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THIS IS THEIR BEST SONG! - Music Draft - Saturday Night's Alright for iFighting (1 Viewer)

TripItUp said:
I'm kind of taking a different approach, I enjoy the debate about "best song" so I'm choosing artists with a lot of hits which tend to be the artists that everybody knows.   
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Love it. I am at a crossroads for my theme and my next 2 picks will probably settle it. Am I going to for songs about relationships or R&B soul? 

 
3.10 - Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang

"Brass in Pocket" was in the RS500 but this song fits my concept better. "Back on the Chain Gang" was the moment when Pretenders unofficially transitioned from a band to Chrissie Hynde's singer/songwriter project. I guess Martin Chambers is in there too somewhere but he doesn't do much of anything.

It's a terrific song about loss and hope with one of the greatest bridges in Rock 'n Roll.

 
I think, anyway.

It really doesn't matter because I don't have a great idea of what to pick. I know what fits a mix -- if I should go that direction -- the best, but there are some great bands out there.

 
rockaction said:
I think, anyway.

It really doesn't matter because I don't have a great idea of what to pick. I know what fits a mix -- if I should go that direction -- the best, but there are some great bands out there.
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Really tough draft, especially early on. Especially with the artists that you might love because how does one pick from their babies? 

 
Round 3.12

The Kinks - Have A Cuppa Tea

This one will certainly be arguable, but I adore this song (and even own the mug to go with it!). It's a nostalgia driven-song but without the usual Kinks criticism of family life or family trifles, or I should say, that when it gets critical, it's at least massively toned down and sung with empathy and sympathy towards its intended protagonists. Yes, it's about tea time in England and the working class.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah Rosalie!

 
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rockaction said:
Round 3.12

The Kinks - Have A Cuppa Tea

This one will certainly be arguable, but I adore this song (and even own the mug to go with it!). It's a nostalgia driven-song but without the usual Kinks criticism of family life or family trifles, or I should say, that when it gets critical, it's at least massively toned down and sung with empathy and sympathy towards its intended protagonists. Yes, it's about tea time in England and the working class.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah Rosalie!
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Ha, I have that mug too.

 
I hope there are some raging debates about Sanctuary/Columbia/Arista here, though by even me writing that, you can tell I'm not too privy to the Kinks' label hopping nor an expert on their later recordings.

 
Eephus said:
3.10 - Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang

"Brass in Pocket" was in the RS500 but this song fits my concept better. "Back on the Chain Gang" was the moment when Pretenders unofficially transitioned from a band to Chrissie Hynde's singer/songwriter project. I guess Martin Chambers is in there too somewhere but he doesn't do much of anything.

It's a terrific song about loss and hope with one of the greatest bridges in Rock 'n Roll.
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This is one of my adulthood favorites. It’s such an excellent song, from lyrics to music. And you’re right about the bridge, IMO. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Would have taken many many many guesses for me to land on that Kinks song. Lovely quirky song though. 
 
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the song I was taking if I were making a mix, which was my original intention, was 180 degrees from that sort of countrified down-home working class paean. 
 

glad you liked it. 

 
Btw, I think “Waterloo Sunset” is the Kinks’ best song — of my forties, anyway. My twenties would have been “Village Green Preservation…” — but Waterloo was in RS500, so I decided to go elsewhere. 

 
rockaction said:
Round 3.12

The Kinks - Have A Cuppa Tea

This one will certainly be arguable, but I adore this song (and even own the mug to go with it!). It's a nostalgia driven-song but without the usual Kinks criticism of family life or family trifles, or I should say, that when it gets critical, it's at least massively toned down and sung with empathy and sympathy towards its intended protagonists. Yes, it's about tea time in England and the working class.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah Rosalie!
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Yeah, you got that right. However if I were to pick a song off of Muswell Hillbillies, I would take a song perhaps years ahead of its time, which I always felt was talking about anorexia.

The Kinks - The Kinks - Skin And Bone (1971)

🎶Don't eat no mashed potatoes,
Don't eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.

Living on the edge of starvation
And she says she's got no appetite
And her father and her mother
And her sisters and her brothers
Couldn't see her when she walked by
You can't see her walk by.

She don't eat no mashed potatoes,
She don't eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.🎶

https://youtu.be/4uIjlg_dHBk

 
rockaction said:
Btw, I think “Waterloo Sunset” is the Kinks’ best song — of my forties, anyway. My twenties would have been “Village Green Preservation…” — but Waterloo was in RS500, so I decided to go elsewhere. 
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My top 5 = Days, Waterloo, Sunny Afternoon, Young and Innocent Days, I'm Not Like Everybody Else

This draft is really hard.

 
Round 3:

Super Stupid -- Funkadelic

Writeup later.

