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Speaking of music....... - 71Bear - 01-12-2014

In less than 30 days (February, 9, 2014), the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show will take place. 

I remember watching it but I did not realize at the time the profound influence they would have on American culture.  Wow, fifty years...............


Speaking of music....... - 71Bear - 01-12-2014

In less than 30 days (February, 9, 2014), the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show will take place. 

I remember watching it but I did not realize at the time the profound influence they would have on American culture.  Wow, fifty years...............


Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Sea Loon - 01-13-2014

Thanks for the thread. I enjoyed the last couple hours with the headphones and Spotify. Always happy to discover something new. A couple tidbits from me that would have made my top-16, not already posted here:

Youth, by Foxes
Same girl that sings on "Clarity," which got a lot of summer-song radio play.

Still Into You, by Paramore



Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Sea Loon - 01-13-2014

Thanks for the thread. I enjoyed the last couple hours with the headphones and Spotify. Always happy to discover something new. A couple tidbits from me that would have made my top-16, not already posted here:

Youth, by Foxes
Same girl that sings on "Clarity," which got a lot of summer-song radio play.

Still Into You, by Paramore



Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - BostonCard - 01-13-2014

Forgot three I wanted to plug:

ZZ Ward (ZZ short for Szuszanna) with Put The Gun Down, which I believe was loosely based on a Dolly Parton song.  First, it's a great, bluesy song.  Second, ZZ has an awesome voice.  Third, she's hot.  And fourth, with lyrics like "Her face is young, she must taste sweet; she drops her panties to her knees" it turns me on every time.

https://play.spotify.com/track/63tqSZIWPIbNCcOb9A2gHY

Broken Bells with Holding on for Life.  No, it is not a Bee Gees reunion, and their 2009 song The High Road (another favorite of mine) sounds completely different.

https://play.spotify.com/track/5gPrOspTrxMNKKL44h40O2 

Iconapop with I Love It

https://play.spotify.com/track/3VZQshi4COChhXaz7cLP02

The story of how it became a hit is quite interesting, as it originally came out in 2012, but didn't land on the charts until last year.  You can read the Planet Money blog (http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/06/28/196678642/the-slow-hit-movement-year-old-songs-on-the-pop-charts):

In our current Top 10, the big TV beneficiary is the aforementioned Icona Pop hit. "I Love It" has actually gotten two blasts of tube fuel. In the summer of 2012, immediately after its release, "I Love It" was tapped by MTV as the opening theme for the Jersey Shore spinoff Snooki & JWoww; but that wasn't enough to get radio's or iTunes buyers' attention. Six months later, Lena Dunham gave the song an even better showcase in the second season of Girls, devoting nearly a full minute of slow-mo, coke-fueled club dancing to the song. That did the trick, and "I Love It" finally debuted on the Hot 100.

Ironically, I first heard the song on that podcast.

When I get a chance, I will try to incorporate all the songs mentioned into the Hulk playlist and rechristen it the cardboard playlist.

BC

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - BostonCard - 01-13-2014

Forgot three I wanted to plug:

ZZ Ward (ZZ short for Szuszanna) with Put The Gun Down, which I believe was loosely based on a Dolly Parton song.  First, it's a great, bluesy song.  Second, ZZ has an awesome voice.  Third, she's hot.  And fourth, with lyrics like "Her face is young, she must taste sweet; she drops her panties to her knees" it turns me on every time.

https://play.spotify.com/track/63tqSZIWPIbNCcOb9A2gHY

Broken Bells with Holding on for Life.  No, it is not a Bee Gees reunion, and their 2009 song The High Road (another favorite of mine) sounds completely different.

https://play.spotify.com/track/5gPrOspTrxMNKKL44h40O2 

Iconapop with I Love It

https://play.spotify.com/track/3VZQshi4COChhXaz7cLP02

The story of how it became a hit is quite interesting, as it originally came out in 2012, but didn't land on the charts until last year.  You can read the Planet Money blog (http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/06/28/196678642/the-slow-hit-movement-year-old-songs-on-the-pop-charts):

In our current Top 10, the big TV beneficiary is the aforementioned Icona Pop hit. "I Love It" has actually gotten two blasts of tube fuel. In the summer of 2012, immediately after its release, "I Love It" was tapped by MTV as the opening theme for the Jersey Shore spinoff Snooki & JWoww; but that wasn't enough to get radio's or iTunes buyers' attention. Six months later, Lena Dunham gave the song an even better showcase in the second season of Girls, devoting nearly a full minute of slow-mo, coke-fueled club dancing to the song. That did the trick, and "I Love It" finally debuted on the Hot 100.

