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Pick a Pair/Half Decade Album Draft - Bonus Rounds Thu & Fri - Pick three if you want (1 Viewer)

Manster said:
It's interesting......seems like Parrot heads play his music on a constant loop.  I also worked in a setting that had all Buffet, all the time.  It had a slightly different effect on me....just not my style, and definitely not on constant loop!.....I'd be ok never hearing cheeseburger in paradise again.
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Because it was such mind-numbing job with those mind-numbing songs playing, I entertained myself by changing the lyrics to make them more job-related; for example, Margaritaville became Meat Burritoville. Sometimes co-workers would join in and make their own changes as well. After I stopped working there, Jimmy pretty much dropped out of my life because I had my fill of his music. That was almost 30 years ago and I really haven't looked back and missed it, but again I chose Jimmy to add something I haven't picked in previous drafts and give that part of my past a little nod.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
I like a lot of 80s music, to some extent based on nostalgia, but when someone posted a poll about which musical decade from 1950-2020 would you pick if you had to pick one to never listen to again, I picked the 80s.
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Late 60s to early 90s were awesome IMO  (even with that disco hiccup along the way). Late 90s and 00s - I could delete that from musical history and not shed a tear.

 
9.03

Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)

Remember my complaint about gripey bands? Consider that late-night musing my write-up regarding my love and my absolute adoration of this band. This is the band and movement I was talking about. Franz Ferdinand and disco-punk of the aughts. They and it got me back into music with lyrics. Yes, there's a bit of existential dread in them, but they're done so well and sometimes so breezily that as fist-pumping anthems they go quite well with champagne, suckers! 

Consider these snippets of lyrical brilliance, lyrics that, aside from Isaac Brock, might be the best of the decade for pop music that isn't totally singer/songwriter heavy. 

Jacqueline

Jacqueline was seventeen
Working on a desk
When Ivor
Peered above a spectacle
Forgot that he had wrecked a girl
Sometimes these eyes
Forget the face they're peering from
When the face they peer upon
Well, you know
That face as I do
And how in the return of tha gaze
She can return you the face
That you are staring from...

It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when 
We need the money! 

Dark Of The Matinee

So I'm on BBC2
Telling Terry Wogan how
I've made it and
What I've made is unclear now
But his deference is 
And his laughter is...
My words and smiles come so easy now
Yes it's easy now...

Darts Of Pleasure

My name is super fantastic (Ich heibe super fanatstich)
I'm drinking champagne with salmon (Ich trinke Schampus mit Lacshfisch)
My name is super fantastic...

Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (2005)

This one is less memorable than the first just because people were braced for the disco/punk movement and its trappings, but probably as fine an effort as the first one, both lyrically and musically

Evil And A Heathen 

Your teeth are black with wine
As you place those lips on mine
The moon hangs heavy and forbidden high
On the night of our lives

Well, I'm evil and a heathen
I'm evil and a heathen
Well, I'm a heathen and evil like you
There's not a lot, not a lot I couldn't do, oh

Eleanor Put Your Boots On

So, Eleanor, take a Greenpoint three-point turn
Towards the hidden sun
You know you are so elegant when you run
Oh, if you run, you can run to that statue with the dictionary
Climb to her fingernail and leap, yeah, take an atmospheric leap
And let the jet stream set you down
Mm-hmm

I could be there when you land
I could be there when you land
I could be there when you land

Outsiders 

It's bright on the outside
The bright love, the dark side, I know
It's obvious, but sometimes
You just have to say it so
You don't feel so weak
About being such a freak or alone

In seventeen years, will you still be my Camille
Lee Miller, Gala or whatever? You know what I mean, yeah
Oh, oh
Love'll die and lovers fade, but you still remain there
Squeezing in your fingers what it means for me to be, yeah
Oh, oh
The only difference is what might be
Is now what might have been

