tbrr i still go nuts when i hear it in the car
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
Eminence Front was probably one of the last cuts from my ballot. I dig the song deeply. Took me a long time to figure out who it was because I thought they were singing "livin' in a front". I dunno.
Hasn't been mentioned yet, but I've got a real good feeling about gr8080s pic selection here.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Monday, 28 July 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I hear this very much. I like the synths and that first solo.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link
They were playing this on a PA the other day and I was talking to my 4 year old about it and singing along with the chorus and she was like "Daddy I have seen a LOT of things!"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
mentioned this on the nomination and/or voting thread but eminence front is one of the only tracks i can think of that sits comfortably in both the CR and balearic canons
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
Eminence Front dropped off my ballot at the last minute too.
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
I voted the BTO song really high -- it's one of my favorite examples of '70s blue-collar boogie, just a great rhythm section in that band.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
Certainly a heavy one. (Get it?)
― Three Word Username, Monday, 28 July 2014 13:27 (ten years ago) link
btw are these photos all ship/8080 family shots or stuff from the k-hole?
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
ALBUMS:
1. The Who - Live at Leeds2. The Who - My Generation3. The Who - Who's Next4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
WORST:
1. Meat Loaf – Paradise By The Dashboard Light2. Billy Joel – Piano Man3. George Thorogood – Bad To The Bone4. Jimmy Buffett – Margaritaville5. The Doors – Peace Frog6. Crosby, Still, Nash & Young-Teach Your Children7. Jethro Tull -- Thick as a Brick8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Our House9. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part II)10. George Thorogood – Who Do You Love
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
btw are these photos all ship/8080 family shots or stuff from the k-hole?― mookieproof, Monday, July 28, 2014 8:42 AM (2 seconds ago)
― mookieproof, Monday, July 28, 2014 8:42 AM (2 seconds ago)
i'll just let that remain a mystery for now. http://i.imgur.com/rDVfRb2.gif
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
ugh, i had "our house" on my most hated list toodoes anyone like that song?!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
the stiff Who-like attempt at funk
I dunno, I think they pull if off reasonably well. Moon couldn't have done it (he sort of tried on "The Relay," which wasn't stiff, but wasn't particularly funky, either), and Zak Starkey can't sit in that groove either. It's probably their only post-Moon song that really allowed Kenney Jones to do what he does best (maybe "Another Tricky Day," too).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
I didn't participate in this poll – fatigue, sorry! – but will follow closely. And, yeah, I hear "Eminence Front" more than "You Better You Bet" these days.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
*dons headphones**adjusts chair**pulls microphone in close*
well its a beautiful Monday morning here at The Aorta, and its my pleasure to fill in for some dude today. i'll be with you over the next couple hours as we take you through the rest of our bottom twenty...
anywho, i'll shut up now and just ask you to listen....
listen to the wind blow....
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/SiNpBpZ.jpg
97. Fleetwood Mac – The Chain832 points, 13 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
This song is the ne plus ultra of instrumental and vocal interplay.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
A CR station named "The Chain" would be cool.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
... fuck ...
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
re: Eminence Front, nah, yeah, they do pull off what they're doing fine, I was more trying to express that I like the interaction between their baseline approach and the funkier thing they're attempting here, it makes for a cool sound.
Just heard "Our House" for the first time recently and I thought it was pretty but can tooooootally understand why it would be hated as proto-twee hippie self-celebration. Would have been interesting if CSNY had all got laryngitis and had to focus instead on shopping these songs around to passing bubblegum acts - a little faster and a little punchier and this would be a forgettable rain-on-the-windowpane number. It seems like a good song for kids and probably even written with kids in the room - the very-very-very fine house is the kind of thing I'd have enjoyed singing at age 7 or something.
