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

Ilov80s said:
Doo ***

Rd 9: I Love You by The Volumes (1962)

B side: Dreams

A classic 1 Hit Wonder. The Volumes released this single on the small Detroit label Chex Records. It was such a local hit that little Chex Records became overwhelmed with the task of distributing it. Chex sold the rights to the band to the larger Jubilee Records who could get it national distribution. None of The Volumes subsequential Jubilee releases would come close to matching their initial success. The smooth sounds of Ed Union, Elijah Davis, Larry Wright, Joe Travillion, Ernest Newsom and Herb Hamlett were emblematic of the late 50's and early 60's Doo *** sound that was so popular in the big cities of the industrialized North East. 
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Success killed off a lot of small labels back then exactly because of this. They'd leverage themselves to the hilt pressing a hit record, but normally didn't get paid until the record was actually sold by a retailer...... and sales tracking wasn't an exact (or honest) science.

Sam Phillips at Sun figured this out when he had Elvis. That $35k he got for Presley'a recording contract kept him flush enough that he could keep breaking talent and having manageable regional sellers for years. But he was already pretty well-established and connected. Most of those tiny labels weren't,

Atlantic Records - that darling independent of hip music fans everywhere -  was absolutely ruthless in spotting these starved-by-success labels, swooping in and getting value for pennies on the dollar...... either by insanely lopsided distribution deals, buying upcoming artists on the cheap, or just absorbing/dissolving the small label. 

 
Eephus said:
That was around the time I started dating the future Mrs. Eephus and spending holidays with Black folks.  I was given some very stylish Xmas presents that I just couldn't pull off wearing outside the house.
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I remember when all the kids in my nearly all-white town started wearing pants like a certain artist who couldn't be touched. I was walking around with a black leather jacket, Ramones shirt, and ripped, tight jeans. They had these huge pants that got baggy from the waist to the knee. Often possibly with pleats (I don't really know that, I'm just trying to paint a metaphorical visual).

Yearbook photos will bespeak the truth about anachronisms, that's for sure. I'll still drop a leather jacket with a Ramones shirt and ripped jeans. I'll check back on the [redacted] pants at some reunion in the future.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Round 9  -  She's a Rebel  -  Green Day  -  2004

I love this peppy little song.
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The two seconds between about 0:52 and 0:55 are a wonderful little drop off. Lots to do in that time. Turns it into a righteous power pop instantly. Thanks for posting. I'd been out of Green Day after Nimrod, so I hadn't heard this in full.

 
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rockaction said:
The two seconds between about 0:52 and 0:55 are a wonderful little drop off. Lots to do in that time. Turns it into a righteous power pop instantly. Thanks for posting. I'd been out of Green Day after Nimrod, so I hadn't heard this in full.
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American Idiot is excellent stuff.  Are you up early or up late?

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
American Idiot is excellent stuff.  Are you up early or up late?
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Up late from an early sleep. Nothing major. Just sitting around waiting to fall back into a state of slumber. I've actually got music going through my head preventing me from full relaxation. Such is the double-edged sword.  As for American Idiot, I really only know the ubiquitous title track and Jesus Of Suburbia, among a few others I can't recall that well.

I think I was way out of pop-punk at the time and into other stuff like traditional punk, dance punk, and hip hop, really. Green Day seemed quite the anachronism from my youth, relegated to history's dustbin. Their pop-punk contemporaries, so I thought, had sort of sealed their fate with cheesy guitar leads and really syrupy lyrics. That was an incorrect assessment.

 
rockaction said:
Up late from an early sleep. Nothing major. Just sitting around waiting to fall back into a state of slumber. I've actually got music going through my head preventing me from full relaxation. Such is the double-edged sword.  As for American Idiot, I really only know the ubiquitous title track and Jesus Of Suburbia, among a few others I can't recall that well.

I think I was way out of pop-punk at the time and into other stuff like traditional punk, dance punk, and hip hop, really. Green Day seemed quite the anachronism from my youth, relegated to history's dustbin. Their pop-punk contemporaries, so I thought, had sort of sealed their fate with cheesy guitar leads and really syrupy lyrics. That was an incorrect assessment.
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Suburbia aside, I think the best of American Idiot are the little bridges between the hits - Are We The Waiting is a throwaway by itself, but builds perfectly into St. Jimmy. I feel similar about Give Me Novacaine, but Rebel is that payoff. And one more time with Extraordinary Girl into Letter Bomb. Then the second 9+ minute track (Homecoming) may be even better than Suburbia. And Whatsername kinda ties a bow on the whole thing. (yes I intentionally didn't reference one particular song)

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Round 8  -  My Sharona  -  The Knack  -  1979

And a B-side:  Let Me Out

I've chosen this one before.  I'm going to try and not pick things I've taken before, but this one I've got to have.

