Classic Rock Song of the Day (Deep Cuts now being featured!!)

[El Barto]

Jackson Browne - The Pretender

This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film. 

All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.

[King Postwhore]

And now she's everybody's baby.



Jackson Brown live is a pleasure on the ears.  His touring group is top notch. 

[KevShmev]

Jackson Browne - The Pretender

This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film. 

All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.

I never thought of her as being hot at all, but , nonetheless.

[KevShmev]

James Gang - Funk #49

Nice little song, featuring a sweet little dirty riff.  The instrumental breakdown in the middle is pretty sweet, too; some cool percussion stuff going on there.  And I never realized until just now that the song really is mostly instrumental.

[Podaar]

The signature tone and style of Joe Walsh. The party drums in the middle are surprisingly musical. Love it!

[Orbert]

Great song!  Joe Walsh is so cool.

[El Barto]

Jackson Browne - The Pretender

This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film. 

All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.

I never thought of her as being hot at all, but , nonetheless.

I prefer cute to traditional-hot, so she was the hands down winner in that movie, and definitely had it going on in 1982.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

Jackson Browne - The Pretender

This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film. 

All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.

Great call. 

[KevShmev]

Jackson Browne - The Pretender

This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film. 

All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.

I never thought of her as being hot at all, but , nonetheless.

I prefer cute to traditional-hot, so she was the hands down winner in that movie, and definitely had it going on in 1982.

I often do, too, but the hands down winner in that movie?  Even taking away the scene, Phoebe Cates was still waaaay cuter, IMHO (H = heterosexual, in this instance ).

[KevShmev]

Great song!  Joe Walsh is so cool.

How much stuff do you know by James Gang?  I'd be open to recommendations on less-known songs to check out.

I say this because I stumbled across the song Take a Look Around recently and was surprised by how much I loved it.  That is one killer song. 

And then the jam Stop, from the same record, is pretty damn good, too. 

The signature tone and style of Joe Walsh. The party drums in the middle are surprisingly musical. Love it!

Very much so!

[Orbert]

I don't know a lot of James Gang, and actually not a lot of Joe Walsh solo stuff.  I just know the songs I've heard on the radio, but from various interviews with Joe and also Live from Darryl's House (a great show for anyone who likes music, regardless of what one might think of Darryl Hall), he just comes across as a crazy, funny, very cool guy.

[Cool Chris]

I wish I thought Joe Walsh's music was as cool as I thought he was. Same with Jackson Browne too, I guess.

[KevShmev]

I don't know a lot of James Gang, and actually not a lot of Joe Walsh solo stuff.  I just know the songs I've heard on the radio, but from various interviews with Joe and also Live from Darryl's House (a great show for anyone who likes music, regardless of what one might think of Darryl Hall), he just comes across as a crazy, funny, very cool guy.

Check out that song Take a Look Around; it's on YT. Given your tastes, I think you'll love it, too.

[KevShmev]

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner

As far as my earliest memories of songs I remember loving as a young kid, this was one of the first.  My parents had the 45 of this and played it a lot, so I knew it, and man, did I love it as a kid.  And I still do, as an adult.  This is one of those songs that you just can't help but sing along to. 

[Podaar]

Creedence is always cool! Bring a nickel, tap your feet.

[KevShmev]

A guy I used to work with, whenever we'd hear this song, would sing it as, "Tweak a nipple, spank your meat."

[Orbert]

For a long, long time, I had no idea what they were saying in the chorus past "Down on the corner, out in the street..."  I was pretty sure it ended with "...stamp your feet" but that's it.  I think it was within the past year that I finally looked it up.

Still, fun song, catchy song.

[ReaperKK]

Very catchy song, always seems to get stuck in my head for a while.

[Podaar]

A guy I used to work with, whenever we'd hear this song, would sing it as, "Tweak a nipple, spank your meat."

The other day I was thinking we should start a thread where we post the alternate lyrics we've all come up with for songs. My best friend always referred to it as 'perverting songs' which should give you some idea about our alternates.

[Jaq]

A guy I used to work with, whenever we'd hear this song, would sing it as, "Tweak a nipple, spank your meat."

The other day I was thinking we should start a thread where we post the alternate lyrics we've all come up with for songs. My best friend always referred to it as 'perverting songs' which should give you some idea about our alternates.

Ahh, if only I remembered my vast epic of the mid-80s "Clean The Grime Off The Ancient Mariner."

