krista4
Footballguy
@Mrs. Rannous, do you want to send me your picks in case you lose power? I go after you, and from prior drafts I don't expect us to overlap anyway. Sorry you're going through that.
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Pick a Pair/Half Decade Album Draft - Bonus Rounds Thu & Fri - Pick three if you want (1 Viewer)
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krista4
Footballguy
This is where @Pip's Invitation will remind me I still owe a drunken live-review of Give My Regards to Broad Street.I actually enjoyed Ishtar perfectly sober.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I love Mad Men. If the movie club dying got you into Mad Men then I can I live with it.
LOL, I don't think it was just that. I went through a lot of weird moods during the pandemic so I don't think I was always a good "host" for it.Well, according to you it's because I started in with the reefer and my movie tastes took a nosedive.
I did think about starting a stoner, ####ty movie club, but didn't think that would have much traction either.
When I first heard of that band as a kid, I probably thought "Led" was German for "the". Also if you asked me now, I would have probably guessed they were called The Grateful Dead.
Damn, I had both of those The Bob Dylan albums pretty high on my list.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
I lied. I'm thinking about my next pick and falling asleep at the same time. 6 picks to go. I may need a proxy. Not much sleep during this medical biz. Most I got was in ER waiting room, triple vaxed and double masked. Not good sleep. Feel al coma coming on.
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
Oh i have awesome news btw! We had Minny/Cincy on in the waiting room! Made him so happy! lol
krista4
Footballguy
I'll also be around in case a West Coaster is useful, though I went to bed last night at like 9 pm so wouldn't have been terribly helpful then! I blame the drinking starting very early for the Seahawks game.
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
thanks both of you. i'm trying to make it to kickoff, but pretty sure the voices of Steve Levy, Brian Griese and Louis Riddick will end me. there's always caffeine.
rockaction
Footballguy
Yours and simey's absence from Summerpalooza is still inexcusable as far as I'm concerned. Well, simey was burned out. But other than that, inexcusable.
rockaction
Footballguy
Listening to Randy Moss and company yell and fake enthusiasm like that had me scrambling for the remote so I could hit the mute button. There are few things worse than Monday Night Football on probably the worst network to my ears these days, ESPN.
There was always a lot wrong with ESPN as a cultural touchstone. It's gotten worse, not better. That's hard to believe.
Steve Tasker
Footballguy
Best part of these threads is re-discovering old music you haven't listened to in forever.
I forgot how delightfully terrible screamo is. My god, my taste in music was terrible from like 2003 - 2006.
I forgot how delightfully terrible screamo is. My god, my taste in music was terrible from like 2003 - 2006.
krista4
Footballguy
I thought I couldn't do it because of my vacation, but you guys drafted so quickly that it was over before my vacation started! I'd be in next year for sure, if there's space available. I know returning folks would take precedence,* as they should.
*I had this as "have precedence" and then changed it, but I'm not sure which is correct. I rely on you to know this.
Edit: It's "take," right? It has to be.
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The first 20 minutes of Ishtar, when they're still in NYC, are hilarious. If they had kept those characters in that setting, it woulda been gold. The stuff in the desert mostly missed the mark for me. But I don't think it belongs in the "worst movies of all time" discussion.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Dammit, not streaming . I've never seen it.Chaos Commish said:
krista4
Footballguy
Tbh, as I was typing that I realized I might be mixing it up with Hudson Hawk, similarly derided but I thought was very funny. I might have thought Ishtar was funny, too, but definitely Hudson Hawk.
Edit: The bag-over-head emoji obviously implied here.
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rockaction
Footballguy
Ok, were going to take a little trip down memory lane - back to a simpler time 1969-1971. I was living in Monterey, California and quite obviously soaking up the music scene. Sure, I was 3-5, but sub-consciously I knew this was going to be my music some day. But, outwardly, in the conscious world, I was living a pretty sheltered life, and grew up very naive to the ways of the musical world. And, so my love of the 1960's music scene would have to wait.
