opensourcebeer
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23 Minutes in Brussels is such a great song.
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Ron Swanson
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Love how he sings with a slight lisp - and just dig the Americana style generally.
Supposedly he's a descendant of Davy Crockett,
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Blah Blah Blah - Iggy Pop
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Klimtology
Footballguy
The Strokes - Is this it?
mr. furley
Footballguy
that was, in fact, itThe Strokes - Is this it?
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Maybe the best rock album of the millennium? Won’t make my randomizer next time I do it simply because I know the whole thing by heart. Came out the summer after my freshman year of college. That was the soundtrack to at least a whole year of my life.The Strokes - Is this it?
Klimtology
Footballguy
This is such a great recording. I just ordered a vinyl copy.Maybe the best rock album of the millennium? Won’t make my randomizer next time I do it simply because I know the whole thing by heart. Came out the summer after my freshman year of college. That was the soundtrack to at least a whole year of my life.The Strokes - Is this it?
Klimtology
Footballguy
And it was only $20!!!
Klimtology
Footballguy
Spinning it now!
You still going through the list or was it a one day thing? If you are still going through it how many have you tried and what's coming up next?
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
Yeah, dude has had a crazy life. And pretty prolific for a relatively short recording career so far.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
this cat sounds like he'd sctatch a certain musical itch i have ... will be checking out
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Habibi -Habibi
rockaction
Footballguy
I know you're playing literalist, but Room On Fire was an excellent rock and roll album.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
The coathangers - nosebleed weekend
Klimtology
Footballguy
Brunell4MVP
Footballguy
Every time this comes back up I post something out of boredom.
Pleased to Meet Me
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Pleased to Meet Me
Pleased To Meet Me 1987 ( Full Album) The Replacements
Pleased To Meet Me 1987 ( Full Album) The Replacements
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Moby Grape '69
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I was going to link Making Movies but this album is probably lesser played.
Communiqué
Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 5 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album featured the single "Lady Writer," which reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot...
Anarchy99
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I love the Straits. Saw them on their last two tours. My circle of friends had no taste, and I ended up going alone both times because no one was interested. Their loss. Both shows were spectacular. Any live version of Private Investigations or Telegraph Road is epic. Bummed they didn’t play Skateaway or Industrial Disease, but everything they did play was stellar. Really surprised they weren’t more popular in the U.S.I was going to link Making Movies but this album is probably lesser played.
Communiqué
Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 5 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album featured the single "Lady Writer," which reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot...music.youtube.com
General Malaise
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Rolling Stones put out a new album late last year - "Hackney Diamonds" and it's good! Way better than some of their "newer" albums (I think of new as anything late 80s and forward). The track with GaGa is all kinds of terrific. "Sweet Sounds of Heaven".
General Malaise
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I love the Straits. Saw them on their last two tours. My circle of friends had no taste, and I ended up going alone both times because no one was interested. Their loss. Both shows were spectacular. Any live version of Private Investigations or Telegraph Road is epic. Bummed they didn’t play Skateaway or Industrial Disease, but everything they did play was stellar. Really surprised they weren’t more popular in the U.S.I was going to link Making Movies but this album is probably lesser played.
Communiqué
Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 5 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album featured the single "Lady Writer," which reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot...
I mean, other than the fact that they DOMINATED MTV in '84-'86.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
We discussed DS in the top selling albums thread, and Europe mostly outsold the U.S. by 4-6X compared to the U.S. Brothers In Arms was a lot more even (Europe +30% vs the U.S.). But every other album wasn’t even close.I love the Straits. Saw them on their last two tours. My circle of friends had no taste, and I ended up going alone both times because no one was interested. Their loss. Both shows were spectacular. Any live version of Private Investigations or Telegraph Road is epic. Bummed they didn’t play Skateaway or Industrial Disease, but everything they did play was stellar. Really surprised they weren’t more popular in the U.S.I was going to link Making Movies but this album is probably lesser played.
Communiqué
Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 5 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album featured the single "Lady Writer," which reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot...
I mean, other than the fact that they DOMINATED MTV in '84-'86.
General Malaise
Footballguy
We discussed DS in the top selling albums thread, and Europe mostly outsold the U.S. by 4-6X compared to the U.S. Brothers In Arms was a lot more even (Europe +30% vs the U.S.). But every other album wasn’t even close.I love the Straits. Saw them on their last two tours. My circle of friends had no taste, and I ended up going alone both times because no one was interested. Their loss. Both shows were spectacular. Any live version of Private Investigations or Telegraph Road is epic. Bummed they didn’t play Skateaway or Industrial Disease, but everything they did play was stellar. Really surprised they weren’t more popular in the U.S.I was going to link Making Movies but this album is probably lesser played.
