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THIS IS THEIR BEST SONG! - Music Draft - Saturday Night's Alright for iFighting (6 Viewers)

Truebluey said:
Karn Evil Nine was their greatest song, Lucky Man is the one that is still making $$$ for Carl (saw him on tour 2 years ago, amazing show), but both Pebble and Beginning are brilliant, acoustic masterpieces. But they could also pump out the headbangers and I think the best at getting my blood going are tarkus and Fanfare for the Common Man.
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Palmer still tours? Billed as what?

 
zamboni said:
My bad - thought the Smithereens was Dr. O’s band. Knew It was someone in the gang here.
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I do like them and have shared seeing Pat locally for free a few times before he passed (he lived next town over) but they’re not “my band”. My favorite Behind The Wall of Sleep could have fit my theme based on the lyric, “She grabbed the bass guitar like she was playing in a band and she stood just like Bill Wyman now I am her biggest fan.”

 
Ilov80s said:
I am pretty good with it but that just sounded like a mess of stuff, I am confused just reading it
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My first car was a 1974 Nova hatchback. I bought it about a year before I was able to (legally) drive, so I had plenty of time to tinker around with it. Which I did endlessly. We had a pretty big farm with a lot of tractor roads, so I'd drive around those with my AM radio (had like an 80 ounce speaker in the dash that's probably still playing) or one of 3 8-track players (why 3? because I was 15 and an idiot) cranked up.

ANYWAY, about the time I was 17, I had the brilliant idea to fill the back of the hatch with speakers. Not a single one matched another (one was a guitar amp). A friend & I built a frame, and loaded that sucker up with sound-makers. I put toggle switches under the dash for each speaker so I could turn them on and off depending on what I thought I sounded good for a particular song. I had like 9 miles of speaker wire in that car. There is no way in hell any of that should have worked, but it did. I had a metal rod that could swing down and push all of the toggles to either "on" or "off". When I would drop that rod (not a euphemism) down to charge all of those orphan speakers to "on", it was party time baby! Led Zep would have been jealous.

Still waiting on my Nobel Prize for it.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
My first car was a 1974 Nova hatchback. I bought it about a year before I was able to (legally) drive, so I had plenty of time to tinker around with it. Which I did endlessly. We had a pretty big farm with a lot of tractor roads, so I'd drive around those with my AM radio (had like an 80 ounce speaker in the dash that's probably still playing) or one of 3 8-track players (why 3? because I was 15 and an idiot) cranked up.

ANYWAY, about the time I was 17, I had the brilliant idea to fill the back of the hatch with speakers. Not a single one matched another (one was a guitar amp). A friend & I built a frame, and loaded that sucker up with sound-makers. I put toggle switches under the dash for each speaker so I could turn them on and off depending on what I thought I sounded good for a particular song. I had like 9 miles of speaker wire in that car. There is no way in hell any of that should have worked, but it did. I had a metal rod that could swing down and push all of the toggles to either "on" or "off". When I would drop that rod (not a euphemism) down to charge all of those orphan speakers to "on", it was party time baby! Led Zep would have been jealous.

Still waiting on my Nobel Prize for it.
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That’s amazing 

 
Ilov80s said:
That’s amazing 
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My father - an electrician by trade and the most anal person I've ever known (outside of, maybe, me nowadays) - was disgusted by the sloppiness of my work. I had wires going everywhere, man. I knew I had impressed him, though, when he came up to me one day several weeks later with a Patsy Cline 8-track and said "Will this mess you made play her?". 

 
Rd 17 Hold on -Alabama Shakes

i realized I haven’t drafted one female singer yet… so I’ll take Brittany Howard and her voice  which are a great grab at 17. Went chalk here with hold on, but always alright is right there too for me. 

 
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17.15 Average White Band - "Work To Do"

AWB was a fine band with two great lead singers. They were funky and weird and Scottish. Like most bands from the first 20 or 30 years of rock history, they had the good sense to cover the Isleys.

 
17.18 - Rory Gallagher - Messin' With the Kid (Live 1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a69sX1gXLzs

If the so-called Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inducted artists based on talent or sales alone, Rory Gallagher would have been among the first class of inductees. Gallagher was regularly in the top 5 of polls taken of best lead guitar players in the 70s (along with Clapton and Page) and sold 35 million records worldwide during his career. He was the best lead guitarist I have ever seen (and I have seen most of the greats outside of Jimi Hendrix).

Gallagher has yet to be even nominated by TRARHOF committee and, quite frankly, I am baffled by it. Perhaps it was because he never had a hit record, although other artists who have made the cut didn't either and sold poorly during their career (see Velvet Underground). 

In any event, the track I selected is one of his best if not the best song. I originally intended a live version of Hands Up, but both links I bookmarked sometime back have been taken down.

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
My first car was a 1974 Nova hatchback. I bought it about a year before I was able to (legally) drive, so I had plenty of time to tinker around with it. Which I did endlessly. We had a pretty big farm with a lot of tractor roads, so I'd drive around those with my AM radio (had like an 80 ounce speaker in the dash that's probably still playing) or one of 3 8-track players (why 3? because I was 15 and an idiot) cranked up.

