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Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Edgy MD Jan 18 2021 10:44 AM

I don't think Joe, the protagonist of Soul (2020) mentions who was the featured pianist in the show he saw as a teenager that made him give his life to jazz, but I'm thinking the recently departed Junior Mance is as good a guess as any. [YOUTUBE]Y6879XJsCKk[/YOUTUBE]

Fman99 Feb 19 2021 06:24 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

RIP Markie Dee. [youtube]PLq-4QUdooA[/youtube]

Edgy MD Feb 20 2021 03:28 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Uncharacteristic, but this is my Fat Boys jam. [YOUTUBE]XqFX1ras9XQ[/YOUTUBE]

Fman99 Feb 21 2021 08:50 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Thats a good one. I'm more about the beat box myself. [youtube]vTCVuFf2Cmo[/youtube]

Johnny Lunchbucket Feb 22 2021 09:49 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

These tunes remind me that I'm old and that I miss when rap subject matter was more or less confined to how great a particular rapper rapped, or their DJ Djed.

Frayed Knot Feb 22 2021 09:53 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

With 2/3 of the members dead by the ages of 28 and 52, it could be argued that a band called the Skinny Boys would have had longer staying power.

Edgy MD Feb 22 2021 07:45 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: These tunes remind me that I'm old and that I miss when rap subject matter was more or less confined to how great a particular rapper rapped, or their DJ Djed. You're speaking, of course, about 2005.

Johnny Lunchbucket Feb 23 2021 05:15 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Now that's a good thread. Rotbblatt could be a power hitter

Edgy MD Mar 03 2021 05:45 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Bunny on lead vocal, like a reggae Sam Cooke. [YOUTUBE]OlSI8uj8rnQ[/YOUTUBE]

Edgy MD Mar 16 2021 01:23 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Clap your hands, say Yaphet. [YOUTUBE]gpRyr3dvSck[/YOUTUBE]

G-Fafif Apr 16 2021 07:26 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

The late Rusty Young singing lead on Poco's delightful 1989 comeback hit. https://youtu.be/cGEBXL11THc

G-Fafif Apr 21 2021 04:59 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

https://youtu.be/RTOtCoVqgbs

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 21 2021 09:40 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

"Rock n Roll Dreams" always came off to me as a little too transparent in its overwrought theaticality whereas the BAT was played relatively straightfaced by comparison. This song also reminds us why Steinman was smart to get a big vocalist to carry his vision out. He sounds like an accountant singing. All that said this was a song I never forgot from the first time I heard it even though it disappeared from the radio in weeks

Edgy MD Apr 21 2021 11:49 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Steinman is equal parts infuriating and admirable to songwriters for his ability to take ridiculously long phrases — particularly title phrases — and somehow make them work musically. #makingloveoutofnothingatall #totaleclipseoftheheart #itsallcomingbacktomenow #objectsintherearviewmirrormayappearcloserthantheyare

TransMonk Apr 21 2021 04:01 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

[YOUTUBE]ogoIxkPjRts[/YOUTUBE] I forgot about this one being Steinman...but it's unmistakable with those signature JS backing vocals.

Edgy MD Apr 22 2021 04:33 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

The Tartan Army everywhere weeps, for there is less McKeown in the world. [YOUTUBE]eRkCfon-fjI[/YOUTUBE]

Fman99 Apr 22 2021 06:45 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

This thread is a consistently strong reminder that I need to listen to the Fat Boys more often.

Edgy MD Apr 22 2021 10:02 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

[YOUTUBE]ogoIxkPjRts[/YOUTUBE] I forgot about this one being Steinman...but it's unmistakable with those signature JS backing vocals. Unmistakable also is Roy Bittan on piano. Perhaps not so obvious but also notable is Max Weinberg on drums and Rick Derringer on lead guitar. It's arguably more a Steinman record with Air Supply sitting in than an AS record. Also notable in that it sat at number two for three weeks, kept out of the top slot by "Total Eclipse of the Heart." Steinman was owning the charts and he didn't even need Meat Ball to help him do it.

