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Where in the world are the middle-aged dummies? Worldwide top 31 song countdown. (3 Viewers)
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krista4
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Previews of a few songs/artists on tomorrow's agenda:
- An artist taking an unexpected early lead.
- The song that had won the Ace Award until Binky's switcheroo lost it 28 points.
No one chose it in the contest tiebreaker, so not a spoiler to tell you what it was. Oh, but by the way...
- The loss of TWO more songs guessed for the Ace Award.
- An artist named after a song by a British Isles countdown Big Three artist.
- A cover version of a song by another artist that will be in this countdown. Might the original also be selected?
- Our first appearance of an artist that was also selected in the British Isles countdown.
- Two artists whose lead singers will also be chosen separately in the same round tomorrow.
- One of these:
10. It’s DejaVoteVu All Over Again…Again.
Which of the following also-rans in prior countdowns will NOT have a song with a cover version in this countdown: (a) Cream, (b) George Michael, (c) Townes Van Zandt, (d) Warren Zevon, or (e) none of the above (all will be covered)?
- An artist taking an unexpected early lead.
- The song that had won the Ace Award until Binky's switcheroo lost it 28 points.
No one chose it in the contest tiebreaker, so not a spoiler to tell you what it was. Oh, but by the way...- The loss of TWO more songs guessed for the Ace Award.
- An artist named after a song by a British Isles countdown Big Three artist.
- A cover version of a song by another artist that will be in this countdown. Might the original also be selected?
- Our first appearance of an artist that was also selected in the British Isles countdown.
- Two artists whose lead singers will also be chosen separately in the same round tomorrow.
- One of these:
10. It’s Deja
Which of the following also-rans in prior countdowns will NOT have a song with a cover version in this countdown: (a) Cream, (b) George Michael, (c) Townes Van Zandt, (d) Warren Zevon, or (e) none of the above (all will be covered)?
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krista4
Footballguy
Mister CIA
Footballguy
I'll be posting a cover of the boating accident song at the appropriate time that includes bagpipes; it rocks hard too.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Both of them are big fans of the warm power of the sun.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
One of these is me! I love reading vague references to myself!Previews of a few songs/artists on tomorrow's agenda:
- An artist taking an unexpected early lead.
- The song that had won the Ace Award until Binky's switcheroo lost it 28 points.
- The loss of another song guessed for the Ace Award.
- An artist named after a song by a British Isles countdown Big Three artist.
- A cover version of a song by another artist that will be in this countdown. Might the original also be selected?
- Our first appearance of an artist that was also selected in the British Isles countdown.
- Two artists whose lead singers will also be chosen separately in the same round tomorrow.
- One of these:
10. It’s DejaVoteVu All Over Again…Again.
Which of the following also-rans in prior countdowns will NOT have a song with a cover version in this countdown: (a) Cream, (b) George Michael, (c) Townes Van Zandt, (d) Warren Zevon, or (e) none of the above (all will be covered)?
Just Win Baby
Footballguy
I was there in the 5th row on the field! Awesome show and memory.
MAC_32
Footballguy
The Chain into Kill Bill into Arcade Fire into a sonic blast from Wolfmother...
**this is some quality play list sequencing!!! Can't wait for what's next**
**this is some quality play list sequencing!!! Can't wait for what's next**
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Today was an extremely strong collection of new-to-me songs. I wonder if subsequent days will be like this too, or if some people "saved" lesser-known songs that are special to them for #31 so they could showcase them first. I usually spotlight three or four but I think today deserves more.
New-to-me favorites from #31:
Hey ***** -- Izïa (Mister CIA). A tour de force of kickass.
Strong Reflection – Mars Red Sky (Raging Weasel). Stoner rockers who did some strong stuff. As I said, reminds me of Elder, my favorite "new" band from the US countdown.
Afrique Victime -- Mdou Moctar (Westerberg). The guitar work is otherworldly and the song itself is achingly beautiful.
Get Lucky -- Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers (DrIanMalcolm). Extremely bumpin'. I have never paid much attention to Daft Punk, and this song plus the one in Last Five Out tell me I need to rectify that.
Portrait Of A Man (Live at Auckland Town Hall) -- Marlon Williams (Eephus). As I said, it's like a bluesier Jeff Buckley.
Point That Thing Somewhere Else -- The Clean (Marco). The description of a Joy Division-U2 mashup is spot on.
