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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 27, 2019 14:19:11 GMT
Top 10 Hard Rock Groups from the early/mid 1970's (in no particular order):
1. Slade 2. New York Dolls 3. KISS 4. Blue Oyster Cult 5. Ramones 6. Rush 7. Badfinger 8. Deep Purple 9. Led Zeppelin 10. Queen
A very underrated period in rock & roll history.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 27, 2019 18:37:00 GMT
Paul McCartney's 10 Best Songs from his solo career:
01 Band On The Run 02 Jet 03 Maybe I'm Amazed 04 In The Back Seat Of My Car 05 Venus And Mars/Rock Show 06 Let Me Roll It (Back In The U.S. version) 07 Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five 08 Getting Closer 09 Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey 10 Take It Away
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 27, 2019 19:01:39 GMT
10 AM Radio hit songs from 1971 - it was a very good year:
01 "Maggie May" - Rod Stewart 02 "Brown Sugar" - The Rolling Stones 03 "It Don't Come Easy" - Ringo Starr 04 "Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who 05 "Love Her Madly" - The Doors 06 "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye 07 "Superstar" - The Carpenters 08 "Beginnings/Colour My World" - Chicago 09 "I Hear You Knocking" - Dave Edmunds 10 "It's Too Late" - Carole King
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 27, 2019 21:24:22 GMT
You're ten'ing it up, here, SJS. I don't know anything off hand, but I'm going to think of something just to keep you from listmaking alone.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 27, 2019 22:27:41 GMT
Sinatra - The 10 Best
01 I've Got You Under My Skin 02 It Was A Very Good Year 03 My Way 04 Theme From New York, New York 05 The Lady Is A Tramp (The Main Event Live)
06 Fly Me To The Moon 07 The Way You Look Tonight 08 Send In The Clowns 09 Where or When (Live At The Sands) 10 Strangers In The Night
Lucky 11 Luck Be A Lady
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 27, 2019 22:43:48 GMT
Because of a combination of trying to avoid obvious sorts of things I'd probably fall into, and an inability to really commit to rankings, here is not a top ten, but a chronological ten: the first ten genres I liked. (The years are rough outlines of the periods in question. I don't dislike any of them though, so end dates should be taken relatively.)
1. Melody. 1976-present. Not really a genre, but as a young kid, it was all about melody for me. In fact, I couldn't really distinguish much else. Literally, church hymns, Beatles, Billy Joel, Eagles, John Denver, Kingston Trio, Tchaikovsky ... all seemed more or less the same to me. I could sing along. I liked it.
2. Hair Metal. 1984-1992. Thanks to my older cousin and occasional (but inconsistent) access to MTV, it was right around 1984--meaning, MCMLXXXIV (I feel so cool saying that instead of 1984), Stay Hungry, Shout at the Devil, Metal Health--that I was indoctrinated. The theatricality, the melodies, that did it. When Dee Snider compared "We're Not Gonna Take It" to Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote in front of Congress, that rang totally true with me. Honestly it was a tougher version of my first love: melody. Great melody and Big Dumb Rawk guitars. Amen.
3. Rap. 1986-92; 2012-present. I heard "the Message" when it was a few years old, but it was really the Run-DMC hits, and then things like Kool Moe Dee and Young MC that got me so excited. It was just as cartoonish as heavy metal (unlaced, big sneakers; gold chains; funny Gilligan hats or something) and entirely foreign to me. I loved it through the De La Soul and Beastie Boys classics of the early 90s but once so-called gangsta rap came into fashion, I opted out. (Turns out I'd missed a lot of cool stuff in there, too.) It was in the past half decade or so that I've tentatively dipped toes in. I remain attracted to great samples, live funk or RnB musicians, and what I guess you'd call "literate" lyrics.
4. Classic Rock. 1988-2000. As I began to play guitar, my hair metal roots grew out. My sister, nine years older, began making cassettes for me of classic rock: Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, etc. Some of those obviously fit into my guitar leanings.
