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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on January 21, 2013, 02:04:07 PM
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This will be similar to the 80s thread, in that there will be days I feature more than one song, especially since there are probably thousands of songs that are worth featuring in this thread. This thread could potentially go on for a long time. :lol As for what constitutes classic rock, pretty much any rock song from the 70s qualifies, and there are plenty of songs from the mid to late 60s, as well as the early 80s, that apply. Anyway, away we go!
Eagles - Hotel California
Easily one of the most popular classic rock songs of the 70s, I have heard this song many, many times, yet it still sounds awesome every time I hear it. The lyrics are very cool, it is a very easy to sing along to, it rocks and the guitar solo that closes the song is both epic and iconic. This has become one of those songs many love to call overrated, but when judging the song on merit alone, in other words leaving how much people like it or whatever out of the equation, this is by and large a tremendous song.
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Meh.
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Definitely one of the best of all time, but as an unintended consequence, it's been over-played which produces diminishing returns of enjoyability. There are lots of other Eagles songs I prefer, but it is indeed a Top 10 classic rock song of all time in my books.
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Great song, one of the Eagles' best.
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Lol Hotel California
That's how I met my ex... First day of high school... last class... teacher is playing music in classroom. Hotel Cali comes on. Her and I randomly discuss it.
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Many references to Anton Levay's Satanic Bible in that song.
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I like the concept, and I liked the song the first couple of times I heard it, but the massive overplaying of this song on the radio has pretty much ruined it for me. Eagles had lots of great songs, many of them better than this.
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I was really scared of this song when I was 13 for some reason.
Also, following the thread like mad.
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Not even the best song on that album IMO-that honor goes to The Last Resort, which is one of my favorite songs from the 70s period-but it's a classic, with one of the definitive guitar breaks in the history of rock and roll. It's overplayed for a reason: perhaps only Stairway to Heaven is a more quintessential 70s rock song. I do remember, back in the day, when MTV started playing the live version of this song, being a little shocked because, hearing the song on the radio, I had assumed the order of the solos was Walsh then Felder, so for years I'd had it backwards. :lol
While the 80s thread will feature more epic stories from me, this one will feature a lot of love for the actual SONGS. I think 1976 was the best year in the history of rock and roll, so I'm custom built for a classic rock thread.
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I was really scared of this song when I was 13 for some reason.
Also, following the thread like mad.
OMG, it was the same for me when I was 16! :omg:
Now I love it, listening to the wornderful outro at dawn is one of the things to do before you die. :)
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I think 1976 was the best year in the history of rock and roll, so I'm custom built for a classic rock thread.
You are correct. 1976 was the best year in the history of rock and roll.
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Not a huge fan of Hotel California. I have a very hard time enjoying it, maybe because it's been so ingrained in my head from childhood that I can't have a fresh listen to it.
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Favorite Eagles song, bar none
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Love the song. Love the album. Love the solos.
Great start to the op.
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I hope this thread has a fair amount of 60s songs in it, since that time period is rarely discussed on this forum.
As for Hotel California, it's pretty good.
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Don't own any Eagles but this song is pretty good.
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Great song, and an example of a classic rock song that's been played to death but not to the point where I can't hear it without cringing. I'm a moderate Eagles fan and this is among their very best.
Oh, and that guitar outro gives me chills each time.
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Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
I don't know about the rest of you, but it is impossible for me to hear this song without thinking of Forrest Gump. Granted, this was already a very popular classic rock tune for years, but the way it was featured in the movie just made it an easy association. Helluva good tune, either way.
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Following. So far,meh.
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Hotel California is amazing. Love that song and the acoustic version on Hell Frezze's Over is mindblowing.
Running On Empty. Seen Jackson play this live many times and I just love that slide solo. Great tune.
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Both are good songs.
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Going with the truly classic classic rock songs, I see. Always liked the concept of this album-an album of songs recorded more or less live (some in front of audiences, some in places like hotel rooms and tour buses) about playing live. Hmm. Wonder how many people know that's the concept of the album today. :lol
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Going with the truly classic classic rock songs, I see.
Don't worry, I will be featuring plenty of less-obvious classic rock tunes, but I thought it was better to start off with a few that most are gonna know.
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Yeah exactly, or people would complain the opposite point.
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Running on Empty -- the song and the album -- came out when I was in high school, so I knew them both pretty well. Years later, I'd moved to Columbia, Maryland to work a gig in Silver Spring, just outside of D.C. The local venue was Merriweather Post Pavillion, where I saw Ringo Starr, Todd Rundgren, Joe Walsh, and others. It was also during this time that "Classic Rock" radio stations started to appear, and one day the DJ played this song and said "recorded right here at Merriweather Post Pavillion, this is Jackson Browne's Running on Empty". Cool! I'd unknowingly moved to the very town where an album I'd been listening to for years was recorded. I pulled out the record and looked on the back. Yep. Merriweather Post Pavillion. I've been there.
It was an open air place, with lawn seating, etc. One time we stopped at the bank across the street to use the ATM and I could hear Rush doing their soundcheck. "Limelight". It was cool.
tl;dr version: Good song :tup
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That's a good song. I always remember hearing it on the radio as a kid, mind you, in the late 90s. I like the album along with The Pretender (fun fact, Toto's Jeff Porcaro plays drums on that album).
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Read the song title, Running on Empty, and the chorus immediately jumped into my head and won't leave. True sign of a classic.
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Both great songs. My favorite Eagles cd is 'On the Border'. So much variety on the cd.
Jackson Browne was great in concert and so were the Eagles in the late 70's and the Hell Freezers over tour in the early 90's.
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Neil Young - Hey Hey, My My
I'm admittedly not much of a Neil Young fan, and I DESPISE the original version of this song on Rust Never Sleeps, mainly because the heavy tone he uses in it is god-awful. However, I saw a different live version on VH1 Classic recently and it sounded much better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdikywAcaM
Sidenote, I've always preferred the acoustic My My, Hey Hey version, and that is one of the few Young songs I'd say I like a lot.
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I agree Kev, I don't like the heavier version of this song either
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Never have been a particularly big fan of Neal Young, though I did like how effortlessly he could transition from acoustic based music to electric guitar heavy rock without missing a beat in either direction. That's a delicate balancing act, and not a lot of people do it as well as Neal Young does.
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I can't stand Neil Young... and I'm Canadian! Not a single redeeming song in his catalogue as far as I'm concerned.
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Hotel California - first guitar solo I ever learned how to play.
Hey Hey My My - one of the first songs I ever learned to play on guitar.
Two songs I still dig to this day. :tup
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Hadn't heard Hey Hey My My in a couple years... one of those songs I knew but had no idea who it was. It came on the radio a couple weeks ago... It made me :metal
but not as hard
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In the original recording, the heavy version on Rust Never Sleeps, he'd blown the speakers on his amp. But it is also the most intense distortion possible, as the speakers are literally blown, and he went with it, because Rock and Roll! :metal
It's not my favorite Neil Young song, but I like it enough, and that guitar sound is awesome. But I can see why some people wouldn't like it.
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I can't stand Neil Young... and I'm Canadian! Not a single redeeming song in his catalogue as far as I'm concerned.
lol
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Running on Empty is my favorite Jackson Browne song.
Never could get into Neil Young.
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Running on Empty is a cool song. I enjoy the steel guitar.
I never liked Neil Young, though.
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Running on Empty is a great song. And for me it has nothing to do with Forrest Gump.
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I've never even seen Forrest Gump. I've caught parts of it here and there, and I know what it's all about, but whatever.
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You're not missing anything, Orbert - Forrest Gump is HORRIBLY overrated.
As to the songs ITT so far...
Pretty Maids All in a Row > anything else on the album/Hotel California
Never a big Jackson Browne fan, but Running on Empty was decent enough I guess.
Never was a fan of anything Neil Young did solo - he was more tolerable with CSN IMO, but that's not saying much.
So far? MEH.
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Bah. Forrest Gump is awesome. As is the following song...
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
I have to admit, my jaw dropped the first time I heard this song. That entire middle section was utterly mind-blowing, especially the way the music moved around the left and right channels. And to this day, it remains one of Zeppelin's most popular and beloved songs, and deservedly so.
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My affection for this song isn't for the studio version-that's rightly a classic, though-but rather, the live versions from 1971-1972 or so, where Zeppelin turned it into a vehicle for a medley of pop, rock, and blues numbers, sometimes stretching it out to around 30 minutes in length. Early Zep had numbers in their set-As Long As I Have You, How Many More Times, Whole Lotta Love-where the band would just relentlessly smash through medleys, making the songs their own while still keeping something of their familiar structures. That started going away as No Quarter, Dazed And Confused, and Moby Dick started taking up upwards to 90 minutes of the set, but there's a lot of fun to be had in the live versions of Whole Lotta Love when it had medleys embedded in it.
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Awesome song, love the middle section
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Great groove in part to JPJ and JB and Plants voice is in great form.
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Zeppelin was the band that set my musical preferences for life. I didn't get around to Zep II until I was 17 or so though. I remember when I got the CD (thank you very much Columbia House club!), I came home, fired off a bunch of BT's, plopped the disc in my CD player, laid on my bed and just let the music take over. Ironic how there is a big sigh to start, and then that first riff...I let out a nice sigh myself enjoying the high, and I will never forget the feeling I got listening to that riff. I'm not really sure what words in the English language I can use to describe it. One of the best riff's in classic rock, if not all of music. I'm not a huge fan of the instrumental section, but overall it's an essential classic rock song.
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I'm not a huge fan of the instrumental section, but overall it's an essential classic rock song.
That. Great song, but I could take or leave the middle section. I don't dislike it, but I find it just drags on a bit. But it's worth it for the way it kicks back into the song with the drum fill and the guitar solo. What more needs to be said about this song?
Oh yeah, waaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooooo
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But it's worth it for the way it kicks back into the song with the drum fill and the guitar solo. What more needs to be said about this song?
exactly what I was going to say. that drum fill...
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here's the blurb I wrote about it in my top 50 list:
The opening riff to "Whole Lotta Love" just sets the tone for the album. Heavy, full of attitude, awesome. And we get a swirling psychedelic percussion/drum solo/sound effect/moaning section about a minute into the album. How's that for balls!
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One of the first songs that really got me hooked into Zeppelin, since II was their first album I got. Ramble On has since replaced it as my favorite song off of the album, but I still have a whole lot of love (pardon the pun) for this song
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Awesome song. One of the best off of II.
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I don't play Led Zeppelin II very often, so the only time I hear this song is when I happen to catch it on the radio. If my wife's around, she usually makes me change it. She hates the middle section, she says it sounds like Robert is having an orgasm or something. I kinda thought that that was the whole idea.
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The middle section is boring as heck.
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It's a good song.
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NOW we're talking! Always dug Whole Lotta Love, but I agree that the middle section is a bit draggy.
But it's worth it for the way it kicks back into the song with the drum fill and the guitar solo.
Exactly.
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The middle section is boring as heck.
Yeah. And the rest isn't that great either. It's one of the more overrated Led Zeppelin songs, and this comes from a huge fan.
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The Who - Baba O'Riley
I still remember the first time I heard this song. I was 17, and my friend Matt and I were cruising around in his car after work one night and this song came on. I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I asked him what name of it was and who it was by. He pretended to be a shithead by not telling me, but I honestly think he didn't know what the name of it was. :lol However, asking around it work the next day, I found out the name of it right away by identifying it as the "teenage wasteland" song. I ran out and bought one of their 184 greatest hits albums immediately (that was back when I though best ofs were good places to start with bands :facepalm:). I did eventually get Who's Next, once I gradually heard most of the other songs from it, but while there are many Who songs I now love, nothing will ever top the awesomeness of Baba O'Riley for me. :hat
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Best song yet!
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Whole Lotta Love - alright, but not one of my favorite Led Zep songs.
Baba O'Riley - I don't like the Who, but this is one of their best songs.
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I went through a huge classic rock phase in high school and college, but before that, I somehow came across song, and fell in love with it by the second verse. It was so powerful in its simplicity. And it could have been a new song for all I knew. For as much as it helped define that era for The Who and became a “classic rock” era staple, it really transcends the genre and the time. It is as ass-kicking today as it was in 1971, and still sounds fresh and crisp as a cracker. By contrast, Hotel California and Hey Hey My My sound like classic rock songs, despite how good they are.
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The Who... #4 of 'the big 5' classic rock bands in my books (Beatles, Zep, Stones, Who, Floyd). Flawless song on an almost flawless album. Yet another essential one. I'd put it in the top 50 of all time. Unfortunately, I was only a fan of the radio hits by The Who back then... I feel it was a bit of a waste of my teenage years.
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Daltry's harmonica outro is gold.
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Pure gold on Baba O'Riley. That song can make any playlist I make.
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It's Baba O'Riley by the Who. Do I really need to say anything else? :lol
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One of my favorite songs by The Who!
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The Who, tied for #1 of my all time favorite bands, along with DT and Yes. Instrumental in preventing me from killing myself or someone else as an adolescent.
First time I saw Rush on the Power Windows tour, they played Baba O Riley before the show over the PA. Every fucker in the crowd was drumming along to the song.
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Favorite Who song ever, and it's a violin at the outro. Roger just played harmonica in concert
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Love that song. Can't say enough superlatives about it.
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Favorite Who song ever, and it's a violin at the outro. Roger just played harmonica in concert
I watched the video so many times as a kid, it's the only way I remember it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hKUBTX9kKEo#t=243s
God, they are all fuckin spectacular in that outro.
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Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Me being a huge B.O.C. fan, it goes without saying that I love this song to death. It was both a blessing and a curse that the SNL cowbell skit brought it more attention, as now many solely associate it with that, but I guess there are worse things. But this was a classic tune long before SNL immortalized forever, and it has one of the most awesome guitar solos of the entire 70s.
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words can't express how much I love this song
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words can't express how much I love this song
yesyesyes.
Baba O'Riley - another awesome song.
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Great song. Catchy, great break, great guitar work. And I pretty much change the station whenever it comes on because I can't stand it anymore. It's like classic rock stations only have one BOC song and refuse to play anything else. Give me "City's on Flame with Rock and Roll". Heck, even "Godzilla" just because it's such a fun song.
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Much more of a "Burnin' For You" man myself, but do like the interlude/solo a lot.
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MORE COWBELL!! One of the best classic rock songs ever
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Now that you mention it, I probably haven't heard this song in at least 5 years. But you're right, that solo is :metal, absolutely great
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Great song, in all facets. I wonder how much more attention SNL brought it, as it is a huge classic rock radio staple, and one of those songs that is so ubiquitous my rock-hating wife probably knows the chorus.
I love how this song is used in the opening credits of "The Stand" miniseries.
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I actually wrote a short story inspired by this song. So yes, I love it. Though I'm pretty ashamed because I know exactly 0 BOC songs apart from this one.
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Great, great song.
And for the obscure reference category... "Don't look into the laser dude"
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Awesome song. One of my favorite songs by BOC.
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Was a big fan of this song long before SNL skits. One of those Tier-2 classic rock songs that is just all out fun and awesome.
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It has one of those solo's that as a kid growing up, I had to learn on guitar.
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And for the obscure reference category... "Don't look into the laser dude"
Big time obscure. I only saw the movie once, but I got it pretty instantly
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WOOT! Two awesome songs in a row.
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That song is flipping beautiful. Me like.
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It's kind of a shame that (Don't Fear) The Reaper became what BOC was known for, since it really wasn't representative of what the band did as a whole, and the band spent a lot of time trying to catch the lightning in a bottle that the song was after that. It's a classic song, with one of the best guitar solos in rock history, but BOC had a lot more to offer than that. For the longest time, the only version of it I owned was the one on Extraterrestial Live, which ends with an amazing solo by Buck Dharma-in fact he was on fucking FIRE that tour-so that's the one I go to when I have an urge to hear that song.
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That song is flipping beautiful. Me like.
Nice to hear you like it. :tup
Check out Astronomy. I love that song.
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That song is flipping beautiful. Me like.
Nice to hear you like it. :tup
Check out Astronomy. I love that song.
Astronomy. :D The original version off Secret Treaties is god-tier awesome. The remake on Imaginos is okay, but I love the original to bits.
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I'm only really familiar with BOC's hits, but Don't Fear the Reaper is a wonderful tune. I hate the radio edit that does away with the awesome interlude, though.
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It's Baba O'Riley by the Who. Do I really need to say anything else? :jets:
Nope. Great song.
Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Eeehhhh... this one, while good, was a BIT overplayed by AOR/classic rock radio. I'm more of a Godzilla goil, myself...
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Last two updates were great. As overplayed as Don't Fear The Reaper is, I still love it.
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BOC is such a cool band, very underated. This is one of the defining classic rock songs; would just fall behind Burnin for You and Take Me Away as my favorite BOC.
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Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
Eeehhhh... this one, while good, was a BIT overplayed by AOR/classic rock radio. I'm more of a Godzilla goil, myself...
Oh, no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla!!!!
:metal :metal
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THAT'S what I'm talking about. :biggrin: :metal
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Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Anyone who has listened to classic rock radio has to know this song. It is, or at least it was for a long time, a classic rock staple. Helluva fun tune, with some great harmonies and one of the more memorably choruses from the mid 70s. When I was first getting into classic rock, this song was one I heard all of the time and always loved.
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Actually, Flat As A Pancake is one of those hidden gems of an album. Songs like Jefftown Creek, etc.
It's too bad they really never went anywhere
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Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Anyone who has listened to classic rock radio has to know this song. It is, or at least it was for a long time, a classic rock staple. Helluva fun tune, with some great harmonies and one of the more memorably choruses from the mid 70s. When I was first getting into classic rock, this song was one I heard all of the time and always loved.
Great song. Nice harmonies in the chorus, and nice MiniMoog work by the keyboard player.
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Love the moog. Pretty cool song.
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While this song may have been a classic rock staple in other markets...it wasn't here, apparently. :lol A quick play of it on Spotify reminded me of the song, but, lord, I've not heard it since I was in high school. Definitely a 70s styled rocker, to be sure, but it didn't get a lot of airplay on the radio here when I was growing up.
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And for the obscure reference category... "Don't look into the laser dude"
Big time obscure. I only saw the movie once, but I got it pretty instantly
Glad someone caught it.
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Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
I don't know about the rest of you, but it is impossible for me to hear this song without thinking of Forrest Gump. Granted, this was already a very popular classic rock tune for years, but the way it was featured in the movie just made it an easy association. Helluva good tune, either way.
Anytime I hear anything by Jackson Brown, it makes me think of Jennifer Jason Leigh being deflowered in a dugout. Just a long standing mental association. Couldn't even remember which song it was.
Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Anyone who has listened to classic rock radio has to know this song. It is, or at least it was for a long time, a classic rock staple. Helluva fun tune, with some great harmonies and one of the more memorably choruses from the mid 70s. When I was first getting into classic rock, this song was one I heard all of the time and always loved.
Finding out there wasn't a chick in that band absolutely floored me.
And for the obscure reference category... "Don't look into the laser dude"
this shit will get six fat chicks all william-holden-style fucked up!
Whoever the blond girl in that movie was really did something for me. Christ!
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El Barto., I believe the song you're thinking of is "Somebody's Baby"
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Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Anyone who has listened to classic rock radio has to know this song. It is, or at least it was for a long time, a classic rock staple. Helluva fun tune, with some great harmonies and one of the more memorably choruses from the mid 70s. When I was first getting into classic rock, this song was one I heard all of the time and always loved.
Finding out there wasn't a chick in that band absolutely floored me.
Wait... what? I always thought that it was a duet between a guy and a girl.
Edit:
From the band's official web site FAQ: (https://www.head-east.com/faqs.html)
Who is the female singer heard sharing the lead vocals on Never Been Any Reason?
Answer: Though Head East had a few female vocalists in the early 70s, all had left the band by the time Never Been Any Reason was recorded in 1974. And no female vocalists were brought in to sing on this song or any of the other songs on the Flat As A Pancake album. The two lead voices that share lines back and forth during the song are drummer Steve Huston and lead vocalist John Schlitt. John's is the higher voice that is occasionally mistaken by fans to be a female voice.
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Yeah, ain't that a kick in the nuts? :lol
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Honestly never heard this song before. Pretty good, but nothing amazing.
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Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Anyone who has listened to classic rock radio has to know this song. It is, or at least it was for a long time, a classic rock staple. Helluva fun tune, with some great harmonies and one of the more memorably choruses from the mid 70s. When I was first getting into classic rock, this song was one I heard all of the time and always loved.
Yeah, I've always dug that one.
Wait... what? I always thought that it was a duet between a guy and a girl.
Me too! :omg: I guess you learn something new every day. Wow.
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I've listened to a lot of classic rock radio but I had never heard that Head East song in my life. Not a bad track, I suppose.
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I've listened to a lot of classic rock radio but I had never heard that Head East song in my life. Not a bad track, I suppose.
This. Never have I heard this song in my life. Guess it never cracked the Canadian (or at least Toronto) airwaves.
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I've listened to a lot of classic rock radio but I had never heard that Head East song in my life. Not a bad track, I suppose.
Never heard it either. Granted, I am a much younger guy, but I have heard a lot of classic rock radio since I was a kid, and I'm into that kind of music.
Didn't think much of it. Not bad, but nothing special.
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Never heard it either. Decent song.
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Maybe it was just a regional hit. I heard it all the time. Everyone knew the song was not called "Save My Life, I'm Goin' Down for the Last Time" but no one could remember the real name. It took a while.
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It's been a classic rock radio staple down here forever. Actually had some crossover appeal with the local hard rock station, as well.
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At a guess, it was a regional hit. I'd heard it enough to recognize it when I listened to it, but it wasn't a song that got a lot of airplay around these parts. Back in the 1970s it was entirely possible for a band to sell out a 12,000 seat arena in St. Louis and be completely unknown on either coast, which was kind of cool-you could adopt bands as ones you made famous that way. :biggrin:
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Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
I am not a big fan of Clapton's, especially of his solo work, but he does have a handful or so of songs I like a lot; Let It Rain is one of them. I always thought it was a killer tune, but it never seemed to get played as much as certain other Clapton classics. But it is certainly a "classic" classic rock tune.
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Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
I am not a big fan of Clapton's, especially of his solo work, but he does have a handful or so of songs I like a lot; Let It Rain is one of them. I always thought it was a killer tune, but it never seemed to get played as much as certain other Clapton classics. But it is certainly a "classic" classic rock tune.
Awesome song.
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Great song, but not one of my favorite Clapton tracks. Around here, the Clapton song that got the most airplay was the live version of Cocaine, so I tended to have a sense of relief when any OTHER Clapton song got played, because frankly I loathed Cocaine.
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Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
I am not a big fan of Clapton's, especially of his solo work, but he does have a handful or so of songs I like a lot; Let It Rain is one of them. I always thought it was a killer tune, but it never seemed to get played as much as certain other Clapton classics. But it is certainly a "classic" classic rock tune.
Yeah, don't especially like Clapton, but this song is awesome. Either didn't know, or forgot, he did this one.
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I am not sure what is more shocking, that a lot of people here have never heard 'Never Been Any Reason' or that all the vocals are done by guys.
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Yeah, if I was in Head East, I'm not sure if I had wanted a selling point for that song to be "all the vocals are by guys!" myself. :rollin
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Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
I am not a big fan of Clapton's, especially of his solo work, but he does have a handful or so of songs I like a lot; Let It Rain is one of them. I always thought it was a killer tune, but it never seemed to get played as much as certain other Clapton classics. But it is certainly a "classic" classic rock tune.
Same here. Clapton's got some good songs, solo and with Derek and the Dominos and Cream and whoever else, but I've never been inspired to get a single album of his. But this is a good song. I always loved how the piano lines kinda sound like rain falling, which I'm assuming was the idea.
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It's been a classic rock radio staple down here forever. Actually had some crossover appeal with the local hard rock station, as well.
Yeah, I heard it on the radio in Houston and Austin quite often over the years.
Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
Like Cocaine (which I can't stand either), Let It Rain was WAY overplayed. A more obvious choice would've been Layla, but that wasn't just Eric Clapton.
Speaking of, my uncle named my cousin after Mister Clapton.
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Great song, but not one of my favorite Clapton tracks. Around here, the Clapton song that got the most airplay was the live version of Cocaine, so I tended to have a sense of relief when any OTHER Clapton song got played, because frankly I loathed Cocaine.
That live version was played non-stop around here, too. Ick.
A more obvious choice would've been Layla, but that wasn't just Eric Clapton.
I'll get to that one eventually. There are a lot of classic rock artists with many good songs worth featuring, and doing the best/most popular ones for all of them right off the bat would be boring, no? :)
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I'll get to that one eventually. There are a lot of classic rock artists with many good songs worth featuring, and doing the best/most popular ones for all of them right off the bat would be boring, no? :)
Yeah, that's a good point. I was just listing personal preference, as per what I sometimes do. :)
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Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
A knew a guy a long time ago who refused to ever listen to this song in his car cause he knew a guy who said he had two different friends who died in car accidents when listening to this song on the radio. Not sure how he knew that (unless the survivors in the car told him that, but why would that be worth mentioning?), but whatever. Just an odd little tidbit about that song. Anyway, it's a good song for sure, but the end of the song kind of showed how clueless some 60s acts were at ending songs. After the long instrumental section, it finally breaks back into the chorus, and then the song suddenly fades out right in the middle of it. I guess they had no clue how to end the song, so they just opted for the fade mid-chorus. Bizarre and quite jarring.
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Decent tune.
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Decent tune.
Yeah, this. :tup
But I give it bonus points because it was used in Star Trek: First Contact. :blob:
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Good song, reminds me of Austin Powers :lol
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Classic rock radio has an odd effect in that it makes some bands appear to have far shorter careers than they actually did. A casual listener to classic rock radio could conclude that the entirety of Steppenwolf's career was this song and Born to Be Wild, likely as a single. While, admittedly, those WERE the highlights, it is kind of funny that bands that had careers with full albums are sometimes reduced to a song. Guess Steppenwolf is lucky, since they have TWO they're known for :lol
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Good song, never understood the fadeout though.
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Awesome song. I like it better than their other big hit. The fadeout is weird though.
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Yep, I totally agree about the ending. I always wondered if it's that way on the album, and what we hear on the radio is some bastardized single edit. Probably not, though. If there were a longer version, it seems like it would've seen the light by now. So KevShmev is right; they just didn't know how to end it. Heck, it could've just gone on into the spacy "magic carpet ride" section and faded out from there, but I guess someone thought that it should at least return to the chorus for some kind of closure. Then the fade out anyway.
Oh well, good song anyway. I like singing along with it and trying to remember when you say "well" and when you don't.
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Never got the fuss for Magic Carpet Ride. It just never clicked with me.
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Head East - Never Been Any Reason
Anyone who has listened to classic rock radio has to know this song. It is, or at least it was for a long time, a classic rock staple. Helluva fun tune, with some great harmonies and one of the more memorably choruses from the mid 70s. When I was first getting into classic rock, this song was one I heard all of the time and always loved.
I finally got to listen to this and I remember this big time!! A definite radio song here and a very good tune!
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Never got the fuss for Magic Carpet Ride. It just never clicked with me.
This.
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Tarney-Spencer Band - No Time to Lose
Kind of an under-the-radar classic, but still a damn good one. This song was played a lot on the classic rock radio stations here in St. Louis back in the day, but I have no idea if it was played elsewhere a lot.
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One that actually got airplay here, though it wasn't a particular favorite of mine.
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Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Good enough song, but I liked The Pusher a LOT better. Plus, The Pusher was in Easy Rider. :hat
Tarney-Spencer Band - No Time to Lose
I don't think I ever heard this one at all. Guess it wasn't played in either Houston or Austin. Not bad, sounds like a lot of the generic rock stuff that was popular at that time.
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Never heard of this one. Not bad, but not that good either.
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Never heard this one - song or band. Must've been another regional hit.
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Never heard this one - song or band. Must've been another regional hit.
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The Doors - Love Her Madly
I remember the first time I heard this song. I cut grass with my cousin Tim in the summers of '89 and '90, and he was a major classic rock guy (he's like 13 years older than me), so he was always cranking classic rock when we were driving from yard to yard, and I was introduced to a lot of classic rock that way. Love Her Madly was a song that really jumped out at me the first time I heard it, like, "Wow, what a great song." I think that song was a major reason why the Best of The Doors double CD compilation was one of my earliest purchases when I got my first CD player in the latter half of 1990. :hat
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Doors were weird for me. Either really catchy with their tunes (this, Touch Me etc... ) or really too mellow and 'out-there' (think, Riders on the Storm).
Great song this is.
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Doors were weird for me. Either really catchy with their tunes (this, Touch Me etc... ) or really too mellow and 'out-there' (think, Riders on the Storm).
Great song this is.
Was sitting here trying to figure out how to explain my relationship with the Doors, this largely sums it up. If I listen to the Doors, its more the out there songs, rather than the pop hits.
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The Doors - Love Her Madly
I remember the first time I heard this song. I cut grass with my cousin Tim in the summers of '89 and '90, and he was a major classic rock guy (he's like 13 years older than me), so he was always cranking classic rock when we were driving from yard to yard, and I was introduced to a lot of classic rock that way. Love Her Madly was a song that really jumped out at me the first time I heard it, like, "Wow, what a great song." I think that song was a major reason why the Best of The Doors double CD compilation was one of my earliest purchases when I got my first CD player in the latter half of 1990. :hat
Doors are one of my favorite bands, so go figure.
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Not a bad song, but not one of my favorites of theirs. Recently made my own Doors 'greatest hits' collection and didn't occur to me for a second to include this song.
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My favorite Doors song, of the ones I've heard.
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Not a bad song, but not one of my favorites of theirs.
Exactly this for me, too.
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Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen is awesome. This song is awesome. What more can you really say? :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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This song can get your ass KICKED if (1) you sing it very loudly and (2) you're dating a woman who has issues concerning the size of her posterior.
Not saying that happened to me at all.
Not in the least.
:P
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What more can you really say? :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
They certainly let it all hang out on this one.
:lhk:
Seriously one of their most fun songs. Could anyone but Queen/Freddie have pulled this song off? Imagine The Stones, or Dire Straits with this tune. Nope, can't do it.
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:lol Riiiiiiiight, Jaq. ;) :biggrin:
Agreed, jingle.boy. Queen had just the right dynamic to pull a song like this off well.
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Any worries about the size of your posterior should be erased when you discover that a cool cutie such as Brian in the 70's wrote lyrics praising women with considerable, ehm... well, BUTTS. Let's not go around it :lol
Queen was my first favorite band, and you can't praise them enough, for they are perfect. Amen.
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Any worries about the size of your posterior should be erased when you discover that a cool cutie such as Brian in the 70's wrote lyrics praising women with considerable, ehm... well, BUTTS. Let's not go around it :lol
Queen was my first favorite band, and you can't praise them enough, for they are perfect. Amen.
You don't know my ex. :lol
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Any worries about the size of your posterior should be erased when you discover that a cool cutie such as Brian in the 70's wrote lyrics praising women with considerable, ehm... well, BUTTS. Let's not go around it :lol
Queen was my first favorite band, and you can't praise them enough, for they are perfect. Amen.
You don't know my ex. :lol
Eh, I was just speaking from my own experience :D
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The year was 1981, and we were driving into Manistee, Michigan to play a club called The Silver Fox. As we rounded a curve, up ahead was a girl on a bike. She was half-standing, peddling hard, and had a well-rounded posterior.
At exactly the same time, on exactly the correct pitch, the drummer and I sang out:
♫♫ Fat Bottomed Girls, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'Round!! ♫♫
Then of course we all busted out laughing.
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The year was 1981, and we were driving into Manistee, Michigan to play a club called The Silver Fox. As we rounded a curve, up ahead was a girl on a bike. She was half-standing, peddling hard, and had a well-rounded posterior.
At exactly the same time, on exactly the correct pitch, the drummer and I sang out:
♫♫ Fat Bottomed Girls, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'Round!! ♫♫
Then of course we all busted out laughing.
That's awesome. And yeah,the song is awesome.
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Yeah, definitely one of my fav of theirs
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride
Definitely a major classic rock tune, albeit not really one I've gone nuts over. Sure, it's a good song, but it was never one I felt like I had to crank up or couldn't possibly change the station if it came on. I guess it just got lost in the mix for me back then. But a lot of people love it like crazy, hence its status as a true classic rock song.
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Not BTO's best song, but a good one none-the-less. We (for obvious reasons) get a lot of BTO on the airwaves up here.
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Ha, this is by far my favorite BTO song. One of the coolest non-prog rock songs of its era.
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There is a certain amount of interchangeability in early 70s rock music, especially if you are sort of a casual listener to the genre. There were a lot of bands with gritty, deeper male lead vocals, a lot of strummed rhythm guitar parts, usually in the choruses, and lots of vocal harmonies all over the place.
That is very probably the reason that I thought for the longest time that Let It Ride was an early Doobie Brothers song. :rollin
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Great song, although the guy's yelling does get annoying at times
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Great song! I love the strummed parts; those are some great chords. Sorry Jaq, but it never sounded like Doobies to me; it always sounded like BTO. But I'm probably a bit more familiar with their music.
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Oh it's been YEARS since I thought that, but back when a lot of 70s bands were just "things I barely listen to in order to get to a cool song", I tended to mix up a LOT of bands. Once you actually pay attention, it's obvious who is who. :lol
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Okay I see what you're saying. Back in radio days, or even today, most of the time they'll play three or four (or more) songs in a row, then tell you the names of everything they played. Sometimes I'll hear a song and want to know who it is, then they play another song right after, then another... then I'm there and it's time to get out of the car. Sometimes I don't find out until the third of fourth time I've heard it. So they're all just songs until you can start putting names to them.
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BTO was one of the bands that I first listened too when I was a wee lad....Good song but not one of their best
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Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
:heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride
If I never hear ANYTHING by BTO ever again in my life it'll be too damn soon. They got MAJORLY overplayed when I was growing up in Houston, and also in Austin. Same with The Guess Who.
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Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride
If I never hear ANYTHING by BTO ever again in my life it'll be too damn soon. They got MAJORLY overplayed when I was growing up in Houston, and also in Austin. Same with The Guess Who.
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-baby you ain't seen nothing yet
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meh
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If I never hear ANYTHING by BTO ever again in my life it'll be too damn soon. They got MAJORLY overplayed when I was growing up in Houston, and also in Austin. Same with The Guess Who.
Not a Burton Cummings fan??
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Nope.
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If I never hear ANYTHING by BTO ever again in my life it'll be too damn soon. They got MAJORLY overplayed when I was growing up in Houston, and also in Austin. Same with The Guess Who.
Yes, except that The Guess Who was good.
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How did I miss the Queen song? I love Fat Bottomed Girls so damn much. Easily top 10 Queen for me
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Fat Bottomed Girls and Let it Ride are great.
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Supertramp - School
Magnificent song. I am normally not a big fan of the harmonica, but it is pretty sweet in this song, playing that awesome intro. Killer piano solo in this tune as well, and everything else around it is also killer. This is a song I never get tired of.
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Local radio here played the following Supertramp songs:
Bloody Well Right
Give A Little Bit
The Logical Song
Goodbye Stranger
Breakfast In America
And It's Raining for about six weeks after that album came out. Never once heard School on the radio. I guess we got Bloody Well Right as our earliest Supertramp song and learned to LIKE it. :lol
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Supertramp - School
Magnificent song. I am normally not a big fan of the harmonica, but it is pretty sweet in this song, playing that awesome intro. Killer piano solo in this tune as well, and everything else around it is also killer. This is a song I never get tired of.
Love this song! When the whole band comes in, it just goes from great to awesome. Can't get enough of this song.
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Didn't hear School a whole lot, but it's not a bad song. Never one of my favorites by them, though - I reserve that for Fool's Overture.
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Love School, probably my favorite Supertramp song.
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That is very probably the reason that I thought for the longest time that Let It Ride was an early Doobie Brothers song. :rollin
I've always felt that Let it Ride is a good companion song for the Doobies' Long Train Runnin'.
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Didn't hear School a whole lot, but it's not a bad song. Never one of my favorites by them, though - I reserve that for Fool's Overture.
Well, Fool's Overture is on a different level for sure.
Definitely love the part from the instrumental breakdown on. Great track
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Supertramp - School
Magnificent song. I am normally not a big fan of the harmonica, but it is pretty sweet in this song, playing that awesome intro. Killer piano solo in this tune as well, and everything else around it is also killer. This is a song I never get tired of.
:heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
Supertramp rules.
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Fool's Overture is my favorite of theirs as well; it's truly on a different level.
A lot of their early songs had that deep meloncholy to it. School is one of them.
Also: I hate Dreamer! (sorry, just had to let that out)
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Also: I hate Dreamer! (sorry, just had to let that out)
:tdwn
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Yeah, Dreamer is kind of annoying.
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Good song, but I have never been a big fan of Hendrix. I recognize his influence (which is undeniable) and his greatness, but his music has just never appealed to me that much. This song is probably one of the few by him that I actually enjoy enough to leave on.
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I was never a Hendrix fan. Purple Haze is alright, but always seemed kind of incomplete to me.
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Hendrix never really managed to get the sheer intensity of his live performances onto record, IMO. Live he was an unstoppable force, truly the finest guitarist the world has ever seen. In the studio, he was almost sedate. A lot of Hendrix songs, like Purple Haze, are missing something, and that's the fire of his playing live.
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I agree. On stage, it's just him, the bassist, and the drummer, so everyone has to step up and the whole "power trio" thing takes over.
In the studio, you get "trio" without the "power" part. For me, it's almost always disappointing.
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Also: I hate Dreamer! (sorry, just had to let that out)
THANK YOU! :clap:
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
'scuse me while I kiss the sky *geetar* :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
Hendrix was the MAN. It's also not hard to see how Jimi inspired many guitarists, including JY (James Young, Styx) and Stevie Ray Vaughan to name just two. Purple Haze has never been my favorite of Jimi's, but it's still VERY good.
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Last two updates are awesome songs. :tup
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'Scuse me while I kiss this guy
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Posting something just so Poison doesn't have a greater response than Jimi.
I never did get too deep into Jimi... mostly just the radio hits, which this obviously was one of the bigger ones. Iconic is definitely a word to use with him, despite whether you like/don't like his music. He influenced everyone that came after him.
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'Scuse me while I kiss this guy
:lol
'scuse me while I kiss this fly "Oh help me, help me"
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I really did think that's what he was saying for a long time. It wasn't a homosexual thing. I was in grade school, and I just thought the words "Acting funny, but I don't know why" and "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" kinda made sense. He's acting all weird, kissing other dudes and stuff.
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That's a really common misconception. :lol
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I'm not a fan of Jimi. He's pretty overrated to me.
FLAME WALL
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I'm not a fan of Jimi. He's pretty overrated to me.
FLAME WALL
I can understand not liking his music, but over-rated?
Do you not understand how influential he was in the guitarists that followed him? Google some of the most popular/famous guitarist that followed him and a guarantee at least 75% list him as an influence
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Exactly. He is easily the most influential electric guitar player of all time.
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The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
IMO, this is THE definitive classic rock radio instrumental. Great, great song, and is still one that I never turn off if it comes on.
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Definitely one of the best rock instrumentals ever. I agree!
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Great song.
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Hendrix may have been over-rated 30 years ago, but now criminally underrated. Blacks never took to him and whites have abandoned him for Bob Marley.
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Jessica isn't quite the definitive classic rock instrumental to me-the Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein takes that title here-but it's one of the defining songs of the 70s. Shame the Allman Brothers Band never really reached the heights they got with Brothers & Sisters, the album that Jessica and Ramblin Man came from. Between this and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Dickey Betts sure could write instrumentals.
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I am way behind here.
Fat Bottomed Girls - Fantastic song, by the only band that could pull off such a gem. Great riffage.
Let It Ride - Good song I won’t change the dial on when I hear it on the radio but won't go out of my way to listen to.
School - Never a huge fan of Supertramp outside of their radio hits. No particular reason. Great song, though, haven’t heard this in ages *goes to Spotify
Purple Haze - Never listened to much Hendrix. I don’t get the ‘whites abandoned him for Bob Marley” statement at all. What does that even mean?
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Whites usually have a token black icon to enjoy; back when I was growing up it was Hendrix; now it seems to be Bob Marley. Hendrix was a true innovator though, so not suggesting it was all about race.
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Jessica isn't quite the definitive classic rock instrumental to me-the Edgar Winter Group's Frankenstein takes that title here-but it's one of the defining songs of the 70s. Shame the Allman Brothers Band never really reached the heights they got with Brothers & Sisters, the album that Jessica and Ramblin Man came from. Between this and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Dickey Betts sure could write instrumentals.
When it comes to classic rock instrumentals, I just have to throw Electric Light Orchestra's Fire on High into the mix.
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Frankenstein and Fire On High, both of which WILL be featured in this thread, are the other instrumentals I thought of when the phrase "THE definitive classic rock radio instrumental" popped into my head.
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Jessica and Purple Haze are incredible. I know Fire on High and Frankenstein aren't up for discussion yet, so I won't say that they're incredible yet (though they are).
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Jessica is a great tune. I'll always listen to it. It also came out while I was in junior high, and there was this girl named Jessica who everybody loved. She was pretty, nice, and smart. Pretty much the ideal babe. We never really hung out in school, but years later, she was in my group for driver's ed, and we ended up hanging out and talking a lot. Dear Lord, she was beautiful. To this day, when I hear the song, I think of Jessica the girl.
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Jessica is a song that always brings a smile whenever I hear those opening strums on the radio. It's the kind of piece you want to listen to as you're driving down the open road in the summer. I always wondered why I didn't like the rest of Allman Brothers as much as this considering how great I think this instrumental is. I've tried.
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Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
Since we're hovering around the song, why not make it the next?! Another fabulous classic rock instrumental, and by far the most well known song by Edgar Winter Group. I've never really looked much into this band - I couldn't tell you the name of any other member, and Free Ride is the only song by them I know - but it seems odds that a band that had the talent to pull off a song like this never did much else that was noteworthy, at least in the sense of being known.
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Freakin' awesome and fun song. The fact it became a radio hit just shows how different things were back then.
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The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
IMO, this is THE definitive classic rock radio instrumental. Great, great song, and is still one that I never turn off if it comes on.
Wonderful song, and one that I haven't gotten tired of (given how many times I've heard it). They Might Be Giants did an outstanding cover of it, too.
Frankenstein and Fire On High, both of which WILL be featured in this thread, are the other instrumentals I thought of when the phrase "THE definitive classic rock radio instrumental" popped into my head.
Fire On High is superb. :biggrin: But...
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
Yeah. There's really nothing more to say about this other than :2metal:
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Frankenstein is awesome.
By the way, that's Rick Derringer on guitar. "Rock and Roll, Hootchie Koo". He plays in Weird Al's band now. There was a point several albums back when Weird Al's parodies took a huge step up in quality. That's when Derringer joined the band.
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School, Jessica, and Frankenstein are amazing. Purple Haze is overrated.
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I love Frankenstein and Jessica. Both are classics.
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I remember hearing Frankenstein on the radio countless times growing up, and thinking to myself as a smart assed youth "it's the Edgar Winter Group, I bet he played all the solos, even the drums." I don't even know why, but I did.
Flash forward many years. VH 1 was playing classic rock videos, most of them live performances, and on comes Frankenstein.
And wouldn't you know it...Edgar Winter played EVERY SOLO. He played the saxophone. He played keyboards. He even joined in on percussion for the drum solo. It's the one singular case in my listening to music where I made a smartassed comment that turned out to be RIGHT. :rollin
I've already expressed what I think of the song and its place in rock history, though. This IS the classic rock instrumental.
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So, when I was about 15, my father bought a high end stereo system. This was about a year or so after the CD came out. The speakers were some sweet ass Polk Audios that cost a ton, and sounded so fucking sweet compared to anything else we had had before. They had an automatic turn off to prevent blowing them out at loud volumes, so of course my brother and I would test their limits. Frankenstein was our favorite song to do this with, the low bass always made them kick out. One day we pushed them a little too much though, and though they kicked out, it wasn't before we blew out the tiny little coil tweeters.
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Frankenstein is simply the tits!
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Overkill's cover of Frankenstein slays.....
Than again the entire cOverkill album does
opps actually they covered the song on Horrorscope...but the coverkill album still kicks ass
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Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
Want the dance floor at a wedding reception to fill up quickly? Play this song. Works like a charm every single time. Not my favorite song by Simon & Garfunkel, but still a terrific song, and helluva lotta fun to dance to with a group of friends and family. :coolio
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I'm totally cool with almost anything by S&G. :tup
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I agree with loney, especially since that song helped inspire a DTFer's middle name and online handle. :heart
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meh
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It's a fun song. Can't help singing to it
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Love S&G. Hate that song. :shrug
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S&G aren't my thing. The fact that my parents had an eight track tape player in their car, and would only play one of two albums they owned in that format-a greatest hits album by S&G and the soundtrack to The Spy Who Loved Me-on long trips while they owned that car-might have something to do with that. A little bit.
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Love S&G. Hate that song. :shrug
Yeah, I like a lot of S&G songs, but not that one.
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Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Another fantastic song that I loved immediately the first time I heard it. Granted, I had no idea what the name of it was for a while when I first heard it (it wasn't as easy to find out such things in the late 80s/early 90s, with what no internet yet, at least for me or anyone I knew), but I loved it. The end of the song immediately struck me as one of those iconic moments that defined classic rock. And I still think that. :hat
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Great song! This is another "sing along in the car, in harmony" songs. It's even cooler if there's a third person with us who can hang, but that's pretty rare.
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Heh, that would not be easy, especially as we get older and less people know such classic tunes. :(
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Yeah, it's been a while. But it just takes one more person our age.
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Two outstanding tunes Kev. I just love and harmonies that CS&N do.
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I find CSN/Y to be kind of patchy, but this song is really good.
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Almost a perfect song.
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Another killer classic
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Gotta love CSN.
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Not a big fan of the last two songs.
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I find CSN/Y to be kind of patchy, but this song is really good.
Agreed.
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Moxy - Sail On Sail Away
I am not sure how popular this song is in other parts of the country, but I know it is a KSHE classic here in St. Louis, and a very good one at that. I can't name any other song by this band, but this is a helluva good tune.
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I should've followed this thread sooner! Tons of songs I need to educate myself on.
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This thread is reminding me-since I've never even HEARD of the band Moxy, let alone the song in question-of how regional the music industry used to be. You didn't have corporations owning all the radio stations and demanding playlist uniformity; you had program directors and DJs who, if they found a song they liked and pushed it hard enough, turned it into a local hit. The story of how Rush took off in the US is one that happened to TONS of bands. It didn't even have to be a current song, as the example of Styx's Lady becoming a hit a few years after it came out on the strength of a DJ discovering it in Chicago. It was a time where a band could make a living selling out arenas across the Midwest but were total unknowns in New York and LA. It's like when REO Speedwagon broke big with Hi Infidelity; I remember as a kid they were headlining concerts in Charleston, West Virginia. (If my childish memory is correct, in the same month in 1978, Boston and Kansas also headlined there. GOOD GOD.)
One of the joys of 70s rock is that you can find a lot of gems out there that were only successful regionally, but were just as good, if not better, than the nationally and internationally known band.
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Excellent post, Jaq. :tup :tup I wasn't sure how well-known that Moxy song would be, so here is something a little more familiar...
Yes - Roundabout
This song is a great example of how different the musical landscape back then. This song, clocking in at a little over 8 1/2 minutes, was played in full on the radio, and still is on classic rock radio, but if it came out nowadays, it would either have no chance at being played or would be chopped down to around 4 minutes. But anyway, I loved this song the first time I heard it, and despite having heard it hundreds of times over the years, I still do. I think many Yes fans tend to dismiss it now as their overplayed 70s hit, but this is still one of the best rock radio songs of the early 70s.
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Roundabout is wonderful. That bass, man.
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Even though a lot of Yes fans feel burned out on it, I still think it's one of the band's best. One of my favorite songs of all time.
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Awesome song. It's what introduced me to Yes.
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Overplayed, but still an awesome song.
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Favorite song of theirs
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Moxy - Sail On Sail Away
Sorry, never heard of it. I do agree with Jaq's point about DJs having a lot more control over their playlists back then, and your point about...
Yes - Roundabout
Yeah, it's overplayed. Yeah, it's 8 minutes. Yeah, it's awesome when played back to back with Schindeleria. Doesn't mean I still don't love the song to death. DAT BASS, on BOTH! :metal
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Actually, there was a short version of Roundabout which was more common on AM radio than the full eight-minute version you heard on FM. I remember hearing it thinking that that the song was longer, and that's what inspired me to buy the album.
I still remember hearing Roundabout on the radio back in 72. Did I just hear acoustic guitar, electric guitar, organ, three-part harmonies, fast and slow movements, all in the same song? Amazing what got played on the radio back then.
Yeah, it's awesome when played back to back with Schindeleria.
You're thinking of Long Distance Runaround.
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It's like you mention a Yes song and Orbert comes running. :lol
Even before I got into Yes, I was aware of this song thanks to the radio, and generally my reaction to it was usually "damn, what a bass part." It is a bit overplayed and they have lots of other, better songs, but Roundabout really is an ideal way to introduce someone to Yes, so it doesn't shock me that a lot of people, when discussing how they got into Yes, mention hearing Roundabout on the radio.
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Fantastic song. Great driving rhythm once it hits full steam, beautiful suspenseful intro, and the vocal work is all kinds of frou frou dee-lish.
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I would say that the classic rock instrumental would have to be either La Villa Strangiato or YYZ.
But that's a Rush fan for you.
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I would say that the classic rock instrumental would have to be either La Villa Strangiato or YYZ.
But that's a Rush fan for you.
I am the biggest Rush fan here, but neither of those are regularly played on classic rock radio everywhere, thus taking them out of the equation.
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I would say that the classic rock instrumental would have to be either La Villa Strangiato or YYZ.
But that's a Rush fan for you.
I am the biggest Rush fan here, but neither of those are regularly played on classic rock radio everywhere, thus taking them out of the equation.
Well, if they have to be played on the radio....
Summer Song.
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Frankenstein?
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Frankenstein?
Can't go wrong with that either. :tup
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A song from 1992 is not classic rock. I know it is 21 years old now, but classic rock is generally considered to have ended in the early 80s.
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Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Probably one of the most popular, well known and overplayed classic rock tunes ever...but I still dig it. It has everything packed into 4 1/2 minutes: cool intro, one of the most memorable riffs ever, a catchy chorus, killer guitar solo, etc. Great song.
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Aerosmith was one of favorite bands when I first started listening/growing into music (Nugent/Zep/Queen and Kansas being the others)
Loved this song from day one...the bass and the riff...still love it too this day 70's Aerosmith can do no wrong in my eyes
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An alright song. I used to think this came from the 90's because of the music video
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Great song, and a cool intro :tup
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Not a huge fan of Aerosmith, but I really enjoy this song.
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I would say that the classic rock instrumental would have to be either La Villa Strangiato or YYZ.
But that's a Rush fan for you.
I am the biggest Rush fan here, but neither of those are regularly played on classic rock radio everywhere, thus taking them out of the equation.
Well, if they have to be played on the radio....
Summer Song.
While classic rock radio has expanded to include the early 90s, judging by the near constant playing of Soundgarden, Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains on my local classic rock station-Summer Song isn't in the same league of iconic as Frankenstein.
As for Sweet Emotion, it's hard for me to talk about Aerosmith without talking about the girl I had a crush on in high school, and who I wound up meeting a couple of years ago and actually talking about Aerosmith's 80s music for a time, but I'm going to give it a shot. :lol Sweet Emotion is largely the overlooked song from Toys in the Attic, with Walk This Way getting the most attention, but Sweet Emotion has a great riff driving it, and has a lyric that I imagine a lot of young people have to figure out by guesswork, since "the rabbit done died" has been replaced by "the strip turned blue" to indicate a pregnancy test. Actually, thinking about it, given the usual lyrics on Aerosmith songs in the 70s, I have no idea why that lady I know loved them so. These days they'd be hammered into the dirt for being sexist. Times they have changed.
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Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Probably one of the most popular, well known and overplayed classic rock tunes ever...but I still dig it. It has everything packed into 4 1/2 minutes: cool intro, one of the most memorable riffs ever, a catchy chorus, killer guitar solo, etc. Great song.
Great song! :tup
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Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
I think this is one of those songs that almost everyone over the age of 30 knows, but many probably don't know the name of it. Not many classic rock songs feature a saxophone as the lead instrument that just happens to be the hook, but this one does it to great effect. I once saw the guitar solo in this tune mentioned in a lost of "great solos in bad songs." :lol
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I know Baker Street. I enjoy Baker Street. Rafferty's death was so sad.
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A classic song indeed with a great hook.
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absolutely love the song
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Great song. The cover the Foos did was pretty decent too.
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This is one of those songs that always makes a 70's mix on my I-Pod. One of the great 70's radio songs ever.
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I... Hate... This... Song....
Can't stand it. Just grates on me for some reason. Like American Pie.
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The sax hook is what makes it, but there's a lot of other great things about the production. The keyboards dance in and around the vocals, the guitar sound is great, even the bassist has some nice licks. Although I could never tell if that's a fretless bass or synth bass. It's so smooth.
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Excellent post, Jaq. :tup :tup I wasn't sure how well-known that Moxy song would be, so here is something a little more familiar...
Yes - Roundabout
This song is a great example of how different the musical landscape back then. This song, clocking in at a little over 8 1/2 minutes, was played in full on the radio, and still is on classic rock radio, but if it came out nowadays, it would either have no chance at being played or would be chopped down to around 4 minutes. But anyway, I loved this song the first time I heard it, and despite having heard it hundreds of times over the years, I still do. I think many Yes fans tend to dismiss it now as their overplayed 70s hit, but this is still one of the best rock radio songs of the early 70s.
This is the song that made me love music. First heard it when I was about six or seven years old, never turned back.
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Probably one of the most popular, well known and overplayed classic rock tunes ever...but I still dig it. It has everything packed into 4 1/2 minutes: cool intro, one of the most memorable riffs ever, a catchy chorus, killer guitar solo, etc. Great song.
Phenomonal song. You know those top 500 list classic radio stations do? The only time I ever remember Stairway to heaven not winning one was when Sweet Emotion beat it out.
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Always loved the guitar solo in Baker Street, even if it felt like it came from another dimension in that song. That and the big WHOOOM sound the guitar makes behind the sax solo. The guitar on that track is like, "where did that come from?" :rollin
Forgot the sax on that song was played by Rafael Ravenscroft, who also played sax on Pink Floyd's The Final Cut. Found that out looking up who played the guitar solo, which is a guy I've never heard of named Hugh Burns. Well, at least he got that one immortal solo. :biggrin: And I just found Baker Street on my iTunes playlist; I suspect I bought it for the guitar, lol.
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Yeah, have always been a big fan of Baker Street and the guitar solo.
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Journey - Lights
Good, solid classic rock tune. It is hard to believe that the song is only three minutes and 11 seconds, as it packs a lot into such a short package, which is a major credit to the song; not a moment feels wasted. So yeah, good song!
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probably my 3rd favorite Journey song. I love Steve Perry's voice
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Lights is a great tune. My memory of it was a live version that played on MTV, and on the Departure tour Journey played it back to back, connected with a little Neal Schon solo, with the equally short Stay Awhile; together they were around six minutes. Back in the "we'll play ANYTHING" days of MTV, playing two songs by the same band back to back wasn't weird in the least. Journey had a knack, once they ditched their full on prog sound, of being able to make three to four minute long songs seem fuller and longer than they actually were. There's so much going on with both Evolution and Infinity, but combined they'd fit on a single CD with room for a bonus track. It was a neat trick they could pull off almost effortlessly.
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Get out your BIC lighters for this awesome tune.
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One of the best Journey songs from the early days.
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I don't seem to like this song quite as much as typical fans, although I still think it's a great song, especially once it kicks in with Perry's big vocals at the 1:10 mark. Cool solo too.
And it kicks off a great album. :tup
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The Zombies - Time of the Season
A classic late 60s tune. I like it, and the keyboard work has always stood out to me. Kind of Deep Purple-ish, given the time period, but stands out for its time, especially the solo.
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Cool song, and I agree about the keyboard work. Rod Argent there, always an awesome dude. He later led his own band, Argent ("Hold Your Head Up"), but I haven't heard anything from him for a while. Last I heard from him was keys on The Who's "Who Are You".
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Argent's actually done some albums with the singer of the Zombies, a classical thing, and some session work since 1978.
Funny thing about this song, while it's one of the most memorable songs of its era, is that I always eventually forget who did it for some reason, and periodically have to be reminded of it. I have no idea why, but the fact that its the Zombies always slips my mind. This post will keep it in my head for a couple of years, I hope. :rollin
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Like it well enough, She's Not There is better though
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Yeah, it's awesome when played back to back with Schindeleria.
You're thinking of Long Distance Runaround.
OH MY GOD I'm such a dork... :facepalm:
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Overplayed, but not as bad as Dream On is. Still not a bad song, though.
Journey - Lights
:heart
The Zombies - Time of the Season
I remember my bestie having a serious attachment to this one, which of course drug me along for the ride too. Great song.
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George Harrison - What Is Life
This ranks high on my list of songs that immediately make me think of a specific movie scene (Goodfellas!). Really good song, from a really good record.
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I still need to see Goodfellas. But I like most of George Harrison's stuff, including this song. (And also "This Song")
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Great song from a brilliant album.
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Bah, nothing can match the genius that is "I've Got My Mind Set On You" :biggrin:
Seriously though, really good solo song from Harrison
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George Harrison - What Is Life
Good call, good song, excellent movie.
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Santana - Black Magic Woman
Very tasty tune. To me, it's all about that ending. The first three minutes or so of the song is damn good, but the ending is absolutely killer.
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MTV went through a period when they acquired a ton of videos of live performance videos of bands from the early 70 from European television around 1981-1982 or so, and they generally weren't so much live as they were the band playing along to a pre-recorded track, and occasionally adorned with odd video effects-if you want to know where MP got the weird effects and split screen shots in Scenes From New York, he got it from early music videos. Anyway, among these videos were a performance of Black Magic Woman from when Neal Schon was the other guitarist, which was always amazing to see, since Schon was just a kid.
Fun facts about this song: Black Magic Woman was an early Fleetwood Mac hit, from the Peter Green Era, and is actually blended with a song called Gypsy Queen, which is where the introduction and the extended instrumental at the end come from. Just some weird factoids that stuck in my head about this song. :lol
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Yeah, Gypsy Queen is the jam at the end. I like the song itself, especially the way it builds at the beginning. Always pisses me off when radio stations play the version that cuts out Greg Rollie's piano solo. It's like eight measures. They had to cut out like 10 seconds of music?
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Santana - Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
FTFY ;)
I remember hearing the album BMW/GQ is on a LOT when I was a nipper - thanks Dad. :heart Another brilliant song. :tup
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Gypsy Queen has one of my favorite build up/releases, love it.
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Such a great, smooth rock song. I love it!
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Carlos Santana may not be the best guitar player, but he's owned his own style/sound/flavor over the years. :metal
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Uriah Heep - Easy Livin'
Not a band, or even a song, you hear much about it anymore, but this is still a classic rock staple. Good song, albeit pretty short. But it packs a good punch!
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I always liked the hook line. The song itself is pretty short and simple. Not bad, just not a lot to it, nothing special, but it's okay I guess.
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As much as I love Uriah Heep, I can never think of a time where they got played on the radio around here. I think I was a few years too young for that. Easy Livin' is a cool song, but for me, Uriah Heep is all about July Morning. :metal
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Undoubtedly, one of the most well-known and overplayed classic rock songs ever. And it is deserving of that status; it is, after all, a phenomenal song. I get that a lot of people are simply tired of it, but a song being overplayed doesn't suddenly make it any less great; it can just make it less enjoyable and less special. Personally, it has never been one of my favorite classic rock songs, but I've always thought it was awesome. Whenever I see those top 500 rock songs list, this is one of those songs you can almost always count on to be in the top 10, unless the originator of the list decided to be cute and put it way lower just to be different. Like Hotel California and Stairway to Heaven, it is universally (at least, as much as a song can be) considered an all-time classic rock great.
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Nice
I prefer the alternate studio take that is floating around out there. I think it's from the Meet Joe Black soundtrack. I listened to it so much when I was 15 that hearing the regular studio version throws me off
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I don't recall the song ever being ranked that highly here on top rock lists here (different country and all, all we get is Sweet Home Alabama), so I don't remember hearing it on the rock stations, so relatively speaking I haven't heard the song all that much. Good news for me though, because it means I'm not at all burned out on it.
Great song. It builds up nicely, and nothing like a rock song that ends with an awesome guitar solo. :tup
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In America you couldn't get away from this song on the radio if you tried. This other was Lonesome loser by The Little River Band. I swear, I changed the station 4 times and it was playing. :lol
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Always liked Free Bird, no matter how "overplayed" it is. It's a monster though to play on Guitar Hero 2, as one might expect
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Free Bird being overplayed is nothing new; it was overplayed, along with Stairway to Heaven, thirty years ago, and both songs were a primary reason why I never gave either band a lot of time until much later. Which means I denied myself the sheer awesome of Skyrnyrd's debut for far too long, but seriously, if a day didn't go by and you didn't hear Free Bird at least once, it was because you didn't turn your radio on. :lol
The song pretty much invented Southern Rock as we know it; if you didn't have a song that ended in an extended multi-guitar jam after this, you weren't Southern Rock. About the only one of these songs I'd put in Free Bird's league would be Molly Hatchet's Fall of the Peacemakers, simply because they had the balls to do it in 1983, when southern rock bands had become largely AOR acts, but even it doesn't compare.
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Overrated and overplayed, but good song.
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to this day when Freebird comes on...I have to roll down the windows in the car and crank it up
(always prefered the Outlaws...Green Grass and High Tides..over Freebird) but its still a kick ass song
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My fingers feel numb after playing that on Rock Band
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I'd just like to quickly suggest that any fan of "Free Bird" should definitely go check out Molly Hatchet's "The Journey". If there's any southern rock epic that comes close to "Free Bird", then it's this.
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Molly Hatchet were also very cool. I'm not familiar with "The Journey" so I'm gonna have to agree with wkiml. "Green Grass and High Tides" by The Outlaws takes the prize for me. On the live version, they even say "Fly, Free Bird!" as they go into the jam.
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Molly Hatchet were also very cool. I'm not familiar with "The Journey" so I'm gonna have to agree with wkiml. "Green Grass and High Tides" by The Outlaws takes the prize for me. On the live version, they even say "Fly, Free Bird!" as they go into the jam.
On the live album, they dedicated the song to the members of Skynrd
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I dunno, I always saw Green Grass and High Tides as trying too hard to be another Free Bird myself. But I'm a total fanboy for Molly Hatchet up until about 1983 or so, which makes me biased. :biggrin:
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On that note...
Molly Hatchet - Dreams I'll Never See
One of the best classic rock songs ever to drive to. It is technically an Allman Brothers cover, but they did something very different with it, and I think it is much better than the original. I love this song.
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Molly Hatchet's debut album is one of my favorite albums of all time-it'd be in the top 20 of a Jaq top 50 thread, though I simply don't have the patience to figure out ALL of a top 50, let alone write one up-and Dreams is one of the best covers I can think of, simply because the band makes it their own. Great song from an amazing album.
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On that note...
Molly Hatchet - Dreams I'll Never See
One of the best classic rock songs ever to drive to. It is technically an Allman Brothers cover, but they did something very different with it, and I think it is much better than the original. I love this song.
Heard this song on a guitar comp....awesome song
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I don't know about "trying too hard" though I guess I see what you mean. Sure, it's another song where they go into a long jam, guitars firing on all eight for several minutes. But that's where the similarities end. The song itself is superior IMO (obviously that's just opinion) and the "Green Grass" jam has some changes to it and built-in bridges which make it the more interesting jam to me (fact+opinion). The "Free Bird" jam is literally the same three chords over and over for ten minutes. The rhythm changes up a few times, but that's it.
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Pink Floyd - Time
Dark Side of the Moon is one of the few albums where every song is still played on classic rock radio, and it being perhaps the most popular rock album ever, it is deserving of such treatment. Personally, Time has always been my favorite song from it, and it is probably my favorite Floyd song. It has my favorite Gilmour solo (yes, I slightly prefer it to either Comfortably Numb solo), the lyrics are some of the best ever penned in a rock song, the intro is out of this world, and the vocal melodies from start to finish are just magnificent. This is a perfect song.
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Another near perfect song.
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It made me a fan, so complete love for this song
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Great song. I actually love it for the lyrics more than the music, although the music is also great.
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One of Pink Floyd's most popular songs, and for good reason.
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Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock....
BONGGGGGG!
I can't count how many times I listened to Dark Side of the Moon, an album I loved to fall asleep to, and getting to that part in the intro of Time and always being startled awake by it. Great song, great lyrics, great solo by Gilmour, the reprise to Breathe slips in perfectly at the end...magnificent.
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Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock....
BONGGGGGG!
I love that part sooo much. I just crank up the volume and let the walls shake.
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Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock....
BONGGGGGG!
I can't count how many times I listened to Dark Side of the Moon, an album I loved to fall asleep to, and getting to that part in the intro of Time and always being startled awake by it.
THIS THIS THIS THIS.
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Time.
Amazing intro. Amazing vocals (RICK WRIGHT FTW!) Amazing solo. Amazing Lyrics.
:heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
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Yeah, the intro is probably my 2nd fav PF intro (1st being the In The Flesh numbers)
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Missed some stuff, so I'll only comment on the most recent offering...
LOVE Time. Always have. :heart
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Like most Pink Floyd material, I can't stand that song. It just depresses the hell out of me, and my life's depressing enough as it is.
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Like most Pink Floyd material, it is depressing. But this particular song struck a chord with me and I found it inspirational instead. When you're young and stupid, you have this feeling that life is so long as to be virtually endless, so you don't a damn about wasting days, months, even years, because whatever, there's always tomorrow to get your shit together. You kinda get used to your parents telling you when things need to get done, and kinda get used to ignoring them if you want, or if it doesn't seem like there will be any real consequences.
Then one day you realize that you've been totally fucking up. Your life is happening, it's passing you by, while you sit on your ass and watch TV or listen to tunes. No one told you when to run; you missed the starting gun. No, fuck that. Your parents, your teachers, every adult you've ever met has been telling you for years to get your shit together and make something of your life; you just got so used to ignoring them that it never occurred to you that they might be right.
It was years too late (but fewer than 10) when I finally realized what this song meant, and I'd been listening to it since I was in junior high. Ever since then, I've lived my life to make the most of it. Yeah, you're gonna die anyway, but there's nothing you can do about that. What you can do is live your life to the fullest in the meantime.
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The Alan Parsons Project - Games People Play
A friend used to be really big into this band, and he was the one who introduced me to a lot of their stuff. Much of it was good, but didn't really stick with me. However, there were a handful of classics that did, and Games People Play was one that was not only an immediate grabber, but one that still sounds great to my ears.
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Good song, but I always liked I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You much better.
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It doesn't always happen-it didn't really happen last year, because I got back into Zeppelin when Celebration Day came out-but every year, I find myself delving into the discography of a classic band that I hadn't normally gotten into. The Alan Parsons Project was the band that won that honor in 2010. While I came out of that still thinking what I did as a casual listener to APP-that Eye In The Sky was their best album-Turn of A Friendly Card is really good too. There really isn't a market for this kind of, for lack of a better word, soft rock music-music a little more ambitious than pop, but not terribly aggressive-anymore, which is kind of a shame, because APP did it so well.
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Tales Of Mystery And Imagination is an amazing album.
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Games People Play is great. Turn of a Friendly Card is a pretty good album.
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Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
Back in my early classic rock radio listening days ('89/early 90s), this was played all of the time, but it seems like over time, it got played less and less. But there is no denying what a classic this song still is. I've always liked it. It's not a song that I listen to and think, "Wow, this is awesome," but it is a nice little song, and it is a very much of a time piece song, it being a protest song at the time (1967).
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Good song. Protest, social commentary, and a great feel all wrapped up together. I like the guitar work, too.
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Really good song. Public Enemy sampled it in "He Got Game" and they were able to get Stephen Stills to do guest vox.
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I for one love Games People Play and I miss that 70's blend of prog and pop as Orbert pointed out.
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For What it's Worth is really cool.
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Ahh, yes, For What It's Worth. One of the two go to songs-the other being Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater Revival-for directors to use in a movie that has scenes set during the Vietnam War. :lol
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Ahh, yes, For What It's Worth. One of the two go to songs-the other being Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater Revival-for directors to use in a movie that has scenes set during the Vietnam War. :lol
Both are featured in the Vietnam War segment of Forrest Gump. :lolI for one love Games People Play and I miss that 70's blend of prog and pop as Orbert pointed out.
Speaking of which...
Planet P Project - Why Me?
Some would question whether or not this is classic rock, but this was always a KSHE classic here in St. Louis, so it counts. Very cool song, one that was always on the classic rock mix tapes we made back in the day. Plus, it had that pop-driven bottom end that made it easy to crank up on good stereo systems.
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I totally had Forrest Gump on my mind when I made that post about For What It's Worth. Reached the point with me that whenever that song comes on I hear helicopters. :lol
As for Planet P-I'm proud to admit that Pink World is one of my favorite albums of the 80s. Less fond of Why Me, though it did get some airplay around these parts.
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Planet P Project - Why Me?
Some would question whether or not this is classic rock, but this was always a KSHE classic here in St. Louis, so it counts. Very cool song, one that was always on the classic rock mix tapes we made back in the day. Plus, it had that pop-driven bottom end that made it easy to crank up on good stereo systems.
Good call - always loved that one.
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Totally forgot about this song. Man I forgot how much I dug it.
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Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
This is another one of those classic rock bands that I can't name another song by, but I love the one song I do know. Featuring some both tasty acoustic and electric guitar work, the vocal melodies are really nice, especially the chorus. And the hard-hitting climax is absolutely perfect. Great song.
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Great song! The rest of the album it's from is okay, but it's the obvious standout.
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I've always liked this one. It has a dark, introspective feel, and was something of a different take on the whole "change the world" thing that was pretty common.
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Yeah I love the darkness of that song. The acoustic guitar is what always stood out for me.
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The Guess Who - These Eyes
I am pretty sure The Guess Who were one of those bands my parents had an 8-track of when I was really young, cause this song and others by them really remind me of my early grade school years. This was always my favorite of the bunch I heard, and it still is. Really cool tune. This probably gets played more on oldies stations than classic rock stations, but it certainly qualifies as a classic rock tune (since being an oldie and a classic rock song are not mutually exclusive).
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Another great song. Burton Cummings had (has?) an exceptional voice, and the Guess Who had a lot of nice songs in the early days.
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Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World
Awesome song. Still love it, and I can't name another one by those dudes either.
The Guess Who - These Eyes
Um... no. (https://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc55/black_floyd_2007/vomit.gif)
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I like this one. I like the way it start rather simply, with just the voice and keys, and slowly builds throughout the song, but no matter how many more instruments they add, the voice remains the focus.
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Boston - More Than a Feeling
This is another one of those songs that it is easy to take for granted because many of us have probably heard it a million times, but it is still, to borrow an 80s phrase, a totally awesome song! Plus, Brad Delp's vocals were never better than they were in this song. It's always a train wreck to hear someone try to karaoke this song. It's like, "Yeah, good luck with the chorus." :lol :lol But anyway, Boston's self-titled debut was a life-changing record for me (first bought it on cassette in the summer of 1989 :lol), and More Than a Feeling is one of eight (out of eight) classics on it. :hat
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Finally a song that I know! :tup
Yeah, this is one of the hardest Boston songs to sing. The part before the final chorus is just insane.
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This is all I have to say about More Than A Feeling.
It's been my favorite song for over three decades now. :biggrin:
That actually makes me feel very fucking old, but it takes nothing away from the song.
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Fantastic song! I still remember when the Boston album came out. Everyone made such a big deal about the fact that it was recorded by Tom Scholz in his house, in his home-built studio. This was in the 70's; nobody did that at the time. But Tom did. MIT graduate.
Boston had a great sound and the production on the album is perfect, far better than a lot of albums recorded in actual recording studios of the time (or since). And as far as Classic 70's Rock goes, this is one of the best.
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This is all I have to say about More Than A Feeling.
It's been my favorite song for over three decades now. :biggrin:
That actually makes me feel very fucking old, but it takes nothing away from the song.
Along those lines, when I got into this song (and the whole album), it was 13 years old, which seemed really old to me at the time...and now it is 37 years old. :eek :eek :eek
And :tup :tup to the other comments on this song, and really, in the whole thread. I don't always comment on every post about each song, as I often like to read them before moving on to the next song, but I love seeing so much appreciation in this thread. :coolio
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I do not post often unless a song really sparks something in my mind I want to share. But I am always clicking on this thread for the updated song(s) and to see everyone's comments. Great to see the passion people have for music here.
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Overplayed as heck. But excellent nonetheless.
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Boston was one of my favorite bands for a while. I don't listen to them much anymore but I'll probably never get tired of the first album, no matter how many times those songs are played on the radio. More Than A Feeling is definitely my favorite song of theirs.
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One of the best radio songs ever. Insanely catchy and well-constructed. Brad Delp was amazing.
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This is all I have to say about More Than A Feeling.
It's been my favorite song for over three decades now. :biggrin:
That actually makes me feel very fucking old, but it takes nothing away from the song.
Along those lines, when I got into this song (and the whole album), it was 13 years old, which seemed really old to me at the time...and now it is 37 years old. :eek :eek :eek
And :tup :tup to the other comments on this song, and really, in the whole thread. I don't always comment on every post about each song, as I often like to read them before moving on to the next song, but I love seeing so much appreciation in this thread. :coolio
It was a mere five years old when I first heard it, and rock magazines were promising that we'd have that Boston album Third Stage out any day now.
Five years later... :rollin
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Coincidentally, I was listening to this song a ton last night. Excellent song, and the vocals are insane. Shame the rest of the album isn't anywhere near that quality, or else it would have been a great album.
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Wow, I can't agree. I think the first five tunes are all solid. I usually stop it after "Smokin'" but I've been known to just let it play.
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The whole album is good and listenable, but nothing has ever jumped out at me.
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Coincidentally, I was listening to this song a ton last night. Excellent song, and the vocals are insane. Shame the rest of the album isn't anywhere near that quality, or else it would have been a great album.
You might be the first person to ever say that. Congrats on being original, I guess. :biggrin: :lol
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Still a great song. I think the only song of theirs I enjoy more is "Foreplay/Long Time"
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We'll get to that one eventually...
REO Speedwagon - Golden Country
I am not a big REO fan, but I do love this song a lot. Of course, this was early on when they knew how to rock, before they realized later on that they could appeal to the girls with wimpy ballads (which made them more popular, so I guess kudos to them). Anyway, yeah, great song, and I love the dynamic shift between the mellow verses with the neat keyboard work underneath the vocals and the upbeat, rocking and insanely catchy chorus. :hat
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Decent song, but they have better songs from the early days. I actually really like their pop period.
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I like a few of their songs from the later years - Don't Let Him Go and Roll with the Changes are both really good.
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You gotta be from the midwest if you heard that song on the radio. :lol
REO Speedwagon actually took quite a long time to become a worthwhile band-a lot of their 70s output was second tier hard rock-but Golden Country, along with Riding the Storm out, is one of the few early REO songs to be worth a damn. They really didn't click as a band until 1978 in the studio, but they were always an amazing live band. In terms of performances, the best concert I ever saw was REO Speedwagon, with Cheap Trick opening, in 1985. Amazing show.
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I like a few of their songs from the later years - Don't Let Him Go and Roll with the Changes are both really good.
I wouldn't even consider those later years songs :lol
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We used to sit and listen to You Get What You Play For all the time. One of those great 70's live albums where they didn't have to all be hits. It was just one great song after another. This put them on the map, which was both good and bad. Good for them, but mostly bad for fans. Things like "Roll with the Changes" were cool, but then they discovered the secret formula (wimpy ballads) and it was all over. Not for them, for me.
Side note: We're gonna try "Ridin' the Storm Out" this year. I've been working on the synth patch (the "siren"), it sounds pretty sweet. That one's gonna be a serious crowd pleaser.
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Boston - More Than a Feeling
Sure, it's overplayed but... it still kicks ass. :2metal:
REO Speedwagon - Golden Country
Had to YouTube this one - never heard it in Texas. Not bad, I guess.
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You gotta be from the midwest if you heard that song on the radio. :lol
Hmmmm, I had no idea that it wasn't a universally known classic rock tune. See, I learn something new every day. :lol :biggrin:
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Very true Kev. That was never played up here in the northeast. Good tune nonetheless.
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Not a fan of this REO song but they had some real good catchy songs and the live album kicks ass
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The Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw
I love this band; I love this song. The Moodies have become one of those awesome overlooked bands, both in classic rock and progressive rock circles, but they were awesome from 1967-1972 (releasing seven albums in that timespan, all of which are at worst really good), and Ride My See-Saw is easily one of their most enduring classic rock tunes from that era. This got heavy play on classic rock for the longest time. No clue if it still does, but it damn well should.
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Great song. Short and sweet
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Good song.
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I decided to check out some MBs on Spotify recently after not hearing anything by them in years. Forgot how good songs like Ride My See Saw were.
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I love that song, and the Moody Blues in general. They were the first band I became a fan of since my parents both liked them. I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl when I was a kid.
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Love The Moody Blues. Them and Queen were really the first two bands I enjoyed when I was younger... And coincidentally I just went on a complete MB binge last night. Amazing stuff... and See-Saw is an all around classic!
Love times 10000 for this song
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The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
No matter how many times I hear this song, this is one of those songs that I can never turn off; awesome song all-around. The Doobies have a lot of great songs, but this is easily my favorite. What's really amazing is that it has a harmonica solo, and that is an instrument that annoys me more often than not, but it just works in this song. The bass line is also noteworthy; it adds a rhythm and a groove that makes it easy to get sucked right in. So yeah, awesome tune!
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We used to call this one "the train-watching song" when our son was little, because we'd often kill time by heading down to the railyard and watching trains. Trains are awesome. And this song is about heading down around the corner, half a mile from here, and watching trains. What that has to do with love, I've never figured out. In fact, I have no idea what the song is trying to say. But it's a good song. Most Doobie Brothers is pretty good stuff.
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Saw the Doobie Brothers live with Chicago and they played this tune and they sounded great. Hit after hit after hit. They always have a great grove to them.
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Favorite Doobie Brothers tune! Awesome song
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There may be bands where the dividing line between how their music sounds throughout their career that is sharper than the Doobie Brothers, but wow, I can't think of one off the top of my head. The Michael McDonald version of the band is practically a different band, musically. I say this because, really, I've never been much of a fan of the band in either incarnation (as my comment on thinking Let It Ride was a Doobies song might have made clear) but I just wanted to work that thought in. :lol
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Fuck I love the Doobs. Great musicians and lots of great tunes. Great sound.
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The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Majorly overplayed, but it's a classic. Those harmonies are just killer - I will say that I'm more of a fan of the stuff before it became Michael McDonald and The Doobie Brothers.
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Love this song.
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Yeah, Michael McDonald pretty much ruined the band
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Great song, and fun to play on bass. I've actually played this one on stage once.
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Yeah this was a staple when I use to play covers. This and China Grove.
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Styx - Renegade
One helluva rocking tune, this never fails to deliver in a live setting, which is why it is often a set or show closer. Definitely one of their most classic hits, and they have quite a few songs that get heavy airplay on classic rock radio stations. This seems to be the one Styx song that even non-fans seems to usually like.
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Great song. We've tried to do it a few times, but those vocal harmonies are tough.
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Not one of my top Styx songs, but it is a good one, and it does deliver live.
Never been a fan of the Doobie Brothers.
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The one time I saw Styx... was with my ex and some family friends... the entire time she was bitching because she didn't wanna be there... "I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THEIR SONGS!"
Well she was wrong... besides recognizing the sample of Mr. Roboto in the opening medley... she knew Renegade. And then... and then... she made a comment that went something like this
"I'm surprised to hear them play a cover song..>"
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Love Styx and love Renegade. Damn I may have to listen to some Styx at work today
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Styx - Renegade
:letam: :2metal: :metal
:heart
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Renegade's a great rocker, and the intro is memorable and helps set the song apart from the crowd.
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Such a great rocking tune with Tommy at the lead. Another reason why I loved Styx is the fact they can rock out and pull off a ballad and other styles.
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Rumor has it that Tommy wanted to make Renegade an acoustic song, and it was Dennis who'd told Tommy that it needed to be a balls-out rocker.
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Renegade is awesome. My 2nd fav Styx song
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Ahh, Renegade. The last true balls out rocker the band did. True, there were still songs that were ostensibly rockers on Styx's albums after this, but the production and guitar sounds robbed them of most of their bite. Renegade, though, kicks ass up one side and down the other, as does all of Pieces of Eight.
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Scorpions - The Zoo
Scorpions are odd in that I was never much of a fan, but they always had songs that if they came on, I was like, "Cool song," and I'd crank it up. This was one of them. I eventually got into a bit more of their stuff (maybe five years ago or so), but they are still not a band I hardly ever listen to. This is a helluva tune, however. The urgency of that main riff alone makes it worthy.
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My wife is a Scorpions fan, including a big fan of this song. I like some Scorpions songs, but not this one. I get it. The slow driving beat, the buildup... it just doesn't seem to go anywhere.
Rumor has it that Tommy wanted to make Renegade an acoustic song, and it was Dennis who'd told Tommy that it needed to be a balls-out rocker.
I've never heard that story. Thanks for that one. :tup
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The Zoo is always better live, because they pick up the tempo just enough to give some urgency to the song. The studio version just kinds of plods along in comparison to the live version. Saw Scorpions live way back when and The Zoo brought the house down.
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I always dug The Zoo and as a teen we played it and Rock You Like A Hurricane in our garage band.
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I really love the beginning to this song and I agree, you just want to crank it up when it starts
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Jethro Tull - Aqualung
I remember when I first getting acquainted with this song, I couldn't believe how awesome it was. The main riff was so infectious, and everything else about the song just seemed to fit just perfectly in making it a perfectly executed song. Years later, my opinion has not changed at all; it is still an awesome song. This was always a mainstay in the top 20 in KSHE's Rock and Roll 500 they do every Memorial Day weekend. Not sure if it still is, but back in the day, it was as much of a guarantee as Stairway to Heaven, Free Bird and Hotel California to be near the top. A classic in every way imaginable.
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Seen it live recently. All I have to say is :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
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One of Jethro Tull's finest.
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Great song. I love it has fast parts, slow parts, the opening riff/verse which starts and stops... you could never do a song like that today.
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My favorite version of Aqualung, which I believe I mentioned at one point during the Yes discography thread when Eddie Jobson was mentioned, was a live video from the A tour with Jobson on keyboards, and was memorable because it was the first time my young guitar and drums loving self said "that's a pretty good keyboard player." Classic song, but not my favorite from that album, as that honor goes to Wind-up, but hell, the entire album's a classic.
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Yeah, Eddie is so cool. I liked his keyboard work in Jetho Tull; I just wished he'd gotten chance to whip out his violin. When I heard he'd joined Jethro Tull, I was looking forward to some awesome flute-and-violin stuff. A isn't bad, but it seemed like a bit of a missed opportunity.
On the other hand, I'm sure Eddie was hired for his keyboard skills. Ian probably wasn't going to write something special just because his keyboard player also played violin. And the fact that he was only on the one album might or might not be significant.
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Scorpions - The Zoo
Good song, but not my favorite of theirs.
Rumor has it that Tommy wanted to make Renegade an acoustic song, and it was Dennis who'd told Tommy that it needed to be a balls-out rocker.
I've never heard that story. Thanks for that one. :tup
No prob, dude. :tup
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
:hefdaddy :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
I liked his keyboard work in Jetho Tull; I just wished he'd gotten chance to whip out his violin.
You should look for Slipstream - Eddie whipped out the violin live, during "Heavy Horses" (it was just that one, IIRC).
A isn't bad, but it seemed like a bit of a missed opportunity.
Completely agreed.
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Aqualung is the shit, plain and simple
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Aqualung is the shit, plain and simple
:tup
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Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
One of the best underrated classic rock bands of the late 70s/early 80s. They had a run of 4-5 great albums that resulted in a handful of classic rock staples, and I feel that this is the best one. It has everything that made Triumph great: a great vocal hook, smoking guitar work, great melodies overall, outstanding rhythm section work and a rock-out sensibility that somehow didn't seem overdone. Love this band; love this song. :hat
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Triumph were cool. Rik Emmett had a great voice, and I kinda liked that they used synthesizers a bit. They got a little bit formulaic after a while with the "quiet start, then get heavy" thing, but a lot of bands did that, including Rush, a band to whom Triumph was often compared, for obvious reasons.
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The ending to this song is one of my favorite ending to a song ever. I just wish that Triumph could replicate it live. It never sounded right.
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Triumph is a great band and one of the best live bands I ever saw. Killer live shows. Rik Emmett is a fantastic guitarist.
"Fight The Good Fight" is probably in my top 5 tracks from Triumph.
Other great tracks from them would be:
Magic Power
Hold On
Lay It On The Line
Follow Your Heart
Say Goodbye
I really dig some of their less accessible/commercial stuff too, the album Surveillance, for example, is all kinds of awesome.
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Yeah, Eddie is so cool. I liked his keyboard work in Jetho Tull; I just wished he'd gotten chance to whip out his violin. When I heard he'd joined Jethro Tull, I was looking forward to some awesome flute-and-violin stuff. A isn't bad, but it seemed like a bit of a missed opportunity.
On the other hand, I'm sure Eddie was hired for his keyboard skills. Ian probably wasn't going to write something special just because his keyboard player also played violin. And the fact that he was only on the one album might or might not be significant.
On the live version of Aqualung I mentioned, he played violin during the acoustic guitar sections. Trying to find it on Youtube, because I know I've seen it before, but not having any luck.
And Triumph. Loved them to death. Allied Forces is one of the best hard rock/metal albums of the 80s, and almost every album they did was gold. Minus The Sport of Kings, because, really, they flat out were going for commercial acceptance there. They took a lot of flak for being the OTHER Canadian power trio, but I never really cared about that.
