^^^
― how's life, Friday, 27 June 2014 12:20 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
everyone pls vote for BOC - GODZILLA
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 13:53 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Has "Stone Cold" by Rainbow been nominated yet?
― 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
cosign the 1st 2, not sure about the 3rd
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 17:08 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
looks like a still from "dazed and confused."
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
stoned, immaculate
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:17 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
...hence the quote marks
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:27 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
I love Tom Petty, even though he's one of the worst and most notorious "disco sucks" rock dudes afaik
― guwop (crüt), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, June 27, 2014
haha i hesitated on that but then i was like fuck it this rules let the hivemind sort it out
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah there's a lightness, a sprightliness to his early stuff that probably fit more with stuff like elvis costello or the pretenders. All three are considered "classic rock"-ish now but I imagine they sounded very separate from that thing at the time?
― brimstead, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
the funniest thing abt Tom Petty for me is that his most overtly "I am all about roots y'all" album sported his only glorious stab at synthpop as its lead single.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah in those days he was absolutely peers with the likes of elvis c and the pretenders. and as far as the rest of the world was concerned, all of them were way closer to the ramones than to, say, the eagles or fleetwood mac.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 June 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
yup. seems crazy in retrospect because dude fukn took the castle \m/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
yeah in those days he was absolutely peers with the likes of elvis c and the pretenders.
He shared the bill with Elvis Costello once or twice in 1977.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
all of them were way closer to the ramones than to, say, the eagles or fleetwood mac.
Did the Ramones see it this way?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, June 27, 2014 3:33 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The confederate flag backdrop on that tour was decidedly less-than-glorious, though.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah I was basically a 14 y.o. who really liked synths and exotic sounds and fantastical music videos and bought Southern Accents on the strength of DCAHNM and was like dang.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 June 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
well, rock fans, i've been working all day at getting the nominations list finalized before the family and i pack up for a weekend at the beach. but there are just SO MANY new noms in this thread to sift through that it's taking longer than i anticipated. so, with apologies, i'm gonna have to put off launching the voting thread til Monday. feel free to throw a few more on the pile over the weekend. keep on rockin'!
― some dude, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
baby baby baby
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
Have fun at the beach!
― carl agatha, Friday, 27 June 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
don't know about u guys but i have lots of chooglin' scheduled for my weekend
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 27 June 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
I have a suspicion Don't Fear the Reaper could actually take this, or at least go top ten. ILX hearts BOC, right?
Will be voting up some Petty but not American Girl - love the rhythm and the 'feel' but could never get past the lame emptiness of the title/refrain, like, wait, that's like, fifty states worth of girls. What is this supposed to connote? What associations or heartstrings exactly is this supposed to tug on? Clearly it worked, hitwise, but just seems like a missed opportunity.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 27 June 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Foghat's my dark horse pick to win this thing.
― How Suarez's biting affects housing prices, in 3 charts (WilliamC), Friday, 27 June 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
F all y'all's I, 107.7 THE BONE is currently playing "synchronicity ii" by The Police.
Suck it, doubters. Classic, QED. Followed by Ozzy, "no more tears" \m/
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 27 June 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Earlier today I heard Eminence Front- kind of a quintessential Classic Rock Radio track- for years I had heard it and had no idea it was the Who. It's an uncharacteristic tune by a classic band, so I suspect it may have had that effect on alot of people. Maybe it always sounds so good because it's not on any of the Who records I have, so I only ever hear it when it pops up on CRR. For all I know they play it all the time. In any event it'll get a big vote from me.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 27 June 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's a classic CR track for sure
― polyamanita (sleeve), Friday, 27 June 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
The weird thing is, "Eminence Front" didn't even make the top 40 in the US -- "Athena" was a much bigger hit (#28), and was all over AOR (and top 40) radio in 1982. Sensibly, cr radio in retrospect realized "Eminence Front" was the far better song.
Daltrey supposedly said it was the only song on It's Hard worthy of release. It's also one of two post-Moon songs the Who still play live.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
they play emminence front live? What does roger do, check his email?
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:21 (nine years ago) link
well what do you know, thanks youtube
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 28 June 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link