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THIS IS THEIR BEST SONG! - Music Draft - Saturday Night's Alright for iFighting (2 Viewers)

2.20 - Rihanna - "Only Girl (In the World)"

It's really ####### difficult to choose just one Rihanna song.  There are many options and I've drafted em all over the years in various drafts. 

But this is the only one that's on like all of my playlists, and the first one that keeps coming to mind when I have to pick just one.  The chorus is just a banger.  842 million Youtube views can't be wrong.

 
What I would have picked from artists recently taken:

Aretha -- I Say a Little Prayer
Flaming Lips -- Race for the Prize
Fleetwood Mac -- This is really hard as they are like 5 bands in one. A dark horse is the title track of Future Games.
INXS -- The One Thing
Otis -- Try a Little Tenderness
Pearl Jam -- Uh, that changes from day to day. Leash, maybe?
Queen -- Another One Bites the Dust
Strokes -- The End Has No End
Van Halen -- Running with the Devil

From a while ago:

The Doors -- Light My Fire. Yeah, as I said, I'm basic sometimes
The Who -- I Can See for Miles

 
I would have gone with "Box Of Rain" or "Brokedown Palace" by the Dead, because I love American Beauty so much I can barely contain myself writing about it.

As for Rihanna, I would have gone with the same exact song.

 
Steve Tasker said:
2.20 - Rihanna - "Only Girl (In the World)"

It's really ####### difficult to choose just one Rihanna song.  There are many options and I've drafted em all over the years in various drafts. 

But this is the only one that's on like all of my playlists, and the first one that keeps coming to mind when I have to pick just one.  The chorus is just a banger.  842 million Youtube views can't be wrong.
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So another story.  

Maybe 10 years ago we were in Vegas with a big group and a guy we were with got us into a post New Years Party(January 1)  The only thing we knew was that it was supposedly "Puff Daddy's party" but really we just blew that off to promoter hyperbole or whatever.  

We get into the nightclub and f'ing P Diddy is on a couch in the center of the club(weird setup) and Rihanna is sitting right next to him with Jamie Foxx.  About two hours later Will I Am comes on and DJs for a few hours.   We were just normal people with no real connections so the whole thing was a little surreal for us, but obviously great energy in the club...danced for four hours straight.

I like me some Ri Ri(Pitch Perfect reference).   My top 4 would be

1.  We Found Love (not a close second)

2.  Don't Stop the Music (sweet mashup sample)

3.  Only Girl

4.  Umbrella

 
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TripItUp said:
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Same here. It'll be a fresh read in the morning. Thanks, man.

I did it earlier in the draft and realized too late, too. So everybody slips. It just happened that that was the band I was picking next. Coincidence? They're that good.

 
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shuke said:
How is there a song in the top 10 I've never heard?  This is incredible.
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Like you I had misgivings about staying in. Some comment about the oldies nature of our drafting gave me the idea not to worry about artists I knew were hot targets and make a playlist of music I listen to more than the oldies that feel so played to me. It makes me chuckle that of all the bands in history Cigarettes After Sex is 1.6. 😅

I've never really cared about the cohesiveness of my playlist in a draft until this one. I hope I produce something some of you take the time to enjoy. 

 
Holy cow, I got the flu and pneumonia vaccine and my entire upper quadrant of the left side of my body and the back quadrant of my right is totally stiff. This is...

uncool.

I had no reaction to the COVID vaccine, so I'm a little surprised by this. Must be the mercury in the vaccines! I hope I don't catch autism.

 
Northern Voice said:
2.17 - VanHagar - Summer Nights 
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So if we are combining the Van Halens my top 5 is below.

1.  Panama (clear #1) 

2.  Jump (overplayed on MTV but whatever)

3.  Poundcake (I love the intro, and presumably this song more than everybody else)

4.  Aint Talkin Bout Love (another sweet guitar intro and my favorite of the earlier stuff)

5.  Why Can't This Be Love (cheesy AF, and I know my street cred takes a hit here)

 
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TripItUp said:
So if we are combining the Van Halens my top 5 is below.

