What songs speak (uh, sing?) to you?

[HMC Rich]

DBP, I forgot. Friday nights, Fish Night, In Wisconsin, with a Polka Band. Yup… Roll Out the Barrel. Wish I had seen Frankie Yankovic, but I saw a whole bunch of Polka Bands when I was 11, 12.

Yes, Myron Floren and Lawrence Welk were viewed as Gods by my older relatives. I remember bubbles.

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[miws]

Then a friend of mine lent me an 8 track tape. It was Judas Priest’s Hell Bent For Leather.

C’mon Rich. Admit it.

It wasn’t the fact that it was a Judas Priest album, or even that it was Metal, that changed your life.

It was the awesomeness that is….(or was )…..the 8-track tape……

Mike

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[HMC Rich]

True that, and being a member of Columbia House and wondering where the heck was Terra Haute.

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[miws]

Yep! :-)

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[smokeycretin9]

Terra Haute Indiana. I am really and truly a Hoosier, being born in Kokomo.

Another sunday morning feel good song.

http://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c

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[DBP]

Brought to you by the Number 80

-40 posts to go until someone gets happy

-20 until that someone finds out who they are and how happy they’re gonna get

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smokey, this should be some consolation to you:

Try though I might, I simply cannot get jazz (be-bop and freestyle anyway) but I STILL look up to people who do get it. To me, jazz is brainier than music has any right to be.

Jazz, compared to the kind of music I enjoy, is like an article in Physics magazine, compared with the funny papers.

Hey, I’m not proud. I like the funnies.

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Indiana trivia: John Mellencamp was raised in Seymour, Indiana, close by where I went to college. Now he was one of these classic podunk punks who love baiting the cops (nothing else to do anyway) and was always in trouble for something. Besides that though, he was generally just an asshole, as I was told by people who knew him when.

For that reason, no one around those parts thought John Mellencamp would ever amount to anything. But somehow he turned his experiences, his asshole-ness, and his musical ability into solid gold.

And welcome to it, I say. He was just calling it like he saw it, which is what you’re supposed to do.

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Rich, I hear ya on Lawrence Welk.

When I was a kid, the Lawrence Welk Show was one of the many hilariously stupid things I was forced to look at . . . but not allowed to laugh at.

Like when you’re in the front pew at church with your family, and the minister drops his glasses, and when he bends over to pick ’em up, he breaks wind a little.

But you’d better not laugh at that. No. Because if you do, it would only reaffirm before the eyes of God and the community what an anti-American atheistic little punk you are.

Amen!

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[Jiggers]

Anyone listen to Porcupine Tree? They’ve been around for awhile. They are one of those bands that are known, but not known. Great musicianship in that band. They sell out everywhere they play regardless. I have seen them twice already. They are a combination of your early prog style bands such as Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush. Same thing with Wolfmother. They are influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc.. You can hear it distinctively in their songs. Sounds really good.

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[DBP]

This one’s dedicated to cait, and all you other unbelievers out there.

http://roominate.com/blog/street-seen/

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[DBP]

The most authentically American of American vocal music is The Blues. It developed out of gospel and folk music during slavery times, and the reason it’s so good is because it’s so honest.

Anyone can do the blues, but few can do it well. Not every Black artist who attempts it succeeds, for example, and some White artists – even a few who are not even American – can do it surprisingly well.

Is suffering a prerequisite? I wouldn’t know.

Most popular vocal music on the radio today (including Country and Western) can be traced back to the blues. Generally speaking, the more clearly a song’s pedigree can be traced back to the blues, the better the song.

Mance Lipscomb: Hattie Green

http://tinyurl.com/c6fgp5x

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[EdSane]

@miws, don’t worry hipsters are bringing it back.. http://8tracks.com/

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[miws]

Thanks, Ed.

I figured it would only be a matter of time, since vinyl has had a resurgence in the last few years.

Could VHS be next? Or will Beta come back first? ;-)

Mike

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[oldgrayboarder]

I must correct the glaring omission of Grateful Dead songs. maybe I’m living in the wrong city or neighborhood, or more likely the wrong decade.

As Jerry Garcia said, “Our music is like licorice. Not everyone likes it but people that do like it REALLY like it”

I don’t care for licorice but I’ll take any version of “Ripple” any day of the week, and twice on Sunday. And most any other Dead tune for dessert.

For reference: http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/#songs

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[DBP]

Two things.

1) Cait, are you still out there? If so, how did the wedding come off? Were there any fights about the play list or was your guy just like: “Whatever, honey. I love you so much I don’t care what you pick!” Reason I ask is I’m working up a short-story around this whole concept of who gets to pick out the music for the wedding, and I need more detail to flesh it out. If you don’t tell me, I’ll have to guess. Thanks in advance.

2) Trivia question: Can anyone here tell me (without Googling) which hugely popular jazz-rock duo was named for a sex toy from a William S. Burroughs story?

 

 

 

 

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[waynster]

steely dan…dbp….the name was from a women’s battery pleasure device…

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[DBP]

Correct. But take it from me, w . . . when they told us that device was “just for women” . . . THEY LIED!

YOU BASTARDS!!!!

 

 

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[JanS]

and here I thought it was “the BOBs” – lol….

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[waynster]

lmao Jan…..like Foghats song “slow ride” its not about cruising in a car either… lmao

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