I was listening to "Voodoo Child" yesterday and just marveling at the controlled chaos of the guitars on that song. Astounding every time.
OTM. I should have probably voted it higher.
Tom Petty kind of bringing things down for me. Otherwise, today's stretch has mostly been gold.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
gonna pretend I didn't just read that :)
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
I hate the mix on the Electric Ladyland Voodoo Child. It pans left and right way too frequently.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
"American Girl" showing up on the poll such a great palate cleanser after all those Knopfler images.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
xp agree but even a crap recording couldn't ruin that jam for me
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I kind of love all the stereo fuckery on Electric Ladyland.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Oh, so you're in the mood for some Tom Petty fan art?
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
xp it is ok on speakers. it sounds ridiculous when listening with headphones imo.
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
this next track reminds me of a really nasty breakup i went through with my girlfriend over labor day weekend 1986. we'd just finished a road trip through--
actually, you know what? i've already been fired from too many stations for telling this story on the air.
in the interest of job security, i'll just let this one play:
http://i.imgur.com/qZORcne.jpg
29. Jefferson Starship – Jane1330 points, 20 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
I added this one purely due to the noms thread. Great song
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
Hm, listening now, I'm actually enjoying "American Girl" more than "Lido Shuffle" (which I don't think I've heard before). Probably one of the best Petty hits, tbf.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Yes!
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
my first "WTF? never heard of it--click---OH THIS SONG" moment on this thread
― col, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
JAAAAYYYYNNNN you're playing a GAAAMMME
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
a nasty breakup at camp firewood?
― David Schramm (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I really like "Jane" but it didn't make my top 100. I'm a little surprised that ILM rates it this highly. It's a decent Foreigner song, basically.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Hey it's the song from the beginning of Wet Hot American Summer!
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Residual love for that movie should have pushed it onto my list
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Pretty much the video version of gr8080's awesome thread images:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjs9eUlv2AQ
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
I forget this era of the band exists.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
I think '90s and early '00's comedies are informing about 50% of this list.
― Darin, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
truth bomb
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
mickey thomas' debut -- and high point -- in the jefferson starplane world. he's also the singer on elvin bishop's great "fooled around and fell in love.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
well there goes my #2 vote
TOO LOW
JANE RULES
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
I didn't even realize Elvin Bishop wasn't a singer. Until I read his wiki awhile ago, I just knew him as the guy who shows up on all the 70s comps.
― pplains, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
elvin bishop does sing, but not on everything.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
― Darin, Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:24 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
several of the votes for "Sweet Home Alabama" referred to it as simply "that song named after the Reese Witherspoon movie"
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
i resign from ilm.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
in my email I forgot to erase the phone number for Sultans of Swing escort service :/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
omg I had no idea Mickey Thomas sang on Elvin Bishop's song
well that's pretty damn cool
is mickey mad that it has Elvin's name on it though? how does that work
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
i think there's EVERY reason to get excited about result number twenty eight:
http://i.imgur.com/mGEd6BL.jpg
28. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along The Watchtower 1332 points, 18 votes, 2 first place votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
AKA the Battlestar Galactica song.
― Jeff, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
fuckin so great!
love the opening, it melts my face every time
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
at the time it came out I didn't really have an opinion on U2's cover of this and now I want to kill them with fire, how dare they
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
i was going to say "ask david lee roth." and then it occurred to me mickey would have been a better singer for van halen than either sammy hagar or gary cherone. and then i remembered i have recently resigned from ilm.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:47 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think it was a case of Elvin realizing, "fuck, I'm no singer; I'm a guitarist! Get that Thomas kid in here to add some razzle-dazzle!"
(see also: Rod Stewart as lead singer of the Jeff Beck Group)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
xp I kind of feel that way about Dylan's
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
xp to vg
DEAL WITH IT
http://www.webtvwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bono-from-u2.jpg
― sleeve, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
all he's got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...and some nifty tax shelters, iirc.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
that's a (red) guitar.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
...a house for my collection of sunglasses.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
I cannot stand this song in any of its forms. It's like it just tips over the border into a territory that is too rennfesty for me. I'd bet that it's the most played Hendrix song on crr too.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
lol tarfumes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Stairway is the renfestiest cr
― Euler, Thursday, 31 July 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
The 3 distinct sections of the "Watchtower" solo...god, I get emotional just thinking about the fact that Jimi Hendrix once walked the earth.
― some dude, Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Prob Hendrix's most played, it's his only song to reach the Top 40.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Me Re: "Jane" from the Doctor Casino listening thread
It's my Platonic ideal for Classic Rock Cheese.― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, July 5, 2014 1:10 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, July 5, 2014 1:10 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
I can't relate to any view of Hendrix's Watchtower as renfesty.
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
xp to some dude -- His Watchtower solo is truly one of his best. A lot of his solos have that sectional structure where he demonstrates a few different techniques (e.g. his intro to Little Wing)
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link