Grave Digger -- Dave Matthews Band (Doc Oc). I might have heard this once because I saw Matthews play on SNL with Trey Anastasio and Tim Reynolds when the Some Devil album came out, and Wiki tells me this was its first single. But that was 20 years ago and during the height of my Lost Years. I'm not normally into his stuff but the gritty performance and compelling lyrics of this one won me over.
I'll probably fall behind on the new-to-me listening at times this week because of work and fantasy baseball prep, but on the first day I made sure to find the time.
New-to-me favorites from #31:
Hey ***** -- Izïa (Mister CIA). A tour de force of kickass.
Strong Reflection – Mars Red Sky (Raging Weasel). Stoner rockers who did some strong stuff. As I said, reminds me of Elder, my favorite "new" band from the US countdown.
Afrique Victime -- Mdou Moctar (Westerberg). The guitar work is otherworldly and the song itself is achingly beautiful.
Get Lucky -- Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers (DrIanMalcolm). Extremely bumpin'. I have never paid much attention to Daft Punk, and this song plus the one in Last Five Out tell me I need to rectify that.
Portrait Of A Man (Live at Auckland Town Hall) -- Marlon Williams (Eephus). As I said, it's like a bluesier Jeff Buckley.
Point That Thing Somewhere Else -- The Clean (Marco). The description of a Joy Division-U2 mashup is spot on.
Grave Digger -- Dave Matthews Band (Doc Oc). I might have heard this once because I saw Matthews play on SNL with Trey Anastasio and Tim Reynolds when the Some Devil album came out, and Wiki tells me this was its first single. But that was 20 years ago and during the height of my Lost Years. I'm not normally into his stuff but the gritty performance and compelling lyrics of this one won me over.
I'll probably fall behind on the new-to-me listening at times this week because of work and fantasy baseball prep, but on the first day I made sure to find the time.
MAC_32
Footballguy
I thought for sure In Hell I'll Be In Good Company was an OH specialty and I'd be giving one of his a rare heart...only to look and see that OH's contribution was already in my library
higgins
Footballguy
I totally read that as Biff Henderson....
krista4
Footballguy
This was very good. I was listening a second time when OH walked through, and I scrambled to turn it off. He said, "Why are you turning that off? It's good." I didn't have the heart to tell him the artist.
MAC_32
Footballguy
Teenage MAC had similar thoughts. Middle aged MAC is a bit wiser. Although if I just progressed to a middle aged dummy then what the **** did I used to be? What a tale my thoughts could tell...
MAC_32
Footballguy
It may be a me thing, but I recommend giving the acoustic version a spin. I think the DMB glues a lot of his bigger tracks together well, but his downers are better when stripped down - i.e. Lilywhite Sessions.
This was very good. I was listening a second time when OH walked through, and I scrambled to turn it off. He said, "Why are you turning that off? It's good." I didn't have the heart to tell him the artist.
MAC_32
Footballguy
I'm surprised this is new to some of you, but also glad it's hitting your ears like it is.
Mt. Man
Footballguy
Well. Here we are once again! I started out with a little Wolfmother. It was difficult to pick one song from that band, which may have been part of why they barely made it onto the list. OTOH, considering I own 3 albums of theirs (something that doesn’t hold true for all my selections, for sure), it was easy enough to find room for them.
Let's see. Some minor boundaries. Maybe I won’t react to some of the (perceived) bigger bands, but I reserve the right to put artists I selected in here. Just, you know, not songs I share in common. Also, each section is in order of playlist. Other than that? We’ll see where whimsy directs me.
#31s
Recognized by title alone: 18 (This includes “The Weight” pick from higgins)
Sounded familiar: 4
Didn't know: 20
Special Shout-Out: Pass The Kutchie (Doug B) - Let’s see. I know the melody, as of course I’ve heard the Kidz Bop edited version… er, I mean, the 80s altered cover version. I’ve heard a bit of the original. So not fully “recognized”, but definitely not totally unknown. Middle ground, I guess!
Selected Favorites:
Battle Without Honor or Humility (Val Rannous)
If You Could Read My Mind (MAC_32) - I’m a sucker for Gordon Lightfoot
Save It For Later (Hov34)
In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company (Chaos34)
Some songs I didn't know that I ended up liking:
Boys in Town (Pip’s Invitation)
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (The Dreaded Marco)
Strong Reflection (Raging Weasel)
Fences (KarmaPolice)
Let's see. Some minor boundaries. Maybe I won’t react to some of the (perceived) bigger bands, but I reserve the right to put artists I selected in here. Just, you know, not songs I share in common. Also, each section is in order of playlist. Other than that? We’ll see where whimsy directs me.