Communiqué
Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 5 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album featured the single "Lady Writer," which reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot...
I mean, other than the fact that they DOMINATED MTV in '84-'86.
How much more popular do you think they should be in the US? "Money for Nothing" was the intro song to "Air" a year ago. They were insanely popular here.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I never said they weren't popular here . . . I just commented that they could have been more popular. They released 8 primary albums and a greatest hits record in the time they were together. They were exceedingly popular for one album . . . but every other album sold significantly less in the U.S. than internationally. Dire Straits in some European companies were held in the same light and sold as much as The Beatles did. I don't think they ever hit that level in the U.S. They had 4 Top 20 songs in the United States and 11 overseas. They had 12 Top 10 albums in other countries and 2 in America. Based off of that, they were more popular in other places.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Conversely, David Hasselhoff is wildly popular in Europe.
I like DS too but they had their moment in the sun here. Their music is still ubiquitous.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
They were Beatles-level popular in some parts of Europe. That was not the case here. More like Police-level popular during their mid-80s peak.We discussed DS in the top selling albums thread, and Europe mostly outsold the U.S. by 4-6X compared to the U.S. Brothers In Arms was a lot more even (Europe +30% vs the U.S.). But every other album wasn’t even close.I love the Straits. Saw them on their last two tours. My circle of friends had no taste, and I ended up going alone both times because no one was interested. Their loss. Both shows were spectacular. Any live version of Private Investigations or Telegraph Road is epic. Bummed they didn’t play Skateaway or Industrial Disease, but everything they did play was stellar. Really surprised they weren’t more popular in the U.S.I was going to link Making Movies but this album is probably lesser played.
Communiqué
Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 5 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album featured the single "Lady Writer," which reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot...
I mean, other than the fact that they DOMINATED MTV in '84-'86.
How much more popular do you think they should be in the US? "Money for Nothing" was the intro song to "Air" a year ago. They were insanely popular here.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I love Dire Straits but I would say Beatles level popularity might be too muchThey were Beatles-level popular in some parts of Europe. That was not the case here. More like Police-level popular during their mid-80s peak.We discussed DS in the top selling albums thread, and Europe mostly outsold the U.S. by 4-6X compared to the U.S. Brothers In Arms was a lot more even (Europe +30% vs the U.S.). But every other album wasn’t even close.I love the Straits. Saw them on their last two tours. My circle of friends had no taste, and I ended up going alone both times because no one was interested. Their loss. Both shows were spectacular. Any live version of Private Investigations or Telegraph Road is epic. Bummed they didn’t play Skateaway or Industrial Disease, but everything they did play was stellar. Really surprised they weren’t more popular in the U.S.I was going to link Making Movies but this album is probably lesser played.
Communiqué
Communiqué is the second studio album by British rock band Dire Straits, released on 5 June 1979 by Vertigo Records internationally, Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Mercury Records in Canada. The album featured the single "Lady Writer," which reached number 45 on the Billboard Hot...
I mean, other than the fact that they DOMINATED MTV in '84-'86.
How much more popular do you think they should be in the US? "Money for Nothing" was the intro song to "Air" a year ago. They were insanely popular here.
rockaction
Footballguy
Europe gets fervid over things that aren't exactly worthy of that emotion.
Dire Straits is an okay band. Knopfler can play the guitar. I enjoy "Sultans Of Swing." But they are way too mellow and distant-sounding to be an out-and-out success in the American popular consciousness, which likes itself some dynamism. I would never describe Dire Straits as dynamic or riveting. They're quite somnolent, actually. They appeal to stoners in America, really. Stephen Malkmus summed them up sort of perfectly in this song
"Jenny and the Ess-Dog"
Jennifer dates a man in a sixties cover band
He's the Ess Dog—Sean if you wish
She's 18 he's 31
She's the rich girl he's the son
of a Coca-Cola middleman
Kiss when they listen to "Brothers In Arms"
And if there's something wrong with this they don't see the harm
In joining their forces and singing along
The song is actually quite sad as it goes on, but it's a slice of Americana, circa 2001 or so. Dire Straits are for sort of jam-band loving would-be hippies in our country.
Bossman
Footballguy
If you're looking for something fresh and summery, I recommend this album;
Elovaters - Endless Summer
a bit of Cali-Reggae vibe ... although they are from the east coast
(my faves; Red Wine & Burn Slow but they're all good)
Elovaters - Endless Summer
a bit of Cali-Reggae vibe ... although they are from the east coast
(my faves; Red Wine & Burn Slow but they're all good)
kupcho1
Footballguy
northern exposure
Footballguy
Excellent album!Every time this comes back up I post something out of boredom.
