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The Return of the Desert Island Jukebox Draft - Drop in a quarter (1 Viewer)

Eephus said:
22.ee - Born in the U.S.A.  b/w Shut Out the Light - Bruce Springsteen (1984)

I'm going to allow myself five Springsteen picks so it'll fill column A of the jukebox.  1984 was the commercial peak of Springsteen's long career but a surprisingly thin year for my gimmick so the biggest challenge was choosing which song from Born in the USA.

I've never been a fan of the album.  The overly bright vocals, huge drums and synths instead of piano don't sound any better today than in the 80s.  The songs are great though and none are better than the title track.  The Boss screaming before the fade makes me want to rip the sleeves off my denim jacket. 

The flipside is another veteran's story.  Shut Out the Light is darker and lonelier than the bombast of Born in the USA; a dumb politician wouldn't mistake it for an anthem.  It's another terrific song that benefits from an arrangement that's more restrained than the ballads that made the album.
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Spinning the boss right now watching the met game

Born to Run

 
Eephus said:
22.ee - Born in the U.S.A.  b/w Shut Out the Light - Bruce Springsteen (1984)

I'm going to allow myself five Springsteen picks so it'll fill column A of the jukebox.  1984 was the commercial peak of Springsteen's long career but a surprisingly thin year for my gimmick so the biggest challenge was choosing which song from Born in the USA.

I've never been a fan of the album.  The overly bright vocals, huge drums and synths instead of piano don't sound any better today than in the 80s.  The songs are great though and none are better than the title track.  The Boss screaming before the fade makes me want to rip the sleeves off my denim jacket. 

The flipside is another veteran's story.  Shut Out the Light is darker and lonelier than the bombast of Born in the USA; a dumb politician wouldn't mistake it for an anthem.  It's another terrific song that benefits from an arrangement that's more restrained than the ballads that made the album.
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Was on my short list for 1984, but I didn’t pull the trigger yet since I’ve got lots of options that year. Nice one. 

 
Eephus said:
I've never been a fan of the album.  The overly bright vocals, huge drums and synths instead of piano don't sound any better today than in the 80s. 
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I feel the exact same way. Unfortunately this came out when I was 13 and starting to form my own musical tastes. I hated the production and I hated how radio shoved most of its songs in my face all the time, so I did not develop any interest in Bruce. 

 
simey said:
I just read about The Paddock Club on wikipedia, and it said "As a gay club, it was a surprise when in 2002 Playboy chose the club as "best place to meet chicks". Friday nights' drag shows drew a large number of heterosexual men, making it a good night to mix."   :lol:   The club closed in 2003. It opened in 1973. Anyway, I'm straight, but I remember being in there on some Friday nights, and seeing people thinking to myself "I didn't know they were gay." Of course they might have been thinking the same thing about me. There was such a mix of straights and gays on Friday nights. I found youtube videos of some of the pageants held there.  Check out this trailer for some documentary that was done.
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your mailbox is full

 
Pip's Invitation said:
I feel the exact same way. Unfortunately this came out when I was 13 and starting to form my own musical tastes. I hated the production and I hated how radio shoved most of its songs in my face all the time, so I did not develop any interest in Bruce. 
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A move toward the mainstream was probably the right one; Springsteen never was shy about his desire to be a big star.  If you wanted to swim in the mid-80s mainstream, you had to slick yourself down. 

It was the first of many questionable decisions regarding how his music was produced.  He stayed loyal to his production team of Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin and Bob Clearmountain but for an artist of his stature, the buck stops with the Boss.

 
Eephus said:
I've never been a fan of the album.  The overly bright vocals, huge drums and synths instead of piano don't sound any better today than in the 80s.  
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No Surrender best depicts how I feel about this album. The version released on live is spectacular. This one? A mess. 

 
23.ee - Just To Walk That Little Girl Home - Mink DeVille (1980)

Longtime music draft nerds know how much I love Willy DeVille.  One of the joys of this gimmick has been to jump back into his catalog.  All of his stuff with Mink DeVille and most of his solo work is great. 

This beautiful saloon song was co-written by the legendary Doc Pomus.  DeVille was more of an uptown sharpie than the Boss but it's not hard to imagine Springsteen singing this number with Danny Federici on the squeezebox.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
I feel the exact same way. Unfortunately this came out when I was 13 and starting to form my own musical tastes. I hated the production and I hated how radio shoved most of its songs in my face all the time, so I did not develop any interest in Bruce. 
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This is exactly how I feel about Bruce and what I was gently saying upthread about his oeuvre. Born In The U.S.A. just strikes all the wrong chords with me. I think I started a thread about getting a "speedball" thrown by you.

