ughhhhhh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5grDqllnQ
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 03:57 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
now say "jungle love" and all i can hear is OEEYOEEYO
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 04:30 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
"Serenade" is trippy as hell
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:55 (ten years ago) link
Wait.. I mean the song with all the synths and drum machines
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:56 (ten years ago) link
"Wild Mountain Honey"
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 05:59 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
now "black panties with an angel face" make me dry heave :(
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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Europe - The Final Countdown
― Siegbran, Friday, 27 June 2014 08:14 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-aqc14tIy6E/SbCUiDAEdTI/AAAAAAAAABg/oHwqqbKLi3Y/s320/gob+bluth.jpg
― carl agatha, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:25 (ten years ago) link
Revelation: there's an outline of a woman's body in that horse's head!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:35 (ten years ago) link
''Take the Money and Run'' and ''Fly Like an Eagle'' have both always fallen a little flat with me, studio slickness and ''ah-OOOOOO lawd!'' aside. But man... ''Jet Airliner,'' ''Jungle Love'' and ''Swingtown,'' that's what I want my mid-to-late-period classic rock to sound like, all top 30 in my ballot for sure.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
I don't see a woman's body in that horse, but there's maybe a couple different ways I could see a penis, I guess.
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
She's looking behind her, like if she was laying down, right? Or maybe I'm just seeing shit too
― Dreamland, Friday, 27 June 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link
Has "Stone Cold" by Rainbow been nominated yet?
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:16 (ten years ago) link
Also: there should be a subpoll for band logos.
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:17 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 12:20 (ten years ago) link
feel like with enough campaigning (skip the first three mins) i could have gotten macho city to place in the disco poll
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 12:32 (ten years ago) link
steve miller was music for people who didn't like music when i was in high schooltons of people would go see him and get wasted and it seemed like that was all they cared about. jimmy buffett people. some of them were nice people but they had corny taste.
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?
the former (steve miller earworms) -- the worst of these for me is "wheel in the sky" just typing it makes me tense up bc i know it's here to stay for at least a few min. the latter (old friends) -- otm, my favorites of these songs really do feel like friends i've had my whole life (lol lonely only) they have kept me company in so many different and varied places!
― La Lechera, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
I had forgotten about that aspect of Steve Miller, but you're right! There was totally a mid-90s Jimmy Buffett-esque vibe to it. White hats.
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
My hippie friend just went to see Steve Miller Band like a week ago and was raving about the giant LED unicorns that turned on at the beginning of "Fly Like an Eagle" just as the sun was setting.
― cwkiii, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
everyone pls vote for BOC - GODZILLA
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
v v important
Will do. "Burnin' For You" is going to be very high on my ballot, too.
― cwkiii, Friday, 27 June 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, June 27, 2014
amazingly, no. i second this nomination!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
I love Burnin, Godzilla, and the Reaper -- will vote, no campaigning needed
Which Tom Petty songs will rise to the top? The Waiting + Refugee + Break Down are my all time favorites. I think? I think I'm going to vote for the songs I most like to sing or to turn it up, man.
― La Lechera, Friday, 27 June 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
is breakdown one word or twoanyway -- i love the way he says "don't" in that song
yeah Tom Petty is an interesting one where i wanna see what songs win out. i feel like "American Girl" has primacy but there's like 5-10 songs that are all major players.
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Whoa, just took a closer look at the list. I nominate:
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers
Led Zeppelin - In The EveningLed Zeppelin - Nobody's Fault But Mine
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
I've never heard "Even the Losers" on CR but damn that is an exhilarating song. Basically I love Tom Petty though, fuiud
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
yooo bedda wadda wadda yooo say
best pic of tom pettyhttps://www.byebuys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/799367-1200x1197.jpg
― La Lechera, Friday, 27 June 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
sorry so large
no way, shd be LARGER <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
he could've been in Children of the Corn if he'd been born later
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
cosign the 1st 2, not sure about the 3rd
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
petty photo missing long earring. I love that time in the 80s when every old rocker (petty, dylan, keef) wore single dangly obelisk earrings.
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
early photo, no earring, but WHOA what a hunk:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_iRCC46ILdk/TwXelMqMnJI/AAAAAAAADeg/5vFoCynDnX4/s1600/Tom%252BPetty.jpg
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
looks like a still from "dazed and confused."
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
stoned, immaculate
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
fun fact, Tom Petty was considered to be in the "punk" category early on:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Whitmans-Punk-Sampler/master/478953
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
well he was no more punk, and was considered no more punk, than talking heads, who also seem to be on that sampler. but he was absolutely marketed, and received, as a left-of-the-dial underground taste when he started out, his (minor) pop hits notwithstanding.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
...hence the quote marks
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's pretty easy to imagine a world where Petty didn't keep the hits coming or get any bigger than "American Girl" and got considered some kind of new wave/power pop guy instead of a classic rock staple
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link