 
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rockaction said:
solid riposte from a solid poster! What up, simey? How was the show? 
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The Merlefest was fun. It is usually at the end of April, but it was moved back this year due to the pandemic. My favorite show was the Hillside Album Hour. I know I've mentioned it before in the past. Every Merlefest on Saturday, The Waybacks and guest artists play a classic rock album in its entirety. It is always a secret on what they play, but they give out three clues in weeks before on the Merlefest Facebook page. Anyway, when they play the album they also weave in parts of songs from artists who have passed in the last year. I remember them weaving in Nanci Griffith, Bill Withers, Kenny Rogers, The Rolling Stones (Charlie Watts), ZZ Top (Dusty Hill), and Rush (Neal Peart). I know I'm forgetting people. What made this year so special is the album they chose. It wasn't a rock album, but it was a classic album from someone who has played the festival multiple times, and was supposed to last year when it was cancelled. They did John Prine's debut album.   :cry:  It was so well done. You could feel his spirit there.  ❤️

 
simey said:
the moops said:
Never liked the sound of these guys. Then I met Craig Finn at party one night, and rather than be all fanboy, I played it cool and pretended like I had no idea who he was - and asked him what he does with his time. With his stupid voice, he replied "I'm a writer". Made me like that band even less, which I wasn't sure was possible
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He is a writer. Maybe he didn't elaborate, because he got a weird vibe from you. Perhaps your approach wasn't as cool as you think.  😀
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Nah, he's just a turd :)

 
simey said:
The Merlefest was fun. It is usually at the end of April, but it was moved back this year due to the pandemic. My favorite show was the Hillside Album Hour. I know I've mentioned it before in the past. Every Merlefest on Saturday, The Waybacks and guest artists play a classic rock album in its entirety. It is always a secret on what they play, but they give out three clues in weeks before on the Merlefest Facebook page. Anyway, when they play the album they also weave in parts of songs from artists who have passed in the last year. I remember them weaving in Nanci Griffith, Bill Withers, Kenny Rogers, The Rolling Stones (Charlie Watts), ZZ Top (Dusty Hill), and Rush (Neal Peart). I know I'm forgetting people. What made this year so special is the album they chose. It wasn't a rock album, but it was a classic album from someone who has played the festival multiple times, and was supposed to last year when it was cancelled. They did John Prine's debut album.   :cry:  It was so well done. You could feel his spirit there.  ❤️
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Wow. Heady stuff. Glad you enjoyed it/shed a tear. That's great. 

 
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simey said:
Margo Price and Sturgill Simpson kicked it off on Thursday night. I enjoyed both their sets. Sturgill looked like he put a little Sun In on his hair.  👱‍♂️  😀
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Used to be lemon juice if you were eighth graders. That was the rumor back then. Thank God I was brown-haired and trying to be tall, dark, handsome when I was short, brown-haired, squat and pale. Heh. Sun In, huh? 

Now that's an eighties product! 

 
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rockaction said:
Ever since Spoon did "Breakdown," I've been listening to Petty just differently. It was such a straightforward cover that I can't imagine why it would do that, but it did. 
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Both of the Petty covers they released at the same time were pretty straight forward, but I enjoyed them both.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
Both of the Petty covers they released at the same time were pretty straight forward, but I enjoyed them both.
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I think it highlighted what a strong songwriter he was and how tight the original arrangement was. Britt Daniel doesn't give a modern seal of approval to too much bombast, so that's sort of curator function, I guess. 

But I always thought Petty was cool and a good songwriter. I just don't get why the Spoon covers served that performative function. Perhaps Petty just appeals to my brain as I get older. There's less existential gripey there, too, or what there is is sufferable because the execution is so good. "Anything That's Rock N' Roll" is coming out of my speakers right now, and whoa-oh it's right up my alley. 

Anything that's rock n' roll is fine

Anyway, nice, semi-surprising picks because they were still there. 

 
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rockaction said:
Used to be lemon juice if you were eighth graders. That was the rumor back then. Thank God I was brown-haired and trying to be tall, dark, handsome when I was short, brown, squat. Heh. Sun In, huh? 

Now that's an eighties product! 
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I remember people putting lemon juice, iced tea, or Sun-In in their hair during high school. My boyfriend squirted Sun In in his brown hair, and it turned orange. 👨‍🦰

 
rockaction said:
I think it highlighted what a strong songwriter he was and how tight the original arrangement was. Britt Daniel doesn't give a modern seal of approval to too much bombast, so that's sort of curator function, I guess. 

But I always thought Petty was cool and a good songwriter. I just don't get why the Spoon covers served that performative function. Perhaps Petty just appeals to my brain as I get older. There's less existential gripey there, too, or what there is is sufferable because the execution is so good. "Anything That's Rock N' Roll" is coming out of my speakers right now, and whoa-oh it's right up my alley. 

