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Shuke's 1400 favorite songs by 1400 different artists. (5 Viewers)

Instead of hunting for bands that you missed or songs that did not quite make the cut, thought I would suggest some bands and songs that I doubt you've ever heard. Here are a couple for starters:

Gentle Giant: Definitely a prog-rock band but they have a unique baroque feel. I suspect they are a band that folks will either love or hate. Here are two tunes from the fine Three Friends album.   Working All Day and  Peel The Paint

Somehow Bowie's "alt-rock" phase which spawned the band Tin Machine has escaped public consciousness. It's a solid album and, hey, it's David Bowie: Crack City

Kind of prog, kind of art rock with a classical bent, the band Renaissance with engaging lead singer Annie Haslam produced a large catalog of mostly great music. Again, a taste like Gentle Giant that could really speak to you or fall flat. Running Hard

 
No solo Pete Townshend? How about Melancholia from Scoop? I suspect very few people on these boards know the band Mastermind. Here is the opening track to their Brainstorm album, Futility. Finally, a ballad which is not really my taste but it is pretty accessible and easy to listen to, especially after Mastermind. From Marillion: Kayleigh

 
Fired up the Spotify playlist today for the first time. About 15 songs in and already 4 songs I didn't know that blew me away. Never heard Maid Marian before, so great.

 
OK, something really, really weird just happened. I've been listening the spotify shuke-mix (first time on spotify btw :bowtie: ) for about 5-6 hours, blasting it in the cans. I have it on shuffle. First time listening to it. About an hour ago I gotta take a leak so i get up and go to the bathroom. As I'm pissing I start singing this random song that just popped into my head, a song I hadn't heard or thought about in probably, I'm not sure, maybe 15-20 years? I don't even know what the lyrics are, it always sounded like gibberish to me. Here, I'll sing it. So that's what I'm singing while I pissing and while I'm singing it I'm thinking how random it is that song popped into my head. Forty minutes later I'm sitting at my desk still listening to shuke-mix. Every time a new song comes on I look on spotify to see who it is. So new song starts and I see it's "In The Meantime" by Spacehog. Never heard of them. About 10 second into the song when it hits the bass riff I go oh, I know this song, I've heard it before. Then about 35-40 seconds into the song i realize, oh my god, this is the song I was just singing in the bathroom! I swear i didn't listen to the song when shuke posted the link in the thread and if i saw that post I would not have known it was this song just by reading the title of the song/band. For sure hadn't heard the song in ages. Bizarre.

I think what it is is all of these songs have a common thread and I have somehow, someway tapped into that specific wavelength. I must have heard something in the mix before that unconsciously reminded me of that song and just started singing it. Thinking back to the correct guesses of Monkey Man and Eyes of the World (what are the odds of correctly guessing both of those two songs? 1 in 2500?), when it came time to guess what shuke's picks would be, both of those songs just popped into my head. Maybe we should reach out and get some scientists involved? Do some kind of study?

 
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pecorino said:
Instead of hunting for bands that you missed or songs that did not quite make the cut, thought I would suggest some bands and songs that I doubt you've ever heard. Here are a couple for starters:

Gentle Giant: Definitely a prog-rock band but they have a unique baroque feel. I suspect they are a band that folks will either love or hate. Here are two tunes from the fine Three Friends album.   Working All Day and  Peel The Paint

Somehow Bowie's "alt-rock" phase which spawned the band Tin Machine has escaped public consciousness. It's a solid album and, hey, it's David Bowie: Crack City

Kind of prog, kind of art rock with a classical bent, the band Renaissance with engaging lead singer Annie Haslam produced a large catalog of mostly great music. Again, a taste like Gentle Giant that could really speak to you or fall flat. Running Hard
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I like what you're doing here.  

I kind of dig the Renaissance tune.  That Gentle Giant stuff scares me.

 
Nipsey said:
Fired up the Spotify playlist today for the first time. About 15 songs in and already 4 songs I didn't know that blew me away. Never heard Maid Marian before, so great.
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You and Page have very similar voices.   If you like that tune I'd check out the rest of the album, a lot of the songs are similar.

 
Nipsey said:
OK, something really, really weird just happened. I've been listening the spotify shuke-mix (first time on spotify btw :bowtie: ) for about 5-6 hours, blasting it in the cans. I have it on shuffle. First time listening to it. About an hour ago I gotta take a leak so i get up and go to the bathroom. As I'm pissing I start singing this random song that just popped into my head, a song I hadn't heard or thought about in probably, I'm not sure, maybe 15-20 years? I don't even know what the lyrics are, it always sounded like gibberish to me. Here, I'll sing it. So that's what I'm singing while I pissing and while I'm singing it I'm thinking how random it is that song popped into my head. Forty minutes later I'm sitting at my desk still listening to shuke-mix. Every time a new song comes on I look on spotify to see who it is. So new song starts and I see it's "In The Meantime" by Spacehog. Never heard of them. About 10 second into the song when it hits the bass riff I go oh, I know this song, I've heard it before. Then about 35-40 seconds into the song i realize, oh my god, this is the song I was just singing in the bathroom! I swear i didn't listen to the song when shuke posted the link in the thread and if i saw that post I would not have known it was this song just by reading the title of the song/band. For sure hadn't heard the song in ages. Bizarre.