Speaking of that, where's @otb_liferat. I know you've got a Bruce comment or two in ya. C'mon brother, let's hear it.

 
rockaction said:
Pip's Invitation said:
I feel the exact same way. Unfortunately this came out when I was 13 and starting to form my own musical tastes. I hated the production and I hated how radio shoved most of its songs in my face all the time, so I did not develop any interest in Bruce. 
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This is exactly how I feel about Bruce and what I was gently saying upthread about his oeuvre. Born In The U.S.A. just strikes all the wrong chords with me. I think I started a thread about getting a "speedball" thrown by you.

Speaking of that, where's @otb_liferat. I know you've got a Bruce comment or two in ya. C'mon brother, let's hear it.
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We went through this a lot during the Music of our Lives draft; the time when you first encountered an artist shapes your perspective for a lifetime. 

Springsteen was a big part of my life in my teens and early 20s but we drifted apart after Born in the USA.  I'm familiar with his records from this century in a "listened to them a few times" sense.  This exercise has brought us closer but his late-career albums are pretty mixed.

The Boss has always maintained that speedball was used intentional because he and his buddies called them that while growing up.

 
Eephus said:
We went through this a lot during the Music of our Lives draft; the time when you first encountered an artist shapes your perspective for a lifetime. 

Springsteen was a big part of my life in my teens and early 20s but we drifted apart after Born in the USA.  I'm familiar with his records from this century in a "listened to them a few times" sense.  This exercise has brought us closer but his late-career albums are pretty mixed.

The Boss has always maintained that speedball was used intentional because he and his buddies called them that while growing up.
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I think you're right about your premise, though I've known about The Boss as everyman since the nineties and I think I've shaken the jingoism from his stuff. But yeah, for a long time that was my perspective.  

As for the bolded, I wish you'd been there in the thread then. That was a bone of contention. I posited he used the word as a misnomer and meant "fastball," others thought it to be a double entendre. I thought the video cleared that up, though I admitted the possibility of a double meaning. 

 
Eephus said:
23.ee - Just To Walk That Little Girl Home - Mink DeVille (1980)

Longtime music draft nerds know how much I love Willy DeVille.  One of the joys of this gimmick has been to jump back into his catalog.  All of his stuff with Mink DeVille and most of his solo work is great. 

This beautiful saloon song was co-written by the legendary Doc Pomus.  DeVille was more of an uptown sharpie than the Boss but it's not hard to imagine Springsteen singing this number with Danny Federici on the squeezebox.
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This would have been on the shortlist for my "underaged girl" mix.  (that I thankfully didn't do)

P.S. It's a great fit for the Boss Theme

 
John Lee Hooker made Amos Milburn's original better than George Thorogood one upped Hooker...

Round 23  George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (1977)

...taking the Hooker version and throwing a first person House Rent Boogie over top. It may be 2 1/2 minutes over the allowed jukebox length, but there are no rules after midnight when this jam is at its best. 

 
Round 22  -  Shop Around -  The Miracles  (1961)

Round 23  -  In The Summertime  -  Mungo Jerry  (1970)

Sing along with us
Dee dee dee-dee dee
Dah dah dah-dah dah
Yeah we're hap-happy
Dah dah-dah
Dee-dah-do dee-dah-do dah-do-dah
Dah-do-dah-dah-dah
Dah-dah-dah do-dah-dah

Alright ah

Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh, uh
Chh chh-chh, uh, chh chh-chh
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It's Shakespeare.

 
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Mrs. Rannous said:
Nope.  It was everywhere on the BBC when it came out.  I like the singers, but I was traumatized back in the day.
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You're English? Or British? I did not know that. Interesting, if so...

Do you think that adds or detracts IQ points somehow when you're in America?  I've always argued -- and I borrow this from Paul Fussell --  that a British accent adds ten points to your perceived IQ over here just for having one. 

 
Also, if you are indeed English, the correct parenthetical and quotation forms must drive you nuts. The English have it right; the Americans much less so.

 
rockaction said:
You're English? Or British? I did not know that. Interesting, if so...

Do you think that adds or detracts IQ points somehow when you're in America?  I've always argued -- and I borrow this from Paul Fussell --  that a British accent adds ten points to your perceived IQ over here just for having one. 
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No. My parents came here from England two years before I was born.  From 1967-74, we lived in Europe.  Dusseldorf was in the British sector of West Germany, so we got the BBC through the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS).  I got to hear Ballroom Blitz debut there and here.

What accent would you like me to have?  I pick them up pretty easily.  Mr R likes to put The Quiet Man on so he can hear me talk Irish.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
No. My parents came here from England two years before I was born.  From 1967-74, we lived in Europe.  Dusseldorf was in the British sector of West Germany, so we got the BBC through the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS).  I got to hear Ballroom Blitz debut there and here.