It's also not so loud that it will wake up the other kid that you've just lullabyed, or get in the way of the conversation about Watergate while you're doing the dishes. In a pre-Raffi universe, with a whole lot of boomers starting little families, these were probably a pretty big selling point to this (and a lot of other AM gold), and may also relate to why this stuff has been purged from the macho and individualist Classic Rock universe.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
kids who like schlocky songs maybe
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
• Eminence Front an awesome song to play around with the crossfades, for the beginner. They did a lot of good stuff with Kenny.
• A common re-written lyric to be sung in junior high was "she looked at me with her one brown eye and said...."
• I've got this memory of crossing the Mississippi late at night into St. Louis and hearing The Chain on KDHX. When I played bass in the second band, the drummer and I would just play that final riff over and over, and with no one there to finally go CHHAAAAAIIIIN, we'd just keep going up and up into the air until we turned into butter.
― pplains, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
proto-twee hippie self-celebration.
That's otm, and pretty much why I hate it. It feels like, "Remember that counterculture stuff we used to be into? What was THAT about? This is so much nicer! With two cats in the yard, oh shit, did the cats get out again?"
But I also hate everything else CSN and sometimes Y ever did (except for "Ohio").
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
Ooh Cooper Black, excellent - my favourite font.
― nxd, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
Nash wrote "Our House" about Joni Mitchell and she dumped him like a week later. Critics.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
So many great things about The Chain, especially that final section with the awesome bass riff, and "RUNNING IN THE SHADOWs!"
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
It feels like, "Remember that counterculture stuff we used to be into? What was THAT about? This is so much nicer! With two cats in the yard, oh shit, did the cats get out again?"
Huh, yeah, that's pretty hate-able - I read it as much more like hippies coupling up in a shabby old hippie house, walls leaning, "If it's yellow, let it mellow" in the bathroom, etc. The fact that they are yard cats seems key here, also note that all their amenities are nature-driven: flowers, sun through windows. Still totally self-satisfied and ex-activist, but closer to McCartney or even the bohemian urbanites in "I Do It For Your Love" than sneering ex-hippie "yeah, money rules!" anthems.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
(Two cats may also indicate two couples: this may not look like a family to anybody else, but our house is a very fine house.)
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Loving the photos.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
(Sorry, I have nothing to say about "The Chain" - always enjoy it when it's on, nicely shaded, cool opening, just never connected with me beyond that.)
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/M7P2uWl.jpg
96. The Kinks – Lola833 points, 15 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
THIS
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
I heard "Yoda" before I ever heard "Lola," and therefore always consider it sort of a novelty song...despite a deep and abiding love for all things Kinks.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
i first heard about 'lola' on 'family ties,' so
― maura, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
I read it as much more like hippies coupling up in a shabby old hippie house, walls leaning, "If it's yellow, let it mellow" in the bathroom, etc.
haha, yeah, I never thought of it like that, but that totally makes sense.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
at some point in the last few years "Gypsy" became my go-to FMac radio jam, but for a number of years "The Chain" was my shit, glad it made the cut.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
on the cassette of it's hard that i had, the end of eminence front was abruptly cut off
scarred me for lyfe
love the chain but kinda wish the bass/runnin in the shadows part rocked harder
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
i'm 0/5 so far
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
heads up, folx: believe it or not, we've got a three-way tie coming up for the ninety-three spot...
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GGJraHM.jpg
93. (tie) Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’ 834 points. 14 votes, 1 first place vote
love these crazy thin point margins. This poll is going to be so unpredictable.
― intheblanks, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
xxpost i'm still not sure whether i love or hate "lola," which i guess is just right.
gr80 that pic is amazing and OTM
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Yeah there were several more songs in the 800 point range that just missed the cut. For a while I was sure "Don't Stop Believin'" was out of the running entirely, which woulda kept people guessing a bit more.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
i still believe
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
honestly a little stunned by DSB coming in so low.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
High five to the one first place voter!
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
That's me.
― campreverb, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
I had it at 28.
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
it's no stone in love
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
the first track from the top 100 to also appear on our "worst" list.... will it be the last??
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link