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The Return of the Desert Island Jukebox Draft - Drop in a quarter (2 Viewers)

The more recent years are pretty easy for me, so knocking out the early stuff first:

50 Canadian Artists Better Than Rush

  • 1968 - Magic Carpet Ride/Sookie Sookie - Steppenwolf
  • 1969 - The Night They Drove ol Dixie Down/Up on Cripple Creek - The Band
  • 1970 - American Woman/No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who
  • 1972 - Old Man/The Needle and The Damage Done - Neil Young
  • 1974 - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet/Free Wheelin' - BTO
  • 1979 - This Beat Goes On/Switchin to Glide - The Kings
this mother####er isn't going to end well ...

 
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby. Fitting, huh?

6.2 - Joan Jett - I love Rock N Roll (1982)

Another must in a jukebox of covers. Unlike the ones to this point I'm not familiar with the original and don't particular care to change that either.
It's pretty good. I can see why she covered it.  She probably wishes she wrote it.
I'm sensing an unreasonably harsh edge to this thread ...

THAT SCHTICK IS MINE!!!

LOSE IT NOW!!!

 
This song will always remind me of the Giants' 2012 World Series win.

ETA:  sorry @Ilov80s
I still sort of followed baseball then. I have no idea how that window for Detroit never wound up culminating in a championship.  The Red Sox in '13 got tremendously lucky to beat them.

/Pecota

 
This song will always remind me of the Giants' 2012 World Series win.

ETA:  sorry @Ilov80s
Makes me physically ill

I still sort of followed baseball then. I have no idea how that window for Detroit never wound up culminating in a championship.  The Red Sox in '13 got tremendously lucky to beat them.

/Pecota
Unreal. They were probably the best team over a 10 year span. There’s an alternate reality where they won 3 WS over that time. I have so many bittersweet memories of that team.

 
6.01 Talking Heads -- Crosseyed and Painless

Year: 1980

Album: Remain in Light

B-side: The Great Curve

Also, if you have any interest in Talking Heads, you must hear the Live in Rome set from 1980, all of which is on YouTube. It blows all their officially released live stuff away. Yes, even Stop Making Sense. And the Crosseyed is INSANE. I have no idea how Adrian Belew got those sounds out of his guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwWW742T0Wc
excellent selection. I think Crosseyed an Painless is on the short list of potential Talking Heads Mount Rushmore songs. Getting The Great Curve with it is icing. Side 1 of Remain in Light is incredible

 
Skip me if I come up.  I'll be home tonight.  At my daughter's Tennis event since they got Coronaed out of her senior season...

 
6.18 - Light of Day b/w Roadrunner - The Barbusters (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts) - 1987

A rockin' Springsteen cover that was the title track for the 1987 movie starring Jett, Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands and Michael McKean.  

There's a low res but watchable print of the movie on YouTube that I checked out over the weekend.  It's a surprisingly gritty and unsentimental melodrama about a dysfunctional family in Cleveland.  There's no romance and precious little redemption to be had.  It's a Paul Schrader film so there's also a subtext of the conflict between puritanism and Rock 'n Roll.  Fox and Jett play siblings who play in a bar band.  They're both pretty good but Rowlands as their mother and the kid who plays Jett's son steal every scene they appear in.

The flipside is a Jonathan Richman cover that's not the best version but it's still a great jukebox song.

 
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White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane

(1967)

i feel like jA has a somewhat negative perception, but maybe that’s not true.  Either way, I always dug a lot of their stuff, though I do believe that this is a cover.
6.20

rabbit hole

Living Legends

(2007)

living legends is a collective of several west coast rap groups and artists.  I always associated most of them with backpack rap, though their flows and beats often tend toward more of a groove.  Love the way they incorporated these samples.
 

@timschochet up

 
Nope.  I'm just picking the stuff from artists where I only like one of their songs or I don't want an album of it.  And it has to go on a jukebox.  No sad songs, please.
Wait, I was going to complement a couple of your picks, but you are saying you only like 1 Lorde song?? ;)

 
6. Cher “Half Breed” 1973

https://youtu.be/zt9XDdzzp2k

Cher is from El Centro in the Imperial Valley. Both sides were against her since the day she was born. 
 

ETA- not my favorite Cher song but I feel a connection to it as I met the writer at a wedding several years ago. 

 
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they have a bunch on various soundtracks, but i like that you chose one that was specifically for a movie and was left off their LPs. great song btw
And I will put on the version that is from the OST which was shorter, and I think with different drum?  

After looking at my list, I am for sure more targeting stuff that was made for a movie or mostly known for that movie.   IE- soundtracks like Dazed and Confused or Forrest Gump have great soundtracks, but it's just a GH album at the end of the day.  There might be a couple of these on the jukebox, but currently most of my list is littered with original stuff (I think). 

 
In broad music drafts like this, I don't usually make a grand plan. I jot down a few songs that I want, and then slowly add others as they come to mind. I rarely get blindsided this way.

What'd I Say was one of the few songs I'd jotted down. 

 
...well that wasn't fun.

had our first heat-related power outage for the last 4 hours or so

power just got back on.

I am on permaskip - but will be here a lot.  

gotta go turn a few things back on

 
In broad music drafts like this, I don't usually make a grand plan. I jot down a few songs that I want, and then slowly add others as they come to mind. I rarely get blindsided this way.

What'd I Say was one of the few songs I'd jotted down. 
Plans are useless but planning is essential

 

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