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

[Raging weasel]

27.03: Radioactive - The Firm (1985)

Supergroup!!!  How can you go wrong with Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers?  

Unfortunately this appears to be the only single they charted.  

"Jimmy was at a bit of a loose end," recalled Rodgers of the band's formation.  

If we got a bonus 1985 pick this is what I was going to take.

 

[Raging weasel]

There's a documentary about Davis that went up recently on Amazon Prime.  It's somewhere in my endless queue.

Nice- I'll have to check it out!

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Stop stealing my schtick

That will be last time for me. 

 

[Eephus]

Too many great picks today to give out likes. 

I'm pretty locked in on my script now and am ready to listen to others' jukeboxes. 

 

[Pitchfork]

Time to bring a few picks here. I found a couple more Canadian tunes with incredible b-sides. This band was going to be in the jukebox no matter what. I was going to go with their very first single but because of this combination, I'll go this route. Both are classic pub sing a longs for guys with acoustic guitars and can get everyone singing together

17.18 - Blue Rodeo - Hasn't Hit Me Yet / Five Days in May (1993) 

 

[Pitchfork]

And in a pretty similar vein, this one brings a double shot of rock from a band where I went a bit slower/campfire ish in the last draft. These songs both jump from the speakers.

18.18 - The Tragically Hip - Locked in the Trunk of a Car / Courage (for Hugh Maclennan) (1992)

 

[Pip's Invitation]

There's a documentary about Davis that went up recently on Amazon Prime.  It's somewhere in my endless queue.

I saw it mentioned when I went to her Wikipedia page to figure out which song of hers to take. Need to put that on my list as well. 

 

[Binky The Doormat]

If we got a bonus 1985 pick this is what I was going to take.

whew ...another relatively thin year ...I have a couple of others but not in love with them

 

[Eephus]

Rd 25 What a Way to Die by The Pleasure Seekers (1965)

B side: Never Thought You'd Leave Me

What do you get when you take 5 white girls from Detroit, including 2 sisters aged 15 and 17 and form a band in 1964? Surely a Motown light doo *** group? Not a chance in hell. You get the birth of Detroit punk rock and garage rock. 4 years before the MC5 would kick out the jam and a year before ? and The Mysterians cried 99 Tears, Suzi and Patti Quatro would be part of the first Detroit city punk-garage band. Their lyrics and style have since been done by a million other So-Cal punk bands like Fidlar. The Pleasure Seekers were some bad ### 60s #####es.

Never knew Quatro was from Detroit

 

[Eephus]

27.xx 100 Ways by Porno For Pyros (1996)

This is a trippy little number

 

[Pitchfork]

Bob Rock's less famous musical position... guitarist.

19.18 - Payola$ - Eyes of a Stranger (1982)

 

[Eephus]

26.ee - Further On (Up the Road)  - Johnny Cash (2006)

Cash first covered Springsteen in 1983 but this one comes from the posthumously released American Recordings V.   The Boss' original was a mid-tempo rocker on The Rising LP.  He must like the song because it was one of the few originals performed with the Seeger Sessions Band.

Cash slows the song down a lot and delivers the lyrics with the gravitas of the boatman on the Styx

 

[Yo Mama]

Too many great picks today to give out likes. 

I'm pretty locked in on my script now and am ready to listen to others' jukeboxes. 

Yeah I was going to start looking into some of the other jukeboxes too now that we’re half way through. 

 

[Eephus]

Bob Rock's less famous musical position... guitarist.

19.18 - Payola$ - Eyes of a Stranger (1982)

Mucho Policey

 

[Pitchfork]

I don't know if I can with a pure heart say this ####ty cheesy early 90s rock band is actually better than Rush but this song is fun as hell and sits right the middle of the jukebox in my theoretical bar. I mean look at this poetry

I had two jobs, I had dishwater hands
And on the weekend in a rock & roll band
One Friday night in my hometown bar
In walked a girl who looked like a movie star

She stared at me and it was turning me on
She said she worked in a beauty salon
I heard a voice inside me say
She ain't pretty she just looks that way

We made a date to go for a drink
I wore my jeans and she wore a mink
There was this misconception all over town
That she ate lonely guy heart by the pound

