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Re: Stanford Disco Story - stupac2 - 01-15-2014

(01-15-2014, 12:53 PM)Publius link Wrote:I wonder. Do the kids throw 90s parties or 00s parties?

As far as I can tell it's still 80's parties. This for people who spent the entirety of the 80's in diapers. I don't get it. There's some nostalgia for the 90's but I only really see it manifested in stupid ways, like those damn "16 THINGS THAT WILL RUIN YOUR CHILDHOOD"  listicles filled with inane bullshit about Nickelodeon TV shows. Yes, because finding out that the guy from Blues Clues did cocaine (or whatever) really ruins my childhood.

Re: Stanford Disco Story - stupac2 - 01-15-2014

(01-15-2014, 12:53 PM)Publius link Wrote:I wonder. Do the kids throw 90s parties or 00s parties?

As far as I can tell it's still 80's parties. This for people who spent the entirety of the 80's in diapers. I don't get it. There's some nostalgia for the 90's but I only really see it manifested in stupid ways, like those damn "16 THINGS THAT WILL RUIN YOUR CHILDHOOD"  listicles filled with inane bullshit about Nickelodeon TV shows. Yes, because finding out that the guy from Blues Clues did cocaine (or whatever) really ruins my childhood.

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - BrevinsBest - 01-15-2014

I think I'm a bit younger than most on this board, but I recently saw Macklemore perform in SF. It was a fantastic show. A little too much posturing, but he put on a great show. It was a full house and the energy from the audience made it even better. I'm a big fan of Macklemore, love his message and lyrics, and I suggest you check him out on Spotify.

One of the most amazing sets I've ever seen was from Wyclef Jean. I wasn't expecting much, as it was the first annual Voodoo Fest in New Orleans, under miserable skies, but I came away completely shocked at his guitar skills. He's not a great singer, but his hour long set was amazing. His music is really diverse and I hope I get the chance to see him perform again. 

Re: Stanford Disco Story - Mick - 01-15-2014

(01-15-2014, 12:53 PM)Publius link Wrote:Sophomore year (1991), we decided to throw what might have been the world's first 80s party except we called it early 80s because the late 80s felt to contemporaneous.  Wore pastel polos with the collars turned up, etc.  Might have been the party that Glynn Milburn showed up at with his electrifying dancing. 

Anyhow, we got bored of Duran Duran for the 2nd time in our lives, so we decided to get into disco.  One night we got hammered and decided to throw an impromptu disco party in the dorm hallway.  One of our group decided it was too bright in the hallways. After not being able to find a light switch for the hallway, he went to shut the power off in the dorm.  Some dormmates working on papers weren't too happy about that.

I wonder. Do the kids throw 90s parties or 00s parties?
According to my son (currently a college senior), they throw '80s parties.  Seriously.

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - yvonne - 01-15-2014

and we threw 50s parties in the 80s. Something tells me they didn't throw 1930s parties in the 60s, though. That would be depressing.

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - CowboyIndian - 01-15-2014

We threw 80s parties in the 60s....ahead of our time as ever.

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Bruce Wang - 01-15-2014

(01-15-2014, 03:55 PM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:We threw 80s parties in the 60s....ahead of our time as ever.

1880s?

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - dpbrewster - 01-15-2014

I nominate the new album from my son's band:  http://generalbandthewiz.com/

The album can be downloaded at: http://generalbandthewiz.bandcamp.com/

And that is my son on the cover (he's a "multi-instrumentalist" and back-up vocalist).
tongue

:P

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - jacketree - 01-15-2014

We threw up at parties in the 80s......

The best song of 2014 is the version of "Time is Tight" I heard getting off 101 this morning, on KCSM. I was too busy today to look it up on their playlist. It's going to drive me nuts.  I've always thought the best year for music is the present year, because you have access to everything that's been recorded and is available. Somehow I share a musical download cloud with my kids. Daughter is really into Edith Piaf. Son has lots of Macklemore. They have to sift through my Blind Faith, Django Reinhard, Andrew Bird, Miles Davis, Clifford Jordan, Eddie Harris and Mel Torme. Revenge is a dish best served with syncopation.