(I'm pretty sure I got sniped the last time.)
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The writer, lead guitarist and singer  of My Sharona was Doug Fieger, a Detroit native and brother of famous Detroit lawyer Geoffrey Feiger who received national attention as the lawyer who represented Dr. Jack Kevorkian. He was also my parents lawyer early on before he became a high powered high priced attorney.

 
10. “Maybe This Time” Liza Minnelli- 1964

https://youtu.be/2lsXR_t8vF4

Liza was born in Los Angeles to Hollywood royalty, and attended the High School for the Performing Arts. She originally recorded this song from the Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret for her debut album Liza, Liza in 1964- the video link is to a live performance in Paris from 1966. Of course she went on to play Sally Bowles in the film. 

 
@Eephus or someone else: The main draft sheet is now sorted by artist name instead of order of pick. Can it be switched back? I'm dumb when it comes to that kind of stuff and don't know how to do it myself. 

ETA: Thanks to whoever fixed it. 

 
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timschochet said:
10. “Maybe This Time” Liza Minnelli- 1964

https://youtu.be/2lsXR_t8vF4

Liza was born in Los Angeles to Hollywood royalty, and attended the High School for the Performing Arts. She originally recorded this song from the Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret for her debut album Liza, Liza in 1964- the video link is to a live performance in Paris from 1966. Of course she went on to play Sally Bowles in the film. 
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you couldnt have picked this yesterday?!?! Drag Night was a complete disaster - i dont have the face shape for Karen C🙎‍♀️rpenter bangs... :kicksrock:

ETA: gotta say, though - that's hella singing from an 18yo, no matter the genes

 
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rockaction said:
By the way @Raging weasel, I've been following the saga with your phone links. Allow me to chime in: There is absolutely no good way to link from your phone. Oh sure, it's possible in design, but not so when it comes to touch recognition. It's really a lost cause, and I've tried to do it for years on both iPhones and Androids. There is just nothing good that comes of it. 

The best I can tell you to do on an Android is to go to the YouTube video you wish to link. The next step is to look at the menu of options it gives you to respond or share on social media. Click that. It should take you to a bunch of options. From those options click "Copy Link." Go back to FBG and hold your finger down on the text box you wish to copy the link into. A bar should appear on your screen. Included in that will be the "Paste" function. Press that and wala! Your link is now good to go. 

But it's harder in practice to do that.  
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i have never had any problems posting links on mobile

 
10.14 I Put a Spell on You, Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)

What can i say - if you're gonna set a horror movie in a forgotten diner, this had damn well better be on the jukebox. Can't wait any longer, even with a year as crowded as '68. Lub me some Screamin Jay (my arrangement of his I Am the Cool is behind only my cover of And I Love Her when i sit in w my BFFs weekend band) but i'm still astounded that Fogerty got four juicy, doublethick minutes out of the scant original.

 
10.24 Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes (1956)

You better believe I'll take the b-side, Honey Don't.

Carl Perkins wasn't just the biggest influence on the Beatles and their most-covered artist (Paul has said if there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles).  The fit to my theme is that he also collaborated/dueted with Paul on two songs:  "Get It," released on Paul's Tug of War, and "My Old Friend," released on Perkins's last album.  In addition, Ringo and George joined Perkins for his TV special on the 30th anniversary of Blue Suede Shoes, entitled "A Rockabilly Session - Carl Perkins and Friends."  George and Perkins also played some shows together and dueted on a song in the documentary The Movie Life of George.

 
krista4 said:
10.24 Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes (1956)

You better believe I'll take the b-side, Honey Don't.

Carl Perkins wasn't just the biggest influence on the Beatles and their most-covered artist (Paul has said if there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles).  The fit to my theme is that he also collaborated/dueted with Paul on two songs:  "Get It," released on Paul's Tug of War, and "My Old Friend," released on Perkins's last album.  In addition, Ringo and George joined Perkins for his TV special on the 30th anniversary of Blue Suede Shoes, entitled "A Rockabilly Session - Carl Perkins and Friends."  George and Perkins also played some shows together and dueted on a song in the documentary The Movie Life of George.
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skiffllicious!!