A spontaneous, as Iron Maiden was playing on the cassette player of my best friend's car, complete parody of Rime of the Ancient Mariner. "Clean the grime off the ancient mariner, scrub from him the salt from the seas!" is all I remember now.

Yes, as anyone who read the 80s thread can probably guess, I was shitfaced at the time. 

[KevShmev]

 

A friend and I have had a field day over the years with changing the lyrics to Judas Priest songs to make them sound, well, more gay.  Often times, you don't have to change much.

[King Postwhore]

I always throw my buddy's name in songs and sing it out loud in public to embarrass him.

No fear baby!!

[hefdaddy42]

Catching up...

Jackson Browne is an incredible singer and songwriter, one of my all-time faves, and The Pretender is a great example of his craft.  Just great, stupendous, awesome.

Funk #49 is great also, and all of Joe Walsh's early stuff, whether solo or James Gang (or Barnstorm).  Other James Gang songs I would recommend would be Take A Look Around; Funk # 48; Tend My Garden; Walk Away (which you've probably heard before); or Ashes, The Rain & I.

I like CCR a lot, but for some reason, this particular song has never done much for me.

[KevShmev]

Thanks for the recs, hef!

And while we've got Joe Walsh still on the brain...

Eagles - In the City

Fantastic song.  I know Walsh did this as a solo artist shortly before the Eagles did it as well, but the Eagles version is better and more definitive.  His guitar work is pretty tasty as usual, and the harmonies of the Eagles make the chorus that much better.

[hefdaddy42]

Nice!  The Eagles can do little wrong in my eyes (at least, before they broke up), and this song is really good.  It is a great example of how they really incorporated Walsh into the band with open arms.  They never would have done this kind of song before that.

[Orbert]

I didn't realize that there was an Eagles version.  When I hear it on the radio, I assume it's Joe, but maybe it's Eagles.  Which album, and what are the differences?

[masterthes]

Great later tune by the Eagles

[Jaq]

I didn't realize that there was an Eagles version.  When I hear it on the radio, I assume it's Joe, but maybe it's Eagles.  Which album, and what are the differences?

Joe Walsh's version is on the soundtrack to the movie The Warriors and is virtually identical other than being a few seconds longer and having the Eagles play and sing background on it. As the soundtrack to The Warriors didn't hit CD until the 90s, I'd say we've hearing the Eagles version for the past few decades.

Though to be honest, they're both so similar musically I wouldn't be shocked if the Eagles version turned out to be basically a remix of the original with the Eagles singing back up. 

[KevShmev]

Yeah, they are pretty similar, but the Walsh one sounds looser, and it's almost like there is a bit of echo in his vocals at times.  The Eagles version sounds more tight, if that makes sense.  And like Orbert, I never knew there was an Eagles version for a long time either.  Even when it was on the Hell Freezes Over video, I figured that was the Eagles playing a Joe Walsh solo song.  It was years later when I happened across VH1 Classic playing the video for the Eagles version of it from The Long Run, and I was like, "Oh."

[KevShmev]

Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle

When I first got into Tull, this was one of a handful songs of theirs that I heard all the time on the radio, and I liked it a lot, but once I dug into their catalogue a little bit, the shine quickly wore off of this song.  It's not a bad song, but it's not anything special.  Listening now, yeah, it's solid, but that's about it.

[nicmos]

it seems like it was written to be catchy, and it is, but I feel there isn't anything outstanding about it.  JT has lots of far better songs than this.

[Orbert]

Jethro Tull is all over the place, from their full-album epics (even if at least one of them was created "accidentally") to albums full of shorter, catchy songs, many of which have commercial potential.  I like that they have songs catchy enough to get airplay, but then you can dig into their albums and there's more to them than that.

"Bungle in the Jungle" is a fun little song, and if it gets people to check out some Tull, then that's cool.  I was among those people.  I remember when it came out, the only other song of theirs that I knew was "Aqualung" and by this point I was playing flute in the school band, so it caught my ear.  My friend's mom was a Tull fan, so I borrowed War Child.  Okay, I didn't really like it, but she never got Thick as a Brick back.

[KevShmev]

Haha.  Vinyl?

[KevShmev]

Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

Good, enjoyable tune.  It's fairly obvious that it was not only written by Tom Petty (and his guitarist Mike Campbell), but that the Heartbreaks play on it, as there is no mistaking their sound, especially in the late 70se/early 80s.  Nice little collaboration.

[jingle.boy]

Anything with Petty gets a 'meh' from me.