misswonderly3 Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 The Rankin Family: Borders and Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_XfM9lDz8A&feature=fvwrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancalover Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 MissWonderly wrote: Are you referring to thong-wearing or throng-waving? Ha! I didn't get to the previous post, and I also read "thong" at first ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancalover Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 >Cujas wrote: >"Don't Come Home a Drinkin' with Lovin' on Your Mind"--my personal favorite > >"Just stay out there on the town >And see what you can find" I have a personal favorite that hasn't been written yet.. *"I Love to Call Her Baby, Cuz' I Can't Remember Her Name."* Edited by: casablancalover on Jul 3, 2011 6:00 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Don't Come Home A Drinkin' ( With Lovin' on Your Mind ). Great song title. Fist City and You Ain't Woman Enough ( To Take My Man ). Loretta really knew how to lay down the law to the menfolk. I was just reading an article about the Tasteless Jokes books, and can't resist this music related one: Why did Karen Carpenter shoot her dog? It kept trying to bury her.Have a Happy Independence Day. And we all know what it was independence from. B-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Happy 4th of July, American friends ! I've always thought this was a very American song: W.S. Walcott's Medicine Show, by The Band: (sorry, couldn't find a live performance of this that had the original Band members, or if it did, it was barely audible. The colours on the album cover are nice...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 A day late and a dollar short. , half of X, Exene and John Doe with a laid back version of 4th of July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Never heard of either of them - just look what I've been missing. Something John Prine-ish about that guy. This is Leslie Feist with a fun colourful video; she makes every moment count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 If I might poll you people on something: Which is your favorite as a genre? (1) classic rock-pre 1975 (2) classic rock-post 1975 (3) alternative rock (new wave, etc.)-1975-1990 (4) alternative rock----1990-present (5) 1970s---rock and pop (6) 1980s-rock and pop (7) 1990s-rock and pop (8) 2000s-rock and pop (9) oldies (10) something else.......My favorite is number (3). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 finance, baby, I don't "do" favourites as such; I'm not trying to be snooty or difficult, it's just that there is such a huge range of music, genres, era, artists, whatever. I just like what I like. Same thing for me with movies; I just saw a very recent film that I thought was fantastic *( An Education*, 2009) and I also just saw Chaplin's *City Lights* (silent, 1931, as no doubt you know) ; two utterly different movies in every way and I love them both. ( maybe the Chaplin just a bit more.) I am surprised that your favourite is #3 (alternative rock - 1975-1990). I had the impression you liked 2 and 5. Also, you don't mention a genre that I thought you loved...soul, motown, r & b, funk. Or do they fall into the "pop" category? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 I knew you guys didn't like it as much as I do, so I left out r&b. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 ! ? ! ( surprise emoticon) ! Now where did you get that idea? C.B. clearly likes funk a lot, particularly Parliament or Funkadelic or The Nose or whatever he's called (George Clinton?) and, as far as I can tell, lots of other music in the genres I listed. cujas takes a lot of interest whenever we're talking soul/ motown, as do others. And I love soul and r & b, in fact all that stuff. Where did you get the idea there was little interest in it? I am shocked and appalled, as the old lady who wrote to her newspaper said. Sheesh, there's at least one or two songs a week here in those genres. Also, by leaving out such important genres, your "survey" would be skewed. You're not supposed to tailor a survey according to what you think the respondents will say. And you a man of the law ! (don't know how that relates to all this, but I thought it sounded effective.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 There isn't a musical fan on Earth who doesn't love Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. And very few women, who don't LOVE Smokey Robinson.