#31s
Recognized by title alone: 18 (This includes “The Weight” pick from higgins)
Sounded familiar: 4
Didn't know: 20
Special Shout-Out: Pass The Kutchie (Doug B) - Let’s see. I know the melody, as of course I’ve heard the Kidz Bop edited version… er, I mean, the 80s altered cover version. I’ve heard a bit of the original. So not fully “recognized”, but definitely not totally unknown. Middle ground, I guess!
Selected Favorites:
Battle Without Honor or Humility (Val Rannous)
If You Could Read My Mind (MAC_32) - I’m a sucker for Gordon Lightfoot
Save It For Later (Hov34)
In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company (Chaos34)
Some songs I didn't know that I ended up liking:
Boys in Town (Pip’s Invitation)
Point That Thing Somewhere Else (The Dreaded Marco)
Strong Reflection (Raging Weasel)
Fences (KarmaPolice)
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
As I said a few pages ago, I honestly can't remember whether I've heard it before. Aging is fun!
Zegras11
Footballguy
eff off hosers!
Just Win Baby
Footballguy
I was also in the front 10 rows for the Who in CF that summer. And saw Pink Floyd both in Chapel Hill (
) and Carter-Finley in 1988. Those were good times!
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Spoiler alert, dude!
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Rush?
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I'd say Yes, but they aren't even at this concert.
zamboni
Footballguy
No, let’s take this slowly.
John Maddens Lunchbox
Socialism for Dummies
Can someone please explain the Ace award thing again? Seems important and i would like to enjoy the subleties of this rundown.The song that had won the Ace Award until Binky's switcheroo lost it 28 points.
As an aside from the 1 pointers
I have a song and artist combo with an exact match to come from this group
I have 2 artists with different songs on my lists
I have 3 artists, but not as they appear here...either solo not part of a double act or not solo but part of a double act or more
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Previews of a few songs/artists on tomorrow's agenda:
- An artist taking an unexpected early lead. PEAS N' CARROTS
- An artist named after a song by a British Isles countdown Big Three artist. Rita Coolidge?
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
This is one of the bigger surprises for me so far too.
ETA: that is was new to a few people.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
never heard it in my life prior to this.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Me either
Mt. Man
Footballguy
The Ace Award is presented to the artist who finishes with the highest number of points (being ranked 31 is 1, 30 is 2, etc) with only ONE song being chosen.
For example, right now William Hung is eligible after being chosen by... somebody or another
. However if anyone selects a second song from his no doubt vast catalogue, he'll be ineligible for the award. Due to the nature of one-hit wonders and such, only the top scorer gets the prize, though. Or maybe top 2 if Mark Ronson is involved. Though it isn't always that simple, as Cheap Trick's "Surrender" won for the US compilation.
simey
Footballguy
Same here with all of those, except I didn't have 10th row. I did have 15th at the Grateful Dead at C-F. I got poison ivy on my butt tailgating out in the grass field prior to The Rolling Stones show. I had to pee, so I went up to that island of woods that is right near the gate where the Wolves Den bleachers used to be. I apparently squatted in some poison when I was peeing. The good thing is I went to Hawaii a few days later, and the salt water helped dry it up faster. I've told this story before so I'll make it much shorter, after The Who show we went downtown to the Holiday Inn to visit a friend that was a bartender there. My VW van wouldn't start when we were leaving, so I left it in the lot. The next day when going back to see if it needed a jump, the van moved like someone was in it. I banged on the outside window, and all of a sudden the curtains pull back, and some bug eyed freak is staring at me! This dude named "Eddie" broke into it and slept in it overnight, and he ate ribs that had been in a Tupperware, and the sauce was all over his face. Speeding up the story, he had skipped out on his bill at the Holiday Inn, and the police were called by our friend watching out the window at the top of the tower (top of Holiday Inn where bar and lounge is), he was arrested, he said the bag in my van wasn't his, we kept it and found lots of drugs in it, and I still have his bag to this day that I keep paints in. One of my friends still has his drug rug hoodie.I was also in the front 10 rows for the Who in CF that summer. And saw Pink Floyd both in Chapel Hill (
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Late shout outs to Afrique Victime and Fences from yesterday, gave them a like after second listen
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I'm floored people haven't heard this.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
The newer music gets, the further away from it I am.
