fp-ing myself right now
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 01:59 (ten years ago) link
^^^btw you should probably sign yrself up for a bo diddley beat poll
ooh, i like that idea,
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
Why does half of ILM seem to hate Steve Miller Band? They're a pretty good band and still sound more modern than most of the bands on the "classic rock" canon. Songs like the joker or flae could have been released this year and they wouldn't sound weird.
― Moka, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
People slag Steve Miller. I put on Serenade, drop the mic and walk away.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 02:50 (ten years ago) link
My old roommate and pal's dad used to insist, casually, that back in his college days, his band's main rival in town was Steve Miller's, but that he didn't begrudge his former equal's success, as fame takes its toll too: "You should see Steve these days! He's a mess!" I was never convinced the chronology or geography of this worked at all, but I would also totally respect a dude whose imagined, bogus musical rival was Steve Miller.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:18 (ten years ago) link
steve miller & sammy hagar occupy the same terrible-lyrics circle of hell for me...and both have at least a couple of songs that I hate myself for liking
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:43 (ten years ago) link
Steve Miller is Classic Rock's CheeseChief.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link
otm
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link
abra abra cadabra
iwannareachoutngrabya
*slow clap*
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link
"The Joker" irritates me because it's full of all these references to other songs, except no station plays those songs anymore, and they all just play "The Joker" 50 times a day. it's like the world has willed the song into seeming even more nonsensical than it already is.
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 03:54 (ten years ago) link
That seems like a reason to love it tbh
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
Grady kept talking about this poll when we kicked it the other day so I got hooked reading this thread. Observations:
1. The cars as number one classic rock album is so bizarre to me, I know just what I needed is a staple but it's so new wave
2. How did "love the one you're with" not make worst songs list?
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:34 (ten years ago) link
"The Joker" irritates me because it's full of all these references to other songs, except no station plays those songs anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQNGHMf15I4
No one playing that anymore, that's for sure.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:39 (ten years ago) link
"Love The One You're With" did get a vote in that poll. I am a fan of it, personally.
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:39 (ten years ago) link
there are worse songs QED
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:40 (ten years ago) link
i'm not a big fan of "love the one you're with" but i do quite like bob seger's cover, which is on myonga's seger comp. the isley brothers did a nice version too.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
I think the "The" is typically added to European pressings.
For whatever reason I've owned 2 copies of "Learning to Crawl" since I was single-digits age (likely acquired from yard sales) and I'm pretty sure both have the word "The" on the cover.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:47 (ten years ago) link
in the USA
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
I just looked at all the scans on RYM and it looks like "The" was added universally for both Learning to Crawl and Get Close from the time of release until they were reissued in deluxe versions in 2007, when the covers were altered to just say Pretenders to match all the rest of their albums.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link
in THE usa (xp)
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:51 (ten years ago) link
i'm glad Johnny Fever is finally teaching us how to properly listen to classic songs like "Back On Chain Gang" and "Middle Of Road."
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:55 (ten years ago) link
brass in the pocket
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:58 (ten years ago) link
lol I'm taking it easy on you guys. I once got involved in a week-long argument about this on last.fm (when people gave a shit about last.fm) over whether or not "Pretenders" or "The Pretenders" was the correct artist id. It got ugly.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:00 (ten years ago) link
Love the one you're with just seems like such a questionable life lesson lol
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:07 (ten years ago) link
"Life Lessons by Stephen Stills"
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:10 (ten years ago) link
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:07 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh totally. for years i just kind of glossed over the song as being a generic hippie anthem about loving thy neighbor, and then one day i thought about it for more than 5 seconds and was like wait, is this song just about settling and/or cheating when you're horny?
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:13 (ten years ago) link
it's about cheating when you're horny ... with stephen stills.
― PORPOISE AND ME (fact checking cuz), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:16 (ten years ago) link
Tbf, he wasn't ugly yet.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
I think it's specifically about cheating when you're a horny rocker on the road - or maybe the girlfriend of said rocker, receiving disingenuously-framed advice via Western Union. And yet - it sounds so nice! If you pay only half attention you can maybe assume it's a really garbled, low-level conversation about a potentially healthy polyamorous situation, if that makes it easier to enjoy the happy-seeming vibes.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:19 (ten years ago) link
it's weird growing up thinking of CSN as 100% hippie peace love songs That Defined A Generation and then realizing it's just stills making crosby and nash sing his creepy sex poetry
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:31 (ten years ago) link
yeah otm
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:34 (ten years ago) link
"Chicks dig crutches"
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_04kZGR_ltmE/THjzshxFFXI/AAAAAAAAILg/p6F2s2_A67A/s1600/Stephen-Stills-Rolex-1972.jpg
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:35 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Stephen_Stills_2011.jpg/220px-Stephen_Stills_2011.jpg
please love the one you're with pleeeease
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:39 (ten years ago) link
there's a rose in a fisted glove
ohhh its a hemorrhoids metaphor now i get it
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 05:48 (ten years ago) link
TS: "Love the One You're With" vs. "Triad"
― Lee626, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 06:23 (ten years ago) link
Where's Nash's skeevy jam? Is "Marrakesh Express" code for something?
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 06:27 (ten years ago) link
I always figured Love the One You're With was a hippie love jam and yet "rose in a fisted glove" was just disturbing enough to suggest something gross at the center of the song. Then I had life experiences with the kind of hippie dudes who cloak their ill treatment of women in a mantle of free love unfettered by the restrictions of society and now I think that song is garbage.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
Maybe if it had more parts.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
Read that as "more pants".
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:43 (ten years ago) link
Sure.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
no joke i had a dream last nite that some dude walked in to the studio at The Aorta and caught me looking at pr0n
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:32 (ten years ago) link
is it a dream if two different people had it? ::Bon Scott cackle::
http://i.imgur.com/p2UiRrh.jpg
80. AC/DC – Highway To Hell 877 points, 14 votes
― some dude, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:36 (ten years ago) link
^this photo is a special one
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
wait...
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:39 (ten years ago) link
there's a space in the img url that's messing it up I think
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
should be good now.
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
::thumbs up::
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:43 (ten years ago) link
who's the other guy? or is he just a long-time listener?
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link
he was the 77th caller and scored VIP passes to last weekend's Aorta Resort-a Getaway™
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
the photo for #1 should be the "So Not Gonna Happen" one
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link