Music

[eCat]

I never knew that Soft Cell's 80's version was as remake.

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[Owlman]

Didn't know that

[eCat]

it still sucks Prince is dead..if you don't want to watch the whole thing, watch at the 14:20 mark

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[eCat]

we've talked about this group before but I keep running across songs of theirs I really like. They are the next group I really want to see in concert

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[hedge]

That sounds like a cross b/w John Mellacamp and the Velvet Underground...

[Jungle Rat]

I wish you were underground. 6 feet.

[BigRedMan]

I wish your were crushed like velvet.....

[crashcourse]

your wish would be crushed by velveeta

[eCat]

Today John Lee Hooker would be 99 years old



While most people would go with Boom Boom as their favorite JLH song, mine has always been Big Legs, Tight Skirt...

I can relate...Big Legs, Tight Skirts drive me outta my mind too

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bonus

This Is Hip

The man was a bad motherfucker on that Epiphone 335

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[Bklyn]

Personally...the Stones had better songs. The Beatles were better song writers.

To me, the Stones were sonically richer.

[hedge]

Was that apropos anything or did you just feel like blurting it out?

[Bklyn]

Jumped from Sympathy for the Devil to Eleanor Rigby and realized how much better the former sounded through my speakers. Then I started thinking about it.

[hedge]

Well, I can see where you drew that conclusion based on precisely those two choices from their respective catalogs. SFTD is easily in my top 3 for the Stones, probably #1, and while Eleanor Rigby isn't by favorite Beatles song, it is a good example of their move away from teeny bop pop songs and towards the really interesting stuff they produced from 1967 and onward. Thanks goodness for marijuana and LSD. I suspect A Day in the Life (among others), however, would hold their own sonically, but in general I agree with your assessment...

[crashcourse]

most stones and beatles songs excluding the above 2 I tend to skip over when they come over my radio

I rarely if ever skip by pearl jam/metallica/zeppelin/linkin park/breaking Benjamin/rush/Fleetwood mac/Kansas/REO/Floyd songs

[AlabamAlum]

You skip the Stones but not Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, and Rush?

Jesus fucking Christ.

[hedge]

Kansas? I thought they only had two songs. And REO Speedwagon? What AA said. Hey crash, the 1970's called, they want their stringy haired middle school stoner back...

[hedge]

Can't remember if we talked about this in here, but it's ironic that the Stones were considered the bad boys from the hood while the Beatles were thought of as more effete, artsy, upper class types. The truth is, the members of the Beatles were from hardscrabble Liverpool, while Mick Jagger was attending the London School of Economics even while he was in the Stones, while the rest of the Stones, even Keith, were from much more upper middle class homes than the Beatles, who were mostly from poorer, single parent homes. The Beatles saw music as their way out of a fairly dreary life, while the Stones were all pose and mostly in it for the chicks. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's just funny that most people think of the Stones as much more of the hardened bad boys than the Beatles, when the opposite was actually the case...

[crashcourse]

leftoverture/song for America/masque all great Kansas albums--if Beethoven was alive today he'd prefer Kansas, Floyd, and maybe supertramp to the stones

reo I see your point but that was the first concert I ever got high at
loiusville jam reo/foreigner/thin lizzy and stever miller --that's another band I'd skip the stones for.

yep I skip the stones- had some girls played that album over and over--just never got into the stones

play 4-5 linkin park songs and 3-4 Benjamin songs when I work out

[Bklyn]

Crash is dead to me.

[Bklyn]

Well, I can see where you drew that conclusion based on precisely those two choices from their respective catalogs. SFTD is easily in my top 3 for the Stones, probably #1, and while Eleanor Rigby isn't by favorite Beatles song, it is a good example of their move away from teeny bop pop songs and towards the really interesting stuff they produced from 1967 and onward. Thanks goodness for marijuana and LSD. I suspect A Day in the Life (among others), however, would hold their own sonically, but in general I agree with your assessment...

A Day in the Life is a bit richer, but it glides too much into avant garde territory with the string orchestration. I still like the song, a lot, but I'll take "She's a Rainbow" over it...if I'm going for more eclectic sounds.