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Where in the world are the middle-aged dummies? Worldwide top 31 song countdown. (4 Viewers)
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Mister CIA
Footballguy
The Damones?Where the Ramones album is lacking is the cover design. They needed to put 4 little zippers on their jeans.Ditto. No disrespect to the Ramones.
rockaction
Footballguy
Over the past month or so, I've been realizing something. Man, I missed a Canadian band that for sure would have made my list. I always thought they were wimps, but they're actually quite excellent.
Previous me is such an unreliable narrator. I can't stand his taste in music sometimes. This band was constructing some awesome songs. This is some well-thought-out power pop. Delightful.
Sloan - Money City Maniacs
Previous me is such an unreliable narrator. I can't stand his taste in music sometimes. This band was constructing some awesome songs. This is some well-thought-out power pop. Delightful.
Sloan - Money City Maniacs
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I wonder how long it will take to ban us all for posting in the Tucker thread.
rockaction
Footballguy
Handing suspensions out like Oprah hands out cars.
zamboni
Footballguy
Stay here and discuss Marshall Tucker.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Tim's got zero shot of surviving that if Joe isn't quick enough on the trigger.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Faye Wong
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
Crap. Doc Oc is posting there now. Binky, don't!
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I'm staying down the middle. I'm safe.
I even passed up on really responding to that softball down the middle of "Tucker isn’t a journalist" (by some one trying to defend him) when I said he and Lemon were terrible journalists.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I'll post as I see fit, thanks.
zamboni
Footballguy
I was thinking of making a Meadowlark Lemon reference, but concerned that one of the mods may be a Washington Generals fan.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
I'll post as I see fit, thanks.
don't wanna be dodging shrapnel from a landmine i'm avoiding, is all.
whatever floats it.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Why shocked? How many “western” song appropriate from latin, african, middle eastern and asian cultures etc
Wong herself was a huge fan of the Cocteau Twins as well and even collaborated with Elizabeth Fraser and the gang a few times.
Asian music is heavily indebted to certain western styles, but of course add their own flavor. K Pop is just the only one to break through in a huge way.
Yeah, shes gorgeous.Faye Wong
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
None of us got zapped when the thread did, I hope.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
Soon as I catch up on a few things I will check out Sloan. It does remind me, I ran across the band 54-40 a while back and I think they are fantastic. Unfortunately, I get sub-par results pulling them up on YouTube Music, particularly their eponymous album released in 1986, which received some pretty high praise on an allmusic.com review (I don't put a whole lot of stock in the reviews of people I'm unfamiliar with, but it's a useful data point). The band falls somewhere on the spectrum of the likes of Hoodoo Gurus, Tragically Hip, Rusty, and Nada Surf.
Here are a few of my favorites (Next time I get my hands on an edible and good beer, I'll make it a priority to properly add them to the 25K thread).
Lucy probably my favorite
Punk Grass
Love You All (live)
rockaction
Footballguy
I'll check it out.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I would hope not, it civil and barely political
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Yeah there was one or two comments that threw about labels (and that stone guy is an alias) but most of it was very civil. If it was closed it was precautionary.
Eephus
Footballguy
I don't know enough of their massive catalog but the 31 favorite Sloan songs from someone knowledgeable about their music would be worth a listen.
@Northern Voice
Val Rannous
Footballguy
Before I send in a list of bands, question - should we be avoiding acts that have had major lists run just for them before on the board? Things like the Beatles, Neil Young, Rush, etc.?
Or does that sort of thing not matter to whatever it is we're doing?
Or does that sort of thing not matter to whatever it is we're doing?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
It doesn’t matter to me. I’m sure most would say the same. I’ve said before I would expect a mix of small-medium-large type acts.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
What thread got shut down?
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Uckertay Arlsoncay
krista4
Footballguy
Apparently that thread came and went while I was working today! I missed it but can't say I missed it, Bob...
krista4
Footballguy
Ineligible!
MAC_32
Footballguy
I was just sitting there trying to figure out how you got The Cranberries past our resident goalie, Krista.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I will not be submitting Neil Young because anyone who read my countdown* already knows what my top 31 from him are. But I would be happy to read someone else's rankings if they took him.