 
Ok, so my theme, stolen from rock, is tracks that sampled another song along with the song that was sampled.  it seems like the underlying tracks are getting a positive reaction, but the rap songs not so much.  nevertheless, i persist!  and i'm  trying to make sure that the underlying tracks are cool enough as stand-alones.

this theme is perhaps not ideal for this format and this might be more "fun" if i had settled on a locale and physical theme first and went from there.  but i'm kind of an abstract person with a fairly tenuous connection to the physical world a lot of the time so...

but the reason that it resonates with me is that i have always been fascinated by the ongoing dialogue through the centuries of art and knowledge.  if a novel referenced another book, work of art, or philosophy, i wanted to know about those underlying references.  and what i love about music, and specifically hip-hop and sampling, is to think about the moment that the producer heard some weird track somewhere and felt this shot of lightning like "what if i took that and flipped it over her or slowed it down or sped it up or made it a little groovier" or whatever.  and that moment of inspiration is what i hear in the music as often as any melody or emotion or lyrical expression or anything.

and in that spirit, i suspect that the setting for jukebox is some sort of hipster and/or rustic bar that serves craft beers, a bit of liquor, and coffee and is a place for intellectual and creative expression.  we have stand-up comedy, improv, bands, open mics, dj sets for dancing, ben franklin junto-style discussion groups, all sorts of ####.  There is actually a coffee shop not too far from me that sort of does this, but not in a fully formed way, more of an add-on to the standard coffee shop paradigm.

anyway, you probably didn't read all that ####, but here are rounds 9 and 10:

9.05

Take a Number

Typical Cats

(2001)

I was a little surprised that Typical Cats didn't get more traction.  Maybe Chicago was the wrong place to try to do this, though  you would think that the jazz and blues roots would have made it a natural.  Typical Cats sort of seized on the De La Soul/Tribe conscious/jazz style and I think did it well.  Whereas a lot of other groups in NY and Cali (often white) in the 90s and 00s  kind of took that vibe and I think abstracted it to the backpack/avant garde style, Typical Cats came through with a very clear connection to the jazz, blues and soul roots of what came before them.  So I imagine them hearing the following track and the different elements and thinking about how to re-arrange and bump it up into something different and ....

10.20

Ain't No Sunshine

Willis 'Gator Tail' Jackson

(1972)

 
krista4 said:
10.24 Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes (1956)

You better believe I'll take the b-side, Honey Don't.

Carl Perkins wasn't just the biggest influence on the Beatles and their most-covered artist (Paul has said if there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles).  The fit to my theme is that he also collaborated/dueted with Paul on two songs:  "Get It," released on Paul's Tug of War, and "My Old Friend," released on Perkins's last album.  In addition, Ringo and George joined Perkins for his TV special on the 30th anniversary of Blue Suede Shoes, entitled "A Rockabilly Session - Carl Perkins and Friends."  George and Perkins also played some shows together and dueted on a song in the documentary The Movie Life of George.
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My mom - born in 1943 - once told me she wanted nothing more when she was a kid than a pair of blue suede shoes. She didn't get them, but did get a pair of Elvis sneakers. Which she promptly ruined in one summer mowing the lawn.

 
I’ve been stressing that this one might get taken elsewhere because it was one of the handful of songs I immediately thought of when coming up with my theme. When I realized what the b-side was last week, it solidified my need to take it soon even though there’s a number of other songs from this year I could also take. 
 

I like to think this song is the beginning of the story picked up later by The Message, separated by the protagonist’s prison sentence. Guy moves to NYC to try to avoid southern racism only to find it in more forms in the city, until he’s ultimately framed for a trumped-up drug charge and lost to the racist justice system. Yo Mama selects:

10.03 - Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (1973)

The b-side is just pure bliss in the beautiful Visions. This is one of those songs to throw on the headphones, kick your feet up, close your eyes, and float away to a better place (especially if you’re in the right frame of mind if uknowhamean). 
 

My b-side list is turning into a nice mellow groove to offset all the angst in my main playlist. 
 

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Round 8  -  My Sharona  -  The Knack  -  1979

And a B-side:  Let Me Out

I've chosen this one before.  I'm going to try and not pick things I've taken before, but this one I've got to have.

(I'm pretty sure I got sniped the last time.)
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Had a very loose idea for theme of songs that talk about underage love.  This was one of the songs that came to mind.  Would have run out of songs after the creepy 70s though.  Plus probably just a bad idea that would attract the wrong crowd...