1.  Panama (clear #1) 

2.  Jump (overplayed on MTV but whatever)

3.  Poundcake (I love the intro, and presumably this song more than everybody else)

4.  Aint Talkin Bout Love (another sweet guitar intro)

5.  Why Can't This Be Love (cheesy AF, and I know my street cred takes a hit here)
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Runnin with the Devil

And the Cradle will Rock

Dance the Night Away

Jamie's Crying

Little Dreamer

You Really Got Me

 
I almost violated my own spotlighting warnings with what I typed. Amazing how it can slip out of one's mind so quickly.

Sheesh to me.

 
rockaction said:
I've got to say that this might not even be the best song on this album, the album is so strong. I'll pick the overground "12:51" as my favorite.
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Another good one, definitely in my top 10.

A lot of Strokes songs meander a bit, so I love the energy they bring on Reptilia. 

 
Skip me in the morning also. I can't imagine I'll be feeling well. I'm assuming the second day just sort of gets a little worse, then it recedes. This is no fun. I feel stiff and I'm in a good deal of pain. I got the flu shot last year and this didn't happen. Must be the pneumonia thing. They recommend it for people over sixty-five, but my doctor had told me when COVID started to get it because I'm diabetic and diabetic folk were winding up with pneumonia at first from the disease and ultimately dying from that.

Sheesh all around.

 
Maik Jeaunz said:
Another good one, definitely in my top 10.

A lot of Strokes songs meander a bit, so I love the energy they bring on Reptilia. 
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Yes, they are definitely a slacker garage band that has heard their forward-looking and meandering indie rock, too. But at heart, they're a rock band, so only elements of that sort of indie meandering get incorporated -- it doesn't bake the whole cake. I also think that Is This It? could have used some editing, but that's something I say a lot about garage and punk bands where the songs wind up clocking in at over two and half minutes.

 
Plenty of great stuff off of Workingman's Dead, too. "Uncle John's Band" and "High Time" are great songs. And who can forget Casey Jones's plight

Driving that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
Don't you know that notion
Just crossed my mind?

I usually repost my write-up of American Beauty from the '70s timdraft we did way back when, but I'll spare everybody.

Fare you well
Fare you well
I love you more than words can tell

 
rockaction said:
Skip me in the morning also. I can't imagine I'll be feeling well. I'm assuming the second day just sort of gets a little worse, then it recedes. This is no fun. I feel stiff and I'm in a good deal of pain. I got the flu shot last year and this didn't happen. Must be the pneumonia thing. They recommend it for people over sixty-five, but my doctor had told me when COVID started to get it because I'm diabetic and diabetic folk were winding up with pneumonia at first from the disease and ultimately dying from that.

Sheesh all around.
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Feel better, rock. I got the flu, pneumonia, and shingles shots all at one time and they knocked me back a bit. 

 
221Binky The Doormat OTC 

222rockaction - ON Deck

223shuke - will pick Fri pm

224Eephus - skip in am

225landrys hat - In the Hole

226Dr. Octopus

227Chaos Commish

228Northern Voice

229Pip's Invitation

 
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And I feel a little better. Thanks for the well-wishes. I broke a fever last night. Chills and pouring sweat. Interesting stuff. I feel okay now, though. Sore.

 
Eephus said:
But it's one thing we haven't done before

THE MUSIC NERD SURVIVOR DRAFT
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This gives me an idea ... here's a very rough outline.

We do a music draft via PMs. Why PMs. and not just in a thread? See below.

We're drafting a "team" of "great songs". Not a deep roster, maybe six or eight. After we have our rosters of songs, we pit some number of them against each other in FFA polls. Probably several songs at a time, and not one-on-one polls -- the latter would take too long.

Anyway: Basically, you win by having your song be the last song standing after however many polls. Probably makes sense to divide it up by genres, time periods, or whatever. Could then have multiple champs -- the R&B champ, the New Wave champ, the Heavy Metal champ, etc.

 
Doug B said:
We do a music draft via PMs. Why PMs. and not just in a thread? See below.
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Just occurred to me:

Via PMs, you wouldn't have to have a slow pick-by-pick draft. Instead, the person picking 1.01 would pick, say, four songs at once. But then the twist -- the person picking 1.02 does the same thing, but without knowing what 1.01 selected. Instead, if one of 1.02's picks was already taken, the commish tells them it's taken, pick another. And so on down the line.

