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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: jingle.boy on January 01, 2016, 07:30:46 AM
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So, Mason challenged me over Facebook to do this thing. I figured I have more musical friends here than I do over FB, so I'm gonna do it here. Rather than "challenge" someone with every entry, I'm just gonna challenge 1 person to follow in my footsteps. And that one person is the most recent winner of my Roulette, wolfking. When I'm done, you're up (should you so desire).
Day 1:
I’m gonna do the seven most influential songs, rather than my seven most favourite - partly because I'm not sure I could narrow it down to seven "most" favourite. With that, I give you #7, which is the most listened to song on my last.fm listening stats, Human See Human Do. There are a few people I consider musical genius’, and Arjen Lucassen is one of them. A brilliant musical mind and talent. Can never get enough of the music from his projects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYFHN17TSM
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Very interesting pick Chad. Was this was realy got you into prog or just a song that added to your passion for power prog?
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So wolfking does the same list as you once you're done since you challenged him, is that how this works?
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Very interesting pick Chad. Was this was realy got you into prog or just a song that added to your passion for power prog?
Nah... just a song I absolutely adore. It came out in 2011.
So wolfking does the same list as you once you're done since you challenged him, is that how this works?
That's the plan - if he wants to. It seems to be a 'thing' on FB, but like I said, I have way many more musical friends here vs there.
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Great opening of the list :tup
I remember doing 30 day challenge on Facebook few years ago. There were thing like favorite song ever, least favorite song (yes, weird, I just choose song that was popular at the time but so stupid I couldn't listen second of it), song that describe me well, song off my favorite album etc. It would be great if someone would do something like it here :)
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Following and reading... :coolio
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Following. I'm in a similar position as most of my FB friends aren't into music.
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Whoa, this caught me by surprise.
Alright, I'm still confused because I suck at instructions. Do I just listen to your songs for the next seven days, comment and then do 7 of my most inspirational songs one a day? Might take some thought, but I'll do it for sure mate, but they won't be definitive songs or anything, just 7 kick ass songs that inspired me in one way or another.
Anyway, Human See Human Do, what can you say. Definitely one of my fav Ayreon albums, maybe my fav apart from THE but that's a killer song. One of the best on the album for sure.
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This is a cool thread, I'll be following for sure. I'm always interested to hear about peoples most influential songs, as they are quite often not the same as their favorites. I myself would probably have maybe only one or two at most on both lists.
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Following
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Glad there's some interest here! Follow along, comment if you want.
Alright, I'm still confused because I suck at instructions. Do I just listen to your songs for the next seven days, comment and then do 7 of my most inspirational songs one a day? Might take some thought, but I'll do it for sure mate, but they won't be definitive songs or anything, just 7 kick ass songs that inspired me in one way or another.
As for you good sir, after I'm done, it's your turn to do '7 Songs for 7 Days'. Do whatever floats your boat - favourite songs, influential songs, guitar riffs, live songs, acoustic songs ... it doesn't really matter. Pick whatever category you want. The trend on FB seems to be 7 "favourite" songs, but like I said, I couldn't possibly narrow it down to 7, so I'm going with the 7 songs that had/have the most impact on my musical listening life. One a day is the goal, and you also then nominate the person to go after you. I'm just doing quick little writeups - nothing deep. I think it took me about 10 minutes to do the writeup for all 7 songs. Just like a roulette, the format is completely up to the person doing it. Main premise ... share 7 songs that are meaningful to you over a week.
And with that ....
Day 2:
I joked around here when I listened to this for the first time (it was the second song I listened to in my first Roulette), it “moved” me, in the same way that mango “moved” George Costanza - I'm not exaggerating. It’s that good – and I could watch this video daily. I'll forever be indebted to Nem for this one. My favorite song of the last 10 years.
Epysode/Obesssions (https://youtu.be/3INsDZbs-Z0?t=150)
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Literally never heard of this 7 Days thing, but it's a cool idea to bring it here.
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I've tried that Epysode album a few times, but so far it hasn't done much for me. (https://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o669/bolsters/shrug-1.gif~original)
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Yea i've seen this on FB but haven't gotten invited myself. Great first pick, one of my favourite Arjen albums.
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Awe, Chad's love for women singers in power prog.
Both singers Chad have great vocals.
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Awe, Chad's love for women singers in power prog.
There's more where that came from.
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(https://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss272/kingshmegland/images%206_zpsadq9qkf6.jpg) (https://s583.photobucket.com/user/kingshmegland/media/images%206_zpsadq9qkf6.jpg.html)
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I feel like I'm reliving The TAC Roulette!
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I feel like I'm reliving The TAC Roulette!
awesome, lets bring it back!
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Glad there's some interest here! Follow along, comment if you want.
Alright, I'm still confused because I suck at instructions. Do I just listen to your songs for the next seven days, comment and then do 7 of my most inspirational songs one a day? Might take some thought, but I'll do it for sure mate, but they won't be definitive songs or anything, just 7 kick ass songs that inspired me in one way or another.
As for you good sir, after I'm done, it's your turn to do '7 Songs for 7 Days'. Do whatever floats your boat - favourite songs, influential songs, guitar riffs, live songs, acoustic songs ... it doesn't really matter. Pick whatever category you want. The trend on FB seems to be 7 "favourite" songs, but like I said, I couldn't possibly narrow it down to 7, so I'm going with the 7 songs that had/have the most impact on my musical listening life. One a day is the goal, and you also then nominate the person to go after you. I'm just doing quick little writeups - nothing deep. I think it took me about 10 minutes to do the writeup for all 7 songs. Just like a roulette, the format is completely up to the person doing it. Main premise ... share 7 songs that are meaningful to you over a week.
And with that ....
Day 2:
I joked around here when I listened to this for the first time (it was the second song I listened to in my first Roulette), it “moved” me, in the same way that mango “moved” George Costanza - I'm not exaggerating. It’s that good – and I could watch this video daily. I'll forever be indebted to Nem for this one. My favorite song of the last 10 years.
Epysode/Obesssions (https://youtu.be/3INsDZbs-Z0?t=150)
Cool, sounds good.
Digging the second Epysode album but the first still is a grower. Great stuff though.
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Day 3
Hard to say which 'glam' song/album really got me first, but from the time between `86 and `97, Classic Rock and Glam Rock were without a doubt the primary styles of music that appealed to me. There were a few smatterings of metal here and there (Maiden, Queensryche, Ozzy), but not much. I had a Columbia Record club subscription (who remembers those?) and filled my CD collection with Glam Metal albums with everything from Aldo Nova to Winger. This is one of the best from that genre, with one of my favourite solos of all time. Sadly, the official video is an edited version, but awesome none-the-less.
Bon Jovi/Wanted Dead Or Alive (https://youtu.be/SRvCvsRp5ho)
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:metal
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Fuck yea, love me some Bon Jovi
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Wasn't that into the 2nd day but 3rd i'm all over! Seen Bon Jovi two times, the first time was really awesome but 2nd not so much either way he has a really nice back catalogue.
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Who didn't, as a teen play the shit out of this akbum?! Hit after hit after hit.
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A huge album and a great song. Partly responsible for the explosion of hair metal which was fine by me. One of few bands from the genre to really crack the uk around this time. The likes of Quiet Riot didn't do shit here but BJ did.
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I enjoy early Bon Jovi and this song is definitely great.
That reminds me, I think I still owe Columbia House some cash lol
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That reminds me, I think I still owe Columbia House some cash lol
:lol
I feel like I'm reliving The TAC Roulette!
awesome, lets bring it back!
:metal
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I always disliked Bon Jovi for some reason. Their music just never did it for me, I feel there were loads of bands that did the style better.
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I can't even imagine how many groupies Jon has been with
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Day 4.
Sometime back in 2005 (before there was a plethora of online listening services) I was listening to some online streaming service (I think live365.com) this song came on. Wow... the combination of operatic vocals + Marco`s coarse (but not grunge or death) vocals, pounding metal and symphonic keyboards was something I'd never experienced before. It was also the realization that fantastic music came from all over the world, and really started my unending thirst to discover new music, leading me to the likes of Ayreon, Angra, Vanden Plas, Circus Maximus, and many more.
Oh, and this live version kicks all kinds of ass.
Planet Hell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckQglkuK_k)
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I didn't know that the Morton Salt lady used to be in Nightwish.
Are these seven songs in order of least to most influential?
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Are these seven songs in order of least to most influential?
Yes.
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I used to listen to that song all the time back when I started listening to metal. But also, I was never fan of Nightwish nor that type of metal. Still, kick ass song :tup
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I'm not a huge Nightwish fan but I do quite love Once.
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I always disliked Bon Jovi for some reason. Their music just never did it for me, I feel there were loads of bands that did the style better.
In the beginning they were actually pretty decent. I saw them on their first tour open for the Scorps in 1984. I was familiar with Runaway at the time, but after seeing them, I bought their debut the next day. Even 7800 has some rocking tunes.
Slippery went huge, and really opened the floodgates for the hair metal explosion. The movement itself was well underway, but Bon Jovi made it mainstream. And I thought that New Jersey was pretty solid. I was worried they'd wimp out after the success of SWW, but they didn't. Saw them a bunch of times on the SWW and NJ tours and they ALWAYS put on a great show.
I can't even imagine how many groupies Jon has been with
(https://static.thesuperficial.com/uploads/2010/07/0729-bon-jovi-nude-models-03-640x464.jpg)
:biggrin:
Day 4.
Sometime back in 2005 (before there was a plethora of online listening services) I was listening to some online streaming service (I think live365.com) this song came on. Wow... the combination of operatic vocals + Marco`s coarse (but not grunge or death) vocals, pounding metal and symphonic keyboards was something I'd never experienced before. It was also the realization that fantastic music came from all over the world, and really started my unending thirst to discover new music, leading me to the likes of Ayreon, Angra, Vanden Plas, Circus Maximus, and many more.
Oh, and this live version kicks all kinds of ass.
Planet Hell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckQglkuK_k)
Another track from The TAC Roulette!
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I only sent you the best buddy!
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Day 5.
From my 2nd favourite band of all time, Rush. I became an uber fan in the early 90s, right before the Roll The Bones tour, where they brought this song back after a 10+ year hiatus. The laser show for it at the time was spectacular - and of naturally, I was higher than a kite. Seeing them do it again just a few months ago for the final R40 tour was a moment I’ll never forget. The first time I heard this tune was awe-inspiring - the complexity, the brilliance of the writing and musicianship, the execution.... flawless song. Absolutely flawless - and my #2 favourite song of all time.
Rush / Xanadu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlmvdK3yzvs)
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I'd ask what #1 is but I'm guessing that is forthcoming.
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I'd ask what #1 is but I'm guessing that is forthcoming.
Kinda sorta. It will be revealed, but the song itself is not forthcoming.
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Xanadu is amazing.
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Xanadu is amazing.
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Xanadu is amazing.
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Day 5.
From my 2nd favourite band of all time, Rush. I became an uber fan in the early 90s, right before the Roll The Bones tour, where they brought this song back after a 10+ year hiatus. The laser show for it at the time was spectacular - and of naturally, I was higher than a kite. Seeing them do it again just a few months ago for the final R40 tour was a moment I’ll never forget. The first time I heard this tune was awe-inspiring - the complexity, the brilliance of the writing and musicianship, the execution.... flawless song. Absolutely flawless - and my #2 favourite song of all time.
Rush / Xanadu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlmvdK3yzvs)
Giggity.
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Xanadu is amazing.
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the song is phenomenal and that intro slays me
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Damn... this slipped my mind yesterday morning! Well, I'm still doing better than Nick and Mason are on FB.
From my favourite album of all time, and my other 2nd favourite band, it's our flagship band. Though this isn’t my favourite song by them (that would be Octavarium - which is also my favorite song of all time), this is the one they really grabbed my attention with. In early 1997, it was a guy that I was working with that introduced me to them, and when I first heard them (it was actually A Fortune in Lies that was my first exposure to them), I couldn't believe the musicianship - crazy time signatures, talent, speed, structure.... everything was unlike what I was used to - it was everything that I got with Xanadu, but Metal. This was my first album by them, and by the end of the week I had purchased their entire discography up to that point, and have been hooked on them since.
Metropolis Part 1 (Luna Park) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QJKJL2Df90)
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A very influential song in my life as well. No surprise there.
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Never heard of this one :P
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I believe Metropolis also makes my Top 7 Influential songs.
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Perfect song.
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Eargasm.