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Yeah, I have no interest in The Sport of Kings or anything after that, but Allied Forces, Just a Game, Thunder Seven and Never Surrender are all damn fine hard rock records. :tup :tup
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Triumph is a favorite of mine and this song is probably in my top 3 of all time if not number 1 on most days
I can remember an old review in either Kerrang magazine or Cream where the reviewer wondered if Rik's guitar actually had smoke coming from it due to his "unbelievable finger walking on the fretboard" (his words..not mine)
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light
This folksy Springsteen tune turned rocker in this cover was a big success, becoming a staple on classic rock radio, and why not? It's a damn good version. When I first heard it, I was one of many who thought the line, "Revved up like a duece," sounded like, "Wrapped up like a douche." :lol :lol But that aside, I love this tune.
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Great song. The guitar solo is one of my favorites, and how can you not like a rock song that playes Chopsticks in the middle of it?
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Awesome song.
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Great version of a mediocre song. Manfred Mann's Earth Band did covers of at least three Springsteen songs that I know of (the other two being "I Came for You" and "Spirits in the Night") and IMO all three of them blow away the originals. I'm not a huge Springsteen fan, though, so your mileage may vary.
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Shooting Star - Last Chance
I don't know how big this song was elsewhere, but here in St. Louis, this was a massive hit on classic and hard rock radio stations, and for good reason: it is a fantastic song! In addition to sounding classic rock-ish, tt even has a big of hints of progginess to it. The instrumental section is phenomenal, featuring some wonderful interplay between piano/keys, guitar, violin and drums; without a doubt one of the best instrumental sections from ANY classic rock hit. If you have never heard this song before, and consider yourself a classic rock fan, check this song out immediately.
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No one? ???
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I had never heard this band before, but I just gave the song a listen. Gives me some big 80s Kansas vibes. Man, I absolutely love violin in a rock context. Really cool song!
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No one? ???
Sorry, I've never heard of them. I'd hunt down a YouTube of them or something, but I'm too lazy. If only someone had posted a link...
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I bought Stages by Triumph on vinyl randomly and I enjoyed the album very much.
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Hey, they played Last Chance here too. :rollin Shooting Star kind of came off as being, well, Kansas lite, but Last Chance was a pretty wicked song with some great drumming. I bought that song off iTunes when I first started using it.
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Back to the Triumph song. Awesome band and one of my all time favorite songs. Great vibe to the song and a great ending.
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No one? ???
Sorry, I've never heard of them. I'd hunt down a YouTube of them or something, but I'm too lazy. If only someone had posted a link...
Lazy ass...;) :biggrin:
Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5BqpvcWuyo
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Don McLean - American Pie
This is one of those songs that everyone knows, whether they know it or not. :lol Odd song for me in that I do not remember the first time I heard it, but it was like one day, I thought, "Oh yeah, I've heard this a dozen times already." So, it wasn't a song that grabbed me, but I remembered it enough for it to sound familiar. It's obviously a good song, and a lot of people are completely bananas for it, but I would say I merely like it.
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Definitely in my top 20. Love the song to pieces
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It's very good. Not one of my top faves, but there's nothing bad about it and it's rightly a classic.
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"American Pie" is one of those songs with tons of lyrics, so it's like a badge of honor to learn them all and be able to sing the whole song along with Don. Either that, or it's a badge of total nerdery, I'm not sure.
Great song, but my favorite from that album is "Vincent". That song brings me to tears every time.
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It's a badge of nerdery, and I say that as someone who knows the song by heart :lol
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Rush - Limelight
Awful song by a bunch of Canadian dorks whose songs are nothing more than a canvas upon which they can show off their chops, while demonstrating that they and their music have no soul whatsoever.
:lol :lol
Okay, for real, great song, obviously, although this is one of their songs I am kind of tired of hearing. But a classic, without a doubt!
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Best song off Moving Pictures
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Best song off Moving Pictures
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sorry been away...Loved the Shooting Star...still have a couple of their albums on vinyl...can't think of the name of the top of my head, but has a guy on a dirtbike jumping across a bedroom
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Third best song off Moving Pictures.
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Top 5 guitar solo for me ever.
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Third best song off Moving Pictures.
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absolute classic!
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Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive
This was a huge classic rock hit here in the Midwest, but I fear it could be another one of those regional hits, where people in other parts of the country are unaware of it. That aside, this is a great little tune, fun as hell to drive to, and a mainstay on every classic rock compilation I have ever made. Sidenote, the rest of the album this song came from is utter dog shit :lol; definitely a one-hit wonder band.
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I grew up in Michigan, and still never heard this song until I moved to the Chicago area, so it may have been a Midwest classic, but maybe only certain parts of the Midwest or something.
Other than that, I agree. The rest of the album is completely forgettable, but the one song is fun.
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Total Midwest hit. :lol
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Until Kev's post, I'd never heard of this band, or this song.
And after listening to it, I wish I could go back 5 minutes to that blissful time when I could say that was true.
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Triumph - Fight the Good Fight
:heart :metal
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light
Much, MUCH better than Bruce's version. Overplayed perhaps, but still a great song.
Shooting Star - Last Chance
Never heard this one, even after pulling up the YT link for it. Not bad.
Don McLean - American Pie
Classic. :hat
Rush - Limelight
Overplayed, and not the best song from Moving Pictures. Still pretty kick ass live, though.
Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah - Lake Shore Drive
Never heard of this one either.
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Limelight is awesome, and probably tied with YYZ and Red Barchetta as my favorite from Moving Pictures. Seeing it live didn't hurt either :)
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Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
This is one of those classics that a lot of people absolutely salivate over, while I merely like it. There are moments I think are pretty badass, but I think its plodding nature combined with its length make it one of those songs I rarely feel like listening to.
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I like the song alright, until that break. I think I like Rocky Mountain Way a bit better
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Consider me one of the people who "salivate" over this song. Everything about this song is fantastic, including the instrumental break. Always a treat whenever this one comes on the radio.
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One of Joe Walsh's best songs IMO.
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anybody else catch the Eagles documentary that has been showing on Showtime? Really cool look into the history of the band.
I never thought I would say this, but from the modern day interviews, I thought Joe Walsh looked that best out of all the former band members. He has really cleaned himself up.
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Life's Been Good is one of the rarest of things; the song where the single edit is actually better than the full length one. The mid section of the song is kind of overlong and plodding, removing it really tightens the song up.
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anybody else catch the Eagles documentary that has been showing on Showtime? Really cool look into the history of the band.
I never thought I would say this, but from the modern day interviews, I thought Joe Walsh looked that best out of all the former band members. He has really cleaned himself up.
I have, the first half is fantastic (part1)
I love this song so much. The only other song I like more from Joe is The Confessor.
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anybody else catch the Eagles documentary that has been showing on Showtime? Really cool look into the history of the band.
I never thought I would say this, but from the modern day interviews, I thought Joe Walsh looked that best out of all the former band members. He has really cleaned himself up.
Watched part of it...need to finish watching the rest .. love how the incorporated Walsh into the band..."hey Joe we are going to invite you out on stage each night and jam on one of your songs , you down? "
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Great song. It's unique and has amusing lyrics.
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I love the song, and Joe has a great sense of humor. He's always been my favorite Eagle. Yeah, I know he wasn't an original member, but I didn't really start following Eagles until after he joined anyway.
"History of the Eagles" is pretty cool. Damned long, but there's a lot of story to tell.
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I have time today, so gonna keep the ball rolling here (but feel free to keep discussing the previous tunes, too)...
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
Can you imagine a 14-minute live song being such a huge hit nowadays? No chance in hell. And it just shows how different the musical climate and rock radio was back in the 70s. To this day, I don't think I've ever heard the studio version of this song, as the live version was always the one that was played everywhere here, and it is one helluva song. Granted, it is now a song that I rarely listen to, but on the rare occasions that I do, it still sounds pretty awesome. This song is probably the most well-known and successful use of the talk box ever.
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Actually, there was a single edit of Do You Feel Like We Do, though it was still in excess of 6 minutes long. I know this because my grandmother worked at-oh god, this is going to date the hell out of me-one of those old fashioned drug stores that came attached to a restaurant, and whenever the jukebox was cleaned out of 45s, she would grab a few and give them to my sister. One of them was Do You Feel Like We Do. Of course, it was the 14 minute long version everyone loved and what got the most airplay on FM radio, but the single DID exist. AM radio stations also edited it to fit into their format, it was so popular. But it was definitely a sign of the 70s that an act could get huge with a live album and a 14 minute long song.
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Love Frampton and I've seen him play that song a million times live and I'm never sick of it.
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Awesome song
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The final guitar solo is one of my favorite guitar solos of all time. Great song, great solo. I've always loved how that entire live album just has two-part harmonies (the bassist, Stanley Sheldon, sings the second part) but it sounds fuller because of the notes Sheldon chooses. I got a chance to do this song a few years ago and sang the harmony part. It sounded sweet.
The edited live version isn't bad, but for people who are familiar with the full-length version, it just sounds choppy. Because it is, of course; it literally has dozens of cuts where they had to find places to shorten it up, and some of the cuts are pretty bad.
The studio version from Frampton's Camel is pretty much the same as the live version, just not as long. The only thing missing is the talkbox solo.
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Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
Great song, one that I hadn't heard in years before listening to it for the purposes of this thread (since I don't listen to the radio anymore). And it still sounds great. St. Louis rock radio stations used to play the shit out of this song, although, as this thread goes along, I now wonder how many of these songs were regional "hits" as opposed to being known everywhere.
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There was a music video for Lunatic Fringe, so it was likely more of a national hit than a lot of the songs in this thread. In fact, Lunatic Fringe came out at the time when MTV was starting to end the era of regional successes; if it had come out in 1980, it probably would have been lesser known in some parts of the world. The thing I remember most about this song was actually from the video: Red Rider was absolutely HORRIBLE at miming playing the song. Especially the drummer. :rollin
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In Canada, its still played all the time. Good opening to the song.
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Great tune but like Jaq said, what a horrible video!
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Oh man I actually remember the music video for this! I remember when they show the other guys doing back vocals,the bass player looked very awkward. Oh and don't even get me started on the drummber. :rollin
But still,cool song.
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Both those songs are amazing.
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I like Lunatic Fringe. Cool song. Maybe a little repetitive, but it has a good vibe, so it's okay.
Never got into Red Rider overall. Apparently they are now officially "Tom Cochrane's Red Rider". I always think it's silly when bands/people do that with the name.
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I had never seen the video, but after checking it out, I just have to say :eek :lol :lol.
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I will grant you it was fairly early in the music video revolution and bands were still getting used to the form...but even back then, by the standards of the time, that was an awful video. :rollin
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Lunatic Fringe is a good song. It's kind of cool how Jeff Jones was in the first lineup of Rush in 1968. I wonder if he ever played any shows with them during the short time he was a member.
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ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
This has long been my favorite ZZ Top; I love everything about it. Every time I listen to it, I can't decide which instrument is more awesome in it: guitar or bass. It is a photo finish for sure, as both Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill are at the top of their games in this one.
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One of my favorites from ZZ Top.
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Definitely a fave. I like the song, even the very concept of it is silly and fun. And I love how when they get to the end of the jam at the end, they just kinda stop. Song's over. Ha ha, they so crazy!
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Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
Overplayed, but it's a classic.
The only other song I like more from Joe is The Confessor.
Excellent choice, but the correct answer is Turn To Stone.
Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
I remember first hearing this one when I was 6. Best song from a killer live album.
Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
Awesome song. :2metal:
ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
Oh yeah. The rest of the Deguello album is top-notch too, but you also can't go wrong going backwards from there. While Tush put That Lil' Ol' Band From Texas on the map, this one (and the singles from Eliminator) kept them there.
Oh, and... :coolio
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Cheap Sunglasses always reminded me of Frankenstein.
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Wow, I've never noticed that before, but I can hear it. The hook riff right after he says "Cheap Sunglasses" is very similar to the main riff from "Frankenstein".
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Ya know, I noticed that the first time I heard it (I was already very familiar with Frankenstein by the time I heard Cheap Sunglasses), but stopped noticing it at some point, and had forgotten about it until reading that just now. Strange.
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To this day, whenever I'm buying cheap sunglasses, I hum the riff that comes after the title line. :biggrin:
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Yep, me too. :coolio
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Golden Earring - Radar Love
The greatness of certain songs kind of go without saying; this is one of those songs. If you've ever listened to classic rock, it's a guarantee that you know this song, and it's probably also a near-guarantee that you've risked getting a speeding ticket while listening to it. This is like the ultimate classic rock driving song.
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Killer song and I wished I got to see it live. Saw them on MTV in concert (remember those days?) and they were an energetic live band.
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Great tune. I also enjoy White Lion's cover, although it's got nothing on the original.
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So good. Twilight Zone is pretty kickass as well
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The Twilight Zone is better, but this one is still good.
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Great song. I love the vibe, and the slow buildup in the break. You could never get away with that today.
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Wow, I've never noticed that before, but I can hear it. The hook riff right after he says "Cheap Sunglasses" is very similar to the main riff from "Frankenstein".
Eh... almost, but not quite.
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Much MUCH better song than Twilight Zone. I also agree that it's a really good driving song. :metal
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So good. Twilight Zone is pretty kickass as well
Only ever heard 3 GE songs- these two and The Devil Made Me Do It and loved all three.
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Both Radar Love and Twilight Zone are classics. I don't know anything else from GE
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Wow, I've never noticed that before, but I can hear it. The hook riff right after he says "Cheap Sunglasses" is very similar to the main riff from "Frankenstein".
Eh... almost, but not quite.
They're almost very similar, but not quite very similar? Now you're really splitting hairs. :P
The rhythm for the first two bars is exactly the same. Same syncopation, same accents. Only the chords are different. The riffs diverge from there.
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Friend of mine back in the day had a band that did a cover of Radar Love that turned the mid section of the song into a seemingly endless series of trade off guitar solos, with a LONG slow build up to the part where the drums go crazy. The one time I timed it, they stretched it out to nearly thirty minutes. They never went anywhere but man, they could jam on old classic rock songs. :lol
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Radar Love is awesome. Love that bassline.
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Alice Cooper - School's Out
I've never been a fan of this guy at all. Sure, he has a few songs that I'll hear and think, "Yeah, that's pretty good," this song included, but none of it is something I can't turn off or has made me think, "Oh, I have to hear that song." Classic example of an artist with a few songs I don't mind, but ultimately couldn't give two shits about.
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I pretty much feel the same way. He's a cool guy, and his stage show was quite groundbreaking for its time (and in some ways still is), but ultimately it comes down to the music, and yeah he's got some good songs, but none that I'd go out of my way to hear.
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What good music Alice Cooper had, I kind of give Bob Ezrin credit for. Worth noting once he stopped working with Ezrin, his career went into a LONG downward spiral. Pretty groundbreaking live performances, but not really a lot of great songs.
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They're almost very similar, but not quite very similar? Now you're really splitting hairs. :P
The rhythm for the first two bars is exactly the same. Same syncopation, same accents. Only the chords are different. The riffs diverge from there.
Yeah, I know - I shoulda green-texted that. :P
You know, it really wouldn't surprise me if The Reverend Willie G (Billy Gibbons) lifted that from Edgar - it was proven he stole some stuff from John Lee Hooker for La Grange so... anything's possible. Oh, and YES--of course they're similar.
Alice Cooper - School's Out
This one's always been a favorite of mine. :metal
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Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Fun little song. I enjoy it quite a bit, despite it sounding a bit country, especially in the way the fiddle is featured, but the vocal delivery gives that kind of storytelling feel that other classic rock staples of the 70s had, so that helps it out immensely.
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"OMG HE SAID SON OF A BITCH!"
Generally the reaction people had to hearing the album version of this song. :lol
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Do any of you remember that there was 2 versions of the song. AM stations played "Son of a Gun" while those dirty, rebel FM stations played "Son of a Bitch"?
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Yeah, that was how you judged what sort of DJ you were listening to-it wasn't just AM/FM, because some local FM stations played the single version, which didn't have son of a bitch in it. If you got the swearing, you likely had a cool DJ.
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I'm sure it wasn't up to the DJ a lot of times, but the program manager. When the boss says which version to play, because the owners say to play that version, then you risk your job by doing otherwise.
I like the song anyway, but I make sure I stick around to see if they play the "son of a bitch" version or not. Same with "Jet Airliner" by The Steve Miller Band ("funky shit goin' down in the city") and The Who's "Who Are You" ("who the fuck are you?")
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Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
Dated, but still a damn good song.
Do any of you remember that there was 2 versions of the song. AM stations played "Son of a Gun" while those dirty, rebel FM stations played "Son of a Bitch"?
Yep, remember that well. The son-of-a-bitch line made more sense though, but this was obviously before bleeping out was happening. But then again... AOR didn't bleep Nazareth's "Hair of the Dog" ("now you're messin' with a son of a bitch"), so...
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next to Folsom Prison Blues, my favorite country song. Anybody ever hear the sequel with Johnny Cash? It's interesting. By the way, anybody ever think the devil's solo was much better than Johnny's?
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next to Folsom Prison Blues, my favorite country song. Anybody ever hear the sequel with Johnny Cash? It's interesting. By the way, anybody ever think the devil's solo was much better than Johnny's?
Everyone does. :biggrin:
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America - Sister Golden Hair
This is what I would call a perfect song; everything about it is absolutely wonderful.
Fun fact, too: every time I hear it now, I think of The Sopranos, because of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Fu39qrsuBRk#t=257s
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LOL, I thought this was in the wrong thread when I saw it in the MTV thread. :rollin
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:facepalm: :lol
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America - Sister Golden Hair
This is what I would call a perfect song; everything about it is absolutely wonderful.
Wow, I do like the song, but I can't agree about it being perfect. Dewey Bunnell wrote some really horrible lyrics.
"Sister Golden Hair surprise"? Why "surprise"? Because he needed two more syllables, and needed something to rhyme with "my eyes".
Other than that, good song.
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I never liked that song much. Some of their other hits are better, like A Horse With No Name and Ventura Highway.
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It's alright, but like Pols said, they've done better
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Van Halen - Runnin' with the Devil
The first song from their first album is arguably their most classic rock song. And what a classic it is! I can only imagine what it must have been like for rock fans when the first VH album came out, what with EVH's guitar playing blowing the minds of everyone, and the album kicking off with that blistering riff from this tune had to be an immediate ass-kicking. :metal
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Can't stand Van Halen. (sorry blob)
But Runnin' with the Devil is listenable.
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A great song from this classic album.
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A great song to kick off one of the best hard rock albums of all time. :tup
On a completely random note, the isolated audio of DLR's vocals from that song has been circulating for a while on the net (including in a soundboard app), and I use a clip of the signature DLR "WHOOOOOO!" in my 3D program to notify me when a render is complete, something I typically do dozens of times a day.
So I'll have some music running, and then my render will finish, and I'll hear a loud WHOOOOO over the top of it. It's hilarious hearing how it fits over other songs.
Can't stand Van Halen. (sorry blob)
But Runnin' with the Devil is listenable.
What are you apologizing to me for? You should be apologizing to your parents for turning out wrong. :biggrin:
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What are you apologizing to me for? You should be apologizing to your parents for turning out wrong. :biggrin:
Meh I did somewhat enjoy Mean Streak... It was a decent album
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Great song, great album. Still pretty much the only Van Halen album I listen to.
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America - Sister Golden Hair
I wouldn't cal this one "perfect", but... it's not bad.
Van Halen - Runnin' with the Devil
Overplayed, but still cool. :metal
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One of my favorites from the debut, but they've made better songs overall.
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Definitely a great song
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The only debut album that I think is better as a debut album-as getting across what the band is and how they do it-than Van Halen's is Boston's. And that's a near thing. The run of Running With The Devil-Eruption-You Really Got Me on Van Halen is one of the best ways to introduce a band I can think of. "Here we are, this is what we do-your move." :lol
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Well put, Jaq.
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I've never heard a Van Halen song I liked.
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Everybody learned those open chords on Runnin'. Great energetic song.
Loved the harmonies and melody on Sister Golden Hair.
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A great way to begin this classic album.
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Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
This tends to get played more on the softer classic rock stations (ya know, the ones that play Elton John all day :lol), as opposed to the harder rock ones, but this is still a classic by any definition. Great song, and great vocal performance by Stevie Nicks, who has one of the most identifiable female voices in rock history. Plus, that guitar lead is so killer. So yeah, great tune!
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Been listening to some FM lately. Rhiannon isn't a song I would go out of my way to listen to; they have many more better songs, but that is just personal preference.
Lindsay Buckingham is a true talent.
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This is one of those songs that get played all the time but I've never got sick of. and yes, like Kev said, the solo is killer.
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Good song from a great band
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Pretty cool, understated song.
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No mention of the piano on that song? The piano totally drives "Rhiannon". Lindsay's guitar is great, as always, but without the piano to play against, the song wouldn't work.
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Great atmosphere to that song. Great band in general, lots of killer tunes.
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Heart - Magic Man
One of the best "track 1 from a debut album" songs ever. Terrific song, from a terrific album. The awesomeness of 70s Heart can pretty much be summed up by listening to Dreamboat Annie, and Magic Man is one of the best songs on it. It is one of their three standard classic rock staples, and while it seems like most like the other two better, I think this might actually be my favorite of the three. I love the breakdown near the end of the song, with the keyboard fills, and when the vocal harmonies come in when the full band kicks in and the synth lead swirls around, that is nothing short of phenomenal. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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My sister had this song as a 45, and here's what's flat out amazing about the single. It was the full five and a half minute version, not chopped down to three or so as a radio edit. I remember this because my sister NEVER PLAYED THE ENTIRE SONG. She basically turned it into a single edit by leaving out the instrumental bits. :lol
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I like Barracuda just slightly (ever so slightly) more than Magic Man, but still, 70's Heart kicks so much ass. Magic Man is a great introduction to one of the greatest female driven groups of all time
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Heart - Magic Man
One of the best "track 1 from a debut album" songs ever. Terrific song, from a terrific album.
Yep. Whenever this song comes on the radio, all I need to hear is Roger's guitar hit that first note, and I'm right there with the "boom-boomp, boom-boomp!" when it stats. Great song.
The album is also very, very good for a debut. My only complaint is the way the title song comes back so many times in different forms. I know that they were going for some kind of concept feel, but to me it just sounds like three versions of the same song, and the song itself is fairly weak to my ears, one of the weakest on the album. If they'd done different verses each time or something, that would've helped it feel like there was some progress being made.
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Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
Overplayed. It was good the first 20 times I heard it, but after 80 bajillion more plays? :yawn:
Heart - Magic Man
Excellent, excellent song. :hefdaddy
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Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
This is another one of those classic rock songs that wouldn't have a prayer of being played on the radio if it had been released in the last 25 years; it is nearly 12 minutes after all! But this got a fair amount of play back in the day, and is considered a classic rock staple in many circles, and for good reason; it is a damn good song. Not sure how often it still gets played - it is probably one of those songs that gets played late at night most of the time - but it got played enough back in the day to be eligible here in this thread.
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Traffic :heart
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It used to get played a lot here, but then, like a lot of places, the local classic rock station got Clear Channeled and apparently playing bands like Traffic went out the window for having Nikki Sixx's syndicated radio show on. I don't listen to the radio much around here anymore.
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Love this one! Great vibe throughout. I love the way it fades up, and also fades out. Like the song was always there, or appears at intervals, and we're only privy to this particular occurrence. Pretty heavy, eh?
Also, that last saxophone note. YEAHHHHH!! I crank that sucker. Such an ugly, beautiful, horrible, amazing note!
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Yes, great song, doesn't seem as long as it is. No hurry to get where it is going, not plodding along either.
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Heart - Magic Man
One of the best "track 1 from a debut album" songs ever. Terrific song, from a terrific album. The awesomeness of 70s Heart can pretty much be summed up by listening to Dreamboat Annie, and Magic Man is one of the best songs on it. It is one of their three standard classic rock staples, and while it seems like most like the other two better, I think this might actually be my favorite of the three. I love the breakdown near the end of the song, with the keyboard fills, and when the vocal harmonies come in when the full band kicks in and the synth lead swirls around, that is nothing short of phenomenal. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
My favorite Heart album, with Dog & Butterfly close behind. Ann is finally going into the Rock & Roll HOF next month and it is long overdue (and the other 5 original members to a lesser extent). This is one of my favorite bands and I have 176 Heart songs on my iPod :biggrin:. Ann slays on 99% of them (not counting the 20 Nancy sings lead on). My avatar is very relevant to this post.
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Love this one! Great vibe throughout. I love the way it fades up, and also fades out. Like the song was always there, or appears at intervals, and we're only privy to this particular occurrence. Pretty heavy, eh?
Also, that last saxophone note. YEAHHHHH!! I crank that sucker. Such an ugly, beautiful, horrible, amazing note!
Great way to put it! :tup :tup
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Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
This is another one of those classic rock songs that wouldn't have a prayer of being played on the radio if it had been released in the last 25 years; it is nearly 12 minutes after all! But this got a fair amount of play back in the day, and is considered a classic rock staple in many circles, and for good reason; it is a damn good song. Not sure how often it still gets played - it is probably one of those songs that gets played late at night most of the time - but it got played enough back in the day to be eligible here in this thread.
OH MAH GLOB I love this song. Just... epic. :heart
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never...heard...of...it.... .. .... ... . ....
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Listened to "Low Spark" tonight. It was awesome.
This is a great thread. :tup
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never...heard...of...it.... .. .... ... . ....
:omg:
You need to fix that. Like, now and stuff.
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This is a great thread. :tup
Thank you, sir. :)
Little River Band - It's a Long Way There
Speaking of longer classic rock tunes...here is another one, clocking in at 8:40. Some stations like to play the single edit, but you have to hear the full length version to enjoy this song to the fullest. Fortunately, one of the classic rock stations here in St. Louis a long time ago used to always play that version. This is one helluva tune, one that sounds very 70ish. Vocal harmonies this song were somewhat commonplace back then, but they still stood out.
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You know, I don't think I've ever heard this one once - I'm listening to it now, though. Not bad at all.
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Dang, I thought a few more people would know that one. Oh well. Moving on...
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
This strikes me as one of those universally-known songs that everyone seems to love, even people who aren't fans of Steve Miller or even rock music, but while I get why so many like it, I can't say I am not that crazy about it. I mean, it is a decent enough song, but I just don't go bananas over it like so many people do.
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I don't go bananas over it, but it's a fun song, and I've always liked the guitar doing the "wolf whistle".
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Don't enjoy this song one bit. He's made plenty better ones.
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It's a fun song but yeah, he's done better
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I still want to know what the pompatus of love means. :lol
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Fun little song.
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David Bowie - Space Oddity
This is one of those songs that most people know, but many either don't know the name of it or mistakenly think it is called something else (like "Major Tom"). That aside, this is a great tune, and one of Bowie's classic rock mainstays. It's almost too easy and predictable to call this his best song, but it just might be. This is another one of those classic rock songs I don't remember hearing for the first time, but merely heard here and there, and before I knew it, it would come on and I'd think, "Oh yeah, I know this song!" :lol Oh, and :hefdaddy :hefdaddy to the mellotron work in this tune.
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Top 5 Bowie song, without a doubt
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Yep, definitely one of my favorite Bowie songs.
Also, I'm sure a lot of people here know this, but for those who don't, that's Rick Wakeman on keyboards.
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Love it. One of my favorites from him!
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That Little River Band song is one of my mom's favorite tunes. Practically grew up with it. It doesn't show up frequently, but when it does, it always brings a very positive vibe. Great track.
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Dang, I thought a few more people would know that one.
Yeah, especially when it was a really good song.
Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Not my favorite of his. Overplayed, too.
David Bowie - Space Oddity
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The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
This is another one of those songs that is so great and so classic, that I almost really don't have to say anything; its greatness speaks for itself. But I will say that the decision to use a female vocalist in this song was aces; I cannot imagine the song without Merry Clayton's voice. A lot of classic rock stations that focus more on harder rock stuff don't always play a lot of Rolling Stones, but they still play this song.
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Great song indeed, such a chaotic and ominous song
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Hate Rolling Stones.
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Not a huge fan of the Stones either, but Gimme Shelter is awesome :tup
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Steve Miller Band - The Joker
Another classic rock song I have seen my favorite cover band do with more energy, that makes the original seem a little stale. Never was a Steve Miller fan, but a good song.
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Never been a Bowie fan either. Good song, but won’t go out of my way to listen to it.
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
I think this is one of El Barto’s 2 perfect Stones songs. Went through a big Stones phase a while back, and burned out on this one. And it’s on the radio all the time. But no denying its greatness.
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Great song. I love the slow buildup at the beginning, the wicked guitar sound, Merry's vocals, pretty much everything about it.
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I simply can not stand the Stones
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Do not care for them, but this is one of ther better ones.
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I don't mind the Stones, it's just simple catchy rock and roll. There have plenty of dud songs, but a lot of good ones too.
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The Stones are a band that I respect for what they mean to the history of rock and roll, and yet can not stand in the least. :rollin
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don't care for the Stones but love this song
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The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
This is another one of those songs that is so great and so classic, that I almost really don't have to say anything; its greatness speaks for itself. But I will say that the decision to use a female vocalist in this song was aces; I cannot imagine the song without Merry Clayton's voice. A lot of classic rock stations that focus more on harder rock stuff don't always play a lot of Rolling Stones, but they still play this song.
I'm a big Stones fan, and this is one of their best songs IMHO.
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Elton John - Tiny Dancer
This is one of those classics that I never really went nuts over, and never go out of my way to listen to, but whenever I hear it, I always think it's a great song; just never appealed to me a lot. "Hold me closer, Tony Danza!" :lol
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Same here. Back in junior high, one of my buds was a big Elton John fan, and had all the early albums. For whatever reason, "Tiny Dancer" isn't on Greatest Hits and since I'd never heard it on the radio, I never even realized it was a hit. Now it's on the Classic Rock stations all the time, but I missed it the first time around. That's okay; it's a nice song, but not exactly a favorite.
And yeah, what's up with the Tony Danza thing? It's like he goes to say "Tiny Dancer" but his mouth goes into convulsions or something.
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I'm a huge Elton fan and this is one of my favorites of his
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It's okay, but overplayed.
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It's okay, but overplayed.
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I simply can't get into The Rolling Stones. Misogyny in lyrics is just something I don't dig.
Elton John is pretty cool, but again, I couldn't really get into him.
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The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Yes, it's overplayed. Yes, it's not my absolute favorite Stones song. Yes, they put out some REAL dreck. But... I still love this one.
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Not my favorite of his from the older stuff, but it's tolerable.
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Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
I had a few friends growing up that absolutely loved this song, and I think a large part of it was because of the song title, as jukeboxes were big back then, and a song called Juke Box Hero was too good to pass up, I guess. Me, I like the song, it is enjoyable enough, but it is not really one I'd ever call a favorite.
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I'd have to agree - good enough song, but I wouldn't call it a favorite either. I reserve that for their first album.
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My favorite Foreigner song. A great tune to sing along to, albeit badly :lol
So Kev, I'm curious, any plans to ever do a 90's Song of the Day?
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So Kev, I'm curious, any plans to ever do a 90's Song of the Day?
No chance. I didn't like enough mainstream music in the 90s to be able to do that decade justice. But if anyone else wants to take a stab at it, have at it. :)
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Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
I had a few friends growing up that absolutely loved this song, and I think a large part of it was because of the song title, as jukeboxes were big back then, and a song called Juke Box Hero was too good to pass up, I guess. Me, I like the song, it is enjoyable enough, but it is not really one I'd ever call a favorite.
A straight forward rocker to get the blood pumping. Not in my top 20 for Foreigner songs but a good tune live.
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Back in the day, there were two competing FM rock stations in my area. Keep in mind, this wasn't the time when stations like this were called classic rock, because, well, classic rock as we know it now was the present and near past. So the two stations tended to be very competitive, and one way they tried to keep people involved was call in polls for songs, and every night the stations would play their respective top tens for the day.
The less successful of the two stations was the pioneer of this, and on their nightly countdowns, only two songs held the top spot longer than Juke Box Hero. One was I Love It Loud by Kiss, and the other, inexplicably, was Flamethrower by the J. Geils Band. :lol
Another memory I have of this song was the review of Foreigner's 4 in the local morning paper (ahh, there's a memory. Time was there were both morning and evening papers. Then they merged and became one) where the reviewer called it the best yet strangest rock song since Rush's Tom Sawyer. Having UTTERLY dated myself now, I'll just say Juke Box Hero is a pretty interesting rocker by Foreigner, that does go through a sizable number of moods and tempo changes. Cool tune.
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An ok song, although the chorus annoys me for some reason. If it weren't for that, I'd probably like it more, but still not a favourite.
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Back in the day, there were two competing FM rock stations in my area. Keep in mind, this wasn't the time when stations like this were called classic rock, because, well, classic rock as we know it now was the present and near past. So the two stations tended to be very competitive, and one way they tried to keep people involved was call in polls for songs, and every night the stations would play their respective top tens for the day.
The less successful of the two stations was the pioneer of this, and on their nightly countdowns, only two songs held the top spot longer than Juke Box Hero. One was I Love It Loud by Kiss, and the other, inexplicably, was Flamethrower by the J. Geils Band. :lol
Another memory I have of this song was the review of Foreigner's 4 in the local morning paper (ahh, there's a memory. Time was there were both morning and evening papers. Then they merged and became one) where the reviewer called it the best yet strangest rock song since Rush's Tom Sawyer. Having UTTERLY dated myself now, I'll just say Juke Box Hero is a pretty interesting rocker by Foreigner, that does go through a sizable number of moods and tempo changes. Cool tune.
LOL indeed. :rollin :rollin
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Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
I was never much of a fan of this band, but this is a smokin' tune. Great guitar work by Mark Knopfler, and this is always a song that could result in you getting a speeding ticket on the freeway. :hat
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It's all about that ending solo. There's this band that plays at this local bar I go to a lot and this is one of their highlights. The guy kills the solo and even extends it to a couple of measures
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God I love this song. It has a lot of sentimental values for me, growing up on Dire Straits thanks to my dad. When he passed away, the song got a new meaning for me.
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Dont know alot about this band, but Kev is right, this is a smokin tune.
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I have pretty much everything from early Dire Straits, and this song is actually something of an anomoly for them. They had a couple of uptempo songs like this (which are all awesome), but most Dire Straits songs are kinda slow and moody. Very introspective.
Anyway yeah, this one rocks, and it's all about the ending solo. If they play it on the radio, they must allow it to play all the way out, until after the arpeggios, until the return to the three-chord hook, or I scream and turn off the radio in disgust, remembering why I hate radio.
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Love Mark's playing....can remember an old interview where he was asked why he doesn't play faster..his reply was classic..."because I can't"
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I love Mark's playing style. I definitely prefer that slower style more than the fast shredding of other guitarists.
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I love Dire Straits to pieces. They were a bit of an oddity for me because, even as I was at the height of my RAWR METAL phase, I loved them without any reservation. I remember MTV playing a Dire Straits concert from the same tour that produced Alchemy, their live album, and I was tired, so I dozed off during the end solo of Sultans of Swing. I woke up, feeling as if I had slept for hours, to see Mark Knopfler wailing away on the guitar. I had no idea what he was playing, but a little later the familiar guitar line of Sultans of Swing returned, and I realized they'd made the song even longer. I went out the next weekend and bought Alchemy to properly hear the over ten minute version of Sultans of Swing that I had dozed off for a couple of minutes in the middle of.
Goes without saying this song is a classic.
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The Alchemy version of Sultans is probably my favourite version.
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Classic song. Everything about it is just great.
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Back in the day, there were two competing FM rock stations in my area. Keep in mind, this wasn't the time when stations like this were called classic rock, because, well, classic rock as we know it now was the present and near past. So the two stations tended to be very competitive, and one way they tried to keep people involved was call in polls for songs, and every night the stations would play their respective top tens for the day.
Was one of them Z104?
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Yeah, definitely a classic. Reminds me of MTV back in the good ole days when they used to play music videos.
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Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
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Back in the day, there were two competing FM rock stations in my area. Keep in mind, this wasn't the time when stations like this were called classic rock, because, well, classic rock as we know it now was the present and near past. So the two stations tended to be very competitive, and one way they tried to keep people involved was call in polls for songs, and every night the stations would play their respective top tens for the day.
Was one of them Z104?
I was thinking of K94 and WNOR myself. By the time Z104 impinged itself on my consciousness it was a pop station playing speeded up versions of MTV hits to get more songs in per hour.
No, seriously, they did that for a while. :lol
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:rollin
Granted, I was in 3rd grade at the time, so I can't say I remember a hell of a lot about it. :omg:
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Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
I was never much of a fan of this band, but this is a smokin' tune. Great guitar work by Mark Knopfler, and this is always a song that could result in you getting a speeding ticket on the freeway. :hat
FUCKING AMAZING SONG!!
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Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
I don't drop to my knees and genuflect to Springsteen on a daily basis (like 99% of rock critics do), but I do enjoy a number of his songs quite a bit, and this is one of them; damn good song. And it is easily his most classic hit. It is the Springsteen song from the 70s that everyone knows, whether they know it or not.
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Huge Springsteen fan here, and this is perhaps his best song ever (or tied with Jungleland).
I'm so glad I've actually seen this song live. Can't say enough superlatives about this :hefdaddy
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Huge Springsteen fan here, and this is perhaps his best song ever (or tied with Jungleland).
I'm so glad I've actually seen this song live. Can't say enough superlatives about this :hefdaddy
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I wouldn't classify myself as 'huge fan', but love most of what the boss did (pre Born in the USA). This whole album is top shelf material.
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Not a fan if Springsteen, but this is one of his better songs.
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This and Thunder Road are two of my favorite Bruce songs
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Sultans of Swing. :heart
Springsteen gets on my nerves. I think he's an untalented hack, honestly.
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Not a fan if Springsteen, but this is one of his better songs.
Exactly.
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One of Bruce's better songs. I don't own anything but a greatest hits by him and I'm happy with just the GH.
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Sammy Hagar - There's Only One Way to Rock
Definitely one of his biggest and well-known classic rock staples to date. He has a lot of regional well-known songs, especially here in St. Louis, where he is worshipped as a rock god, but There's Only One Way to Rock is a Hagar song that rock fans everywhere know. It was even featured on a VH tour or two, IIRC, when he was part of the band. I like the song, and while I never go out of my way to listen to it, if it comes on, I enjoy the hell out of it. Oh, and to address just how popular Hagar really is here in St. Louis, in KSHE-95's current March Bandness 64-band tournament https://www.kshe95.com/marchbandness/bracket/2013.aspx, Hagar as a solo artist is a number 1 seed (along with Rush, Zeppelin and AC/DC).
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I loved this song after hearing it on the VH live album "Right Here, Right Now". Studio version rocks too. :metal
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Great song. I love the upbeat Sammy stuff.
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I loved this song after hearing it on the VH live album "Right Here, Right Now". Studio version rocks too. :metal
Live version slays the studio version. One of those songs where the live version is so much better than the studio, it's painful to listen to the studio. My opinion only.
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I loved this song after hearing it on the VH live album "Right Here, Right Now". Studio version rocks too. :metal
Live version slays the studio version. One of those songs where the live version is so much better than the studio, it's painful to listen to the studio. My opinion only.
I agree, although having heard the live version first, and being a huge VH fan, I'm going to be biased on that.
Although I don't at all find the studio version painful. I think it still rocks, it just feels lacking without the extra touches of the live version imo.
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In general, I find Hagar's music to be much better live. It's just so polished on the record. Doesn't sit right with me.
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In general, I find Hagar's music to be much better live. It's just so polished on the record. Doesn't sit right with me.
Agreed. His studio albums never really caught how powerful a live act Hagar was back in the day. Which was a problem a lot of rock acts had back then. Loved this song, a classic crank it up radio song, but so much better live. He had an MTV concert during the 3 Lock Box tour and this song KILLED live.
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Sammy Hagar - There's Only One Way to Rock
I agree with people who've posted that Sammy is MUCH more smokin live, though this is still a pretty damn good song.
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Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
I have to admit that I had never heard this song before I saw it on Queen's Freddie Mercury concert tribute video, but I liked it then, and I liked the studio version when I finally heard it, too. I don't know much else by them, but while I like this song, it never really gave me the urge to check out much else.
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Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
I have to admit that I had never heard this song before I saw it on Queen's Freddie Mercury concert tribute video, but I liked it then, and I liked the studio version when I finally heard it, too. I don't know much else by them, but while I like this song, it never really gave me the urge to check out much else.
That was part of the problem Mott the Hoople had. No one wanted to listen to anything else they did :lol
Okay, that's an exaggeration, as they had a few other hits and toured with bands such as Queen and Aerosmith opening for them, but really, the height of their success was brought to them by David Bowie writing this song and producing the album it was on, so that's what's lingered to this day. Cool song, always liked it. I remember an Ian Hunter concert on MTV way back in the day (Oh no, I'm crossing the streams of the two Song of the Day threads!) that MTV took his version of All The Young Dudes from to make a video that played all the damn time in the early days. Like every hour. :lol
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The first time I heard "All the Young Dudes" I was in junior high, and I said "What the fuck? Is he singing about being attracted by all the young dudes and wanting to fuck every one of them?" And yeah, the song was kinda catchy and cool, but sorry, a song about gay sex wasn't gonna work for me, and it still doesn't.
When I was growing up, we didn't call it homophobia; there were straights and gays, and if you were straight and said that the idea of two guys getting it on weirded you out or just plain disgusted you, people didn't say "Ah, methinks thou dost object too strongly. You must be a closet homo." It was actually okay to be straight. Now, not only is it politically correct to be tolerant (which I have no problem with), it's actually swung all the way the other direction. You're not allowed to be fucking straight anymore. How did that happen?
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I think you might slightly misunderstand this one Orbert. Sounds like one of those hippie love in kind of grooves
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Oh wow, did you miss the point of this song BADLY, Orbert. :lol
It's not even about love. It's about nihilism. It's about kids looking at the failing revolution of the hippie movement and saying "fuck it. Spread the news, the world's gonna end." It's about killing yourself rather than growing old. But it's not about being gay. At ALL.
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Now Lucy looks sweet cause he dresses like a queen
But he can kick like a mule it's a real mean team
But we can love
Oh yes, we can love
Hey you there with the glasses, I want you
Now you, all his friends, now you bring him down 'cause I want him
I want him, right here, bring him, come on
I've wanted to do this for years
There you go!
How do you feel?
Yes, obviously it's about nihilism. It's not about gay sex.
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Given that what I said was what David Bowie said the song was about-and I've got this thing about authorial intent, strange though it may seem-you can take it up with him. Notice you didn't nitpick out the lyrics about shoplifting and suicide though.
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No, I cited the lyrics that jumped out at me. Like I said, the song was catchy, but when I actually listened to some of the lyrics, this is what I heard. The first verse blew past me, something about some guy with spots on his face or something... the second verse talks about a guy who goes by the name of "Lucy", dresses like a queen, and kicks like a mule, but we can love. Uh, okay. Drank a lot of wine, gotta race some cat to bed... that one might not be a sexual reference I guess. Then it goes into the chorus, which repeats while he ad-libs. Hey dudes! I want to see you, I want you, you in the front with the glasses. I've wanted to do this for years. Ah! How's that feel?
I think it's possible that David had a different meaning in mind when he wrote it, but Ian Hunter spun it his own way, and he is gay after all, so I don't think I'm misconstruing all his ad-libbing at the end.
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Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
This being his only real classic rock staple (his other big solo "hits" are more of the 80s variety than classic rock), this tends to sometimes get dismissed by his hardcore fans, like, "Good song, but he has tons that are better." That may or may not be true, but this is a terrific song no matter how you slice it. I admittedly do not always listen to it if it comes on, but I was at a friend's recently and he had his classic rock playlist going, and when this played, I thought to myself, "Ya know, this song really is just too great for words."
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It's about Autism, right?
(sorry if that was in bad taste)
I never gave a damn about Solsbury Hill until I heard Solitary Shell. Someone mentioned the connection... I listened to it again... and it clicked. :tup
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A really great tune. I bet when it first came out fans were kind of shocked because it sounded like such a departure from his work with Genesis
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It's a good song. Peter's solo work is, in general, structurally much more simple than his work with Genesis, but that's not really surprising since he wasn't the primary songwriter in Genesis. He wrote a lot of lyrics and vocal melodies, but most of the songs were collaborative, and he actually wrote very little of the music.
So when the song came out, I remember thinking that yes, it was different from Genesis, but I wasn't really surprised. Most of Peter's solo stuff sounds nothing like Genesis, which is fine with me, since Genesis gradually moved in a direction I didn't really care for.
Kinda cool that it's in 7/4. It took me the longest time to notice that, because I'm so used to stuff in odd meters anyway. :P
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One of Gabriel's best songs.
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Argent - Hold Your Head Up
This is another one of those classic rock songs that I think I heard so much over time that one day it was like, "Oh yeah, I know that song." Very good song, and featuring some killer organ work. That was the great about the 70s: you could have some catchy rock song, and then throw in a long killer organ or keyboard solo in the middle, and it could still be a big hit. :tup :tup
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Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
This being his only real classic rock staple (his other big solo "hits" are more of the 80s variety than classic rock), this tends to sometimes get dismissed by his hardcore fans, like, "Good song, but he has tons that are better." That may or may not be true, but this is a terrific song no matter how you slice it. I admittedly do not always listen to it if it comes on, but I was at a friend's recently and he had his classic rock playlist going, and when this played, I thought to myself, "Ya know, this song really is just too great for words."
His best song, and a Top 10 of all time for me. Can't really explain why I love it so much, though.
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Argent - Hold Your Head Up
This is another one of those classic rock songs that I think I heard so much over time that one day it was like, "Oh yeah, I know that song." Very good song, and featuring some killer organ work. That was the great about the 70s: you could have some catchy rock song, and then throw in a long killer organ or keyboard solo in the middle, and it could still be a big hit. :tup :tup
Yeah, Argent was cool. I thought we'd already discussed this song, but I guess it was The Zombies, who had Rod Argent as their keyboardist. I love the solo in particular, but the song itself was great. Good, positive message, and lots of tasty Hammond work throughout.
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When I saw The Zombies last year (almost a year ago to the day, actually) they also played this one. It was a great live song.
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Dig the song. I think it's the only Argent song I know. Used to get a lot of radio air-time up here. Haven't heard it (other than on my iPod/Phone) in a while. Good tune. Sick bass lick.
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You may know another Argent song and not realize it. Argent did the original version of "God Gave Rock and Roll to You" which features in one of the Bill and Ted movies (I forget which one). KISS covered it for the movie soundtrack and got a minor hit out of it. It's from the same Argent album (All Together Now) as "Hold Your Head Up".
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I love this one. Hammond is one of the best instruments ever.
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You may know another Argent song and not realize it. Argent did the original version of "God Gave Rock and Roll to You" which features in one of the Bill and Ted movies (I forget which one). KISS covered it for the movie soundtrack and got a minor hit out of it. It's from the same Argent album (All Together Now) as "Hold Your Head Up".
It was Bogus Journey. :blob:
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Thanks! I thought so, but I wasn't sure.
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Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
An unquestioned classic, this is another one of those "its awesomeness goes without saying" songs. There is little I can say about this song that hasn't been said already over the years.
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Top 50 of all time material right there. No question the song that Kansas is known for... and for good reason
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Classic indeed :metal
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No doubt one of Kansas' finest.
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Great song
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Her name was LeAnn. She was a friend of my sister's, so she was a grade ahead of me. She had long red hair, an exquisitely beautiful face, and the most amazing breasts I'd ever seen. She also sang like an angel, and she needed someone to accompany her on piano in the school talent show. I was happy to oblige.
She was, of course, incredible. To thank me, she gave me a copy of Leftoverture by Kansas, still in the shrink wrap. I'd heard their song "Carry On Wayward Son" and liked it, so it was cool, much appreciated. Then I listened to the rest of the album and my mind was blown. I ended up getting the entire back catalogue, as well as Point of Know Return which had just come out.
Trivia: "Carry On Wayward Son" was a last-minute addition to the album. What made Kansas different from other American prog bands was the violin. Leftoverture was almost done, and they were quite proud of it, but what they really needed was a single. Kerry Livgren had this one song he'd written, it didn't have any violin and wasn't really that prog, but it was rockin', so they recorded it, and decided that it should be the lead single on the album. The rest is history.
It worked. I love "Carry On Wayward Son" and how it sets the tone for the entire album, and it wasn't until I read that story later that I even realized that there's no violin and it's the least proggy song on the album. But it's a rocker and has a bit more going on than most mid-70's rockers. The breakdown is pretty long, as are the intro and outro, and they're all cut on the single version.
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Easily one of my favorite songs of all time. It pretty much changed my life because it sparked an interest in Kansas for me, and led me to progressive rock.
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I am sure this has been posted before, but it is worth doing so again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pS5xzOWbwo
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:omg: Holy Shit!
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I just shat bricks. Enough to build a house for me and my two turtles.
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Did you check out her playlist? She does a great YYZ as well as some "regular" classic rock stuff. Amazing kid. Too bad the audience doesn't seem to have any idea what's going on.
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Great song.
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Journey 1975 tell me this riff doesnt sound familiar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SwXrajVHY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Not only a classic but one of the best classics of all time. :hefdaddy
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Too bad the audience doesn't seem to have any idea what's going on.
Respect.
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I am sure this has been posted before, but it is worth doing so again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pS5xzOWbwo
That is pretty damn impressive talent there.
I was always partial to the The Trombone Quartet version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJaX4ZpfULM)
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Mason Proffit - Two Hangmen
This may be another one of those regional hits, but this folksy tune from 1969 is nothing short of magnificent. Very cool lyrics, and the climax in this song never fails to give me goosebumps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3yZdG_2Bc
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Regional hit. :rollin
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Regional hit. :rollin
This. Never heard of the band or song.
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Maybe listen to the link, which I provided, eh? :biggrin:
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I'm at work so I will listen when I get home. I don't remember the title either but I bet as soon as I hear it I'll give it the old, "Oh Yeah!"
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I did, and I still don't remember it. If it got airplay here, it was before I lived here, and I know it didn't get airplay in West Virginia when I was a kid. Sounds like solid late 60s folk-rock to me though. :D
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Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Good one.
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
:heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
Argent - Hold Your Head Up
Great song. In my younger years though, I often confused this song as being done by Yes. :facepalm:
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Awesome song is WAY awesome. :hat
Mason Proffit - Two Hangmen
Yeah - regional hit.
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Maybe listen to the link, which I provided, eh? :biggrin:
Allow me to clarify.
Never heard of the band or song UNTIL LISTENING TO THE LINK THAT KEV PROVIDED.
:lol :lol
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Maybe listen to the link, which I provided, eh? :biggrin:
Allow me to clarify.
Never heard of the band or song UNTIL LISTENING TO THE LINK THAT KEV PROVIDED.
:lol :lol
Damn it. :facepalm: :lol
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John Lennon - Imagine
One of the greatest and important songs of the 20th century, hands down. I remember hearing this for the first time - I think I was like 10 at the time - and even at that young age, its greatness and beauty was just mind-blowing. This is obviously a bit too mellow for some of the more hard rock classic rock radio stations nowadays, but that takes nothing away from what an ageless, classic tune this is. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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:lol
Kev, I never heard that song before.
Imagine - That song has so many meanings about the world, John himself and what we take from it personally.
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:lol
Kev, I never heard that song before.
It must just be a regional hit. It was huge here in St. Louis, hence its placement at number 5 on this list:
https://www.kshe95.com/klassics/top95.aspx
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John Lennon - Imagine
One of the greatest and important songs of the 20th century, hands down. I remember hearing this for the first time - I think I was like 10 at the time - and even at that young age, its greatness and beauty was just mind-blowing. This is obviously a bit too mellow for some of the more hard rock classic rock radio stations nowadays, but that takes nothing away from what an ageless, classic tune this is. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
Great song, beautiful in its simplicity, and its meaning. John was definitely the dreamer, the idealist.
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The first time I heard the song Imagine actually wasn't the song itself, amazingly enough.
I don't know how I managed this, given the song in question, but the first time I heard Imagine was when a local Beatles tribute band, who in truth were pretty good, played a show at a nearby mall, and they did Imagine as a tribute to Lennon. "That's a pretty lovely song" I thought, but, in perhaps true Jaq in the 80s style, my attention was quickly distracted by looking down and seeing someone had dropped some money on the floor behind the crowd of people watching the band. NINE DOLLARS!
This being 1981, nine dollars went a long way. Long enough to buy an album-Journey's Escape-and a paperback book. So part of me, whenever I think of Imagine, is still thinking "NINE BUCKS! I'M GONNA BUY AN ALBUM NOW!" :lol
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I'm not a big fan of it, but it's alright. Alan White on the drums!
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Yep, he did a lot of work with John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band before joining Yes.
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Yep, he did a lot of work with John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band before joining Yes.
And you'll be sure he'll get a question about it in every interview. :lol
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My favorite John Lennon solo song, such a great piece of music
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Prism - Armageddon
Another possibly under-recognized classic rock song in some circles, I remember hearing this song for the first time on the radio and thinking, "Wow." The intro is very progressive-influenced, before busting into what is a very 70s-sounding normal song, albeit with horns at times, and then finally reprising the intro melody at the end. Fantastic song. And if you've never heard it, check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPhGRQzboE
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Prism got some airplay around here for Don't Let Him Know, which was written by Jim Vallance and Bryan Adams and in retrospect sounds like it. A lot of their albums were sold here, so I suspect Armageddon got some airplay around here when it came out, but that was a year or two before I arrived here. Trivia about Prism: they not only launched the career of Jim Vallance, (who was actually for a time a member of the band and a major songwriter) but of producer Bruce Fairbairn, and Bob Rock was credited as an engineer on some of their albums. There were a lot of Canadian bands in the late 70s that bubbled just under the level of stardom, and they were pretty good. Man, I miss the 70s some times. :rollin
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Hmmm, I didn't know a lot of that! Good info. :coolio
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John Lennon - Imagine
:heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
Gorgeous song.
Prism - Armageddon
Probably another regional hit - never heard it until today. It's... okay. Takes a bit too long to get started, and the horns are okay, but... I really didn't dig on it. It sounded like they were trying to be a little too ambitious with it, especially since it was released during a time where true prog was on the downward tilt.
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Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain
This is another one of those songs that is good, and I enjoy it every time I hear it, but I never get the urge to intentionally turn it on and listen to it. That aside, this is easily not only Rainbow's most classic and recognizable tune from the 70s, but probably of Ronnie James Dio's entire career.
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Dio is amazing.
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Only Ronnie James Dio could sing something like "I'm the Man on the Silver Mountain!" -- which, if you think about it, is incredibly cheesy and really kinda lame -- and make it sound awesome. One of the greatest rock voices ever.
I guess I'm kinda with Kev on this one. I won't change the station when it comes on the radio, but I think I've intentionally played Rainbow maybe twice in my life, and I have two of their albums. Good stuff, but it all kinda sounds the same to me.
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Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain
Awesome song is awesome, but like Mister Shmevin and Orbert... I really don't go out of my way to listen to it.
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I'm a huge Dio fan and a moderate Rainbow fan, but I've never even heard of this song. One of the few Rainbow albums I don't have.
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I liked Rainbow throughout all their phases, from their 70s Dio led era, with Blackmore stretching the songs out to ridiculous lengths live, through their more hard rock/AOR period in the 80s, but I never really was a huge fan of Man On The Silver Mountain. The first Rainbow album is a little undercooked; they took off for me with Rising, which has Stargazer, which for me is the definitive Dio era Rainbow song. :metal
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I'm a huge Dio fan and a moderate Rainbow fan, but I've never even heard of this song. One of the few Rainbow albums I don't have.
I'm the opposite. This is one of the only Dio songs I have heard. :lol
It's pretty good.
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I'm a huge Dio fan and a moderate Rainbow fan, but I've never even heard of this song. One of the few Rainbow albums I don't have.
Seriously? It was pretty much the song that put Rainbow and RJD on the map. Or so I always thought. I'd never heard of either of them before it, and not a whole lot after.
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I'm a huge Dio fan and a moderate Rainbow fan, but I've never even heard of this song. One of the few Rainbow albums I don't have.
Seriously? It was pretty much the song that put Rainbow and RJD on the map. Or so I always thought. I'd never heard of either of them before it, and not a whole lot after.
I obviously wasn't around back then, so I'm not trying to dispute anything! All I'm saying is that as a general Dio fan for all of his projects, I've somehow never heard this song come up. It's likely just slipped under my radar, being a relatively younger music fan. Given the success he had between Rainbow, Black Sabbath and solo, it wouldn't be too hard for that to happen when seeing it all in retrospect.
But hey, that's the good thing about this thread. For those of us who know the songs, it's a chance to remember and discuss classic songs, and for those of us who don't, it's a chance to discover some more classic stuff. :tup
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I forget sometimes how age plays into it. But as a "huge Dio fan and a moderate Rainbow fan" it just seems bizarre that you'd never even heard of the song. It was huge and really was their breakthrough. Thats akin to someone being a huge DT fan, but has never heard of "Pull Me Under".
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I was gonna say, it is like being a Kansas fan and not knowing Carry On Wayward Son. But hey, better later than never, right? ;)
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I forget sometimes how age plays into it. But as a "huge Dio fan and a moderate Rainbow fan" it just seems bizarre that you'd never even heard of the song. It was huge and really was their breakthrough. To me, that seems akin to someone being a huge DT fan, but has never heard of "Pull Me Under". Because they're not familiar with the early stuff or something.
I think the difference is because DT is one band, as opposed to Dio being well known for several different bands, and they're all different, so I've explored some of them more thoroughly than others.
Actually, now that I think about it, the first Rainbow album is one of the only major things I don't have with him. I have every solo album, the other two Rainbow albums, and the Sabbath stuff (including the H&H album, which is still Sabbath). Since I never hear anything about the first album, I'd just forgotten all about it.
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Dio Rules!
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Dio Rules!
:metal
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
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Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
His standing as a gun-toting redneck aside, Nugent has been in on his fair share of good songs over the years, especially as a solo artist back in the day, and Stranglehold was a really good one, one that showcased how good of a guitar player he is. A classic by any measure or standard.
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Still my favorite Nugent song. I love the solo, how it kinda sneaks up on you (you don't realize at first that it's going into the solo, it could've just been another break before a verse or something) then how it keeps going, taking its time, and that "fanfare" towards the end. Great song!
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I don't know, as much as I like Nuge for his all out guitar badassery and such, this song has always been kinda blah for me. Never could stand up to things like Wango Tango, in my opinion.
I recall an article in Circus Magazine where they asked all these well-known guitarists what their favorite guitar solo was. A number of obvious ones were referenced, like Stairway, Comfortably Numb, Eruption, Machine Gun (Hendrix), etc. Nuge's favorite?
Stranglehold. He went on to describe how lyrical and passionate it was. Textbook Nugent narcissism. :lol
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love this song, my favorite from Ted Nugent
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I recall an article in Circus Magazine where they asked all these well-known guitarists what their favorite guitar solo was. A number of obvious ones were referenced, like Stairway, Comfortably Numb, Eruption, Machine Gun (Hendrix), etc. Nuge's favorite?
Stranglehold. He went on to describe how lyrical and passionate it was. Textbook Nugent narcissism. :lol
Okay, that's true about Nugent being 100% full of himself. But that solo really is awesome. It's practically its own composition. It has a number of changes to it, it has a great buildup and conclusion. As I said upthread, I just like the way it takes its time and says what it needs to say. It's not your standard 16-bar or 32-bar solo in place of a verse or chorus, but because of that, he had to structure it to actually make it musically interesting, and I think he nailed it.
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Agreed, Orbert. It's just a perfectly written and executed solo. Nugent isn't one of my favorite guitar players, but he does have a handful of solos that I absolutely love (several of which were with Damn Yankees).
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Oh I know, it definitely is a great solo. I just thought it really funny how when these well-known guitarists are talking about other peoples' classic solos that they love, he goes with one of his own.
Just the song itself has always left me cold and I just cannot seem to put my finger on why that is.
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Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
Bad ass song is bad ass. :metal
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Oh shit, I didn't realize that that was the question! I thought that that was the point, to pick their favorite solo of theirs.
Out of the infinite number of solos ever played and/or recorded, his favorite is one of his own, from his own first album? Great, Ted. Might as well just quit, then, 'cause you're never gonna top it.
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Right, they obviously weren't required to pick someone else's, it was just something like "What's your all-time favorite guitar solo", but as you've said, with that many solos to choose from, to pick your own, from your first album, is just "Wow". Keep in mind this issue of Circus Magazine was from late 80's/early 90's.
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Stranglehold is awesome, and I'm more of a Stargazer fan personally
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Kickass muthafuckin' tune. :2metal:
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Derek & the Dominos - Layla
This song never gets old. I cannot count how many times I've heard it over the years, and it still kicks my ass every time I hear it. I love how popular it is considering it is basically two songs, the first three minutes being the rocking section, and the piano-driven coda that comprises the second part actually being longer than the first part. And I know I am one of many who thinks of Goodfellas every time the piano coda kicks in. :coolio
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Just as good acoustic as electric
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I always liked the main song, but the coda, while very nice, just goes on too long. If it were about half as long, it would be great.
The acoustic version was okay. Kinda weird after listening to the original for decades, but I can understand Clapton's need to reinvent the song. Artists like that must have a lot of mixed feelings about playing those same songs for 20 or 30 or more years.
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Great tune, but the tacked on ending just seems like "Well, we had another song that we didn't know what to do with it, so we'll just stick it here at the end of this song." Kinda like Stone in Love.
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First half of the song is blistering. Second half goes on too long, but it's still nice.
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Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Great song, and I guess from reading the posts so far that I'm one of the few here who don't mind the coda.
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I think I might like the second part of the song better than the first.
But I actually prefer the acoustic version overall. DEAL WITH IT
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The unplugged version is pretty damn hip. :tup
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Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Great song, and I guess from reading the posts so far that I'm one of the few here who don't mind the coda.
You're not alone! :D The coda is better than the actual song, if you ask me.
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Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Great song, and I guess from reading the posts so far that I'm one of the few here who don't mind the coda.
You're not alone! :D The coda is better than the actual song, if you ask me.
I agree, the coda is the best part actually. Plus that cool riff in the first half.
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The Band - The Weight
Undoubtedly a classic, this is a song that seemingly everyone goes nuts over, and I can see why it is still so well-liked, but it never did a lot for me. I don't dislike it, but it is not a song that I cannot turn off. And if I do listen to it, once I get past the first chorus, it's like, "Okay, that's enough of that."
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The Band - The Weight
Undoubtedly a classic, this is a song band that seemingly everyone goes nuts over, and I can see why it they are still so well-liked, but it they never did a lot for me.
When fixed like this, it sums up my thoughts on the Band perfectly. :rollin
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I barely listen to any country, but The Band is the exception to that. Their first two albums are both great, and The Weight is a great song.
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Great song
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I can listen to this song when it comes round on the radio, because it doesn't come round very often. But it doesn't thrill me. I've tried listening to the words, but I don't think I've ever made through the song without my mind starting to wander.
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For as much as I hear and read about The Band being such a great band, I rarely, if ever, talk to anyone who likes them, or knows anything they have ever done.
I know this song, but only after a trip to wikipedia. Before that, couldn't have told you what it was called or who sang it.
My first introduction to members of The Band was on Roger Waters' VHS(!) tape from his performance of The Wall in 1990. A couple old guys sing the chorus to Mother, and poorly, if you ask me. I saw they were members of The Band, which meant nothing to me at the time.
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I can listen to this song when it comes round on the radio, because it doesn't come round very often. But it doesn't thrill me. I've tried listening to the words, but I don't think I've ever made through the song without my mind starting to wander.
Pretty much this, yeah.
Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Great song, and I guess from reading the posts so far that I'm one of the few here who don't mind the coda.
You're not alone! :D The coda is better than the actual song, if you ask me.
Yay! :D :hifive:
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The Band - The Weight
Eh...
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Music From Big Pink as a whole didn't do much for me when I listened to it. However, I love The Weight.
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April Wine - Roller
This is another one of those classic rock artists that has about 10-12 songs that I enjoy quite a bit, with a few standouts, this being one of them. This is just a fun rocking tune, and is probably one of their most well-played songs on classic rock radio to this day.
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Not here it isn't. :lol
Funny thing about that was that while Roller didn't get airplay here-local radio did pick up on April Wine with Harder...Faster and I Like To Rock-local record stores sold every April Wine album. Even the albums before First Glance, which was the one with Roller and the one where the band started getting noticed in America. From what I just read on Wiki, Roller started on the radio in Michigan, which probably explains why its still getting airplay in the Midwest. Always dug April Wine, even though they kind of were a generic hard rock band in some ways.
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I love Roller. I still remember when April Wine first hit the airwaves in Michigan, so I guess I was one of those who got to hear it first. And since the album was called First Glance and no one had heard of them before, we all assumed it was their kickass debut album. Turns out it was their seventh album.
I love the 12/8 shuffling, rolling feel, the multi-guitar leads, the vocals, pretty much everything. Great, rocking song. ♫♫
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April Wine - Roller
I vaguely remember this one. Not bad.
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never heard of it
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Jeez Kev, going through your Canadian collection? :D The joys of being Canadian, we get a LOT of these kinds of bands on the airwaves. Radio stations up here are are mandated to play a certain percentage of their airtime for Canadian artists (I think it's 30%). Now, with acts like Rush, Triumph, Bryan Adams etc... it's not too tough. But then you also get a lot from the b-list bands like April Wine, Max Webster, Chilliwack, Alannah Myles, BTO, The Guess Who, The Weight, etc...
Great tune btw...
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Man, one I don't know, what the hell?
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was a big April Wine fan for awhile, but honestly the got limited airplay in the NYC/NJ area ( Just Between You and Me and Gypsy Queen) were the only songs I remember on the radio
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Toto - Hold the Line
Toto managed this one huge classic rock hit, from 1978. A very 70'ish-sounding tune, I dig it. The harmonies always remind me of something you'd hear by Little River Band or The Doobie Brothers.
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Always been a big Toto fan. Great tune, on of those you would hear on the radio and blast it and sing the chorus in the car.
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I was just listening to Toto about an hour ago, so I just listened to both Toto songs in this thread and the other one.
I love Hold The Line. It's not my favourite from the album, but it's right up there.
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Amazing song. One of my favorites.
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Great song! I love the keyboard intro, which follows the syncopated rhythm of the main riff, but since the rest of the band hasn't come in yet, it sounds "wrong" the first time, then when the rest of the band comes in you realize that he knew what he was doing all along.
I sat and figured it all out on piano one time, just because. I didn't have a band to play it in or anything. :(
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Great song! I love the keyboard intro, which follows the syncopated rhythm of the main riff, but since the rest of the band hasn't come in yet, it sounds "wrong" the first time, then when the rest of the band comes in you realize that he knew what he was doing all along.
I sat and figured it all out on piano one time, just because. I didn't have a band to play it in or anything. :(
I can play it on piano too. The verses are really fun, with the way the dynamics fade in for each chord. The real trouble for that song (for any instrument) is just keeping it tight, because it's such a tight 6/8 (or would it be 12/8) rhythm from the band.
Speaking of which, there's a barely noticeable dud note in the intro piano bit, a bit after the drums come in.
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I always thought there was, but these guys were so good, I thought maybe it was supposed to be there.
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Considering how many times that riff plays without (from what I can tell) the extra note there, and never noticing it live, I always took it as a mistake, although with the chord changes, it doesn't really sound off or bad anyway, so it's kind of a moot point to me.
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Speaking of which, there's a barely noticeable dud note in the intro piano bit, a bit after the drums come in.
I love when they happens and they DON'T fix it. Like the fat-finger in the keyboard solo to Zep's "All of My Love".
Of this one and the one in the 80's thread, I think I prefer Hold the Line. The vocals in this one REALLY get up there. The harmonies, everything. Excellent.
Great song! I love the keyboard intro, which follows the syncopated rhythm of the main riff, but since the rest of the band hasn't come in yet, it sounds "wrong" the first time, then when the rest of the band comes in you realize that he knew what he was doing all along.
Listening to it again, I see what you mean about how the piano part sounds off when the band comes in. He's accenting it in these kinda off-beat places and when the drums come in it's like "No wait, something's off here...Oh no wait, now it makes sense".
And wow, I've heard this song countless times and I never paid attention to what an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo that is. :metal
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And wow, I've heard this song countless times and I never paid attention to what an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo that is. :metal
And that last run with the harmonies. :metal
I always have to air drum along to the solo section, because the drums are louder and looser, with some cool fills. Nothing difficult, but I've always liked it.
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Not as great as Africa, but probably like it more than Rosanna
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And wow, I've heard this song countless times and I never paid attention to what an absolutely bitchin' guitar solo that is. :metal
And that last run with the harmonies. :metal
I always have to air drum along to the solo section, because the drums are louder and looser, with some cool fills. Nothing difficult, but I've always liked it.
Yeah, I love the last line with the harmonies. Great break.
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I love this song. Great vocals and riff.
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That one's aged better than Rosanna, frankly.
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Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise
The best thing about this song is the groove; it is hard to not tap your foot to it once it gets going. I remember never really thinking much of this song, probably because I didn't give it a lot of attention, but one day, a bunch of us went over to the house of a friend of a friend, and this song was cranked up on his stereo at some point and the groove of the song really hit me hard that particular day. It was then that I took particular note of the song and thought, "Okay, this song is pretty darn good."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy85g5h27qs
Cool song. :tup
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Great tune. My favorite by him and blob, if that's the commercial I won't look!! :lol
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Great tune. My favorite by him and blob, if that's the commercial I won't look!! :lol
Nope, it's a Simpsons clip. You're safe to look!
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Great song indeed
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Not bad, but I wouldn't go out of the way to listen to it.
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Only familar with the song thanks to the Simpsons, good stuff.
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Excellent song.
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The solo/instrumental section is totally killer and overlooked. This is a great song.
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Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Definitely a classic tune, I suspect that this is a song many have grown to hate, but it is impossible not to know it. I still like it, especially when someone karaokes it, and I have to admit that I still know almost all of the words to it. I mean, I can't sit there and rattle them off on command, but turn the song on and ask me to sing along and I can pretty much do it without missing many words. Interestingly, this has never struck me as being a song that classic rock radio plays to death, but it is a classic rock song nonetheless.
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Completely overblown, and overplayed, as are all Meat Loaf songs, but a classic nonetheless.
I actually like the story it tells, the place where we've all been, the promises we make, and the unforseen consequences.
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I'm in the same boat with Bob. I just can't listen to it anymore.
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One of the weakest songs on a great album.
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A sign of the early days of MTV was, when they got the videos off of Bat Out Of Hell, the videos were an eight minute version of of the title track, and the FULL version of Paradise by the Dashboard Light...and they played them in FULL. :lol Different time, man.
As for the song itself; would be the worst song on the album if All Revved Up And No Place To Go wasn't on it. It's become a classic, yes, but the rest of the album is so much better that I rarely play it, and I'm a general sucker for Steinman's batshit crazy, over the top style.
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I probably will never get tired of this song
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Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise
Never really dug this one.
Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Decent enough song, but I was never really a big fan of it.
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Bat Out Of Hell is a fucking fantastic album, and so is this song. :metal
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Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
This is probably still THE most recognizable riff in the history of rock music. I remember it always being the riff that new guitar players wanted to learn how to play, and in many cases, the riff itself made peeps want to learn how to play the guitar, just so they could play that riff. And it is easy to see why: the riff, after all, is still after all of these years totally awesome. The rest of the song is good, too, but that riff...it's all about the riff. :metal :metal
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Classic!
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That sums it up perfectly. Everyone man and his dog knows that riff, even if they don't know the song.
A great solo too. I was pretty pissed off that when seeing Deep Purple a month ago that Steve Morse made no attempt to retain any of it. Blasphemy!
I remember once having an argument with my high school music teacher because she didn't believe me that the hammond organ doubling the riff was a hammond organ. She was adamant it was another guitar. :lol
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Doon't forget the unwritten rule of not playing this song and Stairway To Heaven while trying out guitars at a music shop. :lol
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Just going to add to what others have said: it's the riff, man. One of the most recognizable riffs in the history of rock and roll. The song is great overall, but man, that riff. :metal
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Classic as it gets, great song.
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Awesome song. I really like it when the bass first comes in.
Also, it includes one of my favorite misheard lyrics that I've read somewhere: Slow Walking Walter, the fire engine guy.
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That's great! :rollin
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Breakdown
Good tune. It can be an easy to dismiss, even if you aren't a fan of his, or if you like a lot of his songs more, but this really is a well-written song. I love the way during the instrumental interludes, the way the organ acts as almost a counterpoint to the lead guitar playing, and then later in the song, the vocal harmonies add another element to the mix. I love that aspect of the song. The vocal melodies almost act as a build-up to those little instrumental sections.
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Definitely one of his good early songs
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I'm not a huge Tom Petty fan, but I like this one. That's a Rhodes piano, by the way, not an organ.
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I was waiting for someone to correct me on that. :lol :facepalm:
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Not a fan. But still,decent song.
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Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Dat riff! :2metal:
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Breakdown
I intensely disliked this song when it blew up all over the radio, but now I'm not ashamed to admit that it's a pretty decent song.
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Always kinda liked Tom Petty.
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Always kinda never really liked Tom Petty.
Fix'd for me.
Smoke on the Water, along with Back In Black, is the granddaddy of all riffs.
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Cream - White Room
This song absolutely blew me away the first time I heard it, particularly Eric Clapton's guitar work, which is really saying something since I have never really been a huge fan of his. Maybe it's because I heard it in the very early stages of my discovery of classic rock, but it really hit me hard. Over time, it became less of a favorite, but to this day, I still like it a lot.
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Really like this, a little bit more than Sunshine of your Love.
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I'm not a Cream fan, but this is a very good song.
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I'm not a Cream fan, but this is a very good song.
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Really like this, a little bit more than Sunshine of your Love.
+1
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Really like this, a little bit more than Sunshine of your Love.
+9000
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The hook is weird, with that staggering, 5/4 beat, but somehow it makes it hit you even harder when they break into straight 4/4 for the verses, then especially for the guitar solo at the end. I like it.
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White Room is awesome.
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Billy Joel - Piano Man
Another classic many of us have probably heard hundreds, if not thousands, of times over the years, yet it still sounds great every time I hear it. This song put Joel on the map, and remains his definitive song to this day. It's a great story. :coolio
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:tup
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Billy Joel - Piano Man
Another classic many of us have probably heard hundreds, if not thousands, of times over the years, yet it still sounds great every time I hear it. This song put Joel on the map, and remains his definitive song to this day. It's a great story. :coolio
When I first read this, my brain interpreted it as Billy Idol. Just picturing Billy Idol behind the keys with this tune is a helluva giggle. :jets:
Great little tune; great lyrics.
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Great song that tells a great story. :tup
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It's my favorite of his :tup
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It's not my absolute favorite Billy Joel song, but it's on the upward end of my list (I reserve #1 for "Captain Jack"). Oh, and I FINALLY get to tell a story (ala Jaq, but not really :lol )!
So, my boyfriend at the time got Billy Joel tickets and we ended up going with his best friend - this was... 1990 during the Storm Front tour. It was also after Milli Vanilli had gotten their Grammys stripped - and let me tell you, Billy was ripping on them ALL NIGHT. :lol
Anyhoo, Piano Man was the encore (duh) and when he turned it over to us (the audience at the Frank Erwin Center here in good ol' Austin) for the last chorus, you could hear the WHOLE audience echoing all over the venue. It was mindblowing, and I think Billy had said that it was one of the loudest sing-alongs that wasn't on the East Coast. :lol :biggrin:
Oh... and the show was AWESOME. I don't remember the setlist (fogey brain) but I'm glad that I got to see him at least once. The man is definitely an entertainer. :tup
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Would love to see him perform
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It's not my absolute favorite Billy Joel song, but it's on the upward end of my list (I reserve #1 for "Captain Jack"). Oh, and I FINALLY get to tell a story (ala Jaq, but not really :lol )!
So, my boyfriend at the time got Billy Joel tickets and we ended up going with his best friend - this was... 1990 during the Storm Front tour. It was also after Milli Vanilli had gotten their Grammys stripped - and let me tell you, Billy was ripping on them ALL NIGHT. :lol
Anyhoo, Piano Man was the encore (duh) and when he turned it over to us (the audience at the Frank Erwin Center here in good ol' Austin) for the last chorus, you could hear the WHOLE audience echoing all over the venue. It was mindblowing, and I think Billy had said that it was one of the loudest sing-alongs that wasn't on the East Coast. :lol :biggrin:
Oh... and the show was AWESOME. I don't remember the setlist (fogey brain) but I'm glad that I got to see him at least once. The man is definitely an entertainer. :tup
Been busy lately, glad someone is bringing some stories to the forums. :rollin
I love Piano Man. You just don't get lyric heavy songs that tell stories anymore, but they were all over the place in the late 60s and early 70s.
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Electric Light Orchestra - Fire on High
It seems odd to call this an instrumental, given the backward talking message and the choir vocals (which faintly sing the song's title near the end of the song), but it is usually referred to as an instrumental. Either way, this is a beast of a classic rock song, one that still sounds awesome every time I hear it. That fast guitar riff, first heard around 2:40, had to have been played prominently somewhere on TV at some point, because the first time I heard the song, I knew that riff from somewhere. I almost want to say it was used in a commercial for one of the local radio stations, but it is impossible to know for sure.
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Fire On High was used as background music on a lot of sports shows on CBS in the late 70s and early 80s, and in a LOT of radio spots, and it was always the guitar riff part. The question should be not where you heard it, but how many different things you heard it in.
Love this song. I remember when some metal heads were bitching because Bev Bevan did a tour as drummer for Black Sabbath about how Sabbath had "that shitty drummer from ELO now", and my response would always be to play Fire on High and watch their expressions change when the drum fills started coming. :lol
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The question should be not where you heard it, but how many different things you heard it in.
That's probably true. :lol
Also, this is the 89th song I have featured in this thread so far. I am not sure if anyone has noticed, but I have yet to do a second song by any artist yet (except for cases like Clapton, who was a solo artist and in several bands). I want to get to 100 songs before I start repeating artists, but it is inevitable since bands like Zeppelin, The Who, Floyd, etc. have dozens of songs that could be featured here. :tup :tup
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Turns out I've only ever heard this song on the radio, so I'd never heard the intro with the backwards message before. Interesting. Incredible song, by the way.
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Oh, and for anyone who doesn't know, the backwards talking actually says:
"The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back. Turn back. Turn back. Turn back."
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DebraKadabra's "Piano Man" story reminded me that I have a "Piano Man" story, too.
We were visiting my friends back in Michigan over Winter Break, and on New Year's Eve, we had a small get-together with a bunch of the old gang. It was slightly dampened by the snowstorm, but Michigan in Winter, everyone's kinda used to it. Something the guys always do when we get together is jam. But the power went out around 9:00 because of the storm. Damn, what to do? Plenty of candles, so that's not a problem.
Well, there's the piano upstairs, so we went upstairs, I played the piano, and John sang. Acoustic guitars came out. We started leaning towards Elton John and Billy Joel songs, which everyone knew, and it became a big sing-along. There may have been alcohol involved. A lot of it.
During the final chorus of "Piano Man", everyone's singing "SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN!" and suddenly all the lights came back on. Yay! The power of music. ♫♫
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Electric Light Orchestra - Fire on High
It seems odd to call this an instrumental, given the backward talking message and the choir vocals (which faintly sing the song's title near the end of the song), but it is usually referred to as an instrumental. Either way, this is a beast of a classic rock song, one that still sounds awesome every time I hear it. That fast guitar riff, first heard around 2:40, had to have been played prominently somewhere on TV at some point, because the first time I heard the song, I knew that riff from somewhere. I almost want to say it was used in a commercial for one of the local radio stations, but it is impossible to know for sure.
I remember being so pissed off that no Greatest hits had this song. No with digital downloads it's a snap but I had the album but didn't want to go back and by one CD for one song. Fantastic song. Top 5 instrumental songs of all time for me and I do think if it as an instrumental.
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DebraKadabra's "Piano Man" story reminded me that I have a "Piano Man" story, too.
We were visiting my friends back in Michigan over Winter Break, and on New Year's Eve, we had a small get-together with a bunch of the old gang. It was slightly dampened by the snowstorm, but Michigan in Winter, everyone's kinda used to it. Something the guys always do when we get together is jam. But the power went out around 9:00 because of the storm. Damn, what to do? Plenty of candles, so that's not a problem.
Well, there's the piano upstairs, so we went upstairs, I played the piano, and John sang. Acoustic guitars came out. We started leaning towards Elton John and Billy Joel songs, which everyone knew, and it became a big sing-along. There may have been alcohol involved. A lot of it.
During the final chorus of "Piano Man", everyone's singing "SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN!" and suddenly all the lights came back on. Yay! The power of music. ♫♫
:hat :tup :tup
Electric Light Orchestra - Fire on High
It seems odd to call this an instrumental, given the backward talking message and the choir vocals (which faintly sing the song's title near the end of the song), but it is usually referred to as an instrumental. Either way, this is a beast of a classic rock song, one that still sounds awesome every time I hear it. That fast guitar riff, first heard around 2:40, had to have been played prominently somewhere on TV at some point, because the first time I heard the song, I knew that riff from somewhere. I almost want to say it was used in a commercial for one of the local radio stations, but it is impossible to know for sure.
I remember being so pissed off that no Greatest hits had this song. No with digital downloads it's a snap but I had the album but didn't want to go back and by one CD for one song. Fantastic song. Top 5 instrumental songs of all time for me and I do think if it as an instrumental.
Same here. When I got into the song, probably around '92 or '92, I had to resort to buying...wait for it...the studio album. :lol
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I know, what the hell!! :lol These damn kids don't know how easy they got it. :lol
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When I think of all the money I could have saved by buying individual tracks for $1 or so instead of spending 12-15 bucks on CDs just for a few songs (or even just one, in some cases), it boggles the mind.
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Been busy lately, glad someone is bringing some stories to the forums. :rollin
Thanks, man. :)
DebraKadabra's "Piano Man" story reminded me that I have a "Piano Man" story, too.
We were visiting my friends back in Michigan over Winter Break, and on New Year's Eve, we had a small get-together with a bunch of the old gang. It was slightly dampened by the snowstorm, but Michigan in Winter, everyone's kinda used to it. Something the guys always do when we get together is jam. But the power went out around 9:00 because of the storm. Damn, what to do? Plenty of candles, so that's not a problem.
Well, there's the piano upstairs, so we went upstairs, I played the piano, and John sang. Acoustic guitars came out. We started leaning towards Elton John and Billy Joel songs, which everyone knew, and it became a big sing-along. There may have been alcohol involved. A lot of it.
During the final chorus of "Piano Man", everyone's singing "SING US A SONG, YOU'RE THE PIANO MAN!" and suddenly all the lights came back on. Yay! The power of music. ♫♫
"There may have been alcohol involved." :metalol:
Really neat story though, and interesting that Elton John songs were in the mix - seeing how they toured together and all. :)
Electric Light Orchestra - Fire on High
I think this is one of my favorite ELO songs - so creepy... then weird... then majestic... then just flat out rocking. So awesome. :metal
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ELO is awesome as is this song
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Really neat story though, and interesting that Elton John songs were in the mix - seeing how they toured together and all. :)
That's just something that John and I have always done. I've been playing the piano since I was ten, and we used to hang out at his house after school, I'd play the piano and he'd sing. I had a bunch of sheet music books, including Elton John's Greatest Hits, and we'd just go through them all.
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Black Sabbath - Iron Man
If Smoke on the Water is the most classic riff ever, Iron Man is probably not far behind. That is another one of those riffs that everyone knows and everyone who wanted to play guitar wanted to learn how to play. It's not a song I really listen to that much anymore, but it is still pretty :metal :metal.
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The Iron Man riff is to classic metal what Smoke on the Water riff is to classic rock. The fact it's singable by a crowd helps it too. Great song from a great album.
I found it a bit strange that the song plays in the credits of the movie Iron Man, yet it plays all of the least recognizable parts (to the average person), and doesn't even include the riff, or any words/lyrics (such as "I AM IRON MAN" from the intro).
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The Iron Man riff is to classic metal what Smoke on the Water riff is to classic rock. The fact it's singable by a crowd helps it too. Great song from a great album.
Agreed. The other similarity is that most people play the riff incorrectly.
I found it a bit strange that the song plays in the credits of the movie Iron Man, yet it plays all of the least recognizable parts (to the average person), and doesn't even include the riff, or any words/lyrics (such as "I AM IRON MAN" from the intro).
Agreed again. Actually, people who know the song (which is most people) recognize it, but don't immediately know where from. I thought it was an interesting choice, myself, as I was among those who did recognize it immediately.
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Black Sabbath - Iron Man
If Smoke on the Water is the most classic riff ever, Iron Man is probably not far behind. That is another one of those riffs that everyone knows and everyone who wanted to play guitar wanted to learn how to play. It's not a song I really listen to that much anymore, but it is still pretty :metal :metal.
Though Deep Purple was adding the "darkness" into music, it was Black Sabbath that carried that torch and made them the fathers of Metal. Iron Man is one of the anthems for all us young kids who got into Metal in the 70's and early 80's.
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THE metal riff. That's it, really. All you need to know about Iron Man. Tony Iommi was always a riff master, even in the less successful days of the 80s and 90s for Sabbath (some of the Martin albums have some of the best riffs Iommi ever wrote) but Iron Man's riff is immortal.
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CLASSIC
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Black Sabbath - Iron Man
Overplayed, but still fricking classic as all hell. :metal
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The riff of all riffs in the Valley of Riffs can cause a rifft in the riffage of riffing.
And did I mention the riff?
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:rollin
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THE metal riff.
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Road Warriors
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The Iron Man riff is to classic metal what Smoke on the Water riff is to classic rock. The fact it's singable by a crowd helps it too. Great song from a great album.
Agreed. The other similarity is that most people play the riff incorrectly.
I know all the ways people play Smoke on the Water wrong, but how do they play Iron Man wrong? Are they not doing the slides (and picking every chord), or are they not playing it in the high neck position for the trademark Iommi sound?
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Road Warriors
:tup :tup
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Electric Light Orchestra - Fire on High
It seems odd to call this an instrumental, given the backward talking message and the choir vocals (which faintly sing the song's title near the end of the song), but it is usually referred to as an instrumental. Either way, this is a beast of a classic rock song, one that still sounds awesome every time I hear it. That fast guitar riff, first heard around 2:40, had to have been played prominently somewhere on TV at some point, because the first time I heard the song, I knew that riff from somewhere. I almost want to say it was used in a commercial for one of the local radio stations, but it is impossible to know for sure.