* - which means almost none of you
New Binky the Doormat
Footballguy
I read man ...I read it.
krista4
Footballguy
I think it was the British Isles countdown where we talked about high school "class songs," and I still don't think we had one, but a friend posted this McSweeney's analysis and indicated that Oklahoma! was our senior-year musical.
rockaction
Footballguy
You'd have to define what "read" means. Every post? No. But quite a few -- enough to get me into Neil Young and purchase a nice copy of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and listen to him back when he was still on Spotify.
Your work was not unheard.
rockaction
Footballguy
I think it would have helped if I was I a musical buff or if I was in the drama club, but that was a fun read regardless.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I was more just doing krista "no one reads my posts" shtick. But I know some of the regulars aren't Neil fans and thus didn't read the thread.
You'd have to define what "read" means. Every post? No. But quite a few -- enough to get me into Neil Young and purchase a nice copy of Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and listen to him back when he was still on Spotify.
Your work was not unheard.
Tim read the beginning of it and then got one of his many bans.
rockaction
Footballguy
Aw, I figured. I was just telling you it was a good countdown.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Ours was How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying*, which isn't on the list. So it'd be something like "your school didn't have a football team, which freed up more boys than usual for acting."
* -- the lead became a professional actor who appeared in at least three versions of the Law and Order universe.
krista4
Footballguy
No football team? What did your cheerleaders do?!
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
We didn't have cheerleaders until my junior year. They worked basketball, soccer, field hockey and lacrosse games.
simey
Footballguy
I wasn't in the drama club, but I took drama in high school and in college. In high school there was a play that had to do with the Peanuts. My drama teacher kept pushing me to try out for Woodstock. She didn't say why, but I think it was because of my hair. It was wavy, blonde and layered, and the top was a bit fluffy, and I can see where she would think it looked sorta like a bird. Anyway, a girl named Jennifer wanted to play Woodstock so bad, and so I didn't try out for it. I didn't really want to do it, and I felt like the drama teacher would have just given it to me, because that is what she wanted. I don't know if the bird even had any speaking parts. The teacher was disappointed that I wasn't interested, but I didn't care. Jennifer got the part, and she was flying high in happiness.
rockaction
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
We did all basketball and football games. And one soccer game a year.
We most certainly didn't have field hockey or lacrosse, though.
Zegras11
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Middle Aged Dummies!!! Choose ONE artist. List your favorite 20 to 31 songs by them. Can you handle it? *Rules Inside*
Hello music fans! This one is going to be simple. 1) Choose ONE ARTIST. 2) Send in your list of songs, ranked in the order you like them. Minimum = 20 songs. Maximum = 31 songs. Can be any number of songs from 20-31. 3) PM me your Artist preference list in order. Don't over think...
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scorchy
Footballguy
A kid at my HS had a similar layered blond 'do but with a cowlick. Unfortunately, it made him look like tweety bird in the ep where he drinks a potion and becomes Mr. Hyde. I'm sure he doesn't have fond memories of those years because most of us weren't as kind as simey.
Evil Tweety
simey
Footballguy
What in the world. The team practices all season for that one game. That would be a tough loss.
We did all basketball and football games. And one soccer game a year.
krista4
Footballguy
I'm watching Jeopardy! and there's a category for "Beatles "s" songs" and so far they have had a triple-stumper on "She Loves You" and "Strawberry Fields Forever."
Update: also no one got "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window."
Northern Voice
Footballguy
Yes and I could do this but I like their Beatles-y songs a bit better than their (by their standards) "rockier" songs like the one rock posted (see what I did there).
I don't know enough of their massive catalog but the 31 favorite Sloan songs from someone knowledgeable about their music would be worth a listen.
@Northern Voice
krista4
Footballguy
What in the world. The team practices all season for that one game. That would be a tough loss.
We did all basketball and football games. And one soccer game a year.
Ohhhh, they had many games, but we only cheered for one! Since we're similar ages, you might remember that soccer was not a big deal at the time, though maybe it was better where you were than in the Midwest? Anyway, we didn't GAF about soccer but threw them a bone once per year.
rockaction
Footballguy
Yeah, I've been noticing what you're talking about. They have four different songwriters, right? Or something like that?
Anyway, it's been a cool dive today. I, as you note, like the rockers.
simey
Footballguy
It was probably insulting that the drama teacher wanted me to play Woodstock. She shouldn't have wanted me to try out for anything. I played Amanda in The Glass Menagerie in front of some of the student body, and I made two of my acting partners break character by making a face at them when my back was turned to the audience. They broke character and then so did I, and it took a long time for us to stop laughing. The drama teacher was not amused.
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