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I'll just go ahead and quote myself here
the song is phenomenal and that intro slays me
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And to wrap it up ...
Day 7:
The song that had the most profound impact on my life. Growing up, neither of my parents were all that in to music, so I just kinda wandered musically, never really finding anything that I could get truly connected to. I had to discover things myself, and ultimately ended up on pop stuff like Wham, Madonna, Culture Club, Cindy Lauper etc... Sure, there were some bouts of Supertramp, Yes, Halen, but only their fluffy songs that made it on to top 40 radio in the early/mid 80s.
It was 1986, and my older brother had just bought a new stereo with a CD player (those were brand new at the time). He pops in Led Zeppelin IV, and I'm like wtf with the little wah wah wah wah opening. Then Bobby Plant chimes in and I'm with his god-like voice. It changed my musical tastes forever. Up to that point, I was a wussy little teenager listening to all that poppy crap.
Zeppelin is still, and always will be, my favourite band. Have the four symbols on my left shoulder, which makes it so forever. Black Dog may not be my favorite Zeppelin song, hell, it probably isn't even top 10 for me, but it changed my musical life forever. At the time, my parents had just split up, and I was turning into a 'problem' teenager - I just didn't give a crap about anything. I was kinda lost, not really fitting in anywhere or with anything. Hearing this gave me wonder, appreciation, awe, inspiration, amazement, desire, drive, determination and probably a whole host of other emotions. It breathed life into me again. Gave me a purpose. Made me a fan of something - ultimately it gave me something to love - music. Nowadays, I don't go anywhere or do pretty much anything without music. Grocery shopping? Gotta have my music. Dog walking? Music. Working? Music. Chores? Tunes. I have spare earbuds planted all over the place, just to be sure there's a pair always handy. It sometimes drives mrs.jingle nuts ... "take your headphones out and be part of the family!".
Black Dog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S_TY8OCONA) (couldn't find a better link with just the studio version; Rock 'n' Roll is pretty damned good too)
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I was wondering where the Zeppelin was!
Interesting list in that there are a lot of more recent selections. I feel that in my list, Metropolis is the newest track.
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I was wondering where the Zeppelin was!
Interesting list in that there are a lot of more recent selections. I feel that in my list, Metropolis is the newest track.
Bear in mind, that Metropolis is almost 25 years old!
Human See, Human Do - 2010
Obsessions - 2011
Wanted Dead or Alive - 1986
Planet Hell - 2005
Xanadu - 1977 (though for me, it was 1990)
Metropolis - 1992 (though for me, it was 1997)
Black Dog - 1971 (though for me, it was 1986)
So, three post 2000s; one in the 90s; three pre 90s
The really cool thing about the Star One albums, is that it made me want to go out and actually watch all of the movies/TV shows that the songs were based on... the first album being all about space/sci-fi movies (Dr. Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune etc...); the second album about dystopian-future movies (The Matrix, Planet of the Apes, Escape From NY, 12 Monkeys etc...) Pretty influential stuff.
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One of the few Zeppelin songs I know, love the main riff, my drum teacher used to play it a lot when we would do jam-sessions, him on the guitar and me on the drums :metal
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I don't know when I'll have time to do this, I haven't even given it a thought. I'll start something Monday I think, but I might just do something like 7 kickass underrated songs or something, something simple.
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For Zep I was Achilles. The song blew my fragile little mind.
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In the beginning they were actually pretty decent. I saw them on their first tour open for the Scorps in 1984. I was familiar with Runaway at the time, but after seeing them, I bought their debut the next day.
I saw that tour too. They WERE good. Working hard, delivering the goods, you can tell that they were going to go somewhere. I was surprised how good Jon sang live. I don't know that he can do that now (and he's gotten a little douche as he has gotten older). I think that solo by Sambora is almost the perfect guitar solo.
I don't know if it's gauche to ask in on these, but if anyone needs a nominee, I'll do it. I dig this s*** (even if I have to figure out how to bury a link).
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I have to admit that Black Dog is a song I rarely seek out, and it has never been one of my favorite LZ songs, but every time I hear it, like on the radio at work today, it's always more than obvious why it was and is still so popular. :metal
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In the beginning they were actually pretty decent. I saw them on their first tour open for the Scorps in 1984. I was familiar with Runaway at the time, but after seeing them, I bought their debut the next day.
I saw that tour too. They WERE good. Working hard, delivering the goods, you can tell that they were going to go somewhere. I was surprised how good Jon sang live. I don't know that he can do that now (and he's gotten a little douche as he has gotten older). I think that solo by Sambora is almost the perfect guitar solo.
I don't know if it's gauche to ask in on these, but if anyone needs a nominee, I'll do it. I dig this s*** (even if I have to figure out how to bury a link).
That solo is one of my top 5 of all-time. As for 'burying' a link, just 'quote' any of the posts, and you'll see the exact syntax you need. No need to actuall POST the quote, just click the quote button so you can see how it's done.
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If you are taking about the studio song's solo Richie did not play it. That was the one song recorded separately in Jon's uncles studio where he was working.
One of the keyboardist from Springsteen played on it.
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If you are taking about the studio song's solo Richie did not play it. That was the one song recorded separately in Jon's uncles studio where he was working.
One of the keyboardist from Springsteen played on it.
No shit! Well suck me sideways. Still in the top 5 tho.
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It's how he got the record contract. He worked at the studio, didn't get paid, but was promised he could record a song.
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Haven't had 2 seconds to give this a single thought guys, apologies. I'll get to it, but if someone else wants to have a go, that's sweet with me.
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If you are taking about the studio song's solo Richie did not play it. That was the one song recorded separately in Jon's uncles studio where he was working.
One of the keyboardist from Springsteen played on it.
This is the first time I hear this and frankly, I don't believe it. Do you have a link or something?
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I have to admit that Black Dog is a song I rarely seek out, and it has never been one of my favorite LZ songs, but every time I hear it, like on the radio at work today, it's always more than obvious why it was and is still so popular. :metal
Agreed.
As a young kid just getting into music though Zep 4 was a staple.
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If you are taking about the studio song's solo Richie did not play it. That was the one song recorded separately in Jon's uncles studio where he was working.
One of the keyboardist from Springsteen played on it.
This is the first time I hear this and frankly, I don't believe it. Do you have a link or something?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(Bon_Jovi_song)
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Thanks Kingshmegland for the facts!
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:lol
I just remember reading that early on in their career.
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Ooops, I thought we were talking about the Wanted Dead Or Alive solo.
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Ooops, I thought we were talking about the Wanted Dead Or Alive solo.
So did I! :lol
(until the link)
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Ooops, I thought we were talking about the Wanted Dead Or Alive solo.
So did I! :lol
(until the link)
So did I!
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Well Tim was talking about Runaway so I thought that was the subject. Oops! Did you guys know though about Runaway?
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Well Tim was talking about Runaway so I thought that was the subject.
I was? :lol
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Of course I knew
Maybe
Perhaps
Wasn't really sure
No.
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Well Tim was talking about Runaway so I thought that was the subject.
I was? :lol
We were talking about the 1984 tour and went on about the first album you silly guy. :lol
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Ooops, I thought we were talking about the Wanted Dead Or Alive solo.
So did I! :lol
(until the link)
So did I!
That's the solo I was referring to when I said it was "almost the perfect solo".
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My bad guys. I was fixated on Runaway.
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Well now that the Bon Jovi mystery has been cleared up, what becomes if this thread now. Are we all in line to give our 7 most influential songs?
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Well, since Kade bailed on my nomination (I'm very hurt over this :emo: :D), I re-nominate Stadler - since he kinda asked for it.
Lock 'n' Load baby.
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Yeah, would be interested in Stadler's. I'm probably ready as well.
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I re-nominate Stadler - since he kinda asked for it.
Yeah, would be interested in Stadler's. I'm probably ready as well.
Stadler, STAY OUT OD THIS THREAD!!
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I re-nominate Stadler - since he kinda asked for it.
Yeah, would be interested in Stadler's. I'm probably ready as well.
Stadler, STAY OUT OD THIS THREAD!!
Haha, with that warm welcome out of the way... I see two "yea" votes and one "nay", so let's begin.
I toyed with the idea of seeing if you could guess the theme, but I figured only the second one in, and the first time doing something like this, that may be a bit too much...
I went with my seven favorite ALBUM closers. Key word: ALBUM. Had to have been released on vinyl on day one.
The first song is one that should be familiar to die-hard DT fans, as they have covered it in the past. I was a huge metal head when I was a kid, my first concert being Iron Maiden opening for Judas Priest on the Number.../Screaming... tour. Also big into Sabbath and Deep Purple, so really gravitated to Randy Rhoads more than I did to Van Halen and the other "West Coast Hair Metal". I thought he was really different, and this song really hammered the point home. An epic album closer, and in this one case, an epic career closer, as Mr. Rhoads tragically perished on the tour for this album.
Diary Of A Madman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OozIDOzGWH4)
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Great choice. I distinctly remember the Priest/Maiden tour, but I would not attend my first concert for another 6 -8 months.
Diary Of A Madman is so epic, that on the strength of that track alone, I always opted for Diary over Blizzard. The song itself remains my all time favorite Ozzy track. (The next album's closer is actually my second favorite Ozzy track.)
Really would've loved to hear more of what Randy had to offer.
Also, while a bit repetitive, if anyone is into this era, Rudy Sarzo's book Off The Rails is required reading.
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I wore out this album and that song was such a killer tune. Those first to Ozzy solo albums are top notch. I remember being jealous that I couldn't see Ozzy on that tour and some of my friends did.
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Really would've loved to hear more of what Randy had to offer.
Interesting that you say that, because another song on that album (on that album SIDE, for that matter) is my number one choice for worst fade out of all time, "Tonight, Tonight". Randy just kicks in and the song starts to fade. For the longest time, I figured the tape broke, or he busted a string, or dropped the guitar, so there isn't much more, but when they were mooting the latest remastered and Deluxe Diary, "Tonight, Tonight (Extended)" was on the track list, only to be dropped before release.
I don't usually go in for all the "Sharon bashing" that others do, but I will say, she has butchered his catalogue like no other (the deluxe release of Blizzard skipped "You Said It All", a Randy B-side that it would have been nice to have on CD).
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I wore out this album and that song was such a killer tune. Those first to Ozzy solo albums are top notch. I remember being jealous that I couldn't see Ozzy on that tour and some of my friends did.
Ozzy played in early April 1982, with UFO opening. My parents were having none of it. Still a full year before I saw my first show. I remember exactly where I was when I heard Randy died.
Stad, I know exactly what you are talking about with the end of Tonight. He was about to go on a tear!
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DAY 2
Let’s do some prog, shall we? This is where it gets hard. I picked “album closers”, because traditionally, the album closer was either the epic of the album (think Iron Maiden), or the odd ball song from the sessions (think “Tomorrow Never Knows”) or the big instrumental (think Genesis). In all cases, in the days of vinyl, it served as the book end of the record. No “bonus tracks” to mar up the finale; just the fade (or end) and the quiet scratch as the needle moved to the center of the disk. For me, listening as I did through headphones from my dad’s stereo, that meant that the last song reverberated for a while, and lingered beyond the actual record itself. Prog was great for this; it was experimental by its very nature, and much more cinematic than, say, blues based rock of the early ‘70’s. So the album closer seemed to occupy an even greater position of prominence on those early prog records. It was, in many cases, the ultimate statement on the record. I debated using “In The Court of the Crimson King”, on the basis that it was the first and arguably the paradigm of this new thing called “progressive rock”, but I went against nature. I selected “Fracture”. Robert Fripp has called it the most difficult piece he’s ever played, a feat made more impressive given that it is from an album that was largely improvised on stage at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and later supplemented (to greater or lesser degree) in the studio. Both versions are widely available, but not on YouTube; the link is to a live version in Quebec in 1974. If nothing else, this version lacks because it doesn't have (to my ears) Bill Bruford yelling “F!” at 8:25; nonetheless, a fine example of perhaps the most experimental and powerful period of a band known for being both.
Fracture (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQ2d_7I30c)
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King Crimson does not do it for me, so I'll just :corn and eagerly await the next update. :)
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King Crimson does not do it for me, so I'll just :corn and eagerly await the next update. :)
Ditto... could never get into TCOTKC. Figured if I couldn't get into that, KC was a lost cause for me.
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I find that their sound varies WIDELY across their discography, but even still I wouldn't imagine much of it would be for you. Maybe try Red or Discipline sometime just to see.
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I rented Discipline from my town library years ago. It was horrible.
