+- Music Discussion (https://www.music-discussion.com)
+-- Forum: Music Discussion (https://www.music-discussion.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=4)
+--- Forum: General Music (https://www.music-discussion.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=18)
+--- Thread: Looking Back At Some Classics (/showthread.php?tid=7584)
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 16-12-2012
not one of my favourite Stones songs....never liked it much ! I think it's the only marketable single off of their brilliant Exile on Main St. album !
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:not a bad Stones track...love the sax in it "**"
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 16-12-2012
A great track! I noticed that their new album is already on AllMusic's best of 2012 list!
Music Head Wrote:#432 - Green Day - American Idiot - 2004
running recap for me - 3's=34, 2's=27, 1's=8
this one - **
from the album: American Idiot
Written by Green Day
Produced by Rob Cavallo, Green Day
Chart action: #61 US, #3 UK, #7 Australia, #1 Canada
the players:
Billie Joe Armstrong - lead vocals, guitar
Mike Dirnt - bass, backing vocals
Tré Cool - drums, backing vocals
Carrying on the punk tradition.....I'm kidding guys, back off. Title track from the groups sixth album.
Nominated for four grammys, losing out to U2 on three of them and Ray Charles on the other. Billie Joe
said they were trying to piss everyone off and it must have worked going by the low chart performance
here, even though it was the groups first entry into the Hot 100. Inspired by hearing Lynyrd Skynyrds
That's How I Like It in which the group claims they are proud to be rednecks, and poor Billie Joe was
offended and decided to touche. The song charted much higher in them other countries, probably because
they like to think of Americans as idiots. It was the Bush era.
[video=youtube;Ee_uujKuJMI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_uujKuJMI[/video]
Lyrics
Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind **** America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.
Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 17-12-2012
^^^
Green Day's "american idiot"... "***" from me, love the track and loce the album but "wake me up when september ends" is my favourite off the album
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 17-12-2012
#431 - Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing - 1984
running recap for me - 3's=34, 2's=28, 1's=8
this one - **
from the album: Louder Than Bombs
Written by Morrisey, Johnny Marr
Produced by John Porter
Chart action: #17 UK
the players:
Morrissey – vocals
Johnny Marr – guitars
Andy Rourke – bass
Mike Joyce – drums
Somtimes I just can't comprehend. This song is described as a tale of traumatic teen sex, a tragic love
triangle. I'm reading the lyrics thinking wtf. How is anyone supposed to interpret that out of that? I
think it's really about ice cream sandwiches. I'm in a foul mood today. From the double compilation album
released first in the states as an introduction to the band who had failed to garner any support here.
Didn't work too well as the album only got to #62 here. It was later released elsewhere with a slightly
better reception.
[video=youtube;_XqNYnV0W6o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XqNYnV0W6o[/video]
Lyrics
The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
this town has dragged you down
oh the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
this town has dragged you down
And everybody's got to live their life
and God knows I've got to live mine
God knows I've got to live mine
William, William it was really nothing
William, William it was really nothing
it was your life
How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say:
"Would you like to marry me
and if you like you can buy the ring"
she doesn't care about anything
"Would you like to marry me
and if you like you can buy the ring"
I don't dream about anyone
except myself
William, William it was really nothing
William, William
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 18-12-2012
The Smiths????....
i've really got to be in the mood to listen to these guys...sort of a love/hate relationship happening here.
those guys are still going though...Johnny Marr(guitarist/writer) still does well as he crops up on other artists albums consistantly, while singer/writer Morrissey still tours and releases albums as a solo artist, personally i havent heard any of his solo material for twenty years now...
