haha
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
(xxp) "listen to her heart" gets occasional classic rock play here in LA, but they go pretty deep on petty and that one is more of an outlier. but in general, petty's greatest hits is kind of a slightly more modern eagles greatest, impact-wise. i take it for granted everyone in america knows all those songs.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
eagles greatest hits, that is.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Another thing the breakout data from this poll might settle: what is, once and for all, the best ubiquitous classic-rock greatest hits album? (Correct answer: Steve Miller Band.)
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
could be a good side poll actually.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Better: polling jukebox perennials.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
Not sure how I missed it all these years, but the main riff in "Roundabout" by Yes is just ripped from "Love Machine".
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
Or wait, I guess "Roundabout" came first.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Just heard on 107.7 THE BONE:Steve Miller - Take the MoneyGreen Day - When I Come AroundBad Company - Bad CompanyGuns 'N Roses - Live and Let Die
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
never even really dug "take the money" personally but that is some easy shit for everyone to sing along to in a car and damn if I won't be voting for hella steve miller in this polI
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
one too many claps for me to effectively clap along
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
That reminds me, this might be a good thread to ask a song ID question. Back in the mid 70s there was another song that had "take the money and run" in the lyrics, and it wasn't the Steve Miller song. Kind of slick El Lay rock iirc, verse structure went something like
Take the money and runsomething something something somethingTake the money and runsomething something something something
Does this ring any bells with anyone?
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Steve Miller's just a non-playing motherfucker with one or two sorry-ass albums out.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMqrAnn-N8
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― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
Mmmm, nope, not it.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
Aha, it's David Crosby/Graham Nash! From Wind on the Water, 1975. Spotify, what would I do without you.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
That Crosby/Nash was inspired by the CSNY Doom Tour of '74!
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, June 26, 2014
as far as classic rock radio's concerned he only has one, and it's sold more copies than Purple Rain and slightly fewer than Bat Out of Hell...
http://www.stevemillerband.com/images/GreatestHits7478-400.jpg
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 00:38 (nine years ago) link
that's what made it fun!
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
i'm ok with the joker & take the money but jungle love & rockin me & fly like a stupid feed the childen eagle can FUCK RIGHT OFF
i went from phoenix arizona all the way to tacoma philadelphia atlanta LA ... you and huey lewis and your stupid catalog of rhyming cities BLAH in wrestling they call that a cheap pop you corny fucks ughhhhhhhh i hate it so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
"Fly Like An Eagle" is pretty breathtaking from a production standpoint, can take or leave most of the rest of his stuff
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
fly like an eagle rules forever
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
The words "steve miller" make my hackles rise but "breathtaking from a production standpoint" is otm for that song.
Gotta figure out what my hackles are someday.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 01:57 (nine years ago) link
Lol, that's the second time someone's accused Yes of ripping off or writing a lesser version of something that came later than their song.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
Fly Like An Eagle and Wild Mountain Honey are the only ones I can really enjoy hearing at this point
a lot of the rest of this stuff (including the other mentioned Miller songs)... ugh, yeah, it has this awful earworm effect due to familiarity, one time I was in a laundromat and "Rosanna" came on and it was like living in hell for a week, it never left my head afterwards. I can hear it now, as I type this, it haunts me. Things like "Maggie May", or the works of Tom Petty, on the other hand, feel lie old friends that don't overstep their boundaries. And they don't get stuck in my head - maybe a relationship?
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
feel like old friends
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
i would like fly like an eagle 100% more if it was instrumental
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
what if the eagle had the face of Glenn Frey
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:13 (nine years ago) link
the lyric "I don't want to get caught up in any of that funky shit going down in the city" annoys me
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link
his lyrics rival duran duran for sheer stupidity
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
great, now I have "Jetliner" stuck in my head, better go listen to Merzbow
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
When I was a kid, I thought "shoe the children, no shoes on their feet" was THE FUNNIEST SONG LYRIC EVER. I would just ROFLMAO every time I heard it. Shoe the children! Hilarious! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Then high school happened and good christ did everybody want to listen to this stupid stupid greatest hits record and now I more or less can't stomach any of those songs.
― carl agatha, Friday, 27 June 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link
yep
abracadabra was my favorite song when i was 6
now "black panties with an angel face" make me dry heave :(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
This oddity was a huge AOR hit in '86 but went nowhere pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iFTE-u7Gg&feature=kp
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 June 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
Let's not forget "Bongo Bongo". Steve Miller is to some extent a dude who buys toys and then makes records with them.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
ughhhhhh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:05 (nine years ago) link
best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5grDqllnQ
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:57 (nine years ago) link
Haha, I totally remember that Steve Miller song Al posted. The local AOR station played it for about a week and then decided enough of that shit.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
"Abracadabra" is a song I wish wasn't so gross, because otherwise it would be totally in my comfort zone.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 June 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
yeah I will defend Macho City as well
Merzbow didn't work so I turned to Chumbawamba to get Jetliner out of my head, very effective
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
hey now "jet airliner" got paul pena paid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiA
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
now say "jungle love" and all i can hear is OEEYOEEYO
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
Jesus, "Macho City" makes me yearn for "Fly Like an Eagle", a song I loathe with every fibre of my being.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Friday, 27 June 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
"Serenade" is trippy as hell
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:55 (nine years ago) link
Wait.. I mean the song with all the synths and drum machines
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:56 (nine years ago) link
"Wild Mountain Honey"
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:59 (nine years ago) link
Wild Mountain Honey is prob the best thing Steve Miller ever did
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 06:30 (nine years ago) link
I've spent the last couple of days trying to figure out if that was the lyric and eventually concluded "no it ... can't be"
The last two minutes are kind of slightly atonal and weird though - I assume they never, ever get played on Classic Rock Radio?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 27 June 2014 06:57 (nine years ago) link
It gets played, albeit not as much as the earlier hits, even though it was a bigger hit (#1 Pop in the US).
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link
Europe - The Final Countdown
― Siegbran, Friday, 27 June 2014 08:14 (nine years ago) link