5. Blues. 1990-2000. Take classic rock and add a pinch of the Ralph Macchio (and STEVE VAI!) movie "Crossroads," and you get a budding blues-lover. Suddenly I had the Robert Johnson box set. Got into Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, etc.
6. Guitar Hero. 1990-1996. This bled from hair metal, with the obvious Eddie Van Halen touchstone. But when I saw David Lee Roth's guitarist had a triple-necked, heart-shaped guitar (which he made "talk" in "Yankee Rose"), well...yes, please. So Steve Vai begat Joe Satriani begat an assortment of Shrapnel Records guys (Marty Friedman, Jason Becker) and fusion guys (Frank Gambale, Al Di Meola), etc.
7. Jazz. 1992-2004. After making all-state jazz band in high school (on guitar) purely on blues ability, I was quite fully embarrassed by my more educated and talented peers in the week-long, summer camp. Later I went to school on a jazz guitar scholarship and more fully dug in, especially theoretically/compositionally. Chick Corea [see Gambale, above!], Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, then Basie, Ellington, Andrew Hill, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans, etc.
8. Avant Garde Rock, 1994-2000. Vai begat Frank Zappa. That got things going. I read interviews, and suddenly musics that didn't sound alike were linked anyway, through their outsider status, maybe. So Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Velvet Underground, even into Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor in jazz and Arnold Schoenberg or Edgar Varese in "classical," were all of a kind.
9. "Classical." 1994-2000. We always had some Reader's Digest box sets or something, but I started really learning about and digging into so-called classical music in college. My love of melody reined supreme, so Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and so on always led the way, but Stravinsky especially crept in there. And see above for a few more far out types.
10. "Beatles and Brian Wilson" Pop. 1996-present. I knew and loved the Beatles literally forever. They were played in my house as long as I can remember. But around '96, I really dug in. And around then (but probably a year later) I got into Brian Wilson, first via Pet Sounds and then the assorted legends, chamber pop, etc. And that got me to worship melodic, well arranged, chamber pop (for lack of a better term). Whether classics like the Zombies or then-modern groups like Cotton Mather and Apples (in Stereo), that's where my head was for a good while.
And there you have it, all done with before I even got into Motown, indie pop, "freak folk," or country.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 28, 2019 12:23:43 GMT
What the hell, Kapitan. You made my lists look a little...skimpy. Nobody asked you to write a friggin' resume'.
No, seriously, good stuff there!
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Post by B.E. on Apr 28, 2019 14:57:45 GMT
Paul McCartney's 10 Best Songs from his solo career: 06 Let Me Roll It (Back In The U.S. version)
Well, first off, it's hard to argue with your top 10. All great choices. This one, though, caught my eye. What is it about the Back In The US version that you find preferable to the original? I don't have the CD, but I do have the DVD. I have fond memories of watching it as I was really getting into the Beatles at the time of its release. I guess it's time to give this version another listen.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 28, 2019 19:04:05 GMT
Paul McCartney's 10 Best Songs from his solo career: 06 Let Me Roll It (Back In The U.S. version)
Well, first off, it's hard to argue with your top 10. All great choices. This one, though, caught my eye. What is it about the Back In The US version that you find preferable to the original? I don't have the CD, but I do have the DVD. I have fond memories of watching it as I was really getting into the Beatles at the time of its release. I guess it's time to give this version another listen. First, thanks for asking. Band On The Run is easily my favorite McCartney solo album; as far as quality of songs I don't think there's a close second. And, "Let Me Roll It" is a favorite from that album. However, I don't think Paul quite nailed the studio version (actually I prefer the alternate 'One Hand Clapping' version), and I didn't think that way until I started to hear his live versions, of which there are several. After comparing all of the live versions, one version in particular, the Back In The U.S. version, contains IMO not only Paul's best vocal of "Let Me Roll It", but one of the best lead vocals of his solo career. It is crystal clear, he hits all the notes perfectly, and it's just spine-tingling. The tempo of the song is perfect, not too slow, and it rocks harder than most of the other versions, too. I love it!
