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

Eephus said:
Living Colour were pretty awesome live.  Glover's posturing and Reid's noodling were impossible to ignore when they were in your face.
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I saw them when they opened for The Rolling Stones around 1989.  It was at Carter-Finley Stadium at NC State, so Living Colour had a huge stage and great exposure being the Stones opening act. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Kravitz, on the other hand, knew from marketing due to his upbringing. He knew white Boomers and GenXers would eat up a black guy playing accessible, heartland rock - "see? we even like black folks playing our music! that makes us un-racist!". I don't think he's all that talented, but God bless him for working the system.
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 Lenny is sexy too, and that adds to the rock star persona. Jim Morrison hated his sex appeal. He thought it made people not take him seriously, so he grew a beard and mustache and gained weight.

 
landrys hat said:
21.xx Earth Angel by The Penguins (1954)
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Back when I was someone else, one of my favorite bars was a biker haunt. One of the dudes that hung out there was named Cur Dog. Every night at precisely 11:00 p.m., he would play this record on the jukebox and dance with his lady. Her handle was Ice Pick, because she stabbed Cur in the eye with an ice pick years before and blinded him. 

Beautiful, raw record. Nice pick.

 
Eephus said:
21.ee - The Wanderer b/w/ The Majestic - Dion (1961)

Dion DiMucci was born in the Bronx and had a bunch of hits with the Belmonts and as a solo act.  He helped pave the way for rockers from the Tri-State area to follow.  There were a lot of early Rock 'n Roll acts both Black and White to influence the schtick of Springsteen and the Big Man; Dion was certainly among them.  Mr. and Mrs. Boss appeared on Dion's album that came out early this year.

The Wanderer was released as the B-side but DJs and listeners preferred it to the A-side.  The Majestic is an attempt to ignite a dance craze; it sounds suspiciously like Runaround Sue which had been a hit earlier in the year.  If you're bored, you can learn how to do the line dance.
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Very low on my list of things I thought would not need to be picked early so that I wouldn't get sniped or need a redacted, but here we are. Just solidifies my '95 pick, anyway.  

 
simey said:
 Lenny is sexy too, and that adds to the rock star persona. Jim Morrison hated his sex appeal. He thought it made people not take him seriously, so he grew a beard and mustache and gained weight.
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First time I read this I thought Morrison hated Kravitz' sex appeal.  Wasn't sure if Morrison envied a toddler in the 60s or the dead guy in the bath tub was a hoax.

 
Sports are on TV. I had a more celebratory pick lined up for Friday evening than what I ended up picking. Seems more apropos to have gone with the clebratory  song now that I'm watching professionals compete in front of cardboard cutout. No fans and the annoying strike zone box is still there but it's beisbol. Baby steps, Bob.

 
Opening day for the Tigers is done and I’m back home with working internet. Time to post some music and see if I can string together some kind of write up lol

 
Damn, 21?  I assume I owe 4 picks then?

So, do we get to double up on a year at some point?  I think I ####ed up one of my 80s picks.  

 
Yo Mama said:
I’ve been hitting the period between the late 60s to early 80s pretty hard in this draft lately, so it’s about time I move a little more recent (lol it’s still almost 25 years old). Yo Mama selects:

21.23 - Sublime - April 29, 1992 (Miami) (1996)

This song was another one that faced a decent backlash due to its lyrics, with groups calling for boycotts of radio stations that played it (to no avail). 
 

It wasn’t just a song about riots and protests, it about rioting and looting, which the band members [allegedly] participated in themselves. Based on the 1992 L.A. riots, the song showed how for many the riots went beyond the Rodney King beating and court decision. 
 

They said it was for the black man,
They said it was for the mexican
And not for the white man
But if you look at the streets
It wasn't about Rodney King
It's bout this f’d up situation and these f’d up police
It's about coming up
And staying on top
And screamin' 187 on a mother f’n' cop

I’ve got a bunch more solid 1996 songs, so hopefully it’ll get a free play at some point. 
 
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I'm about 10 beers deep right now. About 6 beers deep this song came up in conversation tonight. And somewhere in between all 6 of us karaoke'd this in our best 8 drink deep state. Our kids are now judging us.

 
MAC_32 said:
I'm about 10 beers deep right now. About 6 beers deep this song came up in conversation tonight. And somewhere in between all 6 of us karaoke'd this in our best 8 drink deep state. Our kids are now judging us.
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I hope you guys rattled off all the cities at the end

 
Well ####, too drunk too do a real write up but here are my songs, MOTOWN sound continued

The one that got away....