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there you go
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You won't get far without discipline.
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Well, I certainly get the mixed emotions; I'm not the hugest fan of the Levin/Belew years either.
But the sheer instrumentality of the song, and the technical virtuosity of Fripp... it's an impressive piece even if it isn't for everyone.
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Well, since Kade bailed on my nomination (I'm very hurt over this :emo: :D), I re-nominate Stadler - since he kinda asked for it.
Lock 'n' Load baby.
I haven't bailed bro, just postponed. Don't be sad baby.
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...and Tim is working on 7 Winger songs in 7 seconds.
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:lol
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...and Tim is working on 7 Winger songs in 7 seconds.
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Hmm... I quite like Discipline and most else from KC that I've heard (Fracture among it)
Good start
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King Crimson does not do it for me, so I'll just :corn and eagerly await the next update. :)
Ditto... could never get into TCOTKC. Figured if I couldn't get into that, KC was a lost cause for me.
Both of you shut your whore mouths!
Fantastic closer from a fantastic album, Stad. Don't listen the these yokels.
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Well, I like Fracture, so there. Back to the metal, and back to a band I’ve mentioned already twice. Not their first epic, that would be “Phantom of the Opera”, and arguably not their best, that has several contenders (my answer would be “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”). But this was a watershed moment. “Phantom” was really just Maiden, longer. This was something more. The tolling of the bell, the soft guitars, and Bruce singing in something other than his “air-raid siren” wail, the anticipation of the man in the cold cell is palpable. Maiden had previously used movie titles as the basis for their songs, but this was in every way a movie set to music. This was one of my first experiences of a metal band going well beyond “barre chords” to paint a vivid picture, and was a real statement as to what Bruce’s arrival meant to Maiden. He was a better singer than Di’Anno, but more importantly he had a wider vision. Bruce got no credit on Number for contractual reasons, but his presence is all over this record, and you can tell that Steve Harris (the primary writer at that time) was just spreading his wings. I personally love the way Bruce’s vocal perfectly bridges the gap between the anticipation and the actual moment arriving. I hear his extended legato line at 0:55 (and running for a full 25 seconds, with one short breath) to be symbolic of the rising tension, fear, and panic as the man is lead to his very death. Blew me away then, blew me away when I saw it live, and still is a favorite moment from one of my favorite musicians ever. Then, of course, all that goes out the window and the band goes nuts. This song is a band favorite, and I believe has been on every tour since its release, except for the Maiden England tour. I’ve personally seen the song live I think four times, and it’s a highlight of the show.
Hallowed Be Thy Name (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51LPlP-s9o)
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King Crimson is a band that I love certain songs but I can't listen to full albums. A little too avant-garde for my tastes.
Iron Maiden is a band I was nuts over as a teen. Seeing The Number Of The Beast album cover over a neighbors and then listening made me a fan right away.
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My favorite Maiden tune. Absolutely flawless. I recently made a list of my top 100 favorite songs, and this shows up at #9.
:birch:
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Well I'm with you on the Ozzy and Maiden but KC aren't for me.
I'm liking the theme too. Can't beat a great album closer, and yes, the bonus track era has ruined this concept.
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How could I ever disagree with this, this song is one of my all-time favorites, and I don't just throw that term around with favorite songs, lifechanging song right here.
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My favorite Maiden tune. Absolutely flawless.
:birch:
This. Fantastic song.
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I think whatever list of 7 songs I make, Hallowed will find its way on it.
After DT's Learning To Live, Hallowed is my second favorite song of all time.
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Hallowed rules!!
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Can't go wrong with Maiden and especially with this song. Great choice.
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Fantastic choice! A metal classic like no other.
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After DT's Learning To Live, Hallowed is my second favorite song of all time.
Interestingly enough, I had LTL on my original list, but then realized I got it on CD first, and couldn't remember if it was released first on vinyl or not. Rather than f*** up the theme, I replaced that with Fracture. I'm now thinking I should have stuck with LTL! :)
Okay, next one.
I didn’t intend this, but the next song is the third song here that has an official version by our host band. As noted, I was a metal fan growing up, and as I started getting into prog more and more, I tended to shy away from some of the more “twee” forms of the genre. I liked, and appreciated “A Venture”, but I loved and adored “Starship Trooper”. That would be here, but for it wasn’t the album closer, only the side one closer. So I went with the high point of a strong, but sometimes maligned, album, “Fragile”, the first album with Rick Wakeman, the first album to feature Roger Dean. “Heart of the Sunrise” was really a mission statement, and I feel a spiritual precursor to the follow-up, widely considered by many to be the greatest prog album ever. Much of the song was written before Wakeman joined, but he added a lot, including the idea of revisiting themes later in the work. Also for contractual reasons, he was not given credit, but it was really the first song to demonstrate what this new lineup could create (as opposed to just “play”). I think this is one of Anderson’s best lyrics (“dreamer easy in the chair that really fits you” is classic) and the crescendo at “Sharp! Distance!...” resolves so nicely. It’s the band’s fourth most played song, and one of the few that really held its own in both the Howe era and the Rabin era (I felt “And You And I”, in contrast, lost a lot of the delicateness when played by the Rabin lineup). Side note: the song ends with a hidden track, an opening door and a reprise of the Anderson feature “We Have Heaven”, slowly faded out. My original store-bought cassette tape did not have this, and I was somewhat surprised, pleasantly, to get the remastered CD in ’94 and hear this at the end.
Heart of the Sunrise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WDkdZ6QvXY)
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I originally had I&W on cassette so I think it would fit your criteria.
I'm going to :corn on Heart Of The Sunrise.
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I can't say that I'm a huge Yes fan, but this is an excellent song.
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Yes, Rush and Kansas were my gateway to Prog. I've seen so many incarnations of Yes live. Great tune from my first Yes Album I bought after Fragile.
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I cannot get into Yes. I have tried.
Although whenever I try to describe Dream Theater to anyone, I refer to them as the Heavy Metal version of Yes.
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I'm not the biggest Yes fan but don't mind them when I'm in the mood. Played The Yes Album yesterday in fact, leading Mrs Lowdz to say "what is this shit you're listening to?" :biggrin:
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Really great tune and a great way to close the album. One of my favourite Yes songs.
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Love, love, "Heart of the Sunrise". It may be the perfect album closer when considering the Yes discography. It certainly finished of "Fragile" in classic style.
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Here’s a real left turn, I think. We’ve had metal, we’ve had prog, but here’s a sort of odd hybrid of the two by a band that I don’t think anyone would confuse for a prog band, but who I’ve long said was way more prog than their “hits” let on. This is my favorite song by this band, and the closing song of one of my top five albums of all time. I know Sabbath is legend, and “Fathers of Heavy Metal” and all that, but if you ask me, their greatest moments are NOT their heaviest moments. In fact, I kind of don't like the "Riffmaster General" version of Tony Iommi; I like the cool little midrange bits that are all over the mid-years of Sabbath. Tony started to get this very trebly, very cutting sound out of his SG around the time of Vol. 4 (“Supernaut”) and that continued on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Mix the finger-picked acoustic intro, the almost jazzy drums, the chugging rhythm guitar, killer melodic bass, and the subtle orchestra, and this in my opinion, pure prog (and, for Sabbath, almost, dare I say, happy and optimistic!) Plus, silver ships on plasmic oceans!! (Though that is rumored to be a heroin reference). Anyway, a side of Sabbath that rarely gets mentioned, and yet for me is what separates them from their cheap imitators. Side bar: Rick Wakeman, in an adjoining studio recording Tales From Topographic Oceans, appeared as an uncredited studio musician elsewhere on the album, and his son, Adam, toured with them on the “13” tour (and will likely tour with them again on “The End” tour.)
(For the record, since I started this Seven Day thing, I've listened to this album probably five times. So friggin' good, if you ask me)
Spiral Architect (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lz4xeA48GE)
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Spiral Architect is freaking awesome! After Megalomania, it is my second favorite Ozzy era track. The live version on the Reunion live album is fantastic.
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Sabbath has a ton of records with great album closers! In fact, I'd say only Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die have bad ones. I like "Spiral Architect" quite a bit, but of the first six albums I'd put it second to last as my favorite with only "Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes" being lower.
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I'm not really a huge Sabbath fan (I only own Paranoid), but this is a good track, on the mellow side for them.
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Sabbath has a ton of records with great album closers! In fact, I'd say only Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die have bad ones. I like "Spiral Architect" quite a bit, but of the first six albums I'd put it second to last as my favorite with only "Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes" being lower.
I don't disagree as to the overall quality, but in terms of specific songs, only Fairies Wear Boots comes close to this for me. And for the record, I LOVE Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die (I like both of them more than I like Masters of Reality, for example). I think, generally, the Ozzy era of Sabbath is about as good a total run as any band ever. There is really not one album I wouldn't want to hear at any given time.
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In all fairness, it's been years since I listened to TE and NSD. I should probably remedy that since it's likely my current tastes may find more to like.
Just for the record, "Lonely is the Word" is my favorite Sabbath album closer.
[edit] Oh, and FWB is completely awesome! :biggrin: [/edit]
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Sabbath has a ton of records with great album closers! In fact, I'd say only Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die have bad ones. I like "Spiral Architect" quite a bit, but of the first six albums I'd put it second to last as my favorite with only "Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes" being lower.
I don't disagree as to the overall quality, but in terms of specific songs, only Fairies Wear Boots comes close to this for me. And for the record, I LOVE Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die (I like both of them more than I like Masters of Reality, for example). I think, generally, the Ozzy era of Sabbath is about as good a total run as any band ever. There is really not one album I wouldn't want to hear at any given time.
The Writ is an awesome closer too.
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That's an obscure pick from Sabbath!
But I like it!
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Day 6
Ironically for a band that formed as a vehicle for the songwriting of its key members, Genesis evolved over time to be exemplary players and performers. In fact, arguably my favorite moment on CD is the “medley” part of the “In The Cage” medley from Three Side Live. Tony in particular was a master composer, and his tracks always bore a signature touch to them; odd chord voices, interesting rhythms, and, as in the case of “Me And Sarah Jane”, abandoning structure of any kind (musically, the song is basically five different parts played consecutively and never to repeat). Abacab is my favorite Genesis album, but the album before, Duke, shows how deftly they could mix the full on prog with the jaunty pop they later became so associated with. The album is a series of 10 songs, some exceedingly poppy (“Misunderstanding”) and others exceedingly morose (“Please Don’t Ask”), and above all, PERSONAL, for a band known for their excess and weirdness. It later came out that many of the songs were acutally intended for an album side suite, called the “Duke Suite”, and symbolized by the two part instrumental piece, “Duke’s Travel’s/Duke’s End”. Part musical embodiment of the loose concept, part musical summary and synopsis, the almost 10:00 minute piece is a tour de force of story-telling using no lyrics, capped off by the reprise of the opening figure of the opening song “Behind The Lines”. For me, this was a concise and precise encapsulation of everything I loved about Genesis. Heavy without being hard, melodic without being sappy, complex without being overly dense, and above all fun. On my iPod I’ve sequenced a “Duke Suite” and when played in order, it makes zero sense lyrically, but musically, this piece ties the whole thing together nicely, and you get a great example of Tony’s composition skills. I particularly love Mike’s guitar right before the reprise of the “Guide Vocal”, and the way the vocal (originally presented over a quiet piano piece) fits so nicely above the very energetic closing section of the song.
Duke's Travels/Duke's End (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhxSTK4OdQU)
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Man, you're really trying to alienate Tim, aren't you?? :biggrin:
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Hahaha. No, I'm just taking the opportunity to share some things that don't get talked about here often.
I know this is a tangent, but I have a real beef with the latest trend of artists having 8 different projects, and one being the "prog" project, and one being the "metal" project, and one being the "this" project, and one being the "that" project... I like bands that don't have boundaries. I like bands - and I'd like to think that for the most part, the selections here demonstrate that - that play at the fringes. Yes isn't "prog" the same way that ELP, Genesis, Floyd and Crimson are. I have a theory that the very best bands - the iconic bands - are those that are at the cusp of genres. Very few bands that just sit squarely in one genre (AC/DC is one exception) achieve greatness.
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Man, you're really trying to alienate Tim, aren't you?? :biggrin:
He pulls me in, he kicks me out! Every other!
I know the seventh song!!!!!!! And I know it'll be TAC approved. :tup
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Man, you're really trying to alienate Tim, aren't you?? :biggrin:
He pulls me in, he kicks me out! Every other!
