also, dc, you never ever need to apologize for listening to tom petty.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
idk that those 5 years are considered "the peak" but you're on a roll & they're great albums so w/e
sax break on rosie is all-time pure moment of joyfulness for me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
wait nvm i misread that so ignore me
except re: sax
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Key thread BTW: T or F: If Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had written and recorded "You May Be Right" instead of Billy Joel, it would have been among their best songs and greatest achievements
Kinda down for listening to Rosalita again today to hear those tringles, maybe I'll start to mark out the story a bit more.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
spoiler alert: her papa knows that Bruce does not have any money.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
A nice dovetail to Rosalita is "Sherry Darling" same college rock thing imo
I love DYNAMITE'S IN THE BELFRY BABY, kinda kicks the song into the next gear
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
(xp) spoiler alert 2: her papa is unaware of some recent happenings at bruce's record company.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
truth. there's college-rock guitar all over the river actually.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
wow that tom petty "you may be right" thread.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
I still wanna hear "Hotel California" a la Television...
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/073hvnT6zQY
one of my favorite live versions, he has such a blast on stage it adds the magic flavor that the recorded version misses
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
reading the lyrics to songs is for effete snobs. the real salt-of-the-earth thing is to read the liner notes. (bands who put their lyrics in the liner notes are also effete snobs.)
― rushomancy, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
There was a great version from Phoenix '78 that MTV would sometimes play, before Bruce had any actual videos out.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
also max on drums & professor on piano pushes it up where it needs to be
no less love for their predecessors but it's just a brighter, snappier vibe with weinberg & bittan
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
one of my favorite live versions
bruce and clarence circa 5:35 in that clip. tears streaming down my face.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
Of all of these the one that surprises me the most that DC has never heard is "Outfield – Your Love". It feels to me like one of the top 10 songs to reference the 80's.
― Moka, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
I'm actually deeply interested in hearing his opinion on that one if he has actually never heard it. I've heard so many times over the years that I've grown fond of it and it still doesn't feel tiresome.
― Moka, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
"Your Love" is one of the best
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
the bass is really quietly mixed! I'd never really noticed till now.
the outfield will be a good one! but we've had a lot of requests for this next one, so after a commercial break, we'll be back with one of three songs from the netherlands on our unheard classic rock classics playlist. stay tuned for...
SONG #4: FOCUS "HOCUS POCUS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAgvTsVcQgQ
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
*yodels*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
I don't think this song gets played on CRR here
― macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 23 June 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
yeah in my ATL days I never heard that song
― Euler, Monday, 23 June 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
I heard it a few times on CR when I lived in Florida.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 June 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
since this will be our first european song, here's a thing about doctor casino's list that i thought was worth sharing:
the original classic rock playlist proposed by some dude on the big classic rock thread had 545 songs, and their continent of origin breaks down this way:
north america: 57 percenteurope: 38 percentaustralia 2 percenthybridistan*: 3 percent
(hybridistan is the north american/european crossover nation state from which comes fleetwood mac and foreigner)
doctor casino is unfamiliar with 92 songs on that master list, and his 92 break down this way:
north america: 76 percenteurope 17 percentaustralia: 4 percenthybridistan: 2 percent
in other words, doctor casino's life experience has made him reasonably familiar with classic rock songs from england and elsewhere in europe, while leaving him with a blind spot toward classic rock from the u.s. and canada. at least compared to some dude's life experience, that is. which i assume says something about how music from the two continents is prized differently by the curators of rock and roll in different parts of the u.s. or maybe our sample size is a bit too small. but this stuff fascinates me.
(and yes, i, like styx, had too much time on my hands yesterday.)
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 June 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
clap clap
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 23 June 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
The song on that list that surprises me the most is Nazareth's Love Hurts.
― MarkoP, Monday, 23 June 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
omg, awesome stats, love that.
This is a little tricky though because all it really takes is a few big British bands where I *do* know almost all the songs, and whammo. Another problem would be that I could have gotten to know the songs in a way other than via CR radio, for example by that convertible that pulled away from our high school parking lot one day, leaving the loose discs of Led Zeppelin Boxed Set 2 bouncing around in the dust and gravel at my feet. Presumably at least some of this is interrelated - I (and perhaps the convertible drivers) was primed to be interested in the box set based on CR radio, perhaps....