Great thread, and I have to echo the support for the 1970s as the absolute best decade for music.  1970 starts essentially with Abbey Road and the breakup of The Beatles, the Stones are at their creative peak as are The Who and Zeppelin, bands like Traffic and Weather Report litter the airwaves, Stevie Wonder, Allman Bros, Clash, Buzzcocks, Ramones, Blondie, Pretenders, B-52s, Boomtown Rats, Bozz Scaggs, Roxy Music, Bowie, Captain and Tennille Beefheart, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Curtis Mayfield, Commander Cody, Marshall Tucker, Marshall Crenshaw, Pure Prairie League, Poco, Costello, ELP, ELO (totally guilty pleasure - go see American Hustle just for the soundtrack), Zappa, Nilsson, Neil at his peak, Iggy, JJ Cale, John Prine, Bonnie Raitt, Linda, Lou, Lynyrd, Little Feat, Los Lobos cranked out their first couple of albums, Dark Side released in '73, Ry Freaking Cooder, Suzy Quattro, and don't forget ZZ Top.  Missing a million others.

A dozen of the dozens of shows I saw live, because I remember them most vividly. Maybe not the exact dates or anything.

1. Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Everett Junior High School gymnasium, 1976 or 77.  Crazy, right?

2. Muddy Waters, impromptu appearance, club somewhere just off French Quarter in NOLA, 1982.

3. Elvis Costello and the Attractions, (fabulous) Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA, 1982.

4. Rush, The Omni, Atlanta, GA, 1983 (or maybe it was Yes.  Jeeze.)

5. Santana, Fox Theater, 1985.

6. Luther Guitar Junior Johnson; some busted down club in downtown ATL, night before graduation, 1985.

7. Neil Young at Red Rocks Ampitheater, summer of 1984 or 1985, via sneaking in the back with surveying equipment at night like we belonged because there is a 'sewage emergency' and we are from the 'County sewer department'.  Huh?  'Serious emergency. Serious.' Orange vests and hard hats get you anywhere....Nightcap in Evergreen bar that night.....Luther Guitar Junior. "Luther! He loves us...."

8. John Lee Hooker, Emerson Street Bar and Grill, Palo Alto, 1985.  And Paris Slim, Larry Blake's Rathskeller, Berkeley, same freaking night!!

9. Dead at Frost, must have been 1986 or 1987.  (Remembered for the look of disgust on my date's face when I brought a monster T-bone steak to the pre-show BBQ someone hosted.  All was forgiven/forgotten after we snarfed those brownies.)

10. Tower of Power at the Catalyst, Santa Cruz, 1987 which lead to:

11. Pride and Joy, Last Day Saloon, San Francisco, 1987 (exact date argued until the end of time) where I met this super cute chick, which lead to Pride and Joy, Full Moon Saloon, San Francisco, later in 1987, where I bumped into this same super cute chick, which lead to:

12. Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings, The Saloon, San Francisco, 1990, the night before my wedding.

13. Les Paul with Steve Miller and Norton Buffalo at The Iridium, New York, 2007.  Two kids back at the Lucern Hotel on the Upper West Side. Baker's dozen I guess.


I also remember the methane fueled flaming jets out on the Shoreline grass.  Can't really remember who all we saw there basically once every few weeks. I do remember Elvin Bishop putting on one hell of a show.  Anyone else remember Wolfgang's on Columbus before it burned to the ground?

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - slide - 01-16-2014

Jacketree, I concur.  I was also at the shows 3, 4, 5 and 9 (the '84 Frost shows were also good).  I'd add in the Band and the Motels for good measure.  on less well known, but still great live shows, I would add in some of the 70s/early 80s Athens/Marietta bands like Normaltown Flyers, Pylon and Guadalcanal Diary

Re: The 70's, Disco, and today - Bruce Wang - 01-16-2014

(01-15-2014, 11:36 AM)Hulk01 link Wrote:So timely to hear the references to the black holes of the 70’s because I was making a playlist for a favorite woman yesterday.  Because she attended high school in the early 70’s, I tried to find a good song from each of her four years.  Nothing. 

It is hard to find high quality obscure material during this era.  The post-punk/early alternative music hasn't come on the scene yet.  One of the best songs from that rock branch, "Step On" by the Happy Mondays is actually a cover of an early 70s song by a South African artist named John Kongos.  For the longest time, I thought Step On was a Happy Mondays' original.  The real original is pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lm0N4YCkgk

Concerts - Hulk01 - 01-16-2014

Sly and the Family Stone at the Frost, 1971?  Sly was wasted; not sure the drug but whoa.  He kept saying, in a long drawn out take, "You  guysssss  are    reallllllllllly  weeeeeird."