I know the seventh song!!!!!!! And I know it'll be TAC approved. :tup
My prediction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3oEjMpUQ
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Duke is such a great record, imo better than a lot of the Gabriel stuff and the ending is great too, but in my book the best part of the record is the two song beginning of Behind The Lines/Duchess.
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Man, you're really trying to alienate Tim, aren't you?? :biggrin:
He pulls me in, he kicks me out! Every other!
I know the seventh song!!!!!!! And I know it'll be TAC approved. :tup
My prediction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3oEjMpUQ
Lol
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Um... No that is not it! :lol
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I know the seventh song!!!!!!! And I know it'll be TAC approved. :tup
Spoiler below!
Kiss-Black Diamond
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No other guesses?
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Let's end in the strange village. The other six are generally in order, but really, if you swapped one for the other, it wouldn’t really matter. But this one is number one, and for reason. One of my favorite songs ever from one of my favorite albums ever. This song is everything I love about Rush in a concise 9 minutes and 37 seconds. The song, Rush’s first instrumental, is broken into 12 sections, each one an almost stand alone vignette (though some themes are repeated). I think this was a breakthrough for Rush, and really put the emphasis on the playing as opposed to the message of the lyrics. Even though Rush is known for its lyrics, and Peart has proven himself to be a literary giant, I feel like this song relates a story every bit as evocative as any of Rush’s lyrical works. Keeping with the metaphor of an instrumental, I won’t say much here, and let the song speak for itself. Mein froinds.
La Villa Strangiato (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNilsLf6eW4)
Thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did (though I tend to think I enjoyed it more; this was really fun for me).
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Buenos Noches, Stadler!
As for your selection, gun to my head? It's my favorite album closer of all time from my favorite prog album. I've enjoyed your list tremendously and I'm happy to know that there is somethings that you and I can whole-heartedly agree on.
Thanks for doing it.
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I love La Villa Strangiato and Hemispheres might be my favorite Rush album.
Damn, I thought I had the pick!
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And this made #13 on my personal Top 100 songs of all time. 3rd Favorite Rush tune.
Flawless Victory
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Buenos Noches, Stadler!
As for your selection, gun to my head? It's my favorite album closer of all time from my favorite prog album. I've enjoyed your list tremendously and I'm happy to know that there is somethings that you and I can whole-heartedly agree on.
Thanks for doing it.
Not a problem!! I really enjoyed it, and would right now throw my hat in the ring to do it again. It was a lot of fun, and I really appreciate you all "listening/reading". I've even got another theme in mind (though I don't have 7 songs yet). "Seven best 'prog' songs from non-prog bands". And there's the old "Seven best 'pop' songs from 'prog' bands".
I'm like a kid in a candy store. :)
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Stadler, great songs man. I enjoy seeing the music that lead us to where we are today.
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Stadler, would love to see you do a Top 50. Of course, I'd probably love every other album! ;D
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Stadler, would love to see you do a Top 50. Of course, I'd probably love every other album! ;D
With Stadler's command of writing and his knowledge of the ol' school metal side of things he'd be a perfect host for a discography. Maybe, Black Sabbath? Judas?
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If there's no objection I can do the next 7.
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If there's no objection I can do the next 7.
I think Stadler should pick the person, but of course I have no objection. :lol These lists have been very entertaining so far.
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Great list, Stadler. Heart of the Sunrise is probably my favorite of the lot, but there's no arguing with any of the other ones. Love me La Villa at the top and Hallowed Be Thy Name as well.
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Well, the FB trend was to nominate someone, but that failed miserably right off the bat (:glare: @ Kade ... :biggrin:). Since this should be a fairly fast moving topic (other than roulette's and Top 50 lists), I say whoever is ready/willing/able... just go. No need for a signup or anything.
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I'll do it.
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If someone doesn't post something by tomorrow, I'll nominate someone. Either way, I'm really looking forward to what comes next. I find this stuff to be very fun.
I'm also considering the discography thing; I just have to settle on a band that would be of interest to people and that I'm in the mood to dig into.
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So as a young boy driving around with my dad who loved music, I had the joy of hearing the genesis of rock n roll. This first artist was my dad's favorite musician. The first band to use 2 guitarists in a band. It set me on the path of my love for music.
I to this day have the greatest hits on my I Pod and listen to it and it connects me to my dad and family. John Wayne be damned.
https://youtu.be/Rk6YDzmqZ0I
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So what's your theme, King? Tunes from your Pa's turntable?
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Music that influenced me through the decades. Obviously I'll have a couple from the same decade.
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I to this day have the greatest hits on my I Pod and listen to it and it connects me to my dad and family.
That's great Joe! That's what it's all about.
I was just thinking about this this morning. Before the store opened, the in store radio was playing some old song, a lite rock 70's song. I literally felt like a child and got goosebumps. Though my parents were not into music per se, there always seemed to be music playing in the house, and on camping trips, etc..
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So what's your theme, King? Tunes from your Pa's turntable?
HAHAHA, that was funny.
Friggin' LOVE Buddy Holly. I don't advertise it much here but I love all that music from the 50's when the "Stratocaster sound" was just starting to take off. That, and early rockabilly/country (thinking Big John Cash and Roy Orbison and Elvis).
Cool start.
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Typical.
I make a straight comment and people laugh. I make a wise crack that I think is hilarious and...
*crickets*
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This is how I'm picturing Podaar and Stadler at the moment.
(https://www.sailblogs.com/member//paikeamist/images/25d0ad7541d92a011ef1222382c6dab2_scale.jpg)
;D
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:lol
I'm wondering if I can find me looking at my dad's turntable. I know there's a picture.
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Would love to see that.
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I'll call my dad and see if he can find it. Last summer for Father's Day my brother and I took my dad to see the Buddy Holly musical. All the actors were musicians ad were fantastic! My dad loved it. He as singing the lead vocals in his seat and my brother and I were singing the backing vocals.
We all loved it.
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I wish I had memories like this. As I said with my #1 pick, neither of my parents were much into music at all.
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Those early rock 'n' roll songs are always nice to hear.
My parents listened only to classic music and everything composed after 1800 is not acknowledged as music by them. That is probably the reason why to this day I don't really like a lot of the classic stuff.
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This thread should be renamed 7 Songs for 7 Months.
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Yup. Sorry. My boss blew up my life. Posting soon.
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So it was in the 70's as a 5 or 6 year old that my dad got this greatest hits on 8 track Quadraphonic. Yup that's right, dad hung 4 speakers in the lowered ceiling and cranked this next band. To this day, this is my favorite tune from this band released in 1968. As you can tell, my dad's love for music was what sent me on my path.
https://youtu.be/y7GKblttlMY
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So it was in the 70's as a 5 or 6 year old that my dad got this greatest hits on 8 track Quadraphonic. Yup that's right, dad hung 4 speakers in the lowered ceiling and cranked this next band. To this day, this is my favorite tune from this band released in 1968. As you can tell, my dad's love for music was what sent me on my path.
https://youtu.be/y7GKblttlMY
One of my favorite songs by The Doors - probably my most favorite. Five stars for sure. I always felt they were at their best when it was short and sweet. I'm actually not much of a fan of their longer songs - LA Woman, Riders, The End etc...
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I agree as well. The shorter songs are so singable.
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I agree as well. The shorter songs are so singable.
Catchy as hell too.
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Touch Me is unique in that both verses have the exact same lyrics, but the added musical embellishments and Morrison's vocal delivery make them sound not the same.
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Touch Me is unique in that both verses have the exact same lyrics, but the added musical embellishments and Morrison's vocal delivery make them sound not the same.
Morrison had great emotion in his vocals. The passion in this song is unreal.
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The Doors are one of the bands I just never could get into. A lot of people tried to convince me but it didn't work.
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Great song, but not my absolute favorite by The Doors.
I'd be up for this at some point, if y'all don't mind a lady cutting in to the boys' club here. :biggrin:
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Thanks Deb.
This next band I found out at my cousin's 12th birthday in 1977. As a 10 year old I fell in love with their look at first and then I fell in love with their album from 1975. The album cover is awesome. They first 2 songs on this album is a tour de force.
https://youtu.be/-4U000l0T6k
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Hell yeah. I didn't discover Kiss until the late 80s, and still not too deep with them. Top 100 song of all time in my books though
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KISS were pretty much responsible for sending me on this path of metal.
Not my favourite band now but they're still up there. So many great (mainly Paul Stanley) songs. Just double checking that the auto correct didn't change that to "manly" :lol
DRC is a great song. The guitar harmony part is just so cool. And the feedback into King of the Nighttime World gets me every time.
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Unapologetic Kiss fan to this day. Seen them more than any other band, and would go again tomorrow. To me it never gets old.
Got to meet Paul twice, and Gene once, and both are perhaps the nicest celebrities on the planet. Neither had to, but both took the time to talk to me (and in Paul's case, my 5 year old daughter) like we were the most important people in the world.
I had the booklets from Alive! and Alive II with me when I met Gene, and he looked through and commented on the pictures ("That one was staged. We needed another photo and went into the empty hall before the show to shoot this!" This was the cover to Alive!).
When I met Paul the second time, with my daughter, he got down on his knee and talked to her one on one for a good couple minutes ("Ooh, I like your earrings! What do you want to be when you get older?"). She didn't know him from a row of assholes, but knew he was important and knew he was paying attention to her, and it made a lasting impression. She's now a 15-year-old Kiss fan. I took her to her first show this past summer, and during "Rock and Roll All Nite" she took a picture of the stage exploding and posted it on Instagram with the caption "Greatest night of my life!"
Rock and Roll Over is still my favorite, but this combo never ceases to get my blood pumping.
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What a great story Stadler.
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What a great story Stadler.
Fer sure.
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KISS were pretty much responsible for sending me on this path of metal.
Not my favourite band now but they're still up there. So many great (mainly Paul Stanley) songs. Just double checking that the auto correct didn't change that to "manly" :lol
DRC is a great song. The guitar harmony part is just so cool. And the feedback into King of the Nighttime World gets me every time.
Yes, all of this.
What a great story Stadler.
I love Paul Stanley. Stadler, any chance you attended Paul's solo tour in '89? I went to the Hartford show. Got a pick and some front row pics.
Alive II was the first album I ever bought.
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What a great story Stadler.
I love Paul Stanley. Stadler, any chance you attended Paul's solo tour in '89? I went to the Hartford show. Got a pick and some front row pics.
Alive II was the first album I ever bought.
Alive II was the first one I bought with my own money (at the time, that picture of Gene was so cool!!)
I did not see that tour, and I regret it. I love his solo album and listen to it regularly to this day. I was in CT, then, too, so I don't know what I was thinking.
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We ended up going to Hartford because the Boston show was sold out. It was awesome. Seems the band started to embrace the older songs after that.
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The tour that got Erik Singer into the KISS door.
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The tour that got Erik Singer into the KISS door.
Yup, and Bob Kulick got to play all those great songs from the solo album live.
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I do have a bootleg video of that tour.
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So it was the summer of 1981. I got a cassette off my guitar teacher. First side was Santana - Zebop. Fantastic album. But it was the second side that sent me on the path of buying every album, bootleg, different versions of the same album, (Album, cassette, cd, remastered cd, Blu Ray...) and 31 times seeing them live.
This was the song and album that started my obsession.
https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk
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I have vivid memories of becoming a Rush fan myself. 1981, to me, was the best year in music.
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I was just turning 13, learning guitar. This album just took over my life, my parents car, to their dismay :lol and I had to learn every note, how to look like Alex when I played my guitar.
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Well, as songs and bands go, you could definitely pick a worse obsession!
This is actually when I started to drift away from Rush some. At this point in my musical journey I was craving a bit more raw aggression. :)
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You metalhead. :lol
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I also got in at Moving Pictures and got everything else they had by the time Signals came out. And then, after Signals, I also moved on. :lol
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Well of course that makes sense Tim. Your leanings is to more hard rock/metal and they certainty moved in a different direction. Me, I'm a music whore. I sleep with many genres.
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Me, I'm a music whore. I sleep with many genres.
What do you think of The Astonishing?
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I like it. There's so much to soak in I need more time to soak it in.
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I kept thinking of Hemispheres. That was my favorite era of Rush.
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Well thereceived are certainly a few more songs in major chords which sound happier. But that's more of writing for a play. I'm very happy that Ihave to have multiple listens. Those kind of albums grow on me.
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Man that video brought back some memories. Much Music (our version of MTV) used to do these 30-minute segments every night featuring any given band... they played 4-5 videos, clips of some interviews, and VJ opinions. I got 'in' to a lot of bands that way - Rush being one of them. But not until the late 80s.
