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THIS IS THEIR BEST SONG! - Music Draft - Saturday Night's Alright for iFighting (3 Viewers)

TripItUp said:
Bob Seger – You'll Accompany Me

Big fan, seen him live twice.  Most recently at The Forum about 4 years ago and he sounded great.  But I want it to be known I really despise “Old Time Rock n Roll”…it just sucks and he has a few others hits that are unlistenable for me.  That being said, way too many great songs to let him slide in the draft.  I'm told he was played to death in the 70s and there is a lot of Seger burnout, but I didn't discover most of his 70s stuff until the 90s when he wasn't really played...so the burnout thing doesn't really apply to me.

My Seger Top 5

1.       You’ll Accompany Me

2.       Night Moves

3.       Against the Wind

4.       Shame on the Moon (Hot Take Selection)

5.       Still the Same

*Bonus Track - Turn the Page
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Nice pick… Hollywood nights and fire lake are good tunes as well

 
krista4 said:
No matter what your politics are, I ask you to root for Beto in a long-shot here so that we can go cook at Jason Isbell’s recording session.  Kthx.
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Done and done.  We will vote for him.  Anything to get rid of the doosh that we have now.

I will want to hear about the food.

 
7.32: "Cities in Dust", Siouxsie and the Banshees

One of the goth anthems of my high school years. Siouxsie's delivery is like a warning to 1980s America -- and it's devil-may-care dance club kids -- that things out there could get A LOT worse. Was she telling us to (a) start getting serious and taking care to avoid an eventual poor outcome for society, or to (b) get lost in carefree music & dance because everything would end up "in dust" anyway? That interpretation was an exercise left to the listener.

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8.03: "The Party's Over (Hopelessly in Love)", Journey

The lone studio recording on the otherwise live double album Captured. Steve Perry had sung lead for Journey for three years when Captured was recorded. With this album, the band's remake in Perry's image was complete -- 12 of the 17 tracks were written or co-written by Perry, including "The Party's Over" -- an exclamation point of a closing number.

Founding keyboardist Gregg Rolie had already left the band by the time "The Party's Over" was recorded -- a session player filled in on keys before Jonathan Cain (ex-Babys) was hired on. 
 

 
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Mister CIA said:
8.X - Trains Across the Sea, Silver Jews

Love the way the last couple of the lines in this song drop like a ton of bricks only after the words stops flowing.

Other contenders:

Party Barge

Suffering Jukebox

We Could be Looking for the Same Thing

RIP David Berman.  You had a way with words very few do.
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:oldunsure:  there's gonna be a fight a'comin'.

Juxtatarot said:
8.X Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism

Their most beautiful song on their most beautiful album.
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funny- was looking at them as a band I hadn't drafted before, but was seriously thinking about- Soul Meets Body was going to be my pick... but this is great too.

Doug B said:
7.32: "Cities in Dust", Siouxsie and the Banshees

One of the goth anthems of my high school years. Siouxsie's delivery is like a warning to 1980s America -- and it's devil-may-care dance club kids -- that things out there could get A LOT worse. Was she telling us to (a) start getting serious and taking care to avoid an eventual poor outcome for society, or to (b) get lost in carefree music & dance because everything would end up "in dust" anyway? That interpretation was an exercise left to the listener.
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it's a good tune... and probably a product of when you were listening to her. for me, her earlier albums are chock full of better ones. They were another one I was thinking about taking ... Spellbound, The Lord's Prayer, Monitor, Christine, Happy House... so many.

 
I'm not a huge folk/bluegrass guy but these guys are just plain kick ###!  Picking a fave is impossible.  Oh yea, and they're Canucks which surprised me when I first started listening to em. Take off, eh!  They're in my top 3 to see live right now.  

