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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2021 16:08:17 GMT
Pat, I'd like to buy a vowel...an E.....
We have one E. *ding*
I'd like to solve the puzzle: Eric Clapton!
I don't think I need to say much about Clapton. We all know he's one of the greats. He'd been in numerous bands in the early days, shared the stage with many other greats, and has had a long successful solo career.
My secondary pick would be the Electric Light Orchestra, another act I need not say much about.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 9, 2021 12:30:46 GMT
F 2.
I went with a classic choice the first time around with the Four Tops; this time I'll go a little more left field with the Fiery Furnaces.
This Chicago-raised brother-sister duo had a roughly decade-long run of activity through the '00s, but I am most fond of a brief run of albums in 2004-05. The music most often reminds me of Frank Zappa meets the Who, with long, complex musical passages; occasionally humorous conceptual exercises; interrupted by occasional big, stadium-filling anthems and hooks.
One album I really loved--but that even critics, for whom it would seem like a dream, didn't, to say nothing of the public--was their second 2005 album, Rehearsing My Choir. It featured their grandmother reciting stories relating (sometimes) to her real life as well as band member Eleanor playing the role of the youthful version. It's bizarre but brilliant.
There are some more accessible moments on their earlier 2005 album EP, with Blueberry Boat (2004) somewhere in between the two, and maybe best of all. Here is one of their poppiest moments, "Tropical Iceland."
And much less poppy:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 9, 2021 13:40:22 GMT
Artist: The First Edition - This was the original incarnation of the group, which later became Kenny Rogers And The First Edition. Members of The First Edition included Mike Settle (who Kenny met in The New Christy Minstrels), and Mickey Jones (who played drums with Bob Dylan).
Songs: They had a few hits including "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", "Something's Burning", "Reuben James", and the psychedelic classic, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)".
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 9, 2021 13:45:22 GMT
Songs: They had a few hits including "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", "Something's Burning", "Reuben James", and the psychedelic classic, "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)". For a second I was excited to see that title. I thought of this song that was around my house as a kid, the Kingston Trio's version of a song by the same name. (A really fun one when your entire family starts belting out the chorus in harmony at high volumes!)
Alas, it is not that, but this:
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 9, 2021 14:18:42 GMT
It is interesting that The First Edition would record a song called "Reuben James" - and it NOT be a cover of The Kingston Trio's "Reuben James". As I mentioned above, Kenny Rogers and Mike Settle (and Kim Carnes) were together in the folk group, The New Christy Minstrels, and it wouldn't surprise me if they sang Kingston Trio songs. Here's two photos of Kenny when he was with The New Christy Minstrels. He played bass:
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Post by jk on Aug 9, 2021 18:52:05 GMT
The first F-bomb I'll drop this time round is Robert Fripp. The album? Exposure.
In second place? How about The Four Seasons? I love their early singles and a later thing called "Silver Star":
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2021 22:32:25 GMT
The first F-bomb I'll drop this time round is Robert Fripp. The album? Exposure. In second place? How about The Four Seasons? I love their early singles and a later thing called "Silver Star": Aw man! I was all set to go with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons this round. But my pick is the 1967 moderate hit "C'mon Marianne". This song blows me away, mostly from a musician's standpoint. If you listen closely, the instrumentation is....well almost surreal. And then there's that half step drop in key when it goes back into the verse. Wow! Listening to the drums throughout the song makes me think that the 2000's group Jet used that sound in their hit "Are You Gonna be My Girl". There's a similarity. My secondary choice is John Fogerty. I've always been particularly fond of this song:
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 10, 2021 11:40:27 GMT
Gee, it's G time again.
Today I'm going with the "band" and album I used for a song last time around. It's actually a (semi-)band, album, and song. (Oh, and movie.)
God Help the Girl's God Help the Girl featured "God Help the Girl." The project was an offshoot of Belle & Sebastian, with the bandleader Stuart Murdoch writing songs mostly to be performed by female singer-characters and arranged in a girl-group '60s style. The project was initially intended to accompany a film, but while music came out in 2008-10, the film took several more years. It was finally released in 2014 (and in my opinion wasn't very good).
Here's what I'd call the best tune from the 26 songs released under that name as a collection of singles (3), and EP, and an album.
"I'll Have to Dance with Cassie"
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Post by jk on Aug 10, 2021 12:23:25 GMT
Rory Gallagher is one choice of mine. We used to own his first solo album until it was stolen. But instead, this is the stunning "Going To My Hometown":
I'll be back with a second choice...
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Post by jk on Aug 10, 2021 17:39:34 GMT
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 10, 2021 20:05:15 GMT
I didn't know what letter to use but I wanted to recognize them so I chose G...
Artist: The Guess Who - Currently, my pick for the biggest Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame omission. Burton Cummings was such a distinctive singer and Randy Bachman was an outstanding guitar player. They also wrote some of the greatest songs of the late 60's and early 70's.
Songs: Their Greatest Hits is one of my favorite comps, including the songs, "No Time", "These Eyes", "Sour Suite", "Laughing", "Undun", "Rain Dance", and "Hand Me Down World". Heck, all of 'em!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2021 22:44:12 GMT
Grateful Dead. I'm not a Dead-head by any means, but I recently picked up their American Beauty album on cd, and have really been getting into it. One standout song is "Friend of the Devil" which has a really lively bass and drum part.
For my secondary artist, I pick the Grass Roots.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 11, 2021 0:43:53 GMT
I really like The Grass Roots. They had a lot of good singles. I think my favorite was "Temptation Eyes" from 1970. Sadly, lead singer Rob Grill passed away in 2011.
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Post by kds on Aug 11, 2021 16:58:15 GMT
G (I'll post my picks for D, E, and F later).
David Gilmour - Easily one of my favorite guitarists of all time, Gilmour released his third solo album (and first in 22 years) On an Island in March 2006. The album was actually the first Floyd related album of any kind in a decade. In early 2006, I decided to leave my job in radio, and got caught up in a "direct sales" job that was completely miserable. I wasn't making any more money than I did in radio, and I'd become a bit of a rudderless shi at the age of 25.
But, when that album came out, I went to Best Buy to buy it, and played it that night, and fell in love with it almost instantly. Hearing Gilmour's guitar and voice on new songs wasn't really anything I was expecting, and the whole album has a very laid back, Floyd-ish feel to it. The second to last song in particular, A Pocketful of Stones, is very soothing. I found myself playing this album a lot that March as Winter turned into Spring, and I made the decision to go back to school to get a business degree.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 11, 2021 17:15:40 GMT
For our second round of Hs, I've got to go with a classic.
Buddy Holly.
He was a favorite of my dad's (my dad even looks like him in his high school pics from the late 50s, same glasses and hair), and we had that music around my whole life. I remember in particular what I think was a multi-record set with the cover of Buddy Holly's face, but it comprised pixels that were actually smaller Buddy Holly faces, as I recall.
Holly is one of the few musicians of my parents' collection that I loved as a kid, as a teenager, and straight on through adulthood. He has never been anything but cool for me. I'm not sure whether he'd have advanced and grown in interesting ways had he lived, or just faded away. But what he did is fantastic.
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