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The Return of the Desert Island Jukebox Draft - Drop in a quarter (4 Viewers)

Eephus said:
First Free Play roll

#1 seed with 14 picks:  1972

#2 seed with 13 picks:  1981

#3 seed with 12 picks:  1970

Three years tied with 10.  2010 and 2018 have zero picks.
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poor planning on my part, i think i picked each of those years just because i only had 1 song in each that i wanted.

 
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Pip's Invitation said:
Seriously.

There’s a clear best album per the music writer types (and probably many of us), an album that means a lot to me that’s even more obscure than the Failure record, and ... Phish bootlegs?
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My favorite obscure album came out in '97. The two best dance albums of all time might have come out in '97, too. It's simply our frame of reference, of course. Plenty of good music in '97.

 
I had Gary US Bonds penned in really early for 1981 so I never dug into the year.  It's a nice bonus, much better than the other two years.

 
Eephus said:
I had Gary US Bonds penned in really early for 1981 so I never dug into the year.  It's a nice bonus, much better than the other two years.
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I can see how things got more Springsteen-esque after Springsteen happened. I was hoping for 1972 and 1998 as a tandem re-do, but...

not in the rules, cards, nor dice. 

 
rockaction said:
I can see how things got more Springsteen-esque after Springsteen happened. I was hoping for 1972 and 1998 as a tandem re-do, but...

not in the rules, cards, nor dice. 
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Springsteen's arrival in 1973 and his subsequent lionization by the US Rock press was a reaction to some of the same things (e.g. Prog, Glam) that Punk rebelled against a few years later.  That said, the years immediately preceding Greetings From Asbury Park are very thin for me.

1998 only has one song drafted so far which was yours.

 
Eephus said:
Springsteen's arrival in 1973 and his subsequent lionization by the US Rock press was a reaction to some of the same things (e.g. Prog, Glam) that Punk rebelled against a few years later.  That said, the years immediately preceding Greetings From Asbury Park are very thin for me.

1998 only has one song drafted so far which was yours.
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Interesting take. I'd have to know more about rock history and that sort of reaction to comment. It's only been a few years since out of the punk/indie/hip hop bubble for me.

I've also got a bunch from 1998. House and dance were big then as far as crossover into mainstream distribution and, to an extent, shelf position went for specific acts rather than them being relegated to V/A and the dance/techno section of the store, which not all stores had.

I've tried several times to go back through the history of house and dance music as we know it. (In other words, not disco and not R&B or rock & roll, all dance music.) It's very difficult to trace the movements, especially by the time Europe really picks up on dance as a higher art form to be reckoned with. Perhaps the spirit is not so willing. Either way, there's a lot of great music I know I'm missing out on. 

 
Late 90s dance scene was a pretty big movement that feels likes it's been forgotten. I wanted to make a jukebox of dance song kind of as an ode to 90s to early 2000s dance but didn't have the time/patience/knowledge/a care for the dance stuff of the pre 90s/etc... 

 
rockaction said:
Interesting take. I'd have to know more about rock history and that sort of reaction to comment. It's only been a few years since out of the punk/indie/hip hop bubble for me.

I've also got a bunch from 1998. House and dance were big then as far as crossover into mainstream distribution and, to an extent, shelf position went for specific acts rather than them being relegated to V/A and the dance/techno section of the store, which not all stores had.

I've tried several times to go back through the history of house and dance music as we know it. (In other words, not disco and not R&B or rock & roll, all dance music.) It's very difficult to trace the movements, especially by the time Europe really picks up on dance as a higher art form to be reckoned with. Perhaps the spirit is not so willing. Either way, there's a lot of great music I know I'm missing out on. 
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Dance Music is tough.  Tracks are meant to be mixed so a lot of the 7-8 minute versions are rather flaccid in the middle.  A lot of songs were also released on small labels (or white labels) that aren't available on Spotify.

My clubbing days are long gone but fondly remembered.  I'm happy we did manage to make it out dancing one time in 2020 before it was cancelled. 

 
Buffaloes said:
Late 90s dance scene was a pretty big movement that feels likes it's been forgotten. I wanted to make a jukebox of dance song kind of as an ode to 90s to early 2000s dance but didn't have the time/patience/knowledge/a care for the dance stuff of the pre 90s/etc... 
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Just like mid-90s punk and late 90s hip hop seems to get the short shrift. It's understandable. Punk's heyday was the '76-'78 era, hip hop had its golden moment in the late '80s and early aughts, people still think of disco as disco, no matter the extended genre. I wonder if all that music will all be lost to history. It seems to be going that way. It is the music of our youth (mine and yours, most likely) but we've done an awful job advocating for it or sustaining it, really. Mid 90s punk saw some of the best ever out of the genre finding syntheses in no way foreseen, duplicated, or trod upon since. 

 
rockaction said:
Just like mid-90s punk and late 90s hip hop seems to get the short shrift. It's understandable.  Punk's heyday was the '76-'78 era,
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In this country, there were only a handful of tiny Punk scenes in 76-78.  There was organic, mostly subterranean growth throughout the 80s before Nirvana broke through.

 
Eephus said:
In this country, there were only a handful of tiny Punk scenes in 76-78.  There was organic, mostly subterranean growth throughout the 80s before Nirvana broke through.
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Sounds right. Yeah, I suppose I'm thinking about it from a pure music point of view and bands that seem to have made history with it. British bands were foremost on my mind, actually.

When I think of American punk, I immediately think of NY and LA, followed by San Francisco and Boston. Ohio is an area that should probably be mentioned also. 

 
rockaction said:
Sounds right. Yeah, I suppose I'm thinking about it from a pure music point of view and bands that seem to have made history with it. British bands were foremost on my mind, actually.