The Dead South. The Recap......live

 
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one of the recent picks almost had me changing my direction...

hmmmmmmmmm.... now I'm seriously internally debating. gimme a couple.

 
krista4 said:
Great process, great name, great logo.  I need more Kraken gear; it's all very sharp-looking.   The team sold out its season tickets in 12 minutes, and the enthusiasm has not waned yet even though the team is...not good.  They made this feeble Blackhawks team look like the 2021 Oilers.  Lots of pent-up demand for hockey here; before this, people would travel to Vancouver for their fix.  I'd say the place was about 30% Blackhawks fans last night, though.  Of course, no one who lives in Seattle is from here.
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FYP

 
El Floppo said:
one of the recent picks almost had me changing my direction...

hmmmmmmmmm.... now I'm seriously internally debating. gimme a couple.
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ok... #### it. not going with the originally scheduled pick. going to take one more part of a previous selection- but a different one than normal, because I always pick that other one.

8- Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks- Real Emotional Trash

continuing on the slow-build vibe, and long ago I had an idea for a draft of 10+ minute songs that this song prompted. plus it's got a home-town shout-out.

down in sausalito I had clams for desert.

you spilled some chardonnay on your gypsy skirt.

 
Could someone else please update the sheet?  I need to go scream at my bank.

8.14  Joy Division - Transmission

I don't know if this is their best song, but I think it's one of the most Joy Division-y ones and amazing in that they make so much out of so little in it.  Other considerations were She's Lost Control and Disorder and a few others I've forgotten now.

Is it possible they were chosen and I've missed in on the sheet?  New Order was taken in like round 3.

@tuffnutt

 
El Floppo said:
ok... #### it. not going with the originally scheduled pick. going to take one more part of a previous selection- but a different one than normal, because I always pick that other one.

8- Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks- Real Emotional Trash

continuing on the slow-build vibe, and long ago I had an idea for a draft of 10+ minute songs that this song prompted. plus it's got a home-town shout-out.

down in sausalito I had clams for desert.

you spilled some chardonnay on your gypsy skirt.
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Stephen Malkmus is one of my personal favorites.  Animal Midnight might be my top track.  His guitar stylings slay me.

 
krista4 said:
Could someone else please update the sheet?  I need to go scream at my bank.

8.14  Joy Division - Transmission

I don't know if this is their best song, but I think it's one of the most Joy Division-y ones and amazing in that they make so much out of so little in it.  Other considerations were She's Lost Control and Disorder and a few others I've forgotten now.

Is it possible they were chosen and I've missed in on the sheet?  New Order was taken in like round 3.

@tuffnutt
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@The Dreaded Marco and I take turns drafting them early. I get the sense he (and I) were letting somebody else take them this time.

It's a great selection too. 

 
squistion said:
Wow! I didn't even know there were any other Tim Buckley fans on this thread or in this forum.

Unfortunately, if Tim Buckley's name is familiar to people at all, it is either for being Jeff Buckley's father or for This Mortal Coil's cover of his tune, Song To The Siren.

If the so-called Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inducted people on talent alone, Tim Buckley should have been among the first inductees. Arguably the best RnR singer ever, with a 5 1/2 octave range and reportedly was electrifying to see live (I never got the opportunity, as I wasn't introduced to him until the late 80s, some years after his passing).

But it wasn't just that his voice was great from a technical standpoint, he put out some top flight music in variety of styles, ranging from 60s folk to 70s dance funk to a free form avant-garde style jazz rock in the LP Starsailor (which is just incredible to listen to). 

As I mentioned after Jeff Buckley's pick, Tim was planning to do a live LP before his death which I think would have done the same for him, popularity wise, as Frampton Comes Alive did for Peter Frampton. Sadly, we will never know if that would have been his commercial breakthrough or yet another LP that the critics liked, but was not well received by the public. 
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I would have gone with Dolphins or Once I Was. I’ve drafted Tim a couple times over the years. I also discovered when I discovered Jeff.

 
Captain Cranks said:
I'm not well versed in their work, but I'd be surprised if anything tops Soul Meets Body for me.  That song is fire.  
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Transatlanticism is one of the great indie records of…ever? Well worth a full listen.

 
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Manster said:
I'm not a huge folk/bluegrass guy but these guys are just plain kick ###!  Picking a fave is impossible.  Oh yea, and they're Canucks which surprised me when I first started listening to em. Take off, eh!  They're in my top 3 to see live right now.  