ANYWAY, about the time I was 17, I had the brilliant idea to fill the back of the hatch with speakers. Not a single one matched another (one was a guitar amp). A friend & I built a frame, and loaded that sucker up with sound-makers. I put toggle switches under the dash for each speaker so I could turn them on and off depending on what I thought I sounded good for a particular song. I had like 9 miles of speaker wire in that car. There is no way in hell any of that should have worked, but it did. I had a metal rod that could swing down and push all of the toggles to either "on" or "off". When I would drop that rod (not a euphemism) down to charge all of those orphan speakers to "on", it was party time baby! Led Zep would have been jealous.

Still waiting on my Nobel Prize for it.
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RULEZ

 
Juxtatarot said:
17X.X Damien Rice I Remember (studio version)  I Remember (excellent live version with extended outro)

O is one of the most beautiful records I've ever listened to but what made Damien Rice so extraordinary at times to me is when he picked up the tempo and got "angrier".  I wish he did that more often throughout the albums.  
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It’s one of my all-time favorite albums.   :wub:   My favorite is Delicate.

I was so happy he finally made a third album, but then he disappeared again.  One of my life’s goals was to see him and [dammit, can’t say due to spotlighting] on their annual busking in Dublin on Christmas Eve, but I’m not sure they do it anymore.

 
Round 17

The Core - Eric Clapton

I have to stretch a little to make this fit my theme but Clapton did appear on The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Cricus with the Dirty Macs, a super-group also featuring John Lennon, Keith Richards (on bass) and Mitch Mitchell.

 
For my Round 17 pick I have to add some Canadian content to my list or local authorities will be knocking on my door.

I wouldn't be in this draft if Northern Voice hadn't stepped aside and I think he would give this pick his stamp of approval. I'm not sure if he normally drafts this band, but I remember him posting about them when the lead singer,Gord Downie, died.

So tough to pick just one of their songs, but I'll go with Nautical Disaster from The Tragically Hip.

https://youtu.be/e8Fi46BFAF0

 
Ilov80s said:
Rd 17: Nowhere To Run by Martha Reeves and The Vandellas

This is their best song but I was very tempted to take the lesser known ballad Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things). It’s a style we don’t generally associate with Motown but it’s a great song. That said, Nowhere To Run is such a jam that it was irresistible. 
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Good pick. I would have gone with Come And Get These Memories.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S75yUJI8FKs

Surprised no one has mentioned Heat Wave, but perhaps because it is too much like The Supremes.

 
Round 17:

Hearts of Oak — Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Another artist that friends I made during my Lost Years turned me on to. This happened when Hearts of Oak, their second full-length album, was new. I still think it’s their best and the title track is my favorite from it. I got them to play it at one of their shows I went to. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dZTtQuLGO4c
 

RA and I previously discussed their Thin Lizzy cover.

 
Pip's Invitation said:
Round 17:

Hearts of Oak — Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Another artist that friends I made during my Lost Years turned me on to. This happened when Hearts of Oak, their second full-length album, was new. I still think it’s their best and the title track is my favorite from it. I got them to play it at one of their shows I went to. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dZTtQuLGO4c
 

RA and I previously discussed their Thin Lizzy cover.
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The Tyranny of Distance is one of my favorite albums of the aughts.

I would've taken one of the first 3 from that album---Biomusicology, Parallel or Together or Under the Hedge.

 
The Dreaded Marco said:
17.xx  Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey

He took some flak when the Smiths were drafted, most of it deservedly so.  But he has written some great songs. This may be my overall favorite, solo or with the Smiths.  Definitely top 3.

Suedehead was a close 2nd option.
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I read recently that Morrissey thought Viva Hate was one of his worst albums but that’s probably just Morrissey being Morrissey. My favorites are “Southpaw”, “Seaside, Yet Still Docked”, “Life Is a Pigsty” and “Margaret On the Guillotine”.

 
Captain Cranks said:
17.33 - Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Meatloaf

Thanks for the spotlight, Shuke.  
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Meatloaf was one of the first concerts I attended, I was 13. He was touring for "Bat Out Of Hell" and there weren't any hits off the album yet. So, that's why he would come to our smaller Canadian city. My friend and I grew tired of explaining to parents and friends the name of the act we were going to see. 

At 13, Meatloaf blew us away.

 
tuffnutt said:
Rd 17 Hold on -Alabama Shakes

i realized I haven’t drafted one female singer yet… so I’ll take Brittany Howard and her voice  which are a great grab at 17. Went chalk here with hold on, but always alright is right there too for me. 
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Loved this song the 1st time I heard it (on Sirius/XM the Spectrum) But I could not for the life of me whether the singer was a boy or a girl until I looked it up. 

 
zamboni said:
He tours as Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy. Haven’t seen them but would if they came to my area.

I saw Greg Lake solo a few years back shortly before he passed - just him and recorded background instruments, which I didn’t particularly care for.
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This. 

The surprising part is that Carl plays with two brilliant young stringed instrument /guitar players, who do all Keith's parts on slide guitars, string synthesizers, etc. It's honestly pretty great. 

 
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