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Post by Kapitan on Oct 12, 2019 14:17:10 GMT
I didn't like Egypt Station much. Some of it was OK, but a lot, not so much. The last McCartney I really liked was (the song, not the album) "New." And that did make my biggish list of best songs of the '10s.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 15, 2019 1:17:25 GMT
My 10 Favorite Willie Nelson Songs:
1. Always On My Mind 2. On The Road Again 3. A Moment Of Forever (written by Kris Kristofferson) 4. Still Is Still Moving To Me 5. Pancho And Lefty (with Merle Haggard) 6. Whiskey River 7. Freight Train Boogie 8. Mendocino County Line (with Lee Ann Womack) 9. If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time 10. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
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Post by jk on Dec 3, 2019 14:53:06 GMT
The first ten records I ever bought (with birthday and Christmas money):
01. Runaway with Del Shannon (LP) 02. "Hats Off To Larry" ~ Del Shannon 03. "The Morning After" ~ The Mar-Keys 04. "Please Mr. Postman" ~ The Marvelettes 05. "So Long, Baby" ~ Del Shannon 06. Rebel Rouser (EP) ~ Duane Eddy 07. "The Wanderer" ~ Dion 08. "The Pepperment Twist" ~ Joey Dee & The Starliters 09. "Hey! Baby" ~ Bruce Channel 10. "Louie Louie" ~ The Kingsmen
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 3, 2019 23:51:58 GMT
The first ten records I ever bought (with birthday and Christmas money): 01. Runaway with Del Shannon (LP) 02. "Hats Off To Larry" ~ Del Shannon 03. "The Morning After" ~ The Mar-Keys 04. "Please Mr. Postman" ~ The Marvelettes 05. "So Long, Baby" ~ Del Shannon 06. Rebel Rouser (EP) ~ Duane Eddy 07. "The Wanderer" ~ Dion 08. "The Pepperment Twist" ~ Joey Dee & The Starliters 09. "Hey! Baby" ~ Bruce Channel 10. "Louie Louie" ~ The Kingsmen Interesting. A lot of those ^ were before groups like The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks hit big. Oh, they were around, but they didn't explode...yet. BTW, Duane Eddy is still alive and well at age 81. Here is a fairly recent performance:
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Post by jk on Dec 4, 2019 9:38:31 GMT
Interesting. A lot of those ^ were before groups like The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks hit big. Oh, they were around, but they didn't explode...yet. BTW, Duane Eddy is still alive and well at age 81. Here is a fairly recent performance: [Rebel Rouser]
Yes indeed. In fact, "Louie Louie" is the one exception--only the BB in the US and The Beatles in the UK were big before then. So Duane Eddy is one of the last men standing! And standing tall too. This is my absolute favourite of his, and my all-time favourite instrumental:
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 4, 2019 14:05:01 GMT
I wish I could remember or otherwise had record of my first ten purchases! I’m really jealous you know that, jk. I do know my first three. 1. The Muppets, The Muppet Movie Soundtrack (vinyl). I was about 5; my parents allowed each of us kids to pick one record from the Columbia House or BMG music club. I picked that one. (I remember my 9-years-older sister picked the Eagles’ The Long Run. I don’t know what anyone else picked.) 2. Stryper, To Hell With the Devil (cassette). This would have been about six years later than my first purchase. At this point I was 11 or so, and I was using paper route money or something. I thought getting Christian heavy metal would impress my mom. It did not. 3. Europe, The Final Countdown (cassette). Same purchase as the aforementioned Stryper, I LOVED this album! It had a few hits on it—the title song, “Rock the Night,” and “Carrie”—and was just generally very catchy, radio-and-video friendly pop metal, focus on the “pop.” But after that, I really have no idea. I know that at about that age I went all-in on music, buying tapes with every spare dollar I had. Overwhelmingly it was the sort of pop metal as was popular at the time. I know my early purchases would have been Poison, KISS, Motley Crue, Dokken—in fact, their Back For the Attack was definitely another early purchase, possibly the very next one after the above—and the like. It was probably another year or two before I started going back to classic rock, mostly of the guitar-hero persuasion.
