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

Hat tip to @shuke for the Strand of Oaks pick. I've picked Tim plenty of times but I think this is the first draft where someone else has drafted him.

I would have probably gone with "Radio Kids" but "Easter" from the new album is one of my favorites of 2021.

 
Eephus said:
14.24 - Rosanne Cash - Seven Year Ache

I think it was a wise decision to take this song at a brisk ~120bpm instead of stretching it out as a heartbreak ballad. It moves along to a mechanical beat and with a weird sounding synthesizer after the verses. The steel guitar is one of the only things anchoring it on the Country side of the road.
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Cash and her husband (at the time) ,Rodney Crowell, made some great music together.

 
16.18 - America - Daisy Jane (1975)

https://youtu.be/aUtcbkQBOyc

I've listened to Horse With No Name, Tin Man, Ventura Highway and Sister Gold Hair so many times that I am to the point that I practically run out of the room at top speed, screaming, when I hear any of them. Don't get me wrong, great songs but they have played to death (at least for me).

Anyway, my favorite is actually this wistful love ballad.

🎶Does she really love me

I think she does

Like the stars above me

I know because

When the sky is bright

Everything's all right🎶

 
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Juxtatarot said:
16.XX The Decemberists The Rake's Song

So, yes, in the lyrics the narrator of the song kills his children after becoming a widower because they are a nuisance to his sex life.  But, hey, nobody is condoning this behavior.  And I love the percussions!
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Love The Decemberists. They were in my short list. Probably would go with down by the river as my favorite. But can’t go wrong with so many great tunes.

 
Captain Cranks said:
16.01- No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature, The Guess Who

Nice two-fer here.  
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Another glaring omission of the so-called Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.  I don't think The Guess Who has ever even been nominated and they had a good half dozen huge hits.  I wonder if American Woman worked against them with RARHOF nominating committee (some of the live versions of the song are just cringe worthy to listen to with Burton Cummings singing "American #####, American slut, American whore").

Anyway I would have gone with something uplifting:

The Guess Who - Share The Land  (Live TV performance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQJ4toj-JY

 
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krista4 said:
For Binky:

Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
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So different than their later 70's stuff when they morphed into a boogie band (and a good one too!).

It is believed by many that they were the inspiration for the band in the movie This Is Spinal Tap, but Michael McKean has always denied that and has said repeatedly: “This was not about a specific band.”  I dunno, if you are familiar with the history of Status Quo you can make a pretty good case for them.

 
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I’ve had this at the top of my list for 5 rounds now, but I couldn’t decide which song to pick. Yo Mama selects:

16.32 - Public Enemy - Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

Taking this awesome song since I don’t think I’ve ever picked it in a music draft before, but it’s one of my favorites. 

 
There are some people in the draft that like music where the amps are turned up to 11 and yet this group is still available? They even spell their band name correctly and they aren't Canadian!

I select Living Colour - Cult of Personality.

https://youtu.be/7xxgRUyzgs0

Their most well known song, but still the one I like best. Their 1st 3 albums are all strong efforts, I am not as familiar with the subsequent albums.

 
TripItUp said:
The Pointer Sisters - Automatic

Just an old school dance jam that I love.  A slew of hits, but this one holds up the best for me.  I DJd the crap out of this back in the day...dance floor filler and super easy to mix with a lot of breaks.  Didn't discover it until the early 2000s when a DJ played it in a West Hollywood Club...ran up to the DJ(pre-shazam) because I didn't recognize it as the Pointer Sisters.
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I think Mrs R took them in round 14

 
Wham! - Everything She Wants

Decided to corner the George Michael market.  The Wham! catalogue is super underrated after they were written off as strictly bubble gum pop and to some extent that was earned.   After the monster success that GM had as a solo artist, a lot of these songs went under the radar.  I've always liked this song, mostly because I've lived it. :)

My Wham! Top 3

1.  Everything She Wants

2.  Careless Whisper

3.  Last Christmas

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
Boy, you're not kidding about the bolded. WXPN wore this sucker out last year. It's mesmerizing.
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They did? It's worthy, but I'm surprised (well, not if it's a station like WXPN, a station you've talked about before, I think, with Pip especially) that it got airplay like that. 

Anyway, El Floppo turned me on to this band a few years back. Or, well, he really didn't and I'd missed him commenting about them about five separate times in the 2019 music thread whereupon I barged in talking about this great new band that trogg78 had mentioned. Too funny. Anyway, I hope Flop pardons me the indulgence here. 

 
simsarge said:
Bad Company Shooting Star

Love songs that tell you a story too. 

This is a lousy rendition of this song, but the mixed band angle is something of a novelty here. 
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In the spirit of selecting a song that tells a story ...

16.X - Every Picture Tells a Story, Rod Stewart.

Objectively, yeah Maggie May is probably his best song, and personally You Wear it Well may actually be my favorite (and Gasoline Alley is no slouch), but the story of a young man wandering into the wide, wide, world with nothing but a hint reasonates, hard. 

Also, one of about a dozen songs I could Karaoke to with a minimal assist.

 
rockaction said:
They did? It's worthy, but I'm surprised (well, not if it's a station like WXPN, a station you've talked about before, I think, with Pip especially) that it got airplay like that. 

Anyway, El Floppo turned me on to this band a few years back. Or, well, he really didn't and I'd missed him commenting about them about five separate times in the 2019 music thread whereupon I barged in talking about this great new band that trogg78 had mentioned. Too funny. Anyway, I hope Flop pardons me the indulgence here. 
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Oh, yeah. That & Devon Gilfillian's "Good Life" (sorry for the spotlight) were played every DJ shift for months. 

I can see why you made this choice, though Fontaines are a little punky for my tastes. But they are talented and creative.

Nice pick.

 
zamboni said:
Round 15: Mountain - “Theme for an Imaginary Western”

A little different than typical Mountain. A bit mellower, sung by bassist Felix Pappalardi, and written by Jack Bruce of Cream. Plus blistering, soulful solos by the big man.

Incidentally, Felix actually produced Cream, including their mega-classic album Disraeli Gears.

Close second would be Nantucket Sleighride.
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@zamboni  STOOOOPPPPPP AFTER THIS.  I believe this is your 16th rounder, which is where we are today.

 
krista4 said:
Just listened.  As you might expect, right up my alley.  :thumbup:  
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Cool. Thanks. I need to actually listen to some of these bands and tracks that I haven't heard of. I listened to one of Tasker's yesterday, but I haven't just sat with a lot of these yet, mostly because I found myself busy with holiday stuff. 

 
Got my COVID booster about 30 minutes ago.  Wish me luck.  TONS of people at Safeway getting them today; I had to wait about an hour.

(This is not a political posting.)

 
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