I don't have the DVD, so I don't know if the version on the DVD is the same as the album version.
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Post by B.E. on Apr 28, 2019 20:29:01 GMT
Well, first off, it's hard to argue with your top 10. All great choices. This one, though, caught my eye. What is it about the Back In The US version that you find preferable to the original? I don't have the CD, but I do have the DVD. I have fond memories of watching it as I was really getting into the Beatles at the time of its release. I guess it's time to give this version another listen. First, thanks for asking. Band On The Run is easily my favorite McCartney solo album; as far as quality of songs I don't think there's a close second. And, "Let Me Roll It" is a favorite from that album. However, I don't think Paul quite nailed the studio version (actually I prefer the alternate 'One Hand Clapping' version), and I didn't think that way until I started to hear his live versions, of which there are several. After comparing all of the live versions, one version in particular, the Back In The U.S. version, contains IMO not only Paul's best vocal of "Let Me Roll It", but one of the best lead vocals of his solo career. It is crystal clear, he hits all the notes perfectly, and it's just spine-tingling. The tempo of the song is perfect, not too slow, and it rocks harder than most of the other versions, too. I love it!
I don't have the DVD, so I don't know if the version on the DVD is the same as the album version.
Wow! That rocks! It's incredible that Paul and his band still sounded so good in the 21st century. For comparison sake, I also gave the Wings Over America version a fresh listen - no contest. Great find, SJS. I mostly stick to studio albums, so sometimes I need to be reminded of great performances such as this. I need to give some thought to my top 10 McCartney solo songs and albums.
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Post by kds on Apr 29, 2019 12:33:03 GMT
Top 10 Replacement Members:
1. David Gilmour - replaced Syd Barrett in Pink Floyd - No offense to Syd, but I don't think Floyd would've come even close to the greatness they achieved without Gilmour.
2. Bruce Dickinson - replaced Paul DiAnno in Iron Maiden - Paul did a decent job on the first two Maiden albums, but he was never a great singer. Bruce, on the other hand, still is.
3. Ian Gillan - replaced Rod Evans in Deep Purple - Far more range than Rod Evans, and the perfect voice when Blackmore wanted to take the band in a more hard rock direction in 1970.
4. Sammy Hagar - replaced David Lee Roth in Van Halen - I don't care what anyone says, Van Halen released some great music with Hagar on vocals
5. Jeff Beck - replaced Eric Clapton in The Yardbirds - For my money, their best material was with Beck on guitar.
6. Brian Johnson - replaced Bon Scott in AC/DC - Big shoes to fill, but Brian Johnson has done a great job, and it's good to hear that he's likely back
7. Ronnie James Dio - replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath - You can actually make a good argument for the two albums with Dio in the early 80s as Sabbath's best.
8. Zak Starkey - the latest drummer to replace Keith Moon in The Who - The only drummer they've had who even comes close to Moon. It's a pity that he was unavailable for most of the Endless Wire album in 2006.
9. Lindsay Buckingham - replaced Peter Green and Bob Welch in Fleetwood Mac - Say want you want about the radio friendly Rumours lineup of the Mac, they released a ton of great songs, and Lindsay is a unique player
10. Cozy Powell - replaced Gary Driscoll in Rainbow and one of many Sabbath drummers - Powell would be a lot more revered today if he stayed with any of his several bands for an extended period.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 29, 2019 12:37:27 GMT
Great list idea!
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 29, 2019 12:38:48 GMT
Yeah, good one, kds!
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Post by kds on Apr 29, 2019 12:44:35 GMT
Thanks. And I was tempted to include Ringo Starr, but I decided to limit my list to musicians who replaced members after the band already released at least one album.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Apr 29, 2019 12:46:55 GMT
Thanks. And I was tempted to include Ringo Starr, but I decided to limit my list to musicians who replaced members after the band already released at least one album. Oh, there's easily enough Replacement Members for a second list!
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