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
The 3 distinct sections of the "Watchtower" solo....
I was always puzzled that Jimi himself thought the record's high point was Gypsy Eyes
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Jokers, thieves, princesses, vibraslap. It's like goddamn Dungeons and Dragons in there.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm not seeing the problem
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Jimi otm re: Gypsy Eyes
― Darin, Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
xp: it's undoubtedly my personal hangup. don't worry about it too much.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
You think so? On a record with 1983, both versions of Voodoo Chile, and Watchtower?(xp)
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
1983 is sooooooo good.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
I mean Gypsy Eyes is a good song without a doubt but there is a wealth of great stuff on it...on the other hand, why choose?
― Dokken played here for a Ribfest and people were total assholes (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
watchtower was my #1. probably my favorite track ever by anybody. the rhythm is awesome, the atmosphere is spooky, and of course the guitar solos. It makes me thinking of riding into a stormy valley (either on horseback or in like a chevy nova)
― brimstead, Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
aiui he heard the original at a party and right there was all 'we gotta record that, I gotta do that', like he'd envisioned it all in his head instantly
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
I was slagging off Brit Blues bassists earlier, but Noel Redding is pretty solid I think
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
He didn't play bass on that track, though, Jimi did!
According to Hendrix’s regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day, shouting chord changes at Dave Mason who had appeared at the session and played guitar. Halfway through the session, bass player Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself.
― brimming with misplaced confidence (Phil D.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
You think so? On a record with 1983, both versions of Voodoo Chile, and Watchtower?
I think Gypsy Eyes is one of his underrated classics that could have been a big hit in an alternate universe. I can see why Hendrix thought it had more potential. Plus, I prefer Jimi in fast mode vs. slow blues mode.
― Darin, Thursday, 31 July 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link