Fast forward to the summer of 1979. This was the summer I became a teenager, and opened my eyes (and ears) to the world of music. Young Sinn Fein and family were embarking on a summer tour visiting every relative ever known, and some unknown, in advance of a 2-year stint in Guam. On the first leg of the trip, we went up the east coast, hitting DC, Philly, NY and eventually Connecticut. It was in NY that I got my first record albums - as an early birthday present from an Aunt who worked in NYC. Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which was surprisingly still popular a year after release, Village People Go West - I assume I got this one because of "In the Navy" - which my dad was in the Navy. And, young Sinn Fein would not even have know what "gay" meant at the time. And the 3rd Album was Steve Martin's Wild and Crazy Guy - mostly because it had "King Tut" - but I still recall some of the jokes to this day, including how to break up with a girl by saying "I break with thee" three times, and throwing dog poop on her shoes! And then you go to the local hootenanny, and you look for the girls with the dog poop on their shoes...
I am sure my mom was thinking WTF? but, I had three vinyl albums (and a stereo waiting for me in Guam).
Bear with me, we are getting to the point, and the next two album choices.
From the east coast, we drove to Wisconsin where most of my cousins lived - at least any that were remotely close to my age. We get to Green Bay, and am proudly showing off my record collection, and my cousins are mortified. They are also oddly curious just to hear me speak with a southern accent, and I to hear their mid-western accents. A couple of cousins pulled me aside and said, we have got to do something about that record collection, and proceeded to pass on a few of their own albums, mostly in the hopes that I would lose the first three...
One of those albums turned out to be Highway to Hell. And, as a good young catholic, I assumed that even by saying the name, I was doomed to eternal damnation. Turns out, I was half right - only I never needed to say the name...
But, much to the chagrin of my parents, and probably our neighbors, I overplayed the hell out of HTH. And, when Back in Black came out in 1980, It became the next over-played album in my collection.
Now, Highway to Hell still remains one of my favorite AC/DC songs to this day, but Back in Black remains one of my "perfect" albums, where I can listen from front to end and enjoy every song. And it provides one of my most pesky earworms "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" - I spent most of this afternoon trying to get rid of it... This is an album I put on if I need a bit of pep in my step, or if I am out riding my bike, and just need to peddle a little faster. 40 years later, the heart still races a bit faster and blood gets pumping.
Round 2.xx
AC/DC
Highway to Hell, 1979
RIP Bon Scott
Back in Black, 1980
Welcome, Brian Johnson
Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
Fast forward to the summer of 1979. This was the summer I became a teenager, and opened my eyes (and ears) to the world of music. Young Sinn Fein and family were embarking on a summer tour visiting every relative ever known, and some unknown, in advance of a 2-year stint in Guam. On the first leg of the trip, we went up the east coast, hitting DC, Philly, NY and eventually Connecticut. It was in NY that I got my first record albums - as an early birthday present from an Aunt who worked in NYC. Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which was surprisingly still popular a year after release, Village People Go West - I assume I got this one because of "In the Navy" - which my dad was in the Navy. And, young Sinn Fein would not even have know what "gay" meant at the time. And the 3rd Album was Steve Martin's Wild and Crazy Guy - mostly because it had "King Tut" - but I still recall some of the jokes to this day, including how to break up with a girl by saying "I break with thee" three times, and throwing dog poop on her shoes! And then you go to the local hootenanny, and you look for the girls with the dog poop on their shoes...
I am sure my mom was thinking WTF? but, I had three vinyl albums (and a stereo waiting for me in Guam).
Bear with me, we are getting to the point, and the next two album choices.
From the east coast, we drove to Wisconsin where most of my cousins lived - at least any that were remotely close to my age. We get to Green Bay, and am proudly showing off my record collection, and my cousins are mortified. They are also oddly curious just to hear me speak with a southern accent, and I to hear their mid-western accents. A couple of cousins pulled me aside and said, we have got to do something about that record collection, and proceeded to pass on a few of their own albums, mostly in the hopes that I would lose the first three...