CBS sports used it for years
Actually its was a 3 year run https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Sports_Spectacular
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The Iron Man riff is to classic metal what Smoke on the Water riff is to classic rock. The fact it's singable by a crowd helps it too. Great song from a great album.
Agreed. The other similarity is that most people play the riff incorrectly.
I know all the ways people play Smoke on the Water wrong, but how do they play Iron Man wrong? Are they not doing the slides (and picking every chord), or are they not playing it in the high neck position for the trademark Iommi sound?
I'm not a guitarist, so I couldn't say about neck position, but it might be the first one. Basically, people tend to play an extra note/chord in the riff, because it would echo what Ozzy sings.
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/11915_4719721952927_1999211040_n.jpg)
To my ears, the first line is correct (except I realize now that I have the wrong key signature).
But what I hear far more often is the second line. The only difference is the third beat of the second measure. That's what Ozzy sings when he comes in, but it's not what Tony plays. I think he's moving his left hand toward the D while the E is still playing, so it sounds more like the first line.
What do you think? I've argued with guitarists about this, but it's always a brief argument. I back down because "I'm not a guitarist so I don't know" but it always bugs me.
I think it's what you said about them picking it instead of letting it slide, which pronounces it a lot more. So techinically the D should be there, but much more subtly.
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Here's why everybody disputes it: That quarter note on beat 3 of the 2nd measure - when he hits it, he doesn't cut the note off to jump down and hit the chord on the 4th beat. He kinda slides his hand down the strings (without unfretting) to hit that 4th beat chord. It IS a quarter note on the 3rd beat, but the way his hand slides down to the next chord, it sounds like 2 eighth notes, likes beats 1 and 2. At least that's what I'm hearing.
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Right, that's what I hear, too. I just suck at describing it. That, and guys picking/strumming each one, which is definitely wrong.
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I've always heard/thought it was the second one. But because it's all slid, and not picked (much like the other 8ths in there), it's kind of ambiguous alone.
Upon close listening, I still believe it's the second line though. Here's my reasoning - First of all, it sounds played the same to me as the notes before it where it is clearly 8ths, so I don't think he intends to play anything different there.
Secondly, and more conclusively to me, listen to the bass underneath it. It is very clearly playing the extra 8th there, and because it's bass, it's cleanly picking every note with no slides.
But either way, it's not supposed to be individually picked, so if people are picking every 8th, instead of on each 4th, then they're still wrong.
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2nd favorite Sabbath song
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Road Warriors
:tup :tup
Haha! My first thought as well. The Road Warriors in the good ol' NWA days was where I heard this song first. Imagine my surprise when I found it was not only a classic rock song, but a legendary one as well.
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Speaking of classic rock songs in the metal vein....
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Turn on classic rock radio and Judas Priest has three songs you will hear a lot. Why did I pick this particular one to feature first? Who the hell knows :lol, but this is a good song. Priest have dozens of songs that are better, but for a band that many only know three songs by, at least they are all good ones. This is about as catchy as metal gets.
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I can't think of the last time I did a gig that we didn't do this song. Excellent stuff.
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Great song! It's so classic, though, that I don't even think of it as a metal song, it's just classic rock. In fact, I tend to forget that Judas Priest did the song. Someone asked me who did the song, and I couldn't think of who it was because Priest is metal and the song isn't metal.
But it is.
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Speaking of classic rock songs in the metal vein....
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Turn on classic rock radio and Judas Priest has three songs you will hear a lot. Why did I pick this particular one to feature first? Who the hell knows :lol, but this is a good song. Priest have dozens of songs that are better, but for a band that many only know three songs by, at least they are all good ones. This is about as catchy as metal gets.
Other 2 are Breaking the Law and You've Got Another Thing Coming?
This one would be my least favorite of those 3.
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This is commercial heavy metal at its best.
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Other 2 are Breaking the Law and You've Got Another Thing Coming?
Yep.
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Angel - Tower
Another possible regional hit ;), this is a classic here in the Midwest, and deservedly so; it is a phenomenal song. Several friends used to use the beginning of this song to demonstrated the awesomeness of their sound systems. If you have never heard this song, you are really missing out on a true classic. Check it out below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tVyWpNa-mc
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Angel is a very good, but unknown band. I think Gene Simmons had something to do with getting them signed. Surprised they are so unknown; they had a great look for the 70's and their sound is something that you would have thought had been popular at the time. This is one of their best songs.
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It was in fact a regional hit, but I bought Angel's debut when I was going through a 70s hard rock phase nearly a decade ago, and man, Tower kicks ass up one side and down the other. Sadly it's about the only memorable song on that album, but WOW, what a song.
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I remember Angel as the band whose logo could be rotated 180 degrees and it still said "Angel". I always thought that was clever. My college roommate had the album, but I don't think we ever listened to it. I do remember flinging it out our third-story dorm window, Frisbee-style. Records make excellent, yet deadly Frisbees.
Anyway, I just listened to that song. Pretty good. :tup
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Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Damn good song. :2metal:
Angel - Tower
Another regional hit - never heard it before today. Not bad. Not bad at all.
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Stan Bush - The Touch
(as he comes off the shuttle.......picks off five or six.....transforms into a BIG RIG...drives over a few more....transforms back into the hulking metal monster he is...and kills a few more)
whisper his name in awe.......................O p t i m u s
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lol, wut?
Cheap Trick - The Dream Police
Who thinks of Fast Times at Ridgemont High every time you hear this song? *raises hand* I knew that moment from the movie before I knew the song for quite a long time. All I knew for a long time by Cheap Trick was their several late 80s hits, but in the late 90s, I worked with a guy who was a huge fan of their brand of what he called "power pop" and he talked me into checking their stuff out. I wasn't that big on a lot of it, but their known hits from the 70s are all good, The Dream Police being my favorite.
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Funky little diddy. Always loved this track. Cheap Trick had a few hits that didn't quite get a ton of exposure, but just enough to stick in your head.
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lol, wut?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZPjrOgFpWI
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Cheap Trick - The Dream Police
GOOD song. Dug it tons back in the late 70s, and I still do actually.
Spiderman - you can't just post random shit, dude. Fckin Canadians. :biggrin:
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lol, wut?
Cheap Trick - The Dream Police
Who thinks of Fast Times at Ridgemont High every time you hear this song? *raises hand* I knew that moment from the movie before I knew the song for quite a long time. All I knew for a long time by Cheap Trick was their several late 80s hits, but in the late 90s, I worked with a guy who was a huge fan of their brand of what he called "power pop" and he talked me into checking their stuff out. I wasn't that big on a lot of it, but their known hits from the 70s are all good, The Dream Police being my favorite.
Love, love, love this song. I know my buds and I belted out the chorus while driving in my car all the time. "Inside of my head!!"
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Dream Police is great. I always get it stuck in my head after listening to it.
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lol, wut?
Cheap Trick - The Dream Police
Who thinks of Fast Times at Ridgemont High every time you hear this song? *raises hand* I knew that moment from the movie before I knew the song for quite a long time. All I knew for a long time by Cheap Trick was their several late 80s hits, but in the late 90s, I worked with a guy who was a huge fan of their brand of what he called "power pop" and he talked me into checking their stuff out. I wasn't that big on a lot of it, but their known hits from the 70s are all good, The Dream Police being my favorite.
Sorry, all I think about when I think about Fast Times, musically, is Moving In Stereo.
Can't imagine why.
Dream Police is a catchy song, but I dunno, it just feels lesser compared to the other Cheap Trick classics from the 70s. Not sure why, either.
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It's definitely a less caliber song than Surrender or I Want You To Want Me, but still a fun song
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Sorry, all I think about when I think about Fast Times, musically, is Moving In Stereo.
Can't imagine why.
Haha, well sure, but this is the reverse. When I think about Fast Times and music, I think of Moving in Stereo, but when I hear The Dream Police, I think of that scene from Fast Times where Damone sings the lyrics from several of their songs when trying to sell a girl tickets to one of their concerts.
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And what the hell...:lol
The Cars - Moving in Stereo
Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Phoebe Cates. 'Nuff said. :hat
Okay, I will say a bit more: this isn't their most-played classic rock song, but it does get played quite a bit still. Good song, and I remember assuming it was an instrumental the first time I heard it in the movie, but then hearing the full version and realizing it was not. It is also notable that Benjamin Orr did the lead vocals, not Ric Ocasek. Hearing it and realizing that makes you realize how similar their voices are.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Phoebe Cates. 'Nuff said. :hat
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Moving In Stereo pulls off the neat trick of seeming longer than it actually is. With the instrumental breaks, it feels like a 6-7 minute long song, but it's less than five, which is always a neat trick that I enjoy from a band. I've more than once on these forums said I loved the Cars unabashedly, and I did even when I was a young metal head. Great band.
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The Cars first album is amazing. Okay, I skip the last two songs on Side One, but the rest of it, including how all the songs on Side Two go together, is awesome. One of my favorite albums of all time.
"Moving in Stereo" in particular is masterful. I love how the synth countermelody isn't introduced until the second verse, and it is this countermelody which is ultimately expanded upon and granted its own theme-and-variations section for the break. And of course, there's the trippy atmosphere and typical weirdass Ocasek lyrics throughout. And yeah, because it takes its time and unfolds naturally, it does seem longer than it really is. It's really a brilliant piece of music.
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Cheap Trick - The Dream Police
Who thinks of Fast Times at Ridgemont High every time you hear this song?
*raises hand*
Not a Cheap Trick song I like much, but I only like a small portion of their material.
What ever happened to Damone, anyway? Strange to think about that cast (https://www.theuncool.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/reunionempire.jpg). Sean Penn and Forest Whitaker go on to win Oscars. Anthony Edwards, Judge Reinhold, Jennifer Jason Leigh go on to solid TV/Movie careers. And Damone, Ratner, and the rest? Obscurity.
The Cars - Moving in Stereo
Great song, great album, great way to be immortalized in film. The Cars debut album is a masterpiece. I always think of ‘Moving in Stereo’ in tandem with ‘All Mixed Up’ because that is how I always heard them on the radio. Awesome way to finish an album.
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I'm always bummed when they play "Moving in Stereo" but don't let it play through to "All Mixed Up". Often, it's enough to make me pull out the CD or my iPod and play, just because I need to hear it.
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That first album had 8 of the 9 songs on radio. Only, I'm in Touch with Your World didn't get airplay here in the Boston area. Great tune, great style. Top to bottom a home run of a song and an album.
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The other one I've never heard on the radio is "Don't Cha Stop", but it shouldn't surprise me that some areas played it. Those two aren't really bad songs, I guess, and sometimes I let them play.
"I'm in Touch with Your World" has the spooky, creepy vibe going on, which I think is done much better in "Moving in Stereo", thus rendering it skippable, and "Don't Cha Stop" is the opposite, the uptempo, brainless fun song. I really need to be in the right mood for an uptempo, brainless fun song, and when I am, there are plenty of other choices.
I read an interview with The Cars once where they jokingly referred to their first album as their "real" greatest hits album.
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Moving In Stereo pulls off the neat trick of seeming longer than it actually is. With the instrumental breaks, it feels like a 6-7 minute long song, but it's less than five, which is always a neat trick that I enjoy from a band. I've more than once on these forums said I loved the Cars unabashedly, and I did even when I was a young metal head. Great band.
Completely agreed.
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I think it's great how the classic rock thread is now centered around discussing an 80s movie. Yay for overlap!! :biggrin: :biggrin:
And thanks for that link, Cool Chris. Interesting to see how some of the lesser known actors have aged. And LOL that Jennifer Jason Leigh is giving Robert Romanus the finger. Stacy must still be mad at Damone. :lol :lol :lol :lol
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I know there were others from that magazine. I recall seeing a 'Princess Bride' reunion picture.
The best part, which I hope isn't lost on everyone, is that they are eating pizza in Mr. Hand's classroom.
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Yep, eating pizza was one of the first things I noticed. Sadly, Ray Walston (who played Mr. Hand) died in '01, so he is not in the picture.
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Yep, but those reunion pics always find a way to include the deceased. In this case, his name on the board. With "The Princess Bride" reunion, photos of the deceased cast members were included.
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I was bummed Fred Savage wasn't there and I think it would've been appropriate if Phoebe had her bikini top in her hand :lol
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The Outlaws - Ghost Riders in the Sky
This is pretty much a :hefdaddy :hefdaddy song. I defy any classic rock fan to listen to this tune and tell me it isn't awesome. You can't do it.
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Wow, not a single person knows this song or wants to comment on it?? ??? :(
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I remember MTV playing a live version of this song for about a month, but otherwise by the time this album came out, local radio had largely reduced the Outlaws to "the band who did Green Grass And High Tides." :rollin
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Neither the band name or the song sound familiar, and I can't search for it while at work.
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You said
I defy any classic rock fan to listen to this tune and tell me it isn't awesome.
and I didn't want to defy you in your own thread.
I like The Outlaws. "Green Grass and High Tides" is great song. "Ghost Riders in the Sky" is also a pretty good song, even if I always thought the lyrics didn't make any sense. But The Outlaws' version just never did anything for me. After Johnny Cash, how could they measure up? By adding electric guitars and all? I guess they do add something, but the song itself just seems to work better in a more spare setting.
And let's be honest. Southern Rock has a lot of C&W flavor to it, and not all C&W is bad. Johnny Cash is proof of that. But "Ghost Riders" is a full-on C&W song, and IMO The Outlaws' attempt to get a crossover hit out of it was somewhat misguided. Sorry.
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You said
I defy any classic rock fan to listen to this tune and tell me it isn't awesome.
and I didn't want to defy you in your own thread.
Sonofabitch. I just got owned. :lol :lol :facepalm: :facepalm:
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Also, the first thing I thought of was a The Far Side comic called "Ghost Riders in the Kitchen". I tried to find it to include here, and apparently it does not exist online. Maybe due to copyright, but that never seems to stop most people. But, disappointed by that result, I just gave up.
The closest thing I could find was a recreation by someone, which I thought was an odd thing to do.
(https://rookery.s3.amazonaws.com/817500/817746_5290_625x1000.jpg)
"Hurry up or you're gonna miss it - ghost riders in the kitchen!"
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:lol :lol :lol :lol
Okay, on to another...
Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady
I think this is one of those classic rock songs that most people over the age of 50 probably know, but ask them all who it is by and I'll bet a fairly large percentage couldn't tell ya. It actually surprises me that this song is from 1970, as it sounds more like something that would have been out in 1967 or 1968. The difference in a few years might not seem like a big deal now, but back then, there was so much going on from year to year, so many leaps in what bands were doing, as well as sounds, that the difference was pretty significant back then. Anyway, I like this song quite a bit.
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Yeah, it's a good one. Also, the Hammond part is a lot harder than it sounds. I noticed this when trying to learn the song a few years ago.
You're right about Sugarloaf. Most people either know this one, or "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You", but not both, or don't realize that they were by the same band.
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Oh, THAT song!
For a very long time-until the mid-90s, in fact-local television featured a weekend B-Movie/horror movie show, presented by a local DJ doing really bad Frankenstein riffs. The opening theme was the intro to this song. :lol
Nowadays, after midnight you get fucking informercials, not locally produced horror movie shows. TIMES HAVE CHANGED. :rollin
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Just reading the song title makes me think of that riff.
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Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
Probably the most classic "classic rock" Steely Dan song, and they have quite a few. But this is the one that everyone knows, and the one that even people who don't like the band that much tend to like. Interesting, too, as this is such straight-head, guitar-driven, rock and roll, and they never really had another classic rock tune that was like it. Personally, I loved it the first time I heard, and still do.
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Good song, but not of their best.
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I like it. It's catchy, and it's different from everything else that came later.
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It's different from everything else on the same album, actually. :lol
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Funny you talk about the "Steely Dan Classic Rock" Kev. I've always had this conversation with my cousin who is a huge Steely Dan fan and there is a definite divide when they were a jazzy rock band to a contemporary jazz band for a lack of a better term.
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Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady
Love that song, and NO I'm not over 50. :lol
Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
Good song, but not of their best.
I'm with Unlegit here.
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Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady
Ugh
Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
Yawn.
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Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 - First Impression, Pt. 2
And now we have a classic tune that I would bet most could not tell you the full name of if you asked them. :lol Most would probably just identify it by the first line of the song. Anyhow, I remember being blown to shreds the first time I heard this song; I thought it was the most furious and bad ass thing I had ever heard before. I still love it a lot, 20 years later.
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We talked about all this in my ELP Discography thread, but I can't help commenting again.
I have mixed feelings about this one. As a single, I suppose it's pretty good, and I can see why people like it.
But this "song" is actually the closing 1/3 of a longer song which is itself only the first part (first "impression") of an even greater work. The full epic was so damned long that it wouldn't fit on one side of the original LP, so the first 2/3 of the First Impression ended up on Side One and the rest went on Side Two. It was a happy side effect of this that "Karn Evil 9 - First Impression, Pt. 2" was about the right length for a single and had all the right ingredients in approximately the right order and proportions.
My introduction to Emerson Lake & Palmer was their live album, on which the First Impression (actually the whole epic) is played straight through, as originally written. I was familiar with it for years before "classic rock" radio stations appeared much later, and when I first heard "Karn Evil 9 - First Impression, Pt. 2" I was amazed and confused. Why would they play "part of a song"? But at the same time, the answer was obvious. I had Brain Salad Surgery and knew how they'd cut up "Karn Evil 9" to make it fit, and I'd heard this "song" many times, after flipping the record over. And yeah, it was about the right length and composition for a single.
But to me, it will always be "part of a song", the closing part. It contains the shorter recapitulation of the guitar theme, the introduction of which most people haven't heard, and the simpler recapitulation of the synth hook (the middle triplet is omitted) which most people haven't heard. And of course, it's not all of the verses. So it just sounds weird to me.
Hey, if people like it, that's cool. If it got some people to pick up Brain Salad Surgery or one of the thousands of "greatest hits" compilations and, from there, get into Emerson Lake & Palmer, that's cool, too. But it always bugs me to hear this cut on the radio. It just seems to emphasize the divide between how music is composed and how it has to be served up in bite-sized pieces on the radio.
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Whoa, I think I killed the thread.
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:lol
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:lol
Anyway, I get that this song is just a small part of a longer piece of music, but I still think it works extremely well on its own. Maybe it's because I heard it on its own first and didn't hear the rest of Karn Evil 9 till months later, but having had decades to let it stew, I still think that.
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If you heard the edit first, then it works. Usually the first version of a song you hear will always be the "right" one. Not always, but usually. Your brain wraps around it and accepts it, and other versions will always be compared to it, consciously or otherwise. It's not quite the same thing here, but similar. In this case, hearing the rest of the epic, or even the rest of the First Impression, was probably quite a revelation to anyone who started with the edit. Going the other direction has always been tougher for me. If I know there's more, especially if I've already heard it and am familiar with it, I'm genally not satisfied with an edit.
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While Brain Salad Surgery is my favorite prog album ever, and it's largely because of Karn Evil 9, I don't mind that the First Impression, Part 2 has become the part everyone knows. It's pretty much the best way to introduce someone to ELP I can think of, and winds up, even though it's only part of a song, being one of the more digestible, single ready songs the band ever did, which is a pretty neat trick.
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The Police - Roxanne
I love this band, but I really, really, really hate this f'ing song. Like, when it comes on, I want to rip my ears off so, a) I don't have to be subjected to hearing any more of it, and b) I have something to throw at Sting for shrieking the most annoying word in rock history. "Rooooooox-anne!" JHC, that sucks. This is at the top of my list of "Rock songs I can't believe were popular."
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Eh, they've done better
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But not much better.
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It's an okay song, miles better than Every Breath You Take though.
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Emerson Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 - First Impression, Pt. 2
Haven't heard this in embarrassingly too long. :blush
The Police - Roxanne
It's an okay song, miles better than Every Breath You Take though.
Yeah, what Zy said.
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thread murdering post
I agree lol
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Eddie Murphy in Another 48 Hours killed this song for me.
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But that was a pretty funny scene.
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Roxanne isn't even the best song on the Police's debut album, and it's guilty of the early Police tendency to repeat lyrics a LOT, but I can see why it became a hit. It doesn't sound like much of anything on the radio NOW, let alone the late 70s, and despite the repetitious chorus it's a pretty catchy tune.
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Eh, okay song. They've definitely made much better.
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Bad Company - Ready for Love
Some of their classic rock staples have not aged that well for me, but this one always sounds as great as ever every time I hear it. I love the melodies in this song, and the piano work throughout is breathtaking. Even just those few simple notes during the first verse are perfectly placed and played, and of course it takes center stage during the last 40 seconds of the song. Terrific song!
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It is a good song, although you'll hear me spin "Can't Get Enough" and "Shooting Star" more
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Paul Rodgers is one of my top 10 favorite singers, but even his presence on this track can't endear me to it. It's not that it's bad, it's just kinda plain for me. I'd sooner put on "Good Lovin' Gone Bad", which is an amazingly fun song to perform live.
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Great song, but they've made some better ones. Very enjoyable though.
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Bad Company - Ready for Love
It is a good song, although you'll hear me spin "Can't Get Enough" and "Shooting Star" more
Add "Bad Company" and "The Sky Is Burning" for me.
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I also love Bad Company and Burnin' Sky a lot, as well as Crazy Circles and Run with the Pack. I can do without Shooting Star and Feel Like Makin' Love. Feel Like Makin' Love suffers from the problem Jaq mentioned in regards to early Police: repeating lyrics over and over. The end of that song just goes on and on and on.
Oh, and back to the Police and repeating lyrics, I like Message in a Bottle, but did "Sending out an S.O.S." really need to be repeated 629 times at the end of that song? :lol :lol
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Oh, and back to the Police and repeating lyrics, I like Message in a Bottle, but did "Sending out an S.O.S." really need to be repeated 629 times at the end of that song? :lol :lol
OMG yes. :lol
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BTW, today was the 100th song featured in this thread. My goal was to get to 100 without featuring the same band/artist more than once (except in the case of people like Clapton, who was featured as a solo artist and in Cream and Derek and the Dominos). I will still be featuring bands/artists that haven't been featured yet, but I will now start repeating some.
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I also love Bad Company and Burnin' Sky a lot, as well as Crazy Circles and Run with the Pack. I can do without Shooting Star and Feel Like Makin' Love. Feel Like Makin' Love suffers from the problem Jaq mentioned in regards to early Police: repeating lyrics over and over. The end of that song just goes on and on and on.
Oh, and back to the Police and repeating lyrics, I like Message in a Bottle, but did "Sending out an S.O.S." really need to be repeated 629 times at the end of that song? :lol :lol
I like to refer to this as "The Hey Jude Effect".
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AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Raise your hand if you still like this song, but have heard it so many times that you don't care if you ever hear it again.
*raises hand*
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*raises both hands*
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I do still like it. We play it at the end of nearly every gig and it ALWAYS goes over huge. It doesn't matter how many times I play it - that solo, while extremely easy, is one of the most enjoyable solos I will ever play.
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Yeah, there's something to be said about AC/DC's brand of simple, headbanging music. I can see it always going over well live, provided you don't play too many of them.
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I don't listen to the radio or anything like that, so I manage to avoid over-hearing their music. And in this country, AC/DC are definitely a band you will over-hear! :lol
Great song, and an amazingly solid album. The videos from that album are all terrible though. It's amazing that it's one of the highest selling albums of all time, it's still one of the best sounding rock albums you will hear production-wise, and yet the videos look like they were all filmed in one day in a shed for $5. :lol It just makes it all the more impressive that the album has become such a classic.
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:metal :metal
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Overplayed for sure, but still great
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To clarify, I still like the song, but I can't imagine going out of my way to listen to it anymore. Funny story, too, as when MTV put the video in regular rotation in 1987, I thought it was a new song at the time. :facepalm: :lol
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AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Raise your hand if you still like this song, but have heard it so many times that you don't care if you ever hear it again.
*raises hand*
I liked it on my listen-through of Back In Black recently but yeah...
*raises hands*
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If this song comes on when I am driving, I won't turn it off. I'd actually probably turn it up. But otherwise, wouldn't listen to outside of any sort of ACDC marathon or Back in Black run through.
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*raises hand*
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Time for another today, and the first repeat artist...
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
I sometimes think I am the only Zeppelin fan in the world who does not drop to his knees and thank whatever god they believe in for the existence of this song. Don't get me wrong, I like it, and it is without a doubt one of the most classic rock songs ever, but it has never struck me as being an all-time great "one of the best songs ever" type of song.
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I think it's because it was so different, and still is to this day. The way it starts and stops. Jimmy's hook riff. Bonzo's drums. It's a kickass song and unlike anything else.
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Time for another today, and the first repeat artist...
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
I sometimes think I am the only Zeppelin fan in the world who does not drop to his knees and thank whatever god they believe in for the existence of this song. Don't get me wrong, I like it, and it is without a doubt one of the most classic rock songs ever, but it has never struck me as being an all-time great "one of the best songs ever" type of song.
No, you're not. Even though this is THE song that got me in to Rock music 27 years ago, and set my musical course for life, it's one of my least favorite on the album. I just don't like the start-stop structure of the song.
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It's probably my third least favorite track off of Four. Definitely a middle of the road Zep tune for me
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A great song, maybe not one of their best, but still a very enjoyable listen.
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As much as I love Zeppelin, Black Dog is one of those songs of theirs that just never clicked with me, and it being perpetually included in live sets tended to annoy me, but to be fair, I have heard something on the order of 100 Zep bootlegs, so that's a lot of versions of Black Dog. What's really funny is how, basically, when bands started copying Zep in the 80s, the two songs they most aped were this and Kashmir...and in the case of Kingdom Come, they did it in the SAME song sometimes. :lol
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I sometimes think I am the only Zeppelin fan in the world who does not drop to his knees and thank whatever god they believe in for the existence of this song. Don't get me wrong, I like it, and it is without a doubt one of the most classic rock songs ever, but it has never struck me as being an all-time great "one of the best songs ever" type of song.
That describes my relationship with Whole lotTa love. Black dog, on the other hand, is one of those perfect rock songs with classic Zeppelin moments throughout. They did a fabulous job with it on Celebration day.
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I think the neatest thing about Black Dog is how the timing is a little different every time they play the main riff after every vocal in the verses. It's like a little different each time seemingly.
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Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
Fun little tune. I remember getting into it when it was featured in Boogie Nights, and I think I remember it being a classic rock mainstay, so I thought it was worthy of this thread.
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I have a feeling that, if I did a version of this thread featuring what I remember as classic rock hits, I'd probably all too frequently puzzle Kev with what were clearly east coast wonders. :lol I have no clue what this song is.
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Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
If I never hear this, Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks and Stairway EVER again it'll be too soon. Black Dog was good the first few times I heard it, but classic rock radio just pounded this and a LOT of Zoso in the ground.
Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
I have a feeling that, if I did a version of this thread featuring what I remember as classic rock hits, I'd probably all too frequently puzzle Kev with what were clearly east coast wonders. :lol I have no clue what this song is.
I'm with Jaq. :lol
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Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
Wasn't just a regional hit, as it had it's day up here. One of those C-List songs, but still a lot of fun to listen to.
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Yeah, I am pretty sure that was not just a regional hit, but :lol at Jaq's comment nonetheless.
Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
Somehow, I missed out on this song early in my classic rock days, and it wasn't on the McCartney best of I bought in the early 90s (WTF?!?!), but I eventually got it, and it is a really nice song.
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Great song! Paul McCartney can write a melody like no one else. I prefer the live version from Wings Over America, but that's probably because I heard it first. The studio version is a bit drier, but still very good. I learned this one a few years ago and got to play it live a few times. Slightly trickier than it sounds.
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The great thing about Maybe I'm Amazed for people like me who sing along to the radio poorly is this: all you have to hit is all of the "maybe I'm amazed" in the verses, and then you can just kind of scat on the choruses, and it WORKS. :rollin
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Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Cool song, but not one I was ever a huge fan of. I like it, but it ends there, although I did like it a bit more after it was featured in an episode of the Sopranos in Season 1.
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Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Cool song, but not one I was ever a huge fan of. I like it, but it ends there, although I did like it a bit more after it was featured in an episode of the Sopranos in Season 1.
The only sub 3 minute song I would consider epic. Slick is an absolute gem in this one. I remember competing once a few years ago in the 'thunderdome' tournaments that ran here, and the category was 'female vocalist'. My competitor and I both chose this as one of our songs. Fortunately, I won the coin flip, and got to use it - and it was a winner.
Love this one to death.
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Jingle put it right on the nose. The shortest epic in rock music. The song kicks so much ass in so little time
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Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
Great song.
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
:heart
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The shortest epic in rock music. The song kicks so much ass in so little time
I love this song very much, and never would have thought of this, but it is about as accurate a description of a song there is.
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Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun
My head will explode if all classic rock fans here do not know this song. Seriously. Awesome song, with one of the best intros in classic rock history. This was even number 1 one year on KSHE-95's Rock and Roll 500. That is how popular the song is here in the Midwest. But is it everywhere else? I guess we will see... :lol :lol
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A few of the songs you listed I had never heard of before. But I've heard this on local radio. Haven't heard in a long time, but remember liking it enough. But #1? Of all time?? That's not even one of the best songs with word "Sun" in the title.
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Never heard of the song, or the artist.
Kev = :splodearms:
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Well, KSHE mixes it up every year, so the top 500 is different from year to year. Hell, I remember one year they even put Stairway to Heaven at number 500, just for the hell of it. :lol And Children of the Sun is popular enough here to where its placement at number 1 wasn't strange or anything.
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I've heard of this one, actually thought it was a kinda cool song. I can't say I really liked it, though. It just seemed like it was trying to be cosmic or sci-fi just to be cosmic or sci-fi. Maybe if you smoked a bunch of non-tobacco it might seem really awesome.
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Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun
My head will explode if all classic rock fans here do not know this song. Seriously. Awesome song, with one of the best intros in classic rock history. This was even number 1 one year on KSHE-95's Rock and Roll 500. That is how popular the song is here in the Midwest. But is it everywhere else? I guess we will see... :lol :lol
It was huge in Austin back in the day - smokin song that one is. :metal
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Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun
My head will explode if all classic rock fans here do not know this song. Seriously. Awesome song, with one of the best intros in classic rock history. This was even number 1 one year on KSHE-95's Rock and Roll 500. That is how popular the song is here in the Midwest. But is it everywhere else? I guess we will see... :lol :lol
His work with the Aztecs was much popular in Austrlaia. A real classic Aussie icon, great musician, shame he passed at only 60.
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Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun
My head will explode if all classic rock fans here do not know this song. Seriously. Awesome song, with one of the best intros in classic rock history. This was even number 1 one year on KSHE-95's Rock and Roll 500. That is how popular the song is here in the Midwest. But is it everywhere else? I guess we will see... :lol :lol
His work with the Aztecs was much popular in Austrlaia. A real classic Aussie icon, great musician, shame he passed at only 60.
Billy Thorpe's dead? Aww man.... :-[
This song was pretty big here; I actually owned the album this was on, the second side was a sci-fi suite that began with Children of The Sun while the first was straight up rock songs. In the later 80s Thorpe released an album that featured the original suite re-mixed and a few more songs continuing the story, but I was always fond of the original album.
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Yeah, 2007 I think, heart attack. :'(
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Never heard of the song, or the artist.
Kev = :splodearms:
same here ..never heard of him or the song
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock
Love, love, love (!) this song. Some songs just scream classic rock to me, and this is one of them.
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Good song, but not my favorite by them.
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Good song, but not my favorite by them.
Agreed ...Classic band but if I had to pick one song by them it would be Suite : Judy Blue Eyes
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Agreed ...Classic band but if I had to pick one song by them it would be Suite : Judy Blue Eyes
Seconded.
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Er, that song was already covered in this thread. ??? :facepalm:
Plus, the idea was not to necessarily feature the best song by every band, but to discuss the song at hand. Throwing out "I like this other song by them more" is kind of defeating the purpose of the thread. I mean, if that is the case, then almost every song would result in someone saying "Eh, they have better songs," instead of, ya know, discussing the Song of the Day. :biggrin:
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I like "Woodstock". I always thought it was interesting that Joni Mitchell wrote this song about the Woodstock Festival, but she didn't actually go.
I never understand the words in the chorus until I saw James Taylor perform this song on TV. "We are stardust, we are golden, we are million-year-old carbon". It was the last part that always confused me.
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Er, that song was already covered in this thread. ??? :facepalm:
Plus, the idea was not to necessarily feature the best song by every band, but to discuss the song at hand. Throwing out "I like this other song by them more" is kind of defeating the purpose of the thread. I mean, if that is the case, then almost every song would result in someone saying "Eh, they have better songs," instead of, ya know, discussing the Song of the Day. :biggrin:
sorry Kev didn't go back through the entire thread...as for the song Woodstock itself, can't add anything since its kinda meh for me when looking at their discography
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Oh, no need to apologize! :) I am just saying, I'd rather seeing discussion of the song at hand rather than it being dismissed because said artist has other better songs.
I will use the Eagles as an example. Let's say that everyone agrees Hotel California is their best song (which I know they don't, but let's assume it for the sake of this argument). Now, the Eagles have a bunch of other classic rock mainstays, but if posting any of them is always gonna be met with "Hotel California is better"-type comments, then what is the point? That is all I am saying. :)
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Oh, no need to apologize! :) I am just saying, I'd rather seeing discussion of the song at hand rather than it being dismissed because said artist has other better songs.
I will use the Eagles as an example. Let's say that everyone agrees Hotel California is their best song (which I know they don't, but let's assume it for the sake of this argument). Now, the Eagles have a bunch of other classic rock mainstays, but if posting any of them is always gonna be met with "Hotel California is better"-type comments, then what is the point? That is all I am saying. :)
Fully Understood :tup
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Whoops. :lolpalm:
I will say that "Woodstock" reminds me of summers with my Dad. :)
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Woodstock, around these parts, was the "other" CSN song on local radio-the only other song local radio played was, you guessed it, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes-back in my youth, but it seems to have claimed the spot of sole CSN classic on the radio here. Well, okay, inexplicably Southern Cross gets some airplay, go figure...
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Bob Seger - Turn the Page
I have to admit that I have irrational and unexplainable hate for almost anything this guy does. I think it probably stems from my parents playing Old Time Rock and Roll a lot when I was really young, and I hated that song more than anything. But I would still almost always rather run head first through a brick wall than listen to anything this guy does. But this song is probably the one exception. I won't do anything crazy like admit that I like it, but I will just say that it isn't nearly as objectionable as everything else I've ever heard by him. :lol
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Really, really love the song
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^ What he said. Such a soulful and emotional bluesy/rock-ballad.
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I grew up in Michigan, even lived in Ann Arbor for a while (Bob Seger is from Ann Arbor; most people think he's from Detroit), so it's pretty much required that I like Bob Seger. I was with him up through his first live album, then things took a serious downturn.
Anyway, "Turn the Page" is a great song, a scrapbook of life on the road. I've always loved how you can hear the exhaustion in his voice, the frustration in the restaurant, the loneliness in the hotel room. It's perfect. Compare that to Metallica's horrible cover, where you can hear Hetfield trying so hard to sound like he has actual emotion, when he's really just screaming and posing.
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Anyway, "Turn the Page" is a great song, a scrapbook of life on the road. I've always loved how you can hear the exhaustion in his voice, the frustration in the restaurant, the loneliness in the hotel room. It's perfect. Compare that to Metallica's horrible cover, where you can hear Hetfield trying so hard to sound like he has actual emotion, when he's really just screaming and posing.
:iagree: Can't stand Metallica's version.
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Anyway, "Turn the Page" is a great song, a scrapbook of life on the road. I've always loved how you can hear the exhaustion in his voice, the frustration in the restaurant, the loneliness in the hotel room. It's perfect. Compare that to Metallica's horrible cover, where you can hear Hetfield trying so hard to sound like he has actual emotion, when he's really just screaming and posing.
:iagree: Can't stand Metallica's version.
I don't mind it...
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Bob Seger - Turn the Page
Got too much radio play down here, but at least I'm not totally sick to death of it.
Oh, and I also agree about the emotionlessness of Metallica's cover of it and about hearing the emotion in Bob's voice in his version.
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My sister frequently rants about this song going on about how Bob Seger is a huge star and she didn't see why he was complaining about life on the road when he was famous.
I point out that Bob Seger wasn't always famous every time she does this. :lol
The best thing about the Metallica version is the part of the Garage Inc. liner notes by David Fricke that discuss their cover, with Lars saying it was totally their life on the road and they were very Hetfield like lyrics. Two words: my ass.
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That's typical Lars for you, being his usual douchebag self. He's not as big a douche as Axl Rose or Tate (what rock stars are?), but he's high up in the 2nd tier. Nothing he says should ever be taken seriously.
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The best thing about the Metallica version is the part of the Garage Inc. liner notes by David Fricke that discuss their cover, with Lars saying it was totally their life on the road and they were very Hetfield like lyrics. Two words: my ass.
Seriously?! Gimme a break... ::)
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The only reason Metallica's version of Turn The Page doesn't earn more ire from me is because their version of Whisky In The Jar is right there waiting for me to land on with both feet. :lol
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I can believe that Metallica lived that life early in their careers as well, just as Bob Seger did. I just don't hear it in Hetfield's performance. He's just singing the song. Semi-screaming or whatever you call it doesn't equal emotion. Musically, it's not bad, but the song isn't about the music. It's actually a pretty basic, repetitive song. It's about the delivery and the emotion, and Hetfield does not deliver.
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. The Metallica version is great, as are Hetfield's vocals.
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I think their version of Whiskey in the Jar is way better than Turn the Page
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. The Metallica version is great, as are Hetfield's vocals.
I pray to God you forget to make that green. And even if you say no, I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you are being sarcastic.... never breaking character.
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. The Metallica version is great, as are Hetfield's vocals.
I pray to God you forget to make that green. And even if you say no, I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you are being sarcastic.... never breaking character.
Seriously, it's great. I think you're hugely exaggerating here.
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. The Metallica version is great, as are Hetfield's vocals.
I pray to God you forget to make that green. And even if you say no, I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you are being sarcastic.... never breaking character.
Seriously, it's great. I think you're hugely exaggerating here.
Fair enough ... you're still holding on to the sarcasm.
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Haters gonna hate, buddy. :biggrin:
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Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
This song was life-changing for me. I remember hearing this song for the first time in my cousin's truck in the summer of '89 when we were cutting lawns all day every day; I could not believe a song could be as awesome as it was. I ran out and bought the Boston debut album on cassette the next day (yes, cassette :lol). I was initially unaware how many classics it was filled with, as I listened to Foreplay/Long Time non-stop for seemingly weeks before I bothered listening to the other songs. To this day, this is still a song I never turn off. :metal :metal
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Favorite Boston track, easily. "Foreplay" is such a great instrumental/intro
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Great track! Two pieces which have nothing to do with each other, but which go perfectly together and should never be played one without the other. A lot of times, I think it's cheesy when bands do this; one bit is obviously just the intro to the other. But in this case it makes perfect sense to include the names of both pieces, but combine them into one track anyway.
I spent a lot of time one summer learning "Foreplay", then we figured out that there's no way our singer could sing "Long Time". Brad Delp had an incredible voice.
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Holy irony Batman (see my vocal showdown poll).
Back in my teenage and early 20s, I had hair... lots of it. I would airdrum to this tune, and make like Animal from The Muppets. As drunk/stoned teenagers, it was a riot. My fav Boston track. I had a live version of this that is on some cassette somewhere (recorded from the radio)... probably in the bottom of a landfill. Damn it was good.
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that track is so awesome I don't have the words
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For a very long time, local rock radio was guilty of the heresy of not playing Foreplay before Long Time, but, since we're talking about vinyl days, when the song started usually varied by a few seconds of the very end of Foreplay. These days it's played as properly the full song it's meant to be. This would likely be my favorite song on Boston's debut...if, that is, More Than A Feeling hadn't been my favorite song for the past three decades.
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I forgot to mention how much I was thrown when I got the Boston debut album on CD. I was like, the track order is all screwed up!
On the cassette, it looked like this:
Side 1:
More Than a Feeling (1 on the CD)
Peace of Mind (2)
Something About You (7)
Let Me Take You Home Tonight (8)
Side 2:
Rock and Roll Band (4)
Smokin' (5)
Hitch a Ride (6)
Foreplay/Long Time (3)
So, being that I was used to that running order, it took some time to get used to the correct one.
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I owned it on vinyl first, so when I got the cassette that was what messed me up, :lol
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I think their version of Whiskey in the Jar is way better than Turn the Page
Word.
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
No words, just :2metal:
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No words, just :2metal:
Chicks love foreplay?
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If it goes for a Long Time.
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No words, just :2metal:
Chicks love foreplay?
If it goes for a Long Time.
Dammit! Ninja'd by Orbert! :lol :lol :lol
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Heh heh.
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One of the best tracks of the entire 70's. Definitely the highlight of the album, even though I love most of the tracks on it. There is so much to love about it.
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That Boston Album has so many good hits. It's like the Cars first album, beginning to end a great album
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You ain't lying there, my liege. :hifive:
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:tup
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Boston....Greatest Debut Album of All Time
You could have listed any song off this album and it would have gotten a huge :tup from me.....
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Definitely.
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Mountain - Mississippi Queen
This is one of those classic rock tunes that I have heard so many times, I know it like the back on my hand, but I don't think I've ever gone out of my way to listen to it. Good song, regardless.
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Pretty much the same thing here. I've never really been into Mountain, but I know this song back and forth. :lol
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Hate Mountain and when I saw them live backing up Triumph it made me hate them more. Leslie and the drummer had a huge fight onstage to the point that the drummer was throwing drumsticks at Leslie and at the end of the show, Leslie took he guitar head and put it through the drummers bass drum.
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Leslie West did have a bit of a reputation for being pretty much an asshole. :lol
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Mountain - Mississippi Queen
It's not a bad song, but I always found myself swinging the radio dial when it came on. :lol
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I am a casual fan of this Mountain song, but actually liked it more after I heard it in the Expendables movie.
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Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
I got introduced to this song by the live version played on MTV from the Tribute album in the later 80s. I suspect that, for many, this is another one of those "heard this a million times" songs, so it is easy to overlook at this point or view as overplayed/overrated, but it really is a pretty great song. There is usually a reason songs get so overplayed. :lol
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I was a little too young to be able to properly appreciate Eddie Van Halen when he burst onto the scene, so Randy Rhoads for me was the first guitarist that I heard and made me think "holy fucking shit, this guy's not human." His playing was so unlike what anyone else was doing at the time, and hearing Crazy Train and I Don't Know for the first time were just endless moments of jaw dropping amazement. These days, Crazy Train is a little worn out and we're accustomed to it, but when it came out, it was so stunning and game changing. And to this day I wonder what kind of music Randy Rhoads would have made had he not died so young.
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Say what you will but I honestly think I prefer the Zakkified version played when Zakk Wylde was with Oz
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I was a little too young to be able to properly appreciate Eddie Van Halen when he burst onto the scene, so Randy Rhoads for me was the first guitarist that I heard and made me think "holy fucking shit, this guy's not human." His playing was so unlike what anyone else was doing at the time, and hearing Crazy Train and I Don't Know for the first time were just endless moments of jaw dropping amazement. These days, Crazy Train is a little worn out and we're accustomed to it, but when it came out, it was so stunning and game changing. And to this day I wonder what kind of music Randy Rhoads would have made had he not died so young.
This, all of it.
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I hear it all the time on the radio but I seem to appreciate it more when I listen to Blizzard of Ozz in its entirety. Great song.
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In a lot of ways, my intro to Ozzy. Such a great tune. I rarely skip this track if it appears on shuffle
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Great song from a great album. It had one of those typical Randy Rhoads solos that was so perfectly composed that you just don't fuck with it.
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In a lot of ways, my intro to Ozzy. Such a great tune. I rarely skip this track if it appears on shuffle
This too was my intro to solo Ozzy. One of the most classic of metal songs. Tons of radio time, but never got too much to become stale or overplayed.
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Brilliant song, even better album, but overplayed.
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combine Ozzy's voice and the horrid guitar tone, and I change the dial every time this comes on. I can't stand it. Too much thin buzz in the distortion, it makes me want to hit the stupid radio. Guitar solo is pretty good, but it doesn't redeem the song.
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Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You
Helluva good song, but I'd like to thank Quentin Tarantino for ruining this song for me, as I cannot hear it anymore without thinking of that scene from Reservoir Dogs. If you've seen the movie, you know the one.
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Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You
Helluva good song, but I'd like to thank Quentin Tarantino for ruining this song for me, as I cannot hear it anymore without thinking of that scene from Reservoir Dogs. If you've seen the movie, you know the one.
Can anyone? Doesn't bother me, as that's one of my favorite movies evar... and Michael Madsen is just so good.
Great song... again, one of those excellent Tier-2 tunes from a Tier-3 band. They were definitely punching above their weight class when they came out with this one.
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Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You
Helluva good song, but I'd like to thank Quentin Tarantino for ruining this song for me, as I cannot hear it anymore without thinking of that scene from Reservoir Dogs. If you've seen the movie, you know the one.
I know what you mean, and I mostly agree. But I've managed to mostly separate myself from the movie, since it's so over-the-top and "artsy" (as all Tarentino films are) that I can think of it as just a movie. Tarentino's films have a high degree of gritty realism, and I love the characters he creates because some aspects of them are so realistic, but at the same time they're also extreme examples of whatever they represent and thus I can also see them as not realistic at all. If that makes any sense.
Anyway, I do like the song. Gerry Rafferty has a cool voice.
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awesome song. never get tired of it
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Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You
Helluva good song, but I'd like to thank Quentin Tarantino for ruining this song for me, as I cannot hear it anymore without thinking of that scene from Reservoir Dogs. If you've seen the movie, you know the one.
Doesn't bother me - still a great song.
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Having never heard the song before Reservoir Dogs, it's ALWAYS going to be associated with that movie for me.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door
I've thought this song was awesome since the first time I heard it, which was a loooong time ago, and then when it was featured in what eventually became one of my favorites movies ever, The Big Lebowski, it just cemented its place as one of my all-time favorite songs. Now, whenever I hear this song, I think of the Dude. :hat
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I remember Keep On Chooglin' (the 2-disc greatest hits of CCR) was one of my very very early CD purchases when I was about 15 or so. I listened to music before that of course, but it was mostly just the radio or my parents' stuff up until 1998 or 1999, when I got my first portable CD player and started getting CDs. This was one of the first things that was actually mine. I listened to my parents' cassettes too, including some CCR ones, so that 2-disc set was a natural choice, something for everyone. CCR have a load of great songs and this is definitely one of them. :hat
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CCR is awesome, that is all
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I agree CCR is pretty awesome. This is not one of their better songs though. Fortunate Son, that's another matter... :hefdaddy
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Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn!
I love that line. Such a happy, fun song. Is it a great song? Nah. But it's happy and fun.
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Doo doo doo
Lookin' out my back door
:hat
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My wife thought the CCR song "Theres a Bad Moon on the Rise" was "There's a Bathroom on the Right".
Good thing she has a great rack.
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The Doors - Light My Fire
Very cool song, even if I think the instrumental section goes on too long. That might sound odd coming from me, a lover of many super long songs, but that 4-minute plus instrumental section just kind of meanders along, but props to the band for being ballsy enough to attempt something like that in 1967. And of course this is the song of the Ed Sullivan Show fame, where the band was ordered to not sing the line, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher," but Jim Morrison did it anyway. That, my friends, is rock and roll. :metal :coolio :hat
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One of the rare songs where I prefer the edited version
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Nope, full-length version for me. It's The Doors. They meander. In this case, though, it doesn't feel like meandering to me; it feels like a keyboard solo follow by a guitar solo, both of which take their time to develop as they should.
I'm not a huge Doors fan, but I'll never switch this one off.
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The instrumental section is too long, but given the time that they did this at, it was a monumental step forward for music (as was The End to close out the debut album.) It could've stood to be edited a little, because it does the sort of meandering that makes a song feel longer and more boring than it actually is. :lol Still an undeniable classic, though.
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The Doors - Light My Fire
I personally couldn't care less if the keyboard solo meanders too much - it's the DOORS FFS. :coolio
Always loved this one, btw, even though it's not my absolute favorite Doors song of all time (which I will save, as it hasn't been mentioned yet).
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Always recognized it as a classic, and it deserves it's place in musical history.
I'm just not a big fan of it.
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Always loved this one, btw, even though it's not my absolute favorite Doors song of all time (which I will save, as it hasn't been mentioned yet).
PM me what song that is, and maybe that will be my next Doors featured tune. :) Assuming it isn't something like When the Music's Over. :lol
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Incoming! ;)
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Styx - Come Sail Away
I remember when my friends Matt and Eric and I all got into Styx in 1990, we all thought Come Sail Away was the most awesome song ever (for like a week anyway :lol, as we were getting into Pink Floyd at around the same time). One of our running jokes about this song for a while was how the one year KSHE-95 did their Rock and Roll 500, Come Sail Away was like number 374 (or something like that), and then Roxanne was 373, and our joke was, "Yeah, Roxanne is better than Come Sail Away." :lol :lol :lol :lol (they hated Roxanne as much I did) Fast forward now, 23 years later, I still think the song is all kinds of awesome, even if I burned out on it long ago from hundreds of listenings. And I gotta give a shout-out to the Cartman version from South Park. :tup :tup
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Great song. Whenever I hear it, it takes me back to my first concert, The Grand Illusion. Good times.
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Thankfully, this too was my introduction to Styx in the mid 80s. If it had bee n Mr. robots, I'm not sure they would've got a second chance. The drum insanity is just awesome. And when the whole band comes back in right after that keyboard note that gets held for 4 bars always raises the hair on the back of my neck.
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My lasting memory of Come Sail Away comes from my childhood. My dad was never really big on rock and roll, period, let alone anything hard rock or heavy metal oriented. At the time Come Sail Away was a hit, I lived in West Virginia, and my grandparents lived in a small town about 50 miles from where I lived in Charleston. Back then, that was fairly long drive across back country roads. To keep (largely) my older sister quiet, Mom would convince Dad to turn on the radio, usually on AM channels, which meant that on the weekend-I think it was Sundays in that market-Casey Kasem's top 40 was usually on the air during long road trips.
Anyway, Come Sail Away comes on, somewhere in the 30s if memory serves, and my dad appears to be enjoying it. Quiet piano number, after all. Then, of course, the song kicks into gear, and my dad scowls at the radio and turns it off. "Why the hell did they ruin a perfectly good song like that?" he asked. :lol Come Sail Away will always remind me of my dad's disdain for anything involving heavy guitars of any sort.
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I still think those first two minutes has some of the best singing ever. Denis de Young's voice really shines here. It would be an absolutely flawless song, if not for that little synth break, but the song more than makes up for it when the band comes back in full force. Definitely a top 50 song for me
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I have to agree it's a flawless song hand has every element I love about STYX.
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I have no problem with this song being overplayed to death, because it is that good.
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Okay, so... I've been a fan since 1982, but I have to admit that a LOT of The Grand Illusion did not age well for me. :blush
I will agree that Dennis' vocals REALLY shine here. :heart
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Chilliwack - Fly at Night
This is another one of those bands who have that one awesome classic rock song that I know, but ask me to name another song of theirs, and I couldn't do it if my life depended on it. :lol But this is one helluva tune.
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Chilliwack - Fly at Night
This is another one of those bands who have that one awesome classic rock song that I know, but ask me to name another song of theirs, and I couldn't do it if my life depended on it. :lol But this is one helluva tune.
My Girl (Gone Gone Gone).
After that, I got nothing. Nice little tune from a Canadian band from ... wait for it ... Chilliwack, BC :o Hear this on the radio all the time, still to this day.
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Here's a case of a band I know by the name, but couldn't name a song by...and probably do KNOW a song by them, just not that they did it. :rollin
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Yeah, "My Girl (Gone Gone Gone)" is the only song I know by them. I have no recollection of "Fly at Night".
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I hear Fly at Night all the time on the radio. Never had any desire to look into Chilliwack any further. However, whenever I hear My Girl gone gone gone, that song is locked in my head for hours.
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Here's a case of a band I know by the name, but couldn't name a song by...and probably do KNOW a song by them, just not that they did it. :rollin
Same here, bud. :lol
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Aerosmith - Dream On
For a long time, I stubbornly refused to admit that that was Steven Tyler singing the majority of this song; it just sounded so different than what I was used to be by him. That aside, it is a really good song. For some reason, my mom really hates this song, as she says the music in it creeps her out.
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I see what you did there. ;)
Overplayed, but still a classic.
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Aerosmith - Dream On
For a long time, I stubbornly refused to admit that that was Steven Tyler singing the majority of this song; it just sounded so different than what I was used to be by him.
My wife says the same thing. She says it's hard to believe that this is Aerosmith because it doesn't sound like Steven Tyler. It always confuses me, because this was the first Aerosmith single, and it sounds exactly like Steven Tyler.
I guess it still sounds like the same voice to me because I was with them through all the changes. We used to sit around listening to the first album, Get Your Wings, and Toys in the Attic. As Steven slowly destroyed his voice, it was so gradual that I never noticed. He still just sounds like Steven Tyler to me.
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I think it was because he had that young voice.
Great tune but here in Boston they use that damn song for everything.
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Aerosmith - Dream On
For a long time, I stubbornly refused to admit that that was Steven Tyler singing the majority of this song; it just sounded so different than what I was used to be by him.
My wife says the same thing. She says it's hard to believe that this is Aerosmith because it doesn't sound like Steven Tyler. It always confuses me, because this was the first Aerosmith single, and it sounds exactly like Steven Tyler.
I guess it still sounds like the same voice to me because I was with them through all the changes. We used to sit around listening to the first album, Get Your Wings, and Toys in the Attic. As Steven slowly destroyed his voice, it was so gradual that I never noticed. He still just sounds like Steven Tyler to me.
I guess for those of you who knew Aerosmith from the start, sure, it just sounded like Steven Tyler, but I had never heard of Aerosmith until 1987, and I don't think I heard any of their 70s stuff till 1989 or so.
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It's the best of the best from Aerosmith. Killer tune. Tyler's best performance IMO.
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The Beatles - Come Together
It seems like the Beatles tend to get played on oldies stations way more than classic rock stations, but Come Together is a song that still gets played on the latter a lot, so here we are. As much as I love the Beatles, and Abbey Road for that matter, Come Together has always been a song I merely liked; I've never thought it was that great or anything. Good, solid song, but I think, for me, it just gets lost in the mix since they have so many other songs that are much better.
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Love Dream On. Now, wasn't it released the same year Stairway came out, and if so, what came first?
I'm in agreement with Kev about Come Together. Stand alone wise, yeah, it's a good song, but as a Beatles song, I consider it middle tier. Maybe in top 25 tier
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The Beatles - Come Together
LOVE this song. LOVE it. :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
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I like this one. I like the darkness of it, and the fact that the lyrics don't make literal sense, but still conjure up some interesting imagery. Once again, The Beatles confounded the masses by going off in unexpected directions, blazing a trail the whole way.
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meh
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I really dig this Beatles song. I love the different styles of music the Beatles tried and this is a great example of it.
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meh
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I was gonna say how this isn't one of my favorite Beatles songs...and how I prefer the latter day McCartney songs to latter day Lennon songs...but I see Debra has a hammer, and is willing to use it. :o
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Come Together is quite possibly the worst Beatles song they regularly play on the radio.
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Come Together is quite possibly the worst Beatles song they regularly play on the radio.
The best being A Day in the Life?
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The Youngbloods - Get Together
I think this is one of those songs that is featured in movies and shows so much (I knew it from Forrest Gump and a Simpsons episode) that a lot of people probably know the chorus really well, but wouldn't know what song it was until it actually got to the chorus. I know that when I first heard the song, I was like, "I don't know this song," and then it got to the chorus and I was like, "Oh yeah, this I know." Pretty good song, and I get why it was so popular, given the lyrics and when it came out.
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is this the "smile on your brother" song?
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Yes. And it's true; all ANYONE knows is the chorus. If someone put a gun to my head and told me if I couldn't sing the rest of this song, I'd have to tell them to pull the trigger. :lol
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You guys suck. The verses to this song are awesome, and I sing along to the whole song.
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I was gonna say how this isn't one of my favorite Beatles songs...and how I prefer the latter day McCartney songs to latter day Lennon songs...but I see Debra has a hammer, and is willing to use it. :o
Yep. Case in point.. vvvv
Come Together is quite possibly the worst Beatles song they regularly play on the radio.
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Now. To "Get Together". GREAT song. :tup
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By the name and the band, I can't even bring up the tune in my head. I'd have to YT it.
Yup... the chorus is the only thing that rings a bell. Definitely a perfect snippet for the Forest Gump soundtrack.
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It's an alright song. Very hippie oriented though
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Steve Walsh - Every Step of the Way
Considering the other members of classic Kansas play on this song, it might as well have been a Kansas song, although the saxophone being a featured instrument was definitely a new thing for the Kansas sound. Anyway, really good song, one I don't listen to nearly enough, but every time, I think, "Dang, this song is great; why don't I listen to it more?" :facepalm:
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I've never heard any Steve Walsh solo music. Like, ever. Way back when, the only solo album that any member of Kansas ever did that I even remotely paid attention to was the Kerry Livgren album that Ronnie James Dio sang a track on. Given how much I like Kansas, you'd think this wouldn't be the case. Go figure.
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Sorry... I've never heard of this one.
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The Who - 5.15
Yes, I am doing this song on purpose today, it being 5-15. The Who have a lot of classic rock tunes that still get played on the radio, and I am not sure how much play this one still gets, but back when I listened to the radio, it got played pretty often. Really good song, for sure. They have many that I like better, in general and on Quadrophenia, but this is still a damn fine song.
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YES
Love the studio version....
and WORSHIP the live version from Live At Albert Hall...
DAT BASS SOLO!!!!!!!
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Awesome song. Quadrophenia is such a great album
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Actually does see some airplay here still-it seems to be one of the few songs after Who's Next that local radio does play regularly. Pretty cool song.
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Awesome song is AWESOME. :metal
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Yeah, this one's a great rocker. The bass work is incredible, as always, but it really helps make this song.
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Foghat - Slow Ride
This is, hands down, one of the best rock songs ever. Some songs you just crack to the max every time they come on and enjoy every second of, and this is most certainly one of those songs. I read once that they debated doing that sped-up ending or not, as they feared it would be a bitch playing it live every night, but they ultimately decided to keep it, and thank God for that; I cannot imagine the song without it. Looking back, I am sure they know it was the right decision. This is one of the defining songs of classic rock, IMO.
:metal :metal :metal :metal :metal
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Great choice. I'm going to fire it up right now! :metal
A few months ago I went to see Foghat and Blue Oyster Cult and the current incarnation of Foghat played Slow Ride, of course, but you wouldn't believe how bad it is without Lonesome Dave. It really bummed me out watching the entire Foghat set...although the women in the audience were really getting into it! :laugh:
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I was shocked at how long it was after having been used to the edited version on Guitar Hero (I wonder why they edited it for the game?) Anyway, totally awesome rocker
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"I'm in the mood, the rhythm is right". Yeah, I'll be firing this up shortly too, and slappin da air-bass. Could never stand the edited version. Needs a full 8 minutes. :2metal:
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Foghat - Slow Ride
Overplayed? Of course!
Bad ass? You fuckin BET. :metal
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Foghat Live is one of my favorite live albums ever, a single album from an era of classic double live albums, and that's my version of Slow Ride, though there's nothing wrong with the studio one.
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Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
Very cool song. Despite being from 1966, which could make it more of an oldie than a classic rock tune, classic rock stations always played it around here, so I think it can be considered both an oldie and a classic rock tune. Does anyone else always think of that scene from Sleepers whenever you hear this song?
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Great song! Stevie was what, 16 when he sang this? I thought I remember hearing that somewhere.
Never seen Sleepers.
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Yeah, he was 16, which made it all the more remarkable. Also, THAT ORGAN. :metal
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Good all around song.
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Yeah, he was 16, which made it all the more remarkable. Also, THAT ORGAN. :metal
Yeah, Steve's always had a great Hammond sound.
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While not a big fan of a lot of solo work, I did always think that Winwood's lead synth tone in the 80s was pretty sweet. Think of the tone in the solo to Valerie.
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I think that was a Roland, wasn't it? I know Oberheims were huge in the 80's, but it never sounded like an Obi to me.
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Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
Doo doo doo doo doo
DUN!
Doo doo doo doo doo
DUN!
LOVE that song. Always have.
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I think that was a Roland, wasn't it? I know Oberheims were huge in the 80's, but it never sounded like an Obi to me.
No clue. I am not a gear guy. :lol :biggrin:
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Grateful Dead - Truckin'
Despite the huge following this band has, they only have a few classic rock staples, and Truckin' is easily the one that gets played the most. I hated it the first time I heard it - I thought it sound too corny or somethin' - but over time, it grew on me, and I can now say I find it fairly enjoyable. It's not a favorite by any means, but it's a quality tune. :hat indeed.
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I remember first paying attention to the lyrics to this one back in junior high, and they cracked me up. "I like to get some sleep before I travel, but if you've got a warrant, I guess you're gonna come in." Great line.
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Grateful Dead - Truckin'
I liked it okay every now and again on classic rock radio, but when you hear it pretty much on a weekly basis thanks to living with a Deadhead it gets old quick. :lol
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Not one of their best, but it's alright
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Rush - Fly by Night
It still seems strange that this is one of their most-played songs on classic rock radio, but I guess it was a matter of it coming out at the right time, plus it was one of their earliest "hits." Good song, but never a favorite of mine, by classic rock standards or, for that matter, the band. The chorus is still a little awkward, but musically the band was already kicking a lot of major ass. And there is a charm and uniqueness in how raw Geddy's voice sounded in those earliest days.
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Local classic rock radio rarely goes further back in Rush's discography anymore than Closer to The Heart, which makes me sad since it used to play as far back as the debut and Finding My Way. You'd think Fly By Night would be perfect for rock radio; it's a classic Rush song and it's pretty short to boot. But no, around here 70s Rush is represented by Closer to The Heart and nothing else!
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I like the song, but it always felt like there were just too many different pieces to it that didn't quite fit together. There's that great opening riff, and the verse which it works into, but the chorus comes out of nowhere. It's an abrupt change, but I guess it works. But the break again is a pretty distinct change which again comes out of nowhere and is obviously just there to provide a contrasting middle section. Good idea in concept, but just doesn't quite work IMO.
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It's good for an early Rush tune
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It's good for an early Rush tune
Exactly.
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It's good for an early Rush tune
Exactly.
Precisely
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It's good for an early Rush tune
Exactly.
Precisely
Definitely
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:lol
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Focus - Hocus Pocus
I can still remember being blown to shreds the first time I heard this song. Everything about it was so awesome: that riff, the yodeling. the whistling, the accordion, the flute, everything. I still think the song rules almost as much as any rock song from the 70s that was played on the radio. This is a :hefdaddy :hefdaddy song in every way imaginable.
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That song is so batshit insane it shouldn't work, and yet it kicks ass up one side and down the other. It's kind of a shame that, if you know Focus for anything, it's that one song-they did a ton of albums with a lot of kick ass material on them. :metal
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Focus were awesome. "Hocus Pocus" is a pretty unusual song for them; it's not like every song of theirs rocks out and has yodeling. They were really more of a jazz/fusion group for most of their run. Great stuff, though.
I like "Hocus Pocus" but the long version is actually a bit too long for me, and I rarely say that about a song I like. They keep coming back and repeating sections just a few more times than necessary. Yeah, the yodeling is cool. Then it comes back. Then it comes back again. The guitar riff is cool, then it comes back, then it comes again...
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That song is so batshit insane it shouldn't work, and yet it kicks ass up one side and down the other.
Pretty much this, yeah.
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It's good for an early Rush tune
Exactly.
Precisely
Definitely
Indubitably
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That song is so batshit insane it shouldn't work, and yet it kicks ass up one side and down the other.
I have never heard another song of theirs.
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I love Hocus Pocus. I have two of their albums, Hamburger Concerto and Moving Waves. Both are awesome and essential prog albums, imo.
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In honor of the passing of Ray Manzarek...
The Doors - Riders on the Storm
Ironically, it is raining pretty good here in St. Louis right now, so this really is the perfect time for me to feature this song. This is a song I loved immediately when I first heard it back in the early 90s, and while I don't listen to it that much anymore, whenever I do, it still sounds as incredible as ever. Unbelievable atmosphere in this song. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad
Just two of the MANY lines that spoke to me when I first heard this - I was much younger, of course. But - this is, without a doubt, my favorite Doors song of all time.
RIP Ray... you will be missed. :'(
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What still amazes me about that song is how Ray plays that descending line against the sounds of rain at around 30 seconds and the shimmering tone and the way the notes ring out over each other has always (for me) represented what rain would sound like if you tried to reproduce its sound via a musical instrument.
That was a bit of a wonky description, but I couldn't think of a better way to word it.
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I know exactly what you mean. I saw a band cover "Riders on the Storm" one time, and the keyboard player did it perfectly. It was great. Also, it was only a two-piece band. The one guy played keys (including keyboard bass a la Manzarek) and sang, the other guy played drums and did some backgrounds. They made a lot of music for just two guys.
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Not very high on my list of Doors tunes, but I think I just burned out on it, seems like it gets heavy rotation on the classic rock station I always listened to. Great song though.
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What still amazes me about that song is how Ray plays that descending line against the sounds of rain at around 30 seconds and the shimmering tone and the way the notes ring out over each other has always (for me) represented what rain would sound like if you tried to reproduce its sound via a musical instrument.
That was a bit of a wonky description, but I couldn't think of a better way to word it.
No, that was a PERFECT way to describe it. :metal
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Yep, I agree, too. Perfect way to put it, Cozmo. :tup :tup
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Free - All Right Now
Free is basically known for two things: 1) Being Paul Rodgers first band, and 2) this song. A classic rock staple, it is interesting to note that it was actually a pretty big hit on the pop charts back in 1970, going all the way to number 4. I like the song; it's a good, solid tune. :coolio
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For every band I've been in that does any kind of classic rock, I pretty much made the band learn this song. It is must be in the set somewhere. Everybody loves this song, and it will always get women on the dance floor. Despite being a badass song in its own right, Rodger's vocals are excellent. I love how he starts out a little subdued and by the end he's in full on "You can't deny how awesome I am" mode.
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Riders on the Storm - one of my favorite Doors tunes
All Right Now might be a tad overplayed, but it's still a great song
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Did Free actually DO another song? :lol I mean, yeah, I know they did, but wow, music history pretty much treats them as a band that put out this song, and apparently as a one sided single. Pretty much a requirement for a band that plays classic rock is knowing this song; I had some friends who had a cover band way back in the days of my adventures and this was one of their standards.
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Did Free actually DO another song?
They did Mr. Big, the inspiration for the band of the same name (they covered the Free tune on the Bump Ahead album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSkmK1RXWZs
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Well, that killed the thread pretty quickly.
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Wishing Well is another song that's fairly well known
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Oh yeah, I forgot about Wishing Well. That got decent airplay around here, too.
Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter
Really cool song, one that got a ton of airplay here in St. Louis (like pretty much all things Sammy Hagar :lol). I think, for some, this is Hagar's forgotten project, but it put him on the map in 1973. Anyway, the slide guitar doing the motorcycle noise thing, played by Ronnie Montrose, is pretty neat.
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Great tune. Excellent guitar work all over it and a really great vocal. This was a karaoke staple for me on Thirsty Thursdays. :thursday:
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I forgot about Wishing Well, too. I was even in a band that played that song, although I don't remember if I even knew that it was Free, since I'd never actually heard the song before.
Bad Motor Scooter is great. I don't consider this Hagar's forgotten project; I consider it Ronnie's first album. Hagar was just the singer. Ronnie Montrose went on to do some really cool stuff, some of it rather proggy.
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Montrose, as far as I can recall, never got much airplay around these parts, which is a shame, because people here missed out on one of the best hard rock albums ever. Oddly enough, Montrose's next band project, Gamma, did get a lot of airplay around here, despite being nowhere near as good or enduring creatively. I'm starting to wonder what the local program directors were on back then.
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Free - All Right Now
Overplayed, but so what? :metal
Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter
:metal
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Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
This is one of those songs that I've always thought was pretty good, but not nearly good enough to warrant the constant play it got on classic rock radio. There are a bunch of Eagles songs I find to be much better, yet this is probably their 2nd or 3rd most played song on the radio. In fact, my best association with this song is it being played by the band at the dance near the end of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. :lol
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In fact, my best association with this song is it being played by the band at the dance near the end of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. :lol
Fun fact: The band was called "Reeves Nevo and the Cinch".
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Not an awesome song, but you have to admit it is one of the catchiest. Everything about it is catchy.
It gets overplayed on the local station here. But hearing it once in a while is enjoyable.
Oh, I would probably like it even more if Glen sang it instead of Don. oh well.
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It gets near endless airplay because it popularized the phrase that is the title, but it isn't even one of the top songs on Hotel California, let alone their career. It is catchy as all hell though, I'll give it that.
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Eric Clapton - Cocaine
I swear, back in the early to mid 90s here in St. Louis, you couldn't go two hours without hearing this on classic rock radio; it was played non-stop for years. I guess it's a good song, but me never being a big Clapton fan combined with the overplaying made hearing this song something that I didn't look forward to it. Years later, it being a bit more fresh now, like I said before, it sounds like a pretty good song. but I would still never go out of my way to hear it or turn it on.
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Great song to BLAST in the car!
One of my favourite memories during my teenage years = Driving up the coast to Santa Barbara with my mom and blasting this (along side a couple Zep tunes) in her 93 Explorer :D
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I never liked this song. I liked less that local radio could only play the live version which I still didn't like, and was four minutes longer to boot. I actually like the rest of Slowhand, the album Cocaine came from, a lot, especially Wonderful Tonight (always loved the version of that I saw Clapton do backed by Dire Straits at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday concert way back when) but Cocaine? Never was a fan.
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Never really much of a fan of any of Clapton's solo work. Just never did anything to float my boat.
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Billy Joel - Prelude/Angry Young Man
Prior to getting his 70s albums on CD, I remember hearing this all of the time on the radio and wondering, "How was this not on his double CD best of??" It's a helluva song, that has an almost proggy introduction and keyboard solo. In fact, that is probably one of my favorite keyboard solos of all-time, it being wonderfully melodic, perfectly executed and climaxing flawlessly back into the final verse. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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it's a great song, and man, that intro. he can fly on that thing
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Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
:yawn:
Not even CLOSE to being the best song from Hotel California, and WAY overplayed at that.
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
It was a good song at one time, but I'm really burned on it. If I never hear it again it'll be too soon.
Billy Joel - Prelude/Angry Young Man
There we go. :tup
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While there's nothing wrong with 80s Billy Joel-as I said over in the other thread, he really managed to stay himself while making himself a MTV artist to boot-I fucking love 70s Billy Joel, man. Some amazing songs there, and this is no exception. :biggrin:
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Oh, 70's Joel just kick ass. If somebody told me they had no love for The Stranger, I'd probably slap his face repeatedly
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The Moody Blues - I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock And Roll Band)
When I first got into the Moodies, there were a handful or two of songs I was absolutely obsessed with, and this was one of them. I heard it on the radio all of the time, plus it was on the This Is The Moody Blues double CD compilation I had. This was quite possibly my most listened to song of late 1990/1991. I love the harmonies in this song, and John Lodge's bass playing, always underrated, really drives the song forward. This is one of my favorite songs by any artist ever. :hat
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Love, love, love this song, and every time I listen to it I realize, despite the obvious Beatles influence in everything Jeff Lynne did, just how much of the Moody Blues was in ELO. Great fucking song.
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Love, love, love this song, and every time I listen to it I realize, despite the obvious Beatles influence in everything Jeff Lynne did, just how much of the Moody Blues was in ELO. Great fucking song.
Unfortunately, I don't have a deep awareness of the Moodies, more of a 'greatest hits' fan. But love everything by them. I'd classify this how I classify most Moodies songs... fantastic.
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The Moody Blues - I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock And Roll Band)
Good song, but not one of my favorite Moody Blues songs. It got played a bit too much for my taste, but I'm not completely burned on it like I am with Stairway to Heaven or Cocaine.
Interesting nod to Jeff Lynne though, I must admit. :tup
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It's alright, don't play this song as much as some of their others
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Badfinger - No Matter What
I remember hearing this band for the first time and thinking they sounded like Beatles wannabes, which is funny since Paul McCartney apparently helped give the band their start, and they were signed to the Beatles label. I picked this song to feature first since it is the one that has stuck with me the most over the years. It's a really good song, with a great hook, and is just very memorable.
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Unfortunately, I don't have a deep awareness of the Moodies, more of a 'greatest hits' fan. But love everything by them. I'd classify this how I classify most Moodies songs... fantastic.
This echoes my exact thoughts.
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It's a nice song. Better than Come and Get It
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It's a nice song. Better than Come and Get It
Took the words right out of my mouth.
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No Matter What is another one of those songs that, every few years, I learn who did it, say to myself "oh, yeah, the band with the ties to the Beatles", nod knowingly, and then a few years go by, I forget who did it, until it comes up again and I go "oh yeah, the band with the ties to the Beatles." I'm due to remember who did this song again in 2019. :lol
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:lol
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
An obvious classic by any standard, it is impossible for me to hear this song without remembering how majestic it was when we saw Pink Floyd at Arrowhead Stadium back in '94 on The Division Bell tour. 60,000 people singing along to this song was absolutely amazing. :coolio :coolio :coolio
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Yup, top shelf material there. Sounds like that would've been an absolutely magical experience.
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I totally recognize the timelessness and the appeal of this song to others, but I will change the channel every single time it comes on. Save for one song, I can't stand Pink Floyd. Don't know why, I just can't relate to them at all.
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
We're just two lost souls
swimming in a fish bowl
:heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The live version from Gilour's Live in Gdansk was one of the songs I had played at my dad's funeral. This song will always be close to my heart (as cliched as that is.. lol)
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
We're just two lost souls
swimming in a fish bowl
:heart :heart :heart :heart :heart
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Great song. Seeing Pink Floyd play it at their reunion performance at Live 8-well, okay, the week after it, when MTV realized that people had watched the coverage actually wanted to see the performances and played all of the bands at Live 8's full sets-was a highlight of my prog rock fandom. :biggrin:
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So goddamn good. Top 5 Pink Floyd song
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I'm not a massive Floyd fan, but you can't deny that song.
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Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Is it possible to not think this song is totally awesome? I say no. As usual, Steve Walsh's vocals are out of this world, Kerry Livgren's acoustic guitar line is absolutely majestic and Robby Steinhardt's violin solo is absolutely gorgeous. And we cannot overlook how incredible the ending of the song is. Those wordless vocals echo sound of the Native American influence we heard on Cheyenne Anthem from the Leftoverture album, as they sound like something you would hear in a film about the plains.
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Great ballad. Can't help but think of Old School with Wil Ferrell when I hear it
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Great song!
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:tup
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Every time I here this in my car, I just love belting out the harmonies that Robbie dose. To hell with the other car drivers. Listen to me sing!
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Existentialism never sounded so good
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Not a song I've ever been able to enjoy. It depresses me.
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Graham Nash - Chicago
I was always a pretty big fan of this song. Very catchy vocal harmonies, and I like those main organ chords; very simple, yet very effective.
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Yep, cool song. I like.
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Just listened to it to see if it rang a bell. Never heard it before now.
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Kansas - Dust in the Wind
I've always loved this one, very muchly. :heart :heart :heart
Graham Nash - Chicago
Just listened to it to see if it rang a bell. Never heard it before now.
I'm with Coz - never heard it either, but it's not bad.
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Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Pretty good song, I guess. Not one I ever went crazy on, but it was a song I heard many times, as classic rock radio stations really love this song. I am pretty sure I thought it was by AC/DC the first time I heard it. :lol Also notable is it is one of many rock songs that "borrows" the Day Tripper riff.
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Now you're messing with a son of a bitch :metal
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Good Song. I don't mind the Guns N' Roses cover of it, either. :metal
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Certainly kicks more ass than Love Hurts
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Queen - Killer Queen
Like so many of Queen's 70s material, this song is absolutely fantastic. This blew my doors off the first time I heard it, and it still does. There aren't enough superlatives in the English language to do this song justice.
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Queen is so awesome and this is definitely a top notch song
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:heart Queen
and this song
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Their breakthrough song, and still one of my faves.
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Killer Queen is an amazing song, but for me, it is now stuck together with playing one of my nephew's Guitar Hero games for the first time. I'd finally gotten the hang of it, and Killer Queen was the song I was playing, and I was hitting every damn note like a boss. I got through a tricky part in the solo and my sister, who was watching me, remarks loudly "WOW THAT WAS A TOUGH PART!"
Missed the next three notes. :censored
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Fantastamazingorgeous.
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Killer Queen is an amazing song, but for me, it is now stuck together with playing one of my nephew's Guitar Hero games for the first time. I'd finally gotten the hang of it, and Killer Queen was the song I was playing, and I was hitting every damn note like a boss. I got through a tricky part in the solo and my sister, who was watching me, remarks loudly "WOW THAT WAS A TOUGH PART!"
Missed the next three notes. :censored
Ha! :lol :lol
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The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues
Great song, and I just found out that it was a cover. Well, I probably knew that at one point, but I had forgotten or something. :facepalm: :lol But yeah, great tune, featuring some killer guitar work by both Duane Allman and Dicky Betts.
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Early Allman Brothers (basically, before Duane died, though there's some good music afterwards) was the shit. Duane Allman could free form jam for half an hour and never lose you. At Fillmore East is one of the best live albums ever, and Stateboro Blues is a fantastic opener for it.
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ABB are really awesome, so yeah
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Queen - Killer Queen
LOVE it. Always have. :heart :heart :heart
The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues
YES. :metal
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
This is one of those songs that is literally impossible not to know, regardless of what genre of music you like the most; it is that well-known. It is obviously a good song, and most deserving of the classic status it has attained. I will say that it is hard for me to hear it now and not think of Forrest Gump (when Jenny teaches Forrest how to dance).
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While not my absolute favorite Skynyrd song, it hasn't been played to death (I'm looking at YOU, Free Bird :lol ) and it's still tolerable.
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While not my absolute favorite Skynyrd song, it hasn't been played to death (I'm looking at YOU, Free Bird :lol ) and it's still tolerable.
I hear it more than Free Bird :lol
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That's because youse a whippersnapper. :getoffmylawn:
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Great tune. Play it at nearly every gig. The one band actually put together a medley of All Summer Long, Sweet Home Alabama, and Werewolves of London. Great fun.
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I've heard it many, many, many more times than Free Bird. Of course, I am from Alabama, so that probably explains it.
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Great tune. Play it at nearly every gig. The one band actually put together a medley of All Summer Long, Sweet Home Alabama, and Werewolves of London. Great fun.
as much as I HAAAATE All Summer Long... I'd love to see / hear that medley
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I keep hearing this medley on the radio with "Sweet Home Alabama", "Werewolves of London", and maybe one or two other songs. By Kid Rock, maybe? I don't know. While the medley/mashup is pretty clever and well-done, I have to object on general principal to taking someone else's work, playing with it, and then passing it off as your own. When it's entire verses or choruses, it's not homage, it's just lame.
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That's what we are talking about.
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Ahh, Sweet Home Alabama. The song that accidentally argues that racism is okay-since the first verse bashes Neil Young for the song Southern Man (though eventually Neil Young and Skynryd became friends, go figure), is wide open to interpretation that it supported segregation and Richard Nixon (though the band denied that), and performed by a band from Jacksonville, Florida. :lol
Catchy as fuck, though, I'll give it that. :rollin
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Haha, interesting way to put it there, Jaq. :lol :lol
The Kinks - Lola
I never went nuts over the old Kinks stuff like many did, even though I gave some of it many chances, but there are some songs I do enjoy quite a bit, and this is one of them. This being a classic rock radio mainstay for a long time probably helped with liking this song. Good song.
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Around the time I started listening to the local rock radio stations, the Kinks were fairly close to having put out a live album-I want to say within the past couple of years-so the first time I heard Lola was a live version. And live, at that time, Lola was a hell of a lot more bombastic than the studio version was. Needless to say, once the studio version returned to the playlists, I was shocked by how the song built to the bombastic climax, rather than being full throttle bombast all the way. :lol
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I had a co-worker years ago named Lola. The only Lola I've ever met. We were listening to tunes one time, and the song "Lola" came on, and we had a discussion about the song. I told her that basically, the song is clever enough, with all the gender-confusing double entendres, but ultimately it just kinda creeps me out because by the end, there's no longer any confusion.
I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola
Pretty clear, right? I'm a man, and so is Lola. My co-worker pointed out that no, it's still ambiguous. The singer is glad he's a man, and Lola is also glad that he (the singer) is a man.
Shit! :omg:
She said "Believe me, growing up with the name 'Lola', I know the song very well and have the answer to every possible taunt or question about it." Okay, so I went back to appreciating the song for how clever the lyrics are, basically allowing you to interpret them as you will. She's big, strong, but as it happens, my co-worker Lola was also quite big and strong, but definitely female.
...Or was she?
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That's a pretty interesting interpretation, but you can kind of infer from the song that Lola is indeed a trannie
Anyway, good song, but The Kinks have better songs
And I love Free Bird a whole lot more than SHA
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I suppose you could turn your head sideways at the line "in bed I'm a man, and so is Lola" and say that it means Lola is a more dominant sort, but I think I know where they were really heading with that song. :lol
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That's a pretty interesting interpretation, but you can kind of infer from the song that Lola is indeed a trannie
You can infer it, but you could still be wrong, and that's the whole point. The entire song, he's wondering, looking for clues, but there is nothing conclusive. There are women, natural-born and 100% hetero, who just happen to be rather large and possessing "mannish" characteristics. I thought that the whole point of the song was that at the end, he finally comes out and says it, but my co-worker pointed out that even that seemingly final declaration could be interpreted differently.
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I suppose you could turn your head sideways at the line "in bed I'm a man, and so is Lola"
That's not what he says. He says "I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola"
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Throw that one in the chronically misheard lyrics pile then. :lol
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The Kinks - Lola
GREAT song, I don't care what anyone says. It also reminds me of a story I once heard from my brother's friend Pete - a friend of theirs was either REALLY stoned or REALLY drunk and they were all at one of the bigger neighborhood pools in SW Houston. Well, dude has an acoustic guitar with him so he decides to jump into the pool WITH the guitar--while still fully clothed, mind--while strumming the beginning riff of "Lola". I about died laughing. :lol :lol :lol
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Supertramp - The Logical Song
I will always remember this song as my first serious girlfriend's favorite Supertramp song. It was back in 1992, and I was getting into Supertramp that summer, so she heard them a lot, and this song was the one she loved the most. I always liked it quite a bit, too, although it wasn't my favorite by them. The final 1:15 is definitely some of my favorite music by them, however; fabulous way to the end the song.
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This is a band I never got. I will always change the channel if Supertramp comes on. I can't put my finger on what it is, but there's SOMETHING about this band that just annoys me. I will say that the sax work in this song is pretty excellent.
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I always used to think that was a girl who sang it originally, like maybe ABBA lol Anyway, I really like this song. Probably my 2nd favorite after Take The Long Way Home
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Though I've always dug the sample of the Mattel Electronic Football game (you 70s kids will know what I'm talking about ;) ) towards the end of the song ("Di-di-di-digital"), it was WAY overplayed back in the day.
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Senior year in high school, we took a road trip to visit one of my friend's cousins, who was a year older than us and had started college. It was like something out of a bad teen comedy movie; three hours in the car, broken radio, working cassette player (this was before CD) but only one tape: Breakfast in America by Supertramp. My buddy had just purchased some non-tobacco and we got absolutely baked, listening to Breakfast in America over and over.
There are worse albums to listen to endlessly, I suppose. And Supertramp albums are pretty layered, so as we heard the songs over and over, we started noticing little things in the music that were actually pretty clever, though I'm sure our mental states assisted with that.
We got into a debate over whether certain words in "The Logical Song" were supposed to rhyme or not. Responsible, practical, intellectual, vegatable. Not even very close, but similar structures, but maybe he's just listing things anyway and they're not supposed to rhyme in the first place.
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Supertramp :tup
Great song by this great band.
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Senior year in high school, we took a road trip to visit one of my friend's cousins, who was a year older than us and had started college. It was like something out of a bad teen comedy movie; three hours in the car, broken radio, working cassette player (this was before CD) but only one tape: Breakfast in America by Supertramp. My buddy had just purchased some non-tobacco and we got absolutely baked, listening to Breakfast in America over and over.
There are worse albums to listen to endlessly, I suppose. And Supertramp albums are pretty layered, so as we heard the songs over and over, we started noticing little things in the music that were actually pretty clever, though I'm sure our mental states assisted with that.
We got into a debate over whether certain words in "The Logical Song" were supposed to rhyme or not. Responsible, practical, intellectual, vegatable. Not even very close, but similar structures, but maybe he's just listing things anyway and they're not supposed to rhyme in the first place.
:hat
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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
This song blew me to pieces the first time I heard it; I couldn't believe how awesome it was. I still like it a lot, but a little bit of the shine came off of it over the years. I think the repetitive nature of it, given its length, was a slight turnoff once the newness of it wore off of me. Still a great song nonetheless, and one that features in particular some monster playing by John Bonham.
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Great tune. Can't hear it without thinking of Ratner driving Stacy to dinner.
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My favorite Zep tune. Easily!
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I will probably annoy a lot of Zep purists out there-I have before-but I will say, without qualification, that the best live version of Kashmir I've ever heard (and I've heard a LOT of them, owning or having heard just about every concert the band played it at) was the one at the reunion gig in 2007. Jason Bonham was practically channeling his dad by then, and the rest of the band was just ON. Great song, albeit a little on the overplayed side.
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that version was very awesome indeed!
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I think the repetitive nature of it, given its length, was a slight turnoff once the newness of it wore off of me.
That's pretty much where I am. Great song, kicked everyone's asses for a while, but the shine wore off after a while.
Our drummer absolutely hated playing "Kashmir". Said it was boring as hell.
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Okay, I will do another one today before heading out tonight here in a bit...
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
I knew this song when I was pretty young, as I think this was a song my parents liked a lot, and I am pretty sure they had the single of it on a 45 record. Good song; a definite classic.