Ironically, I first heard the song on that podcast.

When I get a chance, I will try to incorporate all the songs mentioned into the Hulk playlist and rechristen it the cardboard playlist.

BC

Looking forward and back - Hulk01 - 01-13-2014

Damn I wish I had started this thread months ago,

The impetus started on January 4 when I read a Facebook post by a woman whom I love named Susan.  She paid small tribute to Phil Everly, who had died the day before. by mentioning how much she hated being awakened each morning of her youth to the Everly Brother’s “Wake Up Little Susie.”  “It was not my genre,” she wrote. 

I responded long, writing hat the Everly Brothers created rock and roll.  The Beatles copied them purposefully, as did The Beach Boys and then the Hollies, Bee Gees, Turtles, Buckinghams, and Crosby Stills.  They brought harmony particularly but also country and folk, to popular music.  (And Buddy Holly invented the group, by the way, by adding the drummer and bass guitar.)  Almost sixty years later, no one tries to sing like Elvis Presley but you hear Everly Brothers everywhere.

brobdingnagian like to hear Publius salute the Ronettes.  Ronnie Spector’s duet with Eddie Money of “Be My Baby/Take Me Home Tonight” ranks among my ten favorite songs ever and is a brilliant melding of attitudes and voices.  These two songs always should have been sung as duets.  Plus when the video for it was made, Ronnie could still strut and saunter and get under your skin, just as she did John Lennon’s.  Yow.

And Publius, I will give another chance to the earlier Killers’ stuff/  I love Brandon Flowers and it does seem unlikely that they could have created three great songs and nothing else.

I will add an unexpected choice as All-Time Great: Dion’s “Yo Frankie.”  Lou Reed once said that Dion created cool.  Looks that way from here, too.  “King of the New York Streets” makes my all time top 50 and “I’ve Got To Get To You” cracks my top five.  Dion was yearning for a woman at this time and it’s palpable. 

A big historical note:  Dion was part of the Winter Dance Party tour that famously claimed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper en route to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.  Dion would have died in that crash too.  But when he heard the plane fare for the flight on that Beachcraft Bonanza to Davenport was $36, he realized that was exactly what his parents paid for their monthly rent in the Bronx.  Dion insisted that could not go and told Valens to take his seat.  Valens then won the seat in a coin flip and hours later, the music died.



Looking forward and back - Hulk01 - 01-13-2014

Damn I wish I had started this thread months ago,

The impetus started on January 4 when I read a Facebook post by a woman whom I love named Susan.  She paid small tribute to Phil Everly, who had died the day before. by mentioning how much she hated being awakened each morning of her youth to the Everly Brother’s “Wake Up Little Susie.”  “It was not my genre,” she wrote. 

I responded long, writing hat the Everly Brothers created rock and roll.  The Beatles copied them purposefully, as did The Beach Boys and then the Hollies, Bee Gees, Turtles, Buckinghams, and Crosby Stills.  They brought harmony particularly but also country and folk, to popular music.  (And Buddy Holly invented the group, by the way, by adding the drummer and bass guitar.)  Almost sixty years later, no one tries to sing like Elvis Presley but you hear Everly Brothers everywhere.

brobdingnagian like to hear Publius salute the Ronettes.  Ronnie Spector’s duet with Eddie Money of “Be My Baby/Take Me Home Tonight” ranks among my ten favorite songs ever and is a brilliant melding of attitudes and voices.  These two songs always should have been sung as duets.  Plus when the video for it was made, Ronnie could still strut and saunter and get under your skin, just as she did John Lennon’s.  Yow.

And Publius, I will give another chance to the earlier Killers’ stuff/  I love Brandon Flowers and it does seem unlikely that they could have created three great songs and nothing else.

I will add an unexpected choice as All-Time Great: Dion’s “Yo Frankie.”  Lou Reed once said that Dion created cool.  Looks that way from here, too.  “King of the New York Streets” makes my all time top 50 and “I’ve Got To Get To You” cracks my top five.  Dion was yearning for a woman at this time and it’s palpable. 

A big historical note:  Dion was part of the Winter Dance Party tour that famously claimed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper en route to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.  Dion would have died in that crash too.  But when he heard the plane fare for the flight on that Beachcraft Bonanza to Davenport was $36, he realized that was exactly what his parents paid for their monthly rent in the Bronx.  Dion insisted that could not go and told Valens to take his seat.  Valens then won the seat in a coin flip and hours later, the music died.



Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - stupac2 - 01-13-2014

If we're going to move past this last year, I have to throw this one out there. Another Vienna Teng (she's probably my favorite artist), but this one moved me to tears when I saw it live, and if it catches me in the right mood will occasionally do so from a recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rikj0WMGbDU

This came out last year, but I played it on repeat a few dozen times in a row the first time I heard it. I'm a total and complete sucker for upbeat songs about depressing topics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPOM0IUsd_0

If you're a fan of that "genre", this one is probably my favorite (to just throw a random song out there, I wouldn't put this in my top 16):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3weE4Kq7kY

Getting back on track to somewhat new stuff, this is one from 2011. I love love love Architecture in Helsinki's first two albums, but the third was a dud. The fourth, fortunately, was a lot better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxjcszKEcHE

Another 2011 release, who doesn't love weird-ass songs by CAKE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCOVyVxC_QM

This is a 2013 release (I'm really bad at remembering/knowing when things came out, I've had to look all of these up) and I'm honestly pretty surprised it hasn't been mentioned here before, but I've been seriously digging Lucius since my soon-to-be father-in-law put them on during halftime of a bowl game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgoXeWUlnnk

I don't know when this one came out, but I love this poem, I love folk-y songs, and so Sarah Jarosz's version of Annabelle Lee is one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_kS_D2PHo

I'll stop there...

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - stupac2 - 01-13-2014

If we're going to move past this last year, I have to throw this one out there. Another Vienna Teng (she's probably my favorite artist), but this one moved me to tears when I saw it live, and if it catches me in the right mood will occasionally do so from a recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rikj0WMGbDU

This came out last year, but I played it on repeat a few dozen times in a row the first time I heard it. I'm a total and complete sucker for upbeat songs about depressing topics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPOM0IUsd_0

If you're a fan of that "genre", this one is probably my favorite (to just throw a random song out there, I wouldn't put this in my top 16):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3weE4Kq7kY

Getting back on track to somewhat new stuff, this is one from 2011. I love love love Architecture in Helsinki's first two albums, but the third was a dud. The fourth, fortunately, was a lot better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxjcszKEcHE

Another 2011 release, who doesn't love weird-ass songs by CAKE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCOVyVxC_QM

This is a 2013 release (I'm really bad at remembering/knowing when things came out, I've had to look all of these up) and I'm honestly pretty surprised it hasn't been mentioned here before, but I've been seriously digging Lucius since my soon-to-be father-in-law put them on during halftime of a bowl game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgoXeWUlnnk

I don't know when this one came out, but I love this poem, I love folk-y songs, and so Sarah Jarosz's version of Annabelle Lee is one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_kS_D2PHo

I'll stop there...

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Bruce Wang - 01-13-2014

(01-13-2014, 09:02 AM)Hulk01 link Wrote:Ronnie Spector’s duet with Eddie Money of “Be My Baby/Take Me Home Tonight” ranks among my ten favorite songs ever and is a brilliant melding of attitudes and voices.  These two songs always should have been sung as duets.  Plus when the video for it was made, Ronnie could still strut and saunter and get under your skin, just as she did John Lennon’s.  Yow.

As of last month, Ronnie could still strut and saunter and get under your skin.

In my humble opinion, she has the best voice in the history of recorded music.  Sure there are singers with greater range.  But her's oozes sex and love like nobody else.

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Bruce Wang - 01-13-2014

(01-13-2014, 09:02 AM)Hulk01 link Wrote:Ronnie Spector’s duet with Eddie Money of “Be My Baby/Take Me Home Tonight” ranks among my ten favorite songs ever and is a brilliant melding of attitudes and voices.  These two songs always should have been sung as duets.  Plus when the video for it was made, Ronnie could still strut and saunter and get under your skin, just as she did John Lennon’s.  Yow.

As of last month, Ronnie could still strut and saunter and get under your skin.

In my humble opinion, she has the best voice in the history of recorded music.  Sure there are singers with greater range.  But her's oozes sex and love like nobody else.

Re: Speaking of music....... - Bruce Wang - 01-13-2014

(01-12-2014, 09:04 PM)71Bear link Wrote:In less than 30 days (February, 9, 2014), the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show will take place. 

I remember watching it but I did not realize at the time the profound influence they would have on American culture.  Wow, fifty years...............

American culture?  WORLD culture.  All four sides of my daughter's family are from the other side of the world, and we have a multi-generational love for the Fab Four.  My daughter was shaking it to "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" before she could walk.