this song gets "***" from me when im in the mood and "**" when im not in the mood for them
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 18-12-2012
#430 - Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes - 1956
running recap for me - 3's=35, 2's=28, 1's=8
this one - ***
from the album: Elvis Presley
Written by Carl Perkins
Produced by Steve Sholes
Chart action: #20 US
the players:
Elvis Presley – guitar, vocals
Scotty Moore - guitar
Bill Black - bass
D J Fontana - drums
Carl Perkins wrote it, recorded it first, and scored a higher chart placement at #2, but it remains one of
Elvis's bst known songs. It was Johnny Cash that actually had the idea for the song and suggested it to
Carl. He wrote it one night and recorded it two days later at the legendary Sun studios. His version was
still riding high when Elvis gave it a try. Both Carl and Elvis performed the song on live tv on the same
night on different shows. Elvis had departed Sun Records on good terms and signed with RCA. Out of respect to Sun founder Sam Phillips and Perkins, Elvis requested that his version be held back from being released as a single while Carls was still peaking. It was not released until 9 months after Perkins original.
[video=youtube;Bm5HKlQ6nGM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5HKlQ6nGM[/video]
Lyrics
Well, it's one for the money,
Two for the show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, cat, go.
But don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my Blue suede shoes.
Well, you can knock me down,
Step in my face,
Slander my name
All over the place.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Don't you step on my Blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
You can burn my house,
Steal my car,
Drink my liquor
From an old fruitjar.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes
Don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 18-12-2012
"**" from me mate, not one of his best IMO, much prefer Carl's version
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 19-12-2012
#429 - Billy Joel - Piano Man - 1973
running recap for me - 3's=36, 2's=28, 1's=8
this one - ***
from the album: Piano Man
Written by Billy Joel
Produced by Michael Stewart
Chart action: #25 US, #20 Australia, #10 Canada
the players:
Billy Joel – piano, vocals
other people playing things
A brilliant song writer is born. Too bad the masses were yet to recognize it. Billy had paid his dues as a
lounge pianist as the song documents. All of those depicted in the song were real life people that he had
met during those days. A song about failed dreams which is where Joel thought he was in life after a
failure with his first album blamed on stupidity by those that mastered it at the wrong speed. Obvious by
listening to anything from Cold Spring Harbor. He relegated himself to the bar circuit while fighting the
label heads to release him from his contract. He then signed with Columbia and the rest is history.
[video=youtube;gxEPV4kolz0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0[/video]
Lyrics
It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin
He says, "Son can you play me a memory
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet
And I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes"
Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alright
Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me"
As a smile ran away from his face
"Well, I'm sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place"
Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talking with Davy, who's still in the Navy
And probably will be for life
And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinking alone
Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alright
It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say "Man what are you doing here?"
Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alright
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-12-2012
one of my favourite Joel tracks "***"
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 20-12-2012
#428 - Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing - 1969
running recap for me - 3's=36, 2's=29, 1's=8
this one - **
from the album: It's Our Thing
Written by Isley Brothers
Produced by Isley Brothers
Chart action: #2 US, #30 UK, #3 Canada
the players:
Ronald Isley - lead vocal
Rudolph Isley - backing Vocal
O'Kelly Isley - backing vocal
George Moreland - drums
Ernie Isley - bass
Charles "Skip" Pitts - guitar
Herb Rooney - piano
George Patterson - saxophone
Never a big fan, even of this song, but I'll give the boys their due. Good funk classic for the
day. After bailing from Motown, feeling they were being treated as a second tier act, to
heavyweights Tempations and Four Tops, the brothers started their own label and released their
biggest hit. Sued by Motown's Berry Gordy, claiming he owned the song. Settled out of court. I
think Berry backed down. btw, they actually were a second tier act to the Temps and Tops.
[video=youtube;MD-9eOWsp8o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-9eOWsp8o[/video]
Lyrics
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
If you want me to love you, maybe I will.
Believe me woman, it ain't no big deal.
You need love now, just as bad as I do.
Make's me no difference now, who you give your thing to.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
I'm not trying to run your life,I know you wanna do what's right.
Give your love now, to whoever you choose.
How can you love, with the stuff you use now.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
It's your thing, do what you wanna do.
I can't tell you, who to sock it to.