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

8.12 New Order - Crystal (album version)

2001

Someone made a top-5 songs thread in this forum a week or 3 ago and this was the only one my my top 5 that would fit the theme of my jukebox so I'm going to take it even though I don't think it's on anyone's radar. Through meticulous research,  I've noticed that the tie that binds my party music playlist is a strong bass line, whether it be a bass beat or an actual bass laying it down. Peter Hook is the star of this thing (bummer what's transpired between him and the rest of the band), but this song wouldn't be what it is without Dawn Zee's intro (hence the album version rather than the radio edit). I tried to comply with the 6-minute limit, but this is an exception. If I'm throwing a house party you can bet on this exquisite bit of pop rock playing (at least) once. Maybe more than once (in a row). Keep it coming Keep it coming keep it coming keep it coming...

ETA: Bonus Live at Jools Holland performance

 
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Buffaloes said:
@Eephus hypothetical question here. If a song was released as a B side in 1942 and then re-released as its own single in 1943, I assume either year is fair game in this exercise?
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Good lord, man; you are going to be taking songs from 1942 and 1943 such that this matters?  Much respect.

 
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Yo Mama said:
I’M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BREAK THE SEAL!!!!!

I was thinking about this one last round since I thought the A-side might have some interested drafters. Yo Mama selects:

7.23 - The Beatles - Revolution (1968)

A-side: just a little ditty called Hey Jude

I’m going with the single version partly to nab the a-side and partly because the heavier single version fits my playlist more than the bluesy #1 album version. 
 

Can’t believe I’m the first to draft a Beatles song in a music draft when I’m not sure I’ve ever even taken them at all in one before. 
 
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Never heard of 'em.

 
Buffaloes said:
@mphtrilogy I am digging your theme for many reasons (I too have lived in a house full of women virtually entire life), but I have an Aunt Eileen who I have grown closer to than any of my other living aunts. good stuff
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I love mph's theme, and I forgot to comment how much I enjoyed his daughters' Instagram, too. 

Also I noticed there is a baseball player called "The Squirrel"???  I don't follow baseball much at this time.  My cat The Squirrel is kinda getting a big head after 80s' "Cat Squirrel" song and then this.  Our other cats - The Squib, Argonaut, and Her Royal Highness Nurse Parsnip Potatoface of House Floof - are a bit envious.

 
krista4 said:
Not many women there, but album collaborations are a different story...I've picked up quite a few there.  And of course there's the fact that I don't like very many female artists.
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Thankfully, most of Ringo's All-Starr bandmates are still with us.  RIP Billy Preston, Dr. John, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, The Ox, Jack Bruce, Greg Lake and The Big Man

 
wikkidpissah said:
Della would have been an enormous star a generation later - Oprah with pipes. A former client of mine went the Vegas route for a while, got to know Miss Reese and once told me, "this is the black Judy Garland. there's nothing she cant do. sing, dance, talk, joke, hell - she could interview Kruschev."
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I loved Ms Reese.  She was like having your best friend move in for the day.

 
Time to post more picks for the "Cool Beats / Air Drummer" Juke Box:

5.15:  Straight to Hell, Ozzy Osbourne (2020)

Observers in 2020:  "Ozzy's getting kinda old and frail, he's worn out."  Ozzy:  "Hold my beer."  Dude can still seriously rock, I don't care if he's in his 70's.  Drumming here provided by Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

6:11:  Are You Gonna be my Girl, Jet (2004)

I'd call it a modern Motown rocker, cool stuff.  I've caught myself in the car air drumming to this one more than once.

7:15:  Uprising, Muse (2009)

Dr. Who theme music (kinda) done to an electronic glam rock beat?  OK, why not?

 
Val Rannous said:
Time to post more picks for the "Cool Beats / Air Drummer" Juke Box:

5.15:  Straight to Hell, Ozzy Osbourne (2020)

Observers in 2020:  "Ozzy's getting kinda old and frail, he's worn out."  Ozzy:  "Hold my beer."  Dude can still seriously rock, I don't care if he's in his 70's.  Drumming here provided by Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

6:11:  Are You Gonna be my Girl, Jet (2004)

I'd call it a modern Motown rocker, cool stuff.  I've caught myself in the car air drumming to this one more than once.

7:15:  Uprising, Muse (2009)

Dr. Who theme music (kinda) done to an electronic glam rock beat?  OK, why not?
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Sniped me with the Jet pick . You Rannouses are killing me.

 
Didn't expect it to get back to me last night. This was released as a December single in advance of Court and Spark, which is very nice in terms of getting Joni in the jukebox. It's probably a top 3 song of hers for me and definitely one of the more jukeboxy imo

8.13 - Raised on Robbery/Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell (1973)

 
Pitchfork said:
Didn't expect it to get back to me last night. This was released as a December single in advance of Court and Spark, which is very nice in terms of getting Joni in the jukebox. It's probably a top 3 song of hers for me and definitely one of the more jukeboxy imo

8.13 - Raised on Robbery/Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell (1973)
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love this one as well..

 
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8.18 - Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (1988)

My format is dominated by White men so I have to slip in some BIPOCs and LGBTs whenever the opportunity arises. 

"Fast Car" was an unexpected smash hit for Chapman in 1988.  The lyrics are a twist on Springsteen's anthems of cars and girls from the perspective of a young woman.  Its verses speak of hardship and increasing despair as the narrator's life closes in around her but the uplifting chorus remembers better days driving in a car with city lights laid out before her and a world full of possibilities.

The B-side is "For You" but unfortunately it's not a Springsteen cover from Greetings from Asbury Park.  Chapman's "For You" is an acoustic ballad that's lovely but doesn't really fit the vibe of my jukebox.

I've probably told my Tracy Chapman story before but it's not much.  I was killing time in the Haight before picking the kids up from an event at the Boys & Girls Club near the park.  I went into one of the bike shops on Stanyan Street to look around and who do I see but Chapman and her partner shopping for Brompton folding bicycles.  I suppressed my urge to make a joke about a fast car vs. a little bike.   I used to see her around town pretty often but I think she's moved out of the city since then.

 
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