Anything that's rock n' roll is fine

Anyway, nice, semi-surprising picks because they were still there. 
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It's kind of funny because when he first broke it was in the punk/new wave heyday - and Geffen tried to market them as such.

 
PIK95 said:
@rockaction both my daughter and me, LOVE the Franz Ferdinand.
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This does not surprise me. The Franz Ferdinand appealed to a lot of daughters back in the aughts. I remember that there was a rock critic that went to show from the local paper and was admittedly stunned at all the high school girls at the show. He figured it would be music critics and hardened cynics, but the girls showed up to dance, be seen, and have a backdrop of great music. Funny stuff. I remember the review, which was professionally done, still remarked upon it. 

 
Steve Tasker said:
7.17 - Grimes - Visions (2012) / Art Angels (2015)

Maybe this ties in the new wave and the hip-hop on my mix?  Or more likely I'm just pulling #### out of thin air.  Gotta fill my mandatory Canadian quota.

"Kill V. Maim"

"Genesis"

"Oblivion"

"World Princess Part II"
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Given a cursory listen, I'd say you can easily get away with that. Sounds like pop with a twist to me. I really like "Kill V. Maim" and I might like Visions more than Art Angels's overt and almost sunny pop stylings, but everything I've heard -- and it's admittedly not in my rotation -- is pretty good. It's distant and technological, as if divorced from something, but catchy, too. 

 
rockaction said:
Given a cursory listen, I'd say you can easily get away with that. Sounds like pop with a twist to me. I really like "Kill V. Maim" and I might like Visions more than Art Angels's overt and almost sunny pop stylings, but everything I've heard -- and it's admittedly not in my rotation -- is pretty good. It's distant and technological, as if divorced from something, but catchy, too. 
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When recording Visions, she supposedly blacked out her apartment bedroom windows, didn't leave the bedroom for 9 straight days except to use the bathroom, barely ate, drank or slept, and took a bunch of amphetamines.  She wrote and recorded the entire album herself in 9 days using a keyboard, a sampler, and Apple's GarageBand software.  It's one of the more bizarre album recording stories I've ever heard.  That may explain such ridiculous bizarre songs as "EIGHT", which my friend Josh once described as "it sounds like Robocop strangling a cat for 90 seconds".

 
Steve Tasker said:
When recording Visions, she supposedly blacked out her apartment bedroom windows, didn't leave the bedroom for 9 straight days except to use the bathroom, barely ate, drank or slept, and took a bunch of amphetamines.  She wrote and recorded the entire album herself in 9 days using a keyboard, a sampler, and Apple's GarageBand software.  It's one of the more bizarre album recording stories I've ever heard.  That may explain such ridiculous bizarre songs as "EIGHT", which my friend Josh once described as "it sounds like Robocop strangling a cat for 90 seconds".
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Huh. Well then. I guess that explains some of it. Amphetamines just calm me down. Very prostrate. Such chill. 

Figured I could throw in a doge reference for Elon there. 

 
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@KarmaPoliceTool, Lateralus and 10,000 Days........soooooo good.  First rounder, easily imo

@Northern Voice that's the Modest Mouse combo I would've picked as well......both outstanding albums.....I'm not a huge Indi/college rock fan, or whatever you wanna call it, but for some reason Modest Mouse has always spoken to me.

@moops.......I love me some PJ Harvey!  

 
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I've got my bonus rounds and third albums all picked out and ready to go, actually. Should be interesting to see if they stick around until then. I'm pretty sure one will, not positive about the other. 

 
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rockaction said:
This does not surprise me. The Franz Ferdinand appealed to a lot of daughters back in the aughts. I remember that there was a rock critic that went to show from the local paper and was admittedly stunned at all the high school girls at the show. He figured it would be music critics and hardened cynics, but the girls showed up to dance, be seen, and have a backdrop of great music. Funny stuff. I remember the review, which was professionally done, still remarked upon it. 
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Except she was born in 2009. 🙂

 
landrys hat said:
9 - Harry Nilsson

Aerial Ballet (1968)

Nilsson Schmilsson (1971)
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Some good Harry Nilsson trivia in case anyone is unaware - both Mama Cass and Keith Moon died in the same room of Harry's London apartment, a few years apart in the mid 70s.  Harry was distraught after the second death (Moon), so he sold the apartment to Pete Townshend.  I love both these records, but my favorites are Son of Schmilsson and The Point.