Chicago (at Maples?) 1971?  Remember thinking that they didn't trump the vinyl version.

Ike and Tina in Redwood City, 1970?  Not sure music has had dancers like the Ikettes since.  Tina came on and only seemed to dilute the impact, and it dipper even more when Ike came out.  He was palpably a bad guy and maybe that dynamic was at work;  Ike arrives and the crap kicks in.  Still a very good show.  S--t they could shake.

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Stymie - 01-16-2014

Just to show that I am not completely troglodytic, attached are a couple of clips from my local band whom I will be singing and dancing to tomorrow night, looking out over the Firth of Forth south to Edinburgh.....

Firstly, from the 2010's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVVwOmV4jTo

Then, from the dreaded 70's....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNnC0g8CMmk

And you thought that ukuleles were only for Don Ho.......

Stymie

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Kathy - 01-16-2014

(01-16-2014, 10:15 AM)Stymie link Wrote:And you thought that ukuleles were only for Don Ho.......

Stymie

I guess Tiny Tim on "The Tonight Show" doesn't count?


Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - BostonCard - 01-16-2014

I posted a reference to the accumulated songs on this board on the Bootleg's CEB (hope you guys don't mind).  I got some recommendations from the resident punk-head:

Quote:Destruction Unit, Sonic Pearl
Bad Religion, Fulk You off of True North
Savages, Husbands
The Flatliners, Drowning in Blood
The Dropkick Murphys  The Boys Are Back
and sneaky good, Get Dead, The Process
and of course The Alkaline Trio's I Wanna Be A Warhol.  Great video.
Bring Me The Horizon Sempiternal album. 
Common Courtesy's new one "Sometimes your the hammer."


Athens, GA - jacketree - 01-17-2014

Pylon!

Also Love Tractor and Heathen Girls

Not to mention Don Roe's sister. (Not a band.)

Re: Athens, GA - slide - 01-17-2014

(01-17-2014, 12:23 AM)jacketree link Wrote:Pylon!

Also Love Tractor and Heathen Girls

Not to mention Don Roe's sister. (Not a band.)

as much as I hate to admit it, i missed Heathen Girls.

Love Tractor was good too. 

I miss the old 40 Watt

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Cadet84 - 01-17-2014

Thanks Hulk and everyone - I'm having a blast working my way through all these!

You can't talk about 70's music without including Talking Heads. Saw Stop Making Sense live at the Greek (Berkeley) in '83(?)- great show! And Ramones at the Keystone in Palo Alto with a bunch of football players in the mosh pit, scary (I'm all of 5'6")  :o

Going WAY back, if you can find it, the Movie Jazz on a Summer's Day is incredible - the music and photography. It's the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with Louis Armstrong (clearly stoned) Mahalia Jackson,  George Shearing, Chuck Berry, Chico Hamilton, and a stunning rendition of Sweet Georgia Brown by Anita O'Day. Good Stuff!
http://youtu.be/rRleR-e8_t8

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Spiny_Norman - 01-17-2014

(01-15-2014, 10:51 PM)jacketree link Wrote:11. Pride and Joy, Last Day Saloon, San Francisco, 1987 (exact date argued until the end of time) where I met this super cute chick, which lead to Pride and Joy, Full Moon Saloon, San Francisco, later in 1987, where I bumped into this same super cute chick

I remember Pride and Joy!  Big dance review, right?  The Bay Area had several similar bands in the 1980s.  I was a brobdingnagian fan of the Zasu Pitts Memorial Orchestra which became Big Bang Beat.  Saw them several times at the New Varsity along with my favorite Bay Area band Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo.  I basically took half a day away from work one afternoon to track down the only copy of the Bonnie Hayes album Good Clean Fun that I could find in the City.  Point and click on iTunes or Amazon does not yield the same feeling of satisfaction.

Re: OT: The Years' Best Songs - Leftcoast - 01-17-2014

Hah!  I saw all of those back in the day - Zasu Pitts, Big Bang Beat and Pride and Joy.  They were also staples at Corporate parties - at least the fun ones.  I think I saw Zasu Pitts at one of the last big Apple parties where they drew almost as many people as other guests Huey Lewis and an aging but still great Ella Fitzgerald.  I opted to Hear Ella but beat a quick path to the Zasu Pitts dance party after her set.

Apple used to have some GREAT parties.