Pleased to Meet Me
Pleased To Meet Me 1987 ( Full Album) The Replacements
Pleased To Meet Me 1987 ( Full Album) The Replacements
rockaction
Footballguy
Unlike the U.S.
If I were to talk extemporaneously about the words "fervid" and "United States" I'd catch a banhammer in two seconds. Have I told you how much I've been refraining lately? Europe's ugliness in the twentieth century appears to have been uprooted and it seems to have landed here, somehow. But we can't discuss it in the places it needs discussing the most. It's now considered gauche and those that do are accused of being too wrapped up in current events.
**** that. Now's the time for some honesty.
I await the returns of our strange, complicit silence anxiously and pessimistically.
eta* I had absolutely no idea last night that I was in your thread. In fact, I still didn't know until just now. I thought I was in Anarchy99's record sales thread. So my apologies for waffle stomping around here. Peace, kupcho1. Keep doing what you do.
eta2* Bah gawd, I'm in Ilov80's thread. This is kinda funny now. Sorry, Ilov, I'll let you get back to your regularly scheduled program.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
You are all good. This thread is from the summer and was more a thing for that moment in time. I’m cool with it having a new weird second life. And I 100% agree with on your point. Please wafflestomp away on that because it’s quite grim imo. Dread is the proper word for what I feel about it.Unlike the U.S.
If I were to talk extemporaneously about the words "fervid" and "United States" I'd catch a banhammer in two seconds. Have I told you how much I've been refraining lately? Europe's ugliness in the twentieth century appears to have been uprooted and it seems to have landed here, somehow. But we can't discuss it in the places it needs discussing the most. It's now considered gauche and those that do are accused of being too wrapped up in current events.
**** that. Now's the time for some honesty.
I await the returns of our strange, complicit silence anxiously and pessimistically.
eta* I had absolutely no idea last night that I was in your thread. In fact, I still didn't know until just now. I thought I was in Anarchy99's record sales thread. So my apologies for waffle stomping around here. Peace, kupcho1. Keep doing what you do.
eta2* Bah gawd, I'm in Ilov80's thread. This is kinda funny now. Sorry, Ilov, I'll let you get back to your regularly scheduled program.
neal cassady
Footballguy
skol asylum
Footballguy
Double Eclipse - Hardline
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Hardline - Hot Cherie (official video)
This is Hot Cherie, the official video filmed for one of the first singles on the first Hardline album, Double Eclipse. Released in 1992 in the days when VH...
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
And Binky thought he was in this thread when he was in the pet peeves thread.Unlike the U.S.
If I were to talk extemporaneously about the words "fervid" and "United States" I'd catch a banhammer in two seconds. Have I told you how much I've been refraining lately? Europe's ugliness in the twentieth century appears to have been uprooted and it seems to have landed here, somehow. But we can't discuss it in the places it needs discussing the most. It's now considered gauche and those that do are accused of being too wrapped up in current events.
**** that. Now's the time for some honesty.
I await the returns of our strange, complicit silence anxiously and pessimistically.
eta* I had absolutely no idea last night that I was in your thread. In fact, I still didn't know until just now. I thought I was in Anarchy99's record sales thread. So my apologies for waffle stomping around here. Peace, kupcho1. Keep doing what you do.
eta2* Bah gawd, I'm in Ilov80's thread. This is kinda funny now. Sorry, Ilov, I'll let you get back to your regularly scheduled program.
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
And Binky thought he was in this thread when he was in the pet peeves thread.Unlike the U.S.
If I were to talk extemporaneously about the words "fervid" and "United States" I'd catch a banhammer in two seconds. Have I told you how much I've been refraining lately? Europe's ugliness in the twentieth century appears to have been uprooted and it seems to have landed here, somehow. But we can't discuss it in the places it needs discussing the most. It's now considered gauche and those that do are accused of being too wrapped up in current events.
**** that. Now's the time for some honesty.
I await the returns of our strange, complicit silence anxiously and pessimistically.
eta* I had absolutely no idea last night that I was in your thread. In fact, I still didn't know until just now. I thought I was in Anarchy99's record sales thread. So my apologies for waffle stomping around here. Peace, kupcho1. Keep doing what you do.
eta2* Bah gawd, I'm in Ilov80's thread. This is kinda funny now. Sorry, Ilov, I'll let you get back to your regularly scheduled program.
its all about exposure baby
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Maybe its too "popular" but throwing copper is still a great album
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
As many radio songs as that album had, some of the best on it are ones that didn't make the radio (including TBD and White, Discussion),
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
big fan of ****town