 
Dr. Octopus said:
It's kind of funny because when he first broke it was in the punk/new wave heyday - and Geffen tried to market them as such.
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I think it was Denny Cordell's doing to market Petty like the skinny tie bands. Cordell tried something similar with Dwight Twilley's career.

Geffen didn't have much to do with Petty until several record company acquisitions later.

 
Eephus said:
I think it was Denny Cordell's doing to market Petty like the skinny tie bands. Cordell tried something similar with Dwight Twilley's career.

Geffen didn't have much to do with Petty until several record company acquisitions later.
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Yep. What it did accomplish was sending Petty to the UK to build a following there, which was generally not done for acts that were or would become "heartland rock." 

 
rockaction said:
Argy bargy. Nothing I type comes out right. She's twelve. Which is not a teen. Good point. 
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In your defense she is like five foot eight, and looks like she's much older.  Kinda crazy really.  

And John "Slayer" Mayer fits much better than Pearl Jam imo.

 
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8.10 - Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (2002) / Broken Social Scene (2005)

I've drafted these two albums approximately a million times in various drafts.  But I don't think I've ever had the opportunity to pick them both together, so here we are.  It's perhaps blasphemy amongst fans, but I prefer the self-titled album better.  But hey, I get both.  Really picking up with the female vocalists and the Canadians today.

I took my wife, who does not share my taste in music, to a Broken Social Scene concert once, maybe 2009-ish.  They were great, killed it, fantastic show.  Show ends, house lights come on, we're walking out, wife runs into a friend of hers.  They talk for a minute, friend is gushing about the show, and says "I didn't know you liked them."  Wife, deadpan, looks at her, says, emotionless "I don't."  I can count on one hand the number of shows we've seen together since then.  Hell I've seen more shows with @Northern Voice at this point.

7/4 remains my favorite song of all-time.

"7/4 (Shoreline)"

"Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)"

"Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl"

"Swimmers" (live at Sound Academy 2008)

 
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rockaction said:
These two hit at just the right time for a ninth grade rock to be fully enthralled. Later I would with up with They Might Be Giants (early college, and eagerly, also the Violent Femmes which meant young rock had tenth grade tastes his sophomore year of college, whereas the freshman year before had been The Go-Go's, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Stooges, et. al) and ridiculously more later (post-college and even into this board) Elvis Costello, but G N' R and Metallica came along at the right time. Young, almost pre-pubescent rock loved his hair metal and thrash in ninth grade, and weren't nothing going to change that in the free marketplace of ideas.
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I think you're about three years younger than I, so I just missed them by a few years.

I did not, however, miss Sun-In, lemon juice, or any other products to lighten my hair, all of which I used.  :lmao:  

 
Steve Tasker said:
8.10 - Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (2002) / Broken Social Scene (2005)

I've drafted these two albums approximately a million times in various drafts.  But I don't think I've ever had the opportunity to pick them both together, so here we are.  It's perhaps blasphemy amongst fans, but I prefer the self-titled album better.  But hey, I get both.  Really picking up with the female vocalists and the Canadians today.

I once took my wife, who does not share my taste in music, to a Broken Social Scene concert once, maybe 2009-ish.  They were great, killed it, fantastic show.  Show ends, house lights come on, we're walking out, wife runs into a friend of hers.  They talk for a minute, friend is gushing about the show, and says "I didn't know you liked them."  Wife, deadpan, looks at her, says, emotionless "I don't."  I can count on one hand the number of shows we've seen together since then.  Hell I've seen more shows with @Northern Voice at this point.

7/4 remains my favorite song of all-time.

"7/4 (Shoreline)"

"Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)"

"Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl"

"Swimmers" (live at Sound Academy 2008)
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You're probably not going to believe this, but I'm being serious when I deleted my post about Grimes's "Vowels = space + time" reminding me of BSS's "Cause = Time" because I thought you might take BSS and didn't want to spotlight. 

I'd take a lie detector on that and pass. This pick is funny in that way. I like You Forgot It In People. A Pitchfork special, but a good one.  

 
Manster said:
I've got a 12 year old daughter........she's a teen if you know what I mean
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I was trying to avoid any discussion of that given that fathers are very protective of their daughters, but in calling her a teen, I was generalizing about tweens as teens now. 

Darn it Floppo, see the discussions you're making me have here? 

Fathers be good to your daughters...

 
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