 
Yo Mama’s Jukebox

10 Years of Unrest and Protest

Link to Spotify playlist

1968 - Revolution - The Beatles

1970 - War Pigs - Black Sabbath

1971 - What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye

1973 - Living for the City - Stevie Wonder

1979 - Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 - Pink Floyd

1982 - The Message - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

1989 - Fight the Power - Public Enemy

1992 - Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine

2004 - American Idiot - Green Day

2015 - Alright - Kendrick Lamar

😎😎😎

 
This could be my last post for awhile. I just got a call that said because of my crimes my social security number has been locked. If not taken care of immediately a warrant will be issued for my arrest and the FBI will take me into federal custody. I hung up before I could find out where to send the 5 $200 Walmart gift cards so could be dragged to prison at any moment.

Was going to wait on my pick until later and take a different song but due to these circumstances Im going to take this instead right now.

Round10 I Fought the Law- Bobby Fuller Four(1966)

 
Raging weasel said:
This could be my last post for awhile. I just got a call that said because of my crimes my social security number has been locked. If not taken care of immediately a warrant will be issued for my arrest and the FBI will take me into federal custody. I hung up before I could find out where to send the 5 $200 Walmart gift cards so could be dragged to prison at any moment.

Was going to wait on my pick until later and take a different song but due to these circumstances Im going to take this instead right now.

Round10 I Fought the Law- Bobby Fuller Four(1966)
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Pretty sure it's a scam.  Don't send the gift cards!!!!

 
Yo Mama said:
I’ve been stressing that this one might get taken elsewhere because it was one of the handful of songs I immediately thought of when coming up with my theme. When I realized what the b-side was last week, it solidified my need to take it soon even though there’s a number of other songs from this year I could also take. 
 

I like to think this song is the beginning of the story picked up later by The Message, separated by the protagonist’s prison sentence. Guy moves to NYC to try to avoid southern racism only to find it in more forms in the city, until he’s ultimately framed for a trumped-up drug charge and lost to the racist justice system. Yo Mama selects:

10.03 - Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (1973)

The b-side is just pure bliss in the beautiful Visions. This is one of those songs to throw on the headphones, kick your feet up, close your eyes, and float away to a better place (especially if you’re in the right frame of mind if uknowhamean). 
 

My b-side list is turning into a nice mellow groove to offset all the angst in my main playlist. 
 
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I didn't take this only because I've taken it in every draft ever, I think.  Great addition to your theme.   :heart:  

 
Yo Mama said:
I’ve been stressing that this one might get taken elsewhere because it was one of the handful of songs I immediately thought of when coming up with my theme. When I realized what the b-side was last week, it solidified my need to take it soon even though there’s a number of other songs from this year I could also take. 
 

I like to think this song is the beginning of the story picked up later by The Message, separated by the protagonist’s prison sentence. Guy moves to NYC to try to avoid southern racism only to find it in more forms in the city, until he’s ultimately framed for a trumped-up drug charge and lost to the racist justice system. Yo Mama selects:

10.03 - Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (1973)

The b-side is just pure bliss in the beautiful Visions. This is one of those songs to throw on the headphones, kick your feet up, close your eyes, and float away to a better place (especially if you’re in the right frame of mind if uknowhamean). 
 

My b-side list is turning into a nice mellow groove to offset all the angst in my main playlist. 
 
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That was on my mental list.

 
Yo Mama said:
I like to think this song is the beginning of the story picked up later by The Message, separated by the protagonist’s prison sentence. Guy moves to NYC to try to avoid southern racism only to find it in more forms in the city, until he’s ultimately framed for a trumped-up drug charge and lost to the racist justice system.

10.03 - Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (1973)
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That's a perfect way of putting it in context!

 
krista4 said:
10.24 Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes (1956)

You better believe I'll take the b-side, Honey Don't.

Carl Perkins wasn't just the biggest influence on the Beatles and their most-covered artist (Paul has said if there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles).  The fit to my theme is that he also collaborated/dueted with Paul on two songs:  "Get It," released on Paul's Tug of War, and "My Old Friend," released on Perkins's last album.  In addition, Ringo and George joined Perkins for his TV special on the 30th anniversary of Blue Suede Shoes, entitled "A Rockabilly Session - Carl Perkins and Friends."  George and Perkins also played some shows together and dueted on a song in the documentary The Movie Life of George.
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Reminds me of these two

 
I will admit to not being a huge fan of the series, but I think if I am doing 50 years of movie songs and don't have a Bond theme in there I am doing something wrong:

10,xx: SHIRLEY BASSEY - GOLDFINGER (1964)

 
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