Chuck Klosterman wrote an interesting essay about "rated" music.  Basically it's easy and lazy to call a band overrated or underrated.  What is more interesting is "rated" bands, meaning the bands that are regarded exactly correctly.  The Beatles finished 4th on that list, and this is what he wrote.  They invented rock (as opposed to rock & roll) and wrote all the best songs.  They are universally acknowledged as the greatest band.  Rated exactly right.  As a corollary to this, I will point out that very few people will acknowledge them as their favorite band, probably because it says nothing about you as an individual.  As Phoebe from Friends tries to connect with her birth mother, she's amazed that they both love the Beatles and puppies.  If you asked me who my favorite band is I'd tell you New Order/Joy Division.  If I got stranded on a desert island and could only bring one band's catalog: that would be the Beatles.

Re: Speaking of music....... - Bruce Wang - 01-13-2014

(01-12-2014, 09:04 PM)71Bear link Wrote:In less than 30 days (February, 9, 2014), the 50th anniversary of the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show will take place. 

I remember watching it but I did not realize at the time the profound influence they would have on American culture.  Wow, fifty years...............

American culture?  WORLD culture.  All four sides of my daughter's family are from the other side of the world, and we have a multi-generational love for the Fab Four.  My daughter was shaking it to "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" before she could walk.

Chuck Klosterman wrote an interesting essay about "rated" music.  Basically it's easy and lazy to call a band overrated or underrated.  What is more interesting is "rated" bands, meaning the bands that are regarded exactly correctly.  The Beatles finished 4th on that list, and this is what he wrote.  They invented rock (as opposed to rock & roll) and wrote all the best songs.  They are universally acknowledged as the greatest band.  Rated exactly right.  As a corollary to this, I will point out that very few people will acknowledge them as their favorite band, probably because it says nothing about you as an individual.  As Phoebe from Friends tries to connect with her birth mother, she's amazed that they both love the Beatles and puppies.  If you asked me who my favorite band is I'd tell you New Order/Joy Division.  If I got stranded on a desert island and could only bring one band's catalog: that would be the Beatles.

Re: Speaking of music....... - stupac2 - 01-13-2014

(01-13-2014, 11:26 AM)Publius link Wrote:If I got stranded on a desert island and could only bring one band's catalog: that would be the Beatles.

Well how many bands have a discography that enormous? I'd probably still pick someone else, but The Beatles definitely give you a larger library than most. I still don't understand how they managed to be so productive when they were together for only 10 years. It's mind-blowing.

Re: Speaking of music....... - stupac2 - 01-13-2014

(01-13-2014, 11:26 AM)Publius link Wrote:If I got stranded on a desert island and could only bring one band's catalog: that would be the Beatles.

Well how many bands have a discography that enormous? I'd probably still pick someone else, but The Beatles definitely give you a larger library than most. I still don't understand how they managed to be so productive when they were together for only 10 years. It's mind-blowing.

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Hulk01 - 01-13-2014

I still think the following is the most remarkable rock song ever produced.

For context,  it’s sweet little 1962.  You have Chubby Checker and the Twist and Bobby Vinton singing Roses are Red and a top 100 peppered with names like Brenda Lee, Nat King Cole, and Rick Nelson.  You are two years from hearing She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand, much less Pet Sounds or Dylan.  Phil Spector is producing Connie Francis and not The Wall of Sound.  Most songs are foreground and midground vocals with a little beat behind it and almost Scotch-tape thin. 

So you are listening to these crooners and twist tunes on your transistor radio.  And all of a big sudden Joe Meek hits you with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE

Nineteen. Sixty.  Two.  Are you ***** kidding me?

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Hulk01 - 01-13-2014

I still think the following is the most remarkable rock song ever produced.

For context,  it’s sweet little 1962.  You have Chubby Checker and the Twist and Bobby Vinton singing Roses are Red and a top 100 peppered with names like Brenda Lee, Nat King Cole, and Rick Nelson.  You are two years from hearing She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand, much less Pet Sounds or Dylan.  Phil Spector is producing Connie Francis and not The Wall of Sound.  Most songs are foreground and midground vocals with a little beat behind it and almost Scotch-tape thin. 

So you are listening to these crooners and twist tunes on your transistor radio.  And all of a big sudden Joe Meek hits you with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE

Nineteen. Sixty.  Two.  Are you ***** kidding me?

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - washingtonismoney - 01-13-2014

(01-13-2014, 12:19 PM)Hulk01 link Wrote:Nineteen. Sixty.  Two.  Are you engaging in coitus kidding me?

Actually began in 1963. (See Philip Larkin: http://www.wussu.com/poems/plam.htm)

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - washingtonismoney - 01-13-2014

(01-13-2014, 12:19 PM)Hulk01 link Wrote:Nineteen. Sixty.  Two.  Are you engaging in coitus kidding me?

Actually began in 1963. (See Philip Larkin: http://www.wussu.com/poems/plam.htm)