MAC_32
Footballguy
Same, which is one reason I started being more involved in music threads on this forum. I went through a period early in father hood in which not sure if hyperbole nothing new entered my ears for several consecutive years pre-covid.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
With the Get Lucky talk, this Grammy performance where joined by Stevie Wonder was fantastic.
youtu.be
(ETA: Just realized that link looks like to a rehearsal version. I’m sure the real thing is out there somewhere. Whatever — still awesome.)
Stevie Wonder & Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky ( Medley ) Live Grammy Performance
Stevie Wonder & Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky ( Medley ) Live Grammy Performance
youtu.be
(ETA: Just realized that link looks like to a rehearsal version. I’m sure the real thing is out there somewhere. Whatever — still awesome.)
otb_lifer
Footballguy
yes. and i'm quite OK with that.
the only exposure i get (got) was via my daughter, mostly when she were younger ... most notably recall her 10th b'day party, where i brought in some "professional" karaoke foo' to entertain the kidz - all garbage tripe for the most part, but the Bruno Mars FUNK tune (Uptown Funk?) really made an impression - dug that one a ton ... she would also listen to Lady GaGa, etc
she's 17 now, and the music i hear wafting down from upstairs is usually Siouxsie, Cure, SOaD, Linkin Park, Evanescence, Nirvana, Misfits, Ramones, Type O, Beatles, Hendrix, Doors ... plus some pretty ambient metal - so, a mix of some of her mom's & dad's favorites, plus some of her own choosing (i don't know some of the bands, but they're relatively good rocking stuff).
she applies a great deal of it to her personal choreography for recitals (been dancing since 3 yrs old), and i'm quite the proud papa that she eschews the mindless autotune pop/hip-pop/hip-hop stench that most her age are just mining for vacuous tiktok vids, etc.
MAC_32
Footballguy
...same, again. My wife usually runs the play list when we are all driving together, but if I am playing taxi for the kids I let them take control. Last night to and from track practice we got The Boxer, La Grange, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and Take Me Home Tonight. Big smile on my face across the first few bars of each track.
zamboni
Footballguy
Give yourself a pat on the back for raising her well.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
My daughter has been doing karate since she was five. She used to do form routines to music, like described for dance above.
Similar to @otb_lifer , when other girls were doing their "more like gymnastics than karate" routines to all the same boring techno music, my girl was doing her's to Monkey Wrench by The Foo Fighters and She Is Beautiful by Andrew WK. It kicked ***. We raised a confident woman.
Similar to @otb_lifer , when other girls were doing their "more like gymnastics than karate" routines to all the same boring techno music, my girl was doing her's to Monkey Wrench by The Foo Fighters and She Is Beautiful by Andrew WK. It kicked ***. We raised a confident woman.
landrys hat
Footballguy
These two were my favorites from yesterday.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
My daughter has been doing karate since she was five. She used to do form routines to music, like described for dance above.
Similar to @otb_lifer , when other girls were doing their "more like gymnastics than karate" routines to all the same boring techno music, my girl was doing her's to Monkey Wrench by The Foo Fighters and She Is Beautiful by Andrew WK. It kicked ***. We raised a confident woman.
hell yeah!
my gf (her mom) really influenced her a ton, as she did dancing all the way thru her college years, even becoming head of the theatrical dance troupe - she did an interpretive movement to "Nagasaki Nightmare" by Crass which won her a few awards and many accolades ... we all watched that performance together many times, though the vid is not the greatest quality (circa '04) - but it certainly made an impression on all that my daughter started to envision dance as being ... a most expressive art form culled as much from one's imagination and fluid passion as it is from dexterity.
- all that being said, i'm ngl ... one of my favorite dances my daughter ever did was a group piece to "Living On A Prayer"
the theme of that year's recital was "Rockin' 80s!", and those kids ate them tunes the eff UP.
Manster
Footballguy
I feel like the appropriate response should always be turn it UP......my kids love it when I crank up some sludgy, doom metal.....they are Bruno Mars/TSwift kinda kids.
This was very good. I was listening a second time when OH walked through, and I scrambled to turn it off. He said, "Why are you turning that off? It's good." I didn't have the heart to tell him the artist.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I assumed it was ubiquitous for a few years, and was one of Daft Punks songs people knew. I heard it everywhere, and I barely leave the house. Lol.
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