I watched the fuck out of that Tom Sawyer video.
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Much Music (our version of MTV)
I had an awesome Much Music video of a Metallica special.
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We got Much Music in the 90'same durring the I Mother Earth answer Our Lady Peace days.
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Man that video brought back some memories. Much Music (our version of MTV) used to do these 30-minute segments every night featuring any given band... they played 4-5 videos, clips of some interviews, and VJ opinions. I got 'in' to a lot of bands that way - Rush being one of them. But not until the late 80s.
I watched the fuck out of that Tom Sawyer video.
Much Music Spotlight!
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Tom Sawyer; one of the very few "signature songs" from a major band that isn't tired and has really held it's own. When that comes on the Sirius in the car, I STILL swerve all over the road as I'm (feebly and out of time) drumming away in the car. I just love that song (whole album, really).
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I'm glad I'm not the only one that does the dashboard drumming. :lol Asia's, "Wildest Dreams" is another!
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So after Rush and bands like Iron Maiden, I was looking for a band that could meld my love for prog and my love for metal. I think you know the next band from the early 90's.
https://youtu.be/SGRgAULYgWE
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Pssh, bunch of hacks.
:P
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I whored this album to whoever I could.
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Suspect that this is the same to you (and many) as Black Dog is to me. Not the favorite by DT by any stretch, but the song that opened the flood gates, with an absolutely jaw dropping first experience.
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It was the gateway to DT. I had to have the record store order the CD to me. I remember going to visit my friend 45 minutes south of LA. I brought the CD with me and I played it on the plane ride a ton of times. That was a long flight. We were an hour late in Boston from the de-icing, then we flew to Denver where for 45 minutes we circled and couldn't land because of a blizzard then we went back to Chicago where I had a 3 hour layover to change from the LA airport to the John Wayne Airport and landed 13 & 1/2's later.
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That is a long day.
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Good for music but I was gassed. I also had a airport chili dog in Chicago. Why the fuck not?! :lol
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That was the song that got me into the band too. I remember hearing that song and thinking, MY GOD can that man sing. I was big into metal (Maiden and Sabbath, mostly) but I loved the way guys like Steve Perry sang (just thought then the keys and the pink shirts were a little - let's say "light weight" for me). So this was the best of all possible worlds.
I remember, too, thinking "that drummer needs to stay in his lane, though, with the double bass drums all over the property". I later grew to love the drums on that record (don't quite get the animosity to the "triggers") and his playing still stands out on that to this day. He's done better later, but it was an eye opener, to be sure, because I hadn't quite gotten full on into Rush yet at that time. (Interestingly, you could probably say DT was my gateway drug for Rush, not the other way around).
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It was the gateway to DT. I had to have the record store order the CD to me. I remember going to visit my friend 45 minutes south of LA. I brought the CD with me and I played it on the plane ride a ton of times. That was a long flight. We were an hour late in Boston from the de-icing, then we flew to Denver where for 45 minutes we circled and couldn't land because of a blizzard then we went back to Chicago where I had a 3 hour layover to change from the LA airport to the John Wayne Airport and landed 13 & 1/2's later.
Wasn't that the trip that you ran into Steve Martin?
(https://www.hicksflicks.com/documents/12094/161279/aaPLAN+2+planestrains.jpg/6df4032a-6fe6-4252-8a45-0d0a495bffd6?t=1439851020000)
;D
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I did meet a few weirdos in the airport. :lol
They see you with earphones but they still want to talk to you. Funny story to add,
My friend was friends with a drummer, Ty Dennis. they worked at the same music store out in Cali. At the time he was drumming for Robbie Krieger from The Doors. He hung out with us for a night and went bonkers over the drumming on I&W as well as Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese.
Later on he became the full time drummer with The Doors when they reunited with the singer from The Cult.
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AFTK was my first exposure to Rush, and p/g was my first new release Rush album. Tom Sawyer is a great song on a medium tier Rush album for me. Too many songs don't hit the spot but TS isn't one of them. Analog Kid was my favourite though.
TS is definitely an air drum song.
My youngest son is named after Alex.
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My youngest son is named after Alex.
Lifeson Lowdz? ;D
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blah blah blah ;D
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Holy crap and lol you two. I'll post later tonight and watch all my 80's friends disappear.
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Holy crap and lol you two. I'll post later tonight and watch all my 80's friends disappear.
Prediction: Mr. Mister.
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I would love to but I'm moving to another decade. Wink.
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Here comes the Ricky Martin tune...
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Great ass. But no.
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I would love to but I'm moving to another decade. Wink.
Fuck that Steven Wilson shit.
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Nice call eh.
So I read a review of a band I never heard of. The description I read was Pink Floyd meets Tool. I went out and bought the album and this was the first song on the album that blew me away.
https://youtu.be/Yh9osYZNilU
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Out of respect for this thread (and King), I will actually listen to this song - despite how many times I've given PT a chance, and the fact that I'm not a Tool fan either.
:notexpectingmuch:
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I only know this song and Trains. Liked Blackest Eyes alright when I heard it but it seems a bit better now. I fucking love Trains, guess I really should listen to the album - right now.
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Chad, it's all good.
TON, It's such a dark atmospheric album. I think you might like it.
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WHOA.
I was doing this only to be part of the group and to be able to talk intelligently. I have given Stephen Wilson solo stuff more than the benefit of the doubt and consider him to be VERY overrated (meaning, the public perception is way different than my taste).
But I LOVE this. LOVE THIS!
Will be digging in; I hope I'm not disappointed...
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There is a 4 album run you should check Stadler.
In Absentia
Deadwing
Fear of a Blank Planet
The Incident
The discography before this I love too but less heavy.
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TON, It's such a dark atmospheric album. I think you might like it.
I did, I did. Though Sacul sent me this very song in my roulette and while I liked it, it didn't 'pop out' or anything. It's definitely gotten better, still an excellent catchy chorus, but I've already admitted that before.
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Well, I'll stick with it, but now I'm listening to "Trains" and I'm back to... "this guy is overrated". Hahaha. I'll stick with it.
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LOL. Stick with this album guys. I'm curious to your opinions.
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TON, It's such a dark atmospheric album. I think you might like it.
I did, I did. Though Sacul sent me this very song in my roulette and while I liked it, it didn't 'pop out' or anything. It's definitely gotten better, still an excellent catchy chorus, but I've already admitted that before.
So, what's your opinion on Heartattack in a Layby? That's the best song for me on IA.
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Frightening, depressing, beautiful. So much different stuff. I liked it a lot, I thought I had commented on the whole album here but apparently I removed that. Trains and Wedding Nails are my favorites, followed by Sound of Muzak, that song and Blackest Eyes. I'll stick with this album for sure. :metal
It was you who originally had it in your final EP right?
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My youngest son is named after Alex.
Lifeson Lowdz? ;D
Don't be ridiculous. Lerxt Lowdz of course :biggrin:
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I've seen a license plate in my state that spells out LERXST.
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Frightening, depressing, beautiful. So much different stuff. I liked it a lot, I thought I had commented on the whole album here but apparently I removed that. Trains and Wedding Nails are my favorites, followed by Sound of Muzak, that song and Blackest Eyes. I'll stick with this album for sure. :metal
It was you who originally had it in your final EP right?
Yes, that should've been the song that would've allowed me to win this thing.
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Out of respect for this thread (and King), I will actually listen to this song - despite how many times I've given PT a chance, and the fact that I'm not a Tool fan either.
:notexpectingmuch:
Same here.
I'm willing to accept that PT is a pretty good band, but the vocals absolutely kill it for me.
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I'll admit, Blackest Eyes was a pretty good tune. But I couldn't last 2 more songs into the album before I got bored shitless.
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:lol
Chad, we'll get our rocks off in March.
Wait, what?
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You guys are nuts (in a nice way), because Blackest Eyes is pretty meh and Trains is perfection.
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well, Blackest Eyes is a great song and was going to be on my themed 7 for 7 list. Guess I'll find a different song. Same with Tom Sawyer.
And along those lines I would like to be next to go after king if no one objects. Hopefully he doesn't use any more songs I was going to use. :lol
king, you have one more entry to do, correct?
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Correct.
I promise not to use Tower Of Power. :lol
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Last decade!
I started loving this band in the 2000's and are now my newest obsession. I will be seeing them at RoSfest this year. Thanks for following this folks.
https://youtu.be/QHU-LeDpR14
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love Riverside! That latest album is really good.
will post my first song tonight.
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The last two days weren't in my wheelhouse at all.
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I'm getting mellower in my music with age, Chad, you are getting heavier with age.
Btw, how do your kids respond to the music you listen to?
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Chad, you are getting heavier with age.
Chad, are you gonna take this from him?
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Chad, you are getting heavier with age.
Chad, are you gonna take this from him?
I'll take solace in the fact that the irony probably flew right over him as he clicked "post". :lol
Btw, how do your kids respond to the music you listen to?
Everyone in my house can't stand 90% of the music I listen to. Jingle.daughter likes Rush though, so there's that. For the most part, she's a pop-music kinda girl. Jingle.son isn't in to much very much. Neither is mrs.jingle.
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Chad, you are getting heavier with age.
Chad, are you gonna take this from him?
I'll take solace in the fact that the irony probably flew right over him as he clicked "post". :lol
:lol
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Even more irony with my weight. Lol
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Even more irony with my weight. Lol
And there it is
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My theme: Songs that got me into a band/made me appreciate them more
Might as well start with my favorite band of all-time. I've told the story here before, but here it is again. In 2001, my brother gave me a CD-R mix with a bunch of different artists/songs on it. He's 11 years older than me and has a pretty huge music collection. I picked out some songs from albums that looked interesting to me and told him to add some music he thought I might like. Halfway through the disc, three songs came on that completely changed my life. I refer to hearing those three songs as my musical awakening. They were Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, and YYZ. After that I was hooked. Rush led me to almost everything I listen to these days.
I was going to have Tom Sawyer featured here as it was the very first notes of Rush I ever heard, but I'm just as happy to feature Red Barchetta. There is just something about how the song builds through the climax of the chase and then deposits you breathless at the fireside. The lyrics and music are crafted with such heart, care, and virtuosity. Simply magical.
Day #1: Rush - Red Barchetta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAvQSkK8Z8U
oh yeah, each day I'm also going to feature a bonus song. The theme of the bonus is going back to my childhood/very early teen years to give you a song I would have considered my favorite song at one point or another. For the most part these are going to be a bit more on the pop side.
Day #1 Bonus: John Cougar (Mellencamp) - Jack & Diane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8XOxeuVoKc (link isn't the official video on YT cause the audio sucks on that one)
This takes me back to when I was 5 years old and my brother would take me for a ride in his brand new Toyota Celica. We would go to the corner arcade in the small town where we lived, then head over to the ice cream stand that would set up during the summer off the side of the highway. I remember thinking my brother used to listen to music SO LOUD in his car. I had no idea what the song meant at the time, but to me it was the best thing I had ever heard. This was probably my first "favorite song".
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Riverside and Red Barchetta :heart :heart
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Red Barchetta = :metal
Jack & Diane is a good song, but it was so overplayed when I was growing up (I used to listen to the radio a lot back then) that I never really want to intentionally listen to it. :lol
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Two very solid selections there, Big Hath. :tup
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Everyone in my house can't stand 90% of the music I listen to. Jingle.daughter likes Rush though, so there's that. For the most part, she's a pop-music kinda girl. Jingle.son isn't in to much very much. Neither is mrs.jingle.
This is my house. I get home before most of the rest of my family, and sometimes I'll put something on the stereo, and invariably I'll get the "hey, can I turn this down/off now?" soon after most of the rest of the family gets home. Don't even bring up "car rides". :) (Though I will say, my wife is the most respectful and understanding spouse on the planet, and I go out of my way to be fair with her and be accommodating).
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Everyone in my house can't stand 90% of the music I listen to. Jingle.daughter likes Rush though, so there's that. For the most part, she's a pop-music kinda girl. Jingle.son isn't in to much very much. Neither is mrs.jingle.
This is my house. I get home before most of the rest of my family, and sometimes I'll put something on the stereo, and invariably I'll get the "hey, can I turn this down/off now?" soon after most of the rest of the family gets home. Don't even bring up "car rides". :)
GET OUT OF MY LIFE!!! :lol
@ Jon... Red Barchetta is Rush song #2 for me, and a top 10 of all-time. Ever read "A Nice Morning Drive"? J&D... classic childhood tune - even though I've got about 10 years on ya.
