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

[jingle.boy]

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.

  Can't stand Metallica's version.

[JayOctavarium]

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.

  Can't stand Metallica's version.

I don't mind it...

[DebraKadabra]

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.

[Jaq]

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. 

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.

[KevShmev]

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.

[DebraKadabra]

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...

[Jaq]

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. 

[Orbert]

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.

[BlobVanDam]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. The Metallica version is great, as are Hetfield's vocals.

[masterthes]

I think their version of Whiskey in the Jar is way better than Turn the Page

[jingle.boy]

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.

[BlobVanDam]

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.

[jingle.boy]

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.

[BlobVanDam]

Haters gonna hate, buddy.

[KevShmev]

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 ).  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.

[masterthes]

Favorite Boston track, easily. "Foreplay" is such a great instrumental/intro

[Orbert]

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.

[jingle.boy]

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.

[Big Hath]

that track is so awesome I don't have the words

[Jaq]

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.

[KevShmev]

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.

[Jaq]

I owned it on vinyl first, so when I got the cassette that was what messed me up, 

[DebraKadabra]

I think their version of Whiskey in the Jar is way better than Turn the Page

Word.

Boston - Foreplay/Long Time

No words, just

[Mindflux]

No words, just

Chicks love foreplay?

[Orbert]

If it goes for a Long Time.

[DebraKadabra]

No words, just

Chicks love foreplay?

If it goes for a Long Time.

Dammit!  Ninja'd by Orbert!

[Orbert]

Heh heh.

[nicmos]

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.

[King Postwhore]

That Boston Album has so many good hits.  It's like the Cars first album, beginning to end a great album

[DebraKadabra]

You ain't lying there, my liege.

[Unlegit]

 

[wkiml]

Boston....Greatest Debut Album of All Time 

You could have listed any song off this album and it would have gotten a huge  from me.....

[DebraKadabra]

Definitely.

[KevShmev]

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.

[Jaq]

Pretty much the same thing here. I've never really been into Mountain, but I know this song back and forth.