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Main Discussion Area => Regional 10@10's across the time zones! => Topic started by: RGMike on May 18, 2006, 07:51:45 AM
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'72 = Woo Hoo!
A lovely start with Elton, "Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters"
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Early and near-definitive BOS: "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters." Major sledgehammer for me.
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I expect "Join Together" will get the consensus Clubhouse vote.
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In case the Dr. Hook novelty got you wondering: Probably the biggest artists who have never had their picture on the cover of Rolling Stone are Kiss and the Kinks. I'd be interested to hear about any other oversights.
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I expect "Join Together" will get the consensus Clubhouse vote.
It's a fine song and something of an oddity -- you make one of your best LPs (arguably your best non-concept album), and then you follow it up with a throwaway single? That was either folly or supreme self-confidence. (or both.)
VHM Dr Hook! Ever hear Buck Owens' country version, "Cover of the Music City News"?
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A rockstar meta-commentary twin-spin: Dr. Hook is followed by the Moodies' "Just a Singer in a Rock & Roll Band."
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A rockstar meta-commentary twin-spin: Dr. Hook is followed by the Moodies' "Just a Singer in a Rock & Roll Band."
The '70s were the peak period for oh-woe-is-me-I'm-a-rock-star songs. Randy Newman, "Lonely at the Top", BJ's "The Entertainer", etc etc.
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It's a fine song and something of an oddity -- you make one of your best LPs (arguably your best non-concept album), and then you follow it up with a throwaway single?
Like Tom Petty told us last hour: "We don't hear a single," sez the record company. At best we get singles like "Elenore" and "Join Together" as responses. At worst ... well, where shall we begin? "Soak Up the Sun"?
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proxy for Rod: the ABB eatin' a peach. Instantly it's the spring of '72 and the trees are budding...
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as you mentioned the other day about some late-'74 release being a '75 song to you, "Do It Again" always signifies '73 to me, despite the late-'72 release date on the LP.
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In hindsight, it's rather amazing that Steely Dan didn't win a Best New Artist Grammy. ('72's went to America.) Anyone know if they were at least nominated?
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Hey, is this Chicago getting all sunshine-poppy? Sounds like the theme from an unwritten sitcom.
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OMGWTF! Jamestown Massacre, "Summer Sun" -- BOS for a long-forgotten gem. (and a fine Chicago imitation)
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Hey, is this Chicago getting all sunshine-poppy? Sounds like the theme from an unwritten sitcom.
LOL! "... and starring Joe McCombs as the Beaver"
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BOS2 Mr Simon & Julio & Rosie the Queen of Corona
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In hindsight, it's rather amazing that Steely Dan didn't win a Best New Artist Grammy. ('72's went to America.) Anyone know if they were at least nominated?
They'd've been eligible in '73, and I've searched for the list of nominees, but I do know Bette Midler won.
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"Ain't no smilin' faces / LYIN' TO THE RACES"
a/k/a
"Dick Nixon doesn't care about black people"
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In hindsight, it's rather amazing that Steely Dan didn't win a Best New Artist Grammy. ('72's went to America.) Anyone know if they were at least nominated?
They'd've been eligible in '73, and I've searched for the list of nominees, but I do know Bette Midler won.
Oh, right, the year after, not year of. Thanks. Yeah, Bette won in '73, mystifyingly enough (not denying her talent at all, but was she really considered that much more than a fluke cabaret act back then?).
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In hindsight, it's rather amazing that Steely Dan didn't win a Best New Artist Grammy. ('72's went to America.) Anyone know if they were at least nominated?
They'd've been eligible in '73, and I've searched for the list of nominees, but I do know Bette Midler won.
Oh, right, the year after, not year of. Thanks. Yeah, Bette won in '73, mystifyingly enough (not denying her talent at all, but was she really considered that much more than a fluke cabaret act back then?).
actually, Divine Miss M sold quite well, and produced 3 Top 40 singles. She was considered well on her way to being a long-term star. And her love of nostalgia/'40s music endeared her to the older Grammy voters. I may have the list of nominees at home somewhere; I'll check tonite.
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"did you hear of my enlistment?"
BOS3 America, "Sandman", like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned. WTF?
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"Ain't the fire inside? / Let's go and stand around it."
I have never seen lodgings with a central fireplace before.
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"did you hear of my enlistment?"
BOS3 America, "Sandman", like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned. WTF?
Zactly. Love their harmonies, despise their penchant for nonsensical placeholder lyrics. Cause never was the reason for the evening, after all.
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post set: more EJ, "Where To Now St Peter"!
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Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
The Who - Join Together
Dr. Hook - The Cover of the Rolling Stone
The Moody Blues - I'm Just a Singer(in a Rock and Roll Band)
The Allman Brothers - Blue Sky
Steely Dan - Do It Again
Jamestown Massacre - Summer Sun
Paul Simon - Me and Julio
The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There
America - Sandman