pink dots

I watched you in your tragic beauty walk beneath my window.
Eyes aimed high, but unfocused . . . . sure, you never noticed me.
You always wore the same dress; always bore the same
expression: "It's a loveless world so what's the point of looking?
Let it be . . ." I considered throwing roses--thought I'd maybe
wave a flag. Had to try and force some small connection--
but, there's a snag. It's my confession that I watch you in
my tragic isolation. In my fear . . . that's the way it's been
for years. That's the way it will always be . . .

 
Northern Voice said:
This one lost me, sorry to bail on it. I've realized I really prefer the broader drafts, not the pick 20 songs about this specific topic ones. I guess this is why the genrepaloozas are so great IMO, they have the specific topics but they constantly change up, best of both worlds.
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On a somewhat related note, I think we can safely revisit some past drafts. Like some of these here - https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/783173-desert-island-discs-draft-2010-2019-we-did-it/?do=findComment&comment=22441385

For instance, we could now do a 15th anniversary edition of the original Desert Island Album Draft, which took place in April 2005 - https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/153018-official-desert-island-albums-draft/

 
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