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

I won't be around for the night and don't have time to send someone enough picks to cover me, so put me on autoskip until I say otherwise.

 
Northern Voice said:
I'm in one of the diviest dive bars I've ever been in. Very rough, in a rough part of a rough rural city.

I'm apparently not spending enough time drinking in bars on the job (an actual focus area of my latest review) so I stopped in to "the local" here but woof.

It's an off track betting and karaoke place and I'm sure great with the local drunks or after six beers at 11 PM but not so much at 3 on a Thursday. I met the owner who is a young, attractive girl who curses like a sailor with the locals at the bar and according to google reviews loves to show her boobs to the crowd and wait a minute this place may be growing on me. 

Also, their taps are all Molson (I came here because it's the only non chain place that I thought might not be) and they have no intention of changing, so probably for nothing unless they order some cans but at least it's an afternoon beer I suppose :shrug:
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Or show them off.

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
Recorded in mono, too. Those original Motown 45s would damned near jump off of the turntable. And that left Jamerson's bass to troll underneath like the shark in Jaws.

When CDs came out in the 80s, I bought a ton of them featuring records I had as a kid. The Motown re-releases were, by far, the worst sounding. They weren't made for separation.
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That may have been the fault who was ever in charge of doing the remixes at Motown.

When CDs first came out, one always listened to them with a bit of trepidation, as sometimes, the conversion from analog to digital emphasized the wrong things in the original production and had the quality of listening to an alt take.

Most analog to digital conversions were spot on, while some others were just dreadful and almost ruined the song for those who remember how their 45s sounded. 

 
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Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

I was kind of shocked with their recent inclusion into the R&R HOF as I never really connected those dots, but while watching Charlize Therone's induction I really felt every word she conveyed.   Indeed Depeche Mode was a large part of the soundtrack of my youth.   This song and many others just jumped out at being very different than the rest of what was getting played during the late 80s glam rock era. DM's realness and unique sound made it easy for me to gravitate to.  I love many songs on Violator too, and it's certainly a more polished production, but if I had to pick a best song it would be the more gritty and raw Never Let Me Down Again.   Having never been addicted to drugs it always felt like this song takes you down a path where you at least understand addiction a little more.  Also, saw them live about 10 years ago...amazing of course.

 
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Northern Voice said:
I probably agree. Mrs. NV who is a huge fan would go 'It's No Good'
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I know it's cheesy, but "Just Can't Get Enough" is still a sentimental favorite for me.  

2006-ish, I was traveling with our college football team to a road game, I want to say Kalamazoo to play against Western Michigan.  Had the old school iPod going as we came in for a very rough plane landing.  iPod flew off my lap and slid all the way up the plane under a bunch of seats, up to where the coaching staff sat.  Getting off the plane I'm looking for the iPod, only to find the OL coach scrolling through it as everyone is deplaning, asking loudly "which one of you <insert a derogatory term for a homosexual person that would get you cancelled in 2021> is listening to ####### Depeche Mode?"  I think they were relieved that it was just one of the equipment staff rather than a player.

 
El Floppo said:
running off to see #1 son as the lead in his new HS's musical, Pippin.

did not know this one going in... been listening today- a little dated. little = lots. won't be taking any of these in a draft any time soon. 

go ahead and skip me if I come up.
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My brother played Pippin in high school.  I always loved that record and listened to it all the time as a kid.  Then I spun it again a few years ago, and...yeah.  Pretty dated.  But Ben Vereen was outstanding in the original, and that's enough to keep it on my favorites list.

 
TripItUp said:
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

I was kind of shocked with their recent inclusion into the R&R HOF as I never really connected those dots, but while watching Charlize Therone's induction I really felt every word she conveyed.   Indeed Depeche Mode was a large part of the soundtrack of my youth.   This song and many others just jumped out at being very different than the rest of what was getting played during the late 80s glam rock era and DM's realness and unique sound made it easy for me to gravitate to.  I love many songs on Violator too, and it's certainly a more polished production, but if I had to pick a best song it would be the more gritty and raw Never Let Me Down Again.   Having never been addicted to drugs it always felt like this song takes you down a path where you at least understand addiction a little more.  Also, saw them live about 10 years ago...amazing of course.
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Good choice. I was hoping they would fall to me so I could pick "Shake The Disease" which was released as a single only, to avoid IMO, a potential controversy that they might have been concerned with, but didn't materialize.

The band never talked about the song much in interviews, but on a German TV appearance to promote it, the host asked Dave Gahan "What is this song about?" and Gahan, deadpan, replied "It's a love song" which got incredulous laughter from the audience.

