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Essential Songs
| Frayed Knot May 05 2006 01:36 PM |
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I decided that we didn't have enough music lists around these parts.
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| Yancy Street Gang May 05 2006 01:37 PM |
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We really could use a Music Forum.
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| MFS62 May 05 2006 01:43 PM |
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When I was in basic training in the Army, the #1 song at the time was the Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".
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| soupcan May 05 2006 01:49 PM |
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Really?
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| MFS62 May 05 2006 01:53 PM |
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KC has seen me and can tell you I only look that old. I posted my real age here last year. In case you're interested, its the same as the number in my screen name. (muttering to self "young whippersnappers") Later
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| Vic Sage May 05 2006 02:16 PM |
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I like alot of that list.
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| Willets Point May 05 2006 02:35 PM |
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We have a music forum. If we parcel out everything to new fora we'll have nothing left to discuss here except for that dreaded 17-page Jets thread (and somebody will want to create a Jets forum next). I think we should bring the book and film discussions back to the NBF and just archive them seperately for easy access.
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| Johnny Dickshot May 05 2006 02:42 PM |
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I just work with this bit for now. 1. Log off your computer 2. Go to the nearest record store 3. Buy John Prine's GREAT DAYS anthology 4. Listen to it 5. Log back in and agree with AfM's place among essential songs. Prine was a mailman who during nights played his guitar in coffeehouses around Chicago in the early 70s, so the story goes. A lot of his early stuff (Sam Stone, etc) was fully formed when he was discovered, which is mindblowing. Grossly underrtaed singer-songwriter. Jeff Buckley -- Son of 60s s-s Tim Buckley. Strong first album, from like 1992, looks more important upon his death by drinking-and-drowning. "Hallelujah" (which isn't his song, is it?) showcased his scary high voice and dark moods. Wilco emerged from well-regarded "alt-country" band Uncle Tupelo in the early 90s and have become something akin to a Grateful Dead for hipsters. One of those bands you might not wanna get into for fear of forever trailing in your devotion to longtime fans. But perhaps you should see the documentary I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART which detailed the recording & label drama around their Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album. Or buy "A.M." their first and most accessible record, hardly a bad tune on it, and ask yourself whether the idea of them making leaps into ever more complicated stuff appeals to you.
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| sharpie May 05 2006 02:46 PM |
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"Here There and Everywhere" and "Blackbird" as the 5th and 6th best Beatle songs is just plain wrong.
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| Vic Sage May 05 2006 02:46 PM |
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I AGREE! time to break out of the pop cultural ghetto, and get back here into the mainstream. Just leave those fora for archiving purposes.
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| Yancy Street Gang May 05 2006 02:50 PM |
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Well, it's just that this seems to be all music all the time, and from the selfish standpoint of someone who's not interested in any of it, I'd love to see it in a separate forum, like the Fantasy League Forum, that I could just ignore. If nobody agrees, then too bad for me, I guess.
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| Edgy DC May 05 2006 02:55 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 09 2006 09:45 AM |
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"I'm not familiar with the following songs by these familiar artists:" It’s coming on ChristmasU2 - "One" This was on the radio for two years, released around 1992. U2 was big enough at the time that they could afford to backload the album, releasing what was clearly their killer track as the third single off the album, giving the album a second run of top-ten popularity almost a year after the release One love!Indigo Girls - "Closer to Fine" Really? It's their breakthrough song and still their biggest hit. I went to the doctor"I don't know these songs OR the artists: " John Prine - "Angel from Montgomery" I've got a cool punkabilly version of this by the Dancing Hoods. A lot of alt-country types have covered this. People love Bonnie Raitt's version. I don't. Lucinda Williams - "Sweet Old World" A fine song-writer who I find to be one of the most annoying singer/performers out there. (Peeps disagree with me.) Emmylou Harris did a beautiful version of this on "Wrecking Ball."
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| Rotblatt May 05 2006 03:45 PM |
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I bet you know Box of Rain: Look out of any window any morning, any evening, any day Maybe the sun is shining birds are singing no rain is falling from a heavy sky What do you want me to do To watch for you while you are sleeping? This is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago. . . . Just a box of rain wind and water Believe it, if you need it, If you don't, just pass it on Sun & shower, wind & rain, in and out the window like a moth, before a flame "It Makes No Difference" is a seminal The Band song from Stage Fright. "It makes no difference Where I turn I can't get over you and the flame still burns. It makes no difference, night or day. The shadow never seems to fade away. And the sun don't shine anymore and the rains fall down on my door. Now there's no love as true as the love that dies untold. But the clouds never hung so low before." . . .
Dar Williams is a fine contemporary folk singer with a quirky sense of humor. "When I Was a Boy" is arguably one of her best works, although "I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono" is arguably more popular. Kaplansky's another folk singer but I don't know much about her. I happen to like Lucinda Williams, although I'm a late comer. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the album that hooked me. Wilco's everything that JD said they were. I happen to be a fan, but I've no credibility as I didn't come on board until Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
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| Willets Point May 05 2006 03:53 PM |
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Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky collaborated with Richard Shindell to create one of the greatest albums ever: Cry, Cry, Cry. Buy it now!!!!
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| Frayed Knot May 05 2006 04:45 PM |
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No, I do too, although this is a reverse case from most in that it's Goodman having the "hit" version of someone else's song instead of SG suppling the hits for others. Singer/songwriter Michael Smith is the writer here who penned the song in that well-known heart of Dutch culture .... New Jersey. He said he started writing it about his then-teenage sister and her Dutch boyfriend until the subjects in the song started morphing into an elderly couple instead. Robert Earl Kean is from the group of Texas-based country-ish singers who write far more interesting stuff as a result of being far enough away from Nashville's corporate thumb. I don't know a lot but the stuff I've heard is real good. Ryan Adams (not to be confused with Brian Adams) is a ridiculously prolific artist who puts out stuff on his own as well as with various bands that he fronts or joins (Whiskey Town, The Cardinals) who'd have a much better career if he'd slow down and edit himself better. He seems to insist on releasing virtually everything he records and, in the process, manages to piss off record companies and frustrate his audience by making himself a constantly moving target.
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| TheOldMole May 06 2006 10:06 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 06 2006 10:47 AM |
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Dickshot's right about John Prine.
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| cooby May 06 2006 10:11 AM |
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John Denver sang some of his songs too, "Angels From Montgomery" being one of them. I think he wrote "Berkeley Woman" also from Farewell Andromeda, but I could be wrong about that, and I don't know where my John Denver stuff got to
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| TheOldMole May 06 2006 10:45 AM |
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Bonnie Raitt has a great version of "Angel from Montgomery" too.
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| Frayed Knot May 06 2006 12:28 PM |
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I've got a version of Prine & Raitt dueting on AfM from a All-Star Steve Goodman tribute album. Michael Smith also does 'The Dutchman' on it.
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| TheOldMole May 08 2006 11:47 AM |
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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/06.html#a8192"
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| Frayed Knot May 25 2006 11:45 PM |
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btw, WFUV (from whose listeners this list was concocted) is going to do run down the list countdown-style all day Memorial Day Monday - not sure of the starting/ending time.
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