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Post by kds on Dec 4, 2019 14:18:24 GMT
Europe is one of the most unfairly maligned bands from that era. The Final Countdown is generally considered the hard rock version of "We Built This City." But, it's a great song. I never understood the hate. Plus, John Norum is a really good guitarist.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 4, 2019 14:19:49 GMT
I think Kee Marcello was lead guitarist on that album, though. Norum left after the previous one, if memory serves (and might’ve returned later?).
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 4, 2019 14:24:01 GMT
I stand corrected, at least per wiki. Seems it was a “Whitesnake situation,” where Marcello was brought in after it was done and in the videos.
I’m 100% sure he was listed in place of Norum on my cassette’s credits, though. Tricky business...
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Post by kds on Dec 4, 2019 14:24:24 GMT
Norum left after the Final Countdown album because he thought the band was getting too poppy.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 6, 2019 14:39:55 GMT
It's not an easy task to do with an artist you like and whose career spans parts of five decades, fortysomething albums (several of which are two- and three-disc sets), innumerable singles, but I gave it a quick shot this morning. I know perfectly well that if you asked me to do this again tomorrow and didn't let me look at this list, I may well have 75% different songs. Such is life.
My top 10 Prince songs, with another 10 thrown in for good measure.
1999 (1999, 1982) Raspberry Beret (Around the World in a Day, 1985) I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (Sign o’ the Times, 1987) I Love U, But I Don’t Trust U Anymore (Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, 1999) Let’s Go Crazy (Purple Rain, 1984) I Would Die 4 U (Purple Rain, 1984) Cream (Diamonds & Pearls, 1991) Take Me With U (Purple Rain, 1984) Alphabet Street (Lovesexy, 1988) If I Was Your Girlfriend (Sign o’ the Times, 1987)
Kiss (Controversy, 1986) Sexy M.F. (O(+>, 1992) Delirious (1999, 1982) Baltimore (single, 2015) The Rest of My Life (The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale, 1999) Dinner With Delores (Chaos & Disorder, 1996) Tangerine (Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, 1999) The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (The Gold Experience, 1995) Rainbow Children (The Rainbow Children, 2001) Dolphin (The Gold Experience, 1995)
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Post by kds on Dec 6, 2019 15:09:13 GMT
No room for "Batdance" ?
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 6, 2019 15:17:57 GMT
I don't hate "Batdance!" It's silly, but it's fun. But no, it isn't among my favorites.
What a lot of Prince fans would not like about my list (or a lot of the other songs I like) is how much of Prince's straight-ahead, almost power pop songs I like. My favorites are often either those or the really jazzy funk songs. Often I prefer those to the "Minneapolis sound" almost robotic synthesizer funk-pop he's best known for.
I'll say this: if Prince had wanted to be a traditional rock star, he could have been. He was great with strong melodies, anthemic refrains, and obviously guitar heroics!
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Post by kds on Dec 6, 2019 15:32:43 GMT
I can't say I'm a Prince fan, but I am nostalgic about the Batman Soundtrack album since I had a cassette of it when I was nine years old that I always used to listen to on our family trips to the beach. I still listen to a couple tracks here and there in the summertime.
I'd have loved to hear him do a full on rock album.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 6, 2019 15:36:47 GMT
When I saw him on his Musicology tour in about 2005, he did a mostly acoustic set within the show. Among the songs were covers by Zeppelin, Beatles ... one or two other non-funk, non-RnB kinds of things, just pure rock and roll. And it was great. He was one of those very rare talents who could have easily gone either (or any) direction and not sounded dumb.
He had talked about that before, and said it came partly from growing up in Minneapolis. There was a small but fertile funk, jazz, and RnB scene in Minneapolis, but obviously in the '70s growing up he was really immersed in the same musical culture as everyone: Zeppelin, Wings (and remnants of Beatles), etc. He just absorbed it all.
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