--if they're still breathing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 I plead guilty, The reason for the survey, in the first place, is that I have become very involved in the choice of narrowly tailored Sirius Satellite music channels to play at my gym. My categories approximately reflect the channels that are likely to be played. R&B doesn't make the cut, because of the demographics of the gym. If another category, "R&B--'60s and '70s"had been added, that would have tied with classic alternative for MY first choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 You've got to brush up on your punk rock. B-) X was a 1980s punk rock band from LA. They were fairly well known, though they didn't sell a truck- load full of records. John Doe, Exene, Billy Zoom, and the wonderfully named drummer, DJ Bonebrake were the original members. John and Exene also had a side project called the Knitters, which played a more country folky type of music. John does sort of remind one a bit of John Prine in this video. Leslie put out a very entertaining video with lots of energy. The song is good too. I believe the proper moniker is Sir Nose. Yes, there's royalty on the Mothership. The whole Parliament, Funkadelic, PFunk, etc. is quite a tangle to follow, but there's always a George Clinton in there somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Yes, I'll have to brush up on John Doe and Exene ( rhymes with "extreme" ?), for sure (or shir-ley.) Tommy Hunter had his own country television show back in the day. Here's a couple of tunes from him: One of These Days ( with a little stand-up comedy, country tv show style): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTdq_Bpzqd0 And this was his theme song: Travellin' Man : Edited by: misswonderly on Jul 6, 2011 1:54 PM Oops, no stand-up comedy after all - mixed up, I was. Well, you're not missing much. Sometimes those country tv show stand-up comics were well-intentioned, but rather lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 If I had to narrow things down, I'd likley go with classic rock/pop from 1964 to 1973 and alternative from 1990 to present. The music channels on DirecTV also have a lot of narrow categories, but there's good music being made in all eras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 See, I've never heard of Tommy Hunter. A better haircut than George Jones, though I must admit that's not much of a compliment. Miss W I think you might like X. They did a fairly melodic brand of punk, but still had the screw 'em vibe going. They were a critics' favorites band that never quite caught on. Things happen that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 No one can doubt the classic rock bona fides of these faculty lounge favorites. Simon and Garfunkel performing The Boxer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Speaking of satellite stations, my locally-owned pizza place displays Rat Pack Photos and only plays a satellite station that plays Sinatra, Dean and current Sinatra wanna-be's. Have you heard this station? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 "Faculty lounge favourites"...I like that, probably pretty apt. Anyway - another coincidence . I was thinking about S & G lately, pondering Bridge Over Troubled Water and how The Boxer is my favourite track on it, with or without the faculty lounge in which to listen to it. Just a friggin' really good song. Major change of pace: I'm not a big fan of rap/hip-hop, and I assume most of the folks who check out this thread aren't either, as there's very little of it here. Of course we could get into a discussion of how soul led to funk, and funk led to rap, etc. Still, it does have its merits, especially "old-school" rap, which was kind of fun and had more of a sense of humour to it than most of it seems to have now (this coming from someone who rarely listens to it, I suppose what I'm saying could be perceived as b.s. Still, that's my impression.) Ok, so anyway, here's an "old-school" hip-hop number from 1989. Maestro Fresh-Wes recommending "Let Your Backbone Slide" : It's kind of fun, particularly the chick dancers in their cool dresses - not offensively sexist, like so much later rap became. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCSv_MkVZ0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 cujas, I could go with a "Rat Pack" radio station, sounds like a good idea in a way. On the other hand, much as I love The Chariman of the Board and his cronies, I don't know if I could handle hearing "Kick in the Head" twenty times a day ( 20 X according to finance.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 It's funny. I only like pre-1990 alternative. Most of the post-1990 alternative sounds to me like metal or hip-hop. I like the '80s alternative with a fast beat that is danceable (e.g., Berlin, Billy Idol, Flock of Seagulls, Go-go's, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 X were, I believe, greatly influenced by the Doors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I don't think I'd like to be kicked in the head 20 times a day, either. Edited by: finance on Jul 7, 2011 10:27 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 No. But I've heard just about all the Sirius rock, r&b, and pop channels. Some are better than others not only because of the genre, but because of the programmer. For example. Classic Rewind (rock, 1975-1990) is better than Classic Vinyl (1965-1975) not because the rock was better in that era, but because it is better-programmed. Edited by: finance on Jul 7, 2011 10:58 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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