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Grand Funk are indeed a great band. I especially like their cover of The Locomotion and Some Kind of Wonderful
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Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla
Great song; great band. What more can I say? :)
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Totally agree. Sure, it's a silly song, but it takes itself seriously and rocks hard. You never hear it on the radio anymore, but that's okay; I have it on mine iPod.
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I haven't heard every song from BOC; but every single song that I have heard, is great. Besides the big two, I hear this one on the radio once in a while. BOC kicks ass!
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They really do. Get some of their albums, preferably older ones of course, they'll kick your butt.
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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Overplayed, but much less so than Stairway.
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
Okay song - not one of my favorites, though.
Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla
Oh no
They say he's got to go
Go go GODZILLA!!!
Oh no
There goes Tokyo
Go go GODZILLA!!!
:2metal:
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Fun song. I need to put that back on my ipod
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They really do. Get some of their albums, preferably older ones of course, they'll kick your butt.
This. Although, like I have said before, every BOC album is pretty darn good except for Club Ninja and Mirrors, and even those both have a few great songs on them.
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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Totally dig the UnLedded version. There's this one chick on a violin just absolutely rockin it out as she's playing. :metal
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
Don't know a lot of the GFR catalogue, but this one is a great, quick, meat-and-potatoes rock 'n' roll tune.
Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla
Can't say I know this one.
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Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla
Can't say I know this one.
Familiarize yourself. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65rW_SIzg0)
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Chad, you never heard Godzilla?! I'm shocked!!
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Never once.
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That song is such a AOR staple. That's why I find it shocking.
Kev, Dominance and Submission :metal
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Wow!
Never once.
Is it just this song or you haven't heard much of BoC?
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Kev, Dominance and Submission :metal
Radios appear.
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Never once.
That is kind of mind boggling that you've never heard this song.
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The only BoC that gets radio play around here is Don't Fear the Reaper and Burning for You. Truthfully, I couldn't name another song by them. I don't have any of their albums, so ... yeah.
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Godzilla's a great song, but it rarely if ever gets played here, which is a shame. Classic rock radio's forgotten so much BOC, it's a crime.
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I always forget BoC did Godzilla, because Don't Fear the Reaper and Burning for You are awesome. And Godzilla blows.
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Blue Öyster Cult - Godzilla
Can't say I know this one.
:omg:
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Chicago - Saturday in the Park
I've always liked this song, even when I had my two decades-long refusal to check out the rest of their pre-1980s material, simply because I was so repulsed by the dreck they released for much of the 80s. But this is undeniably a good song.
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Um... it's much better than their 80s dreck, that's for daim sure. :lol
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So much win. Probably my favorite song of theirs
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Not a fan.
Stepping back to Godzilla for a moment, for those interested, here's an excellent cover of Godzilla by a band called Racer X. The band consists of Scott Travis on drums (Judas Priest), John Alderete on bass (Mars Volta), and Paul Gilbert on guitar (Mr. Big) and Jeff Martin on vocals (one-time drummer for Badlands). It starts out a little slow, but it picks up and kicks into the song proper around 1:00. Also, a tip of the hat to David Bowie's "Fame" in the middle. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3u7IR0kUUg
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Chicago - Saturday in the Park
I've always liked this song, even when I had my two decades-long refusal to check out the rest of their pre-1980s material, simply because I was so repulsed by the dreck they released for much of the 80s. But this is undeniably a good song.
Great song by one of my favorite bands. I love those piano chords.
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Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind
Great song, featuring some bad ass vocal harmonies, a wicked galloping rhythm and outstanding lead guitar playing by a then-very young Ted Nugent (he was 20 at the time of its release). I have a hunch a lot of people don't know this song, or they don't know they know it, but this is a great classic tune.
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Yep, I always liked this one.
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I've always loved how Nugent, after he left the Amboy Dukes, played the "I SWEAR I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ABOUT DRUGS" card about this song.
Well, maybe he didn't, he might have been too busy banging jailbait groupies to notice. :rollin
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I've always loved how Nugent, after he left the Amboy Dukes, played the "I SWEAR I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ABOUT DRUGS" card about this song.
Well, maybe he didn't, he might have been too busy banging jailbait groupies to notice. :rollin
Wouldn't surprise me. I remember him being pretty outspoken about how he never did drugs. He joked how everyone would be getting stoned or hammered after shows, and he'd leave with the prettiest girl and have some fun. :lol :tup :tup That, of course, was a long time ago, when Nugent was an entertaining personality, as opposed to the nut job that he now is.
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Journey - Feeling That Way & Anytime
I am doing these two songs together since they one of those pairs that have always been played together, so it only makes sense to feature them that way. This is seven minutes of the best music this band has ever done. And it was back when Gregg Rolie still did some lead vocals, so we get plenty of lead vocals here from both him and Steve Perry, which adds a cool dynamic to the song, having two different, and rather different, lead vocalists.
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Aha! Finally some songs I know!
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... And I apparently have nothing to say about them. Great songs, though.
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Great pair of songs there. I always liked the contrast between Gregg's voice and Steve's voice, and we get it on both songs. I was bummed when Steve inevitably became the lead singer and Gregg bailed. At least that's what I assumed happened. This was pre-Internet, so all we knew is that the next album came out and Gregg wasn't on it, and I guess I never looked it up later because I don't actually care that much.
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Journey - Feeling That Way & Anytime
Everything
Couldn't have said it better myself. Never got too much in to Journey beyond the radio hits, but these are songs I could see myself coming back to and enjoying just as much 50 years from now.
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I enjoy Feeling That Way a lot more than Anytime, which is a fairly low-range song on the album. Feeling That Way is great, but still kinda mid-range on the album too.
And I don't particularly like Rolie's vocals, especially with having a better vocalist in the band. The back and forth was hit and miss for me, and Anytime was one of those times I wish it was just Perry. Feeling That Way was much more successful in that regard.
And I HATE the way they run close together. It doesn't flow at all, and they're not part of the same song. One song ends a cappella, and the next one starts the same way, and it just sounds off. It's bugged me every single time since the first time I heard the album. I actually usually pause inbetween the tracks so it doesn't sound so awkward.
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I agree that Feelin' That Way is the much better song, but I think I have been indoctrinated by classic rock radio to always listen to them together, so I cannot imagine them apart.
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I can't think of these songs as being two songs, even though they obviously are, though I don't think the transition is as awkward as others do. Perhaps because I'm so used to it. Good songs, though it's been an age since I heard anything but Wheel In The Sky off this album on the radio.
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The worst thing was when the did the exact same "a capella segue trick" with "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" and "City of the Angels". That one was just awkward, and we just laughed because it was so obvious that they just wanted to do the same thing again. I thought the original segue was "Feeling that Way" to "Anytime" was pretty cool.
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REO Speedwagon - Roll with the Changes
Unlike other "popular with girls" rock bands - like Journey, Styx, etc. - whenever this band went soft, it was almost always wretched, but when they rocked, it was often good, this song being a good example. This band really doesn't have a lot of songs that I can say I really like, but this is one of them. I like the extended ending quite a bit.
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This was the song that broke them...in Charleston, West Virginia. :lol
I've mentioned it before, even in this thread, but waaaay back when, REO Speedwagon was a band that could sell out Charleston, WVA, and yet a mere state away, they were functionally a new band when Hi Infidelity broke big a few years later. I moved from West Virginia to Virginia, and was shocked to find that no one had heard of REO Speedwagon when they broke nationally. I miss 70s regional rock scenes.
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Yep, it is crazy how certain songs were huge in some areas and completely unknown in others. And I thought more people would know that one, but oh well. Carrying on...
The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
I have to chalk this up to being one of those songs I have heard many times, but never paid much attention to. I have no great like or dislike for it; indifferent is probably the best word to describe my feelings for it. Definitely a classic, though.
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A long time ago, when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were around, all four of them, I got into a discussion with somebody about how these four guys had all gotten together. I knew that Crosby and Nash had worked together, and also Stills and Young. I mentioned Stills and Young first, and the guy I was talking to said "Yeah, they were in Buffalo Springfield together". I knew Stephen Stills was in Buffalo Springfield, but not Neil Young. But the guy seemed to know what he was talking about, and it did check out later.
And I mentioned Crosby and Nash, and he said they were both in The Hollies. I knew that Graham Nash was in The Hollies, but not David Crosby, but again, since the guy seemed to know his stuff, I didn't question. Whenever I heard "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" on the radio, I assumed that that was David Crosby singing. It sounds like it could be a very young Crosby, with lots of echo or reverb or whatever that is.
But I had been led astray. David Crosby was never in The Hollies, and that's not him singing this song.
TLDR version: David Crosby was never in The Hollies, and that's not him singing this song.
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No, Crosby was in the Byrds. Anyway, this is an enjoyable song. Definitely different from some of their other stuff. Both this song and Air That I Breathe sound like a different group than the one that did Bus Stop
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REO Speedwagon - Roll with the Changes
This is an absolutely kickin' song. Yeah I've never heard anything from REO that wasn't on the radio so I don't know most of their catalog, but my impression is: most of it is too soft and girly, but then this song comes on and reminds you that they could write an awesome rock song. It has such a positive vibe to it too, it is very enjoyable.
The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
The intro to this song is one of the absolute best in rock history. The main groove is great. The song doesn't reach super high heights, but I always enjoy listening to it. I never really paid attention to the lyrics, but I love how he sings it.
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TLDR version: David Crosby was never in The Hollies, and that's not him singing this song.
Haha, nice little story. :coolio
REO Speedwagon - Roll with the Changes
This is an absolutely kickin' song. Yeah I've never heard anything from REO that wasn't on the radio so I don't know most of their catalog, but my impression is: most of it is too soft and girly, but then this song comes on and reminds you that they could write an awesome rock song. It has such a positive vibe to it too, it is very enjoyable.
Yep, they could definitely kick ass with the rock when they really wanted to, but they definitely realized that going with the ballads was the way to big time success, and they milked it. Fortunately, songs like Roll with the Changes still exist.
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Triumph - Magic Power
Triumph is another one of those classic rock bands that is mostly well-known for their four classic rock radio mainstays, but they have dozens of great songs. That aside, as this is not the time to go off on that tangent, Magic Power is a great song, and one of those aforementioned mainstays. If you have ever listened to classic rock radio, you know this song. It is catchy and rocking, while having a ton of staying power, all at the same time. Great song by a great band! :coolio
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Enjoy all songs from Triumph and I feel they deserve more recognition for their career. This is a classic from them.
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inb4 RJ.
Top 100 song of all time for me. Triumph is criminally under-rated. They weren't in the 80s, but after Rik left, they just kinda fell apart. Edge of Excess was a pretty decent album, and I always did like Gil on the mic. This was the first song I ever called into a radio station and requested to be played. I'd had a rotten day, so I hoped the DJ was gonna play my favorite song.
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It's a cool song indeed
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Love Triumph, love Allied Forces, love Magic Power. Pretty succinct. :lol
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Dan Fogelberg - Phoenix
I had never heard this song till a few years ago, but a friend played it for me, and I thought it was great. It apparently was a mainstay on the radio here a long time ago, but seems to have become a forgotten classic. Anyway, again, great song. I don't know many songs by him, but this one sure is a major winner.
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Fogelberg was good, had a great sound, but he seemed to have a somewhat limited range. I guess that's a nice way of saying that a lot of his songs sound the same. But this was a good one.
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Not a song I am familiar with. But anytime I hear his name, I can't help but think of this:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pTaww5XmqKI/TRDYVeLvuuI/AAAAAAAABLg/Ls_Mk9OE6GE/s240/fogerburp.jpg)
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I like this song quite a lot and I think Dan is great. Which also reminds me of a story.
When Mrs. Podaar and I were dating we went to visit some friends of hers (to ostensibly get their approval I assume) and when we entered their living room I saw no less than 12 framed prints of those new age portraits of Jesus on the wall...you know the kind I'm talking about. I was introduced to the couple and we shook hands. I looked around, nodded at the wall and said, "You have a lovely home... You must really like Dan Fogelberg!"
That earned me an elbow from Mrs. Podaar.
(https://gphind.tripod.com/riverofsouls/photos/scans/dan_songs1_lg.jpg)
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Dude...
:lol :lol :lol
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:rollin :rollin
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James Gang - Walk Away
I always liked this one. It is fun and catchy. Not much else to add here.
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Triumph - Magic Power
Triumph is another one of those classic rock bands that is mostly well-known for their four classic rock radio mainstays, but they have dozens of great songs. That aside, as this is not the time to go off on that tangent, Magic Power is a great song, and one of those aforementioned mainstays. If you have ever listened to classic rock radio, you know this song. It is catchy and rocking, while having a ton of staying power, all at the same time. Great song by a great band! :coolio
A great track.
story...
:metal
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James Gang - Walk Away
I always liked this one. It is fun and catchy. Not much else to add here.
The main riff by Joe Walsh is a true classic! I'd love it if a metal band did an updated cover of this song. It would be cool to hear the riff with a modern guitar production.
[EDIT] I just realized I'm a confused ol' man. The riff I was thinking of was for Funk #49 oops. So, yea, Walk Away is a great song! Stupid CMS is going to be the death of me
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Not a song I am familiar with. But anytime I hear his name, I can't help but think of this:
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:rollin
That's all I would have said about that song, even though it did get played here fairly often.
Walk Away's AMAZING. That song said "hi, I'm Joe Walsh, and I'm a kick ass guitar player." In a very loud fashion.
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Joe Walsh is great. We're currently learning "Rocky Mountain Way". Fun stuff.
Joe always seemed to have a bit of southern rock to his sound, at least to me, but that didn't stop him for getting down and dirty, and rocking out when the time came. Great guitarist. Also, a crazy, funny guy.
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Definitely a great song
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Speaking of the James Gang, I believe they were Drew Carey's band here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEMzuU4fhA
Joe Walsh was actually pretty funny in the few episodes he was in.
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Dust - From a Dry Camel
Very much of a classic in the obscure sense, I will be curious to see if anyone else knows this one. This is a KSHE classic here in St. Louis, as it was played a lot back in the 70s, back when songs that long - 9:51 - would actually get regular radio air play. I heard it on the classics show once like 15 years ago, and then a friend who loved the song and had it hooked me up with a copy of it. Great tune.
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Dust! :metal
No, this song didn't get played here, but I heard of these guys a few years back, and they're awesome. Kenny Aaronson was the bassist and Marky Ramone, under his real name, was the drummer. Both their albums were re-issued fairly recently, remastered, of course. The 70s were FULL of bands like this that did one or two albums, had some regional success, and then vanished. Really great band.
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Well, it's good to see that at least one person knew this band and this song. :lol
And I am not surprised that it was you, Jaq (I figured you or Orbert were safe bets). :hat
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:lol
I have a deep fondness for relatively obscure 70s hard rock/early metal bands, especially American ones. Dust is especially interesting given how some of the members went on to greatness in vastly different areas. Got into them because I think Kenny Aaronson is a killer bassist.
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Wow, I had no idea until just now that Kenny Aaronson played bass on two B.O.C. studio albums. See, this is why I love these threads: you find out all kinds of new and interesting stuff. :coolio
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Pat Travers - Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)
I used to work with a guy who was nuts about Pat Travers, but while the few songs I know by him are okay, he never did much for me. This is a fun song and all, but has never been one I have ever felt the urge to go out of my way to hear.
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Same here. Good song, but not enough to make me go buy the album or anything.
I did see Pat Travers once, opening for Aerosmith, and was surprised at how many of his songs I knew. This was one that I recognized but didn't know was his. He put on a good show.
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Agree on all fronts. Cool and fun tune. Wouldn't change the station if it was on, but don't know anything else by him, nor do I feel a compelling need to go an change that.
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It wasn't quite required listening in my circle of friends to own the Pat Travers live album this came off of...but man, it was pretty freaking CLOSE. :lol Pat Travers is an amazing guitar player, and his band at the time had Pat Thrall in it, another amazing guitar player, and Tommy Aldridge was killing it on the drums on this album. Great song, great album. Gonna go play it right now.
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ZZ Top - La Grange
This is, far and away, ZZ Top's most popular classic rock tune, and I can see why: it's a great song, it is pretty straight-forward and it rocks. Billy Gibbons' playing in this song is simply awesome. :metal
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Definitely my favorite ZZ Top song from their early days. :tup
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Dat riff. Perfect combination of blues and rock.
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Dat riff. Perfect combination of blues and rock.
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Awesome kick ass tune
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Only ZZ Top song worth listening to.
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Funny how radio works things out. Back in the day, Tush was pretty much THE 70s ZZ Top song that got played, with La Grange thrown in for occasional variety. Nowadays Tush has largely vanished from local radio-it still gets played on occasion-while La Grange has become an every day standard.
A while back, I worked with my father as the assistant superintendent to his superintendent running construction projects. If you work construction for long enough, you will grow used to how construction crews, unless expressly forbidden, will bring radios to the job site to have something to listen to, and on this particular day, the local classic rock station was blaring, and La Grange got played. Around then, my dad yelled for me to go with him to the local Lowes to pick up some wood or whatnot. We were wandering the aisles and my dad remarked that they had a lot of nice things there. Back in the day, one of my most perpetually misheard lyrics was the line in La Grange that goes "they gotta lot of nice girls" as "they got a lot of nice things." Needless to say, the combination of having just heard the song and my dad inadvertently reminding me of that lyric mistake caused me to break into laughter, and then I had to explain why, which featured me mumble-singing the line in question.
For the rest of that job-several months-my dad would out of the blue just look at something and mumble, ZZ Top style, "they got a lot of nice things there." It wound up becoming a code for a subcontractor that was utterly terrible, to boot-Dad would see a crew do something terrible, and out would come the lyric- so my misheard lyric wound up, after about 25 years, having some worth!
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:lol :lol
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Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
This is another one of those songs that if you listen to classic rock radio at all, you know it. Many probably have no clue who it is by, but they know it, nonetheless. It's a good song. Never a favorite, but pretty enjoyable.
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La Grange
Love this one. I love the riff, the low voice that suits it so well, and especially the fact that the song, like so many ZZ Top songs, is just an excuse for a jam. There's just the one verse. It goes into a jam, it comes back, and you think it's gonna go into a second verse, but no, it goes off into another jam, and it never does come back. Ha!
Spirit in the Sky
Great song. We've played this one in church a couple of times. I love those late 60's, early 70's songs that were blatantly religious, but people were too stoned to pay attention, or didn't care, or maybe it all worked anyway because it was a simpler time and most of the listening audience was Christian anyway. We did "Morning Has Broken" today, and it's a hymn straight out of the hymnal, and Cat Stevens had a Top 10 hit with it (although Rick Wakeman's famous arrangement and contributions on piano probably helped).
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That guitar riff. Great one hit wonder
And as far as ZZ Top, my classic radio stations play Cheap Sunglasses a lot
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Jethro Tull - Teacher
A classic rock mainstay, this was always a song I enjoyed a lot in my early classic rock-listening days. As I got to know more of Tull's material over the years, this song kind of moved down on my list of favorites, but every time I hear it, it still sounds pretty great, so, yeah.
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I've always loved this one, still do. The verses have a slow build, and once the chorus breaks loose, it's awesome.
♫♫ Hey man, what's the plan? What was that you sa-a-id?
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This thread has made me realize, once again, how much classic rock radio around here sucks. Time was Teacher and half a dozen other Tull songs, including the abbreviated version of Thick As A Brick, got airplay here. Now? Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, and on odd occasions Bungle In The Jungle. And not all that often. Tull's been shoved aside by a lot of other bands on the radio here, which well and truly sucks.
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I think a lot of classic rock stations are now playing some 80s and early 90s stuff, since that material is old enough to now be considered classic rock I guess, so bands like Tull are likely seeing their 2nd tier classics fall by the wayside as far as airplay goes.
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Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
Pretty good song. Very much of a classic rock mainstay, probably because that hook in the chorus is very memorable. The rest of the song is rather average, but that hook is very good. Similar to Get Together in that regard.
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Good meat-and-potatoes rockin tune. However, from a few years ago, I will always think of Shat's entrance (on a horse) to this song for his Comedy Central Roast when I hear this song.
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Jethro Tull - Teacher
A classic rock mainstay, this was always a song I enjoyed a lot in my early classic rock-listening days. As I got to know more of Tull's material over the years, this song kind of moved down on my list of favorites, but every time I hear it, it still sounds pretty great, so, yeah.
IIRC, Ian Anderson really despised that song.
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Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
Pretty good song. Very much of a classic rock mainstay, probably because that hook in the chorus is very memorable. The rest of the song is rather average, but that hook is very good. Similar to Get Together in that regard.
Oh man, this one takes me back...
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In 1972, I was 10 years old, and got a portable cassette recorder for Christmas. I spent hours recording stupid shit on it, playing it back, and laughing. Recorded my dad snoring, my mom yelling, the dog barking, whatever. My mom came home from shopping one day, and she'd bought me a mix tape from K-Tel or someone like that. "The Super Hits, Volume 5". I clearly remember that "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was the first song. Electric guitar hook... I was in heaven. My own rock and roll! I could skip songs, I could play songs I liked over and over, I had tunes! This actually predated the portable record player or any other tunes I owned.
Anyway, I got to know every song on the tape very well , and "Ride Captain Ride" was on this tape. It was one of my favorites, but I cannot possibly evaluate the song objectively because of the sentimental value of every song on "The Super Hits, Volume 5".
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That's awesome. Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. :hat
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Whoops... done missed a bit here... :blush
Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind
From what I remember, trippy song is trippy.
Journey - Feeling That Way & Anytime
Top notch - cannot argue at all with this combo. I've always loved the melding of Gregg Rolie's and Steve Perry's voices on both.
REO Speedwagon - Roll with the Changes
This was played a lot in Houston, but it's still a really good rockin' tune.
The Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
Decent song, but one I never actively sought out to listen to on a regular basis.
Triumph - Magic Power
This one and Fight The Good Fight are my favorites. GREAT songs.
Dan Fogelberg - Phoenix
Dan Fogerburp!!! :rollin Anyhoo... no thanks. Was never a fan.
James Gang - Walk Away
Just a cool COOL song. :hat
Dust - From a Dry Camel
Sorry - never heard of it.
Pat Travers - Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)
Good song the first few times I heard it but now? Meh...
ZZ Top - La Grange
Ah how how how how... :hat
You can't NOT dig The Little Ol' Band From Texas, I tell ya whut. I think there's only been one time we heard this on the radio while we were in close proximity to La Grange, and it was when my brother and I were headed from Austin to Houston down Highway 71 East.
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
Eh. Okay, but there's something about this one I just can't put my finger on. OH! I know... it's too repetitive.
Jethro Tull - Teacher
I still dig the hell out of this, and I couldn't care less who knows it. :biggrin:
Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
Not bad.
Whew. That's what I get for gettin behind. :blush
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Wow, you really were way behind on checking this thread. :rollin :rollin
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Current song: another regional hit? Let's check!
Hmm, vaguely remember it. I can tell you it doesn't get played here anymore, that's for sure. :lol Pretty typical old school rock song...might be one of those songs I think Bachman Turner Overdrive did. For some reason (except for songs they actually DID), they're my default "old rock song-must be BTO" band. Even when the song doesn't SOUND like BTO. Go figure.
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Wow, you really were way behind on checking this thread. :rollin :rollin
13 songs is quite a bit to catch up on. :lol
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Stephen Stills - Love the One You're With
Very much in the vein of the early CSN/Y stuff, this is a very enjoyable classic rock tune. The harmonies make it very easy to sing along to.
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Great song. I've always liked it. And I've never understood the words to the chorus, at least that first line.
And there's a rose in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
Love the one you're with
That first line bugs me, but this is the closest I can get with anything that makes any sense. Yes, I could Google the lyrics. At that point I'd be taking my chances with somebody else who I have no reason to trust any more than myself.
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Great song
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I've never given the lyrics any thought, but off of the top of my head, my interpretation of the "And there's a rose in a fisted glove" line is that it means, since you are not with the one you really love, having a glove over your first when giving a rose to the "one you're with" is sort of like protection. Like, you are getting this from me, but my heart is not really in it, hence the glove being that barrier. That is the best I can come with, without thinking about it too much.
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It's a good song and all, just never liked the whole free love vibe in the lyrics.
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Yeah, the message always seemed wrong to me. But I think it's a great song. It has a positive vibe and always puts me in a good mood. I just pretend they're singing about something more good natured.
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Kev,
Yeah, that's about all I can come up with, too, as far as the meaning. My real question was whether or not I even have the lyrics correct in the first place.
The "free love" vibe was a lot more popular in the 60's and early 70's than it is now. At the time, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Of course, I was only eight years old then. Today it would be seen as not merely immoral, but irresponsible. But you have to remember that AIDS wasn't around back then, and there was VD, but it was relatively rare, and all but the worst kinds could be solved with a simple visit to the clinic. Condoms were always an option if you were worried about diseases, but basically active females were on the pill, and active males and females alike had a lot of sex. It was actually a pretty awesome time. I caught the very end of it in the late 70's before AIDS broke out and ruined casual sex forever.
I think it was Judy Collins who was Stephen Stills' girlfriend for a while, and she ultimately broke up with him because she said that Stephen did embrace the "love the one you're with" attitude, and she just wasn't into that. It's not like monogamy was an alien concept; it just wasn't as big then as it is today, for various reasons.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08GFjxnDX_A
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Never much liked this song, but I liked how it popped up almost randomly in the movie Prometheus. :lol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08GFjxnDX_A
Ha ha, that's pretty much what it was like. Creed was there; he would know.
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*clip*
The "free love" vibe was a lot more popular in the 60's and early 70's than it is now.
*clip*
Of course. I was born in 1970, so I think that's why my mindset about it is different - especially being a teenager in the 80s.
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Brownsville Station - Martian Boogie
A couple of friends I knew a long time ago were nuts about this song, as it was one of those songs that apparently was played on the radio a lot back in the day and then got the occasional airplay on classic rock stations much later on. I enjoyed the song for its humor the first few times around, but the novelty wore off of me pretty quickly, and listening to it now, it's okay, but I can't see going out of my way to hear it ever again.
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Ordinarily I'd make the obvious comment of "they did a song other than Smokin In The Boys Room", but I remember that Martian Boogie used to get played on Doctor Demento's show every now and then. Now THERE'S a nostalgia bomb for me!
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Ha ha, I remember "Martian Boogie" but did not remember that it was Brownsville Station. So I guess they did do something other than "Smokin' in the Boys' Room".
Fun song, but yeah, it's a novelty song, and once the novelty wears off it's not quite as much fun.
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The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
The first time I heard this song was the first year I listened to KSHE's Rock and Roll 500 (that they do every Memorial Day weekend), maybe 1990 or 1991, and it was number 1. I remember hearing and thinking, "What is the name of this damn song?" They didn't bother to say the name of it before or after they played it, but I guess anyone with a clue knew the name of it. :lol However, still being somewhat of a green classic rock fan, I did not, so I had to ask a few friends and found out the name. I liked the song quite a bit, but I never thought it was so awesome as to be in the conversation for best rock song ever, like a lot of people do. And I still don't. The song is pretty damn good, but depending on my mood, that pulsating keyboard that drives the song can be annoying at times, especially during the section near the end where it is front and center, ending with Daltrey's legendary, "A-yeeeeaaaaahhhhhhh!"
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Good song. I think of CSI: Miami every time I hear it, the YEEEAAAAHHH is probably more famous than the song itself
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All-time classic song right there. A lot of different parts to it, it changes things around a little more than you'd think, and of course there's the killer keyboard part. I finally worked up a synth patch that comes pretty close and we added it to our repetoire a few years back. It's actually a pretty hard song to play.
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My favorite song from them. An excellent rocker.
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Classic song from my favorite Who album. Says it all, really.
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:facepalm: on some of the comments from the younglings. :lol
Top 5 classic rock song of all time, for sure. Best by the Who, off their best album. The song is truly a classic rock epic. The video has a really cool laser show (which was cutting edge in the day). These guys know how to put on a live performance.
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YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I actually don't like the song much at all, I much prefer the other CSI theme songs. :biggrin:
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Trooper - Raise a Little Hell
I remember hearing this song and thinking, "Wow, this band really wanted to be Queen." The harmonies are very Queen-ish, and the lead singer even sounds a bit like Freddie Mercury, even if the way he enunciates certain words and phrases. Queen similarities aside, this is a good rocking tune. :metal
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The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Luckily I have been able to avoid CSI, so that doesn't contaminate the song for me.
This is clearly in the top 10 of all time rock songs if not the top 5. Its awesomeness cannot be overstated. Single best song by The Who.
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No one knows Trooper, eh?
Anyway, starting tomorrow/later today, this will be classic rock epics week! Yes, back in the 70s, rock songs that were kind of long were played on the radio, often times pretty frequently, and this week will feature some of them. :hat
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Sounds good! :tup
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Waiting for the inevitable Iron Butterfly post. :lol
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"Ina Garten-Devito baby. When I tell all the world that I love you!" https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=8335.msg1603036#msg1603036 (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=8335.msg1603036#msg1603036)
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Well, I wasn't gonna do that one first, but what the hell? :lol
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Honestly, I don't think I have ever listened to all of this song, but I know the main part of it well enough. :lol My memory of this song is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oP41yzn9NI :hat
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Back on Trooper... great song. Never really thought of them as Queen wannabe's. Great little rock band, and they've got a number of cool tunes - this being their most popular.
In the Garden of Eden... never had much like for this song. I find it boring to tell you the truth.
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Probably 1977 or so, I'm in junior high and hit a rummage sale with my mom. As always, I go immediately to the used LPs.
This guy was a serious collector, of everything from pop to prog. For example, an original Living in the Past by Jethro Tull (the "book" version, hardcover with all the pictures) for a dollar. Score!
Over in the "Free" bin were not one, but two copies of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Why two? I have no idea. But I grabbed them both. The jackets were pretty beat up, but the records themselves didn't seem too bad. Still, I figured if one skipped, I'd be glad I grabbed the other. I'd heard of the long version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" but never actually heard it.
Honestly? I wasn't that impressed. It just sounded like a regular song with a bunch of really long solos where you might otherwise just have a guitar solo, which is exactly what it is. It's not a prog epic that goes through numerous changes; it's just some guys doing something crazy just to do it. It's not a bad song, but not particularly special, except for the ridiculously extended solo section. When it comes on the radio, I do not stick around for it.
The other side of the album had five songs of normal length. Also, both copies played fine. I eventually gave away one of them, so I've contributed to the musical circle of life.
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I wonder if the popularity of that song is what turned some (meaning, those who did not like it very much) off of other rock bands doing longer songs, since the natural thought could have been, "Oh great, another needlessly long song like In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."
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It's not a bad song. I enjoyed it at the time although I wouldn't go looking for my LP to put in on these days. I remember that we all considered it was either a signal that the DJ had a turtle-head on board or that it was time to take another purple micro-dot. I don't advocate drug taking anymore but LSD really does shorten this song a great deal!!
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In A Gadda Da Vida was a song that HAD to be done, at some point, a song that showed a band stretching out and going for it in the studio the way bands did live. It was necessary for bands to do that at some point.
Unfortunately, it's really, really, really awful. :lol It literally lines up a bunch of solos in a row between bits of a normal length song. Its greatest virtue was likely how it allowed people to run to the bathroom back in the days when DJs were spinning vinyl. Call it a necessary evil then. SOMEBODY had to try it. It's just a shame it was Iron Butterfly.
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Supertramp - Fool's Overture
According to several friends and cousins, this was a mainstay back in the day on the radio, ya know, back when songs over 5 minutes were played all of the time, in their glorious, unedited form. I got into Supertramp in 1992, as my girlfriend Jennifer at the time and I discovered them together, so it was like a shared thing. ;) Anyway, we listened to the Best Of a lot, and then my cousin Dan was like, "You gotta hear Fool's Overture from the Even in the Quietest Moments album, and since I was staying with him at the time - our whole family was moving, but the date of our new house being ready was pushed back two weeks, so we were homeless for 10 days, so my cousin Dan offered to let me and my older brother stay with him and his wife, while my parents and younger brother stayed with an aunt and uncle - he let me listen to it, and I was blown away. Suffice it to say, I listened to that song a lot over those 10 days, and when I no longer had access to it after we moved into our new house (remember, this was long before mp3s being easily accessible), it didn't take long for me to run out and get my own copy of Even in the Quietest Moments. :coolio
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Best Supertramp song ever, and this is from a guy who, if he still bothered to do lists, would put Breakfast in America in his top 50. Just stunning.
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Amazing song, easily my favorite Supertramp song.
I have yet another story involving teenage sex in which this song plays a part, but it seems like I've been sharing a lot of stories lately, and I don't know how much they actually contribute to the thread, so I'll hold off.
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No, no!!! This thread is all about stories relating to the stories, so by all means share it. :hat
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Okay, I figured that would probably be the sentiment, but you never know, and I wanted to get specific clearance for this one, 'cause it's a doozy.
1979, I'm a junior in high school, her name was Lorelei (the same girl from the "Lorelei" story) but she went by Lori. The pit orchestra for the local theater was kids from the area high schools, and she went to a different school than me. "Guys and Dolls" was the show. Two weeks of rehearsal, then three weekends of shows, so we all got to know each other pretty well. The night of the final show, there was of course a cast party. Since my sister needed the car that night, Lori said she'd be happy to pick me up for the show, and drop me off later after the party. She picked me up in a red Volvo station wagon, as she had a few times before.
Of course, the cast party was geared more towards the cast, who were all adults. We were all underage and couldn't drink, so it was kinda boring and we decided to leave. As we got closer to my house, she slowed down and got a sad look on her face. "I don't want to let you go," she said. Ah yes. It was the last show, we went to different schools, so this was Goodbye. I knew a number of good places to park, none very far away, so we picked one. She put a tape in, and we got into the back seat. I'd heard of Supertramp, but Breakfast in America hadn't broken yet, so it was mostly about "Bloody Well Right" which I liked, "Give a Little Bit" which I thought was okay, and "Dreamer" which I thought was annoying. Her favorite song was "Fool's Overture" which I'd never heard.
Her dress was actually two pieces, a top and a skirt, both of a nice flowy, soft, thin material. Being an Asian male and thus socially retarded, I had never gotten past "making out" and getting away with a little tactile exploration, but she didn't seem to object, so I got a bit braver. Whoa, no bra? I was so surprised that I literally stopped still, but she whispered "go for it" in my ear. Whoa. Basically all I had to do was slip my hands up under her top and I'm on third base. Both of them.
Adults have much more dignity than rambunctious, sex-starved kids, and Lori always struck me as more mature than most kids our age. She was a violinist, after all. She commented on how it wasn't the most romantic of settings. Yeah, making out in a car, but what do you want? I pointed out that it was quiet and dark, we were alone together, the moon was up and quite beautiful, and for mood, just imagine that the front seat is a fireplace, with a roaring fire in it. The lights from the dashboard.
As Even in the Quietest Moments continued to play, she told me a secret. Supertramp is her favorite band, because of the saxophone. She wanted me because I played the saxophone, because saxophone players are so sexy. I didn't know what to say, but probably said something like "Uh...." She told me another secret. Some of the camping stuff is still in the back. (We're in a station wagon, remember.) Her family had gone camping a few weeks ago, and she had gotten most of the gear out and into the garage, but left the sleeping bags, just in case. I said "Uh...."
"Fool's Overture" came on, last song on the album. "Let's get in the back," she said. We unrolled one of the sleeping bags and got in. She slipped out of her clothes, undid mine (I had to help a bit, due to the close quarters), and she deflowered me to the glorious sounds of Supertramp's "Fool's Overture" with a full moon overhead and a roaring fire in the front seat. We were more or less monogamous for the next several months, but she was a free spirit and eventually moved on to other pursuits. She lives in California now with her two "husbands" and runs a number of adult websites. Somehow I was not surprised to learn this.
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Not the Vietnam Vet story, but still an A+ in my book.
Making out in the back of a car is underrated, underappreciated, and underutilized by adults.
On topic, I am not sure I know this song. I do not know it by the title.
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Awesome story Orbert. I have yet to listen to this song. I think I'll go rectify that now
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Awesome story Orbert. I have yet to listen to this song. I think I'll go rectify that now
Yeah, this. I always love your stories.
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Orbert's gunning for my title, it seems. :rollin
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A little friendly competition is healthy. It ups everyone's game.
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Great story, Orbert! I have to admit that the girlfriend I mentioned earlier and I had similar-type fun that year we got into Supertramp, but I will digress as far as going into details. I will just say that 1992 was a great year. :biggrin:
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So, definitely a fan of Fool's Overture. Beautiful song
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J.D. Blackfoot - The Song of Crazy Horse
I am not sure if this was a regional hit or not, but either way, it was an epic masterpiece. An epic tale about Native Americans, this song goes through various twists and turns, always throwing awesome melodies at the listener. This song floored me the first time I heard it, and being that it was never a song that I overplayed or heard too much on the radio (it is played on the classics show nowadays, instead of getting regular airplay), it still floors me every time I listen to it. Awesome tune. :coolio
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As it apparently isn't on Youtube...yeah. Totally regional. :rollin
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Dang, I was afraid of that. :facepalm: :lol
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I can confirm that it's not on Spotify either. I've never heard the tune myself.
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All of the above.
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Well... shit.
Never heard it and probably never will
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Same here.
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Well, shoot. I guess I'll do another today then...
Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
Trumvirat is kind of the German ELP, but they had two fantastic albums, Illusions on a Double Dimple and Spartacus, and the 23 minute plus title track from the former is a great tune, one that got plenty of airplay back in the mid 70s. A friend claims this still gets the occasional play on classic rock rarities or classics shows, so it fits the classic rock theme here, and is a great epic by any standard. Very prog rock-ish, too.
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Got to love Google
https://videoixir.com/watch/1769922/the-legend-of-crazy-horse-full-version-by-jd-blackfoot.html
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I picked up both Triumvirat albums maybe four or five years ago while checking out random prog. Yeah, they definitely have something of an ELP vibe due to the heavy use of the Hammond as a lead during instrumentals. They're pretty awesome.
But I've never heard them on the radio, at least not that I remember. I grew up in Michigan, and I'm pretty sure no radio station there in the 70's would play a 23-minute prog tune, not with any regularity.
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never heard the song or band.
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I'm 0 for 2 today as well
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Heard of the band, not the song. This might have gotten airplay in the 70s on FM radio, but I doubt any classic rock station's playing 20 plus minute songs these days. If there are, SOMEONE TELL ME WHERE THEY ARE.
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That Triumvirat song IS on youtube, so get to work, fellas. :biggrin:
Got to love Google
https://videoixir.com/watch/1769922/the-legend-of-crazy-horse-full-version-by-jd-blackfoot.html
Wow, of all places for that to be. Hopefully, some of the regular participants in this thread will check it out. :)
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Rush - 2112
Only the first two parts are played on the radio nowadays, but back in the 70s, a friend who is a few years older than me said St. Louis rock station KSHE-95 would never played in shortened; if they were gonna play it, they were playing all 20 minutes plus. Anyhow, anyone who knows me knows that I think this is the best rock song ever. And considering the song is largely about Rush gaining their independence from the record company as far as what they could do with their own music, I had to feature this on the 4th of July. :hat :hat :hat
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:tup
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The first time I heard 2112 in full was a spring day in my junior year of high school.
When you're sixteen years old and getting into every kind of rock music at once, sometimes you may like or even love a band, but you simply may not have had the resources to buy all of the music you liked. Choices had to be made. For me, one of those choices was the 70s discography of Rush. I liked Rush. Every good hard rock fan did. But when you have only limited income and you're wanting to get every Iron Maiden album that comes out and all that, some bands slipped to the wayside. At the time of this story, I of course was aware of 2112, and I knew the last part of it had turned up on Exit...Stage Left, but I hadn't heard the entire song yet.
Anyway, it was a spring day, I'd already spent my lunch money for the week on comic books, which mean that I was skipping lunch, so I headed to the outside area near the student parking lot to act like I was doing my homework, but really to stare longingly at the girl I've mentioned before who loved Aerosmith that I had the galaxy's biggest crush on while she stood around with some of her friends and smoked cigarettes. It was a truly lovely day, sitting on the grass, and I was already enjoying myself.
Then suddenly, from the parking lot, there came the now familiar opening notes of 2112. Some long haired rocker with a van and a stereo system, both of the relics of the 70s (fuck, I'm old) opened the doors to his van and out came flying 2112. And here's the funny part. Though I hadn't heard any of 2112 but the very end at that time, I somehow figured out that I was, in fact, listening to 2112 before the vocals started in Temple. I was damn near tardy for my next class, since it was on the far side of the building from where I was sitting, and I completely missed my crush walking away with her friends, but I didn't care. I sat there on the grass for 20 minutes, listening to every note of 2112.
And that never happened again. I would on occasion over the next 18 or so months journey back to the area near the student parking lot, and no one else ever played an entire album side at 100 decibels. It was one perfect 20 minute afternoon, and every time I listen to 2112 I'm reminded of it.
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The definition of epic
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I loves me some Blackfoot!! And 2112 is just awesome. Not heard the other.
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2112 was my first prog epic. It will always be very special to me. :heart
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The first epic by a power trio, as far as I know, and still one of my favorites. Sure, bands like Yes and Genesis had been doing epics for a while, but they were five-piece bands with keyboards and stuff, and were full-on prog bands. Rush always kept one foot in rock and roll, but also took the opportunity once in a while to show us that there was more to them than that.
I picked up the 5.1 Blu-ray of 2112 recently (same time I got the remastered Aqualung) but haven't had a chance to check it out yet. I have to wait until everyone else is out of the house so I can crank it. It will be worth the wait. Meanwhile, the remastered stereo version is kicking my butt. I think I've listened to it four or five times already in three days.
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Well, the first epic (over 10 minutes) by Rush was The Fountain of Lamneth.
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2112 is just so awesome!
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I hadn't heard any of the songs for the past page and a half. Then 2112 comes along. Comfortably Numb was the first song I remember hearing that stretched the boundaries of the 3-4 minute verse/chorus/solo rock song. 2112 was the first song I heard that put no limits on boundaries, structure, or length. I had never heard a song over 10 minutes before that. I couldn't believe something that long could be that diverse, powerful, and awesome (TWSS). It was these 2 songs that opened the doors to a whole new musical world for me that I am still exploring today.
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Well, the first epic (over 10 minutes) by Rush was The Fountain of Lamneth.
The Fountain of Lamneth, to me, is far too clearly a number of shorter pieces stuck together to form something bigger. 2112 is just as clearly a cohesive work in several movements. Yeah, technically The Fountain is an epic, and it did come first, but I didn't pick up Caress of Steel until after 2112, so it was still the first one, as far as I knew.
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A lot of great stories here, fellas. Props. :tup :tup
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Elton John - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
I cannot remember the exact day I heard this song for the first time, but I know that it was in the early 90s, and I know it was on a night when my buddies Matt and Eric and I were cruising around, as we did so often in those days. I think they both knew the song already, but I didn't, and I was utterly blown away by the Funeral for a Friend section. By the time it got to Love Lies Bleeding, I was completely sucked in, and it was not long after that that I ran out and bought the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road CD. I never became a huge Elton John fan at all, but this song is still a favorite of mine, and it goes without saying that I was thrilled to death when I got Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons EP and saw that they had covered it (damn good cover, too).
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I think a great many people's reaction to hearing these two songs, especially Funeral for a Friend, is "that's Elton John?!" :lol
I bought Goodbye Yellow Brick road when I went out of town for a day with my best friend, who was in the school chorus and went to a competition at James Madison University. He'd offered the use of his car to carry the some of the stuff the band that played with the chorus used-I mainly recall a bass amp being in the back seat. I went along as the roadie. Everyone went to a local mall for lunch, and at the record store there, I saw Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and I'd been meaning to buy it for a while, since hearing Funeral/Love on the radio a few months earlier, so I said, what the hell, and bought it.
The rest of the trip was memorable because damn near every girl in the chorus chatted with me at one point. See, the chorus was broken up into guy/girl partners, and this being high school, every damn guy had a crush or interest in his partner. I was a safe zone that deflected away the crowd of crushing, hormonal young men...which meant I got to spend a day chatting up really pretty girls who could sing and dance like mad. I had a BLAST.
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One of my best friends was a huge Elton John fan. Junior high, we were all getting into rock and roll, and Jim was into the rock as well (he's also the one who got me into Rush), but I remember sitting around listening to his Elton John albums. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was Elton's first double, and of course "Funeral for a Friend" and "Love Lies Bleeding" are the opening tracks. I like the idea of an instrumental leading into the first song as a way to start off the album, but in this case, the instrumental is what grabbed me.
From reading the credits on other Elton John albums, I knew that Elton was not a keyboardist, but a pianist. That's not a knock on him -- he plays the piano like nobody else -- just a clarification. Any time you hear synthesizers or Hammond or any other keyboards on an Elton John album, it's not him. I checked the credits here, and yep, that's David Hentschel on synths. Maybe that's why a lot of people who hear this track are so amazed that it's Elton. Well, he wrote it, and there's piano in there, but the wall of ARPs is David, one of Elton's longtime producers and collaborators.
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Single best Elton John song. I actually wasn't aware of it before Dream Theater came out with it. I think Elton's version is better. I don't think there is a single other song in the rock cannon that sounds like this one, and it's too bad. I'd probably put it in my top 10 all time.
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Not even remotely a fan of Elton John. But this song stood out to me big time on Change of Seasons and I was surprised to learn it was his song. Was so impressed with the song I went out of my way to hear John's version; gotta say, its pretty good.
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Great opener to an incredible album. Elton John is one of my favorites and this just might be his masterpiece
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Kansas - Song for America
This got classic rock radio airplay for a long time, although the shortened edit was played sometimes, but back in the day, this was played in full all of the time on rock stations. And for good reason; it is an awesome song. Kansas has been a longtime favorite of mine, and aside from the obvious hits from the 70s, this song was integral in getting me into the band in the first place (and then I eventually heard all of Leftoverture, which obliterated me and it was all over :lol). Love the extended intro, and when the vocals finally kick in, I still goosebumps every single time. This song is a masterpiece. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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Great song, one of my favorite Kansas songs!
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Great song, I love Kansas.
Sorry for not following the thread until now, it looks like it's right up my alley. I usually forget about this whole subforum. :facepalm:
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Not even remotely a fan of Elton John. But this song stood out to me big time on Change of Seasons and I was surprised to learn it was his song. Was so impressed with the song I went out of my way to hear John's version; gotta say, its pretty good.
Same for me. I'll take Dt's version but the original is excellent- just a bit too 70s.
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My second favorite Kansas song, behind Icarus-Borne on Wings of Steel. For years all I had ever heard was the shorter version on the live album, so when I finally heard it in full when I bought Song for America I was awed, to say the least. Great song, wish local radio played even the edit though.
If the through line in this thread for me isn't obvious, it's "LOCAL CLASSIC ROCK RADIO SUCKS." :rollin
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:lol
Speaking of which, maybe I should save this story for when I feature this song, but it is relevant to the topic at hand...
I have mentioned how the local station KSHE-95 does a Rock & Roll 500 every Memorial Day weekend. Well, the one year, Locomotive Breath was number one, and I swear to God, when they played it, they skipped over the first 40 seconds or so, and started it where the piano gets fast. I remember thinking, "It's your number 1 song, and you can't even play the whole thing even though it is less than five minutes?" :facepalm: :lol
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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Pride and Joy
The guitar playing in this song is pretty much :hefdaddy :hefdaddy. I don't listen to SRV that much, simply because I have to be in just the right mood for bluesy-type stuff, but when I do, it always sounds great, and Pride and Joy has always been one of my favorites by him. Probably one of the few artists that didn't hit the scene till the 80s that can truly be called classic rock.
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I'm biased here, massively, since Stevie Ray Vaughn is my favorite guitar player of all time, so of course anything by him, even his more "commercial" songs like this and Love Struck Baby, will get nothing but love from me. Nothing but love.
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I absolutely love SRV, but I would hesitate to call him "classic rock."
No denying how awesome this song is, though.
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Featuring this song did get me to listen to all of Texas Flood for the first time in years, and I have to say, that album is still absolutely dynamite. Like I said earlier, blues rock is not something I want to listen to on any kind of regular basis, but when I do, it doesn't get much better than that.
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There is something about SRV's playing that is unmatched by anyone else. I don't really consider myself a guitar-player snob. I couldn't even tell you the names of all the techniques people use. pull-off? I have no idea what that is. But this song demonstrates an amazing mastery of how to play an instrument. There is nothing like it, except other SRV. I think I actually like another song of his, Crossfire better overall, but the playing isn't as mesmerizing.
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I've always felt that no guitarist could communicate through his instrument as well as SRV.
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America - A Horse with No Name
A highly enjoyable song; some delicious melodies, too. This tends to not get played on the rock stations that focus more on hard rock, but it's a classic rock staple for sure.
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I always liked this song. It's catchy and tells a story of a journey, even if the lyrics are silly and don't always make sense.
In the desert, you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
As many here know, I do most of my playing these days in our church band, and about half of our music is stuff we've picked and the rest is stuff we're "asked" to play. And sometimes it's somewhere in between. The theme was wandering in the desert, searching for the Promised Land, so we figured this would be a good one. Acoustic, pretty chill, nice harmonies.
I was completely blindsided by how much resistance we ran into. They didn't like how the story ended. They didn't like the word "ain't". And the one I really wasn't ready for: This song was banned from some radio stations in the 70's because it was supposedly about taking a drug trip. Are you kidding me? There are no references, either direct or indirect, to taking anything mind-altering. He never actually mentions eating or drinking during the entire journey. "Well you know, Bob, 'horse' is a slang term for heroin." Yes, I knew that, but really, are you kidding me?
So my one guitarist refused to play the song because 40 years ago some idiots thought it was about a drug trip, evidenced by the fact that the journey is on a horse, and "horse" is slang for heroin (a drug which is not a psychedelic, by the way). I Googled the song, and sure enough, that was all supposedly true.
I eventually convinced our pastor that the song had nothing to do with drugs, and that the only people who might think so are probably on drugs themselves. I printed out the lyrics and showed them to her. She agreed, and let us do the song. It would've been nice to have two guitars, but whatever, we did it with a guitar, piano, and a guy playing a djembe drum.
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I always dug America for the harmonies and summery feel of their music. Great song but not my favorite from them.
Orbert, my wife recently nominated this song for the worst lyrics ever. We were listening to the radio on our way to a weekend of hiking (in the desert no less) when the song came on. She rolled her eyes and said, "The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz?!" So I pointed out that Shakespere never wrote anything that would top, "The heat was hot." :lol
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Oh yeah, Dewey Bunnell wrote some of the worst lyrics known to man.
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Orbert, that is too funny. :tup :tup
The Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes
The Doobies took on a more soulful approach when Michael McDonald joined the band, and a good indicator of this is this song. I know a few people who didn't like the Doobies as much then, as they liked the earlier stuff better when they more rock, and while I generally agree, I do like this song quite a bit. It is helped by the fact that there are a handful of songs that remind me of a place we used to go for family reunions all of the time when I was a kid. I have no clue if any of those songs actually relate to them, but for whatever reason they remind me of them. This is one of those songs.
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A Horse With No Name is incredibly hard to get unstuck from my head, once it's there. Not too familiar with the Doobie Bros
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I didn't get into The Doobie Brothers until a little later; I'm not sure why. I had "Best of the Doobies" because it was a cheapo from the record club, and it's good. So I knew that there were the Patrick Simmons rockers and the Michael McDonald tunes which were a little more mellow or R&B or something, but that can happen when you have more than one writer in the band. Sometimes it's pretty obvious that which songs were written by whom, and the band has something of a split personality. Didn't matter to me; I liked both sides of their sound. I didn't know the history of the band, though, didn't realize that the two eras didn't really overlap much.
Anyway, this is one of my less-favored "later" Doobie Brothers tunes. Just a little too poppy for me, and that one synth sound is kinda silly. And of course "later" is relative since all of this stuff is 30 or 40 years old now.
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I have an emotional reaction to Michael McDonald DBs and him in general. I change the station. I don't find it enjoyable at all. But this song is probably not as bad as the others from his era in the band.
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It's definitely one of the better songs with him in it. That being said, Michael McDonald really ruined the band, maybe even more so than Peter Cetera with Chicago
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Even in a decade where a band could evolve so far from their original sound as to be a completely different band (see: Fleetwood Mac), the change in the Doobie Brothers when Michael McDonald joined was so huge, I still go "what the fuck?" when I hear songs from this era of the band. It really wasn't the same band anymore.
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It's definitely one of the better songs with him in it. That being said, Michael McDonald really ruined the band, maybe even more so than Peter Cetera with Chicago
interesting comparison considering Cetera was basically an original member of the band and played/sang on every album from CTA to Chicago 17.
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It's definitely one of the better songs with him in it. That being said, Michael McDonald really ruined the band, maybe even more so than Peter Cetera with Chicago
Peter Cetera was an original member of Chicago and a hell of a bassist. He sang lead on songs starting with the first album. It's not his fault that in the 80's, horns were out and high wailing vocals about chicks who done you wrong were all the rage. They still wrote the rockers with guitars and horns, but all anyone wanted to hear was Peter whining. He didn't even write most of those later hits.
As much as I'd love to blame Peter for "ruining" the band, I can't blame him, and I can't blame Chicago for wanting to continue to sell records. The 70's were gone, but they still had bills to pay.
Ninja'd, but whatever.
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Touche
And yes, Fleetwood Mac had probably the best 70's to 80's transistions
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Now there's an example I agree with.
On the other hand, one of my co-workers is a big fan of original Fleetwood Mac, when they were more blues-rock. Peter Green era. He couldn't care less about "the pop shit they did with Stevie Nicks". I guess if you asked him, she ruined the band.
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It's definitely one of the better songs with him in it. That being said, Michael McDonald really ruined the band, maybe even more so than Peter Cetera with Chicago
Peter Cetera was an original member of Chicago and a hell of a bassist. He sang lead on songs starting with the first album. It's not his fault that in the 80's, horns were out and high wailing vocals about chicks who done you wrong were all the rage. They still wrote the rockers with guitars and horns, but all anyone wanted to hear was Peter whining. He didn't even write most of those later hits.
As much as I'd love to blame Peter for "ruining" the band, I can't blame him, and I can't blame Chicago for wanting to continue to sell records. The 70's were gone, but they still had bills to pay.
Ninja'd, but whatever.
Excellent summation. I admit, having enjoyed Chicago as a wee little one in the 70s, I didn't even realize they were the same band by the time I was in high school in the 80s.
Looking back, I much preferred the earlier iterations of tuneage to the whiny 80s. Cetera's voice is too thin and reedy and high for my enjoyment.
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Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Probably THE symbolic early Chicago classic rock song. It had horns galore, and yet it rocked hard enough to still get airplay for decades on classic rock stations. Good tune for sure, like many of the songs on those first two albums.
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easily my fave Chicago tune. Never knew the origins of the title until a little while ago though.
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Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Probably THE symbolic early Chicago classic rock song. It had horns galore, and yet it rocked hard enough to still get airplay for decades on classic rock stations. Good tune for sure, like many of the songs on those first two albums.
Tiz the jam! :hat
But "Saturday In The Park" gets cool points for nostalgia factor. As a child, that song just illustrated the perfect day for me and it still puts me in that mood! :heart
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Early Chicago is awesome, even though it took numerous mentions of how awesome they were at DTF, and someone singing the praises of the Carnegie Hall album-was that Orbert?-for me to check them out. Spent a day once on Spotify just working my way through their early albums, amazing experience. :biggrin:
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Early Chicago is awesome, even though it took numerous mentions of how awesome they were at DTF, and someone singing the praises of the Carnegie Hall album-was that Orbert?-for me to check them out. Spent a day once on Spotify just working my way through their early albums, amazing experience. :biggrin:
Well done, you! :tup
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I've been toying with the idea of a top 50 Chicago songs thread. Any interest in following/participating?
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DO IT!!!
It will make me get into their music more! :)
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Yeah, that was probably me raving about Chicago at Carnegie Hall. But it's that good.
I've been knocking around the idea of doing a Chicago discography thread. I miss doing those threads. I have all 11 studio albums from the original lineup plus the two live albums from that era, and I think I have everything since then in one form or another, except for all the various "greatest hits" packages and repackages.
"25 or 6 to 4" is a good song. I realize that it's regarded as the ultimate Chicago song or something, probably their most famous, but I don't actually rank it that high among the early stuff. Upper third for sure, but I don't cream over it like some people do. It's just the same riff over and over. Terry took some smokin' solos over that riff, though. The remastered Carnegie Hall has an alternate version from a different night. Completely different solo, still totally smokes.
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It's pretty good, although would still rank Saturday In The Park, Ballet For A Girl, Beginnings, and even Anybody Know What Time It Is over it
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It's pretty good, although would still rank Saturday In The Park, Ballet For A Girl, Beginnings, and even Anybody Know What Time It Is over it
Mmmm, yes! :coolio
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I am a big fan of Questions 67 and 68.
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That was their first boss, hit-bound single that never was a boss, hit-bound single.
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Great song. I'm not sure who ripped off whom though. Zep with Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, or this one. :) I can just see Jimmy Page listening to his Chicago albums saying "this riff is incredible!"
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The funny part about that is Babe I'm Gonna Leave You is Page got into trouble for taking credit for the songwriting (he claims he thought he was adapting a standard, when in fact the song had a known, credited songwriter.) That happened a LOT on the first Zep album.
Though since Zep's debut came out 16 months before Chicago released 25 or 6 to 4 as a single... :lol
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Chicago is fantastic. 25 or 6 to 4 is a classic, but as far as full albums go I'll take the debut any day of the week. What an incredible piece of work -- it must be one of the best debut albums ever made.
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Chicago is fantastic. 25 or 6 to 4 is a classic, but as far as full albums go I'll take the debut any day of the week. What an incredible piece of work -- it must be one of the best debut albums ever made.
Absolutely fucking yes. Such a tight band, and great songs. My favorite has to be "Poem 58". However, I don't know about you guys, but I find "Free Form Guitar" to be impossible to listen to. It's just noise to me.
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I used to feel that way, but after listening to it a few times, I can appreciate what he's doing. There's artistry and musicality to what he's doing. It might take a while to find it, but it's there.
He's hammering-on for a while there. Everyone thinks Eddie Van Halen invented it, but Terry was doing it in 1968.
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AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Hugely popular song, one of AC/DC's biggest. I guess I like it, but I have never gone out of my way to listen to this song, and it has never been a song I have felt the need to crank up when it comes on. I get why it is so popular, but sometimes songs just don't it for you for whatever reason.
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Yeah, it has a good chorus. But it's way down on my list of good AC/DC songs.
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DO IT!!!
It will make me get into their music more! :)
ok, give me a couple days to get my list in order and thoughts together on the first batch of songs.
I've been knocking around the idea of doing a Chicago discography thread. I miss doing those threads. I have all 11 studio albums from the original lineup plus the two live albums from that era, and I think I have everything since then in one form or another, except for all the various "greatest hits" packages and repackages.
yes! I would be very interested in that.
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AC/DC is one of those bands where I understand why they're so popular, and I even kinda like them, but I've never bought any of their stuff and would never, as Kev puts it, go out of my way to listen to them. Great guitar sound, solid drumming, and the lead vocals don't bother me as much as they do others, but they do bug me a bit and get tiresome pretty quickly. Probably the only reason why I don't listen to them more.
As far as AC/DC songs go, this one's pretty far down the list. A song celebrating the fact that you're a mindless, amoral idiot is why some people hate this kind of music, and they've got a pretty good case.
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I just don't think all that much of AC/DC.
But let's talk more about Chicago, because that is one of the greatest bands of all time.
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I'll give Highway some love. Definitely top 5 of theirs
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I loved all of the 70s and early 80s ACDC back in the 80s. If I heard it now for the first time, doubt I'd be that in to it. However, it's ingrained into my musical DNA. Good stuff.
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
This song is :hefdaddy on every level, Wayne's World pun intended. There aren't enough words to describe the awesomeness of this song, and it is mind-blowing to think that this came from the mind of one man: Freddie Mercury. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy indeed.
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
This song is :hefdaddy on every level, Wayne's World pun intended. There aren't enough words to describe the awesomeness of this song, and it is mind-blowing to think that this came from the mind of one man: Freddie Mercury. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy indeed.
:hefdaddy
It the most amazing song!!! And SO fun to sing along with friends. Or alone.
Doing all the parts...
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And SO fun to sing along with friends. Or alone.
Doing all the parts...
pretty much sums up all my thoughts on the song
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
This song is :hefdaddy on every level, Wayne's World pun intended. There aren't enough words to describe the awesomeness of this song, and it is mind-blowing to think that this came from the mind of one man: Freddie Mercury. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy indeed.
Oh so many memories with this song. Freshman year of High School... walking around town with my two best friends at the time (one of them being my annoy as fuck ex... before we had even got together...) singing this song at the top of our lungs. While not my favourite Queen song, this song will always be close to my heart because it always takes me back to a time before everything in life became complicated and stressful.
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In 1976, I was in junior high and starting to build my music collection. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was all over the airwaves, and when the album A Night at the Opera came out, I honestly thought it was an album of rock opera. Not "rock opera" as in "concept album", but actual rock-styled opera, like the break in "Bohemian Rhapsody".
Okay, so it wasn't, but it was still a mind-blowing album and I've been a Queen fan ever since. Great song. I have to place "The Prophet's Song" slightly ahead of it, largely due to its own a capella vocal breakdown, but both songs are absolute masterpieces.
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This was the first Queen song I ever heard, back in 1992 when it had a resurgence due to Wayne's World. We used to tape the music videos and re-watch them a lot.
I was only 6-7 at the time, so I disliked the song at first, because it was so strange, and it felt like the longest song ever (and was probably the longest song I'd ever heard at the time). But I also felt strangely compelled to watch it again, and after a few more listens, I loved it. The music video was every bit as iconic as the song too.
Anyone ever checked out the full 24 track multitrack for Bohemian Rhapsody? It's even more nuts than you'd expect. The intro a capella is 15 tracks of just vocals, and a lot of those are bounced down with multiple voices, all perfect of course. The middle section is equally crazy, and even with 24 tracks, they were pushing what they could do at the time with that album.
Then at the end on one of the tracks, you hear some faint voices, the most recognizable part being someone saying "Deacon crashing about" followed by Freddy Mercury saying "OH FUCK IT".
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I first heard Bohemian Rhapsody in 1976. It was on the car radio, our whole family (seven of us) were on our way to see the Ice Capades. ;D
It was always cool and dramatic to me, even just ten years old at the time. For years, that song reminded me of a really good family time. It still does...as well as being a magnificent jam! :metal
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Excellent song, but (and cue the hate), it's over-rated. Look, it's a top 100 song of all time in my books, but it ain't worth all the fellating it usually gets, and is getting here so far. Let's not forget it was a completely forgotten tune in the 80s, and likely would've remained so had it not (as Blob pointed out) gotten the resurgence thanks to Mike Myers.
However ... (damn, was gonna post a link to the "I'm just a poor boy" thread - but where is it?)
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Not necessarily so, at least not in my case. I can't say I've ever watched Wayne's World all the way thru, not my kind of movie when it came out.
But I've loved that song since *it* came out, so.. :smiley:
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Completely forgotten song in the 80s my ASS. Just because it had a chart resurgence due to Wayne's World didn't mean people forgot about it for a decade. You don't forget about a song as awesome, as iconic, as Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Thank you!!!
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Completely forgotten song in the 80s my ASS. Just because it had a chart resurgence due to Wayne's World didn't mean people forgot about it for a decade. You don't forget about a song as awesome, as iconic, as Bohemian Rhapsody.
Well, it hardly got any radio play up here in the 80s. As I recall, 70s bands like The Eagles, Supertramp and Genesis got more attention than Queen - from their 70s and 80s output. Maybe because by the mid-late 80s, Queen was doing some stuff that was a little more 'out there' than others.
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However ... (damn, was gonna post a link to the "I'm just a poor boy" thread - but where is it?)
archived
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=6678.0
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Completely forgotten song in the 80s my ASS. Just because it had a chart resurgence due to Wayne's World didn't mean people forgot about it for a decade. You don't forget about a song as awesome, as iconic, as Bohemian Rhapsody.
This.
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Bohemian Rhapsody is on the same level with 2112 or ACOS for me. Even though it's three times shorter, it's pretty much equally epic.
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Probably my favorite song of all time.
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Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Great song, with a great riff. It was years before I discovered this wasn't a Fleetwood Mac song - I was young, so my ignorance was excusable. :lol
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This reminds me a lot of Pat Benetar, of that early 80s female angst rock. The riff is cool, but a bit repetitive. I usually change the station if this comes on, but it's not a bad song, just more neutral to me.
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I liked it when it first came out, and maybe the first four or five times I heard the song. Now, honestly, I can't stand it. It really is repetitive, and since it's pretty much the only Stevie solo song that they play anymore, that just makes it worse.
I remember one time this song came on, and I just turned the radio off. Our drummer asks me "Have you heard her new one yet?" I hadn't, so I asked him if it was any better. "Nah. It's the same song, only with keyboards instead of guitar." He talking about "Stand Back" of course. Same riff over and over and over and over until you want to strangle a small animal.
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I've complained frequently in this thread that local classic rock radio sucks.
The fact that Stop Draggin' My Heart Around is the sole solo Stevie Nicks song to get any airplay these days utterly redeems the station, though.
When I was back in school, there was a guy who was seen as being a talented artist. People gushed all over his artwork every time he drew something new. Me, though, I had a problem with it. The guy had a thing for Stevie Nicks. A huge thing. So much a thing that the only face he could draw was hers. Even on men. While the guy largely produced fantasy artwork, and generally of the elves and unicorns and hearts and flowers type (you'd be amazed how well Stevie Nicks' face 30 years ago worked as elves), it was still disconcerting when the guy produced his latest bit of art and once again, there was Stevie Nicks.
It would appear, therefore, that the universe, in some ways, is hardwired for repetition and Stevie Nicks.
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Money, as always. :rollin :rollin
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Speaking of $$$...
Pink Floyd - Money
It seems like this is the one Floyd song where overplaying it has hurt how much people like it, as many often overlook it or refer to it as one of their least best "hits" of the 70s, but I can't agree with that; I think it is still just as great as I thought it was the first time I heard it.
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Speaking of $$$...
Pink Floyd - Money
It seems like this is the one Floyd song where overplaying it has hurt how much people like it, as many often overlook it or refer to it as one of their least best "hits" of the 70s, but I can't agree with that; I think it is still just as great as I thought it was the first time I heard it.
Love this. It is a jam!
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I still think it's the third best song on the album.
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Great song. I've always loved how the seven sounds of the cash register set the rhythm for the song. Cash registers don't even make those sounds anymore. In time, children will wonder what those noises are. I'll just tell them that they're too young to understand.
Obviously the verses are in 7/4, probably the first popular song to be in seven (since Rush wasn't around yet), but after the jam in 4/4, ever noticed how when they come back to 7/4 for the third verse, it's much faster? The tempo is that of the break jam, even though the meter is back to seven.
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Such a great, classic song. It's almost too much groove
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It's overplayed, but...let's face it. It's off Dark Side of the Moon. It's a great song. This is an occasion where overplaying it isn't that big of a deal. :lol
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The Pulse version is so good
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It's overplayed, but...let's face it. It's off Dark Side of the Moon. It's a great song. This is an occasion where overplaying it isn't that big of a deal. :lol
This.
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It's overplayed, but...let's face it. It's off Dark Side of the Moon. It's a great song. This is an occasion where overplaying it isn't that big of a deal. :lol
I agree too
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Oi, a lovely, dirty hard rock song with some proggy edge. Me likey. My second favourite on :dsotm:, behind Us and Them.
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I actually find the verses of the song sort of clunky and plodding. I think the instrumental break is really enjoyable though. Probably my least favorite on DSOTM. I don't think overplaying hurts it, it just is what it is and it's not one of my favorite PF songs.
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It's weird to see this thread vacant
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I've been distracted by my top 50 albums thread, but I'll get to a song in this thread later today!
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Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
I have never been a huge fan of Steve Miller, but I have always dug this song a lot. I love the various keyboard sounds it; they give the song a very ethereal feel.
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I love that song!
"ooohhhoohhh there's a solution..."
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Great song. A bit trippy!
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I've got his box set and it's perfect for me. Great spacey tune. I always loved his sense of melody.
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Another great song. Steve Miller hit on just the right formula for me in 1976 with Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams, which were both actually recorded during the same sessions. He ended up with two albums' worth of material and decided to release two LPs half a year apart. Wise move, as he ended up with several hits, including most of my faves from him, from each of them.
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To me, there is no song that symbolizes more the sound of the synthesizer in the 70s more than Fly Like An Eagle. Simply because, at my young age at the time, with no exposure to prog rock, it was the first time I really heard a synthesizer, and the sounds on this song really did feel like time slipping into the future. Oh yeah, nowadays it sounds dated and cheesy, and there are a lot better synth sounds from even earlier in the decade, but Fly Like An Eagle sounded like it was coming from another decade back then.
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Very cool tune. Miller always did walk that line between greatness and weirdness.
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great song. unlike a lot of Steve Miller stuff. Abracadabra?? come on. but this song is unique and enjoyable.
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great song. unlike a lot of Steve Miller stuff. Abracadabra?? come on. but this song is unique and enjoyable.
"I wanna reach out and grabya" :rollin
Special place in my heart for "The Joker", tho... :hat He is the Pompatus of Love!
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To me, there is no song that symbolizes more the sound of the synthesizer in the 70s more than Fly Like An Eagle. Simply because, at my young age at the time, with no exposure to prog rock, it was the first time I really heard a synthesizer, and the sounds on this song really did feel like time slipping into the future. Oh yeah, nowadays it sounds dated and cheesy, and there are a lot better synth sounds from even earlier in the decade, but Fly Like An Eagle sounded like it was coming from another decade back then.
Not to be too pedantic, but "Fly Like an Eagle", the song, doesn't have any synths. That's a Hammond B-3 with a Roland Space Echo. "Wild Mountain Honey" has some synth, maybe a few others, but he saved most of the synthy tracks for Book of Dreams. Both albums came from the same sessions, and Steve wanted there to be something of a progression to them.
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Hey I was 10 when that song came out, I barely knew what keyboards were :biggrin:
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Enough of your lame excuses! I was 13 and also barely knew what keyboards were. :biggrin:
Actually, I thought it was a synth at first too, but I bought the album and read the credits.
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Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love
This song is wildly popular, possibly their most loved song, but I was never that wild about it. The verses are nice, but the chorus doesn't do a lot for me and it repeating over and over and over for nearly the last two minutes of the song really doesn't help its cause.
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Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love
This song is wildly popular, possibly their most loved song, but I was never that wild about it. The verses are nice, but the chorus doesn't do a lot for me and it repeating over and over and over for nearly the last two minutes of the song really doesn't help its cause.
How I feel about Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer.
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This song aggravates me. I feel like the target audience for this song has an IQ of 75. It 'feels' like one of the stupidest songs that gets played on rock radio.
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This song aggravates me. I feel like the target audience for this song has an IQ of 75. It 'feels' like one of the stupidest songs that gets played on rock radio.
While it is a simple and repetitive song, that feels like a bit of an elitist attitude. No offense intended at all, I just couldn't think of any better way to word that! Sorry.
I like the song. Far from a favourite by any stretch, but it's inoffensive enough to my ears.
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Bit more partial to Can't Get Enough Of Your Love
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In all seriousness, when I had my IQ tested last, the result was a 140. Which means either I'm pretty smart or I can fake my way through a standardized IQ test. :lol
I love Feel Like Makin' Love and could give two fucks less how "simple" it is.
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In all seriousness, when I had my IQ tested last, the result was a 140. Which means either I'm pretty smart or I can fake my way through a standardized IQ test. :lol
I love Feel Like Makin' Love and could give two fucks less how "simple" it is.
:lol
I just got tired of hearing it a million times on the radio. Give me Rock N Roll Fantasy any day.
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Oh yeah, it IS overplayed. It was overplayed when Bad Company hadn't had their first break up.
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Too slow paced; too repetitive; and the riff isn't all that good. It's a standard Bad Company tune, but it rather bland for my tastes. I'll take pretty much any other Bad Company tune over this one.
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Bad Company has some okay songs, but overall they just never really excite me. Paul Rodgers has a good voice, but I've never understood the worship he gets. He's not phenomenal or anything. Of the few Bad Company songs I'm familiar with, this one's probably one of my least favorite, although that's really not saying much. They're just kind of... there.
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Bad Company has some okay songs, but overall they just never really excite me. Paul Rodgers has a good voice, but I've never understood the worship he gets. He's not phenomenal or anything. Of the few Bad Company songs I'm familiar with, this one's probably one of my least favorite, although that's really not saying much. They're just kind of... there.
And just think how that was the kind of band the record companies wanted Rush to turn into :puke:
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Disgusting. I think I may have read that somewhere, but I'd stricken it from my memory.
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The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
Fantastic song, one that is very symbolic of the 1960s. In fact, every time I hear this song, I always think of Forrest Gump and the first episode of The Wonder Years.
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The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
Fantastic song, one that is very symbolic of the 1960s. In fact, every time I hear this song, I always think of Forrest Gump and the first episode of The Wonder Years.
Ditto! Wasn't it on the Good Morning Vietnam soundtrack as well?
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One of those songs that is so over used in period pieces, you forget that once upon a time, they WEREN'T, and they're legitimately amazing songs. Sometimes I think there were only like five songs available to people to listen to in the late 60s and early 70s thanks to movies. :lol
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Man, I'm so glad I don't watch tons of movies like some people. For a lot of these songs, one of the first things mentioned, if not the first thing mentioned, is that you can't hear the song without thinking of some movie or TV show. That's so sad. I always think of the music, the song, where I was when I first heard it, the people I was with, what I was doing at the time.
The Byrds are the 60's. A simpler time, a time when you could take a passage from The Bible, set it to music, and have a hit on the radio. The words are simple and inspiring, and have a ring of truth that everyone feels when they hear them. To have a beautiful song like this inextricably associated with something as mundane as a movie is just sad.
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Great song by a fantastic band. I'm a big fan of the Byrds (at least up until they became country rock in 1968...).
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Man, I'm so glad I don't watch tons of movies like some people. For a lot of these songs, one of the first things mentioned, if not the first thing mentioned, is that you can't hear the song without thinking of some movie or TV show. That's so sad. I always think of the music, the song, where I was when I first heard it, the people I was with, what I was doing at the time.
The Byrds are the 60's. A simpler time, a time when you could take a passage from The Bible, set it to music, and have a hit on the radio. The words are simple and inspiring, and have a ring of truth that everyone feels when they hear them. To have a beautiful song like this inextricably associated with something as mundane as a movie is just sad.
I agree, though to be fair, having these 60s/70s songs incorporated into movies or TV shows (especially if they're quality) does help expose new generations to the music.
Folks would have to be as old as WE are :omg: to have heard them fresh on the radio. And we're old enough to be grandparents. :'(
Maybe a similar thing would be my being inspired to look into more Duke Ellington after seeing/hearing his work on "Anatomy of a Murder". I was *aware* of him as a younger person but it wasn't 'til I saw that film on a Saturday afternoon that I really wanted to get more.
Of course, Duke hasn't become as trite as some of the overuse of 60s/70s tunes, but...you get the point. :)
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Yeah, point taken. I guess overall it's a good thing that people are being exposed to the music. That's what counts.
This weekend, I'll be playing at a music festival, and we're gonna do (among other things) "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who. Hell of a hard song to play. But I'm mentally preparing myself for the first time someone refers to it as "the CSI song" or some shit, so I don't smash them in the face. It's not the fucking CSI song!
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Right, Pops! ;) :lol
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Man, I'm so glad I don't watch tons of movies like some people. For a lot of these songs, one of the first things mentioned, if not the first thing mentioned, is that you can't hear the song without thinking of some movie or TV show. That's so sad. I always think of the music, the song, where I was when I first heard it, the people I was with, what I was doing at the time.
The Byrds are the 60's. A simpler time, a time when you could take a passage from The Bible, set it to music, and have a hit on the radio. The words are simple and inspiring, and have a ring of truth that everyone feels when they hear them. To have a beautiful song like this inextricably associated with something as mundane as a movie is just sad.
While I don't think all movies are necessarily mundane, the problem comes because Hollywood studios are, essentially, terribly conservative, and if it worked once, then it works always. Need to evoke a particular era? Movie X did it with a particular song? Use that song again. But wait, haven't the last ten movies set in that era used that song? Doesn't matter, do it again. That is why whenever I hear For What It's Worth, I'm always going to hear helicopters.
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Not all movies are mundane, but I guess I just don't hold movies in the same general esteem that I do music. Yeah, there's a lot of crappy music, too, but I manage to avoid most of it. I love music. Music is life. Movies are just entertainment.
There have been movies, and especially certain scenes from movies, which were greatly enhanced by the proper song playing in the soundtrack. What I'm talking about is all those people who say "I can't even listen to <some awesome song> without seeing that one scene from that one movie". I really do think that that's sad. The song is amazing by itself. That you literally can't enjoy the song without some movie intruding on your memories of the song is, to me, a tragedy.
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I cannot disagree more, Orbert. It's all about context. What if a particular song reminds you of a specific day in your life, like prom or your wedding day? Is that a tragedy, because the song suddenly has context with a significant life event?
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Wait, I did say that I think of where I was, what I was doing, and who I was with when I heard the song. I think music being associated with a significant life event falls under "music is life". I don't see the contradiction. ???
My problem is when a song becomes linked to a movie or a TV show. That to me "lessens" the music. I suppose if there's a particular movie that's really significant to you and hearing a song evokes good memories of watching that movie, then that's cool, but I'd still consider it a bad thing that you can no longer enjoy the song for what it is, if you literally always (as some people say) think of that scene from the movie every time you hear the song. Or if a great song becomes a TV theme song and that's the first thing people think of. Watching a TV show, hopefully, isn't significant on the same level as your prom or your wedding day.
And finally, I'm not sure how serious I was in the first place. I mean, I do consider music to be the ultimate expression, certainly of a higher order than television, but you guys know that I'm pretty much just spouting shit half the time. It's real, and I mean what I say, but not always with the degree of tenacity that might come across in text.
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It's all good, man. :coolio
Steely Dan - Do It Again
There are not enough words for how much I love this song. For as many good songs as Steely Dan has, to me, they never topped the first song from their first album. Simply magnificent.
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It's all good, man. :coolio
Steely Dan - Do It Again
There are not enough words for how much I love this song. For as many good songs as Steely Dan has, to me, they never topped the first song from their first album. Simply magnificent.
oh, *faint* -- I LOVE LOVE "Do It Again"!!! YES! :millahhhh
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Great song, cool vibe. :coolio
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great groove. great driving music.
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AWESOME song, definitely my favorite from Steely Dan.
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It's all good, man. :coolio
Steely Dan - Do It Again
There are not enough words for how much I love this song. For as many good songs as Steely Dan has, to me, they never topped the first song from their first album. Simply magnificent.
As my favorite Steely Dan song is the second song from this album, namely Dirty Work (it's a long story, let's just say the lyrics fit me and an ex all too well), I'll take exception to your notion...but Do It Again is a really really good song regardless. :biggrin:
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AWESOME song, definitely my favorite from Steely Dan.
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Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart
I never got the fascination at all with this song or with Janis Joplin. Her voice sounds like one that has endured decades of cigarette smoke destroying it, and not in a good way. Pass.
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Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart
I never got the fascination at all with this song or with Janis Joplin. Her voice sounds like one that has endured decades of cigarette smoke destroying it, and not in a good way. Pass.
Agreed about Joplin. I'm always puzzled at how she or her style of singing gets such props. I feel like I must be missing something -- everyone else seems to love her. :huh: She's just kinda tragic...and canNOT sing.
However....I love the song. Dusty Springfield's version is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhV3Ual2HGA
Also Aretha's sister, Erma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUM161EgKdI
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Guess I was so high when I first got in to Joplin's music, it had a certain appeal. Still dig it.
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Janis Joplin does not have one of my favorite voices, and in general it bugs me because it's so wiped out -- "whiskey voice" I've heard it called -- but I also understand why many people love it. She sings with a lot of soul. She pours her heart into it. Same reason I love Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World". His voice actually bothers me, actively, but the song is so great and there's so much passion in his voice that I still enjoy the performance.
I have to be in the right mood, but every once in a while, I like Janis Joplin. Also, the guitar work on this song is pretty tasty.
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Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman
This has always been one of my favorite ELO songs; it is very catchy and easy to tap your foot to. What's not to like about it? Really good tune. :hat
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One of my favouriote ELO songs, too. :tup
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Always thought it was funny that Discovery was dubbed ELO's attempt to be disco when this song right here is so disco it HURTS. :lol
Like the song though. My grandmother worked in a place that had a juke box and she used to give the old 45s when they put in new ones to my sister. The one for this song? PURPLE VINYL. I regret the hell out of not keeping that one.
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Nice tune by ELO
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Yes - I've Seen All Good People
Some songs get overplayed to death, yet always still sound great every time you hear them; I've Seen All Good People is one of those songs for me. I never turn it off if it comes on anywhere, and I always enjoy the hell out of it. A truly great song, one of my favorites by Yes. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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Alright song, but not one of their best.
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Brilliant song. Absolutely brilliant. Top 5 for Yes in my books.
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One of my favorite songs by Yes as well :hat It is brilliant.
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A favorite of mine from them most definitely
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Brilliant song. Absolutely brilliant. Top 10 for Yes in my books.
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Ugh, that lyric, THAT LYRIC! I digs its way in to my brain like one of those creatures from Wrath of Khan.
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Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
Talk about packing a tremendous punch in under three minutes! Great tune, and fitting that it was the first song on the first LZ record. :metal
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This has always been one of my favourite Zeppelin tunes. It has a great drum groove to it (as to be expected from Bonham), and I love the bass fills after the chorus.
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What always amazes me about this song-if not John Bonham's work in general-is the fact that the amazing kick drum parts are all done with one foot. John Bonham all too frequently did things that did not seem humanly possible, and all of it on one of the smallest kits a big league drummer ever used. The man was beyond amazing.
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What always amazes me about this song-if not John Bonham's work in general-is the fact that the amazing kick drum parts are all done with one foot. John Bonham all too frequently did things that did not seem humanly possible, and all of it on one of the smallest kits a big league drummer ever used. The man was beyond amazing.
Agreed.
Incredible to think that this was the song that launched LZ. Not sure I'd rank it in my Top 10 of Zeppelin songs, maybe not even top 20. But for me, a even a song outside of the Top 20 by LZ is better than the best song of several bands in my library
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Not since I Saw Her Standing There has there been a more memorable debut track
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^ Word.
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I know I'm in the minority, but this is just not one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. It's just never grabbed me.
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I liked this song when I was first getting into Zeppelin, but I've found it hasn't aged so well. I don't dislike it, but my opinion of it has not remained the same.
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Great way to kick off Led Zeppelins career.
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Rod Stewart - Maggie May
I remember this song being hugely popular and played all of the time when I first got into classic rock in the late 80s/early 90s. I thought it was pretty cool, but I wasn't overly nutty about it. Good song, sure, but never a favorite or one I even got excited to hear.
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You don't get a cool story here, sadly.
The longest term relationship in my life-and one I'm still wrapped up in, in amazingly complex ways-was with a woman named Maggie. I set world landspeed records changing the channel when this song comes on. :lol
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I like this song. I still remember riding in the car with my mom in the old Ford Falcon with the AM radio and hearing this song. At the line "All you did was mess my bed, and in the morning kick me in the head" we both laughed.
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I like this song. I still remember riding in the car with my mom in the old Ford Falcon with the AM radio and hearing this song. At the line "All you did was mess my bed, and in the morning kick me in the head" we both laughed.
:heart ;)
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Favorite Rod Stewart song, easily
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Decent enough song. Really love it unplugged though.
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Deep Purple - Child in Time
I have never been a huge Deep Purple fan. Their stuff always sounds good, but I never went ape shit over them or anything. But this song is f'ing awesome. In every way. :metal :metal
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Live version on Made in Japan.
That is all. :D
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I have never heard a single note of Made in Japan. I know, I know :lol, but I am not a big live album guy, and considering I am not that big a Deep Purple fan, I never felt the need to go out of my way to hear any of it.
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Their stuff always sounds good, but I never went ape shit over them or anything.
Me as well. Not sure why, they seem like the type of band I would love, but I am content with a Greatest Hits CD and Made in Japan.
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I have never heard a single note of Made in Japan. I know, I know :lol, but I am not a big live album guy, and considering I am not that big a Deep Purple fan, I never felt the need to go out of my way to hear any of it.
I am, in fact, such a big live album guy that one of my rules for my top 50 was to limit it to studio albums or the list would be half live albums. :lol The version of Child In Time on Made In Japan is pretty much the definitive version as far as I am concerned.
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This song is all kinds of awesome!
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Great song. Gillan's finest hour (well, few minutes).
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Great song. Gillan's finest hour (well, few minutes).
Bingo. The instrumental section is glorious as well.
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By coincidence, the Made in Japan version shuffled onto my truck stereo yesterday while driving home from the office. I love it!
Ooo, ooo, oooo.
Ooo, ooo, oooo.
Ooo, ooo, ooo, oooo.
Aaa, aaa, aaah.
Aaa, aaa, aaah.
Aaa, aaa, aaa, aaaah.
WAAA, AAA, AAAH!
WAAA, AAA, AAAH!
WAAA, AAA, AAA, AAAAAH!
I scared the shit out of Mrs. P when I came in the house wailing like Gillian.
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So damn good, and Kev, you should really hear it live. It smokes!
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I scared the shit out of Mrs. P when I came in the house wailing like Gillian.
Prolly this too.
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:lol
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John Mellancamp - I Need a Lover
Really good tune! It is a shame he never really had any other hits that had the kind of extended instrumental coolness that this song has in the intro, but I guess once the 80s rolled around, short and concise became the thing, and considering he is someone who really benefited by MTV, it wasn't to his advantage to have songs with long intros and whatnot. But this is a damn good song; a definite classic.
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The funny thing is, I Need A Lover isn't really all that long-it's five minutes and thirty six seconds long, but like I mentioned ages ago in the MTV thread, this song does the neat trick of being less than six minutes long and sounding a HELL of a lot longer. Mainly pulls that off because the intro is a large percentage of the song-two minutes and twenty nine seconds, according to my play of it just now on iTunes. Of course, it likely wouldn't have been a MTV hit even as an edit because by then everyone knew the Pat Benatar version, but it's a kick ass song, especially the intro. :metal
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Yeah, that intro is all kinds of awesome
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Not a huge fan of the artist myself but this song, and its intro, are truly awesome.