One of those albums turned out to be Highway to Hell. And, as a good young catholic, I assumed that even by saying the name, I was doomed to eternal damnation. Turns out, I was half right - only I never needed to say the name...
But, much to the chagrin of my parents, and probably our neighbors, I overplayed the hell out of HTH. And, when Back in Black came out in 1980, It became the next over-played album in my collection.
Now, Highway to Hell still remains one of my favorite AC/DC songs to this day, but Back in Black remains one of my "perfect" albums, where I can listen from front to end and enjoy every song. And it provides one of my most pesky earworms "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" - I spent most of this afternoon trying to get rid of it... This is an album I put on if I need a bit of pep in my step, or if I am out riding my bike, and just need to peddle a little faster. 40 years later, the heart still races a bit faster and blood gets pumping.
Round 2.xx
AC/DC
Highway to Hell, 1979
RIP Bon Scott
Back in Black, 1980
Welcome, Brian Johnson
Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
Ilov80s
Footballguy
AC/DC are a band I appreciate but don't listen to. That said, even I can recognize how perfectly "Back in Black" nails what it is aiming for. It rocks a lot.
krista4
Footballguy
Fantastic write-up and picks! Not something that would be on my radar with only
I still remember all of that Steve Martin record, too. In fact, only yesterday I said "omelette du fromage" in my worst French accent.
Fantastic write-up and picks! Not something that would be on my radar with only1020 (please!) rounds, but I still love these records when I hear them.
I still remember all of that Steve Martin record, too. In fact, only yesterday I said "omelette du fromage" in my worst French accent.
I was going to go with that one, but figured it would be too short!
"I wrote that!"
rockaction
Footballguy
Its kind of weird relationship with me - I was never into any of the other harder rock acts of the late 70's - 80's but, I can listen to AC/DC while doing just about anything. (Its not side 1 of Led Zeppelin IV, but just about anything else).
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
If you're not feeling it when you make the pick, that's fine, but (assuming you wuss out again on the Give My Regards to Broad Street live blog) you can add them later when drunk!
krista4
Footballguy
Did anyone @Raging weasel and @Mrs. Rannous?
Wow, there are a whole lot more usernames that start with "Mrs." than I would have expected.
Wow, there are a whole lot more usernames that start with "Mrs." than I would have expected.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Back in Black is one of the purest rock songs I've ever heard. If you had 1 song to play to aliens to portray what rock is, that might be the choice.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Totally unrelated, nice work on the concept for this draft. It's simple but creates enough of a twist to make if feel unique.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Raging weasel
Footballguy
zamboni
Footballguy
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Taking some chalk before it's all gone.
The Beatles
Please Please Me(1963)
Rubber Soul(1965)
The Beatles
Please Please Me(1963)
Rubber Soul(1965)
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Thank you, but I don't think that will be necessary. We should be good to go. I just didn't want anyone to be alarmed if I didn't check in. Like at 4AM or something like a normal person.krista4 said:
Eephus
Footballguy
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Oh, crap. It's crunch time. Be back in a couple with my picks.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I know y'all will be stunned, but I'm going with my favorite group, Queen. (Not The Queen. That's a different person.)
A Kind of Magic (1986)
Who Wants to Live Forever
A Kind of Magic
Innuendo (1991)
Headlong
All God's People
Will add tracks in a moment.
@higgins
I really love how all the music is so carefully curated by nerds who care about their stuff, especially recording quality. Also that the group has maintained the accessability of their work. None of that sulky crap here. coughHenleycough
A Kind of Magic (1986)
Who Wants to Live Forever
A Kind of Magic
Innuendo (1991)
Headlong
All God's People
Will add tracks in a moment.
@higgins
I really love how all the music is so carefully curated by nerds who care about their stuff, especially recording quality. Also that the group has maintained the accessability of their work. None of that sulky crap here. coughHenleycough
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