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

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.
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Question for the house:

Did it's use as radio-show bumper music ruin "My City Was Gone"?

 
rockaction said:
Would love to hear people's favorites from both [The Kinks'] career and that album.
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The Kinks were one of many classic-rock bands I came to know first through their 1980s output. Over time, I have grown to appreciate "Waterloo Sunset", "Lola", "All Day and All of the Night", "Celluloid Hereoes" and many more.

But "Destroyer" -- yeah, that one -- my fifth-grade self came to that one naively: hearing it on Casey Kasem's show, digging it, and turning it up to 11. Still the undisputed champ for me among the Kinks deep catalog of tracks.

 
Dr_Zaius said:
Nice!  I had considered Aneurysm, which I feel kind of encapsulates the frenetic energy and emotion that to me is the essence of Nirvana.
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I also agree that those are Nirvana's two best songs. I probably would've chosen Aneurysm in the 3rd or 4th.

 
I need to take a dive onto Nirvana. I had their 3 big albums as a kid/teen but I remember some totally different songs as being their best. Not sure I should I still trust my opinions from when I was 13. 

 
Doug B said:
The Kinks were one of many classic-rock bands I came to know first through their 1980s output. Over time, I have grown to appreciate "Waterloo Sunset", "Lola", "All Day and All of the Night", "Celluloid Hereoes" and many more.

But "Destroyer" -- yeah, that one -- my fifth-grade self came to that one naively: hearing it on Casey Kasem's show, digging it, and turning it up to 11. Still the undisputed champ for me among the Kinks deep catalog of tracks.
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I'll go with Lola and it's sequel. Good call. 

 
rockaction said:
Fugazi’s “Suggestion” has lyrics I always thought were well-meaning but hopelessly reductive and spring forth with a religiosity more punitive than Salem. 
 

We are all here/and we are all guilty! 
 

Doesn’t allow for the human, not to mention diffuse problems with blame about sex, IMO. Plus, it’s meandering, slow, and tendentiously lecturing.
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Yep that's definitely one of their more preachy ones. 

 
dickey moe said:
Yep that's definitely one of their more preachy ones. 
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That wasn’t a knock on the band, by the way. I picked them as “Greatest Living Band” back in like 2015-6 or so. It was an Oscar-themed draft. Ilov liked my write-up, IIRC. Fugazi is all right by me. 
 

“Smallpox Champion” is one of their best. 

 
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I was trying to be positive even in the negative. Much like Eephus likes The Boss, so too do I like Fugazi. A lot. My favorite song by them? “Epic Problem,” maybe. “Waiting Room” is tough to top. 

 
Eephus said:
I'm in love with the Queen of the Supermarket
As the evening sky turns blue
A dream awaits in aisle number two

With my shopping cart I move through the heart
Of a sea of fools so blissfully unaware
That they're in the presence of something wonderful and rare
The way she moves behind the counter
Beneath her white apron her secret remains hers
As she bags the groceries her eyes so bored
And sure she's unobserved
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🤮

 
Eephus said:
Top of the page is a good time to throw out the Friday night bonus round

Worst song from an artist who's already been drafted
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Have a cuppa tea by The Kinks.

I kid, but it's nowhere near my top Kinks. Off the top of my head Celluloid Heros, 20th Century Man, Waterloo Sunset,  and Victoria would ranks near the top.  

 
Pip's Invitation said:
Round 2:

Marquee Moon -- Television

Writeup later. Gotta run.
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I drafted this for the Guitar Hero playlist in GP4 and it is one of my favorite guitar performances of all time. 

Television really didn't sound much like anyone else. This song is basically a cross between The Velvet Underground and The Allman Brothers Band, which sounds inconceivable now, so one can only imagine what it must have felt like to hear it in 1977. And Tom Verlaine's solo in the second half of the song is derived more from jazz than any pop/rock source. WXPN has a weekday evening hour called "Highs in the 70s," the tagline for which is "music's wildest decade." Few songs embody the musical freedom characterized in that phrase more than this one. There's a reason why it keeps showing up on "greatest songs of all time" lists. 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7Me0vOSlJfaPY7Pc4GeItd?si=7f95555f87344fc2

 
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Pip's Invitation said:
Round 3:

Super Stupid -- Funkadelic

Writeup later.
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In 1978, Funkadelic sang "who says a funk band can't play rock?" They had already blown up that notion 7 years earlier. Super Stupid is monstrously slammin' and majorly funky. Eddie Hazel just burns everything to the ground with his guitar. 