Willets Point Apr 23 2021 07:21 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Bonnie Tyler long ago added "Making Love Out of Nothing at All' to her live sets since its basically the sibling of "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

TransMonk Apr 23 2021 08:01 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Edgy MD wrote: Unmistakable also is Roy Bittan on piano. Perhaps not so obvious but also notable is Max Weinberg on drums and Rick Derringer on lead guitar. It's arguably more a Steinman record with Air Supply sitting in than an AS record. Also notable in that it sat at number two for three weeks, kept out of the top slot by "Total Eclipse of the Heart." Steinman was owning the charts and he didn't even need Meat Ball to help him do it. It took me two days to get that Air Supply song out of my head after posting the video. Now it's back in there again. Jim Steinman was an earworm genius!

Edgy MD Apr 23 2021 08:33 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

The Jim Steinman business plan. 1. Write for the spotlight. 2. Be heroically dramatic. 3. Be overwrought. 4. Make every line more fucking ridiculous than the one before it. 5. Somehow find a singer shameless enough to sing each line of it like it was exploding out of his or her heart. Dress them in plunging necklines. 6. But not Bolton. Fuck that guy. If there's any doubt that song was written for Loaf to sing, check out this amazing quatrain: 　　I can make the runner stumble! 　　I can make the final block! 　　I can make every tackle at the sound of the whistle! 　　I can make all the stadiums ROCK!! Steinman and his evil genius may ultimately be more powerful dead than alive. Post-Script: Is that a young Nancy Travis starring in the video above?

Willets Point Apr 23 2021 08:48 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

It's kind of surprising that Steinman's oeuvre has not been the basis of a Broadway jukebox musical. I know they tried with "Bat Out of Hell" but just a general Steinman musical seems like a no-brainer. It could be like "Momma Mia" with vampires.

TransMonk Apr 23 2021 09:20 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

I go back to the backing vocals that define Steinman for me. I believe he used the same background vocalists even when there were different leads on his hits. They are as distinctive to me as Jeff Lynne's dramatic backing vocals used in ELO, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and all things Wilburys.

Edgy MD May 21 2021 12:42 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

It's a shame for this thread that we haven't figured out embedded video yet, but we must briefly lift the needle off the record as a moment of silence in honor of Swampers drummer Roger Hawkins, who put the jerk in all the jerkiest records around. And then, we put the needle back down. [YOUTUBE]h1FRrZD2y9Y[/YOUTUBE] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1FRrZD2y9Y [YOUTUBE]5C4FnlftQt4[/YOUTUBE] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C4FnlftQt4 [YOUTUBE]IhHBr7nMMio[/YOUTUBE] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhHBr7nMMio

G-Fafif May 29 2021 07:12 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Not one of B.J. Thomas's bigger hits, but it's stayed with me these last 50 years' worth of tomorrows.

G-Fafif May 29 2021 07:16 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

California Girls' claim on cuteness notwithstanding, B.J. Thomas made clear who had the eyes most suitable for staring in.

Edgy MD Sep 14 2021 09:16 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

My favorite Norm. [YOUTUBE]qNzNeGw8Fmo[/YOUTUBE]

Fman99 Sep 15 2021 05:45 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

That was a good bit, I had not seen that one.

Edgy MD Sep 16 2021 03:08 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Conan O'Brien's show goes off the rails when Conan's interview with Courtney Thorne-Smith gets hijacked by Norm. [YOUTUBE]bKmadR4Ye54[/YOUTUBE]

Edgy MD Oct 12 2021 04:12 PM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

Legendary (and now departed) Chieftains founder Paddy Moloney pulls his whistle out of his pocket and goes it solo. [YOUTUBE]meEYuPpapWs[/YOUTUBE] Chieftains = President Biden's favorite band.

Willets Point Oct 13 2021 09:21 AM Re: Post-Mortem Jukebox Heroes, 2021

There were a lot of Chieftains records in my parents' record collection so Paddy Moloney's music is part of the soundtrack of my childhood. Here's a favorite of mine. [YOUTUBE]mpkrr0-qut4[/YOUTUBE]