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

Peace Frog: Woah, right off the bat this is a different Doors. Scratchy rock for the big party scene, still kinda blowsy but shaking off the gunk. Post-Nuggetsy funk. This is almost...danceable?! And there are even dynamics, pauses to let the thing start back up with a little jerk, and answers from the backing vocals keeping things lively.

I can't believe I'm enjoying a song that is both by the Doors and called 'Peace Frog'! This solo is cool too - pipping and whistley, exactly the kind of slice through the mix that I've looked for from them before. The spoken-word bit though.... eek.

Lotta blood in this for a peace frog. I guess it's an anti-war thing? Kind of a weird topic to pick for their party song. Morrison's not as bad on this as usual but I still think somebody else would have been better. Second listen, still digging the groove. I can't really make out a lot of what he's saying ("Indians scattered on Donuts Highway"? "Blood is the rose of mysterious humans?") but that might be good - happy to have Morrison lost in the action and it makes it feel less like a portentous delivery of important poetry. I wonder which Sixties act was most damaged by the 'influence' of Dylan - or was that a thread?

Surprise thumbs up!

HOORAY!

Realizing The Doors were the pretentious ? and The Mysterious really aids in my enjoyment of them.

― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, July 16, 2014 3:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I could kinda get behind this!

I really wish it had a dance that went with it, I would totally be down to do the Peace Frog

http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljkp4ueJ3r1qc1ccko1_250.gif

omg lol

LOOOOOL

that was also my proposal for a replacement lead singer btw

lol @ "indians scattered on donuts highway"

Yay a thumbs up for Peace Frog!

I also hate most of their discography but the groove on this one is instantly likeable.

Btw the "indians on donuts highway" bit has a lame backstory about Jim seeing when he was a child dead indiands on a car accident in some highway and he believed their souls took him as a host.

Apologies for the lack of commas.

COME ON COME ON COME ON TOUCH ME MY BABY, TOUCH ME MY HONEY, TOUCH ME MY RAGTIME GAL

SEND ME A KISS BY WIRE, COME ON BABY, LIGHT MY FIRE

hahaha

If you refuse me, faces look ugly, honey, when you're alone...

Birds do it, Bees do it, even blind ancient Greeks do it,
Let's do it, mother I wanna fuck you

...AMANDA

like all classic rock stations, we here at unheard classic rock radio WUCR love to take requests -- as long as you request one of the 90 songs already in heavy rotation.

SONG #20: THE OUTFIELD "YOUR LOVE"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1iwQxiHrs

I've never understood thinking of that song as "classic rock." To me, The Outfield are 80s also-rans. I hope there's some discussion, because I'm always genuinely baffled by people who even remember them, never mind fondly.

I remember it being treated like a novelty at the time; "Hey, that guy kinda sounds like Sting!" was the full extent of any and all discussion of the Outfield in 1986. I have never once heard this on the radio (cr or otherwise) since.

I heard Outfield before I had heard any Police. I had it on a C30 of stuff that I had taped off of Nick Rocks.

That said, I don't consider it classic rock and feel like if it ever shows up on classic rock radio, that it's probably for baseball reasons.

I'd like to file these guys with Mike & the Mechanics, Mr. Mister, Richard Marx, etc. but they didn't call themselves the Moutfield.

I remember it being fairly big at the time-Billboard shows it as a #6 in the US. I think it's a great little pop one off, but I definitely see how CR adopted it.

Musically it's not that far from what Bryan Adams was doing, and I think it's fair to cast mid-80s classic rock as either hair metal, or having a vague MTV/new-wave image (if not sound).

will be interesting to hear the Doc's reaction.

Yeah, I can see Bryan Adams or Mike and the Mechanics comparisons. I think I want a dangly gold cross earring now. Can we bring those back for dudes?

yeah, this Mike & the Mechanics entry is definitely the most wtf nominee

campreverb otm about 80s classic rock being either hair metal or new-wavey. Choogling and boogie rock doesn't make it very far into the 80s. I think the only other category of 80s classic rock is the holy trinity of earnest rocking': Petty/Mellencamp/Springsteen.

hi dere

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/ZZ_Top_-_Eliminator.jpg

yeah, definitely nothing new wavy in that one.

love that record, of course, made my side ballot of top 5 classic rock records. And not "new wavy" in the same way the Cars or Outfield are. But I don't think it emphatically contradicts my point.

ah yes, roots rock.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Allentown_Billy_Joel.jpg

van halen also secretly carrying the boogie banner

Yeah, boogie rock didn't totally disappear in 1980, you still saw it in hybrid with new wave and hair metal.

Unalloyed boogie of the 70s variety no longer a cultural force, though. Even, like, "Hold On Loosely" kind of sounds like the Cars.

The Stray Cats were pretty popular for about one year, right?

they neither choogle nor boogie

they strut.

What about The Georgia Satellites?

'your love' is the worst most abominable garbage, i have never stopped hating that fkin song in its near 30 years of existence.

and i love the referents it is adopting, just the song itself is such shit

Georgia Satellites, Van Halen (Hot for Teacher), and AC/DC are the best counter-arguments to the "death of boogie" theory, and they all have boogie asterisks attached.

And as for chooglin', there was virtually none that decade asterix or no

"Boogie Asteriks" also an underrated Earth, Wind & Fire b-side.

Unalloyed boogie of the 70s variety no longer a cultural force, though. Even, like, "Hold On Loosely" kind of sounds like the Cars.
--intheblanks

Specifically, "just what I needed"

I guess I'm thinking of boogie as descriptive of a particular approach to rhythm rather than tone or production style. Boogie survives and adapts even as bloozrock gives up the ghost. Just relocates from the swamp to the Sunset Strip.

AC/DC lost about 2/3 of their boogie power when Bon Scott died. (Seriously, the songs on Back in Black and everything after are routinely half the speed of the '70s material.)

what the fart is "choogling"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azt-0StLZOk

Your Love has been the first song this thread that I knew. From that recent SNL sketch with Josh Hutcherson and HAIM. So know I'm listening to HAIM. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxBHRZpIdg

Is this not a boogie? If not, what am I missing?