The Dead South. The Recap......live
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getting a real New Christy Minstrels vibe here ...

 
El Floppo said:
@The Dreaded Marco and I take turns drafting them early. I get the sense he (and I) were letting somebody else take them this time.

It's a great selection too. 
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Yep, I contemplated taking them with my pick this morning but I'm trying to not take too many artists or songs I've taken before---so far I'm not doing too well at that.  

 
8.16 - Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice (1967) 

Official soundtrack recording taken from opening credits of the film. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wp1kQUhLic

A twofer - as not only is this Nancy Sinatra's best song ever (although I'm sure that These Boots fans will disagree) it is also the best James Bond movie theme song ever.

The reason it is not well known is that most people have never heard it. For some reason United Artists, who released the Bond soundtrack LPs did not put this out as a single, like they had done with Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger (and I have never found out the real story behind this).

I suspect there may have been some licensing issues with Sinatra's label Reprise, and Reprise may have wanted to issue the movie version on their own label and UA balked.

In any event, Reprise had Sinatra re-record the song, produced by Lee Hazlewood and arranged by session guitarist Billy Strange. It featured a guitar backing with Sinatra's voice double tracked as a pun on the word "Twice". The redone version was flat and simply awful, failing to capture the magic of the first recording and bombed on the charts. 

 
Just saw this thread. Looks like work life calmed down about 2 weeks too late cause this draft theme is a **chef's kiss**

 
Captain Cranks said:
I'm not well versed in their work, but I'd be surprised if anything tops Soul Meets Body for me.  That song is fire.  
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It's Follow You Into The Dark for me by a very...very wide margin.

 
rockaction said:
7.11

The Walkmen - We've Been Had

Most people would go with "The Rat," but I prefer the piano in this one rather than the guitar bombast of that one. I always loved the couplet below. Sort of reminds me of myself, but with different details. 

See me age nineteen with some dumb haircut from
1960/moving to New York City
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I was definitely going to take these guys if they'd been available a bit longer.  Probably this song or Wake Up, Little House of Savages or Thinking of a Dream Had.

And, yes, Barrick is a phenomenal drummer.  

 
Binky The Doormat said:
saw him several times - one of them he opened for KISS ...yeah, that really happened - and it worked.
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That seems so odd to me.  That's in the running for best opener, Wikkid also mentioned Talking Heads opening for Ramones - that's insane and probably the concert I'm most jealous of.

 
squistion said:
8.16 - Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice (1967) 

Official soundtrack recording taken from opening credits of the film. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wp1kQUhLic

A twofer - as not only is this Nancy Sinatra's best song ever (although I'm sure that These Boots fans will disagree) it is also the best James Bond movie theme song ever.

The reason it is not well known is that most people have never heard it. For some reason United Artists, who released the Bond soundtrack LPs did not put this out as a single, like they had done with Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger (and I have never found out the real story behind this).

I suspect there may have been some licensing issues with Sinatra's label Reprise, and Reprise may have wanted to issue the movie version on their own label and UA balked.

In any event, Reprise had Sinatra re-record the song, produced by Lee Hazlewood and arranged by session guitarist Billy Strange. It featured a guitar backing with Sinatra's voice double tracked as a pun on the word "Twice". The redone version was flat and simply awful, failing to capture the magic of the first recording and bombed on the charts. 
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my runaway favorite Bond song

ETA: i wish to record it as a maniacal figure (ala Arthur Brown, Ozzie) between two Betts/Allman-type guitarists weaving helixes of harmony

 
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Binky The Doormat said:
wow, good for you dude.

my pick would be "Turn the Page" but ya know ...

saw him several times - one of them he opened for KISS ...yeah, that really happened - and it worked.
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That doesn't surprise me that the band who did Detroit Rock City would have the biggest name in Detroit opening for them, so I can see it being a good fit. And I think that Kiss broke first nationally before Seger, so was a bigger name at the time and would be the headliner. 

 
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