In Which Doctor Casino Listens to Classic Rock Classics for the First Time

oh no he's all yours, you can have him Doc

:)

Every time I think about Squire now, I think about how that Rock Me Tonight video basically killed his career.

Squire: "When I saw the video, my jaw dropped. It was diabolical. I looked at it and went, “What the fuck is this?”

The video misrepresents who I am as an artist. I was a good-looking, sexy guy. That certainly didn’t hurt in promoting my music. But in this video I’m kind of a pretty boy. And I’m preening around a room. People said “He’s gay.” Or, “He’s on drugs.” It was traumatizing to me. I mean, I had nothing against gays. I have a lot of gay friends.”

Everything I worked for was crumbling and I couldn’t stop it. How can a four-minute video do that? Ok, it sucked. So?”

The wounds have healed and the scars aren’t that deep, because my life has evolved in a good way. I left the music business when I was forty-three. I don’t have to work. Look who’s smiling now! That video is a bad part of a good life.”

I got kicked out of a high school dance for grinding to "The Stroke". Good times.

loooooooooool

honestly that makes me like the song a *tiny* bit more, haha

according to wikipedia, this next band shot its first video for this song. "It was a difficult experience for a variety of reasons, and the resulting clip has been widely ridiculed and made fun of by many including the MTV show Beavis & Butt-head, and it has been described as among the worst videos ever."

SONG #6: JOURNEY "SEPARATE WAYS (WORLDS APART)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA

LOVE this song but it's much better without the video.

I don't remember that video! I like it, everyone looks pretty badass, probably because I was 9 when the song came out and what adults look like at that age leaves a mark

I met Steve Perry once, he smelled like garlic.

lol

more Sandy posts itt pls

and the Tailgate Party one as well please!

yeah Sandy yr killing it

That MTV oral history book from a couple years back has great stories about the videos for "Separate Ways" and Squier's "Rock Me Tonite".

oh god I had never seen that Separate Ways video until now

so bad

some day they will find their instruments

Bad Company are great

Aieee! Another dud! Sorry y'all - heard this a million times, just sort of filed it as "Generic Journey Song" or "Some DAY, LOVE Will FIND You." Never liked it at all... though it's at least a little less in-your-face and irritating than "Any Way You Want It." The only thing I know by these guys that I don't find outright annoying is probably "Wheel In The Sky," which Wiki is telling me is earlier - are they a band known for a clear sonic "evolution" from their X roots to their Y success? I mean, the icy-cool synth lick is kinda interesting, but the One, TWO, ONE-two ONE-two emphasis of the chorus really uses up all the air in the room.

Never seen the video before, but wow, that was beautifully bad - feel like half the parody OTT lip-synching in Yacht Rock comes from this, including obviously the one for "Don't Fight It." Are we sure this isn't a parody?! I mean seriously... the keyboard on the wall! The jacket on the love interest! The slo-mo for the climax! Journey dude backing away desperately from the camera! You could easily make a top 20 of funny things that happen right after the camera cuts to something in this video, but the thing is I can totally see how this would happen, if you didn't know any better what stuff will actually look like on camera or when edited together, standing still and Very Seriously Lip-Synching Your Lines would probably seem like a good way to convey that this is an Intense Song.

There was always two things I've thought Journey has going for them. Steve Perry's Sam Cook-style vox (love Sam Cook) and the fact that all of their songs make me feel like I'm a teenager despite being born in '88 and them being before my time. It's all about the vibe, bruh.

are they a band known for a clear sonic "evolution" from their X roots to their Y success?

They were more of a prog band pre-Perry: http://youtu.be/SRKZ_f67vTw

shit, that was pretty cool.

Amazing to think of (some of) the same dudes floating around outer space in jumpsuits there are, a few years later, the guys enthusiastically lip-synching down at the wharf for "Separate Ways."

The only thing I know by these guys that I don't find outright annoying is probably "Wheel In The Sky"...

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, June 25, 2014

aw man if you can't feel "stone in love" i just

imo the best Bad Company song is "Bad Company" from the album Bad Company by Bad Company.

the thing about Journey is that only their singles are worth listening to. most of the time it is way overproduced but it was the 80's so you forgive some of it. never a band i would purposely play and may or may not turn to radio.

may or may not turn to radio may or may not turn when they come on the radio.