She said "Take me home, there won't be no fuss"
I said "Sure you got some change for the bus"
Watching her leave I heard the bartender say
"She ain't pretty she just looks that way"

So, uh, I called her up, her father was home
Said "She's busy... she can't come to the phone"
I held my breath, decided to wait
A guy like me doesn't get many dates

I fell in love with a model from hell
It took some time for my hormones to tell
That chasing her has been a grave mistake
She ain't pretty she just looks that way

Her ego wrote cheques incredibly fast
But her personality didn't have the cash
I laughed out loud to my total dismay
She ain't pretty she just looks that way

20.18 - She Ain't Pretty - The Northern Pikes (1990)

 

[Man of Constant Sorrow]

I'm behind way many pages right now; need to catch up, but ...

Regarding this:

Never knew Quatro was from Detroit

Am I the only one that initially thought -

Detroit? Nah! He's from Mars!

 

[MAC_32]

Too many great picks today to give out likes. 

I'm pretty locked in on my script now and am ready to listen to others' jukeboxes. 

Yeah I was going to start looking into some of the other jukeboxes too now that we’re half way through. 

Let's see if I linked this right. I'm not on premium, so if it doesn't then that's the problem.

Elvis - Suspicious Minds

Led Zeppelin - Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You

Led Zeppelin - Dazed & Confused 

Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary 

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks

The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia

Linda Rondstadt - You're No Good

Patti Smith - Gloria 

Patti Smith - My Generation

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - One Bourbon, one Scotch, One Beer

Van Halen - You Really Got Me 

The Clash - I Fought The Law

Blondie - The Tide Is High

Sugarhill Gang - Apache 

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Billy Idol - Mony Mony

Joan Jett - I Love Rock N Roll

Run DMC - Walk This Way

George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You

Nirvana - Love Buzz

Black Crowes - Hard To Handle

Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night

The Fugees - Killing Me Softly

Johnny Cash - Hurt 

Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus 

Ataris - Boys of Summer

Amy Winehouse - Valerie

Sturgill Simpson - In Bloom

 

[Pitchfork]

These guys were hugely influential in the Canadian indie rock scene in the early 90s, this was the biggest crossover and therefore jukebox hit. I loved this for years before I had any idea who sang it or that really no one has ever heard of them

21.18 - Salesmen, Cheats and Liars - The Lowest of the Low (1991)

 

[simey]

Round 27 

She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult (1985)

Groovebox

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Round 27 

She Sell Sanctuary - The Cult (1985)

Groovebox

reaction  

 

[Eephus]

27.ee - Spirit of '76 - The Alarm (1985)

Rock 'n Roll moves on quickly and the New Wave generally had little to do with the Boss.  You could argue that Springsteen moved towards the trend with his sound and videos more than the opposite. 

There were some early 80s Power Pop covers of Springsteen songs by Greg Kihn and Any Trouble.  There were a bunch of American bands that tried to follow his footsteps from the bars to arenas.  But by and large, the artists getting played on MTV other than the Boss and Mellencamp didn't sound much like Springsteen.  The Alarm was the closest I could find to 80s UK music that had any clear connections to Springsteen. Spirit of '76 has the harmonica/piano intro, nostalgic verse and anthemic chorus of classic Springsteen. Frontman Mike Peters is a Rock 'n Roll lifer who still toured a lot until the pandemic.  Saw him a few times and he always put on a great show.  The stunt he pulled in 2004 with The Poppy Fields is so good they made a movie out of it.

I couldn't bring myself to draft Frankie Goes to Hollywood's cover of Born to Run. 

 

[Pitchfork]

Top ten or maybe even top five Canadian band ever in my opinion. Incredible 30 year career and still going, 12 albums, pretty much all consistently great. This isn't their biggest crossover/mainstream hit but it's pretty close. Chart magazine (r.i.p.) the Canadian college rock weekly put Twice Removed, the album this comes from, as the best Canadian album ever in a poll in 1996 (Harvest and Blue were 2 and 3). Blue won their 2000 poll but this one reclaimed the title in 2005

Legend has it their label wanted to give them a grunge sound, and did on their debut, Smeared. After that didn't work they fully leaned into power pop and launched this masterpiece (only to be promptly dropped from the label)

I have drafted this before and I will draft it again and again

22.18 - Coax Me - Sloan (1994)

 

[Eephus]

I'm going to add the jukebox links to the OP.