Rd18: Spirit in the Dark by Aretha Franklin (1970)

Barry Gordy tried really hard to sign her but given her father's status and her incredible talents, she was too big for even the biggest label in Detroit. Her gospel roots from New Bethel really shine on this one. 

 
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the MOTOWN sound 

Rd 19 Stop Her on the Sight (SOS) by Edwin Starr (1968)

Little Ric Tic Records was part of Golden World Records. The goal of Ric Tic was to compete with Motown. Mr. Gordy did not appreciate this and spent $1 million to take most of their main big acts, including Edwin Starr. This was one of the bigger hits from Starr under Ric Tic and it's easy to hear how they were trying to copy the Motown sound and thus how easy it would be to absorb the label and their Starr act. 

 
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Raging weasel said:
The cardboard cutouts are very distracting.
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They make baseball more interesting to me.  "Look, that one is Oscar the Grouch!"  "Hey, there's a big teddy bear there!"

Greetings to all from Wenatchee, WA.  When I pass back through here in a few days the high will be 103.  Things sure are different on the other side of the Cascades.

I'll be leaving for a ferry at 7 a.m. to go to Stehekin, which is only accessible by ferry or long hike in.  I'd love to do the hike, but this year I was in charge of bringing supplies, so we'll be on the ferry.  Guess I'll make one more pick tonight, and then I'll see you all again Tuesday night at the earliest.  Before I go, I hope to see 1969 come up as our free roll!

 
wikkidpissah said:
21.xx Oh, Well - Pt 1 (b-side, Oh, Well - Pt 2), Fleetwood Mac (1969)

One of the most underrated rock songs of all time. Part 1 is even more fun to perform than to listen to - you sound like the Black Crowes even if you have nowhere near the talent. And the unlikely Part 2 has some of the best air a rock band has ever created. I need it to write the aftermath of my diner bloodbath. I'm one of the few who likes the Peter Green, Bob Welch and Buckingham/Nicks emanations of Fleetwood Mac equally well, but this is my favorite of their songs.
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not enough people realize what Fleetwood Mac was before the giant breakout album

 
rockaction said:
Hootie was big with the jam band crowd (ask PIK) way before he went country. Like, upper-middle class liberal arts college students loved the act. Darius Rucker went country many, many years later.

And it's always tough to talk about the elephant in the room. I had the same thought you had about Epic and Corey Glover's Body Glove suit. Did he just decide to wear that on dry land one day? Or were label heads in on it?

Either way, wikkid nailed it. (I hadn't read what he said before I posted.) The songwriting wasn't that good. One thing they did do well was covers, of which "Sailin' On" by Bad Brains was an excellent one and got me into Bad Brains when I was sixteen or seventeen. Time's Up was the album that was off of, I think. IIRC, they'd already resorted to live albums and covers by their second album, one can surmise to get out of the weight of the Epic contract like a lot of bands will often release filler to have an album under their belt to be in performance of said contract. Those contracts are daunting as hell, especially ones from '89 or so.

God, the music industry. Bomb it, says Jeff Rosenstock. He might be right. 
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can't remember the year ...it was like '97 - '98.

We had John Daly and Hootie playing at our member-guest.  I didn't play with any of them as my partner and I were locked in and grinding for winning our flight.  

Several of them and Daly played cards late into the night after the pairings team purchases and Daly and his wife had his daughter stay at our house Thursday - Saturday.  

They played for about 3 hours at the Saturday party and we had a great time.  They were all very approachable and just very nice guys that just loved golf.  

John was pretty nice but overall a drunk mess.  

 
Ilov80s said:
the MOTOWN sound 

Rd 19 Stop Her on the Sight (SOS) by Edwin Starr

Little Ric Tic Records was part of Golden World Records. The goal of Ric Tic was to compete with Motown. Mr. Gordy did not appreciate this and spent $1 million to take most of their main big acts, including Edwin Starr. This was one of the bigger hits from Starr under Ric Tic and it's easy to hear how they were trying to copy the Motown sound and thus how easy it would be to absorb the label and their Starr act. 
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Year?

 
simey said:
Eephus said:
Living Colour were pretty awesome live.  Glover's posturing and Reid's noodling were impossible to ignore when they were in your face.
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I saw them when they opened for The Rolling Stones around 1989.  It was at Carter-Finley Stadium at NC State, so Living Colour had a huge stage and great exposure being the Stones opening act. 
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I saw that tour also - Steel Wheels - Louisville - had a great time. 

 
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