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 June 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
says something about how music from the two continents is prized differently by the curators of rock and roll in different parts of the u.s. or maybe our sample size is a bit too small.
Yeah, if you really wanted to do this, you'd probably have to actually compare station playlists.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 23 June 2014 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Growing up on Led Zep, Sabbath, Beatles, and never abandoned it, I like to think I'm pretty well versed in this scene, and I have never ever heard that Focus song. Listening to it now though and it's pretty rad. I'm American btw
― Dreamland, Monday, 23 June 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
I think that Focus song is something probably most often used as a tag in commercials or station ID bumpers more than actually played.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
Holy crap the whistling at ~3:40 in that live video is incredible
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
Hocus Pocus, by Focus (from their hit album Crocus?):
First couple seconds, I'm sold - rock on, dudes! No blowsy New Jerseyites cluttering things up here, just riff on, riff on, keep riffin' on, do some more riffin' on.
OMG the yodeling
yessssssssssssssssssssssss
this rules
hahahahahaha
Wow. You can kinda see why this didn't exactly fly in the South, we like our yodeling to come from actual backwoods mountain men and/or passable facsimiles thereof - not from effete Europeans who learned it secondhand from Slim Whitman. I'm starting to get off the boat with the tickety-tackety Popeye-chuckle faux-scatting, as much as it brilliantly sets up the return of the PUMMELING WALL OF RIFFING. The drum solos are all a little less convincing tbh, dude's kinda just filling time there. At 3:30 I'm now kinda over this alternation between yodel and guitar attack, though the guitar attacks keep getting more and more satisfying. Thank god, they changed it up with this flute thing - I like that it sounds like you can hear them desperately gasping for air in between notes.
oh ffs, gtfo with this accordion thing, this is just goofy now
oh wait BRANNA DANNA DOW BRANNA DANNA DOW, DUNG DING, BRUNG, BRUN BRANG, okay, now just - -
- - - fire the drummer oh god, this guy - dude, your band's name is called focus, try it sometime.
I wonder how many people bought this/requested it just to LOL at the yodeling, but secretly loved it? The rockin' is so good (drums aside) that they really don't need the gimmick. Did they yodel on all their songs? Did they ever have words?
Overall, thumbs up, throwing this on my playlist though I have a strong suspicion I'll often end up skipping it because I'm just not in the mood for a yodel. Holy shit, though, really glad I heard that, feels like a major missing piece of the picture.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
Slim Whitman was a god.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
http://img2-2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/Head-Explosion/mars-attacks_300.jpg
blowing my mind here
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
j/k, you get no argument from me, he is ace for "rose-marie" alone, though one of those cursed artists where no dollar comp you pick up is actually the hit versions of anything.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:48 (ten years ago) link
I've never heard Hocus Pocus before! It's fucking incredible.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
irl lol throughout your review DC. God bless this thread.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
"Cattle Call" is cowboy shoegaze.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
Maybe not shoegaze but definitely some instant dream transportation going on during the verses and that sick butter-slick lapsteel solo.
"Hocus Pocus" seems a bit like a youtube viral hit, it's all about the unexpected jump cut to someone's really well-done silliness.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
OTM, could easily have done a "Harlem Shake" deal with this, maybe cross-wired with Hamster Dance.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
Yodeling was invented in Europe, dudes. Bloody Americans.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
I was being just a little bit ironical...
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
And I wasn't actually annoyed. Humour really doesn't travel well on the internet.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
A testament to the strength of rockin' yodel instrumentals, to speak without words on both sides of the Atlantic.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
^__^
― emil.y, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
"Hocus Pocus" is amazingly crude for a prog classic.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
otm. imo The drumming in the live clip almost had a proto-hardcore feeling to it
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
something about it feels like it should have run in the credits for a show like Catweazle or something...it's just so strange & awesome
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
never heard it before, but Hocus Pocus not really changing my mind about majority of this list being garbage. eurololz tho.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link