What accent would you like me to have?  I pick them up pretty easily.  Mr R likes to put The Quiet Man on so he can hear me talk Irish.
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So you could theoretically solve our presidential crisis? I am heartened. You have my vote. Your work in the pet peeve and other threads proves you have the necessarily punctilio that the other guys lack. 

As relates to the bolded, how about cockney so I can't understand and have to have subtitles?

No, that's cool. Just a regular public school English accent. :)

 
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rockaction said:
Also, if you are indeed English, the correct parenthetical and quotation forms must drive you nuts. The English have it right; the Americans much less so.
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Wrong-o.  It's spelling.  Not that I can't spell, but that it confuses me sometimes.  Back around 1993, Mr R and I were in a Blockbuster video store.  There was a cardboard standalone for Die Hard.  The tagline for the movie is, "40 Stories of Sheer Adventure".  I looked at him and said, "Forty stories?  Isn't that a lot of characters to keep straight?"  He looked at me like I was on drugs, thought about it, and started laughing.  I had no idea Americans can't spell storeys correctly.  I was about 34 when that happened.  Even the spell check on this machine hates me.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Wrong-o.  It's spelling.  Not that I can't spell, but that it confuses me sometimes.  Back around 1993, Mr R and I were in a Blockbuster video store.  There was a cardboard standalone for Die Hard.  The tagline for the movie is, "40 Stories of Sheer Adventure".  I looked at him and said, "Forty stories?  Isn't that a lot of characters to keep straight?"  He looked at me like I was on drugs, thought about it, and started laughing.  I had no idea Americans can't spell storeys correctly.  I was about 34 when that happened.  Even the spell check on this machine hates me.
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Colour me surprised, neighbour.

Okay, that was bad on my end. Couldn't resist. 

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Wrong-o.  It's spelling.  Not that I can't spell, but that it confuses me sometimes.  Back around 1993, Mr R and I were in a Blockbuster video store.  There was a cardboard standalone for Die Hard.  The tagline for the movie is, "40 Stories of Sheer Adventure".  I looked at him and said, "Forty stories?  Isn't that a lot of characters to keep straight?"  He looked at me like I was on drugs, thought about it, and started laughing.  I had no idea Americans can't spell storeys correctly.  I was about 34 when that happened.  Even the spell check on this machine hates me.
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I had no idea the Brits spelled it "storey” until I was 24 and saw it in a song title.

 
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rockaction said:
You're English? Or British? I did not know that. Interesting, if so...

Do you think that adds or detracts IQ points somehow when you're in America?  I've always argued -- and I borrow this from Paul Fussell --  that a British accent adds ten points to your perceived IQ over here just for having one. 
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Don't know about IQ but a British accent adds at least 10 points to a women's hotness 

 
Time to switch it up and go with the most sampled breakbeat ever. They call it the "Amen Break" in hip hop and turntablism circles. 

Round 24.xx

*Free Play*

Song: Amen, Brother

Artist: The Winstons

Year: 1969

 
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Ole Oak Tree"  actually took on a life of its own back when it came out. The song is about a man being released from prison, and hoping his sweetheart still wants him, and if she does, a yellow ribbon will be tied around the ole oak tree. Anyway, significant others and families of Vietnam soldiers started to tie yellow ribbons around their trees for when the soldiers returned home. Bob Hope invited Tony to sing to some POWs in '73 (one of which was John McCain) when the song came out, and Tony has continued to perform for servicemen/veterans every year since, and he has raised almost 300 million dolllars over that time. The song is somewhat of an anthem to those affiliated with the military.

 
simey said:
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Ole Oak Tree"  actually took on a life of its own back when it came out. The song is about a man being released from prison, and hoping his sweetheart still wants him, and if she does, a yellow ribbon will be tied around the ole oak tree. Anyway, significant others and families of Vietnam soldiers started to tie yellow ribbons around their trees for when the soldiers returned home. Bob Hope invited Tony to sing to some POWs in '73 (one of which was John McCain) when the song came out, and Tony has continued to perform for servicemen/veterans every year since, and he has raised almost 300 million dolllars over that time. The song is somewhat of an anthem to those affiliated with the military.
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I remember this story. I grew up with it actually, being born that year. Used to sing it all the time as a kid because I learned of it from my mother. 

Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree/It's been three long years do you still want me? 

 
The odds are getting longer, but...

Round 25 Free Play

Lock

1970- 18

1972, 1977- 16

Likely In

1975, 1976, 1979- 14

Bubble

1971, 1973- 13

Work To Do

1966, 1978, 1982 - 12

1967, 1968, 1980- 11

 
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