I'd argue that Raised on Radio is a solid album all the way through, singles and non-singles alike. But it wouldn't be a very long argument, because y'all will gang up on me.

because of that dumb video I learned on the internet that Steve Perry really had a girlfriend named Sherrie

oh?

ok I lol'ed

also i hate you

it was understood from the start that there were going to be some songs in this thread that doctor casino knew, but didn't know he knew, for various reasons such as misleading, or not-so-obvious, titles. our next couple songs have super-obvious titles, so i'm going to assume that if he thinks he doesn't know, for example, molly hatchet's "flirtin' with disaster," then he really doesn't know molly hatchet's "flirtin' with disaster."

SONG #7: MOLLY HATCHET "FLIRTIN' WITH DISASTER"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3afKw_mcY

molly hatchet were named for a 17th century hooker who, legend has it, hooked wealthy men and decapitated them as soon as she was done.

also, if memory serves, i saw molly hatchet open for kansas some decades ago. i remember young me thinking it was an inappropriate match of opener and headliner.

I don't think they get much airplay in Canada? I don't recognize this; they don't turn up on the CHEZ or Q107 lists. It's not doing very much for me. The comments about them being a 2nd-rate Skynyrd seem OTM based on this + I never really loved Skynyrd in the first place.

I never really loved Skynyrd in the first place.

Like, to ever listen to a non-single.

Really need a looping GIF of Steve Perry from :29 to :32 in the Separate Ways video.

Ross Valory slapping that headless Steinberger will never not be funny, nor will Steve Smith looking like the world's biggest fucking dork when he has to do anything besides play the drums. Also Jonathan Cain trying to mime "playing keyboards" and coming out looking like "adorable kitten" at :54.

Really need a looping GIF of Steve Perry from :29 to :32 in the Separate Ways video.
http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/6-26-2014/sMNE6b.gif

Almost :)

I don't think they get much airplay in Canada? I don't recognize this; they don't turn up on the CHEZ or Q107 lists. It's not doing very much for me. The comments about them being a 2nd-rate Skynyrd seem OTM based on this + I never really loved Skynyrd in the first place.

Was just looking at the playlist from the past few hours on Edmonton's K97 and saw that it was on it. Granted it did play at 4:10 AM.

Perry copping Sam Cooke's vocals OTM - one of the best things about them imo. Singles are amazing, Lovin Touchin Squeezin is the best (why? because it has a na-na-na refrain, which immediately makes any song awesome)

yeah I gotta agree there

Was gonna say I generally dig "Feeling That Way/Anytime" and how well it approximates the Roy Thomas Baker stacked-vocals thing...only to find out it was produced by Roy Thomas Baker.

The only thing I know by these guys that I don't find outright annoying is probably "Wheel In The Sky"...

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, June 25, 2014

aw man if you can't feel "stone in love" i just

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, June 26, 2014 1:15 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know if i can't - it's in this thread's queue! I googled the lyrics and it doesn't look familiar, but I am trying to avoid spoiling myself beyond that....

haha, i appreciate your honoring the scientific rigor of this thread!

Flirtin' With Disaster: This is ruling hard in the intro, really living up to their cover art (which always kinda intrigued but intimidated me). The shift into the verse is a little disappointing - between their Frazetta imagery and the big heavy opening I was expecting kind of a massive epic, not earthly boogie-downs. But it's a good one of those - high-energy toe-tapping tempo, and the band gets to show off their chops in turn. Nobody's on autopilot here, lots for everybody to do in the car - would have worked great in a way for that Wayne's World scene. Still, when it breaks for the storm clouds to gather again for a second, that's my favorite part I think.

"Flirtin' with disaster, y'all!", ha, I like that! It's a weird sound, this kinda reedy Southern voice, multitracked to an almost metallic surface, against this much bigger, rockier, mud-and-blood sound. I think he sounds a little bit like he's trying too hard and putting on a role in a few places, like when he invokes the solo, or basically whenever he tries to ad-lib. UM BOP BOP YEAH-UN-YEAH - hrm, yeah, I dunno, I could see that growing on me and being the part everybody sings along to when it comes on...

But awwww, yeah, this is my kind of big guitar segment. Work out for a while solo, then form the Voltron team, super guitars in rubber-rainbow unison, stretching and releasing, doing flips in the mix.

So, yeah Big thumbs up on this one - almost certainly going on my ballot for some dude's poll. Is it worth grabbing the LP next time I see it in the two-dollar bin?

being the part everybody sings along to when it comes on...

Molly Hatchet was my first concert I attended solo, at age 13, and everybody yelled along to this at the top of their lungs

hooray!

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