redriver Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 HOLY ****! I just got that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 John Lee Hooker doing Crawlin' King Snake : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I'm glad that name trend ended or else we might have Flabby Chess or Obese Monopoly (sounds like a member of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band). Fats is one of my favorite 1950s rockers, and I have to admit I like the overexposed Blueberry Hill too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 A much covered reggae classic from The Harder They Come, the Melodians singing Rivers of Babylon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I knew Flabby Chess. Flabby Chess was a friend of mine. Sir, you are no Flabby Chess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Pudgy Backgammon takin' us up to news time, with his hot new single... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Very nice version of Rivers of Babylon; of course, it's hard to go wrong with that bit of reggae. Saxophonist Clarence Clemons died a few days ago (June 18th.) He's best-known as the sax player in Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band. So, with apologies to those who feel they've heard enough of this song to last them a lifetime, here's the Big Man playing one of his most famous solos. Yes, it's Born to Run - a dynamic live version. C.B., you remarked a few days ago in another thread that you can get too much of tunes that are played endlessly and incessently ( you cited Free Bird and Stairway to Heaven as examples.) But I say, there are songs that are so great that they move you everytime you hear them. And for me, Born to Run is one of those songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Actually, that's a good thing. Flabby was Leonard and Phil's goofy, irresponsible younger brother. They kept him out of Chicago by giving him the job of head bouncer at their little known House of Polka club in Evanston. Smart move and they never looked back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Very often the original is the best. Sublime does a pretty decent acoutic version. People will probably always remember the cover of the Born to Run album with Bruce and Clarence together. Very sad news. I like both those songs, but they did get a little too much airplay, so that one needed a respite. I hope by now other tunes have taken their place, but you never know. Born to Run is a great song and who can forget that nifty chorus, Tramps like us, Baby we were born to run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Talking Heads truckin' down the Road to Nowhere. I tried to post the video for the song, but it kept starting and stopping, so had to go with the album cover one. Ho hum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGnyTOyESbU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 If you had to listen to BORN TO RUN 20 times a day, would you still feel the same way? Let me hijack this thread by listing some rock songs I COULD listen to 20 times a day. Crazy on You---Heart Turn it On Again---Genesis Every Picture Tells a Story---Rod Stewart LA Woman----Doors Jumpin' Jack Flash----Stones Life During Wartime---Talking Heads Message of Love---Pretenders Suffragette City----Bowie Watching the Detectives---Elvis Costello Wooden Ships---Jefferson Airplane Blue Collar Man--Styx All Along the Watchtower----Hendrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Funny thing is, Chubby Checker wasn't very chubby. He just needed a catchy monicker. Even if he had been chubby, all that twisting would have melted away the flab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 I am not sure I could listen to any song 20 times a day (maybe 4 to 5 tops). But this does remind me of my kid days of buying 45's and putting the latest fav on my record player and playing it over, and over, and over. After my blasting "Mony, Mony" about a dozen times my mother was ready to go get a gun.( either to shoot me or the record player). We didn't have a gun in our house, but she could have borrowed one from a neighbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 First, I have to be honest...there are about four songs on your list that I have never heard ( as far as I know). At least I've heard of the groups that perform them. They are: Crazy on You---Heart ( Canadian ! ) Turn it On Again---Genesis Message of Love---Pretenders Blue Collar Man--Styx If I've ever heard these tunes, I'm not aware of it, so cannot include them in my comments. As to the rest of the list, they're all fantastic songs (except maybe for Wooden Ships - well, I personally find it annoying and too self-consciously hippyish, but that's just me). But I wouldn't say any of them were better than Born to Run. Anyway, they're all so different. How do you decide one "classic" song is better than another, any more than deciding one "classic" movie is better than another? It's the apples and oranges thing. If you want to get literal about it, I don't think there's any work of music, not even Beethoven's 7th symphony or Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (both outstandingly great ) that I would actually want to listen to twenty times a day. And are we talking twenty times, but just for one day, or twenty times a day for , say, twenty days in a row? I mean, let's get down to logistics here. All the songs on your list ( that I'm familiar with) do something similar to what Born to Run does: they generate excitement and energy through great rock music. They capture something indefinable but essential to rock and roll, a kind of restlessness and sense of mystery. Theyr'e timeless songs, and Born to Run belongs on the same list. Are you really saying you don't like it? Or are you just sick of hearing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redriver Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Outstandingly great? Isn't that like extremely extreme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 No more than it's unnecessarily redundant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Boy, a person really has to watch their words around here. One slip ( yeah, "outstandingly great" sounds pretty dumb - excessive and redundant,one or the other would have done) and the entire message of the post is lost, all that is noticed is the bad writing of one phrase. But yes, "outstandingly great" is pretty bad - as opposed to ordinarily great, I suppose. What can I say, I was writing in a hurry. ?:| ...I could still edit it out at this point, but then nobody would know what red was talking about. Plus, I wrote the mindless phrase, I'll take the consequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I don't believe that the Wilson sisters (Heart) are Canadian. I think they are from Washington state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 A person really has to watch HIS OR HER words around here. Edited by: finance on Jun 24, 2011 9:27 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 As I think I've indicated before, the only Springsteen stuff that I REALLY like is his very early work. I believe I could listen to, "It;s Hard to Be a Saint in the City" 20 times a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Chubby Checker will be at the Phillies game tonight. Finance, will you be there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 No, there's a twist contest this evening that I'm entered in at the local dance hall. Incidentally, "The Twist" was originally recorded by Hank Ballard, not the Chubster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 If I thought that Finance, Chubby Checker, and the Philly Fanatic would be having a dance off for the pregame show tonight, I would be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 Road to Nowhere, hmm, good song. I kind of stopped following the Talking Heads after Remain in Light. Not that there was anything wrong with them after that, it was me, not them. The city of Toronto is a jumpin' with excitement right now, on account of the Indian Film Festival, which has selected T.O. as its international site to present the equivalent of the Oscars. Hollywood Bollywood. A few years back, an Indo-Canadian filmmaker, Depha Meta, made a very entertaining Canadian- Bollywood film, called Hollywood Bollywood. It's set in Toronto, which has a considerable Indian community, and it's silly but fun. Here's a little slice of some of the Canadian Bollywood dancing in it: (I know nobody's going to watch this or be interested in it, but just in case...) : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I remember when I'd get a new .45 and play it for days on end. I also remember when I had only a few dozen albums that I could keep track of and play often. Now I've got too many to really enjoy them like I used to. I'd be hard pressed to listen to the same song twenty times a day, even if it was the most pleasurable pop concoction. Now don't take this personally, but I have a Med-alert bracelet that says I can't be within five miles of any place where a Styx song is being played. If I had to play one song that often, I'd likely go with the Beatles. How about Revolution 9 ? That's the same thing Georgie boy said. I stayed with the Talking Heads until the bitter **** end. They were still making good music, but maybe it was time to call it a day. I believe there were a lot of personality clashes toward the end. I did not go so far as to buy any of the Byrne-less Heads' albums though. Here's a bit of trivia. Radiohead was named after a song of the same name on the True Stories album. That's the one TH album I didn't get. Figures. I like some Hollywood musicals, but it's not my favorite genre, so I'm pretty sure I'd pass on Bollywood. Thinking back, Chubby was not all that chubby. Too bad he didn't start a Twisting to the Oldies exercise program. Never before in the history of motion pictures has such an outstandingly great film been brought to the big screen for your cinematic pleasure. A once in a lifetime movie experience you will not soon forget. See the... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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