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George Thorogood - Who Do You Love?
I am not a fan of this guy at all, but if there is one song by him I can sort of tolerate, it is this one.
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No love for Bad To The Bone? :lol Yeah, this is an alright tune
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He's got his moments. This song ain't bad, but it's far from my favorite of his.
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No love for Bad To The Bone? :lol
Zero love for that song. I get why it was really popular, but I never liked it at all.
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Move It On Over is the only Thorogood song that I really like.
In High-school I new a guy who called the band, "George Thoroughmud and the Underwear Re-soilers." Always cracked me up.
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Speaking of artists I have never liked...
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
I dislike this song. A lot. But sadly, classic rock radio played the crap out of it back in the day. Ick.
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I'm going to second "Ick".
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Thirded.
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Ditto, ditto, ditto. Blech
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Okay, with that being over with :lol....
Robert Palmer - Bad Case of Loving You
Solid rock song. One I always heard and always thought was pretty enjoyable, but I can't say it is one I have ever given much thought to outside of when I am actually listening to it.
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#imustbelisteningtodifferentclassicrockstationsthankev
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Haha, you must. But I figured that one was pretty well-known. Jaq?? :lol
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It was his biggest hit before the 80s albums, and still gets played around here, actually. So for once I can come to Kev's rescue on a classic rock song not played all over the country! :lol
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Whew. :lol :biggrin:
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It was his biggest hit before the 80s albums, and still gets played around here, actually. So for once I can come to Kev's rescue on a classic rock song not played all over the country! :lol
WHAAAAAAAAA???!!!???? :lol
I loved this tune and it makes my 70's playlists all the time.
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It was his biggest hit before the 80s albums, and still gets played around here, actually. So for once I can come to Kev's rescue on a classic rock song not played all over the country! :lol
WHAAAAAAAAA???!!!???? :lol
I loved this tune and it makes my 70's playlists all the time.
It is seriously good times! :metal
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Doctor, Doctor!
Excellent tune. Palmer didn't have too many songs that I enjoyed, but this is one of them.
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yeah, great tune by Palmer
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Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
This has long been my favorite song from the VH debut album and one of my favorite VH songs ever. When I hear that legendary guitar intro, I am still always sucked in right away, and the song is staying on till the end.
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Probably my favorite VH eva for the reason you mention. I had a girlfriend in college who would cross her eyes just during the note that's emphasized during the beginning riff. Then she would go all weak-kneed as if she was 'gasming. It was her way of expressing pleasure at the guitar tone...I guess. Or she was thinking of Roth's chest hair, I never really found out.
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I'm not sure I can pick a favourite for my favourite song from the album, since it's one of the best hard rock albums of all time, but this song is as good as any. :tup Gotta love that iconic intro. That tone was unbeatable.
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Yeah... fantastic riffage on this song. The whole album really.
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Yeah... fantastic riffage on this song. The whole album really.
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Alright song, but it is not one of my favorites from Van Halen and not even that high up on the debut.
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Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
ick
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Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
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We're not friends any more.
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VH does nothing for me
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Seriously? They came over and mowed my lawn the other day.
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The Rolling Stones - Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
The Rolling Stones are one of those bands that has a lot of songs I can say I like, but only a handful or two of songs I would say I really like or love; Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) is one of those songs. That intro is totally badass, and the song overall has that kind of dirty rock feel that makes it very inviting and memorable.
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I'd say it merits pretty good status
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The Rolling Stones - Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
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Again
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Actually, it's "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)". The background vocals in the chorus go "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo" (five "doos").
Details are important.
Also, great song. I'm not a huge Stones fan, and I think this is still the only album of theirs that I have, and probably always will be. But I like this one.
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It's not bad, but probably one of my least favorites from the Stones. I'd describe it as slightly better than 'meh'.
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Actually, it's "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)". The background vocals in the chorus go "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo" (five "doos").
Details are important.
Oops. :facepalm: :lol
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Meh.
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Actually, it's "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)". The background vocals in the chorus go "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo" (five "doos").
Details are important.
Oops. :facepalm: :lol
It's okay, I'm pretty anal about it. But I've noticed that you've been very careful about getting titles exactly correct thus far. There've been a few times that I was going to correct you, only to discover that you were right and I was wrong. I'm pretty sure about this one, though.
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Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
I am not sure how many Zappa songs really got radio airplay back in the 70s, but I remember hearing Joe's Garage here and there on the radio in the early 90s when I first became aware of the existence of the man called Frank Zappa. I admittedly didn't really get around to checking out Zappa until maybe the mid 00s or so, but I do remember thinking this song was kind of cool when I first heard it. Of course, I love it now.
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This will be no surprise but, yea, I love Joe's Garage! ...bend the string like reentoo-teentoo-teentoo-teenoo-neenoo-neenoo-neeee. Can't argue with brilliance.
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I guess I shouldn't be so surprised that "Joe's Garage" got airplay on actual FM stations, but I am. Even though I'd been introduced to Frank years earlier (via One Size Fits All, as discussed recently in the Zappa thread), my first Zappa album was actually Sheik Yerbouti, and Joe's Garage, Volume One was basically the follow-up. There were tracks on all of those albums which clearly could never be played on the radio, but "Joe's Garage" is relatively tame. Kinda catchy, too.
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I actually don't care for that one, honestly. The whole Joe's Garage album is very hit or miss for me, with some stuff I really like (Watermelon In Easter Hay, Token Of My Extreme, Catholic Girls) and then there's stuff like this one that doesn't do anything for me.
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Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
My favorite Fleetwood Mac song. Granted, I am not a huge fan of theirs or anything, and they probably only have 8-10 songs I would say I love (while many others would fall under "like"), but this song is just so dang awesome. I am admittedly partial to the live version from The Dance, but either version is just tremendous.
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I like this one. I loved Stevie's voice before she destroyed it, and the harmonies here are really great.
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My second favorite Fleetwood Mac song (the top honors go to Go Your Own Way), but yeah, great tune
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Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
:heart :heart :heart
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Good Stevie song, but I was always more of a Christine McVie fan.
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Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
Good, solid rock tune. Not much more I can add other than that.
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Love it
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As a sneak preview of my eventual top 50 list (coming to a message board near you sometime later...I dunno, this year? :lol) I will tell you that Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak currently resides at number three on the list. It's my third favorite album ever. And one of the reasons why it's my third favorite album ever is that, as timeless and awesome a song The Boys Are Back In Town is...it's my fourth favorite song on Jailbreak. That's how good an album that is, that's why Thin Lizzy's one of my favorite bands of all time, and that's why anytime The Boys Are Back In Town comes on the radio, I crank it the hell up and sing along with it. Because when the fourth best song on an album is this awesome, you're talking about a pretty damn good band. I love Thin Lizzy to death.
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I've always thought that this was a solid, catchy song. Well-written, good sound, and there are other Thin Lizzy songs with the same characteristics... yet somehow I've never been inspired to dig into them. They just seem like a somewhat better-than-average rock band. Which is fine. They just have never gotten me that excited.
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Very good and catchy song. Love Thin Lizzy!
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I love playing this song back-to-back with Trooper's The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car. I always picture the "boys" coming back into town in a suped up GTO or Mustang or something like that.
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The Cars - Good Times Roll
Good tune. Pretty basic, and nothing really fancy about it, but it's just a good, catchy tune. Sometimes, that's good enough. :coolio
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I used this song title as a catchphrase for a Business Plan I had to write in 2nd year university. It was for a pool hall/gaming establishment - Diamond Gold Billiards... let the good times roll. Totally made up everything in the business plan - the research, the marketing aspects, forecasts, investments... everything was BS. Got a B+ for my efforts.
My stories suck.
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A terrific background soundtrack for keggers. That is the instant fond feeling I have for this song. Also, one of the local bands who played weekends at the neighborhood pub played a lot of Cars songs, so all their songs tend to invoke memories of young ladies, dressed to kill, dancing their asses off. *sigh*
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I love that first album by The Cars. Even though I usually skip tracks 4 and 5, the first three are rock solid, and that whole second side is awesome.
"Good Times Roll" is about as perfect a debut song for this band as there can be. It basically sums up with the band is all about.
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The Cars - Good Times Roll
Except for Don't Cha Stop, you really can't go wrong with anything from their debut. REALLY good album.
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"Don't Cha Stop" doesn't work for me, but I also skip "I'm in Touch with Your World". It just seems to plod along and not really go anywhere.
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In honor of Allen Lanier...
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' for You
Good song. My least favorite of the three B.O.C. major classic rock staples, and they have tons of deeper cuts that are far better, but still a good tune.
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I remember when I first heard it I thought, "Oh, BOC doing a straight forward rocker. Cool!" After a few weeks of hearing it 3 times a day (I listened to the radio a lot in those days) I thought, "No wonder they've always done unusual music!" :) Seriously though, I still like this song. Especially now that I only hear it infrequently.
I once heard a caller dedicate this song to his new bride on the radio. The DJ said, "Have you listed to the words, Man? It's your funeral." :lol
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Awesome song
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In the early days of MTV, there simply weren't a great many videos, so the ones they had tended to get played a lot, and if it was a hit, then it got played even MORE often. Such was the case with Burnin' For You, which at its height had a regularity of about once every three hours. Not much of a problem for me, since I liked the song.
My mom, however...
She'd let me and my sisters take over the living room television fairly often to watch MTV. Around the time that MTV came out, my mom transitioned from housewife to needing to have a second job in the house, so she'd kind of succumbed to the obvious temptation of letting the TV be our babysitter, and it stuck around when she was actually home. And while there were plenty of songs that got played near-constantly on MTV, for some reason, she picked up on Burnin' For You. "Is that Burnin For You again?" she'd yell from the kitchen, kind of amused at it being on so often. "Don't they have any other songs?"
To this DAY, if my mom hears Burnin' For You, she remembers it as the song that MTV played so much. And can sing the choruses. :lol
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Love, love, LOVE that song. So catchy. I really ought to check out more by them, as I've only heard the three biggest hits.
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Great song
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Boston - Smokin'
Probably the most outright rocking song on their debut album, this song, quite simply, is smokin'! :lol The instrumental section in this song, with the organ solo, is so freaking bad ass. :metal :metal
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Great song!
I finally got a chance to play it a while back. Learned the organ solo, and it all came down to our singer being able to do it. He did, and I was honestly surprised. This is the same guy who couldn't do "Long Time" because it was so high, but we managed to do "Smokin'". Our bassist even did the harmony.
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A+ tune... then again, so is every song on the album. Pound for pound, this album could be the best of all time. Often overlooked because of the 'big 3' of More Than A Feeling, RnR Band, and Foreplay/Longtime. At least, those are the big three on classic rock radio up here. This is the fourth in that race for most exposed tune.
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Awesome song! This whole album rocks but Smokin' was always my favorite.
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Great band, great song
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Neil Young - Southern Man
Pretty good song. I am not much of a fan of Young, outside of a handful of songs, but this is one of his that I enjoy to some extent. I never go out of my way to listen to it, but if I hear it, it is enjoyable enough.
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Can't stand Neil Young. This from a Canuck.
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Awesome song.
FACT OF THE DAY FROM LOLZEEZ:
Did you know that Lynyrd Skynyrd was encouraged by that song to write Sweet Home Alabama?
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I don't mind Neil Young, but I wouldn't buy any of his albums.
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I love Neil and I love that song :tup
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Can't stand Neil Young. This from a Canuck.
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Awesome song.
FACT OF THE DAY FROM LOLZEEZ:
Did you know that Lynyrd Skynyrd was encouraged by that song to write Sweet Home Alabama?
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Go find what I said about Sweet Home Alabama in this thread. :lol Funny thing was, eventually Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd wound up being friends.
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Awesome song.
FACT OF THE DAY FROM LOLZEEZ:
Did you know that Lynyrd Skynyrd was encouraged by that song to write Sweet Home Alabama?
I always thought that was pretty common knowledge. It's pretty clear from the lyric "Well I hope Neil Young will remember; A southern man don't need him around anyhow"
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I thought that was common knowledge, too.
Paul McCartney & Wings - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
This might be my favorite McCartney post-Beatles song; I absolutely love it. I love how catchy the piano melody is, McCartney's vocal delivery is great, and how bad ass is that Band on the Run reprise at the very end? Great, great song!!
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I love Band On The Run, but the only time I hear this song is when I play my copy of it. :lol Awesome album though, in my opinion one of the few albums by a Beatle solo that matches the work of the Beatles as a band.
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Great song. Paul had a bunch of them. There's actually a lot of Wings stuff that I like. George Harrison had some good stuff, too. Ringo wasn't nearly as prolific and did a lot of covers and stuff, but he had a few catchy songs. John Lennon solo doesn't do much for me.
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"Shake it don't break it." :lol
Still love it though!
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Great close to an awesome album
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Eh.
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This song kind of falls in that gray area where it could be called an oldie or classic rock, so I think it qualifies here...
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Absolutely amazing and breathtaking song. Paul McCartney and Steven Wilson have both called this the greatest song ever written, and while it might not be my favorite, I definitely think it is one of the best songs ever written. The final vocal section, with all of the overlapping vocals, never fails to give me goosebumps, chills, etc. Very much a :hefdaddy :hefdaddy song.
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I don't even think it's the best Beach Boys song or (even the best on the album) let alone the best ever written but when I'm in the proper frame of mind I really like Pet Sounds and this song is a real highlight.
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Eh.
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Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
Good song, although I admittedly am not a huge fan of Dio. But this is a good tune.
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Weakest song on the Holy Diver album but still fun to hear when it comes on the radio. This song came on while I was at the filling station the other day and I realised I still love the lyric, "When there's lightning, you know it always brings me down." Also, this was an excellent concert song back in the day.
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Weakest song on the Holy Diver album but still fun to hear when it comes on the radio.
I disagree. I'd put it at least middle of the album in terms of quality.
Classic keyboard riff, and it's Dio, so the vocals are top notch. What more needs to be said? It's Dio! :metal
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There were a few moments in the 80s when I heard a guitar player and said "who the hell IS this guy?!" In particular, Randy Rhoads, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Add Vivian Campbell to this list, the first time I saw the video for Rainbow In The Dark. Though I always felt bad that they couldn't find a way to work Vinnie Appice into the video. :lol
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I don't know if it's a great song, but I like it. Dio's voice was awesome.
Does anyone remember back in the early 80's, Michelob Light had an ad campaign on the radio wherein they would adapt their jingle "Michelob Light, for the winners!" to sound like popular songs at the time? "Rainbow in the Dark" was one of the victims. The guitars, that classic keyboard sound, even a guy who sounded kinda like Dio (because no one could sound exactly like him), singing the damned Michelob Light song. The chords were slightly rearranged and the keyboard line was slightly changed, but there was no question what song it was supposed to be.
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Ok, this is kinda bad and kinda cool all at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQZpew9371Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQZpew9371Q)
4:38 in this video is Orianthi playing Rainbow In The Dark...and no, she doesn't sing it thank god. :lol
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Also, I love Dio's voice in nearly everything he ever did, but...
Is it just me or is he completely unwatchable?! The little sand-blower's antics and theatrics were alway off putting to me especially when he was in Black Sabbath wearing a chainmail shirt and spike-heeled boots. I remember seeing Bill Ward, in a video interview, talking about how he just couldn't take watching Dio "do his thing" and I just had to nod my head.
What did ya'all think?
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I've never seen much video of Dio. Sounds like that's actually a good thing.
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God Only Knows is a great and beautiful song about friendship/love
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I don't know if it's a great song, but I like it. Dio's voice was awesome.
Does anyone remember back in the early 80's, Michelob Light had an ad campaign on the radio wherein they would adapt their jingle "Michelob Light, for the winners!" to sound like popular songs at the time? "Rainbow in the Dark" was one of the victims. The guitars, that classic keyboard sound, even a guy who sounded kinda like Dio (because no one could sound exactly like him), singing the damned Michelob Light song. The chords were slightly rearranged and the keyboard line was slightly changed, but there was no question what song it was supposed to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MwMXXuWKAc :omg:
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Whoa.
Obviously my memory is faulty; it was Bud and not Michelob Light. I was pretty sure it was a sound-alike, not actually RJD (and I'm still not 100% convinced that that was him), but yeah, that was it.
The "Land Down Under" (Men at Work) ripoff was definitely Michelob Light. There was also one by a band called Steel Breeze, a one-hit wonder from that same time.
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Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
Good song, although I admittedly am not a huge fan of Dio. But this is a good tune.
LOOK OUT!!! :2metal:
Loved this one back in the day and I still do. RIP RJD. :heart
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Also, I love Dio's voice in nearly everything he ever did, but...
Is it just me or is he completely unwatchable?! The little sand-blower's antics and theatrics were alway off putting to me especially when he was in Black Sabbath wearing a chainmail shirt and spike-heeled boots. I remember seeing Bill Ward, in a video interview, talking about how he just couldn't take watching Dio "do his thing" and I just had to nod my head.
What did ya'all think?
Nah, I liked it. He was the metal midget. :metal I mean, would we even have the metal emoticon if it weren't for Dio? :o
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I still think I am one of the few people who doesn't :hefdaddy :hefdaddy to Dio's voice. Sure, he was a great singer, but something about his voice didn't appeal to me a lot; I think it was probably that he kind of had that metal shriek thing going on, and I am usually not a fan of that.
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I still think I am one of the few people who doesn't :hefdaddy :hefdaddy to Dio's voice. Sure, he was a great singer, but something about his voice didn't appeal to me a lot; I think it was probably that he kind of had that metal shriek thing going on, and I am usually not a fan of that.
Just different strokes. It's not everyone's cup of tea.
I love the metal shriek as long as it's still tuneful, something which often separates Dio from the more recent imitators. A lot of singers use the shriek as a cover up for not being able to hit notes, or they have so much shriek that you can't really hear a tune to it, which I don't like. So I'm not a fan of that kind of metal shriek.
Even until he end, Dio always had so much power behind his voice, and could always belt out the notes like nobody his age or size should have been able to. :lol
He had a really nice natural tone to his voice without the shriek too, such as the intro of Don't Talk To Strangers, or The Last In Line.
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Dio Rules!!!!! Holy Diver is a masterpiece and one of my all time favorites. Awesome song
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Emerson Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
Very cool song. Rather atypical for ELP when you consider how crazy and bombastic most of their other early work is, but I love how they would sometimes take it down a bit and chill out with something like this. Very lovely song, and the ground-breaking moog solo is nothing short of outstanding.
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:tup
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As I mentioned in the ELP Discography thread, this song confused me for a while. In the early 70's, there was this great singing group known as Crosby, Stills and Nash. Kinda folk-rock, mostly vocals and acoustic guitar. Then "Lucky Man" hit the air by some band called Emerson Lake & Palmer. Except for the weirdass Moog solo at the end, it was mostly vocals and acoustic guitar as well, so I mentally filed Emerson Lake & Palmer in the same bin as Crosby, Still and Nash.
Imagine my surprise when I later bought ELP's live album from the record club, sight-unseen. :omg:
Anyway, two things:
1. Congrats on spelling and punctuating "Emerson Lake & Palmer" correctly! :tup
2. It's "Moog", not "moog". :tdwn It's not a type of synthesizer, but a brand, named after Dr. Robert Moog who invented it and founded the company.
Moog was a friend of Keith Emerson's, and the first Moog synthesizer was delivered to the studio while they were recording "Lucky Man". Greg Lake told Keith Emerson that he should do something at the end of the song, play a solo. Emerson had only been messing around with the synth for a day or so, but he threw something together and they put it on the album. Emerson has referred to it as "a lot of shit, actually".
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:heart
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Moog... :facepalm: I probably should have known that. :lol
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Great song!
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Heart - Barracuda
I know for a lot of people, this song is all about that riff, and it is a great riff, but the rest of the song is pretty dang great, too. Great vocal melodies, as always sung beautifully by Ann Wilson, particular. Great classic rock tune! :metal
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Still my favorite female vocalist of all time. Actually, considering that, and the fact that Heart's upbeat songs can really rock out, I sometimes wonder why I'm not a bigger fan of Heart.
Anyway, this is a great song. I always crank it up.
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Yes, it sounds like Bonham drums. I never had a problem with that, although it seems people use that to knock this song. It is just a great song. That guitar tone is pretty killer too. But it's greatest asset is Ann Wilson kicking ass.
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favorite Heart song. The song delivers and :metal so hard
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I dare ya not to turn that volume knob clockwise! Love it. Great song.
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Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Hard not to love this song. It's so raw, yet so simple. This is one of those songs that I never go out of my way to hear, but when I hear it, I can't help but crank it up and enjoy the hell out of it.
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This is one of those songs that I never go out of my way to hear, but when I hear it, I can't help but crank it up and enjoy the hell out of it.
This is me, exactly. I own no Cream, or Clapton, or Derek and the Dominos for that matter, but I'll rarely turn them off when they come on the radio. Most of it's pretty good stuff.
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I absolutely dig this song! I once had the first Cream album in my vinyl collection but it disappeared some years ago. I probably loaned it to a friend... you know how that goes. Like all-y'all, I have no burning desire to replace lost music or buy any clapton but I love it when I hear it.
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Awesome classic song. Second favorite Cream song (White Room is my fav)
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Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
It always seems like so many other Eagles songs got played way more than this on the radio when I went through my phase of listening to classic rock radio, but I am hard-pressed to think of more than maybe two or three Eagles songs that are better than this one. I thought this song was totally awesome the first time I heard it, and decades later, it still sounds just as awesome. This is not a band I listen to that often, but this is definitely one of my go-to songs when I do feel like listening to the Eagles.
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Eagles are a guilty pleasure of mine. The vocals always appealed to me and the imagery of this song in particular was always vivid. Appreciates.
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I have no shame in admitting I love the Eagles to death, and Lyin' Eyes is one of my favorite songs of theirs. I love songs that are long not because of extended instrumental breaks but because the lyrics are telling a story which is probably why The Last Resort is my favorite Eagles song, and Lyin' Eyes is in the top five. Great, great song.
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Yep, this is a good one. I have a bunch of Eagles, even checked out their "new" (2007) double album Long Road Out of Eden on a road trip earlier this year. It sounds pretty much like any other Eagles, definitely not like it was recorded 30 years later. Good stuff.
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The title track Orbert is a fantastic song. The Eagles should never be a guilty pleasure. They transcend decade after decade to new fans.
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If I'm in the mood for easy listening, this song is great. Mellow, with great harmonies typical of the Eagles.
If I'm in the mood for something upbeat, I hate the fact that it's not Already Gone or Take It Easy.
I'd say it's right near the middle of my preference list for their radio-played material. I'm a Vol.1 kind of fan rather than a Walsh-era fan, anyway.
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Eagles are a guilty pleasure of mine. The vocals always appealed to me and the imagery of this song in particular was always vivid. Appreciates.
Nothing "guilty" about this band, they're one of the most successful and well-known rock bands in history.
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Bob Seger - Old Time Rock & Roll
I hate this song. Let me say it again: I hate this song. I know, it's a classic, and blah, blah, blah, but I still hate it, nonetheless. It just annoys the crap out of me. Oh, have I said that I hate it??
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I too hate this song. I like his work but I just can't listen to this song.
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Yeah, let's just be happy with Turn the Page
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This song needs a silver bullet in the noggin!
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Read through this entire thread and I ended up with a pretty epic classic rock playlist on spotify. Thanks for the inspiration. I've listened to classic rock radio my entire life.
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I don't really like it either. It just sounds... Eh. :justjen
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I love the song, perhaps more for its message than the actual content. But wow, I didn't realize it garnered so much hate.
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This song needs a silver bullet in the noggin!
WORD.
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I have fun when I listen to it, I suppose that's all that really matters with a song like this.
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The song was cliche'd to death before I ever heard it, so I don't think it had a hope with me. :lol
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Pass
I'd rather listen to Van Halen or The Rolling Stones before hearing this song again.
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I want to kill myself when I hear that song.
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I love the song, perhaps more for its message than the actual content. But wow, I didn't realize it garnered so much hate.
Yeah, I didn't realize people flat out hated this song so much. :lol
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It's fun. Although, I think the only times I've heard it in the past 15 years is at wedding receptions.
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The Doobie Brothers - Black Water
Great song, and one that seemed to be the favorite Doobies song of everyone I knew when I was first discovering the band, so I kind of had that "Yeah, but this song and that song are better" reaction. A bit silly, but there it is. :lol Anyway, this is a killer tune by any measure, certainly one of their best tunes, and a true classic.
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I like to hear some funky dixieland
Purty mama come and take me by the hand
By the hand (hand!) take me by the hand (purty mama!)
Gonna dance with your daddy all night long
I like to hear some funky dixieland
Purty mama come and take me by the hand
Yeah, they've done some songs that are arguably "better", but this one's still my favorite. :tup
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Another song I thought another band did for the longest time. :rollin
Not sure why but that happened with a lot of 70s bands.
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Great song
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Prolly my favorite Doobies tune. Not a huge fan of theirs (I don't have any albums, so it's just the radio hits basically), but this is a great track.
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Sammy Hagar - Rock 'N' Roll Weekend
This song is huge here in St. Louis, as this song is played at 6 p.m. on KSHE-95 every single Friday night as a kickoff to the weekend. They have been doing that for 20+ years, I believe. Good song, too. Might seem like an odd choice for a decades-long tradition, but Hagar has always been huge here in St. Louis, and that song is wildly popular here.
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*crickets* :lol
Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
This was definitely one of the most-played Elton John songs on classic rock radio back in my big radio listening days. I can see why, as it rocks pretty good. In fact, it always seemed way more rocking than just about everything I knew by him, so it was unique in that regard. Despite all of that, I was never a big fan. I mean, it's a decent enough song, but it just doesn't stand out to me at all.
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Elton's nod to the English working class. I've always loved it and won't skip it if it comes up on my rotation...yet I never really seek it out.
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Never cared much for this song until I heard on The Who's Maximum R&B box set. They did a solid rendition of it and I much prefer to the original. Maybe a song about fighting sounds better being sung by Roger than Elton. :)
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Not a bad song, but not exactly a fave, either. I prefer Elton's mellower stuff.
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Flotsam & Jetsam did a cool cover of this.
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Straight up classic. Thoroughly enjoyable, energetic, fun song.
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Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
This is quite possibly the most bad ass, self-contained song under 2 1/2 minutes ever; it just kicks your ass from start to finish. Zeppelin had so many songs that get played on classic rock radio, but this is one that really stood out to me when I was first getting into their music in the early 90s. From the very start, you knew it was Zeppelin and you knew instantly that it was awesome. :metal
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Correct on all counts. :metal
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outstanding song!!
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yeah, one of the top kick-ass songs of all time. that reverb guitar chord is my favorite part.
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Back in my adventuring days, one of my best friends was a guy that had virtually no interest in rock and roll. Rap and R&B was his thing. We were out driving around one night, and I was flipping through radio stations trying to find something to listen to. Hit the local rock station and a commercial was on, and my friend said "fuck it, leave it there, we're almost where we're going." I did, and the next song that came out was Immigrant Song.
Not sure why, but when it got to the first time where Plants starts wailing, I burst out into it...and my friend, who had virtually no interest in rock, remember...burst into the wail at the same time.
That's an iconic song right there. When someone who doesn't listen to a band knows it.
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Anybody know the song "Bali Hai" from the musical South Pacific? If you do, then you know what I'm saying.
If you don't, 0:42 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81NROmUb7o0)
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The Who - Pinball Wizard
I remember the fast acoustic lead coming across to me as one of the iconic sounds of classic rock when I was first discovering a lot of it. It just came across to me as one of those sounds and songs that every fan of classic rock absolutely loved. I rarely hear or see this song talked about anymore, but this is an undeniable classic, from one of rock's first concept albums.
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Yeah that acoustic part gets your blood flowing, especially when it's combined with those electric sustained accent chords. I thought because this song was so enjoyable that all of Tommy would be that way. Sadly I was disappointed when I listened to the rest of the album. But it's still a great song, always happy to hear it.
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I wasn't a Who fan until later, meanwhile one of my good friends was a major Elton John fan, plus Elton's version was all over the radio anyway. So it wasn't until later that I heard the original version. It took me way too many listens to realize that the opening chords are the same in both versions. Pete does it all on acoustic guitar, Elton has the piano and choir, but they're the same chords.
At first, The Who's version seemed so sedate, so understated, compared to Elton's version. Then I realized that that of course is because the original was understated, while Elton's was all about the spectacle and bombast. It fits his persona, and his character in the movie. I like both versions, pretty much equally, but I do have to give props to the guys who did it first, because we wouldn't have the song otherwise.
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Great song! The imagery is top notch and the music sublime. Of course, I have quite a bit of nostalgia with this song because my older brother played this (and other The Who albums) to death. We shared a room so there was no escaping the music (in the whole damned street).
I prefer this version over Elton's because I'm a fan of Daltrey's voice and delivery. His voice is the epitome of British working-class angst which fit the mood of all of The Who music perfectly...or so it seems to me.
Turn the knob clockwise when this song is on!
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no escaping the music (in the whole damned street)
:yarr
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John Lennon - Woman
Despite this song being a song clearly about Yoko Ono, and the video bludgeoning you over the head with that fact, this is still a pretty enjoyable tune. I never went nuts over most of Lennon's post-Beatles material, but I do enjoy this song. It has melodies very reminiscent of classic Lennon.
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It's a nice enough song, I suppose.
John was absolutely head over heels in love with Yoko, and while that's an awesome and beautiful thing, I have to admit to being completely selfish and juvenile about the whole thing because (a) it is widely believed that "she broke up The Beatles" and (b) she was just plain God-forsaken ugly. Totally superficial and childish, I know, but I don't want to see pictures of her, I don't want to see videos of her, and I don't even want to hear songs about her because it will conjure those images in my mind and I'll lose my appetite and quite possibly my control over various internal organs.
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:lol :lol :lol
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April Wine - Sign of the Gypsy Queen
The circle of friends I had way back when all thought this was by far their best tune, and while I liked a few songs of theirs more, I did agree that this was a damn good song. It kicked ass live the one I saw them back in the mid 90s, too.
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fantastic song, my favorite from April Wine.
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Probably the first April Wine song I ever knew. Top notch still today, but there's probably a couple of others I like better. April Wine is like Canada's version of ... I dunno, Bad Company? Middle-to-upper tier rock band. Definitely not A-list though.
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Sign of the Gypsy Queen is my favorite April Wine song, and my lingering memory of it is not the exceptional studio version, but rather the live version that ran on MTV in the early days from a concert performance that ended with an extended triple lead guitar coda, the 70s extended jamming fighting for its life at the start of the video music age. Young Jaq's mom hated it because three guitars soloing at once sounded like noise to her. And boy did I hear about it. :lol
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I never understood John's fascination with Yoko, but he claims she saved his life, so maybe he would have tried to commit suicide early in life. That boy had some demons
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Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Kind of a "this song is so awesome in every way, that it kind of goes without saying, so what more can we say about it?" featured song, but a classic this big has to be featured at some point, right? I will say that as awesome and iconic as David Gilmour's solo at the end of the song is, I love the first solo so much, too, that when I first got wind of how iconic the solo in this song was considered to be, I wondered for a while if people were talking about the first or second solo. That is how much I love the first solo, too.
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This is how I love my solo's. With passion and emotion. Alex Lifeson does that as well (Mission, Emotion Detector). It's as amost the guitar is telling or singing the story of the song to me and Comfortably Numb does all that.
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Probably my favourite song. Ever.
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It's Comfortably Numb. What else needs to be said?
Actually, this. I knew a guitar player in high school who was trying to write a song with a similar sort of massive ending solo, working out each section for ages, trying to build it just like Gilmour did. I was amused years later to read an interview with Gilmour where he said he basically banged out a bunch of solos and stuck the best bits together to make the end solo. :lol
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To me, the great thing about the two solos in this song is that the first one is played over the D major progression ("There is no pain, you are receding...") and the second one is played over the B minor (the verse) but both flow seamlessly from the song itself. So seamlessly that you might not even realize what he's done. And both solos, of course, are awesome. The first one is the melodic, "pretty" solo, the second is the "evil" sounding one.
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I have three versions on my iPod: the studio, Delicate Sound version, and from Pulse. The Pulse version, IMO is the definitive version of this song
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Even though I love Pink Floyd, this song doesn't do much for me :(. I don't really like the chorus. Of course the soloing is great, but it's David Gilmour, what did you expect?
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Amazing song, 'nuff said :hefdaddy
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This is the art of song writing at it's finest, or so it seems to me. The music perfectly fits the intended mood. As wonderful as the solos are the lyrics are just as iconic. It's...it's...well, Comfortably Numb. What else is there to say? :)
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There's a reason modern day guitarists often reference this guitar performance. Easily a top 5 or top 3 solo of all time - likely the best. I'd have to think about what else I'd put up there, but when people ask/think "best classic rock solo", this will invariably come to mind quickly.
King... can't believe you didn't mention The Garden as emotion-fuelled solo. Alex's best ever IMO.
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It is but the others are that much better.
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Joe Walsh - All Night Long
His songs were always hit or miss for me, but I liked this one quite a bit. It didn't seem to get played as much as a few of his other more well-known classics, but I never not listened to it when it came on. Good tune!
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Christ I haven't heard this song in YEARS. Joe Walsh has been reduced to Life's Been Good and Rocky Mountain Way on local classic rock radio. Hit and miss describes Joe Walsh to a T-he made some undeniable classics but also some sheer dreck, especially in the 80s.
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Yep, the classic rock stations seem to have forgotten about this one. But it's a classic all right. Good song.
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JOE WALSH FOR PRESIDENT
But seriously, great song. Joe's always been my favorite Eagle, and he's a damn fine musician.
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Joe's always been my favorite Eagle, and he's a damn fine musician.
Yes, but does Steve Miller want to fly like him?
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:lol
The Toys - A Lover's Concerto
Another song that might be more of an oldie than a classic rock tune, and might even be more pop than rock, but whatever; still a good addition to the thread, I think. Nice little song, with a very infectious vocal melody. Definitely a classic, regardless of the genre.
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You tube to see if it's a local classic or not... :lol
Oh, THAT song. Totally had forgotten it.
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The Toys didn't ring any bells, so I kinda skipped this one, but then I recognized the name of the song. I didn't realize it was so old. I do remember it, though, because I too am so old. Basically Mozart's "Minuet in G" with words, hence the title and its association with classical music. Not a bad song, I guess. Amadeus should've gotten co-writing credit, though.
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If I didn't youtube this I would never remember this song. I always heard this song on my parents oldie's station driving around.
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The Toys didn't ring any bells, so I kinda skipped this one, but then I recognized the name of the song. I didn't realize it was so old. I do remember it, though, because I too am so old. Basically Mozart's "Minuet in G" with words, hence the title and its association with classical music. Not a bad song, I guess. Amadeus should've gotten co-writing credit, though.
You mean Bach. I know that because of this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u7TqqxbyzD8#t=543
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Crap. I should've known that.
To be fair, though, it does sound more like Mozart than Bach.
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I have never delved into classical music as much as I always wanted to, so I'll take your word for it.
Jimi Hendrix - Foxey Lady
Like I have said before, I have never been much of a Hendrix fan, but most of his well-known songs are enjoyable enough, like this one. It's a good song, but it is not one I ever seek out.
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I'm not crazy about Hendrix, but he was pretty cool and had some great songs. I like this one.
I think my favorite part is during the breakdown, when he says "Here I come, baby. I'm comin' to get'cha!"
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Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
Another one of those good classics by ELO. I remember getting a best of by them on CD at one point, hearing this, and thinking, "Oh yeah, I know this song." Enjoyable tune, one that I now cannot hear without thinking of the end of Boogie Nights.
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ELO was always one of those groups that I felt like I should like because on paper the concept of their group is brilliant. The reality is I could never mesh with their vocals and writing style. I still don't. If this song appeared on my classic rock radio I would change the station. :lol
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I like ELO a lot, but only in small does. Which is probably weird, but that's how I roll. I like this song.
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It's alright
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Joe's always been my favorite Eagle, and he's a damn fine musician.
Yes, but does Steve Miller want to fly like him?
::)
Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing
This was the one that really broke them. This and Evil Woman. LOVE me some ELO. :heart
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The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides
I like this song, but I have to admit that I never went bananas over it. It seemed like this was the one song by this band that everyone thought was totally awesome, but maybe it's because I thought Ghost Riders in the Sky was better, as to why I never developed a major love for this one.
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i don't know whether I like this better than Freebird or not
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I'm the opposite. This song is awesome from start to finish. I love the buildup, I love the breakdown, and I love the jam at the end. Ghost Riders in the Sky has a great vibe, but I never went ga-ga over it.
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Journey - Just the Same Way
Easily one of the Journey songs I enjoy the most. I remember hearing this for the first time and thinking, "Since when did Journey have a singer back then who wasn't Steve Perry?" I was clueless at the time about Gregg Rolie and all that. Anyway, this a great little tune to crank up and enjoy like mad. Plus, it packs a great punch for being such a short song.
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I always loved the interplay between Rollie and Perry with the vocals.
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One of my favourite songs off the album (nothing can top Lovin' You Is Easy), although I'll just never be a huge fan of Greg Rolie's vocals. But it's a great song, and the two voices do work very well together here.
When they play it live now, Castronovo and Cain sound bang-on for Perry and Rolie too.
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Good song. I definitely am more a fan of the Journey that followed, but there are some gems on those early albums, and this is one of them. :tup
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I always loved the interplay between Rollie and Perry with the vocals.
Same here. It was a big part of the sound that I really liked on Infinity and got me into Journey in the first place. Then next thing I knew, Gregg was gone and it was The Steve Perry Band. Perry had a great voice, but I got tired of it kinda easily.
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While you can't argue with the success the band had after Rollie left, you have to wonder what the band could have been had he stayed around. His voice did provide a nice contrast to Perry's-that being said, though, like we discussed over in the Chicago thread, the 80s likely would have seen Perry pushed as the front man anyway, so Rollie probably would have not sang as much. So it was probably for the best he left.
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Yet another reason why the 80's sucked for music.
I mean that. Come at me.
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The Beatles - Let It Be
An absolutely gorgeous song, and one that still gets played quite a bit on traditional classic rock stations. I think this one of the few Beatles non-Sgt. Pepper songs that I knew growing up, so my love for it goes back a long, long way. I still love it to pieces.
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Great song. I've had the pleasure of performing it a few times, and it's always a rush because by the end, everybody is singing along.
Paul McCartney's mother is named Mary, and he remembers being a child and her coming to him whenever he needed comforting. Her words were always so reassuring; just let it be, don't worry about it. He was surprised to learn later that a lot of people thought that "Mother Mary" meant Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. Puts a religious spin on a song about thinking back to a simpler time.
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This version (along with the visuals) from "Across the Universe" has me weeping by the end of it. Every time. Beautiful song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXLbyb-3Vl8
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One of my favorite late era Beatles song. I prefer the studio version with the solo guitar as opposed to the version used on the radio
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Wait... what? Is the version from the album not the one that you hear on the radio? I guess I didn't even pay attention.
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The Beatles - Let It Be
An absolutely gorgeous song, and one that still gets played quite a bit on traditional classic rock stations. I think this one of the few Beatles non-Sgt. Pepper songs that I knew growing up, so my love for it goes back a long, long way. I still love it to pieces.
Great song from a great band. Love it too. :heart
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Wait... what? Is the version from the album not the one that you hear on the radio? I guess I didn't even pay attention.
There's two versions. One features a guitar solo over the musical break, the other...well, doesn't. The one that didn't have a solo is the version that appeared on most of the compilations, suggesting it was a single. The guitar solo version tends to get most of the airplay these days, but not ALL of it.
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Now I'm really confused.
I prefer the studio version with the solo guitar as opposed to the version used on the radio
The guitar solo version tends to get most of the airplay these days, but not ALL of it.
Those two statements appear to be contradictory. Either the version usually played on the radio has the guitar solo, or it doesn't.
It's mostly academic interest for me, I suppose. I don't do compilations and I don't listen to much radio. But I'm only familiar with the version that does have the guitar solo, which I believe is the album version. On the other hand, I always thought that that solo sounded like an "obvious" overdub. It's just a bit too loud and clear. It comes back towards the end, too, during the repeated chorus, playing a few fills just a bit too loud.
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It isn't contradictory because it depends wholly on the radio station. There are two stations in my area that are rock stations. One is the classic rock station, the other is one formatted for modern rock with the occasional classic track. One plays the version with the guitar solo, the other doesn't. What makes it weirder is that both stations were owned by the same company before they got clear channeled and shared DJs, and largely have the same staff backstage today as they did 20 years ago.
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I've never heard it on the radio with the solo. I was so shocked when I got the album and heard the solo for the first time. I was like, where did this come from?!
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name?
Solid rock tune. Nothing really fancy about it; just a solid rock tune.
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Wow - magic! I started reading this topic exactly at the same time this very song started playing (I'm listening to Past Masters vol. 2). :rollin How high are the odds?
A beutiful song! Great lyrics... well, I think McCartney is the greatest, best composer of the XX century, anyway... ;D
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Frankly this song seems predatory and creepy. on top of that, I think the music is very pedestrian, probably my least fav out of the LS songs I hear on the radio. so one I usually change the station when it comes on.
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Badfinger - Baby Blue
I had to feature this song this week. I have always liked this song a lot, but after the Breaking Bad finale, it has become of those songs I will always associate with a film or television show. I will never be able to hear this song again without thinking of Walter White. Fans of the show will know exactly what I am talking about.
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Good song. Badfinger had a lot of good songs like this. Pop, but with just a bit of bite to the guitar sound and just a bit more complexity to their arrangements than the average pop dreck.
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Oh man. This song I will never forget.
Ever.
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Good song - never watched an episode of Breaking Bad though.
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Good song - never watched an episode of Breaking Bad though.
:ontome:
I knew there was a reason I liked you, Deb. :lol
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Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time
Good classic tune. Not one I ever have to hear, but whenever I do, it is always enjoyable.
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I believe I dislike Foreigner almost as much as Van Halen and The Stones.
-backs away slowly-
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One of my favourite Foreigner songs, although I only like a few of their songs.
I believe I dislike Foreigner almost as much as Van Halen and The Stones.
-backs away slowly-
Get out.
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I believe I dislike Foreigner almost as much as Van Halen and The Stones.
-backs away slowly-
Get out.
No Seriously :neverusethis:
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I knew there was a reason I liked you, Deb. :lol
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Foreigner - Feels Like the First Time
If classic rock radio hadn't played this one to death, my opinion of it would be quite different. As it is, it was cool the first 10 times I heard it but it got old after that.
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Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
I am pretty sure this was one of the first classic rock songs I ever knew. My parents loved this song, and they had the 45 of it, and played it a lot, so I heard it a bunch when I was very young. Still a good song, even if it is not I ever really seek out. A definite, major classic, for sure.
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There were a couple of biker bars in northern Michigan that we used to play once in a while, and without fail, "Born to be Wild" would always get them going. They're weren't too big on the proggish pop (actually, pretty much no one was) but if things got really bad, whip out "Born to be Wild" and tell them it's time for another pitcher or two. Yeah, baby!
Trivia: This song, and the line "I like smoke and lightning, heavy metal thunder!" is said to be the origin of the term Heavy Metal.
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This is probably one of the rare cases where a song has been used/abused enough to affect my enjoyment of it (usually it wouldn't bother me at all), although I still like it.
It's a great classic rock song, no doubt, but it's been a bit watered down over time by its overuse.
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Completely agree with what Blob said. It's a staple on Top 100 countdowns, and deservedly so, but in and of itself, it's just a mediocre song now due to being over-played
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Genuine classic that has been beyond overplayed. Always liked Magic Carpet Ride better. Good song, don't get me wrong, but it's just too overplayed.
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Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
I think I'm with Jaq on this one, but the other song he mentioned I'm ALSO burned on. I won't mention the one I'm thinking of, just in case it shows up ITT eventually.
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Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
I think I'm with Jaq on this one, but the other song he mentioned I'm ALSO burned on. I won't mention the one I'm thinking of, just in case it shows up ITT eventually.
did they even make any other songs?
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did they even make any other songs?
can't tell if serious or not.
Magic Carpet Ride would be their other best known song I think.
BTBW hasn't been so overplayed where I have lived that I am tired of it. just a great up-tempo classic tune. get out on the road and crank the dial. perfection.
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did they even make any other songs?
can't tell if serious or not.
Magic Carpet Ride would be their other best known song I think.
That's what I meant. After those two songs, I'm not sure I could name another.
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I believe I dislike Foreigner almost as much as Van Halen and The Stones.
-backs away slowly-
So what you're saying is that you like Foreigner?
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Magic Carpet Ride was already featured in this thread, FYI. :biggrin:
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.38 Special - Rockin' into the Night
This is one of those run of the mill classic rock tunes that is impossible to not know if you've ever listened to classic rock radio for any length of time. It's a good, fun song. Not much more than that, but it really doesn't have to be.
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Trivia factoid: this song was written by the songwriters of Survivor along with someone named Gary Smith. You can kind of tell, it has an early Survivor vibe to it. This was one of those factoids about music that just seemed to fall into my brain from SOMEWHERE, since I didn't own this album or anything by Survivor until 1985. :rollin
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Haha, don't you love when that happens? :coolio
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Good song, and listening to it now, it is amazing to me how much more Mickey Thomas sounds like Rik Emmett in this song. But again, good song, one that sounds way more rock and less psychedelic than the early Jefferson Airplane stuff, and not nearly as poppy as the Starship stuff of the 80s.
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I'm not a huge fan of Mickey Thomas-era Jefferson Starship, but this song rocks, and Mickey really wails on it. This is another song we tried to learn, only to discover that there's no way our singer could handle it.
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.38 Special - Rockin' into the Night
Not a bad song, but I liked some of their other hits a bit better.
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Good song. REALLY good song.
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Rocking Into The Night was a good old fashion rock tune that I loved.
Jane is all kinds of awesome. I love the late 70's Jefferson Starship.
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Thread resurrection!!!!!!!! :hat
Dr. Hook - Cover of the Rolling Stone
I have no clue how popular this song is around the country, and I don't remember hearing it all back in the day, but I heard it a friend's a while back and was like, "Oh yeah, I remember this song," so I must have heard it on the radio somewhere. :lol :lol It just never left that much of an impression on me, I guess. Listening now, it is catchy enough, and the appeal is obvious.
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I always loved this song. It was catchy, and the lyrics were funny.
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Meh...
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Whenever I hear that song, I think of the movie Almost Famous. Kate Hudson:
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Meh...
Yeah, I agree.
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This is another one of those songs that used to dot playlists on local classic rock radio and have been shoved aside as the format starts moving into the early 80s as being part of the demographic of classic rock.
Mind you, I don't like it, so this isn't a bad thing... :lol
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I think it's great in a nostalgia, novelty fashion. I was 11 or 12 when it first came out so there are some vague, prepubescent emotional memories circling it like like a moth around a porch light. Like other's have said, it's catchy and kitschy so :tup in my mind.
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it's alright. It's funny and catchy.
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Thread resurrection!!!!!!!! :hat
Dr. Hook - Cover of the Rolling Stone
I have no clue how popular this song is around the country, and I don't remember hearing it all back in the day, but I heard it a friend's a while back and was like, "Oh yeah, I remember this song," so I must have heard it on the radio somewhere. :lol :lol It just never left that much of an impression on me, I guess. Listening now, it is catchy enough, and the appeal is obvious.
I like this song. I never heard it on the radio as a kid, but my dad knew the chords and words on the guitar and would play this song (along with other songs, mostly folk songs). Hearing the actual song in college was pretty cool, and that guitar solo :lol
All in all a very fun song :tup
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I always found Dr Hook entertaining, especially their video clips.
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T. Rex - Bang a Gong
This is the classic example of a song I've heard many times, always think, "this is pretty good," but have never gone out of my way to listen to it. Until now (for the purpose of this thread). And it will probably be the last time, too. :lol
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Out of curiosity, how do you choose these songs? Clearly they're not always based just on what you like.
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I will usually just randomly scroll through my iTunes and try to find a good choice. Plus, I keep each song I do in a playlist called DTF Classic Rock, so I know which songs I have already featured. I try to either feature an artist I haven't yet or one I haven't featured in a while.
So far, I have done 232 songs in this thread, and quite frankly, I am running out of artists I haven't featured yet, so repeat artists will likely be the norm from this point forward.
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It was probably a pretty revolutionary sound in its day, but now it just sounds dated. Quality track, but not something I go looking for, or have on any of my playlists.
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Indeed "dated" fits it big time. You couldn't possibly have had this song at any time other than the early 70s, and in no other time whatsoever. The Power Station cover worked, so to speak, because it stripped the song down to its basics, but even five years later a cover would have sounded silly.
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T. Rex - Bang a Gong
This is the classic example of a song I've heard many times, always think, "this is pretty good," but have never gone out of my way to listen to it. Until now (for the purpose of this thread). And it will probably be the last time, too. :lol
Yep, another catchy song, fine to listen to, but not really enough to make me seek out T. Rex's back catalogue.
This one's great for music trivia idiots, though. Never fails to drive away the babes at parties. :P
- The original name of the band was Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was shortened to T. Rex because, really.
- The song features Rick Wakeman on keyboards, during his studio gigging days. He was paid 9 pounds for it.
- The Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWV6eMaoTiE) you'll most commonly see of this song was from the British TV show "Top of the Pops" and features Elton John on piano. The audio seems to be lip-synched and, oddly, from a mix that doesn't have piano. Everything else sounds the same as the studio version (including the Mellotron, which Elton is clearly not playing).
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Thanks for that info! I never knew that Wakeman played on it. Good stuff to know. :tup :tup
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Yeah, Wakeman pretty much lived at A&M studios back in those days, all kinds of acts would come through to record singles or jingles or whatever, and he was the go-to guy for piano and/or keyboards. His most obvious contribution to this song is the glissando as the piano comes in at the beginning. Rick actually argued about this one, saying the song didn't need any keyboards, but they wanted that glissando in there, and the suit asked him if he wanted the 9 quid or not. Wakeman says he got paid 9 pounds for a gliss, but he comps chords throughout. You can hear the piano in there, mixed in with the guitars.
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T. Rex - Bang a Gong
Get it on
Smoke a bong
Get it on :lol
Other than the silly parody chorus we used to sing for it, there's better classic rock fare out there.
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Styx - The Grand Illusion
Throw this into the pile of songs I thought were totally awesome the first time I heard them. I don't even remember where I was when I first heard it, but I just remember hearing a bunch of Styx songs for the first time sometime in 1990, and The Grand Illusion was one of several that leaped out at me right away and made me an instant fan. For as much shit as Dennis DeYoung catches for wimping out in later years, he sure could write some great rocking tunes during their heyday.
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My love for this album is largely sentimental. It was my first concert, and we spent hours and hours at my buddy's house smoking non-tobacco and listening to this album and other early Styx. Styx were one of my gateway bands.
The song itself, while good, for some reason never really hit me as hard as a number of others from the same album. The melody is good, the break with the JY guitar solo is great, but I can't wait to get to "Fooling Yourself" and that killer Moog solo.
So anyway, good song, but probably underrated (by me).
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Great opening track, to a great album. I was first introduced to Styx in the mid/late 80s by the 'Classics' compilations that were being put released on CD. This unsurprisingly made the cut. It wasn't until the last year or two (someone's top 50 - Debra's??) that I finally picked up a few Styx complete albums. Why the hell did I waste those 20 years!?!?!?
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Styx - The Grand Illusion
Throw this into the pile of songs I thought were totally awesome the first time I heard them. I don't even remember where I was when I first heard it, but I just remember hearing a bunch of Styx songs for the first time sometime in 1990, and The Grand Illusion was one of several that leaped out at me right away and made me an instant fan. For as much shit as Dennis DeYoung catches for wimping out in later years, he sure could write some great rocking tunes during their heyday.
Talk about a great opening song for an album and tour. This song absolutely rock!! :metal
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Van Halen - Dance the Night Away
The cool thing about this song is that it is catchy as hell and manages to be a kick ass rocker despite having no guitar solo. Let's face it, when you think Van Halen, you think guitar solos, right? But this is one of their classic early era tunes, and there is not a guitar solo to be found anywhere. Fun song. :coolio
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Still (Van Halen Does Not) turn me on....
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I think this was the song that made me realize that Van Halen has great vocals. Sure, everybody knew about David Lee Roth, but the background harmonies are sweet, and this is a good song.
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I always considered the little tapping interlude the guitar solo when playing (as it still shifted focus to the guitarist) but I do know what you mean..............great live video with the boys in top form (and some very bad synch on the guitar at 1.49)and an extended outro. Love Dave at 2.15 ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouymzr6azKo
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cool video! Van Halen II is an ass kicking disc and this song is very catchy.
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I just listened to this song yesterday (and the album). It's a nice laid back rock song, and I never even realized it had no guitar solo. It just goes to show that Eddie has never needed a solo to stand out. :tup
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Van Halen always had great backing vocals-Michael Anthony is so damned good at that-and this song probably has their best vocal melodies. Amazing rock song.
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listening to Van Halen II as I opened this thread. Sweet!
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love that song, and that live performance is great! Dem jumpsuits...
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The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider
This has long been my go-to song when I am in the mood for something by the Allman Brothers. It is not necessarily my favorite songs of theirs - it's hard to top the aforementioned and discussed Jessica - but it's short, catchy and packs a helluva punch. Great song, featuring a great acoustic lead and a fantastic electric guitar solo.
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I gotta be honest. I know there are at least two versions of this song (Gregg also released a solo version), and I can never tell which one I'm listening to when it comes on the radio since Gregg sings both of them. But one has a cool, rhythmic piano part under the verses, and one is more laid-back with mostly strumming guitars. I like the more rhythmic one better. I seem to think one of the versions has horns, too. Horns are always cool.
So anyway... good song. But I'm not sure if I like the version we're talking about here.
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I have the same problem. I am pretty sure the version I like is the original, but Gregg doing it too muddies the waters (especially since I think there are commercials that use this song and neither one uses the same version :lol)
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I really like anything Allman Bros and this song is no exception! :tup
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Loverboy - Turn Me Loose
Even though they didn't hit the scene till 1980, their early rockers definitely qualify as classic rock, and Turn Me Loose is the one song I remember being a mainstay on classic rock radio stations. Cracking good tune, too. I love the bass line that kicks the song off following the synth intro. Loverboy became known as an 80s band more than anything, but they sure could rock when they wanted to.
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I agree; they had some great, rocking songs. In the 80's, I was in a band that did four Loverboy songs. Fun stuff, since they were one of the bands that actually integrated keyboards and guitars into something interesting.
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Yep, some of those early tunes did a great job of having a guitar lead that played a sweet melody and carried the song. Stuff like Lucky Ones and The Kid Is Hot Tonite.
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Here in Canada they have an awesome commercial for a oil change place called Mr Lube with this song.
Go to youtube and type in "Mr Lube Turn Me Loose"
great song.
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I remember the old Loverboy videos think how cool is Matt Frenette?
My favorite Loverboy track was always Gangs In The Street.
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Great song! I always thought Loverboy was a great sing-a-long band and excellent for listening to while summer driving with the windows rolled down. My tastes have moved in a different direction over the years but the nostalgia of this song and When It's Over are fun to relive.
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Always quite liked this one.
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Very good song, listened to it earlier today, in fact. Great driving song!
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Count me in big time as a Loverboy fan and I love this song.
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When I was in junior high, my parents bought me and my brother our first boom box. The cassette that had the honors of being the first played in it: Loverboy's Get Lucky!
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Thank you Kev for reminding me that Loverboy's first album came out thirty four years ago. :censored :rollin
Great song. Loverboy didn't really take off here until Get Lucky came out, so my first exposure to this song was the video, which cuts out the guitar solo and made the actual album version sound odd for the longest time. First two Loverboy albums are amazing, they tapered off after that.
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But Jaq, did you get lucky while listening to "Get Lucky"? :lol
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Dude I was 15 when that album came out. :rollin
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So you didn't play it anytime after it came out? :lol
Barry White would never make money if people stopped getting it on after the newness wore off. :lol
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While I have stories about Styx and Europe and a lot of other rock bands, no, I never got lucky to Get Lucky.
I have a hell of a story to tell about ELO if I ever get the chance though :rollin
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Oh Kev..........
:lol
You know what I did hear today and I own it but haven't played it in a while was Supertramp, Crime Of The Century. Great tune.
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You know what I did hear today and I own it but haven't played it in a while was Supertramp, Crime Of The Century. Great tune.
For sure. Love, love, love the piano work in that song!
Thank you Kev for reminding me that Loverboy's first album came out thirty four years ago. :censored :rollin
Uh, you're welcome? :P
I have a hell of a story to tell about ELO if I ever get the chance though :rollin
PM me the song and I'll feature it next. :)
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It wasn't a classic rock hit, but trust me, I can make it work with about any ELO song. Just don't do it now, it'd be unseeemly. :lol
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Nem no likey this song. :dunno:
Great track though.
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It wasn't a classic rock hit, but trust me, I can make it work with about any ELO song. Just don't do it now, it'd be unseeemly. :lol
Hmmm, I've already featured three ELO songs in this thread, so where was this story before?! ;) :lol
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Buried in the depths of my mind. Buried in the depths of my mind. :lol
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-waits for story-
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Okay, I have to do it...
Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
Good song...I've always liked it...blah blah blah. Now give us the story, Jaq. :biggrin:
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:corn
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Great tune, great melody, now wait for great Jaq story. :lol
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Sigh.
You asked for it.
So I was a much younger Jaq. Younger and foolish and, let's face it, a virgin. Our default state, you know how it is. When I was in high school, I had three very close friends; my best friend, a friend of his from high school chorus, and a guy all three of us knew from various classes, who shared our nerdier interests of comic books and Dungeons and Dragons and whatnot. He had a sister a few years younger than us who would hang around and be irritating because she was his kid sister. Her name was Ann Marie.
Seasons change and time passes and we all got a little older and...Ann Marie hit her teens. And sprouted up into a tall, leggy, model attractive young lady. Who took a shine to me. Which annoyed my friend, because, you know, Sisters Are Off Limits. But Ann Marie made it abundantly clear to me that Sisters Weren't Off Limits. Oh, my. One Christmas break, I was hanging out over there, and she was asking me about bands I liked, and I said my interests went from Iron Maiden to ELO. Her eyes lit up but I didn't know why at the time. Anyway, her parents went out, leaving her, me, and her brother at home. She excused herself for a bit and went upstairs. Five minutes later she called "Jack, I need to ask you something!" I shrugged at her brother and went upstairs.
In her bedroom, I found her holding, of all things, a vinyl copy of the soundtrack to the movie Xanadu. Which, if you don't know, in the vinyl age, had one side devoted to the songs Olivia Newton John did, and one side devoted to the songs that ELO did. "So, you like ELO" she said. Younger Jack nodded as she closed her bedroom door and put the album on the ELO side. "Good, my brother won't hear us and you get music you like."
And that is how Jaq lost his virginity to the ELO side of the Xanadu soundtrack. :rollin
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:clap:
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I suppose the only time it's permissible to break the code is when you're gettin your cherry popped.
Did her bro ever find out, and get his obligatory head-or-gut shot in on ya?
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A couple years later he tried that.
My best friend decked him. :lol
We were all massively drunk, though. My best friend decked him because he waited two years and sucker punched me, and was six foot four and 220 pounds where I was five foot nine and 150 pounds at the time. My best friend is only 5'10" but he's always been built like a brick outhouse :lol
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*golf clap*
Was that a one-time only thing with the sister?
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It came back a couple of more times before she moved away.
It dawns on me that I mentioned her before in a thread: she was the leggy girl whose highlight of cleverness was that night, and went downhill from there, who had the license plate OYOYOY that was supposed to be read "oh why oh why oh why" and everyone read as OI OI OI. :lol
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A couple years later he tried that.
My best friend decked him. :lol
We were all massively drunk, though. My best friend decked him because he waited two years and sucker punched me, and was six foot four and 220 pounds where I was five foot nine and 150 pounds at the time. My best friend is only 5'10" but he's always been built like a brick outhouse :lol
Yeah, that's a douche move to pull. The statute of limitations on payback expires about 30 seconds after the first time he's in your presence after finding out.
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Yeah, that's pretty weak.
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Probably worth it, though. You know, the hot sister.
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Very true.
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Like Loverboy, Pat Benatar usually gets thought of as an 80s artist, but she also rocked pretty good early on and spun out a few classic rock staples. Heartbreaker is one of those songs. It never really did a lot for me, although I don't dislike it or anything; the hook is obvious and very catchy. It just doesn't do much for me.
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The best thing about Pat, even to this day, is attitude. I like the song when it shows up on the radio but wouldn't go out of my way to hear it. When I saw Pat and Spyder last summer they mixed in a few minutes of Led Zeppelin Heartbreaker in the middle of this song which was pretty fun.
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That same 80's band I was in for a while had a girl singer for a while who could singer Benatar and even looked quite a bit like her. Petite, short haircut, sassy attitude. She was actually a primo bitch to work with, but man she could sing. Anyway, we did a bunch of Benatar, including this one. Fun stuff, high energy.
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Can't think of, or hear, this song without thinking of George Steinbrenner singing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcZ9THPX1E
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Can't think of, or hear, this song without thinking of George Steinbrenner singing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcZ9THPX1E
Yup, Seinfeld comes to mind immediately for me too
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Very true.
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Like Loverboy, Pat Benatar usually gets thought of as an 80s artist, but she also rocked pretty good early on and spun out a few classic rock staples. Heartbreaker is one of those songs. It never really did a lot for me, although I don't dislike it or anything; the hook is obvious and very catchy. It just doesn't do much for me.
When I want my straightforward hard rockin' playlist this always makes the cut. Her voice is so good live, it's criminal.
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Aerosmith - Walk This Way
I don't remember the first time I heard this song, but I know it was at least a year or two after hearing the remake with Run-D.M.C.. Kind of funny that I had to get used to the original, since I was used to how it sounded in the newer version. :lol But it's an obvious classic and a good rocking tune. I also like the fact that they thought of the title for the song because of Igor's "walk this way" line in Young Frankenstein. :coolio
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I'm pretty sure I heard the Run DMC version first too. I was always a bit of a casual fan of Aerosmith but I saw them live (twice) last year and am a bit more of a convert now. Tyler's well into his 60's and I think it was some of the best live singing I've seen.
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Damn you guys, making me feel old again!
I of course grew up with the original version, which I never even thought of as rap at the time, because rap, at least in my white-boy, middle-class world, did not exist yet. When the Run-DMC version came out, I thought "What the fuck is this? They've taken an Aerosmith song and turned it into a rap song. Wait a minute..."
I still don't like it though (edit: the Run-DMC version, that is). To my ears, ghetto rap has a harsh arrogance about it that I just don't like. Steven Tyler's original rendition has arrogance as well, but it's more of swagger, bragging about some cool shit he did back in high school. Run-DMC's version sounds more like "Listen the fuck up! This is what fucking went down, 'kay homey?" Also, Steven Tyler's voice was already blown by time he and Joe Perry recorded their parts. He already had over a dozen years of screaming "Walk This Way" and "Dream On" behind him, and his voice has never been the same.
The original, however, is a classic. One of the only rap songs I actually like.
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I too was first exposed to this track via the Run DMC mashup. Dug it then, and it took a few years until I finally migrated out of pop/radio friendly music to real rock. Not a huge Aerosmith fan (at least their 70s stuff)... have Perm Vaca, Pump and Get a Grip. Three solid albums. I do have Pandora's box, and go to it every couple of years.
Not their best 'known' song, but still enjoyable.
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Damn you guys, making me feel old again!
Talk about!
Due to my obsession with Aerosmith (album) and Get Your Wings I was a first day purchaser of Toys In The Attic so I was already intimately familiar with the song by the time it was released to radio. I remember telling the other kids on the middle-school bus when it was being played over the radio (yes our driver was that cool) to wait until 10 Inch Record was released. Rocks is my favorite Aerosmith album but TITA is a close second largely because of this song! It's still fun to try and sing along with. :lol
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Yeah, Rocks is pretty heavy-duty stuff, probably the closest they've come to straight-on Rock and Roll. Most Aerosmith is a blend of blues and old-school R&B, with a heavy beat. This is of course what ultimately evolved into Rock and Roll, but with Aerosmith, you can usually feel the R&B influence a lot more.
Your story reminded me of a story of my own (yes kids, this is what happens when fogeys get together -- deal with it).
In our junior high yearbook, in the back, you could purchase "dedications" to fellow classmates. This helped fund the yearbooks themselves and was a fun way to add something personal. Most people shouted out to their best friends, quoted song lyrics, etc. One of the "popular" guys sent a dedication to a somewhat less-liked classmate: "Suck on my big 10 inch." I couldn't believe that the yearbook adviser allowed it, but I'm sure the kid defended it by saying it was song lyrics, and they'd forgotten to stipulate that inappropriate dedications wouldn't be allowed. So for $10 (or whatever it was), there it was for all eternity.
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The somewhat less-liked classmate should have responded with a quote from AC/DC's Big Balls: "It's my belief that my big balls should be held every night."
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That would've been cool, but the brilliance (such as it was) of the original play was that there was no opportunity for retaliation. The yearbooks were published and handed out, and there it was. It was brutal, a dick move by a popular guy who I never liked, but I had to admire it just the same.
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I likes both versions just fine, and Heartbreaker is probably my favorite Pat Benatar song
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Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock and Roll
We were lucky in St. Louis, as this was a solo Ozzy song that got played a ton on the radio, as opposed to just the first two songs from Diary of a Madman (both of which are probably more well-known). A definite classic, it is definitely a standout tracks in regards to Randy Rhoads' guitar-playing, since we get lots of both electric and classical guitar. Great tune.
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This is actually my favorite song of Diary of a Madman which probably makes me a bit of a heretic. I love all of it, the mood, the playing the vocals and that Rhoads solo in the middle is just :omg:
Oh, and for years I misheard the lyric, "And they don't really know even what they are talking about." as "And they don't even know even what they are talking about." That used to drive me crazy and then I found it was my poor comprehension! :lol
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This is actually my favorite song of Diary of a Madman which probably makes me a bit of a heretic.
I reckon it'd be mine too along with S.A.T.O.
Randy :hefdaddy
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Great choice Kev! Awesome tune. Awesome album.
Randy :hefdaddy
YES!!
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Aerosmith - Walk This Way
I don't remember the first time I heard this song, but I know it was at least a year or two after hearing the remake with Run-D.M.C.. Kind of funny that I had to get used to the original, since I was used to how it sounded in the newer version. :lol But it's an obvious classic and a good rocking tune. I also like the fact that they thought of the title for the song because of Igor's "walk this way" line in Young Frankenstein. :coolio
Great tune that was so damn overplayed I can never listen to it.
Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock and Roll
We were lucky in St. Louis, as this was a solo Ozzy song that got played a ton on the radio, as opposed to just the first two songs from Diary of a Madman (both of which are probably more well-known). A definite classic, it is definitely a standout tracks in regards to Randy Rhoads' guitar-playing, since we get lots of both electric and classical guitar. Great tune.
The whole album is awesome and this song is killer. When the heavy guitar part comes in, I want to headbang but I have no more hair to do so. :lol
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Great choice Kev! Awesome tune. Awesome album.
Randy :hefdaddy
YES!!
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Great song off a great album. I love the way the chorus kicks in. :metal
This is actually my favorite song of Diary of a Madman which probably makes me a bit of a heretic.
I reckon it'd be mine too along with S.A.T.O.
Randy :hefdaddy
I'd probably have to go with one of the first 2 tracks (Over the Mountain, Flying High Again), but the Rhoads albums are so consistent, there's really no wrong answer. :hat
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I figured this would be a popular choice. Good to see I was right. :coolio
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I'd probably have to go with one of the first 2 tracks (Over the Mountain, Flying High Again), but the Rhoads albums are so consistent, there's really no wrong answer. :hat
In 1981 I'd have been right there with you, but we overplayed those two songs so much that my brain automatically shuts my ears off when they play. Especially Flying High Again. Ug, my buddy probably played that song five times per day for a decade. Then he backed down to only a few times per day.
Actually, I never see him anymore and I think that's why. I don't really even miss him. Hmmmm...
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I'd probably have to go with one of the first 2 tracks (Over the Mountain, Flying High Again), but the Rhoads albums are so consistent, there's really no wrong answer. :hat
In 1981 I'd have been right there with you, but we overplayed those two songs so much that my brain automatically shuts my ears off when they play. Especially Flying High Again. Ug, my buddy probably played that song five times per day for a decade. Then he backed down to only a few times per day.
Actually, I never see him anymore and I think that's why. I don't really even miss him. Hmmmm...
:lol Luckily I'm quite resistant to overplaying music if it's that good. Then again, 5 times a day for a decade might eventually get a *tad* grating.......
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My favorite off Diary is easily the title track.
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Flying High Again is good, but KSHE played the shit out of that back in the day when I used to actually listen to the radio, so I, too, am sick to death of that song.
But, for my money, Diary of a Madman is better than Bizzard of Ozz. While Blizzard is more top-heavy, Diary doesn't have anything as nauseating as Goodbye to Romance or as skippable as No Bone Movies or Steal Away the Night.
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You Can't Kill Rock And Roll only saw airplay in these parts when Diary was out. Haven't heard it on the radio for years. I prefer Blizzard because it has the higher highs, but Diary is far more consistent over all.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
CCR has better songs, and definitely songs I like more, but this chorus is one of those that is impossible for me to not sing along to. Probably because of the way he sings the main line each time, seemingly changing the word to emphasize the most every time. Sometimes, he holds "ever," sometimes he holds "seen," and sometimes he holds "rain." Something really cool about that.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
CCR has better songs, and definitely songs I like more, but this chorus is one of those that is impossible for me to not sing along to. Probably because of the way he sings the main line each time, seemingly changing the word to emphasize the most every time. Sometimes, he holds "ever," sometimes he holds "seen," and sometimes he holds "rain." Something really cool about that.
This is just one of those songs I gotta blast when it comes on the radio
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Flying High Again is good, but KSHE played the shit out of that back in the day when I used to actually listen to the radio, so I, too, am sick to death of that song.
But, for my money, Diary of a Madman is better than Bizzard of Ozz. While Blizzard is more top-heavy, Diary doesn't have anything as nauseating as Goodbye to Romance or as skippable as No Bone Movies or Steal Away the Night.
Dude! My cover band in the 80's played that song. I loved it!
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
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I really love CCR but this song has never done it for me. The things you mention about the chorus is pretty cool though!
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Most CCR and Fogerty is pretty good. They are all pretty much the same so the quality is usually there.
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Whoa, a song I know! :D
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CCR is a good band, but not a band that I would explore past the radio hits.
Good chorus on this one.
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CCR is a good band, but not a band that I would explore past the radio hits.
Good chorus on this one.
I'm a bit the same - never gone past the obvious ones. I do like Fogerty's (distinctive) voice though so perhaps I should investigate a bit more.
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IMHO so many great memorable rock tunes were written by Mr. John Fogerty. Have You Ever Seen (na) Rain is a classic and one of my favorites of CCR's. By the time the organ bursts through in the second chorus I'm tapping my foot & singing along, too. Great pick Shmev.
BTW, the last band I was in 20 some odd years ago covered Green River. We blues it up a bit with an extended harmonica solo outro. I played the guitar fills slightly distorted to give it a little edge.
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A great and defining band of the genre. Like some others though I haven't looked past the best-of compilation I have, despite liking all but one or two songs out of the 34 on the two discs. I've considered checking out their albums but it's never been a priority, likely due to not listening to them all that much anymore.
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I'm not really into CCR, but I really like this song. Being the nerd I am, it always reminds me of the Stargate episode Unending, where it was used in a montage scene. Of course I knew the song before that, but I never really got into it until then. :blob:
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Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
While not as rocking as your average 70s classic rock tune, this is still a mainstay on many classic rock stations. Helluva good song, and that guitar solo is nothing short of mind-blowing. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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"Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the CAR!"
These guys are incredible musicians and songwriters, infusing a tasteful and healthy dose of Jazz elements into their rock compositions. Kid Charlemagne is just one sampling in a long line of awesome songs from this band.
Steely Dan is one of tightest musical groups I've had the privilege to see live (and I've been going to concerts since the 1970's!). Check out this version of the aforementioned classic:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylr2D4Pwn58
Our band in the '80's included these SD tunes in our repertoire:
My Old School (The guitar fills & solo in this tune are lots of fun to play!)
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
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Awesome song, though I don't know if I've ever been lucky enough to hear it on the radio. There's no other classic rock outfit quite like Steely Dan.
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This was the first song I heard on the radio with overt references to dealing. And by overt, of course I mean covert, but I got them immediately. And by dealing, of course I mean dealing. Ah, the good old days. I laughed much the first time I heard this song, and I still chuckle a bit every time. Yes, there's gas in the car, but it's what they're talking about right before that that gets me.
Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test tubes and the scale
Just get them all out of here
Is there gas in the car
Yes, there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall
Know who you are
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I really need to check out some Steely Dan - I quite liked that song. I can't say the vocal did much for me but the music is very rich and has bits and pieces in common with old bands I do like , such as Chicago.
I can't remember ever hearing them on Aussie radio and up to this point the only reason I even know of their existence is due to stints in the band by a couple of my favourite artists (Jeff Porcaro and Michael McDonald)
edit : actually I lied..................Rikki Don't Lose That Number got plenty of air play. I just never really knew who it was when I heard it.
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Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
While not as rocking as your average 70s classic rock tune, this is still a mainstay on many classic rock stations. Helluva good song, and that guitar solo is nothing short of mind-blowing. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
Had the privilege to hear this song live and is was the best sounding concert I ever heard.
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I can imagine. I've always heard that Steely Dan puts a lot of care into their shows sounding good (as opposed to just cranking the volume up to the max, like so many bands seemingly do).
Orbert, I had never paid attention to the lyrics enough to know that this song is about. Funny.
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It wasn't loud at all but so crystal clear with great separation of instruments. P refection really.
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I've seen several concerts similar in that regard, where every instrument was crystal clear. The ones that come to mind are Steven Wilson, Radiohead, and Wilco.
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Quite the coincidence. Friday afternoon, Mrs. P and I were in the car driving to the grocery store and Kid Charlemagne was on the radio. I was singing along to it and she asked, "Who is this again?" When I told her it was Steely Dan she emphatically said that we need to add their music to our CD collection for the house wide sound system (I've got most of their early albums on vinyl but I'm too lazy to digitize them). That evening I jumped on Amazon and ordered their entire '70s output, 7 CD's for $48.00 including freight (gotta love Amazon prime). Their box set with the same music is $59.00 so I'm feeling pretty good about the purchase.
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Steely Dan is great stuff. Mostly chill, but with a bit of bite.
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Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
I'm not sure I'd call myself a fan of this song, but I've always been entertained by how blatant the drug references are. Ah, the 70s were so grand, weren't they? :lol :lol
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Next.
Can't stand the Dead.
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I've loved trains since I was a little boy, and grew up with the story of Casey Jones and other railroad stories. I've always had a little trouble with this song because of the blatant drug references, and the suggestion that a Real American Hero like Casey Jones was high and that's what caused the accident. I know, it's just a song, but I actually found it a bit offensive.
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I've seen several concerts similar in that regard, where every instrument was crystal clear. The ones that come to mind are Steven Wilson, Radiohead, and Wilco.
Steven Wilson and Pink Floyd for me.
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I love, love this song, love it. I could listen to this on repeat all day long. I have absolutely no idea why.
I could not name one other GD song.
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Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
I'm not sure I'd call myself a fan of this song, but I've always been entertained by how blatant the drug references are. Ah, the 70s were so grand, weren't they? :lol :lol
Never been a Dead fan. The only song I really like is Touch Of Gray.
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Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
I'm not sure I'd call myself a fan of this song, but I've always been entertained by how blatant the drug references are. Ah, the 70s were so grand, weren't they? :lol :lol
Never been a Dead fan. The only song I really like is Touch Of Gray.
I'm not a fan either, but I do like exactly 5 Dead hits: Casey Jones, Touch of Gray, Friend of the Devil, Truckin and Uncle John's Band. When I was in my '20's I picked up Skeletons from the Closet to see if I could become a fan.....but it never happened!
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Also not a fan of 'the dead', yet their concerts were not to be missed if for no other reason than to party with their fans. Man, those were some great times. :lol
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I'm not a huge dead fan, but I like some of their stuff. I never went to one of their concerts, but I've seen The Grateful Dead Movie and some other clips, and they're amazing. On stage is where they really shine.
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Alice Cooper - Eighteen
While not much of a fan of his, I do enjoy this song quite a bit. Of the handful of songs of his that got any kind of regular airplay on classic rock radio, this is the one that stood out to be the most. It has a dirty edge to it that makes it more appealing than the others.
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I find a lot of Coopers 70s material to be hit or miss, but this is a great one.
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I never got in to AC for whatever reason, but loved this song before I really knew anything about him. A great, concise song that still rocks today.
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Good song. Some Alice Cooper works for me, some does not.
I think this particular song means something different to actual 18-year-olds than it does to guys who are older. 18 is a time of a lot of confusion, coupled with newfound abilities and responsibilities (which add to the confusion), so what he's saying in the song is true, but most of us don't really understand it until we're older and have the benefit of perspective. Personally, I didn't like 18, but in retrospect it was a pretty awesome time.
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I'm a bit the same as a few above - I find AC quite hit and miss but this was a good song. Sorry to nitpick but I think it's called "I'm Eighteen."
As a tribute to TAC and in order to keep things flowing I'd like to suggest Winger: Seventeen for the next song :neverusethis:
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Yea, when it came to Alice Cooper I was more of a Halo of Flies sort of fan. I'm Eighteen never did it for me (to put it nicely).
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I'm a bit the same as a few above - I find AC quite hit and miss but this was a good song. Sorry to nitpick but I think it's called "I'm Eighteen."
As a tribute to TAC and in order to keep things flowing I'd like to suggest Winger: Seventeen for the next song :neverusethis:
I think TAC just felt a disturbance in the force right now.
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Looks like the song is called I'm Eighteen, although when it was released a single, it was just called Eighteen. So, it can work either way. :biggrin:
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze
This has always been one of the two or three Skynyrd songs I've enjoyed the most. The fantastic piano solo in the middle is probably a big reason why. It sounds like it would be fun as hell to play that section. :hat
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The only Skynyrd I have is the Gold/Platinum greatest hits double CD. This song did not make it. I know the song, and wouldn't change the radio if it was on, but haven't heard it in a long time.
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Looks like the song is called I'm Eighteen, although when it was released a single, it was just called Eighteen. So, it can work either way. :biggrin:
It's obvious (to me anyway) that you've taken great care to get the names of the songs correct, including exact wording, spelling, and sometimes even punctuation, and I've been impressed thus far. I thought the name of the song was "Eighteen" also, and was surprised to double check and see that on the album, it's "I'm Eighteen". I think some sneaky person must've changed it.
Strange times we live in.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze
This has always been one of the two or three Skynyrd songs I've enjoyed the most. The fantastic piano solo in the middle is probably a big reason why. It sounds like it would be fun as hell to play that section. :hat
Fun song. I should learn that piano solo because yeah, it's pretty cool.
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Love me some Skynyrd! I can honestly say that I've enjoyed every song I've ever heard from them and Call Me the Breeze is no exception.
Why don't I own any of their albums again? :)
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Looks like the song is called I'm Eighteen, although when it was released a single, it was just called Eighteen. So, it can work either way. :biggrin:
It's obvious (to me anyway) that you've taken great care to get the names of the songs correct, including exact wording, spelling, and sometimes even punctuation, and I've been impressed thus far. I thought the name of the song was "Eighteen" also, and was surprised to double check and see that on the album, it's "I'm Eighteen". I think some sneaky person must've changed it.
Strange times we live in.
Thanks, I appreciate that! Really, that's the grammar and spelling nazi in me that makes me do it. :lol
I should learn that piano solo because yeah, it's pretty cool.
I have a hard time thinking of many rock piano solos that are better. Sure, a lot of prog guys can play more dazzling solos from a technical standpoint, but as far as fun solos that sound great, they don't get much better than this one.
Love me some Skynyrd! I can honestly say that I've enjoyed every song I've ever heard from them and Call Me the Breeze is no exception.
Why don't I own any of their albums again? :)
Honestly, to me, Skynyrd is one of those bands where it is best to spend 10-15 bucks at amazon or iTunes just buying their best songs individually.
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Call Me the Breeze has a great catchy groove, and such a positive vibe for being so bluesy. I never tire of listening to this "feel good" song. Yes, it has some great piano, as well as neat horns.
Skynyrd pumped out their first 5 albums in consecutive years starting in 1973, then they were dealt a horrible tragedy. IMO, some of their best tracks on these albums were not the radio hits. Skynyrd is my favorite group from the Southern Rock genre. They had lots of soul and were pretty darned good musicians.
Nice pick, Kev. And great job with this thread; I'm liking it. :tup
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Thanks! I am doing my best. :)
The Guess Who - American Woman
This is one of those songs that every classic rock fan knows like the back of their hand, but it seems to be a song no one ever talks about anymore. It kind of gets the "yeah, I know that song" treatment. I remember hearing it at a very young age, probably because my parents liked The Guess Who a lot, so by the time I went through my classic rock discovery phase in 1989 and 1990, I already knew it pretty well.
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Like you say, as familiar as the back of my hand. My brother bought The Best of The Guess Who in the very early '70s and wore out the grooves of side one. Since we shared a bedroom I had These Eyes, Laughing, Undun, No Time, American Woman, and No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature all imprinted onto my DNA. My children automatically sing along with these songs if I just simply hum the chorus.
Still, I like American Woman even when it's being performed by Lenny K. (especially the video).
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Yeah, I was going through my Guess Who songs on iTunes last night, and I had totally forgot about some of those songs. They definitely have not been featured in this thread for the last time!
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The Guess Who have a lot of really good songs, but somehow I've never pursued them. No albums, not even a greatest hits thing. Basically, by the time I was buying music, I was already into prog, so I have very little straight pop in my collection.
Years later, I heard a radio interview with Burton Cummings and he touched on the breakup of The Guess Who. He talked about how the band was actually starting to get into more complex music. That's the direction they wanted to go. He told a story about how they were doing a song one time that had a 9/8 section, and it just hit him that he didn't want to have to count while he's trying to sing. Songs should be in 4/4, maybe 3/4, but sure as hell not 9/8.
Okay, that's one attitude, and I understand it even if I don't agree. If you're a pop singer with no prog leanings whatsoever, you're not going to want to sing in 9/8 and have to count it out just to know when to sing your part.
The full-length version of "American Woman" has that acoustic shuffle part before the main song starts, which is kinda cool even if it doesn't really add anything. The long version of "No Time" has a few more breaks and solos. "No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature" is very clever in how the two songs fit together. I see these all now as examples that The Guess Who were really shooting for something more than basic pop songs. Maybe someday I'll buy a Guess Who album.
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American Woman, fun tune. I always laugh at the end of the song with the vocals, drawn-out lower pitch:
Gonna look you right in the eye...tell you what I'm gonna do:
You know I'm gonna LEEEEEEEAVE!
You know I'm gonna GOOOOOOOO! :lol
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David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Somehow, I never heard this song until the mid 2000s, or maybe it's that I never paid attention to it until then, cause it was played on the radio here in St. Louis, as the one year KSHE did an A-Z week where they played every song in their rotation in alphabetical order of the titles, and Ziggy Stardust was the last song played. Anyway, great, fun song; love the vocal melodies, and the guitar melody is lots of fun, too.
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I like the song, and I have a soft spot for songs that tell a story, but I've never understood the massive adoration some people have for it. Yes, it's a great song, but calm down, it's just a song.
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I couldn't recall anything about this song so I fired it up on Youtube. The opening riff sorta rang a bell but the rest of the song I was unfamiliar with. Yeah...not my thing I guess.
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Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
This had to be featured at some point, so, I figured, why not now? To a lot of people, this song is overplayed and overrated, but while it might be overplayed, I cannot call it overrated. While I might not call it the best rock song ever like a lot of people do, it still is totally awesome in just about every way possible. Sure, the guitar intro sounds a lot like the song Taurus by Spirit (a band LZ had toured with in the late 60s), but if we hold ripping someone off against Zeppelin, we'd have to demote a lot of their songs. :lol :lol
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This is one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. I agree, it cannot be overrated. It is a perfectly constructed song.
With each verse and refrain, there are subtle changes, additions and subtractions. The Mellotron which initially was the only instrument you heard besides the acoustic guitar and which provides countermelody to the first verse, eventually drops out. Electric guitar isn't added until the first refrain. There is no bass at first, but piano instead provides the bass and fills. Bass and drums come in halfway through the verses. Everything leading up to the guitar solo is a slow buildup, changing, building strength and rhythm, getting louder. It's the foreplay.
The guitar solo of course is where things kick into high gear. The heavy thrusting. Foreplay is over; we're breaking some sweat now, baby. The bed is rocking.
When the vocals come back ("And as we wind on down the road...") it's something new and we're still building. Both parties are now screaming, the neighbors are complaining.
"...And she's buying a stairway to heaven." The catharsis, the afterglow.
This song is sex set to music.
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awesome
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Heard this on the radio the other day. My first inclination was to change the channel as I've heard this song a billion times, but I caught myself and decided to listen to it. Was reminded how brilliant it really is.
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This is one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. I agree, it cannot be overrated. It is a perfectly constructed song.
With each verse and refrain, there are subtle changes, additions and subtractions. The Mellotron which initially was the only instrument you heard besides the acoustic guitar and which provides countermelody to the first verse, eventually drops out. Electric guitar isn't added until the first refrain. There is no bass at first, but piano instead provides the bass and fills. Bass and drums come in halfway through the verses. Everything leading up to the guitar solo is a slow buildup, changing, building strength and rhythm, getting louder. It's the foreplay.
The guitar solo of course is where things kick into high gear. The heavy thrusting. Foreplay is over; we're breaking some sweat now, baby. The bed is rocking.
When the vocals come back ("And as we wind on down the road...") it's something new and we're still building. Both parties are now screaming, the neighbors are complaining.
"...And she's buying a stairway to heaven." The catharsis, the afterglow.
This song is sex set to music.
:hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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Bob did it justice.