Prediction for bonus song - Summer of '69 or Boys of Summer.
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I LOVE Red Barchetta; that melody is just so perfect. Hemispheres is my favorite Rush album (see the "Top Five Albums" thread) primarily because of "La Villa Strangiato", but "Moving Pictures" is very close to that, and largely because of this song.
As for John Mellencamp, "Scarecrow" is an almost perfect album. That is an amazing record, top to bottom, but he has lost me over the years. One of the few artists who's personal "thing" has influenced whether I like his music or not. I just don't like the guy and so I tend to stay clear of his work. Except for "Scarecrow". LOVE that album. For me, "Jack and Diane" will forever be "MTV". Always and forever. :) By the way, cool story from Kenny Aronoff about the drum break in the song, and his current relationship with Mellencamp (not great): https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/kenny-aronoff-on-drumming-with-john-fogerty-john-mellencamp-257208
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Absolutely love Red Barchetta. You feel like you are driving with them at some parts of the song which is exactly how they wanted to convey it.
I love Mellencamp. Give me his dark stuff that still has a catchy chorus and hooks.
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My first Opeth experience came with the very mellow, very gothic, very melancholy, and decidedly un-growly Damnation. I fell in love with the mood that was so thick you could cut it with a knife and I wanted more. Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries soon followed. The music was exactly what I was after, the clean vocals were a perfect compliment. But those growls, oh those groooooooowls . . .
There was a time I thought growls/harsh vocals were laughable. I mean I had no time for that garbage, and WTF are they messing up perfectly good music for anyway? Totally dismissed it (still haven't come around on black metal shrieking). But as time went on and I got in more listens of Blackwater Park, something happened. "It moved" you might say. I distinctly remember where I was at the time it happened (while driving on Marvino Lane, crossing Ebenezer Church Rd in Raleigh, NC). I was rocking along to the music as normal, but all of a sudden the growls made sense. Opeth went from a band I enjoyed from time to time, and tolerated at other times, to one of my favorites.
Day #2: Opeth - Bleak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHsHrH245PU
Day #2 Bonus: Duran Duran - The Reflex (Hi Chad! :biggrin:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo
Not sure what drew me to this song, but 7-year old Big Hath thought it was THE GREATEST. Maybe it was the funky bass (John Taylor is awesome), or the super catchy chorus, or that dreamy Simon Le Bon . . . Actually I think it was most likely that wave that pours out of the screen in the music video. Whatever it was, there was a time I would have told you this was my favorite song.
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Both good picks again. :tup
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Great start :tup
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Whoa, Bleak is one of my favorite Opeth tracks from my favorite Opeth record. Good pick.
The Reflex is a nice 80s pop song.
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Day #2 Bonus: Duran Duran - The Reflex (Hi Chad! :biggrin:)
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/GCLlQnV7wzKLu/giphy.gif)
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My first Opeth experience came with the very mellow, very gothic, very melancholy, and decidedly un-growly Damnation. I fell in love with the mood that was so thick you could cut it with a knife and I wanted more. Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries soon followed. The music was exactly what I was after, the clean vocals were a perfect compliment. But those growls, oh those groooooooowls . . .
There was a time I thought growls/harsh vocals were laughable. I mean I had no time for that garbage, and WTF are they messing up perfectly good music for anyway? Totally dismissed it (still haven't come around on black metal shrieking). But as time went on and I got in more listens of Blackwater Park, something happened. "It moved" you might say. I distinctly remember where I was at the time it happened (while driving on Marvino Lane, crossing Ebenezer Church Rd in Raleigh, NC). I was rocking along to the music as normal, but all of a sudden the growls made sense. Opeth went from a band I enjoyed from time to time, and tolerated at other times, to one of my favorites.
Day #2: Opeth - Bleak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHsHrH245PU
Day #2 Bonus: Duran Duran - The Reflex (Hi Chad! :biggrin:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo
Not sure what drew me to this song, but 7-year old Big Hath thought it was THE GREATEST. Maybe it was the funky bass (John Taylor is awesome), or the super catchy chorus, or that dreamy Simon Le Bon . . . Actually I think it was most likely that wave that pours out of the screen in the music video. Whatever it was, there was a time I would have told you this was my favorite song.
I still think Rio is one of the greatest albums ever produced, ever, by any band, and not just because of the hits. "Lonely In Your Nightmare" is one of my favorite bands, and Andy Taylor's guitar is just... sublime. If I had to vote for the band whose musicianship was most at odds with their image, it might be DD. I'd love to just sit in a room and listen to them play.
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Well I love that Opeth song.
Now Duran Duran. I'm with Stadler as Rio is just all shades of awesome. The Reflex was on of the hits I was never fond of. I'd rather hear HLTW, Save A Prayer, Is There Something I Should Know, ect.....
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Two more great picks and couldn't possibly be farther from each other in style! :lol
There was a time I thought growls/harsh vocals were laughable.
For the longest time, while trying to get into Opeth, I literally would snicker when the growls would come. An image would pop into my head of Uruk Hai being tortured by Saruman in some deep dark tomb. Then, one day last summer I had Ghost Reveries playing while working in the garage and my brain just made a passing note that the growls didn't make me laugh anymore. I still can't say that I adore them like some do, but I can say that I enjoy them now.
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Well I love that Opeth song.
Now Duran Duran. I'm with Stadler as Rio is just all shades of awesome. The Reflex was on of the hits I was never fond of. I'd rather hear HLTW, Save A Prayer, Is There Something I Should Know, ect.....
yeah, much later on I discovered how awesome there other stuff was, especially the Rio album.
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So, Dream Theater. After I became a Rush fan, DT and Symphony X became the two bands I heard about most and started seeking out. I was perusing progarchives one day and a highly rated album called Scenes From A Memory caught my eye. This album was really my gateway into the band.
Day #3: Dream Theater - 1928 Overture/Strange Deja Vu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ia1eQ0W6Rw
Day #3 Bonus: Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBJUHvQPFTI
This is one of those songs I can remember hearing VERY early on and for some reason the piano riff and melody just stuck with me and still resonate with me to this day every time I hear them. I didn't know what the song was for the longest time, but finally found out a few years later. The song screams 80's, and that's why I love it. Yep, this was, at one point in time, my favorite song.
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Can't go wrong with DT and especially with SFAM.
Strange Deja Vu was, for a long time, my favorite sing-along-in-the-car-at-the-top-of-my-voice song. But I always made sure that the windows were closed :biggrin:
Steppin' Out may be the only Joe Jackson song I know, but it's a nice one.
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Dream Theater - 1928 Overture/Strange Deja Vu
Fuck yeah. :metal
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Meh.
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Dream Theater - 1928 Overture/Strange Deja Vu
Fuck yeah. :metal
Totally :metal
Overture 1928/Strange Deja-Vu is my favorite two song combo ever. It was highlight of the evening for me when they played it on last tour.
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Day #3 Bonus: Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Side Two of that album is just all killer, no filler. Love "A Slow Song", and still listen to it occasionally to this day, though the sound is a tad dated).
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The good king took my song here as I was going to go with the first thing I heard from this band. I had downloaded a live show from DIME because I kept hearing about this band over on the Rush Counterparts boards. The set opened with Blackest Eyes and I was immediately hooked. I'll go with another favorite song from that album. Haunting atmosphere, really heavy passages that feel right at home with lighter, delicate sections, perfect build up and release, and a very dark undercurrent to the lyrics.
Day #4: Porcupine Tree - Gravity Eyelids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3OJtbMDNNg
Day #4 Bonus: Toto - Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
If asked to list my favorite songs right now, you wouldn't get very far down the list until this one showed up.
My grandmother bought an Oldsmobile Delta 88 in 1984 and it came with this "Complimentary Tape Cartridge"
(https://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg254/az4x4runner/Oldsmobile/Olds_Cassette1.jpg)
Whenever I rode with my grandmother, we either listened to the Complimentary Tape Cartridge or a tape of Dino playing the piano. This guy:
(https://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/1d6421f140787db72f87345074e10171/4731284.jpg) (https://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/christmas-album-cover_dino_wonderful-time-of-the-year.jpg) (https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xqPzVQ28L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
Guess what I always voted for. Anyway, there were four programs on the Oldsmobile tape: modern pop, country, jazz, and classical. One of the modern pop songs was Africa and I immediately fell in love with the song.
Oh yeah, here is the jingle that played at the start of the tape. I can still belt this out from memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8eOPRUaczk
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I've never been able to get into PT. Africa is a classic song though.
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Your picks are getting better each day :metal
Gravity Eyelids is such a beautiful and great song, might be top 10 Porcupine Tree for me.
And Africa, what can I say other than I love it. Those vocal harmonies in the chorus give me chills every time, though the song is a bit overplayed. Toto might be my alltime favorite band in the long run.
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I have only been following this thread casually ,but now that I have had a good read............the bands I can relate to in terms of significant influence on me
jingle : Bon Jovi/ DT
Stadler: Ozzy
king: KISS , DT
Hath: DT, Toto
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While I love PT, Gravity Eyelids or In Absentia are not close to being my favorite things they did. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool.
And Africa is classic, one of the best rock songs :)
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I've never been able to get into PT. Africa is a classic song though.
+1
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My favorite part of this update was the Oldsmobile jingle.
"More than a luxury ride, it's a feeling of pride, that you feel insiiiiiIIIIIIiiiiide!"
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it's so awesome.
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So, Dream Theater. After I became a Rush fan, DT and Symphony X became the two bands I heard about most and started seeking out. I was perusing progarchives one day and a highly rated album called Scenes From A Memory caught my eye. This album was really my gateway into the band.
Day #3: Dream Theater - 1928 Overture/Strange Deja Vu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ia1eQ0W6Rw
Day #3 Bonus: Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBJUHvQPFTI
This is one of those songs I can remember hearing VERY early on and for some reason the piano riff and melody just stuck with me and still resonate with me to this day every time I hear them. I didn't know what the song was for the longest time, but finally found out a few years later. The song screams 80's, and that's why I love it. Yep, this was, at one point in time, my favorite song.
My favorite opening to a DT album.
I love me some JJ. This was a big step in a totally different direction for him and it was a bold move that worked for him. Stepping Out is a great tune.
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dude, you forgot one. But I got your back.
the bands I can relate to in terms of significant influence on me
Hath: DT, Toto, Oldsmobile
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Just catching up, Hath.
Day #1: Rush - Red Barchetta
I remember discovering Rush at the same time. Red Barchetta is my favorite Rush song.
. If I had to vote for the band whose musicianship was most at odds with their image, it might be DD.
Musically speaking, they were excellent. And Simon had a great voice.
Day #3: Dream Theater - 1928 Overture/Strange Deja Vu
Day #3 Bonus: Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Great DT choice.
I remember seeing that Joe Jackson video endlessly on in the early days of MTV. Can't say I was ever into Joe Jackson.
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I was never into Joe Jackson either, but like I said, the piano riff and overall melody hits me just right.
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He's had quite a few stylistic changes over the years .
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Of course you know my love for PT.
I'm also bonkers for Toto. I saw them a few years ago and they were great live still.
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I was never into Joe Jackson either, but like I said, the piano riff and overall melody hits me just right.
It's a total earworm.
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Some good soul searching here. Mostly posting just so I can follow the thread. Joe Jackson was a nostalgia trip for me. That song hadn't been in my head for at least two decades.
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did someone say "soul"??
By the time I was a freshman in college, I had been playing electric bass in a band for a while and thus would frequently read Bass Player magazine which made several mentions of Francis Rocco Prestia. Naturally I had to check him out to see what all the fuss was about . . . and what a revelation it was. Tightest band I've ever heard. The arrangements are fun and interesting. Funky rhythms, hooks, solos and soulfulness are on full display with this band. The album containing this song hardly left my side for a few years there.
Day #5: Tower of Power - Squib Cakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGtdVWBI8k
Day #5 Bonus: Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERT_7u5L0dc
I don't even know if I can fully explain how much this song is a part of me. Not being able to hear it again would be akin to ripping off an arm. There isn't much that gets my blood pumping quite like the intro to this song. My best friend was a year ahead of me, so after he got his license he would pick me up every morning for school. I remember that very first day when I got in his '91 Z-28 Camaro, he looked at me with a big grin and then held up this tape. This is what we listened to on the way to school to get ready to tackle most days.
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Eye of the Tiger is one of my very earliest "favourite songs" :tup
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Eye of the Tiger is one of my very earliest "favourite songs" :tup
Same.