Sorry for the delay. Prepping for a 3-day conference -- so keep me on skip until Tuesday morning. I'll check in and make up picks when I can. 

 
squistion said:
Yeah, you got that right. However if I were to pick a song off of Muswell Hillbillies, I would take a song perhaps years ahead of its time, which I always felt was talking about anorexia.

The Kinks - The Kinks - Skin And Bone (1971)
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Yep. Would love to hear people's favorites from both their career and that album. I think you could make an argument for "Alcohol" off that album, too.

As for Skin And Bone, well, that certainly is one plausible interpretation. I think that it's probably open to a lot of interpretations, that song. What is Ray Davies trying to say? I always took it much more light-heartedly than a description of anorexia. It's seemingly in the blues tradition of singing about women's weight and food.

Only Davies knows, anyway.

 
landrys hat said:
My top 5 = Days, Waterloo, Sunny Afternoon, Young and Innocent Days, I'm Not Like Everybody Else

This draft is really hard.
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It's not that hard if you take it cavalierly!

Just kidding. I'm trying to have fun with it.

Those are some doozies.

I'd go with these:

All Day And All Of The Night
Stop Your Sobbin'
The Village Green Preservation Society
Rosie, Won't You Please Come Home
Waterloo Sunset

 
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@rockaction record question, what’s the cost of something like Moondance by Van? I’m thinking of buying a student of mine a record. He’s got a record player and has been getting into them. He likes a lot of old stuff like Roy Orbison, Cash, Sinatra so Van might be up his alley.

 
Ilov80s said:
@rockaction record question, what’s the cost of something like Moondance by Van? I’m thinking of buying a student of mine a record. He’s got a record player and has been getting into them. He likes a lot of old stuff like Roy Orbison, Cash, Sinatra so Van might be up his alley.
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Oh crap -- you know what? It goes in and out of print, depending. Here's a quick search. Twenty to thirty bucks for a record. This looks like only Amazon sellers stock in and that they're out of stock. Careful buying from Amazon, their records will come warped because they often don't store them properly in the warehouses, and the heat gets to them. I have too many warbled records to mention here. They are the cheapest, though.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=van+morrison+vinyl+moondance&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

I have a half-speed master copy of it. Got it from an audiophile. It sounds incredible, even on my modest rig.

Here's a link for the secondhand market and all the versions of Moondance ever to come into print, some available, some not.

https://www.discogs.com/master/14520-Van-Morrison-Moondance

 
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rockaction said:
Yep. Would love to hear people's favorites from both their career and that album. I think you could make an argument for "Alcohol" off that album, too.

As for Skin And Bone, well, that certainly is one plausible interpretation. I think that it's probably open to a lot of interpretations, that song. What is Ray Davies trying to say? I always took it much more light-heartedly than a description of anorexia. It's seemingly in the blues tradition of singing about women's weight and food.

Only Davies knows, anyway.
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Muswell Hillbilly is probably my favorite from that album.

They're putting us in identical little boxes

No character just uniformity

They're trying to build a computerized community

But they'll never make a zombie out of me

 
landrys hat said:
Muswell Hillbilly is probably my favorite from that album.

They're putting us in identical little boxes

No character just uniformity

They're trying to build a computerized community

But they'll never make a zombie out of me
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Cause I'm a Muswell Hillbilly boy,
But my heart lies in Old West Virginia,
Though my hills are not green,
I have seen them in my dreams,
Take me back to those Black Hills,
That I have never seen.

 
squistion said:
Yeah, you got that right. However if I were to pick a song off of Muswell Hillbillies, I would take a song perhaps years ahead of its time, which I always felt was talking about anorexia.

The Kinks - The Kinks - Skin And Bone (1971)

🎶Don't eat no mashed potatoes,
Don't eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.

Living on the edge of starvation
And she says she's got no appetite
And her father and her mother
And her sisters and her brothers
Couldn't see her when she walked by
You can't see her walk by.

She don't eat no mashed potatoes,
She don't eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.🎶

https://youtu.be/4uIjlg_dHBk
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We always italicize lyrics on Fridays

 
squistion said:
Good for you. I put in music notes at the beginning and end instead of italics, no matter what day it is. If people can't figure that they are lyrics, then God help them. 
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I honestly have no idea why you hang out on a message board. I've never heard you say a kind word about anybody, or respond to anything appropriately or kindly. 

You might think about that, but I know you won't. Don't bother responding to this, I'm going to take it with a huge helping of the fecal matter I'm about to eat, because it befits that.

 
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squistion said:
Good for you. I put in music notes at the beginning and end instead of italics, no matter what day it is. If people can't figure that they are lyrics, then God help them. 
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He wasn't trying to correct you. He's making a little joke that the regulars will get, giving you a little insight into how the people here communicate and just chatting with you in general. 

 
That was better than mine. It was what I was going to write, and my better angels told me to, but it’s a lost cause, IMO, and I hate watching people get snapped at or bullied by anyone, even the perpetually aggrieved. 

 
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