Post 'em if you got 'em.

 

[Pitchfork]

I already want to mulligan that Northern Pikes pick

 

[Eephus]

My jukebox is in the pool room of a bar called Candy's Room located in a mythical New Jersey seaside town.  It's a small place on a side street about halfway between the boardwalk and the highway. 

I found this in their Yelp reviews.

Bruce S.  In Candy's room there are pictures of her heroes on the wall / To get to Candy's room you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall

 

[Eephus]

I already want to mulligan that Northern Pikes pick

At its core, it's not a bad little Pop song but the gimmicky production is extremely dumb

 

[Pitchfork]

At its core, it's not a bad little Pop song but the gimmicky production is extremely dumb

Yeah and I missed an obvious one for that year because for a long time it wasn't on Spotify. I will correct at the end.

 

[Pitchfork]

At the start of this exercise, I decided this band had to be represented in the jukebox. Their albums overlap with some other big heavy hitters from Canada but I'm making sure they're in the mix. This is certainly a "pour a whiskey and cry in it" type of jukebox song but you always need a few of those. The band unfortunately broke up in 2006 but were well ahead of their time and everything holds up extremely well. 

23.18 - Left and Leaving - The Weakerthans (2000)

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I couldn't bring myself to draft Frankie Goes to Hollywood's cover of Born to Run. 

Performed under duress on SNL after the network wouldn't allow them to play "Relax." 

 

[Pitchfork]

This is what the Northern Pikes song I picked might sound like if it was good. This is produced by Todd Rundgren

"No more boy meets girl boy loses girl, more like man tries to understand what the hell went wrong."

24.18 - I'm an Adult Now - The Pursuit of Happiness (1986)

 

[rockaction]

I already want to mulligan that Northern Pikes pick

After all those italicized lyrics it feels betrayed. Talk about not cashing the cheque. 

 

[Yo Mama]

I'm going to add the jukebox links to the OP.

Post 'em if you got 'em.

Yo Mama’s Jukebox

 

[Binky The Doormat]

At its core, it's not a bad little Pop song but the gimmicky production is extremely dumb

so canadian eh

 

[landrys hat]

I'm going to add the jukebox links to the OP.

Post 'em if you got 'em.

landrys hat SoCal jukebox

 

[rockaction]

rockaction's sampling and source list jukebox

 

[Pitchfork]

Canadian punk classic

25.18 - Tired of Waking Up Tired - The Diodes (1977)

 

[Buffaloes]

@Eephus

backyard boogie

 

[Eephus]

Happy National New Jersey Day everybody

 

[simey]

Happy National New Jersey Day everybody

You gonna free play roll tonight?

 

[Eephus]

You gonna free play roll tonight?

Just finished dinner.

 

[Eephus]

My niece in Wisconsin asked my daughter to put together a Pop playlist for her to listen to.

She's approaching it like a true nerd with one song from each of the 14 years since her cousin was born plus one song from each decade since the 50s and seven wild card songs from any year. 

Not enough dice but that's my girl.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

My niece in Wisconsin asked my daughter to put together a Pop playlist for her to listen to.

She's approaching it like a true nerd with one song from each of the 14 years since her cousin was born plus one song from each decade since the 50s and seven wild card songs from any year. 

Not enough dice but that's my girl.

She might have just chosen to ignore the dice like I did. 

 

[Eephus]

She might have just chosen to ignore the dice like I did. 

The wild cards serve the same function

 

[Eephus]

OK, free play sequence activated

Top seven years including ties brings the number of contenders up to nine

1970    18
1976    17
1977    17
1972    16
1982    15
1971    14
1973    14
1975    14
1979    14

 

[Eephus]

1970 and 72 trying to avoid being three time losers

 

[Eephus]

...which reminds me of a song.

 

[Eephus]

...or Bonnie Raitt's song if you prefer

 

[Eephus]

Vamping for time until an audience shows up

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Vamping for time until an audience shows up

I'm here but I don't care about dice. 

 

[simey]

Vamping for time until an audience shows up

You had about 6 people in here, but they split. Your drum roll is too long.