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Tower of Power is such a great band and Francis Rocco Prestia is such a beast on bass. And that horn section! Cool choice.
Eye of the Tiger is a classic but it's so overplayed.
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Eye of the tiger is a classic. Nuff said. (As a huge Marvel fan back in the day I always wanted to say that :lol)
I even love the paul Anka version!
I've tried listening to ToP just because I respect your taste BigH, but it's just not something I have any interest in. Some nice guitar in there though.
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Eye of the Tiger is easily top 3 movie songs ever - and could easily make a case for #1. Damn I watched that movie over and over again.
The ultimate man, vs the ultimate meatball.
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Giddy up Giddy up!! Love me some TOP!!!!
Count me in as a big Survivor fan. Seen both bands live. Both great shows.
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I've tried listening to ToP just because I respect your taste BigH, but it's just not something I have any interest in. Some nice guitar in there though.
no problem. As the great Alan Thicke taught us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJIVK-daGk
FYI, I'll pick this thread up either Sunday night or Monday.
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After I started getting semi-regular jobs in high school for spending money, one of he first things I did was start picking up music at the local music shops. And one of the first cassettes I can remember buying was one of the Back Trax singles that would have two well known songs from an artist. This one to be exact:
(https://www.chicago-holland.nl/images/cassettes/bijzondere/cas-single-hardtosyimsorry-001.jpg) (https://www.chicago-holland.nl/images/cassettes/bijzondere/cas-single-hardtosyimsorry-003.jpg)
I don't really know what drew me to a band that had lost almost all relevance by the early 90's. But those two songs drilled a hole in my head. I looked up the last thing they had released which was their 1982-1989 Greatest Hits album and bought the CD. Once I got a car, I added a 6 slot CD changer and the first slot was reserved for that Chicago greatest hits album for as long as the changer was operational.
You'll notice the run time on the cassette single is 3:42 for Hard to Say I'm Sorry (which incidentally is basically Peter Cetera fronting Toto, as they played on a great deal of Chicago 16). Unfortunately the song fades out just as a pretty rocking tag called "Get Away" is about to take off. It wasn't until I got the greatest hits CD that I heard "Get Away" in its full glory. It also left me a bit stunned that this "ballad band" would be pulling something off like this. It's a very sweeping rock arrangement complete with horns and a very out of place vibe on an album with "Love Me Tomorrow" and "Look Away". This got me curious about the band and spurred me to investigate their back catalogue. Eventually they became my first "favorite band" and I still love them to this day.
Day #6: Chicago - Hard to say I'm Sorry/Get Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR9Ibt7AWN4
Day #6 Bonus: Metallica - One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw
I'll just quote myself from my top 50 thread:
. . . but I never really listened to them until "One" hit, and man did it hit me hard. The video for "One" debuted in January of 1989, when I was 11 years old. I remember staring at the TV wondering what it was I was watching - there was NOTHING else like this. The stark black and white images of the band furiously playing interspersed with scenes from a movie I had never heard of plus the dark lyrical content really made an impression. "One" quickly became a favorite song of mine and still is to this day.
So yeah, it became my favorite song immediately and it held that place for a long time.
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I won't need to do one of these after yours Hath :lol
Chicago was a big early influence for me too. One is the only song I really care for on AJFA.
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Of Chicago I only know the greatest hits package, it's nice but nothing that made me check out their other stuff.
One is the only song I really care for on AJFA.
+1
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I know very little Chicago, probably couldn't name a song by them but would probably recognise the big hits maybe. That song was nice, but I don't do nice in my music really. The last minute was cool though.
One is great. Would be even better if it was finished - with real drums and a bass put on it. I wanted to like AJFA when I started listening to Metallica a few years ago, but this song aside its not great.
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Justice is awesome, people!!
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Justice is awesome, people!!
I would say One is one among other 8 songs I really care for on AJFA :tup
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Justice is awesome, people!!
Agreed. It's my second favorite from the 'Tallicas.
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Justice is awesome, people!!
Agreed. It's my second favorite from the 'Tallicas.
Mine too!! ;)
I have Kill 'Em All at #1!
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I discovered Dream Theater and Symphony X at virtually the same time. And while DT was pretty immediate as far as becoming one of my favorite bands, it took a little time for Symphony X to grow on me. The final piece that put them on that footing was my full appreciation of this song. After I had gotten this album, for some reason I only really listened to this song in bits and pieces, but once I started listening to the entire piece at once, I realized just how magical and perfect the combination of this band and the subject matter was.
If I put together a list of top songs today, this would likely be at the top.
Day #7: Symphony X - The Odyssey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaN3pwBsRf8
Day #7 Bonus: Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmYCM4CS8o
I LOVED the Young Guns movies. In my group of friends, they were probably the most quoted movies in middle/high school. Just a really great song that I considered my favorite at one time.
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Everytime I hear something from Symphony X I like it, I love Russel Allen's singing and they were great at opening for DT on the Systematic Chaos tour. So they would probably eb a favorite of mine, if I would find the time to buy a record and listen to it closely. Someday I will do it.
Blaze Of Glory is one of the best songs that JBJ has done, solo or with his band. That guitar solo is simply amazing. Oh, and I've never seen the movie.
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Good start.
In the 90s when I was looking far and wide to find new music I came across a review in the Loud 1 catalogue for V - New Mythology Suite. It compared them to DT so I gave it a go. It took a while as the melodies weren't jumping out at me but I came to love it. The Odyssey is a great album, probably better than V and the title track is its crowning glory.
I was a huge Bon Jovi fan back in the day, from first hearing Runaway on the Friday Rock Show with Tommy Vance. I haven't loved much since the awesome New Jersey, but some of the YG soundtrack is great. BoG is a good song, always gets me going :biggrin:
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Two more great picks. :tup
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That guitar solo is simply amazing.
yep, really iconic solo. Jeff Beck, right?
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Right, Jeff Beck. Don't know if he played all the guitars on that song but the solo is definitely him.
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Nice choices there, Hath. :metal
I'm good to go if you need me to, but my list is at home. :facepalm:
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so yeah, I'm done now. Thanks for following along.
Whoever is ready can go as far as I'm concerned. Seems like this will go a lot smoother if the people that are excited about doing it volunteer rather than me nominating someone.
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I'll start mine out, since I kind of remember some of the list. What I'm going to do is honorable mentions for each song of the day from the same band or the same time period. There is a theme, even though this may all seem really random... wait, that's what I DO. :lol
Anyhooooooo... on with...
DAY #1
So, a lot of my early musical tastes predominantly came from my father and my brother. My mother had a bit of an influence with one band on the list, but the others were either thanks to Dad or my brother. That now said, this was around the time where my brother got VERY interested in digging into Dad's copious vinyl collection (some of which is in the closet in my apartment :biggrin: ). This particular album, once it bore itself into my brain enough, is without a doubt one of my favorite records of all time and it kind of pulls a similar page from Hath's playbook. Meh. It's what we fogeys do, eh? :lol
Listen and enjoy. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lchYhhwD7_g)
Bonus song. This one made more of an impact the older I got and the more I understood it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR6BeerSSWw)
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Alright, Deb!
If one must mention Chicago (the band) in their life, there is none better than their debut! In my mind this is essential to every music lover's collection.
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OK, I've commented on Chicago earlier but I should probably check this out sometime.
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CTA is a an awesome album. Almost went with Beginnings for one of my songs.
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Great selection! Beginnings is one of those songs for me that brings back fond childhood memories.
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CTA was VERY essential for what it led into at later points. It's still essential just because the album is THAT damn good.
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DAY #2
So I figured I'll get the mother... err, womb donor portion of the week out of the way. One of my favorite ELO albums was one we (my mother, my brother and I) would listen to on rainy days while playing gin or gin rummy - either ELO or The Beatles. Speaking of The Beatles, Jeff Lynne admits that ELO was a blatant rip-off of The Beatles. Not only that, but John Lennon had at one point called ELO "The Son of The Beatles". High praise indeed.
Oceans and Kings, oh boy! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByJwGd_Tns)
Bonus song. This is what broke ELO big time in the US. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVd4XhtpRBc)
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Really? Nothing? :tdwn
I'll chug right along here then with....
DAY #3
My brother and Dungeons and Dragons have the responsibility for this one--we would listen to this album while rolling and creating characters and that's how I got into one of my favorite albums by Pink Floyd.
Have some bacon. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqblSqx_VI)
Bonus song. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58_S5e0AVU0)
I also have a cool story about the bonus song. It was... 1985, close to summer break. One of my brother's friends had brought an acoustic guitar to school, started playing this outside, and the group of us all started singing along. Great moment.
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Sorry Deb. I'm here now.
Early Chicago I can never get sick of. What run of music from their debut until the middle 70's.
ELO is a band that I own the greatest hits and should own more since I love the hits but never bought any.
Pink Floyd is all sorts of awesome. Animals is such a dark album. So adventurous. It's that type of album that grows with each listen and those are the albums I gravitate to more.
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I've never really dug deep on ELO either, but they have a lot of songs I like. I remember a song of theirs being played on the radio once, and it was great, but I have no clue what the name of was. Just thinking about it bugs me. :lol :lol
You can almost never go wrong with Floyd. :tup :tup
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I only know two or three ELO songs and the one you featured isn't one of them. So I thought that posting that I don't know that song isn't much of a meaningful posting. :lol
Pink Floyd on the other hand is all kinds of awesome and especially Animals is great. I came late to love this record, Wish You Were Here and Darkside and The Wall I thought were so much better when I first heard Animals. But it has grown on me a lot and know it's ranked up there with the classics and on some days even surpassing them.
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Early Chicago I can never get sick of. What run of music from their debut until the middle 70's.
ELO is a band that I own the greatest hits and should own more since I love the hits but never bought any.
Pink Floyd is all sorts of awesome. Animals is such a dark album. So adventurous. It's that type of album that grows with each listen.
Agreed on all King's comments.
My favorite song on Animals is Dogs which may be perhaps one of their darkest ever:
"And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around.
So have a good drown as you go down all alone...
Dragged down by the stone........"
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I never liked ELO, like at all. Some of their songs even would have me reaching for the channel button on the radio.
Animals is a very special album to me. It always invokes the feeling of rainy spring mronings sitting in my mother's parlor reading books. Specifically, Rich Man Poor Man which I was reading at the time this album came out. I've often heard it said that "Pigs" is the worst song on this album, but it has always been a favorite of mine!
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Not counting Pigs On The Wing, I would consider Pigs the "worst" song on Animals. But if you have three really great songs one has to be at the bottom, amazing song nonetheless.
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I do realize that ELO is hit and miss for a lot of you. That's cool.
Sorry Deb. I'm here now.
Is okay, me Liege. All good in the hood.
You can almost never go wrong with Floyd. :tup :tup
Exactly!
I only know two or three ELO songs and the one you featured isn't one of them. So I thought that posting that I don't know that song isn't much of a meaningful posting. :lol
No worries.
Pink Floyd on the other hand is all kinds of awesome and especially Animals is great. I came late to love this record, Wish You Were Here and Darkside and The Wall I thought were so much better when I first heard Animals. But it has grown on me a lot and know it's ranked up there with the classics and on some days even surpassing them.
Animals is most definitely a grower, I will say that. Once it stuck in my brain, it kind of stayed there.
My favorite song on Animals is Dogs which may be perhaps one of their darkest ever:
"And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around.
So have a good drown as you go down all alone...
Dragged down by the stone........"
I toyed with having Dogs as the main song of Day 3 but decided to go with 3 Different Ones because that was the first song on Animals that I really connected with. Dogs was the last one if I remember correctly.
I never liked ELO, like at all. Some of their songs even would have me reaching for the channel button on the radio.
Fair enough, they're not for everyone.
Animals is a very special album to me. It always invokes the feeling of rainy spring mronings sitting in my mother's parlor reading books. Specifically, Rich Man Poor Man which I was reading at the time this album came out. I've often heard it said that "Pigs" is the worst song on this album, but it has always been a favorite of mine!
I think 3 Different Ones is that you either really love it or really hate it, no middle ground. Hence...
Not counting Pigs On The Wing, I would consider Pigs the "worst" song on Animals. But if you have three really great songs one has to be at the bottom, amazing song nonetheless.
See... I would say one of the interludes would be at the bottom. Personal preferences, everyone has them.
Since this got overly long, I'll make a separate post for Day 4.