Well, songs can be on two different levels or have two different meanings or messages. It's true, the lyrics of Shake The Disease do read like a love song. However the song was released at the height of the AIDS epidemic and when Depeche Mode first broke in the UK, it was in the gay clubs/bars where they initially found their popularity. It was felt that this was an acknowledgment to the gay community of what they were going through, as with so many sick and dying, it seemed that literally they could not shake the disease and escape the plague that had enveloped them. 

Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease  (1985) https://youtu.be/jRwtAQ1i8cU

 
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Maik Jeaunz said:
2.x - Reptilia - The Strokes

commentary:  from the opening 'bippity bap' on the snare, you know this song means business. if you're driving and you can make it through the song without mashing the gas pedal, you're a better person than me.
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This artist and song was my planned first rounder in my original 40 Years of Post-Punk mix.

 
Pick 2:10 "Do You Realize??"  The Flaming Lips

“Do You Realize??”, is the climax of the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots concept album, and is the Flaming Lips at their emotional best. Wayne Coyne explores the meaning of life and death with either profound or silly (I haven’t decided which) epiphanies like  "You realize the sun doesn't go down. It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round."

A beautiful masterpiece!

 
Maik Jeaunz said:
2.x - Reptilia - The Strokes

commentary:  from the opening 'bippity bap' on the snare, you know this song means business. if you're driving and you can make it through the song without mashing the gas pedal, you're a better person than me.
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NV is on the road as we speak. Careful. He'll flip his bicycle.

Yeah, the night's not over, you're not trying hard enough
Our lives are changing lanes, you ran me off the road
The wait is over, I'm now taking over
You're no longer laughing, I'm not drowning fast enough

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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Juxtatarot said:
Pick 2:10 "Do You Realize??"  The Flaming Lips

“Do You Realize??”, is the climax of the Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots concept album, and is the Flaming Lips at their emotional best. Wayne Coyne explores the meaning of life and death with either profound or silly (I haven’t decided which) epiphanies like  "You realize the sun doesn't go down. It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round."

A beautiful masterpiece!
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It is. Melancholy, really, but I love the line "Do you realize you have the most beautiful face/for floating in space?"

The happiness makes me cry. All things come full circle, really, just like the earth around the sun. Great work by a great band.

 
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rockaction said:
Maik Jeaunz said:
2.x - Reptilia - The Strokes

commentary:  from the opening 'bippity bap' on the snare, you know this song means business. if you're driving and you can make it through the song without mashing the gas pedal, you're a better person than me.
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NV is on the road as we speak. Careful. He'll flip his bicycle.
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On most days, my favourite Strokes song is 'You Only Live Once'

In more recent times it's probably 'OBLIVIUS' or 'Macchu Picchu'.

I realize these are lukewarm to medium-hot takes but like the Quadrophenia discussion earlier, I always consume those first two albums as albums, so other singles pop more. 

 
Northern Voice said:
On most days, my favourite Strokes song is 'You Only Live Once'

In more recent times it's probably 'OBLIVIUS' or 'Macchu Picchu'.

I realize these are lukewarm to medium-hot takes but like the Quadrophenia discussion earlier, I always consume those first two albums as albums, so other singles pop more. 
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This band was right at the beginning of my personal digital age, and I feel this way about the first, not so much the second. That's just happenstance. Room On Fire was when they became a singles band to me, really, even though the album is strong. I just had changed the way I consumed music by the second.

 
rockaction said:
This band was right at the beginning of my personal digital age, and I feel this way about the first, not so much the second. That's just happenstance. Room On Fire was when they became a singles band to me, really, even though the album is strong. I just had changed the way I consumed music by the second.
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And I was the opposite because 'Last Nite' was a huge club hit when I was 19-20 and going to Rock 'n' Roll Saturdays at The Trasheteria... but Room on Fire I heard first as a whole, I think. Though 'Reptilia' was for sure my runaway favourite. 

 
Northern Voice said:
It would be this or 'Fight Test' from the same album for me. Great great album. 
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Vote for "Fight Test" here. I've drafted that one before and it will always be the song I think of when I think of that Clone High show and how that got me to discover the album as something more than an abstraction. 

 
Northern Voice said:
And I was the opposite because 'Last Nite' was a huge club hit when I was 19-20 and going to Rock 'n' Roll Saturdays at The Trasheteria... but Room on Fire I heard first as a whole, I think. Though 'Reptilia' was for sure my runaway favourite. 
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I had to Google this. Sounds very cool.

 
Northern Voice said:
Yeah looking back, it was so fortunate that we had a club that played alternative and indie rock hits all night - on Saturday night no less - in my little city of 80,000 people. It's a burger restaurant now. 
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That is one tasty burger!

Say "what!" Say "what," mother####er! Say "what" one more time!

 
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