I have seen this performed live -- by Audioslave. (They covered Rush's Working Man at the same show.)

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4HlIthZsr8bsWll2z0Z7xt?si=a9f92d915d18494a

 
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Doug B said:
Question for the house:

Did it's use as radio-show bumper music ruin "My City Was Gone"?
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Doug B said:
The Kinks were one of many classic-rock bands I came to know first through their 1980s output. Over time, I have grown to appreciate "Waterloo Sunset", "Lola", "All Day and All of the Night", "Celluloid Hereoes" and many more.

But "Destroyer" -- yeah, that one -- my fifth-grade self came to that one naively: hearing it on Casey Kasem's show, digging it, and turning it up to 11. Still the undisputed champ for me among the Kinks deep catalog of tracks.
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I’m with you on both of these takes. 

My City Was Gone  is my favorite song from the Pretenders. And I don’t know a thing about any radio show bumper. 

And while not my #1, Destroyer has always been a Kinks’ favorite of mine. 

As an aside, the Kinks was the first concert I ever attended—Seattle Center Coliseum, early 80’s.  Great show with, ### ######## opening. 

 
Eephus said:
Worst songs by artists already drafted
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I did not rank all 600+ Neil originals in my countdown, so I never gave much thought to what would be at the very bottom. If I bothered to relisten to his entire catalog and consider everything carefully, probably something from his drecky recent albums would have "won" the title. (2017's The Visitor is an appallingly bad album.)

But among songs that come to mind that I have actually taken time to listen to repeatedly over the years, I'll go with the worst song from his most phoned-in album, Hard Luck Stories from Landing on Water. There is absolutely nothing about it that is done well, and not a single one of Neil's strengths is evident. It's synthed to death (and not in an interesting way like many of the songs on Trans) and boasts horrific lyrics and a grinding, plodding beat that accomplishes nothing but giving the listener a headache. This is the essence of what "contractual obligation" sounds like. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
I drafted this for the Guitar Hero playlist in GP4 and it is one of my favorite guitar performances of all time. 

Television really didn't sound much like anyone else. This song is basically a cross between The Velvet Underground and The Allman Brothers Band, which sounds inconceivable now, so one can only imagine what it must have felt like to hear it in 1977. And Tom Verlaine's solo in the second half of the song is derived more from jazz than any pop/rock source. WXPN has a weekday evening hour called "Highs in the 70s," the tagline for which is "music's wildest decade." Few songs embody the musical freedom characterized in that phrase more than this one. There's a reason why it keeps showing up on "greatest songs of all time" lists. 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7Me0vOSlJfaPY7Pc4GeItd?si=7f95555f87344fc2
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Truly great song, very astute write-up. Very jazzy.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
SONG NUMBER ONE IS NOT A #### YOU SONG! 
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I'll save that thought for later on
You wanna know if there's something wrong
It's nothing

Everybody's talking about their hometown scenes
And hurting people's feelings in their magazines
You wanna know what it all means?

It's nothing

Life is what you want it to be
So...don't get tangled up trying to be free
And don't worry what the other people see

It's nothing

 
I owe a pick and this band is popular enough round these parts.

Very similar to my Tom Petty pick, they have so many albums and so many good songs.

And this is a deep album track from their fifth, and absolutely fantastic but maybe less highly regarded album 

And they have the hit you know from "The OC" and the song you know from Lisa Simpson. And the more modern songs after they got big. And the big songs from the big acclaimed albums... but****

They are my favourite band ever and this is their best song...

Remember the weight of the world
It's a sound that we used to buy
On cassette and forty five

3.06 - I Summon You - Spoon

 
Northern Voice said:
I owe a pick and this band is popular enough round these parts.

Very similar to my Tom Petty pick, they have so many albums and so many good songs.

And this is a deep album track from their fifth, and absolutely fantastic but maybe less highly regarded album 

And they have the hit you know from "The OC" and the song you know from Lisa Simpson. And the more modern songs after they got big. And the big songs from the big acclaimed albums... but****

They are my favourite band ever and this is their best song...

Remember the weight of the world
It's a sound that we used to buy
On cassette and forty five

3.06 - I Summon You - Spoon
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I almost picked them today, but figured I’d rather hear what somebody else thought. 

And now this little girl…

 
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