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DAY #4
Credit for the next musician goes to Dad - I remember him playing this a lot when I was growing up. Again, it's not one of his mega hits but it did have airplay. I happen to think that with Elton John's older music carried much more of a punch, but there's bits and pieces of his stuff from the mid 80s to now that really hearken back to the old days. Hell of a singer/songwriter, for sure.
How can you stop when your feet say go? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW7H6iohAb8)
I could have chosen MANY for the Bonus song, but it has to be this one. My brother really loved it growing up, I do remember that. It's another one of his many great songs.
Bonus song! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvqt083DKI)
Interesting note - the band Floater does a BEAUTIFUL cover of the Bonus Song.
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There's no disputing the greatness of Elton John, 32 studio albums strong with very few duds along the way. :hefdaddy
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Here's the thing about Elton John: I don't know if it's because of the magnitude of his hits or the singular greatness of that first Greatest Hits record (which, along with the Eagles Greatest and Steve Miller's Greatest, everyone MUST own), but you rarely hear ANY of his "catalogue" material. But it's EXCELLENT!!
I had an opportunity to get the first... I think it was eight or nine studio CDs for like $10 or something at Manifest in Charlotte, so I said, what the hell. MAN oh MAN. Songs like Come Down In Time, Elderberry Wine, High Flying Bird (perhaps my third favorite EJ song of all time; the Bonus Song is in the top three too, along with In Neon), Grey Seal, All The Young Girls Love Alice...
Good, solid stuff.
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I have a great fondness for everything Elton John from Captain Fantastic back to through Empty Sky.
:tup
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There's no disputing the greatness of Elton John, 32 studio albums strong with very few duds along the way. :hefdaddy
Here's the thing about Elton John: I don't know if it's because of the magnitude of his hits or the singular greatness of that first Greatest Hits record (which, along with the Eagles Greatest and Steve Miller's Greatest, everyone MUST own), but you rarely hear ANY of his "catalogue" material. But it's EXCELLENT!!
I had an opportunity to get the first... I think it was eight or nine studio CDs for like $10 or something at Manifest in Charlotte, so I said, what the hell. MAN oh MAN. Songs like Come Down In Time, Elderberry Wine, High Flying Bird (perhaps my third favorite EJ song of all time; the Bonus Song is in the top three too, along with In Neon), Grey Seal, All The Young Girls Love Alice...
Good, solid stuff.
I have a great fondness for everything Elton John from Captain Fantastic back to through Empty Sky.
:tup
Way to go, gents, and agreed wholeheartedly with Stadler about the deeper cuts being just as good if not better than the hits. I've always thought that about Sir Elton's older stuff.
Once again, I'm splitting the posts to keep things nice and neat.
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DAY #5
So, for this next band... you can't NOT hear of them or know of them if you're from Texas. Like many of the bands and artists on my list, the older the better--which definitely applies to these guys. I remember Dad playing their music and I've probably been listening to them since I was about 3 or so. I also hated the reboot of their older albums with the electronic drums as opposed to remastering the original drum track. They NEVER should have done that, but... they did. You can still find the originals on vinyl though. :biggrin:
With the glass so dark they don't even know your name... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF1QWKVdFmM)
Bonus song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZTp6FJcmy4)
Actually, the Bonus Song could fit really well in The Drunk Thread. :biggrin: :biggrin:
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Another great band. I prefer their early stuff (everything they released in the '70's).
Short bummer of a story. One summer night in 1983 I just had finished watching the warm-up band Sammy Hagar. During intermission waiting for the head-liner, my buddy declares that he's feeling like shit and needs to leave the venue. He and I left the building, he was sick in the parking lot (no, we weren't high nor drunk), and we drove home. So I have yet to see this great band in concert, but this is the setlist I missed: :\
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/zz-top/1983/providence-civic-center-providence-ri-7bdfb22c.html
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See, now this is odd for me. LOVE their music, up through and including Afterburner. I was there the first time with Eliminator (had it on vinyl) and it was awesome. Older songs like "Just Got Paid" rule the road.
But I saw them live... I'm blanking on when, but it was after... and they played for barely over an hour, and while the three played their parts, you could tell they had a LOT of help. I don't know. Still love them, but after seeing them live my jury is still out. I want to like them and don't want to bad mouth them, but after seeing something like 400 concerts in my day, for that to still stick out as disappointing is, well, telling.
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Love some of the older Elton John Tunes, Rocket Man being one of them, but don't know any of his deep cuts.
ZZ Top are legends of their own, I generally prefer their earlier blusier stuff but they had some cool songs in the 80s too. Saw them live on a festival in the early 90s as headliners and they were big fun. Maybe it helped that the day was long and we had some alcoholic drinks.
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Man, how can anyone listen to ANY ZZ-Top song and not just have a lot of fun in that 2-4 minutes? Seriously. I can't name a single song that isn't at a bare minimum just a fun listen. Then you've got songs like Cheap Sunglasses, La Grange, Tush, and Pearl Necklace... which are all kinds of awesome.
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Debra,
Yesterday I fired up Spotify and listened from First Album all the way through Deguello while in the office. It was a totally cool and rockin' day. Tres Hombres still is the standout for me (and the only one I own).
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Another great band. I prefer their early stuff (everything they released in the '70's).
Short bummer of a story. One summer night in 1983 I just had finished watching the warm-up band Sammy Hagar. During intermission waiting for the head-liner, my buddy declares that he's feeling like shit and needs to leave the venue. He and I left the building, he was sick in the parking lot (no, we weren't high nor drunk), and we drove home. So I have yet to see this great band in concert, but this is the setlist I missed: :\
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/zz-top/1983/providence-civic-center-providence-ri-7bdfb22c.html (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/zz-top/1983/providence-civic-center-providence-ri-7bdfb22c.html)
Aw MAN... that's one hell of a setlist right there.
Love some of the older Elton John Tunes, Rocket Man being one of them, but don't know any of his deep cuts.
ZZ Top are legends of their own, I generally prefer their earlier blusier stuff but they had some cool songs in the 80s too. Saw them live on a festival in the early 90s as headliners and they were big fun. Maybe it helped that the day was long and we had some alcoholic drinks.
The older Elton John stuff from the late 60s/70s is WELL worth delving into. So much good music.
And I agree - I prefer the earlier bluesy stuff too, and it was after... Recycler (I saw them on that tour - HELL of a show) that they really lost me. I much prefer up to about Eliminator and Afterburner.
But I saw them live... I'm blanking on when, but it was after... and they played for barely over an hour, and while the three played their parts, you could tell they had a LOT of help. I don't know. Still love them, but after seeing them live my jury is still out. I want to like them and don't want to bad mouth them, but after seeing something like 400 concerts in my day, for that to still stick out as disappointing is, well, telling.
Hmm. I saw them in 1991 and I noticed something completely different - I didn't notice any extra "help" (of course, that was a while ago) and I also noticed that there was a huge wall of sound. Maybe that's what you mean? I don't know. Anyway, regardless, I can understand the feeling but ZZ will always be a staple in my music library.
Man, how can anyone listen to ANY ZZ-Top song and not just have a lot of fun in that 2-4 minutes? Seriously. I can't name a single song that isn't at a bare minimum just a fun listen. Then you've got songs like Cheap Sunglasses, La Grange, Tush, and Pearl Necklace... which are all kinds of awesome.
RIGHT?! o/
Debra,
Yesterday I fired up Spotify and listened from First Album all the way through Deguello while in the office. It was a totally cool and rockin' day. Tres Hombres still is the standout for me (and the only one I own).
Sweet! Tres Hombres is the first album I remember from Dad playing it because of the sloppy Tex Mex food laid out in the "centerfold" of the original vinyl. :biggrin:
Splitting posts again.
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DAY #6
I give the credit for this one to my brother more than Dad. Dad was more about the radio hits while my brother and I were more about the deeper cuts, then eventually whittled that down to the stuff with Peter Gabriel and the last two albums with Steve Hackett. If you don't know which band I speak of, your prog card has officially been revoked. GTFO. :lol
The Lamb really takes me back to the summer of 1985. My brother and I were both in summer school and he would play one side of the album over and over, then move to the next one, etc. I hold him fully responsible for The Lamb being my favorite of the Peter Gabriel Genesis albums.
Smiling at the majorettes, smoking Winston cigarettes. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9X2QtzCvBQ)
Bonus song. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuJsAdlv97I)
The bonus song was on a Peter Gabriel Genesis mixtape my brother made for me in the 90s. Needless to say, he was very shocked at my ability to pick out the lyrics as quickly as I did.
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I need to invoke the standard TAC comment in regards today's selection.
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Genesis is cool, like, really cool. I like the early Gabriel records and I like most of the Phil Collins records too, even the poppier ones, because I was introduced to Genesis in the 80s with Abacab, Turn It On Again, Mama etc.
I was never that fond of the Lamb records. There are some really good songs on there, but I didn't really connect with the whole thing and I seldom return to it these days.
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I'm weird like that too: I got into Genesis with Abacab, then by watching the old "In Concert" film on HBO with Phil singing the early material. Abacab is still my pet favorite album (though Wind and Wuthering is probably my overall favorite) and The Lamb is my favorite of the Peter era albums. I still go back to it often, and it is one of the few double concept records I have no problem sitting through in its entirety.
It's also the bomb in 5.1.
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I need to invoke the standard TAC comment in regards today's selection.
;D
Not a fan!
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I need to invoke the standard TAC comment in regards today's selection.
Not a fan!
:angry: Party poopers.
Genesis is cool, like, really cool. I like the early Gabriel records and I like most of the Phil Collins records too, even the poppier ones, because I was introduced to Genesis in the 80s with Abacab, Turn It On Again, Mama etc.
I was never that fond of the Lamb records. There are some really good songs on there, but I didn't really connect with the whole thing and I seldom return to it these days.
The Lamb is not for everyone, but a lot of the poppier stuff just did not age well for me even though that was the era of Genesis that I first got into as well.
I'm weird like that too: I got into Genesis with Abacab, then by watching the old "In Concert" film on HBO with Phil singing the early material. Abacab is still my pet favorite album (though Wind and Wuthering is probably my overall favorite) and The Lamb is my favorite of the Peter era albums. I still go back to it often, and it is one of the few double concept records I have no problem sitting through in its entirety.
It's also the bomb in 5.1.
I don't like the slight changes made to the 5.1 mix of The Lamb, and Weymo agrees with me.
Last post incoming!
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DAY #7
Sorry for the delay, folks - work has been completely wearing me out so this weekend was filled with sleep, sleep, and yet more sleep.
Anyway... this last band was also thanks to my father, when I was about 6 years old, and after my folks had split up. At that time, music was starting to become my salvation and escape from... well... stuff.
The seventh song is still to this day one of Dad's all time favorites. I still dig it verily as well.
In the shuffling madness... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCT6pA5I9A)
Bonus song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWNDPc7kIdU)
The Bonus song I remember my brother getting into HARDCORE about 6-8 years after we both got into Tull. My brother dug into the back catalog and man... good music there. I also sang part of this one recently for an interview for an online radio station (which I nailed hehe). I'm also on a pretty huge tear with Tull at present.
Last words--thanks for the patience, and coming along for the ride. Really had fun with this!
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DAY #7
Sorry for the delay, folks - work has been completely wearing me out so this weekend was filled with sleep, sleep, and yet more sleep.
Anyway... this last band was also thanks to my father, when I was about 6 years old, and after my folks had split up. At that time, music was starting to become my salvation and escape from... well... stuff.
The seventh song is still to this day one of Dad's all time favorites. I still dig it verily as well.
In the shuffling madness... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCT6pA5I9A)
Bonus song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWNDPc7kIdU)
The Bonus song I remember my brother getting into HARDCORE about 6-8 years after we both got into Tull. My brother dug into the back catalog and man... good music there. I also sang part of this one recently for an interview for an online radio station (which I nailed hehe). I'm also on a pretty huge tear with Tull at present.
Last words--thanks for the patience, and coming along for the ride. Really had fun with this!
TULL.
Love Tull; I just got a five-disk set (the five album run from "Songs..." through "Broadsword...") and it is so sweet.
Locomotive Breath is excellent (I like it better than Aqualung) but I prefer Hymn 43 above both.
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My first Tull album was Stand Up so I have a great love for the early albums too. Still, Aqualung is still the most frequently listened to and the most timeless, of course.
Thanks Deb!
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I love Tull. Songs from the Wood album is probably my favorite of theirs. It was one of a few dozen 8-track tapes I owned! I can never un-hear in my mind certain songs abruptly interrupting, track switching, and then the song continuing... :lol
Thanks Deb!