Basically, a blind draft. Music is not like NFL players -- there so much breadth and depth, you really never run out of great picks. And the polls would be so chaotic that having pick 1.01 wouldn't be an advantage at all -- you'd happen to pick your songs first and not have to throw any back ... but that would be nowhere close to a guarantee that one of your songs would win its poll.

 
squistion said:
However my selection is from the brief time when their ill-fated lead guitarist Danny Kirwan was fronting the band. He was mentally unstable and had a complete breakdown on the US tour supporting the LP Bare Trees (from which this song was taken) and was kicked out of the band and the tour cancelled (which led their manager to send out a fake band who called themselves Fleetwood Mac to finish the tour...but I digress).
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On Bare Trees, IIRC Kirwan sang lead on the original version of Welch's composition "Sentimental Lady". That would have been my pick from that Fleetwood Mac era.

Peter Green era: "The World Keep on Turning"
Kirwan era: "Sentimental Lady"
Welch on lead vox for a hot minute: "Hypnotized"
Buckingham-Nicks era: "World Turning" (a rework of "The World Keep on Turning")

 
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Binky timed out.

Round 2.22

Daft Punk - Da Funk

Originally released as a single in 1995, "Da Funk" was the first single -- and is the first track I heard -- off of Daft Punk's debut, Homework, and was the track that introduced my generation to Daft Punk. There are about eight others that vie for the title of "best," so this might as well be called "first." As soon as I saw the video back in 1997, I knew I had to have the album, and a love affair with Daft Punk began since then. The two robots those of us in our generation came to know and love, Guy-Manuel de Momem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, hit the dance floor in '95 and never looked back, creating two decades of the most thoughtful and moving dance music one could imagine.

It's not poppy or clean like any of the tracks off of Discovery ("One More Time" was in my internal discussion for best Daft Punk song), nor as slickly put together as a track off of Human After All ("Robot Rock" was under consideration), nor does it have the grandiosity of their later tracks off of Random Access Memories ("Contact" was also under consideration), but this is where it began in the mid-to-late nineties, dance clubs throbbing, other famous bands incorporating the track into their dance club sets. It became a house staple and received tons of acclaim to follow. It's one of Pitchork's top twenty songs of the nineties.

For more on the song, click here. I find it interesting they wanted the song to sound like '93-'95 gangster hip hop, with "Regulate" being a heavy influence on the song. The grimy sound does indeed remind me of that sort of thing.

For more on the history of the song, the link below is the place to go!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Funk

 
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rockaction said:
Forget it, shuke, it's Chaos Town. (Polanski ref there)
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we've already established this- it's Crazy Town, and Butterfly.

re: Big Chill. yuck. I was in HS when that came out- every kid had that soundtrack and played it at parties for some reason (like Marley's Legend in college). With all of those songs already classics, it went from- oh, that song... to- for the love of god, not that song again. I just can't with that soundtrack. and never liked the movie either. bah humbug.

 
rockaction said:
Binky timed out.

Round 2.22

Daft Punk - Da Funk

Originally released as a single in 1995, "Da Funk" was the first single -- and is the first track I heard -- off of Daft Punk's debut, Homework, and was the track that introduced my generation to Daft Punk. There are about eight others that vie for the title of "best," so this might as well be called "first." As soon as I saw the video back in 1997, I knew I had to have the album, and a love affair with Daft Punk began since then. The two robots those of us in our generation came to know and love, Guy-Manuel de Momem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, hit the dance floor in '95 and never looked back, creating two decades of the most thoughtful and moving dance music one could imagine.

It's not poppy or clean like any of the tracks off of Discovery ("One More Time" was in my internal discussion for best Daft Punk song), nor as slickly put together as a track off of Human After All ("Robot Rock" was under consideration), nor does it have the grandiosity of their later tracks off of Random Access Memories ("Contact" was also under consideration), but this is where it began in the mid-to-late nineties, dance clubs throbbing, other famous bands incorporating the track into their dance club sets. It became a house staple and received tons of acclaim to follow. It's one of Pitchork's top twenty songs of the nineties.

For more on the song, click here. I find it interesting they wanted the song to sound like '93-'95 gangster hip hop, with "Regulate" being a heavy influence on the song. The grimy sound does indeed remind me of that sort of thing.

For more on the history of the song, the link below is the place to go!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Funk
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oh ####!

:wub:  

 
Tough to argue with pretty much any Daft Punk pick.  I'm probably picking "Digital Love" if I've gotta pick one, maybe "Crescendolls" if I want a deeper cut, but they're all just so good.

 
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