Chris aptly described it as well. No matter how many times it's been played (and ended every elementary school dance I ever attended), I will never tire of it. It's absolutely flawless.
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Quite simply the greatest Rock and Roll song ever. PERIOD.
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Not a fan of Zep in general but love this song. Never released as a single either .
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Not a fan of Zep in general but love this song. Never released as a single either .
Pretty sure that 45s were made to handle 8 minute songs.
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Not a fan of Zep in general but love this song. Never released as a single either .
Pretty sure that 45s were made to handle 8 minute songs.
There were fakes around that's for sure. My understanding is that promo singles were sent to radio stations but it was never released to the general public as a single and therefore never officially charted as such.
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It's good to see support this amazing song. It is overplayed, which is never a good thing, and I'll admit that I used to consider it overrated. Then I seriously sat down to learn the song, and realized how well constructed it is. The production is great, and the arrangement is amazing. It's actually a great song to play on keyboards. If anything, I feel a little sorry for the guitarist, who has to keep up the tension for several minutes while basically doing the same thing over and over. In a live setting, you usually can't add a second and third guitar along the way, but with keys, I can do the whole song justice.
My wife is one of those who listens to songs and basically only cares about the words and vocals. She considers this an okay song, but a bit "boring and repetitive". But she considers a lot my music boring and repetitive, and that blows my mind, considering some of the stuff she listens to. If she says a song is repetitive, I tell her to listen to parts that aren't repeating. How the guitar is soloing underneath the whole time, or how the keyboards come in the partway through and help with the buildup, or how the bass and drum fills are all over the place, etc. She doesn't care. The "song" is boring if the words and/or vocals don't do anything amazing. Sometimes that's not the point.
My comparison to sex hit me just today when I thought about how the song builds slowly for so long, then kicks into high gear, and then again, and then actually has a catharsis. It's actually a valid comparison IMO. Most songs don't do that; you get a couple verses, a solo, then another verse or chorus. This song is a journey, an experience, and it goes through a natural progression.
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Excellent posts, Orbert! Stairway to Heaven is indeed an awesome song among LZ greats. I can honestly say I've never heard the analogy to sex, but I think it's fitting.
Also a bit of sympathetic affirmation for you, my wife thinks all the music I listen to sounds the same as well. In fact quite often I hear my better half say, "Can't we listen to something different? Who is this....Dream Theater, Neal Morse, Porcupine Tree, The Flower Queens (as she refers to them), or the Whiny Dogs (ditto)?"
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Was way overplayed but because I've stayed away from it for a long, long time it sound so fresh to me. A masterpiece.
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Ziggy is my favorite Bowie song. Stairway is in my top 5 Led Zep songs
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A truly marvelous achievement in rock both compositionally and production wise. I really can't put it any better than Orbert did so I won't try.
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Eagles - Seven Bridges Road
This live cover is a vocal masterpiece. It is no secret how awesome the Eagles harmonies were, and there is no finer example of that than this song. This was actually one of the first songs I heard by the Eagles, and I loved it immediately.
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So much awesomeness packed into 3 little minutes. One of my most favorite Eagles tunes.
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The opening harmony is pure gold.
BTW Kev did you see the documentary, "The History Of The Eagles"? And if not, get it right away.
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I'm not a huge Eagles fan, but they have some great songs, and some great harmonies. This is a good example of both.
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This song is great. I can't imagine what it must have been like for the Eagles to sit back and listen to this after just having recorded it. They had to be amazed themselves!
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Hotel California is one of the few memories I have of radio in my preppy school years , that and Stairway to Heaven - it was at saturation point. Aside from a few other hits I've never really got into The Eagles as much as (I think) I should've. As part of my quest to work my way back to classic bands that I ignored as a kid I've recently got The Complete Greatest Hits (33 tracks on 2 CDs) so I should have a good idea after that on whether I need to explore even further.
I quite like the track featured above too.
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BTW Kev did you see the documentary, "The History Of The Eagles"? And if not, get it right away.
No, but honestly, I don't like them that much to buy that. It's probably something I'd watch once and never again, and I am trying to be a bit more selective with what DVDs/Blu-rays I buy now (since I don't wanna own a million of them :lol).
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It's been on TV a bunch of times. I found it interesting enough to watch once.
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Late to the party, but an excellent fact about Stairway - the solo is obviously revered as one of rock's greatest. I read an interview with Page in an old guitar magazine who said that when recording it, he basically went in and winged three solos. Agonised over which one to use and went with the one we hear today.
Wow.
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I remember reading that, too. And while that sounds pretty mind-blowing to us mere mortals, I have think that that's pretty much how it's done anyway. Record a solo. Record a different solo. After numerous takes, figure out which one should go on the album.
The difference is that this guitar solo is iconic, so well known that most of us can and do sing along with it, or at least air guitar the whole thing. Heck, Zappa's band (The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life) covered this song and the horn section played the solo, it's that melodic. Frank just played the descant line on the guitar. So we imagine that each of Jimmy's three takes were similar. I'd like to hear the other two. Maybe someday, alternate versions of the song will be released with the other takes.
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Right, it's fairly standard recording MO, but as you said, this one is just so iconic, you just have to imagine that every note was carefully selected and the whole thing was hand-crafted over weeks. then to find that he just winged it? Amazing.
Of note, when my band does "Mary Jane's Last Dance", I play the Stairway solo over the outro. It works really well. :lol
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Now that would be cool to hear. Does anyone ever comment on that?
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It's pretty cool, because it works great. Only difference being that every time Page hits that low F note on the A string, I change it to the E instead, so it won't sound as out of place. To be honest, I'm not sure if anybody ever even notices, which is kinda sad.
One night though, my drummer decides he's gonna see if the rest of us have the balls to take it all the way and started working that off-accented beat (on the F chord in STH) into the rhythm. So once I got to the end of the solo, we naturally took it the next step and played out the post solo section of Stairway. It was pretty f*cking magical.
It's always cool throwing unexpected things like that in. On "I Wanna Be Sedated", there's that empty section just before the key change to F#. Well, may as well put something there. Like the Flintstones theme. Or in "She Hates Me" by Puddle of Mudd, there's a solo section that's exactly the same length as the solo to Def Lep's "Photograph". So in it goes. Helps keep it intersting for me. :lol
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That's the kind of cool thing you can do with a bar band. I live for those magical, unscripted moments.
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It is. Those moments ARE the best. Edited my post to illustrate other examples. One night we, completely off the cuff, intermingled Mary Jane's Last Dance and Dani California (Chili Peppers) into one another, since the chord progressions are exactly the same. So cool to pull that kinda stuff off without even rehearsing it. :metal
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That's pretty cool. And since we now have Tom Petty on the brain...
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't Do Me Like That
His songs can sometimes be hit or miss for me, but this is one I enjoy quite a bit. It's catchy, and packs a good punch for being such a short song.
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Yeah, short and sweet
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Catchy and has a great hook to it. Tom Petty live is a great show. Mike Campbell lets loose live and can really tear it up on the guitar though you never hear that in the studio.
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I love "Runnin' Down a Dream". Is that Campbell on guitar? You're right, though, we usually don't get to hear him wail.
In general, I like Tom Petty's upbeat songs (with or without The Heartbreakers) and his mellower ones don't work so well for me. This song, being uptempo, rocks out pretty good.
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I hate this song, but not because of the song but because of my first wife. It was her favorite TPatHB song and would often refer to it as "our song." Yeah, she wasn't too bright. Anyway, she left me and our two kids just to shack up with another man...so, she did me like that. :lol
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I love "Runnin' Down a Dream". Is that Campbell on guitar? You're right, though, we usually don't get to hear him wail.
In general, I like Tom Petty's upbeat songs (with or without The Heartbreakers) and his mellower ones don't work so well for me. This song, being uptempo, rocks out pretty good.
The two constants For Petty, solo or The Heartbreakers is Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench the keyboard player.
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So there's not actually that much difference between The Heartbreakers and the band on his solo albums? Oh well, I'm sure the hardcore fans will make the distinction. As a casual fan, I lump it all together.
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I do too. I saw Petty twice and once with Jackson Browne and let me tell you what a great, non stop hit parade it was. Favorite live tune watching Petty was It's Good To Be King. The outro and the ripping guitar solo is unreal live.
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Obviously Tom Petty wasn't my thing, but I knew plenty of people who saw him back in the day, and they swore he was great live.
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My brother and I saw him once, early in the 2000s, and it was a good show, but there were two couples in front of us who wouldn't stop blathering during the whole concert, so that sapped much of the enjoyment from it.
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I saw him live and it was an awesome show.
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I never saw him live, but he did turn out a lot of great songs. I think my favorite might be American Girl.
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Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
One of the many known hits from Rumours. I like this song, and I have a special fondness for the live version from The Dance, as Lindsey Buckingham wails away at the end with a killer guitar solo. But the original is obviously good, too. And the lyrics are notable for being about the break-up between Buckingham and Steve Nicks. Of note, too, is that Nicks wanted Buckingham to remove the line, "Packing up, shacking up's all you wanna do," but Buckingham refused.
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Rumors is the only album I own and I really like that track. I had tickets to my first FM concert only a few months back but it was cancelled due to John Mcvie's illness. Apparently he's back on track with his health now and they're touring again.
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The guitar solo at the end is what makes the song for me. Up until that point, yeah it's a good song, but I'm not a huge Mac fan.
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Great tune. One of my faves from FM. Love how the rhythm section is on a totally different page than the melodies during the verses. So many tiny little nuances that make this a fantastic song.
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The thing I always noted about this song was the emotion in LB's voice. This was made abundantly more clear in the isolated vocals thread I started, where I posted the vocal track from this song. Especially in the chorus, you can feel the emotion. You can hear in his voice that he's angry at Stevie Nicks. It's pretty amazing. Oh to have been a fly on the wall for those recording sessions. That HAD to be tense.
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The passion in this song is unreal. To have 2 couples breaking up and to pour your heartache into the music made this song and this album a top 10 album for me of all time.
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Three Dog Night - Joy to the World
Is there anyone who doesn't sing the first line of this song at full volume every time they hear it? If so, stand up and be counted. :lol
Good, classic song. :coolio
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Go Your Own Way is probably my favorite FM song or easily top 5
Yeah, I belt out Jeremiah was a bullfrog and I am not ashamed about it
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Great song, great band, great harmonies. Nothin' but love for this one.
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I agree completely with the last 3 posts.
The passion in this song is unreal.
Agreed!
Rumours and FM's preceding album are outstanding classics. And as for Three Dog Night, who can resist singing along to Shambala as well. I'm unashamed to admit I do!
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Three Dog Night - Joy to the World
Is there anyone who doesn't sing the first line of this song at full volume every time they hear it? If so, stand up and be counted. :lol
Good, classic song. :coolio
My dad is not a fan of rock music at all. You can get him to listen to country and folky stuff, but he's basically into Broadway and classical.
And he belts out the first line of that song. Sometimes without the song actually playing. :rollin
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Boston - Don't Look Back
This song pretty much picks up where the first album left out, kicking complete and total ass while being rocking, catchy, and featuring the classic Boston sound. As samey as much of Boston's material is, this is the non-debut album song that would have fitted the best on the debut album, and not coincidentally, it's the best Boston song that is not on the first album. Great song in every way possible. :metal
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Boston - Don't Look Back
it's the best Boston song that is not on the first album. Great song in every way possible.
That about sums it up for me.
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When the first Boston came out, it was groundbreaking in many ways (which I won't repeat here because everyone's heard the stories) and was just an all-around excellent album. I love that first album, and still play it.
When the second album came out, titled "Don't Look Back" yet sounding exactly the same as the first album, I actually laughed out loud at the irony. The title track was even the first single! Don't look back, because if you do, you'll realize that this is exactly the same thing you've heard before. I listened to it once at a friend's house. I never heard anything that didn't sound exactly like it could have been on the first album (regardless of quality).
If you loved the first album and wanted more of the same, here it is. If you loved the first album and wanted to see where they'd go from there... well, we're all still waiting. As far as I can tell, Boston never did anything that didn't sound like their first album. I never bought the second or third albums. Nothing I heard on the radio inspired me to dig any deeper.
This is a good song, but wow, I don't think there has ever been a better example of unintended irony in the title of a song or album.
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Heh, it is hard to argue with most of that. However, I do love the 2nd Boston album a lot. Sure, it sounds just like the first, but the songs are all still really good. The third album is where the real drop-off began, although that one and the fourth both have some really good stuff as well.
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If I remember, the record label force them to get another album out quick and we know Tom Schultz does no move fast when it comes to recording. :lol
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Great song. The second album was pretty good. The third was...okay...and so on.
However, the first album was absolutely awesome. First, I had a copy on 8 track, then cassette, then vinyl, and finally CD. Yeah, I'm old...but that's a different thread.
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This is a good one. I dont think I've heard a Boston song that I didn't enjoy.
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If I remember, the record label force them to get another album out quick and we know Tom Schultz does no move fast when it comes to recording. :lol
Scholz said in the liner notes of the remaster that it was released minus one song-he always considered it one song short, though what song that is, I don't know. Always loved this song, though the debut is untouchable for how good it was.
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Time for back-to-back week! Songs that are always played back-to-back by classic rock radio. :coolio
Queen - We Will Rock You / We Are the Champions
I probably can't say much about these songs that hasn't been said many times. Yes, both songs are overplayed like crazy, but both are still pretty great. There is a reason they are so popular and overplayed.
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Great one-two punch by one of my favorite bands
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Great twofer by Queen. Nothing but love here. Yep, overplayed like hell but yep, still great songs.
I love the way he delivers the line "You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it... I thank you all." That little pause is perfect, like he's honestly singing what he's thinking and after rushing through some of the words, he needs just a second to collect himself.
What's weird is that when I play the album, there's a longer pause between the two songs than you usually hear on the radio. As well as they go together, they are still two separate songs and separate tracks on the CD. Radio station edits usually have "We are the Champions" start immediately after "We Will Rock You" when I think it actually sounds a bit better with a slight breathing space in between.
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Yeah, there is a discernible gap between the two songs on albums and CDs, yet radio plays them with no gap at all. I believe the songs were released as a double A-side single-I actually owned it back in the day, with one song on each side-which is what prompted radio to play them together. There is probably somewhere out there a "radio edit" that blends the songs together closer.
Goes without saying that they're classics. A hundred years from now, the beat from We Will Rock You will still be playing played at sporting events.
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Wasn't it released with We Will Rock You as the B side but re-released as a double A after they both became popular?
IDK
So overplayed but
I DON'T CARE! I LOVE IT
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Time for back-to-back week! Songs that are always played back-to-back by classic rock radio. :coolio
Queen - We Will Rock You / We Are the Champions
I probably can't say much about these songs that hasn't been said many times. Yes, both songs are overplayed like crazy, but both are still pretty great. There is a reason they are so popular and overplayed.
Agreed. Queen happens to be my wife's all-time favorite band. I was fortunate enough to see them live in 1980! Freddie Mercury had the audience mesmerized, clapping, fist-pumping and singing along...What a performer!
Great twofer by Queen. Nothing but love here. Yep, overplayed like hell but yep, still great songs.
I love the way he delivers the line "You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it... I thank you all."
Yes, nothing but love here as well. I love the unorthodox phrasing of that line, too.
A hundred years from now, the beat from We Will Rock You will still be playing played at sporting events.
No doubt about that.
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Accidentally double-posted. :facepalm:
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You cannot help yourself but hand clap on the steering wheel of sing out loud while driving hearing these 2 songs. Masterpieces.
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Van Halen - Eruption / You Really Got Me
These two songs have always gotten played together, even though they have nothing to do with one another, mainly because Eruption was too awesome and ground-breaking to not get played on the radio, but also probably too short to play by itself, and You Really Got Me followed it, so it was natural to play them together.
But anyway, the awesomeness of Eruption speaks for itself, and You Really Got Me is a very cool cover of a Kinks tune. I can only imagine what the collective rock world thought when they first heard Eruption. :eek :eek
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Most of the collective rock world (myself included) had never heard hammer-on style guitar playing before "Eruption" so it was pretty mind-blowing. Eddie was the first mainstream rocker to do it.
Trivia: Eddie cites Steve Hackett of Genesis as his inspiration. The intro to "Return of the Giant Hogweed" has guitar and keyboard in harmony, with the guitar hammering-on. Genesis was still a few years away from their big breakthrough, but Eddie caught an early Genesis concert and saw Steve doing it, decided to try it out himself, and the rest is history.
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As awesome and influential as Eruption is, I can't listen to it any more. It just breaks up the flow of the album for me.
You Really Got Me is great though, and one of VH's best covers. Eddie really added his own style to it without taking anything away from the original song's appeal.
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I missed the Queen one, so I'll address that one by bringing up its place in Revenge of the Nerds. We Are the Champions has a great effect in that scene. The song starts all meek and quiet when Betty runs from the rest of the cheerleaders and joins Lewis on the field. Think about it for a second - We Are the Champions starts with a display that Lewis just stole the quarterback's cheerleader girlfriend. Champion, indeed. Then Judy comes to join Gilbert. Then as the short verse continues and starts to build, the rest of the nerds come join them. Then it happens.
RIGHT when the rest of the band kicks in, in bombastic contrast to the soft verse, everybody starts pouring out of the bleachers to join the nerds on the field. It's a hair raiser for me every single time I see it. The very dramatic effect that it creates right at that moment is just amazing.
As far as it back to back with We Will Rock You, yeah, cool, but I can leave WWRY, honestly. Then guitar tone on that one is awesome, but it's Brian May. Expect nothing less than the greatest guitar tones ever.
Speacking of guitar tones, VH1 had some of the greatest tones ever commited to tape. For me it hardly gets better than the guitar tone on Runnin' With the Devil. Eruption and You Really Got Me are no different. Ridiculous tone. Eruption is excellent, and I'll still break out the ending tapped part at a gig, if someone's yelling for it (which does sometimes happen). I love You Really Got Me though. Now when I hear the Kinks' version I'm like "Yeah, it's good, but it isn't VH". :lol
Orbert, that's interesting, because I'd read in a guitar magazine that Eddie was listening to Zep's Heartbreaker and wanted to see if he could recreate those opening pull-offs in the solo elsewhere on the guitar. It's a pull-off from 5th fret to 2nd fret to open string on the G. So he says if I move that down to the D string, it's 10th fret-7th fret-5th fret. Given that it's too far of a strech for one hand to do that, he figured out to fret the 7th and 5th frets, then use his right hand to "fret" the 10th fret. Maybe he saw Steve Hackett do it, then tried to replicate that same thing on the Heartbreaker lick. Interesting.
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I thought Dancing with the Moonlit Knight was the first sign of Hackett tapping. Hmmmm, I guess I was misinformed.
But it goes without saying that EVH took it to another level. I remember reading that when Van Halen would tour prior to their first album, he would turn his back to the crowd when tapping so no one would see what he was doing, that way another guitarist wouldn't ape it from him and put it on record before he could.
And yeah, his brown sound was totally awesome. You'd be hard-pressed to find many guitar tones better than the one he achieved on that first album.
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My understanding is that a very integral part of that sound was the use of a variac, which by my very layman's understanding of it, allows the manipulation of the output voltage of whatever's plugged into it. In this case a tube amp. This way he could run all his levels on the amp at full bore and use the variac as a volume control of sorts. Kinda similar to what a power attenuator does, albeit way more risky. I guess power attenuators weren't a very common luxury for guitarists back then.
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All of that technical jargon makes me feel like:
(https://blog.lauriepolich.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pic-1-charlie-brown.png)
:lol :lol :lol
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The variac/light dimmer thing was a bit of a myth
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/classic_van_halen_myth_explained.html
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Outstanding. It certainly seemed like a plausible idea, to the layman, so I can see why so many people tried it.
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Undeniably some of the greatest guitar sounds came from VH debut, all kicking off with Eruption/YRGM. I love DLR's little wail's in YRGM, which became his vocal signature.
WWRY/WATC... can't say much more. Overplayed? Yes. But hell, it's Queen... fantastic writing; flawless delivery.
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The other thing I love about VH1 is that it starts off with a very straightforward, low-frills rock song. Yes, great tone and delivery, but the song itself is one of the single easiest songs any band could ever attempt to learn.
Now imagine in 1978, you get this album and that's the first thing you hear - you're probably thinking "Well, that was cool, but nothing here is really grabbing my attention, I hope the whole album isn't like this."
Then Eruption comes on and your mind is repeatedly blown on every song for the remainder of the freakin' album. :lol What a ride!
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Yeah, to me, "Eruption" does break the flow of the album, but that's pretty much the point. Van Halen's debut album was groundbreaking in many respects, and "Eruption" was part of the whole thing. Stop for a minute and bow down to the new (for now) master of the guitar. I'm fine with that.
But I'm not fine with calling it "VH1". That always makes me think of the TV channel.
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This EVH discussion provides a nice segue way into the next back-to-back, which I already had planned to do next, before this convo even started, I swear :lol.
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
I cannot imagine one of these songs without the other, which is crazy considering they were not intended to be played together like that, and the band never actually played the latter song live (cause Jimmy Page hated it). While Heartbreaker is definitely the better of the two songs, Living Loving Maid is a good, fun tune. But that riff in Heartbreaker is one of the most bad ass in the entire Zeppelin catalogue, and the solo is a beast (despite being a bit messy at times, which is part of its charm).
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The solo in Heartbreaker is sooooooo sloppy it almost kills it for me. But I otherwise love it/them
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Probably a somewhat controversial opinion, but even at the height of my Led Zeppelin fandom: I never liked Living Loving Maid. (https://i1337.photobucket.com/albums/o669/bolsters/shrug.gif~original)
Heartbreaker on the other hand, liked it a lot. But I'm with jay regarding the solo. Page would really push the upper limits of his playing ability on record and live and would come off as sloppy quite often as a result. It was always something I always wished he wouldn't do, I would have preferred he just stayed in his comfort zone and played well, if only on the albums.
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I like both songs. Both have a great, catchy hook. Yeah, "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" is kinda silly, but I like that hook riff as well. Jimmy had a knack for coming up with melodic licks that held their own like that. And structurally, it's very clever. Robert sings a line, then we get the riff, then the title phrase. For the break, it's just the riff and the phrase, and for final verse, it's the line without the riff, then the phrase.
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i love the solo on Heartbreaker
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Quick question, what song is this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLbIeNR8Rwg
Just heard it on the MP Constant Motion DVD and I can't recall its title. There's a pretty interesting drum solo where he invites up a bunch of other drummers to jam to Van Halen, Slayer and Rush among others.
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It's Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
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Much obliged
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My old band used to play Living Loving Maid, sans Heartbreaker. I know Heartbreaker is the more beloved tune in the Zep catalog, but I'm just not as big a fan. Living Loving Maid's riff is just excellent and a much more fun song to do.
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Funny thing about this song is it's a moving target who hated it; I first heard it was Plant that didn't like it, but then it settled into being Page, but honestly, given the setlists for the tours they did, there never really was a place for it to fit in. It's a bit of an odd duck in the Zep catalog, an uptempo happy, fairly simple song. Which is kind of odd because lord knows the band was conversant with pop music-the medleys that dotted their early days certainly proved that-but the band rarely leaned on pop as an influence.
Heartbreaker in the studio is sloppy, but oh goodness could it turn into a train wreck live, especially as the years went by.
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My old band used to play Living Loving Maid, sans Heartbreaker. I know Heartbreaker is the more beloved tune in the Zep catalog, but I'm just not as big a fan. Living Loving Maid's riff is just excellent and a much more fun song to do.
See, that's what I'm talkin' about. :tup
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Jimmy Page's hatred of that song is just more proof that musicians' opinions of their own songs should usually be ignored. :lol :lol
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I always thought they were a great counter-balance to each other... the hard edged Heartbreaker, with the hot-mess of a guitar solo and ripper riffs; then the smooth, simple, and melodic tone and feel of LLM.
And as much of a mess that the HB solo is, there are many solo's over the years that were inspired by it. Triumph's Rock'n'Roll Machine comes to mind. Page even ripped himself off with Absolution Blues (but that's more the riff than the solo).
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I saw a band years ago that played "Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin, then "Heartbreaker" by Pat Benatar, then "Living Loving Maid". It kinda worked because the clean stop at the end of Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" and the opening riff of Benatar's "Heartbreaker" worked, and you thought maybe it was cool that they played another song with the same title. Then they kicked straight into "Living Loving Maid" and you thought okay, that's probably not as clever as they thought it was when they came up with it.
What they should've done is gone into "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" by the Rolling Stones for the triple play. :P
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Mostly related: Has there ever been a Led Zeppelin survivor?
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I attempted once once a few years ago, but, for whatever reason, there wasn't a lot of interest in it - only five or six voters per round, and I don't believe a survivor is worth doing if you are only getting a single digit number of voters per round - so I abandoned it.
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Ah, that's a shame.
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ZZ Top - Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago
Two really good tunes. Of the two, I probably prefer the latter, but I never listen to one without the other, and they have always been played together on rock radio, and since both are relatively short, they are easy to get through (about 6:24 combined). The guitar playing of Billy Gibbons is in top form here.
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Older ZZ Top is still the best. Yeah, they had a bunch of 80's hits with cool videos with the three babes and the Eliminator car, but give me the bluesy, Texas-style rock of the original six pack.
Two good tunes here, good for a quick ZZ Top fix. For the longest time, I had no idea what the titles were. I just figured the first one was "Have Mercy" (I can't be the only one who thought this) and didn't even realize that they were two separate songs, even though the break between them is pretty obvious once you know.
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I'm not surprised that there wasn't much chatter for that duo. :lol :lol
Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' / City of the Angels
Another duo that was never planned on being played together, but album rock radio just ended up doing it that way. But Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' was a big hit for Journey, while the other remained an unknown on the charts. The former is definitely the much better song, while the latter has that cool chorus, but is otherwise not that interesting of a song. It's not a bad song, but Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' is just that much better.
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What is it with American radio playing two album tracks together? Seems to be a lot of 'em here! I've never heard any of these songs played together here. (in the case of Journey I've never heard it on the radio at all)
Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' is a good track. It has that nice swung groove to it, and builds up to the big outro chorus. One of the better tracks off the album. :tup
City of the Angels just creeps me out. The harmonies, the chord progressions, don't like any of it. It's just off.
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The first Journey twofer, "Feeling That Way" / "Anytime", was glorious. The songs were both great and the way they went together sounded very organic, like they planned it that way. Which they probably did, after realizing that they could, with a little playing around with the arrangement.
Then they went and did it again, and it really seemed forced. I literally laughed, out loud, when I heard it. It was so obvious that they simply did it again because it was so cool the first time. Sometimes, actually most of the time, it's better to just bask in the glory of how awesome the first time was. Don't try to do it again, because it will not be as good. And even if it is as good, that's still not enough, because if you do it again, it has to be better. And this isn't better.
"Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" is alright, but I'm not a big fan of slow shuffles. They tend to sound like they're dragging, even if they're not. And "City of the Angels" is just awkward. But for the above mentioned reasons, I can't really judge these songs fairly.
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ZZ Top - Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago
Two really good tunes. Of the two, I probably prefer the latter, but I never listen to one without the other, and they have always been played together on rock radio, and since both are relatively short, they are easy to get through (about 6:24 combined). The guitar playing of Billy Gibbons is in top form here.
These two songs being played together was a happy accident. The miniscule gap between the songs is the result of an engineer cutting some blank tape during the sequencing of the album and cutting too much, resulting in the two songs basically running together. One of those things that just doesn't happen in this day and age, and it doesn't hurt that despite being written separately and considered separate songs, they work so well together that it feels like the universe decided to take a hand and stick them together.
Yeah, I still feel like ass or I'd have brought that story out earlier. :lol
I'm not surprised that there wasn't much chatter for that duo. :lol :lol
Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' / City of the Angels
Another duo that was never planned on being played together, but album rock radio just ended up doing it that way. But Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' was a big hit for Journey, while the other remained an unknown on the charts. The former is definitely the much better song, while the latter has that cool chorus, but is otherwise not that interesting of a song. It's not a bad song, but Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' is just that much better.
I have never heard these two songs be played together on the radio. :lol
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What is it with American radio playing two album tracks together?
It was obviously a 70s thing. Given that a lot of longer songs (meaning, songs in the 7-10 minute range) were played on rock radio back then on a regular basis, I am guessing deejays, who had more control back then over what was played, picked some back-to-backs so they had more time for bathroom breaks and whatnot. :lol
And, as usual, good stuff here by Jaq and Orbert. :hat
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FM radio in the United States, especially Rock and Roll FM radio, really came into its own in the 1970s, and the relationship between FM radio and the maturing of Rock and Rock was symbiotic. You had better quality sound, which was important when the whole point of a lot of 70's music was to actually listen to it, not just dance to the groovy beat or put it on in the background at parties. Artists and labels would take more chances on album-oriented rock, because they knew that there were radio stations out there which didn't just play the Top 40 hits, but dug into the album tracks. Both sides benefitted.
So people got used to hearing certain songs back-to-back because they actually listened to albums, not just singles. Hearing Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" without "Loving Loving Maid" just seems wrong. Whether the songs were "meant" to go together or not, it was cool to do it. I think a lot of twofers came about that way. Maybe it is just an American thing.
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I imagine if you were going to do something with Journey, it would have been Feeling That Way/Anytime (which is awesome by the way). I've never heard this other combination together. come to think of it, I have never heard City of Angels either
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Feeling That Way / Anytime was already featured in this thread. I didn't have the idea for doing a back-to-back week until recently, otherwise I probably would have saved that twofer for this week.
Great POV there, Orbert. Hard to argue with any of that!
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*takes a bow*
I heard the other, lesser Journey twofer on the radio a lot right after Evolution came out and Journey was still really hot off of Infinity, which was their breakthrough around here. Then it stopped because people realized that "City of the Angels" kinda sucked.
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I'm not a big Journey fan at all, but while it was cool to have two different lead singers there for a few albums, with both Perry and Rolie, there is no denying that Cain replacing Rolie in the early 80s was key to their mainstream success.
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I won't deny it, but I don't have to like it. I loved Gregg Rolie's voice, and the contrast between the two singers was great. I stopped following Journey after Evolution because it seemed liked Steve Perry was singing all their songs with his whiney, wailing voice. Then my monthly issue of Keyboard magazine came, and it featured "Jonathan Cain of Journey". Apparently he'd left The Babys and Rolie had left Journey. I never found any official (or unofficial) statement, but if I had to guess, I'd say that Rolie quit, disgusted that he'd been edged out of the band he had helped create, but I suppose it's possible that they fired him to get Cain.
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Rollie recommended Cain as his replacement, if memory serves. While I have no doubt he didn't like the change of direction, the split seemed to be amicable as I recall it.
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Interesting. The one possibility I hadn't considered.
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Time to end back-to-back week with...
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage / Eclipse
Now, these are two songs which cannot be isolated and played on their own, otherwise neither would sound right. In fact, I remember being shocked that they were considered two separate songs. When I got into Dark Side of the Moon, I just listened to it from start to finish repeatedly, without giving a lot of thought into what track started where, so it never occurred to me that Brain Damage and Eclipse weren't one single track. But anywaaaaaaaay, these songs are obviously nothing short of magnificent, musically and lyrically, as they come from what I consider the best rock album ever. Pretty much :hefdaddy :hefdaddy all-around. :hat
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Classic! Was just listening to the Dream Theater version this morning.
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I hear these two together on the radio all the time, and to be honest, it bugs me. I see "Us and Them" and "Any Colour You Like" as also part of that same medley, and "Any Colour You Like" is my favorite Pink Floyd instrumental, so I would rather hear the whole thing. Just as you say that either of these songs would be incomplete without the other, I feel that with these two, we're still only getting half the medley.
But for that matter, each half of Dark Side of the Moon is all connected, and as with any concept album, it's better to just listen to the whole thing straight through. But at least "Side One" and "Side Two".
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Great closer to a great album. One of my first favorite Pink Floyd tracks
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Okay, back-to-back week is over, and we now return to out regularly scheduled programming. :biggrin:
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
This is definitely one of those songs that I never go out of my way to listen to, but if it comes on, I am not likely to turn it off. Reading up on it, it looks like it actually went to number 1 on the pop charts, so it wasn't just a classic rock staple that pop audiences were clueless about. :lol
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I like this song. It's catchy and doesn't take itself too seriously. According to the story, Randy Bachman wrote the song as a joke for his brother Gary, who stutters. They were making Not Fragile at the time, but they were just going to send the song to Gary, not actually put it on the album. Eventually they decided to put it on the album, but with straight vocals, which "sounded like Frank Sinatra" (according to Bachman himself) so they went with the "joke" version, and it went to Number 1.
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the stuttering annoys me at times, but it's still a solid tune
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the stuttering annoys me at times, but it's still a solid tune
Y'know...Y'know...Y'know....B.B.B.B.B.B.B.baby....That classic stuttering DEFINES the song! And yet..andyet....andyet....The tune would probably be forgettable without it.
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Time to end back-to-back week with...
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage / Eclipse
Now, these are two songs which cannot be isolated and played on their own, otherwise neither would sound right. In fact, I remember being shocked that they were considered two separate songs. When I got into Dark Side of the Moon, I just listened to it from start to finish repeatedly, without giving a lot of thought into what track started where, so it never occurred to me that Brain Damage and Eclipse weren't one single track. But anywaaaaaaaay, these songs are obviously nothing short of magnificent, musically and lyrically, as they come from what I consider the best rock album ever. Pretty much :hefdaddy :hefdaddy all-around. :hat
Certainly many consider DSotM to be the best rock album of all time....definitely one of them anyway.
Older ZZ Top is still the best. Yeah, they had a bunch of 80's hits with cool videos with the three babes and the Eliminator car, but give me the bluesy, Texas-style rock of the original six pack.
Two good tunes here, good for a quick ZZ Top fix. For the longest time, I had no idea what the titles were. I just figured the first one was "Have Mercy" (I can't be the only one who thought this) and didn't even realize that they were two separate songs, even though the break between them is pretty obvious once you know.
I love their early stuff, too.....Up to and including Deguelo.
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Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
I used to work with a couple of Clapton fans who thought this song was the greatest thing since sliced bread, and I was always like, really? I mean, it's okay, but I always thought it was their way of admitting they loved a sappy song, since it was by a rocker and a guitar legend, so, ya know, that makes it alright. :lol :lol Again, it's an okay song, but I can't imagine ever going out of my way to hear it.
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Slow Hand has recorded so many great songs over his career. IMO Wonderful Tonight was (still is) overplayed. I prefer The Core from the same album.
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This song is the aural equivalent of a chick flick. Yeah, it's well done and I can't honestly find anything wrong with it, but it's not my cup of tea and I suspect that that's true for most guys. Girls, however, seem to love it because it's so romantic. So there ya go.
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Couldn't have said it better
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ditto
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.38 Special - Hold On Loosely
Another catchy, fun rocker by these southern rockers. While I never go out of my way to listen to these guys or any of their songs, the riff in this song is enough of a grabber than I am likely to leave it on and crank it up every time it comes on. :metal
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*thud* :lol :lol
Anyway, moving on...
REO Speedwagon - Don't Let Him Go
I was never a big fan of REO, as their sappy songs were a bit too sappy, and were often their most popular and played songs, but they had a handful or so of good rocking tunes that I enjoyed enough, and this is one I like. I like the pace and rhythm of this one. The intro grabs you and sucks you right in from the start.
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.38 Special - Hold On Loosely
Another catchy, fun rocker by these southern rockers. While I never go out of my way to listen to these guys or any of their songs, the riff in this song is enough of a grabber than I am likely to leave it on and crank it up every time it comes on. :metal
I don't mind some .38 special occasionally ............a lot of it's a bit too fluffy but I like Don Barnes' voice - I have the Anthology album which is 30-something tracks long . I have an unreleased solo album of his kicking around somewhere on CDR too. (Ride The Storm)
Edit...here we go. Found a stream if anyone is interested in it.
https://scpublicity.com/ridethestorm/
"Ride the storm" features Don Barnes (Guitars & Vocals), Mike Porcaro (Bass), Jeff Porcaro (Drums), Alan Pasqua (Keyboards), Dann Huff (Additional Guitar), Bill Cuomo (Additional Keyboards), Denny Carmassi (Drums) and Jesse Harms (Keyboards). Not the worst lineup of all time :)
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I guess I waited too long for "Hold On Loosely". I was holding off because the only thing I can ever think of to say about it is the story of seeing a bar band absolutely butcher the song. I don't know the song, but the opening chords are something like E-B-D-A, with inversions such that the top notes come down chromatically, E-D#-D-C#. The band didn't understand this, and just played major chords coming down, E-D#-D-C#. It sounded absofuckinglutely horrible. The song itself is okay, though.
Like most people of my generation, I grew up with the REO Speedwagon live album You Get What You Play For. This was back when a live album could be a breakthrough album for a band (see also Alive! and Frampton Comes Alive!) and we played the hell out of it. I always thought Kevin Cronin had a distinctive but weird way of delivering certain lines, and I kinda got sick of his voice. Then REO Speedwagon hit the big time, and there was that weird voice all over the airwaves. Bleah. Their uptempo songs usually rock out, so this one's okay, but man their mellow songs blow.
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I guess I waited too long for "Hold On Loosely". I was holding off because the only thing I can ever think of to say about it is the story of seeing a bar band absolutely butcher the song. I don't know the song, but the opening chords are something like E-B-D-A, with inversions such that the top notes come down chromatically, E-D#-D-C#. The band didn't understand this, and just played major chords coming down, E-D#-D-C#. It sounded absofuckinglutely horrible. The song itself is okay, though.
I would've bitch slapped that band. We do that one in one of my bands and it's a fun song to do. Great soloing at the end. But I think I just kind of assumed that was one of those easy songs that nobody in a band could really screw up that bad. If you have even the remotest of a discerning ear on an instrument, you can clearly hear the chords you're referring to: E5 - B/D# - D5 - A/C#. Those inversions are obviously the KEY to that riff, the part that make it sound so cool. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that this is something that could be easily misheard somehow, but when you play it as all major chords, you can't NOT hear that you're somehow doing it wrong. Wow.
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That's the thing. Maybe you think that's what you hear, but then you try it and it's obvious that that's not it. Instead, they actually learned the song this way, and fucking played it live this way, apparently oblivious to how horrible it sounded.
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Exactly that. You play it and find that it's obvious NOT what you're playing. These guys clearly don't have any discerning type of ear that could tell them "Hmmm, not quite right". That or they operate on the "meh, good enough" principle, which I've seen happen before. The fact that there are musicians out there gigging that are incapable of hearing how wrong they're doing something amazes me.
I feel for you. That had to be painful to sit through.
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Sorry to interrupt the nerd music talk... :lol
didn't know that .38 Special tune. Don't Let Him Go is a great tune, especially the live version. The drum beat to carry the whole feel of the song. I agree with Bob that their sappy slow songs just suck the life out of you - except when we were pre-teens at the elementary school dance... then we could wait for Can't Fight This Feeling and Keep on Loving You. Then we were all lining up for the most 'developed' 13 year old we could find for a very special 4 minutes.
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Foreigner - Double Vision
This is one of those classic rock songs I've heard so many times, despite never really go out of my way to hear it, I know it like the back of my hand. That is how often I used to hear it back in the day. Good song, and I swear, I remember them performing it live as an acoustic song on a radio station once, and that later got dubbed into the original somehow, like the first verse was the on-air acoustic version and then it segued into the studio version during the 2nd verse or something like that. Anyone else remember that?
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Mick Jones was on That Metal Show a couple of weeks ago and mentioned that the inspiration for this song was a late 70's New York Rangers hockey game. John Davidson, the Rangers goalie, was knocked down and had to be removed from the game because he was experiencing double vision. The announcers kept using the term "double vision", and they thought that would be a cool song title.
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Not much of a Foreigner fan.. but not a bad song
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Good song.
I have Foreigner's first album, as does anyone else who was alive in the 70's, and it's great, but somehow I never really followed up with them. Years later, I picked up Foreigner 4 on CD because Thomas Dolby plays keyboards on it, but it was overall a bit disappointing, so I guess Foreigner isn't really my thing.
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Thomas Dolby played on Foreigner 4? Interesting; I never knew that.
I am similar to you in that I was never really a fan of this band, even though they had 8-10 songs or so that I knew and liked. I still own their debut on CD, although it's packed away somewhere, but I am pretty sure I got that during my "buying everything classic rock" phase. :lol :lol
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I seem to remember that he's credited as "Tom Dolby". Not sure why.
I thought the keyboard work on "Waiting for a Girl Like You" was a step up from their usual stuff (which isn't bad, just somewhat basic). The layers, the production, and the sophistication of the patches themselves. We did that song in the band for a while as our "slow song" and when I sat down to learn it, I was amazed at the work that had gone into it. Ian McDonald had left the band and there's no way that that was Mick Jones, so I got the album just to check the credits (and have a good copy of the song to learn) hoping for some tasty album tracks. Nope. "Tom Dolby" is just a hired gun, as is Bob Mayo ("Bob Mayo, on the keyboards... Bob Mayo!"). Some dude named Michael Fonfara is apparently the main keyboard player on the album, but whatever, it was disappointing overall.
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What's funny about Foreigner's slow songs is they had three big slower hits in the 80s:
Waiting for a Girl Like You
I Want to Know What Love Is
I Don't Want to Live Without You
And honestly, it is hard to tell the three apart. If you turned one on in the middle with a verse playing, I doubt I'd be able to tell you which one is which. :lol :lol
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I've never even heard of the third one. Or maybe I have, and just thought it was one of the other two. :P
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More the first and third are almost interchangeable. I Want To Know What Love Is has a more distinct sound imo
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I'm a fan of the radio hits, this being one of my lesser enjoyed ones by them to tell you the truth. I probably could've gotten more 'in' to the band if I had the inclination, but just never did.
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Kansas - Point of Know Return
Like many Kansas classic songs, the first time I heard this got a "holy shit, this is totally awesome" reaction out of me. That was like 24 years ago, and I can listen to it and enjoy it to pieces. Great, catchy song by a great, great band. :tup :tup
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Sweet song. Great vocals
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More the first and third are almost interchangeable. I Want To Know What Love Is has a more distinct sound imo
Yeah the other two songs are more uptempo relative to I Want To Know What Love Is. Plus once the gospel choir comes in at the end, should be pretty obvious which one it is.
And shame Kev, I mentioned Thomas Dolby playing on that album ages ago. :lol
Point of Know Return's a great album opener, and that rarest of beasts, a short prog rock song. :lol
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Point of Know Return is a great song. I guess it's kinda prog, too, though I've never really thought about it. Kansas had a pop side to them, but usually even their pop songs had a bit more going on, musically, which is which I like them. I was with them up through this album, but they started to lose me after this. The first five are all gold, though.
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Yeah the other two songs are more uptempo relative to I Want To Know What Love Is. Plus once the gospel choir comes in at the end, should be pretty obvious which one it is.
That is why I said, turn them on with all of the verses already playing and I wouldn't be to tell the difference. ;) Obviously, the chorus, where they sing the titles, will be dead giveaways. :lol :biggrin:
And shame Kev, I mentioned Thomas Dolby playing on that album ages ago. :lol
:facepalm:
Damn me to hell for not remembering random Foreigner inside information. :rollin :rollin
:)
Point of Know Return is a great song. I guess it's kinda prog, too, though I've never really thought about it. Kansas had a pop side to them, but usually even their pop songs had a bit more going on, musically, which is which I like them. I was with them up through this album, but they started to lose me after this. The first five are all gold, though.
Monolith and Audi-Visions are both a bit inconsistent, but, man, there are still some terrific songs on both of those records.
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Monolith and Audi-Visions are both a bit inconsistent, but, man, there are still some terrific songs on both of those records.
Audi-Visions?
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Yes, there are some good songs in the next few albums. A friend of mine had Monolith and I heard it a few times. It was the first album of theirs that had tracks I wanted to skip, and that was back in the LP days when you couldn't really do that. Today, I could pick up the CD and just skip those same tracks, or just not rip them in the first place (since I do all my listening on my iPod anyway), but basically I'd moved on by then. I never picked up Audio-Visions, but I've heard that it too has some good songs. I'm still an album guy, though, and always will be.
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Damn it. :facepalm: :lol
Audio-Visions!!!! That is worth getting just for Relentless, although nowadays you can just go buy it for a buck at iTunes or amazon, which I would do immediately. Terrific song, with a great guitar solo.
re: Monolith, A Glimpse of Home and On the Other Side are two of my favorite Kansas songs, and Away from You and Angels Have Fallen are both pretty darn good, as well.
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I listened to "On the Other Side" recently; I'm trying to remember how. Good song.
Yeah, like I said, there are some good songs, but I really have trouble buy singles from any artist or band. That's a slippery slope.
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Eh, I don't see how. Why rob yourself of listening to some good songs just because they might be on albums that otherwise aren't that great?
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If I buy singles, I'm paying real money for a collection of bits that, when played back using the appropriate software, through the appropriate hardware, make music. I won't do that. I have to have something physical for my money. I won't pay money for a bunch of bits.
Yes, that's an old-fashioned and out-of-touch-with-reality attitude, but it's where I am. I haven't yet made the jump to buying music in digital-only form, and I probably won't (especially when there are free alternatives).
Also, I'm not "robbing" myself of anything. No one has taken anything away from me, including myself. I just haven't paid money for the privilege of listening to a song.
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I used to be the same way, so I know where you are coming from, but, given that the few physical CDs I still buy a year merely sit on my CD case and collect dust since I rip them to my computer and I end up always listening to the HQ mp3s of them, I finally changed my way of thinking a few years ago. Hell, even the new Transatlantic and Flower Kings CDs, I only bought the mp3s of them online, when years ago I would have bought the physical CDs the second they were available since they are two of my favorite bands.
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But the album art and liner notes.
You're right, though. I'm sitting here with three stacks of CDs in front of me that were ripped and never even returned to the CD rack. Some were never there in the first place. There's dust on them. What can I say? I'm an old-fashioned guy. Also lazy.
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If I buy singles, I'm paying real money for a collection of bits that, when played back using the appropriate software, through the appropriate hardware, make music.
Records and CD's only make music if you have the appropriate hardware too.
I have to have something physical for my money. I won't pay money for a bunch of bits.
Records and CD's are just a bunch of grooves. The bits have the same information as the grooves, just in a different physical format.
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Oh come on, you know what I mean. If something happens to my hard drive, I still have my CDs and can re-rip everything. If all I had in the first place is an mp3 file, it's gone. Yes, I make backups, but bits aren't just a different physical format; they're virtual.
Anyway, inspired by this conversation, I downloaded and listened to Monolith and Audio-Visions. They're better than I remembered. I think the problem is that there's not much new to them. A lot of the songs reminded me pretty specifically of other songs from previous albums. Here's the Robbie Steinhardt badass song. Here's that bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp rhythm we first heard in "Icarus". Here's the upbeat one that sounds like "Can I Tell You" or maybe "Bringing it Back" depending on whether it's sung solo or in harmony.
They were repeating themselves, a lot. Pretty much the same issue I had with Boston past the first album. Great sound, good stuff, but at some point you realize that that's all they have to say. Kansas continued to expand and surprise me for five albums; that's better than a lot of bands do. And if you love that and want more of the same, here it is. I can understand that. I'll listen to the same Yes and Genesis albums over and over, even the "lesser" ones, because I love it. Kansas is good stuff, but if I need a Kansas fix, I'll reach for Leftoverture or Point of Know Return. Maybe Song for America. I just can't see myself ever thinking "I think I'll put on Monolith."
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Well, while we're on the subject of proggy bands doing catchy tunes that were classic rock staples...
Emerson Lake & Palmer - From the Beginning
What an utterly fantastic song this is. This is one of those songs I could listen to every day and never get tired of it; it is that awesome. For as crazy and bombastic as ELP could be, their ability to write and perform a song like this, one that is soooo melodic and features no overplaying on either solo, is a big reason why I am such a fan. Definitely a :hefdaddy :hefdaddy song in my book.
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One of my favorite ELP songs. Definitely my favorite Greg Lake song.
:tup
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Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
Another great song by Tull, one that has aged really well (like most of the Aqualung album). This is such a classic rock mainstay that it was actually number 1 once on KSHE's local Rock and Roll 500 (an annual thing they do on Memorial Day weekend). Other number 1s over the years that I remember are Stairway to Heaven, Tom Sawyer, Time, Won't Get Fooled Again and Dream On, so that is pretty good company to be in. The only drawback to it being number 1 was that they must have been pressed for time or something, because by the time they got to it, they cut out the piano intro. :facepalm: My thought, of course, was, if this song was good enough to be number 1, then why wasn't it good enough to be played in full (considering it is less than 5 minutes)? But whatever. :lol
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Great song. The piano intro is really, really quiet, and when it comes around when I'm shuffling on my iPod, I always have to crank it and start the song over again. I wouldn't be surprised if some radio stations have a "broadcast friendly" version with the volume equalized a bit. That's the only reason I can think of to skip it, because yeah, the song isn't that long. Okay, I guess the other reason is because you can barely hear anything anyway until the fast part starts.
My buddy's wife found out that I play the flute and requested that we play some Jethro Tull, and this is the one we picked. It works because there's the piano intro, then the piano basically cuts out until the jam at the end, and I can switch to flute for the solo. People always think that's cool. It's a fun song to play.
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Good song, but it's not even the best on this album, so I gotta say it's BEYOND a stretch to put it at #1 on any countdown except "Jethro Tull songs that start with Locomotive"
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True, but KSHE always juggled songs around from year to year, as opposed to having the relative same order every year, which would make it boring. Basically, it was an excuse to play 500 of the best rock songs ever; the order didn't necessarily matter.
Cool story, too, Orbert.
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Well, in keeping with the spirit of the April Fool's theme and all that...
Queen - Flash's Theme
I am not even sure I'd call this a classic rock mainstay, but what the hell, I have to put it somewhere, right? The song is sort of catchy, but I can't say I ever have the urge to listen to it.
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:metal
DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE
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Good song. I never had the album, so I didn't listen to it much, but it is catchy and pure Queen.
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I'm sure the Flash Gordon soundtrack is a great album, since it's full of Queen music, but I just couldn't bring myself to buy that one. The movie itself is one of those "so bad it's good" movies, though it does have a genuinely great moments. Oh yeah, the song. Good song.
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You know, now that I think about it, I think this might have been one of the first movies I saw in the theater sans parent. Went with my older brother and some other neighborhood friends. The theme song was the only thing I remember about it. Not a terrible song, but I probably only enjoy it for nostalgic purposes.
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great short Queen tune. Love the drum beat
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Rush - Closer to the Heart
Definitely one of the band's most played classic rock tunes. I admittedly was burned out on this song for years, but I've come back around to really loving it again. It's such a simple and lovely song, and when you consider what else the band was writing in the 70s, it really stands out as pretty unique in their catalogue. And it showed back then, even when they were knee deep in prog rock, that they could write a great simple song with a great melody.
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Different Stages absolutely killed the studio version for me. That jam absolutely rendered the studio version unlistenable for me.
Top 10 Rush tune, despite it being one of their shorter ones.
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I have mixed feelings about this one, mostly because I was familiar with the album before the song became a big hit. A Farewell to Kings was something of a turning point for Rush, and a lot of fans thought the title might be something of a "secret message" or at least have a double meaning in that Rush was clearly embracing keyboards as part of their sound, they were coming off a huge double live album that put them on the map, and were saying farewell to... something, and moving on to the next phase.
The title track heralded that change by introducing a theme on the synth almost right off the bat. And then it ends in a slightly odd way both musically and lyrically with the line "closer to the heart". It seems to come out of nowhere, but whatever, it's a cool phrase.
Then Side Two opens with a song actually called "Closer to the Heart". And the lyrics don't really make a lot of sense, but they seem to consists mostly of
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart, yeah
Closer to the heart
(okay, we get it)
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Closer to the heart
Also, it's yet another song where the first part is mellow, then the second part is just a heavier version of what you just heard. Rush had already done that a few times, and here it was again.
In isolation, I suppose there's nothing really wrong with the song, but it's always been one of the "lesser" Rush songs to me.
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I went on a retreat in my junior year of high school (Jesuit school) and this song was the 'theme.' So it was played at the beginning of, and at the end of, every group gathering. It was cool at first for us few Rush fans there (this would have been 1993, and most people in the PNW were all in to grunge). But I heard the song so much for those 3 days, I couldn't listen to it at all for a long, long time.
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My favorite Trailer Park Boys episode had Rush in it. Bubbles and Alex nail Closer to the Heart at the end of the show, which is what the episode was called
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Eddie Money - Shakin'
I've always been amused that the line, "Her tits were shakin' till the middle of the night," was never edited for the radio, at least not here. :lol Good song, and pretty darn catchy.
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I don't like most Eddie Money tunes. Things like "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Baby, Hold On" don't last more than a few seconds on my radio if I happen to stumble upon them. The uptempo ones are usually okay, including this one. It is catchy. Seems like it was kinda later-era Eddie, if I recall correctly.
I never listened that closely to the lyrics, except during the break. If that's the line, then yeah, pretty cool. :tup
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Every lyric I ever found for that song lists it as "we did some shakin' til the middle of the night." Even back then when the only place to get lyrics was the dying lyric section of Hit Parader.
But by god it SOUNDS like it's talking about her tits. :rollin
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It's tits; I just listened again and there is no way it is anything but.
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I have always thought it was Jaq's "did some" version. Regardless, every single time my band has played it, for years, I sang the "tits" version. :lol
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Dammit guys! I was a teen then and I knew damn well her "Tits" were shakin' :lol My penis told me so.
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I don't like most Eddie Money tunes. Things like "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Baby, Hold On" don't last more than a few seconds on my radio if I happen to stumble upon them. The uptempo ones are usually okay, including this one. It is catchy. Seems like it was kinda later-era Eddie, if I recall correctly.
I never listened that closely to the lyrics, except during the break. If that's the line, then yeah, pretty cool. :tup
So, does that mean you like "Take Me Home Tonight" then? ;)
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Ugh, no. The uptempo ones are usually okay, but not that one.
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The Tubes - Talk to Ya Later
I remember this song, but I had no clue who it was by until a few years ago, and was shocked to discover that it was by the same band that did She's a Beauty, an MTV staple when I was growing up, a couple years later. It's a pretty good song, and I can see why classic rock radio embraced it, but I can't say I'd ever go out of my way to hear it.
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first time I ever heard that song was when they guested on SCTV. Unfortunately, I can't find the video on youtube.
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A staple of early MTV ("our motto: you made a video?! WE'LL PLAY IT!") and a pretty decent hard rocker. MTV had a Tubes concert in the early days that was an eye opener since I thought they were a straight up hard rock band, not the over the top theatrical act they really were. Early MTV was so much fun.
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The Tubes in their early days were very theatrical. R-rated stuff right on stage, probably would've been X-rated at the time. But "Talk to Ya Later" was after they'd tamed things down considerably. I guess they'd had their fun, and thought actually making some money would be nice for a change, too.
We did this one in the band I was in back in the 80's. People always said they liked my synth solo better than the original, which is kinda thin and wimpy sounding. I went kinda Moog with it, with a harder edge.
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I only knew a handful of their songs. Don't Touch Me There definitely has a theatrical flare to it, yet is still likable and catchy, even if not really a rock song (in other words, it would never get featured in a thread like this :lol).
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"Don't Touch Me There" is awesome! I love that song. My wife is also a big Tubes fan and we sing that one in the car, much to the chagrin of our kids.
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Haha, I'll bet that's quite a scene. :lol :lol
Bad Company - Bad Company
Here we have it: the song Bad Company, by the band Bad Company, from the album Bad Company. You don't see that one very often. A lot of their stuff sounds kind of bland to me now, but this is one of the handful that has really stayed with me. It has a great vibe, and Paul Rodgers' voice sounds tremendous. So yeah, I like this one a lot.
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I've honestly never quite understood all the laud foisted upon Paul Rodgers. Yeah, he's got a good voice, but I find most of his songs to be pretty blah. Bad Company had a couple of good songs. Free had that one. The Firm had one or two.
This song is pretty good, and yeah, Paul sounds pretty awesome in it, but I've never gone out of my way to hear any Bad Company, even the title track off the eponymous first album. But you're right; that doesn't happen very often.
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Blah is a good way to describe Bad Company (the band, and the song).
Did not think I knew that Tubes song, but I googled it and I did, just never knew who sang it or what is was called, nor did I care.
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I have the best of from Bad Company, 10 from 6. Enjoy all the songs from that disc, especially this one. But never looked into the band beyond that.
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Foghat - Fool for the City
I am guessing some have forgotten that Foghat has several other classic rock staples besides Slow Ride, this being one of them. Admittedly, I probably wouldn't pay much attention to this song if it weren't by the same band that did Foghat, and in fact I usually don't pay it that much attention even still. :lol :lol Having said that, it's a nice tune, just not one that is very noteworthy.
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Agreed, it's alright
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I love Foghat. Their live album was a rare single live album from an era of double live albums, and it was six straight up rocking songs. Fool For The City was much better live. Hell, so was Foghat.
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I like this one better than "Slow Ride". "Slow Ride" has a good beat, but it's very repetitive and doesn't go anywhere. Then it takes off into an extended jam that's very repetitive and doesn't go anywhere. Bleh.
At least "Fool for the City" has something a little different to say and is kinda funny. "Traffic's good and loud."
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Heart - Crazy on You
I can't think of enough good things to say about this song. This was the first of the three classic rock Heart staples that I heard back in the day after being familiar with their 80s pop hits, and I loved it immediately. Ann Wilson's vocals are off the charts in this one, and Nancy Wilson's acoustic guitar playing really stands out, especially in that intro. Fantastic song.
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Heart - Crazy on You
I can't think of enough good things to say about this song. This was the first of the three classic rock Heart staples that I heard back in the day after being familiar with their 80s pop hits, and I loved it immediately. Ann Wilson's vocals are off the charts in this one, and Nancy Wilson's acoustic guitar playing really stands out, especially in that intro. Fantastic song.
Agreed... although I think my introduction to Heart was with Alone. This is my favorite of their 'big 3'. I'm not too deep into the Heart catalog, but this is at the top of the list.
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Yeah - love Ann Wilson. And Alone is one of the prime examples of a band making a cover version their own (original by I-Ten)
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Technically, the intro is a separate track, "Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child)". But they play it on the radio as one track.
[Edit: Turns out I was wrong.]
This one and Magic Man are two of my all-time favorite Heart songs. They did a lot of great songs later, but man, that debut album is amazing. Actually, my top 3 are all from the first album, the third being Sing Child. The only thing that brings down that first album is the title track, "Dreamboat Annie". It's the weakest song on the album and we don't need two versions of it. The mellow one is kinda lame, and I always skip it. The upbeat version is better and I can stand it.
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Wait, I'm confused.
Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) is a separate track, but it's only 1:10, and that was not the intro I was referring to. The intro I was referring to is the first 44 seconds of the Crazy on You track, before the entire band comes in.
Also, not sure which upbeat version you are talking about in reference to the title track, but I know that I adore the two-minute track 5, while the reprise at the end of the album is pretty good but easily the least best track on the whole thing. Are we in agreement on that?
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I'm probably the one who's confused. I was pretty sure that the acoustic guitar intro to "Crazy on You" was part of the song, but my wife (who is a much bigger Heart fan than me) insists that that's "Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child)". But DA(FC) is the short, single verse of the title song, right? So the title song really does show up three times on the album, right? I thought so, but again, I've deferred to my wife and now nothing makes sense anymore.
The one version I do like is the upbeat one with the drums, where the banjo comes in. Banjo is cool. Other than that, I guess I just get tired of hearing the same melody over and over. It's a nice enough song, but it's like they tried to make it into a mini-concept album or something, but only had the one song to tie things together.
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No, you are correct; your wife is not. (although you might not want to tell her ;) :lol)
I basically agree with you about that last Dreamboat Annie being a bit of overkill in the name of trying to make the record sound more thematic, but it's still an outstanding album, and definitely one of my favorite debut albums by anyone. :tup :tup
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I thought so, but you're right; I'm just gonna let this one lie. You pick your battles. My wife and I both have pretty vast stores of music trivia, and she was pretty proud of being able to "correct" me on this one. I let it go at the time, and there's nothing to be gained (and plenty to be lost) by going back now and winning an argument we had years ago.
But it's good to know I'm right. I thought so.
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probably my least favorite of the big 3, but still an awesome song
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Little River Band - Help Is on Its Way
Every time I think of this band, I think of good vocal harmonies, since they are pretty much a staple of every song of theirs that I know. Many of their songs had that "I feel like I've heard this before" when I went through my classic rock discovery phase in 1989/1990, so they must have been a band my parents listened to a bit when I was really young, so the songs were stuck there somewhere down in my subconscious. As for this particular song, it's a good one.
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Great song and great Aussie band - both Shorrock and Farnham versions. One of those bands where many don't realise how many hits they had (in AUS at least) until you play them back to back.
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I saw The Little River Band once, hundreds of years ago when I was in high school. They were touring whatever album it was that had "Lonesome Loser" and "Cool Change". I didn't care about that. Ambrosia was opening for them, touring "Life Beyond L.A." and I was there to see them. So were a lot of other people, as it turned out, since about 1/3 of the audience left after Ambrosia finished their set.
Most Little River Band stuff is pretty good, nice harmonies, nothing too offensive. Just not my thing.
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R.I.P ac~dc
Angus had a stroke, it's over. At least I think it was Angus....
:(
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RE: Dreamboat Annie/Crazy on You intro confusion. I think I may know the source of your confusion here. From Wikipedia:
The version released on the single was listed on the 45 as 2:59 but was actually around 2:40. It is not included on the album. The single is a variation of Track 5, with the intro to "Crazy On You" grafted onto the beginning of the single. This version remains unreleased on any Heart album. It's assumed this was done to increase the playing time of the single to the more standard 3 minute format.
Orbert, I think this may be why your wife was confused. She may have heard the single version of Dreamboat Annie and got it mixed up with the album version(s).
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Maybe. Thanks for that! :tup
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R.I.P ac~dc
Angus had a stroke, it's over. At least I think it was Angus....
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Reports I heard were that it was Malcolm. Sad day for sure. End of one of, if not THE, pioneer of hard rock. Nothing fancy, nothing flashy. Meat and potatoes HARD...ROCK.
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Edgar Winter Group - Free Ride
Ah, their other well-known classic rock song. I remember being surprised by how simple and ordinary this was, after first hearing Frankenstein, which is so adventurous and creative. Not that simple is bad, but this song is pretty vanilla. I do like the little breakdown before the final chorus though, although it could have been expanded and made much cooler, but maybe that's just the prog fan in me talking. :lol :lol
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Those are my thoughts, pretty much word-for-word.
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Absolutely prefer this over Frankenstein. Great tune. Love the bass slappin, and little drum fill that leads out of the chorus.
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Catchy as all hell
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The Who - Who Are You
Even though I love The Who, I have never been a big fan of this song. Sure, it's a good song, but they have tons that I like way more, so I have never gotten the "This is one of their best songs" love that it frequently gets. And it was always one of their most played songs on classic rock radio, which just added to that thinking. This song is notable for being one of the few where the f-word is sang several times, is clearly audible, and was played on the radio as is, unedited.
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It's okay, but probably one of the least of their best songs
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I got into The Who later than most, especially most people my age, and this was the first album of theirs that I got (and also the last one with the original lineup, as most people know). So I dug into it pretty heavily, and ended up liking it a lot.
I like the synth work, even if it's just a programmed sample-and-hold. Pete said that this song is just "Won't Get Fooled Again" done over. Also, that acoustic guitar solo during the break is pretty hot. And finally, that's none other than Rod Argent on piano. I got a kick out of seeing him in the credits.
And come on, "Who the f*%# are you?" got played on the air regularly, because it came late into the song and the censors weren't paying attention anymore.
Does any of that make it a great song? Not really, I guess. But I like it.
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For me, the Who has always been "everything up to and including Quadrophenia, awesome, everything after, less so." Though I actually think Face Dances is a far better album than Who Are You, but I live to be a heretic. This gets a lot of airplay even still because it's the best latter day Who song, but it's not a patch on their early work.
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For me, the Who has always been "everything up to and including Quadrophenia, awesome, everything after, less so." Though I actually think Face Dances is a far better album than Who Are You, but I live to be a heretic. This gets a lot of airplay even still because it's the best latter day Who song, but it's not a patch on their early work.
:lol :lol
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The Police - Message in a Bottle
Good song, although whoever's idea it was to sing the line, "Sending out an S.O.S.," 592 times at the end of the song should be repeatedly punched in the nuts.
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everything you just said I agree on
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The Police - Message in a Bottle
Good song, although whoever's idea it was to sing the line, "Sending out an S.O.S.," 592 times at the end of the song should be repeatedly punched in the nuts.
Sting always went on about having four hour long tantric sex sessions. That'd slow him down. :lol
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The Police - Message in a Bottle
Good song, although whoever's idea it was to sing the line, "Sending out an S.O.S.," 592 times at the end of the song should be repeatedly punched in the nuts.
I don't know which is worse - that, or Roxanne. Good song before that, though.
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Good song, although whoever's idea it was to sing the line, "Sending out an S.O.S.," 592 times at the end of the song should be repeatedly punched in the nuts.
Oh, you must LOVE "Take it to the Limit" by the Eagles, then, yeah?
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Good song, although whoever's idea it was to sing the line, "Sending out an S.O.S.," 592 times at the end of the song should be repeatedly punched in the nuts.
Oh, you must LOVE "Take it to the Limit" by the Eagles, then, yeah?
Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' anyone? has anyone counted the number of "Na"s at the end of that one?
I agree with Kev though. In fact, I'm a fan of almost no Police songs pre-Synchronicity. very overrated. Don't Stand So Close To Me? Blah. Roxanne? blah. I don't know what happened to them but Synchronicity is a quantum leap forward from the rest of their catalog.
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Those aren't nearly as offensive as Message in a Bottle in that regard.
And I agree about the Police and Synchronicity. With them, every album was seemingly much better than the one before it.
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love this song. it is amazing how long "sending out an sos" goes on and on for
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Blue Öyster Cult - Take Me Away
This isn't nearly as well-known as their previously-featured three big classic rock staples, but this is still a song that some classic rock stations play quite a bit, including the one here in St. Louis, so it is a good one to feature. I love this song to death. That main guitar lead, with the screaming guitar in the background, is so freaking awesome, and the way the catchy chorus leads back into it each time is terrific songwriting. This is one of those songs that I will never turn off. And always crank up. :metal :metal
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Wow, this one doesn't sound familiar at all. I may have to check YouTube later.
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That BOC song is fantastic. Top three from the band for me.
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Factoid: Take Me Away was co-written by Aldo Nova.
And clearly I need to move to the midwest, since Take Me Away hasn't been played on the radio since, oh, two months after that album came out here :lol
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Shooting Shark, from the same album, gets played from time to time, too. :hat
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Styx - Crystal Ball
Not that I wish I was older, but I wish I would have been old enough when this song and album came out to appreciate this song when it was brand new. Think about it: Styx got a new guitar player and singer, and not only was a song he wrote good enough to be a released single from the new album, but also good enough to be the name of the album. And for good reason, as it is a phenomenal song, featuring a great acoustic lead, a wicked good keyboard solo, a catchy-as-hell chorus, and a beautiful electric guitar solo at the end. There is nothing about this song that isn't great.
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It was an exciting time. Styx had had their first hit, "Lady" from the second album, but were doomed to be one-hit wonders until their almost-breakthrough Equinox and its (IMO) soundalike "Lorelei". "Light Up" and "Suite Madame Blue" are radio staples now, but then as now, regular FM airplay did not necessarily translate to any kind of Top 40 popularity, which was the real sign of when a band had made the big time.
Crystal Ball was bigger, but still not quite a breakthrough, not like its successor The Grand Illusion. The title track was their biggest hit yet, but it was the only hit from that album. But it brought attention to their new singer/guitarist Tommy Shaw and so began the classic era of Styx.
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Shooting Shark, from the same album, gets played from time to time, too. :hat
That is legit one of my top five BOC songs. Fuck local radio. :lol
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Blue Öyster Cult - Take Me Away
This isn't nearly as well-known as their previously-featured three big classic rock staples, but this is still a song that some classic rock stations play quite a bit, including the one here in St. Louis, so it is a good one to feature. I love this song to death. That main guitar lead, with the screaming guitar in the background, is so freaking awesome, and the way the catchy chorus leads back into it each time is terrific songwriting. This is one of those songs that I will never turn off. And always crank up. :metal :metal
I just saw BOC Friday night. it's been 20 some odd years for me. They pulled out Dancin' in the Ruins from Club Ninja which was a huge surprise.
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It was an exciting time. Styx had had their first hit, "Lady" from the second album, but were doomed to be one-hit wonders until their almost-breakthrough Equinox and its (IMO) soundalike "Lorelei". "Light Up" and "Suite Madame Blue" are radio staples now, but then as now, regular FM airplay did not necessarily translate to any kind of Top 40 popularity, which was the real sign of when a band had made the big time.
Crystal Ball was bigger, but still not quite a breakthrough, not like its successor The Grand Illusion. The title track was their biggest hit yet, but it was the only hit from that album. But it brought attention to their new singer/guitarist Tommy Shaw and so began the classic era of Styx.
:coolio
Shooting Shark, from the same album, gets played from time to time, too. :hat
That is legit one of my top five BOC songs.
Same for me. I know a lot of BOC fans bag on The Revolution by Night, but it has three of my favorite BOC songs (the two we have talked about and Feel the Thunder), and the rest is solid. I don't get the hate, although it did delve into a bit of that 80s sound with the keys (the beginning of Veins just screams 80s) and occasional drum sounds, so maybe that's it.
I just saw BOC Friday night. it's been 20 some odd years for me. They pulled out Dancin' in the Ruins from Club Ninja which was a huge surprise.
Very nice! I've seen them a bunch of times over the years and they are never afraid to pull out just about anything from any album, except of course Imaginos, which they ignore like the plague (for obvious reasons).
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Dang, I was expecting a little more love for Crystal Ball. ??? :(
Oh well. Moving on...
Gypsy - As Far As You Can See
According to a friend, this is one of those songs that did get played on the radio a ton back in the 70s, back when rock stations weren't scared to play songs this long (over 12 minutes), and is it now a bit of an obscure classic, in that it gets played on classic rarity shows rather than being one that gets regularly played. Aside from that, this song is pretty dang great. The long proggy intro is totally rocking, and once it settles into the "regular" part, it is very nice and features some really nice melodies. There is a shit ton of great organ and piano work in this song. I'll be curious to see if Jaq or Orbert know this one. :coolio
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Dang, I was expecting a little more love for Crystal Ball. ??? :(
I too was surprised. It happened to come up on my iPod recently, and was still pretty fresh in my mind, and I was thinking about what a great song it was, how cool it was that Tommy had a hit right out of the gate, pretty much everything you said. Not a lot of classic Styx fans here, I guess.
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Not a lot of classic Styx fans here, I guess.
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Guess I'm chopped liver, then...
Anyhoo - on the subject of Crystal Ball - there are additional lyrics that Tommy apparently wrote but were never used in the studio version. He'd use them live, especially in 1984 when he was touring Girls With Guns (his first solo album).
If you should see me walking
through your dreams at night
Would you please direct me
where I ought to be?
I've been looking for a crystal ball
to shed the light
To find a future in me
To find a future in me
I really wish they'd added that.
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Not a lot of classic Styx fans here, I guess.
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Guess I'm chopped liver, then...
But you did not reply! To be counted, you must reply, else chopped liver you truly are.
Interesting lyrics. So was that a third verse, for after the break?
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But... :'( :laugh:
Yep - third verse. But--when Tommy played it during his solo shows, it was acoustic so there was no break for the keyboard solo.
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Ah. That was probably closer to the original song. I'm not a songwriter, but it seems to me that most songs start with the basic song, usually accompanied by guitar or piano, then once the band gets ahold of it, all kinds of things can happen. We get glimpses of this when they do an unplugged version or the original writer does a solo version. It's almost always a much simpler arrangement.
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Exactly, and a little more... organic (is that the right word?) as well.
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I was too stunned by the notion of a radio station still playing Shooting Shark to this day to comment, but I've always had a soft spot for Crystal Ball, the song and the album.
And while I haven't even thought of Gypsy in ages, yes, Kev, I have heard of them. Guy I worked with was really into early prog and had the album this was on. Love that jammy intro. Kind of thing you could see a 70s band stretching out like half an hour on.
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Not a lot of classic Styx fans here, I guess.
I think it's probably more of a case of many don't check this thread. Unless you have been following and/or participating in this thread from the start, it can seen daunting to suddenly jump in, it being at 64 pages, so I suspect some of those Styx fans simply don't look at this thread and had no idea the song was featured.
And while I haven't even thought of Gypsy in ages, yes, Kev, I have heard of them. Guy I worked with was really into early prog and had the album this was on. Love that jammy intro. Kind of thing you could see a 70s band stretching out like half an hour on.
Definitely.
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Crystal Ball is a top 3 Styx song for me. I can never get sick of it.
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Not a lot of classic Styx fans here, I guess.
I think it's probably more of a case of many don't check this thread. Unless you have been following and/or participating in this thread from the start, it can seen daunting to suddenly jump in, it being at 64 pages, so I suspect some of those Styx fans simply don't look at this thread and had no idea the song was featured.
True, but I kept up with this thread while in lurk mode and decided to add my .02 after deciding to come back. So there! :P
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It's not the sort of thread you have to constantly keep up with. It's the Classic Rock Song of the Day thread, after all. I'll check out the day's song anytime I happen to notice it updated.
What's fascinating to me is how regional classic rock hits tend to be. There are songs that get put up that I've never heard (of, sometimes), yet everybody talks as if they're classic rock radio staples. Plenty of other songs get put up here that are staples on the local station that others have never heard of. I think that Head East song was one of them. You couldn't go a day without hearing it down here, yet I recall others not even knowing who Head East were.
As for Styx, it all seemed to sound mostly the same to me. Sometimes they did do their thing better than others, though. Crystal Ball was one I hadn't heard before (was honestly never a Styx fan since I was mainly exposed during the 80's when they were just another Foreigner). It's definitely Styx by numbers, but it's a very good rendition of the formula. No SMB, but still a pretty good tune.
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Never woulda pegged you as a fan of SMB, Barto. :tup
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I love me some Crystal Ball. Will have to check this other song out later as I've never heard it
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I always check out this thread, just rarely have anything to contribute. I never have any funny stories relating to any of the songs, and don't want to chime in with just a "Good song" or "Whatta piece of crap."
Barto summed up my thoughts on Styx better than I could have said it. And interesting regionality comment. There are defintiely some bands, and artists I've never heard of in this thread.
Never woulda pegged you as a fan of SMB, Barto. :tup
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I don't think anyone I know personally (outside of a few musos perhaps) would've ever heard of Styx - to the best of my knowledge they never did much in Australia.
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Yeah, Crystal Ball (the song) is my favorite Styx tune! Seriously. I must have listened to the outro guitar solo a thousand times the first year I had that album. I really dug what Tommy brought to the band.
None of my friends liked the album but the whole thing was (and is) a great memory for me. I always loved how it opened, "Put me on I'm your brand new record album!"
I don't check this thread enough...
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Triumph - Hold On
This was a song that I never really noticed on the radio until a friend got me into Triumph, and then all of a sudden I noticed that this song was played all of the time. :lol I was a massive Triumph fan for a few years back in the mid 90s and know most of the stuff from their core albums like the back of my hand, this song included. Definitely a great tune, like so many other songs from Just a Game, Allied Forces, Thunder Seven and Never Surrender.
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My least favorite song from a band I'm a tremendous fan of.
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great song from such an underrated band.
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:iagree:
This song has it all, tremendous vocals, great solo, unreal work from Gil on the skins... it's flawless. Not my favorite song by Triumph, maybe not even top 5, but it's a brilliantly structured song.
It's amazing to think that Triumph was the bigger Canadian trio in the 80s. Then, Rik left. Imagine if Geddy had left after Presto. Would Rush be the band they are today? If Rik hadn't gone solo, I can see them being as big an act as Rush. Honestly, Triumph's 80s stuff slays the Rush keyboard era.
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My least favorite song from a band I'm a tremendous fan of.
I would say my least favorite hit from them.
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My least favorite song from a band I'm a tremendous fan of.
I would say my least favorite hit from them.
that's probably an accurate way to describe it.
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My least favorite song from a band I'm a tremendous fan of.
I would say my least favorite hit from them.
that's probably an accurate way to describe it.
Yeah, I'd say that's much more accurate. It's not the worst thing they ever did. It's just one of those songs that got popular despite not really being what the band was about.
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Lay It On The Line is the only pre-Allied Forces song local radio ever played here-hell, now they only play that and Magic Power anymore, sigh, for the days when one could hear Fight The Good Fight on radio-so my first experience with Hold On was the edited version that was played on MTV. I'm with the others, this is the least good of Triumph's well known songs. :lol
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Okay, it's time for "Oldies Week." In other words, classic 60s tunes, ones that are maybe considered more oldies than classic rock tunes, but since I don't see myself or anyone else doing an oldies thread any time soon, I figure this thread is a good place to do it. :)
The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
Fun little song! This is one of those songs I never actively seek out, but if I happen across it, it is catchy enough to where I won't turn it off.
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God, I love the harmonies in this song.
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God, I love the harmonies in this song.
This. This right here. :lol
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The Mamas and The Papas were great. I love their harmonies, too, and I did seek this one out. It's on my iPod as part of my "Mondo Mix". When it comes on, I sing along. Great stuff.
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You coulda renamed this "Forest Gump Soundtrack week". Great tune. Not sure I know anything else by the Mama's and the Papa's. Michelle Phillips was highly fapable in her prime.
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You coulda renamed this "Forest Gump Soundtrack week".
Haha, so true!
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The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
This has long been one of my dad's favorite songs, and I remember it being the first song my younger brother learned how to play on the guitar, it supposedly being relatively easy to play. Definitely a true classic in every sense of the word, it's one I like a lot, and this is one of those songs I always associate with a movie scene (Casino).
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I like the concept of this song more than the song itself. It seems to be a story of a place that's mysterious and cool and spooky and whatever, so great potential there, but the song itself is just kinda boring to me. Also, the solo is lame. Just the organ playing the melody for a verse. And the short version magnifies the lameness multifold by shortening it to just the first line. Seriously, WTF?
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Trippy tune. I always found the wails to be very haunting.
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Two absolutely amazing songs
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A haunting classic. Erik Burden has a great lead singer vibe.
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The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
Question for all (to satisfy my curiosity) who is the 2nd Papa aside from John? Can you name him? I always got the sense that for casual fans, he gets lost, not being hot, fat or a kiddie diddler the more famous of the two Papas, despite being the backbone of the vocals.
The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
Also, the solo is lame. Just the organ playing the melody for a verse.
I think that is a pretty cool section, taking the melody and ramping it up a bit. Eric Burdon had such a weird timbre(?) to his voice, but when it works, like on songs like this, it really works.
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Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Fun little catchy song. I think this is one I must have heard enough over the years to where it got to a point where I just knew it, without ever really thinking about it or going out of my way to hear it. It's a song that you just know.
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The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
Question for all (to satisfy my curiosity) who is the 2nd Papa aside from John? Can you name him? I always got the sense that for casual fans, he gets lost, not being hot, fat or a kiddie diddler the more famous of the two Papas, despite being the backbone of the vocals.
Denny Doherty, The Harbor Master! I wouldn't have known this one for years, but then we had a son who watched Thomas the Tank Engine, and later Theodore the Tugboat (same thing only with boats instead of trains) which was hosted by Denny as The Harbor Master.
The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
Also, the solo is lame. Just the organ playing the melody for a verse.
I think that is a pretty cool section, taking the melody and ramping it up a bit. Eric Burdon had such a weird timbre(?) to his voice, but when it works, like on songs like this, it really works.
We'll just have to disagree on this one. It wasn't unheard-of to just play an instrumental verse as the solo or bridge section (The Byrds' "Turn, Turn, Turn" is another famous one, and there are countless others), but I've always found it pretty unimaginative to do that. But it was pretty common in the 60's.
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Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Fun little catchy song. I think this is one I must have heard enough over the years to where it got to a point where I just knew it, without ever really thinking about it or going out of my way to hear it. It's a song that you just know.
I'm a fan of the entire vibe Van Morrison gave off. Hey, he made the word 'fantabulous' cool. What could be better than that? :lol
Brown Eyed Girl on the surface seems like a song I'd despise but I always get a hoppin' summertime feel when it comes on the radio. I can't not sing along with it and I always feel better for having done so. Again, like others say, I'd probably not seek it out but I'd stop on a dime to listen if I was channel surfing.
[edit] Oh, and The House of the Rising Sun is cool too! [/edit]
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Highly annoying song, one that whenever it comes on, girls will joint-squeal and flock to the dance floor, creating one of their Circling-the-Wagons dance circles and signing the chorus because that is all they know, other than "Making love in the green grass"
Van Morrison has a terrible voice. I never thought anyone could ruin any part of Comfortably Numb.
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Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Fun little catchy song. I think this is one I must have heard enough over the years to where it got to a point where I just knew it, without ever really thinking about it or going out of my way to hear it. It's a song that you just know.
Never liked this song for some reason. I would always change the station.
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I think something that bothers me about it is that everyone sings along to the chorus without knowing the rest of the song. You know? people just like singing "sha la la la la la la, la la la la dee dah". same thing with some other songs, like Sweet Caroline, where everyone goes "Bah Bah Bah!" in the chorus. I think I have negative associations with what are otherwise good songs because of this.
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The Monkees - Daydream Believer
For some reason, this song and video was given a regular run on MTV in the late 80s, and that is when I got to know it. It's hard to not think of both the song and video as a big pile of cheese, but screw it, it's just so darn catchy, that I can't help but enjoy it. :lol
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Edited: I misread the title, thought this was "I'm a Believer", originally by Neil Diamond.
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I hate to make this post that KevShmev hates, but the Monkees have so many better songs. I fell in love with the Monkees back in the early 90s when they were on TV all the time. The show cracked me up, and I enjoyed their music enough to buy their cassettes. I listened to them all the time, and still do occasionally. But I don't even think I have this one in my collection.
It's a good song, and very Monkees video with those very 60s colors and Micky's button up shirt on backwards.
I knew Neil wrote it, but not that he recorded it as well. Got to check that out.
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I screwed up. I thought it was "I'm a Believer" not "Daydream Believer". John Stewart wrote "Daydream Believer" although it does have a very Diamondesque melody.
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Cool Chris, I don't doubt that they probably have better songs, but I have to admit that I've never went out of my way to dig deep into the Monkees, and probably never will.
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I know, but I know you hate the "This band had much better songs, such as X and Y..." type replies :)
Orbert, thanks you screwed me up to!
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Ah, okay. That doesn't really aggravate me when it's a band like this that I am not likely to feature again. When it's a band with many classic rock hits, it's like, "Shhhhhh, we'll get to that one eventually; discuss the one at hand!" :lol :lol
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Orbert, thanks you screwed me up to!
My work here is done.
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What the hell, let's do another song today!
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
The first time I ever heard this song was when he played it on one of David Letterman's NBC anniversary specials, I think in the late 80s. I don't know if it was stoned or what, but Dylan was totally out of it, and his vocals sounded absolutely atrocious (even worse than I normally think they do! :lol). Years later, I heard the original, which sounded better, and it made more sense to me then why it is considered such a classic. Musically, it is pretty darn good, and while his voice wasn't that good back then either, it definitely works for that type of song. I am not a Dylan fan by any stretch of the imagination, but even I cannot deny the greatness of this song, even if my enjoyment of it isn't usually that high.
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Yeah, I'm not a big Dylan fan at all, but I do recognize that he wrote some great songs, and this is one of them.
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Catch up time - I'll keep it brief.
California Dreamin' - LOVE. Their harmonies were just so top-notch, and not just on this one.
Brown-Eyed Girl - Not my favorite of Van's, but not bad.
Daydream Believer - Yeah... no.
Like a Rolling Stone - Another LOVE. HOW DOES IT FEEL?! :metal
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Daydream Believer -- Catchy but I haven't reach for it in forever.
Like A Rolling Stone -- As a lyricist. Dylan is top notch but I cannot for the life of me listen to his music and that steams from his voice.
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A long time ago I bought a Dylan CD based on 'Like a Rolling Stone' alone. I liked it that much. I hoped I would like the rest of the disc, but only liked one other song, long since forgotten. Great song.
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The Contours - Do You Love Me
A pretty big hit in the early 60s, it became a huge hit again in the later 80s thanks to it being featured in Dirty Dancing, which is where I first heard it. I thought it was pretty great when I first heard it, and while it's not a song I go back to that often, I still think it is pretty darn good. Put this song on at a party or wedding reception and people will flock to the dance floor faster than you can say, "Do you like it like this?" :lol :lol
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Ehhhh... there's better songs from that time period IMO. I do remember how popular the song got again after Dirty Dancing though, because Dirty Dancing WAS pretty huge.
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Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions
This is another one of those "I know this song without ever really paying attention to it" songs. I never knew about the band or the name of the song until it was featured in the movie Jackie Brown in the late 90s. It's a catchy enough song, but I can't imagine ever going out of my way to listen to it.
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Catchy and upbeat, and I love the horn parts. Because I'm very, very old, I saw them play this song live; it was cool.
60's and 70's bands with horn sections. :tup
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The Turtles - Happy Together
I am pretty sure this is one of those songs I heard a lot when I was really young, meaning it was a favorite of my parents, so they played it a lot, and thus I heard it a lot. Cause by the time I was old enough to know better, it felt like a song I already knew really well. It's a good song; lots of nice vocal melodies.
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TBH, not a large fan.
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The Turtles had absolutely amazing voices. I know this from years of listening to The Mothers after Eddie and Mark had left The Turtles (or they broke up, I don't know) and joined The Mothers. Even though they actually sing "Happy Together" on the live album Fillmore East - June 1971, I didn't realize it was actually them until years later.
Anyway, I like the song well enough, and I can't hear the original version without thinking of the live version with The Mothers. It's a vapid, happy fun song.
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The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
While I like quite a few Rolling Stones songs, there are very few I like enough to say I love them; this is one of them. I've always thought this song was pretty awesome, mainly because I love the sinister nature of the melody. And while Charlie Watts is not someone I'd call a great drummer, the drum fills around the 1:36 mark or so, are ones that are impossible not to air drum. Whether and oldie or a classic rock song, this song is a major winner. :hefdaddy
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definitely. that ethnic beat they have going... I don't know the combination of instruments used, but it is killer. this is maybe one of the 3 songs that actually make me respect The Stones. (You Can't Always Get What You Want, and Gimme Shelter are the two others that come to mind.) when I hear that opening sitar(?) I always know to turn the radio way up.