When I think of American punk, I immediately think of NY and LA, followed by San Francisco and Boston. Ohio is an area that should probably be mentioned also. 
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They were still very local scenes in the early days.  There weren't enough out of town places to play to string together a tour. 

Out here, there was some cross pollination between SF and LA but not a lot.  I probably saw more LA punk bands in my 50s than I did in my 20s.

 
We can post now, right?  Sun's up on the East Coast?

16th Round – The Rolling Stones – Waiting on a Friend (1981)

I am so excited to get this as my bonus 1981 pick.  I had pegged this as a top 1981 pick for me, but then decided to check @Dr. Octopus’s list and choose whichever Tattoo You song he had ranked highest.  As it turned out, it was this one that I wanted to begin with, which he had at #29!  :hifive: So this is dedicated to DocOc and his excellent taste. 

There are so many connections between the Rolling Stones and the Beatles that it seems silly to mention them.  Everyone knows that the Beatles “donated” to the Stones what became their first hit single, “I Wanna Be Your Man.”

Many here would know about The Dirty Mac, the group formed by John along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards, which recorded a version of “Yer Blues” for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.

Ronnie Wood and George wrote "Far East Man" together and put versions of it on each of their own albums.  

George appeared on Bill Wyman's band The Rhythm Kings's album Double Bill.  

Then we get to Nicky Hopkins, who played piano on this track.  He played electric piano on the Beatles’s “Revolution.”  He played piano on the Jackie Lomax song, “Sour Milk Sea,” written by George and recorded with George, Paul and Ringo.  He played on John’s Imagine and Walls and Bridges albums.  He played on George’s Living in a Material World album. He played on Ringo’s Ringo and Goodnight Vienna albums.  And he played on Paul’s Flowers in the Dirt album.  It seems everyone liked Nicky Hopkins.

I will also take the b-side here, Little T & A, since the good doctor ranked it #123 on his list.

 
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'“Mony Mony” means nothing – literally nothing. In the late ’60s, Tommy James and the Shondells crafted the tune as a party song, with an emphasis on the beat (that groove) and little thought given to the shout-along nonsense lyrics. But to William Michael Albert Broad – better known as Billy Idol – “Mony Mony” always meant sex. That’s because when young William was 14, he lost his virginity in a public park via a tumble with a more experienced partner. He recalled in his autobiography, Dancing With Myself: “As we went at it, ‘Mony Mony’ by Tommy James and the Shondells was playing on someone’s transistor radio nearby…"

Round 16 (free play) Billy Idol - Mony Mony (1981)

...around the time that his version of “Mony Mony” was blowing up, Idol noticed that a strange and – apparently – spontaneous practice had taken hold at his concerts. In between the verses of the song, crowd members would chant specific, lewd phrases. Although Idol enjoyed the bawdy bit of crowd participation, it wasn’t until later that he discovered how the chants began. “I heard that it started out in those frat houses, back in the ’80s,” said Idol, who became obsessed with the “intercontinental meme.” “It graduated to discos and then it went on from there. And then it graduated to our live shows. … It was kind of wild actually. It was nothing to do with us.”

They not only became fixtures at Idol shows, but also when “Mony Mony” would be played by DJs at clubs or dances. The vulgar nature of the chants led “Mony Mony” to a wave of bans at high school dances in the late ’80s, in spite of the actual recording’s lack of explicit content. These other lyrics “Hey, mother####er… get laid get ####ed!” have endured at Idol’s concerts. Not only does the crowd appear to know their parts, but soon after he landed a No. 1 hit, Idol began singing parts of them when he performs “Mony Mony.” Decades later, the chant continues. Perhaps, it still reminds Billy of that day in the park, the transistor radio and a particularly formative encounter when he was 14.'

 
I signed up to take 50 songs from 50 years and all this math and dice rolls confuses me. So unless something goes awry, I'm gonna take 50 songs from 50 years. 

But in the spirit of everyone picking 1981 today, since I already went there, I will pick ... 1982!

Double A-side! Both of these songs were huge in the UK and the double A-side went to #1 there. Town, a Motown homage, made some impact in the US as its video got play on MTV, and today occasionally shows up in commercials and movie soundtracks. The funk workout Precious isn't as well known in the US outside of Jam/Paul Weller die-hards. Both fit in well with my theme.

16th round: The Jam -- Town Called Malice / Precious

Year: 1982

Album: The Gift

 
Pip's Invitation said:
I signed up to take 50 songs from 50 years and all this math and dice rolls confuses me. So unless something goes awry, I'm gonna take 50 songs from 50 years. 
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I expected to do the same, but I ended up with a few lean years and 2 in particular I don't want any part of so I put a lot more work into the dice rolls than originally intended.

 
I think I have to grab a 1981 now as I'm gonna need it just in case... I will take my next sisters tune in the post 4pm slot...

Love the madness and randomness of the dice roll, good fun...

According to Billboard, this was the #1 song of 1981 

Pick 16 - Bette Davis Eyes - 1981

Bette Davis Eyes

Follow along on Spotify

MPH - JUKEBOX - 52 Girls

 
Eephus said:
The Dreaded Marco said:
Missing this.... :(

Just wondering if you're still planning to mix in the 2020 mid-year song draft here? I hope not because that would be a cluster.  

Either way, I'll keep following this one.  Let me know when the 2020 draft starts up.  :banned:  
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Yeah you're probably right.  It was a fun idea at the time but with some new music people such as yourself out on this one, it'll be easier to have a separate thread.

I'm waiting for NV's parole hearing. 
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Next week...

 
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