I think what it is is all of these songs have a common thread and I have somehow, someway tapped into that specific wavelength. I must have heard something in the mix before that unconsciously reminded me of that song and just started singing it. Thinking back to the correct guesses of Monkey Man and Eyes of the World (what are the odds of correctly guessing both of those two songs? 1 in 2500?), when it came time to guess what shuke's picks would be, both of those songs just popped into my head. Maybe we should reach out and get some scientists involved? Do some kind of study?
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This is just as crazy as MOCS's theory, but presented in a more understandable manner.

 
Nipsey said:
OK, something really, really weird just happened. I've been listening the spotify shuke-mix (first time on spotify btw :bowtie: ) for about 5-6 hours, blasting it in the cans. I have it on shuffle. First time listening to it. About an hour ago I gotta take a leak so i get up and go to the bathroom. As I'm pissing I start singing this random song that just popped into my head, a song I hadn't heard or thought about in probably, I'm not sure, maybe 15-20 years? I don't even know what the lyrics are, it always sounded like gibberish to me. Here, I'll sing it. So that's what I'm singing while I pissing and while I'm singing it I'm thinking how random it is that song popped into my head. Forty minutes later I'm sitting at my desk still listening to shuke-mix. Every time a new song comes on I look on spotify to see who it is. So new song starts and I see it's "In The Meantime" by Spacehog. Never heard of them. About 10 second into the song when it hits the bass riff I go oh, I know this song, I've heard it before. Then about 35-40 seconds into the song i realize, oh my god, this is the song I was just singing in the bathroom! I swear i didn't listen to the song when shuke posted the link in the thread and if i saw that post I would not have known it was this song just by reading the title of the song/band. For sure hadn't heard the song in ages. Bizarre.

I think what it is is all of these songs have a common thread and I have somehow, someway tapped into that specific wavelength. I must have heard something in the mix before that unconsciously reminded me of that song and just started singing it. Thinking back to the correct guesses of Monkey Man and Eyes of the World (what are the odds of correctly guessing both of those two songs? 1 in 2500?), when it came time to guess what shuke's picks would be, both of those songs just popped into my head. Maybe we should reach out and get some scientists involved? Do some kind of study?
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I am working on it.

For now, I can only say that The Shuke Code is real, and you are recipient 1a - of said code. 

Use your gifts responsibly. 🧝‍♂️

 
Listening to Maid Marian for a second time last night I think i solved the mystery. There's a chord progression at the beginning of the verses in that song that is very similar to the chords in that "we love the all the all of you" part of In The Meantime. So I had just heard Maid Marian for the first time before taking that leak yesterday and while still humming the song but not knowing it very well, my brain went to that part of In The Meantime which had been drilled into my head 20 some years ago because that song was crazy overplayed on the radio back when it came out.

Here are the chords I'm talking about. They're not identical but they're very similar. Just the first few seconds of these links:

Maid Marian

In The Meantime

Still, the crazy part was just singing that song out of the blue and a half hour later having it come up on the mix not knowing it was even a part of it. Imagine for no reason you start singing some random old song you haven't heard in decades. A half hour later you get in your car, turn the radio and boom, that song is playing. Spooky.

 
About 4 hours in to the mix today. So many great ones I never heard (Pigeons Playing Ping Pong...jesus) but also songs that I already knew but forgot how good they were. Lowdown by Boz Scaggs, found a new appreciation for it. Forgot how great that Creed song was too. That band cheesed out but that one tune is stellar.

 
Nipsey said:
Listening to Maid Marian for a second time last night I think i solved the mystery. There's a chord progression at the beginning of the verses in that song that is very similar to the chords in that "we love the all the all of you" part of In The Meantime. So I had just heard Maid Marian for the first time before taking that leak yesterday and while still humming the song but not knowing it very well, my brain went to that part of In The Meantime which had been drilled into my head 20 some years ago because that song was crazy overplayed on the radio back when it came out.

Here are the chords I'm talking about. They're not identical but they're very similar. Just the first few seconds of these links:

Maid Marian

In The Meantime

Still, the crazy part was just singing that song out of the blue and a half hour later having it come up on the mix not knowing it was even a part of it. Imagine for no reason you start singing some random old song you haven't heard in decades. A half hour later you get in your car, turn the radio and boom, that song is playing. Spooky.
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Yes. Nice solid work, Nipsey. 

Much of this is spooky, but not necessarily irrational. Finding the proper terminology is the hardest part. 

Are you familiar with Carl Jung's work on the collective unconcious? I find it to be the most widely known scholastic investigation into such things. 

Another popular source is Joseph Campbell and his work on mythology. There are some good interviews with him on Netflix right now. I have only seen the 1st of 3 parts, I believe. 

In the end though, I think you may need to include some interpretive dance. Yes, it is a pain in the asss, but offers a lot in return. 🤹‍♂️

Keep me updated with any new data; I will reciprocate. 👍

 
I think I had a religious experience today blasting (and singing) Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In 7-8 times in a row.

 
Probably listened to about 150ish songs so far. (I did skip a handful of the legacy songs we know like You Can't Hurry love, Spirit in the Sky, etc) So far Astral Traveler my #1, such a great song. Cranking it up right now.

:headbang: Astral Traveler, can you tell me where you're going?

Astral Traveler, can you tell me where you've been?

Are you riding, riding on the wind? :headbang:

My top 3 so far:

Astral Traveler - Leftover Salmon

Lonesome Street - Blur

The Alien - Manchester Orchestra

 
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