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I really dislike the Stones.
But I enjoy this song. And I hate myself for it. lol
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Great song, though not one I would go out of my way to listen to, having burned myself out on the Stones long ago.
Also, creepily brilliant way to end Full Metal Jacket.
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Not a fan of the Stones whatsoever, but this song has to be one of the most covered tunes in rock history.
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Great song by this great band. Can't say enough good about it.
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I've been slacking, but I like pretty much all the songs that have been featured so far, although I don't listen to Midnight Confessions a whole lot
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Wasn't this the theme of China Beach? Never watched the show, but it was one of the first (iirc) to use an actual song for their opener. Plus, Dana Delany was hot back then.
Excellent track. One of my more favored Stones tunes.
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Wasn't this the theme of China Beach?
It was a Diana Ross and the Supremes song. So...not even close. :lol
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Wasn't this the theme of China Beach?
It was a Diana Ross and the Supremes song. So...not even close. :lol
I mis-remembered which Vietnam war era TV show it was.... Tour of Duty
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Yeah, but Dana Delany was indeed hot, so there.
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Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
This is often considered THE definitive version of this song, originally written and done by Bob Dylan, and it isn't hard to see why; it's pretty darn good. And it came out right after Hendrix had exploded into the public's consciousness, so it was just right time as well. I am more of a fan of the live versions that Dave Matthew Band do, but Hendrix's cover is undeniably special.
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One of my favorite Hendrix tunes. Yeah, I still think of it as a Hendrix tune, and probably always will, since I didn't find out that it was really a Dylan tune until I'd been listening to it for like 20 years. Great song, and great version.
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Paint It Black (or Paint It, Black) is one of the few Stones songs I really like.
All Along the Watchtower is at the top of the many Hendrix tunes I really love!
I'm feeling really verbose today.
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Honestly, I have zero memory of Dylan's original of this song. I know I've heard it a few times. but I cannot remember a second of it. That is probably a good thing. :lol :lol
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It is.
I remember the first time I heard it, to me it was basically some hack slopping his way through Jimi's masterpiece. Strumming a guitar and singing badly, off-key, with no rhythm. Why would you do an acoustic cover and do it badly, then release it? I listened to the whole thing just to see if the DJ said who it was, and he said it was Bob Dylan doing the original version of the song made famous by Jimi... and I just turned my radio off.
Then for some stupid reason, I felt the need to share this with a friend of mine who's a huge Dylan fan. As I'm telling the story, he just looks at me and says "Oh no, you didn't... you didn't!" But I did. And I liked it.
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:rollin :rollin
I think you just won this thread. :hat
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It is.
I remember the first time I heard it, to me it was basically some hack slopping his way through Jimi's masterpiece. Strumming a guitar and singing badly, off-key, with no rhythm. Why would you do an acoustic cover and do it badly, then release it? I listened to the whole thing just to see if the DJ said who it was, and he said it was Bob Dylan doing the original version of the song made famous by Jimi... and I just turned my radio off.
Then for some stupid reason, I felt the need to share this with a friend of mine who's a huge Dylan fan. As I'm telling the story, he just looks at me and says "Oh no, you didn't... you didn't!" But I did. And I liked it.
That just reminded me of Transatlantic's cover of Indiscipline, where Mike Portnoy says "And I LIKED it." in this really awesome voice.
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All Around The Watchtower is great, but I remember when the movie Watchmen came out and it was used in the movie-since the "two riders were approaching" line was a visual refrain in one issue of the original comic-and some comic nerds went fucking ballistic because the comic attributed the song to Bob Dylan so "why'd they use Hendrix, man?"
I asked them "How many of you have heard Dylan's version?"
Could have heard a pin drop on that forum, :lol
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The Doobie Brothers - China Grove
As always, I love me some classic Doobies, and this is another great tune, and a really fun one as well. Nothing overly tricky about this song; it's just a straight-ahead rock tune with a catchy main riff and great, memorable vocal melodies.
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"You can even hear the music at night" is followed by a pentatonic piano run. Pentatonic scales are often associated with Chinese and other Asian music, so the line is supposed to be what you might hear if you were hanging around China Grove at night. Except Tom Johnston had never been to China Grove; he just wrote the song, imagining what the place might be like with a name like that. But it's not a little town settled by Chinese immigrants, and the sheriff and his buddies don't use Samurai swords (which are Japanese anyway). It got its name from the China Blossom trees which grow in the area.
Great song, though, one of my favorite Doobie Brothers songs.
I told this story just recently in the "Disappointed" thread, but what the hell.
A coworker and I flew down to San Antonio on business and thought it would be cool to go to China Grove and have dinner, just so we could say we'd been there.
It was practically a ghost town. The first thing you see upon entering China Grove city limits is an abandoned gas station with weeds growing through the pavement, looked like it had been that way at least 20 years. Then nothing for a while, then the General Store, some nameless restaurant, and Nixon State Bank. Past that, more nothing; you're back in the sticks again. That was China Grove. The restaurant stunk of cigar smoke when you opened the door. Six pickup trucks in the parking lot, five of which had rifle racks. We didn't stay.
This is me, standing in front of Nixon State Bank in China Grove, Texas, a sleepy little town down around San Antone. The camera in my old phone sucked, but it was all I had with me.
(https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/2584_1043530810446_1969943_n.jpg)
As far as I can tell, it is one of three businesses in China Grove. These are the other two:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/2584_1043531090453_4678621_n.jpg)
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Cool story! :coolio
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I love the feel, grove, and rocking harmonies on this song, but...man. This is one of my nominees for the absolute worse lyrics in rock history. "Lord, they're a caution." Really? :lol
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What's wrong with that line? It's a common expression.
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:rollin
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Meanie. :(
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Whoops - got behind again. :blush
Midnight Confessions - I can't really comment on this one, as I don't think I've heard it. I'll YT it when I get home and edit the post.
Happy Together - I like the song well enough, but I LOOOOOOOVE the version of it on Frank Zappa's Fillmore East album. Can't beat Flo and Eddie making fun of what put them on the map in the first place.
Paint It Black - LOVE. :2metal:
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi's is definitely the superior version. For those of you who've seen the 2004 version of Battlestar Galactica, this song features VERY prominently in the third season. :metal
China Grove - I think I liked this song more when I was a kid. Now? Eh. It's okay, but definitely not my favorite of the stuff before the band became "Michael McDonald and The Doobie Brothers".
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Really fun song. That riff kicks so much ass
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AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC is definitely a band I almost never go out of my way to listen to, largely because I heard them so much back in the day, but this is still a song I will crank up and enjoy the hell out of. It's a timeless classic and never get olds. :metal :metal
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This song, Hell's Bells, and Big Gun (love the guitar) really do the trick for me like no other AC/DC tunes. I'll always enjoy them and crank them up but like you I wouldn't seek them out to listen to.
Great rock 'n roll! :metal
Also, this is applicable. Back in Black Scat. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmLe2eiy1wo#t=86)
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AC/DC is something like a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't have any of their albums, and I can't really say that I like them, but there are a couple songs of theirs that really kick some ass, and this is one of them.
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Still love it. First heard it on the radio back in the day and was :2metal:
First cassette tape I bought with my own $$$ too. :yarr
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About as good of a straight up good old rock and roll song as you can get.
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About as good of a straight up good old rock and roll song as you can get.
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AC/DC is something like a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't have any of their albums, and I can't really say that I like them, but there are a couple songs of theirs that really kick some ass, and this is one of them.
What's to feel guilty about?
Great rock song from an all time great rock album. Not really much else to say.
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I guess the "guilty" part is because from the moment I first heard them, back in the Bon Scott days, I didn't like them. The voice bugged me, the guitars and music overall seemed very crude, very simplistic, and 100% formulated to appeal to the lowest common denominator: idiotic, hormone-ravaged teenaged boys. And I was exactly that demographic.
At the time, I was "progressing" from KISS and Aerosmith into stuff like Yes and Genesis, and liked to think of myself as musically enlightened or something. I know, I know. I'm getting better about that. But this was high school, and there was this one radio station that played AC/DC all the time. It was obviously somebody's favorite band there. But it was the radio at work, and it was the only station we could get because of some weird confluence of meteorological phenomena and where the radio sat, so I couldn't get away from it. Two AC/DC songs per hour, every hour. And every time they came on, I thought "Here we go again." Drove me fucking nuts.
But as happens so often in such situations, I eventually came around. I started to like it. And I felt strangely guilty about it. I had been manipulated. This was music specifically written to appeal to me, and I should not fall for it. But they had a couple of really good songs, and this is one of them.
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AC/DC - Back in Black
One of the best classic hard rock songs ever written. Phenomenal.
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Supertramp - Dreamer
The first time I heard this song, back in 1992, I thought it was a Yes song, since the singer sounded just like the singer in Yes. I quickly learned that it was by Supertramp, a band that already had a few songs I knew I liked. I ran out and bought their greatest hits, which my first serious girlfriend Jennifer and I both enjoyed the hell out of for much of 1992 (which ran parallel to me getting into a lot of Rush's stuff, so while it got plenty of play time, it still paled in comparison to the play time Rush got). Eventually, we broke up, and I think she had the copy of the greatest hits at the time, which I never got back, but by then, I was ready to buy the three main studio albums, so I didn't care. The more Supertramp stuff I heard, the less I liked Dreamer (which I never thought was anything more than pretty good anyway). Something about the way Roger Hodgson croons for much of the song is kind of annoying. I like the end when Rick Davies comes in with some lead vocals line as well, but overall, this is not a song of which I can call myself a big fan.
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Whoa, Roger Hodgson sounds nothing like Jon Anderson! Sure, they both have high voices, but that's it. Roger's is thin and honestly kinda whiny. Jon's is much rounder and is commonly mistaken for falsetto (it is not, it's contralto).
I like the song, but really hate Roger's vocal performance here. It's hard to separate the two, I know, but it's possible. I just get really tired of Roger's whiny voice. I really like a lot of Supertramp, and Roger's voice works most of the time (Fool's Overture, Take the Long Way Home, etc.), despite being really annoying. Here, it's just really annoying.
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Okay, but I was 18 at the time, so I didn't know any better. :lol :lol The obvious difference between the two was more than clear once I started really listening to both (at that time, I still only knew a handful of Yes songs).
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Well... okay.
But man, you really had me worried there. I saw Rush mentioned in the same paragraph and I thought you were even gonna say that one of them sounds like Geddy. I've heard people say Rush and Yes sound the same because the singers both have high voices. This just plain blows my mind. Do all high-pitched voices sound the same to most people?
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I think some people are just lazy when it comes to that kind of stuff, especially music they do not care for. I used to have people tell me that all of Rush's stuff sounds the same. Same with U2. Two absurd assertions. But when you have qualities as identifiable as Edge's guitar or Geddy's voice, the minute some hear either, to them, that is sounding the same as everything else by the band. It's lazy, yeah, but it's just how some people work. :tdwn :tdwn
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I guess. It's true that the more you listen, the more you begin to understand and recognize the differences, and also similarities, with a given band's music, or a given genre, or anything else for that matter. But if you're not familiar with it and/or don't care to be, then you'll never reach the point where you can distinguish anything.
It's kinda like what happened with me and AC/DC. I really didn't like them, but Q106 in Lansing, Michigan played them all the fucking time. Eventually, I could tell the songs apart, then one time I found myself singing and air-guitaring along with them, and I thought "How did this happen?" In general, though, that's gotta be the exception. You can't force yourself (or anyone else) to like something.
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Ugh, Dreamer?! :facepalm: Sorry, if I never hear that one again it'll be too soon.
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Ugh, Dreamer?! :facepalm: Sorry, if I never hear that one again it'll be too soon.
Yeah, no shit. And 2 minutes ago was the first time I ever heard it. Not a Supertramp fan and it didn't get any airplay.
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I can tolerate hearing Supertramp on the radio in the background. No interest in them beyond that.
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There are better tunes from them but this did get a lot of airplay up North here.
BTW Orbert did you know Roger almost joined the reformed Yes in the 90s before Jon returned. He wrote the song "Walls" with Trevor on the "Talk" album.
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Yes in the early 90's was a mess. The band, such as it was, was Trevor's band, his vision, because of how it came about before it was even called Yes. Jon Anderson was off with Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe, and Talk is basically a Rabin solo album with the backing band mostly Yes and former Yes guys, although you could say that about any of the Rabin-era albums. Then Jon came back and they didn't need Roger any more. At least that's how I remember it.
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Back in Black... never tire of the song, or the album. AC/DC is just meat-and-potatoes hard rock. Nothing flashy; nothing but toe tappin, head-noddin great music. :metal
Dreamer... was the first Supertramp song I ever heard in the early-80s. My older brother had Paris on vinyl. Dreamer for whatever reason was being played a lot on the radio, so it made the jump to pop radio. I didn't know any better. It wasn't until the late 80s that I realized there was much, MUCH more to Supertramp. CotC is such a great album... though Dreamer is definitely at the bottom of the pack.
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Well, since we've got them on the brain at the moment...
Yes - Long Distance Runaround
Great little song, featuring an intricate, yet catchy, little unison lead by Howe and Wakeman, while Chris Squire throttles us with a crazy bass lead, and Jon Anderson sings an extremely infectious melody. They really do jam pack a ton of great stuff into this little three and a half minute song. Some stations would often play Squire's The Fish with it, including those here in St. Louis, but I thought it'd be simpler to just feature Long Distance Runaround.
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Well, the two songs run together on the album, and a lot of people are used to hearing them that way. I, for one, get pretty annoyed when the only play "Long Distance Runaround" but not "The Fish". But then, I'm a Yesfreak, so there you go. Both of the classic rock stations around here usually play them together.
The unison between Wakeman and Howe breaks into harmony later, during the break.
Fun little song. Very short by Yes standards, so that's another reason to let it run into "The Fish".
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Agree with Bob 100%!!
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I agree with King agreeing with Orbert.
The drums and bass always blow me away on this song no matter how many times I hear it.
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I agree with Podaar agreeing with king agreeing with Orbert. :biggrin:
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I agree with Kev.
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I agree with jingle.boy
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I agree with jingle.boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnKCcjP8Qs
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I agree with jingle.boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnKCcjP8Qs
:lol
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
I went through a spell in the early 90s where I was obsessed with CSNY's Deja Vu record, and the title track was one of my favorites. That brief spell didn't last long, but my love for this song has never waned. This band, even when it was just three of them, before Young came on board, always knew how to deliver awesome vocal harmonies. And they are on fine display here.
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My love for CSN (and sometimes Y) has never waned. I love those guys. Finally saw them in '96, it was already pretty late in their career, but they were still great. So is this song.
I love the "joke" about how the song starts, then starts again, since the title is "Deja Vu". Hee hee.
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Just saw them (minus Y) on Palladia and he David has his son James Raymond from CPR, which I love, on keys touring with them and their harmonies are impeccable.
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CPR are also awesome. I have both of their albums, and they're kinda like CSN but with keyboards, which is sweet.
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I wish they'd make a 3rd album.
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Great number from a great band. Their harmonies are off the chart. I love the trippy bridge section
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CPR are also awesome. I have both of their albums, and they're kinda like CSN but with keyboards, which is sweet.
Is that a gimmick cover band or something? playing on the fact that CSN are really old now? :D
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Long Distance Runaround: GREAT song, but I absolutely agree that you HAVE to have The Fish after it.
Deja Vu: Been a while since I heard this one. Forgot that I liked it too - oops. :blush
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CPR are also awesome. I have both of their albums, and they're kinda like CSN but with keyboards, which is sweet.
Is that a gimmick cover band or something? playing on the fact that CSN are really old now? :D
Nope, it's a side project and the CPR name has multiple meanings. Read up on them. Here is a song from them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Vb8iJ1z8M
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CPR are also awesome. I have both of their albums, and they're kinda like CSN but with keyboards, which is sweet.
Is that a gimmick cover band or something? playing on the fact that CSN are really old now? :D
No, it was a serious band, and a pretty good one, too. Crosby, Pevar, and Raymond. Jeff Pevar is a guitarist, and James Raymond is David Crosby's son.
If I remember correctly, James was given up for adoption, as Crosby and the boy's mother (whose name I forget) were very young and not in a position to raise a child of their own. After reaching adulthood, Raymond looked into who has parents were, and his father turned out to be David Crosby. They got together, and Raymond seems to have inherited Crosby's musical talent, but plays keyboards rather than guitar. They jammed a bit, and decided to put a band together. CPR made two albums before breaking up, but Raymond plays keys for CSN and Crosby-Nash when they tour.
Their albums are both great. Harmonies similar to CSN, music has a similar sound, but different.
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The Doors - Touch Me
I don't remember the exact moment when I first heard this song; I just know that I thought it was all kinds of awesome when I heard it. While Jim Morrison probably has far better examples of his vocal prowess, his vocals really stood out to me in this song. Plus, the melodies themselves are absolutely wonderful. A definite classic.
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To add to what Orbert said, James found out the Crosby was in critical condition and needed a blood doner(sp?) and he of course what a match that lead to him admitting he was his son. Hence the dual meaning to the band name CPR.
Touch me is my favorite Doors song. Great passion and the song gets me in a great mood every time I hear it.
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The Doors seemed to have two modes as a band: writers of immaculate pop songs, and writers of really weird, hard to get a hold of for the time period, songs. This is about as perfect an example of the former as you can get.
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To add to what Orbert said, James found out the Crosby was in critical condition and needed a blood doner(sp?) and he of course what a match that lead to him admitting he was his son. Hence the dual meaning to the band name CPR.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that part! I saw them on some show (Letterman or maybe Leno) talking about it.
Touch me is my favorite Doors song. Great passion and the song gets me in a great mood every time I hear it.
The Doors seemed to have two modes as a band: writers of immaculate pop songs, and writers of really weird, hard to get a hold of for the time period, songs. This is about as perfect an example of the former as you can get.
Yes and yes. Great song. The only thing that brings it down, just slightly, is the fact that it's the same verse repeated again and again. But the words themselves are great, and hey, it was the 60's. Or was it the 70's? I don't remember.
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1969. Close enough. :lol
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one of my favorite Doors tunes
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The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
This has long been one of my favorite Beatles songs, and remains so to this day. I love everything about it. It's interesting to note that the mellotron was used in this song thanks to the influence of Moody Blues keyboard wizard Mike Pinder, who introduced the instrument to John Lennon. Awesome tune.
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Great song. Kinda weird and offbeat, but cool.
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Touch Me - okay song, but it got WAY overplayed. Thank you, classic rock radio. :angry:
Strawberry Fields Forever - so, the story on this one is that John had played the song two different ways in the studio and couldn't decide which one to go with. He ended up telling George Martin to use them both but to try to splice them together in a semi-cohesive manner. The end result is one of my favorite Beatles songs ever.
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If I'm not mistaken, the two versions were also in different keys, and George Martin had to play with the tape speeds to get them to sound in the same key when he put them together. I may be thinking of a different song. But I know he did it at least once. George Martin was a genius. To me, he was the real Fifth Beatle.
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Strawberry is a good song not great, however it's one of my favorites from The Beatles.
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Definitely my 2nd favorite song off of Magical Mystery Tour (I Am the Walrus is number 1)
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Since this will be the 300th song/combo to be featured, I tried to find a song that is 3:00. And I did.
Boston - Rock and Roll Band
Ah, yet another timeless classic from Boston's debut record. It seems almost too easy to say I love this song, but screw it, there is nothing with calling a great song great, so yeah, this song is great! :lol :biggrin:
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Oh, and after 300 features, here are the artists that have been featured the most so far:
Led Zeppelin 7
Boston 5
Pink Floyd 5
Queen 5
The Who 5
Blue Öyster Cult 4
The Doobie Brothers 4
The Doors 4
Eagles 4
Electric Light Orchestra 4
Journey 4
Kansas 4
Lynyrd Skynyrd 4
Rush 4
Styx 4
Supertramp 4
Van Halen 4
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The idea of a rock and roll band writing a song about being a rock and roll band and calling it "Rock and Roll Band" may sound cheesy -- and it is -- but this really is a great song. Catchy, packs some punch, short and sweet.
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you can't go wrong with any song from Boston
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Very true, referring to both of your posts.
Honestly, Boston's debut is probably the one classic rock album that will probably see every song from it featured at some point (assuming the thread lasts long enough).
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The interesting thing about Rock And Roll Band, of course, is the fact that it's a history of Boston that never really happened. There were no bar band days for them- Tom Scholz once said that being a bar band would be a step up for him. Boston was really just a mad scientist and a couple of his friends making demos in a basement until someone finally noticed them. I hold Boston's debut in ridiculously high regard-it made #6 in my top 50, and could go higher if I ever did something foolish like that again-and Rock And Roll Band was a perfect song to launch the album's second side.
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Great song. Great album.
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A little nugget for you folks. I once jammed with Brad Delp when I was 15. He was so good to us and we had a blast. Sad to see him off himself. He lived in the same town as my brother which was one town away from where I grew up.
As for the 1st album. You can put any song from that album and I will tell you it's a masterpiece.
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Great song. Great album.
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The interesting thing about Rock And Roll Band, of course, is the fact that it's a history of Boston that never really happened. There were no bar band days for them- Tom Scholz once said that being a bar band would be a step up for him. Boston was really just a mad scientist and a couple of his friends making demos in a basement until someone finally noticed them.
I've wondered about this before. I read that Tom Scholtz was an MIT grad who made their first album in his basement using homemade technology, and that didn't seem to mesh with the supposed story of them as a bar band that "barely made enough to survive". I doesn't really matter though, because I see this song less as "their story" and more as a general anthem for all start-up bands dreaming of making it big.
Also, I like how over-the-top Delp goes for the "Sign a record company contract!" line. It's like he's squee-ing.
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Boston - Rock and Roll Band
funny, I heard this song tonight at a little bar/restaurant on the water in Key West. Great song!
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Five Man Electrical Band - Signs
I suspect many are more familiar with the Tesla cover from the early 90s, but the original by Five Man Electrical Band was somewhat of a classic rock staple for quite a while. I was never much of a fan of this song, regardless of what version it was, but it was popular enough to warrant being featured.
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This is a song where the message and the concept are more important than the song itself. I of course grew up with the original version by the Five Man Electrical Band. I remember environmentalists talking about how the beauty of nature is being spoiled by all the huge billboards, and it did seem like everywhere you went, there was a sign telling you what you couldn't do or were supposed to do or whatever. And of course I always wanted to be one of those "long-haired freaky people" who people judge by their cover, just so I could mess with people's perceptions and expectations.
But I do understand why some people think the song is dumb or trite or whatever. I just think they're wrong. :P
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Maybe it was more popular in some areas than others, but I never heard this in my life until after Tesla released their cover.
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If I'm not mistaken, the two versions were also in different keys, and George Martin had to play with the tape speeds to get them to sound in the same key when he put them together. I may be thinking of a different song. But I know he did it at least once. George Martin was a genius. To me, he was the real Fifth Beatle.
You're correct about the different key thing, and I agree with you - George Martin was most definitely the fifth Beatle.
Boston - Rock and Roll Band
You cannot convince me that anything from Boston's first album is not a masterpiece. :metal
Five Man Electrical Band - Signs
Maybe it was more popular in some areas than others, but I never heard this in my life until after Tesla released their cover.
I'm with hef on this one.
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Yeah, baby. :metal
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I'll be curious to see if anyone knows this one...
Jonathan Edwards - Shanty
This is kind of a folk song more than anything, but it was a KSHE staple for decades (hell, it still might be, for all I know :lol), as it was always played on Friday morning, kind of their way of announcing, "Hey, the weekend's almost here!" I can't say I've ever gone out of my way to hear it, but it's notable to me for that reason.
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Don't know this one.
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Most definitely local.
You stumped me and Orbert. I think you win something for that, Kev. :lol
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Awesome. One of you guys can PM me for my address so you know where to send my prize. :biggrin:
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Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
Like the rest of Aja, this song is pretty much aces. I love the jazz rock feel of it, while still having memorable melodies all over the place. I know that Steely Dan isn't everyone's cup of tea, but when I am in the right mood, they scratch just the right itch, and this is one of my go-to Steely Dan songs. :coolio
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Great song. Aja was my first Steely Dan album, a record club purchase, after hearing them on the radio for years but never really checking them out. Whoa. I played the hell out of that album. It's still my favorite, but mostly because I know it inside and out. I worked my way back through their catalogue, and it's all pretty great. Gaucho isn't quite as good, but when they reformed years later, the two new ones are pretty good. As with most bands, their earliest stuff is often the best. They were younger, hungrier, and more willing to take chances. Also, they mellowed out a lot. Those early albums have a certain edge to them that got dulled a bit as they got older.
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Great song. Aja is also my favorite SD album.
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LOVE LOVE LOVE this song and album.
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The Cars - Since You're Gone
This has always been one of my favorite Cars songs since getting into the band in '83/'84. Heartbeat City made me a fan, and when I heard the rest of their hits on a friend's greatest hits cassette - that's right, cassette :lol :lol - this song really stood out. It's still pretty great.
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BTW Kev, I never heard Jonathan Edwards - Shanty either! :lol
Since your gone is a fun song but a middle of the pack song from the Cars for me.
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I like The Cars, but after playing their debut album to death, pretty much everything after that tended to sound the same. Their sound did evolve a bit over time, but never ventured far from that quirky, new wave sound.
This song's okay, but I'd honestly forgotten about it until just now.
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Love the Cars to bits. Ric Ocasek just wrote endless reams of perfect pop-rock songs, and their initial association with new wave music aside, they were just plain a great rock band. Looking over my top 50, I am kicking myself for not getting an album by the Cars on it (probably Candy-O, that's fucking amazing.) I haven't mentioned the song much because any single off their first five albums pretty much defaulted to awesome, and this is no exception.
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Hey Jaq, what did you think of Move Like This? I picked that one up when it came out, just to see. Did you grab it? You sound like a big Cars fan.
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As huge of a fan of the Cars as I am, I actually haven't gotten around to listening to it yet. Will have to rectify that. :lol
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You should. I was gonna offer my opinion and comments, but if you haven't heard it yet, I'll hold off.
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I think part of my reason for not listening to it was the lack of Ben Orr-was concerned it would be a bit one note without his vocals to balance out Ocasek's. I'll check it out.
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I found it good, but not great. I haven't listened to Move Like This in a while.
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It was pretty much what I expected. Without Benjamin, yeah the vocals are all Ric, and they went with programmed and keyboard bass, which was actually kinda cool. It was the remaining four original members, no substitutions. Overall, pretty good, a couple pretty catchy songs, Ric is still weird. I was hoping for maybe something weird, way outside the box, but that's not The Cars.
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No love for the Cars here. :tdwn
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Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster
This is another one of those classic rock staples that I almost never go out of my way to hear, but whenever I hear it, I always think, "This is pretty damn good," so who knows why I don't ever actually seek it out. Even listening now, one of the few times in my life I actually have gone out of my way to hear it, I am enjoying the hell out of it. Some songs are just like that, I suppose.
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Put me in the boat as the official hater of Molly Hatchet. Can't stand their music, saw them live twice with BOC and I hated them and Flirtin' is the only song I can tolerate.
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Some interesting and fun guitar work. Monotonous drums. Poor imitation Ronnie Van Zant vocals. Hyper annoying cowboy whistle. All in all, the bad outweighs the good or so it seems to me...y'all know what I mean? Not my thing.
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I picked up a Molly Hatchet album a long time ago; I'm sure I still have it, but I couldn't tell you the name. I'd heard a few songs by them, thought their guitar work was pretty good, and decided to check out an album. I guess Southern Rock is one of those genres I'm okay with in small doses, but I found myself getting kinda bored listening to a whole album.
This song is pretty good. Most bands, most genres even, if it's upbeat and not too obnoxious, I'm okay with it.
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I love Molly Hatchet, especially their first two albums, but I never really much liked Flirting With Disaster. If there's a Molly Hatchet by numbers song, this is it. Nice guitar work though, they always had that.
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Hatchet is OK, but there is a lot better Southern rock out there.
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I wasn't expecting more meh and bad comments than good ones about this tune, but hey, that's the fun of this thread, right? :lol
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April Wine - I Like to Rock
This song got a lot of airplay here in St. Louis back in the day. The coolest thing is the intro, which is a nice little build-up to the meat of the song. Overall, it's pretty much a run of the mill 70s rock tune, but I like it. Nothing too fancy about it, really, but it's enjoyable. And of course, it's like the 245th song to borrow the Day Tripper riff (hear at the end of the song). :lol
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It's not just the Day Tripper riff, they combine it with a combine others. I haven't heard the song in a while, but I'm pretty sure Satisfaction is in there, and I think one other. I mean, that's the whole point of the song. It's a rock and roll song about rock and roll songs.
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It's just Satisfaction and Day Tripper bouncing off the main riff of the song. I always remembered it as three too, but I just listened to it on Spotify and it's those two, each one in a channel with the main riff taking up the middle. I remember long ago hearing this song on the radio and the DJ derisively saying "real original, guys" and my response being "way to miss the point, jack ass."
A constant: local radio has sucked all my life. :lol
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Ah, you're right. The three are the main riff of the song itself plus the other two. ♫♫
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Finally got around to listening to Move Like This by the Cars, btw, and it's pretty much what I expected: an entire album of Ric Ocasek sung songs. There's a few occasions where the song just screams "I wish Ben Orr could sing this"-Keep On Knocking comes to mind off the top of my head-but it's a solid album, and Ocasek hasn't lost the knack for writing slightly off-center pop songs. Thanks for pointing me at it, Orbert.
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:tup
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Hmmm, I've never caught the Satisfaction riff in this April Wine song... *goes to listen to it again*
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Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
Classic rock radio loves to play the ever-living crap out of this song, so maybe it got on my nerves hearing it so much, or maybe, just maybe, it was never a song that appealed to me. I think I am gonna go with the latter. Joe Walsh songs can usually be hit or miss for me, and this is one that misses. Sure, the main riff is cool, but I guess it just sounds too vanilla compared to so many other rock songs from that era. For whatever reason, I am not a fan of it. I don't hate it or anything, but it simply does nada for me.
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Which means, of course, that you finally got to one that I like :lol
I've always liked Walsh as a songwriter, I love a lot of his solo stuff. This is one of his most popular (along with, I suppose, Life's Been Good), but he has a lot of cool songs.
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I like this one a lot. We're doing it in the band; lots of keys, good fun. Also, some great slide work and talkbox.
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I was typing that write-up while listening to the song and finished about halfway through it. Oddly, the instrumental section was better than I remembered, so maybe I dislike it less than I thought. :lol I just think this is one of those songs where his voice kind of annoys me, but musically it is good. That seems like a good middle ground for me to settle on. :biggrin:
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It's good that you have seen the light.
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I really like this song and love the cover of it by Triumph even more. I'll admit to being a fan of Joe Walsh in general. His party-hearty vibe always resonated with me...even though it probably wasn't very good for him! :lol
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Jonathan Edwards - Shanty
Wut? Never heard of it.
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
Good song, but not one of my SD favorites.
The Cars - Since You've Been Gone
You sure you don't mean Since You're Gone? If that's the one you mean, good song but... The Cars had better tunes. Not unlistenable though.
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster
Ugh. That got WAY overplayed on classic rock radio/FM radio down in Houston and here in Austin. They always struck me as a poor man's Lynyrd Skynyrd.
April Wine - I Like to Rock
Had to YouTube this one - don't think I ever heard it back in the day. Kinda generic if you ask me.
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
Yes, it's overplayed but the instrumental part is still pretty kick ass. That, and Joe has always been my favorite Eagle. RMW, however, does not come close to being the best of his solo stuff though.
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Wow, I did screw up that Cars song title. Badly. I am surprised no one else caught that. D'oh!
It's good that you have seen the light.
I still don't like it that much; I just should have waited till the song was over to post my write-up, since I will usually write the post when listening to the song of the day, and sometimes I'll think something is better or worse than I remembered, and I'll edit and tweak it as I go along, but this was one of the times that I finished it quickly and hit "post" before letting the song finish. Figures. :lol :lol :facepalm:
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One of Walsh's more tasteful songs is I.L.B.T.'s.
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And by "taste" you mean... :eyebrows:
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Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
I am a big fan of this song, but the odd thing is that I still consider the studio version to be a slight disappointment. I got to know the song from seeing The Wall movie, and it is edited down to around two minutes, to where it moves at a furious pace the entire time, and having the keyboard solo moved to underneath the 2nd verse was pure genius. The studio version seems a bit too slow at times compared to the frantic nature of the film edit. The live versions with the extended intro were always bad ass, although Guy Pratt doing half of the lead vocals was not always kind to the ears. :lol Great song, for sure, but I don't think we've ever gotten that one perfect version of it.
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Great song, but definitely comes most alive in a live setting.
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Like Comfortably Numb (and 90% of Floyd's catalog) the live version kicks the studio's ass! Such a great rocker. Definitely in my PF top 10
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I'm always struck by Pink Floyd's ability to take simple song ideas--maybe even repetitious--and make them feel complex and epic. This song may be the epitome of that particular aesthetic. :tup :heart
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...although Guy Pratt doing half of the lead vocals was not always kind to the ears.
Delicate Sound of thunder was my first experience with this song, so hearing Roger do all the verses sounded weird after that. And incidentally, that was what got Guy the spot on tour. He came in to audition, took out his bass, and David said "I know you can play the parts, I want to hear you sing." Not being a singer, that took Guy quite by surprise.
Anyhoo... rarely listen to this song off the album any more. But as awesome as a finisher for DG/Floyd shows as can be.
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I guess I'm in the minority here, but that's not unusual. I of course grew up with the original version from The Wall, so to my ears that will always be the "right" way to do the song. The various live versions I've heard, even by Pink Floyd and Roger Waters, just don't capture the same vibe to me.
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I see what you mean, and let me point out that while I said the studio version was a slight disappointment, it is still pretty great; I just loved the frantic nature of the edit in the film.
I remember hearing that about Pratt before, Chris. IIRC, he sounded better on the Division Bell tour than he did on the AMLOR tour, so maybe he practiced over the years and got better.
Podaar, I agree!
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Love love love Run Like Hell.
And I think PF's live versions w/ Pratt trumps all other versions. Especially on P*U*L*S*E
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Besides material from Animals, Run Like Hell would be my favorite from Pink Floyd
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...although Guy Pratt doing half of the lead vocals was not always kind to the ears.
Delicate Sound of thunder was my first experience with this song, so hearing Roger do all the verses sounded weird after that. And incidentally, that was what got Guy the spot on tour. He came in to audition, took out his bass, and David said "I know you can play the parts, I want to hear you sing." Not being a singer, that took Guy quite by surprise.
Being Rick Wright's son in law probably didn't hurt his cause any.
Actually never cared for any of this album outside of the live setting. That's unique among the Gilmour era material. Mostly it's the other way around.
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Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
This was played more by the softer classic rock stations than the harder ones, but despite never being a single, it was played on the radio quite a bit, at least in my area. I have great love for this song. Pretty much everything about it is great, from the various musical themes to Joel's storytelling. The Stranger was definitely Joel's greatest achievement from a full album standpoint, and Scenes from an Italian Restaurant is arguably the best song on that record. It's a magnificent song. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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One of my favorite artists. Fantastic song. Easy peasy.
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Billy Joel has always been great, but around The Stranger and 52nd Street he was just amazing. "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" was so epic to our impressionable junior high minds. We didn't know pop stars even did epics.
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I couldn't remember it so I had to go to YT. I know I've heard at least the intro before but everything else sounded new to me. Cool song!
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Cheap Trick - Surrender
Just like The Dream Police, it's hard for me to hear this song without thinking of Damone humming a portion of the lyrics of this in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Good song, and I remember years ago VH1 playing a live version of it and I was pretty impressed by how great Robin Zander's vocals were. They were more impassioned than on the original. I have no idea what year that live clip was from and where it was from, but I just remember taking way more notice of the song after seeing it.
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Never been a fan of Cheap Trick. I've often been amazed they were ever popular. But hey, whatever.
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Opposite for me with Cheap Trick, I love this tune and never get sick of it and I love their albums. They put on a very good live show.
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They only have a handful of songs I like, and all of them I like a lot, but I've never even thought of digging into them anymore. Not sure why, but I guess I've never had anyone pimp their stuff at all for me to even be curious about their deeper cuts.
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The best single concert I've ever been to, in terms of the quality of the sets played by the opener and the headliner, was seeing REO Speedwagon and Cheap Trick back around 1985. Both bands were barnstorming Midwestern bands that grew up on the road, and both were pure masters of owning an audience. Cheap Trick is, admittedly, these days defined by their two best known songs in Surrender and I Want You To Want Me, and they rarely caught the lightning in a bottle that they were live (which is why it took a live album to break them) in the studio, but lord, they were a kick ass band.
They had one of the earliest concerts played on MTV, and as I recall the version of Surrender from it was pretty good. Surely that wasn't the one VH1 played, that was back in 1981!
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They only have a handful of songs I like, and all of them I like a lot, but I've never even thought of digging into them anymore. Not sure why, but I guess I've never had anyone pimp their stuff at all for me to even be curious about their deeper cuts.
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Montrose - Rock Candy
Pretty good song, catchy enough, and with some good riffage, but it was never one I was wild about. Even when I went through my big Montrose/Hagar phase for a brief bit in the mid 90s, I liked the majority of the songs from that Montrose album more than this one. It's easy to see why it was fairly popular, regardless.
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Love Scenes and Surrender to death. Haven't listened to any Montrose yet
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Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner
This is one of those songs I thought was really cool the first time I heard it, as it was fairly early on in my classic rock listening days IIRC, but as time went on, the shine wore off of this song quite a bit. I still think it's a nice, catchy song, and I do like it still, but I just don't think it is as great as I did at first. The synth intro, which I am pretty sure is considered a separate track, is really cool.
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Favorite Steve Miller track (yes, I like it more than The Joker)
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Great song, but for me it is far from their best.
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Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Fantastic song, one that just brims with emotion and tension. And who doesn't love what might be the most recognizable drum fill in any rock song ever? It's like all of the tension that had built up to that point comes rushing out. Say what you want about Collins' solo career, and a lot of it is pop fluff, but this song is a major winner.
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I find a lot of Collins solo and Genesis material to be fluff; but like you said, this is a major winner. The drums!!
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In The Air Tonight was infamous in my house as the song that woke my sister up. She fell asleep while we were watching MTV, and That Drum Fill woke her up from a dead sleep. :lol
Eric Clapton did a tour with Phil Collins playing drums and Phil got to do one of his songs, which was In The Air Tonight. Normally when Phil did it live, if memory serves, he would play the drums at the end alongside Chester Thompson, but for this version he went it alone and nailed everything while singing. Which was about the time he became one of my five favorite drummers of all time.
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Always been a fan of Collins, and this song is definitely an all time great, but I have to be in the mood to hear it.
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I've gotten that "Wait, really?" look from a handful of friends over the years when Genesis or Collins came up in music conversations and I mentioned how great of a drummer Collins was in his heyday. I blame those damn songs he did for Disney. :lol :lol
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I love this song... But I always get an unreasonable and irresistible urge to wear a bright T-shirt under a white sport coat when I hear it!?
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America - Ventura Highway
Gorgeous little song, featuring that sweet acoustic lead and, as always with this band, plenty of beautiful vocal harmonies. It's hard to not to love this song.
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Just getting caught up after 2 weeks of travel...
The Doors - Touch Me
Great short tune. Love the keys on this one... it forever changed my impression of The Doors, as I was never too big on Riders or LA Woman, and that's what got the most radio airplay.
Boston - Rock and Roll Band
Another perfect 3 minute quick hit. I'm with Deb... ain't nothing from the s/t that isn't absolutely perfect. This one just packs it into the shortest amount of time, which makes it doubly awesome.
Oh, and after 300 features, here are the artists that have been featured the most so far:
Led Zeppelin 7
As it should be!
April Wine - I Like to Rock
April Wine was like our mini-me version of Boston. Meat-and-potatoes, B-list rock act. Always solid, couple of real standouts, and put on a great live show.
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
Unlike Podaar... I hate the Triumph version. Because of the damn radio airways laws up here (Canadian radio stations have to have a minimum % - I think 30 - of Canadian content), the Triumph version is ALWAYS played, and I only ever get to hear the Walsh version - which I love - on my iPod. I cringe everytime I hear the Triumph version... and I love Triumph. Walsh is what made this a great song, not Gil Moore.
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Most epic drum fill in the history of ever.
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America - Ventura Highway
Gorgeous little song, featuring that sweet acoustic lead and, as always with this band, plenty of beautiful vocal harmonies. It's hard to not to love this song.
Always my favorite part of any America song. Great tune! :tup
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Ventura Highway is a great song by an underrated band. America was pretty cool.
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Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
This could be another one of those regional hits, but KSHE played the shit out of this back in the day (hell, they still might, for all I know), so I know it pretty well. I think right now might the first time I have gone out of my way to listen to it, however. :lol It's a nice, catchy rock tune. No more, no less.
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Never heard of it
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Ventura Highway is a cool song and In The Air Tonight is awesome all around
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Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
Never heard of it
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Never heard of it.
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Mama let him play is on the radio here in Canada semi often. Decent song.
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Never made it to the east coast, apparently. Oh, how I miss the days where a band could be successful enough to sell out arenas in a region of the country but were total unknowns everywhere else. A time when a band like REO Speedwagon could put out nine albums over a decade, survive that decade, and break out nationally. No one in modern A&R would let a band stay on their label that long these days.
/old fogey rant
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Okay then, on to something everyone is guaranteed to know...
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
This has been one of my favorite LZ songs since the first time I heard it. Granted, I had to ask around to my circle of friends to find out what the name of it was :lol, but once I did, Houses of the Holy was quickly purchased. Everything that made Zeppelin great can summed up in less than five minutes by listening to this song. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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A sexy number that at first blush seems a little light for the mighty Led Zep, and then, then, it rocks! I give 3 snaps in a circle.
Oh, and you can't go wrong with Houses of the Holy. Ever!
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Fantastic song. One of my favorites from Zeppelin.
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In general, I'm not a big fan of songs which are "first part light, second part heavy" because it seems like everyone does them, way too often, and not always well. But this is a good one.
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It's Jerry Doucette btw. Love that track. The guitar arpeggio section is spectacular.
Over The Hills .... one of the better tracks on HotH. Great little acoustic intro, and Bobby absolutely belts it out in the chorus.
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Love it, definitely one of the highlights from my fav Zep album
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Actually just listened to HOTH a few weeks ago.
Over The Hills is indeed a great song. Probably not in my Zep Top 10 though.
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Interesting thing about Over The Hills And Far Away is watching it grow longer and longer as it was in the band's set lists, starting out around six or so minutes when it arrived in the set in 1972, eventually stretching out into 8-10 minute versions by 1975, driven by longer and longer Page solos. It was also a very permanent part of the band's set list, appearing on their tours from 1972 to 1977 before finally taking a bow over the band's two shows at Knebworth in 1979. I half expected it to show at their 2007 reunion show.
And in virtually every version of it I've heard-I have a ton of Zep boots from 1972-1975 and many from 1977-Plant adds "Acapulco gold!" just after the "pocket full of gold" line going into the solo. Every. Single. Time. :lol
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classic Zep!
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Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
Like I have said before, I am not that big a fan of Young, although he does have his moments. This is not one of them, IMO. It's a very pedestrian song.
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I'm not a fan of this one. I would literally change the station if this came on my radio.
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Young is hit or miss for me. I like this one, but I have to be in the right mood.
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I like this one, too. Great harmonies, and that wacky cadenza at the end for no particular reason is fun.
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Helluva good tune, but I have to admit to being surprised by how popular it is. I guess, to me, so many Sabbath songs are better, especially from the album of the same name, yet every year when KSHE did their Rock and Roll 500 back when I listened, this was always top 20, and almost always Sabbath's highest ranking song. All of that aside, like I said before, it's a helluva good tune. :metal :metal
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There is so much nostalgia wrapped up in this tune that I can't help but love it. I'd probably call it the weakest song on the album but hey, it still rocks! :metal
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Definitely not one of Sabbath's best tunes, or most representative, but it's still a rockin' song. :metal For a song written last minute, not too bad at all.
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A good song, but certainly not my favorite from this album. I think it gets some kind of popularity boost from being the title track to probably their best-known album, but overall it's a bit short and by-the-numbers. If you like your Black Sabbath in small, bite-sized pieces then I guess this works, but to me, that's not really their strength.
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A good song, but certainly not my favorite from this album. I think it gets some kind of popularity boost from being the title track to probably their best-known album, but overall it's a bit short and by-the-numbers. If you like your Black Sabbath in small, bite-sized pieces then I guess this works, but to me, that's not really their strength.
While I agree it's not one of their best songs by any stretch, I think the fact it's such a short and simple song actually makes it a bit of a unique song for them, so it's not really by the numbers for Sabbath, or even for a song of that length imo.
It still has some of that signature Sabbath structural strangeness, not really having a clear chorus, which they did often in their music. The majority of the vocals are clearly verses, and the only part that deviates from that ("can you help me...") doesn't really come across as a chorus either, other than by process of elimination if you really wanted to argue it.
And I think the song ended up as genre defining as many of their other songs, so I give it credit for that. Given that it was written on the spot, I'd say it's still quite successful for what it is. As far as "most popular songs by bands that aren't representative of the rest of their music", they could have done much worse. :lol
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That's a good way to look at it. I wasn't aware of the background of the song, only the finished product. It does sound a bit thrown together. It's not a bad song by any means, it just doesn't do much for me. It's over before you have a chance to dig it.
I like a lot of Black Sabbath, and there is also a lot of their stuff that I don't like. I've never really figured out what it is about any given song that grabs me or repels me. You're right in that this song doesn't have a common structure, possibly because it is so short; there's almost no room for it to even have a standard verse-chorus structure. The "Can you help me?" section is definitely the refrain, it's just not really long enough to call it a chorus in the traditional sense. I guess by "by the numbers" I just meant that it has a number of Black Sabbath trademarks, as you've mentioned, but in smaller doses. A riff, a melody, a dash a weirdness, stir and season to taste, instant Black Sabbath song.
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The song probably would have ended up being a regular song length if they'd come up with a proper "chorus" to stick at the end of each verse or two, so it would have made room!
Being such a rushed song, it is only a hint of those Black Sabbath elements, and even missing a lot of other important elements, but in that spontaneity, it also captured a raw early metal song, stripped back to some of the bare elements that shaped the genre. I think that's kinda cool, even if the song isn't anything stellar to listen to on its own.
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I always loved how "oh, we need one more song, let's just bang something out and throw it on there" wound up becoming one of the most iconic moments in Sabbath's history. I actually agree with the notion that Paranoid is basically Black Sabbath rendered digestible by brevity and a lack of overthinking-they just did what they did, very fast, and accidentally made a classic. It's nowhere near the top tier of songs on the album, but it's genre defining at the same time.
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I always loved how "oh, we need one more song, let's just bang something out and throw it on there" wound up becoming one of the most iconic moments in Sabbath's history. I actually agree with the notion that Paranoid is basically Black Sabbath rendered digestible by brevity and a lack of overthinking-they just did what they did, very fast, and accidentally made a classic. It's nowhere near the top tier of songs on the album, but it's genre defining at the same time.
Excellent post.
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Kicks so much ass :metal
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just a kick ass tune!!
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Eric Clapton - Forever Man
Kind of a later classic, being from 1985 and all, but it has that classic rock feel and got played a ton on classic rock radio, so it fits the bill. Good song. I have never been a big Clapton fan, but he has a handful of solo songs that I enjoy quite a bit; this is one of them.
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I like this song but I was glad that he went for something different on the next album, August. I felt that Clapton was getting stale listening to Behind The Sun.
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I like this one because it's later Clapton and he seemed like he was kinda slowing down, but this song showed that he could still rock out. I like the heavy beat, and the percussive sound to it. It kicks.
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August was the better album of the two Phil Collins had a part in working on with Clapton in the 80s-and the tour where Clapton's band was him, Phil Collins, Nathan East on bass and Greg Phillinganes on keyboards was fan-fucking-tastic-but Beyond the Sun was essentially a comeback for Clapton after a few dud albums where he put his guitar playing behind his singing. Forever Man's okay, but the whole album was kind of a necessary step for Clapton to get back on track.
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Forever Man is an OK song, but there are metric tons of better Clapton songs. For me, this is from his period where he was starting to lose it a little, straying too far from his blues roots. But hey, that's just me.
I love Paranoid. Maybe it helps that I'm not a huge Sabbath fan. Whenever I've delved a little deeper and try to explore them beyond their more well-known songs, I'm left still overwhelmingly preferring their radio songs (this, War Pigs, Iron Man, etc).
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I quite like this era of Clapton/Collins....................as Jaq said the live shows were great and (via my Dad) August was my first exposure to Clapton and I grew to like it. Come to think of it my first exposure to Collins was the collaboration with Bailey..................Easy Lover. Another old favourite.
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Ted Nugent - Free-For-All
The "Suck it!" part still makes me LOL for real, and overall this is a solid, enjoyable rock tune. It's hard not to listen to songs now with Nugent on lead vocals and not remember what a raving lunatic he has become this century, but I still like this song, regardless.
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I agree with all of that, especially laughing at "Suck it!"
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I bought Free For All from the new release rack at Raspberry Records when I was 14 or 15. I was so surprised by the heavy sound of the guitars at the time that I felt a bit rebellious. I was actually thinking about this album a few days ago, and this song in particular, and was thinking of digging it up but then I remembered that Nugent is a douche and I couldn't be bothered. I can't seem to separate the man he is now from the music he made then. It's too bad, I really liked Free For All when it came out.
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Ted's music never did it for me. Even in the 80's with Damn Yankees, his song were my least favorite.
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I went through a real Nugent phase in the 80s, before he joined Damn Yankees (who I also really liked). This was one of my faves from him, lots of fun (as a lot of his songs were). But yeah, he's batshit crazy.
Still love his old music, though.
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Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
I adore this song; have since the first time I heard it. It just has a driving energy that is hard not to love, and the chorus is the usual Queen catchiness. Regarding the intro, I originally knew the song from the greatest hits, where it omitted that first minute, so I was used to it that way, but that intro is hard not to love. However, I will admit that sometimes I just wanna hear the song to rock out and don't wanna mess around with the intro, so I have both versions handy for such purposes. Either way, it's one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands. 'Nuff said. :coolio
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Great song.
Time for a quick Orbert-parent story. I was listening to this song one time when my son was maybe eight years old. He asked me what it was about. Why is he asking her to tie her mother down? Good question, actually. My on-the-spot answer was that her parents don't like him, but he wants to come over and see her, so he's telling her to tie her mother up somewhere so she'll leave him alone.
"That's not very nice" says Son-of-Orbert.
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Good song, but one I sometimes forget about because they have so many others which I like more. Which is no disrespect to Tie Your Mother Down, because it's fantastic.
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Not my favorrite Queen song by any stretch.
Saw Brian May open for GnR on St, Patty's Day '93 at the Garden, and Gary Cherone came out and sang this with May and his band (which included Cozy Powell!!).
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I love this song! To me it is the best (only?) reason to buy A Day At The Races.
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Great song, maybe top 10 Queen song. It kicks so much ass
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Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
This is another classic that I have never gone out of my to hear, but it's a catchy enough, toe-tapping tune, that I usually enjoy, even if I don't seek it out.
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Love, love this song! I will go out of my way to put on this song and the entire Get Your Wings album. Next to Rocks this is my favorite Aerosmith record.
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Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
This is another classic that I have never gone out of my to hear, but it's a catchy enough, toe-tapping tune, that I usually enjoy, even if I don't seek it out.
I'm pretty much with you on this one.
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Get Your Wings is awesome. At our annual jamfest, we're gonna try to cover the entire album this year, just for the hell of it.
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One of the few Aerosmith songs I really enjoy.
It's not that I dislike Aerosmith... I do.. but not much of theirs makes me go "ZOMG!!!1"
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Jackson Browne - The Pretender
This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film. This tended to get played on the softer classic rock stations (ones that played a lot of Elton John, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles, rather than ones that played a lot of Zeppelin, Rush and Floyd), but it's still a classic rock staple, nonetheless.
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Great song, although it's so sad when you think of what he was going through with that album losing his wife to an overdose
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I always loved how "oh, we need one more song, let's just bang something out and throw it on there" wound up becoming one of the most iconic moments in Sabbath's history. I actually agree with the notion that Paranoid is basically Black Sabbath rendered digestible by brevity and a lack of overthinking-they just did what they did, very fast, and accidentally made a classic. It's nowhere near the top tier of songs on the album, but it's genre defining at the same time.
Kind of like Pull Me Under.
Get Your Wings is awesome.
Absolutely!
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Jackson Browne - The Pretender
This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film.
All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.
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And now she's everybody's baby.
Jackson Brown live is a pleasure on the ears. His touring group is top notch.
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Jackson Browne - The Pretender
This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film.
All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.
I never thought of her as being hot at all, but :lol :lol :lol :lol, nonetheless.
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James Gang - Funk #49
Nice little song, featuring a sweet little dirty riff. The instrumental breakdown in the middle is pretty sweet, too; some cool percussion stuff going on there. And I never realized until just now that the song really is mostly instrumental. :coolio
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The signature tone and style of Joe Walsh. The party drums in the middle are surprisingly musical. Love it!
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Great song! Joe Walsh is so cool.
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Jackson Browne - The Pretender
This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film.
All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.
I never thought of her as being hot at all, but :lol :lol :lol :lol, nonetheless.
I prefer cute to traditional-hot, so she was the hands down winner in that movie, and definitely had it going on in 1982.
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Jackson Browne - The Pretender
This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film.
All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.
Great call. :lol
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Jackson Browne - The Pretender
This is a nice little song, and one that I cannot hear without thinking of Mr. Holland's Opus because of its placement of it in that film.
All of Jackson Browne's songs sound the same to me. I therefore can't hear any of them without thinking of Jennifer Jason Leigh's hot ass being deflowered in a baseball dugout; go figure.
I never thought of her as being hot at all, but :lol :lol :lol :lol, nonetheless.
I prefer cute to traditional-hot, so she was the hands down winner in that movie, and definitely had it going on in 1982.
I often do, too, but the hands down winner in that movie? Even taking away the scene, Phoebe Cates was still waaaay cuter, IMHO (H = heterosexual, in this instance :P).
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Great song! Joe Walsh is so cool.
How much stuff do you know by James Gang? I'd be open to recommendations on less-known songs to check out. :)
I say this because I stumbled across the song Take a Look Around recently and was surprised by how much I loved it. That is one killer song.
And then the jam Stop, from the same record, is pretty damn good, too.
The signature tone and style of Joe Walsh. The party drums in the middle are surprisingly musical. Love it!
Very much so!
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I don't know a lot of James Gang, and actually not a lot of Joe Walsh solo stuff. I just know the songs I've heard on the radio, but from various interviews with Joe and also Live from Darryl's House (a great show for anyone who likes music, regardless of what one might think of Darryl Hall), he just comes across as a crazy, funny, very cool guy.
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I wish I thought Joe Walsh's music was as cool as I thought he was. Same with Jackson Browne too, I guess.
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I don't know a lot of James Gang, and actually not a lot of Joe Walsh solo stuff. I just know the songs I've heard on the radio, but from various interviews with Joe and also Live from Darryl's House (a great show for anyone who likes music, regardless of what one might think of Darryl Hall), he just comes across as a crazy, funny, very cool guy.
Check out that song Take a Look Around; it's on YT. Given your tastes, I think you'll love it, too. :)
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner
As far as my earliest memories of songs I remember loving as a young kid, this was one of the first. My parents had the 45 of this and played it a lot, so I knew it, and man, did I love it as a kid. And I still do, as an adult. This is one of those songs that you just can't help but sing along to. :coolio
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Creedence is always cool! Bring a nickel, tap your feet.
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A guy I used to work with, whenever we'd hear this song, would sing it as, "Tweak a nipple, spank your meat." :rollin :rollin
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For a long, long time, I had no idea what they were saying in the chorus past "Down on the corner, out in the street..." I was pretty sure it ended with "...stamp your feet" but that's it. I think it was within the past year that I finally looked it up.
Still, fun song, catchy song.
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Very catchy song, always seems to get stuck in my head for a while.
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A guy I used to work with, whenever we'd hear this song, would sing it as, "Tweak a nipple, spank your meat." :rollin :rollin
:lol
The other day I was thinking we should start a thread where we post the alternate lyrics we've all come up with for songs. My best friend always referred to it as 'perverting songs' which should give you some idea about our alternates.
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A guy I used to work with, whenever we'd hear this song, would sing it as, "Tweak a nipple, spank your meat." :rollin :rollin
:lol
The other day I was thinking we should start a thread where we post the alternate lyrics we've all come up with for songs. My best friend always referred to it as 'perverting songs' which should give you some idea about our alternates.
Ahh, if only I remembered my vast epic of the mid-80s "Clean The Grime Off The Ancient Mariner."
A spontaneous, as Iron Maiden was playing on the cassette player of my best friend's car, complete parody of Rime of the Ancient Mariner. "Clean the grime off the ancient mariner, scrub from him the salt from the seas!" is all I remember now.
Yes, as anyone who read the 80s thread can probably guess, I was shitfaced at the time. :lol
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:lol
A friend and I have had a field day over the years with changing the lyrics to Judas Priest songs to make them sound, well, more gay. Often times, you don't have to change much. :eek :lol
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I always throw my buddy's name in songs and sing it out loud in public to embarrass him. :lol
No fear baby!!
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Catching up...
Jackson Browne is an incredible singer and songwriter, one of my all-time faves, and The Pretender is a great example of his craft. Just great, stupendous, awesome.
Funk #49 is great also, and all of Joe Walsh's early stuff, whether solo or James Gang (or Barnstorm). Other James Gang songs I would recommend would be Take A Look Around; Funk # 48; Tend My Garden; Walk Away (which you've probably heard before); or Ashes, The Rain & I.
I like CCR a lot, but for some reason, this particular song has never done much for me.
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Thanks for the recs, hef! :tup :tup
And while we've got Joe Walsh still on the brain...
Eagles - In the City
Fantastic song. I know Walsh did this as a solo artist shortly before the Eagles did it as well, but the Eagles version is better and more definitive. His guitar work is pretty tasty as usual, and the harmonies of the Eagles make the chorus that much better.
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Nice! The Eagles can do little wrong in my eyes (at least, before they broke up), and this song is really good. It is a great example of how they really incorporated Walsh into the band with open arms. They never would have done this kind of song before that.
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I didn't realize that there was an Eagles version. When I hear it on the radio, I assume it's Joe, but maybe it's Eagles. Which album, and what are the differences?
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Great later tune by the Eagles
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I didn't realize that there was an Eagles version. When I hear it on the radio, I assume it's Joe, but maybe it's Eagles. Which album, and what are the differences?
Joe Walsh's version is on the soundtrack to the movie The Warriors and is virtually identical other than being a few seconds longer and having the Eagles play and sing background on it. As the soundtrack to The Warriors didn't hit CD until the 90s, I'd say we've hearing the Eagles version for the past few decades.
Though to be honest, they're both so similar musically I wouldn't be shocked if the Eagles version turned out to be basically a remix of the original with the Eagles singing back up. :lol
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Yeah, they are pretty similar, but the Walsh one sounds looser, and it's almost like there is a bit of echo in his vocals at times. The Eagles version sounds more tight, if that makes sense. And like Orbert, I never knew there was an Eagles version for a long time either. Even when it was on the Hell Freezes Over video, I figured that was the Eagles playing a Joe Walsh solo song. It was years later when I happened across VH1 Classic playing the video for the Eagles version of it from The Long Run, and I was like, "Oh." :lol :lol
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Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle
When I first got into Tull, this was one of a handful songs of theirs that I heard all the time on the radio, and I liked it a lot, but once I dug into their catalogue a little bit, the shine quickly wore off of this song. It's not a bad song, but it's not anything special. Listening now, yeah, it's solid, but that's about it.
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it seems like it was written to be catchy, and it is, but I feel there isn't anything outstanding about it. JT has lots of far better songs than this.
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Jethro Tull is all over the place, from their full-album epics (even if at least one of them was created "accidentally") to albums full of shorter, catchy songs, many of which have commercial potential. I like that they have songs catchy enough to get airplay, but then you can dig into their albums and there's more to them than that.
"Bungle in the Jungle" is a fun little song, and if it gets people to check out some Tull, then that's cool. I was among those people. I remember when it came out, the only other song of theirs that I knew was "Aqualung" and by this point I was playing flute in the school band, so it caught my ear. My friend's mom was a Tull fan, so I borrowed War Child. Okay, I didn't really like it, but she never got Thick as a Brick back.
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Haha. Vinyl?
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Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Good, enjoyable tune. It's fairly obvious that it was not only written by Tom Petty (and his guitarist Mike Campbell), but that the Heartbreaks play on it, as there is no mistaking their sound, especially in the late 70se/early 80s. Nice little collaboration.
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Anything with Petty gets a 'meh' from me.
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For a while there, the only way you could see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on MTV was this video. Wasn't until after this MTV started playing any videos at all by Tom Petty. It is pretty much a Tom Petty song largely sung by Stevie Nicks, though.
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Haha. Vinyl?
Yep. It's the awesome original vinyl release with the newspaper multifold and ev'rythin'. Every once in a while, I feel kinda bad about it. My friend Jim actually "gave" them to me (along with a bunch of others), saying his mom never listened to them, which is true, but I found out later that she was kinda pissed about it, as they were not his to give away. Also, his mom was really hot. She was my first "friend's hot mom" crush. So when I'm going through my vinyl and see the albums which I'm not really supposed to have, I think of her, and smile. You wouldn't want me to lose that, would you?
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Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle
Not familiary with this one. Tull is another one of those bands I've always been aware of, but I don't know anything other than radio hits, but I don't know this one.
Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
I like Petty, and this is a good song, but I've heard it so many times that I could really do without it now.
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Haha. Vinyl?
Yep. It's the awesome original vinyl release with the newspaper multifold and ev'rythin'. Every once in a while, I feel kinda bad about it. My friend Jim actually "gave" them to me (along with a bunch of others), saying his mom never listened to them, which is true, but I found out later that she was kinda pissed about it, as they were not his to give away. Also, his mom was really hot. She was my first "friend's hot mom" crush. So when I'm going through my vinyl and see the albums which I'm not really supposed to have, I think of her, and smile. You wouldn't want me to lose that, would you?
Definitely not. :hat
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Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
Being that I only knew three Rainbow songs for forever (one of which was more of an 80s tune, Street of Dreams), it always seemed weird how different the two classic rock staples were, this and the afore-discussed Man on the Silver Mountain. Obviously, the change in vocalists is a major reason why. But I like this song; it's catchy, and I've always loved that little bridge in the middle, mostly cause that little guitar lead that leads into the vocal just has a resonance to it that is really cool. The outro is really sweet, as well.
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Around here the Rainbow classic rock staples are Stone Cold and...Stone Cold. :lol
Since You Been Gone used to get played on the local rock station here, back when Rainbow was still a thing. Funny thing about it is how many other bands Graham Bonnet has done it with-it appears on an Alcratrazz live album from the Yngwie days, and the version he did with Impelliteri around 1988 or so (on the album I liked to call "Should Have Been The Third Alcatrazz Album", otherwise known as Stand In Line) was pretty damn spectacular, if only for the ridiculously over the top solo Chris Impelliteri played. If you haven't heard it, imagine Yngwie after he drank a six pack of Monster energy drinks :lol
Great song though. Russ Ballard could write some catchy as hell hard rock.
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Good song. I always loved the little two-bar vocal canon they do in the intro, leading into the verse. Very cool.
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Around here, Rainbow is/was never a classic rock staple. Prolly one of the reasons they passed me by and I don't know virtually anything by them.
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Never got into Rainbow.
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Big fan of Dio Rainbow. Casual fan of post Dio Rainbow.
Good, catchy tune.
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This is a great tune to crank in your car and let people hear how poor of a singer you are.
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Faces - Bad 'n' Ruin
I am not sure how much this got played on radio stations all over the country, but I remember when it was featured on the Sopranos, I knew I had heard it before, so I am sure it had to have been on classic rock radio at some point, cause where else would I have heard it, right? :lol Anyway, good song, with a nice driving tempo. And yeah, I can't hear the song without thinking of the Sopranos scene where it is featured:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iCDiUVcYH-c#t=44
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Never heard it.
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Same here. The title isn't familiar, and I've never seen The Sopranos, so no help there.
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Same here. The title isn't familiar, and I've never seen The Sopranos, so no help there.
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Well, shoot. :facepalm:
Okay, I'll do another today, and if anybody does know that Faces song, feel free to chime in.
Uriah Heep - Stealin'
I always liked this song, even though I had no clue who it was by for the longest time. I like the mellow intro with the vocals over just the keys, before the whole band kicks in and they rock out the rest of the way. Very underrated tune.
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I'm a sucker for a good shuffle or 12/8 tune, and this one's a good one. I was never a big Uriah Heep fan, but they had some good songs.
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I'm a sucker for a good shuffle or 12/8 tune, and this one's a good one. I was never a big Uriah Heep fan, but they had some good songs.
Much the same here. Don't much Heap, but this is a cool tune.
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Never heard of that Faces tune either
The only Uriah Heep I know is Easy Livin. What I always remember about them though, was this one TV sportscaster back in the late 80s around here - Mark Hebscher. He was the most comical guy, and always threw a nickname in for sports players. Real obscure things too. Baseball... journeyman outfielder... Danny "Uriah" Heep was Nolan Ryan's 400th strikeout victim.
You probably had to be there.
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hmmm, I wonder if Chris Berman stole that shtick from him.
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hmmm, I wonder if Chris Berman stole that shtick from him.
I can't remember which guy was using it first. But it was just a local Toronto sportscast back then, so I doubt Berman would've ever got any exposure to it. It's possible I suppose.
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If I'm not mistaken, Berman was doing it prior to the late 80s. Having said that, he loves Canada, and the CFL in particular, so it is not outside the realm of possibility that he had heard the guy (or vice/versa).
Of course, it is just as likely that the two thought of it independently. That schtick makes sense to me, it sounds like something that I may have thought of myself.
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Who wouldn't love the CFL, its awesome!
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I can honestly say I haven't heard Stealin' until I just YT'd it. Pretty cool song actually. I always liked listening to Heep but for some reason I never bought any of their albums. :shrug
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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Crossfire
Ah, another "later" classic rock staple; I think SRV might be the one guy who qualifies as classic rock even though he wasn't around till the 80s. Anyway, this is one helluva song, featuring, as always, some totally bad ass guitar playing by the man. What a shame that he died so young. :(
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great song. killer guitar. I think it's one of his best.
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I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE SRV, but this song wouldn't make my top 10 list (although it is still pretty good).
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Stevie Ray is another one of those guys whose albums I never bought, but who I'll listen to if I catch them on the radio. Nice, tasty guitar work, bluesy song, good stuff.
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My favorite guitar player, ever. Period. The end. Texas Flood was just edged out of my top 10 by Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, that's how much I like SRV. I own all of his studio albums and a ton of his live music and the man could play his ass off. Crossfire's one of his lesser songs, relatively speaking, but as I love SRV it goes without saying I like it.
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Great tune and I can tell you the man gave me goosebumps with his playing and damn he is loud!
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Deep Purple - Knocking at Your Back Door
I always liked this song a lot. Very cool cinematic intro, before breaking into a conventional rock tune. Not much else to say about it, other than I like it. :lol
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I'm not the biggest DP fan but that song (and album) is really good. Saw them not too long ago with Journey and that song was a highlight of the night.
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Always loved the lyrics on this song for their sheer brass. "So we put her on the hit list, of a common cunning linguist, a master of many tongues." :rollin
Deep Purple's Perfect Strangers is, in my opinion, the best reunion album ever, because it's one of the few that stands on the level of the work of the original line up in question. Knocking At Your Back Door is a fantastic opener; when Blackmore comes in, you go "HELLO."
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Yep, this was an incredible comeback/reunion album. First we got "Perfect Strangers" with Jon Lord's awesome Hammond sound, then we got this one, which stretches over seven minutes but doesn't feel like it. A terrific one-two punch.
Great song. I always crank it up when it comes on the radio or when shuffling my iPod. Oh yeah, those lyrics are pretty fun, too. :coolio
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Only a casual fan of DP, and I don't think I've ever heard this one.
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Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home
I knew this song for years, but I have to admit that when I first started accumulating songs on my hard drive and got this, I was stunned when I saw that it was over 10 minutes. I guess I never thought about it, but to me it always sounded like one of those late 60s'early 70s tunes that was a fast, catchy, short tune. I probably never realized that it was two different songs that ran together. Anyway, really good song. I admittedly never go out of my way to listen to it, but it's still pretty darn good.
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Knocking On Your Back Door is a hell of a way to open up a terrific reunion album
I also really like I'm Your Captain, even though I don't really get what's happening in the song. It kind of sounds to me like the guy is being mutinied and then thrown overboard is my best guess
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Yeah, I think he's being taken out. "Closer to Home" is pretty much a snoozefest to me. Too repetitive and just doesn't really go anywhere. If you like it, it's great; if you don't, it's just too much. Kinda like the second part of "Layla". It's pretty, but just goes on too long.
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I had Closer to Home stuck in my head for a straight week once.
If it happens again I blame you, Kev. :lol
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Grand Funk is a great band, and this is a fantastic song. Always one of my classic rock faves. :tup
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Yeah, I think he's being taken out. "Closer to Home" is pretty much a snoozefest to me. Too repetitive and just doesn't really go anywhere. If you like it, it's great; if you don't, it's just too much. Kinda like the second part of "Layla". It's pretty, but just goes on too long.
Agreed Bob. Hey Jude also suffers from this. Fortunately, I enjoy I'm Your Captain enough that it's not a bother. Layla on the other hand goes about 3 minutes longer than it needs to.
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Such a classic. Just when music was expanding it's horizons we got songs like this from GFR.
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Trevor Rabin - Now
Many don't know it, but prior to his tenure with Yes, Rabin released three solo albums, and even had a minor hit on rock stations with Now, which has stayed on in some markets as an obscure classic. Good song, and while many often scoffed at him being Yes, when you listen to the vocal arrangements in this song, he was more of a Yes natural than most realized, vocally anyway.
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I have come to a conclusion.
Kev isn't from Earth-1, he's from Earth-2, where the music on the radio is much, much cooler than here. :lol
I've heard some of Rabin's early solo stuff, including this song-though it's been ages-but never on the radio.
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:lol :lol
In my defense, some of the obscure songs that I am featuring, I am taking others' word for it that they were played on the radio. I did actually hear Now played on the radio...once. That was good enough for me. :lol :biggrin:
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Never heard that but sorta like it - to me at least it's an unusual blend of pompy sounds and rockin guitar. He seems very heavily influenced by Lou Gramm vocally - does a great job though.
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:lol
Kev, never heard it on the radio but of course I bought all of Trevor's back catalog after 90125. Even bought a few Rabbit albums.
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(https://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu6/Asianology101/blink-homer.gif)
... is all I have to say.
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[Crossfire] Great tune and I can tell you the man gave me goosebumps with his playing and damn he is loud!
I recall that really pissed off the Swiss something fierce. On one of his DVDs, Montreux I suppose, they're actually booing him. Not due to lack of appreciation, but because he was so damned loud they couldn't tell what he was playing.
Never got to see him live, which is a shame really. Growing up I really hated the guy. Not my kind of music and since he was a local boy he was pretty much Jesus; exactly the sort of thing that bugs me. Eventually his playing grew on me, but he's still the fucking Messiah down here (well, co-Jesus along with Diamond Darrel now) and it's still annoying. Personally, I prefer Bonamassa.
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Bart, he had plexiglass in front of his speakers to bounce the sound off he speakers so it wouldn't be a direct hit to the fans and it was still the loudest I ever heard except for Deep Purple.
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AC/DC - Who Made Who
As I have said before, AC/DC falls into that "heard them too much over the years, and most of their songs sound pretty similar to me" category, but this song is still pretty awesome. I thought it was totally bad ass the first time I heard it, and while plenty of their songs haven't aged that well for me, I still love cranking this one up to the max. :metal :metal
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Trevor Rabin - Now
This is not something that gets played on any radio around here. Never heard it, or even heard OF it.
AC/DC - Who Made Who
I never liked this song.
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AC/DC - Who Made Who
Middle to bottom tier of AC/DC songs. I enjoy it, but there's a whole lot more from them I'd spin first. Wasn't this from the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack?
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A middle tier AC/DC song for me too. A good song, but they have so many better songs I'd choose to listen to first. But they also have a lot worse. :lol
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AC/DC - Who Made Who
Middle to bottom tier of AC/DC songs. I enjoy it, but there's a whole lot more from them I'd spin first. Wasn't this from the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack?
Their album Who Made Who WAS the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack, although there were only a couple of original songs on it (including this one).
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AC/DC - Who Made Who
Middle to bottom tier of AC/DC songs. I enjoy it, but there's a whole lot more from them I'd spin first. Wasn't this from the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack?
Their album Who Made Who WAS the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack, although there were only a couple of original songs on it (including this one).
Thaaaat's right. Thanks for jogging the memory.
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Billy Squier - In the Dark
I'll chalk this up to being another classic rock song that I always find enjoyable, but never seek out. That sums up all of the songs of his I am familiar with (all of which are good, and most of which seem to come from the Don't Say No record).
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AC/DC - Who Made Who
As I have said before, AC/DC falls into that "heard them too much over the years, and most of their songs sound pretty similar to me" category, but this song is still pretty awesome. I thought it was totally bad ass the first time I heard it, and while plenty of their songs haven't aged that well for me, I still love cranking this one up to the max. :metal :metal
I always found this middle of the road for me. Good for partying but otherwise I wouldn't play it.
Billy Squier - In the Dark
I'll chalk this up to being another classic rock song that I always find enjoyable, but never seek out. That sums up all of the songs of his I am familiar with (all of which are good, and most of which seem to come from the Don't Say No record).
My favorite song from Billy. Dark and rocking. The way I like my Billy Squier.
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I never had Don't Say No, but one of my old roommates must have, because I remember listening to it, and it was pretty solid. A bunch of hits, and the album tracks weren't bad, either.
In the Dark is a good song. I like that slamming intro, the contrast between it and the relatively mild verses, and how the slamming intro comes back for the break. The synth countermelody during the refrain is cool, too. I wanted to do this song back in the 80's when Billy was hot, but we already did "Everybody Wants You" and our guitarist didn't want to do another Billy Squier song.
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My favorite song from Billy too! Very cool tune
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A top single by Billy Squeeze. I always enjoy it when I hear it...then move on.
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My favorite song from Billy too! Very cool tune
I like that too. Squier is a nobody in Australia so the only exposure I had to him was The Stroke (no likey) and that video for Rock Me tonite (yikes) ,so I had little incentive to investigate further.
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I like "the stroke" based on that one scene from Billy Madison.
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Have to check it out then, so far Lonely Is the Night is my favorite Squier song. Interesting tidbit, first time I heard that song, thought it was a Robert Plant song :lol
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Never liked Billy Squier. :-[
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Elton John - Crocodile Rock
So many of his songs tend to fall into that "Eh, I guess it's okay" category for me, and this is one of them. I mean, I see, or should I say hear, the appeal of it for others, but while it's enjoyable enough, I don't find anything about it to be particularly memorable other than the corny-sounding "la la la la la" part. :lol
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For a long time, I thought the "la la la la la" part was a direct quote of some 50's song, but I've never found any reference to such a thing, so now I don't know. I like Elton's uptempo songs, and this is one of them. It's not the greatest, but it's a fun song.
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I worked with a guy once on a construction project for a parking garage, putting the foundations in.
One day he sang the "la la la la" part of Crocodile Rock for six straight hours.
I hate that fucking song now. :lol
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I love me a lot of Elton. I'm passively indifferent to this one.
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la la la la la can get annoying, but otherwise it's a great tune.
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la la la la la can get annoying, but otherwise it's a great catchy tune.
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My Dad had the 45 and it was my introduction to Elton so of course I like this tune a ton.
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I worked with a guy once on a construction project for a parking garage, putting the foundations in.
One day he sang the "la la la la" part of Crocodile Rock for six straight hours.
I hate that fucking song now. :lol
:rollin :rollin :rollin
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Good Billy Squire song. Saw him open for Bad Company and Styx, he put on a fun show.
I hate that Elton song, hate it, hate it, hate it. Unlike Kev, I cannot see why anyone would like it.
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It's a hell of a catchy song. I enjoy it
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No love for Crocodile Rock here.
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The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
This song contains one of the most well-known riffs in rock history and, some would say, the first monster riff in a popular rock song. It's hard to argue with that, being that it came out in 1965, and given how recognizable the song and riff both are. I like the song, but I can't say it's ever been a favorite. Its classic status is more than deserved, regardless.
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The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
This song contains one of the most well-known riffs in rock history and, some would say, the first monster riff in a popular rock song. It's hard to argue with that, being that it came out in 1965, and given how recognizable the song and riff both are. I like the song, but I can't say it's ever been a favorite. Its classic status is more than deserved, regardless.
Spot on. Probably a lot of people of my generation were introduced to the Stones through this song. It's one of (if not) the first Stones tunes I remember hearing. In the mid-80s this (along with a handful of others) were the staples playing on the rock stations I listened to, and usually the top Stones tune on the regular Top (insert # here) songs of all time countdowns.
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Yep, that about sums it up. Sometimes you just had to be there, and then.
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Meh
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Yep, that about sums it up. Sometimes you just had to be there, and then.
Usually true, but this is one of those songs that people 100 years from now are going to look back on as one of the best songs in that nebulous genre of 'rock n roll.'
If you held a gun to my head and told me to pick the greatest rock song ever, and I didn't pick Stairway to Heaven, I would pick this.
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There are other greater Stones songs in my view, but there's still no denying how influential this song is
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Definitely big, definitely influential, and if I never heard it again, that definitely be OK with me.
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There are other greater Stones songs in my view, but there's still no denying how influential this song is
Most certainly. There are LOTS of Stones songs that are better.
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The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I like this song, but I don't love it. It always seems like most people love it to death, largely because of the epic guitar solo by Eric Clapton, but while I think it is cool, it simply doesn't make it a Beatles song I revisit very often. Maybe it gets lost for me in the middle of all of those great lesser-known songs on Disc 1 of the White Album, but it's always been I song I just liked.
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For me, this suffers the same fate as Rocky Mountain Way. It was covered by Jeff Healey back in the day, and so now, Canadian radio stations only play that version to contribute to their Canadian content requirements. Can't remember the last time I heard the Beatles version.
And I hate Jeff Heaely.
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I kinda thought Jeff Healey was cool when he first came on the scene years ago. He had a cool sound, bluesy, kinda dirty. But it didn't take long for me to realize that all his songs sounded like that, and to me that made them all sound the same. When I hear his version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", I don't hear the song, I hear Jeff Healey. Anything he does, I don't hear the song, I just hear Jeff Healey.
Anyway, I like this song a lot. I always thought it was interesting that it's a George Harrison song, but it starts with a classic piano line by Paul, and features a solo not by George.
Trivia: George and Eric were good friends of course, and George asked Eric to play the solo, but the one thing he could not do was use a wah-wah pedal. Wah-wah was everywhere at the time, and would have been perfect for a "weeping guitar" sound, but that's exactly why George didn't want it. Too cliché. So Eric came up with a sound and a way to play the solo to sound reminiscent of a weeping guitar without using a wah-wah pedal.
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And I hate Jeff Heaely.
no love for Angel Eyes?
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Gonna go for a less obvious cover version: the instrumental version by Vinnie Moore from his Time Odyssey album, an album which featured keyboards by one Mr. Jordan Rudess. :biggrin:
Great song, of course. Remember as a youngster hearing this song, not knowing Clapton played the solo-hell at the time I may have been at best vaguely aware Eric Clapton existed-and yet still figuring out none of the Beatles played it. :lol
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Great song, and I also like Jeff Healey and his cover of it, so bite me lol
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The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I like this song, but I don't love it. It always seems like most people love it to death, largely because of the epic guitar solo by Eric Clapton, but while I think it is cool, it simply doesn't make it a Beatles song I revisit very often. Maybe it gets lost for me in the middle of all of those great lesser-known songs on Disc 1 of the White Album, but it's always been I song I just liked.
Love this tune.
And I hate Jeff Heaely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWADN0UubA
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I like this song, but I don't love it. It always seems like most people love it to death, largely because of the epic guitar solo by Eric Clapton, but while I think it is cool, it simply doesn't make it a Beatles song I revisit very often. Maybe it gets lost for me in the middle of all of those great lesser-known songs on Disc 1 of the White Album, but it's always been I song I just liked.
Exactly this. Well said :hefdaddy
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The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
This song contains one of the most well-known riffs in rock history and, some would say, the first monster riff in a popular rock song. It's hard to argue with that, being that it came out in 1965, and given how recognizable the song and riff both are. I like the song, but I can't say it's ever been a favorite. Its classic status is more than deserved, regardless.
I like Devo's version better. It's more suited to their style.
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The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
I've always liked this song a lot. I really like the contract of the soft acoustic parts and the rocking middle section; the song is very dynamic in that respect. Of the well-known songs from Who's Next, this is easily my 2nd favorite (behind the already-discussed Baba O'Riley).
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LOVE this song, and was thrilled to see them play it as one of the encores during their Quadrophenia tour in the 90s.
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In my mind, this is the best The Who song ever put to tape! In fact, Who's Next is the only album of theirs I currently own largely on the strength of this song. Awesome vocal performance by Daltrey!
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Fantastic song, and one that sometimes gets lost in their list of 'greatest hits' despite deserving a top 3 spot. This one will never get old.
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Yep, I should have mentioned more about Daltrey's vocals, but this is definitely a great performance. I love his voice starts to show a little fury in the 2nd verse, as the music stays soft; it's like it's letting you know that the song is on the verge of exploding. "And I blame you!"
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Not much to add. Great song from a great album.
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Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Good song, from my favorite Ozzy solo album. Maybe it's because I was so nutty about the non-hits when I first got Diary of a Madman, but this has always been a song I viewed as good, but not one I really went out of my way to hear. Granted, classic rock radio played the shit out of it back in my radio listening days, so I never really had to go out of my way to hear it. :lol :lol
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Completely love this one. And it was so true of our life-style at the time. A truly relevant anthem for my generation and completely kicks @ss.
:metal
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I'm not a huge fan of Ozzy's solo stuff, but I kinda like this one. Great guitar work, good beat, catchy song overall.
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Not bad, for Ozzy. Not a huge fan.
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One of my faves from OO. Crazy Train always got more air time up here, so it was a special treat when this got into the radio rotation. Love this track.
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While I prefer Blizzard of Ozz, Flying High Again was actually the first song with Randy Rhoads playing on it I ever heard, and was the source of my first "holy shit who is that guy playing guitar?" moment involving him, so it will always have a soft spot in my musical heart. There's actually a ton of songs on Diary I like better than it, though-Over The Mountain, You Can't Kill Rock And Roll, Tonight, the title track-which says a lot about how good Diary was.
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Randy was so unique for his time and you can here it in his playing on Flying High Again.
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Always been one of my favourites off Diary, which is itself a great album. As is typical for Rhoads, it has a killer solo.
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Ya know, I'd love for someone to do a discography discussion thread on Ozzy's solo stuff. That's another act that I for some reason never explored back in the 80s, and for some even stranger reason never did after that. I know the hits, and I have No More Tears (and the subsequent Live & Loud album), but that's about it.
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David Bowie - Fame
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: I hate this song. That jangly guitar tone makes me want to rip my ears off and throw them at Bowie for making it impossible for me to ever unhear it. This is high on my list of "Songs I can't believe were so popular."
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David Bowie - Fame
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: I hate this every David Bowie song.
Fix'd for me.
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Well Kev, it had to happen eventually. I've been pretty much with you on this whole Song of the Day thing, but this song is fucking awesome. I love that funky guitar riff by Carlos Alomar (though I do understand how it can annoy some people), I love John Lennon's bad echo vocals, I love the weirdass synth or guitar effects (whatever that is), and I love the whole-tone scale at the end, which I took as a personal challenge to learn back in junior high and have never forgotten. I crank this song up whenever I hear it.
Ninja'd by Chad, who is also wrong.
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David Bowie - Fame
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: I hate this every David Bowie song.
Fix'd for me.
Yeah, David Bowie is just a bit off for me. I'll admit, I haven't given him the most fair of chances, but still… the few songs that I have tried have all left me dissatisfied to say the least.
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Well Kev, it had to happen eventually. I've been pretty much with you on this whole Song of the Day thing, but this song is fucking awesome. I love that funky guitar riff by Carlos Alomar (though I do understand how it can annoy some people), I love John Lennon's bad echo vocals, I love the weirdass synth or guitar effects (whatever that is), and I love the whole-tone scale at the end, which I took as a personal challenge to learn back in junior high and have never forgotten. I crank this song up whenever I hear it.
Fair enough. I figured you and/or Jaq would love it, so I was ready for the splashback. :biggrin:
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I am with Orbert, this song rocks!
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Dan Chad, Not even Major Tom or Blue Jean?
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Dan Chad, Not even Major Tom or Blue Jean?
Perhaps 'hate' was a little strong. There are some songs I can tolerate. These two are borderline. If either of them came on the radio, I'd probably change the station... even if I was in your car.
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Well at least you'd still have you dominant hand after you did that.
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Well Kev, it had to happen eventually. I've been pretty much with you on this whole Song of the Day thing, but this song is fucking awesome. I love that funky guitar riff by Carlos Alomar (though I do understand how it can annoy some people), I love John Lennon's bad echo vocals, I love the weirdass synth or guitar effects (whatever that is), and I love the whole-tone scale at the end, which I took as a personal challenge to learn back in junior high and have never forgotten. I crank this song up whenever I hear it.
Fair enough. I figured you and/or Jaq would love it, so I was ready for the splashback. :biggrin:
Orbert gets the nod here. I like a lot of Bowie, but this one is just kind of there for me.
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Oh you guys.
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How can you hate on Bowie? I love this song. The remix they used on Pretty Woman though? Ehhh
The Ozzy and Who stuff mentioned rock my socks off
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Well, I personally didn't hate on Bowie. I like quite a bit of his material; I just hate this particular song.
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Charlie Daniels Band - Uneasy Rider
These kind of story-telling songs seemed to be the rave for a while in the 70s, and I remember a handful of them getting played regularly on the radio, and this was one I heard quite a bit. An interesting little tune that sounds almost more country than rock, but I guess the southern rock feel made it rock enough to catch on with classic rock stations.
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It sounds more country than rock because it's country, not rock.
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I never heard this one on the radio, but a co-worker back in the 80's had this on a tape and we all listened to it and loved it. Eventually I sought it out on mp3. Fun, silly song. Good times. :tup
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I'll do another today since that one probably won't get much more, if any, chatter.
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
One of my earliest childhood musical memories is hearing this song on my parents' stereo and thinking it was the best thing I had ever heard (which, at that moment, probably wasn't much :lol), but time has been very kind to it for me. I still love it to pieces. Also, the version I got into was the single version with electric guitar and drums, and when, years later, I heard the stripped-down original, it almost sounded weird to me. Crazy, I know. So yeah, it goes without saying that I am still very partial to the version that I fell in love with as a kid. :coolio
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Oh, and it's impossible now for me to hear this without thinking of The Graduate. Forgot to mention that.
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I very much appreciate the harmonies and especially the lyrics...but to be honest, I'd rather listen to silence.
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Wow, I didn't even realize that there were two different versions! The version from Sounds of Silence (1966) does have electric guitar and drums, but the drums don't come in until the second verse. The electric guitar the beginning is clean, but there's a second, descant electric guitar introduced later. Apparently all of that was added after Simon and Garfunkel had laid down the original acoustic track, and without their knowledge or consent. But it's not unusual for such a thing to happen, not back in the day anyway.
The version from The Columbia Studio Recordings is the stripped-down version, all acoustic guitars, no drums. I just listened to it. Whoa. I'm not sure which version I prefer. There's something very bare and honest about the original; it's clearly how the song was originally conceived. But the added instrumentation isn't exactly superfluous, it's not overdone, and it does add dynamics to a very simple song. But simple isn't necessarily bad.
Such a quandry. I think I'll have to listen to it again.
In any event, some of the best two-part vocals ever recorded, right here. Incredible harmonies.
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Great, great, great song (both versions).
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Great song from a great duo. I have always wondered, did Rush have to pay licensing rights to use parts of their lyrics for The Spirit of Radio?
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My guess is no, since the words were changed, and it was an homage rather than a blatant rip-off.
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The Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes
The Moodies are a longtime favorite of mine, so I am always partial to just about everything from those seven albums they did from 1967-1972, and The Story in Your Eyes is one of many killer tunes on those albums. Not sure how much this song still gets played, because back when I first started listening to rock radio, it was played a lot, but it seemed like over time it got played less and less, although maybe I was just so used to it than I didn't notice; impossible to know. Regardless, this song packs a helluva punch for being under three minutes, from that wicked cool intro to the catchy vocal melodies to that badass outro. Great, great tune.
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Excellent tune. Unfortunately, I'm only a 'best-of' fan, not that I don't like their catalogue, I've just never been exposed to it. This is a good one though. I've liked pretty much everything I've heard from them, so I should probably check them out... maybe another discog discussion band for you Kev?? mmm, mmm? :weirdal:
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I might be down for that, but the problem there is, I know little background information on the band, and I'd lose interest in even doing it once I got finished with the Big 7. I like some of their later pop hits, but I can't speak knowledgeably about much of anything they did post-1972. I could always do a mini-discography thread on them, that focuses on just the Big 7.
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I might be down for that, but the problem there is, I know little background information on the band, and I'd lose interest in even doing it once I got finished with the Big 7. I like some of their later pop hits, but I can't speak knowledgeably about much of anything they did post-1972. I could always do a mini-discography thread on them, that focuses on just the Big 7.
I'd be down for that. Some piece of the pie is better than no pie at all.
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What a terrific song and super rockin'! Always such great vocals with these gents.
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I like some Moody Blues, especially the early stuff. They started off with a nice blend of pop and prog, and just plain experimental, which is pretty cool. This one's good.
The Moody Blues made something of a comeback in the 80's, with some awesome keyboard help from Patrick Moraz, who they treated like shit, and I basically was so put off by that that I vowed never to give them any more of my money. Great music, but Justin Hayward is a dick.
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Is he? I've never seen that many interviews and other stuff about the band to know what kind of personalities the band members really have. I just know that John Lodge has always been my favorite. Something about his voice I really like, and his bass playing was always pretty killer on those classic records, not to mention vastly underrated.
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Never had any use for this group.
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I may be being a little harsh on Justin, but it does fit in with what I've heard/read from others.
As you know, after their Seventh Sojurn, they took a break for several years. Six years later, Octave (with "Steppin' in a Slide Zone") showed up, and they were back. Turns out the rest of the album was okay, but definitely not up to previous standards. The sessions were also somewhat troubled, and Mike Pinder ended up leaving the band before the album was finished.
Enter Patrick Moraz, formerly of Yes, Refugee, and a long successful solo career. Long Distance Voyager was a terrific album, IMO largely due to Moraz's keyboard work which frankly left Pinder's in the dust. Refugee did not last long, and Moraz was not treated well by Yes (he was basically dumped when Rick Wakeman decided to quit pouting and come back) so it was very exciting for him to be in a band with a successful album and a lot of that success attributed to him. He submitted some songs to the band (as all members of The Moody Blues do) but was basically shot down, told that he was "just the keyboard player". It was around this time that Justin Hayward began asserting more control over the band.
There's not actually a lot of keyboards on The Present and The Other Side. Where the credits used to be pretty evenly spread among all band members, one started seeing Justin Hayward on pretty much everything, sometimes with John Lodge and the occassional Ray Thomas. Edge and Moraz got one collaborative credit on The Other Side.
Moraz eventually quit. All trace of him has been removed from The Moody Blues official website. He is not listed as a member of the band on the 80's albums on which he appeared, even though he was credited as such on the albums themselves. Justin Hayward says that Moraz misunderstood the arrangement from the beginning. He was always a hired gun, never a full member of the band. The album credits don't agree, Hayward is rewriting history to suit himself, thus my conclusion that he's a dick. I'm definitely biased (having been a keyboard player and often treated as a second-class citizen even in bands that I helped found) but revising your band's website to specifically remove someone who by many accounts helped bring your band back from obscurity is nothing less than a dick move.
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Both versions of Sounds of Silence are awesome, though I prefer the acoustic one. A rare occasion where I have no idea which version I heard first.
I've never heard of that Moody Blues song, and know nothing about them or their catalog outside 5 or so songs (that I happen to think are awesome).
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Never had any use for this group.
*smacks hef* :biggrin:
I may be being a little harsh on Justin, but it does fit in with what I've heard/read from others.
As you know, after their Seventh Sojurn, they took a break for several years. Six years later, Octave (with "Steppin' in a Slide Zone") showed up, and they were back. Turns out the rest of the album was okay, but definitely not up to previous standards. The sessions were also somewhat troubled, and Mike Pinder ended up leaving the band before the album was finished.
Enter Patrick Moraz, formerly of Yes, Refugee, and a long successful solo career. Long Distance Voyager was a terrific album, IMO largely due to Moraz's keyboard work which frankly left Pinder's in the dust. Refugee did not last long, and Moraz was not treated well by Yes (he was basically dumped when Rick Wakeman decided to quit pouting and come back) so it was very exciting for him to be in a band with a successful album and a lot of that success attributed to him. He submitted some songs to the band (as all members of The Moody Blues do) but was basically shot down, told that he was "just the keyboard player". It was around this time that Justin Hayward began asserting more control over the band.
There's not actually a lot of keyboards on The Present and The Other Side. Where the credits used to be pretty evenly spread among all band members, one started seeing Justin Hayward on pretty much everything, sometimes with John Lodge and the occassional Ray Thomas. Edge and Moraz got one collaborative credit on The Other Side.
Moraz eventually quit. All trace of him has been removed from The Moody Blues official website. He is not listed as a member of the band on the 80's albums on which he appeared, even though he was credited as such on the albums themselves. Justin Hayward says that Moraz misunderstood the arrangement from the beginning. He was always a hired gun, never a full member of the band. The album credits don't agree, Hayward is rewriting history to suit himself, thus my conclusion that he's a dick. I'm definitely biased (having been a keyboard player and often treated as a second-class citizen even in bands that I helped found) but revising your band's website to specifically remove someone who by many accounts helped bring your band back from obscurity is nothing less than a dick move.
Interesting. I do wonder though if Hayward took over the majority of the songwriting through his sheer will or if the other guys simply ran out of creative gas and he picked up the slack.
Also, as good as Moraz was on Long Distance Voyager, I can't say his playing blew Pinder's out of the water. Hell, Pinder was the original King of the Mellotron and his playing is way too awesome on those early albums. Granted, he wasn't a majorly technical player like Moraz, but when it came to textures and adding color to the band's sound, few at the time could touch him.
Regardless, that is definitely low budget to write him out of the band's history like that.
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Pinder was the first Mellotron god, I'll give him that, and it did add a lot of color to the early Moody Blues sound. But beyond that, I've never found his keyboard work to be more than merely adequate. He can play a Hammond, and a piano, but by time the 80's rolled around, it was the age of synthesizers and I really felt that Moraz brought something extra to the table. I borrowed Long Distance Voyager from a friend and ended up buying a copy myself, I was that impressed. Never picked up either of the follow-ups, but from what I've read, Moraz's role was diminished. Maybe he and Hayward didn't get along, or Hayward didn't realize how much the band's sound had changed and didn't like it, or what. I kinda liked the 80's Moody Blues sound.
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Yeah, we never heard Pinder really progress with the times as synths became bigger in the later 70s/early 80s, so it's hard to know if he would have excelled as the times changed. Considering his talent, it does seem odd that Moraz never caught on with another major band, especially once prog was reenergized in the 90s.
I do like select songs from the 80s Moodies records. Your Wildest Dreams will always be one of my favorite songs of theirs, and Under My Feet is a great underrated tune from The Present record.
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George Thorogood - Bad to the Bone
This is probably one of the most recognizable riffs in rock history, yet you rarely hear people mention it as such when that topic comes up. Despite it being a catchy as hell riff, I have never liked the song; something about it just annoys me, probably his vocal style, which makes most of his songs unlistenable to me. There is no denying the popularity of this song, however.
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First I ever heard of George Thorogood was when he got the opening slot on the Rolling Stones Tattoo You tour, which belatedly added two dates to the Hampton Coliseum. Local radio started playing Bad to the Bone because he was going to be opening for the Stones here, and...everyone thought it was hilarious. Then, of course, the exposure of the Stones tour, and the video on MTV, meant that the song took off. He's got some songs I like, but this one, I never got over the "b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bad." :lol
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I like this song, but it has almost been overplayed to death. He has a lot of songs better than this.
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The Delaware Destroyers are a difficult band to hate but that doesn't mean I haven't tried. :lol
George is kinda a one trick pony and this song is soaked in that trick. While I did like it when it came out, it has worn thin over the years and I'm more inclined to change the channel than sing along...yet, sometimes I do. "I make a young girl squeal," appeals to the bad boy in me. :biggrin:
A buddy of mine always referred to the band as; George Thoroughmud and the Underwear Resoilers. They weren't held in high esteem in the circles I traveled.
[edit] Oh, and going back to our earlier discussion; this song is a prime candidate for "perverting" the lyrics [/edit]
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One-trick pony indeed. George is bad to the bone. Also, he drinks alone. Same song, different words.
But I actually kinda like it. Sometimes I'll switch this one off or change the station, but a lot of times I'll let it play, because even though it's pretty monotonous, that's a pretty nice guitar sound. And as far as bravado songs go, this is about as good as it gets.
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Bad to the Bone is alright
Story In Your Eyes is a great song by the Moody Blues. I got the chance to see them at Bethel a few years back. Awesome show. They played this
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One-trick pony indeed. George is bad to the bone. Also, he drinks alone. Same song, different words.
But I actually kinda like it. Sometimes I'll switch this one off or change the station, but a lot of times I'll let it play, because even though it's pretty monotonous, that's a pretty nice guitar sound. And as far as bravado songs go, this is about as good as it gets.
My friend has a theory about Greorge and ZZ Top's 80's output that they only record one song, play it at a diffferent speed and it's another song. Play it on it's side and it's another song, play it backwards.....
You get the point.
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Yeah, ZZ Top was the same way in the 80's. They found a formula that worked, and milked it.
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The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
Nice little song, but it's driving me nuts where I've heard some of those riffs before. The opening bass line (or is is guitar?) sort of sounds like the beginning of Steely Dan's Black Cow, and I have to think that Survivor got the idea for the Eye of the Tiger riff from the end of this song. There are other moments that sound sort of familiar to me. but I can't place them. But anyway, like I said already, it's a nice little song that probably doesn't get much airplay anymore, but it did way back when.
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I've always loved this song. I love the buildup at the beginning, with the keyboard chords slowly going from dissonant to straight to sevenths, and the interplay between the keys and guitar during the verse, almost Floyd-like. Also a fun song to play. I've played this one in two different bands.
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Not familiar with this one.
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Not familiar with this one.
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Not familiar with this one.
Though I have really been meaning to explore more of APP.
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Supertramp - Take the Long Way Home
Man, I love this song. What is even more odd is that it features a harmonica, an instrument which often gets on my nerves, but in this song, it just adds to the gorgeous melody. Everything about this song is just wonderful, from the vocal melodies, to the piano work, to the subtle string accompaniment, to that fantastic outro. This is a song where they really hit out of the park on all levels. Okay, that's the end of my gushing. :lol :lol
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The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
I really enjoy keys in the intro. Even though the meat of the song is a bit of a simple arrangement for my usual tastes it creates a terrific accompaniment to the vocals which are the highlight for me. There's repressed deranged quality to the vocals that really that really grabs my ear.
Supertramp - Take the Long Way Home
I was always more a fan of side one of Breakfast in America but this is truly a great song that paints such a vivid picture of quiet, English middle class despair. Roger's voice is always so compelling and expressive.
Hey, I'm beginning to notice a pattern to my comments on this thread. It's almost always the vocal performances that really tickle me when it comes to Classic Rock. Hmmm...
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Take The Long Way Home is a great song by a great band. Always brings a smile to my face.
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Yep, another great song from a great, great album!
I love the buildup at the beginning, with the long, ominous C chord. I love the main piano riff, with the Cm7, Gm7/C, Dm7/C, C, and then for the break they just shift the bass to all roots and the piano plays the same chords! Suddenly we've got all major chords: Eb, Bb, F, C.
Okay fine, maybe three people out there with music theory knowledge can appreciate that, but I thought it was pretty fucking cool when I went to figure out the song.
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Yeah, that's all gibberish to me, but still pretty cool nonetheless. Such a great tune. :hat
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Yep, another great song from a great, great album!
I love the buildup at the beginning, with the long, ominous C chord. I love the main piano riff, with the Cm7, Gm7/C, Dm7/C, C, and then for the break they just shift the bass to all roots and the piano plays the same chords! Suddenly we've got all major chords: Eb, Bb, F, C.
Okay fine, maybe three people out there with music theory knowledge can appreciate that, but I thought it was pretty fucking cool when I went to figure out the song.
I'm not a big fan of ST, and what you're saying makes sense in the explanation, but now I actually have to listen to it to hear what you're referring to, just out of curiosity. :lol
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The song shifts to a major key for the clarinet break. The chords are Eb, Bb, F, C. During the verse, the bass is thumping a C, so those same four chords are Cm7, Gm7, Dm7, C. Same resolution, but the feel is totally different. When I realized what they'd done, I was blown away. I love shit like that.
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It is cool when that kinda thing happens. I'm used to seeing things from one perspective. An entire chord on one instrument. Similar to your example, I saw an example of something like this (I can't remember where, I wanna say it wsa a Journey song), where the music I saw had the keyboards doing an inverted G triad, while the guitars played E power chords. I thought "Weird". Then I realized "Oh yeah, Em7. Slick!"
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Yeah, Journey does that a lot. If I had to guess, it's mostly Jonathan Cain's doing. He'll play Em when the rest of the band is playing CM7 or vice versa, stuff like that.
My knowledge of music theory is mostly self-taught, and I don't usually analyze stuff when I'm listening to it, just when I try to learn it. So maybe this happens a lot more than I realize; I don't know.
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You guys are giving me a chord progression rash.
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This rash is making me itchy.
(https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/RRdWntqCLwg/hqdefault.jpg)
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Great band, great album, excellent song.
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My favorite Supertramp song easily
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just listened to the 2 disk greatest hits of both bands. Two great tunes!
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Styx - Lady
The harmonies in this song are so high that when Styx was looking for a guitar player to replace John Curulewski in 1975, their main requirement was that the new guy was able to sing the high harmonies in Lady. Tommy Shaw even later joked that the fact that he was a songwriter and could play the guitar was secondary. :lol But the harmonies in this song are pretty insane, so I get why that would be high on their priority list, since it was the song that put Styx on the map, and they couldn't not play it at shows since they had just hit it big. I like the song and always enjoy it, even though it's never been a favorite.
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Same here. Good song, but not one I go nuts over.
I like its deceptive simplicity. There are only verses, no choruses or refrain. The same chords over and over, but by starting with just voice and piano, then gradually adding guitars and other instruments and building up the rhythm, it's totally stomping by the end and you feel like you've been on a journey, but it's just been those same chords over and over the whole time.
I feel like I tend to analyze songs a lot. And I do. But rather than just say "I like this one" or "this one sucks" I feel compelled to say what it is about the song that I like or dislike, and for me, that often goes to its composition and structure. That to me is often what makes or breaks the song.
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One of my favorites from Styx, and yes, the vocal harmonies are amazing.
I had also noticed the structural things you mentioned, Orbert. Definitely adds to the appeal of the song.
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Yep, definitely well said (as always), Orbert. :tup :tup
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Steely Dan - F.M.
In the early 90s, I was a fan of buying greatest hits or compilations by classic rock bands, as it seemed like an easy way to get into their most popular stuff, and at the time I had no idea that I would eventually buy so many CDs, so when I got the A Decade of Steely Dan CD, F.M. was Track 1, and I was sucked in immediately; I thought it was awesome from the get-go. And I still love it. And of course it has, to me, one of the most obvious misheard lyrics ever: "Give her some funked up music..." sounds like, well, you know. :lol :lol
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Not much of a Steely Dan fan here. That Styx song came up on my iPhone yesterday. Great, simple, straightforward track that showcases Dennis vocals.
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F.M. is one of my favorite Steely Dan songs. Also, the movie is pretty awesome.
I had a dream once where I worked at a radio station. Believe it or not, I was the morning D.J. and my handle was "Orbert in the morning". One time I was there in the studio doing my show, and everything was fucking up. Carts getting stuck, buttons and knobs not working, and I just looked over at my producer and shrugged and said "No static at all" and he said "No static at all" because that was our catch phrase for when things screw up. Weird how in dreams there can be people with backstories and everything.
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I love love love Steely Dan, and that is a great song.
One of our local radio stations used to use "No static at all" in a bumper. Always brought a smile to my face.
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I love me some FM.
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Paul McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
First off, I am stubbornly refusing to acknowledge Linda McCartney as being half of the artist here, even though I know the Ram album and this song is technically by both of them. Sue me. :lol
Second, I love this song. It's silly and whimsical, musically and lyrically, which is a major part of its appeal. And it's one of those songs that nearly everyone over a certain age knows, even though they may not even realize it, but walk up to anyone over, say, 50 and sing, "Haaaaaaaands across the water," and more often than not you'll get a response of "water" in a silly voice. :rollin :rollin
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Never heard it.
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Really?? Wow.
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*shrugs*
Never received any airplay on the local classic rock stations, and I've never cared to delve very deeply into Paul's solo stuff beyond the big hits.
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I see, but that WAS a big hit. It was his first number 1 post-Beatles in the States. *shrugs*
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Silly and whimsical is a great way to describe it. Fun when I hear it, but not much lasting value, and I'm glad when it's over.
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John Cleese!
Still one of my favorite solo Paul McCartney songs. As far as the Linda co-credit, I think Paul was on a thing where he shared credits with Linda the same way Paul and John always shared credits in The Beatles regardless of who actually wrote the song and how much. She was his wife, and he's Paul Freakin' McCartney. People always asked him, and her, why she was in Wings. She shook a tambourine and played a few keyboard lines (with little stickers on the keys to show her which notes to play), and she sang background vocals but they turned her mike way down. But she was up there on stage because Paul wanted his wife up there with him. It's his band, so she's in the band. Simple as that.
Paul is one of those composers who constantly has 100 melodies and bits of songs floating around in his head, and once in a while he ends up stringing them together into something. A lot of his songs are like that; clearly made up of different things but put together anyway. I like it. It makes those songs like a mini-suite or something, with each of the bits a separate movement.
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Loved this song when it came out but I've not heard for years and I'm not keen to go find it now. It was great fun at the time.
There was a bar in my hometown called Uncle Albert's. Every time we went there on Friday nights we'd be singing the song as we went in just to watch the barmaid roll her eyes. :biggrin:
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Didn't recognize that title at all. Listened to it, and it didn't sound familiar at all. Then I got to the "Hands across the water.." part and that sounded familiar. Ultimately, totally forgettable.
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Very catchy tune from my youth. Paul loves his light hearted songs and this is a good one.
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I see, but that WAS a big hit. It was his first number 1 post-Beatles in the States. *shrugs*
*shrugs*
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It's a fun number. I enjoy it a lot
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Hef, with all the shrugs today your traps must be sore!
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The Doobie Brothers - Takin' It to the Streets
I believe this was the first big hit they had once Michael McDonald joined the band, and the song just reeks of his style, while still featuring the lovely harmonies the Doobies were known for in the chorus. Really good song.
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Agreed. Such a joyous, awesome song
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Very good, but not my favorite Doobie Brothers track.
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Very good, but not my favorite Doobie Brothers track.
Ditto. Catchy chorus... Doobie's were good for that. First time I ever heard of The Doobie Brothers, was from Michael Douglas.
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I grew up with the original Doobie Brothers, you know, "China Grove" and "Black Water" and "Listen to the Music", so when Michael McDonald joined and they basically became The Michael McDonald Band, I was pretty bummed. The conflict came when I realized that they were still a pretty good band, and I liked a bunch of the newer songs.
I prefer "Livin' on the Faultline" (vibes solo!) and "Minute by Minute" as far as later Doobie Brothers goes, but this one's alright.
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I mostly got to know the Doobies through one of those lovely greatest hits back in the 90s :lol, so to me, it was all Doobie Brothers-sounding, but back in 1976, it had to have been somewhat a shock to hear their sound change that much.
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Never liked the Doobies. Never hated them, just never liked any of their material. Always a channel-flipper as it seems like they still get a reasonable about of classic rock radio airplay.
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I grew up with the original Doobie Brothers, you know, "China Grove" and "Black Water" and "Listen to the Music", so when Michael McDonald joined and they basically became The Michael McDonald Band, I was pretty bummed. The conflict came when I realized that they were still a pretty good band, and I liked a bunch of the newer songs.
I prefer "Livin' on the Faultline" (vibes solo!) and "Minute by Minute" as far as later Doobie Brothers goes, but this one's alright.
Though I like the song I agree with Bob. Something was missing that was essentially The Doobie Brothers when Michael joined.
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Bad Company - Shooting Star
This song is catchy enough, I guess, but it has always felt like a chore to get through it, and I have no idea why. Maybe it's because that repetitive outro is so damn long that it feels like they are needlessly stretching the song out. In short, it's always felt like a song I should like a lot, but never have.
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I never really could get into Bad Company's music except Burnin' Sky which almost everybody else hated. :lol
Shooting Star always came off as too slow, whiny and just a little obvious. Still, I thought Paul Rogers was a decent vocalist but perhaps not the best songwriter.
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That's funny, cause I almost featured Burnin' Sky today, but I thought, "Nah, I'll do that as the next Bad Company song somewhere down the line." :lol :lol
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I always liked this song. Not sure what is wrong with you people. :biggrin:
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It's one of the few Bad Company songs I like, and I don't even know why. I find Bad Company in general to be kinda boring, and Paul Rodgers has a nice voice but I honestly don't see what's so amazing about him, either. The story's kinda obvious, but it resonates with anyone who dreams of being a star, or did in the past anyway. I agree that it does seem kinda plodding and the outro goes on a bit too long.
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:iagree:
Nothing special, but nothing wrong with this one either. I always found Bad Company to be a pretty straight forward, meat-and-potatoes rock band. I only know their hits though. I don't dislike them, but not sure I'd go out of my way to listen to them.
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I like everything I've heard from Bad Company. Meat & Potatoes rock band, but good stuff. This is a good tune.
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I like everything I've heard from Bad Company. Meat & Potatoes rock band, but good stuff. This is a good tune.
This but I never went past the greatest hits. Rock N Roll Fantasy is my favorite song by them.
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This is my favorite song of theirs, so yes, I'm a fan
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Heart - Heartless
It's easy to forget that Heart does have a few other classic rock staples, outside of the aforementioned and featured Big 3, but while this might not be the staple the others are, it is a song a lot of classic rock stations played over the years. It's easy to see why it didn't reach the status of those others, but it's still a good, enjoyable song.
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:heart
Check out this performance of it from 1976 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_GpxCUg9Vo)! Wow, Ann is just terrific!
:omg: What the hell is the bass player wearing? :lol
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Yeah, it's not one of my absolute faves of theirs, but Heart can almost do no wrong in my eyes. Really good song. :tup
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Yeah, it's not one of my absolute faves of theirs, but Heart can almost do no wrong in my eyes. Really good song. :tup
Word.
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Good hard rockin' tune. I love the acoustic interlude in this song.
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Whoa, I forgot about that. One of the things I like about Heart is the contrast between their acoustic and electric sides. But other than the song "Dog and Butterfly" I think all of their hits are pretty much straight-on rock. Even "Alone" which is pretty mellow, is still more in the "power ballad" genre.
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I love when a band does that. Rush --Driven & Pineapple Thief - Tightly Wound for some modern takes on the acoustic interludes.
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I remember seeing Heart in Nashville at the fairgrounds. They played a few of the songs on the Magazine cd. Ann Wilson was flying high that night. Found out later she was into cocaine like a lot of other musicians at that time.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
Great song, and while it is easy to get sucked in by the vocal hook and the guitar lead, the latter of which is pretty much the hook of the song, the piano solo and mellotron work in this song really stand out, and elevate it from good to great. This is easily one of their two or three best tunes.
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I adore this song. If there's one thing to like about Metallica's version, it's that it forced local radio to finally start playing it, and I fell in love with it from first listen. Not just my favorite Skynyrd song, but one of my favorites of the 1970s period.
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At one time I was a HUGE Skynyrd fan. While that has definitely lessened over time, this song remains a classic.
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This must be one of those which I don't know by name but would recognize if I heard it. The title definitely doesn't sound familiar, and I think I've pretty much heard all of Skynard's hits.
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There is nothing to dislike about this song. I concur with Kev... it's one of my Top 3 Skynyrd tunes too. Can't stand the Metallica version - this was meant to be a bluesy rock song, not a metal-ballad. The guitar tone - as thought it's constantly weeping - is what makes the track for me.
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There is nothing to dislike about this song. I concur with Kev... it's one of my Top 3 Skynyrd tunes too. Can't stand the Metallica version - this was meant to be a bluesy rock song, not a metal-ballad. The guitar tone - as thought it's constantly weeping - is what makes the track for me.
The Metallica version isn't remotely metal, it's actually lighter than the Skynyrd version if anything. It's not a bad cover given that it's not their style at all, though it's got nothing on the original of course. :tup
This must be one of those which I don't know by name but would recognize if I heard it. The title definitely doesn't sound familiar, and I think I've pretty much heard all of Skynard's hits.
I'm sure you'd recognize it the second you hear that intro guitar melody.
I'm only familiar with a few Skynyrd songs, since radio in this country only plays Sweet Home Alabama, but I've always really liked this one since the first time I heard it.
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This must be one of those which I don't know by name but would recognize if I heard it.
:eek :eek :eek :eek
Considering you are one of THE classic rock aficionados around here, I am shocked that you don't know this one simply by the title. Shocked.
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Whoa. So I YouTube searched it, and am listening to it right now. It sounds familiar, but that's it. A slow waltz? Sorry, but this one's not working for me. Honestly, kinda boring.
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I rarely listen to LS any more, but always loved this song. Not much more to add.
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Not a fan of southern rock at all.
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Not a fan of southern rock at all.
Me too, except for a couple of tunes from 38 special
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Not a fan of southern rock at all.
Me too, except for a couple of tunes from 38 special
That is so funny because I almost typed that!
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America - Tin Man
Okay, I should have featured a song by America yesterday, when it was the 4th of July, but better late than never, right? :facepalm: :lol
Anyhoooo, I love this tune. I just love the laid back vibe of it, and for whatever reason, it reminds me of our family picnics we always had when we were kids. And being that our family is Irish-Catholic, we have a big family, so those picnics were always big occasions. So much fun. #nostalgia :coolio :hat
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America had a lot of great sounding songs... with lyrics that didn't always survive closer scrutiny. As far as I know, however, this one makes sense. Good song overall, too.
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Don't know it.
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Van Halen - And the Cradle Will Rock...
Ah, another classic from the early VH days. The cool keyboard effect that is heard throughout the song, which sounds just like a guitar, was new at the time, but otherwise it's standard early VH fare, meaning it's a highly enjoyable, fun rock tune. :metal
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Heartless: Love it. Love Heart (at least what I've heard... The bigger hits)
Tuesday's Gone: Love it.
Also love Metallica's version because it also has Jerry Contrell and Les Claypool, and a bunch other peeps playing on it.
Tin Man: Don't know if I've ever heard it
The Van Halen thing: Meh
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I wouldn't say that this is one of Van Halen's best, but it is certainly a fun song.
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Fun, hard rockin' tune that always gets me pumped up.
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Fun, hard rockin' tune that always gets me pumped up.
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Fun, hard rockin' tune that always gets me pumped up.
Ayup... that about sums it up. Great track... never skip it when it comes in rotation on the iPod or on the radio. One of my favorite early VH tunes.
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Genesis - Turn It On Again
Genesis doesn't get much airplay on most classic rock stations - most of their 70s was too proggy or obscure, and most of their 80s stuff was too pop rock-ish - but Turn It On Again has always been a mainstay, and for good reason, as it's a great tune, not to mention catchy as hell. Phil Collins probably has many songs that demonstrate what a good drummer he was in his heyday, but I've always loved the groove he lays down in this song. Put this song in the hands of an average drummer and it wouldn't have nearly as much drive and power.
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I appreciate this song a lot more now than I used to. Nice groove, like you mentioned. Classic.
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Love this tune. It has such a nice build up and I love Phi'ls passion in his singing on this song.
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I really like this song, as I like the whole Duke album.
And I love it when songs with odd time signatures don't sound like it.
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Yep, the main riff and verses are 13/4 (6/4 + 7/4 is probably the easiest way to count it) in B, then it moves up a half step to C in the bass and kicks into straight 4/4 at the same time ("I could show you, I could show you"). This adds tension, which is somewhat resolved as they drop back to B, still in straight 4/4, and with different chords ("It's driving me mad..."). Then it throw in bars of 3/4 ("I... I...") two and three times. But it all flows past you with a straight beat and steady meter, so only music geek like me realize (or care) what's going on. Also, it's two long verses and a single chorus, which is kinda weird, too.
This is one of my favorite Genesis songs. It's like how Rush manages to score radio hits with pop songs that are accessible enough to get radio play, but really are prog if you dig into them.
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Terrible song, but then, it's Genesis, so what else would I expect. /minority opinion.
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I don't like alot of Genesis, but this is a standout track to me.
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The Guess Who - Undun
This is one of those I remember hearing here and there when I was young, while never paying much attention to it, but years later when I heard it, I was like, "Oh yeah, I know this song." Good song, and this is another one of those songs that every time I hear it, I think of a film scene - it is featured in Tarantino's Jackie Brown when Louis is bugging Melanie to get ready so they can get to the job (without giving anything away to anyone who hasn't seen it yet and plans to).
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My older brother had a The Guess Who compilation album in the early 70's that he played quite a bit. When I left home in 1978 was probably the last time I heard this song. I didn't like it then, and while I'm more tolerant of it now, I can't say I'd leave the channel button alone.
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American Woman.
That's it. That's all local radio plays by the Guess Who.
:lol
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I always found the Guess Who material I have/hear to be lacking in something. It's ok, but nothing that ever cranks my engine. This song is no exception. I'm just as likely to turn the dial and search for something new, as I am to listen through it. Of course, as a Canadian band, we get/got our fair share of them so stations could get their Canadian content requirements, but overall, I find them to be rather mediocre.
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I've heard more then my fair share of Burton Cummings; not a fan
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Toq oute a famous line, "Stay away from me."
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American Woman.
That's it. That's all local radio plays by the Guess Who.
:lol
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Rush - The Spirit of Radio
An obvious Rush classic, I still remember being blown to shreds the first time I heard this song (at my first Rush concert in November 1991). Hundreds of listens later, I still love it to death. It's catchy as hell, musically and vocally, and manages to sound both technical as hell and like an effortless rock song at the same time, if you know what I mean.
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I hate this song. I hear it and it puts me in a coma.
:neverusethis:
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This came on my truck stereo just the other day and a huge smile sprung to my face within the first three seconds. It's always a joy to hear. I will randomly get the urge to play this album and I will go out of my way to make sure I get a fix when the mood strikes.
An obvious Rush classic, I still remember being blown to shreds the first time I heard this song (at my first Rush concert in November 1991). Hundreds of listens later, I still love it to death. It's catchy as hell, musically and vocally, and manages to sound both technical as hell and like an effortless rock song at the same time, if you know what I mean.
Well said, and I do know what you mean! :tup
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When I was first diversifying myself into classic rock in the mid 80s, for some reason, I was only exposed initially to Rush through the radio hits. At the time, I don't recall Spirit of Radio getting a lot of radio airtime around here ... it was Fly By Night, Closer to the Heart, Tom Sawyer, and Limelight that were the big 4. Throw in some of the synth era songs (New World Man, Big Money and Time Stand Still were still pretty current). So, when I first started going deeper and wider with Rush, and came to Spirit of the Radio, I was so :omg:. What a perfect blend of classic, prog, and hard rock - all in a nice, sub five minute, commercially accessible package.
Great tune... despite the overplay it gets on radio and concerts. Still love it.
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Okay, time for true confessions. I'm a Rush fan, have been since 1976. All the World's a Stage, baby. We had a falling out during the 80's, but came back together in the 90's and have been tight ever since. Plus, 80's Rush and I have come to an understanding, we've both admitted our faults, and we now get along pretty well.
But I've never liked this song. Catchy as hell? Yep. Wacky guitar lead that's supposed to evoke radio waves or something? Yep. Classic Rush crazy time shifts and inside references, all executed flawlessly? Yep. On my Rush playlist? No fucking way. It just doesn't work for me.
No tard. I'm dead serious. This ones bugs me.
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Oh yeah, and while I'm being a cranky old bitch, I hate it when people get the name of this song wrong.
It's "The Spirit of Radio", not "Spirit of the Radio". I don't like the song, but I can at least get the title right.
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It's "The Spirit of Radio", not "Spirit of the Radio". I don't like the song, but I can at least get the title right.
Alright, alright... brain fart on my part throwing in that extra "the" where it doesn't belong. Lighten up you crotchety old fart :tick:
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Hey, I wasn't naming names, but it's good that you owned up to it.
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It's an ok song, maybe even more but it has never grabbed me as being great. But then I'm not the die-hard Rush-fan.
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Bob, take two aspirin and text me in the morning.
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Nah, I don't do drugs.
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I know a lot of people like this one, and I can even hear that it's a great song. I just don't like it. Too many weirdass bits and pieces thrown together.
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:lol
It's funny but reading all the books of Rush's early years a lot of the earlier fans hated this album. I looked at it like the Black album for Metallica. More mainstream but still essentially the band. I got into Rush with Moving Pictures and going back in their catalog, I loved this album and song.
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Rush Rules
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Rush Rules
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Rush Rules
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While I don't agree with Orbert, his dissenting opinion about this song is why I love this thread. It'd be boring if all of us classic rock fans agreed that every classic rock staple was great, and seeing reasons why this poster or that poster doesn't like this song or that song is always interesting. :hat
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I think the song is fantastic, and is one of the reasons I got into Rush in the first place.
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Peter Frampton - Show Me the Way
Another good live rendition from the hugely popular Frampton Come Alive! live record. In fact, like some of the others we all know, I don't think I've ever heard the studio version of this song, and I probably don't want to. I like the way he uses the talk box in this song; very innovative.
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If what I have heard about Frampton Comes Alive is true, you are hearing a studio version :rollin
But yes, I don't think there is anyone on the planet who can say, with a straight face, that they've heard the original studio versions of the songs on this album. Goes without saying that I like it, since it's from the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Six. :biggrin:
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Incorrect. I checked out some of the Frampton's Camel albums after the massive success of Frampton Comes Alive. And yes, this was back in the 70's, before most of you were born. The original studio versions aren't actually that different, but they sound really dry compared to the live versions.
"Show Me the Way" is one of the songs we do in my band, and our basic rule is to learn all original studio versions, so we all have the same starting point. But this song is an exception because it's the live version that everybody knows, so that's the version we do.
Useless anectdote #2: I was in a restaurant just a few weeks ago, and this song was on the piped-in music. But it was some weird version. It was hard to pin down the problem. Sounded like Frampton, there's the talkbox, but the solos are different. After far too long, it finally struck me that I was hearing the studio version of the song. Why? Nobody knows that version. That's like the local radio station playing the studio version of "Rock and Roll All Night" by KISS. With some songs, the live version is the definitive version.
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Seen Frampton play this song live 5 times and he never disappoints.
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I am a large fan of this album, and this song in particular. Great stuff.
No, I've never heard the studio version either.
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I have an it lacks the jump of the live version.
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Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar
Okay, I know some of us just recently talked about this song in the Pink Floyd Discography thread, but it still deserves a feature here, right? RIGHT? :biggrin:
Anyhoooo, yeah, I love the hell out of this song. Because Roy Harper sounds like a combination of Waters and Gilmour, I didn't realize that it was someone not in Pink Floyd who sang it until I looked more closely at the liner notes of my copy of Wish You Were Here I bought back in late 1990/early 1991. This is one of my favorite Floyd songs lyrically. "Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?" is quite possibly the most well-known Floyd line ever. Awesome solo by Gilmour at the end, and I love the keyboard flourishes throughout this song. Yep, I love this song a lot. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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I like this one a lot, too, though it took a while. I always liked the dual keyboard hook, but for a long time, that was pretty much all I liked. Well, that plus the fun line "Which one's Pink?" Apparently that was something an actual suit asked them once in a meeting. They knew the band was Pink Floyd but for some reason thought that that was the name of one of the members.
Anyway, the more I listened to the words, the more I realized what great satire it is, great commentary on the music biz, much like "Welcome to the Machine" from the same album. And my appreciation grew. Still probably my least favorite from the album, but as was said in the Pink Floyd thread, that's like fourth place in the Miss Universe contest. All awesome, but someone had to take fourth.
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Great, great, great.
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Not a damn thing about this song that isn't A+. Great vocals, keys, killer bass... it's the total package. Surprisingly my third favorite song the album though. Shows you how godly WYWH is.
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Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain
I was still very early in my Zeppelin fandom when I first heard this song on the radio, and I have to admit that my reaction was along the lines of "holy shit, this is awesome!!" Unfortunately, every time I heard the song for weeks, they never said the name of it, so my attempt to find out the name of it so I could buy the CD was futile. Asking several friends who knew Zeppelin didn't work either, probably since my attempt to describe the song was probably not good, especially since there is no main vocal line to grab on to and identify to them as such. Eventually, I found out the name, although I don't remember how, but In Through the Out Door quickly became a part of my CD collection right away, and over 20 years later, this is still one of my favorite LZ tunes.
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I love the signature Bonham drum style, the keyboard work board work by JPJ and the unique guitar effects by JP. I really don't like Plant's vocals on this song and it really ruins it for me. His voice just sounds so weak and out of tune to me. This song is near the very bottom of Zep tunes, if not the absolute basement: which isn't nearly as bad as it sounds. :)
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I enjoy the song, but it's mediocre (at best) by Zeppelin standards (imo). All you had to do was say "Latin Zeppelin", and everyone would've known instantly which song you meant. :lol
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I enjoy the song, but it's mediocre (at best) by Zeppelin standards (imo).
I'm with you. I'm a huge Zeppelin fan, but this one is a channel-changer for me.
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I kinda like this one. The main riff isn't mind-blowing, but I like the double-tempo break, followed by the cool doubling effect on the guitar solo.
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I'm not surprised that the reception to this one isn't overly positive, but it really was the song that made me a bigger LZ fan, so there's that nostalgia thing again. :lol :biggrin:
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I'm not surprised that the reception to this one isn't overly positive, but it really was the song that made me a bigger LZ fan, so there's that nostalgia thing again. :lol :biggrin:
And that's always a great thing. It's certainly not the worst song on ITTOD, and being the commercial release from their final album, it still gets a generous amount of radio airtime today. I don't skip the channel when it comes up, but it's not something I ever specifically reach for. When I go to ITTOD, it's Carouselambra all the way.
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Love Zep and I actually enjoy this song. The Bonham Half Shuffle is legendary and still emulated. For me the whole style of the song showed terrific range.
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Middle tier song from Zep but like Temp said, that drum shuffle is amazing.
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My all time favourite Led Zep song.
(Ok... maybe tied with In The Light... )
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Mediocre song on a mediocre album. Led Zep were clearly on the decline.
When I go to ITTOD, it's Carouselambra all the way.
That is the one gem to be found.
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Favorite song from ITOD
As far as Have A Cigar, awesome song. Has Waters or Gilmour ever sang that song live?
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Boston - Something About You
While still a classic radio mainstay, like every song from their self-titled debut, this is easily one of the two songs that seems to get talked about the least. It's a song everybody knows, but rarely talks about it, probably because it is seen as not as totally awesome as most of the others, but it is still a fantastic song. I love the soft intro that leads into that soaring guitar lead that kicks the song into rocking gear. Brad Delp's vocals are spot on as always, and the guitar solo, which is short and sweet, is one of those that is so memorable and melodic that you can almost hum it without the song even playing. :coolio
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This is actually my favorite from their debut...now. It wasn't originally but over the years I came to love it: Probably because it doesn't have the clichéd Boston formula of song writing.
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Favorite song from ITOD
As far as Have A Cigar, awesome song. Has Waters or Gilmour ever sang that song live?
I think Roger has been known to pull it out during his solo shows.
I wouldn't call it live though. :lol
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Boston - Something About You
While still a classic radio mainstay, like every song from their self-titled debut, this is easily one of the two songs that seems to get talked about the least. It's a song everybody knows, but rarely talks about it, probably because it is seen as not as totally awesome as most of the others, but it is still a fantastic song. I love the soft intro that leads into that soaring guitar lead that kicks the song into rocking gear. Brad Delp's vocals are spot on as always, and the guitar solo, which is short and sweet, is one of those that is so memorable and melodic that you can almost hum it without the song even playing. :coolio
Great song. It says a lot about the strength of Boston's early output that this song is not regarded as highly as some others.
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This is actually my favorite from their debut...now. It wasn't originally but over the years I came to love it: Probably because it doesn't have the clichéd Boston formula of song writing.
Good point. It has a different sound to it that's still Boston but not formula Boston.
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This is actually my favorite from their debut...now. It wasn't originally but over the years I came to love it: Probably because it doesn't have the clichéd Boston formula of song writing.
Good point. It has a different sound to it that's still Boston but not formula Boston.
Not that there's any thing wrong with those other songs. It's just that over the years, and many many listens, the acoustic riff/acoustic riff/electric riff got to be too predictable. Terrific riffs though!!
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Okay, but that is the result of oversaturation and whatnot. At the time, there was nothing cliched or predictable about any of that stuff on their debut album.
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Great tune!
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Some albums like this one, The Cars self titled, Back In Black, Escape, Moving Pictures seem to never get old to me.
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My favorite song off of Boston beyond the big three songs from it. Hugely underrated tune and simply doesn't get enough airplay around these parts, which tends to favor either Smokin' or Hitch A Ride when it goes deeper into the debut. Love those harmony guitars.
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What do you consider the three big songs from it? I assume More Than a Feeling and Foreplay/Long Time are two of them, but is (the as yet-to-be featured in this thread) Peace of Mind or Rock and Roll Band the third?
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I would imagine Peace of Mind. At least, it's that way down here.
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The original side one, yeah. More Than A Feeling, Peace of Mind, and Foreplay/Long Time. :lol
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Funny that you mention Side 1, and I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but when I first was blown to shreds by Foreplay/Long Time, I bought the cassette of Boston and it looked like this:
Side 1:
More Than a Feeling
Peace of Mind
Something About You
Let Me Take You Home Tonight
Side 2:
Rock and Roll Band
Smokin'
Hitch a Ride
Foreplay/Long Time
Suffice it to say, when I got it on CD about a year or so later, I was thrown by this new weird running order. :lol
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That's the way I first experienced it as well. :lol
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You whippersnappers get off my lawn :lol
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While I disagree in general with changing around the track order, I understand that they did it sometimes so things fit better on a cassette. Also, in this case it's kinda cool, as the album ends with the longest track, the 2-song suite, so it's kinda like the mini-epic to end with.
But yeah, it's gotta be weird when you get used to a certain track order, then discover that the "real" order is different.
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It was either that or "in order to maintain the continuity of songs, there are several minutes of blank tape at the end of side one." or however they said it. :lol
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(that's why buying albums on cassette kinda sucked)
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Okay, I am gonna do another fun little thing to keep this thread kind of interesting, and that is start featuring deeper cuts by classic rock artists. In other words, I will feature songs that maybe are still played on the radio on occasion, or were played on the radio at the time the album was out, or maybe even ones that were never played on the radio but are loved by fans of the band. It's basically an excuse to talk about great songs from back then that aren't classic rock staples. I won't put a timetable on this. Away we go...
Deep Purple - Lazy
Pretty cool song. I don't go nuts over it like a few (older) friends of mine do, but I do like it quite a bit. It definitely has that kind of loose jam feel that was so prevalent in the late 60s/early 70s.
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Love it! I'm just like one of your friends who go crazy over it (except that I'm not old ;) ).
I was singing along with this song a few years ago and Mrs. P asked my what they meant by, "...she don't want no bread." When I told her it was a pretty common 'trendy' euphemism for money she claimed she'd never heard of that before. She's only four years younger than me! I guess some folks weren't paying attention in the 70's
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I like the song, love the Hammond jamming of course, but I always found it jarring that there's the whole jam at the beginning, then it suddenly changes key when the vocals come in. Very weird.
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Love it! I'm just like one of your friends who go crazy over it (except that I'm not old ;) ).
Pretty much. Love this song.
Also, Kev, it's very fitting you've posted it today, 16th of July, the very day Jon Lord passed away two years ago.
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Never heard it.
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Also, Kev, it's very fitting you've posted it today, 16th of July, the very day Jon Lord passed away two years ago.
I wish I could say I was clever enough to where I did it on purpose, but I had no idea.
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Lazy is kinda cool but Purple has/had better songs out there imo.
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Lazy is kinda cool but Purple has/had better songs out there imo.
Seconded.
As for the Boston 'big 3', up here, RnR Band is the third.
This Deep Tracks theme ought to get interesting. Time to separate the real fans, from the radio-hit fans - of which I'm guilty on several fronts.
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Lazy for me...much like Child In Time...is the version off Made In Japan. Haven't heard the studio version in years. Great tune, like most Purple from that era.
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Lazy for me...much like Child In Time...is the version off Made In Japan. Haven't heard the studio version in years. Great tune, like most Purple from that era.
I actually thought this is what we were talking about! :lol I don't believe I've ever heard the studio version.
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To be honest, I am pretty sure I have heard it, but it's been so long since I did, I might just be telling myself that. :lol
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Foreigner - Starrider
I actually heard this song on the radio once, way back in the mid 90s, and I was shocked when I figured out that it was by Foreigner. It sounds so unlike everything else I knew by them, and that is not even factoring in that Lou Gramm is not the lead vocalist in this tune. To this day, I like it a lot, and it remains one of the few Foreigner songs I will revisit when scrolling past them in my iTunes.
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Foreigner's first album is amazing, and this song is one of the reasons. Ian McDonald. I saw Foreigner when they were touring Head Games, and this song was one of the features. Ian took an amazing flute solo, accompanied by some awesome (for the time) video effects, then they came back round into another guitar solo, another chorus, and finished the song. A definite highpoint, and I already liked the song.
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Holy hell! I haven't heard this in so long that I was about to post that I wasn't familiar with it. But then I searched it out and found that I could sing along with the whole song. I don't think I owned this album but my buddy (coincidently named Kevin) had it and played the crap out of it.
Anyway, great song. I really like the vibe!
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Holy hell! I haven't heard this in so long that I was about to post that I wasn't familiar with it.
Same here. :lol I will check it out when I get home.
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I played some Foreigner today _ Agent Provocateur and Inside Information albums. Not heard much of their older stuff, Cold As Ice and Jukebox Hero aside.
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Foreigner's first album is amazing, and this song is one of the reasons. Ian McDonald. I saw Foreigner when they were touring Head Games, and this song was one of the features. Ian took an amazing flute solo, accompanied by some awesome (for the time) video effects, then they came back round into another guitar solo, another chorus, and finished the song. A definite highpoint, and I already liked the song.
I was going to mention how awesome this song was live with the flute solo and whatnot, having heard it on some bootlegs, but of course Orbert beat me to it :lol
Great song. Foreigner's debut goes in a lot of directions that they didn't really get into after that, and Starrider is one of those directions I wish they'd played up more often.
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The year was 1979, we were Juniors in high school. My friend Chris called me at around 5:30 and said he'd won tickets to see Foreigner tonight but he had no way to get there. If I could drive, the other ticket was mine. Pine Knob Music Theater (R.I.P.) was an indoor-outdoor venue, with pavillion and lawn seating, and it was two hours away. Fifteen minutes later, with a full tank of gas, we were on the highway.
The local radio station had three pairs of tickets, and he'd won the last pair. When he got to the radio station to pick them up, however, he was the first one, so they gave him his choice. They were under the pavillion all together and maybe halfway back, but right in the middle. He picked the two in the middle. That was at 2:00 in the afternoon, and he'd been calling people all day trying to find a ride. I'd come home at 5:30 for dinner, but obviously this took priority. My sister didn't need the car, my mom said it was okay. Yeah, baby!
Traffic was insane as we got off the exit and neared the venue. 7:30 came and went as we sat in an endless line of cars. 8:00, we were inside the big gates, but parking was nuts. The marquee outside had said "FOREIGNER WITH SPECIAL GUESTS HERMAN BROOD AND HIS WILD ROMANEC" (sic). I'd actually heard of them, heard they sucked. They were just leaving the stage as we walked in. Perfect timing.
We found our seats while a lot of people were either still arriving or taking a break as Herman Brood and His Wild Romance had just finished. Chris was on my left, two other dudes about our age, maybe a little older, were on my right. They looked like stoners, and I briefly wondered whether they'd share. Pavillion seating, 70's, oh yeah. I introduced myself and we chatted a little bit.
I heard Chris saying "Hi! How's it going?" to the people on the other side of him as they were sitting down. A couple, late 20's maybe, the girl was kinda cute though, and... Holy Shit! The "girl" was our junior high band director (who was kinda cute).
Tthe lights went down, Foreigner came out, and you could see lighters flickering all over the place, including immediately to my right. Something smelled good. They passed it over (cool!) I gestured, silently asking whether I could pass it over to Chris, and the one guy nodded, but Chris waved me off emphatically, since he was sitting next to our old band director. Right, like she cared. I sure as hell didn't. So fine, I passed it back, and eventually the three of us got pretty baked.
When "Starrider" started, you could practically hear half the audience going "Oh yeah, this song!". When the flute solo came and on the big screen behind them we were flying off into the stars, I was flying too.
Great concert, Foreigner totally rocked. Man, I miss the 70's.
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Stories like that are why I love this thread. :coolio :hat
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A few years ago (I think, I'm too damn old :lol) I got all the remasters of Foreigner and this was the first CD I got and the first song and it blew me away. I forgot how good their early album cuts were.
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I have no stories to tell like Orbert but I really like the first Foreigner record. Starrider is great and it sounds not like the typical Foreigner. Although I really like some of the later records, I wish they would do something like this song more often.
Starrider to me always feels like a 70s prog song, though it isn't really prog, but somehow the vibe is there.
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Yeah, Foreigner wasn't prog, but I wouldn't really call them pop either. Just really good rock and roll, at least in the beginning, sometimes stretching out into some really cool stuff, like "Starrider". I mean, come on, Ian McDonald was a founding member of King Crimson. You know he brought some of that with him to Foreigner, and they were never the same after he left. Then they really did become just a pop band.
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I always think of Foreigner as 80s rock.
When I came to know Foreigner (through the radio at the beginning of the 80s) I didn't know who Ian McDonald and King Crimson were. Heck, back then I didn't even know who was in the band. That came later, and ever since then I wonder what McDonald was doing in Foreigner. From serious prog to pop/rock? But then I think of Steve Howe and Asia :laugh:
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I think a lot of really talented musicians have wide ranges in the types of music they like to play, simple as that. Sure, Steve Howe is probably best known for his work in Yes, but listen to any of his solo albums, and it's clear that he's also into classical, jazz, country, and all kinds of cross-blends between them. He left Asia again last year because between Yes and his own jazz trio, he didn't have time, but he's always spoken very positively of his time(s) in Asia. I remember specifically him being asked about "Heat of the Moment" way back when, and he said it was cool opening a song with power chords; he could never do that in Yes.
If you check out Ian McDonald's resumé, it's similar, though not as extensive and wide-ranging as Howe's. He started as a session musician. You know the T-Rex song "Get It On (Bang a Gong)"? He's on there; I'm guessing that's him on the sax solo. So yeah, after helping form the original King Crimson, he left, helped start Foreigner a decade later, and has basically seemed to do whatever he wants. He's been a pivotal member of the 21st Century Schizoid Band (something like a King Crimson tribute band, made of former Crimson members), and has played on Robert Fripp's solo albums. And has also played with... Asia. So it comes full circle.
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Orbert, I really like your answers full of knowledge and side notes, even when the question wasn't really meant serious ;)
I myself like different styles of music and if I would still play in bands, I'd like the music we play to be varied. So when McDonald wants to play pop/rock or Steve Howe wants to play powerchords I'm all for it. But nonetheless I'm always surprised if a musician known for a certain kind of music suddenly does something different.
And I find it fascinating that there was (and still is) a lot of crossing over between bands and their members. Sometimes I think that in certain genres everyone has played with everyone.
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Yeah, I figured your remark was tongue-in-cheek, but I'm a teacher; I can't resist an opportunity to enlighten (that is, show off my knowledge of trivia).
I love that rock musicians of every genre and subgenre seem to play with each other without prejudice, almost the way jazz musicians do. I made a mix tape years ago, just for fun, with the only requirement being that each song had to have at least one person singing or playing on it who was also on the previous song. Not surprisingly, King Crimson came around three times in 90 minutes, as there are so many guys who've played in Crimson who have also played with lots of other bands and artists.
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Teach all you want, my remark that I like your answers was meant in earnest. One can't know enough trivia about their favorite artists.
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I gotta be honest: I was not expecting this much discussion as a result of featuring a Foreigner deep cut. :lol
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That's why this place is so awesome.
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Queen - Liar
A friend swears this got played on the radio back in the 70s, but I never heard it on the radio back in my radio-listening days of the 90s. When I finally dug into Queen's albums, after knowing nothing but their many hits for years, this was one that stood out right away; it was rocking, and melodic, and dirty, and majestic, all at the same time. It's still one of my two or three favorites from their underrated debut album.
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One of the highlights from the debut album, great song!
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Not my favorite from the debut album (that would be reserved for "Great King Rat") but it's a great rocking tune that always makes drive a little too fast when it comes on in the truck! I'll have to agree with your underrated characterization. I've met very few fans who rate the debut very highly but personally I'd rank it in the top four for Queen albums. A terrific performance by Freddie, but that's no surprise, is it?
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I'm a huge fan of Great King Rat, too, and that tune could have just as easily been featured here, but I thought Liar was the better choice for this thread.
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To be honest, I've never heard either on the radio, but I would assume Liar is much more likely to be a radio deep cut.
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I've heard "Liar" on the radio a few times. I like it. It kinda reminds of the Three Dog Night song with the same name, though, especially with the angry refrain "Liar!" shouted in harmony like that. In the Three Dog Night song, though, the first person is singing to someone else, accusing them of being a liar. As far as I can tell, Freddy is talking about himself, and how no one ever believes him.
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Never heard Liar on the radio, but it's definitely a great song.
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Camel - Who We Are
Oddly, this is the only Camel song I've ever heard played on the radio, since it is considered a KSHE Klassic - https://www.kshe95.com/music/klassics-atoz - which are mainly songs that got played on the radio at some point, but are only played on rare occasions now. This threw me at the time, since I was like, "What song is this?!" It wasn't one of the three songs from I Can See Your House from Here that was on the double CD compilation that got me into the band, so it seemed odd to me, at the time. That all aside, it's a really good song. It has the usual great Camel instrumentation and some very nice vocal melodies. It's now easy to see why this is the only song by them I ever heard on the radio (although it's not the only song of theirs on that KSHE Klassics list).
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Wow, I've never heard Camel on the radio. I've heard of Camel, and downloaded a bunch of their albums, but I've never really taken the time to dig into them. What I've heard sounds good; I just don't have the time to check out new bands like I used to.
Ha ha, "new" bands. You know what I mean.
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I do, and that is a bummer, cause, given your tastes, Camel would be a band you should go nuts over.
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I'm with Bob... though I can't think of a single Camel song that I've heard.
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Have heard this, but never on the radio.
My "Kev is from Earth-2, where the radio stations are much cooler" theory gains momentum :lol
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:lol
But really, go look at the link in the post where I posted the song; that song really was played on the radio!! :biggrin:
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Yes - Starship Trooper
Amazingly, the first time I heard this song was on the radio! At that point, all I knew by Yes was the majority of 90125, the two hits from Big Generator and Roundabout, so this was quite an eye-opener. I remember being completely hypnotized by the guitar solo and long outro; it was one of those early HOLY SHIT moments in my very early days as an emerging classic rock fan. :lol :lol And today, it remains one of my two or three favorite songs by one of my 10 all-time favorite bands. This song is nothing but awesomeness from start to finish. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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:lol
But really, go look at the link in the post where I posted the song; that song really was played on the radio!! :biggrin:
Of course the link shows that, you're posting it from Earth-2! :lol
Starship Trooper is a top 5 Yes song for me, and it was hearing the version that was on 90125 Live that prompted me to go out and start buying classic Yes albums. Which in retrospect might seem appalling to classic Yes fans, but that's how it happened. My favorite version of it is the one on Yessongs with the glorious solo by Rick Wakeman; couple that with a 14 minute live version of Yours Is No Disgrace and you had one of my favorite sides of vinyl prog ever. :biggrin:
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Yeah, the live versions of pretty much all the stuff on Yessongs are awesome. I go back and forth with which version of any given song I prefer, the live or the studio. They're usually quite different. I love the energy of the live, but the sound quality is so bad that it hurts so I generally reach for the studio.
Starship Trooper is awesome, and the Wurm coda is awesome the first, oh, 20 or 30 times. I do find myself getting a bit impatient with it these days.
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I loved this movie! The scene where the bug horde overruns Port Joe Smith is classic!
Oh, and the song from The Yes Album is way better even than the movie! I'm pretty sure I first heard it on the radio as well...but was there a radio edit? It seems unlikely that the radio played a 9:00 + song, or they could have just faded it out around the 5 minute mark. I don't remember, obviously.
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Camel's Harbour of Tears is the only Camel album that has connected with me.
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:lol
But really, go look at the link in the post where I posted the song; that song really was played on the radio!! :biggrin:
Of course the link shows that, you're posting it from Earth-2! :lol
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Oh, and the song from The Yes Album is way better even than the movie! I'm pretty sure I first heard it on the radio as well...but was there a radio edit? It seems unlikely that the radio played a 9:00 + song, or they could have just faded it out around the 5 minute mark. I don't remember, obviously.
Songs of around that length or more were often played on the radio back in the 70s. Two of the most popular rock songs ever are Stairway to Heaven and Free Bird, songs which are 8:02 and 9:08, respectively. Hell, according to several friends, 2112 was always played in full on the radio here back in the 70s! :metal
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I guess that's true. You could always tell when the DJ needed to go have a sit down, or perhaps a few bong hits in his car, whenever you heard Stranglehold.
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Starship Trooper, definitely one of my favorite Yes songs, but I've never heard it on the radio.
Of course, I don't live on Earth-2.
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Aerosmith - You See Me Crying
There are very few Aerosmith songs that wow me, but this is one of them. When I first got Toys in the Attic way back when, this song really stood out. I love the melodies, the orchestration is really nice, and I love the fact that it doesn't sound like your typical Aerosmith song (which is probably why I like it so much :lol). Toys in the Attic is filled with nothing but good songs, but this is my favorite.
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Wow, I haven't heard this in . . . well, let's just say it's been a long, long time and leave it at that!
I remember liking it a lot, but like I said, it's been a long time.
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My favourite song from that great album.
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I always skip this one. Just not a fan.
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I was amazed when I first heard this song. The guitarist in my first band was a huge Aerosmith fan and we tended to spend a lot of time listening to his albums trying to find songs we could play (this was junior high, so skills were somewhat limited), and when it got to this song, I couldn't believe it. Wow, strings and piano and complexity, from Aerosmith! I was on the fence about buying the album, but this pushed me over. People who say Aerosmith ain't nothin' but blues tryin' to rock don't know about this song.
Never learned the song, but appreciated it greatly.
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The only old Aerosmith I have is from Pandora's Box. I couldn't say that I recognized the song off the top of my head, so I went and played it. Decent enough song, but 70s Aerosmith doesn't do much for me... not bad, just not something I ever feel the need to seek out.
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Eagles - The Last Resort
I had never heard this song until I saw it on their Hell Freezes Over video, and I have to admit that I was utterly blown away. The ending where they all do those wordless harmonies underneath the final verse ("And you can see them there..."), which are much more pronounced on the live version, is simply amazing; an absolutely beautiful climax to a great song. As often happens when I hear a live version first, I prefer it to the studio version, but listening to both, and being as objective as I can be, I think the studio version just doesn't have the magic the live version does. Either way, this is a great tune.
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The only old Aerosmith I have is from Pandora's Box. I couldn't say that I recognized the song off the top of my head, so I went and played it. Decent enough song, but 70s Aerosmith doesn't do much for me... not bad, just not something I ever feel the need to seek out.
It's the opposite for me, 70s Aerosmith is their best period IMHO.
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I always liked "The Last Resort" although for a long time, I didn't know the title. It's one of those songs where the title isn't obvious.
My wife is a bigger Eagles fan than I, and has all their albums (which means that we have all their albums) and one time when she was playing Hotel California, this song came up and I jumped up and checked the label to see the song title. She asked me what the deal was, I explained, and she said "You could've just asked me." Hmm, I didn't think of that.
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My favorite Eagles song, and like you, Kev, I fell in love first with the Hell Freezes over version, but the studio one, which swaps out the strings for synths, is still pretty neat. And regardless of the version, that last verse is spectacular. :biggrin:
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Didn't know the song by title alone, but as soon as I clicked play, instantly recognized it. One of the better Eagles tunes. They were always good at delivering a slow paced song that didn't feel like a ballad.
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I am a large fan of the Eagles, and this is one of my favorites, especially among their non-hits (although I have heard it on the radio a time or two). Fantastic song from a fantastic album.
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Killer song! Henley sounds so remorsefully resigned to the inevitability of the cheezy commercialism he describes. A sad song that's beautifully performed.
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AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
I have no clue how much this was played on the radio back in the day, although I have had several tell me it was, but either way, it's a pretty smoking tune. I rarely go out of my way to listen to AC/DC, but I will turn this song on once in a while and rock the hell out. There is a raw innocence about this song that is very infectious. It sounds like a young band just letting loose for 5+ minutes. :metal
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I don't have Let There Be Rock, so my only fix of Rosie comes from AC/DC Live... and it's a great version.
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I've definitely heard it on the radio before, but I can only take so much AC/DC, and there are better doses out there than this.
Nothing wrong with the song. It's me.
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great tune. I love pretty much everything from the Bon Scott era.
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I've heard the live version on the radio quite a number of times. The afternoon DJ on KBER back in the 90's was a huge Bon Scott fan and made sure to spin this one frequently.
I really like it. "Forty two, thirty nine, fifty six. You could say she's got it all" An awesome moment in rock. :biggrin:
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I've definitely heard this on the radio, because that's the only place I would have heard it since I don't have any of their albums and none of my friends do either. I'm not a huge AC/DC fan, but they rock pretty consistently, and this song is no exception. Also, there aren't many songs praising the big ladies, but it's kinda cool that there are some, and they're sincere. No tongue-in-check double entendres. She's big, but she's awesome. Anyone who has a problem with that, well, it's their problem.
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Whole Lotta Rosie kicks a whole lotta ass!
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Triumph - Just a Game
Sometimes, you get hear people say they hate people recording things in the studio that they can't play live, but the main musical motif in this song is a great counterpoint to that. I believe there are three or four guitar parts going on at the same time there, something Rik Emmett could never do live, but it sounds absolutely amazing in the studio. This has long been one of my favorite Triumph songs, and listening to now, it remains so. I think this was one of those songs that got massive radio airplay at the time it was first out, but Triumph eventually became one of those bands that classic rock radio latched to on just the three or four big ones to keep in rotation for decades, but this song is still freaking awesome regardless.
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Its a shame that Triumph is only known for a few songs. They have so many gems
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Haven't heard that in years! I need to refresh myself!
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The title's not ringing any bells for me. Maybe I'll recognize it when I hear it. Triumph did have a lot of great songs, but as JJ said, they were basically only known for a few.
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When I need a Triumph fix, Just a Game is not an album I often think of, so I couldn't hear this song in my head on name alone. I just spun it, and it's one of the better from this album for sure, but not a tier 1 Triumph song in my opinion.
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The only Triumph album I've ever owned and a huge reason was the title song. Terrific song, and I'm sure I heard it on the local FM rock station...almost any number of years ago now.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zycecz8vC6o
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The only Triumph album I've ever owned and a huge reason was the title song. Terrific song, and I'm sure I heard it on the local FM rock station...almost any number of years ago now.
Oh for the love that is holy and good... go get yourself Allied Forces!!!
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Allied Forces is really good, but Thunder Seven and Never Surrender are both really good as well. Those are all about equally good, if you ask me.
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The Doors - The End
For a spell in the early 90s, when I had first gotten into the Doors, this was one of my 5-10 favorite songs. I loved it to death, to the point where I listened to it practically every day for weeks. It helps that the girlfriend I had at the time was a Doors nut (girls back then always seemed to go crazy for them, often because they thought Jim Morrison was dreamy :lol), so having them playing on a regular basis was even easier. I can't call it a favorite anymore, but I still like it a lot, and it's still one of my favorite Doors tunes.
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Can't think of The End without thinking of Apocalypse Now. The two are inextricably bound together for me now.
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In and of itself, a fantastic song, and a monumental closer to one of the best debut rock albums ever.
And probably no previously recorded song has been more beautifully and hauntingly attached to a movie as this one.
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Pretty good for the Doors, I guess, but I never liked the Doors very much, so...
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Very trippy song. I'm a bit more of a fan of When The Music's Over when it comes to long Doors songs
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Pretty good for the Doors, I guess, but I never liked the Doors very much, so...
Outside of a couple of the upbeat ones (Touch Me, Peace Frog, etc..) I'm with ya. Riders and LA Woman do nothing for me, and The End approaches that territory. Not terrible, but entirely skipable. The Doors are better when they keep things short and simple.
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The Doors had the short pop songs that were usually pretty good, and they had the rambling things with Morrison just babbling. I'm more a fan of the first category.
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Me too, but there is just something about The End that I just dig.
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It's an interesting piece, captivating the first few times, and beyond that for many. Just not me.
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Love Just A Game. I am not a Doors fan.
Kev, speaking of classic rock, have you ever given old Alice Cooper a shot?
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Many years ago, yes. I like a handful of his songs, but nothing really made me stand up and take notice.
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Obviously I'm a huge AC fan, but why the original Alice Cooper band gets overlooked in the annals of Classic Rock is crazy. To me, they are easily the most underrated American rock band going.
OK just wondering...carry on.. :)
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In all fairness, I have featured several Alice Cooper songs in this thread. :biggrin:
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Feed My Frankenstien
Well, that's probably not what you mean lol
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In all fairness, I have featured several Alice Cooper songs in this thread. :biggrin:
I missed 'em! Oh well. Don't take it as a shot at the Thread Starter. It wasn't meant that way at all.
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Pretty good for the Doors, I guess, but I never liked the Doors very much, so...
"I'm with you fellers." ~ Delmar O'Donnell :biggrin:
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In all fairness, I have featured several Alice Cooper songs in this thread. :biggrin:
I missed 'em! Oh well. Don't take it as a shot at the Thread Starter. It wasn't meant that way at all.
Oh, I know. It's all good. :coolio
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The Who - Overture / It's a Boy
I don't remember when or how old I was, but I remember seeing a commercial for The Who for something Tommy-related, and the main theme from the Overture was used, and just based on that little snippet, I thought it sounded pretty awesome, so when I started getting into The Who, Tommy was an immediate purchase because I wanted that song. To this day, it remains one of my favorite pieces of music by The Who, and the section that starts around 2:22 has some of my favorite drum fills ever. In fact, if I had to list songs I always air drum to, this song would be near the top (along with about 88 Rush songs :lol). Great song that sets the tone for the overall awesomeness of Tommy.
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Excellent track. I love the acoustic guitar solo that takes us from the Overture into the first song. The overture itself is great, although it is just an overture, but it does its job well; it lays out the major musical themes for the work to come.
Also, appreciation for John Entwistle on French horn. :tup
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Also, appreciation for John Entwistle on French horn. :tup
YEEESSSSSSSssSSss
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I love the Overture to Tommy so much. Really good stuff
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My favorite part of Overture-well, it's neck in neck with the French horn parts-is the glorious section where the organ plays the "Listening to you" theme starting at around 2:20 or so. When I bought Tommy I put it on and cranked my stereo UP and that part about blew me into the wall. :lol
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Not a fan of Tommy.
*ducks*
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I was a huge Tommy fan a while back, but it really lost favor with me, as the rest of the Who's material has held up strongly for me.
That being said, Overture/It's a Boy is a beautiful piece of music, and a masterful opening to an album.
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My favorite part of Overture-well, it's neck in neck with the French horn parts-is the glorious section where the organ plays the "Listening to you" theme starting at around 2:20 or so. When I bought Tommy I put it on and cranked my stereo UP and that part about blew me into the wall. :lol
Ha! That is the same part I mentioned, except I gushed about the drum fills. That organ is definitely glorious, though! :hat
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Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
I am not a big Springsteen fan, but this song is just fantastic. There aren't many Springsteen songs I say that about it, but it's hard to deny how good this song is. The one drawback for me is that the beautiful piano melody at the beginning of the song never comes back, but maybe that's just the prog fan in me who is used to reprises of some sort in songs of this length (9 1/2 minutes). :lol A killer saxophone solo by Clarence Clemons is arguably the highlight of the song.
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Big Springsteen fan here, and that is one of his classics. Love it, love it, love it.
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Great song, from back when Bruce was great. I'm not sure what the hell happened to him, but he went from writing these amazing, sensitive, introspective songs to silly anthems which are literally one riff played over and over for five or six or 20 minutes. But early Bruce was very cool, and the Born to Run album is of course widely recognized as the best of the early Bruce.
I would love to play this song. It would be astounding. But I can't play keys and sax at the same time (yet?)
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I have faith in you.
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Awesome song by Bruce. That sax solo is godly
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When I had Born to Run in my Top 50, I made the comment that Jungleland was epic before the word epic was used to describe songs. One of my favorite Bruce songs. Can't think of a single thing that is wrong with it.
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Nice Springsteen pick!
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I came to the thread, saw "Nice Springsteen pick," thought "Must be Jungleland", went back and lo, it was. Then saw Jingle's post naming it :lol
If I were to make a top 50 list of 1970s songs, Jungleland would come in the top 20. Amazing fucking song.
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Billy Joel - Captain Jack
One of his lesser known "hits," this has long been one of of my favorites by Billy Joel. The lyrics paint a great picture about drug abuse, the laid back nature of the song is wonderful, and I love the way it explodes into the chorus every time, as each time there is a slight embellishment that makes it a tad different from the time before, whether it be a little guitar fill or a brief wordless vocal. This is just a tremendous song.
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First song I ever heard on the radio that used the word "masturbate". Probably the only one, come to think of it (no pun intended!) And I totally misunderstood that line for a long time. It was only recently that I finally realized what he meant. At least I hope that's what he meant.
Your sister's gone out, she's on a date
You just sit at home and masturbate
You sick bastard! Thinking about your sister getting some action gets you so excited that you whack one off? Your sister?
Disgusting. Billy Joel, I am disappoint.
I'm pretty sure he meant that your sister's getting some, but you are not because you're a druggie loser, therefore you stay home and beat off. Again, I hope that's what he meant.
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LOL, I am sure he did.
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One of my favorite Billy Joel songs. Excellent.
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Chicago - Questions 67 and 68
I avoided early Chicago's stuff for a long time cause I was advised by several friends that it was too, well, horn-y :lol, but at some point we all came around and checked it out, and I was surprised by how good a lot of those songs were on the first two albums. This one in particular really stands out. The driving energy of the main horn section is really cool, and it's almost like the vocals are the means to that end, as the horns really are the lead and the main hook in this song, which is not easy to pull off. Cool song.
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Every single moment of Chicago Transit Authority is completely awesome and this song is no exception. I love the mixture of the big horns and Kath's smoky guitar (even though it's not featured as much in this song). The instrumental section in the middle is awesome driving music at it's finest.
And, what a coincidence. This song came on my music player while I was driving home last night! :tup
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The original concept was to have a band with the horn section as an integral part of the sound, and often the "lead instrument". Those horn breaks were their chance to show off their chops, just as other bands might have a guitar solo.
Great song. Their first boss, hit-bound single that never was a boss, hit-bound single.
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Great track! Those first several albums are sheer gold.
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Time to dive deep now...
Journey - Look into the Future
Five years ago, if someone had played this song for me without me knowing who it was by, I never would have guessed it was by Journey. It being a pre-Steve Perry era Journey song, it sounds so different than what they became when Perry joined the band. I had always heard that those earliest albums had some good stuff on them, and this song is a good example of why some people think that. Really cool song.
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Very nice! I haven't listened to it in a while, but I remember that being a very cool tune. That old pre-Perry music is really neat.
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My first Journey album (I bought it because I liked the album cover) and the only one I still listen to. I liked the music then but it was a bit too mellow for me but as I aged and my tastes changed it's become a favorite. I really love the interplay of the guitar and keyboards on this song. Rollie and Schon really lay down a nice soft bluesy vibe that is very :coolio
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The first three albums are very different from what Journey would later become, but there's a lot of good music there. They were still finding their way, still trying to figure out how much jazzy stuff, how much rock, and how much prog (!) was going to go into the mix, and the results are often really interesting.
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Early Journey was pretty cool, though a bit unfocused as they couldn't figure out, as Orbert at times whether or not they were a prog band, a rock band, or the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and bringing Perry on and going in a more commercial vein was the right choice if you ask me. Part of me wishes they'd gone full on Mahavishnu Orchestra, as their early instrumentals are epic. Look Into The Future is pretty neat, though of their early stuff I like Of A Lifetime better.
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Despite having every Journey album from Infinity onwards, and being a Journey fan, I've had little interest in checking out the pre-Perry stuff (I was scared off for life by the dirty P word).
So I just listened to this song for the first time ever. My first impression is that I enjoyed Rollie's vocals more than I do on his later albums, but they're still not strong lead vocals. Musically it was a bit meandering, and not too strong melodically, but Schon's guitar work was great as usual, so the longer instrumental stuff was interesting to hear.
Overall, not too far off what I expected. Didn't love it, didn't dislike it. A decent listen.
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The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Very cool instrumental. Lots of neat keyboard sounds and effects, especially in that intro. I really don't have that much else to say about it other than I like it a lot. :lol :lol
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Cool tune. For years a sports show locally in Boston used I Robot as the intro. Coincidentally it was during the Drew Bledsoe era. :lol
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:rollin :rollin
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I'm actually not all that familiar with the Allen Parsons Project catalogue, or this song.
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I'm actually not all that familiar with the Allen Parsons Project catalogue, or this song.
I've got a couple of their songs, and know they're a band I should investigate more with. Someday ... after the countless others ahead of it on the list (like Kansas and The Moody Blues).
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Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
This is a deep cut in the sense that a lot of classic rock fans know the 3-minute edit that was often played on the radio, while not really knowing the whole song, which clocks in at a little over 43 1/2 minutes. I've given the whole thing a go quite a few times over the years, and while it's a nice, enjoyable listen, I don't quite get the love for it as a whole. It's good, but not great. I love the first 10 minutes or so and then I kind of lose interest. But I'm sure there are fans of it here, so let's hear it. :biggrin:
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Never been a huge fan of the Tull. I share your opinion of the song.
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Local radio played a ten minute edit-which was largely how Thick As A Brick was played live on later shows-for a very long time, which given how local radio is kind of shocks me. :lol
I like all of it, but there are a lot of sections that kind of drag-the first ten or so minutes of the old side two in particular-but there's some glorious parts and enough recurring themes to make it worthwhile. *pre-emptively shakes fist at Orbert for having it in vinyl with the awesomeness of the cover and the newspaper*
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Hee hee. It's a thing of beauty. But you knew that.
Oh yeah, the song is, too. I probably listen to "Thick as a Brick" a couple of times a year, on average. I don't know if that's a lot or what. When I do, I listen to the entire song, because that's how it's meant to be heard.
Kev, since you didn't go into a lot of detail regarding the background of this song, I guess I will, because I think it's important to get it out there (seriously). Aqualung, probably the band's most well-known album, was not a concept album. Ian Anderson himself has stated this, and he should know, since he wrote the whole thing. However, because it was something kinda cool to do, there is one lyrical reference to Aqualung, the person who is the subject of the title track, in the song which follows it, "Cross-Eyed Mary". Also, he gave the two LP sides "titles". For no apparent reason, it says "Aqualung" above the track listing for Side One, separate from the title of the album and the title of the first song (which are both "Aqualung") and it says "My God" above the listing for Side Two, again separate from the title of the first song on that side, which is "My God".
This led people to conclude that the album was a concept album, or that at the very least, the songs on each of the two sides went together in some conceptual way. Side One does contain mostly character studies, and religion does crop up a few times on side two. But Ian Anderson insists that these are just things that came up in the lyrics because they're what he was writing about at the time, and yeah, it made a certain amount of sense to "group" the songs somehow, but that was it. There were no underlying concepts anywhere.
But the idea that Aqualung was a concept album caught fire and could not be avoided, and Ian was actually a bit annoyed by it because he thought he'd set the record straight. He thought concept albums and prog in general often deserved every bit of the scorn and ridicule they received from some critics and non-fans. It's just rock and roll. So he basically said "Okay, you want a concept album? This is a concept album." And he created Thick as a Brick. One song, the entire album (both sides of an LP, which was standard album length at the time), recurring musical and lyrical themes, the same musical theme recurring but venturing off into different directions at various times, a ridiculous and out-of-place sudden appearance by a symphony orchestra, and a concept behind the concept, that the lyrics themselves were written by a young poet named Milton Bostock. Milton had an entire backstory which was fleshed out in a newspaper article in a fictitious newspaper, and the newspaper itself was filled out with other articles, puzzles and games, and other things you might find in a local newspaper, and the newspaper served as the jacket to the album Thick as a Brick.
It was absolutely ludicrous. Every possible effort was taken to make it completely absurd, completely obvious that this was not serious. And the people ate it up. Another concept album! And this one is incredible! The music, the package, the concept, everything!
And I think it's brilliant. Ian Anderson, because he is an immensely talented musician and composer, had "accidentally" created what I really believe is a masterpiece. I love "Thick as a Brick" and probably listen to it a few times a year, on average. I don't know if that's a lot or what.
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Great post. Thanks for all of that info, Orbert. I knew some of it, but not all of it. :)
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Heart - Mistral Wind
Ann Wilson's vocal performance in this song is pretty much :hefdaddy :hefdaddy. I remember when I finally dug into some of Heart's non-hits from the 70s years ago and stumbled across this song; it was like winning the musical lottery! It might actually be my favorite Heart song now. It's that freaking good.
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Great song! Someone here on DTF recommended this one a while back, and while I've had Dog and Butterfly for years, I never really listened to it that closely. Mostly I'd put it on, let it play while I do something, and put something else on when it's done. It's Heart, it's good stuff, but that's no way to learn the songs. So anyway, upon recommendation, I listened to "Mistral Wind" and immediately added it to my playlist. Killer song.
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Ann can wail on this one. Another killer Heart song
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Heart can almost do no wrong, and this tune is fantastic.
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Heart can almost do no wrong, and this tune is fantastic.
Amen.
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I couldn't remember that song so I had to YT it. Pretty cool song! Like you said, Ann really brings it. I thought I owned Dog and Butterfly, but other than the title song, I don't recognize a single song on this record.
I think I'll buy it! :)
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The Moody Blues - Legend of a Mind
This has long been my favorite Moody Blues song. It was my favorite when I first got into the band in 1990, and not only is it still my favorite Moodies song, it is one of my favorite songs by anyone. It is great in every way imaginable, and I actually prefer the remix on the This Is The Moody Blues compilation to the studio original. Both are fantastic, and the mixes are pretty similar, but the remix makes it sound fuller in the areas where they kind of went overboard with the left and right channel stuff on the original; it just sounds a little better. Regardless, this is a killer tune, with the greatest flute solo I've ever heard.
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Not a fan.
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I always loved when The Moody Blues would have a flute solo. Flute was one of my first instruments, and hearing it used it rock and roll on the radio gave me hope.
Timothy Leary's dead.
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Good to see you dig it, Orbert, but, you and I aside, the lack of appreciation from others for this song makes me sad. :|
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It's too deep for them.
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Just never liked them. Sorry.
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Molly Hatchet - Fall of the Peacemakers
From what I've been told about this song, while it was popular here in St. Louis, it didn't catch on in a lot of other places, mainly because it was 1983 and this kind of southern rock really wasn't what people wanted anymore, but to me, it sounds like vintage 70s southern rock and is a fantastic song. I am not even that big a fan of southern rock, but this band has a handful of songs I really like, and this is one of them.
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Never heard it.
Not a big fan of Molly Hatchett, though. But certainly never heard it on any classic rock radio around here. But knowing what I do about that band, it doesn't surprise me in the least that it sounds like something older than what it is.
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Favorite Molly Hatchet song, even if by 1983 a near nine minute long variation on the Free Bird structure (ballad start-long uptempo guitar coda) was basically doomed to failure. Pretty fair to call this traditional Southern Rock's last gasp, since Hatchet took the synths and pop songs track on their next album. But what a way for an era to go :metal
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That song title sounds like something from Blind Guardian.
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Jaq, I figured you and/or Orbert would be the only other ones who knew this one. :lol :coolio
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I would've went with me myself. Molly Hatchet just seems more up my alley :lol
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It is, certainly more than mine. I've heard some Molly Hatchet, even checked out an album of theirs once (I don't remember which one) and it was good. Some nice, tasty guitar work. But I guess they just didn't stick with me.
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Ozzy Osbourne - Revelation (Mother Earth)
I have no idea how much this was played on the radio back in the day, if at all, but I know that this is undoubtedly the best solo song Ozzy ever did, IMO. It has a little bit of everything, and does it all extremely well. Outstanding tune. :metal
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Pretty good song, but I've certainly never heard it on the radio around here.
:metal
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Never played on the radio here-deepest local radio got here with that album was Mr. Crowley, which isn't really what you'd call deep. :lol Great song, though.
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Supertramp - Rudy
I don't think I've ever heard this on the radio, but it's on like every greatest hits they released, so it must have been a popular song of some sort back in the day. It doesn't hurt that it's from Crime of the Century, which is mostly pretty terrific. I've never really went out of my way to figure out what my favorite Supertramp song is, but if I did, this song might be it; it's that great. It's a song that if I start listening to it, I never feel like not listening to it; I'll always listen to all of it. And for being nearly 7 1/2 minutes, it doesn't feel like it.
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Love me some early Supertramp, but I also never could figure out just why Rudy was on so many bloody compilation albums. :lol The band's said Crime of the Century was their artistic high point, so maybe they just want the album properly represented since for most people Supertramp is Give A Little Bit and the whole of Breakfast in America, and if you asked most people they'd think Give A Little Bit was on that album too. :lol
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Yeah, another good song that I've never heard on the radio. :biggrin:
Love some Supertramp.
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You have all been cheated by life itself. The FM station in Lansing, MI in the 70's had Rudy in its regular rotation for a while. Great song!
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Ozzy Osbourne - Revelation (Mother Earth)
I have no idea how much this was played on the radio back in the day, if at all, but I know that this is undoubtedly the best solo song Ozzy ever did, IMO. It has a little bit of everything, and does it all extremely well. Outstanding tune. :metal
Never played on the radio here but of course I played the crap out of the first 2 albums. Good tune but on the lower end for the first album.
Supertramp - Rudy
I don't think I've ever heard this on the radio, but it's on like every greatest hits they released, so it must have been a popular song of some sort back in the day. It doesn't hurt that it's from Crime of the Century, which is mostly pretty terrific. I've never really went out of my way to figure out what my favorite Supertramp song is, but if I did, this song might be it; it's that great. It's a song that if I start listening to it, I never feel like not listening to it; I'll always listen to all of it. And for being nearly 7 1/2 minutes, it doesn't feel like it.
Great album and such a great tune. I wish I could have seen them in the late 70's.